MAC? How would you create your own Media Access Control? Oh, wait -- you mean Mac, as in Macintosh. Got it!
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Sorry, referring to a Macintosh as a 'MAC' is one of my pet peeves.
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"He's not peeking around different sides of a tree-- he's sitting in exactly the same place."
There is a scene in which Gollum peeks from different sides of a tree in order to indicate his split personality. It's later than the first Gollum conversation -- after Gollum has been tricksed by Frodo and is reconsidering his loyalty to master.
He's a Top 500 reviewer. You can see his reviews here.
I think, for a good number of the prolific reviewers, it's about status. These are the people who will look up every item they've purchased in the last ten years and put up a review for it on Amazon simply to increase their count.
... that makes me stay in my apartment and read. You can't go anywhere, buy anything, talk to anyone, read anything (oh crap, nevermind), or watch anything without someone using it to fuel marketing.
Welcome to the information age. The question is no longer whether you are being served, but to whom.
Actually, I'd say that's more of a sign that you need to unplug the computer and take a step outside. Go take a walk in the park. Too much fear and paranoia from/. will give you a skewed perspective.
...for the $19.95/year subscription? You mentioned the 6mb of email space, which I get on my free Yahoo account (although new subscribers only get 4mb). What does $19.95 get you?
Actually, I signed up for mine about four or five years ago, so I have SIX megabytes of e-mail space (as was the offer back then). YES!
Same here. I wonder when Yahoo is going to force the 4 MB restriction on all the users who have 6 MB accounts? Still, it's better than Hotmail's pathetic 2 MB limit, which I can nearly fill up with one day's worth of junk mail.
I don't get all this talk about "album filler." No, I don't doubt that there actually are albums out there with only one or two good songs -- but I know I don't own any. Doesn't the average Slashdot reader have musical tastes that preclude this sort of bait-and-switch marketing? Or do we decry artists like Britney and N'Sync, while turning around and buying their albums? I mean, avoid the Top 40 and you should be pretty safe.
And if you're going to argue with me, you have to own up to at least two CDs you bought "with only one or two good songs"...so that we can make fun of you.:)
yeah? What about the cost of an upgrade from dial-up to cable, which is required for Xbox Live? That's almost ten times as much.
Also, if you don't already have your house wired for electrical power, you're going to have to add that in. Not to mention that you'll need to buy a TV. Damn you, M$!!!
"There's an interesting article at NewsForge by Robin (Roblimo) Miller about Vint Cerf giving a presentation to NOVALUG about the Interplanetary Internet and having lunch with them afterward."
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I think this sentence is suffering from a severe bout of prepositional indigestion.
The best option, however, would be to not pick on the grammar skills of an English-as-a-second-language writer, unless you care to put your Polish language skills on display for us all.
" 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
3 Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day. "
What some scholars suggest is that verses 1 and 2 are not a part of the seven-day creation, and that Day One only entailed the creation of light, while water and "the void" had already existed for an undefined period dating from "the beginning." If you look at the structure of the other days ("God created X and saw that X was good"), this makes sense.
I see that your comment is currently rated 5, Funny. I suspect that what the moderators find funny is the fact that you obviously have no idea who Declan McCullagh is, because if you did, you wouldn't call him a troll. I'm sure he's forgotten 5 times more info on the DMCA than you've ever learned in the first place.
"Couple of days back US warplanes dropped a bomb on a marriage party in Afghanistan killing over 50. And there hasnt been more than a couple of columns in the western media about the whole story."
That story has been ALL OVER the news for the last couple days. It's currently the main featured story on cnn.com, and, as of this writing, it's one of the main headlines on every single major news site I can think of. Why do you feel the need to alter reality to fit your own preconceived notions? Isn't the truth sufficient?
Anyone care to offer up their reasons as to why they won't register with a free news site such as the New York Times? Not everyone is up-to-speed with the conventional/. wisdom that dictates why registration is evil.
Or is this just another "I'll boycott the RIAA/MPAA/etc., at least until it's inconvenient for me to do so" scenario?
"I hate to disillusion you, but throughout the real Bible belt, you could get Christians falling for this in droves--literally likely over 50% of the population."
Meanwhile, I'd estimate that nearly 90% of the Slashdot population fell for it. Hmm.
Did somebody turn off the Critical Thinking switch?
If you'd read the article, you'd know what it was like. It said:
"Take Two Interactive [developers of GTA3] hosted an event in the Arizona desert to promote its new combat driving games. Writers, dressed in camouflage, practiced drive-by shootings with 9-millimeter Glock handguns while driving Jeeps at high speeds."
You still haven't addressed my response. You're trying to suggest that, because some Christians herald ID theory, ID theory is therefore a Christian movement. Wrong.
What IDer's attempt to argue is that the creation of life "requires" or "proves" not only (a) that god exists; but also (b) that he is a "conservative" christian god. It does nothing of the sort.
Wrong. Intelligent Design theory says nothing and attempts to say nothing about the characteristics of the designer. You're projecting here.
"Intelligent Design" theory goes nowhere (a) to proving the existence of god(s); or (b) to proving anything about his/her/its/their nature.
See above. The whole point of ID theory is that it only posits the existence of a designer, and nothing about the designer's characteristics.
Read how this guy's defense attorney, Susan Tipograph, tiptoes around the judge's question:
THE COURT: Just one thing. Ms. Tipograph, are you suggesting -- I keep an open mind till I hear all the arguments, but are you suggesting that he be released on his own recognizance?
MS. TIPOGRAPH: Judge, I'M -- I -- ultimately, Judge, you're going to make the decision. I think that, frankly --
THE COURT: No, I --
MS. TIPOGRAPH: If you want to release him, I think you can release him on his own recognizance, and part of the order being that somebody, a family member or some person, someone in authority -- a family member, an attorney -- accompany him back to California.
He has a grandmother who lives in New Jersey, Judge. I'm sure that he can stay there until arrangements could be made to get him out of here. If you release him today, Judge, he'll be on a plane first thing tomorrow morning.
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Sorry, referring to a Macintosh as a 'MAC' is one of my pet peeves.
There is a scene in which Gollum peeks from different sides of a tree in order to indicate his split personality. It's later than the first Gollum conversation -- after Gollum has been tricksed by Frodo and is reconsidering his loyalty to master.
Hightlights:
And last, but not least...
I think, for a good number of the prolific reviewers, it's about status. These are the people who will look up every item they've purchased in the last ten years and put up a review for it on Amazon simply to increase their count.
And your arm will be hanging from that tree...
And your head will be there by the curb...
But your torso will be in a remarkably preserved state!
What about Klerck? Why isn't he legit?
Welcome to the information age. The question is no longer whether you are being served, but to whom.
Actually, I'd say that's more of a sign that you need to unplug the computer and take a step outside. Go take a walk in the park. Too much fear and paranoia from /. will give you a skewed perspective.
...for the $19.95/year subscription? You mentioned the 6mb of email space, which I get on my free Yahoo account (although new subscribers only get 4mb). What does $19.95 get you?
Same here. I wonder when Yahoo is going to force the 4 MB restriction on all the users who have 6 MB accounts? Still, it's better than Hotmail's pathetic 2 MB limit, which I can nearly fill up with one day's worth of junk mail.
And if you're going to argue with me, you have to own up to at least two CDs you bought "with only one or two good songs"...so that we can make fun of you. :)
And, in some cases, drinking a fifth!
Also, if you don't already have your house wired for electrical power, you're going to have to add that in. Not to mention that you'll need to buy a TV. Damn you, M$!!!
Why do people still use this crapware? Try Gnucleus -- it's open source, so they (presumably) can't hide any nasty stuff in it.
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I think this sentence is suffering from a severe bout of prepositional indigestion.
Is probably better.
The best option, however, would be to not pick on the grammar skills of an English-as-a-second-language writer, unless you care to put your Polish language skills on display for us all.
I see that your comment is currently rated 5, Funny. I suspect that what the moderators find funny is the fact that you obviously have no idea who Declan McCullagh is, because if you did, you wouldn't call him a troll. I'm sure he's forgotten 5 times more info on the DMCA than you've ever learned in the first place.
That story has been ALL OVER the news for the last couple days. It's currently the main featured story on cnn.com, and, as of this writing, it's one of the main headlines on every single major news site I can think of. Why do you feel the need to alter reality to fit your own preconceived notions? Isn't the truth sufficient?
Or is this just another "I'll boycott the RIAA/MPAA/etc., at least until it's inconvenient for me to do so" scenario?
You think it was that subtle? I mean, it was one of the biggest movies of, what, 2000? 1999?
Meanwhile, I'd estimate that nearly 90% of the Slashdot population fell for it. Hmm.
Did somebody turn off the Critical Thinking switch?
"Take Two Interactive [developers of GTA3] hosted an event in the Arizona desert to promote its new combat driving games. Writers, dressed in camouflage, practiced drive-by shootings with 9-millimeter Glock handguns while driving Jeeps at high speeds."
You still haven't addressed my response. You're trying to suggest that, because some Christians herald ID theory, ID theory is therefore a Christian movement. Wrong.
Wrong. Intelligent Design theory says nothing and attempts to say nothing about the characteristics of the designer. You're projecting here.
See above. The whole point of ID theory is that it only posits the existence of a designer, and nothing about the designer's characteristics.
THE COURT: Just one thing. Ms. Tipograph, are you suggesting -- I keep an open mind till I hear all the arguments, but are you suggesting that he be released on his own recognizance?
MS. TIPOGRAPH: Judge, I'M -- I -- ultimately, Judge, you're going to make the decision. I think that, frankly --
THE COURT: No, I --
MS. TIPOGRAPH: If you want to release him, I think you can release him on his own recognizance, and part of the order being that somebody, a family member or some person, someone in authority -- a family member, an attorney -- accompany him back to California.
He has a grandmother who lives in New Jersey, Judge. I'm sure that he can stay there until arrangements could be made to get him out of here. If you release him today, Judge, he'll be on a plane first thing tomorrow morning.
She obviously thinks very highly of her client!