No kidding. It seems like every day slashdot posts an article that I already saw on DrudgeReport (and usually a day or two before Slashdot). I mean - come on - fucking DRUDGEREPORT...
I hate to say it but this place starts to feel like a cheap half-assed mix of Fark, Engadget and DrudgeReport sometimes.
Err, I'd go in for a group order, but I don't need two million at once. Timothy
Well, it's a good thing you only have to place an order of 500,000, then - as it CLEARLY states in the very first sentence of the submission blurb you greenlighted.
That Braham Cohen is so dumb, he probably never considered anything like this when he put together his own official bit torrent search engine. What does he know, sitting there coding in his mommy's basement when all the real geniuses are on Slashdot and p2pnet!
Yeah, it's like I was saying with that bitch up and left me. It wasn't that I was such a bad guy - I was all like "Clearly I'm too good for you, bitch! So that why you be leavin, huh?!"
And yeah, it's clearly such a cry for attention, what with him posting it all over the... er... uh... just his personal blog.
Mac OSX just doesn't "feel" right to me. And I don't like all the trouble that comes with complex/non-standard linux desktop setups. I keep linux for my servers and find other solutions for my desktops. And I decided not to go the OSX rout and sold my 17" Powerbook after only a few months. It was a nice little tool, but just.... didn't feel good.
Personally, I'm kind of disgusted with people's responses here.
How are you going to decode that digital signal without a converter? And if you're going to buy a digital converter for your TV (or a tv with a digital converter), why not just buy a TV that also has makes use of HDTV?
Well, I for wan can absolutely tell the difference on my widescreen HDTV between a standard television broadcast and an HD broadcast. And you can, too. Find a program that is broadcasting on HBO. Now find the equivalent HBO-HD channel. Watch them side by side (if you have a dual tuner) or one right after the other. The same program will look dramatically more impressive on the HD channel.
Well, of course digital signals can carry both standard and HDTV. But how is that digital signal going to be transmitted? And how are you going to use that digital signal going to be processed by your television without a digital converter?
As I recall, broadcasting will move to HD *only* in 2006. Or at least, that was always the plan. So what are all these people going to watch with their non HD televisions when only HD signals are being delivered?
The console will hardly be obsolete in a couple years. It's not like it won't operate on an HDTV display. It just won't operate at HDTV resolution. I think that's a bad move for a console that is probably intended to be their mainstay for the next five years since maybe four of those years will see the nation moved to HDTV televisions and signals.
On the other hand, Nintendo has never really been the hardcore gaming system. It's more of a fun little time-waster (or at least, that's the kind of game they tended to make up until now). Do you really need HD for Kirby, Mario, Tetris, Animal Crossing and so on?
Kids will stop watching scary stuff if they know it will give them nightmares (and the nightmares bother them that bad). Children are pretty damned resiliant. And just like a kid won't starve themselves to death - no matter what kind of tantrum they're throwing - they won't keep watching scary movies if they can't handle them.
Oh - there will be nightmares whether or not there are scary movies or books. That's just life. I don't think many kids are too fragile for that.
What kind of wussy kids are parents raising these days?
Dude, I watched all of the Nightmare on Elmstreet movies when I was four years old. And guess what? I haven't ever killed anyone or intentionally caused harm to anyone. Pretty amazing huh? Who would have thought?
Last time I did a dist-upgrade (it's been at least a couple years), it screwed my perl installation up. And as anyone who runs Debian knows, it's pretty much useless without a working perl installation.
It took me many hours to recover from the problem. And because of that, I don't intend to dist-upgrade this time at all. If I ever get around to upgrading, I'll spend a couple thousand dollars to replicate my dual AMD 1U rackmount, install everything on it with the current Debian distro and then stuff the drives into the old machine that I've been running for years.
I love Debian. I've just had some really awful apt-get experiences. Especially when it comes to dist-upgrades.
Sums up why I'm out of power? I didn't know I was ever in power.
If you mean my *party*, well, my party is and isn't in power. The republican party that I used to be a part of is not in power, but the republican party is in power. Meaning, the small-government, personal freedom, less government intervention, smaller taxes, personal responsibility republicans that I used to consider myself part of (not, REPUBLICAN, not CONSERVATIVE) are not in power. Unfortunately, the "fuck 'em all and turn them into soilent green" republicans are in power.
Not that anyone else would do much better. By nature, any viable political party is corrupt and backslides and scews everyone over for their own interests.
Thankfully, we have plenty of retards like yourself who think "either you agree with me or you're against me". You just assume that if people don't have your tunnel-vision brainwashing thing going on, that they must be damned evil liberals. You can't fathom the possibility that there are republicans out there who don't like the way the republican party has stabbed us in the back, turned on every word they've given - and that such people also consider them republicans without considering themselves conservatives.
I hope when they start making the soilent green, they come for your ass first.
Erm... Okay, I don't happen to necessarily agree with saleenS281's post here, but what spineless pussy moderator scored their post a TROLL? That's just screwed upand weak.:(
Look, teachers have the attention of their students for at least 40 hours per week. More than anyone else (including television). What kind of crappy school system can't manage to teach their children the basics - like what our country is founded on and what our civil liberties really are (you'd be amazed at how many children have no idea what rights they have as citizens)?
Seriously, are you telling me that the schools are teaching children that the patriot act is unfair. Teaching them about free speach, right to expression, question authority, think for yourself, employ critical thinking, don't just accept what the government throws at you... but somehow, the outside world wipes all of that knowledge and turns them into mind-numbed yes-men? You're telling me teachers are seriously THAT fucking weak?
The slant of the propoganda may be different, but I think most students (especially from public schools) would say that we were more or less indocrinated in our classes. Just because you're not taught by your school to think the "bush way" doesn't mean you're not taught to obey authority, conform, not think for yourself, etc.
The schools imbue students with the tools and traits that make them pliable. The government (and media, etc) capitalize on those imbued traits to form you into their particular brand of little sheep.
It is the rare (and well-remembered) teacher who bucks the norm and teaches you to question everything, think for yourself, think critically, value your rights, value other people's rights, value your freedoms and never just accept what you're told.
It's the sensible attitude. When it comes down to it, you're not going to do enough with your life to change anything. But you can enjoy your life. You can enjoy your family. You can enjoy your friends. How do you think people in communist countries and dictatorships manage? The important thing to them isn't politics or changing the world. It's living day to day and trying to keep a smile on their face and enjoy their community. And as long as they have comfort in their own personal world, they can survive whatever bullshit state their government and country are in.
I'm on the fence about capitalism. I don't want to live in Cuba. I want to be rewarded financially for my hard work, dedication, productivity, intelligence.
However, there is a serious imbalance in this country and it goes beyond "hard work" and "novel ideas" and "dedication".
However, if you want to try something else, it will never happen. Or rather, things in this country will continue exactly as they are, as long as it continues to benefit those who are in control. And those people are the politicians, CEOs, aristocrats...
Things will run the way those people want them to run. The only way to change *that* is for an overwhelming amount of the population to strike out against it. And voting isn't enough. Just because you vote for someone or something doesn't mean it's going to be the way the public wanted it. Look at all fo the underhanded things the government and corporations do behind our back, against our wishes? our laws and demands simply don't matter in the larger picture.
People have to take physical action. Do something. Rally, revolt, erupt.
And as long as people are afraid of prisons, tasers (did you know 40 people died this past year from police taser-shootings?), getting fired... they will not rebel. They won't take action. As long as people have to worry about their next meal, their children's education, their medical bills, their retirement. Caring for their aging parents. Caring for their spouse, keeping their house up to par. Keeping their car running. Staying in shape. Paying off the bills... they will never do anything but let the world happen to them.
And yes, most of us are the same. Even those of us bitching about it are not going to logout of Slashdot and go change the world. We're going to go play an MMORPG or an online FPS or go watch a movie or go hang out with our buddies tonight.
Well, for the record, I think most Americans laugh at it, too.
I don't know if the rifle thing is real. I know it's supposedly legitimate, but I've sure as hell never heard of a bank giving anything like that. Hell, I don't even know anyone who owns a rifle. Or a handgun. Or any kind of firearm.
Actually, I take that back. My uncle (an electrical engineer for NASA) has a few guns. But he keeps them locked up. And they're not for security. He just goes to target practice a couple times a year with them.
I think people have the wrong idea about America when it comes to weapons. Sure, lots of hunters have guns in the midwest or something. And maybe a bunch of gang-bangers. But the average American simply doesn't have one. Not even for self-defense.
Why shouldn't newspapers at least partially be moderated?
I don't really even need to respond to that. I'm sure there are enough people from countries where the government controls the news that can set you straight for me.
Slashdot Mirror
No kidding. It seems like every day slashdot posts an article that I already saw on DrudgeReport (and usually a day or two before Slashdot). I mean - come on - fucking DRUDGEREPORT...
I hate to say it but this place starts to feel like a cheap half-assed mix of Fark, Engadget and DrudgeReport sometimes.
Congratulations, starfighter! You've found the Calculator in your Windows95 Accessories program folder!
Yes, but you could make a 1000% profit reselling these once the new world order forces us to be barcoded in satan's name!
Err, I'd go in for a group order, but I don't need two million at once. Timothy
Well, it's a good thing you only have to place an order of 500,000, then - as it CLEARLY states in the very first sentence of the submission blurb you greenlighted.
I don't see why Microsoft is even bothering.
* If it's to sell more copies of Halo - who the hell doesn't already know about it and own it, if they want it?
* If it's to make money off the movie, even if the movie makes $100m, they're only getting $15m total. What's that, two of Bill's shower curtains?
Becauase they don't want the pretty plastic Apple chassis to melt from the heat of the AMD cores.
That Braham Cohen is so dumb, he probably never considered anything like this when he put together his own official bit torrent search engine. What does he know, sitting there coding in his mommy's basement when all the real geniuses are on Slashdot and p2pnet!
I mean, c'mon... *eyeroll*
Yeah, it's like I was saying with that bitch up and left me. It wasn't that I was such a bad guy - I was all like "Clearly I'm too good for you, bitch! So that why you be leavin, huh?!"
And yeah, it's clearly such a cry for attention, what with him posting it all over the... er... uh... just his personal blog.
Mac OSX just doesn't "feel" right to me. And I don't like all the trouble that comes with complex/non-standard linux desktop setups. I keep linux for my servers and find other solutions for my desktops. And I decided not to go the OSX rout and sold my 17" Powerbook after only a few months. It was a nice little tool, but just.... didn't feel good.
Personally, I'm kind of disgusted with people's responses here.
I didn't realize that Peter North was Canadian.
How are you going to decode that digital signal without a converter? And if you're going to buy a digital converter for your TV (or a tv with a digital converter), why not just buy a TV that also has makes use of HDTV?
Well, I for wan can absolutely tell the difference on my widescreen HDTV between a standard television broadcast and an HD broadcast. And you can, too. Find a program that is broadcasting on HBO. Now find the equivalent HBO-HD channel. Watch them side by side (if you have a dual tuner) or one right after the other. The same program will look dramatically more impressive on the HD channel.
Well, of course digital signals can carry both standard and HDTV. But how is that digital signal going to be transmitted? And how are you going to use that digital signal going to be processed by your television without a digital converter?
Five years?
As I recall, broadcasting will move to HD *only* in 2006. Or at least, that was always the plan. So what are all these people going to watch with their non HD televisions when only HD signals are being delivered?
Or maybe I have the dates wrong...
The console will hardly be obsolete in a couple years. It's not like it won't operate on an HDTV display. It just won't operate at HDTV resolution. I think that's a bad move for a console that is probably intended to be their mainstay for the next five years since maybe four of those years will see the nation moved to HDTV televisions and signals.
On the other hand, Nintendo has never really been the hardcore gaming system. It's more of a fun little time-waster (or at least, that's the kind of game they tended to make up until now). Do you really need HD for Kirby, Mario, Tetris, Animal Crossing and so on?
What's wrong with having nightmares?!
Kids will stop watching scary stuff if they know it will give them nightmares (and the nightmares bother them that bad). Children are pretty damned resiliant. And just like a kid won't starve themselves to death - no matter what kind of tantrum they're throwing - they won't keep watching scary movies if they can't handle them.
Oh - there will be nightmares whether or not there are scary movies or books. That's just life. I don't think many kids are too fragile for that.
What kind of wussy kids are parents raising these days?
Dude, I watched all of the Nightmare on Elmstreet movies when I was four years old. And guess what? I haven't ever killed anyone or intentionally caused harm to anyone. Pretty amazing huh? Who would have thought?
How can anyone be surprised by this?
Last time I did a dist-upgrade (it's been at least a couple years), it screwed my perl installation up. And as anyone who runs Debian knows, it's pretty much useless without a working perl installation.
It took me many hours to recover from the problem. And because of that, I don't intend to dist-upgrade this time at all. If I ever get around to upgrading, I'll spend a couple thousand dollars to replicate my dual AMD 1U rackmount, install everything on it with the current Debian distro and then stuff the drives into the old machine that I've been running for years.
I love Debian. I've just had some really awful apt-get experiences. Especially when it comes to dist-upgrades.
Sums up why I'm out of power? I didn't know I was ever in power.
If you mean my *party*, well, my party is and isn't in power. The republican party that I used to be a part of is not in power, but the republican party is in power. Meaning, the small-government, personal freedom, less government intervention, smaller taxes, personal responsibility republicans that I used to consider myself part of (not, REPUBLICAN, not CONSERVATIVE) are not in power. Unfortunately, the "fuck 'em all and turn them into soilent green" republicans are in power.
Not that anyone else would do much better. By nature, any viable political party is corrupt and backslides and scews everyone over for their own interests.
Thankfully, we have plenty of retards like yourself who think "either you agree with me or you're against me". You just assume that if people don't have your tunnel-vision brainwashing thing going on, that they must be damned evil liberals. You can't fathom the possibility that there are republicans out there who don't like the way the republican party has stabbed us in the back, turned on every word they've given - and that such people also consider them republicans without considering themselves conservatives.
I hope when they start making the soilent green, they come for your ass first.
Erm... Okay, I don't happen to necessarily agree with saleenS281's post here, but what spineless pussy moderator scored their post a TROLL? That's just screwed upand weak. :(
Back to this old argument again, huh?
Look, teachers have the attention of their students for at least 40 hours per week. More than anyone else (including television). What kind of crappy school system can't manage to teach their children the basics - like what our country is founded on and what our civil liberties really are (you'd be amazed at how many children have no idea what rights they have as citizens)?
Seriously, are you telling me that the schools are teaching children that the patriot act is unfair. Teaching them about free speach, right to expression, question authority, think for yourself, employ critical thinking, don't just accept what the government throws at you... but somehow, the outside world wipes all of that knowledge and turns them into mind-numbed yes-men? You're telling me teachers are seriously THAT fucking weak?
The slant of the propoganda may be different, but I think most students (especially from public schools) would say that we were more or less indocrinated in our classes. Just because you're not taught by your school to think the "bush way" doesn't mean you're not taught to obey authority, conform, not think for yourself, etc.
The schools imbue students with the tools and traits that make them pliable. The government (and media, etc) capitalize on those imbued traits to form you into their particular brand of little sheep.
It is the rare (and well-remembered) teacher who bucks the norm and teaches you to question everything, think for yourself, think critically, value your rights, value other people's rights, value your freedoms and never just accept what you're told.
Yeah, because the tobacco industry is nothing but a bunch of liberals...?
It's the sensible attitude. When it comes down to it, you're not going to do enough with your life to change anything. But you can enjoy your life. You can enjoy your family. You can enjoy your friends. How do you think people in communist countries and dictatorships manage? The important thing to them isn't politics or changing the world. It's living day to day and trying to keep a smile on their face and enjoy their community. And as long as they have comfort in their own personal world, they can survive whatever bullshit state their government and country are in.
I'm on the fence about capitalism. I don't want to live in Cuba. I want to be rewarded financially for my hard work, dedication, productivity, intelligence.
However, there is a serious imbalance in this country and it goes beyond "hard work" and "novel ideas" and "dedication".
However, if you want to try something else, it will never happen. Or rather, things in this country will continue exactly as they are, as long as it continues to benefit those who are in control. And those people are the politicians, CEOs, aristocrats...
Things will run the way those people want them to run. The only way to change *that* is for an overwhelming amount of the population to strike out against it. And voting isn't enough. Just because you vote for someone or something doesn't mean it's going to be the way the public wanted it. Look at all fo the underhanded things the government and corporations do behind our back, against our wishes? our laws and demands simply don't matter in the larger picture.
People have to take physical action. Do something. Rally, revolt, erupt.
And as long as people are afraid of prisons, tasers (did you know 40 people died this past year from police taser-shootings?), getting fired... they will not rebel. They won't take action. As long as people have to worry about their next meal, their children's education, their medical bills, their retirement. Caring for their aging parents. Caring for their spouse, keeping their house up to par. Keeping their car running. Staying in shape. Paying off the bills... they will never do anything but let the world happen to them.
And yes, most of us are the same. Even those of us bitching about it are not going to logout of Slashdot and go change the world. We're going to go play an MMORPG or an online FPS or go watch a movie or go hang out with our buddies tonight.
Well, for the record, I think most Americans laugh at it, too.
I don't know if the rifle thing is real. I know it's supposedly legitimate, but I've sure as hell never heard of a bank giving anything like that. Hell, I don't even know anyone who owns a rifle. Or a handgun. Or any kind of firearm.
Actually, I take that back. My uncle (an electrical engineer for NASA) has a few guns. But he keeps them locked up. And they're not for security. He just goes to target practice a couple times a year with them.
I think people have the wrong idea about America when it comes to weapons. Sure, lots of hunters have guns in the midwest or something. And maybe a bunch of gang-bangers. But the average American simply doesn't have one. Not even for self-defense.
Why shouldn't newspapers at least partially be moderated?
I don't really even need to respond to that. I'm sure there are enough people from countries where the government controls the news that can set you straight for me.