I can't believe a comment about firefox & dell being marked as "troll" in a thread about dell & firefox.
I guess somebody didn't get what they want for Christmas.
How does someone with such poor reading comprehension manage to operate a computer?
I said *I* called them as well as my friends called them and they admitted it. These were VHS tapes, but if you know anything about IT at all it is possible to edit DVDs as well, especially if you are a big corporation that can have special relationships with producers.
Blockbuster edits the movies they rent.
If a movie has scenes that are offensive to the ownership of Blockbuster ( usually sex, they don't seem to have a problem with violence, go figure ) Blockbuster reserves the right to edit that scene out of the movies they rent.
While they will admit to it if asked directly, they will not advertise it in their stores.
Apparently telling the truth (fairly representing their products) values of Blockbuster's owners.
The post above was marked down as "troll".
Well, first off it is a matter of fact. Feel free to contact blockbuster at your leisure.
A troll is someone who posts in a forum that they have no interest in other than to provoke inflammatory responses for their amusement.
My post is on topic, being about blockbuster in a thread about blockbuster. My posting history is available to all slashdotters. It shows an interest in IT and a very good kamma rating.
All that is shown for the member who marked my post as troll is a lack of education as to what "troll" means and a narrow mind.
It is kind of ironic with all of the threads about censorship on slashdot that someone who is here enough to get the power of moderation would mark an on topic post about censorship as being "troll".
If a movie has scenes that are offensive to the ownership of Blockbuster ( usually sex, they don't seem to have a problem with violence, go figure ) Blockbuster reserves the right to edit that scene out of the movies they rent.
While they will admit to it if asked directly, they will not advertise it in their stores.
Apparently telling the truth (fairly representing their products) values of Blockbuster's owners.
I seem to remember reading once that early typewriters had keys in alphabetical order, but that was too easy. People were typing too fast and the keys were jamming.
If this is true, this is really a retro keyboard, not new.
I hope the keys are fat and far apart. I hate using laptop keyboards and will not because I feel like I have to squish my fingers together.
Since I started using Visual Slick Edit ( not free ) years ago I never needed or wanted another IDE. It does it all and I've only had to learn one interface.
Programming even "easy" things always takes up more time and money people think. Google is still small enough where every penny counts. That and with their own browser they call the shots, not the people at mozilla.
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I agree. By buying Opera to use as their platform Google gets a browser with mobile device support and they don't have to adjust to whatever firefox does, instead letting firefox do the work of adjusting to them.
Netscape was once a small company with little money and a lot of brain power too.
Microsoft crushed them.
Google with a fraction of a percent of Microsoft's money has survived because they have solved new problems instead of competing with Microsoft on their own turf.
I.E.( "dominant browser" ) is a central part of MS's turf and they will not tolerate Google trying to snag it away from.
That and Google can control their browser to their liking at their own schedule instead of waiting to see what firefox does.
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Very fascinating suppositions and it jives with the question "why not firefox?".
According to your theory Google wants a standard platform with which to build up their apps. Firefox, being controlled by other people will be a moving target to a certain exent, which would slow them down.
If they buy Opera and beef up their web apps to Opera as a platform Opera is standards compliant so Firefox can easily adjust. The Firefox crew does the work of adjusting to Google instead of Google adjusting to Firefox.
"$15 for something that gives hours of listening pleasure? How is that "draconian"? Over its lifetime, one CD probably relieves the boredom of many tens, if not hundreds of hours of driving in the car. That's easily worth $15 to me. And seeing as "lousy pop music" has always existed it's clearly not the cause of any recent slump in sales."
Chimpanzees, the closest releatives to humans are kept in cages and experimented on in scientific labs. Many are intentionally infected with AIDS by scientists doing AIDS research.
Now it appears they have better ability to reason than children.
Will this reopen the debate on the ethics of using these animals?
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I can't believe a comment about firefox & dell being marked as "troll" in a thread about dell & firefox. I guess somebody didn't get what they want for Christmas.
Dell has done their experiments before...outside of the US and most often in their server related products.
Wake me up when they install Firefox on their consumer desktops, in the U.S.
Funny, this is the first time I can remember a high profile case of violence being censored. Usually sex or speach is censored.
Cough! Cough! Cough!
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Okay, I am at least half wrong, they have updated their policies to lie about it if asked:
http://www.hackingnetflix.com/2005/08/netflix_vs_
http://www.hackingnetflix.com/2005/10/variety_blo
http://atheism.about.com/b/a/059230.htm
How does someone with such poor reading comprehension manage to operate a computer?
I said *I* called them as well as my friends called them and they admitted it.
These were VHS tapes, but if you know anything about IT at all it is possible to edit DVDs as well, especially if you are a big corporation that can have special relationships with producers.
Well, first off it is a matter of fact. Feel free to contact blockbuster at your leisure.
A troll is someone who posts in a forum that they have no interest in other than to provoke inflammatory responses for their amusement.
My post is on topic, being about blockbuster in a thread about blockbuster. My posting history is available to all slashdotters. It shows an interest in IT and a very good kamma rating.
All that is shown for the member who marked my post as troll is a lack of education as to what "troll" means and a narrow mind.
It is kind of ironic with all of the threads about censorship on slashdot that someone who is here enough to get the power of moderation would mark an on topic post about censorship as being "troll".
Blockbuster edits the movies they rent.
If a movie has scenes that are offensive to the ownership of Blockbuster ( usually sex, they don't seem to have a problem with violence, go figure ) Blockbuster reserves the right to edit that scene out of the movies they rent.
While they will admit to it if asked directly, they will not advertise it in their stores.
Apparently telling the truth (fairly representing their products) values of Blockbuster's owners.
Geeze after all of that nuclear waste exploding and the near destruction of moon base Alpha the government is still screwing around on the moon.
LOL!
If Canada gets legal file sharing you can smoke pot there, trade music, and have group sex. Sure the climate sucks, but with all of that who cares?
France legalizing file sharing and Canada legalizing group sex:s _home&articleID=2125712
http://www.mytelus.com/news/article.do?pageID=new
It sure is dull to be an American
How appropriate, it is the land of George Orwell's birth
I seem to remember reading once that early typewriters had keys in alphabetical order, but that was too easy. People were typing too fast and the keys were jamming.
If this is true, this is really a retro keyboard, not new.
I hope the keys are fat and far apart. I hate using laptop keyboards and will not because I feel like I have to squish my fingers together.
Those on the Debian gnu/linux platform already enjoy the use of virtualRMS ( last I checked still in "unstable" har har ).
A few more upgrades, like AI, memory storage etc then we will never have to worry about who will replace RMS. We will each have a copy
I think google was onto something when they kept ads as text. I think people find graphic ads obnoxious and as a result train themselves not to look.
I actually didn't mind looking at the text based ads on google.
Good thing I have firefox with adblock.
Maybe outsourcing the the decline in QUALITY I.T. jobs is inflating the gender gap.
I don't mean this in a nasty way, but what kind of credibility does this guy have?
Palpatine loses one:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10496539/
Since I started using Visual Slick Edit ( not free ) years ago I never needed or wanted another IDE. It does it all and I've only had to learn one interface.
Programming even "easy" things always takes up more time and money people think. Google is still small enough where every penny counts. That and with their own browser they call the shots, not the people at mozilla.
I agree. By buying Opera to use as their platform Google gets a browser with mobile device support and they don't have to adjust to whatever firefox does, instead letting firefox do the work of adjusting to them.
Netscape was once a small company with little money and a lot of brain power too.
Microsoft crushed them.
Google with a fraction of a percent of Microsoft's money has survived because they have solved new problems instead of competing with Microsoft on their own turf.
I.E.( "dominant browser" ) is a central part of MS's turf and they will not tolerate Google trying to snag it away from.
I see a fist fight coming.
That and Google can control their browser to their liking at their own schedule instead of waiting to see what firefox does.
Very fascinating suppositions and it jives with the question "why not firefox?".
According to your theory Google wants a standard platform with which to build up their apps. Firefox, being controlled by other people will be a moving target to a certain exent, which would slow them down.
If they buy Opera and beef up their web apps to Opera as a platform Opera is standards compliant so Firefox can easily adjust. The Firefox crew does the work of adjusting to Google instead of Google adjusting to Firefox.
Chimpanzees, the closest releatives to humans are kept in cages and experimented on in scientific labs. Many are intentionally infected with AIDS by scientists doing AIDS research.
Now it appears they have better ability to reason than children.
Will this reopen the debate on the ethics of using these animals?