I'd rather listen to a scientist than to a "friend" of science.
It seems very suspicious than an organization could be dedicated EXCLUSIVELY to deny claims about global warming.
Plus, why is it called with such an emotionally moving name like "friends of science"?
I searched google, and the only references to friendsofscience.org were forums inside that same site. Plus, I checked the hosting company, and it's "reveal.ca", a BUSINESS SEARCH company.
Can you spell "Astroturfing"?
Look, it's MORE THAN OBVIOUS that companies will lose A LOT OF MONEY if the U.S. abides by the Kyoto Protocol. Don't you think that they will start creating phantom organisations to dismiss the idea of global warming?
Look, we all know what companies like Microsoft are capable of. You think companies that produce huge emissions of CO2 and other pollutants wouldn't do ANYTHING to keep earning money?
I'm sorry but you seem to naive to believe the "friends of science".
I'm a Windows Joe user (or joe developer actually, but anyway), and all I want is a Linux whose desktop looks nearly identical to Windows XP, and has a control panel so i can configure stuff. I also want the sound to work with my ASUS NForce motherboard. How long till a windows-like Linux is written? (and released for free, that is, I already spent $200 in WinXP, why should I spend another $80 on a similar Linux?)
I haven't been able to run XMMS at all, it always freezes.
(I tested it with Hoary, but according to the reviews some of the issues haven't been fixed in Breezy).
When I was posting my issues in the Ubuntu forum (or was it here?), someone from Ubuntu told me that Ubuntu wasn't ready for newbies, and recommended SUSE instead. It's very curious that one of the people in the Ubuntu team said more or less the same thing to a poster today: "Ubuntu is very overrated", and "the sound issues aren't solved in Ubuntu".
So is this it? The most "user-friendly" linux is just a bunch of hype over a Debian distro?:(
A friend in MSN showed me a blue furry creature that looks like a pokèmon, and it was waving "hi", smiling and everything. I instantly clicked on it, and added to my custom MSN smileys. Whenever I say "hi" to my female MSN friends using this custom smiley, they all say "awwww how cute! ^_^ where did you get that?" or something. (love hint: yes fellow slashdotters, girls like all that cute stuff)
This custom smiley is some kind of social phenomena. Custom emoticons begin appear computer, and the next day they're everywhere because they can be easily transferred between computers.
For years i've been waiting for F/OSS messengers (for Windows, i mean) to have this custom emoticon feature. And I'm still waiting...
It seems to me like this is "a guy's idea (not a bad idea but anyways)" that he wants to popularize. Meanwhile, the Linux developers will keep doing the things they do, the way they want.
Unless this initiative has the support of major players I doubt it'll bear fruit. And that's bad, because Linux (the movement, not the kernel) needs standards badly.
Gah, I don't want the new "Refinance your house! Click on your state!" with some weird animal dancing on my TV screen.
No, they just have weird people suffering problems in B/W when suddenly the screen turns color while a salesman yells about a product when a bunch of stupid people applaud for about 30 minutes like it was the holy grail. 1-800-555-DUMB. CALL NOW!!
You can always tear up the magazine ads and use them to power up your boiler, or cover some part of the house while you're painting:) Try that with Flash ads.
I might stand animated GIF's... but those Flash Ads use up _MY_ CPU. As if wasting my bandwidth wasn't enough. It's as if some TV commercial made you run and dance while you were forced to watch it.
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Finding your appropriate girlfriend - *BEEP* Error... error... processor overload... *BOOM*
Not if you only hold data in the partition you're trying to access.
Support reiserFS and ext2 / ext3 file systems in windows!
Thank you.
I'd rather listen to a scientist than to a "friend" of science.
It seems very suspicious than an organization could be dedicated EXCLUSIVELY to deny claims about global warming.
Plus, why is it called with such an emotionally moving name like "friends of science"?
I searched google, and the only references to friendsofscience.org were forums inside that same site. Plus, I checked the hosting company, and it's "reveal.ca", a BUSINESS SEARCH company.
Can you spell "Astroturfing"?
Look, it's MORE THAN OBVIOUS that companies will lose A LOT OF MONEY if the U.S. abides by the Kyoto Protocol. Don't you think that they will start creating phantom organisations to dismiss the idea of global warming?
Look, we all know what companies like Microsoft are capable of. You think companies that produce huge emissions of CO2 and other pollutants wouldn't do ANYTHING to keep earning money?
I'm sorry but you seem to naive to believe the "friends of science".
our FL/OSS is their GAIM ? :)
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/1 0/05/2041240&from=rss
Different link, but same idea anyway.
"FUD"?
:D
"Microsoft has a long and well-documented history of not supporting standards."?
"embrace and extend practice"?
O.O OH boy, those ARE slashdotters' comments!
Guys, we're on FOXnews!
I'm a Windows Joe user (or joe developer actually, but anyway), and all I want is a Linux whose desktop looks nearly identical to Windows XP, and has a control panel so i can configure stuff. I also want the sound to work with my ASUS NForce motherboard. How long till a windows-like Linux is written? (and released for free, that is, I already spent $200 in WinXP, why should I spend another $80 on a similar Linux?)
:(
I haven't been able to run XMMS at all, it always freezes.
(I tested it with Hoary, but according to the reviews some of the issues haven't been fixed in Breezy).
When I was posting my issues in the Ubuntu forum (or was it here?), someone from Ubuntu told me that Ubuntu wasn't ready for newbies, and recommended SUSE instead. It's very curious that one of the people in the Ubuntu team said more or less the same thing to a poster today: "Ubuntu is very overrated", and "the sound issues aren't solved in Ubuntu".
So is this it? The most "user-friendly" linux is just a bunch of hype over a Debian distro?
welcome our new... WHAT AM I SAYING! *slaps self*
whew, that was close.
90% of their traffic...
[Homer]Yahoo!!![/Homer]
But trafic = Revenues...
[Homer]D'OH![/Homer]
However, it's not like children BUY things when chatting... so this is actually a gain.
[Homer]Yahoo!!![/Homer]
[Mr.Burns]Excellent...[/Mr.Burns]
A friend in MSN showed me a blue furry creature that looks like a pokèmon, and it was waving "hi", smiling and everything. I instantly clicked on it, and added to my custom MSN smileys. Whenever I say "hi" to my female MSN friends using this custom smiley, they all say "awwww how cute! ^_^ where did you get that?" or something. (love hint: yes fellow slashdotters, girls like all that cute stuff)
This custom smiley is some kind of social phenomena. Custom emoticons begin appear computer, and the next day they're everywhere because they can be easily transferred between computers.
For years i've been waiting for F/OSS messengers (for Windows, i mean) to have this custom emoticon feature. And I'm still waiting...
..and gun manufacturers should be responsible for murder.
No, but they should if the gun explodes when you pull the trigger.
:D :-o ^o) *-) :o) :-P (&)
Any questions?
It seems to me like this is "a guy's idea (not a bad idea but anyways)" that he wants to popularize. Meanwhile, the Linux developers will keep doing the things they do, the way they want.
Unless this initiative has the support of major players I doubt it'll bear fruit. And that's bad, because Linux (the movement, not the kernel) needs standards badly.
Reads:
The Tech Report has posted an in-depth review
Should read:
The Tech Report has posted an in-depth review
(Thanks to synthparadox for the link)
Gah, I don't want the new "Refinance your house! Click on your state!" with some weird animal dancing on my TV screen.
No, they just have weird people suffering problems in B/W when suddenly the screen turns color while a salesman yells about a product when a bunch of stupid people applaud for about 30 minutes like it was the holy grail. 1-800-555-DUMB. CALL NOW!!
It was a delightful and funny read. And it's funny because it's true.
I wonder if Zonk ever gets tired of posting the same three flamebait stories every day.
You're right! We should make a law forbidding them!
The law is so widely open to interpretation that it provides no enforcable measures by which to "draw the line".
But from an objective point of view, isn't that better than not drawing *any* line at all?
Just a thought.
we're supposed to PAY (i.e. taxes) so the ISPs can SPY on us?
Wow.
If anything China should embrace online addiction and create there own state sponsored MMORPG.
They already have one. Problem is, it's not online, you only have one life, and you can't escape. It's called "Paranoia".
You can always tear up the magazine ads and use them to power up your boiler, or cover some part of the house while you're painting :)
Try that with Flash ads.
I might stand animated GIF's... but those Flash Ads use up _MY_ CPU. As if wasting my bandwidth wasn't enough. It's as if some TV commercial made you run and dance while you were forced to watch it.
No, thank you, i'll skip that.
Either funny or insightful (the analogy is astonishingly true)
They DID find a way to get even more money from their customers. And when we thought they were over, they finally did something innovative.