Slashdot Mirror


User: game+kid

game+kid's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
2,179
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 2,179

  1. Re:Non-free content in a free encyclopedia? on Wikipedia's Assault On Patent-Encumbered Codecs · · Score: 1

    There's already a few featured articles with non-free clips, e.g. Star Trek: First Contact and Cartman Gets an Anal Probe. The "breakthrough" has already happened; it's just that those adding the clips do so quietly and sparingly (they are non-free, after all).

    Not every article will benefit from a video; sometimes a GIF or basic image will do. Even in articles where non-freeness doesn't keep video to a minimum, resources (number of editors, file size, etc.) and common sense will. Video won't reach banner-ad ubiquity on WP, but every once in a while you'll see one and say "ooh, neat".

  2. Re:Proof he owns the moon. on Lord British's Lost Lunar Rover Found, After 37 Years · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, but he is still vulnerable to falling gold plaques, enraged catgirl goddesses of luck, and Chuck Norris.

  3. Re:A simple solution on Pharma Marketing Faces a Character-Count Conundrum · · Score: 4, Funny

    At least it improves on their draft slogan, "AstraZeneca: culling the unfit from the gene pool through unfortunate accidents since 1999".

  4. Re:140 Chars? on Pharma Marketing Faces a Character-Count Conundrum · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yo dawg, I herd you like side effects so we put a Viagra in your Viagra so you can go blind while you get priapism. http://www.viagra.com/

  5. Re:It's about time on Texas Approves Conservative Curriculum · · Score: 1

    That, and the "Homepage" is a giveaway.

  6. Re:Corporate Love on Google To Steal Office Web Apps' Thunder? · · Score: 1

    DocVerse: "Oh Google, I want your acquisition money in my business account now! Oh! Yes! Yes!" [releases shiny products and middleware all over the place]

  7. Re:Almost like an ad at first... on Major ISPs Help Fund BitTorrent User Tracking Research · · Score: 1

    I misread that as "Monitor Pirate Bay torrents of TODAY" and wondered who could've incurred the wrath of Comcast. Or Al Roker.

    (Do not piss off Roker. He can control the weather and make you cry.)

  8. ahem on What To Expect From HTML5 · · Score: 1

    *Using video when object with just a mime type and filename _would probably work too_ doesn't break backwards compatibility?

    (My brain ate four words, I guess.)

  9. Re:What to except on What To Expect From HTML5 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    fix the web without breaking backwards compatibility

    Using video when object with just a mime type and filename doesn't break backwards compatibility?

    Given that intentional spite of IE (video is otherwise redundant and has not brought about a standard format), along with canvas and the codification of bad SGML parsing, I'm not convinced we should celebrate HTML5's failure (or FAIL, as people who can't type lowercase seven-letter words say now). I won't touch it.

    I'll keep using XHTML 1.0 and pretend HTML5 and XHTML 1.1 (with its invalid DTDs and such) never existed, tyvm.

  10. Re:wow.. i dont believe it on ABC Pulls Channels From Cablevision · · Score: 1

    "Lost" is what ABC is to Cablevision. :)

  11. Re:Just another scarlet letter to maintain on California To Create Public Animal Abuser Registry · · Score: 1

    How much more of the shun/banish behaviour must we exhibit in our increasingly shrill nation?

    LOL gb2/4chan fgt

  12. Re:Similar stuff from IBM on New Material Sets Stage For All-Optical Computing · · Score: 1

    (A few days before announcing 2,500 layoffs, hmmm...)

    Simple. IBM no longer needed help because it invented awesome.

  13. Re:2010: on North Korea's Own OS, Red Star · · Score: 1

    So you're a PC (proletariat communist) huh?

  14. Re:It's stupid. on The Awful Anti-Pirate System That Will Probably Work · · Score: 1

    But EA already has an exclusive license on real baseball!

  15. Re:What no pirate comments? on No Glasses Needed For TI's New 3D Display · · Score: 1

    That's such a ninja tactic.

  16. Re:But what did Apple want? on IdeaPad U1, What We Wanted the iPad To Be · · Score: 1

    But, but...HTML5 will replace Flash! And it has, like, video!! It's...it's like, object, but for VIDEO!!!!!!

    [/fanboy]

  17. Re:Once this thing hits Encyclopedia Dramatica... on CMU Web-Scraping Learns English, One Word At a Time · · Score: 1

    But you repeat yourself.

  18. Re:So, I'm looking for ... on Google Seeking Patent On Ads For Street View · · Score: 1

    Speaking of McDonald's, I bet they'd use street-view ads to make their own fantasy version of the golden arch-less Cycle Center in Chicago. (Via WP)

    They'd probably replace trees with Big Macs and bikes with Happy Meal toys.

  19. Re:You know what else it's good for though, right? on Ginkgo Doesn't Improve Memory Or Cognitive Skills · · Score: 1

    Besides, if the ginkgo industry's scared it won't be seen as a feel-good product, they can just say it lowers cholesterol or something.

  20. There are no roaming fees in China on Toshiba Intros Trilingual Translation App For Cellphones · · Score: 1

    There are no roaming fees in China, only "People's Harmonious Technological Journey Dues".

  21. Re:Needs more controversy on Critics Call For NASA TV To "Liven Up" · · Score: 1

    Don't forget Omarosa. We need someone to misinterpret a "black body" remark as racist.

  22. Re:OMG My Eyes! on Microsoft's Lack of Nightly Builds For IE · · Score: 1

    Clippy: It looks like you're getting a hard-on...

  23. Re:Completely Utterly Stupid Premise "analog blog" on The Monrovian Analog Blogger · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "organic carpet"? Keep up, man!

    It's a Rich Self-replicating Content Distribution Network (rsCDN(tm)). It complements outdoor architectures, beautifies connected ecosystems, and synergizes with the real world. Periodic maintenance ensures minimal use of vertical resources!

  24. Re:False report (according to Comcast) on Comcast In Deal Talks With NBC Universal · · Score: 1

    Comcast only said "While we do not normally comment on [mergers and acquisitions] rumors, the report that Comcast has a deal to purchase NBC Universal is inaccurate." The inaccuracy could've been in some details of the report, or whether such a deal would actually happen, but they didn't specify which (in that quote).

    PR guys love to reveal without revealing and lie without lying. A failure to do either leaves the company vulnerable.

  25. Re:Awesome news! on IEEE Approves 802.11n Wi-Fi Standard · · Score: 1

    Not until they approve that 100 Mbps Ethernet I've been waiting on!