PS: If I had mod points, I'd mod you funny... but I think we're the only two people to have seen Idiocracy.:) Next time, throw in a Futurama quote and you'll be in karma heaven.
Come on, this is slashdot. Here's a list that will speak to the masses:
Internal Cumbustion 8 Housewife Bangers 2 Who's Your Daddy? 9 First Time Swallows 2 Sweet Cream Pies 1 Perverted POV 10 Two Big Two Be True 2 My Sister's Hot Friend 5 Bubblin Brown Suga Dude Your Girlfriend Is In A Porno 4
if oracle's distro wins to much, they will have killed their 'upstream' distro provider, and who's patches and fixes and developments can they then "follow, releasing our updates only a day later".
Anyhow, it is a very healthy vote of confidence in RHES, it seems to become the 'new' LSB.. But lets hope oracle is smart enough not to kill their supplier:-)
If Oracle does manage to kill Red Hat, it's not a huge problem. They'll just hire all of the jobless Red Hat guys. Maybe even get a good deal on the company (and name) Red Hat in the process.
Iran did sign the non profiliation agreement.
However there is no international rule that forbids iran from developing a nuclear plant,
not even forbidding it to develop a nuclear bomb.
The "international rule" that forbids Iran from developing nuclear bombs is the treaty!
Here's a bit of the non-proliferation treaty that Iran signed:
Article II
...not to manufacture or otherwise acquire nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices; and not to seek or receive any assistance in the manufacture of nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices.
The phone number works. Some Nigerian guy answered the phone. After taking my personal information, he offered me this great deal where I just have to let him use my bank account and he'll give me 40% of some dead guy's 20 million dollar estate.
That's what I assumed. But when I checked it (and was shocked by the new "Hotmail" style web-based email they have switched to), I just had a bunch of "Your online bill is ready" emails. No notifications at all. I did have an email dated the same as the Globe and Mail article, but it was completely unrelated as well. Furthermore, there was *nothing* sent to me with the date of the TOS change.
As always, thanks for the fantastic customer service, Bell!
I didn't believe that Gorf was the first game to have a boss, so I turned to the trusty old Wikipedia for the real deal.
According to the entry on "Boss (Video Game)"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_(video_gam e)/, "The first video game boss was the Golden Dragon from the 1975 video game dnd, running on the PLATO System, one of the first world-wide computer networks."
Having never heard of this game, I went to the "dnd" entry.
The first video game boss was the Golden Dragon from the 1975 video game dnd, running on the PLATO System, one of the first world-wide computer networks.
It turns out that dnd was responsible for a lot of videogame firsts: "dnd was the first adventure or RPG to have a store where the player could buy magic items... dnd was the first computer game that placed the player within a story with a beginning, middle, climax, denouement and an end. dnd also was one of the first video games to attempt humor and irony within the game."
OK, now I'm suspicous. Somebody claims that this game was the first to attempt humour within the game? Sounds doubtful to me, but then again, what do I know? Anybody?
I think that the root of the problem is hidden in TFA:
According to House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, 'telecommunications and cable companies will be able to create toll lanes on the information superhighway...'
Toll lanes on the information superhighway... wow... the big problem here is that the people who shape and pass these bills actually use terms like "information superhighway".
They have no business representing ANYBODY when it comes to technology. Why not find somebody who can display an understanding of computers and the internet instead of somebody who is fluent in 1996 buzzwords?
1. boot off install dvd...if you have a DVD-ROM. Of course, where do you get the install DVD? One doesn't exactly find Linux on store shelves most places.
True... in North America. In small town Russia, for example, you WON'T find a genuine Windows disc in ANY store. You'll find a bunch of pirated versions for about $2 each.
You *can* also find any number of Linux or BSD cds/dvds, though.
It seems to me that this whole idea of pay-as-you-go computing was created to fight piracy in places where it is rampant: Russia, Brazil, and so on. It's in exactly these places that you won't find big chains of electronics stores that dictate what people buy (ie. genuine Windows discs). Instead, it's a whole bunch of smaller shops that carry what the people can afford. You'll easily find pirated Windows among a bunch of different kinds of Linux discs. You can put all of the full-priced Windows there that you want, but you won't sell any.
Here's an idea... why not just make it a crime for pedophiles, criminals and terrorists to NOT give over their private keys AFTER they've committed their crime.
That way Joe Sixpack can keep sending encrypted communications and not have to worry about the government reading them - as long as he doesn't start blowing stuff up, too.
From TFA: George W. Bush told his audience, "the government funded research in microdrive storage, electrochemistry and signal compression. They did so for one reason: It turned out that those were the key ingredients for the development of the iPod."
The bold type is mine. I doubt that the single reason that things like signal compression were funded was because it was necessary to develop the iPod. It seems like these things could be more useful in military/computer/communications/etc. spheres than in personal entertainment.
Does this sound like a (bad) joke taken out of context to anybody else? Don't we have editors for this sort of thing?
The whois for irhabi007.com lists some guy in California with (what seems to me to be) a Jewish name... I doubt that many Arab terrorist cells would trust a Jacobson to be their propaganda guy.
A whois (or even Godaddy) search for the sites listed in the article (www.irhabi007.ca and www.irhabi007.tv) show that they're currently available for purchase.
I'll be first to call "bullshit" on this whole story.
I think that almost everybody would agree that a little more time spent making a product better is a good thing.
It's not just about polish, though. TFA lays out a number of points where improvements are needed:
1. Testing 2. Certification 3. Localisation 4. (last but not least) Polish
Improvements to Asian localisation should help a ton of people - we're not all English speakers.:) Any steps, no matter how small, to appeal to the Chinese/Korean/Japanese markets will probably pay off well.
Not that it all matters to me, though... I use SUSE.:)
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I think you used too many words in your haiku.
Plants crave electrolytes!
:) Next time, throw in a Futurama quote and you'll be in karma heaven.
PS: If I had mod points, I'd mod you funny... but I think we're the only two people to have seen Idiocracy.
Come on, this is slashdot. Here's a list that will speak to the masses:
Internal Cumbustion 8
Housewife Bangers 2
Who's Your Daddy? 9
First Time Swallows 2
Sweet Cream Pies 1
Perverted POV 10
Two Big Two Be True 2
My Sister's Hot Friend 5
Bubblin Brown Suga
Dude Your Girlfriend Is In A Porno 4
If Oracle does manage to kill Red Hat, it's not a huge problem. They'll just hire all of the jobless Red Hat guys. Maybe even get a good deal on the company (and name) Red Hat in the process.
Most likely. I can almost guarantee that their lasers aren't blue (G.I. Joe would never have sold any lasers to China).
Welcome to slashdot.
The "international rule" that forbids Iran from developing nuclear bombs is the treaty!
Here's a bit of the non-proliferation treaty that Iran signed:
Article II
The phone number works. Some Nigerian guy answered the phone. After taking my personal information, he offered me this great deal where I just have to let him use my bank account and he'll give me 40% of some dead guy's 20 million dollar estate.
Give it a day or two to see if recapping the summary will fool new moderators into giving him +5 Informative. :) Maybe he's on to something!
That's what I assumed. But when I checked it (and was shocked by the new "Hotmail" style web-based email they have switched to), I just had a bunch of "Your online bill is ready" emails. No notifications at all. I did have an email dated the same as the Globe and Mail article, but it was completely unrelated as well. Furthermore, there was *nothing* sent to me with the date of the TOS change.
As always, thanks for the fantastic customer service, Bell!
I'm a customer and haven't received a thing.
Has anybody? Or should I assume that they are notifying us through an article in the Globe and Mail and not via email/snail mail?!?
A slashdotter in a relationship with a WOMAN?
LIAR!
According to the entry on "Boss (Video Game)"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_(video_gam e)/, "The first video game boss was the Golden Dragon from the 1975 video game dnd, running on the PLATO System, one of the first world-wide computer networks."
Having never heard of this game, I went to the "dnd" entry.
It turns out that dnd was responsible for a lot of videogame firsts: "dnd was the first adventure or RPG to have a store where the player could buy magic items... dnd was the first computer game that placed the player within a story with a beginning, middle, climax, denouement and an end. dnd also was one of the first video games to attempt humor and irony within the game."
OK, now I'm suspicous. Somebody claims that this game was the first to attempt humour within the game? Sounds doubtful to me, but then again, what do I know? Anybody?
Toll lanes on the information superhighway... wow... the big problem here is that the people who shape and pass these bills actually use terms like "information superhighway".
They have no business representing ANYBODY when it comes to technology. Why not find somebody who can display an understanding of computers and the internet instead of somebody who is fluent in 1996 buzzwords?
The most interesting part of TFA: "Victims are only told the password if they buy drugs from one of three online pharmacies."
Are online pharmacies so unregulated that criminals can extort people as a means for advertising?
Wow.
It seems that you're looking for http://digg.com/.
True... in North America. In small town Russia, for example, you WON'T find a genuine Windows disc in ANY store. You'll find a bunch of pirated versions for about $2 each.
You *can* also find any number of Linux or BSD cds/dvds, though.
It seems to me that this whole idea of pay-as-you-go computing was created to fight piracy in places where it is rampant: Russia, Brazil, and so on. It's in exactly these places that you won't find big chains of electronics stores that dictate what people buy (ie. genuine Windows discs). Instead, it's a whole bunch of smaller shops that carry what the people can afford. You'll easily find pirated Windows among a bunch of different kinds of Linux discs. You can put all of the full-priced Windows there that you want, but you won't sell any.
Baltika
Here's an idea... why not just make it a crime for pedophiles, criminals and terrorists to NOT give over their private keys AFTER they've committed their crime.
That way Joe Sixpack can keep sending encrypted communications and not have to worry about the government reading them - as long as he doesn't start blowing stuff up, too.
In related news, dictionary.com has suffered the slashdot effect after a massive spike in searches for the definitions of "avarice" and "altruism".
The bold type is mine. I doubt that the single reason that things like signal compression were funded was because it was necessary to develop the iPod. It seems like these things could be more useful in military/computer/communications/etc. spheres than in personal entertainment.
Does this sound like a (bad) joke taken out of context to anybody else? Don't we have editors for this sort of thing?
Baltika
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Even $100 is too expensive for me. I'll just wait until she performs this concert and download the torrent of bootleg mp3s.
Baltika
A whois (or even Godaddy) search for the sites listed in the article (www.irhabi007.ca and www.irhabi007.tv) show that they're currently available for purchase.
I'll be first to call "bullshit" on this whole story.
I think that almost everybody would agree that a little more time spent making a product better is a good thing.
:) Any steps, no matter how small, to appeal to the Chinese/Korean/Japanese markets will probably pay off well.
:)
It's not just about polish, though. TFA lays out a number of points where improvements are needed:
1. Testing
2. Certification
3. Localisation
4. (last but not least) Polish
Improvements to Asian localisation should help a ton of people - we're not all English speakers.
Not that it all matters to me, though... I use SUSE.
BaltikaTroika
I didn't put the name of the university in the summary because it makes no difference (except to the people who study there).
I think it's more likely that the parasite makes people believe that urban legend about lemmings committing suicide.
BaltikaTroika