an't he just try to suspend them for a few days or make them clean the school toilets with tooth brushes? I bet he sucks his thumb at night No, I think he made the right decision in suing these people. See, the action that these persons (whoever they where) did (publish the fake myspace page) had *nothing* to do with the school. They could have done it from their home and it could had been done by anyone outside the school (an ex-student pissed after being thrown out).
If it was someone from inside the school like students, he would have done wrong in *enforcing* his own punishment for them. Instead what he did was to go the legal way, is like if anyone happens to make a fake myspace page of myself, it does not matter where do I know him (lets say he was ex employee), I do not have the right to take revenge using whatever power any institution has given me. The fair way to deal with it is looking for legal action. Of course they can still settle and *there* is where he could have the option of choosing whatever punishment for them.
talking about racing games, i was looking forward to buy one for the wii and I ended buying Excite Truck. It is quite good, it has a nice single player mode. The two player mode is not as good as it could... although I have *yet* to find a good cooperative multiplayer game in any platform... (kinda like Mario Kart or Halo).
Even if you took an article on something obscure (say, something obscure in medicine or chemistry or whatever), you will find the occasional comment by someone who knows what's going on.
I certainly prefer those stories. Usually it is in the more obscure stories (some which don't make to the homepage) that have better Signal to noise ratio ans as they are more "obscure" less people try to pose as knowing about the issue.
Digg comments are completely stupid. Although I like the speed in which Digg gets the news. I always see the stories posted in/. one day or before posted on Digg. And there are certain links which are interesting and would *never* get to Slashdot. Sometimes of course del.icio.us can yield the same content.
It finished when user friendly distros based on Debian and with Apt became available...
In all seriousness I still remember (at the time of Red Hat Linux 8) that the "Debian" distributions was very criticised. Does anyone remember the "Lesbian Linux" parody?, and the Teletubbies parody of Mandrake (not that they have changed their style =oP)
Personally I'm looking for a place to work after I finish my PhD in UK (as an International student), I have always been opposed to the idea of working in the USA as I really hate their international policy (and I do not want all my personal information to be disclosed the moment I am traveling there and as they see I am a Mexican the government will think I want to be a pollero or something). But, as some friends (who got their PhD's here in the UK and have now either returned to Mexico or gone to the USA to work) said, companies in the USA do not care about the origin of the person, if you are good they *will* do whatever they need to get your, whereas companies in the UK are more conservative and in some way "racist" when it comes to employing people.
Here in the UK the same thing happens. I am always wary of those services providing unlimited *anything*. That is why I am more comfortable with Google's 3GB or 4GB or whatever space they give against say, yahoo's unlimited, because ALWAYS (show me an advertisement that does not have it) the word UNLIMITED comes with the corresponding '*' attached to it, and in the case of the broadband services they use the "Fair use" policy to trivially limit the bandwidth.
I have also read a lot of times people assuming that the people that download a lot is *pirating* stuff. But with the current rise of multimedia content (VoIP, VoD, online gaming, and the massive amount of flash crap in the web) it is very easy to go over 2GB a month...
If he gets shipped over to the States, he will have his human rights violated.
Somehow, I believe something *more* than his human rights will be violated.
What I dont understand is why the UK does not understand that he commited whatever crimes he commited in the UK. As you said, there is surely some kind of political agenda before this... poor sucker. Of course I do not condone what he did, he indeed commited a crime but he should be judged and charged *where* he commited it, in the UK and not in whatever country wants who wants to charge it.
No I did not watch firefly... I will get one or two episodes from piratebay to see. As I am not in the USA I really didn't know about them until I started reading all the fuzz of the movie on slashdot. I think that might also show the difference between Star Wars and this movie, whereas SW is widely known in a lot of countries, I guess if you ask the average citizen of Guatemala he wont have *any* idea of what is it.
Well, that list is kinda wrong... the first place should go to the TV... or more generally to the "display Screen " as none of those "technologies" would exist without it, then, how can "Compuserve" be in that list? "Microsoft Excel??" QPro was 1. First and 2. Better by a million times... "IOmega Zip Drive"?? that was a COMPLETE FAILURE... bah
It might not be the first one, the UK version of Super Mari Bros (the only VC game I have bought) also displays a lot of flicker (which was not there in the original, believe me, I know that game *by heart*).
Too expensive for what they provide... considering I can download them for free and play with the original controller in my computer (and with better graphics quality).
I fell asleep when trying to watch Serenity (I got it from a friend [DivX] after reading about all the hype here in slashdot) and could not finish watching it... I was watching it with my girlfriend and she was just as bored as I was. And she BOUGHT the starwars trilogy (ep. 4, 5 and 6) DVD as she really likes it and I *love* science fiction (Asimov is my favorite author, I like Bradbury and I also liked Star wars, Star Trek, Darkcity, floor 13th and so far [gosh I even *kind of* liked Starship Troopers because it was set on the space]...
Having said that, I agree with the sentiment of some other people here who said that Serenity is just *another* scifi movie which will be remembered by some people but in no way will approach the fame of Star Wars. I think one of the differences is that, to make Star Wars Lucas needed to employ several new technology, be inventive and really think outside of the box while Serenity is just *another* Computer Graphics fest.
And using the analogy someone else has used I would say that: Star Wars is to Windows as what Serenity is to OpenBSD
Because only a handful of people think it is really good... I will say Linux is more akin to Star Trek
And yet being proud of your country, defend it to death and other similar shit are part of what they teach you as a kid... of course all of that is bullshit if you get to see what defines a country.
these are for people who have food but lack a complex economy which would be needed to take advantage of the global world's purchasing needs.
People in USA or other "developed" countries might just not be able to understand this. But I know the availability of these kind of computers is something beneficial for Mexico.
Take as an example something that happened some 4 years ago (more or less, around 2003). I was somewhere in Mexico in a friend's Internet Cafe who also sells and repairs computers (btw beige box PCs are prevalent in Mexico), when a person entered the shop and asked for a cheap 486 computer, he was looking for something *very cheap*, not the new Pentium 4, not even a P3, he was looking to pay something like $100 bucks ($2000 pesos) for a complete computer (PC + monitor). Unfortunately, my friend didnt sell used computers, just new ones so he could not sell one to him.
But this gives you a panorama for how is there people that do not have a computer but is also not *starving*to death, Unfortunately, it is the medium-class whose (in Mexico at least) economy is going down and do not have the money to spend in the top line computer.
because it looks like it sounds that way. Or how we got rid of the 'u' in colour, etc., because it's not pronounced.
Hey!, I am a Mexican living in the UK an I can assure you the U in Colour and Behaviour and flavour DOES indeed sounds over here:) and btw those are the subtle differences that make US American girls get crazy over British and their accent;-)
And yet, I just read in "La Jornada" (Mexican news paper) that a lot of the hardware conceived for the "Enciclomedia" project has no been used because of the lack of electricity in some places...
I concur, when trying to migrate my laptop OS to Linux I tried Kubuntu first as it was supposed to be the most complete (good CD/DVD burner, good music player, overall good software). But it was very buggy, the artsd always crashed lots of Knotify processes where making the machine slow, the cd burner (k3d) worked half of the time and overall it just fell very clanky.
I installed Ubuntu and since then it has became my alternative OS (using XP as main) and I am very happy with it (although I cant use it as my main because there are several hardware that doesnt work and there are some things i cant do with Linux)
. Even if a flight is only 2 hours, but you need 1 hour pre-flight and one hour post-flight, you still lost a lot of time. Sure, no 8 hours, but travelling by train is marvelously relaxing..../i.
Ah, that is a really good point. I am currently living in the UK and, if you make a comparison between, say a flight from Liverpool to Southhampton, the flight duration is One hour. But, you must be One hour (one and a half really) before the departing time. You also have to consider that the airports are usually outside the city, hence, you will have to drive to and from the airport (say One hour in total). That makes it 3 hours, and then, after you arrive you must wait almost another hour while the plane taxies and you can get out of the terminal, that is 4 hours in total.
If you compare that to the time in train 4:30 hours it is almost the same real time. The difference is that, if you go by train you can spend that time working in whatever you are doing peacefully seated at the train, whereas if you go by plane you spend half of that time worrying about what will be the new *great idea* of the security guards at the airport and wondering if they will allow you to pass your new metallic pen.
I definitely love trains (it might be because I am from Mexico and there are almost no passengers trains over there), unfortunately they are quite expensive IMO.
A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B Jump, jump fucker, jump, JUUUMP, JUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMP...
*throws gamepad to the wall*
Ahhh the memories...
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an't he just try to suspend them for a few days or make them clean the school toilets with tooth brushes? I bet he sucks his thumb at night
No, I think he made the right decision in suing these people. See, the action that these persons (whoever they where) did (publish the fake myspace page) had *nothing* to do with the school. They could have done it from their home and it could had been done by anyone outside the school (an ex-student pissed after being thrown out).
If it was someone from inside the school like students, he would have done wrong in *enforcing* his own punishment for them. Instead what he did was to go the legal way, is like if anyone happens to make a fake myspace page of myself, it does not matter where do I know him (lets say he was ex employee), I do not have the right to take revenge using whatever power any institution has given me. The fair way to deal with it is looking for legal action. Of course they can still settle and *there* is where he could have the option of choosing whatever punishment for them.
talking about racing games, i was looking forward to buy one for the wii and I ended buying Excite Truck. It is quite good, it has a nice single player mode. The two player mode is not as good as it could... although I have *yet* to find a good cooperative multiplayer game in any platform... (kinda like Mario Kart or Halo).
Even if you took an article on something obscure (say, something obscure in medicine or chemistry or whatever), you will find the occasional comment by someone who knows what's going on.
/. one day or before posted on Digg. And there are certain links which are interesting and would *never* get to Slashdot. Sometimes of course del.icio.us can yield the same content.
I certainly prefer those stories. Usually it is in the more obscure stories (some which don't make to the homepage) that have better Signal to noise ratio ans as they are more "obscure" less people try to pose as knowing about the issue.
Digg comments are completely stupid. Although I like the speed in which Digg gets the news. I always see the stories posted in
And yet parent is off topic, does not say anything and is moded +5 informative?
:)
Didn't you read the post mods? when he asked:
Seriously, who modded this crap as insightful? he was talking about his own post... he would have written "that crap" otherwise
I use The Gimp at work. Could you pick a worse name?
The Pimp?
where are all the debate about the best distro
It finished when user friendly distros based on Debian and with Apt became available...
In all seriousness I still remember (at the time of Red Hat Linux 8) that the "Debian" distributions was very criticised. Does anyone remember the "Lesbian Linux" parody?, and the Teletubbies parody of Mandrake (not that they have changed their style =oP)
Oh god, are macs *that* expensive?
$520 for a 512MB/1.6Ghz/60GB *REFUBRISHED* PC is just plain wrong...
You can get a *brand new* 512MB/1.8Ghz/120GB PC from dell... including mouse and keyboard and warranty.
Posting AC because my comment wont be popular on this forum...
and because I will mod you funny if I get mod points...
I only have two myself =o(
I love Scotland, I love their people and the place. In fact I would really love to work there, unfortunately Scotland is ruled by the which leaves you two options, 1. Try to get the "highly skilled immigrant" visa for which you need an MBA or a PhD, or 2. Try to get a company to sponsor a Work Permit. Unfortunately, in my experience UK companies wont touch immigrants with a 100 yard pole.
Personally I'm looking for a place to work after I finish my PhD in UK (as an International student), I have always been opposed to the idea of working in the USA as I really hate their international policy (and I do not want all my personal information to be disclosed the moment I am traveling there and as they see I am a Mexican the government will think I want to be a pollero or something). But, as some friends (who got their PhD's here in the UK and have now either returned to Mexico or gone to the USA to work) said, companies in the USA do not care about the origin of the person, if you are good they *will* do whatever they need to get your, whereas companies in the UK are more conservative and in some way "racist" when it comes to employing people.
Here in the UK the same thing happens. I am always wary of those services providing unlimited *anything*. That is why I am more comfortable with Google's 3GB or 4GB or whatever space they give against say, yahoo's unlimited, because ALWAYS (show me an advertisement that does not have it) the word UNLIMITED comes with the corresponding '*' attached to it, and in the case of the broadband services they use the "Fair use" policy to trivially limit the bandwidth.
I have also read a lot of times people assuming that the people that download a lot is *pirating* stuff. But with the current rise of multimedia content (VoIP, VoD, online gaming, and the massive amount of flash crap in the web) it is very easy to go over 2GB a month...
If he gets shipped over to the States, he will have his human rights violated.
Somehow, I believe something *more* than his human rights will be violated.
What I dont understand is why the UK does not understand that he commited whatever crimes he commited in the UK. As you said, there is surely some kind of political agenda before this... poor sucker. Of course I do not condone what he did, he indeed commited a crime but he should be judged and charged *where* he commited it, in the UK and not in whatever country wants who wants to charge it.
No I did not watch firefly... I will get one or two episodes from piratebay to see. As I am not in the USA I really didn't know about them until I started reading all the fuzz of the movie on slashdot. I think that might also show the difference between Star Wars and this movie, whereas SW is widely known in a lot of countries, I guess if you ask the average citizen of Guatemala he wont have *any* idea of what is it.
Thanks for the recommendation anyway
Well, that list is kinda wrong... the first place should go to the TV ... or more generally to the "display Screen " as none of those "technologies" would exist without it, then, how can "Compuserve" be in that list? "Microsoft Excel??" QPro was 1. First and 2. Better by a million times... "IOmega Zip Drive"?? that was a COMPLETE FAILURE... bah
Anyway, those kinds of Top X lists are stupid...
It might not be the first one, the UK version of Super Mari Bros (the only VC game I have bought) also displays a lot of flicker (which was not there in the original, believe me, I know that game *by heart*).
Too expensive for what they provide... considering I can download them for free and play with the original controller in my computer (and with better graphics quality).
I fell asleep when trying to watch Serenity (I got it from a friend [DivX] after reading about all the hype here in slashdot) and could not finish watching it... I was watching it with my girlfriend and she was just as bored as I was. And she BOUGHT the starwars trilogy (ep. 4, 5 and 6) DVD as she really likes it and I *love* science fiction (Asimov is my favorite author, I like Bradbury and I also liked Star wars, Star Trek, Darkcity, floor 13th and so far [gosh I even *kind of* liked Starship Troopers because it was set on the space]...
Having said that, I agree with the sentiment of some other people here who said that Serenity is just *another* scifi movie which will be remembered by some people but in no way will approach the fame of Star Wars. I think one of the differences is that, to make Star Wars Lucas needed to employ several new technology, be inventive and really think outside of the box while Serenity is just *another* Computer Graphics fest.
And using the analogy someone else has used I would say that:
Star Wars is to Windows as what
Serenity is to OpenBSD
Because only a handful of people think it is really good... I will say Linux is more akin to Star Trek
And yet being proud of your country, defend it to death and other similar shit are part of what they teach you as a kid... of course all of that is bullshit if you get to see what defines a country.
these are for people who have food but lack a complex economy which would be needed to take advantage of the global world's purchasing needs.
People in USA or other "developed" countries might just not be able to understand this. But I know the availability of these kind of computers is something beneficial for Mexico.
Take as an example something that happened some 4 years ago (more or less, around 2003). I was somewhere in Mexico in a friend's Internet Cafe who also sells and repairs computers (btw beige box PCs are prevalent in Mexico), when a person entered the shop and asked for a cheap 486 computer, he was looking for something *very cheap*, not the new Pentium 4, not even a P3, he was looking to pay something like $100 bucks ($2000 pesos) for a complete computer (PC + monitor). Unfortunately, my friend didnt sell used computers, just new ones so he could not sell one to him.
But this gives you a panorama for how is there people that do not have a computer but is also not *starving*to death, Unfortunately, it is the medium-class whose (in Mexico at least) economy is going down and do not have the money to spend in the top line computer.
I am really glad this opportunities are rising
I want some karma too...
But I have to answer to the current poll.
Missing Option:
Boobs. [No need to speak spanish]... might not be too safe for work.
because it looks like it sounds that way. Or how we got rid of the 'u' in colour, etc., because it's not pronounced.
:) and btw those are the subtle differences that make US American girls get crazy over British and their accent ;-)
Hey!, I am a Mexican living in the UK an I can assure you the U in Colour and Behaviour and flavour DOES indeed sounds over here
Me añado a la petición de wakaramon.
P.d. estos pinches gringos están bien locos, criticando la ortografía de la gente cuando ellos apenas pueden hablar el Inglés...
Me fail english? thats Unpossible!
And yet, I just read in "La Jornada" (Mexican news paper) that a lot of the hardware conceived for the "Enciclomedia" project has no been used because of the lack of electricity in some places...
(Yeah I am from Mexico too)
I concur, when trying to migrate my laptop OS to Linux I tried Kubuntu first as it was supposed to be the most complete (good CD/DVD burner, good music player, overall good software). But it was very buggy, the artsd always crashed lots of Knotify processes where making the machine slow, the cd burner (k3d) worked half of the time and overall it just fell very clanky.
I installed Ubuntu and since then it has became my alternative OS (using XP as main) and I am very happy with it (although I cant use it as my main because there are several hardware that doesnt work and there are some things i cant do with Linux)
. Even if a flight is only 2 hours, but you need 1 hour pre-flight and one hour post-flight, you still lost a lot of time. Sure, no 8 hours, but travelling by train is marvelously relaxing..../i.
Ah, that is a really good point. I am currently living in the UK and, if you make a comparison between, say a flight from Liverpool to Southhampton, the flight duration is One hour. But, you must be One hour (one and a half really) before the departing time. You also have to consider that the airports are usually outside the city, hence, you will have to drive to and from the airport (say One hour in total). That makes it 3 hours, and then, after you arrive you must wait almost another hour while the plane taxies and you can get out of the terminal, that is 4 hours in total.
If you compare that to the time in train 4:30 hours it is almost the same real time. The difference is that, if you go by train you can spend that time working in whatever you are doing peacefully seated at the train, whereas if you go by plane you spend half of that time worrying about what will be the new *great idea* of the security guards at the airport and wondering if they will allow you to pass your new metallic pen.
I definitely love trains (it might be because I am from Mexico and there are almost no passengers trains over there), unfortunately they are quite expensive IMO.
A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B
Jump, jump fucker, jump, JUUUMP, JUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMP...
*throws gamepad to the wall*
Ahhh the memories...
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It is good that the tooth fairy wont get hurt!