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It's nearly freaking 1:00 on a Wednesday night!!! What are you people doing up? What am I doing up?!?
Also, whenever an article is posted that is relatively obscure (by obscure, I mean "having an acronym longer than 3 letters"), the first posts are usually people who have an intelligent comment to say and who actually understand the content of the article. Once there are a sufficient number of those comments, everyone else can comment on their speling an grammer, or just make random "+5 Funny" posts. This helps an article develop an healthy balance of comments, however this process takes a somewhat longer time in the wee hours of the morning a relatively obscure article (as opposed to something about Star Wars).
Now don't get me wrong, I like Star Wars, and I like the way Slashdot works, and sometimes I think the comments people are posted are more entertaining and enlightening than the actual article. "Well then," you're probably wondering, "why the hell is he writing this?" That's an excellent question. And the only answer is that I'm bored, and the only obvious alternative is sleep. That's even more boring.
Did anyone else notice that this guy submitted something that he had written from *his own personal blog* to Slashdot, only a few hours ago? It's only a freakin' paragraph long, for crying out loud! Not only that, but the same guy makes 5th post AND gets a +4 "Interesting" mod.
Someone's a mod point whore...
Also, the creation of new rules is an action practically begging new exploits. People will find new ways to circumvent the law, rendering old processes obsolete.
... I recall reading that the reason they're calling it "Xbox 360" is because "Xbox 2" would sound less sophisticated than the Playstation 3. Since these two consoles will be duking it out for a while, M$ didn't want to give Sony any advantage. Well that's all well and good, but here's my question: What are they going to call the next iteration of Xbox? They'll always be faced with the dilemma of being one step behind the Playstation. Xbox 3 vs. PS4, you get the idea. How are the going to solve that problem? "Xbox 720," anyone?
I, for one (and hopefully not the only), would be more than willing to pay a fee for something I find useful... Just because it started out free isn't a guarantee it stays free.
I promise to you in all honesty that I wasn't trying to "whore" my sig (even though I would like a free iPod), and I apologize since it's been a year or two since I last read HHGTTG.
Yeah I just downloaded it and I'm not even going to install it, I just wanna see this guy swim. I don't think anything could turn me away from Firefox right now - the honeymoon's not over yet.
Homosexuals are not evil, even though they do sin, but by the same token, everyone is a sinner. The Bible says that "All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God," (Romans 3:23) We shouldn't hate homosexuals, rather we should hate the act of homosexuality itself.
PS - Read Leviticus 18
The Halo fansite Halo.Bungie.Org has recently been using BitTorrent more and more often to distribute Halo videos to the community. Since the number of people downloading these vids has increased dramatically, BitTorrent has become necessary.
There are plenty of legal applications for BitTorrent, and in this case, one that is necessary. The beauty of BitTorrent is (as i'm sure everyone here already knows) that the more people are downloading a file, the faster the download speeds are for everyone.
The award for most annoying alarm clock has to go to a story my grandfather once told me:
Seems that when he was a student at LSU, some acquaintances of his had somehow gotten ahold of a horn that goes on a train engine. He assured me that he had nothing to do with it. You know the kind of horn I'm talking about, the kind that trains blare at ungodly hours of the morning and can be heard for miles. Anyway, these devious students hid the horn in the top of one of the dorms and rigged it up to a timer. So early that morning, at around 2 or 3 o'clock as I recall, all was calm and peaceful until the horn went off. It shattered the early morning calm for about 20 seconds, and then shut off. From what my grandfather told me, it was simply SO LOUD that the sound seemed to come from everywhere at once. After about a half-hour, everyone had more or less recovered and were settling back into their beds for the rest of the night. However, the horn had been set to go off once every hour after the first time. So once again, everyone was rudely awakened by this earsplitting blast! This cycle repeated itself several times before anyone figured out what was happening.
You're right, this is a definite innovation by Yahoo. I belive my comment should've gone with yesterday's news item about Yahoo increasing mail storage space to a gigabyte.
Mozilla (Firefox) is to Microsoft (IE)as Google is Yahoo. By pattern I mean waiting for the competition to come up with useful features, then copy them. Take IE7's anticipated new features for example. We've seen them done already, and done right, in Firefox. Just yesterday, Slashdot had an article up about how Yahoo's upping their email space to 1 GB, to compete with Gmail. But Gmail will still be better. POP3 access, and ads that are barely noticeable, excellent user interface... the list goes on and on.
My point is that Yahoo needs to make some innovations of its own, rather than duplicating what's already been done. Come back and talk when you've done so.
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Dammit this was supposed to be in response to another guy's post! Ignore both of these!!!
Article Posted On: 12:48 AM Your Comment Posted On: 12:55 AM Elapsed Time: 7 minutes Explanations/Causes/Whatever: It's nearly freaking 1:00 on a Wednesday night!!! What are you people doing up? What am I doing up?!? Also, whenever an article is posted that is relatively obscure (by obscure, I mean "having an acronym longer than 3 letters"), the first posts are usually people who have an intelligent comment to say and who actually understand the content of the article. Once there are a sufficient number of those comments, everyone else can comment on their speling an grammer, or just make random "+5 Funny" posts. This helps an article develop an healthy balance of comments, however this process takes a somewhat longer time in the wee hours of the morning a relatively obscure article (as opposed to something about Star Wars). Now don't get me wrong, I like Star Wars, and I like the way Slashdot works, and sometimes I think the comments people are posted are more entertaining and enlightening than the actual article. "Well then," you're probably wondering, "why the hell is he writing this?" That's an excellent question. And the only answer is that I'm bored, and the only obvious alternative is sleep. That's even more boring.
Did anyone else notice that this guy submitted something that he had written from *his own personal blog* to Slashdot, only a few hours ago? It's only a freakin' paragraph long, for crying out loud! Not only that, but the same guy makes 5th post AND gets a +4 "Interesting" mod. Someone's a mod point whore...
Also, the creation of new rules is an action practically begging new exploits. People will find new ways to circumvent the law, rendering old processes obsolete.
... I recall reading that the reason they're calling it "Xbox 360" is because "Xbox 2" would sound less sophisticated than the Playstation 3. Since these two consoles will be duking it out for a while, M$ didn't want to give Sony any advantage. Well that's all well and good, but here's my question: What are they going to call the next iteration of Xbox? They'll always be faced with the dilemma of being one step behind the Playstation. Xbox 3 vs. PS4, you get the idea. How are the going to solve that problem? "Xbox 720," anyone?
I promise to you in all honesty that I wasn't trying to "whore" my sig (even though I would like a free iPod), and I apologize since it's been a year or two since I last read HHGTTG.
"Oh! I hadn't thought of that!" said God, and disappeared in a puff of logic.
Then man went on to prove that black is white and got himself killed by a bus while crossing the street.
So there was actually some scientific basis to the whole fusion thing in Spiderman 2? Sweet!
What about Spider-Man 2? Precious tridium and all that? You're telling me that that wasn't proof of fusion? And on the big screen, no less!
Or was it Hectares per Kilogram?
[/Dave Barry]
- Microsoft makes a reliable version of Windows.
- The Ender's Game movie is released... and it doesn't suck.
- I get my free iPod.
- People stop their constant bitching about politics and decide to make the world a better place.
- A colony gets started on the moon/humans land on Mars.
- Spam as we know it no longer exists.
- Global Wi-Fi coverage (or at least national)
(/wishlist)"And while I'm at it, I'd like a pony"
Yeah I just downloaded it and I'm not even going to install it, I just wanna see this guy swim. I don't think anything could turn me away from Firefox right now - the honeymoon's not over yet.
Homosexuals are not evil, even though they do sin, but by the same token, everyone is a sinner. The Bible says that "All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God," (Romans 3:23) We shouldn't hate homosexuals, rather we should hate the act of homosexuality itself. PS - Read Leviticus 18
Or "Macrobe."
Also try these:
Mooter
Ixquick
Mooter is worth an extra look, to check out their "clustering" search methods. Both sites are very useful.
This site also has on-demand satellite imagery.
April Fool!
...am I supposed to believe? After today's slew of Slashdot stories, I don't know what's supposed to be an April Fool's Day prank and what isn't.
...why buy a PSP when you can get one for free?
The Halo fansite Halo.Bungie.Org has recently been using BitTorrent more and more often to distribute Halo videos to the community. Since the number of people downloading these vids has increased dramatically, BitTorrent has become necessary. There are plenty of legal applications for BitTorrent, and in this case, one that is necessary. The beauty of BitTorrent is (as i'm sure everyone here already knows) that the more people are downloading a file, the faster the download speeds are for everyone.
The award for most annoying alarm clock has to go to a story my grandfather once told me: Seems that when he was a student at LSU, some acquaintances of his had somehow gotten ahold of a horn that goes on a train engine. He assured me that he had nothing to do with it. You know the kind of horn I'm talking about, the kind that trains blare at ungodly hours of the morning and can be heard for miles. Anyway, these devious students hid the horn in the top of one of the dorms and rigged it up to a timer. So early that morning, at around 2 or 3 o'clock as I recall, all was calm and peaceful until the horn went off. It shattered the early morning calm for about 20 seconds, and then shut off. From what my grandfather told me, it was simply SO LOUD that the sound seemed to come from everywhere at once. After about a half-hour, everyone had more or less recovered and were settling back into their beds for the rest of the night. However, the horn had been set to go off once every hour after the first time. So once again, everyone was rudely awakened by this earsplitting blast! This cycle repeated itself several times before anyone figured out what was happening.
You're right, this is a definite innovation by Yahoo. I belive my comment should've gone with yesterday's news item about Yahoo increasing mail storage space to a gigabyte.
Mozilla (Firefox) is to Microsoft (IE)as Google is Yahoo.
By pattern I mean waiting for the competition to come up with useful features, then copy them. Take IE7's anticipated new features for example. We've seen them done already, and done right, in Firefox. Just yesterday, Slashdot had an article up about how Yahoo's upping their email space to 1 GB, to compete with Gmail. But Gmail will still be better. POP3 access, and ads that are barely noticeable, excellent user interface... the list goes on and on.
My point is that Yahoo needs to make some innovations of its own, rather than duplicating what's already been done. Come back and talk when you've done so.
Sweet, my friend and I are currently in the process of starting a custom-built PC business, and this is a great resource. Thanks!