Will it be possible for comments to continue this decaying monologue of uncertainty and doubt? Will I be surprised? Should all comments not related to the article but the amusing questioning dialogue be posted herein?
You mistakenly describe the spamming of DNS as the work of idiots. It's not individuals as you suggest, the same trolls who post offense on newsgroups, write viruses etc. It's the work of SpamCorp, out to profit by corrupting the system to the extent that less than a single perfect of addresses are 'real'. No troll could commit this amount of damage, only a mighty organised power of evil.
Individuals are in fact the greatest contributors to the net, creating unique content, bringing innovative ideas and above all humanity to the internet. Not mindlessly buying every combination of marketing words from onlinepoker.com to cheapholidays.com only to create a shell of a site that has no real content but marketing links.. creating another clone of a real person's idea, knowing that with their control they will win in PageRank and steal their profit.
I don't know if you read about the milliondollarhomepage.com but that is a story that illustrates my point. Normally I'd scorn online advertising, but this is a clever happy story because the site was made by a real student from my university, and thanks to media attention he's alraedy paid off his student loan:) although I'm jealous. Now you can see that SpamCorp have bought pixelads.com buypixelads.com buypixels.com to steal visitors. Why do we use search engines even to get to my banks we bsite? Because it's no longer safe easy or sensible to guess the correct URL.
(I'm not entirely sure what that is, but I know that's its storage-related, and this is Slashdot, and there's a small chance that even if my comment isn't at all helpful, it might just be incredibly funny)
Now compare Tuxpaint to MS Paint and you that these two programs are in no way equivalents. MS Paint is not for children, just an image editor preserved from 1995 that is so appalling by todays standards it is only used by children. Tuxpaint IS meant for children (and has the bright colours and gimmicks - I love that magic star brush).
What Linux needs is a speedy lightweight photo viewer with the simplest, most handy photo editing facilities. No need for brushes or active editing, just the standard brightness/contrast/rotate/crop/resize/balance tools that are needed to touch up photos, and are lacked (or badly implemented) in MS paint. Similar to that Google Photo program. What I stress is important though, is this program must be speedy enough to be used as the standard photo viewer. It takes a moment for me to view a photo in GNOME, but then it takes 30 seconds to load the GIMP, when all I want to do is rotate it or adjust the balance. Yes I can use mogrify, but the average user just needs to quickly go through their 50 photos when they download them and then rotate and rebalance them individually in the most speedy way thewy can.
Thankfully we have the GNU foundation who understand the concepts of freedom and the idealogy of the movement, not just a group who 'approve' that a license is officially a certain buzzword.
I imagine Microsoft will refer to it, or want their users to refer to OpenDocument as OpenDoc, so most users think it's just a different version of their.doc format, and don't understand the difference.
From the hitcher episode of the Boosh - "he's got a rapist crab, a mackarel that exposes himself, a baboon that walks into lifts and presses all the floors, a swan that keys cars..."
Although MSN 'improves' our social lives now, it can also break them. Someone once came online with now playing: hardcore lesbians play with toys. I love Gaim!
As stated, the Shenzou capsule is based on the Russian Soyuz (the most robust and reliable craft ever) - this means, interestingly that China have the technological potential to dock with the ISS. But would the US would ever allow them? Politically, no, but it is an INTERNATIONAL space station, and arguably given Russian have been keeping it alive for the past two years, they should. be presured into it. Maybe after the US have pulled out, China could go up there.
Some birds in urban areas have been reported to mimic cellphone tones. As these progress from monophonic to polyphonic and has the birds co-operate, full orchestral performances are the eventual conclusion. I actually heard some wingless demented creature screaming around on a bike bubbling sylables. Clearly it had never heard any skat, so I kindly put it out of it's misery.
Given my lasting memory of Forbes is him in fishnets playing at my brother's 18th, I really wouldn't trust his technology news reporting.
I just realise that forbes.com is a business/finace magazine/website, and probably nothing to do with the legend of a drummer from the classic years of my school. He came back though (from Reading) recently, only to play Ab. rock to much acclaimation.
Given my lasting memory of Forbes is him in fishnets playing at my brother's 18th, I really wouldn't trust his technology news reporting.
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Releases of Apple products are typically proceeded by a MASSIVE marketing campane (think of the Mini and more recently, the Nano), and if Apple were releasing a product a week today, we would know for sure. It would be on every blog, tech news site and on TV and even the printed press, for about a month before the actual release. This 'unofficial leak' announcement would have occured months ago. There's no way Apple could hide something this big.
Maybe it's going to be like Half-Life 2, someone could leak a microchip. Or given this is Slashdot, perhaps "October 12th, Apple to fart".
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Even if the CDs aren't free to ship, they still have ultra-sexy CD covers styled around different themes. http://www.openbsd.org/images/openbsd38_cover.gif this release is INDY JONES! what is the audio track? wow bsd sounds so fun. http://www.openbsd.org/images/openbsd37_cover.gif yellow brick road http://www.openbsd.org/images/openbsd36_cover.gif western http://www.openbsd.org/images/openbsd35_cover.gif http://www.openbsd.org/images/openbsd32_cover.gif goldeneye!
Gaim isn't connecting to MSn right now. Has it already happened?
Will it be possible for comments to continue this decaying monologue of uncertainty and doubt? Will I be surprised? Should all comments not related to the article but the amusing questioning dialogue be posted herein?
You mistakenly describe the spamming of DNS as the work of idiots. It's not individuals as you suggest, the same trolls who post offense on newsgroups, write viruses etc. It's the work of SpamCorp, out to profit by corrupting the system to the extent that less than a single perfect of addresses are 'real'. No troll could commit this amount of damage, only a mighty organised power of evil.
:) although I'm jealous. Now you can see that SpamCorp have bought pixelads.com buypixelads.com buypixels.com to steal visitors. Why do we use search engines even to get to my banks we bsite? Because it's no longer safe easy or sensible to guess the correct URL.
Individuals are in fact the greatest contributors to the net, creating unique content, bringing innovative ideas and above all humanity to the internet. Not mindlessly buying every combination of marketing words from onlinepoker.com to cheapholidays.com only to create a shell of a site that has no real content but marketing links.. creating another clone of a real person's idea, knowing that with their control they will win in PageRank and steal their profit.
I don't know if you read about the milliondollarhomepage.com but that is a story that illustrates my point. Normally I'd scorn online advertising, but this is a clever happy story because the site was made by a real student from my university, and thanks to media attention he's alraedy paid off his student loan
"Mars is bright tonight. Unusally bright."
If NASA run out of tasks for the rovers, they could always send them to find Beagle 2.
Use a RAID.
(I'm not entirely sure what that is, but I know that's its storage-related, and this is Slashdot, and there's a small chance that even if my comment isn't at all helpful, it might just be incredibly funny)
Now compare Tuxpaint to MS Paint and you that these two programs are in no way equivalents. MS Paint is not for children, just an image editor preserved from 1995 that is so appalling by todays standards it is only used by children. Tuxpaint IS meant for children (and has the bright colours and gimmicks - I love that magic star brush). What Linux needs is a speedy lightweight photo viewer with the simplest, most handy photo editing facilities. No need for brushes or active editing, just the standard brightness/contrast/rotate/crop/resize/balance tools that are needed to touch up photos, and are lacked (or badly implemented) in MS paint. Similar to that Google Photo program. What I stress is important though, is this program must be speedy enough to be used as the standard photo viewer. It takes a moment for me to view a photo in GNOME, but then it takes 30 seconds to load the GIMP, when all I want to do is rotate it or adjust the balance. Yes I can use mogrify, but the average user just needs to quickly go through their 50 photos when they download them and then rotate and rebalance them individually in the most speedy way thewy can.
Disney and other publishers continue in their attempts to control our freedoms, not to protect the producers, but their own profit.
Thankfully we have the GNU foundation who understand the concepts of freedom and the idealogy of the movement, not just a group who 'approve' that a license is officially a certain buzzword.
Google own several major developers from the Mozilla Foundation, Google are going to release their own browser based on Firefox etc.
I imagine Microsoft will refer to it, or want their users to refer to OpenDocument as OpenDoc, so most users think it's just a different version of their .doc format, and don't understand the difference.
Does this mean I can sue sites for using excessive flash and javscript for DoSing my browser?
>you use the wasd keys to move around
just like counter-strike then!
From the hitcher episode of the Boosh - "he's got a rapist crab, a mackarel that exposes himself, a baboon that walks into lifts and presses all the floors, a swan that keys cars..."
Sharks with friggin' laser beams on their heads!
Although MSN 'improves' our social lives now, it can also break them. Someone once came online with now playing: hardcore lesbians play with toys. I love Gaim!
As stated, the Shenzou capsule is based on the Russian Soyuz (the most robust and reliable craft ever) - this means, interestingly that China have the technological potential to dock with the ISS. But would the US would ever allow them? Politically, no, but it is an INTERNATIONAL space station, and arguably given Russian have been keeping it alive for the past two years, they should. be presured into it. Maybe after the US have pulled out, China could go up there.
If they won't let you take their blood for the test, they've got a disorder!
You can see them posting on Slashdot. That's some Anonymous Coward!
You'd think at least they'd be spreading dissent against governments. Not worried about being flamed.
Some birds in urban areas have been reported to mimic cellphone tones. As these progress from monophonic to polyphonic and has the birds co-operate, full orchestral performances are the eventual conclusion. I actually heard some wingless demented creature screaming around on a bike bubbling sylables. Clearly it had never heard any skat, so I kindly put it out of it's misery.
Surely they can read the GPL.
I just realise that forbes.com is a business/finace magazine/website, and probably nothing to do with the legend of a drummer from the classic years of my school. He came back though (from Reading) recently, only to play Ab. rock to much acclaimation.
Given my lasting memory of Forbes is him in fishnets playing at my brother's 18th, I really wouldn't trust his technology news reporting.
Releases of Apple products are typically proceeded by a MASSIVE marketing campane (think of the Mini and more recently, the Nano), and if Apple were releasing a product a week today, we would know for sure. It would be on every blog, tech news site and on TV and even the printed press, for about a month before the actual release. This 'unofficial leak' announcement would have occured months ago. There's no way Apple could hide something this big.
Maybe it's going to be like Half-Life 2, someone could leak a microchip. Or given this is Slashdot, perhaps "October 12th, Apple to fart".