I suppose that the upside here is that you can try the LiveCD without having to install anything... and the LiveCD should give at least some indication as to the (non-)functionality of your wireless device.
That's because the submitter completely forgot to mention the connection they were making here. Normally you'd expect the editor to... well edit submissions so that they make sense, but this is Slashdot, where apparently 'Editor' is the job title for monkeys who hit the 'Approve' button occasionally.
As soon as I read this, I knew... without even looking... that this had to be an article submitted by Zonk. The correspondence of screwed-up articles to Zonk submittals has got to be close to 1:1.
Dude, that joke just went way over your head. He was bashing you for your holier-than-thou diatribe on spelling, when you couldn't even use the correct form of its/it's.
You just came in second place, Mr. Lion Food.
I have to agree with the parent poster, if for no other reason than the author goes on and on about how he has to pay for anti-virus software. Hasn't he heard of (or tried) something like Avast, AVG, or ClamWin?
I also have not had the same experience as him where Excel files take "3 minutes to load" just because anti-virus software and a firewall are running... and that was even back when I only had 256MB on my WinXP box.
Nothing against Ubuntu, mind you. I think it's a marvelous product. I just think the author is exaggerating on several points in an attempt to further sway people to Ubuntu.
Why are you bothering to call the CCard companies? Credit card fraud is *illegal*. Call the police instead. "Hi Officer Friendly, A criminal just tried to defraud me. Here's his address, here's the details. Sic 'em!"
The problem with this, speaking from personal experience, is that if the CC companies cancel all of the fraudulent transactions, then the police won't do anything, because you're not out any money (despite the criminal INTENT of the perpetrator).
You somehow have to find out the details of the perpetrator before you get the charges reversed, then call the police while you still have missing / stolen currency.
So... which program is it that only costs $30, yet does all of the things you say it can do? (It's not your own WinImages, is it? Looks like that runs about $100...)
Not to mention - if you want to try out a game before you buy it, it's easy to head down to your local video rental store and pay $5 for a 5-day trial of a console game. PC games really have no equivalent. (Yes, I realize you can "try" a game for free from BitTorrent, but that's not really the same thing.)
I own both a PC and a PS2, but for me, when it comes to games, I enjoy the wider variety available for the console, as well as the comfort in knowing that it will work because I already have the exact hardware that's needed.
The one glaring sin that I have found in Picasa is that when you import pictures from a camera/media card, Picasa ERADICATES the time/date stored in the EXIF information with the time and date that the picture was imported into Picasa! This, to me, is unforgivable... and the main reason why I will not use Picasa.
(My personal favorite photo browser/editor is FastStone Image Viewer. No, I don't work for them. Just a satisfied user.)
Actually, MTV already covered this guy. He was on a show called "Real Life: I'm a Pro Gamer" (or something like that). They showed him and a couple of others... Jonathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel might have been one of them; the other was a Gamecube player from NYC. This kid (TSquared) is an Xbox (Halo) player. He had a GF at the time of the show but basically was shown ignoring her whenever he would rather play video games.
Though he did make a rather strange habit of wearing a pair of his GF's panties around his neck during all of the tournaments that he played. He looked like a tool.
1. They probably would have to pay Microsoft for product placement
2. Fill out tons of forms just to use the product on-air
3. Using something that wasn't Windows (and therefore unfamilliar with most people) looks "techier", or
4. KDE/Linux is free; why spend any more money than you have to?:)
5. It may have locked up in the middle of the scene.
This reminds me of a skit I saw once on Saturday Night Live where the characters were spoofing the crap that is generally sold on those Home Shopping Network TV channels. The sellers were begging people not to buy the merchandise (including a bronze bust of Scottie Pippen from the Chicago Bulls) because they were supposedly losing money on each sale. I think they went so far as to pretend to douse the studio in gasoline.
Anyway... that's my long-winded way of saying that this sounds like a familiar story: "Please don't buy too many of these consoles, because we'll end up bankrupt!" Of course, most of those companies (MS, Sony, Nintendo, etc.) are still around and doing fine... so make of it what you will.
The best thing about these Mold-O-Rama machines was scouring entire parks for the ONE machine that you hadn't gotten a mold of yet.
When I was a child, my family used to visit Chicago each summer and we'd usually make a trip to the Brookfield Zoo. We'd always end up with one or two of these molds each time... but sometimes we'd see one that we didn't have, and then the rest of the day seemed like an adventure to search out the aroma of molded plastic, trace it to a machine, and see if it was the particular figure (dolphin, gorilla, train, etc.) we sought.
Ahh, memories... almost makes me want to pack up my own family now, head to Chicago, and spend the day at the zoo pumping quarters into these machines all over again!
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In fact, as soon as I saw the misspelled title in my RSS feed, I thought to myself, "It's gotta be a Zonk story." Jackpot!
As I have said many times before, I've seen more screwed-up stories on Slashdot from Zonk than any other editor BY FAR. It's almost sad.
Just like his parents, who thought they were being safe...
I swear, I see more duped / screwed-up / stupid posts from Zonk than any other Slashdot poster...
Uh-oh... are we gonna see an AltarBoy distro of Linux next?
I suppose that the upside here is that you can try the LiveCD without having to install anything... and the LiveCD should give at least some indication as to the (non-)functionality of your wireless device.
What model Thinkpad do you have? I tried the Release Candidate LiveCD of Gutsy on my T42 and it worked without a problem.
(Yes, I know that from memory.)
As soon as I read this, I knew... without even looking... that this had to be an article submitted by Zonk. The correspondence of screwed-up articles to Zonk submittals has got to be close to 1:1.
Dude, that joke just went way over your head. He was bashing you for your holier-than-thou diatribe on spelling, when you couldn't even use the correct form of its/it's. You just came in second place, Mr. Lion Food.
Yh, Znk scks.
I also have not had the same experience as him where Excel files take "3 minutes to load" just because anti-virus software and a firewall are running... and that was even back when I only had 256MB on my WinXP box.
Nothing against Ubuntu, mind you. I think it's a marvelous product. I just think the author is exaggerating on several points in an attempt to further sway people to Ubuntu.
The problem with this, speaking from personal experience, is that if the CC companies cancel all of the fraudulent transactions, then the police won't do anything, because you're not out any money (despite the criminal INTENT of the perpetrator).
You somehow have to find out the details of the perpetrator before you get the charges reversed, then call the police while you still have missing / stolen currency.
So... which program is it that only costs $30, yet does all of the things you say it can do? (It's not your own WinImages, is it? Looks like that runs about $100...)
You may find that you like The Message, which is a modern PARAPHRASE of the Bible. I'm pretty sure it's free of "shants."
There's also the New Living Translation, but that's closer to the language of the Bible that you're probably referring to.
Just my two cents.
Actually, I believe the proper terminology is "Boom goes the dynamite."
Not to mention - if you want to try out a game before you buy it, it's easy to head down to your local video rental store and pay $5 for a 5-day trial of a console game. PC games really have no equivalent. (Yes, I realize you can "try" a game for free from BitTorrent, but that's not really the same thing.)
I own both a PC and a PS2, but for me, when it comes to games, I enjoy the wider variety available for the console, as well as the comfort in knowing that it will work because I already have the exact hardware that's needed.
You forgot: * Building the $100 laptop * Stopping global warming * Fixing the hole in the ozone layer * Stopping Slashdot dupes
(My personal favorite photo browser/editor is FastStone Image Viewer. No, I don't work for them. Just a satisfied user.)
I'll go one better: iPoo'd.
Though he did make a rather strange habit of wearing a pair of his GF's panties around his neck during all of the tournaments that he played. He looked like a tool.
5. It may have locked up in the middle of the scene.
Silly me. Here I was thinking that when sites asked me for A/S/L, it was because they wanted me to have cybersex with them!
I guess this just doesn't have quite the same effect:
Anyway... that's my long-winded way of saying that this sounds like a familiar story: "Please don't buy too many of these consoles, because we'll end up bankrupt!" Of course, most of those companies (MS, Sony, Nintendo, etc.) are still around and doing fine... so make of it what you will.
(Yes, I know Hemos posted this, but I had to check twice...)
When I was a child, my family used to visit Chicago each summer and we'd usually make a trip to the Brookfield Zoo. We'd always end up with one or two of these molds each time... but sometimes we'd see one that we didn't have, and then the rest of the day seemed like an adventure to search out the aroma of molded plastic, trace it to a machine, and see if it was the particular figure (dolphin, gorilla, train, etc.) we sought.
Ahh, memories... almost makes me want to pack up my own family now, head to Chicago, and spend the day at the zoo pumping quarters into these machines all over again!
...and here I was, thinking that this headline was referring to something else "0-day"... good old 0-day WAREZ!