Completely offtopic here, but the other day I overheard the 14-year old daughter of a friend of mine remarking on what a beautiful song David Archuleta had written to sing in American Idol, and how he should have, like, totally won the competition if only for that.
I excused myself, went to the bathroom upstairs and laughed uncontrollably into a towel (to muffle the sound) for about five minutes.
The website clearly says "Get MP3s for your iPod". Is the submission incorrect, or is there a catch to said MP3s? Because the submission clearly states that anything from Lala won't play on any devices. That was the whole point of posting this here for people to be outraged, I imagine.
You paid for a bunch of subscriptions for his sockpuppets, I suggest you pony up for this one as well. Ohhhh, you probably didn't even realize this is twitter? The irony just kills me.
I disagree. With the exception of Europe, the number of people in those countries you claim are "doing great" that are living at or below (WAY below) the poverty level is still staggering. And I omit Europe because growth in the EU is very different from growth in India and China.
History shows that only a small number of people ever truly benefit from runaway growth and industrialization. Are there more Chinese driving Mercedes Benz? Sure. For all the miracle that is high-tech India, you still see things like these. But all that doesn't mean those societies as a whole are doing great from an financial and quality of life standpoints.
If you think the economic divide is bad in the west, you should try one of those countries.
I would agree if it wasn't for the fact that you yourself have said in the past it's a nightmare to get running correctly.
Vista's DRM makes media a headache
Agenda much?
no way M$ will share enough information
Ah, the "M$ will kill Mono" meme. I'm not sure what good it would do if I even try to address that. People who are smarter than me have tried and gotten nothing but ridicule and abuse from people like you.
If they did, you would probably never hear about it.
I'm not a big conspiracy conspiracy nut, but as a kid I remember sitting there thinking how little information was coming out of the Viking 2 landing site. All of the pictures and the analysis was about Viking 1 on Chryse, but nearly nothing at all from Utopia.
Carl Sagan's Cosmos dedicated an entire episode to the Viking program. Again, nearly 100% of it was about Viking 1. All the pictures except 1 were of the Chryse landing site.
Dunno, it just always struck me as odd since both places were different from each other from a geological, latitude/longitude and terrain standpoint.
I play this game because others tried to silence me.
You play this "game" because people got tired of your inane and harmful "advocacy" of Free Software and started modding you down. You prefer to pin the blame for that on Microsoft, like you blame them for the dot com bomb, bridges collapsing, CompUSA going out of business, the recession and anything bad China does, among other things. As if there weren't enough things to pin on them. Let me give you a bit of advice: None of this. None has anything whatsoever to do with Microsoft or any other company.
You then switched to your other older sockpuppet, which unsurprisingly met the same fate. Since you keep claiming no one knows which accounts are yours, it must be what you are saying rather than who you are. Even five or six people can't bring down an account to -50 negative karma, that's either an admin bitchslap or the result of the community shunning you.
The second paragraph on your post is more of the usual self-serving and self-contradicting semantic sugar. These "anti-slashdot sites" by definition would have nothing to do with you, and if they're unsuccessful, then why are we having this conversation at all? It seems to me they are successful, assuming they existed anywhere other than your mind. Oh and the Ben Franklin thing? Please.
There's not much dishonest about what I'm doing.
No, of course not. You replying to you is not dishonest. After all, you're just "informing" people, right? No matter that you're pretending to be someone else when you do it. Instead of cleaning up your act, you simply create more accounts and continue to do the same things, except that now you're crapflooding every thread with five or six different accounts that people don't know about. Let's look at an example outside of this thread:
twitter says "x".
Then gnutoo jumps in with some inane tripe, to open up for:
Mactrope, at which point the whole thing backfires because the whole premise of your three-account point is invalid to begin with, as usual.
I'm sure free software also benefits when you shill your own attempts at humour.
No, I'm not going to tell you what those accounts are
That's OK, you don't really think people are actually waiting for *you* to tell them about your sockpuppets, right? Here's the current list:
It's not difficult, after all. Aside from the initial two, the first thing all of these other accounts do is reply to the others, or paste links from your journal. They all use the exact same writing style, creative spelling, insults, misspell the same words and so on. Not like it's rocket science or anything like that. When someone like me points out what you're doing, you insult them. Oh, and I get modded down
What are the chances that an account with a grand total of 2 comments that was created yesterday would be posting something right out of twitter's journal? I'd say low.
But then you already admitted to be actively gaming Slashdot in your weird fight against the injustices perpetrated personally on yourself by "M$", so I suppose you're just going to be creating more and more accounts.
Anyone moderating or posting on this thread should be aware that Odder, westbake and twitter are the same person. twitter has already admitted to be gaming Slashdot, apparently because it's "dreadfully easy". The point is to complain about moderation, even though he knows of course that he's posting at -1 to begin with for trolling. Shilling only leads to being modded down, which in turn forces him to create new accounts. It's a vicious circle he seems to be enjoying.
If you see a +1.2M UIN account posting the usual "I agree with you" replies to one of twitter's comments, chances are it's one of his sockpuppet accounts.
I don't know why I got modded as funny, I wasn't going for the humour there. I had great hopes for Apple TV, because for once the same company would be doing both the hardware and the software in a single, well-supported and integrated package. And yeah, imagine if you could torrent free and licensed content off to the set top box.
I'm not sure why people seem to think it's taboo to talk about how Apple TV didn't make the cut. So not all their products are going to be perfect - big deal. The road to success is not always paved with the detritus of your earlier home runs. Sometimes you have to work harder.
I'm not sure if the premise of the article is valid, but I do believe that if someone can make the media center revolution happen, it's Apple.
I'm pretty much getting used to the moderation now. I've stopped posting when he's replying to himself, but I can't help replying to someone who asks if an account is one of his sockpuppets.
Here goes more karma, but yes. This has also been.. erm, discussed by another one of his sockpuppets, with many negative returns.
Personally I find that "article" of his to be a good example of why so many people are turned off by "advocates" like twitter. He clearly had no intention whatsoever to buy a Mac, but it probably made him feel good to play the victim when the hapless Apple employees wouldn't give him "GNU/Linux" quickly enough on boxes that are supposed to work (and be supported) as a full hardware/software solution. Instead of just using Google to see if someone else had gotten Debian Woody to run on a Powerbook, he has to walk in there, make life difficult for total strangers in the name of fighting "injustice" and then stomp out and write up a long whine with cheese about the whole traumatic experience.
That's just dreadful.
On the other hand, I think he's pretty much stopped pretending now. I'm not sure if that's good or bad.
1) You can turn it off, you know. 2) What files can Office 2007 not open? 3) File corruption? Can you point me to some reference that backs that up? I'm not saying it's not possible, just that I haven't heard about it being any better or worse than 2003 in that regard, except that 2007 has better recovery options. In my experience, Word files sometimes get borked when edited over an extremely slow network connection or VPN link, but the few times that's happened to me I've been able to recover from it.
This issue has become so great that department managers have been asking me if we can go to OpenOffice.
Ah, so that's why your post is +4 and I was modded down "troll". I'll have to remember in the future not to try to disturb the reality distorsion field. Microsoft is selling billions worth of Office licenses? Nah, they're dying.
Also, who the hell would moderate the previous post "troll"? Did twitter get mod points on one of his accounts?
When you have 10 accounts, the possibilities are endless. Consider 5 mod points per week per account or so, hold on to them a couple of days waiting for the right thread, and wham. You have bad moderation? No problem. People disagree with you? No problem. As twitter likes to say when things don't work out for him, these threads tend to be "suspiciously well-moderated" lately.
People complain his sockpuppets are annoying, but they're just not looking at the bigger picture.
Slashdot Mirror
I thought about that but mine turned out just fine, so I have hope.
I think this is a lot less sinister than the hysterical submission suggested.
I excused myself, went to the bathroom upstairs and laughed uncontrollably into a towel (to muffle the sound) for about five minutes.
The website clearly says "Get MP3s for your iPod". Is the submission incorrect, or is there a catch to said MP3s? Because the submission clearly states that anything from Lala won't play on any devices. That was the whole point of posting this here for people to be outraged, I imagine.
On the other hand, you're very specific about what you're doing.
You paid for a bunch of subscriptions for his sockpuppets, I suggest you pony up for this one as well. Ohhhh, you probably didn't even realize this is twitter? The irony just kills me.
History shows that only a small number of people ever truly benefit from runaway growth and industrialization. Are there more Chinese driving Mercedes Benz? Sure. For all the miracle that is high-tech India, you still see things like these. But all that doesn't mean those societies as a whole are doing great from an financial and quality of life standpoints.
If you think the economic divide is bad in the west, you should try one of those countries.
I hope that doesn't include toilet paper.
(I kid but in 2001 the company I used to work for stopped providing hand soap in the bathrooms after the stock tanked...)
Why?
the purpose is better filled with MythTV
I would agree if it wasn't for the fact that you yourself have said in the past it's a nightmare to get running correctly.
Vista's DRM makes media a headache
Agenda much?
no way M$ will share enough information
Ah, the "M$ will kill Mono" meme. I'm not sure what good it would do if I even try to address that. People who are smarter than me have tried and gotten nothing but ridicule and abuse from people like you.
Why didn't you post this in your original comment as twitter, or post another comment with the same account? Why reply to yourself like this?
Go create more accounts. Some of them seem to be running out of karma, no doubt because Bill Gates is monitoring them.
I'm not a big conspiracy conspiracy nut, but as a kid I remember sitting there thinking how little information was coming out of the Viking 2 landing site. All of the pictures and the analysis was about Viking 1 on Chryse, but nearly nothing at all from Utopia.
Carl Sagan's Cosmos dedicated an entire episode to the Viking program. Again, nearly 100% of it was about Viking 1. All the pictures except 1 were of the Chryse landing site.
Dunno, it just always struck me as odd since both places were different from each other from a geological, latitude/longitude and terrain standpoint.
So when do we invade... uh, land?
You play this "game" because people got tired of your inane and harmful "advocacy" of Free Software and started modding you down. You prefer to pin the blame for that on Microsoft, like you blame them for the dot com bomb, bridges collapsing, CompUSA going out of business, the recession and anything bad China does, among other things. As if there weren't enough things to pin on them. Let me give you a bit of advice: None of this. None has anything whatsoever to do with Microsoft or any other company.
You then switched to your other older sockpuppet, which unsurprisingly met the same fate. Since you keep claiming no one knows which accounts are yours, it must be what you are saying rather than who you are. Even five or six people can't bring down an account to -50 negative karma, that's either an admin bitchslap or the result of the community shunning you.
The second paragraph on your post is more of the usual self-serving and self-contradicting semantic sugar. These "anti-slashdot sites" by definition would have nothing to do with you, and if they're unsuccessful, then why are we having this conversation at all? It seems to me they are successful, assuming they existed anywhere other than your mind. Oh and the Ben Franklin thing? Please.
There's not much dishonest about what I'm doing.
No, of course not. You replying to you is not dishonest. After all, you're just "informing" people, right? No matter that you're pretending to be someone else when you do it. Instead of cleaning up your act, you simply create more accounts and continue to do the same things, except that now you're crapflooding every thread with five or six different accounts that people don't know about. Let's look at an example outside of this thread:
twitter says "x".
Then gnutoo jumps in with some inane tripe, to open up for:
Mactrope, at which point the whole thing backfires because the whole premise of your three-account point is invalid to begin with, as usual.
I'm sure free software also benefits when you shill your own attempts at humour.
No, I'm not going to tell you what those accounts are
That's OK, you don't really think people are actually waiting for *you* to tell them about your sockpuppets, right? Here's the current list:
http://slashdot.org/~twitter
http://slashdot.org/~Erris
http://slashdot.org/~Mactrope
http://slashdot.org/~gnutoo
http://slashdot.org/~inTheLoo
http://slashdot.org/~willeyhill
http://slashdot.org/~westbake
http://slashdot.org/~Odder
http://slashdot.org/~ibane
It's not difficult, after all. Aside from the initial two, the first thing all of these other accounts do is reply to the others, or paste links from your journal. They all use the exact same writing style, creative spelling, insults, misspell the same words and so on. Not like it's rocket science or anything like that. When someone like me points out what you're doing, you insult them. Oh, and I get modded down
That's funny, your user name looks just like mine... oh, wait.
But then you already admitted to be actively gaming Slashdot in your weird fight against the injustices perpetrated personally on yourself by "M$", so I suppose you're just going to be creating more and more accounts.
If you see a +1.2M UIN account posting the usual "I agree with you" replies to one of twitter's comments, chances are it's one of his sockpuppet accounts.
(I'll take my offtopic mod now)
Well, you just did.
So we're at 11 accounts now?
I'm not sure why people seem to think it's taboo to talk about how Apple TV didn't make the cut. So not all their products are going to be perfect - big deal. The road to success is not always paved with the detritus of your earlier home runs. Sometimes you have to work harder.
I'm not sure if the premise of the article is valid, but I do believe that if someone can make the media center revolution happen, it's Apple.
The massive success of Apple TV sure put them on the right track.
I'm pretty much getting used to the moderation now. I've stopped posting when he's replying to himself, but I can't help replying to someone who asks if an account is one of his sockpuppets.
Personally I find that "article" of his to be a good example of why so many people are turned off by "advocates" like twitter. He clearly had no intention whatsoever to buy a Mac, but it probably made him feel good to play the victim when the hapless Apple employees wouldn't give him "GNU/Linux" quickly enough on boxes that are supposed to work (and be supported) as a full hardware/software solution. Instead of just using Google to see if someone else had gotten Debian Woody to run on a Powerbook, he has to walk in there, make life difficult for total strangers in the name of fighting "injustice" and then stomp out and write up a long whine with cheese about the whole traumatic experience.
That's just dreadful.
On the other hand, I think he's pretty much stopped pretending now. I'm not sure if that's good or bad.
(I'll take my offtopic moderation now)
1) You can turn it off, you know.
2) What files can Office 2007 not open?
3) File corruption? Can you point me to some reference that backs that up? I'm not saying it's not possible, just that I haven't heard about it being any better or worse than 2003 in that regard, except that 2007 has better recovery options. In my experience, Word files sometimes get borked when edited over an extremely slow network connection or VPN link, but the few times that's happened to me I've been able to recover from it.
This issue has become so great that department managers have been asking me if we can go to OpenOffice.
Ah, so that's why your post is +4 and I was modded down "troll". I'll have to remember in the future not to try to disturb the reality distorsion field. Microsoft is selling billions worth of Office licenses? Nah, they're dying.
When you have 10 accounts, the possibilities are endless. Consider 5 mod points per week per account or so, hold on to them a couple of days waiting for the right thread, and wham. You have bad moderation? No problem. People disagree with you? No problem. As twitter likes to say when things don't work out for him, these threads tend to be "suspiciously well-moderated" lately.
People complain his sockpuppets are annoying, but they're just not looking at the bigger picture.
I'm not sure what you mean by "too little too late", considering Microsoft has been selling Office 2007 like pancakes since it was released.