On the contrary, I suspect people are reading too far into your comment. What we have here appears to be a group of administrators taking your comment as a challenge on their competency, and responding accordingly.
Well, I was all set to read a real world retort of an OO.o review. Well, right up till sentence 2. You lost me there. Can't be a very good retort if the author isn't even a mature enough adult to interpret the meaning of a piece of text regardless of how many "naughty" words were used.
Well, I use a short shell-script to play youtube url's with mplayer. Works a hell of a lot nicer for me (especially fullscreen). To me, lack of flash is certainly a feature.
I'm curious as to why this is modded troll. The Tylenol/paracetamol discussion aside, he is very correct. Mixing alcohol and Tylenol/paracetamol is extremely dangerous, particularly over an extended amount of time. Both alcohol and Tylenol/paracetamol by themselves are indeed bad for your liver, but the combination of the two, particularly in cases where painkillers are actually warranted (very heavy drinking scenarios, if you've just had a single drink you really shouldn't be worried about a hangover...) is very liable to destroy your liver. If you've ever seen someone die, waiting for a liver transplant, you'll have an understanding of what a terrible fate that is.
As far as all of this Tylenol/paracetamol nonsense is concerned, all I have to say is that, as an American, I had no idea what paracetamol was until it was originally pointed out that it was "better known" as Tylenol. I think that the "-1 Troll" moderation is being used a bit too lightly around here right now.
It sounds like they "broke in" by booting from alternate media and reading the hard disk.
That seemed to be what you were implying. Note the quotes around 'broke in'. Barring that, I don't see what the point of your comment was at all. The post you were responding to was not trying asserting that what they did was technically challenging...
On the other hand, very many households have massive oil or propane tanks in their basements. Gasoline just doesn't happen to be all that great for heating your house.
I think the answer reasonably is anywhere between "yes" and "absolutely yes". For example, auditing should probably be considered very important for software such as slashdotter Fyodor's Nmap.
You can't trust everyone in the open source community to be completely white-hat all the time...
CNN went from the really good news start up, to a liberal news group, to the liberal insanity group (and I'm a democrat).
Really? I generally consider myself a pretty rightwing libertarian, but CNN is the only news network I can stomach watching. Fox News is a undeniably republican cesspool and MSNBC generally seem to be democrat shills.
I won't deny CNN is crap, but generally they seem too busy jizzing themselves over all of their fancy multi-touch screens, worthless charts, and random morons' 'tweets' to actually display a bias.
Seriously though, what is up with that twitter shit on network news, it's almost like they are actively trying to drive me away from the TV and just use the internet (which is what I generally do anyways).
The point is that the actual mechanisms that define a device are moving to software. Sensors, cameras, and servos are the hands through which the software interacts with the world. They do not represent the essence of the device.
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If you are not developing Free software, then you do not always get to receive all of the benefits of Free software.
Difficult concept, I know.
On the contrary, I suspect people are reading too far into your comment. What we have here appears to be a group of administrators taking your comment as a challenge on their competency, and responding accordingly.
Well, I was all set to read a real world retort of an OO.o review. Well, right up till sentence 2. You lost me there. Can't be a very good retort if the author isn't even a mature enough adult to interpret the meaning of a piece of text regardless of how many "naughty" words were used.
Furthermore, by eliminating pornography in India, Microsoft will have assured that everyone will want to come to America to work^Wget porn. Brillant!
Perfect, thanks!
Well, I use a short shell-script to play youtube url's with mplayer. Works a hell of a lot nicer for me (especially fullscreen). To me, lack of flash is certainly a feature.
Nope, not doing it. Is PizzaAnalogyGuy around?
Seriously man, use the 'Preview' button already.
Not that I read any of the preceeding comments, but I think this should answer your question.
What if Columbus was wrong? At a certian point, such speculation becomes meaningless ;)
That's ok, the linux policy of free upgrades more than makes up for that for me.
But hey, you're a known troll, logic doesn't have much to do with this does it?
There are plenty of reasons.
I'm curious as to why this is modded troll. The Tylenol/paracetamol discussion aside, he is very correct. Mixing alcohol and Tylenol/paracetamol is extremely dangerous, particularly over an extended amount of time. Both alcohol and Tylenol/paracetamol by themselves are indeed bad for your liver, but the combination of the two, particularly in cases where painkillers are actually warranted (very heavy drinking scenarios, if you've just had a single drink you really shouldn't be worried about a hangover...) is very liable to destroy your liver. If you've ever seen someone die, waiting for a liver transplant, you'll have an understanding of what a terrible fate that is.
As far as all of this Tylenol/paracetamol nonsense is concerned, all I have to say is that, as an American, I had no idea what paracetamol was until it was originally pointed out that it was "better known" as Tylenol. I think that the "-1 Troll" moderation is being used a bit too lightly around here right now.
What I would find really interesting is a poll that showed how many people that visited slashdot actually participated in the polls.
Oh wait...
I see, my apologies.
You are correct. This however does make slashdot US centric.
From the slashdot FAQ: Slashdot is U.S.-centric.
That seemed to be what you were implying. Note the quotes around 'broke in'. Barring that, I don't see what the point of your comment was at all. The post you were responding to was not trying asserting that what they did was technically challenging...
On the other hand, very many households have massive oil or propane tanks in their basements. Gasoline just doesn't happen to be all that great for heating your house.
Do it, I dare you to try. It ought to be funny.
I think the answer reasonably is anywhere between "yes" and "absolutely yes". For example, auditing should probably be considered very important for software such as slashdotter Fyodor's Nmap.
You can't trust everyone in the open source community to be completely white-hat all the time...
Really? I generally consider myself a pretty rightwing libertarian, but CNN is the only news network I can stomach watching. Fox News is a undeniably republican cesspool and MSNBC generally seem to be democrat shills.
I won't deny CNN is crap, but generally they seem too busy jizzing themselves over all of their fancy multi-touch screens, worthless charts, and random morons' 'tweets' to actually display a bias.
Seriously though, what is up with that twitter shit on network news, it's almost like they are actively trying to drive me away from the TV and just use the internet (which is what I generally do anyways).
The point is that the actual mechanisms that define a device are moving to software. Sensors, cameras, and servos are the hands through which the software interacts with the world. They do not represent the essence of the device.
Here is a perfectly valid mathematical formula, paraphrased from wikipedia:
How does this not meet the definition of mathematical formula, as written?
Notation is meaningless, math is math.
Well since all software is math, this would effectively ban all software patents.
Whoa whoa whoa. My "useful loophoop" sense is tingling...