And on the 24th day of May of the year 2006, the wisdom of Slashdot did take its first steps towards the holiness with which it is today revered. From this one citation of the Slashdot FAQ, the karma whores concluded that it would be a good source of future points. Soon regular posters began to check new stories against it as well, in an attempt to get in on the karma. Eventually there was a Slashdot FAQ quote in every story. The practice spread across the internet, with the Words of Rob being used to settle even disputes between skateboarders and rollerbladers. All those years ago, they could not have foreseen what was to come, but looking back, we can see the inevitability of the ascension of His words to holiness.
Thank you for compressing potentially centuries of metaphysical debate into a short definitive statement for us to digest at our convenience. The world thanks you for your invaluable contributions to philosophy, which have brought us forward by decades. But just one favour: could you maybe show some working in future?
Protesters: Down with DRM! It's toxic waste! HLS: You can't do that! It'll cause a scare! Slashdot: Bush administration silences DRM protest! Republican Slashdotter (thinks he's the only one): Wow, what a load of liberal-bias!
Jesus: OH MY GOD! A republican Slashdotter has been scorned! God: Right, this is really getting on my tits now. *destroys earth*
Hmmm, *swills post around mouth*, yes indeed. It's a fine mix of pointless ageism, new-age racism, and good old fashioned vintage meaninglessness. All in all, a very high quality troll indeed.
Running in the special olympics is difficult and requires you to 'go out there' just like protesting. Arguing on the internet is more like punching yourself just for the sake of getting angry.
You sound like you're just in prime Slashdotter mood, where the subject of the article needs to be rebuked in some way, along with certain choice comments in favour of it.
It may all be BS, but it's an integral part of the process towards the happy medium. It won't be 'all without anyone wearing hazmat suits like idiots', because that has now irreversibly happened, and has strengthened the anti-DRM front, which in turn will play its part in all future events related to DRM.
Some men in bright yellow hazmat suits took to the streets of Seattle today in protest. They handed out leaflets and made lots of funny poses. Passers-by described themselves as 'amused' by the protest, though some reported having first been scared by the prospect of an evil terror threat of death. The protest coincides with a major speech being made by Bill Gates in Seattle.
The worst that could happen is that people think they're protesting Microsoft, and spend half a second thinking about Microsoft.
And with that, it seems I've dipped even lower than my previous post. What a big waste of time this all is. And yet I keep typing. Maybe I will post just one more reply. Just one more.
That's not DRM, that's excessive copyright enforcement. It'd be DRM if it were digital sand and you were somehow prevented from drawing certain copyrighted shapes.
And on that bombshell, I realise that my life has reached a new low point. Slashdot is destroying me.
All the service and product providers that stand to profit from spreading the web to mobile phones are supporting an idea that might help that. Well, excuse me if I don't have a stroke and shit my pants out of shock.
Mobile Top Level Domain Chief Executive Officer Neil Edwards says...
Executives at Mobile Top Level Domain, headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, believe that...
...says Mr. Edwards of Mobile Top Level Domain.
...says Ritva Siren, an executive of Nokia in charge of domain names.
"Step right up!" he said."This sounds too good to be true." I thought. He said I looked like a smart young man! "So, is it a deal?", I inquired. Two hours later he was gone, with 5 million of my dollars. But I had the miracle TLD!
In English, negro is the old racist version of 'black'. In Spanish, it happens to be acceptable, probably because it has its alternate meaning of the colour black to dilute it, instead of being an imported word used exclusively as a racial descriptor.
For this exact same reason, many white people find the word 'gringo' offensive but don't object at all to being called 'white'.
Wow! Finally someone puts it into perspective for me! I can't believe I couldn't see it before, but it's just so obvious: blacks and poor people are just stupid!
JIM: Hey, did you know that literacy has declined every year in the US since racial quotas were removed?
DAVE: No dude, I hadn't heard that. Could that be because of the socioeconomic status of nonwhite races here and their substandard access to education?
JIM: What are you, retarded or something?! The only logical conclusion is that blacks are dumb!
DAVE: Of course! How blind I was! Now I must kill all the younglings!
And just in case you're referring to the order of the dates in the articles...
Why the fuck would I care what order those things were published in? I'm just some nobody searching on Google, following a trail. It makes no damn difference to me that some of those links are newer than others, because I'm looking at them all at the same time.
But I'm sure these philosophical debates about temporal kajiggers are above someone anonymously posting vague rebuttals to Slashdot posts.
No dumbass, I'm accusing everyone of stealing everyone else's article and going forward in time and republishing it. It's not my article at all.
When I say 'research session', I mean preliminary work gathering info for other stuff, not that I've published something.
Like I'd be posting to fucking Slashdot if I was at the level of publishing research. I'd be too busy attending secret Illuminati meetings, or holding long smirking sessions while I sipped at an expensive bottle of wine. You know how easy those rich post grads have it!
Cuba switching to GNU/Linux
Cuba is switching away from Windows to GNU/Linux. I have to say that I was a little surprised when I was last in Cuba and saw many of the PCs running Windows.
Cuba's director of information technology, Roberto del Puerto, says that Cuba already has approximately 1500 computers running on Linux, and is working towards replacing Windows on all state owned computers.
Tony Montana writes "According to severalnewssites the government of Cuba is dumping Windows in favour of Linux. Cuba's director of information technology, Roberto del Puerto, says that Cuba already has approximately 1500 computers running on Linux, and is working towards replacing Windows on all state owned computers."
ONE OF the last bastions of revolutionary socialism, Cuba is to switch all its computers over to Linux to counter the influence of the Evil Capitalistic American lackey Microsoft.
According to the government daily, Juventud Rebelde, Roberto del Puerto, director of the state office of information technology, said his office was working on a legal framework that would allow the replacement of Windows through-out Cuba.
Cuba already has 1,500 computers using Linux. Although what flavour is not clear.
And before I know it, 15 minutes are gone and all I've learned is that 1500 computers have been switched. Thank you plagiarism. And the beatiful irony of it all is that I'm contributing to it with this post!
If more people paid attention to the journal subsystem I'd advise you to try out there. Then you could be ontopic and have the rabid pro-Linux slashdotters helping you.
Are there any free DVDs? Is there any completely free music? Any free Xbox games? There is a free alternative to Windows. There is a free alternative to MSOffice.
We're talking about computing in developing nations. You may be able to spend hundreds on music, DVDs and videogames and then use it to justify spending hundreds more on Microsoft software, but your whole point is alien to people who can't do any of that.
What $100 PC are you talking about? The only ones I know about are this one in India and a theoretical one talked about by Ballmer. If you mean the $100 laptop, then you're barking up the wrong tree, because that's a government-issue educational tool for kids, not a commercial PC for the market.
A "fraction" is very variable. For the sort of hardware people are buying in the target countries of this idea, the fraction is in the region of ½, and in Brazil at least, poor people are already starting to buy thingson credit without needing vendors to step forward and offer lock-in contracts.
Alzira de Oliveira Rangel, who earns $400 a month as a nanny, recently bought her teenage son a computer on credit and opened savings accounts for each of her children.
I didn't realise that the original poster was talking about ported apps (he is), but it doesn't make any sense to me now that I do.
I guess there's not much difference between the fact that better apps are available for free (my point), and the fact that they are renting out an expensive OS with less functionality than a free one (the OP's point).
The only difference between our posts was the focus, really.
Slashdot Mirror
And on the 24th day of May of the year 2006, the wisdom of Slashdot did take its first steps towards the holiness with which it is today revered. From this one citation of the Slashdot FAQ, the karma whores concluded that it would be a good source of future points. Soon regular posters began to check new stories against it as well, in an attempt to get in on the karma. Eventually there was a Slashdot FAQ quote in every story. The practice spread across the internet, with the Words of Rob being used to settle even disputes between skateboarders and rollerbladers. All those years ago, they could not have foreseen what was to come, but looking back, we can see the inevitability of the ascension of His words to holiness.
Thank you for compressing potentially centuries of metaphysical debate into a short definitive statement for us to digest at our convenience. The world thanks you for your invaluable contributions to philosophy, which have brought us forward by decades. But just one favour: could you maybe show some working in future?
That could so easily have turned into the most anticlimactic Digg plug ever created.
Protesters: Down with DRM! It's toxic waste!
HLS: You can't do that! It'll cause a scare!
Slashdot: Bush administration silences DRM protest!
Republican Slashdotter (thinks he's the only one): Wow, what a load of liberal-bias! Jesus: OH MY GOD! A republican Slashdotter has been scorned!
God: Right, this is really getting on my tits now. *destroys earth*
Hmmm, *swills post around mouth*, yes indeed. It's a fine mix of pointless ageism, new-age racism, and good old fashioned vintage meaninglessness. All in all, a very high quality troll indeed.
Running in the special olympics is difficult and requires you to 'go out there' just like protesting. Arguing on the internet is more like punching yourself just for the sake of getting angry.
No, it goes to show that even on a bad day, there's always at least one sucker to fall for a poorly executed troll.
It may all be BS, but it's an integral part of the process towards the happy medium. It won't be 'all without anyone wearing hazmat suits like idiots', because that has now irreversibly happened, and has strengthened the anti-DRM front, which in turn will play its part in all future events related to DRM.
And with that, it seems I've dipped even lower than my previous post. What a big waste of time this all is. And yet I keep typing. Maybe I will post just one more reply. Just one more.
And on that bombshell, I realise that my life has reached a new low point. Slashdot is destroying me.
I imagine that if they introduced these new formats, they'd be part of a tiered pay system.
Maybe Google is secretly working on more advanced video compression... DAN DAN DAANNNNNNNNNN!
For this exact same reason, many white people find the word 'gringo' offensive but don't object at all to being called 'white'.
Black.
Why the fuck would I care what order those things were published in? I'm just some nobody searching on Google, following a trail. It makes no damn difference to me that some of those links are newer than others, because I'm looking at them all at the same time.
But I'm sure these philosophical debates about temporal kajiggers are above someone anonymously posting vague rebuttals to Slashdot posts.
When I say 'research session', I mean preliminary work gathering info for other stuff, not that I've published something.
Like I'd be posting to fucking Slashdot if I was at the level of publishing research. I'd be too busy attending secret Illuminati meetings, or holding long smirking sessions while I sipped at an expensive bottle of wine. You know how easy those rich post grads have it!
First site:
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/05/19/cuba_switchin g_to_gn.html
Which leads me to: http://linux.slashdot.org/ And the only link out of those that's still up is http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23300, which contains only: So all this plagiarised summarisation bullshit leads me only to http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050517/tc_afp/cubacAnd before I know it, 15 minutes are gone and all I've learned is that 1500 computers have been switched. Thank you plagiarism. And the beatiful irony of it all is that I'm contributing to it with this post!
Anyway, gmencoder, konverter, iriverter, movieconvert, and a load of other stuff.
And since you mentioned SVCD specifically, here is Tovid (screenshot)
Don't know if any of that stuff is right though... Good luck!
You kids and your terrible mental arithmetic...
Two perfect typos, I couldn't resist.
There is a free alternative to Windows. There is a free alternative to MSOffice.
A "fraction" is very variable. For the sort of hardware people are buying in the target countries of this idea, the fraction is in the region of ½, and in Brazil at least, poor people are already starting to buy things on credit without needing vendors to step forward and offer lock-in contracts.
I guess there's not much difference between the fact that better apps are available for free (my point), and the fact that they are renting out an expensive OS with less functionality than a free one (the OP's point).
The only difference between our posts was the focus, really.