ProfessionalHostage - Slashdot User

Comment Re:I don't get it... (Score 1) 198

by ProfessionalHostage on Thursday January 01, 2009 @06:11PM (#26293753) Attached to: The 10 Coolest Open Source Products of 2008

To pay their shareholders that's why. Something as mature as Ms Office already has all the features of word processor, yet they had to 'invent' something to sell every year.
And everybody know that security updates, patches, and minor add-ons are not great sellers these days.

Comment Aw shite... (Score 1) 1733

by ProfessionalHostage on Wednesday September 17, 2008 @07:06PM (#25046513) Attached to: "Anonymous" Hacks Palin's Private Email

This is no fun, you mean I don't get to DoS anyone this time?
'For the horde', 'We are legion', and all that jazz...

No?

Submission + - Cats can has programming language? (lolcode.com)

Submitted by porcupine8 on Sunday June 03, 2007 @10:20AM

porcupine8 writes: If you've wandered the web outside of Slashdot lately, you've surely come across the ever-present cat macros, also known as Lolcats. Originally a product of the 4chan forums, they have exploded in popularity thanks to sites such as I Can Has Cheezburger (named after the caption in a popular early lolcat) and spinoffs like LOLTrek.

It seems that the lolcats are better-educated than anyone guessed, and have been putting their computer science skills to use in the development of the new programming language LOLCode. This may look like a simple joke at first, but a quick glance through the contributions section of the site shows that far too many people have spent far too much time bringing this to fruition.

Submission + - Russian gov agency begins censorship of internet

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Sunday June 03, 2007 @07:06AM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Russian goverment runned agency "FSB" begins censorship of internet.
2 May court of Soviet district of Murmansk completed the case to close kavkazcenter.com
and ruled the ISP's to block access to http://www.kavkazcenter.com/"

Submission + - GPLv2 vs. GPLv3 (fsf.org)

Submitted by

chessweb

on Sunday June 03, 2007 @05:08AM

chessweb writes: "Here is a rather enlightening article by Richard Stallman on the GPLv3 that puts the previous Tivo post into the right context and explains the implications and limitations of upgrading from GPLv2 to GPLv3."

Submission + - what can a gamer do to resist Vista?

Submitted by

DragonTHC

on Sunday June 03, 2007 @01:06AM

DragonTHC writes: "I've been a gamer since 1985. I'm also a huge fan of Shadowrun as a pencil and paper RPG. Following the news that Shadowrun is going to be Vista only, and Pay for play, what can a gamer do to resist Vista? With the new "Games for Windows" program, which is just a way to force users to pay a subscription fee to play online, and since the game isn't even DX10, why should I upgrade to Vista so I can play it? Why should I pay for alky so I can play it on XP?"

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