Comment Re:No, because Americans want cars, not mass trans (Score 1) 897
You have the cart before the horse. Customers define the market, not the business.
Tell that to De Beers.
Comment Re:Personality (Score 1) 482
I agree, what are they teaching our childs these days?
Comment Re:unsurprising. (Score 1) 183
Yeah, I have some code that runs faster in VMWare than it does natively. I didn't want to look very hard at it in case it stopped working.
Comment Re:Don't do this at home (Score 1) 300
Who polices the police? The police police police the police. Who polices the police police? The police police police police the police police.
Wash rinse repeat.
Comment Re:stupid scientists (Score 1) 355
I thought the moon was made of BBQ spareribs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6zC1_gkP-c
Slackware 12.2 Released 351
pilsner.urquell submitted a quote from the announcement saying "Well folks, it's that time to announce a new stable Slackware release again. So, without further ado, announcing Slackware version 12.2! Since we've moved to supporting the 2.6 kernel series exclusively (and fine-tuned the system to get the most out of it), we feel that Slackware 12.2 has many improvements over our last release (Slackware 12.1) and is a must-have upgrade for any Slackware user."
Comment Re: "Praising with Faint Damnation"? (Score 1) 196
One of my favourite examples of this was when Rolling Stone (I think) reviewed Jewel Kilcher's poetry book. It was a full book review, concentrating exclusively on the typography, paper quality, etc without one mention of the poetry.
Comment Re:So what was he *really* standing in front of? (Score 1) 622
It seems to me that the main criterion should be, if there is an intent to deceive the viewer. Editing to deceive is different than editing to enhance or beautify.
How is editing to make something look more beautiful than it is not deceptive?
Comment Re:You hit the nail on the head (Score 1) 622
they are trying to remove the stain on their industry that *they are* other so called leaders have put there.
Wow, I've seen "they're" and "their" mixed up, but I've never seen "they are" and "their". I think "Bob the Angry Flower" needs an update.
Comment Re:Charged in Germany anyway (Score 1) 637
I wonder if something like the concept of double jeopardy applies here. Can he still be punished in the US for an act which was already punished in Germany?
Submission + - New iPod Checksum Cracked (kde.org) 1
An anonymous reader writes: After 36 hours of reverse engineering, the method for producing the checksum on new iPods has been discovered.
Slashdot CSS Redesign Winner Announced 882
The winner of the contest is Alex Bendiken. He will receive a new laptop as well as bragging rights as the creator of the new look of Slashdot. You can see his winning design in a near complete form now. Feel free to comment on any compatibility issues. We plan to take this live in the next few days. There will undoubtedly be a few minor glitches, but please submit bug reports and we'll sort it out as fast as possible. Also congratulations to Peter Lada, our runner up. He gets $250 credit at ThinkGeek. Thanks to everyone who participated- it was a lot of fun.
