France Bans Use of 2.0 114
illybilly writes "French President Nicholas Sarkozy was mad about what was called a 'version 2.0' website redesign for the presidential palace in Paris. So he pushed through legislation that bans the use of the term '2.0' in France."
OMG!! Ponies!! (Score:2)
A good thing (Score:1)
Web 2.0 is a crock. You know the ".0" version is always bug ridden. Just patch it and release 2.1 already.
Now if we could only ban "v6".
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Yes, I prever v8. It tastes way better.
Re:A good thing (Score:4, Funny)
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>>>".0" version is always bug ridden. Just patch it and release 2.1 already.
Microsoft's already two steps ahead of you. They will +0.1 the version number from 2.0 to 2.1, and then call it "Web 3"
So that explains Slashdot's next upgrade (Score:2)
Those silly French (Score:5, Funny)
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why is that modeed insightful and not funny ? Is that moderator april's fool ?
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Well, deux!
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I don't know, but it's happened to me before; happened just last week in fact. I haven't looked at the mod history of the GP comment, but in the one I had, there were three mods of "funny" and one of "insughtful" and it got a +5, insightful. I guess someone was trying to help my karma, even though it doesn't need any help; it's been excellent all along.
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I don't know, but it's happened to me before; happened just last week in fact. I haven't looked at the mod history of the GP comment, but in the one I had, there were three mods of "funny" and one of "insughtful" and it got a +5, insightful. I guess someone was trying to help my karma...
I'd say rather it's moderator meta-humor...
They risk the wrath of the meta-mods to bring us meta-enjoyment!
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I disagree with Pudge here quite often, sometimes in his own journals. I don't think it's the disagreeing, but HOW you disagree.
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No, the problem with the French is they refuse to let go of their bloody language.
While the rest of the world (all languages) use common terms like "computers" and "download" things, the French have "ordinateurs" and "telecharger" things.
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And how I am supposed to address the Welsh Institute of Wood looking like a twit ? I look like somebody from Llanelli !
Says the guy with the Welsh in-joke in his sig ;-).
No, the problem with the Welsh is they refuse to let go of their bloody... best answer wins $1.40 via Paypal, judge's decision is final, no correspondence will be entered into, nemo custodet ipsos custodes, etc.
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Re:Those silly Welsh (Score:1)
boiled coal pudding pie.
Not really all that bad if you have enough mayonnaise...
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And here, I thought all along that it was because they surrendered easily...
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It's funny but not a real quote.
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/bush.asp [snopes.com]
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Next? (Score:1)
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Version 3.0? Anyone?
Bueller? ... Bueller?
WTF slashdot (Score:1, Insightful)
"This content requires the Flash Player."
For all the bashing Flash gets around here, you guys sure are Flash whores.
Fuck you.
P.S.: we're all tired of the fucking april fool jokes all fucking day long, fucking stop it.
Signed,
everyone.
Re:WTF slashdot (Score:4, Funny)
You and 5 whiny children who modded you up need to learn how to not click on April Fool's links. It's that easy. Don't. Click.
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need to learn how to not click on April Fool's links
Or, they could stick them in Idle, the category specifically made for exactly these types of articles.
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Make the Internet Useless Day
We turned it extra useless at work (300 science guys) by putting upside-down-ternet [ex-parrot.com] in action... People were in fear of complaining. Those who did were told that they should check if they were using a crossover cable. Fun for the whole day.
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I am actually annoyed by slashroulette. I got the joke. Once you got it, any repetition does not make it funnier.
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Yeah, having it in the one post would have been funny. Having it in every post just makes surreptitiously browsing from work harder.
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It does not work. Frankly, I haven't been editing my ABP custom list for a while...
Is that part also a part of the joke? (inability to AdBlock this shit?)
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I suspect its more than five whiney people. Its annoying when pretty much every story is fake.
It was funny when they first did it, clever. Now its just stale and dule. Look at the comments for most stores; below 100, fairly unusual.
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I guess people can't understand a difference between April Fool and April Troll.
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How about just not visiting Slashdot for a day? The fact that you're so annoyed means that you'd probably benefit from less internet for a day. The internet doesn't matter that much. Who cares? It's just silliness.
oh i get it! (Score:2)
its april fools
you're making believe you're a needlessly angry and negative person over some minor pointless detail anyone with a life doesn't care about
that's a good april fools trick!
thank god its april fools, and such people don't exist in the comment section outside of today, right?!
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P.S.: we're all tired of the fucking april fool jokes all fucking day long, fucking stop it.
Speak for yourself, if we were all sick of AF jokes there wouldn't be any.
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I Can Breathe (Score:2)
Finally the French get something right besides sex and food.
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You need something else?
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You may take this opportunity to stop surfing the web at work, then. For one day out of the year, at least.
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Physician, heal thyself.
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Amen.
What's wrong with you? (Score:2)
April Fool's Day is Internet Christmas!
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I suppose if I have your positive outlook, Christmas DOES come twice a year after all!
Seriously... (Score:2)
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This sort of thing usually happens around once per year. Not as odd as you'd think.
Hmmm... (Score:1)
No end in sight? (Score:1)
Wait...
Since today is April 1st, doesn't this mean France has just banned tomorrow?! It's the second and way more stable version of today!
Now how will the madness end!? April 3rd? THERE IS NO APRIL THIRD!
The joke's too good. (Score:3, Interesting)
I know it's April Fool's Day and all, but come on; you're talking about France banning a term that originated from another language. That's way too plausible. Net-pranks are supposed to be obvious fakes, man.
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That takes all the fun out of it. The perfect prank has people believing it right up to the point where it becomes completely ridiculous, and then you laugh at the people who still believe it after that.
It's all about the build up.
Canada (Score:4, Insightful)
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Waiting for 2.1 (Score:2)
Responsible republics don't deploy .0 releases.
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French Republic 1.0 [wikipedia.org]
You'd think they'd have learned that lesson.
France finally gets something right! (Score:1)
I'm moving to France! It's about damn time someone banned Web 2.0. I was dreading the upgrade-hell of revving all my browsers just to be able to continue to access ./
OK.... (Score:2)
What's today's date?
Think about it.
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It's April Fool's Day, a day for amusing pranks and jokes. Why is that relevant?
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When you put it that way, April Fools Day is indeed irrelevant.
Sorry, I get cranky when semi-lame April Fools jokes start hitting my sphere of influence around 5:00 AM. Yes, the lame ones make me cranky no matter the time.
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What's today's date?
Think about it.
Well, I'm reading it on April 2.0
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When I wrote it, today was tomorrow. You're reading yesterday.
Where the hell is the Doctor when you need him? Always showing up unexpectedly and unbidden.
Sheesh.
-1, Indistinguishable from reality (Score:2)
Come on. Net-pranks are supposed to be obvious fakes, and here you are, talking about France banning a term that didn't originate in the French language. That's way too plausible.
It's official (Score:2)
It's official, I'm going to start avoiding /. on April 1st. These is just dumb.
Also ban on anyone taller than Sarkozy (Score:1)
New term (Score:1)
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France 2.0 (Score:1)
merde (Score:1)
you know the point of a good april fools joke is to catch people unaware, when there are more jokes than real stories it kinda DOES NOT WORK.
April 1. has now flipped to a game of trying to find a real story among all the unfunny crap.
Oh well its just 1 day i guess.
Slashroulette is for whores and crack whores. (Score:1)
If its real then its the only thing that (Score:2)
Sarkozy done right during his presidency.
Finally (Score:1)
Sarko accomplishes what legions of web developers, deletionist Wikipedians, and curmudgeonly Slashdotters could not!
Seriously, though, this is from the same folks that brought you
Republic 1.0
Republic 2.0
Republic 3.0
Republic 4.0, and
Republic 5.0 [wikipedia.org]
And they say Microsoft has trouble getting it right the first time.
If only it was true. (Score:1)
If only it was true.
Since 1.999... = 2.0 (Score:2)
Fish? (Score:2)
Is this a 2.0 copy ? (Score:1)
http://www.elysee.fr/
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
It would be clearer if he bans 4.3.0 : the whitehouse is copying the EzPublish french site
Marc, Paris
you think america (Score:1)
2.0 Fries (Score:1)