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I Will Derive
Jamie stumbled upon a very choice video this morning called I Will Derive. To the tune of some song you've never heard before, singing about subjects you know nothing about... oh and a a TI-84 cameo. It features the dopiest dancing you'll see on YouTube today. I promise.
Not only is this TERRIBLY stupid, but it is a complete ripoff of this other guy's video who I guarantee came up with this first.
"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
This Slashtube bullshit is just what we need Taco!
Dancing in the new Weezer video is better. Much better. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WanLLnVixC4
"The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
Now Slashdot is going to be posting every funny cat video on the Internet? What the fuck?
"The right to do something does not mean doing it is right." William Safire
Indeed... I was ok with "Idle" being its own little sub-section that you had to choose to go to... but not making the front page.
News For Nerds, Stuff That Matters.
Is now...
News For Sheeple, Stuff That Doesnt Matter.
What the FUCK happened to the layout of the discussions? Hackers?
Apology to Ubuntu forum.
Slahsdot to change name and become Slashitt!
Rome taught me patience and assiduous application to detail. Virtues which temper the boldness of great, general views.
This site isn't Digg, no matter how hard you try to make it Digg.
Why can I still not turn off seeing this stupid section? It's pathetic.
What next? Daily CollegeHumour videos?
And does this crap better.
This is a fucking travesty.
Nice knowing you slashdot
So many years of wonderful service.
d~y
Fitting captcha: crested
Hey guys, it's the weekend, lighten up!
Mind you, what I want to see is "I Wii Survive" - they're STILL out of stock on a regular basis.
Kevin Smith on Prince
There's fluff and then there's demise.
damaged by dogma
Lawrence Lessig got some heat from the religious conservatives for getting involved with such videos:
RedState Flap"
My last 1.5 years of high school in Belarus I learned calculus (I think last two quarters of junior year were differential calculus, and most of senior year was integral calculus), and no one thought that it was harder or easier than, say, solving tricky trigonometric equations or something like that. Even people who weren't going to university learned it. Why do American high schoolers think calculus is so special? It requires just as much thought to write a geometry proof as solve some rate problem as in the video, and yet it's not considered as prestigious.
Yes, you could argue that it has useful applications, but most people who take calculus never actually use it (and the ones that do end up taking many more equally "fundamental" classes in college).
Even Britney S. is much better, especially a few years back.
Check out this rap about calculus & the TI-84
It's called the Cho Flow 2006.
Completely original
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=58438880
5/7 remember the day...
I always delight in the irony when people use the word "sheeple"
Or did the singer sound a lot like David Wayne from Stella?
Everything will be taken away from you.
This is fucking stupid. Quit posting this junk - nobody wants to see it on Slashdot.
How bad is this? /. idle? /. has jumped the shark..
(no dispespect to the video makers, but we can all browse youtube randomly if we want...)
--Q
Wow... where the hell was this vitriol when I was one of the few who were crying out against the slashvertisements about Iron Man, Speed Racer, and whatever the fuck peripheral they tried to say roXzoR'd.
It's the same shit, so why does mindless news incite anger and "sheeple" references when being sold to doesn't?
what just happened, why is this in my rss, where am I?
Sheeple? So let me get this right.. 9/11 was an INSIDE JOB?
Hey I enjoyed it. I guess you just have to be a true "nerd" to appreciate this video. Infact, I believe that the over zealous use of the "f" word in these posts further illustrates my point.
Some guy welds together a device that shoots floppies (not very far or very rapidly) and makes a video involving a gun toting girl scout and everyone thinks it's sooo neat.
Some guy makes a fake military tank out of wood for frat parties and everyone on slashdot is in awe.
But some guys make a video about calculus and everyone thinks it's lame. Back in my day nerds were in awe of abstract math but now they seem to be in awe of the engineering of war. Times change.
Uh, just from the title alone I knew it would be a filk of Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive." It's not exactly an obscure song... even for those who aren't going gray. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Will_Survive
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WTF?
It works when I fire off mplayer against a flv pulled down from youtube... But not from the browser?
Technology -- No Place For Wimps! Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia Chatroom -- http://www.wemissjerry.org
Sure, the production value of this is non-existent and these guys don't know how to dance or sing. But I thought the lyrics were great, and fully enjoyed the concept of this video. So, someone just needs to remake this and make it much more slick. And yes, Rick Astley made this first.
and now the circle is complete.
It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
You must be joking!
Just like to chime in here and add my voice to the many: never fucking do this again, slashdot.
of my life that I won't get back!
Please keep these kind of videos to the sites that specialize in them... easier to ignore that way.
Some days I get the sinking feeling Orwell was an optimist.
I read Reddit once in a while to see some funny stuff and usually come to Slashdot for Tech-News. Looks like there is no need at all for either a subscription for Slashdot or a trip to Reddit, as the latter had this video on its front page hours ago. What's next? A front page link to "The most irrelevant front page news on Slashdot" at Cracked.com?
The verb meaning "to take a derivative" is differentiate, not derive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpraJYnbVtE Nuff said, I guess.
I loved the video! What a coincidence - just spent the last couple of days with similar problems, trying to develop a curve for an audio compression algorithm. I began with logarithmic curves, but in the end, chose quadratic curves in place of the logarithmic curves because they provide a very smooth transition from linear slope to curved. Though the logarithmic curves did as well provide a nice smooth curve, they had an abrupt transition at the point where that curve joined the linear slope. In the end, after algebraically factoring my Quadratic Bezier, I ended up with an incredibly simple formula: y = (x - (x*x)/coefficient). The problem is that the term (x*x)/coefficient can never be allowed to grow larger than x, and in fact, is limited to coefficient = 0.5. On the other side, as you approach a large value for 'coefficient', you essentially end up with y = x.
Only one problem - in the end, to get any compression beyond a few dBs I needed to employ recursion - not the best solution...
void Recurve(double *pX, int recursionLevel, int *pCount)
{
if((*pCount)++ == recursionLevel)return;
*pX = *pX - (*pX * *pX)/2.0;
Recurve(pX, recursionLevel, pCount);
}
Anybody got any experience with this?
It's pretty obvious what the song is to the poster as well...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
This was Fun ... Go Get a life
...for the internet. That's an accomplishment. :)
The video is entitled "Funzie jumps the shark". Yes, it's the video that originated the expression.
:(
Please, Taco... no more idle videos in the frontpage!
News For Nerds, Stuff That Matters.
What. the. fuck. happened. to. the. moderators.
I have to say that one of my favorite videos involving dorky dancing is A Million Ways by OK Go
Is this really the opinion that people have here? They can't post one silly video without some comments about how terrible it is and how it doesn't belong here and all that? If so, what a miserable bunch you are.
BEST EVER!! I really love it.! :))
Now that ./ has officially died, where can we go for "News for nerds. Stuff that matters?"
Anyone have any non-youtube-reporting, nerdy news sites I can peruse?
Bookmark to this site deleted.
Idle: For when normal /. stories simply don't reach the level of stupidity that Digg has.
Yes it was obvious and we've all seen a lot of stuff like it before, but it was still funny. Don't be a killjoy. It's Memorial Day weekend.
Go outside and play or something!
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Of course 9/11 was an inside job... you had to be inside the little circle of people who did it!
Do you chuckle through your mouthfulls of cud?
The 'reply to this' button doesn't render properly on Vista/IE for the idle pages (I didn't have a sound card on my Ubuntu box).
Also, this comment text box that I am typing in now appears to be about 30 characters wide.
but it was DONE very badly! Gimme a fucking break!
I've been RickRolled!
Im not against little comedic stuff like this, or the Idle section itself, it was actually a good idea. But I think that the front page (or any of the main 'news' sections) should be for tech/science/economy/etc "stuff that matters"
This is rightly in the Idle section, and if you were just looking for something to pass a few minutes and maybe a giggle or two... "choose" to go to the Idle section... just like you would choose to wander around YouTube by itself without having Slashdot.
Weekend or not, I think most people expect Slashdot to provide informative "nerdy" things with a certain amount of dignity.
Where is my barf bag!
You can't hide from it, and that's OK. It's not so bad guys. You may be disgusted now, but if the past decade has taught us anything it's that people can tolerate a lot of shit before it actually motivates them to action.
In St. Louis, it took a 100% increase in gas prices to motivate people actually start carpooling, up ~30% recently. Every dime increase instigated vocal outrage, but little to no action. But when it starts eating into our beer budgets, then we call Ride-Finders.
Slashdot has jumped the shark about 30 times now, and we still read it, we still participate. Heck, this is the first post I've been motivated to comment on in quite some time.
All you youtube player haters best just chill. If you hate it so bad, it's a relatively free internet for the time being (legislation pending). Go start your own slashcode site with zero youtubes. We'll be right behind you in the other car. No seriously. We're not going to ditch you, honest.
limit (of the amount of garbage ppl will accept, the number of slashdot readers) approaches to zero...
For those of you that listen to hiphop & rap: What you know about math?
The featured vid isn't that great. I agree it shouldn't have gotten it's own front page story. The vid I linked isn't that great, but I got more laughs out of it than "I will derive"
This is like Tiananmen squared.
They do nothing.
The cost of that cleanup, of course, will be borne by taxpayers, not industry.
Ah so this is the april fools! one moment I thought I was on DIGG.
Wow, there was a point to that. You sure showed us, Mr. Anonymous Prick.
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
Really? A TI-84 Plus? Real math nerds and engineering students use HP Calculators, an HP-35, HP-45, HP-67, or HP-41! These younger kids need to learn Reverse Polish Notation instead of twittering their lives away. RPN ROCKS!
And to add insult to injury, the page renders poorly on my box, further enhancing the pain:
http://i27.tinypic.com/b47tbc.jpg
In order for anyone to see and hear this video you had to press play, if you are so against it why did you watch it in the first place??? You could have just as easily browsed for other articles but instead, a lot of you pressed play then acted surprised that a video played...wtf?
'sig' deleted due to the stupidity of it's 'nature'
As long as the 'idle' stuff dosent appear too often, just providing a little bit of levity every now and then im perfectly happy with it appearing on the front page.
Netcraft doesn't track site popularity AFAIK, but Alexa does. And alexa does in fact confirm: slashdot is dying.
I mean, what the fuck guys? This is such an awesome website. I know that stupid videos get a lot of click throughs in the short term, but you're driving away your regulars with that silly shit. News, fellas, post news.
weirdest thing I ever saw: scientology advertising on slashdot.
Well, Slashdot, I am ok with seeing this on the front page, because it is so nerdy that it makes up for being irrelevant. I mean, Ask Slashdot isn't news, but its ok to have occasionally on the main page. As a regular reader of Fark, I know that most of what passes for "news" isn't. So to the haters: Relax. Simmer down a bit. Some of us enjoy a little nerdy goofiness.
i loved this. Stop crying, you don't have to click everything that comes up on slashdot. At least if you are a sane person, not a complete slashdot addict.
I love the word "sheeple." It's just one simple word that immediately lets me know the speaker is a douche bag, so I can ignore him.
A slashdotter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber.
I do not want to see posts from it. I notice that it doesn't appear in the sections list so I can turn it off. I want to turn it off.
Need a Python, C++, Unix, Linux develop
I know it has been said many times, but this is what makes slashdot great - the moderation system! When I first saw this video, I laughed. I enjoyed it. I thought it was funny and was glad that Slashdot had linked to it.
Then I read the comments and realized that the video wasn't funny or appropriate, and was in fact a harbinger of the Apocalypse. I shouldn't be smiling and happy - I should be ranting and outraged. I should be writing my elected officials and forming citizens action committees.
How dare slashdot trick people into a watching a silly youtube video buy disguising it as a story about a silly youtube video. Don't the slashdot editors realize that there is only a limited amount of webspace space on the internet, and they shouldn't be wasting it on stuff like this?
I am so glad I have seen the error of my ways. Now I just need to know where I can get one of these giant sticks to ram up my pigu, so I too can be a diligent defender of Slashdot integrity.
DO NOT WANT
DO NOT WANT
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Oh please. Cut all the negative crap, you wannabe intellectuals. This video is funny as hell and totally Slashdottish. I have been reading slashdot for ages, and this submit was for me the reason to finally subscribe to this site and put up a comment. Yeah, finally I have something to say! And I say: screw you, for being sour and posting all these lousy comments.
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I, for one, don't have enough time to surf the net in a TOTALLY random manner, so the occasional link to a good math joke is quite welcome here. YMMV. Is this really such a problem? There are lots of articles that I never even click on, I think you had fair warning on this one.
The cost of that cleanup, of course, will be borne by taxpayers, not industry.
Fucking cancer that's killing Slashdot. If I wanted random/offbeat stuff I'd go to Digg (which I do), Slashdot is for tech news.
Ironic captcha: insular
What's with the HTML on this "story"? it's totally fucked up!
To do something right, you often have to roll up your sleeves and get busy.
...because all true nerds are laughing their heads off at this video. It's a hoot.
Thanks to you and the GP for the inspiration :) And this is just to get rid of the "too few characters per line" complaint from the filter.
...
First I thought "Oh fuck,
this is travesty".
The Slashlords fin'ly lost their touch,
this really cannot be.
But the idle section stayed,
and while I cried out "This is wrong",
the trolls grew strong.
And even Taco plays along!
Yes, they are back
from all the chans.
They took the training for the flaming
and are here to grab their chance.
Oh, do you think you have seen bad,
well then you're in for a surprise.
Cause on the one hand there is fluff
but now get ready for demise!
Go Taco go, give junk the floor.
Ignore your readers.
Nerds don't matter anymore.
This idle style is hot, we are taking over Fark.
Yet still I wonder...
Did Slashdot really jump the shark?
Don't link YouTube,
just post a dupe!
About cold fusion with hot grits
greased by Piquepaille's lube.
Even Katz stories are fine
Even goatse seems divine
when idle's stage
is the frontpage.
While this may sound like I'm new,
my ID confides
that while I could not pay
for lower ones I've seen the tides.
It seems the terrorists have won.
Breakouts of common sense are gone.
I used to mod.
Now I'm just one more old sod.
And I say now,
get off my lawn!
I hope that in Korea's shelters
I can still respawn.
And you can stick your idle site,
its sorry style like soylent green.
I'd rather pony up for pink
and I bet so does your Kathleen...
Go Taco go, give junk the floor.
(alternate part for "Yes, they are back...":
Slashdot cries out,
The movie blares.
Oh yes, on weekends they'll submit
it till the firehose declares
that the frontpage is their scene,
the idle section is their heir,
and if you don't vote for those films
we've still got Jamie over there...
)
Donate free food here
http://www.makeuseof.com/tech-fun/how-to-turn-this-computer-off-dell-tech-support-audio/
My Hump
A: How you gonna derive all that junk
All that junk inside that graph?
M: I'ma get get get get that done
Get that point's slope off that hump.
T: My hump my hump / my hump my hump my hump / my hump my hump my hump,
My concave upward hump (Check it out)
So somebody forgot that some of us are *music nerds*. That video gets a D-.
Either you forgot to bring your sarcasm tags, or you must be new here.
Just install libflashsupport. That will fix the problem.
Lighten up.
Can someone summarize it for me?
I, for one, welcome our new strawman slashvertising arguments. As you see, our base belonging to the "Evil Empire" will only accelerate our descent into hell. Strap on your tinfoil hats folks, it will be a bumpy ride. And wait as our gov't ascends the Republic, seated by the many members of the RIAA, the MAFIAA and the CO$.
/home/ourfuture/.backup
In our underground encampment, we shall level grind and fend ourselves from the numerous griefers. Teach our young to PVP the invading pirate ninja clans. Echo the silence of a thousand voices, our grandiose delusions will lead to another physical layer, imbuing a time paradox shaking the fabric of string theory. When we evolve to a life form intelligently designing a j4rg0N the new forsaken existence can only comprehend.
Fear not the FUD, the microcosms of Bob shall bootstrap the slack, our forefathers left us. Ciphering through their elitist wisdoms, we shall inaugurate a new bubble to resurrect the fallen Spaghetti Monster. Once the giant reaches full ascension, the libtarded members of the progressive Pauls foolishly and repugnantly allow the draconian administration to fortify it in black watered oil, bringing a new dystopian utopia to our commonwealth.
During this new age, we maintain viral logs of our lives, editing out selected references to civilizations. The hubris we believe without foresight endangers or notated upbringing. In due time, our floating lord emits some unidentified chemical substance in the atmosphere. Gasping and weeping, our children cry as they are none to fit for saving. The pre-emptiveness of this action unifies our collective membrane, as we proceed to betray the subterranean god. No longer servicing the pseudo idol, we deny it the organic nourishment it strives on. Amused by our attacks, the ogre unleashes its tentacles upon the world, raping the zeitgeist. But through the watchful men, they collude amongst bunkers under Manhattan and the Alamo. Through the enormousness of our causation, we accidentally release a mushroomed explosion knocking down the fired walls, three mile high, ravaging the barren underground.
In correlation, our actions do not subdue the monstrosity. Broken and battered, it willfully assimilates the many sheeple to do battle above ground. Faced with mutual destruction, we release the "Clover" project into the fields hoping to ensnare the giant. In flight the behemoths do battle exerting powers over 9000 on the scanners. Battling days on end, the colossi try to one up each other through the power of speech.
Recalling this uneventful episode of disaster, we some how beat the monster and await the return of our savior, who guides the 747s (covered in plastic degrading germs) that will take us to the Grey Havens.
-vi
~ZZ
This log was retrieved from an Fedora machine running MS word under wine RC2. It was noted to not be open until four years time. The terminal reads " I am who I am because of who we all are". Posthumously a script reads "Emacs 4ever, bitches!"
... drink and derive.
Well, anyone who reads SlashDot over the Memorial Day weekend deserves this video. :-)
Actually, I found this pretty funny. Is the average slashdot reader so young as to not recognize this is Gloria Gaynor's disco song "I Will Survive"?
First came the haters (to the discussion). Then came the nerdcore (more appreciative). Then came the hater haters. I just can't stop watching this discussion - it's textbook. Nerdcore FTW.
I always thought of The Eagles' "Take It To The Limit" (one more time) as The Calculus Song.
My high school calculus teacher was always saying that.
-- Alastair
Agreed. Is there a way to block this "idle" section? The "Configuring Slashdot's Homepage" page doesn't list it in the "Customize Stories on the Homepage" bit.
is really the last straw for you, well....
SEE YA
Seriously, wtf bothers you so much about this that you can't have a laugh? Last I checked a bunch of nerds are responsible for the majority of good comedy over the last 20 years, but somehow you lot made poopypants and are screaming for mommy to change your diapers...
This should be featured on "Big Bang Theory".
Fuck you if you geek jerk-offs can't take a joke.
Try integrating the school system! ;^)
--
Toro
Oh come now, at least it was better than the new Indiana Jones movie and that made the front page.
I don't know, I could see a niche for this, especially now that FarkTV has bit the dust.
It's always nice to have a place to go on the internet when I need to see something totally mediocre, get my daily dose of unadulterated contempt and loathing, or just want to be mean myself.
Innovation makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old regime... -- Machiavelli
"Lighten up, Francis".
Well if there's one thing that's been constant about slashdot over the years, it's that people love to whine about the stories. They still read them and comment of course.
We live, as we dream -- alone....
Thanks!
That did it. FWIW, It wasn't a *clean* install of F9, so it's not unimaginable something got lost in the upgrade, but it still would have been nice if Anaconda had figured it out... ( or maybe it was the preupgrade-er-er...
Technology -- No Place For Wimps! Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia Chatroom -- http://www.wemissjerry.org
im a web developer, also a sysadmin, one of the things you call as 'all in one'. i come to slashdot for serious stuff. i laugh at many comments that are sprinkled within, true, but for relaxation and fun, i have to go to a profession forum. a SINGLE section, the 'lounge' section meets my online watercooler needs. because i dont have it on slashdot.
it would be good to have some place to chill out in slashdot. therefore i would be able to get everything related to internet and geekdom and tech and what goddamn culture we have going on the net, in one place.
i see the exaggerated reactions against this idle thing as a bit overblown. that video may or may not have place on the main page, however idle definitely should be a an accessible part of slashdot. yes. i want to see funny geeky stuff in some insert, some box or whatever here, on slashdot.
so then get a hold on yerselves and start acting sensible. propose ways in how idle thing can be made a part of slashdot and enrich whatever we have here, instead of ranting like an elitist.
Read radical news here
Digg is alright... just not in my Slashdot. When I wish to read Digg, I will.
Tautologies, they are what they are.
...and the old hands who like to try to make points without having one first, allowing others to bandwagon with them to form some kind of Voltron bahamut of pointlessnessity, attempting to negate valid arguments with phrases like "whine", "tin-foil hat", and commenting on UINs (leave it to nerds to take pride in some small). It's a lot easier to cut someone else down than to have an original thought of your own, of course.
You've been here long enough to know that it's user-generated stories and comments, so you should be happy that the process moves on, regardless of how insipid you pretend it is.
Going thru the previous comments no one has mentioned the obvious - this is a CmdrTaco post, so whiners may STFU and start their own site, eh? There is and ought to be a different standard.
I'm a casual Slashdot reader. I usually just check the front page on Slashdot. This is the first time that I've heard about the Idle section.
If it has funny stuff like this, I'm there.
I think that, once in a blue moon, putting something on the front page from other sections that don't normally make it there is a good thing.
But you gotta love geeks dancing! It's so rare to see and they seem to get so much joy out of it. (post from a geekwatcher)
OK, OK, just get over yourselves. This was awesome.
The dancing was terrible, the singing was atrocious, and the song was totally butchered.
In other words, it was great for its intent: a good laugh. And, having never taken Calculus in college, I finally learned which long vowel to use when pronouncing Leibniz's name. That's gotta be good for something.
To the folks who had the spare time on their hands to do this, I thank you. Its just the sort of thing I'd like to do, if I had that sort of spare time on my hands.
-x
For those who don't know, Idle has been around for a few months now, though I know of no official announcement. This tells me that Slashdot is trying to throw it in under the radar, for whatever reason.
Please, Slashdot, drop this. This isn't Fark, this isn't Digg, this isn't StumbleUpon. While I don't hate those sites, this kind of stuff belongs there. Slashdot is about "hard" news (with an editorial bias) and science/tech industry, not "LOL THATS FUNNAYE". Not to say we can't have humor, but it should be the tongue-in-cheek or irony kind.
One good thing Idle does have-- the comment bar. Compared to the comment bar on regular Slashdot entries, this is light years ahead. It's much smoother, it doesn't take up a large amount of space on the left side (making some comments look longer than they really are), and overall is just cleaner.
Take that, go back o the old "Reply to This|Parent" stripe (instead of those unnecessarily large buttons), and you'll be doing Slashdot a great service.
But drop Idle first. Seriously, it's completely worthless. I'm really glad I'm not paying for this shit.
Here is a video of the original song. which was first released in 1978
... is 2 seconds too long.
What really amuses me is that this guy, rather than just taking two seconds to ignore the article, spent two minutes two type something stupider.
By the way, people: If you didn't think that video was really funny, you're not really nerds. Anyone with a lower ID number is welcome to disagree with me.
Slashdot has always been about fun nerdy stuff. Thanks, CmdrTaco, for not taking yourself too seriously.
...the rest of us should not have the option to filter it out?
How about the option to at least not see the thumbnail image that went with it; i.e. respecting my existing preferences NOT to see the stupid story images (borg Bill gets old quickly)
btw, why am I typing this in a form that seems squeeeeeeeezed together horizontally? (Firefox, thankyouverymuch)
It's official. After nearly 10 years, Slashdot is no longer my homepage. Goodbye Slashdot, hello reddit. The site hasn't been the same for me since the new comment system.
compared to these two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ooa8nHKPZ5k http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cAs1YBELmA&feature=related
I thought it was funny, but not really funny. I'm only posting this because I have a lower ID than you.
He who knows not and knows he knows not is a wise man. He who knows not and knows not he knows not is a fool.
Come, friend, let us lament the integration of nerd culture with that part of the bell curve where dy/dx is a small positive value.
I hate printers.
Out of seriousness, it's very similar to another I Will Derive that was done for a long-ago ARML song contest. It had great snipplets that went something like "the expansion of sine alpha plus e to the pi... / But I am resolute / to Lagrange and substitute / ...carry the psi... / what's the square root of minus i!? / I will derive!".
But this one was shorter (to fit within a time limit of a minute or half a minute). It was passed down to me through my county's math team coach for NYSML and ARML. Too bad, it's probably been lost to the ages...unless someone here happens to remember or it? *hopeful*
This "nerd" moniker is just a lighthearted way to describe the site's content, and not a damn religion or species. I'm sick of everyone creating a specific "nerd" classification that every reader of Slashdot must be part of otherwise they have no right to an opinion. Humans are more complex and varied than that. There is no such think as a "true nerd", so go shove it.
I have a computer science degree, been reading slashdot since the mid-90s, and run an internet company - I have several characteristics that you would probably call "nerdy", but I do not believe myself to be a "nerd". I also have a hot girlfriend, go out partying regularly, play sports, have lots of friends that know nothing of tech.
By the way this video is stupid as hell.
LS
There is a fine line between being a cultivated citizen and being someone else's crop. - A. J. Patrick Liszkie
I stopped reading at "Sheeple".
Where was the funny part? There were no brilliant math jokes that only math nerds would get. If you were forced to take pre-calc in high school, you would get the jokes.
OK, your comment wasn't orders of magnitude more funny than the video, but I just can't believe no one modded you Funny rather than Insightful (although I admit that your post is funny because of the contrast between the sarcastic insight vs. the sudden switchover to vulgarity at the end).
Anyway, personally I found your post funnier than the video (which itself wasn't bad, well, at least not unintentionally bad) --- thanks!
And you think it would have been funnier if it had been made with standard MTV production values?
Sometime being bad is the point. It's called camp.
But perhaps you have to be someone who watched Batman on television as a child and later saw it as an adult in order to understand...
Listen CmdrTaco
./'s readership. We are not here to watch youtube videos. Slashdot is not, and should not bring itself down to the level of any jackass blog out there. After all, you existed long before the word 'blog' was conceived.
I love slashdot. I was a teen when I found it, and to this day I've told countless number of people that I've learned more from slashdot and its community than from all my 6 years and 2 so-called prestigious academic degrees combined.
I am hugely in debt to you for creating slashdot.
I understand the motivation behind this post, but thinking of the longer term, I'm sure you realise that this really will put a dent in
PLEASE do not ruin slashdot. Keep idle out of front page, and make it an opt-in option for anyone who wants to view it on their front page.
I trust you will act according to your instincts and convince your overlords to heed this advice.
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Can I have 3 minutes and 16 seconds of my life back? Please?
And PLEASE STOP POSTING THIS KIND OF CRAP. At least give us a 'no video' filter.
Kthx bye.
I thought Aprils Fools was over...
This shit is hilarious! What are you people so steamed about? Just because you flunked algebra and don't know who Leibnitz is does not mean these little parody bon mots suck. These people are going to rule the world, and you ought to be glad that they have a sense of humor.
Kind of like when someone says you're an ass banging faggot and you don't reply to them, right lord endup?
Well, the lyrics "But I am resolute / to Lagrange and substitute / ...carry the psi... / what's the square root of minus i!? / I will derive!" show a good deal of knowledge about math, but the song in the video this article is based on seems to be aimed more at pre-university students. Each syllable is enunciated, and the concepts are totally elementary. It may be quite the mnemonic for morons.
I'm the kind that hates to memorize lists, and life is full of them. One thing I liked to do in solving problems, particularly on exams, is to remember the reasoning involved to obtain lists or formulas. Doing so was more interesting. If I used a list or methodology for a number of instances, I wouldn't forget, but that sometimes is more time consuming than can be done when I had to learn a number of new details in a few short hours.
So, fellow slashdotters, what do you do to help yourself remember or approach a problem?
BTW, the slashdot page for this article is really messed up. There are no REPLY buttons, and when I click on the article number to reply, the buttons are still not intuitive. Finally this comment has to be entered in a little box that is narrower than its height.
Know your pads. One time pad: good for cryptography. Two timing pad: where to take your mistress.
So is this the new way to beta-test the new Chicago cluster?
I'd derive... load to the old site instead...
http://parksideninjas.com/greasemonkey/noidle.user.js
/. front page.
If you have the Greasemonkey Firefox extension installed, or use Opera userscripts, you can install this script to remove Idle stories from the
Remember "stuff that matters"?
Nope. Not anymore.
I thought the video was funny and I laughed several times.
I'm sure it's just a matter of time before idle stories can be filtered out by those who wish to.
Funny how all the nerd-boys are crying about a single idle story on the front page. It's funny. It doesn't happen often. get a grip. get a life. get a sense of humor (note, this may help with getting a girlfriend).
Ok, ok, mod me down if you want, but I actually enjoyed this video, not that I enjoy having this kind of news on /.'s frontpage but it was quite fun to watch...
The goggles!!! They do noooothing!
[cynical comment about slashdot's demise that's already been iterated about a dozen times before this]
Hello -
We are two female geeks who would like to endorse the "I Will Derive" video, and defend its nod from Slashdot. Unfortunately, due to reasons beyond our control, we cannot compose our comment at the moment.
We have read with interest ALL of the comments that have been posted thus far in this thread, and we hope that some of you will be interested in reading ours.
Thank you!