Usenet was my first encounter with electronic forum - questions asked and answered, flame wars, trolls, kooks, some grass-roots projects, etc.
I remember the flame war about people's sig. Some dudes had this gigantic ASCII art sig files, and people were complaining about one-line posts with 20-line sigs, how the bandwidth were wasted, etc.
A trick to have one's question answered rather than ignored: Post the question, and from a second account, post a completely bogus answer with extra dose of condescension. People are so eager to pounce on the bogus answer with full-on indignation.
Look up one-way hashing algorithm. The hash (encrypted password) does not contain all the info of the clear password, so you can't get the password out of the hash. It's a feature.
"...But 'our research [now] suggests that this view of sauropods is simply incorrect, based on everything we know about living animals,' he said."
Maybe they should have based it on what they know about dead animals, eh? Cuz all them dinos are dead, ain't it. I don't think these "researchers" are mucho bright.
"I could have composed instead a tedious, but germane post on Shannon's first law: concision is a function of preconception. It's a rare breed of programmer who thrives in a language which provides succinct expression of thoughts unlike the ones you already have."
"In other words, in the late 1980s, the strength of support for democracy in Eastern Europe was 50 times the strength in China.
I admire the Eastern Europeans. "
No offense to Easter Europeans, but you might as well admire monkeys.
Of course Eastern Europeans wanted to be like their Western neighbors - not only were they much wealthier and freer, they shared much the history and culture, and were just across the borders.
There is this software mentioned in Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently book - name escapes me, "Reason?" - that, given the desired course of action, it spits out persuasive rational for the course, step-by-step. You tell it what you really want to do, and it tells you why it's perfectly logical and sensible to do so.
It's like the whole finance industry OD'ed on such software, and they called it "quants".
Btw, Tim, this doesn't belong under the heading "science".
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Yeah, might as well, right? I mean, like, what're you gonna do, eh.
You shouldn't worry. Shut up and get a life.
Usenet was my first encounter with electronic forum - questions asked and answered, flame wars, trolls, kooks, some grass-roots projects, etc.
I remember the flame war about people's sig. Some dudes had this gigantic ASCII art sig files, and people were complaining about one-line posts with 20-line sigs, how the bandwidth were wasted, etc.
A trick to have one's question answered rather than ignored: Post the question, and from a second account, post a completely bogus answer with extra dose of condescension. People are so eager to pounce on the bogus answer with full-on indignation.
Oh well. Move on.
Dude, there is that physics with calculus. Calculus, you know, math stuff? Math is hard, bro.
Which god damn bastard mod me god damn redundant? God damn moron.
Why does every one of these god damn things have to have a god damn birthday every god damn year?!
Look up one-way hashing algorithm. The hash (encrypted password) does not contain all the info of the clear password, so you can't get the password out of the hash. It's a feature.
Or maybe that's not your question?
And falling off a plane 50k ft up might hurt a little bit more than falling off a horse, but I haven't tried either so don't quote me on that.
Or is this more than that?
"1. Just took a bath. What to do with the bathwater?"
Not gonna happen.
Worthless asset ... like the gobload of Treasury notes the Chinese hold ...
Suckazz!
"We have a statistic, 70% of PhDs in Mathematics go to men and up to 30% go to women."
Up to? When 70% go to men and less than 30% go to women, who (what?) get the rest?
"...But 'our research [now] suggests that this view of sauropods is simply incorrect, based on everything we know about living animals,' he said."
Maybe they should have based it on what they know about dead animals, eh? Cuz all them dinos are dead, ain't it. I don't think these "researchers" are mucho bright.
And don't forget its evil twin, the Rubik's Cube.
"I could have composed instead a tedious, but germane post on Shannon's first law: concision is a function of preconception. It's a rare breed of programmer who thrives in a language which provides succinct expression of thoughts unlike the ones you already have."
Good bit.
"In other words, in the late 1980s, the strength of support for democracy in Eastern Europe was 50 times the strength in China. I admire the Eastern Europeans. "
No offense to Easter Europeans, but you might as well admire monkeys.
Of course Eastern Europeans wanted to be like their Western neighbors - not only were they much wealthier and freer, they shared much the history and culture, and were just across the borders.
It's a fine line distinguishing us (the US) and the likes of China.
Whose fault is that? Mod down the reality: -1 overrated.
"It would be better if it was extended to support classes."
That's what Satan whispered into Strostuf(sp?)'s ear and see where that led us - 2 decades of hell and still counting...
"[PERL] It's the Swiss army chainsaw."
Those who think this is a complement, curse on your house and may the Handkerchief ensure that I never have to work with your sorry lot. :-)
There is this software mentioned in Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently book - name escapes me, "Reason?" - that, given the desired course of action, it spits out persuasive rational for the course, step-by-step. You tell it what you really want to do, and it tells you why it's perfectly logical and sensible to do so.
It's like the whole finance industry OD'ed on such software, and they called it "quants".
Btw, Tim, this doesn't belong under the heading "science".
Shut the hell up you ignint SOB.
(subliminimal message: this here post is INSITEFUL!)
Your list applies to the academia as a whole, and actually a lot more to non-science disciplines. Not that it contradicts your points, however.
Shut up you monopolist pig.