My reading went like this: GGP: Don't cut military spending, I might lose my job. GP: Why work for the DoD, they don't do anything useful. Me: Sure they do, look at . You: Vaguely related note about bringing soldiers home. Me: Abuse. Further commentary on what the track of the conversation was.
In this episode of "Not making a fool of yourself on/." we will be examining the important process of reading the post you are responding to. In this case, the post you were responding to was in turn responding to a post that stated that nothing good ever came from military spending. My post refuted that. Your post was only vaguely related to my post, and probably should have gone somewhere else.
This has been another episode of "Not making a fool of yourself on/."
That's right, military spending has never led to useful things for consumers!
Except the internet. And a bunch of kevlar products, like canoes. You probably won't accept better rifles for hunters as a benefit. There are plenty of improvements in camping and hiking gear for outdoor enthusiasts. Probably some vehicle research, to keep people from being killed when your car runs into something. All sorts of stuff trickles down from military R&D.
Yeah, and they have done exactly that. Previously, they were also offering a service where you could download OpenOffice directly from them without it counting against your time or bandwidth usage or whatever they use as the meter. Now they don't. If you'd like to download OpenOffice from OpenOffice.org, you can do that just as you would if you were downloading anything else.
Can't be. The power led clearly indicates sleep mode by changing to a dim white light. The monitor is still on, it is the computer which has been turned off.
Ex post facto doesn't matter any more. Look at the Sex Offender Registry, and tell me that it doesn't constitute an additional punishment. Of course, a vote against the unconstitutional Sex Offender Registry is a vote for pedophilia, so it's here to stay.
The squad car camera won't make it to YouTube. While the courts may see the whole thing, and decide it wasn't abuse, the cop will still be tried in the court of public opinion, and lose. Even if they win, some dissenting jurors might send ticking packages.
This is not necessarily a computer class. We had computer related assignments all the time in English classes when I was in high school. We even did research projects where we were expected to go online. While many Slashdotters pride themselves on skill with both grammar and computers, many English teachers do not boast any sort of ability with computers past typing.
Infrared can still burn out retinas. At similar intensities, it's even more likely to do so than visible light, because your pupils won't shrink. Not that that's an issue when you're being flash-blinded anyway...
Ok, so the internet started as a flexible communications channel for the military. Kevlar is being used for things like canoes. Consumers don't need 6 ton chemical lasers for their barbecue, and scientific institutions could probably have gotten these before if they needed them. Really, I'm all for military R&D because so much of it does trickle down, but I'm pretty sure this isn't going to.
His sentence structure was fine. There's a gerund form of 'to be' and a gerund form of 'to understand'. It's grammatically identical to if he had said "... something that could be explained by us being more understanding of our current science." Of course, he's still wrong, but the grammar was fine.
I'm just wondering why everyone else's desktops get to be cooler than mine. Geekiest thing I've got is a red Swingline stapler. Why do they get synchrotrons?
If they make their living off of it, it has ceased to be just a game for them. I'm not a professional poker player. To me, poker is a game. To them, poker is a source of income, maybe the primary source of income.
Now, I didn't see anyone claiming that SL was a business environment for Linden Labs. For them, it's clearly just a product. But it is being used as a business environment by many of the people in it. My analogy: Second Life is like an apartment building. Linden Labs is the landlord. But this apartment building has hundreds of people using apartments as office space, and they'd appreciate it if the landlord would fix that broken window that people could use to sneak in.
So... you're claiming that what he should be doing is changing how Windows manages memory, and you'd be happy to sit there until he figures it out?
Some things the IT guy isn't going to be fixing. If his suggestion allows you to go on with your workday, that's close enough to 'fixed' for the powers that be.
I seem to remember that the World Wrestling Federation were the ones who were trying to trademark WWF, and the World Wildlife Fund was resisting it. They switched to WWE because no one else was using that one.
Kind of like why Intel switched to Pentium instead of using 586.
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I deserved that.
My reading went like this:
GGP: Don't cut military spending, I might lose my job.
GP: Why work for the DoD, they don't do anything useful.
Me: Sure they do, look at .
You: Vaguely related note about bringing soldiers home.
Me: Abuse.
Further commentary on what the track of the conversation was.
In this episode of "Not making a fool of yourself on /." we will be examining the important process of reading the post you are responding to. In this case, the post you were responding to was in turn responding to a post that stated that nothing good ever came from military spending. My post refuted that. Your post was only vaguely related to my post, and probably should have gone somewhere else.
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This has been another episode of "Not making a fool of yourself on
That's right, military spending has never led to useful things for consumers!
Except the internet. And a bunch of kevlar products, like canoes. You probably won't accept better rifles for hunters as a benefit. There are plenty of improvements in camping and hiking gear for outdoor enthusiasts. Probably some vehicle research, to keep people from being killed when your car runs into something. All sorts of stuff trickles down from military R&D.
Quick, don't jump off a bridge!
Dark matter? ::Waits for all the people who haven't read His Dark Materials to mod him down.::
Yeah, and they have done exactly that. Previously, they were also offering a service where you could download OpenOffice directly from them without it counting against your time or bandwidth usage or whatever they use as the meter. Now they don't. If you'd like to download OpenOffice from OpenOffice.org, you can do that just as you would if you were downloading anything else.
The government isn't spending the dollars to save it, it's just allowing other people to throw good money after bad if they really want to.
If someone thinks they could do something with it, why not let them buy it?
That should be 'its interests.', not 'it's intrests.' Even trolls are not immune to spelling/grammar nazis.
Can't be. The power led clearly indicates sleep mode by changing to a dim white light. The monitor is still on, it is the computer which has been turned off.
Look on the even brighter side: maybe the galactic operator is using Windows, and Ctrl-C will just copy our universe.
Ex post facto doesn't matter any more. Look at the Sex Offender Registry, and tell me that it doesn't constitute an additional punishment. Of course, a vote against the unconstitutional Sex Offender Registry is a vote for pedophilia, so it's here to stay.
The squad car camera won't make it to YouTube. While the courts may see the whole thing, and decide it wasn't abuse, the cop will still be tried in the court of public opinion, and lose. Even if they win, some dissenting jurors might send ticking packages.
Already been shown to be a hoax, but...
This is not necessarily a computer class. We had computer related assignments all the time in English classes when I was in high school. We even did research projects where we were expected to go online. While many Slashdotters pride themselves on skill with both grammar and computers, many English teachers do not boast any sort of ability with computers past typing.
Infrared can still burn out retinas. At similar intensities, it's even more likely to do so than visible light, because your pupils won't shrink. Not that that's an issue when you're being flash-blinded anyway...
Ok, so the internet started as a flexible communications channel for the military. Kevlar is being used for things like canoes. Consumers don't need 6 ton chemical lasers for their barbecue, and scientific institutions could probably have gotten these before if they needed them. Really, I'm all for military R&D because so much of it does trickle down, but I'm pretty sure this isn't going to.
His sentence structure was fine. There's a gerund form of 'to be' and a gerund form of 'to understand'. It's grammatically identical to if he had said "... something that could be explained by us being more understanding of our current science." Of course, he's still wrong, but the grammar was fine.
That's the skillset used by postal workers, not greeters.
Yeah, but the last woot-off didn't have the Bag of Crap it was supposed to. Disappointment.
I'm just wondering why everyone else's desktops get to be cooler than mine. Geekiest thing I've got is a red Swingline stapler. Why do they get synchrotrons?
If they make their living off of it, it has ceased to be just a game for them. I'm not a professional poker player. To me, poker is a game. To them, poker is a source of income, maybe the primary source of income.
Now, I didn't see anyone claiming that SL was a business environment for Linden Labs. For them, it's clearly just a product. But it is being used as a business environment by many of the people in it. My analogy: Second Life is like an apartment building. Linden Labs is the landlord. But this apartment building has hundreds of people using apartments as office space, and they'd appreciate it if the landlord would fix that broken window that people could use to sneak in.
Best guess is that a laptop computer was chewed by her pets, likely small dogs.
So... you're claiming that what he should be doing is changing how Windows manages memory, and you'd be happy to sit there until he figures it out?
Some things the IT guy isn't going to be fixing. If his suggestion allows you to go on with your workday, that's close enough to 'fixed' for the powers that be.
I realize that, I meant in the more general "they couldn't keep anyone else from using it." Like the World Wrestling Federation.
I seem to remember that the World Wrestling Federation were the ones who were trying to trademark WWF, and the World Wildlife Fund was resisting it. They switched to WWE because no one else was using that one.
Kind of like why Intel switched to Pentium instead of using 586.