Whichever one has less muscle, and/or is less tan than the other guy is the bigger nerd. Whichever one likes Star Trek more is the bigger nerd.
I do martial arts, so I'm probably far more in shape than Joe Average Nerd. Also I'm pretty tan. I also used to be a huge Trek fan, and I'm still a huge Tolkien fan (even up to knowing bits of Elvish languages, and various family trees.. my bulletin board here has my name written in Tengwar on it, as well as my name translated via etymology into Quenya and then written in Tengwar. However, I'm also a bit of a linguistics geek for real languages too, so it's not completely useless...).
So, which cancels what out? Oh, also I have a serious girlfriend. But I post to Slashdot and have excellent karma.;)
Trying to classify people that way is stupid. Everyone's going to have different characteristics. Saying, "oh, this makes you a bigger nerd" or whatever doesn't mean anything. It's all about what your own self image is.
And then, if your DM says that, you try to prove your nerdiness by naming your character after an obscure Tolkien character, and hope that the DM doesn't recognize it.:)
Actually it's just that a different studio has the rights to the Hobbit movie, and is reluctant to give them up to New Line.
Chris Tolkien's out of the picture as far as a Hobbit movie goes. JRR sold the rights to Hobbit and LOTR movies a long time ago (or else Chris wouldn't have even let LOTR get made).
If they ever want a Silmarillion movie, then they have to deal with Christopher.
He was talking about the Foundation trilogy written by people who are not Isaac Asimov.
If you're saying that *that* Foundation trilogy is the best installment of Science Fiction ever, then I think you're far more likely to be trolling than the parent.
I've seen a couple people saying "what happened to the playfulness of words in hacker culture", sometimes with references to words like "boxen".
I don't mind "boxen". I usually do mind "virii". The difference is intent. No one *really* thinks that the plural of "box" is "boxen", it's just used for fun. However, too many people sadly think "virii" is the real plural of "virus".
Word playfulness is fine. Ignorance is annoying.
(The same thing applys [ha! It's a joke, son.] to spelling errors. An obvious typo, like, say, "applyed", is fine. When people really think that the contraction of "you are" is "your", then it's annoying.)
Seriously. I've heard people say that live show traders use FLAC, but every show I've ever downloaded, and every show I've ever seen available, has been in SHN.
Except for one that was in some obscure format that I searched around to find an extractor, and then put into SHN. Even that wasn't FLAC, it was "mkw" or "mwk" or something, I don't remember exactly.
I think California is way overdue to be falling into the ocean.
On the plus side, reading responses to this article has probably increased my foes list by 1/3 or something. We may not be able to get (-1, Stupid) moderations, but being able to put stupid people on my foes list is even better, since I never have to read their stupidity again. And while the majority of Slashdotters were sane in this article, we did get quite a few idiots responding. (Yes, anyone defending this is an idiot. Stuff it.)
thank you. people mixing up "i.e." and "e.g." pisses me off to no end. until now I'd never seen someone throw "aka" in there as well, but i guess the grandparent poster was especially stupid.
the only thing worse than mixing up i.e. and e.g. is when someone uses "begs the question" incorrectly. IT IS *NOT* THE SAME AS "raises the question".
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Why is that sad?
I think its appropriate that people look to the best of breed among Open Source, Free, and even proprietary software licenses.
Excactly, so why would they look to the GPL?
thank you. just what i was thinking.
people say that they outgrow high school, but they really don't.
heh, yes. LOTR may be cool now, but I'll still have Rush to keep me geeky.
Whichever one has less muscle, and/or is less tan than the other guy is the bigger nerd. Whichever one likes Star Trek more is the bigger nerd.
;)
I do martial arts, so I'm probably far more in shape than Joe Average Nerd. Also I'm pretty tan. I also used to be a huge Trek fan, and I'm still a huge Tolkien fan (even up to knowing bits of Elvish languages, and various family trees.. my bulletin board here has my name written in Tengwar on it, as well as my name translated via etymology into Quenya and then written in Tengwar. However, I'm also a bit of a linguistics geek for real languages too, so it's not completely useless...).
So, which cancels what out? Oh, also I have a serious girlfriend. But I post to Slashdot and have excellent karma.
Trying to classify people that way is stupid. Everyone's going to have different characteristics. Saying, "oh, this makes you a bigger nerd" or whatever doesn't mean anything. It's all about what your own self image is.
it's still not cool to watch anime. sorry.
And then, if your DM says that, you try to prove your nerdiness by naming your character after an obscure Tolkien character, and hope that the DM doesn't recognize it. :)
heh, excellent. i'll have to remember that.
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Didn't expect that..
Actually it's just that a different studio has the rights to the Hobbit movie, and is reluctant to give them up to New Line.
Chris Tolkien's out of the picture as far as a Hobbit movie goes. JRR sold the rights to Hobbit and LOTR movies a long time ago (or else Chris wouldn't have even let LOTR get made).
If they ever want a Silmarillion movie, then they have to deal with Christopher.
Forget metamphors. In Morgan Freeman's
Along Came A Spider
stenography is used extensivly. By the Bad guy and by kids at school.
You know, I think every kid in school learns stenography. Not sure what this has to do with an article about steganography though.
...and while they were on the phone, they wanted your joke back, too.
I hate to tell *you* this, but no one in their right mind would want to live in the NY metro area.
I suppose criminals, by definition, aren't really in their right mind, though, so maybe there's a point.
Are you implying that there's something *wrong* with all-Rush mix tapes?
Um, did you *read* the parent post?
He was talking about the Foundation trilogy written by people who are not Isaac Asimov.
If you're saying that *that* Foundation trilogy is the best installment of Science Fiction ever, then I think you're far more likely to be trolling than the parent.
No, the reason I pick Best Buy vs Circuit City or whatever is physical location.
Online retailers are all in the same physical place.
Well, you'd have to sell all those nickles to an aviary or something. *Then* you wouldn't be broke.
Unless of course you meant "nickel".
the King returns to Gondor.
Of course, you could read the books like I did 20 years ago...
Actually, I think you could just read the title, there.
I've sat and listened to Rage Against The Machine for a good 10 hours straight before.
I'm sorry. I would have thought that that would fall under "cruel and unusual". You may be able to sue whoever made you do that.
I've seen a couple people saying "what happened to the playfulness of words in hacker culture", sometimes with references to words like "boxen".
I don't mind "boxen". I usually do mind "virii". The difference is intent. No one *really* thinks that the plural of "box" is "boxen", it's just used for fun. However, too many people sadly think "virii" is the real plural of "virus".
Word playfulness is fine. Ignorance is annoying.
(The same thing applys [ha! It's a joke, son.] to spelling errors. An obvious typo, like, say, "applyed", is fine. When people really think that the contraction of "you are" is "your", then it's annoying.)
Seriously. I've heard people say that live show traders use FLAC, but every show I've ever downloaded, and every show I've ever seen available, has been in SHN.
Except for one that was in some obscure format that I searched around to find an extractor, and then put into SHN. Even that wasn't FLAC, it was "mkw" or "mwk" or something, I don't remember exactly.
Temperature of equipment rooms: 76 degrees
... 76C, 76F or 76K? :)
...
Well that's specific
If it's farenhite, then that's quite cool. If it's celcius then holy crap that's hot.
If it's kelvin then I think we've found the new overclocking kings
It's already been pointed out that it's F, but Kelvin isn't measured in degrees anyway. It's just Kelvin. [/even more nitpicky]
except of course, he doesn't. the books have been out for 50 years, maybe you should try reading them.
I think California is way overdue to be falling into the ocean.
On the plus side, reading responses to this article has probably increased my foes list by 1/3 or something. We may not be able to get (-1, Stupid) moderations, but being able to put stupid people on my foes list is even better, since I never have to read their stupidity again. And while the majority of Slashdotters were sane in this article, we did get quite a few idiots responding. (Yes, anyone defending this is an idiot. Stuff it.)
thank you. people mixing up "i.e." and "e.g." pisses me off to no end. until now I'd never seen someone throw "aka" in there as well, but i guess the grandparent poster was especially stupid.
the only thing worse than mixing up i.e. and e.g. is when someone uses "begs the question" incorrectly. IT IS *NOT* THE SAME AS "raises the question".
ok, that's all.
I prefer, "That server went down faster than a cheerleader on prom night", but same idea. ;)