...you took to post this inane question you could have driven down to your local *mart and purchased a Nintendo Wii, Playstation 1,2,3, Xbox, or a SNES.
My advice - go buy a console if you want to have the most authentic "console-like" experience.
The summary mentions "microwave heating". The article refers to microwave hearing.
I don't think a conventional microwave oven is something that the Pentagon would have in a top secret document.
Rather than being informed about the world you'd rather hear about how British researchers have proved the existence of anti-matter using laser beams of high intensity, focused into Honey Nut Cheerios?
This is a helluva lot better than most of the psuedo-science crap that gets posted on/. far too often. Some weeks this place reads more like the The Enquirer Nerds.
You're correct! O3 can be generated by electrical discharge. Have you ever wondered why there is a sweet smell in the air after a spring thunderstorm? It's because the lightning has created O3 in the air!
I clicked this article first this morning because it relates to an issue that I'm dealing with at my university. Recently I was sent an email informing me that I am suspected of self-plagiarism. The penalty ranging from failing the assignment, course, warnings, to expulsion. The situation was that I was repeating an online course for our co-op program. The question asked me something directly from the previous term and I answered with my old answer because I received a decent mark. The answer was one paragraph long (5-7 lines) answering "What do you think about an problem statement?". Not exactly a breadth of opportunity in content matter there.
So I sent them an email explaining my position and arguing that this doesn't fit the policy of plagiarism because it does not cover a major portion of my prior assignment (explicitly stated in the policy). 5-7 lines out of a 11 page document.
Essentially my defense was not to argue about the principle of the matter because doing that in a bureaucracy is about as useful as trying to tear down a wall with a feather. So instead I tried to show how my case does not apply.
Personally I see the entire title self-plagiarism to be complete bullshit. It is my own work, how on earth could I be held liable for copying it. The definition of plagiarism makes this term an oxymoron. Yet, I am still being investigated. Thoughts?
Sources
Jumphard, M J. "A Torrid Tale of Plagiarizing Paleontologists." Slashdot. 1 Feb. 2008.
How do you see enforcing the law by stopping people from stealing copyrighted goods as controlling and censoring the internet. Obsolete publications models? If you want, there are plenty of high-tech ways to download your music per song and pay for it as well.
Sharing? You aren't sharing, you are leeching. If it was sharing you'd be creating movies or music to put up there and making $0 for it as a living. Piss off, sharing.
Well you don't actually know what drivers I needed do you? All I'm saying: it was a hassle. Setting up a Windows box took a small percentage of the time.
Agreed! For the average user Ubuntu is about as easy to get up and running as building a skyscraper with toenail clippings.
I'm no slouch when it comes to unix or programming, but I had to find all sorts of code repositories, libraries, make files, and freakin' drivers just to get my PC up and running.
You're lucky the salesperson you were dealing with was competent.
Here in Canada we deal with people who can't make change for $5 nevermind the logical finanglery of half price tricks.
I can see the conversation going more like this:
"$15 please"
"But it says it's half price"
"No, it's only half price when bought with something else"
"Oh... so if I buy two of these then I get them both for less than the price of just one of them?"
(Not realising the problem) "...no... you need two things to be half off of one of the things... I think... half...off..." (Scrambles for the supervisor's phone extension)
by refusing to accommodate a non-standards compliant browser.
As a web-dev I'm getting near the point of making webpages that look great in Firefox and other standards compliant browsers and only ensuring that the basic functionality works in IE. If things look like my dog's breakfast in IE, placing a handy link to www.getfirefox.com at the bottom of the page for viewers who want to view the site properly. Perhaps being even more vicious by writing javascript to blank out the entire page if the user is using IE.
The problem with going ahead with this Plan of Action is that it's then, me, the developer who looks like crap. It seems web developers are stuck between a rock and a hard place.
a) Don't support IE and have your pages render improperly for a fair whack of your user base, which makes you look like a bad designer or...
b) Spend countless hours fixing, tweaking, and using the myriad of IE hacks to make pages look half decent.
Usually I don't have a problem with Microsoft - hey, if they make a craptastic OS: I don't have to buy it. But when it comes to being a web developer they cause me serious headaches! I think the web development community should be up in arms about IE8.
Mod adolf (parent) up. Seriously - the guy without the enter key doesn't know what he's talking about at all. Serial ports? Disabling DHCP? Enter-key guy read "Networks for Dummies circa 1980" and thinks he knows what he's talking about.
Oh no! All local networks have a 192.168.0.1 IP address! OMG the internet is going to be haxed! He clearly doesn't have the first clue about local DHCP versus WAN IP addresses. How about he prints this off and reads it.
As far as the article goes I am not certain that external websites change my routers HOSTS (DNS) table without directly logging into the router. It seems suspect that if I set a WEP and a strong password on my router, some hosted image could execute commands on my router.
"grep -i 'single white female'/usr2/home/women/*"
So what are you saying, women can only be in the home? You can't be a working woman? Women shouldn't be paid? Women are inferior?
You should be ashamed.
With airplanes being quite fearful to some, I have a feeling a fear-smell-based terrorist sensor at airports would give off quite a few false-positives.
Additionally, do you think we'll soon start seeing "Fear Pheromones: If you can't make women flock to you, at least make 'em flee from you!" instead of the usual "Horny Bastard Pheromones" ads I see on every second site?
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...you took to post this inane question you could have driven down to your local *mart and purchased a Nintendo Wii, Playstation 1,2,3, Xbox, or a SNES.
My advice - go buy a console if you want to have the most authentic "console-like" experience.
...don't think that Sequoias should be voting in the first place.
One word: $
Madness?
This.
Is.
Sparta!!
The summary mentions "microwave heating". The article refers to microwave hearing.
I don't think a conventional microwave oven is something that the Pentagon would have in a top secret document.
Rather than being informed about the world you'd rather hear about how British researchers have proved the existence of anti-matter using laser beams of high intensity, focused into Honey Nut Cheerios?
/. far too often. Some weeks this place reads more like the The Enquirer Nerds.
This is a helluva lot better than most of the psuedo-science crap that gets posted on
I disagree.
;)
I don't think it's the size of the joystick that counts - it's how many frags you can get with it
You're correct! O3 can be generated by electrical discharge. Have you ever wondered why there is a sweet smell in the air after a spring thunderstorm? It's because the lightning has created O3 in the air!
Being struck down by Zeus never smelled so good!
Ba dum psh!
The writers must still be on strike I see.
Hah! Your sig got me! Clever work.
I clicked this article first this morning because it relates to an issue that I'm dealing with at my university. Recently I was sent an email informing me that I am suspected of self-plagiarism. The penalty ranging from failing the assignment, course, warnings, to expulsion. The situation was that I was repeating an online course for our co-op program. The question asked me something directly from the previous term and I answered with my old answer because I received a decent mark. The answer was one paragraph long (5-7 lines) answering "What do you think about an problem statement?". Not exactly a breadth of opportunity in content matter there.
So I sent them an email explaining my position and arguing that this doesn't fit the policy of plagiarism because it does not cover a major portion of my prior assignment (explicitly stated in the policy). 5-7 lines out of a 11 page document.
Essentially my defense was not to argue about the principle of the matter because doing that in a bureaucracy is about as useful as trying to tear down a wall with a feather. So instead I tried to show how my case does not apply.
Personally I see the entire title self-plagiarism to be complete bullshit. It is my own work, how on earth could I be held liable for copying it. The definition of plagiarism makes this term an oxymoron. Yet, I am still being investigated. Thoughts?
Sources
Jumphard, M J. "A Torrid Tale of Plagiarizing Paleontologists." Slashdot. 1 Feb. 2008.
How do you see enforcing the law by stopping people from stealing copyrighted goods as controlling and censoring the internet. Obsolete publications models? If you want, there are plenty of high-tech ways to download your music per song and pay for it as well.
Sharing? You aren't sharing, you are leeching. If it was sharing you'd be creating movies or music to put up there and making $0 for it as a living. Piss off, sharing.
Ok preacher. Go have a cookie.
Well you don't actually know what drivers I needed do you? All I'm saying: it was a hassle. Setting up a Windows box took a small percentage of the time.
Thanks for coming out.
Agreed! For the average user Ubuntu is about as easy to get up and running as building a skyscraper with toenail clippings.
I'm no slouch when it comes to unix or programming, but I had to find all sorts of code repositories, libraries, make files, and freakin' drivers just to get my PC up and running.
More like Nobuntu round here anymore.
Kentucky Fried Cytosine?
You're lucky the salesperson you were dealing with was competent.
Here in Canada we deal with people who can't make change for $5 nevermind the logical finanglery of half price tricks.
I can see the conversation going more like this:
"$15 please"
"But it says it's half price"
"No, it's only half price when bought with something else"
"Oh... so if I buy two of these then I get them both for less than the price of just one of them?"
(Not realising the problem) "...no... you need two things to be half off of one of the things... I think... half...off..." (Scrambles for the supervisor's phone extension)
by refusing to accommodate a non-standards compliant browser.
As a web-dev I'm getting near the point of making webpages that look great in Firefox and other standards compliant browsers and only ensuring that the basic functionality works in IE. If things look like my dog's breakfast in IE, placing a handy link to www.getfirefox.com at the bottom of the page for viewers who want to view the site properly. Perhaps being even more vicious by writing javascript to blank out the entire page if the user is using IE.
The problem with going ahead with this Plan of Action is that it's then, me, the developer who looks like crap. It seems web developers are stuck between a rock and a hard place.
a) Don't support IE and have your pages render improperly for a fair whack of your user base, which makes you look like a bad designer or...
b) Spend countless hours fixing, tweaking, and using the myriad of IE hacks to make pages look half decent.
Usually I don't have a problem with Microsoft - hey, if they make a craptastic OS: I don't have to buy it. But when it comes to being a web developer they cause me serious headaches! I think the web development community should be up in arms about IE8.
Mod adolf (parent) up. Seriously - the guy without the enter key doesn't know what he's talking about at all. Serial ports? Disabling DHCP? Enter-key guy read "Networks for Dummies circa 1980" and thinks he knows what he's talking about.
Oh no! All local networks have a 192.168.0.1 IP address! OMG the internet is going to be haxed! He clearly doesn't have the first clue about local DHCP versus WAN IP addresses. How about he prints this off and reads it.
As far as the article goes I am not certain that external websites change my routers HOSTS (DNS) table without directly logging into the router. It seems suspect that if I set a WEP and a strong password on my router, some hosted image could execute commands on my router.
Or to not show up at all!
Instead you now look around in your home ;)
"grep -i 'single white female' /usr2/home/women/*"
So what are you saying, women can only be in the home? You can't be a working woman? Women shouldn't be paid? Women are inferior?
You should be ashamed.
With airplanes being quite fearful to some, I have a feeling a fear-smell-based terrorist sensor at airports would give off quite a few false-positives.
Additionally, do you think we'll soon start seeing "Fear Pheromones: If you can't make women flock to you, at least make 'em flee from you!" instead of the usual "Horny Bastard Pheromones" ads I see on every second site?
The machines have turned! Deep Blue murdered him in his sleep! Checkmate.
Wow - thanks, Mr. Comedy, for your valid input!