Wow, don't know how I misread that so badly and the wrong it's also.
I was going for "(its now expanding into foreign-language markets" but read as something like "( with its now expanding into 'foreign-language markets' strategy"
My bad.
Just earlier today I was thinking wtf are the editors doing missing obvious mistakes in that math article but I don't get what the furore is here.
It's supposed to be "it's" in the summary not its! How the hell did this even get tagged "its" ?
Note: Quotation marks used for clarity instead of '.
Nice to see Firefly in the headlines again.
I liked the series, got it after hearing people on slashdot continuously talking about it;) It is something totally different for a sci fi series, not that the cowboy part of it appeals to me. It's different because it's the first (that I've seen) that bothers about the little guy, the white trash, the petty crooks and FINALLY the deal with weapons in space making sound.
And there's something surreal about the way the way the ship moves, the shots of it are amazing, if you've grown up on generic Trek you'll be blown away by the way space flight is shown here. Easily it's greatest strength.
The one thing that doesn't appeal to me is the occasional crappy dialogue, the chinese swear words are inspired and great, it's the english bullshit that's weird. There's no way to explain it but as "geek humor" in a bad sense.
It's not intelligently obscure, it's unnecessary, sounds stupid and it just damn well derails a good moment. Luckily that sort of "You would do my honour a great honour by engaging me m'lady" crap is completely overshadowed by the good parts of the series. If they fixed that, Firefly would be perfect. Well, that and the overt renaissance fair style sex talk.
And yeah, comics suck. Here's to a tv series.
Long back I had one of those electronic chessboards, the kind that you can press down on to let the built in computer know the moves and play against you. One day it just stopped working so I tried changing the batteries and even the tool of the unenlightened, the dust buster but still nothing. So I open it up and something falls out....it was a cockroach that just fell out and then it became clear what happened when I saw the leg soldered to the circuit board with burn marks around it...
If you read TFA you'd know that yes it will be able to identify RST packets from whatever the heck else you're doing. An informed person doing the test would be able to tell at least Comcast brand messing up apart from your accelerators.
We will buy our convenience with innovation, not by sacrificing our freedom.
Replace 'convenience' with 'safety' and it works too:)
I look at the prices on your cell phone there in the US and go WTF. On average you get that loads cheaper than here in India but then I see all the caveats and wonder if that's really worth a lower one time price.
You get cellphones that actively work to monopolise a certain provider, here's looking at you Apple. You pay to receive sms' which I've never heard of. Hell, here you can even get a plan where you a pay an amount and get a lifetime of incoming calls and sms. You can't make calls except to good ol' 112 but no more phone bills.
Our government is pretty damn good with all this stuff actually. We've got caps on the maximum they can charge, we're even working on a law that makes it mandatory for phone companies to keep the numbers the same when you switch companies. Note: WHEN. I've been used to sim cards since forever, I didn't know things like 2 year lock-ins even existed. We have a good ol' company that sells cdma phones whose numbers you can't change but people get those for either theft prevention (where not being able to change the number is a feature) or because they're dirt cheap. No decent phone would lock you to a vendor not even the competing cheap ones.
All this regulation while there are about 5 major service providers, each competing to go below the prices of the others while keeping their services good. Then again, one of them just got bought out by Vodaphone so perhaps we'll get a taste of all that soon:)
Apparently you aren't dealing with the same users I am. The ones that paste (15) 1 meg bitmap screenshots into each email. Then send it to the global email address. Then each of those users replies to all and asks why it was sent to them. Again, with (15) 1 meg screen shots in the email. You don't have those users?
If they just dropped that much on an X-box or PS3 they could have gotten something that keeps up with the gaming pc and is actually more fun to play. probably on a larger screen and would be guaranteed against obsolescence for a couple years. You can get better results for the same cash.
Reading the post in question he comes off not so much an evolution denier as showing the best of scientific principles. 'Can you imagine you were wrong about something?' is an excellent question to ask, and he rails on religion as well in the very same post, the only thing he's against is fanatical belief in either side. Read his followup to see what I'm talking about, the guy is pretty cool.
....and this guy might just find out why places have speed limits if he's going to be driving that fast for that long with a near certainty of not running into any cops. Could find the alternative of slamming into stuff or off roads a lot less pleasant than getting a ticket.
I did that protect your email address with OCR thing at http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/ and tried solving it myself. I mistyped one of the words accidentally and noticed a second after I hit enter. It said 'Congrats you're a human!' and proceeded to give me the address.
If this guy was such a 'precious genius' why was he jobless and presumably reduced to writing worms for hackers? If he did go a college and learn his skills there this is a massive failing on the part of education system to be unable to get jobs for those qualified for them. I wouldn't be too surprised since I've seen plenty (almost all) education based on how well you can memorise and spit out something rather than innovate. The dumbass rote learners get jobs and the creative people are sunk unless they adapt. If was self-taught and he had other options to show off his abilities, like some sort of job fair or something this wouldn't have happened. It's good that someone did recognize his talents and unfortunate that he had to go to jail and fuck with a bunch of computers to do it. It's better to try to solve the cause of the problem rather than just minimise the bad effects.
Well, the point is that it looks like it. I don't think they were wrong to think it could have been a bomb, hell I even believe them when they say it looks like putty instead of paint, on the board anyway.
It is a good thing she complied and wasn't shot up but c'mon they could have been a little more understanding in their press release. They're under a lot of pressure to weed out the actual terrorists but it's not too much to ask to show a little humanity when you arrest a student. It would go a long way to not come off as drunk-on-power monsters. Especially after the (albeit hilarious) 'Don't tase me bro!' fiasco.
Could someone point out something to track down stolen cell phones? I suppose it should be a hell of a lot easier than finding laptops. And please don't tell me that the phone company can do it for you, the only time they care is if someone's kidnapped along with it. Preferably something that works on non-symbian phones also.
After losing two awesome phones I'm using the low tech method of buying such a crappy phone that no one in their right mind would steal it.
I think parents need to keep 'trying' to stop kids from watching porn, even if they believe it's 'alright' and they did it when they were younger. Good point, I think so too as long as it's not enforced to the point you beat the shit out of them if they're caught.
How would you feel if your Dad or Mum came up to you and said "Heya sonny...here's 20GB of my best stuff. There's some crazy shit in there." Imagining the most liberal possible answer to be, "But dad it's not HD, keep your low res crap"
It's just like teenage sex - I find people who's parents are like "Yeah, it's alright, go for it!" tend to be the guys who just fuck every girl they find, with no relationships and no respect. The guys who go and do it secretly, while still feeling a bit of guilt due to the fact they're parents'd kill them, still maintain some moral ground on the situation. Even though they don't feel its wrong.
Morality through hypocrisy? Sounds like a recipe for Ted Haggard. That's not a very moral ground to have. I think it has to be made clear that the objectionable part is 'no respect' and not the 'fucking every girl they can find' part, what if the girls also wanted a casual thing? Sex doesn't have to always be tied to a relationship.
If kids start doing that kinda stuff with parental support, they may start to get into the mindset that they can do whatever the hell they want, and they'll still have parental support. No, they'll find they have parents that don't make them feel ashamed of their bodies and have morality actually based on not hurting people. Cosistency is key.
Of course, you can always argue if people get used to 'going behind their parents back is alright' it could become a bad thing too, but like, I tell my parents everything almost everything I do, even if it's against their wishes - EXCEPT stuff I do with my girlfriend
Actually a very good way to deceive them by making them think you tell them everything. I do that myself.
But I think it's a balance. Putting net-nanny software and filters is a bit much, but telling kids its okay to watch porn is something else. It needs to be in between- being taught to be respectful of your partner whether it's a one night stand or a wife and not being ashamed of your body or its desires Fixed for ya.
Too bad the nature doesn't give a crap (pardon the pun) that we exist and wouldn't give a crap if we didn't. We want to continue to exist cause we all want immortality in some form or other. The race going on is one way to do that. Don't need to make it all 'ooh we do great stuff so we deserve to exist'
Seeing a lot of the choices people make in life I'd say that by saying "....but won't it be worth it in the long run?" you're saying that 90% of people won't use ODF.
Yeah of course, it's not like fat people can be interesting or cool to hang out with or anything. Let's lock 'em all up so they don't spread their fattyness around.
Now replace fat with nerd in the above sentence and see if you agree.
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Wow, don't know how I misread that so badly and the wrong it's also. I was going for "(its now expanding into foreign-language markets" but read as something like "( with its now expanding into 'foreign-language markets' strategy" My bad.
Just earlier today I was thinking wtf are the editors doing missing obvious mistakes in that math article but I don't get what the furore is here. It's supposed to be "it's" in the summary not its! How the hell did this even get tagged "its" ? Note: Quotation marks used for clarity instead of '.
Nice to see Firefly in the headlines again. I liked the series, got it after hearing people on slashdot continuously talking about it ;) It is something totally different for a sci fi series, not that the cowboy part of it appeals to me. It's different because it's the first (that I've seen) that bothers about the little guy, the white trash, the petty crooks and FINALLY the deal with weapons in space making sound.
And there's something surreal about the way the way the ship moves, the shots of it are amazing, if you've grown up on generic Trek you'll be blown away by the way space flight is shown here. Easily it's greatest strength.
The one thing that doesn't appeal to me is the occasional crappy dialogue, the chinese swear words are inspired and great, it's the english bullshit that's weird. There's no way to explain it but as "geek humor" in a bad sense.
It's not intelligently obscure, it's unnecessary, sounds stupid and it just damn well derails a good moment. Luckily that sort of "You would do my honour a great honour by engaging me m'lady" crap is completely overshadowed by the good parts of the series. If they fixed that, Firefly would be perfect. Well, that and the overt renaissance fair style sex talk.
And yeah, comics suck. Here's to a tv series.
Long back I had one of those electronic chessboards, the kind that you can press down on to let the built in computer know the moves and play against you. One day it just stopped working so I tried changing the batteries and even the tool of the unenlightened, the dust buster but still nothing. So I open it up and something falls out....it was a cockroach that just fell out and then it became clear what happened when I saw the leg soldered to the circuit board with burn marks around it...
If you read TFA you'd know that yes it will be able to identify RST packets from whatever the heck else you're doing. An informed person doing the test would be able to tell at least Comcast brand messing up apart from your accelerators.
:)
We will buy our convenience with innovation, not by sacrificing our freedom.
Replace 'convenience' with 'safety' and it works too
I look at the prices on your cell phone there in the US and go WTF. On average you get that loads cheaper than here in India but then I see all the caveats and wonder if that's really worth a lower one time price. You get cellphones that actively work to monopolise a certain provider, here's looking at you Apple. You pay to receive sms' which I've never heard of. Hell, here you can even get a plan where you a pay an amount and get a lifetime of incoming calls and sms. You can't make calls except to good ol' 112 but no more phone bills. Our government is pretty damn good with all this stuff actually. We've got caps on the maximum they can charge, we're even working on a law that makes it mandatory for phone companies to keep the numbers the same when you switch companies. Note: WHEN. I've been used to sim cards since forever, I didn't know things like 2 year lock-ins even existed. We have a good ol' company that sells cdma phones whose numbers you can't change but people get those for either theft prevention (where not being able to change the number is a feature) or because they're dirt cheap. No decent phone would lock you to a vendor not even the competing cheap ones. All this regulation while there are about 5 major service providers, each competing to go below the prices of the others while keeping their services good. Then again, one of them just got bought out by Vodaphone so perhaps we'll get a taste of all that soon :)
If they just dropped that much on an X-box or PS3 they could have gotten something that keeps up with the gaming pc and is actually more fun to play. probably on a larger screen and would be guaranteed against obsolescence for a couple years.
You can get better results for the same cash.
It'll probably break monopolies, not the press in general. Seems like a Good Thing.
Reading the post in question he comes off not so much an evolution denier as showing the best of scientific principles. 'Can you imagine you were wrong about something?' is an excellent question to ask, and he rails on religion as well in the very same post, the only thing he's against is fanatical belief in either side.
Read his followup to see what I'm talking about, the guy is pretty cool.
....and this guy might just find out why places have speed limits if he's going to be driving that fast for that long with a near certainty of not running into any cops. Could find the alternative of slamming into stuff or off roads a lot less pleasant than getting a ticket.
I did that protect your email address with OCR thing at http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/ and tried solving it myself. I mistyped one of the words accidentally and noticed a second after I hit enter. It said 'Congrats you're a human!' and proceeded to give me the address.
If this guy was such a 'precious genius' why was he jobless and presumably reduced to writing worms for hackers?
If he did go a college and learn his skills there this is a massive failing on the part of education system to be unable to get jobs for those qualified for them. I wouldn't be too surprised since I've seen plenty (almost all) education based on how well you can memorise and spit out something rather than innovate. The dumbass rote learners get jobs and the creative people are sunk unless they adapt.
If was self-taught and he had other options to show off his abilities, like some sort of job fair or something this wouldn't have happened. It's good that someone did recognize his talents and unfortunate that he had to go to jail and fuck with a bunch of computers to do it.
It's better to try to solve the cause of the problem rather than just minimise the bad effects.
Well, the point is that it looks like it. I don't think they were wrong to think it could have been a bomb, hell I even believe them when they say it looks like putty instead of paint, on the board anyway. It is a good thing she complied and wasn't shot up but c'mon they could have been a little more understanding in their press release. They're under a lot of pressure to weed out the actual terrorists but it's not too much to ask to show a little humanity when you arrest a student. It would go a long way to not come off as drunk-on-power monsters. Especially after the (albeit hilarious) 'Don't tase me bro!' fiasco.
Could someone point out something to track down stolen cell phones? I suppose it should be a hell of a lot easier than finding laptops. And please don't tell me that the phone company can do it for you, the only time they care is if someone's kidnapped along with it.
Preferably something that works on non-symbian phones also.
After losing two awesome phones I'm using the low tech method of buying such a crappy phone that no one in their right mind would steal it.
Am I the only one disturbed by that tag? That's messed up.
Comes down to about 4.8 Gb per day, should be enough for anyone. Not damn bad if you ask me, just don't call it unlimited.
~ another teen
Too bad the nature doesn't give a crap (pardon the pun) that we exist and wouldn't give a crap if we didn't. We want to continue to exist cause we all want immortality in some form or other. The race going on is one way to do that. Don't need to make it all 'ooh we do great stuff so we deserve to exist'
Not the best analogy since mine was pointing out a baseless bias. Obviously people would be reasonably biased against child rapists.
Seeing a lot of the choices people make in life I'd say that by saying "....but won't it be worth it in the long run?" you're saying that 90% of people won't use ODF.
Yeah of course, it's not like fat people can be interesting or cool to hang out with or anything. Let's lock 'em all up so they don't spread their fattyness around. Now replace fat with nerd in the above sentence and see if you agree.