Maybe he doesn't care? Or, better yet, I know! Maybe he spends all his time reading/. and not getting sleep so he had been up for 38 hours when he made the post! COULD THAT ME IT?
Nah. He's just an idiot.
Wait a minute... HEY! I POSTED THAT.
This sounds good. I'd love to be able to know when one of my three dogs gets out of the house without having to search every room while shouting their names.
Always knowing where that ever vital 'so small it should be reclassified as a nano-tool' screwdriver is would also be great.
This may be a little off topic, but I've seen several ( Probably just one, my mind tends to blow things out of proportion ) posts about stupidity in which readers who were fooled were advised to 'go back to AOL' or something similar.
Jesus, Mary and Joseph, people, can't you get a life?
Have we devolved in this society to the point where anyone not on 'our' level of 'intelligence,' someone not as 'inately familiar' with technologies which we use everyday ( Most likely many, many times a day ) is an idiot?
I'd like to see one of our highly evolved brains who thinks that my 72 year old Grandmother and my mother, who has a Masters in Socialwork and does Assessments in a Mental Facility, are idiots wash and dry their clothes without the aid of modern machines to do it, or correctly and quickly diagnose and assess what treatment is needed for someone who is brought into a hospital with burns all over their arms and only talks in the third person.
Oh, and for those people who like taking Pot Shots at AOL users ( And often call them *cough* lusers ) I would say this:
I use AOL. I've been using it for atleast 5 years now, my memory is rather bad, but that's the fault of the swiss cheese I have for a brain. I'm now 17, nearly 18. I use AOL to Chat and Communicate with my friends, send and recieve a majority of my e-mail, and to get non-vital news ( SARS spreading to a neighborhood near me, what President Bush is doing -- anything that most likely wouldn't make/. )
I use AOL because most of my friends have neither the Will, nor Want, to use IRC, either because they don't like it's lack of features ( Not that it doesn't do what it was designed to do, and very, very well ) or because they just prefer AOL because they've grown up using it, or it was the first such program they've used.
I could have stopped using AOL several years ago when my family got a Cable Modem, but I kept it for my E-Mail account, and to keep in contact with friends, and because I roleplay online when it's not feasible to get the entire DnD group up at 3am, or the Vampire Troupe, or my best buds aren't available for a game of Magic. I can easily and quickly find people who would like to play a game of Dungeons and Dragons, 1st, 2nd or 3rd edition, or anything else, for that matter, in real time, quickly and efficiently.
While it's most likely, more than like, definately possible, to do the same thing with a search engine or a certain web page, I doubt it's as quick or easy as using AOL or some other similar ISP.
I would ask that people think twice before calling someone an idiot because they have a different way of doing things that isn't your way, or the fast way, or the most efficient way. This country was founded on many things, one of them was freedom of... CHOICE.
Yes, the same choice many of you and I use to install something other than Microsoft Windows upon our computers, or to decide that, 'Yes, I like evolution -- and give it two opposable thumbs up!' or, 'No, I don't feel like worshiping your god, thank you,' is the same choice some people exercise to use AOL. While you may not _AGREE_ with that choice, you should atleast respect it.
Anyone remember the project a few decades ago to create an Orion-class spaceship that used nuclear explosives ( You know, all those valuable bombs we have laying around ) as it's fuel supply? Just build the thing in orbit to begin with and give it a shove before you start it's engine.
It can move fast, once you get over the problem of sudden acceleration killing the crew.
You can build it big enough to hold hundreds of people and the hydroponics to sustain them. ( You just use bigger/more bombs to propel it. )
And we're finally doing something with all those kilotons upon kilotons of nuclear materials sitting around slowly turning me green.
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Maybe he doesn't care? Or, better yet, I know! Maybe he spends all his time reading /. and not getting sleep so he had been up for 38 hours when he made the post! COULD THAT ME IT?
Nah. He's just an idiot.
Wait a minute... HEY! I POSTED THAT.
If /. ever needed to raise funds, they could just auction off a night with CowboyNeal. I know I'd bid on it!
Hasn't this already happened? I haven't seen a Dolphin in years.
...a 'peice' of the Death Star? Haven't they started reconstructing it yet?!
I love you, you man with exact numbers and a very low /. number!
My toaster runs Linux. I think it should be more like:
How long will it be before Linux supports this?
Actually, I don't even know if that's the better question. Hardware ain't my shtick.
...will this affect me? How much extra storage will this give me on the same number and size of platters?
This sounds good. I'd love to be able to know when one of my three dogs gets out of the house without having to search every room while shouting their names.
Always knowing where that ever vital 'so small it should be reclassified as a nano-tool' screwdriver is would also be great.
This may be a little off topic, but I've seen several ( Probably just one, my mind tends to blow things out of proportion ) posts about stupidity in which readers who were fooled were advised to 'go back to AOL' or something similar.
Jesus, Mary and Joseph, people, can't you get a life?
Have we devolved in this society to the point where anyone not on 'our' level of 'intelligence,' someone not as 'inately familiar' with technologies which we use everyday ( Most likely many, many times a day ) is an idiot?
I'd like to see one of our highly evolved brains who thinks that my 72 year old Grandmother and my mother, who has a Masters in Socialwork and does Assessments in a Mental Facility, are idiots wash and dry their clothes without the aid of modern machines to do it, or correctly and quickly diagnose and assess what treatment is needed for someone who is brought into a hospital with burns all over their arms and only talks in the third person.
Oh, and for those people who like taking Pot Shots at AOL users ( And often call them *cough* lusers ) I would say this:
I use AOL. I've been using it for atleast 5 years now, my memory is rather bad, but that's the fault of the swiss cheese I have for a brain. I'm now 17, nearly 18. I use AOL to Chat and Communicate with my friends, send and recieve a majority of my e-mail, and to get non-vital news
( SARS spreading to a neighborhood near me, what President Bush is doing -- anything that most likely wouldn't make
I use AOL because most of my friends have neither the Will, nor Want, to use IRC, either because they don't like it's lack of features ( Not that it doesn't do what it was designed to do, and very, very well ) or because they just prefer AOL because they've grown up using it, or it was the first such program they've used.
I could have stopped using AOL several years ago when my family got a Cable Modem, but I kept it for my E-Mail account, and to keep in contact with friends, and because I roleplay online when it's not feasible to get the entire DnD group up at 3am, or the Vampire Troupe, or my best buds aren't available for a game of Magic. I can easily and quickly find people who would like to play a game of Dungeons and Dragons, 1st, 2nd or 3rd edition, or anything else, for that matter, in real time, quickly and efficiently.
While it's most likely, more than like, definately possible, to do the same thing with a search engine or a certain web page, I doubt it's as quick or easy as using AOL or some other similar ISP.
I would ask that people think twice before calling someone an idiot because they have a different way of doing things that isn't your way, or the fast way, or the most efficient way. This country was founded on many things, one of them was freedom of... CHOICE.
Yes, the same choice many of you and I use to install something other than Microsoft Windows upon our computers, or to decide that, 'Yes, I like evolution -- and give it two opposable thumbs up!' or, 'No, I don't feel like worshiping your god, thank you,' is the same choice some people exercise to use AOL. While you may not _AGREE_ with that choice, you should atleast respect it.
int illegality;
int main()
{
while (1!=0)
illegality++;
return illegality;
}
Anyone remember the project a few decades ago to create an Orion-class spaceship that used nuclear explosives ( You know, all those valuable bombs we have laying around ) as it's fuel supply? Just build the thing in orbit to begin with and give it a shove before you start it's engine.
It can move fast, once you get over the problem of sudden acceleration killing the crew.
You can build it big enough to hold hundreds of people and the hydroponics to sustain them. ( You just use bigger/more bombs to propel it. )
And we're finally doing something with all those kilotons upon kilotons of nuclear materials sitting around slowly turning me green.