I'll never forget 10th grade chemistry class when the teacher put the Na (metal) in the H2O beaker...not sure if it was his first time or not but the reaction was intense.
"The ruling does not mean everything you say on a message board is protected," she said. "But, generally, a lot of that talk is along the lines of, 'this stock sucks,' or 'this management sucks.' The Riverside Court said to determine if something is fact or opinion, you must examine the context."
If the "context" is framed (that's what the disclaimer does; frames the context unambiguously) then this ruling does, in fact, apply.
Besides, almost every post satisfies the second test: "this xxx sucks", etc.
Representatives from battery manufacturers Duracell, Rayovac and Energizer were unavailable for comment.
I was intrigued by this snappy, concluding claim. How could all the representatives of these major companies be unavailable for comment. Then I noticed the by-line:
The Little Engine That Could Be
By Louise Knapp 2:00 a.m. Nov. 26, 2001 PST
No kidding their unavailable! 2 AM on post-Thanksgiving Monday!
Louise, baby, try to finish your stories prior to Thanksgiving weekend next time...sheesh...
You are making this up as you go along. True audiophiles (1) don't need a dictionary definition to know who they are, and (2) prefer the analog format (infinite resolution) to the digital one (16 bits of resolution), your insistances notwithstanding.
If you were a real audiophile, wouldn't you be buying records, and not CD's?
+1 Insightful.
Once the decision is made to accept "only" 16-bit audio, the rest (compression) is academic. True audiophiles reject the CD format as they do music on FM radio (forget the AM band altogether).
It is amazing how many "programmers" require administrative access to databases or resources for no reason whatsoever. give them a user account, if they forget their password, publically humiliate them by yelling "what? are you so stupid that you cant remember a password? why did they hire you if your that stupid?" This is reserved for programmers only... sales people and marketing are allowed to forget their password daily, we know they are that stupid, but a programmer has ZERO excuse.
It's a good sign of a good team being able to socialize. Nightmare on Tech Street: working with complete social failures who have no apparent ability to communicate even to say "hello" and "goodbye" in a small office environment. And, while sitting 10 feet away, using Unix's "write user tty" command to ask a question instead of a polite verbal conversation (Note to Windows users: "write" is considered offensive due to screwing up the screen layout in text editors)... This is not a team that will work well together, and it shows because it doesn't play well (at all). Lunch breaks are never with the "team" - just individuals or sub-clicks.
To me, its a sign of impending failure, unless everyone is completely independent from each other and no one is relying on the others.
(I had a point before starting but now it's too late to find it agains...sorry...)
Yes, I just completed installing a nightly build (from the "stock" 0.9.5 build) and reloaded slashdot to see the announcement. According to my reading of MozillaZine earlier I wasn't expecting 0.9.6 until later this week.
But I'm curious as to why the connection to the ftp server was so solid and fast: is it a great example of load balancing ftp?, a sign that people are happy with pre-0.9.6 versions and aren't rushing to upgrade?, or is it (*gulp*) that people aren't interested in Mozilla anymore?
I'm not anti-Mozilla at all. I'm using it for browsing, email, IRC, etc. There are things I like about Konqueror, but I depend on Mozilla. Even my biggest "Internet Explorer"-only client is asking about recasting IE-specific development in Moz-compatible terms. Its just that the server is so fast it doesn't feel like the days of M15 - M18 when I had to fight for a connection...
As an aside: it's perplexing to observe MSFT dropping the ball on browser development. They've got the market wrapped up, but they don't seem to have capitalized on this lead (except the recent MSN fiasco). Or perhaps I'm not giving proper credit to Mozilla developers for pressing ahead with features and usefulness... With the licensing pain with MSFT and the maturation of Mozilla+{Gnome|KDE}+Linux it's getting more and more palpable to switch the enterprise away from the child-settlers.
Phil doing the Dodgers is friggen hilarious. Once he just jabbered fake Spanish in the style of a local Spanish talk station for 15 minutes -- tears flowed I laughed so hard...
Available here, it's the perfect adjunct to The Art and Science of Dumpster Diving. Considering the economic climate, esp. for tech workers, this video could be the key to a Christmas dinner with presents for all the family this year.
If you don't realize by now that businesses put PHB and MBAs over the techs... Read books like this to understand your "enemy" (and to be able to recognize the signs when they're telling you to jump ship).
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I'll never forget 10th grade chemistry class when the teacher put the Na (metal) in the H2O beaker...not sure if it was his first time or not but the reaction was intense.
Besides, almost every post satisfies the second test: "this xxx sucks", etc.
Change to
Besides, the best defense may just be, "Hey, this is Slashdot -- you were expecting facts?";-)
Is there a provision for meta-modding at Google?
Louise, baby, try to finish your stories prior to Thanksgiving weekend next time...sheesh...
You are making this up as you go along. True audiophiles (1) don't need a dictionary definition to know who they are, and (2) prefer the analog format (infinite resolution) to the digital one (16 bits of resolution), your insistances notwithstanding.
+1 Insightful.
Once the decision is made to accept "only" 16-bit audio, the rest (compression) is academic. True audiophiles reject the CD format as they do music on FM radio (forget the AM band altogether).
You are kidding, right?
No reason to anger the Aliens....
Choice of technology has no bearing on this question. Or did you know that and just decided to troll?
It was due by the end of 1999 but fell into an Access database y2k bug vortex...
To me, its a sign of impending failure, unless everyone is completely independent from each other and no one is relying on the others.
(I had a point before starting but now it's too late to find it agains...sorry...)
But I'm curious as to why the connection to the ftp server was so solid and fast: is it a great example of load balancing ftp?, a sign that people are happy with pre-0.9.6 versions and aren't rushing to upgrade?, or is it (*gulp*) that people aren't interested in Mozilla anymore?
I'm not anti-Mozilla at all. I'm using it for browsing, email, IRC, etc. There are things I like about Konqueror, but I depend on Mozilla. Even my biggest "Internet Explorer"-only client is asking about recasting IE-specific development in Moz-compatible terms. Its just that the server is so fast it doesn't feel like the days of M15 - M18 when I had to fight for a connection...
As an aside: it's perplexing to observe MSFT dropping the ball on browser development. They've got the market wrapped up, but they don't seem to have capitalized on this lead (except the recent MSN fiasco). Or perhaps I'm not giving proper credit to Mozilla developers for pressing ahead with features and usefulness... With the licensing pain with MSFT and the maturation of Mozilla+{Gnome|KDE}+Linux it's getting more and more palpable to switch the enterprise away from the child-settlers.
(Boy, the moderators are out in force tonight!)
Not to flamebait, but do you troll every he sentence incomprehensible totally?
Phil doing the Dodgers is friggen hilarious. Once he just jabbered fake Spanish in the style of a local Spanish talk station for 15 minutes -- tears flowed I laughed so hard...
But ranks you highly on the nerd-o-meter...
Available here, it's the perfect adjunct to The Art and Science of Dumpster Diving. Considering the economic climate, esp. for tech workers, this video could be the key to a Christmas dinner with presents for all the family this year.
(it's funny. laugh.)
**shudder**
Ed Yourdon? Mr. Y2K Bug? *yawn*
Now I've seen the dumbest thing that could ever be seen. Thanks for the link.
Now the Trolls are posting complaints about Slashdot posting pre versions of the kernel.
Make an argument against my propositions or shut up.
Thanks for participating, Next!