The good part of Internet Archive is that is singleton... If there was other, it would be funny to watch one Archive archiving the other... and then the 2nd archiving the 1st who has already archived... kaboooooooooom.
Whoowwwwww
This is the firs time I see 7 consecutive posts modded +5Funny.
Is this a indicator that kernel 2.5 is coming? Ok no, 2.5.xx are reserved for kernels in quantum-era.
Let me see...
1. By reading any article on Wikipedia about one guy does not mean that I will *know* the guy..
2. I'm not living under a rock... Just on another rock that is not US..
3. His songs are nerdy? Your opinion, but I think that nerdy is the CERN rap..
4. The news here is Weird Al or an artist releasing songs as he records them? The first one is not news and the second one is not too. There are plenty of artists that release their songs on MySpace before album launch.
Not so realistic, but my younger brother found a game called "3D-Driving-School". It looked to me fairly consistent.
By the way, europe driving rules only:P
I'm not 100% sure but I would say that someone told a similar joke some months ago saying that he would patent a method for finding things not yet patented and submit one.
Was he an IBM employee?
There is a huge difference between Ignorance and Stupidity.
The first one is the lack of knowledge.
The other, means... well, stupidity. Lack of mental capability to figure things out, to apply knowledge to a new situation. And that is exactly what is happening with those kids. I know a lot of them that have high grades (18 or 19 in 20 average to all subjects), get to med school and are just stupid.
Mostly, lack of education.
Moral education at home, and not demanding work from the students. Its lot alike to the US "No Child Left Behind". To give you an example:
A colleague of mine taught some years in high school and was dismissed because he was being to hard with kids. He demanded one kid to solve "1000/100" without the calculator. She couldn't.
Me too...
Yesterday I was arguing with my dad telling him: "IT IS NOT the computers that will make kids smart!"
You probably don't know, but the current government offers these computers to kids in elementary school (those from low income families) as also some other conventional laptops (read: 500USD laptops) to kids in medium and high school.
But the truth is that year after year, kids get more stupid.
Givin'up my mod points...
Do you know one little thing? In most European countries, diesel is CHEAPER than gas...
At current prices and excange rates, in Portugal diesel is $7.49/USgallon and gas is $7.87/USgallon
A tipical, old diesel car (90's) does about 45mpg, and a gas one does about 36mpg.
Assuming the same tank size,
gas gives $78.70 and 360 miles ($0.219/mile)
diesel goes 450 miles with $74.90 ($0.166/mile)
Here diesel leads to a saving of $53 each 100 miles..
Do you really like to live in US?
So much science is high priced sensationalist bullcrap, whereas advanced mathematics is just as cheap to do as basic mathematics.
Do you want to pay the electricity bill for the share of that the mathematicians use on our cluster? You don't. And lets not talk about the hardware costs, the wage for sysadmins, compensation when they take the cluster down, f** Matlab licensing fees (Octave anyone?)...
I'm working at my university's IT department and we didn't told our scientists that we received a lot of new machines for our cluster, because the more CPUs available, more they need:P
And yes, Fortran experts means a lot of headaches.
I'm on European country and here vacations are paid (one month wage) and mandatory. But that NO work, in case of teachers, is a little "no". They are expected to show up to optional meetings (otherwise their peer evaluation will suck).
BTW, a year==13 months (if you don't work when on vacations, plus mandatory Christmas bonus).
such a cyber9-11 would be most interesting if it happened and restricted the Internet because it would directly affect the one right left to americans that will (could) get them out of the hole of degrading personal rights they continue to slide into: assembly
Here, corrected for you
Humm, I like the sensation of being a grammar Nazi
In my case, I would need a LOT of beer to actually let myself be seen near my campus with that thing (specially the colored smoke).. It's the climax of nerdiness:P
Slashdot Mirror
The good part of Internet Archive is that is singleton...
If there was other, it would be funny to watch one Archive archiving the other... and then the 2nd archiving the 1st who has already archived... kaboooooooooom.
You only fail with Windows 7... its not really 7.0 but 6.1
Err.. please forgive me..
As we are used to say in vimese: %s/2.5/2.7/g
Whoowwwwww
This is the firs time I see 7 consecutive posts modded +5Funny.
Is this a indicator that kernel 2.5 is coming?
Ok no, 2.5.xx are reserved for kernels in quantum-era.
Let me see...
1. By reading any article on Wikipedia about one guy does not mean that I will *know* the guy..
2. I'm not living under a rock... Just on another rock that is not US..
3. His songs are nerdy? Your opinion, but I think that nerdy is the CERN rap..
4. The news here is Weird Al or an artist releasing songs as he records them? The first one is not news and the second one is not too. There are plenty of artists that release their songs on MySpace before album launch.
Who the hell is this weird guy and why this is news anyway?
Not so realistic, but my younger brother found a game called "3D-Driving-School". It looked to me fairly consistent. :P
By the way, europe driving rules only
I'm not 100% sure but I would say that someone told a similar joke some months ago saying that he would patent a method for finding things not yet patented and submit one.
Was he an IBM employee?
There is a huge difference between Ignorance and Stupidity. ... well, stupidity. Lack of mental capability to figure things out, to apply knowledge to a new situation.
The first one is the lack of knowledge.
The other, means
And that is exactly what is happening with those kids. I know a lot of them that have high grades (18 or 19 in 20 average to all subjects), get to med school and are just stupid.
Mostly, lack of education.
Moral education at home, and not demanding work from the students. Its lot alike to the US "No Child Left Behind". To give you an example:
A colleague of mine taught some years in high school and was dismissed because he was being to hard with kids. He demanded one kid to solve "1000/100" without the calculator. She couldn't.
Me too... Yesterday I was arguing with my dad telling him: "IT IS NOT the computers that will make kids smart!"
You probably don't know, but the current government offers these computers to kids in elementary school (those from low income families) as also some other conventional laptops (read: 500USD laptops) to kids in medium and high school.
But the truth is that year after year, kids get more stupid.
Its not called 'quench'. Its called holy shit.
Givin'up my mod points...
Do you know one little thing? In most European countries, diesel is CHEAPER than gas...
At current prices and excange rates, in Portugal diesel is $7.49/USgallon and gas is $7.87/USgallon
A tipical, old diesel car (90's) does about 45mpg, and a gas one does about 36mpg.
Assuming the same tank size,
gas gives $78.70 and 360 miles ($0.219/mile)
diesel goes 450 miles with $74.90 ($0.166/mile)
Here diesel leads to a saving of $53 each 100 miles..
Do you really like to live in US?
So much science is high priced sensationalist bullcrap, whereas advanced mathematics is just as cheap to do as basic mathematics.
Do you want to pay the electricity bill for the share of that the mathematicians use on our cluster? You don't.
And lets not talk about the hardware costs, the wage for sysadmins, compensation when they take the cluster down, f** Matlab licensing fees (Octave anyone?)...
I'm working at my university's IT department and we didn't told our scientists that we received a lot of new machines for our cluster, because the more CPUs available, more they need :P
And yes, Fortran experts means a lot of headaches.
And I add more to that: Slashdot WILL use UTF8.
Not with my old (very old) car... With a total power loss and the engine still running...
I'm on European country and here vacations are paid (one month wage) and mandatory. But that NO work, in case of teachers, is a little "no". They are expected to show up to optional meetings (otherwise their peer evaluation will suck). BTW, a year==13 months (if you don't work when on vacations, plus mandatory Christmas bonus).
IBM not being Linux compatible?? I used Linux on my old Thinkpad and it just worked.
Oh wait, openSUSE... Novel... IBM.. right. But it worked..
While the images may be outdated, Google Earth used to show a road that is yet to be built. I think that after all Google Earth can do predictions.
such a cyber9-11 would be most interesting if it happened and restricted the Internet because it would directly affect the one right left to americans that will (could) get them out of the hole of degrading personal rights they continue to slide into: assembly
Here, corrected for you
Humm, I like the sensation of being a grammar Nazi
Anonymous Coward's don't have karma to begin with.
In my case, I would need a LOT of beer to actually let myself be seen near my campus with that thing (specially the colored smoke).. It's the climax of nerdiness :P
... and too much beer. :P (and this is a smart one)
College kids
That bug is one of the best collections of jokes I've ever found, most of them deserved +5 Funny. /.
I guess I'm spending too much time here on