I smirked at first when I saw then office pod-- I mean, who really needs such a form fitting cube? (well, form fitting for some of us). But then I saw the built in 'teleconferencing' projector: http://gizmodo.com/photogallery/eclipseofficepod/1000101428.
Just re-route the video-out to come from your workstation, and bam! you've got the ultimate Counter Strike gaming pod! I tell ya, these pod people are marketing in the wrong direction.
In answer to your assertion that the perversion of the rules of grammar and spelling are excusable because 'language evolves', I quote, from 'the f*cking article' the following: "Apologists will argue that language isn't static, that it's ever-changing and evolving. That's true. Language does change. Idiomatic English is the product of centuries of social and cultural infusion, a fact that gives modern-day English much of its color and flair.
But when change does violence to the accepted standards of the king's English and takes the mother tongue into the realm of the unfathomable, as does almost all jargon coming out of the technology and business worlds, it's our job as keepers of the grail to drive it back into the dark little hole from whence it came.
If you've got some time to kill, you're welcome to join us, the happy few."
But, of course, you didn't have the attention span to read to the end of the article.
These days, the sense of community once enjoyed in LUGs is more readily found in a linux-oriented online forum or an irc channel. I stopped going to the very LUG that Joe Bar mentioned (ALG) when, as he noted, the populace shifted from enthusiasts to professionals. The sysadmins and engineers just don't lend the same flavor and breadth of perspective to the gathering as the merry band of diverse enthusiasts once did.
Given that this story submission is several hours old, my post is probably going to be neglected in mod point purgatory. Nevertheless, an arguably more interesting dinosaur robot was created by Peter Dilworth at the MIT leg laboratory. See pics and vids of Troody the dinosaur robot here:
http://alpha-bits.ai.mit.edu/people/chunks/chunks. html
of British Culinary Physics. In addition to this article, learn: why a dunked biscuit falls apart in a cup of tea http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/462987.st m
(Univ. of Bristol)
why tea dribbles down a teapot's spout http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/227572. stm (Univ of East Anglia)
and why bubbles rise in a pint of Guiness http://www.findarticles.com/m1200/19_157/ 62724340/ p1/article.jhtml (o.k. the researchers are Aussies, and Guiness is Irish.... both were or are part of the British Commonwealth anyways).
Karma? mostly affected by posting to articles that are almost a day old. Danged time-zones
I went to college, heck it was eight or ten of the best years of my life! (you degree collectors out there know what I'm talking about) I don't see anything particularly collegiate about this distribution... no more than any other distro. CollegeLinux seems to be to Slackware what Knoppix is to Debian. Nothing spectacular or collegiate.
I have a PII laptop that has served me very well over the years (4+...a long time in hardware years). I don't have to worry about OS obsolecence, because I don't use 'doze. And even though I do a lot of image processing, the things that count (ram, hd capacity) all can and have been upgraded (albeit slowly on my meager grad-student budget). With graduation approaching, and no real promise of employment on the horizon, I have resigned myself to the possibility that I'm gonna have to 'make-do' with what I have for a while- but it is no great source of distress to me, my little laptop still performs like a champ....
except for one thing- I use the heck out of this little machine, and it is beginning to show its age. Buttons are falling out, the case is developing cracks (I dunno, maybe 4 year old Dells tend to do this). I think the condition of the case is going to be the limiting factor on my poor ol' portable. If only there were a rejuvenating case mod to save my pathetic little inspiron 3500, I'd hang on to it longer.
I dunno, maybe I'll take out one last student loan and get that imac I've been drooling over....
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Leisure Suit Larry for the Wii? Giggity.
I smirked at first when I saw then office pod-- I mean, who really needs such a form fitting cube? (well, form fitting for some of us). But then I saw the built in 'teleconferencing' projector: http://gizmodo.com/photogallery/eclipseofficepod/1000101428.
Just re-route the video-out to come from your workstation, and bam! you've got the ultimate Counter Strike gaming pod! I tell ya, these pod people are marketing in the wrong direction.
In answer to your assertion that the perversion of the rules of grammar and spelling are excusable because 'language evolves', I quote, from 'the f*cking article' the following:
"Apologists will argue that language isn't static, that it's ever-changing and evolving. That's true. Language does change. Idiomatic English is the product of centuries of social and cultural infusion, a fact that gives modern-day English much of its color and flair.
But when change does violence to the accepted standards of the king's English and takes the mother tongue into the realm of the unfathomable, as does almost all jargon coming out of the technology and business worlds, it's our job as keepers of the grail to drive it back into the dark little hole from whence it came.
If you've got some time to kill, you're welcome to join us, the happy few."
But, of course, you didn't have the attention span to read to the end of the article.
These days, the sense of community once enjoyed in LUGs is more readily found in a linux-oriented online forum or an irc channel. I stopped going to the very LUG that Joe Bar mentioned (ALG) when, as he noted, the populace shifted from enthusiasts to professionals. The sysadmins and engineers just don't lend the same flavor and breadth of perspective to the gathering as the merry band of diverse enthusiasts once did.
Given that this story submission is several hours old, my post is probably going to be neglected in mod point purgatory. Nevertheless, an arguably more interesting dinosaur robot was created by Peter Dilworth at the MIT leg laboratory. See pics and vids of Troody the dinosaur robot here: http://alpha-bits.ai.mit.edu/people/chunks/chunks. html
of British Culinary Physics. In addition to this article, learn:t m
. stm
/ 62724340/ p1/article.jhtml
why a dunked biscuit falls apart in a cup of tea
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/462987.s
(Univ. of Bristol)
why tea dribbles down a teapot's spout
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/227572
(Univ of East Anglia)
and why bubbles rise in a pint of Guiness
http://www.findarticles.com/m1200/19_157
(o.k. the researchers are Aussies, and Guiness is Irish.... both were or are part of the British Commonwealth anyways).
Karma? mostly affected by posting to articles that are almost a day old. Danged time-zones
I went to college, heck it was eight or ten of the best years of my life! (you degree collectors out there know what I'm talking about) I don't see anything particularly collegiate about this distribution... no more than any other distro. CollegeLinux seems to be to Slackware what Knoppix is to Debian. Nothing spectacular or collegiate.
Go Penguins!
I have a PII laptop that has served me very well over the years (4+...a long time in hardware years). I don't have to worry about OS obsolecence, because I don't use 'doze. And even though I do a lot of image processing, the things that count (ram, hd capacity) all can and have been upgraded (albeit slowly on my meager grad-student budget). With graduation approaching, and no real promise of employment on the horizon, I have resigned myself to the possibility that I'm gonna have to 'make-do' with what I have for a while- but it is no great source of distress to me, my little laptop still performs like a champ....
except for one thing- I use the heck out of this little machine, and it is beginning to show its age. Buttons are falling out, the case is developing cracks (I dunno, maybe 4 year old Dells tend to do this). I think the condition of the case is going to be the limiting factor on my poor ol' portable. If only there were a rejuvenating case mod to save my pathetic little inspiron 3500, I'd hang on to it longer.
I dunno, maybe I'll take out one last student loan and get that imac I've been drooling over....