If I were to cast my vote as to one movie which makes one grok geekness, I would vote for PI. Of course, I'd then also be contributing to a stereotype, when after all, we aren't geeks, we're people...
An idea that I've had that may or may not be worthwhile in respect to the 'relevancy' of posts is this: What about making a seperate section of the site called 'the furnace' or some such, where people can simply post comments as they like about whatever happens to be on thier mind at the time. Of course, there already are places for this, namely IRC and Usenet, but I wonder if it would be logical to have a free reign area on this site, such as I've mentioned, since the flamer/first poster/me too-er would be looking at this site specifically when they had the urge/idea to post, but knew that what they had to say might be ignored/demoted by the mediators, they might see the uninhibited talk area as a place friendly to thier voice. Not to mention, sometimes people might come up with an idea related to Slashdot or what have you, but have no real place to post it for a variety of reasons. (they don't like/know of any newsgroups where it would be correct to post, they specifically want input from the SlashDot community, they feel uncomfortable sending email to one of the main page posters, or feel that the flood of email such people receive will drown out what they have to say, or they just want to have a good old flame war about how Star Trek (TNG) is much more interesting than Star Wars *cough*, etc etc). Anyways, just a random thought from a random person.
I'm rather surprised that the article directly quoted words which one does not generally find in the mass media. I actually think it's somewhat refreshing, however. I'd love to see curse words accepted by media (especially goddamn.. it's a religious curse, which gov't should not affect, as per the seperation of church and state, but that's a big tangent right there..). Anyways, just my two yen.
As much as it sounds like a good idea, the whole time I was reading it I was looking to see what they'd do for a keyboard... I can't comment on voice recognition, having never tried it, but it seems to me keyboards are still the way to go.. or maybe it's just that I don't want my typing skill to become useless?;+)
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If I were to cast my vote as to one movie which makes one grok geekness, I would vote for PI. Of course, I'd then also be contributing to a stereotype, when after all, we aren't geeks, we're people...
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An idea that I've had that may or may not be worthwhile in respect to the 'relevancy' of posts is this: What about making a seperate section of the site called 'the furnace' or some such, where people can simply post comments as they like about whatever happens to be on thier mind at the time. Of course, there already are places for this, namely IRC and Usenet, but I wonder if it would be logical to have a free reign area on this site, such as I've mentioned, since the flamer/first poster/me too-er would be looking at this site specifically when they had the urge/idea to post, but knew that what they had to say might be ignored/demoted by the mediators, they might see the uninhibited talk area as a place friendly to thier voice. Not to mention, sometimes people might come up with an idea related to Slashdot or what have you, but have no real place to post it for a variety of reasons. (they don't like/know of any newsgroups where it would be correct to post, they specifically want input from the SlashDot community, they feel uncomfortable sending email to one of the main page posters, or feel that the flood of email such people receive will drown out what they have to say, or they just want to have a good old flame war about how Star Trek (TNG) is much more interesting than Star Wars *cough*, etc etc). Anyways, just a random thought from a random person.
I'm rather surprised that the article directly quoted words which one does not generally find in the mass media. I actually think it's somewhat refreshing, however. I'd love to see curse words accepted by media (especially goddamn.. it's a religious curse, which gov't should not affect, as per the seperation of church and state, but that's a big tangent right there..). Anyways, just my two yen.
As much as it sounds like a good idea, the whole time I was reading it I was looking to see what they'd do for a keyboard... I can't comment on voice recognition, having never tried it, but it seems to me keyboards are still the way to go.. or maybe it's just that I don't want my typing skill to become useless? ;+)
"What [Gates] says [in the media] is not under oath," said Ronald Katz a partner at law firm Coudert Brothers.
What this says to me is that it's ok for BG to lie in the media to the general public, since he's not under oath.. or maybe I'm just a cynic?
I think anyways.. I was getting a WHOLE 12 BYTES a second!!! Woo hoo! That's worse than 300 baud, desu ne?