There are private high schools in Quebec still teaching Latin. Greek however lost favor but my uncle studied it then (c. 1940's). I still have his old Greek primer from high school.
No. I'm still leasing my car for the next 4 years because of work. Whatever the amount of gas I would save, I would still need to pay for it and the insurance, and a pay cut would certainly hit me. Once I finish my lease, I could reconsidering it.
OK, I can picture a game creator of a war/frag/heavely armed game inviting those reseachers for a focus group session and watch his new realease in action were all protagonists are made of females, Hispanics, Native Americans, children and the elderly.
After the carnage, he turns on the lights and faces his audience with a large smile: "Well, whadyall think ?"
1/3 are speechless, 1/3 fainted, and rest are still fighting over the waste basket to belch in it.
Rehired ? Sounds like the company had more problems than poor judgment, it also lacked a backbone. I would have fired the manager and press charges against the tech.
Indeed. The gaming industry and affiliated repair shops don't have the equivalent of "The American Garage" were you can send you modded toy for a tweak while getting oooh's and aaaah's for the kids who pump gas.
I have a feeling the original "Bizarro Slashdot" parent post was absolutely sarcastic, and everybody fell for it. The penguin reference was obvious.
Actually, my view of this post is that it wonders why it is "News for Nerds" and why should a cartoon be singled out for censorship. There must be hundreds sharing that fate everyday. And judging by the knee-jerk reaction of all the other posters explaining how Opus / Bloom County / (...) were absolutely important in their life (though half of those posters agree that it's not as funny anymore) makes you wonder on all those postings that focus on certain cultural references associated with geek-ness. I read "Bloom County", never read "Opus", doesn't mean I want it to follow me in this forum.
The original article is not about 'Net censorship. It about a craftsman who can't find his market anymore in mainstream media and tries to find a new sponsor.
Now, you DO know that Slashdot adds an X-Bender HTTP response which comprises of random quotes taken from Futurama at each query, now, do you ? Yes ? Ok, just checkin';-)
I first got rid of 25% of my library this way. Old text books, books that I'll never, never open again. I'm thinking of keeping only 2+ inch reference books and a few books related to very personal subjects.
It's skinking every week.
It takes courage, a deep breath, and there you go:)
overvixens.... That's a catchy name. I did a search on Google and didn't find any match (in plural) except for an Overvixen as a kick . You might have cornerned a nice new "hip" word for our age.;-)
... that for a company that touted to spend a billion dollars on Linux for R&D in a year (in 2001), and have a large Linux on-line material, when it comes to show off their expertise, with all the media attention and hype they hope to produce with such an announcement, they favor starting off with Windows clients.
Canadian Astronaut Julie Payette - and a hot chick may I add:-) - answered that.
In a television interview, she was granting a journalist a formal visit of the Space Station (grounded, in one piece before being dismantled and put to space or a life-sized model, I don't remember), and the jounalist did ask about the possibility of sex in space. She said that serious studies about it have been done but hinted that the only way to have sex in space, is to have one partner tied up
... Rob Rosenberger. He is the owner of Vmyths.com, the site about computer virus hoaxes and myths. He's been dealing for years with stories about threats or outbursts of viruses. Maybe he has insights on the alleged cost of these attacks.
It appears that with more and more voices on the 'net, the less filtering is done on what news is news and better yet, accurate news. Remember last week's posting at www.currents.net about the stability of Solaris and Linux. They witdrew their article but it created much noise. A quote from their witdrawal:
Although we are responsible for any editorial that appears on our site (and yes, we should have scrutinized this item before we posted it), keep in mind that this was in fact a "feed" from the Newsbytes service, much like an AP or Reuters feed. And as such, we don't typically have control over the content.
Now how many half-truths are reapeated day-in and day-out without any scrutiny?
Slashdot Mirror
There are private high schools in Quebec still teaching Latin. Greek however lost favor but my uncle studied it then (c. 1940's). I still have his old Greek primer from high school.
No. I'm still leasing my car for the next 4 years because of work. Whatever the amount of gas I would save, I would still need to pay for it and the insurance, and a pay cut would certainly hit me. Once I finish my lease, I could reconsidering it.
Yes, I agree. For Lynx, it would definitely be an overkill.
I don't mind how things go in the IT room, but once your'e out of it and deal with users and customer support, only one rule: BE NICE!
OK, I can picture a game creator of a war/frag/heavely armed game inviting those reseachers for a focus group session and watch his new realease in action were all protagonists are made of females, Hispanics, Native Americans, children and the elderly.
After the carnage, he turns on the lights and faces his audience with a large smile: "Well, whadyall think ?"
1/3 are speechless, 1/3 fainted, and rest are still fighting over the waste basket to belch in it.
Maybe it's an old story but I found this site that uses the same technique:
http://www.schillmania.com/random/humour/web20awareness/
Rehired ? Sounds like the company had more problems than poor judgment, it also lacked a backbone.
I would have fired the manager and press charges against the tech.
Indeed. The gaming industry and affiliated repair shops don't have the equivalent of "The American Garage" were you can send you modded toy for a tweak while getting oooh's and aaaah's for the kids who pump gas.
I also looked at Titan and my Canadian postal code was considered "wrong". Now, I support SD. It's a great feat from the guys that build it.
I have a feeling the original "Bizarro Slashdot" parent post was absolutely sarcastic, and everybody fell for it. The penguin reference was obvious.
Actually, my view of this post is that it wonders why it is "News for Nerds" and why should a cartoon be singled out for censorship. There must be hundreds sharing that fate everyday. And judging by the knee-jerk reaction of all the other posters explaining how Opus / Bloom County / (...) were absolutely important in their life (though half of those posters agree that it's not as funny anymore) makes you wonder on all those postings that focus on certain cultural references associated with geek-ness. I read "Bloom County", never read "Opus", doesn't mean I want it to follow me in this forum.
The original article is not about 'Net censorship. It about a craftsman who can't find his market anymore in mainstream media and tries to find a new sponsor.
Does it show the X-Bender response?
;-)
Now, you DO know that Slashdot adds an X-Bender HTTP response which comprises of random quotes taken from Futurama at each query, now, do you ? Yes ? Ok, just checkin'
Selling them, perhaps ?
:)
I first got rid of 25% of my library this way. Old text books, books that I'll never, never open again. I'm thinking of keeping only 2+ inch reference books and a few books related to very personal subjects.
It's skinking every week.
It takes courage, a deep breath, and there you go
overvixens .... ;-)
That's a catchy name. I did a search on Google and didn't find any match (in plural) except for an Overvixen as a kick . You might have cornerned a nice new "hip" word for our age.
... started as a series of patches to proprietary Unices ?
Ditto that. Plain and simple.
Yeah, my bad. Slashcode considered my "greater than" > > as some sort of html tags and deleted it.
Easy enough.
...they could have bought the whole DVD sets and watch them everyday without commercial breaks.
... that for a company that touted to spend a billion dollars on Linux for R&D in a year (in 2001), and have a large Linux on-line material, when it comes to show off their expertise, with all the media attention and hype they hope to produce with such an announcement, they favor starting off with Windows clients.
Am I missing something ?
Julie Payette - and a hot chick may I add
In a television interview, she was granting a journalist a formal visit of the Space Station (grounded, in one piece before being dismantled and put to space or a life-sized model, I don't remember), and the jounalist did ask about the possibility of sex in space. She said that serious studies about it have been done but hinted that the only way to have sex in space, is to have one partner tied up
Funny.
... Rob Rosenberger. He is the owner of Vmyths.com, the site about computer virus hoaxes and myths. He's been dealing for years with stories about threats or outbursts of viruses. Maybe he has insights on the alleged cost of these attacks.
Although we are responsible for any editorial that appears on our site (and yes, we should have scrutinized this item before we posted it), keep in mind that this was in fact a "feed" from the Newsbytes service, much like an AP or Reuters feed. And as such, we don't typically have control over the content.
Now how many half-truths are reapeated day-in and day-out without any scrutiny?
Thus is the prime ingedient of FUD's.