Is that an appology, it's too vague, but you are right, you do say stupid shit.
My joke got a rise out of you. That was sweet.
You 'sir' have NO idea what a joke is. Why don't you do the world a favor and imitate one of the more dangerous "jack ass" stunts. I'd suggest riding a shopping cart down a steep hill. A nice twist would be to do it in traffic, now that would be *sweet*.
your "joke" still sucked.
I'll agree that it wasn't my best post, but the content is good, and adds to the discussion, which is generally the idea of most posts, however 'noise makers' such as yourself, can be fun to burn off a little aggression with. It's Saturday night and I'm stuck in my office (the one with a door, thank you), working with idiots (likely with worthess undergrad math degrees). The good thing is that I am just attached temporarily to that project. Don't worry, I'll flex out this time in a couple of weeks, perhaps I'll work from home a couple of days. Thanks for playing.
You must be new here, and this time, I'm not kidding. Man, you're like, dense. The conversational 'surfer' talk, implying that they did not understand this fact, was the kidding aspect of my OP. Few people on this earth (at least those on the Internet) would think that NYC was anything but HUGE (not of course compared to Mexico City), AKA was an attempt to jump into a thread in a reasonably polite manner.
You 'sir' need fewer math classes and more time in the Pub.
If you call that kidding, I fear for your children.
Let's put this so you may be able to clearly understand... I have a child you bastard, and I am a responsible adult with a *real* job. Quite frankly, one you'd be happy to have 10 years from now. If you that 'greatly fear' anything you don't understand immediately, you should never step out of your dirty, dank, laundry filled, rotten pizza boxed, dorm room, the real world takes a little more thought.
According to the census bureau, it's 19,190,115 people.
If you take a better look at that page, you will find that you have confused the STATE of New York, rather than the City of NY (AKA NYC), if you are going to include Buffalo,NY as being 'in the area' you should consider including Washington, DC and Boston because they're closer.
According to the NYC dept of city planning the Census Bureau believes that there were in 8,104,079 people in the five boroughs of NYC as of July 2004.
until everyone is carrying around D-cell-sized batteries that contain enough energy to destroy a city.
That's when this converstion would come to pass:
Farnsworth: "So what are you doing to protect my constitutional right to bear doomsday devices?"
NRA Guy: "Well, first off, we're gonna get rid of that three day waiting period for mad scientists."
Farnsworth: "Damn straight! Today the mad scientist can't get a doomsday device, tomorrow it's the mad grad student! Where will it end?!"
NRA Guy: "Amen, brother. I don't go anywhere without my mutated anthrax. For duck huntin'."
AKA? Sorry, but AKA stands for Also Known As, and I'm sure this isn't what you meant.
You must be new here.
AKA (All Kidding Aside) abbreviations can have more than one meaning. If it did those folks at the American Kennel Association, Alpha Kappa Alpha, American Kitefliers Association, would need to find other ways of shortening their names.
Also, AKA is a lot simplier to type than "Away From Keyboard". IMHO, a good test of intellegence is the ability to understand the context of the message when you don't understand every word. For example memes initially grow not because they are listed somewhere or even used exactly as previously defined, but becuase people 'get' the context.
That's around $7'750'000 for these 310 micrograms...
Considering that a 'cheaper' probe is north of 350 million, 7.5 million just for some really lightweight fuel would be really cost effecient. However, I believe that the weight and cost of the containment for the antimatter is the real issue.
Only one way to find out I guess. Please wait 4-6 weeks for domain approval.
Is this what you really want?
Yes, I want a waiting period, longer than a handgun check, so that one may think of the children!
Really I think that the current system is OK, not great, but OK. People have to understand,.com,.net,.org, are already claimed, often by people who bought into those domains at the height of the Dot Com bubble. Many believed that each of those domains represented something like a lottery chance, and some of them did hit, now to make even some money from their 'holdings' many have resorted to these 'search' pages.
Some even manage to 'trick' google into thinking certain search terms are avaiable, but when you get there the page is worthless. A quick back button, or a close of the window and all I did was suck a little bandwidth from the jerk. Some (perhaps many) might learn this slower than others, but everyone eventually learns that these sudden unexpected search pages are just another form of spam. Except that this form of spam costs the owner $8/ year + hosting for each 'line'.
I expect these squaters to get a little more despairate, as time goes by. In particular with typosquaters, I think that more of them will try to mimic the site they are trying to leech off, and thus making it easier for the legimate site to easily prove their bad intentions.
over the next 5 or 10 years, I think you'll see more people using.info,.us, etc. and even some of the 'simple word'.com addresses coming quietly back on the market.
But do they really think that one city will change anything?
I don't know if you have spent any time in NYC, but, man, its like HUGE.
AKA, there's over 8 million people in the area, and from the FA there are over 50,000 cabs, and considering how often cabs spend time idoling in traffic (hybrids power down when stuck in traffic, which is why city MPG are often higher than highway, unlike every other car), just the reduction of cab produced smog alone would be worth every penny. Considering the MPG, most cab companies would save money over the long run.
Funny how that P.A.T.R.I.O.T. act had all that stuff which enabled banks to treat The People like shit.
No, I can say for certain that retail banks want, no, need your business. It's just that the 'rules' created by the Patriot Act are not yet tested, and like any law, have a certain degree of interpatation needed. According to the UCC third party checks are legal, but the Patriot Act (God, I wished they named it the more appropiate 'Big Brother Act') placed more (AFAIK) untested resrictions. With very little real guidence on the issue, it's often better to go with more restrictive rules, than take the chance of getting hit with huge fines, and/or audits.
why does a jab at a right-winger get modded up funny, but an equally clever jab at the left get's left alone?
That "equally funny jab was just the equilivant of a "your mama" come back, and really not particularly funny. However, IMHO, the OP was a little tired itself. Personally I've very *progressive*, and dislike Bush more than the average guy, but I'm a little tired of every article on Slashdot getting twisted to insult the American political system.
Thank you, for your kind and thoughful comment. You grace is only exceeded by your simpleton grasp of what's right and wrong. What I said was factually correct, but Useing coreck speling an graammer only helps peeple under stand it good.
What yur saying is that it's better to have perfect 'diction' than to have anything worth saying.
BTW, the last time I pulled out a 5 year old account I was able to get to "excellent Karma" in less than 50 posts, using only my orginal thoughts and opinions, often with the same spelling error you so deeply hate. Somehow I doubt if you'll be able to accomplish the same feat.
If you want to have every problem imaginable, go with a white-box builder.
Uh, are you speaking from experience (I doubt it).
Hardware these days usually has very poor compatibility, produces lots of heat, and has other issues.
Sure, I've built all of my own machines for like the last 9 years, often just adding one or two parts at a time and I have found that not to be true. The rare occasion which I have had problems they were obvious quickly and easily solved.
A shop that slaps together PCs with no regard for quality assurance, engineering, and compatibility testing will sink your business in no time, and most local shops are exactly like that.
Ok, how about a disk failure, actually make that two of them, in the space of less than 2 months. My work machine, under lease from a *major* company, and according to the desktop support guys, they lose them all of the time. Small shops learn after one or two failures, big 'shops' have failures by the shipping container.
I never said to just 'pop in' to some random shop and pick up a couple of machines with cash.
Until rather recently, I didn't even know that they sold wintel boxes.
Because, until recently, they didn't. I've worked with applications running on Sun boxes for a number of years, at one point during the tech boom, they were a must have, but now they are just over priced. Sure this article talks of some lower prices (for wintel desktops) but I'm sure they still want big money for anything that can be called a server.
If you are looking for a partner, choose a Linux builder, there's plenty of them out there,many with the warrenty and service plans which I am sure your customers are looking for, don't be afraid to 'go local' with a white box builder. Some are really good, and they might even be able to throw some business your way.
How is this comment a 5? Informative? Because I wouldn't have believed that someone could be stupid enough to misspell responsible and journalism, and not see the post as a joke past the first line?
Spelling Nazis, and their first cousins Grammer Trolls, have a hard time understanding that sometimes(read: nearly always) it's the message that counts. Good Grammer and spelling do (or was that does, no,no, I think do.) help get the message across in a clear manner, but on Slashdot it's better to be first (or at least early) with spelling errors, than even just a couple of minutes later, when it's easier to be marked "Redundant". I'm a little surpised that this guy who posted pretty much the same time, didn't get hit with that mod, for just submitting a couple ticks later.
Perhaps I'll be lucky and get hit with an -1 off topic, but most of the activity has threaded off the first two posts(even though the discussion have little to do with thier ansestors) and most of those with mod points tend to focus on the first hundred or so threaded messages:)
In related news, the Cable & Satellite Higher Subscription Fee Association released figures claiming that 72 percent of subscribers felt they were paying too little for their monthly programming. 18 percent said they'd gladly pay twice as much if the level of customer service could be lowered. Surprisingly, a full six percent indicated that they'd rather watch TV from cable or satellite than eat or have sex. (The margin of error for the survey is +/- 100 percent.)
Ah, responsiable journelism. When I first read that last paragraph, I did a double take, but with the variance of 100%, it's got to be a joke. **But I saw it online, it's got to be true, I mean the site even looked really professional and everything**
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Please explain that term, I am unfamilar with 'bupkus', but perhaps that is some kinda of standard journalistic term. Do you also complain about lack of explanation for "Linux, the Open Source OS (OS of course meaning Operating System)link", "Apache the Open Source community, (and Web Server depending on the context)link." Perhaps we should also always say "FTC federal trade commision, an agency of the United States federal government (link)".
IYRTAYK, if you read the article you'd know or even just made an assumption from the summany. Idaho, is of course the location of the Idaho National Laboratory (go figure), which is near Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. Looks like they'll run into a lot of local opposition to the plan, but personally I hope it passes. They dutifully elect Republicans, now, let them deal with some (more) long term environmental damage.
Anybody who knows anything about business knows that competing on price is a very, very bad idea. It's almost always a losing battle.
*Cough*, Walmart does fairly well focusing on price. Really with the online auction sites the seller is focused on price the site, but the site operator can be focused on price (like eBay) or service (like Amazon). It just depends on how much the seller is willing to pay.
Trouble with the "we'll sell anything for anybody" business is that their business reputation is hinged on keeping the scammers out. Ebay lost that fight, and because of that Amazon gets the next shot. My quess is the the 'online auction' business model needs a lot of real physical oversight (i.e. don't skimp on the call centers) and a willingness to write off some small losses.
My main box has dual 18" LCDs (HA! Had to one-up you didn't I?), one in portrait mode.(Swing and a miss!)
Actually, I have two 19" Samsung 930b monitors. I just mentioned 17"ers because you can get them fairly 'cheap' these days. They're still fairly new, and I am just getting used to having them. One odd thing that I never thought of with the dual screen setup, is the amount of 'mouse travel' to get from one screen to the next.
I took over one of their projects, so I started using it myself.
It's a good thing that you started to use the product, because you'd hate it if you had to edit by hand the pages it 'creates'. My advice...
Get your self a dual lcd setup (two 17" screens and a dual video card will cost just over $500). A good CSS book like 'CSS the definitive Guide' and your choice of text editors. Code on on screen and reload in a web browser on the other. If you are doing anything besides strait HTML/JavaScript/CSS code, I'd highly suggest using Eclipse, (RAD is even better if you don't mind paying IBM for it).
Graphic Designers often use Dreamweaver quite effectively for intial design, but Web Developers know that 2nd or 3rd generation WUSIWUG code gets really nasty.
Change zoning laws so that every place of living or drinking is accessible by realistic public transportation.
Yea, right after we end all crime! When cars drive themselves, drunks will be able to depend on transportation to/from their drinking spot.
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You 'sir' need fewer math classes and more time in the Pub.
Let's put this so you may be able to clearly understand... I have a child you bastard, and I am a responsible adult with a *real* job. Quite frankly, one you'd be happy to have 10 years from now. If you that 'greatly fear' anything you don't understand immediately, you should never step out of your dirty, dank, laundry filled, rotten pizza boxed, dorm room, the real world takes a little more thought.IGTYUT NNTTASRBYGWIM. AA, TWKR?
AFAIK it's not illegal to have a meme in a post but of course IANAL, so don't mistake my opinion for legal advice.
According to the NYC dept of city planning the Census Bureau believes that there were in 8,104,079 people in the five boroughs of NYC as of July 2004.
Farnsworth: "So what are you doing to protect my constitutional right to bear doomsday devices?"
NRA Guy: "Well, first off, we're gonna get rid of that three day waiting period for mad scientists."
Farnsworth: "Damn straight! Today the mad scientist can't get a doomsday device, tomorrow it's the mad grad student! Where will it end?!"
NRA Guy: "Amen, brother. I don't go anywhere without my mutated anthrax. For duck huntin'."
AKA (All Kidding Aside) abbreviations can have more than one meaning. If it did those folks at the American Kennel Association, Alpha Kappa Alpha, American Kitefliers Association, would need to find other ways of shortening their names.
Also, AKA is a lot simplier to type than "Away From Keyboard". IMHO, a good test of intellegence is the ability to understand the context of the message when you don't understand every word. For example memes initially grow not because they are listed somewhere or even used exactly as previously defined, but becuase people 'get' the context.
I am sorry you didn't get it.
Really I think that the current system is OK, not great, but OK. People have to understand, .com, .net, .org, are already claimed, often by people who bought into those domains at the height of the Dot Com bubble. Many believed that each of those domains represented something like a lottery chance, and some of them did hit, now to make even some money from their 'holdings' many have resorted to these 'search' pages.
Some even manage to 'trick' google into thinking certain search terms are avaiable, but when you get there the page is worthless. A quick back button, or a close of the window and all I did was suck a little bandwidth from the jerk. Some (perhaps many) might learn this slower than others, but everyone eventually learns that these sudden unexpected search pages are just another form of spam. Except that this form of spam costs the owner $8/ year + hosting for each 'line'.
I expect these squaters to get a little more despairate, as time goes by. In particular with typosquaters, I think that more of them will try to mimic the site they are trying to leech off, and thus making it easier for the legimate site to easily prove their bad intentions.
over the next 5 or 10 years, I think you'll see more people using .info, .us, etc. and even some of the 'simple word' .com addresses coming quietly back on the market.
AKA, there's over 8 million people in the area, and from the FA there are over 50,000 cabs, and considering how often cabs spend time idoling in traffic (hybrids power down when stuck in traffic, which is why city MPG are often higher than highway, unlike every other car), just the reduction of cab produced smog alone would be worth every penny. Considering the MPG, most cab companies would save money over the long run.
JK, in the US, businesses don't own the government, they just lease it.
What yur saying is that it's better to have perfect 'diction' than to have anything worth saying.
BTW, the last time I pulled out a 5 year old account I was able to get to "excellent Karma" in less than 50 posts, using only my orginal thoughts and opinions, often with the same spelling error you so deeply hate. Somehow I doubt if you'll be able to accomplish the same feat.
I never said to just 'pop in' to some random shop and pick up a couple of machines with cash.
If you are looking for a partner, choose a Linux builder, there's plenty of them out there,many with the warrenty and service plans which I am sure your customers are looking for, don't be afraid to 'go local' with a white box builder. Some are really good, and they might even be able to throw some business your way.
Perhaps I'll be lucky and get hit with an -1 off topic, but most of the activity has threaded off the first two posts(even though the discussion have little to do with thier ansestors) and most of those with mod points tend to focus on the first hundred or so threaded messages :)
No, It'll be death by taxes, I'll take a chunk of money to live forever.
IYRTAYK, if you read the article you'd know or even just made an assumption from the summany. Idaho, is of course the location of the Idaho National Laboratory (go figure), which is near Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. Looks like they'll run into a lot of local opposition to the plan, but personally I hope it passes. They dutifully elect Republicans, now, let them deal with some (more) long term environmental damage.
Trouble with the "we'll sell anything for anybody" business is that their business reputation is hinged on keeping the scammers out. Ebay lost that fight, and because of that Amazon gets the next shot. My quess is the the 'online auction' business model needs a lot of real physical oversight (i.e. don't skimp on the call centers) and a willingness to write off some small losses.
Get your self a dual lcd setup (two 17" screens and a dual video card will cost just over $500). A good CSS book like 'CSS the definitive Guide' and your choice of text editors. Code on on screen and reload in a web browser on the other. If you are doing anything besides strait HTML/JavaScript/CSS code, I'd highly suggest using Eclipse, (RAD is even better if you don't mind paying IBM for it).
Graphic Designers often use Dreamweaver quite effectively for intial design, but Web Developers know that 2nd or 3rd generation WUSIWUG code gets really nasty.
Change zoning laws so that every place of living or drinking is accessible by realistic public transportation. Yea, right after we end all crime! When cars drive themselves, drunks will be able to depend on transportation to/from their drinking spot.
I could figure out more of that myself, and I learned all of my German from Hogan's Heros.