My college roommate during the 2002-2003 school year was a Linux nerd. I remember how he would sit in front of his computer and laugh. When I asked him what he was going on about, he told me it was this site called Slashdot.:)
I wasn't a computer guy at that time (didn't even own a PC), but that name stuck in the back of my mind.
By February 2009 I had started to get tired of my Vista computer running like crap and I was ready to change things. I was reading about Linux and decided I need to start running it if I was wanted to become a true geek. My plan had three steps:
1. Install Ubuntu 8.10 2. Convert to the Dvorak keyboard layout 3. Find out just what Slashdot was
I joined then and while I don't post too often, I've visited practically every day for two and a half years.
Thanks for everything, Rob and best of luck to you in whatever you do next!:D
Facebook users all seem to suffer from battered wife syndrome when it comes to privacy issues. If you accept that you have no privacy on FB, OK... but believing they actually give a crap about your privacy after all that has happened it just delusional.
Any evening there is a UNL Cornhuskers football game and all the yayhoos come to the big city, you can literally feel the average IQ of Lincoln drop several points.:)
Crazy to see another story about Nebraska on Slashdot, I think that's 5 since I've been here.
It's endlessly amusing to see Slashtards rail about unions in the USA as some great evil... unions are much weaker here than in any other developed nation.
The proof that unions have no real power in the country is found in the fact that real wages for American workers have not increased in the last 40 years. Unions built the middle class, and the middle class has suffered just as unions have suffered, while corporate profits have gone up, up, up.
I suppose the reason lies with the fact we have so many computer related people here, and these fields only came into existence after unions become very weak in this country. We have people working 60 hour weeks and covering the jobs of two people saying "unions are bad"! I suppose we make a bit more money that the average guy, so we feel superior as we work our asses off.
The notion that employees can somehow have more power than employers in the workplace is absurd. No unions means no opposition to owner class greed.
I dislike being awake for 4-5 hours before work, it makes the end of the work shift really drag. I really need my free time to come after work and before bedtime, rather than after bedtime and before work.
Yamauchi wanted to primarily target the North American market, so he mandated that the game be given an English title. Miyamoto decided to name the game for the ape, whom he felt to be the strongest character The story of how Miyamoto came up with the name "Donkey Kong" varies. A popular urban myth says that the name was originally meant to be "Monkey Kong", but was misspelled or misinterpreted due to a blurred fax or bad telephone connection. Another story claims Miyamoto looked in a Japanese-English dictionary for something that would mean "stubborn gorilla," or that "Donkey" was meant to convey "silly" or "stubborn"; "Kong" was common Japanese slang for "gorilla". A rival claim is that he worked with Nintendo's export manager to come up with the title, and that "Donkey" was meant to represent "stupid and goofy".
So the answer is... maybe?
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I get that in Firefox all the time... very visually annoying! It could be related to NoScript since I don't see the permanent spinner when using Opera.
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A democracy is two wolves and a sheep getting together to decide what's for lunch.
Our republic is a banker, a CEO, and a McDonald's order taker deciding on who's going to pay for lunch.
What are the UIDs up to, anyway?
Somewhere around my UID plus 1 million.
Indeed... it is probably the most effective nametroll I have seen on /. :)
My college roommate during the 2002-2003 school year was a Linux nerd. I remember how he would sit in front of his computer and laugh. When I asked him what he was going on about, he told me it was this site called Slashdot. :)
I wasn't a computer guy at that time (didn't even own a PC), but that name stuck in the back of my mind.
By February 2009 I had started to get tired of my Vista computer running like crap and I was ready to change things. I was reading about Linux and decided I need to start running it if I was wanted to become a true geek. My plan had three steps:
1. Install Ubuntu 8.10
2. Convert to the Dvorak keyboard layout
3. Find out just what Slashdot was
I joined then and while I don't post too often, I've visited practically every day for two and a half years.
Thanks for everything, Rob and best of luck to you in whatever you do next! :D
Couldn't be bothered to RTFA even for this story, eh? :)
He's just losing the ability to post stories as an editor, he says he'll still do some story submissions and post like a normal user.
"This time it will be different"
Facebook users all seem to suffer from battered wife syndrome when it comes to privacy issues. If you accept that you have no privacy on FB, OK... but believing they actually give a crap about your privacy after all that has happened it just delusional.
Indeed... I ended up disabling the extension on Google's site because of this. :(
Any evening there is a UNL Cornhuskers football game and all the yayhoos come to the big city, you can literally feel the average IQ of Lincoln drop several points. :)
Crazy to see another story about Nebraska on Slashdot, I think that's 5 since I've been here.
Leave Mario and Luigi out of this! :)
how does Google know that my real name isn't "Pope Ratzo"?
Because you gave the game away here on Slashdot! Google is too smart to be mislead by a extraneous space. :)
L2 is much closer to Earth than L4 or L5 is.
The barycenter of the Sun-Jupiter system lies at 1.068 Solar radii from the Sun's center... i.e. outside the Sun itself.
A significant fraction of the earth's density (~20%) comes from gravitational compression.
A smaller body with the exact same material composition as Earth would have lower density than the Earth does.
Your examples are backwards... the observes experiences more time passage than you do on your lightspeed plane, not less.
It's endlessly amusing to see Slashtards rail about unions in the USA as some great evil... unions are much weaker here than in any other developed nation.
The proof that unions have no real power in the country is found in the fact that real wages for American workers have not increased in the last 40 years. Unions built the middle class, and the middle class has suffered just as unions have suffered, while corporate profits have gone up, up, up.
I suppose the reason lies with the fact we have so many computer related people here, and these fields only came into existence after unions become very weak in this country. We have people working 60 hour weeks and covering the jobs of two people saying "unions are bad"! I suppose we make a bit more money that the average guy, so we feel superior as we work our asses off.
The notion that employees can somehow have more power than employers in the workplace is absurd. No unions means no opposition to owner class greed.
Perhaps you'll recall that those fuels had higher octane due to a certain additive... lead.
I dislike being awake for 4-5 hours before work, it makes the end of the work shift really drag. I really need my free time to come after work and before bedtime, rather than after bedtime and before work.
From Wikipedia:
Yamauchi wanted to primarily target the North American market, so he mandated that the game be given an English title. Miyamoto decided to name the game for the ape, whom he felt to be the strongest character The story of how Miyamoto came up with the name "Donkey Kong" varies. A popular urban myth says that the name was originally meant to be "Monkey Kong", but was misspelled or misinterpreted due to a blurred fax or bad telephone connection. Another story claims Miyamoto looked in a Japanese-English dictionary for something that would mean "stubborn gorilla," or that "Donkey" was meant to convey "silly" or "stubborn"; "Kong" was common Japanese slang for "gorilla". A rival claim is that he worked with Nintendo's export manager to come up with the title, and that "Donkey" was meant to represent "stupid and goofy".
So the answer is... maybe?
It was mentioned in TFA: http://developers.slashdot.org/story/02/03/20/0143248/Finally-Real-P2P-With-Brains
With http download services such as megaupload, filesonic etc... I regularly max out my 25Mbps connection while downloading
Are you are getting 25Mbps download from those services as a free user or as a paid user?
Any reasonable forum should give you the option of disabling animated images in your user control panel.
I get that in Firefox all the time... very visually annoying! It could be related to NoScript since I don't see the permanent spinner when using Opera.
Americans spent so much using massive engines to putter around town they collectively forgot how to shift gears.
Ubuntu users who go to Opera's download page will be offered a .deb package that automatically sets up the Opera repo for further updates.
Your talk of "re-compilation" for a closed source program like Opera makes me think you are a troll.
Real nerds know that the orange and red properties are the ones to get because they are landed on much more often than the dark blues.