I have fond memories of Gaiman's rendition of "Walk on the Wild Side" played on a piano at about two in the morning at a small SF con about the time Good Omens came out.
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You're mad. You know that, don't you...
In a similar vein, the British UFO Society recently closed its doors due to the lack of interest.
Gosh. Wonder why. Could be we're basically less mad...
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If they can for once and for all put paid to the practice of having some moron's phone start bleeping away absolutely murdering a well known tune, then I'm all for it. I cringe sometimes at the sheer awfulness of it. It's only very slightly made better when you hear another monotone rendition of the Mission Impossible theme and all the yuppie bastards on the train get out their phones...
Taking glorious music full of passion and turning it into a loathesome beeping is a crime against humanity.
Next they can go for those sodding greeting cards that bleep away annoyingly.
Death to them all!
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You know, I'm sure that only the other day I was reading pages of lengthy and semi-literate diatribes about how Sony were one of the greatest evils on the planet (mostly because they don't like you stealing music & films from them).
Suddenly, they put out a Linux kit for the PS2 and they're the best little bunnies in the whole wide world, you just want to hug them and kiss them and call them George...
Baa for me. Go on. Let me hear you say Baaaa!
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Note: Atheism != amorality.
You do not have to have primitive beliefs in any god in order to have morals. Atheists consider themselves just as moral as anyone else.
Science is not based on faith. Science is based on logic and observation.
Religion is all bollocks. All organised religion is based around the desires of the few to control the many. You may as well put "Jedi" as a religion on your census form as it's no more made-up a religion than any other, only newer.
All you religious trolls should just start ChristDot or some such thing and bugger off there!BR
Oh dear. Have I offended your strange primitive beliefs? Well, forgive me!
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Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?
Well, I think so Brain, but how are we going to install Linux on an electric can opener?
Bryan Grimshaw made a Linux machine inside of a toaster oven. The idea behind the toaster is to show the ease of setting up a Linux terminal/server network
And what, pray was the point in taking a perfectly good toaster-oven which could have quite happily been used to make toast and roast small items, and turn it into a stupid-looking computer case?
None! None at all...
How does this show kids how to set up a terminal/server network?
It doesn't! It's just completely pointless and stupid!
A small while ago when you could come up with any crazy idea for using the internet and have people throw money at you, people were going on and on about how in the Internet Future you'd have the internet on your toaster and the internet on your fridge blah blah blah. This is just the same. Hey! We can do Linux on a watch! Well big deal! A watch is a device for keeping the time. It doesn't need to run Linux or any other operating system for that matter. It has a mechanism. This is all it needs. A toaster just needs to be able to make toast and switch off when the toast reaches the required setting. It doesn't need to be computerised, it just needs simple electrics.
A fridge just needs to keep things cold. It only needs a pump and a temperature sensor - simple electics.
I don't want any of my household appliances on the internet, or running Linux, just because some geeks think it's cool, thank you very much... It's just so unnecessary!
Oh, and by the way. It's not cool at all. It's stupid and sad.
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This is presumably why you're not supposed to be able to get a good cup of tea in America. God forbid you should let someone pour BOILING WATER onto the leaves or bag.
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with the new Theremin Interface! With just two metal rods mounted on your monitor you can control your PC by just waving your hands in front of the screen!!!
Actually, that would be rather cool.... Especially if it still made the oooEEEOoooouuuUU noises.
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When it comes to space stations, the Russians are the experts. I'd trust them to build a space station far more than the Americans, on account of they have the most expertise on what works.
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The Alcatel Speed Touch ADSL modem is a Ethernet to ADSL bridge/router
That and the photographs shows me that they're talking about a completely different device to the one used by the BT Openworld residential service, which is a USB device.
Unless the USB device (stingray) has the same problem, then this does not affect almost all UK ADSL users.
Can anyone confirm or deny this with sources rather than speculate?
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Somebody, anybody PLEASE mod that message up as a troll. That guy ought to watch out the daylight doesn't turn him to stone...
I didn't think eyeballs could vomit!
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Of course, it's not like the American Air Force ever accidentally crash, like into cable-car lines killing civilians, or into a private plane killing its pilot, or into Scottish mountains killing themselves, now, is it...
It's not like they ever accidentally kill their allies by shooting mavericks at clearly marked allied troop carriers now, is it...
Even your navy has got into the accidentally crashing into people lark now, by taking out a trawler.
It's strange that this should happen days after the US Government declared that China was "The Enemy", really. I'm sure had a Chinese spy plane landed in US territory it would have been picked down to the last rivet by now, and there'd be one hell of a fuss about returning the crew.
I'm sure the US wouldn't return the Chinese aircrew of this putative scenario as quickly as the US want China to return their air crew.
Bush is an arse of the highest order, and the sooner you lot get rid of him the quicker the rest of the world can sleep safely in our beds...
That's if our beds are not underwater by then because of Bush being King Polluter!
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I think you're confusing Jesus with some of the people who came after him. After all. the essential teaching of Jesus Christ (and it says this in the bible) is "Love thy neighbour as thyself". And there are no exception clauses to that.
Which is why hatemongers who call themselves Christians really aren't...
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The best thing I read about the ISRO was this.
I would really love to see some other nation reach the moon, whether it was India or even China. And if some day the Indians colonised the moon, at least you'd be sure of a good curry up there...
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There's one major reason why they don't send it out to space. It would cost too much in terms of fuel. It's a lot easier to slow the orbit so it falls to earth, than to escape the earth's gravity, when you're dealing with something that has as much mass as Mir. Also the thrust required may cause bits to drop off, adding to space junk threatening the ISS and anything else going into space.
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But AOL CD-ROMs are so useful! You can use them to prevent hot mugs of tea leaving a ring on the table! I thought everybody used them for that purpose. I've heard of people stringing them up over their gardens to keep the birds off. Sticking loads of them onto something for that shiny bad sci-fi look. Loads of uses for the CD-ROMS.
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Actually the really funny thing about that was he *thought* he'd bought Tower bridge - the ornate one with the hinged roadway to let ships underneath. Only to find he'd actually bought the old London Bridge - a rather unimpressive concrete thing...
Oh how we laughed!
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It's denying the rights of the artist.
It's theft. Pure and simple.
But you "I want it all for free" thieving scum don't understand that.
Or do you actually want an end to reward & creativity?
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Slashdot Mirror
It's only pronounced guymun if you're a brummie!
I have fond memories of Gaiman's rendition of "Walk on the Wild Side" played on a piano at about two in the morning at a small SF con about the time Good Omens came out.
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Because he deserves it...
No. Really. He does. He was stupid.
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What's it say in the bible again? "The GEEK shall inherit the earth"?
Think your copy has a misprint.
It's "MEEK", you fool!
One thing you couldn't accuse your average slashdot hive-member of being.
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And then there's the Douglas Adams thing about the guy who proved that God ddin't exist . . . .
Yeah. But he went on to prove that black = white, and got run over on the next zebra crossing...!
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You're mad. You know that, don't you...
In a similar vein, the British UFO Society recently closed its doors due to the lack of interest.
Gosh. Wonder why. Could be we're basically less mad...
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If they can for once and for all put paid to the practice of having some moron's phone start bleeping away absolutely murdering a well known tune, then I'm all for it. I cringe sometimes at the sheer awfulness of it. It's only very slightly made better when you hear another monotone rendition of the Mission Impossible theme and all the yuppie bastards on the train get out their phones...
Taking glorious music full of passion and turning it into a loathesome beeping is a crime against humanity.
Next they can go for those sodding greeting cards that bleep away annoyingly.
Death to them all!
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
You know, I'm sure that only the other day I was reading pages of lengthy and semi-literate diatribes about how Sony were one of the greatest evils on the planet (mostly because they don't like you stealing music & films from them).
Suddenly, they put out a Linux kit for the PS2 and they're the best little bunnies in the whole wide world, you just want to hug them and kiss them and call them George...
Baa for me. Go on. Let me hear you say Baaaa!
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
Note: Atheism != amorality.
You do not have to have primitive beliefs in any god in order to have morals. Atheists consider themselves just as moral as anyone else.
Science is not based on faith. Science is based on logic and observation.
Religion is all bollocks. All organised religion is based around the desires of the few to control the many. You may as well put "Jedi" as a religion on your census form as it's no more made-up a religion than any other, only newer.
All you religious trolls should just start ChristDot or some such thing and bugger off there!BR Oh dear. Have I offended your strange primitive beliefs? Well, forgive me!
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Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?
Well, I think so Brain, but how are we going to install Linux on an electric can opener?
Bryan Grimshaw made a Linux machine inside of a toaster oven. The idea behind the toaster is to show the ease of setting up a Linux terminal/server network
And what, pray was the point in taking a perfectly good toaster-oven which could have quite happily been used to make toast and roast small items, and turn it into a stupid-looking computer case?
None! None at all...
How does this show kids how to set up a terminal/server network?
It doesn't! It's just completely pointless and stupid!
A small while ago when you could come up with any crazy idea for using the internet and have people throw money at you, people were going on and on about how in the Internet Future you'd have the internet on your toaster and the internet on your fridge blah blah blah. This is just the same. Hey! We can do Linux on a watch! Well big deal! A watch is a device for keeping the time. It doesn't need to run Linux or any other operating system for that matter. It has a mechanism. This is all it needs. A toaster just needs to be able to make toast and switch off when the toast reaches the required setting. It doesn't need to be computerised, it just needs simple electrics. A fridge just needs to keep things cold. It only needs a pump and a temperature sensor - simple electics.
I don't want any of my household appliances on the internet, or running Linux, just because some geeks think it's cool, thank you very much... It's just so unnecessary!
Oh, and by the way. It's not cool at all. It's stupid and sad.
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This is presumably why you're not supposed to be able to get a good cup of tea in America. God forbid you should let someone pour BOILING WATER onto the leaves or bag.
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with the new Theremin Interface! With just two metal rods mounted on your monitor you can control your PC by just waving your hands in front of the screen!!!
Actually, that would be rather cool.... Especially if it still made the oooEEEOoooouuuUU noises.
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
When it comes to space stations, the Russians are the experts. I'd trust them to build a space station far more than the Americans, on account of they have the most expertise on what works.
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The Alcatel Speed Touch ADSL modem is a Ethernet to ADSL bridge/router
That and the photographs shows me that they're talking about a completely different device to the one used by the BT Openworld residential service, which is a USB device.
Unless the USB device (stingray) has the same problem, then this does not affect almost all UK ADSL users.
Can anyone confirm or deny this with sources rather than speculate?
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Somebody, anybody PLEASE mod that message up as a troll. That guy ought to watch out the daylight doesn't turn him to stone...
I didn't think eyeballs could vomit!
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Of course, it's not like the American Air Force ever accidentally crash, like into cable-car lines killing civilians, or into a private plane killing its pilot, or into Scottish mountains killing themselves, now, is it...
It's not like they ever accidentally kill their allies by shooting mavericks at clearly marked allied troop carriers now, is it...
Even your navy has got into the accidentally crashing into people lark now, by taking out a trawler.
It's strange that this should happen days after the US Government declared that China was "The Enemy", really. I'm sure had a Chinese spy plane landed in US territory it would have been picked down to the last rivet by now, and there'd be one hell of a fuss about returning the crew.
I'm sure the US wouldn't return the Chinese aircrew of this putative scenario as quickly as the US want China to return their air crew.
Bush is an arse of the highest order, and the sooner you lot get rid of him the quicker the rest of the world can sleep safely in our beds... That's if our beds are not underwater by then because of Bush being King Polluter!
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I think you're confusing Jesus with some of the people who came after him. After all. the essential teaching of Jesus Christ (and it says this in the bible) is "Love thy neighbour as thyself". And there are no exception clauses to that.
Which is why hatemongers who call themselves Christians really aren't...
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Yeah, but HAL in 2001 was "Heuristic Algorithmic Logic" and this is "Hyper Algorithmic Logic". So that's all right then...
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--- I still know what "POKE 53280,0" means ...
Not the poke that used to fry a particular model of Commodore PET's monitor, is it?
I agree with you about the three days early bit. I keep wondering if any of the names mean "April Fool" in some other language...
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The best thing I read about the ISRO was this.
I would really love to see some other nation reach the moon, whether it was India or even China. And if some day the Indians colonised the moon, at least you'd be sure of a good curry up there...
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There's one major reason why they don't send it out to space. It would cost too much in terms of fuel. It's a lot easier to slow the orbit so it falls to earth, than to escape the earth's gravity, when you're dealing with something that has as much mass as Mir. Also the thrust required may cause bits to drop off, adding to space junk threatening the ISS and anything else going into space.
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But AOL CD-ROMs are so useful! You can use them to prevent hot mugs of tea leaving a ring on the table! I thought everybody used them for that purpose. I've heard of people stringing them up over their gardens to keep the birds off. Sticking loads of them onto something for that shiny bad sci-fi look. Loads of uses for the CD-ROMS.
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Actually the really funny thing about that was he *thought* he'd bought Tower bridge - the ornate one with the hinged roadway to let ships underneath. Only to find he'd actually bought the old London Bridge - a rather unimpressive concrete thing...
Oh how we laughed!
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...Neither did Who Framed Roger Rabbit...
I think you'll find Bob Hoskins is in fact a human being.
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It's denying the rights of the artist.
It's theft. Pure and simple.
But you "I want it all for free" thieving scum don't understand that.
Or do you actually want an end to reward & creativity?
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And again in English, please.
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