For an interesting exercise in direct democracy, check out the Bush in 30 Seconds finalists. These have been winnowed down from some 1500 submitted ads.
All created by volunteers. Registered users get to vote on which ads they like the best, and the winners will be run on TV this election season.
My head of IT stating that "Apple will be out of business by Christmas."
That was in 1997.
As long as Apple keeps innovating and forcing everyone else to play catch-up, they'll stay in business for many Christmases to come.
One thing Apple has done well is pushing UNIX to the next-level down user, people that might not ordinarily touch the command line.
Since I started working with OSX, I've gotten much more used to dropping into the Terminal to do stuff. It started with ls -aR and now I'm grepping ifconfig to determine my MAC address. It's fun.
Thank you, Apple, for bringing out the inner Unix sysadmin in me. Now all I have to do is grow my hair long again.
Unfortunately, skipping does not mean the end of commercials, just commercials as we know them.
Subtle and not so subtle product placements will ensure that we continue to see advertising every time we watch TV, despite our best efforts.
I suggest listening to public streaming radio (in ogg format no less) as a wonderful alternative to the tripe Madison avenue continues to shove down your throat.
Is it just me or was that article way over-linked?
In keeping with submitters' tendencies to link to every single page on the web in the hopes of making the front page, I propose that all slashdot articles have links on every character of every word. For example:
I like the immersive feeling of being in the theater, and the Wilhelm breifly takes me out of that immersion, since I know what the Wilhelm is and how it got in there.
Same way the CAPS (copy protection) code flashing on the screen during Master and Commander ruined what would otherwise be some really great scenes.
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Let's get some hydrocarbons out of them old bovines! Check the .sig! If it'll work for turkey guts, it'll work for mad cows too!
Bioluminescent squid and their symbiotes were also covered (ogg file) on Quirks and Quarks, a CBC science show.
I'm all about glowing calamari, you see.
Combine some mussel superglue with some bioluminescent squid (ogg file) and you've got yourself a mean underwater flashlight, though.
It's a conspiracy. To make people...
BELIEVE THAT MARS IS RED!
Thanks for alerting us to that potential communist menace, senator.
The question that remains to be asked above all these hardware-related questions:
How many girls in skimpy outfits are hawking products?
Inquiring slashdotters want to know!
For an interesting exercise in direct democracy, check out the Bush in 30 Seconds finalists. These have been winnowed down from some 1500 submitted ads.
All created by volunteers. Registered users get to vote on which ads they like the best, and the winners will be run on TV this election season.
Just to be fair and balanced, here's a similar conservative ad. No voting though.
Assign an action to the filters you commonly use. One keystroke.
The best way to get a job like this would be to get some experience building stuff.
Legos are CHEAP on eBay available in bulk lots or even Complete mindstorms sets
And if not for you, buy them for your kids. Beats letting them rot their brains out watching TV all day.
Just watch out, stepping barefoot on a 2x2 lego in the middle of the night is worse than medieval caltrops.
i prefer to work on a PC 'cos Mac has its menu bar out of reach of the keyboard
Under OSX you can access the menu bars from the keyboard by turning on full keyboard access in the keyboard control panel.
I use it all the time to lighten up on my RSI problems.
build your own with xGrid!
Perhaps all those oxides in the soil get whipped up into the air by the intense winds on the surface, coloring the sky kinda butterscotch?
If ever there was an opportunity for a submitter to include a goatse link in an article, this is it!
Careful what you click on!
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, then you win."
-- M. Gandhi
It looks like we're in stage 3 already. Any takers on when stage 4 can be confirmed?
Secretariat's heart weighed 22 pounds, while a typical thoroughbred's ticker weighs about eight and a half.
That's a lot of chow.
This might have implications for abiotic oil research.
If microbes can produce proto-rocket fuel, is it such a stretch to believe they can create crude oil as well?
Before Jobs the iWhite sends out his Uruk-Hai to crush the rumor sites.
My head of IT stating that "Apple will be out of business by Christmas."
That was in 1997.
As long as Apple keeps innovating and forcing everyone else to play catch-up, they'll stay in business for many Christmases to come.
One thing Apple has done well is pushing UNIX to the next-level down user, people that might not ordinarily touch the command line.
Since I started working with OSX, I've gotten much more used to dropping into the Terminal to do stuff. It started with ls -aR and now I'm grepping ifconfig to determine my MAC address. It's fun.
Thank you, Apple, for bringing out the inner Unix sysadmin in me. Now all I have to do is grow my hair long again.
Unfortunately, skipping does not mean the end of commercials, just commercials as we know them.
Subtle and not so subtle product placements will ensure that we continue to see advertising every time we watch TV, despite our best efforts.
I suggest listening to public streaming radio (in ogg format no less) as a wonderful alternative to the tripe Madison avenue continues to shove down your throat.
Unless you like tripe. Whatever floats your boat.
They also opened up the 1.21 jiggawatts part of the spectrum.
Is it just me or was that article way over-linked?
In keeping with submitters' tendencies to link to every single page on the web in the hopes of making the front page, I propose that all slashdot articles have links on every character of every word. For example:
S l a s h d o t.
Wouldn't want to miss any trivial pieces of information, after all.
If you like your toys running OSX instead of Linux, there's always the iBrator.
I like the immersive feeling of being in the theater, and the Wilhelm breifly takes me out of that immersion, since I know what the Wilhelm is and how it got in there.
Same way the CAPS (copy protection) code flashing on the screen during Master and Commander ruined what would otherwise be some really great scenes.
Near the beginning of the Battle at Helm's Deep. An elf gets tossed off the wall and one can quite clearly hear the Wilhelm.
Detracts from the film, IMHO.