Why doesn't someone grow a pair testicles... For the same reason you don't grow a pair of ovaries, sir. Personally, I think the metaphor of having (or growing, if you will...) a Spine or Backbone is more accurate, and includes everyone. This is slashdot, I know, but, c'mon...
It's for that reasons like that the ignorant chaps further up there can't believe that Arabs could have come up with aperiodic tiling. If we generalize this to the field of anthropology, it might explain our modern astonishment at finding more evidence of intelligence and intention in our ancestors the closer we look... The Ice-Man's tattoo of acupuncture therapy is one example.
To use the latest vernacular, we "pwn" a lot o' hubris along with our shiny supercomputers until we cop to the fact that we are just the recentest froth to call ourselves the crown of creation. (Sorry to mix metaphors, but need more coffee)
I see no reason to assume that medieval Arabs didn't understand what they did. It even seems churlish to suggest otherwise.
The term is "Affects". Although you have a tough row to hoe since you didn't ask for an inconvenient (in this age) surname, I suggest that you are the exception that proves the rule. You seem to suggest that your personal travails should justify the unfettered avalanche of UCE, which is quite a narrow viewpoint. Have you considered (gasp!) legally changing your name? Radical, I admit, but you seem desperate.
So what? GP's post is illustrative and abbreviated, and it has the human touch of sharing information with folks who might not be inclined to dash off to Google for everything, especially when an example is conveniently placed in front of the thread-follower.
Speaking of condescending, did you get out of the sack grumpy or what? Go have a snit by yourself if you wish to advertise your snotty 'tude... (and have a nice day:)
What I fail to understand is why Microsoft would rather pay hefty lawyers' fees rather than offer you a non-disclosure arrangement in which you can retire at graduation. Congratulations on your technical prowess, btw.
I'm showing my age here, but as a young numismatist back in the early sixties in California, at any forum where the term "penny" was used to indicate the Lincoln cent, s/he would be shouted down and sarcastically informed that pennies were English coins and that was that.
I have scanned about 256 posts and no one that I can see has pointed this out. I think I am a dinosaur, if not a trilobite... Hep me outta this chair, wouldja sonny?
Why don't they call it personnel anymore? I suspect it is for the nefarious purpose of quashing any sense of "togetherness" that might be inferred from any euphemism that describes a set of people supposedly working in common cause. Team, crew, gang and personnel indicate membership in a group. On the other hand, "human resources" can mean the folks who rowed the big boats for the Roman Empire, or perhaps the poor wretches who are sent to fight foreign wars.
Why doesn't my keyboard have a cent-sign above the numbers like my typewriter did? My $0.02, then...
Modding isn't about rewarding correctness. Modding is about rewarding concise, insightful ideas. Whether or not they're scientifically correct, or even based in science is another story entirely and not something that any of the moderators should even deal with. How can something be "insightful" if you, as a moderator with no axe to grind, know personally that the ideas promulgated are scientifically absurd?
As for "concise", it is indeed a quality that best suits a simple explication, a joke, or troll/flamebait. Some of the least concise posts are rated "informative" because they put an end to endless nitpicking over minor aspects of an over-argued thread.
When I'm given Mod points, I look for the obscure gems that are floating out there rated 1. Although I don't have an agenda (have rated sentiments opposite to my own "interesting", for instance), There are too many good posts out there deserving to be seen to worry about whether any particular "iffy" post is worth 20% of my judgement.
This whole article appears misleading, although IANAS(cientist). I believe the next energy level at which experimetation takes place may turn out to reveal the so-called "Higgs boson" which is the particle/field that gives the other subatomic particles their particular masses. If they find it, it will help support, Not Prove that sting theory (now morphing to M-Theory) is possibly valid.
We run up against an inconvenient idea called the Anthropic Principle which basically says that the universe is the way it is or we wouldn't be here to wonder about it, since the Constants we observe are so exquisitely tuned to form a world like the one we see and sense. String theory has the albatross around its neck of explaining why there are so many (squillions of trillions) solutions to the theory, each representing a possible universe, and why we live in the one we do.
It is pretty hard to posit (but not demonstrate) an infinity of parallel universes along side our own, especially if the energy needed to explore Planck-length dimensions is beyond our theoretical grasp at the moment. String theory exhibits mathematical elegance, but it has a lot of 'splaining to do.
Your comment is remarkably reasoned and rational, but it starts with the assumption that the corporal punishment the GP/OP was suggesting is considered "vengange" in the Asian countries in which caning (whipping with bamboo) exists. I suggest it is employed largely for deterrence in those cases. Its effectiveness is beyond the scope of this post.
I wholly agree no encoouragement is needed for violence or the infliction of pain. We (as a species) seem capable of it without persuasion.
I can't access my bank online with Firefox 2 with either my slick Linux notebook, or my ancient Windows box. The bank's login page (which I can't get past) helpfully informs me that the site supports Firefox 2, but I can only use IE 5.5 on the Wintel (w/NT 4.0) machine to access my account. The funny (!?) part is that Firefox 1.4 worked fine previously... Has anyone else had these difficulties? (FF 2 are plain vanilla installations w/ Java and Javascript enabled...)
The service price I pay is $51.86/mo., which includes static IP ($5.00) and the DSL USF surcharge ($1.91. I did five download tests, here are the results: 1. 768 kb/s 2. 859 kb/s 3. 1.22 mb/s 4. 1.24 mb/s 5. 1.24 mb/s
upload: 1. 306 kb/s 2. 305 kb/s
I don't know about pricing plans currently. When I signed up I opted for the cheapest deal (excepting static IP) but you can visit their website for details.
I wish I had better news for you. On the upside, the network is rarely down, and the people at the other end of the telephone are nice and helpful.
BTW, I'm 20 miles from any from any town with a stoplight. DSL might be pricey, but for the cost it's lots better than dial-up, my only other option. HTH.
I live in Marshfield, VT, and I have been well-served by FairPoint for years. I've had a DSL connection for over a year, and the speed keeps increasing at no extra costs.
The few times decades ago I was serviced by NYNEX (now Verizon) and it sucked. You'll be much better off with FairPoint, in my experience.
Mark my words, in twelve months time your world will be changed beyond recognition because of internet-cheese. Finally, since we've already had internet-crackers for ages...
I watched some documentary-style program on the history channel that suggested that the number 666 actually "translated" to (the Roman Emperor) Nero, who was persecuting the Christians and about whom the text of Revelation is actually accusing in an indirect manner, iirc. I agree we don't a tongue-twister to describe the baseless dread of a simple integer whose very origin is so hysterically twisted. (Sorry if I fit the word-nazi descriptor. Just trying to advance understanding...)
I notice that this entire mishmash of faulty syllogisms is enclosed in quotation marks. Could the OP satisfy the curious and reveal whom is being quoted?
I used to keep a bottle of Bailey's or Kahlua on my desk at work just to add to my coffee. Hmm. I'm curious... Was your boss okay with this? Were You the boss? Didn't you notice the level of beverage shrinking after every time you left your desk? (Along with the increased level of merriment amongst one's co-workers?) Anyway, congratulations on your ability to mix lubricity and efficiency.
Flash forward to the 80's when comics started going really adult in this country for the first time. Really dark, gory, and real. As a proud fogie (can't help when you were born...), I must point out that you left out the comics of the late sixties, Zap, Yellow Dog, etc., featuring R. Crumb, S. Clay Wilson and many others. 'Twas psychedelia mixed with sex and "kozmic trooths" in the comic medium that deserves mention, too. These were "underground" items and were generally purchased at City Lights Bookstore, SF, or one of the zillions of head shops around back then.
Good question! Not usually prone to conspiracy theories, but the GP might have multiple accounts, or confederates, with mod points. It is not the typical "insightful" comment, for sure! Oh, well...
His exhaustive book How the Mind Works suggests strongly that what we refer to as "free will" is actually an elaborate lie. The brain (or a subsection of it) fools us into thinking we're running the show, but subtle analyses of brain-injury patients reveals that the ego is the "last to know" what the story is/will be. I have stated this clumsily, but I recommend the patience to read this (hefty paperback) tome.
It all reminds me of Giles Goat Boy, wherein the protagonist declares, "Self-knowledge is always bad news..."
I use Linux on my desktop becuase it's more friendly to the stuff that I want to do, and for the most part lets me do thing the way I want to do them.
Agreed. Having just resurrected my laptop with SuSE 9.1 and KDE 3.2 installed, and even though it is somewhat dated, it is much nicer than my windows desktop. It occasionally freezes up, but I'm sure I haven't tweaked the right "knobs" yet.
Exactly what does development (or simply more bells and whistles) do but supplant but an already workable system? Isn't it possible to appreciate what you currently have versus whatever vaporware is the current buzz?
Another thing: it seems somewhat churlish to knock the linux desktop when it didn't cost you anything; if OS X users want to compare, that's fine, but recall that money changed hands for expensive equipment and software. If the advantage is to your liking then it is worth it. For the rest of us, there's a cheap way to get linux functionality, even if the interface is not cutting-edge. Happy Festivus
I see these comments customized for almost every story, but I don't know what the "in-joke" is. Most of the posts are from an AC, but yours isn't. Would you (or anyone) clue me in as to the reason you find this funny? They're never modded up, so is it just schtick or what?
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Personally, I think the metaphor of having (or growing, if you will...) a Spine or Backbone is more accurate, and includes everyone.
This is slashdot, I know, but, c'mon...
To use the latest vernacular, we "pwn" a lot o' hubris along with our shiny supercomputers until we cop to the fact that we are just the recentest froth to call ourselves the crown of creation. (Sorry to mix metaphors, but need more coffee)
I see no reason to assume that medieval Arabs didn't understand what they did. It even seems churlish to suggest otherwise.
The term is "Affects". Although you have a tough row to hoe since you didn't ask for an inconvenient (in this age) surname, I suggest that you are the exception that proves the rule. You seem to suggest that your personal travails should justify the unfettered avalanche of UCE, which is quite a narrow viewpoint. Have you considered (gasp!) legally changing your name? Radical, I admit, but you seem desperate.
So what? GP's post is illustrative and abbreviated, and it has the human touch of sharing information with folks who might not be inclined to dash off to Google for everything, especially when an example is conveniently placed in front of the thread-follower.
Speaking of condescending, did you get out of the sack grumpy or what? Go have a snit by yourself if you wish to advertise your snotty 'tude... (and have a nice day:)
What I fail to understand is why Microsoft would rather pay hefty lawyers' fees rather than offer you a non-disclosure arrangement in which you can retire at graduation. Congratulations on your technical prowess, btw.
I'm showing my age here, but as a young numismatist back in the early sixties in California, at any forum where the term "penny" was used to indicate the Lincoln cent, s/he would be shouted down and sarcastically informed that pennies were English coins and that was that.
I have scanned about 256 posts and no one that I can see has pointed this out. I think I am a dinosaur, if not a trilobite... Hep me outta this chair, wouldja sonny?
Why doesn't my keyboard have a cent-sign above the numbers like my typewriter did? My $0.02, then...
As for "concise", it is indeed a quality that best suits a simple explication, a joke, or troll/flamebait. Some of the least concise posts are rated "informative" because they put an end to endless nitpicking over minor aspects of an over-argued thread.
When I'm given Mod points, I look for the obscure gems that are floating out there rated 1. Although I don't have an agenda (have rated sentiments opposite to my own "interesting", for instance), There are too many good posts out there deserving to be seen to worry about whether any particular "iffy" post is worth 20% of my judgement.
This whole article appears misleading, although IANAS(cientist). I believe the next energy level at which experimetation takes place may turn out to reveal the so-called "Higgs boson" which is the particle/field that gives the other subatomic particles their particular masses. If they find it, it will help support, Not Prove that sting theory (now morphing to M-Theory) is possibly valid.
We run up against an inconvenient idea called the Anthropic Principle which basically says that the universe is the way it is or we wouldn't be here to wonder about it, since the Constants we observe are so exquisitely tuned to form a world like the one we see and sense. String theory has the albatross around its neck of explaining why there are so many (squillions of trillions) solutions to the theory, each representing a possible universe, and why we live in the one we do.
It is pretty hard to posit (but not demonstrate) an infinity of parallel universes along side our own, especially if the energy needed to explore Planck-length dimensions is beyond our theoretical grasp at the moment. String theory exhibits mathematical elegance, but it has a lot of 'splaining to do.
Your comment is remarkably reasoned and rational, but it starts with the assumption that the corporal punishment the GP/OP was suggesting is considered "vengange" in the Asian countries in which caning (whipping with bamboo) exists. I suggest it is employed largely for deterrence in those cases. Its effectiveness is beyond the scope of this post.
I wholly agree no encoouragement is needed for violence or the infliction of pain. We (as a species) seem capable of it without persuasion.
I can't access my bank online with Firefox 2 with either my slick Linux notebook, or my ancient Windows box. The bank's login page (which I can't get past) helpfully informs me that the site supports Firefox 2, but I can only use IE 5.5 on the Wintel (w/NT 4.0) machine to access my account. The funny (!?) part is that Firefox 1.4 worked fine previously... Has anyone else had these difficulties? (FF 2 are plain vanilla installations w/ Java and Javascript enabled...)
The service price I pay is $51.86/mo., which includes static IP ($5.00) and the DSL USF surcharge ($1.91.
I did five download tests, here are the results:
1. 768 kb/s
2. 859 kb/s
3. 1.22 mb/s
4. 1.24 mb/s
5. 1.24 mb/s
upload:
1. 306 kb/s
2. 305 kb/s
I don't know about pricing plans currently. When I signed up I opted for the cheapest deal (excepting static IP) but you can visit their website for details.
I wish I had better news for you. On the upside, the network is rarely down, and the people at the other end of the telephone are nice and helpful.
BTW, I'm 20 miles from any from any town with a stoplight. DSL might be pricey, but for the cost it's lots better than dial-up, my only other option. HTH.
I live in Marshfield, VT, and I have been well-served by FairPoint for years. I've had a DSL connection for over a year, and the speed keeps increasing at no extra costs.
The few times decades ago I was serviced by NYNEX (now Verizon) and it sucked. You'll be much better off with FairPoint, in my experience.
I, for one, welcome the overthrow of our FCC Overlords by this entity Sununu.
I watched some documentary-style program on the history channel that suggested that the number 666 actually "translated" to (the Roman Emperor) Nero, who was persecuting the Christians and about whom the text of Revelation is actually accusing in an indirect manner, iirc. I agree we don't a tongue-twister to describe the baseless dread of a simple integer whose very origin is so hysterically twisted. (Sorry if I fit the word-nazi descriptor. Just trying to advance understanding...)
I notice that this entire mishmash of faulty syllogisms is enclosed in quotation marks. Could the OP satisfy the curious and reveal whom is being quoted?
If this is a troll, I bit, haul me in...
Anyway, congratulations on your ability to mix lubricity and efficiency.
Good question! Not usually prone to conspiracy theories, but the GP might have multiple accounts, or confederates, with mod points. It is not the typical "insightful" comment, for sure! Oh, well...
At least until the sun spits out a bull's eye Coronal Mass Ejection that fries nearly all of these orbiting gnats.
His exhaustive book How the Mind Works suggests strongly that what we refer to as "free will" is actually an elaborate lie. The brain (or a subsection of it) fools us into thinking we're running the show, but subtle analyses of brain-injury patients reveals that the ego is the "last to know" what the story is/will be. I have stated this clumsily, but I recommend the patience to read this (hefty paperback) tome.
It all reminds me of Giles Goat Boy, wherein the protagonist declares, "Self-knowledge is always bad news..."
I use Linux on my desktop becuase it's more friendly to the stuff that I want to do, and for the most part lets me do thing the way I want to do them.
Agreed. Having just resurrected my laptop with SuSE 9.1 and KDE 3.2 installed, and even though it is somewhat dated, it is much nicer than my windows desktop. It occasionally freezes up, but I'm sure I haven't tweaked the right "knobs" yet.Exactly what does development (or simply more bells and whistles) do but supplant but an already workable system? Isn't it possible to appreciate what you currently have versus whatever vaporware is the current buzz?
Another thing: it seems somewhat churlish to knock the linux desktop when it didn't cost you anything; if OS X users want to compare, that's fine, but recall that money changed hands for expensive equipment and software. If the advantage is to your liking then it is worth it. For the rest of us, there's a cheap way to get linux functionality, even if the interface is not cutting-edge.
Happy Festivus
Thanks, and to all the other helpful posters. I actually saw the episode referenced on fox reruns lately, too! Just didn't make the connection. Duh.
I see these comments customized for almost every story, but I don't know what the "in-joke" is. Most of the posts are from an AC, but yours isn't. Would you (or anyone) clue me in as to the reason you find this funny? They're never modded up, so is it just schtick or what?