First of all it's not a "troll" it's at worst "flamebait." Secondly, it makes a legitimate point or three. Digg does look slightly interesting but it hardly has any readership, it's similar to any number of other sites, it's hardly any sort of imminent threat to Slashdot, and it's disingenuous of the grandparent to pretend otherwise.
Also, posting whiny criticisms about the articles accomplishes exactly nothing. An well thought out critical email to one of the editors will do more, to info@ostg.com or info@vasoftware, probably more, and to Slashdot's principal advertisers, probably most of all. Certainly, by continuing to read and post to the site, the grandparent poster is part of the alleged problem.
Yawn, more excuses. You must be aware that the days of forced bussing are mostly over. Already many places have eliminated or greatly deemphasized ethicity based admissions policies. Already most census tracts are effectively resegregated. Already most premier specialized schools and top-tier colleges have very few "disadvantaged" kids. So it strikes me as a bit laughable that the problems of American youth and education boil down to "Im not abel 2 lrn propperly becoz of teh minorties."
Boo hoo. Plenty of first generation immigrant children have no problem knocking out straight A's in mostly urban school settings. If a kid wants to learn, and the parents provide the proper home environment for doing so, then the incidental presence of supposedly inferior genotypes in the school system should be of little import.
Also of interest is how the Japanese roundly criticize their own educational system (particularly with respect to bullying problems) despite their near-total racial homogeneity.
In that case, I'd argue that the surprise would have even more oomph to it in Middle English.
We are accustomed to parsing it simply as: Darth: Luke, I am your father.
but a ME speaker would get the added interpretation of:
Darth: (Do you not yet realize why they call me Father???) Luke, I am YOUR father.
The sense of inevitability of it all...it would be overwhelming. Couple that with the fact that "Luke" means "light," and you get -- Out of Darkness springs the Light. It's almost biblical.
You want to go "whoa," but then you think of Jar-Jar, and you don't.
Get with the (space) program, fellas.
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Look, NASA would solve a lot of its budgetary woes if it would just hire somebody professional to come up with names for its various projects. Space Interferometry Mission? WTF is "interferometry"? Sounds like a cancer treatment. "Planet Finder" --- boooring, besides, isn't "Finder" already trademarked by Apple? And who in the tarnation is James Webb? Some hack from the sixties nobody's ever heard of.
Off the cuff, I can think of much snappier names -- "Intragalactic Terrorist Locator" for the planet spotting thingy, "George H.W. Bush Memorial Telescope" should make it politically impossible to cancel the Hubble replacer, and for that Space Interfrazometer Moozit, let's license the sucker to Electronic Arts/Maxis and call it "SIMS in Outer Space."
Almost, but not quite. The "motorman" stopped being called a "motorman" some years ago. Now the job title is known as "Train Operator," just as we have "police officers" and "firefighters" in place of policemen and firemen.
What would a Mozilla-based IM client offer over any one of the other third-party IM clients (gaim, trillian, etc)?
If you're trying to convince your organization to switch to open-source offerings, it's easier to bring up an integrated solution such as, "We can switch to the Mozilla Suite" than to have to sell three or four different projects like, "We can switch to K-Meleon for browsing, Trillian for IM, Thunderbird for email," etc.
If disabling access to listed sites is all there is to it, then IPs can simply provide a "Net Nanny" type service to their customers. I'm pretty sure AOL is already in compliance, as are many/most other big ISPs.
He wasn't trying to be childish. He believes that secret laws are unconstitutional. By requesting that the airline security the produce the law, he was ensuring that the Constitutional issue was properly raised. Otherwise he could get before the Supreme Court Of The US and they could reject his arguments on the technicality that he failed to demonstrate that at every stage the "secret" law was in fact being withheld from him, and hence, that he had no standing to bring the suit.
So maybe the SCOTUS is childish, but Gilmore was just playing the game the way it has to be played.
What are you talking about? In the 19th century, people bound for factory work didn't generally go to high school. They didn't need to. High school was considered a road toward the middle class.
As for the new age being "creativity and knowledge-based" the fact is that for the forseeable future, most jobs will only require a high school education, regardless of their stated requirements.
If there's a problem with American high schools, it's that they tend to emphasize sports over math and science. You don't need to engage in empty political sloganeering like "building a new boat" to fix that. You just need to stop giving out sports scholarships.
An artist like Bob Dylan WOULD HAVE NO CHANCE WHATSOEVER OF GETTING AIRPLAY TODAY.
...and an artist like Enimem would've had no chance whatsoever of getting airplay in 1963. (Not to mention the entirety of rap, metal, and modern "dance" music.)
Just being in a small room with a cellphone user vs. two people having a conversation demonstrates the truth of what you are saying. The cellphone user has to expend much more effort in speaking so that the person on the other end can understand. And as a consequence, the cellphone user tends to speak much louder, and what's worse, doesn't seem particularly aware that he or she is being disruptive. Hence, you can usually tell there is a cellphone user in a room without seeing the person. The quality of their conversation is markedly different from normal one-on-one conversation.
It is as though directing your attention into this little gadget causes you to shut out the rest of the world to some extent without fully realizing it.
I like your idea of "CPU cycles." Imagine a cerebral processing unit usage meter which in normal conversation is at, say, 45%. In attempting to carry on two conversations at once, maybe it's at 90%. I suspect that a cell user would be closer to the 90% than to the 45%.
Yeah, it just had to be called "Evolution." Proving once again that those open-source bastards are commie godless heathens bent on destroying the American Way of Life. Might as well have just gone and called it "Al Q'alendar."
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First of all it's not a "troll" it's at worst "flamebait." Secondly, it makes a legitimate point or three. Digg does look slightly interesting but it hardly has any readership, it's similar to any number of other sites, it's hardly any sort of imminent threat to Slashdot, and it's disingenuous of the grandparent to pretend otherwise.
Also, posting whiny criticisms about the articles accomplishes exactly nothing. An well thought out critical email to one of the editors will do more, to info@ostg.com or info@vasoftware, probably more, and to Slashdot's principal advertisers, probably most of all. Certainly, by continuing to read and post to the site, the grandparent poster is part of the alleged problem.
Yawn, more excuses. You must be aware that the days of forced bussing are mostly over. Already many places have eliminated or greatly deemphasized ethicity based admissions policies. Already most census tracts are effectively resegregated. Already most premier specialized schools and top-tier colleges have very few "disadvantaged" kids. So it strikes me as a bit laughable that the problems of American youth and education boil down to "Im not abel 2 lrn propperly becoz of teh minorties."
Boo hoo. Plenty of first generation immigrant children have no problem knocking out straight A's in mostly urban school settings. If a kid wants to learn, and the parents provide the proper home environment for doing so, then the incidental presence of supposedly inferior genotypes in the school system should be of little import.
Also of interest is how the Japanese roundly criticize their own educational system (particularly with respect to bullying problems) despite their near-total racial homogeneity.
that the Amiga is the most secure platform out there.
Fair enough. So, if it's a girl, the mom can be a stay-at-home mom, but if it's a boy, the dad can be a stay-at-home dad. Ii desu ka?
Unambiguity is a word. But completly isn't. And confidant does not mean what you think it means.
All in all, you're undoubtedly well-intentioned, but it might be good to consider glass houses before going on language "rants."
Indeed. And if you actually google "vdw bonds," as I did, then this page comes up as a first choice (i.e. I'm Feeling Lucky).
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Think of it as a test. If someone's too clueless to figure out what vdw means, do we really even want them to be reading
but most programs haven't even got the ability to hyperthread
Now.
In that case, I'd argue that the surprise would have even more oomph to it in Middle English.
We are accustomed to parsing it simply as:
Darth: Luke, I am your father.
but a ME speaker would get the added interpretation of:
Darth: (Do you not yet realize why they call me Father???) Luke, I am YOUR father.
The sense of inevitability of it all...it would be overwhelming. Couple that with the fact that "Luke" means "light," and you get -- Out of Darkness springs the Light. It's almost biblical.
You want to go "whoa," but then you think of Jar-Jar, and you don't.
Look, NASA would solve a lot of its budgetary woes if it would just hire somebody professional to come up with names for its various projects. Space Interferometry Mission? WTF is "interferometry"? Sounds like a cancer treatment. "Planet Finder" --- boooring, besides, isn't "Finder" already trademarked by Apple? And who in the tarnation is James Webb? Some hack from the sixties nobody's ever heard of.
Off the cuff, I can think of much snappier names -- "Intragalactic Terrorist Locator" for the planet spotting thingy, "George H.W. Bush Memorial Telescope" should make it politically impossible to cancel the Hubble replacer, and for that Space Interfrazometer Moozit, let's license the sucker to Electronic Arts/Maxis and call it "SIMS in Outer Space."
So being rich makes you right?
No. Being right makes you rich.
Where do you want to wipe today?
Almost, but not quite. The "motorman" stopped being called a "motorman" some years ago. Now the job title is known as "Train Operator," just as we have "police officers" and "firefighters" in place of policemen and firemen.
"Mind your own business, Mr. Spock. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!"
"You don't frighten us, Starfleet pig-dogs!"
Will the day come when the advertising value of something will outweigh the inate value of the object itself?
If I understand your question, I'd say such things happen routinely on the internet, with sites like slashdo.org, and the like.
What would a Mozilla-based IM client offer over any one of the other third-party IM clients (gaim, trillian, etc)?
If you're trying to convince your organization to switch to open-source offerings, it's easier to bring up an integrated solution such as, "We can switch to the Mozilla Suite" than to have to sell three or four different projects like, "We can switch to K-Meleon for browsing, Trillian for IM, Thunderbird for email," etc.
If disabling access to listed sites is all there is to it, then IPs can simply provide a "Net Nanny" type service to their customers. I'm pretty sure AOL is already in compliance, as are many/most other big ISPs.
He wasn't trying to be childish. He believes that secret laws are unconstitutional. By requesting that the airline security the produce the law, he was ensuring that the Constitutional issue was properly raised. Otherwise he could get before the Supreme Court Of The US and they could reject his arguments on the technicality that he failed to demonstrate that at every stage the "secret" law was in fact being withheld from him, and hence, that he had no standing to bring the suit.
So maybe the SCOTUS is childish, but Gilmore was just playing the game the way it has to be played.
What are you talking about? In the 19th century, people bound for factory work didn't generally go to high school. They didn't need to. High school was considered a road toward the middle class.
As for the new age being "creativity and knowledge-based" the fact is that for the forseeable future, most jobs will only require a high school education, regardless of their stated requirements.
If there's a problem with American high schools, it's that they tend to emphasize sports over math and science. You don't need to engage in empty political sloganeering like "building a new boat" to fix that. You just need to stop giving out sports scholarships.
An artist like Bob Dylan WOULD HAVE NO CHANCE WHATSOEVER OF GETTING AIRPLAY TODAY.
...and an artist like Enimem would've had no chance whatsoever of getting airplay in 1963. (Not to mention the entirety of rap, metal, and modern "dance" music.)
NYPD Blue was the first
ITYM Hill Street Blues.
Just being in a small room with a cellphone user vs. two people having a conversation demonstrates the truth of what you are saying. The cellphone user has to expend much more effort in speaking so that the person on the other end can understand. And as a consequence, the cellphone user tends to speak much louder, and what's worse, doesn't seem particularly aware that he or she is being disruptive. Hence, you can usually tell there is a cellphone user in a room without seeing the person. The quality of their conversation is markedly different from normal one-on-one conversation.
It is as though directing your attention into this little gadget causes you to shut out the rest of the world to some extent without fully realizing it.
I like your idea of "CPU cycles." Imagine a cerebral processing unit usage meter which in normal conversation is at, say, 45%. In attempting to carry on two conversations at once, maybe it's at 90%. I suspect that a cell user would be closer to the 90% than to the 45%.
Yeah, it just had to be called "Evolution." Proving once again that those open-source bastards are commie godless heathens bent on destroying the American Way of Life. Might as well have just gone and called it "Al Q'alendar."
You would think birds wouldn't be into the internet, what with the lack of bird porn and all. Oops, I was wrong. Go figure.
Apparently birds don't have much of an epilepsy problem, either.
...came out in 1980, not-so-coincidentally 25 years ago. So it's probably #1.
I don't know what ever happened to that "innovation" and I've never heard of anyone doing such a thing in Windows.
Of course Windows has symlinks. Whether or not you want to actually use them is another story.