Negroponte could call it the 100 euro laptop which would be 122 dollars at the current exchange rate. If it were 100 pounds, then it would be 178 dollars. Or even better he could call it the 0x100 dollar laptop in hexadecimal. So it would really be $256.
Clearly they are trying to reverse global warming. According to Flying Spaghetti Monsterism there is a direct relationship with the declining number of pirates and an increase in global warming. There has been a precipitous decline in the Norwegian (and Swedish) Blue Parrot. The Swedish Blue differes from the Norwegian in that in addition to it's bright blue feathers it has a streak of bright yellow feathers. They often lay about in their cages pining for the fjords. Where would any self-respecting pirate would be without his parrot?
On another note the Church of the FSM in Sweden has recently beatified the Swedish Chef for his work on meatballs.
I got sent the retarded email. Gave up after three clicks and googled it. Here's the actual link. Not that I read the worthless piece of crap:
http://www.gdrc.org/icts/i-overload/cure.html
I'm still waiting for a replacement for my old tired Betamax and 8-track, though my 78 RPM record player is still going strong. I've found a really nifty way to make my black & white television look like it has color. It's a transparent sheet that's clear in the center section, the top part is blue to simulate sky and the bottom part is green to simulate grass.
It won't stop at.xxx. Then they'll want.sex and.cum. With four letter like.info then they could ask for.fuck,.anal,.oral,.shit,.dvda, and probably.wank. But let's not stop there with just four letters why not.boobies,.masturbation,.cunnilingus,.blow-job,.fisting,.hot-karl, or even.filthy-sanchez. Yes, the possibilities are endless.
Better not make fun of Vegemite lest you be marked troll too. I must have hit a nerve comparing Vegemite to Spam. It's not that Vegemite is made from asphalt scrapings or that it tastes vile. I guess if you drink enough Fosters you can't taste it anymore.
My first thought was "They have computers in Tuttle, OK?" It's no wonder that my home state gets a reputation for producing belligerent idiots like that city manager or Michael "Your doin a heckuva job Brownie" Brown.
To protect my hearing I would love to have a car mounted electromagnetic pulse gun for zapping cars or trucks who play their stereos way too fucking loud. Not only could I use this tech to protect my hearing but any passenger in my car and of course those in targeted vehicle. Next time I pull up to a stop light near a car or truck with it's stereo booming it automatically targets. As soon as the light changes I zap the offending vehicle and drive off. I'd also like to have one mounted on the roof of my house but disguised as say a satellite dish or rotary vent. When the sound sensors pick up an offending vehicle. It would target it then once the vehicle was far enough away zap it and fry their stereo (not to mention any cell phones or other electronics in the car).
The sun was much cooler billions of years ago, so it's possible that Europa had cooler conditions to allow an atmosphere of some type. Jupiter may have been warmer also. But it's interesting to think about, regardless.
On another note, I'd have to say this is the Golden Age of planetary exploration. There what 4 orbiters around Mars? An orbiter around Saturn and a probe on it's way to Pluto. Not to mention the recent probes to asteroids and comets.
It looks like Earth's pecker tracks could be all over the solar system. What if Europa had an atmosphere early in it's life? Was it always relatively airless? So even if we discover life elsewhere in the solar system, there's a good chance it'll resemble Earth's. Even if Europa was airless what about this scenario? Big Earth rock hits Europa, vaporizes millions of tons of ice and creates a temporary atmosphere. Then a second rock hits Europa in this brief interlude. It could have survived. Unlikely, but possible.
It's dark. You light a lamp and you see a slashdot poster doing something with his hand. It's moving back and forth rapidly. Suddenly you are blinded by a white sticky substance. You drop the lamp and the light goes out.
I'm not suprised by the stupid post, but I am suprised by the depth of it's stupidity. It's a new low. As a co-worker once said at a previous employer which is applicable to slashdot now: "There is no bottom to this place." I always thought that a Roland Piquepaille post was the lowest you could get. How wrong I was. Now that he's gone on to greener ZDNet pastures, all the stops are gone.
What moron... No no. What asshat came up with that title? This has to be the most assinine, misleading, and trollish title I've seen yet. Where to start. Let's start with the Three Laws of Robotics. They come from works of fiction. Well, I could go on, but I think pointing out that the poster blurs the distinction between fiction and reality is sufficient.
If I were to blur that distinction, I'd have to say that brain parasites have taken control of slashdot.
I think we should scrap the Shuttle now. The US should pay the Russians to keep the ISS on life support until we can replace the shuttle. We should also use reusable boosters to launch the rest of the ISS components. NASA should stop throwing good money after bad. We may want to scale back the ISS and do what research we can with it until we replace it too.
Not having read the actual article and going by the misleading article blurb, I'd like to throw out my uniformed comment. To quote Bruce Lee from Enter the Dragon:
"What was that? An exhibition? We need emotional content. Try Again."
Can we prohibit New Jersey from posting on forums?
Now for a completely off-topic rant. Actually, I worked in a call center and talked to lots of people from New Jersey. Overall, I'd have to say they were a nice bunch even when I couldn't resolve their problems. On the other hand those in the 917 area code just across the Hudson River on Manhattan Isle have a special place in hell reserved for them. Bar none, they were the worst customers I dealt with. They were arrogant, rude, demanding, and pushy and those were the nice ones. People in Boston were second worst. A distant third and fourth were two distint foreign ethnic groups from opposite ends of Asia that were also pretty bad. Upstate New York people and those on Long Island were OK. Canadians, well they weren't bad either. Just peculiar, eh.
I've been reading Slashdot for six years or so, and it seems to me, the quality of stories have really taken a nose dive.
Ditto. It's worse than that. Not only has the quality dropped, the headlines are very misleading and the scoops are confusing. Have you noticed that slashdot is lagging on posting stories. Often I'll read about what used to be a slashdot worthy story elsewhere first, hours even days before it appears on slashdot. Does slashdot have the equivalent of an undiagnosed brain tumor?
Slashdot Mirror
Negroponte could call it the 100 euro laptop which would be 122 dollars at the current exchange rate. If it were 100 pounds, then it would be 178 dollars. Or even better he could call it the 0x100 dollar laptop in hexadecimal. So it would really be $256.
Well for those who care but are not into SACRIFICE check out the Lazy Environmentalist. I subscribe to his podcast. Other related podcasts I subscribe to are that are environmental related Earth & Sky, Living On Earth, Pulse of the Planet, and Science Friday. Avoid The Green Peril or you too could suffer the fate of South Park in Smug Alert!
Clearly they are trying to reverse global warming. According to Flying Spaghetti Monsterism there is a direct relationship with the declining number of pirates and an increase in global warming. There has been a precipitous decline in the Norwegian (and Swedish) Blue Parrot. The Swedish Blue differes from the Norwegian in that in addition to it's bright blue feathers it has a streak of bright yellow feathers. They often lay about in their cages pining for the fjords. Where would any self-respecting pirate would be without his parrot?
On another note the Church of the FSM in Sweden has recently beatified the Swedish Chef for his work on meatballs.
I got sent the retarded email. Gave up after three clicks and googled it. Here's the actual link. Not that I read the worthless piece of crap: http://www.gdrc.org/icts/i-overload/cure.html
I'm still waiting for a replacement for my old tired Betamax and 8-track, though my 78 RPM record player is still going strong. I've found a really nifty way to make my black & white television look like it has color. It's a transparent sheet that's clear in the center section, the top part is blue to simulate sky and the bottom part is green to simulate grass.
It won't stop at .xxx. Then they'll want .sex and .cum. With four letter like .info then they could ask for .fuck, .anal, .oral, .shit, .dvda, and probably .wank. But let's not stop there with just four letters why not .boobies, .masturbation, .cunnilingus, .blow-job, .fisting, .hot-karl, or even .filthy-sanchez. Yes, the possibilities are endless.
Better not make fun of Vegemite lest you be marked troll too. I must have hit a nerve comparing Vegemite to Spam. It's not that Vegemite is made from asphalt scrapings or that it tastes vile. I guess if you drink enough Fosters you can't taste it anymore.
I thought it was called Vegemite in Australia.
My first thought was "They have computers in Tuttle, OK?" It's no wonder that my home state gets a reputation for producing belligerent idiots like that city manager or Michael "Your doin a heckuva job Brownie" Brown.
Is this some kind of April Fusion joke?
I wonder if Myth Busters would do a show on whether or not IT was a dead end career field.
Do not collect $200. Lose citizenship for a turn.
To protect my hearing I would love to have a car mounted electromagnetic pulse gun for zapping cars or trucks who play their stereos way too fucking loud. Not only could I use this tech to protect my hearing but any passenger in my car and of course those in targeted vehicle. Next time I pull up to a stop light near a car or truck with it's stereo booming it automatically targets. As soon as the light changes I zap the offending vehicle and drive off. I'd also like to have one mounted on the roof of my house but disguised as say a satellite dish or rotary vent. When the sound sensors pick up an offending vehicle. It would target it then once the vehicle was far enough away zap it and fry their stereo (not to mention any cell phones or other electronics in the car).
The sun was much cooler billions of years ago, so it's possible that Europa had cooler conditions to allow an atmosphere of some type. Jupiter may have been warmer also. But it's interesting to think about, regardless.
On another note, I'd have to say this is the Golden Age of planetary exploration. There what 4 orbiters around Mars? An orbiter around Saturn and a probe on it's way to Pluto. Not to mention the recent probes to asteroids and comets.
It looks like Earth's pecker tracks could be all over the solar system. What if Europa had an atmosphere early in it's life? Was it always relatively airless? So even if we discover life elsewhere in the solar system, there's a good chance it'll resemble Earth's. Even if Europa was airless what about this scenario? Big Earth rock hits Europa, vaporizes millions of tons of ice and creates a temporary atmosphere. Then a second rock hits Europa in this brief interlude. It could have survived. Unlikely, but possible.
You can also masturbate for prostate health! Just make sure you do that before handling hot peppers. Trust me on that one.
Tough call. Because every time you masturbate a Stormtrooper kills an Ewok. Come to think of it. Slashdotters have killed a lot of Ewoks.
It's dark. You light a lamp and you see a slashdot poster doing something with his hand. It's moving back and forth rapidly. Suddenly you are blinded by a white sticky substance. You drop the lamp and the light goes out.
Colossal Cave Adventure
I guess being modded Troll for a comment in this story would be a good thing.
C'mon, don't act suprised.
I'm not suprised by the stupid post, but I am suprised by the depth of it's stupidity. It's a new low. As a co-worker once said at a previous employer which is applicable to slashdot now: "There is no bottom to this place." I always thought that a Roland Piquepaille post was the lowest you could get. How wrong I was. Now that he's gone on to greener ZDNet pastures, all the stops are gone.
What moron... No no. What asshat came up with that title? This has to be the most assinine, misleading, and trollish title I've seen yet. Where to start. Let's start with the Three Laws of Robotics. They come from works of fiction. Well, I could go on, but I think pointing out that the poster blurs the distinction between fiction and reality is sufficient.
If I were to blur that distinction, I'd have to say that brain parasites have taken control of slashdot.
Apple introduces iRobot
I think we should scrap the Shuttle now. The US should pay the Russians to keep the ISS on life support until we can replace the shuttle. We should also use reusable boosters to launch the rest of the ISS components. NASA should stop throwing good money after bad. We may want to scale back the ISS and do what research we can with it until we replace it too.
Not having read the actual article and going by the misleading article blurb, I'd like to throw out my uniformed comment. To quote Bruce Lee from Enter the Dragon: "What was that? An exhibition? We need emotional content. Try Again."
Coffee not a health drink? Balderdash. Next they'll be telling us hard liquor, cigarettes, and lap dancers aren't healthy for us either.
Can we prohibit New Jersey from posting on forums?
Now for a completely off-topic rant. Actually, I worked in a call center and talked to lots of people from New Jersey. Overall, I'd have to say they were a nice bunch even when I couldn't resolve their problems. On the other hand those in the 917 area code just across the Hudson River on Manhattan Isle have a special place in hell reserved for them. Bar none, they were the worst customers I dealt with. They were arrogant, rude, demanding, and pushy and those were the nice ones. People in Boston were second worst. A distant third and fourth were two distint foreign ethnic groups from opposite ends of Asia that were also pretty bad. Upstate New York people and those on Long Island were OK. Canadians, well they weren't bad either. Just peculiar, eh.
I've been reading Slashdot for six years or so, and it seems to me, the quality of stories have really taken a nose dive.
Ditto. It's worse than that. Not only has the quality dropped, the headlines are very misleading and the scoops are confusing. Have you noticed that slashdot is lagging on posting stories. Often I'll read about what used to be a slashdot worthy story elsewhere first, hours even days before it appears on slashdot. Does slashdot have the equivalent of an undiagnosed brain tumor?