Ideally, the first person mods it offtopic and the rest go for the "Underrated" tag.
This is much more amusing when a post is badly marked as a Troll. Seing (Score:5, Troll) is quite a sight.
I think we should be able to create our own ratings and determine assign +1, 0, or -1 values to them. Or give dual or triple rating systems like the retarded TV rating system. (Score:3:Insightful;-1:Off-topic;0:Redundant)
Yeah early puberty can be tough. Just ask Eric Cartmen when he got his pubes before the other guys. He became increasingly frustrated in attempt after attempt to get his money back from Scott Tenorman who sold his pubes to Eric under false pretenses. But Eric got his revenge by getting Scott's parents killed, made them into chili, and fed them to Scott.
I'd always wondered what that bright shiny thing up in the sky was. It's nice they found a use for it. I found it a nuisance. It keeps waking me up when it shines through my window. I've also heard that solar energy can even be used from growing crops. I only thought it was good for burning ants or holes in paper with a magnifying lens. Who knew the Sun could be so useful?
Why not outfit a large helicopter like a Chinook with a giant electromagnet? They could just hover over the car and lift it right off the street. And if the people in the car get unruly they can shout down with a bullhorn. "Don't make me drop this car!"
First scientists announce they think the Ice Man, Oetzi was infertile. How could they know that? And now they are saying King Tut was killed by a knee infection. Had they not lived two thousand years apart on different continents. They could have hypothesized that King Tut kneed Oetzi in the nuts so hard it sterilized him. Oetzi in an attempt to fend off the blow was holding either an arrowhead or flint knife at just the wrong angle so that it cut King Tut's knee and cut off his testicles at the same time. But solving historical mysteries aren't that easy.
I WILL MISS WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM SERVICE --STOP-- NEVER USED IT --STOP-- ONLY SAW USED IN OLD MOVIES STOP LIKE BLAZING SADDLES --STOP-- CANDY GRAM FOR MONGO --STOP-- FUCKIN' HILARIOUS --STOP--
damn. it won't let me post my lame-ass joke because i used too many caps. how retarded is that. who knew that slashdot had a lameness filter? it mustn't work very well because i see lame posts all the time. roland piquepaille comes to mind. anyway i'm typing as many lower case letters as possible to get past their lameness filter. ok. looks like I can post it now after previewing.
Yes, I know he said "I was raised a poor black child." And had I chosen to quote it accurately, it wouldn't have been funny anyway because it would have been read out of context. I appreciate the fact you took the time to respond. For some unknown reason when I think of Steve Jobs the word 'jerk' comes to mind. And in point of fact, if you examine the lawsuit more closely you will notice the resemblance between the movie and the real live lawsuit.
I like the fact you can use big words like shallow and pedantic. Someday, I might actually look them up in a dictionary.
Boy, this sounds an awful lot like a plot line from Steve Martin's The Jerk. His character invents these cool grippy glasses and makes a million or two. Later he's sued because everyone gets crosseyed for wearing the glasses.
Ooh! Move over Java. The future has never looked brighter for COBOL, FORTRAN, and LISP programmers. They'll soon have Java programmers to rub shoulders, er, uh, walkers with. Of course, I think it was a mistake to move away from paper tapes and punch cards to enter programs. You young programmers can have your Visual Basic, your octothorped C#, and fancy schmancy.NET.
I'm just typing incoherent nonsense today. But I felt I had to take a swipe at something. I thought I'd create a new computer language called UC or Carbide. Programs would compile OK, but when executed would wipe out thousands of files. Calling it Bhopal would be just too tacky.
I used to think the Amiga enthusiasts were a bunch of hyper spazzes, but then the Ruby evangelists disabused me of that notion.
...they call them rebates? Get rid of the re- and they are just bates or baits. So really they should be called consumer-baits. Because, in fact, it's what manufactures use to bait consumers, the lure of $$$, money back. Since consumers keep falling for them, the manufactures keep rebaiting the consumer.
As for the End of Rebates. Hmmmm, sounds suspiciously similar to Blockbuster's End of Late Fees campaign. Notice Blockbuster doesn't advertise that anymore. Too many consumers got burned on that one. They'll probably simply redefine what a rebate is. I wonder what Best Buy's new master plan for rebates really is?
Oh man, tough choice. Why not the cuddly Larry Ellison or the charismatic Scott McNealy to choose from in addition to the magnificent Steve Jobs and godlike Bill Gates? Wouldn't it be great if we could combine the "best" traits of each of those individuals. We could have an ubergeek-computergod and we could all bow down and say "I'm not worthy!"
Well, given the choices, all in all, I'd say I'd have to go with Steve Wozniak as my choice for hero, or possibly Larry Wall.
I work a lot of overtime in a high-stress, tight deadline job. Once you get into that kind of downward spiral, how do you find another job?"
You must work in a call center. Have you thought about joining the Army? I hear they are looking volunteers. Since you have a degree, you could go for officer candidate school. It's not like you'd go and fight in an unpopular war and work in a high-stress environment.
However, many credible scientists have found evidence of creation in their work, however they are lambasted by their peers if they talk about these ideas because it does not fit into scientific method.
Yeah, right. I knew what wrote would fall on deaf ears. I wrote it for the benefit of other readers. You just repeated yourself. And I'll repeat myself. You still don't understand science or the methods of science. You have chosen to believe what you want and cherry picked your reasons to support it. There can never be enough evidence to persuade you on the theory and fact of evolution. Should I continue to waste my time and effort in this debate? Why not? If any scientist can explain the difference between scientists and pseudoscientists who use the trappings of science, it is Richard Feynman. He cuts through the bullshit. Try his wonderful essay Cargo Cult Science. Whoever brainwashed you did a pretty good job.
In fact many notable scientists of the present and the past believe that the universe was created by a supreme being.
That's called a false analogy and an argument from authority. It's pretty clear you don't understand science or the scientific process. If a scientist has a theory there are invisible smurfs dancing on everyone's head but he also can build an atomic bomb, it does not give any credence to his invisible smurf theory. A person can believe in something that is factually not true, but they can also understand a theory and its predictions. It's a pecularity of the human brain to hold contradictory beliefs and knowledge. I know mathematically the odds of winning the lottery are miniscule and that I'd be better off saving that dollar, but the superstitious part of my brain thinks that I have a much better chance of winning it than I actually do. So I will buy the occasional ticket.
I will challenge you to look at the history of the Bible. Who wrote it? Why does the Catholic Bible have more books in it than the Protestant ones. What about the books that aren't in the common Western bibles? That are in the Ethiopian Orthodox Eastern Orthodox (Greek & Russian), or the Koran. Books like the The Gospel of Thomas, The Protovangelion, Maccabbes, or the Book of Enoch. What languages were these books written in (including the accepted gospels)? How can you trust the translations? What historical evidence was there that Jesus existed outside the Bible? Why is it that Josephus is the only historian to mention him? Some scholars think someone else added those passages mentioning Jesus after the fact.
You can still be a Christian, Jew, Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, or Buddhist and still understand evolution. A religion is for living your life. Science is for understanding the physical world. Religions don't have to be true. Just comfortable.
To paraphrase Inspector Renault from Casablanca: "I'm shocked, shocked to find that ignorance is going on in here!". It doesn't matter that it's evolution they don't accept. It could be relativity or gravity or inertia. It's a symptom of the state of British science education. The problem with any belief system is that the believers are afraid that if some scientific theory is true their religion must be false. When in reality they just need to change their perception of their religious beliefs.
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Love thy neighbor" is a good maxim, but it's not dependent on a 6,000 year old Earth. They forgot God is a metaphor and do not understand the difference between denotation and connotation. Anyway, I think Douglas Adams put it best when he wrote: "Humans are not proud of their ape ancestry and never invite their cousins around for dinner."
Noooooooo!I guess I won't be attending any more expos. The only thing that'll make me stop (or slow down) at a booth is a booth babe or they have something really cool.
Colin Campbell has an editorial at Next Generation in which he applauds the decision to fine risque outfits worn by the traditional 'booth babes'.
Personally I'm a fan of the Zope / CMF series of content management systems; the built-in CMF is quite powerful and flexible (and actually fairly efficient -- don't be fooled by the slowness of some CMSs built on top).
We used Zope at our college and after much research decided to go with Plone to update it. I was a little leary of Zope's ZODB at first, but I like it now, though I really like MySQL. I looked at the myriad PHP CMS solutions and none of them did what I wanted them to do. the Python CMS market has very few players whereas the PHP CMS market has dozens and dozen to choose from and I would say fragmented.
I discovered that I could do in PHP what took far longer to do in Perl though I'm a big Perl fan. I'm still learning Python, Zope, and Plone but it's worth it.
For big projects Plone is a good choice. It's highly modular and you can override or rewrite the modules to customize it. For personal websites WordPress is a good choice. It does everything I need and can be used as a poor man's CMS though it is primarily a blogging tool.
Slashdot Mirror
... are slashdotters that are self-cleaning.
Not to be confused with the already opensource Zopeweb application server.
How do you mod something informative but off-topic?
Yeah early puberty can be tough. Just ask Eric Cartmen when he got his pubes before the other guys. He became increasingly frustrated in attempt after attempt to get his money back from Scott Tenorman who sold his pubes to Eric under false pretenses. But Eric got his revenge by getting Scott's parents killed, made them into chili, and fed them to Scott.
I'd always wondered what that bright shiny thing up in the sky was. It's nice they found a use for it. I found it a nuisance. It keeps waking me up when it shines through my window. I've also heard that solar energy can even be used from growing crops. I only thought it was good for burning ants or holes in paper with a magnifying lens. Who knew the Sun could be so useful?
That information would have been useful had WinAmp not told me that version 5.13 was already available. A WEEK AGO!
I don't know what's worse on Slashdot, a dupe, a roland, or old news.
Why not outfit a large helicopter like a Chinook with a giant electromagnet? They could just hover over the car and lift it right off the street. And if the people in the car get unruly they can shout down with a bullhorn. "Don't make me drop this car!"
First scientists announce they think the Ice Man, Oetzi was infertile. How could they know that? And now they are saying King Tut was killed by a knee infection. Had they not lived two thousand years apart on different continents. They could have hypothesized that King Tut kneed Oetzi in the nuts so hard it sterilized him. Oetzi in an attempt to fend off the blow was holding either an arrowhead or flint knife at just the wrong angle so that it cut King Tut's knee and cut off his testicles at the same time. But solving historical mysteries aren't that easy.
Skip the review. Read Zeldman's awesome Designing With Web Standards. It will change your life. At least until you read the next life changing book.
Zeldman is also teaming up with Eric Meyers, the CSS God for An Event Apart.
It sounds like you are electroplating your teeth. I figured it would be some kind of electroshock therapy:
"Brush your teeth, Timmy or I'll have to send for The White Angel to come and ask you 'Is it safe?' "
I WILL MISS WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM SERVICE --STOP-- NEVER USED IT --STOP-- ONLY SAW USED IN OLD MOVIES STOP LIKE BLAZING SADDLES --STOP-- CANDY GRAM FOR MONGO --STOP-- FUCKIN' HILARIOUS --STOP--
damn. it won't let me post my lame-ass joke because i used too many caps. how retarded is that. who knew that slashdot had a lameness filter? it mustn't work very well because i see lame posts all the time. roland piquepaille comes to mind. anyway i'm typing as many lower case letters as possible to get past their lameness filter. ok. looks like I can post it now after previewing.
Yes, I know he said "I was raised a poor black child." And had I chosen to quote it accurately, it wouldn't have been funny anyway because it would have been read out of context. I appreciate the fact you took the time to respond. For some unknown reason when I think of Steve Jobs the word 'jerk' comes to mind. And in point of fact, if you examine the lawsuit more closely you will notice the resemblance between the movie and the real live lawsuit.
I like the fact you can use big words like shallow and pedantic. Someday, I might actually look them up in a dictionary.
Boy, this sounds an awful lot like a plot line from Steve Martin's The Jerk. His character invents these cool grippy glasses and makes a million or two. Later he's sued because everyone gets crosseyed for wearing the glasses.
Ooh! Move over Java. The future has never looked brighter for COBOL, FORTRAN, and LISP programmers. They'll soon have Java programmers to rub shoulders, er, uh, walkers with. Of course, I think it was a mistake to move away from paper tapes and punch cards to enter programs. You young programmers can have your Visual Basic, your octothorped C#, and fancy schmancy .NET.
I'm just typing incoherent nonsense today. But I felt I had to take a swipe at something. I thought I'd create a new computer language called UC or Carbide. Programs would compile OK, but when executed would wipe out thousands of files. Calling it Bhopal would be just too tacky.
I used to think the Amiga enthusiasts were a bunch of hyper spazzes, but then the Ruby evangelists disabused me of that notion.
They should make library action figure in her honor.
...they call them rebates? Get rid of the re- and they are just bates or baits. So really they should be called consumer-baits. Because, in fact, it's what manufactures use to bait consumers, the lure of $$$, money back. Since consumers keep falling for them, the manufactures keep rebaiting the consumer.
As for the End of Rebates. Hmmmm, sounds suspiciously similar to Blockbuster's End of Late Fees campaign. Notice Blockbuster doesn't advertise that anymore. Too many consumers got burned on that one. They'll probably simply redefine what a rebate is. I wonder what Best Buy's new master plan for rebates really is?
Oh man, tough choice. Why not the cuddly Larry Ellison or the charismatic Scott McNealy to choose from in addition to the magnificent Steve Jobs and godlike Bill Gates? Wouldn't it be great if we could combine the "best" traits of each of those individuals. We could have an ubergeek-computergod and we could all bow down and say "I'm not worthy!"
Well, given the choices, all in all, I'd say I'd have to go with Steve Wozniak as my choice for hero, or possibly Larry Wall.
I work a lot of overtime in a high-stress, tight deadline job. Once you get into that kind of downward spiral, how do you find another job?"
You must work in a call center. Have you thought about joining the Army? I hear they are looking volunteers. Since you have a degree, you could go for officer candidate school. It's not like you'd go and fight in an unpopular war and work in a high-stress environment.
However, many credible scientists have found evidence of creation in their work, however they are lambasted by their peers if they talk about these ideas because it does not fit into scientific method.
Yeah, right. I knew what wrote would fall on deaf ears. I wrote it for the benefit of other readers. You just repeated yourself. And I'll repeat myself. You still don't understand science or the methods of science. You have chosen to believe what you want and cherry picked your reasons to support it. There can never be enough evidence to persuade you on the theory and fact of evolution. Should I continue to waste my time and effort in this debate? Why not? If any scientist can explain the difference between scientists and pseudoscientists who use the trappings of science, it is Richard Feynman. He cuts through the bullshit. Try his wonderful essay Cargo Cult Science. Whoever brainwashed you did a pretty good job.
"Watch out for Sherriff Bonobo and his Deputy Rhesus. They are deadly shots with their poo!"
I for one welcome our bird-riding snail overlords. Oh, forget it! This is just getting silly.
In fact many notable scientists of the present and the past believe that the universe was created by a supreme being.
That's called a false analogy and an argument from authority. It's pretty clear you don't understand science or the scientific process. If a scientist has a theory there are invisible smurfs dancing on everyone's head but he also can build an atomic bomb, it does not give any credence to his invisible smurf theory. A person can believe in something that is factually not true, but they can also understand a theory and its predictions. It's a pecularity of the human brain to hold contradictory beliefs and knowledge. I know mathematically the odds of winning the lottery are miniscule and that I'd be better off saving that dollar, but the superstitious part of my brain thinks that I have a much better chance of winning it than I actually do. So I will buy the occasional ticket.
I will challenge you to look at the history of the Bible. Who wrote it? Why does the Catholic Bible have more books in it than the Protestant ones. What about the books that aren't in the common Western bibles? That are in the Ethiopian Orthodox Eastern Orthodox (Greek & Russian), or the Koran. Books like the The Gospel of Thomas, The Protovangelion, Maccabbes, or the Book of Enoch. What languages were these books written in (including the accepted gospels)? How can you trust the translations? What historical evidence was there that Jesus existed outside the Bible? Why is it that Josephus is the only historian to mention him? Some scholars think someone else added those passages mentioning Jesus after the fact.
You can still be a Christian, Jew, Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, or Buddhist and still understand evolution. A religion is for living your life. Science is for understanding the physical world. Religions don't have to be true. Just comfortable.
To paraphrase Inspector Renault from Casablanca: "I'm shocked, shocked to find that ignorance is going on in here!". It doesn't matter that it's evolution they don't accept. It could be relativity or gravity or inertia. It's a symptom of the state of British science education. The problem with any belief system is that the believers are afraid that if some scientific theory is true their religion must be false. When in reality they just need to change their perception of their religious beliefs.
" Love thy neighbor" is a good maxim, but it's not dependent on a 6,000 year old Earth. They forgot God is a metaphor and do not understand the difference between denotation and connotation. Anyway, I think Douglas Adams put it best when he wrote: "Humans are not proud of their ape ancestry and never invite their cousins around for dinner."
Good Riddance To Booth Babes
Noooooooo!I guess I won't be attending any more expos. The only thing that'll make me stop (or slow down) at a booth is a booth babe or they have something really cool.
Colin Campbell has an editorial at Next Generation in which he applauds the decision to fine risque outfits worn by the traditional 'booth babes'.
Is Colin gay? Would he prefer Booth Stud Muffins?
Personally I'm a fan of the Zope / CMF series of content management systems; the built-in CMF is quite powerful and flexible (and actually fairly efficient -- don't be fooled by the slowness of some CMSs built on top).
We used Zope at our college and after much research decided to go with Plone to update it. I was a little leary of Zope's ZODB at first, but I like it now, though I really like MySQL. I looked at the myriad PHP CMS solutions and none of them did what I wanted them to do. the Python CMS market has very few players whereas the PHP CMS market has dozens and dozen to choose from and I would say fragmented.
I discovered that I could do in PHP what took far longer to do in Perl though I'm a big Perl fan. I'm still learning Python, Zope, and Plone but it's worth it.
For big projects Plone is a good choice. It's highly modular and you can override or rewrite the modules to customize it. For personal websites WordPress is a good choice. It does everything I need and can be used as a poor man's CMS though it is primarily a blogging tool.