Slashdotters must have a serious woody for the Xbox 360. Once again proving that the only kind of box most slashdotters get any action from is a game console.
I disagree. Just because it's not L.A. or NY does not mean it is a culturual wasteland. For one thing, you've got the largest American Indian population in the US in OK.
LA is a cultural wasteland too. How else can you explain Michael Bay? NYC on the other hand isn't. They have The Lion King, The Producers, and Woody Allen. I don't think I'm going to come up with an answer to satisfy you. I did describe it as Redneck country. Yes, OK has a large Indian population, but they are not the dominant culture. Hyperbole aside, employers, bring your third world jobs to Oklahoma. It's like a Third World country.
I don't understand about what you said--Tulsa being surrounded by wasteland?
Sorry, it's a cultural wasteland, Redneck country.
Tulsa is in Green Country,
It's only green for about three months. True it is more attractive than the rest of the state. I mean people in Oklahoma City think the natural color of dirt is red. Ask them.
I've been saying that for years. Outsource to Oklahoma it's like a Third World country. Tulsa is a mecca for call centers. Tulsa had pretty much been a one horse town, oil, for the longest time. But it diversified into aviation and telecommunications. Guess what? All of those industries got whacked and Tulsa got hit by the perfect job loss storm.
Tulsa is an ideal place to outsource to. Like a major tech city in India it is a pocket of high tech surrounded by wasteland. The roads are bad and the drivers are worse. And they speak slightly better English here. The cost of living is low. It is in Central Time Zone. So it can handle calls on the East and West coasts with relative ease.
Gotta love a place that has a giant statue of an oil worker, The Golden Driller in front of one of the largest buildings in the world, The Expo Center.
was heard to utter "Andale! Andale! Ariba! Ariba! Eh-hah!" then zipped into the next room, followed by a loud crash and a voice yelling "Sufferin succoutash!"
I can't say I'm glad I'm the only one. At least now I know it wasn't because I installed AOL Triton. I posted this rant against AOL in the last "AOL Sucks Ass" story.
I hate using AIM but I have friends who I chat with and they won't use anything else. I use Trillian so I can use ICQ and Yahoo! Messenger as well. I signed in this morning and I get this message from AOL that said "We've installed two new bots ShoppingBuddy and MovieFone. I thought "What the fuck is this shit?" It may have been because I installed AIM Triton preview to see if I could get the video chat to work. This is even more egregious than all the ads and tickers and additional software they want to install on your computer. Anyway I blocked them.
In the past, I've had to go in and edit some of the AOL files to get rid of all sorts of crap. AOL is about as welcome as an anal probe. They want to block other peoples intrusive software so they can foist their crap on you. AOL's idea of "consumer friendliness" is to come into your home uninvited, bend you over, put an anal probe up your keister, and tell you just how wonderful and lucky you are to have it. Your very own mini-Federal-pound-me-in-the-ass prison in the comfort and safety of your own home. Only 9.95 per month!
I hate using AIM but I have friends who I chat with and they won't use anything else. I use Trillian so I can use ICQ and Yahoo! Messenger as well. I signed in this morning and I get this message from AOL that said "We've installed two new bots ShoppingBuddy and MovieFone. I thought "What the fuck is this shit?" It may have been because I installed AIM Triton preview to see if I could get the video chat to work. This is even more egregious than all the ads and tickers and additional software they want to install on your computer. Anyway I blocked them.
In the past, I've had to go in and edit some of the AOL files to get rid of all sorts of crap. AOL is about as welcome as an anal probe. They want to block other peoples intrusive software so they can foist their crap on you. AOL's idea of "consumer friendliness" is to come into your home uninvited, bend you over, put an anal probe up your keister, and tell you just how wonderful and lucky you are to have it. Your very own mini-Federal-pound-me-in-the-ass prison in the comfort and safety of your own home. Only 9.95 per month!
You find yourself transported to a site containing a worthless slashdot story about text adventure games. You make a witty comment that you hear FORTRAN is making a comeback. Your post is moderated Troll.
I did the research too and saw how much better mileage the the VW TDI's got. Diesel fuel is dirtier, but is getting cleaner. And with biodiesel which is cleaner still in the mix you can reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. I would love to see a diesel electric hybrid. Considering the technology for it is almost a century old (submarines) it should be a no brainer. The problem with ethanol and biodiesel is that would take enourmous tracks of land to grow the plants to produce it. There is however one source of biodiesel that may avoid that problem, algae. Certain strains of algae can theoretically produce 10,000-20,000 gallons of oil per acre. Soybeans are the worst source. You only get 40-50 gallons per acre. I've linked it before and I'll link it again. Wikipedia has a nice article on Biodiesel
With some modification diesel's can burn vegetable oil. With some equipment you can make biodiesel at home. The only problem with that besides having to use lye and methanol is the cops might mistake it for a meth lab.
I remember back in the 90's taking some Amantadine to help fight the flu. And I wondered why the news keeps going on and on about Tamiflu. So I did a quick check and yes Amantadine is an antiviral drug, but thanks to the fucking Chinese they have made it useless to fight H5N1 because they'd been abusing it the way our ranchers abuse antibiotics. Amantadine costs a lot less but it doesn't matter. Now we have to use the much more expensive Tamiflu.
It gets better. One of the primary ingredients for making Tamiflu is something called Shikimic acid which is difficult to produce and is extracted from star anise that is only grown in four provinces in China. And their is a global shortage of star anise so that's why their's a global shortage of Tamiflu. Anyway it probably won't matter since H5N1 will probably develop a resistance to Tamiflu because of overuse. Anyway, we'll just have to wait and how the next pandemic evolves.
"We are going to show that evolution didn't happen, that global warming isn't real, and that smoking is good for you." Intelligent Design Institute of Topeka (IDIoT)
"The Platypus is proof of irreducible complexity. Only an intelligent designer could combine all those elements to make such a venomnous creature." Society to Understand Plausible Intelligent Design (StUPID)
The fact that pirates are in the news should please His Noodly Appendage. That means the number of pirates is going up. And if the numbers of pirates are going up that means the Earth will start cooling again. Check out this graph er I mean this graph which shows the current trend. Expect it to trend downwards. Ramen.
You are rejecting the argument, unexamined, because of the people who make it. And it stinks.
The only thing that stinks here are the creationists who are disguising themselve in the sheeps clothing of intelligent design. I have examined the argument and that is how I can tell it is nothing but another flavor of creationism. Calling intelligent design creationism is not an ad hominem. Calling into question the integrity and motives of the main proponents of ID is an ad hominem. Saying they have no scientific credibility is an ad hominem. The tragedy here is that some of those proponents have scientific credentials and should know better.
If ID is a scientific theory, what predictions does it make? Is it testable? Is it falsifiable? Intelligent design is a false analogy. A watch implies a watchmaker, thererfore a universe implies a universe maker. Well who made the universe maker?
Nice description of ID, what it is, criticisms of it, and who are it's champions. ID falls apart on it's own merits. It's not science. So you have to wonder why does it keep rearing it's non-scientific head?
For the umpteenth time, Intelligent Design and creationism are not the same thing.
In the sense that humans are not chimpanzees that is true, but humans and chimpanzees had common ancestors. Humans are not direct descendents of chimpanzees; however, intelligent design is a direct descendent of creationism. Intelligent design is an elaborate begging the question fallacy. Everything about ID smacks of deception. As Hamlet once said "The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape." The proponents of ID fail to see that the only ones they are deceiving is themselves. And they get annoyed when everyone else doesn't fall for it.
The power of faith in a god or the God of the Bible (pick your flavor: King James, Catholic, etc.) is about how you live your life. It is concerned with the Rock of Ages not the age of rocks. It is not about imposing your views on others. Some believe they must preach the word. It doesn't meany anyone has to listen or be converted. But a person who lives as a Christian says more than one who says you must live as a Christian. It is beyond the comprehension of most Christians that God is a metaphor. In fact God forgot he was a metaphor.
Let's make this clear once and for all that ID is nothing but another flavor or creationism. How many atheists are proponents of intelligent design?
"Is the mainstream market not yet ready for portable video?"
This is pretty typical of the stupid questions that get asked on slashdot. The question should be "Is portable video ready for the mainstream market?" The answer is NO it isn't, at least not in the US. I've seen the extremely crappy offerings that SprintPCS had like MobiTV. It was like a slideshow with audio. I've never understood that why no one has offered black & white streaming video with mono audio. You'd be able to get a much better picture while reducing the bandwidth. I've not seen any streaming video for computers in b&w especially for dialups.
But back to the phones. You may be able to cram all of this wonderful software and technology into a phone. You may even be able to offer high bandwidth. Battery life will continue to limit the usefulness of these features for sometime to come.
So Zhang has developed a model which shows that liquid CO2 would have to be injected to a depth of between 800 and 3,000 meters to keep it from escaping from the ocean.
How deep would we have to inject Roland Piquepaille to keep him from escaping from the ocean?
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Slashdotters must have a serious woody for the Xbox 360. Once again proving that the only kind of box most slashdotters get any action from is a game console.
I disagree. Just because it's not L.A. or NY does not mean it is a culturual wasteland. For one thing, you've got the largest American Indian population in the US in OK.
LA is a cultural wasteland too. How else can you explain Michael Bay? NYC on the other hand isn't. They have The Lion King, The Producers, and Woody Allen. I don't think I'm going to come up with an answer to satisfy you. I did describe it as Redneck country. Yes, OK has a large Indian population, but they are not the dominant culture. Hyperbole aside, employers, bring your third world jobs to Oklahoma. It's like a Third World country.
I don't understand about what you said--Tulsa being surrounded by wasteland?
Sorry, it's a cultural wasteland, Redneck country.
Tulsa is in Green Country,
It's only green for about three months. True it is more attractive than the rest of the state. I mean people in Oklahoma City think the natural color of dirt is red. Ask them.
I've been saying that for years. Outsource to Oklahoma it's like a Third World country. Tulsa is a mecca for call centers. Tulsa had pretty much been a one horse town, oil, for the longest time. But it diversified into aviation and telecommunications. Guess what? All of those industries got whacked and Tulsa got hit by the perfect job loss storm.
Tulsa is an ideal place to outsource to. Like a major tech city in India it is a pocket of high tech surrounded by wasteland. The roads are bad and the drivers are worse. And they speak slightly better English here. The cost of living is low. It is in Central Time Zone. So it can handle calls on the East and West coasts with relative ease.
Gotta love a place that has a giant statue of an oil worker, The Golden Driller in front of one of the largest buildings in the world, The Expo Center.
Are the Xbox 360 stories being duped because of normal slashdot editorial laziness or is someone being paid to shill for Microsoft?
As far as you are concerned.
There were some problems with the early prototypes. Some examples:
"How many miles to Babylon?" was translated into Arabic as "My hovercraft is full of eels."
And in Arabic "America go home!" was translated into English "My nipples explode with delight."
See the full transcript for the full details.
was heard to utter "Andale! Andale! Ariba! Ariba! Eh-hah!" then zipped into the next room, followed by a loud crash and a voice yelling "Sufferin succoutash!"
I think this is what they are really building, aReflex cannon. Zentraedi fleet watch out!
Its not limited to AOL Software. I received the messages/group on Gaim as well.
It popped up in Trillian for me.
I can't say I'm glad I'm the only one. At least now I know it wasn't because I installed AOL Triton. I posted this rant against AOL in the last "AOL Sucks Ass" story.
I hate using AIM but I have friends who I chat with and they won't use anything else. I use Trillian so I can use ICQ and Yahoo! Messenger as well. I signed in this morning and I get this message from AOL that said "We've installed two new bots ShoppingBuddy and MovieFone. I thought "What the fuck is this shit?" It may have been because I installed AIM Triton preview to see if I could get the video chat to work. This is even more egregious than all the ads and tickers and additional software they want to install on your computer. Anyway I blocked them.
In the past, I've had to go in and edit some of the AOL files to get rid of all sorts of crap. AOL is about as welcome as an anal probe. They want to block other peoples intrusive software so they can foist their crap on you. AOL's idea of "consumer friendliness" is to come into your home uninvited, bend you over, put an anal probe up your keister, and tell you just how wonderful and lucky you are to have it. Your very own mini-Federal-pound-me-in-the-ass prison in the comfort and safety of your own home. Only 9.95 per month!
I for one welcome the continued presense of our existing ICANN overlords.
I hate using AIM but I have friends who I chat with and they won't use anything else. I use Trillian so I can use ICQ and Yahoo! Messenger as well. I signed in this morning and I get this message from AOL that said "We've installed two new bots ShoppingBuddy and MovieFone. I thought "What the fuck is this shit?" It may have been because I installed AIM Triton preview to see if I could get the video chat to work. This is even more egregious than all the ads and tickers and additional software they want to install on your computer. Anyway I blocked them.
In the past, I've had to go in and edit some of the AOL files to get rid of all sorts of crap. AOL is about as welcome as an anal probe. They want to block other peoples intrusive software so they can foist their crap on you. AOL's idea of "consumer friendliness" is to come into your home uninvited, bend you over, put an anal probe up your keister, and tell you just how wonderful and lucky you are to have it. Your very own mini-Federal-pound-me-in-the-ass prison in the comfort and safety of your own home. Only 9.95 per month!
You find yourself transported to a site containing a worthless slashdot story about text adventure games. You make a witty comment that you hear FORTRAN is making a comeback. Your post is moderated Troll.
The less misleading headline should be Mighty Joe Young lived? Get your scale right.
Besides the original Mighty Joe Young was a much better movie than the original King Kong.
I did the research too and saw how much better mileage the the VW TDI's got. Diesel fuel is dirtier, but is getting cleaner. And with biodiesel which is cleaner still in the mix you can reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. I would love to see a diesel electric hybrid. Considering the technology for it is almost a century old (submarines) it should be a no brainer. The problem with ethanol and biodiesel is that would take enourmous tracks of land to grow the plants to produce it. There is however one source of biodiesel that may avoid that problem, algae. Certain strains of algae can theoretically produce 10,000-20,000 gallons of oil per acre. Soybeans are the worst source. You only get 40-50 gallons per acre. I've linked it before and I'll link it again. Wikipedia has a nice article on Biodiesel
With some modification diesel's can burn vegetable oil. With some equipment you can make biodiesel at home. The only problem with that besides having to use lye and methanol is the cops might mistake it for a meth lab.
I remember back in the 90's taking some Amantadine to help fight the flu. And I wondered why the news keeps going on and on about Tamiflu. So I did a quick check and yes Amantadine is an antiviral drug, but thanks to the fucking Chinese they have made it useless to fight H5N1 because they'd been abusing it the way our ranchers abuse antibiotics. Amantadine costs a lot less but it doesn't matter. Now we have to use the much more expensive Tamiflu.
It gets better. One of the primary ingredients for making Tamiflu is something called Shikimic acid which is difficult to produce and is extracted from star anise that is only grown in four provinces in China. And their is a global shortage of star anise so that's why their's a global shortage of Tamiflu. Anyway it probably won't matter since H5N1 will probably develop a resistance to Tamiflu because of overuse. Anyway, we'll just have to wait and how the next pandemic evolves.
... are called froggers.
"We are going to show that evolution didn't happen, that global warming isn't real, and that smoking is good for you." Intelligent Design Institute of Topeka (IDIoT)
"The Platypus is proof of irreducible complexity. Only an intelligent designer could combine all those elements to make such a venomnous creature." Society to Understand Plausible Intelligent Design (StUPID)
The fact that pirates are in the news should please His Noodly Appendage. That means the number of pirates is going up. And if the numbers of pirates are going up that means the Earth will start cooling again. Check out this graph er I mean this graph which shows the current trend. Expect it to trend downwards. Ramen.
It will never stop until either Microsoft or open source goes away.
You are rejecting the argument, unexamined, because of the people who make it. And it stinks.
The only thing that stinks here are the creationists who are disguising themselve in the sheeps clothing of intelligent design. I have examined the argument and that is how I can tell it is nothing but another flavor of creationism. Calling intelligent design creationism is not an ad hominem. Calling into question the integrity and motives of the main proponents of ID is an ad hominem. Saying they have no scientific credibility is an ad hominem. The tragedy here is that some of those proponents have scientific credentials and should know better.
If ID is a scientific theory, what predictions does it make? Is it testable? Is it falsifiable? Intelligent design is a false analogy. A watch implies a watchmaker, thererfore a universe implies a universe maker. Well who made the universe maker?
Nice description of ID, what it is, criticisms of it, and who are it's champions. ID falls apart on it's own merits. It's not science. So you have to wonder why does it keep rearing it's non-scientific head?
For the umpteenth time, Intelligent Design and creationism are not the same thing.
In the sense that humans are not chimpanzees that is true, but humans and chimpanzees had common ancestors. Humans are not direct descendents of chimpanzees; however, intelligent design is a direct descendent of creationism. Intelligent design is an elaborate begging the question fallacy. Everything about ID smacks of deception. As Hamlet once said "The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape." The proponents of ID fail to see that the only ones they are deceiving is themselves. And they get annoyed when everyone else doesn't fall for it.
The power of faith in a god or the God of the Bible (pick your flavor: King James, Catholic, etc.) is about how you live your life. It is concerned with the Rock of Ages not the age of rocks. It is not about imposing your views on others. Some believe they must preach the word. It doesn't meany anyone has to listen or be converted. But a person who lives as a Christian says more than one who says you must live as a Christian. It is beyond the comprehension of most Christians that God is a metaphor. In fact God forgot he was a metaphor.
Let's make this clear once and for all that ID is nothing but another flavor or creationism. How many atheists are proponents of intelligent design?
"Is the mainstream market not yet ready for portable video?"
This is pretty typical of the stupid questions that get asked on slashdot. The question should be "Is portable video ready for the mainstream market?" The answer is NO it isn't, at least not in the US. I've seen the extremely crappy offerings that SprintPCS had like MobiTV. It was like a slideshow with audio. I've never understood that why no one has offered black & white streaming video with mono audio. You'd be able to get a much better picture while reducing the bandwidth. I've not seen any streaming video for computers in b&w especially for dialups.
But back to the phones. You may be able to cram all of this wonderful software and technology into a phone. You may even be able to offer high bandwidth. Battery life will continue to limit the usefulness of these features for sometime to come.
So Zhang has developed a model which shows that liquid CO2 would have to be injected to a depth of between 800 and 3,000 meters to keep it from escaping from the ocean.
How deep would we have to inject Roland Piquepaille to keep him from escaping from the ocean?