> These aren't people working in the computer department because they can wax poetic about the advantages of a shorter instruction pipeline. They generally know enough to answer questions pertinent to the products intended use. How can you expect more?
I don't expect more. But in my experience most of the store help I talk to can't answer even the most rudimentary questions.
> it is taking the bold step to have Linux-knowledgeable clerks
I can't remember the last time I was in a store where the clerks were knowlegeable about anything. In Best Buy stores the clerks have to go consult their supervisor on the simplest questions (assuming they don't just make up an answer).
> > Torvalds, via e-mail, says De Raadt is "difficult" and declined to comment further.
> I must say, Linus really comes across as a classy, quality person. It takes mature restraint to deal with "difficult" people like Theo, and Linus does so with class.
He knows he can count on us to fill in the details.
> Speaking of T-Tex and bones... Whatever happened to the soft tissue they found inside the T-rex bone they cut open a few months ago?
I haven't seen the Science article, but the various on-line articles leave the impression that this "medullary bone" is the soft tissue they found a while back.
> And I know I'm posting Anonymously. I don't have an account nor do I care to create one at your site until you stop being the Fox Network equivalent for Tech News.
> Kind of like how the SR-71's outer plating would become harder each time it took to the skies, or like how the samurai's katana becomes harder each time it is thrust into the forge
...or like thinking gets harder after every hit on the hash pipe.
> > I'd love to see Connery reprise as James Bond called out of retirement for some emergency that needed his talent. Provided the script didn't suck.
> Connery *did* do that in 1983, in "Never Say Never Again". This was essentially a remake of "Thunderball" with some mild comedy. Some guy had the (joint) rights to Thunderball due (IIRC) to some work he'd done on it with Fleming in the 1960s, and thus another company were able to make a Bond film without getting sued into oblivion by Eon productions
The were supposedly going to do it again about five years ago, purportedly with James^w Sean Connery playing the villan. You may be able to find something about it by googling for its working title, "Warhead 2000".
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> These aren't people working in the computer department because they can wax poetic about the advantages of a shorter instruction pipeline. They generally know enough to answer questions pertinent to the products intended use. How can you expect more?
I don't expect more. But in my experience most of the store help I talk to can't answer even the most rudimentary questions.
What's with all the nixen on boxen?
> it is taking the bold step to have Linux-knowledgeable clerks
I can't remember the last time I was in a store where the clerks were knowlegeable about anything. In Best Buy stores the clerks have to go consult their supervisor on the simplest questions (assuming they don't just make up an answer).
> > Torvalds, via e-mail, says De Raadt is "difficult" and declined to comment further.
> I must say, Linus really comes across as a classy, quality person. It takes mature restraint to deal with "difficult" people like Theo, and Linus does so with class.
He knows he can count on us to fill in the details.
> I was distracted by my masturbating when it happened
Hemingway says the earth only moves for you three times in your whole life.
> Shook my bed a bit, that was more of an event than this.
Most slashdotters have never had their beds shaken, so you might want to explain what it's like.
> I orderd some smokes off the internet
Does your spelling give away what kind of smokes they were?
Can they grow Pinky cells yet?
> We would be better off if all science had a governing body that said which studies are worthwhile.
Therein lies the road to Lysenkoism.
Read up on Project Mohole.
> Something strange about the recursiveness of the article text
That's nothing - wait 'til you see what the dupe looks like!
> Speaking of T-Tex and bones... Whatever happened to the soft tissue they found inside the T-rex bone they cut open a few months ago?
I haven't seen the Science article, but the various on-line articles leave the impression that this "medullary bone" is the soft tissue they found a while back.
> This could be just me and my will to believe everything in sci-fi movies, but can't the dinos assume either gender and reproduce?
Transvestite Rex?
>
That must qualify as informative - it's not often that slashdotters see pictures of an oriental girl with her clothes on.
> And I know I'm posting Anonymously. I don't have an account nor do I care to create one at your site until you stop being the Fox Network equivalent for Tech News.
Hello there, Bill!
> Kind of like how the SR-71's outer plating would become harder each time it took to the skies, or like how the samurai's katana becomes harder each time it is thrust into the forge
> I suppose even phishers get burnt by giving away information to their ilk.
"To confirm your status as a member of Phishers Anonymous, reply with your contact information and IP address."
> that one of the authors claims was actually tested by the Germans in 1945
If they had, would we expect to be able to detect radiation at the site today?
> how about a theocracy with nuclear bombs (tehran)?
You misspelled "Kansas".
> Poison gas was NOT used by any side in WWII.
The Germans used it in the siege of Sevastapol.
That's the only case I know of, though. There was surprising restraint, considering how little regard there was for playing nice overall.
Perhaps it was just a matter of commanders not thinking it had been very effective in WWI.
> Hopefully this file format change will bring about the end of ever-changing file formats from one version of an app to the next.
Somehow I doubt that the release of yet another format is going to mean the end of ever-changing formats.
I've dripped cheese on my printer a time or two as well, but it never seemed suitable for a Slashdot headline.
> > I'd love to see Connery reprise as James Bond called out of retirement for some emergency that needed his talent. Provided the script didn't suck.
> Connery *did* do that in 1983, in "Never Say Never Again". This was essentially a remake of "Thunderball" with some mild comedy. Some guy had the (joint) rights to Thunderball due (IIRC) to some work he'd done on it with Fleming in the 1960s, and thus another company were able to make a Bond film without getting sued into oblivion by Eon productions
The were supposedly going to do it again about five years ago, purportedly with James^w Sean Connery playing the villan. You may be able to find something about it by googling for its working title, "Warhead 2000".
> Nobody does the "Bond, James Bond" shtick quite like he does.
Let alone the "Poosie" Galore shtick.
Next week we'll be reading a story about how some criminal hacked the system and found out what everyone had for lunch!