The problem with prophecies regarding the mayan calendar is that nutjobs think it marks the end of the world, when it really only marks the end of the calendar.
Yeah using GIMP or Photoshop will be so much easier when you can just utter some sounds instead of pointing with that pesky mouse.
And in the future I will have to sit right in front of my tv, which i use as my pc screen, just so I can swipe my greasy finger across the screen when im surfing the net. Because using the mouse is not modern enough.
Imagine a flameware between Windows users and GNU/Linux users: Windows users would poing out the market share and general popularity, while Linux users would sneer that them because they know better..
Now replace Windows with Ubuntu and GNU/Linux with Slackware.....
The slackers are just reading all the comments about how difficult it is to configure the new desktops then shaking their heads and smiling to themselves before they continue configuring xfce.
Yes, except on IQ tests. You can be taught the basic method to solve the pattern recognition, but as the questions gets harder it doesn't matter what you have learned previously. It gets so difficult and confusing that you can't aply the basic method. You either solve them or you don't.
The morality tale above was about me (I was brilliant at soccer when i was young) and my brother (he is not a genius but very intelligent).
You see, my brother excelled in everything he did with seemingly no effort, and so he spent most of the school days just making jokes and having fun. Everybody was so impressed with how smart he was, so naturally when he was young he thought he was the smartest guy in the world. So early on he got used to the fact that he didn't need to work hard in school. Of course when he got older the subjects got a little harder but he still managed. Then he get to college and suddenly he failed miserably because he was totally unprepared for doing something that required some effort. He was not used to more then 30 minutes of homework for example.
Working smarter instead of harder doesn't help you if you haven't learned to work for something in the first place.
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Creationism: Poof, there's a universe.
Intelligent design: Bang, there's a universe.
In the beginning, there was nothing. Then one day nothing exploded and so the universe was born.
The problem with prophecies regarding the mayan calendar is that nutjobs think it marks the end of the world, when it really only marks the end of the calendar.
^^ More correctly, they need the host to be alive.
What if zombies are controlled by a parasite? :)
They eat the brain and transfer a parasite at the same time. So they need live BRRRAAIIIIIIIINNS
You didn't google the word subluxations did you.
What does micro-subluxations have to do with polarized light?
If you sit in a movie theater seat for two hours without polarized light I am pretty sure you will experience the same effect.
DOS on your neighbour woohoo!
They have to. They can't look for signs that they don't know about.
OMG an informative answer on slashdot :-o
Hope this gets +5 informative.
..are the signs of alien life they will listen for?
Until every recording gets polluted by sounds from the outside.
Laughter from the next room, babies crying, fire trucks passing by etc.
Yeah using GIMP or Photoshop will be so much easier when you can just utter some sounds instead of pointing with that pesky mouse.
And in the future I will have to sit right in front of my tv, which i use as my pc screen, just so I can swipe my greasy finger across the screen when im surfing the net. Because using the mouse is not modern enough.
I thought it was about a german astronaut playing with his balls in space.
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Imagine a flameware between Windows users and GNU/Linux users:
Windows users would poing out the market share and general popularity, while Linux users would sneer that them because they know better..
Now replace Windows with Ubuntu and GNU/Linux with Slackware.....
The slackers are just reading all the comments about how difficult it is to configure the new desktops then shaking their heads and smiling to themselves before they continue configuring xfce.
Considering that slackware releases comes about every 10-12 months the world has probably ended many times before 313.37 comes out.
Another answer would be "when it's ready".
Actually naut means cow. As a slang it means stupid.
I was not very presice in my post.
That is because Pat is a genius.
Forgot to say that it is slang.
In norwegian, 'naut' means dumb or stupid. :)
I guess 'internaut' in norwegian would be a good description of the non-technical people
No actually I hate arguing, but in this case I was sure i was right, until you came along :)
Grrr I want to disagree with that but I can't find any faults with your logic :)
Yes, except on IQ tests. You can be taught the basic method to solve the pattern recognition, but as the questions gets harder it doesn't matter what you have learned previously. It gets so difficult and confusing that you can't aply the basic method. You either solve them or you don't.
The morality tale above was about me (I was brilliant at soccer when i was young) and my brother (he is not a genius but very intelligent). You see, my brother excelled in everything he did with seemingly no effort, and so he spent most of the school days just making jokes and having fun. Everybody was so impressed with how smart he was, so naturally when he was young he thought he was the smartest guy in the world.
So early on he got used to the fact that he didn't need to work hard in school. Of course when he got older the subjects got a little harder but he still managed.
Then he get to college and suddenly he failed miserably because he was totally unprepared for doing something that required some effort. He was not used to more then 30 minutes of homework for example.
Working smarter instead of harder doesn't help you if you haven't learned to work for something in the first place.