I just heard some sad news on talk radio - RIAA CEO Hillary Rosen was fired in her Washington D.C. office this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss her - even if you didn't enjoy her work, there's no denying her contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
Air isn't a good insulator? Why the hell do they make winter coats puffy? Try wearing a wetsuit and a good winter coat outside. They both have the same ammount of material, why are you freezing in the wetsuit? Because the jacket's padding traps air.
The fans are necessary BECAUSE air is an insulator. Your processor has a heatsink in order to conduct the heat to the air, which will absorb it. The fan blows the hot air away from the heatsink so that it will keep working. If air were a conductor, you wouldn't need a fan, because the heat would be conducted through the air.
Air isn't an electrical conductor either. Lightning is not only not a "relatively low voltage", it's a fucking astronomical voltage. It jumps through the air because it's got enough energy to power your house for a month. Thunder, man! Air is not a conductor, that means it heats up resisting the current, causing it to expand explosively in an audible shockwave. Lightning only happens because air is an insulator seperating the clouds and the ground, which are both way better conductors than the air.
High School physics man. Try and retain your education a little. This is why people think the highest point on earth is Pluto.
Cryptonomicon has ending cancer. It's fantastic up until Neil goes off and gives all his characters blueballs for some unfathomable reason. (Am I the only one who doesn't want to hear about J. Bearded Nerd's decision to stop masturbating?) Then he just spins in circles until he's bored and whips through a cobbled-together action sequence to get to the pretty final imagery.
Not that I didn't enjoy the book, he just forgot to write an ending.
Actually, that might be pretty good. Save closed captioning or subtitles or something. You could record the captions and send them to your computer for an instant transcript. Wouldn't have to type out all your little Simpson's quotes anymore.
The Dig. I think I'm the only one who liked The Dig. And I'm usually all pissy when games are like interactive movies, but The Dig kicked ass. Maybe it was just a good interactive movie, and that was what did it. Myst with a better story, the liquid terminator and amputations. That had nothing to do with what you said. Whatever. I feel the need to make a techno remix of something with Dig samples.
Not much in the way of blood ties here on/. it seems. I could see helping out the cops if he was still running around killing people, but it looks like he retired. He's like 70. It's not like he's gonna live too long anyway. I'm with the guy's brother for these circumstances. Maybe this is just some wierd Italian thing.
Hm. I just noticed that the article says 21 murders, but the FBI says only 18. Maybe they're lumping the conspiracy charges in or something.
Why the hell do we use bracketing asterisks for EVERYTHING? Just in your post, you use it for both emphasis and onomatopoeia. What happened to all caps meaning emphasis? I'm pretty sure that's what they told us to do back in 3rd grade on our oversized lined paper.
but *no*! capitalization is the tool of *the devil*! capitals are *ugly* and make your writing hard to read! they're all *tall* and stuff. let's come up with confusing new uses for some other punctuation marks instead! like asterisks! they look just like quotation marks when you use small fonts! now *that's* easy to read!
Why don't we just stick a global text-transform: lowercase;* up there somewhere for God's sake.
It's not that I have a problem with asterisks per se, or that I'm really that worried about following punctuation rules, but when I see asterisks, I think onomatopoeia. I mean, emphasis has it's own HTML tag! Why do we need to randomly screw with recognizable punctuation?
*See, this is what asterisks are SUPPOSED to be for. Denoting additional information, like the information that text-transform: lowercase; is a CSS style tag that makes everything lowercased.
An excellent kit for keeping those shoes nicely buffed. I also found an additional useful feature when I accidentally dropped a coin next to my home shoeshine kit and it told me that word on the street was the Gambinis had been taking heat from the DA's office on account of that business with Frankie the Snake.
eBay hasn't been too bad to me in the sniper department these days. Maybe it's just that I quit buying computer parts and the only things I've bought in the past few months have been posters, a hat and a carton of irradiated soy milk, but I haven't been sniped at later than 5 minuites in any of them.
Anyway, I prefer the occasional snipage to time extensions that'll just jack up the price. The whole point of online auctions is buying stuff you don't really need at ridiculously low prices and being disapointed when it arrives. I don't want an extra 5 minutes for it to taunt me into paying more for the matched set of French Star Wars water bottles.
This is what I do. Read through the negatives until I think I've got all the weak points, then go to the positives and see if the first 5 are all along the lines of "Why are there so many bad reviews? It only came out yesterday!"
Oh, you lucky bastards. Theater ads this side are worse than the stuff you get for local car dealerships. Actually, some of them ARE ads for local car dealerships.
Between movies, they play an endless slideshow of what look like yellow pages ads for stuff like window installers and tux rentals. Then they turn down the lights and show a bunch of locally-targeted ads, the exact same ones they show on Comedy Central in the middle of the night.
Then they move on to "better" ads, which are almost always the same. First they have an ad for Plymouth, usually for a Jeep, then they have that goddamn Mountain Dew ad with the guy doing Fast and the Furious or an ad for some other lemon-lime soda with people jumping off a cliff into the arctic ocean.
Then you get PSAs. One PSA is a bunch of adorable little babies on pink blankets with a nun (it's a nun voice, you'll know if you hear it) talking about dead baby statistics, followed by "don't abandon your baby." Either that or the one with some guy telling you not to beat the shit out of Arabs over terrorism. All the ads are designed for TV, so the scale is all wrong, meaning you have freakishly huge looking faces staring at you. It's horrible if you're in front.
Maybe I'm a little too upset about those (just maybe), but they only show maybe one preview anymore because of the time they use for ads. And it's getting close to a half-hour now. I saw the Bond movie and timed just over 25 minutes from turning the lights down to the start of the movie. And there were no previews at all. It's horrible.
Yeah, but mp3 was arround for years before Real began supporting it. And it was taking popularity from mp3's user base, not the other way around.
There's a big group out there for which Windows Media Player, Quicktime, and Real are all they know. Between those three, you can play any media file you find, so there's no reason for most people to care about anything else.
That means having Real support Ogg will make it a format that you can reasonably expect most people to be able to play, but it also has the danger of making it into "that Real format" in a lot of people's eyes. And a lot of people (even drone-like users) hate Real's guts. Probably the userbase makes up for the hate, but it's something to think about.
I think you're confusing the right to shoot your gun with the right to "shoot" your "gun".
Anyway, (watch me come up with a point real quick) convicted felons lose most (they usually still get property, and they get to have kids again once they get out) of the rights you name right now. End prison! YOU could go to jail TOO!
Personally, I don't mind living somewhere where people have guns, and that's why. Nobody ever uses them, except for psychos on a rampage and hit men and maybe cops. Among those, I'd personally be the most worried about cops, which wouldn't be helped by gun control so who cares.
NRA-types are morons. They try and come up with uses for their guns besides toys. That's all they are. Just expensive toys with enough of an element of danger and power that you can get a little euphoria out of them. Then they spend all this time and effort concocting elaborate hypotheticals in which they might get a chance to use the thing. Personally, I'm more swayed towards permitting gun ownership by "why not" or "they're cool" than strained interpretations of the constitution formulated by SCOTUS's attempts to legislate or ridiculous situations in which the average gun owner's lack of any kind of skill or experience would most likely leave him with a bullet up his own asshole.
I don't really get that whole concept. I mean, are the congressmen gonna come after us with Glocks or something?
I mean, if you're ever going to have a succesful violent revolution there's gonna be a coup involved. Even if you magically got everybody in the country to storm DC with a rifle, you still won't have a chance at getting at the president or really anybody big unless the Army helps you out. Feds go underground in Virginia, Secret Service on the roof fire rockets into the mob, your revolution's done.
The Army will always outnumber civilians in numbers that are willing to die. You guys would be fighting to make your lives better (the vast majority anyway) which is a judgement call. When you get hit with napalm, you'll decide that your personal happiness would be greater if you were having your rights violated instead of being burned alive. The same majority of soldiers would be shooting you and getting shot at because that's what they do, which is not a judgement call, and has very little to do with how unpleasant the whole thing is.
The Civil War only lasted as long as it did because more than half the Army ceceded along with the south.
In other words, marines can kill you if you have a gun or not.
This really has nothing to do with gun control, about which I probably couldn't give less of a shit, I just find it hilarious that so many people here have these fantasies about becoming a charismatic revolutionary someday. Do you think playing Ernest Hemminway in Spain will get you babes or something?
I agree with whoever it was that said "I bet you guys would love it if the US suddenly turned communist" or whatever somewhere on this thread.
Ah, if only. He might learn some responsibility if he had to collect the things himself. No, he went straight from pointy stick on the playground to the "Our Kind of Bastard" free nerve gas program.
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I just heard some sad news on talk radio - RIAA CEO Hillary Rosen was fired in her Washington D.C. office this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss her - even if you didn't enjoy her work, there's no denying her contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
"Sir, there's something wrong, we can't stay still! We doin' a hundred on the highway!"
"Move, bitch! Get out the way!"
Air isn't a good insulator? Why the hell do they make winter coats puffy? Try wearing a wetsuit and a good winter coat outside. They both have the same ammount of material, why are you freezing in the wetsuit? Because the jacket's padding traps air.
The fans are necessary BECAUSE air is an insulator. Your processor has a heatsink in order to conduct the heat to the air, which will absorb it. The fan blows the hot air away from the heatsink so that it will keep working. If air were a conductor, you wouldn't need a fan, because the heat would be conducted through the air.
Air isn't an electrical conductor either. Lightning is not only not a "relatively low voltage", it's a fucking astronomical voltage. It jumps through the air because it's got enough energy to power your house for a month. Thunder, man! Air is not a conductor, that means it heats up resisting the current, causing it to expand explosively in an audible shockwave. Lightning only happens because air is an insulator seperating the clouds and the ground, which are both way better conductors than the air.
High School physics man. Try and retain your education a little. This is why people think the highest point on earth is Pluto.
Cryptonomicon has ending cancer. It's fantastic up until Neil goes off and gives all his characters blueballs for some unfathomable reason. (Am I the only one who doesn't want to hear about J. Bearded Nerd's decision to stop masturbating?) Then he just spins in circles until he's bored and whips through a cobbled-together action sequence to get to the pretty final imagery.
Not that I didn't enjoy the book, he just forgot to write an ending.
Goddamn gnomes got your underpants too, huh?
Actually, that might be pretty good. Save closed captioning or subtitles or something. You could record the captions and send them to your computer for an instant transcript. Wouldn't have to type out all your little Simpson's quotes anymore.
...the support person can see what channel your cable box is tuned to, and can even change the channel. ...
What cable company might that be? I have visions of an extremely short-term, but intensely fun-filled tech-support job.
"Who Wants to Be a Millionare? Oh, no you don't Mrs. McDonald, the Flyers are playing!"
"Young and the Restless? Looks like somebody's about to say something shocking... oops, finger slipped."
"Oooh. You sure switched from that porn to the Home and Garden Channel pretty fast. Maybe we oughta just switch that back..."
Wonder how long it'll take before they decide I'm a terrorist...
The Dig. I think I'm the only one who liked The Dig. And I'm usually all pissy when games are like interactive movies, but The Dig kicked ass. Maybe it was just a good interactive movie, and that was what did it. Myst with a better story, the liquid terminator and amputations. That had nothing to do with what you said. Whatever. I feel the need to make a techno remix of something with Dig samples.
Not much in the way of blood ties here on /. it seems. I could see helping out the cops if he was still running around killing people, but it looks like he retired. He's like 70. It's not like he's gonna live too long anyway. I'm with the guy's brother for these circumstances. Maybe this is just some wierd Italian thing.
Hm. I just noticed that the article says 21 murders, but the FBI says only 18. Maybe they're lumping the conspiracy charges in or something.
Why the hell do we use bracketing asterisks for EVERYTHING? Just in your post, you use it for both emphasis and onomatopoeia. What happened to all caps meaning emphasis? I'm pretty sure that's what they told us to do back in 3rd grade on our oversized lined paper.
but *no*! capitalization is the tool of *the devil*! capitals are *ugly* and make your writing hard to read! they're all *tall* and stuff. let's come up with confusing new uses for some other punctuation marks instead! like asterisks! they look just like quotation marks when you use small fonts! now *that's* easy to read!
Why don't we just stick a global text-transform: lowercase;* up there somewhere for God's sake.
It's not that I have a problem with asterisks per se, or that I'm really that worried about following punctuation rules, but when I see asterisks, I think onomatopoeia. I mean, emphasis has it's own HTML tag! Why do we need to randomly screw with recognizable punctuation?
*See, this is what asterisks are SUPPOSED to be for. Denoting additional information, like the information that text-transform: lowercase; is a CSS style tag that makes everything lowercased.
Hilarious.
eBay hasn't been too bad to me in the sniper department these days. Maybe it's just that I quit buying computer parts and the only things I've bought in the past few months have been posters, a hat and a carton of irradiated soy milk, but I haven't been sniped at later than 5 minuites in any of them.
Anyway, I prefer the occasional snipage to time extensions that'll just jack up the price. The whole point of online auctions is buying stuff you don't really need at ridiculously low prices and being disapointed when it arrives. I don't want an extra 5 minutes for it to taunt me into paying more for the matched set of French Star Wars water bottles.
This is what I do. Read through the negatives until I think I've got all the weak points, then go to the positives and see if the first 5 are all along the lines of "Why are there so many bad reviews? It only came out yesterday!"
Yeeeeaaaaaarrrrrrghghhghgghhhhhhhh!
Thanks.
I know, I used to be a libertarian too. Just try and resist the urge to TESTAFAH! now and then, please.
get straight!
Yeah, sure guys.
Yeah, that's definately an H. Hedonna I think. Whatever, it's her made-up name.
Tony Hawk's is really the only one that doesn't just look ugly.
Oh, you lucky bastards. Theater ads this side are worse than the stuff you get for local car dealerships. Actually, some of them ARE ads for local car dealerships.
Between movies, they play an endless slideshow of what look like yellow pages ads for stuff like window installers and tux rentals. Then they turn down the lights and show a bunch of locally-targeted ads, the exact same ones they show on Comedy Central in the middle of the night.
Then they move on to "better" ads, which are almost always the same. First they have an ad for Plymouth, usually for a Jeep, then they have that goddamn Mountain Dew ad with the guy doing Fast and the Furious or an ad for some other lemon-lime soda with people jumping off a cliff into the arctic ocean.
Then you get PSAs. One PSA is a bunch of adorable little babies on pink blankets with a nun (it's a nun voice, you'll know if you hear it) talking about dead baby statistics, followed by "don't abandon your baby." Either that or the one with some guy telling you not to beat the shit out of Arabs over terrorism. All the ads are designed for TV, so the scale is all wrong, meaning you have freakishly huge looking faces staring at you. It's horrible if you're in front.
Maybe I'm a little too upset about those (just maybe), but they only show maybe one preview anymore because of the time they use for ads. And it's getting close to a half-hour now. I saw the Bond movie and timed just over 25 minutes from turning the lights down to the start of the movie. And there were no previews at all. It's horrible.
I'm sure gold would be better, but if you've got that kind of budget, you might as well hire a bunch of Navajos to memorize your data for you.
Ah, if only.
Yeah, but mp3 was arround for years before Real began supporting it. And it was taking popularity from mp3's user base, not the other way around.
There's a big group out there for which Windows Media Player, Quicktime, and Real are all they know. Between those three, you can play any media file you find, so there's no reason for most people to care about anything else.
That means having Real support Ogg will make it a format that you can reasonably expect most people to be able to play, but it also has the danger of making it into "that Real format" in a lot of people's eyes. And a lot of people (even drone-like users) hate Real's guts. Probably the userbase makes up for the hate, but it's something to think about.
...if that were the case, I'd have a little problem.)
"..."
"That's bad."
"Can I go now?"
Procreate?
I think you're confusing the right to shoot your gun with the right to "shoot" your "gun".
Anyway, (watch me come up with a point real quick) convicted felons lose most (they usually still get property, and they get to have kids again once they get out) of the rights you name right now. End prison! YOU could go to jail TOO!
Absolutely, man.
Personally, I don't mind living somewhere where people have guns, and that's why. Nobody ever uses them, except for psychos on a rampage and hit men and maybe cops. Among those, I'd personally be the most worried about cops, which wouldn't be helped by gun control so who cares.
NRA-types are morons. They try and come up with uses for their guns besides toys. That's all they are. Just expensive toys with enough of an element of danger and power that you can get a little euphoria out of them. Then they spend all this time and effort concocting elaborate hypotheticals in which they might get a chance to use the thing. Personally, I'm more swayed towards permitting gun ownership by "why not" or "they're cool" than strained interpretations of the constitution formulated by SCOTUS's attempts to legislate or ridiculous situations in which the average gun owner's lack of any kind of skill or experience would most likely leave him with a bullet up his own asshole.
I don't really get that whole concept. I mean, are the congressmen gonna come after us with Glocks or something?
I mean, if you're ever going to have a succesful violent revolution there's gonna be a coup involved. Even if you magically got everybody in the country to storm DC with a rifle, you still won't have a chance at getting at the president or really anybody big unless the Army helps you out. Feds go underground in Virginia, Secret Service on the roof fire rockets into the mob, your revolution's done.
The Army will always outnumber civilians in numbers that are willing to die. You guys would be fighting to make your lives better (the vast majority anyway) which is a judgement call. When you get hit with napalm, you'll decide that your personal happiness would be greater if you were having your rights violated instead of being burned alive. The same majority of soldiers would be shooting you and getting shot at because that's what they do, which is not a judgement call, and has very little to do with how unpleasant the whole thing is.
The Civil War only lasted as long as it did because more than half the Army ceceded along with the south.
In other words, marines can kill you if you have a gun or not.
This really has nothing to do with gun control, about which I probably couldn't give less of a shit, I just find it hilarious that so many people here have these fantasies about becoming a charismatic revolutionary someday. Do you think playing Ernest Hemminway in Spain will get you babes or something?
I agree with whoever it was that said "I bet you guys would love it if the US suddenly turned communist" or whatever somewhere on this thread.
Ah, if only. He might learn some responsibility if he had to collect the things himself. No, he went straight from pointy stick on the playground to the "Our Kind of Bastard" free nerve gas program.