Seriously though, what strange question. Either the cable works and you're happy with the bandwidth it provides, or it stops working and you replace it, or you want to upgrade it. What's the complication here?
where do the sulfur and iron come from? Neither the blurb or TFA say.
I assume microorganism locked up in ice, no matter how hardy, can't find anything but frozen water in their environment. And looking at the size of the "blood falls", they're not just feeding on some trace elements that happened to be there when the ice formed.
This is a horrible idea. What happens when the beamer is hit by a micro meteor nocking out the com and pointing the sat at SF?
Forget micrometeors. The real question is: what happens when Solaren goes the Enron way (and isn't bailed out by your tax dollar) and their satellite is allowed to go derelict and drift? Will it leave a narrow trail of roasted humans across California?
The summary isn't saying that 47% of the earth is covered by water. It is a poorly worded attempt at saying that 15% of the respondents got the answer right, while 47% got the answer approximately right. TaeKwonDood is just shitty at writing in English.
Er.. no. Patents are good. It's only *some* patents that aren't, like software patents, and generally all obvious patents granted by shitty examiners.
The fact that Bell was able to patent his invention means that (1) he was able to profit from it, and (2) his invention was fully disclosed and available to the rest of humanity.
In short, patents are a good thing. Don't mindlessly follow the Slashdot groupthink please...
But rather than just regulating, which we know never goes wrong
Oh yeah, just what we need these days, more de-regulation. Do you live under a rock, or have you not noticed an economic depression lately that is caused by total lack of regulation?
why not foster a more competitive market as well?
Competitive market in what? If you propose to let data carriers compete with one another freely, they'll go to bed with big corporations and media companies faster than you can see the dollar signs in their CEOs' eyes. Then loss of net neutrality ensues. If you propose competition between companies that produce said data, then fair enough I suppose.
I think this guy would beg to differ. What he did was right, even though it was not allowed by military rules.
Mind you I'm not citing this example in connection with the Pirate Bay thing, just to say that there are successful defenses in court other than "I didn't do it" or "I think it is allowed".
- Don't spend the money you don't have - Don't do credit unless you absolutely have to
I know I know, Wall Street are these big finance hotshots who do complicated things that have nothing to do with personal finances, but what is it they do apart from speculating and playing with money they don't have, or other people's money? They just hide that simple fact under abconce financial constructs, but that's all they do in the end.
Bring back some morals sanity in the credit business and there won't be anymore crisis of this magnitude. No need for math here...
I am a IOCCC winner, and I can tell you this: winning the IOCCC landed me a job.
You know why? Because someone who can spew out a short, interesting, and obfuscated C program and still comply with the IOCCC rules, which includes cross-platform compatibility and compliance with the K&R, demonstrates 3 things:
- He knows C very well indeed, - He thinks outside the box, but within established rules, - He's willing to work long hours just to optimize and polish a small piece of code.
This is valid for languages other than C; there's a reason why job interviews in the field of programming often include coding something, or solving a tricky piece of code. I know for a fact that many a prospective employer treats (or at least used to treat) the IOCCC as an excellent test of C proficiency.
I sat posting this on my XP-equipped EeePC 901. Why XP? Because I can't find the Linux version at any store around my area. Whenever I ask whether they'll offer the Linux versions, store managers invariably answer "we won't offer them, they won't sell, people are afraid of non-Windows machine". Can you say chicken and egg?
Oh and yes, and another thing, the Linux GUIs offered on netbooks are designed for retards. That's also perhaps geeks don't buy them. When I have a minute, I'll install Debian on mine, but even if I had managed to find the Linux Eee, I'd have zapped the original distro.
Slashdot Mirror
These people should be able to help you.
Seriously though, what strange question. Either the cable works and you're happy with the bandwidth it provides, or it stops working and you replace it, or you want to upgrade it. What's the complication here?
where do the sulfur and iron come from? Neither the blurb or TFA say.
I assume microorganism locked up in ice, no matter how hardy, can't find anything but frozen water in their environment. And looking at the size of the "blood falls", they're not just feeding on some trace elements that happened to be there when the ice formed.
yeah, I'd say they're hot.
This is a horrible idea. What happens when the beamer is hit by a micro meteor nocking out the com and pointing the sat at SF?
Forget micrometeors. The real question is: what happens when Solaren goes the Enron way (and isn't bailed out by your tax dollar) and their satellite is allowed to go derelict and drift? Will it leave a narrow trail of roasted humans across California?
preinstalled, on ASUS boards: it was the BIOS itself. It too survived hard disk wipes, but it didn't survive my sledgehammer.
Worth chopping off my finger, I think. Heck, I'd cut my leg off for a more portable external hard drive.
How about the joystick?
The summary isn't saying that 47% of the earth is covered by water. It is a poorly worded attempt at saying that 15% of the respondents got the answer right, while 47% got the answer approximately right. TaeKwonDood is just shitty at writing in English.
Do you know what "irony" is?
Er.. no. Patents are good. It's only *some* patents that aren't, like software patents, and generally all obvious patents granted by shitty examiners.
The fact that Bell was able to patent his invention means that (1) he was able to profit from it, and (2) his invention was fully disclosed and available to the rest of humanity.
In short, patents are a good thing. Don't mindlessly follow the Slashdot groupthink please...
More like "can you hear me? CAN YOU HEAR ME? HELLO?? *beep*beep*beep* Ah f**ing Verizon!"
Of course, the light bulb was only invented in 1879.
Wow, +1 Informative on a link to the don't-copy-that-floppy video, my life is now complete...
Children often do not understand what is involved with making the game ("but XYZ does it for free!?")
This should educate them.
Everybody knows Pluto is a dog.
block [...] seemingly innocuous information as the locations of public toilets.
something you definitely need when you have transit problems.
But rather than just regulating, which we know never goes wrong
Oh yeah, just what we need these days, more de-regulation. Do you live under a rock, or have you not noticed an economic depression lately that is caused by total lack of regulation?
why not foster a more competitive market as well?
Competitive market in what? If you propose to let data carriers compete with one another freely, they'll go to bed with big corporations and media companies faster than you can see the dollar signs in their CEOs' eyes. Then loss of net neutrality ensues. If you propose competition between companies that produce said data, then fair enough I suppose.
I think this guy would beg to differ. What he did was right, even though it was not allowed by military rules.
Mind you I'm not citing this example in connection with the Pirate Bay thing, just to say that there are successful defenses in court other than "I didn't do it" or "I think it is allowed".
Hmm say, out of curiosity, have you ever found the pot of gold? Because otherwise the comparison is pretty flimsy I would say...
"Pages at ireport.com and extortionletterinfo.com have been documenting and researching the activities of George P. Riddick III
they call the document "the chronicles of riddick"
*bad-dum-dah*
I'll be here all week
- Don't spend the money you don't have
- Don't do credit unless you absolutely have to
I know I know, Wall Street are these big finance hotshots who do complicated things that have nothing to do with personal finances, but what is it they do apart from speculating and playing with money they don't have, or other people's money? They just hide that simple fact under abconce financial constructs, but that's all they do in the end.
Bring back some morals sanity in the credit business and there won't be anymore crisis of this magnitude. No need for math here...
some say that songs recorded against a click track sound sterile
I'd say 90% of whatever is recorded nowadays already sound like crap, so at least it's rythmically correct crap.
Don't worry about click tracks, real musicians with real talent probably don't have any need for them.
Do you have a link to your winning entry?
I would link it but I'd rather not disclose my full name and address on /. :)
I am a IOCCC winner, and I can tell you this: winning the IOCCC landed me a job.
You know why? Because someone who can spew out a short, interesting, and obfuscated C program and still comply with the IOCCC rules, which includes cross-platform compatibility and compliance with the K&R, demonstrates 3 things:
- He knows C very well indeed,
- He thinks outside the box, but within established rules,
- He's willing to work long hours just to optimize and polish a small piece of code.
This is valid for languages other than C; there's a reason why job interviews in the field of programming often include coding something, or solving a tricky piece of code. I know for a fact that many a prospective employer treats (or at least used to treat) the IOCCC as an excellent test of C proficiency.
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I sat posting this on my XP-equipped EeePC 901. Why XP? Because I can't find the Linux version at any store around my area. Whenever I ask whether they'll offer the Linux versions, store managers invariably answer "we won't offer them, they won't sell, people are afraid of non-Windows machine". Can you say chicken and egg?
Oh and yes, and another thing, the Linux GUIs offered on netbooks are designed for retards. That's also perhaps geeks don't buy them. When I have a minute, I'll install Debian on mine, but even if I had managed to find the Linux Eee, I'd have zapped the original distro.
I'm from South America, you insensitive clod!
Aren't you the guys who chew raw coca leaves all day long? hmmm...
I'm betting there's a giant black monolith involved ... (cue Richard Strauss music)
There, fixed that for you.