No one answer is correct and you are an inconsiderate dumbshit if you keep thinking one is.
Hey dumbass, I'm not the person originally posting how the other movies "were better" than Titanic.
Box office sales should not mean anything for award shows.
Never did I give the large box office as a reason for Titanic to win. I listed the large box office as proof that there were many people that enjoyed the movie.
Just because a lot of people saw it does not mean it is a good movie
In your opinion a movie may or may not be good. The box office proves whether a movie was popular, and whether or not it had staying power. If it had staying power, like Titanic, then it definitely meant a lot of people liked the movie enough to recommend it to friends and see it multiple times.
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers.
Unless someone tells you something is a fact and can provide evidence
That's just it, he presented it as fact, and tried to provide evidence (the other movies). Like looking at the list of movies just proves it. I liked all the movies up for the award that year, ESPECIALLY Titanic.
Those of us not cold and cynical liked it a lot. Witness the huge box office.
I mean they listed Viagra on there. VIAGRA? I'm sorry, but the ability for an old man to get an erection is not one of the greatest innovations of the last 85 years.
ObSlashdotJoke: You'd have to not be a virgin to make a proper assessment, though.
But seriously, let's talk when YOU can't get an erection any more!
Erectile disfunction is not limited to old people.
Whoops I just realized you were talking about the other quote you gave, not mine. Doh!
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I do not think it was LaPlace. Try this google search. It searches for the exact quote and the word Sagan. You can see it is attributed to Carl Sagan all over the place, in some places referred to as Sagan's Law.
If you mean UFO's like, "hey, what the fuck is that dot in the sky?" I agree.
If you mean UFO's like, "wow, look at that tractor beam pulling up Homer Simpson, no wait, too tractor beams," then I have to wonder how you have NO DOUBT they exist.
I mean, there is no legitimate evidence whatsoever.
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Since you're quoting Carl Sagan (who often said, "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"), I would suggest a great book of his that talks a lot about UFO's (or lack thereof) and skepticism in general: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark.
yes, the added advantage that a female Terminator could have certain psychological advantages in manipulating humans over a male terminator.
Notwithstanding how stupid this conversation really is, I have to wonder if a psychological advantage is needed when you have missiles flying out of your arms?
It's a proven fact your lifespan will actually decrease due to the stress involved in moving a network's IP address and the debugging that goes along with it.
When you can just get a Touchpad Mouse [amazon.com] that'll probably do the same
Well if you read about the mousepad in question, you'd know that the one you linked to does NOWHERE NEAR the same! Anyone can do a touchpad like that. The cool thing about this mousepad is the gesture technology built in.
They also have cool keyboards that have no keys on them, they feel your fingers touch the space where the key is painted. You might be thinking, so what. However, realize that if you touch this keyboard with multiple fingers at once, in certain configurations, you can use it as a mousepad as well! (as well as other shortcuts that can be done with gestures)
At first I liked this idea, but then I started thinking about it, and it's not practical.
Mainly because slashdot is what it is because of the articles picked for our consumption by the editors, for better or worse.
All slashdot needs is about 1 line of perl code to prevent duplicate articles (or at least, stop them most of the time, or display a warning when a duplicate is likely.
I mean, it's not rocket science!
However, a blog where readers submit the stories and other readers approve the stories, and other readers comment on the stories, and other readers moderate those comments... now THAT is an interesting idea, indeed!
It is agreed upon by all that 12AM is 12 midnight, and 12PM is 12 noon. There is no conflict. Yes it would be better had they used the terms 12 midnight and 12 noon, but they didn't.
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"When people see, hear and touch this character, it will be a real groundbreaking experience."
So they plan on making this sucker pretty big, eh?
Are there people in China that actually pay for Windows?
... food.
Kidding! I'm kidding!!!
C'mon folks, I *LOVE* the Chinese
What's next? Should Microsoft be forced to include Mozilla with every copy of Windows?
If AOL/Netscape/Mozilla can prove harm? Abso-fuckin-lutely!
If someone can wade through the uber-cool-intelligent-student humor and tell me what the fuck they actually did, that would be much appreciated.
I had to stop reading after about the third paragraph due to a headache.
I can hear RMS now... "you should refer to Linus as a GNU/Hero."
I was kind of hoping those annoying Flash advertisements would be banished from Mozilla.
Would there be any advantage in using more than two layers?
Do you have more than two eyeballs?
Your deposit is entirely refundable and will bear interest at an annual interest rate of 5%
They left out, "...unless we go bankrupt, in which case you will lose all your money, but that's HIGHLY UNLIKELY WE ASSURE YOU!"
No one answer is correct and you are an inconsiderate dumbshit if you keep thinking one is.
Hey dumbass, I'm not the person originally posting how the other movies "were better" than Titanic.
Box office sales should not mean anything for award shows.
Never did I give the large box office as a reason for Titanic to win. I listed the large box office as proof that there were many people that enjoyed the movie.
Just because a lot of people saw it does not mean it is a good movie
In your opinion a movie may or may not be good. The box office proves whether a movie was popular, and whether or not it had staying power. If it had staying power, like Titanic, then it definitely meant a lot of people liked the movie enough to recommend it to friends and see it multiple times.
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers.
As a loyal slashdot reader, I'm well aware.
Unless someone tells you something is a fact and can provide evidence
That's just it, he presented it as fact, and tried to provide evidence (the other movies). Like looking at the list of movies just proves it. I liked all the movies up for the award that year, ESPECIALLY Titanic.
Those of us not cold and cynical liked it a lot. Witness the huge box office.
I mean they listed Viagra on there. VIAGRA? I'm sorry, but the ability for an old man to get an erection is not one of the greatest innovations of the last 85 years.
ObSlashdotJoke: You'd have to not be a virgin to make a proper assessment, though.
But seriously, let's talk when YOU can't get an erection any more!
Erectile disfunction is not limited to old people.
Sex == Enjoyment == Better quality of life.
Whoops I just realized you were talking about the other quote you gave, not mine. Doh!
I do not think it was LaPlace. Try this google search. It searches for the exact quote and the word Sagan. You can see it is attributed to Carl Sagan all over the place, in some places referred to as Sagan's Law.
Many times the Best Picture nominees are a lot better than the winner.
Here, try this sentence on instead:
"Many times I feel the Best Picture nominees are a lot better than the winner."
There ya go.
I have no doubt there are UFO's.
If you mean UFO's like, "hey, what the fuck is that dot in the sky?" I agree.
If you mean UFO's like, "wow, look at that tractor beam pulling up Homer Simpson, no wait, too tractor beams," then I have to wonder how you have NO DOUBT they exist.
I mean, there is no legitimate evidence whatsoever.
Remember "extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof".
Since you're quoting Carl Sagan (who often said, "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"), I would suggest a great book of his that talks a lot about UFO's (or lack thereof) and skepticism in general: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark.
Are your floors or ceilings made of metal, per chance?
Are we going to do this, or is a boycott just vaporware?
I think I speak for everyone on Slashdot when I say, "We?"
James Cameron can get another job that pays assloads of money, but what the hell is Linda Hamilton going to do that would pay as much?
She already finished that project, it was called "Divorcing James Cameron."
She pulled in big bucks for that one, whew!
yes, the added advantage that a female Terminator could have certain psychological advantages in manipulating humans over a male terminator.
Notwithstanding how stupid this conversation really is, I have to wonder if a psychological advantage is needed when you have missiles flying out of your arms?
No, I'm not talking about a DNS setting.
It's a proven fact your lifespan will actually decrease due to the stress involved in moving a network's IP address and the debugging that goes along with it.
When you can just get a Touchpad Mouse [amazon.com] that'll probably do the same
Well if you read about the mousepad in question, you'd know that the one you linked to does NOWHERE NEAR the same! Anyone can do a touchpad like that. The cool thing about this mousepad is the gesture technology built in.
They also have cool keyboards that have no keys on them, they feel your fingers touch the space where the key is painted. You might be thinking, so what. However, realize that if you touch this keyboard with multiple fingers at once, in certain configurations, you can use it as a mousepad as well! (as well as other shortcuts that can be done with gestures)
These things look badass!
Everytime we get a dupe like this, especially the
At first I liked this idea, but then I started thinking about it, and it's not practical.
Mainly because slashdot is what it is because of the articles picked for our consumption by the editors, for better or worse.
All slashdot needs is about 1 line of perl code to prevent duplicate articles (or at least, stop them most of the time, or display a warning when a duplicate is likely.
I mean, it's not rocket science!
However, a blog where readers submit the stories and other readers approve the stories, and other readers comment on the stories, and other readers moderate those comments... now THAT is an interesting idea, indeed!
It is agreed upon by all that 12AM is 12 midnight, and 12PM is 12 noon. There is no conflict. Yes it would be better had they used the terms 12 midnight and 12 noon, but they didn't.
Sorry