Back in my college days (late '70s) we would call the "beep line". If you dialed your own number then in between the busy signal beeps you could talk to all the other people who had done the same thing. It substituted for fun, but not very well.
That's a good start. Only $250 more to go before I'll buy one. Maybe in 2009?
I was thinking if they drop it another $450 I might start being interested. Of course I would still have to consider the cost of the games to play on it, so that's not a sure thing.
Well, if that won't convince people that video games are bad the I don't know what will. And I've actually been thinking to downloading the free trial of WoW. Crap.
If you look closely, the vertical text on the right side of the Windows box says "Windows Vista Ulimate 2007". Given that we're talking about China, I'm going to go out on a limb and say, NO.
Why go out on a limb? The picture is titled "pirated-vista.jpg". The two famous Disney characters at the top of the package would also seem to be a pretty good clue that it didn't come straight from MS.
Mystery solved! Dinosaurs went extinct because they developed super-sexy "DinoBots" and thus became disinterested in actual sex...
I don't know how to break this too you gently so I'll just be blunt. If you're someone who is capable of developing super-sexy bots then it doesn't really matter whether you're interested in actual sex or not.
...In want ads, companies always ask for "5 years of Foo, 10 years of Bar, 5 years of OOXML, etc. etc. etc. etc.". The more countries you have to comb for staff, the better chance that you will find somebody who matches your eclectic desired skills combinations...
News Flash! When you see an add with those rediculous qualifications the company has already got a deal with their H1B candidate. They advertise with outrageous requirements so they can say that the necessary skill set isn't available domestically.
>network engineers often spend time putting out fires when they could be improving the network
People who put out lots of high-profile fires get raises, promotions, bonuses. People who make a stable network get RIF'd because there's not enough work for them to do.
If you did that, the new moscitos would not occupy the same ecological niche as the existing ones, and thus they could easily co-exist side by side. You'd just end up with two species: one that feeds from humans, and one that doesn't.
Either that, or something else will adapt to fill the niche. I really don't think I can swat hard enough to squash a blood-sucking cow. The trick where you constrict the vein to make the mosquito explode would be much more interesting with a cow though.
I have recently completed a scientific study which shows that human conception is responsible for 100% of crimes. Furthermore, data from the study indicates that conception is probably always fatal. This study showed that every crime ever recorded was committed by a person who had been conceived, and that the majority of people who have been conceived have died as a result of their conception. Although a large number of conceived persons are still living they seem to share the traits which ultimately led to death in those who have expired, and can be expected to die within the next several decades.
A control group of an infinite number of people who were never conceived turned out to have never been involved in any crimes, and they did not die.
... If you read the article, you'll notice that they did a true experiment.... They have MORE than causation; they have results of several true experiments. But "correlation+experimental control" DOES strongly imply causation. In fact, this is the basis of all experimental science.
Close, but according to the article they only had the subjects run the simulation AFTER playing the games. They should have also run the simulation before the games so they could do a comparison. It would be informative to know how soon after the games the simulations were run. If it's within a few minutes then another simulation after a half hour or an hour might provide some good data. They also need to determine whether the subjects are treating the simulation as real life or another game (which could also be time sensitive).
Whoop-de-do, slingshotting around Jupiter. They could have shaved a lot more time off the trip by slingshotting around the sun.:)
But that method is usually only reserved for Starfleet emergencies.
Oh yeah, like that would work. After the probe went back in time it would be sending back the pix of Pluto before it took them. For that kind of money nobody wants blank negatives. Duh.
Slashdot Mirror
...wait for it....
Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of these!
BWAAAAHHHHHAAAAAAHHHHHAAAAAHHHHAAAAHHHHAAAAAAAAA
NASA's favorite method is to smash them into a planet.
That's so beautiful. It brought a little tear to my eye.
Back in my college days (late '70s) we would call the "beep line". If you dialed your own number then in between the busy signal beeps you could talk to all the other people who had done the same thing. It substituted for fun, but not very well.
And, for those who were wondering: that would be ~27809148887081184 1969 Volkswagen buses.
I was thinking if they drop it another $450 I might start being interested. Of course I would still have to consider the cost of the games to play on it, so that's not a sure thing.
Well, if that won't convince people that video games are bad the I don't know what will. And I've actually been thinking to downloading the free trial of WoW. Crap.
Why go out on a limb? The picture is titled "pirated-vista.jpg". The two famous Disney characters at the top of the package would also seem to be a pretty good clue that it didn't come straight from MS.
I don't know how to break this too you gently so I'll just be blunt. If you're someone who is capable of developing super-sexy bots then it doesn't really matter whether you're interested in actual sex or not.
I don't know whether to go with a "tastes like dinosaur" or "Chicken of Bristol" remark. Decisions, decisions.
News Flash!
When you see an add with those rediculous qualifications the company has already got a deal with their H1B candidate. They advertise with outrageous requirements so they can say that the necessary skill set isn't available domestically.
Aarrgh!
Ye might find yerself treadin' in deep water fer spoutin' blasphemy like that.
People who put out lots of high-profile fires get raises, promotions, bonuses.
People who make a stable network get RIF'd because there's not enough work for them to do.
They would, but all three of them died in a freak accident last week. Details are still fuzzy, but it apparently involved COBOL and Turbo Basic.
Either that, or something else will adapt to fill the niche. I really don't think I can swat hard enough to squash a blood-sucking cow. The trick where you constrict the vein to make the mosquito explode would be much more interesting with a cow though.
I have recently completed a scientific study which shows that human conception is responsible for 100% of crimes. Furthermore, data from the study indicates that conception is probably always fatal. This study showed that every crime ever recorded was committed by a person who had been conceived, and that the majority of people who have been conceived have died as a result of their conception. Although a large number of conceived persons are still living they seem to share the traits which ultimately led to death in those who have expired, and can be expected to die within the next several decades.
A control group of an infinite number of people who were never conceived turned out to have never been involved in any crimes, and they did not die.
Close, but according to the article they only had the subjects run the simulation AFTER playing the games. They should have also run the simulation before the games so they could do a comparison. It would be informative to know how soon after the games the simulations were run. If it's within a few minutes then another simulation after a half hour or an hour might provide some good data. They also need to determine whether the subjects are treating the simulation as real life or another game (which could also be time sensitive).
It's a good start though.
I'm from Oklahoma, and I'm at least as dumb as you are - probably dumber.
Oh yeah, like that would work. After the probe went back in time it would be sending back the pix of Pluto before it took them. For that kind of money nobody wants blank negatives. Duh.
Because we can?
Because he never remembers my birthday?
Because we would have had to know it in the first place to be able to remeber it?
That was the scariest story I've ever read.
Yeah, sorry about that, but you've probably got another 25 years or so to put up with me. C'est la vie.
I'm pretty sure that if I get smashed by an asteroid I won't be too concerned.
Oh, yeah, right. Like anyone who's watched that flick paid any attention to the plot.
Bravo!
That is very very nice. When does mass production start?