Pretending to be a crusader for the feminist cause on the Internet will not make you anymore likely to get laid. Not even net sex. Sorry to disappoint.
Running out of juice with an e-book must feel as if all the pages that you still have to read are suddenly glued together.
I hate it when that happens. That's why I never lend my copies of Playboy* out to anyone...they always come back with pages mysteriously glued together.
* For all you kids out there, Playboy was a magazine that adolescent boys used to...um...read before the invention of Internet porn.
Yes, but if you don't get exposed to Chicken Pox until you're older, or heaven forbid pregnant, it can be very serious to you and your fetus. Given this, it's safer to get the vaccine as a child rather than risk possible serious complications if you're not lucky enough to contract the disease at a young age.
Nah, that's just what they tell the rubes at DEFCON to make them want to get caught. They go up and show a bunch of faked pictures of hackers in FBI t-shirts tanning themselves on the roof of the J. Edgar Hoover building with a couple of scantily-clad "analysts", and tell everyone how these hackers were so good that they ended up being hired by the FBI and are now living happily ever after. Meanwhile, the burned up corpses of these hackers are resting in an abandoned locker room in the middle of a post-apocalyptic hellscape near a satellite uplink station. You know, sort of like in The Running Man.
I'm not so sure about that. It's getting harder and harder to buy parts and build your own for cheaper than you can get a pre-assembled box. These days, the only reason to build your own is if you want to pick and choose every component for quality, in which case cost is not your primary driver. If you're going for cheap, something pre-assembled from Dell or a similar company is usually cheaper, especially if you consider the value of your time. Even if you value your time at $0/hr, you can still often get a pre-built from Dell cheaper than a comparable build-your-own system.
I've never bought a pre-built system in my life, but I'm seriously considering it now that I'm looking to replace my 4 year old desktop system. It's just not worth the hassle to build your own when it doesn't really save you any money anymore.
Thanks for the conversion...I never know what to wear when they give the temperature in Fahrenheit. Thanks to your post, though, I now know I won't need to pack a jacket while visiting this planet.
The summary, by calling it "some sort of hybrid Oracle Sun thing" implies the product itself doesn't exist, when in fact the issue is that the results of a TPC test on the product were not vetted by TPC (or maybe the test wasn't even conducted yet, it's not clear) before Oracle decided to advertise them. The "some sort of hybrid Oracle Sun thing" is Exadata 2, and it's a real product.
I realize domain tasting isn't really done anymore, but it was encouraged for a long time. ICANN is still engaged in their other shenanigans like selling gTLDs, though. It's all about generating more registrations to get more money.
But it IS broke. ICANN regularly makes decisions based entirely on its ability to make money from them, even though it's supposed to be a non-profit organization. It has little regard for what its decisions mean for the long-term health of the Internet, and it's consistently espoused policies (such as domain tasting and ultra-cheap domain names) that make life easier for spammers and scammers at the expense of regular Internet users. It's also vastly increased the gTLD space for no apparent reason other than to generate more registrations, and therefore more money in its pocket. I don't know if a worldwide consortium could do any better trying to fulfill ICANN's charter, but it certainly couldn't do any worse.
Precisely. The great artworks in history have not been preserved because they were done with things that last a long time...paintings fade, are easily destroyed, and are usually quite flammable. Countless works of art have been destroyed forever over the centuries. The ones that are still around are only still around because people over many generations felt they were important or beautiful enough to go through the trouble of preserving them. Just give your stuff to the museum, and if they feel it's important to preserve it for posterity, they'll find a way. If they don't, it will probably get thrown out anyway no matter how durable the medium is.
Yeah, I was kind of wondering why we would be interested in a cheaper device to cover our clothing with cheap plastic "jewels", but to each their own I guess.
Most professors aren't tenured anymore. You mostly have adjunct professors that get crammed 2 or 3 to a tiny office, and get paid garbage. The prestige involved in that profession is rapidly disappearing as well. Firefighters and paramedics still have some measure of prestige, but at least in the case of firefighters I think a lot of it is residual from 9/11, when they were practically worshiped. I would expect that to fade over time as well, although the fact that fire engines are the coolest things ever to young boys will keep their cool factor higher than average for the foreseeable future.
As for IT, I don't think there was ever a time when the profession was "prestigious", just well-paid. Everyone wanted to go into IT during the tech boom because of the inflated salaries, not so they could tell all their friends they worked in IT. Since the boom is over, and salaries have fallen, fewer people want to get into IT.
The problem is NASA is trying to accomplish too much too fast. They should go for multi-stage contests, where individual teams can compete for each stage of a larger goal. For example, the first stage contest could be for the first group to successfully land a man on the moon. Ten years later, the second stage contest could be for the first group to successfully retrieve a human, or his remains, from the moon. The third stage could be a contest to see who could send a man outside of the Earth-Moon system. Several years after that, the fourth stage contest could be for someone to actually send a man on a trajectory to hit Mars. Fifth stage could be an economical way to retrieve small bits of spacecraft and human body parts from the surface of Mars. Eventually, around the 15th or 20th stage, we'll have a colony on Mars, from which we could attempt to contact the guy we shot off into deep space in the third stage. Simple, really.
NOW you tell me...my default behavior for any Slashdot story is to go into the comments and search for "phantomfive". If I don't find it, I assume the story must not be very interesting, and I move on to the next one. Now what am I supposed to do? And how many interesting stories have I missed all this time?
God really needs to set a better example than that. Living that far out, his commute must be terrible, and he probably does it in a giant SUV. How can he expect us to take care of his little planet if he's going to be out there spreading his pollution all over the Universe?
I never said it was preferable, I was just making an observation. Clearly, while what we have now is hardly ideal, it's better than going through another World War every 20 or 30 years.
I believe he's trying to say that our current system of having a basically never-ending series of localized conflicts is preferred over our old system of having a major earth-shattering conflict every 25 years or so. The point is a good one, I think, especially if you believe we likely would have gotten involved in WWIII sooner rather than later between the Soviets and Americans without the threat of mutually assured destruction. Given the hostilities between the two powers, it's at least a strong possibility that we would have.
So, his argument that we're better off now is perfectly valid, although I'm sure the people living in the various conflict zones would disagree. Of course, figuring out how to live together without killing each other would be better still, but humans have been around for a long time and have yet to do that, so I guess we take what we can get.
You're right, nuclear weapons have kept us from getting involved in another massive global shooting war. On the other hand, they've allowed us to settle into a basically constant series of low-level conflicts across the globe. So, instead of having one giant conflict that lasts for a few years, we have a never-ending series of small but locally devastating conflicts that go on forever. Nuclear weapons haven't curbed our innate desire to destroy ourselves, they've just made it more of a long-term commitment to do so.
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Pretending to be a crusader for the feminist cause on the Internet will not make you anymore likely to get laid. Not even net sex. Sorry to disappoint.
Running out of juice with an e-book must feel as if all the pages that you still have to read are suddenly glued together.
I hate it when that happens. That's why I never lend my copies of Playboy* out to anyone...they always come back with pages mysteriously glued together.
* For all you kids out there, Playboy was a magazine that adolescent boys used to...um...read before the invention of Internet porn.
Yes, but if you don't get exposed to Chicken Pox until you're older, or heaven forbid pregnant, it can be very serious to you and your fetus. Given this, it's safer to get the vaccine as a child rather than risk possible serious complications if you're not lucky enough to contract the disease at a young age.
Don't worry, it just means you'll be prepared in plenty of time for when the Y2K38 bug causes civilization to collapse.
Nah, that's just what they tell the rubes at DEFCON to make them want to get caught. They go up and show a bunch of faked pictures of hackers in FBI t-shirts tanning themselves on the roof of the J. Edgar Hoover building with a couple of scantily-clad "analysts", and tell everyone how these hackers were so good that they ended up being hired by the FBI and are now living happily ever after. Meanwhile, the burned up corpses of these hackers are resting in an abandoned locker room in the middle of a post-apocalyptic hellscape near a satellite uplink station. You know, sort of like in The Running Man.
I'm not so sure about that. It's getting harder and harder to buy parts and build your own for cheaper than you can get a pre-assembled box. These days, the only reason to build your own is if you want to pick and choose every component for quality, in which case cost is not your primary driver. If you're going for cheap, something pre-assembled from Dell or a similar company is usually cheaper, especially if you consider the value of your time. Even if you value your time at $0/hr, you can still often get a pre-built from Dell cheaper than a comparable build-your-own system.
I've never bought a pre-built system in my life, but I'm seriously considering it now that I'm looking to replace my 4 year old desktop system. It's just not worth the hassle to build your own when it doesn't really save you any money anymore.
Thanks for the conversion...I never know what to wear when they give the temperature in Fahrenheit. Thanks to your post, though, I now know I won't need to pack a jacket while visiting this planet.
Misusing the word "literally" like that SHOULD be illegal...maybe that's what the OP had in mind.
I thought everyone already knew that benchmarks in marketing materials were pure fiction.
The summary, by calling it "some sort of hybrid Oracle Sun thing" implies the product itself doesn't exist, when in fact the issue is that the results of a TPC test on the product were not vetted by TPC (or maybe the test wasn't even conducted yet, it's not clear) before Oracle decided to advertise them. The "some sort of hybrid Oracle Sun thing" is Exadata 2, and it's a real product.
I realize domain tasting isn't really done anymore, but it was encouraged for a long time. ICANN is still engaged in their other shenanigans like selling gTLDs, though. It's all about generating more registrations to get more money.
But it IS broke. ICANN regularly makes decisions based entirely on its ability to make money from them, even though it's supposed to be a non-profit organization. It has little regard for what its decisions mean for the long-term health of the Internet, and it's consistently espoused policies (such as domain tasting and ultra-cheap domain names) that make life easier for spammers and scammers at the expense of regular Internet users. It's also vastly increased the gTLD space for no apparent reason other than to generate more registrations, and therefore more money in its pocket. I don't know if a worldwide consortium could do any better trying to fulfill ICANN's charter, but it certainly couldn't do any worse.
Precisely. The great artworks in history have not been preserved because they were done with things that last a long time...paintings fade, are easily destroyed, and are usually quite flammable. Countless works of art have been destroyed forever over the centuries. The ones that are still around are only still around because people over many generations felt they were important or beautiful enough to go through the trouble of preserving them. Just give your stuff to the museum, and if they feel it's important to preserve it for posterity, they'll find a way. If they don't, it will probably get thrown out anyway no matter how durable the medium is.
Yeah, I was kind of wondering why we would be interested in a cheaper device to cover our clothing with cheap plastic "jewels", but to each their own I guess.
I'd also point out that, in addition to slashdot, this is also the 21st century.
Exactly! We can make our own mechanical women now, girlfriends are soooo last century!
It would be if you didn't insist on displaying your account balance to the 119th decimal place.
Most professors aren't tenured anymore. You mostly have adjunct professors that get crammed 2 or 3 to a tiny office, and get paid garbage. The prestige involved in that profession is rapidly disappearing as well. Firefighters and paramedics still have some measure of prestige, but at least in the case of firefighters I think a lot of it is residual from 9/11, when they were practically worshiped. I would expect that to fade over time as well, although the fact that fire engines are the coolest things ever to young boys will keep their cool factor higher than average for the foreseeable future.
As for IT, I don't think there was ever a time when the profession was "prestigious", just well-paid. Everyone wanted to go into IT during the tech boom because of the inflated salaries, not so they could tell all their friends they worked in IT. Since the boom is over, and salaries have fallen, fewer people want to get into IT.
Sweet, I KNEW spending all of my money on rubber chickens and platform shoes would be a wise investment!
The problem is NASA is trying to accomplish too much too fast. They should go for multi-stage contests, where individual teams can compete for each stage of a larger goal. For example, the first stage contest could be for the first group to successfully land a man on the moon. Ten years later, the second stage contest could be for the first group to successfully retrieve a human, or his remains, from the moon. The third stage could be a contest to see who could send a man outside of the Earth-Moon system. Several years after that, the fourth stage contest could be for someone to actually send a man on a trajectory to hit Mars. Fifth stage could be an economical way to retrieve small bits of spacecraft and human body parts from the surface of Mars. Eventually, around the 15th or 20th stage, we'll have a colony on Mars, from which we could attempt to contact the guy we shot off into deep space in the third stage. Simple, really.
NOW you tell me...my default behavior for any Slashdot story is to go into the comments and search for "phantomfive". If I don't find it, I assume the story must not be very interesting, and I move on to the next one. Now what am I supposed to do? And how many interesting stories have I missed all this time?
God really needs to set a better example than that. Living that far out, his commute must be terrible, and he probably does it in a giant SUV. How can he expect us to take care of his little planet if he's going to be out there spreading his pollution all over the Universe?
Strangely, the outcry from Martian global warming deniers has been muted at best. Perhaps they haven't gotten the news yet.
I never said it was preferable, I was just making an observation. Clearly, while what we have now is hardly ideal, it's better than going through another World War every 20 or 30 years.
I believe he's trying to say that our current system of having a basically never-ending series of localized conflicts is preferred over our old system of having a major earth-shattering conflict every 25 years or so. The point is a good one, I think, especially if you believe we likely would have gotten involved in WWIII sooner rather than later between the Soviets and Americans without the threat of mutually assured destruction. Given the hostilities between the two powers, it's at least a strong possibility that we would have.
So, his argument that we're better off now is perfectly valid, although I'm sure the people living in the various conflict zones would disagree. Of course, figuring out how to live together without killing each other would be better still, but humans have been around for a long time and have yet to do that, so I guess we take what we can get.
You're right, nuclear weapons have kept us from getting involved in another massive global shooting war. On the other hand, they've allowed us to settle into a basically constant series of low-level conflicts across the globe. So, instead of having one giant conflict that lasts for a few years, we have a never-ending series of small but locally devastating conflicts that go on forever. Nuclear weapons haven't curbed our innate desire to destroy ourselves, they've just made it more of a long-term commitment to do so.