Natalie Portman: What happen? Soviet Russian: Somebody set up us the meme. Natalie Portman: We get wikipedia update. Soviet Russian: What! Soviet Russian: Slashdot homepage turn on. Soviet Russian: It's You!! Old Korean: How are you ladies and gentlemen!! Old Korean: All your meme are belong to us. Old Korean: You are on the way to obscurity. Soviet Russian: What you say!! Old Korean: You have no chance to survive make your time. Old Korean: Ha Ha Ha Ha.... Soviet Russian: Take off every South Park reference. Natalie Portman: You know what you doing. Soviet Russian: Move reference. Soviet Russian: For great karma.
" You have not a hope in hell of reading all that in 12 hours. Its a big, big book."
Why would someone want to read LoTR in 12 hours anyway, even if they were in fact a speed reader? I like to stretch it out over some weeks because it's so enjoyable. I don't want it to be done quickly! Often when I finish my Nth iteration of reading the book, I pick up The Hobbit again because I don't want to leave that world just yet.
"I hate IM for this reason, I usually tell people I don't have any IM account till I make sure they are not part of the "i am often bored" group. Else, I tend to give them only email. It's amazing how people who can't find the strength to write a 2 line email can write 5000 lines over IM."
That's what Yahoo instant messenger is for. It's for dealing with those fools (and we all know them) who instantly message you when you get online with the same boring useless shit every day. Yahoo has implemented selective invisibility so, without actually blocking them, you can choose to appear offline to those people and online to all others. I love that feature.
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"If you make a reference to Guybrush Threepwood in your comment I always mod it up. Go Monkey Island!"
We did this about a year ago in my Mechatronics course. We attached an optical mouse to a robot along with some various sonar and rangefinders. Using various programming and such, we had the robots driving around and identifying known shapes and such.
"The only non-specialist thing that sells would be ideas and designs, the production line would be obsolete, If this kind of technology was released it would be revolutionary to say the least and regulation would only slow the inevitable, industry would be turned on its head, millions of jobs lost... Sure this is based on a lot of assumptions, but you get the picture."
And whoever comes up with the next revolutionary idea for cheap power generation will be a millionaire. (You need power to run these things, and that's not something you can replicate!)
"Lately, I have really been upping my anime fetish, and the shows I like aren't even available in the US in most cases, let alone the UK, so I download fansubs and buy the DVD's when/if they get released."
Yeah, exactly. Sharing of TV shows is huge, possibly bigger than the movie sharing underworld, it's just that it's mostly non-US shows being shared.
How do you think people graduate from college with a CS degree?
I'm in Engineering and I haven't actually programmed for 80h/week, but if you take into account design time, programming, hardware interfacing, documentation, report writing, etc, then yes, 80h/week is sometimes necessary when you have crazy work from crazy profs.
I said 'good' DVD cases. I'm talking NexPak/Amaray and M-Lock here. Not the average stuff like this that you can get at the office supply store 5 minutes from here.
"I used to go to Circuit city and raid the AOL CD stand because back then (~2 years ago) the CDs came in standard DVD style cases. Now whenever I need to give someone a CD, I just toss it in one of the DVD cases..."
Dammit it's things like this that sometimes make me want to abandon my resolve and move to the US. First beautiful metal tins, and then actual DVD cases? Do you know how expensive it is to get good DVD cases in bulk in my country? You Americans have it too good!:P
AOL discs still come in those cardboard shrinkwrap things here in Canada;-(
Maybe I'm just lucky, but Apple products have *always* worked very well on Windows for me. iTunes, Quicktime, even in the QT 5.0 days. Always rock solid, never crashing, always doing what they were supposed to do. (Well except that windows quicktime won't play variable bitrate video that also has variable bitrate audio, while OSX Quicktime does it just fine.)
Naturally these all work even more smoothly on my OS X machine, but still, I have not experienced the massive problems with Quicktime, iTunes, etc. that other people always talk about. Just lucky, I guess.
"How long until bookstores forbid the use of camera phones? I think many bookstore owners would be less than pleased if people only entered their store to be able to buy books from some other place."
That's a good reason for the customers to leave and go to Amazon.co.jp, which doesn't seem concerned in the slightest that customers are loading their site only to read their reviews and comparison shop at other stores. (And I must say, amazon.co.jp is a pretty dang friendly shopping experience, even to foreigners who don't read/speak Japanese.)
"DSL and Cable are just overpriced in America if they really want to beat dialup the services will need to compete with the cost of Dialup."
Now this is something I agree with. I was renting near Niagara Falls, Ontario a few months ago and 5 MB down / 640K up was a whole CDN$45 per month including the cable modem rental, and the transfer caps weren't enforced. That's roughly US$37/mo right now, and US$33/mo as of last summer as the USD/CAD exchange rate is rapidly changing.
"I see there are already 5 replies agreeing with your post about firefox having problems rendering in firefox. I just have to say, I have never had a rendering problem with slashdot in firefox 0.9.x or 1.0. Is this just a problem if you have a specific resolution or something? "
I'm not sure why you are not seeing a problem, but I have seen this on three different machines, my mac, my PC and my office PC running at 1024x768 and 1280x1024 on various FF 0.9.x, 1.0 PR and 1.0. It's a very obvious rendering problem where the 'text' part of the page is too far over to the left and it overlaps the links. Some say that if you use adblock to remove the pix.gif on slashdot, this will fix the problem.
"I do most of my day to day banking online. My bank has, for over two years, never had an issue with Mozilla or FireFox. One Friday I tried to access my accounts and the normal login was redirected to a "Your browser is not secure, please use IE" page. I wrote a lengthy email to the admin in charge of the site (they did provide an email address on the page). I explained my concerns with security in IE and ended the email explaining that although I had been their customer for 7 years, I would take my business elsewhere before using IE for banking. The following Monday morning I was able to access my accounts with Mozilla and I recieved an aplogetic email from the admin to boot."
I think it would greatly benefit the community if you published (without names) your letter so it can be used as a cookie-cutter kind of thing to try to get other organisations to make these kind of changes too.
I recently sent one to the webmaster of dilbert.com and some changes to make it more standards compliant were made on that same day, but it sounds like you made a much more eloquent, erudite argument.
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It should have been: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_subculture#E xample_Posts
Natalie Portman: What happen? ....
Soviet Russian: Somebody set up us the meme.
Natalie Portman: We get wikipedia update.
Soviet Russian: What!
Soviet Russian: Slashdot homepage turn on.
Soviet Russian: It's You!!
Old Korean: How are you ladies and gentlemen!!
Old Korean: All your meme are belong to us.
Old Korean: You are on the way to obscurity.
Soviet Russian: What you say!!
Old Korean: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Old Korean: Ha Ha Ha Ha
Soviet Russian: Take off every South Park reference.
Natalie Portman: You know what you doing.
Soviet Russian: Move reference.
Soviet Russian: For great karma.
Why would someone want to read LoTR in 12 hours anyway, even if they were in fact a speed reader? I like to stretch it out over some weeks because it's so enjoyable. I don't want it to be done quickly! Often when I finish my Nth iteration of reading the book, I pick up The Hobbit again because I don't want to leave that world just yet.
That's what Yahoo instant messenger is for. It's for dealing with those fools (and we all know them) who instantly message you when you get online with the same boring useless shit every day. Yahoo has implemented selective invisibility so, without actually blocking them, you can choose to appear offline to those people and online to all others. I love that feature.
What about in your nick? :P
We did this about a year ago in my Mechatronics course. We attached an optical mouse to a robot along with some various sonar and rangefinders. Using various programming and such, we had the robots driving around and identifying known shapes and such.
You're going to need a lot of solar panels and space to place them before you have the juice to run something that builds matter on an atomic scale!
Though you can boot into the recovery console from your win2k boot disc and also delete the infected virus file.
And whoever comes up with the next revolutionary idea for cheap power generation will be a millionaire. (You need power to run these things, and that's not something you can replicate!)
Yeah, you use a hack to capture the instructions for atomically building the latest gadget or toy and then everyone shares it over bittorrent.
How is this idea different from replicators on Star Trek anyway?
Dude, haven't you seen The 5th Element?
Yeah, exactly. Sharing of TV shows is huge, possibly bigger than the movie sharing underworld, it's just that it's mostly non-US shows being shared.
How do you think people graduate from college with a CS degree?
I'm in Engineering and I haven't actually programmed for 80h/week, but if you take into account design time, programming, hardware interfacing, documentation, report writing, etc, then yes, 80h/week is sometimes necessary when you have crazy work from crazy profs.
I said 'good' DVD cases. I'm talking NexPak/Amaray and M-Lock here. Not the average stuff like this that you can get at the office supply store 5 minutes from here.
Dammit it's things like this that sometimes make me want to abandon my resolve and move to the US. First beautiful metal tins, and then actual DVD cases? Do you know how expensive it is to get good DVD cases in bulk in my country? You Americans have it too good! :P
AOL discs still come in those cardboard shrinkwrap things here in Canada ;-(
Apparently the cause of the fire was a massively overheating webserver.
Maybe I'm just lucky, but Apple products have *always* worked very well on Windows for me. iTunes, Quicktime, even in the QT 5.0 days. Always rock solid, never crashing, always doing what they were supposed to do. (Well except that windows quicktime won't play variable bitrate video that also has variable bitrate audio, while OSX Quicktime does it just fine.)
Naturally these all work even more smoothly on my OS X machine, but still, I have not experienced the massive problems with Quicktime, iTunes, etc. that other people always talk about. Just lucky, I guess.
Silly AC, the goatse site just displays a domain registry TOS page now.
wait...
(No, they didn't. I read this article before it was posted.)
That's a good reason for the customers to leave and go to Amazon.co.jp, which doesn't seem concerned in the slightest that customers are loading their site only to read their reviews and comparison shop at other stores. (And I must say, amazon.co.jp is a pretty dang friendly shopping experience, even to foreigners who don't read/speak Japanese.)
Didn't they feature one of these phones in The Fifth Element?
Thanks, I'll save this. It may come in handy, though my bank has shown remarkable smarts with respect to allowing open source browsers.
Now this is something I agree with. I was renting near Niagara Falls, Ontario a few months ago and 5 MB down / 640K up was a whole CDN$45 per month including the cable modem rental, and the transfer caps weren't enforced. That's roughly US$37/mo right now, and US$33/mo as of last summer as the USD/CAD exchange rate is rapidly changing.
I'm not sure why you are not seeing a problem, but I have seen this on three different machines, my mac, my PC and my office PC running at 1024x768 and 1280x1024 on various FF 0.9.x, 1.0 PR and 1.0. It's a very obvious rendering problem where the 'text' part of the page is too far over to the left and it overlaps the links. Some say that if you use adblock to remove the pix.gif on slashdot, this will fix the problem.
I think it would greatly benefit the community if you published (without names) your letter so it can be used as a cookie-cutter kind of thing to try to get other organisations to make these kind of changes too.
I recently sent one to the webmaster of dilbert.com and some changes to make it more standards compliant were made on that same day, but it sounds like you made a much more eloquent, erudite argument.