To paraphrase something my grandmother used to say, "if you have one hand for shit and one hand for Bill O'Reilly's opinions, how can you tell the difference?".
Her original saying was "if you have have one hand for shit and one hand for wishes, guess which one will get full first?".
Sure, cyanide is in bitter almonds and peach inner seeds, it makes part of their flavour
It's not free cyanide, it's in the compound amygdalin.
From the Poison Information Centre of Singapore: Commonly occurs in the kernels of almonds, apricots, cherries, peaches, apples, as well as the stems, leaves and roots of many rose (Rosaceae) family species.. A cyanogenic glycoside compound. It is known that the hydrolysis of amygdalin can give rise to hydrogen cyanide.
Normally, the presence of amygdalin alone in these kernels is not dangerous It is only in the crushed, moistened seed which releases an enzyme can the hydrolysis of amygdalin be effected.
Acute intoxication and death had been reported in children following ingestion of apricot seeds which are capable of releasing 217mg of cyanide per 100 g of moist seeds.
The illegal aliens that actually do the curbside retrieval will simply drive around the corner and chuck your old box into the dumpster behind the pet store.
Insightful, my ass. RTFA. If you did, you'd see:
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The RIAA now knows that you do this, and tomorrow you will be joined in the shower by Hillary Rosen, who will be there to collect royalties on the songs you sing.
The problem with The Matrix was its message: technology is inherently bad.
What message? I thought the movie was entertainment, not a discourse on the evils of technology. If the movie was "all this technology is wonderful and the future is wonderful", it wouldn't be very entertaining, would it? To me, The Matrix is nothing but "the good guys" vs. "the bad guys" set in a different environment.
If I want a message, I'll watch The Sorrow and the Pity. If I want entertainment, I'll watch the Matrix.
Calm down. It's called the freedom of speech. People can say insensitive things and they're allowed to do so, it's the great thing about the US.
And people criticizing insensitive bastards have freedom of speech, too. You have the right to stay stupid things, and you have to expect that people will react to that stupidity.
Freedom of speech does not mean that there are no consequences to what you say. It only means that you have the right to say it.
Is Slashdot trying to become a tabloid? First the SOHO bullshit, then crop circles. What's next? Creationism? Phrenology? Reading tea leaves?
Believing in this crap is no different than believing a spammer will give you a 12 inch penis. Oh, he'll give it to you all right, you just have to bend over first.
There is a a discussion of this over at Digital Photography Review.
Here is another Mac vs. PC test entitled Mac Slaughtered Again, which includes this quote: "Of course, Mac stalwarts will cling to the notion that Mac OS X is so much better and easier to use than Windows XP, but if you're spending all day inside After Effects, which operating system you're using makes little difference. What does make a huge difference is if you have to sit and wait for rendering any longer than necessary.
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a teacher cannot try to blame the students for lack of attention, students pay you with THEIR money so that you can get their attention, these people want to learn and pay to learn
BULLSHIT. I taught at a university for 16 years. If you think all students are there to learn you are wrong, wrong, wrong! Students who pay their own tuition usually care about learning; some of those who are there on mommy and daddy's money have zero interest in learning.
My favorite classes to teach were night classes because most of the students had full-time jobs and families, and they were there to LEARN. They were interested, which made me do a better job when teaching these classes. They really cared, so I really cared.
you'd be better off getting your information from the internet than listening to the lecturer guide you step by step on how to write hello world
Not everyone comes into a class with knowledge of the subject. I've taught intro programming classes where more than half of the students had never written a single line of code before. You don't realize the difficulty of trying to keep a class interesting when part of the class is bored to tears because they know the topic, and the other half is struggling with "hello world". (And believe me, some do struggle.) Upper-level courses are a different matter.
I used to tell students I didn't care if they attended lectures, but if they never came to class, don't bother coming to me for help. If they came to class, and it didn't have to be every single day, I'd help them as much as they needed.
We've all had teachers who were just horrible and boring and who should have been in another profession. And those who have taught have had students who should have been somewhere other than in the classes we taught.
Students talk about how much their teachers suck; teachers talk about how stupid their students are. It works both ways.
Slashdot Mirror
We have restrictions that stop things like that. It is called the Sherman Act.
And it worked so well with Microsoft.
To paraphrase something my grandmother used to say, "if you have one hand for shit and one hand for Bill O'Reilly's opinions, how can you tell the difference?".
Her original saying was "if you have have one hand for shit and one hand for wishes, guess which one will get full first?".
benzonitrile
I always thought benzonitrile smelled like Dentyne chewing gum.
Sure, cyanide is in bitter almonds and peach inner seeds, it makes part of their flavour
It's not free cyanide, it's in the compound amygdalin.
From the Poison Information Centre of Singapore: Commonly occurs in the kernels of almonds, apricots, cherries, peaches, apples, as well as the stems, leaves and roots of many rose (Rosaceae) family species.. A cyanogenic glycoside compound. It is known that the hydrolysis of amygdalin can give rise to hydrogen cyanide.
Normally, the presence of amygdalin alone in these kernels is not dangerous It is only in the crushed, moistened seed which releases an enzyme can the hydrolysis of amygdalin be effected.
Acute intoxication and death had been reported in children following ingestion of apricot seeds which are capable of releasing 217mg of cyanide per 100 g of moist seeds.
region-free
Man, I need sleep. I read that as Rogaine-free.
The "spammer" has a legitimate business activity.
I'm operating on the same business model as the spammer, so you have to pay for this reply.
Yeah, but you look like a pervert every time you charge the thing
Think of it as practice.
The illegal aliens that actually do the curbside retrieval will simply drive around the corner and chuck your old box into the dumpster behind the pet store.
Insightful, my ass. RTFA. If you did, you'd see:
* Under Shipping Method, please select 3-5 Day Ground Delivery at $0.
# Within 3-5 business days, you will receive an email with detailed shipping instructions, an approximate pick-up date, and an electronic promotional coupon code.
CLEARLY report the problem like you are explaining it to a 3 year old.
Program pooped in its pants.
"I like what I know and I like what I like. If you disagree, you're a moron. I'm perfect so anything I say is objective."
They may be releasing 3Ghz CPUs but they cost twice as much as an AMD CPU which is clocked at a lower speed but performs on par.
At the high end, this is not true.
From Pricewatch (in US dollars):
P4 3.06 GHz $553 AthlonXP 3000+ $563
P4 2.8 GHz $353 AthlonXP 2800+ $374 (Barton)
I named it Reaper, later renamed GD2 Reaper, then due to PHB renamed GD2 Consolidator
You mean you didn't tell the PHB, "Don't fear the reaper"?
Make it run on atmospheric methane, and install a pay-per-use WAP in every Taco Bell.
Widely Available Phart
Did anyone (including the person who posted this story) actually read the article?
Don't worry. They will get a chance to not read it again when we have a duplicate post in a few hours.
100% of Slashdot readers think Hillary Rosen and the RIAA are full of shit. (Sample size of one).
Have you heard me sing in the shower lately?
The RIAA now knows that you do this, and tomorrow you will be joined in the shower by Hillary Rosen, who will be there to collect royalties on the songs you sing.
Hollings strings
I believe that's Hollerith, not Hollings. I hope Fritz Hollings had nothing to do with them.
Valentine's Day
Venereal Disease
VD. Coincidence?
The problem with The Matrix was its message: technology is inherently bad.
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What message? I thought the movie was entertainment, not a discourse on the evils of technology. If the movie was "all this technology is wonderful and the future is wonderful", it wouldn't be very entertaining, would it? To me, The Matrix is nothing but "the good guys" vs. "the bad guys" set in a different environment.
If I want a message, I'll watch The Sorrow and the Pity. If I want entertainment, I'll watch the Matrix
Calm down. It's called the freedom of speech. People can say insensitive things and they're allowed to do so, it's the great thing about the US.
And people criticizing insensitive bastards have freedom of speech, too. You have the right to stay stupid things, and you have to expect that people will react to that stupidity.
Freedom of speech does not mean that there are no consequences to what you say. It only means that you have the right to say it.
Go make an hour-and-a-half long, ahem, "adult feature" for $100k.
That's not a sporting event; it's a spurting event.
Is Slashdot trying to become a tabloid? First the SOHO bullshit, then crop circles. What's next? Creationism? Phrenology? Reading tea leaves?
Believing in this crap is no different than believing a spammer will give you a 12 inch penis. Oh, he'll give it to you all right, you just have to bend over first.
There is a a discussion of this over at Digital Photography Review.
Here is another Mac vs. PC test entitled Mac Slaughtered Again, which includes this quote: "Of course, Mac stalwarts will cling to the notion that Mac OS X is so much better and easier to use than Windows XP, but if you're spending all day inside After Effects, which operating system you're using makes little difference. What does make a huge difference is if you have to sit and wait for rendering any longer than necessary.
Magna Carta signed!
a teacher cannot try to blame the students for lack of attention, students pay you with THEIR money so that you can get their attention, these people want to learn and pay to learn
BULLSHIT. I taught at a university for 16 years. If you think all students are there to learn you are wrong, wrong, wrong! Students who pay their own tuition usually care about learning; some of those who are there on mommy and daddy's money have zero interest in learning.
My favorite classes to teach were night classes because most of the students had full-time jobs and families, and they were there to LEARN. They were interested, which made me do a better job when teaching these classes. They really cared, so I really cared.
you'd be better off getting your information from the internet than listening to the lecturer guide you step by step on how to write hello world
Not everyone comes into a class with knowledge of the subject. I've taught intro programming classes where more than half of the students had never written a single line of code before. You don't realize the difficulty of trying to keep a class interesting when part of the class is bored to tears because they know the topic, and the other half is struggling with "hello world". (And believe me, some do struggle.) Upper-level courses are a different matter.
I used to tell students I didn't care if they attended lectures, but if they never came to class, don't bother coming to me for help. If they came to class, and it didn't have to be every single day, I'd help them as much as they needed.
We've all had teachers who were just horrible and boring and who should have been in another profession. And those who have taught have had students who should have been somewhere other than in the classes we taught.
Students talk about how much their teachers suck; teachers talk about how stupid their students are. It works both ways.