While we've got a/. story here, I'd like to put in a request for a feature.
Whenever I adjust my slashboxes, its a serious pain to get them set where I like it, moving each one in single increments and having to reload the front page each time on a slow connection.
Could we possibly have an easier way of doing this? Maybe a series of dropdown menus on our preferences page.
try to find a newspaper that had any articles on drugs being found on an airplane in the last year.
Um, just to help you out, down here in Miami about a month ago there was a major bust with upwards of 80 (I think) airline employees arrested for drug trafficking. A good deal of cocaine was found, not only on the plane, but in the food cart.
Just thought I'd clear that up for you. It does happen.
I learned this a few years back when me and some of my friends were interning over at NOAA, a gov't organization.
One of my friends was doing data backup onto CD-R's, and it was his boss who told him to microwave the ones that got screwed up.
I always found it amusing to see us bunch of high school guys huddled around the microwave in a government building lunch room with the lights out and an occasional crackle of electricity.
Just in case anyone was wondering, yes, this is your tax dollars at work.
I didn't se it, but my friend mentioned the same exact thing afterwards. I'm gonna have to pay closer attention if I get around to seeing it a second time.
Bah. Thats why I drove a real old pickup with next to no electronics on it. I got plenty of room on the bed, and firing that thing would probably kill my stereo but nothing else. And fry the actual wiring? I've got more wires in my old walkman than are in that truck.
The test seems more like it studies the method we use to examine things, which I would consider a behavioral trait, and not an indication of how the brain is working.
Just because I look at each block in order doesn't mean thats how I think about those blocks.
My take on the whole thing was that both the hermit and the witch (and whoever was out there in the present time) were all being controlled by some single entity. You can call it a ghost, a malevolent spirit, the devil, whatever you want; but I think that all of those people were just pawns being used. I think the hermit mentioned voices or something like that (I don't really remember, correct me if I'm wrong).
What was in the sticks? Several possibilities or any combination thereof:
His teeth. So far, the most common answer, and I saw something that looked like the roots of a molar.
His necklace. Also possible, since I think there was something longer than normal teeth in there.
His ear. This was my very first reaction, but after a few seconds I started to think the shape wasn't quite right. Of course, depending on where you cut the ear, you could get some wierd shapes.
His finger(s). This was my second thought, and I think this one is actually pretty likely, since teeth aren't as long as some of the stuff I think I saw in there.
Anyone catch the "In Like Flint" scene in the very beginning? I found that to be hilarious, seeing as the Flint movies (were the two or three?) were some of the first movies to spoof the spy genre.
Great movie overall, even the recycled jokes were still funny.
Just one quick comment: What if, instead of our genomes containing all the pertinent information, they simply contain the basic seed, and the instincts can reliably grow from that. (i.e.:We have an equation for a fractal, then can take that relatively small amount of data and create an infinite and complex item).
Excuse me if this sounds at all stupid to you, but I've got a chem exam tomorrow and I'm tired. --FroBugg
I'm sure everyone's noticed the email where the webmaster mocks some guy for poor spelling. Anyway, I've gone through and compiled a list of misspellings on this page. I sent an email of this to the webmaster, so he may be fixing them without commenting, so check them quick.
Original Films are Crap section: 2nd paragraph, 'Furthermore' is misspelled as 'Futhermore', and 'suspension' is misspelled as 'supsension'. In the 3rd paragraph, 'inappropriately' is misspelled as 'inapropriately', and 'commercial' is misspelled as 'comercial'. In the 4th paragraph, 'amaturely' is misspelled as 'amaturly'. In the 7th paragraph, 'peeves' is misspelled as 'peves'
Moral Issues section: In the 2nd paragraph, 'largely' is misspelled as 'largerly'. In the 4th paragraph, 'ostensibly' is misspelled as 'obstensibly', and 'you' is misspelled as 'ou'.
Speeder Bike Implausibilities section: In the last paragraph, 'scene' is misspelled as 'sceen'.
Selected Comments section: In the 3rd paragraph, 'certain' is misspelled as 'ceartain'. In the 2nd response, 'discussion' is misspelled as 'dicussion'. In the 4th response, 'sentence' is misspelled as 'sentance', and 'whipped' is misspelled as 'wipped'.
As for the author's Christian basis of anti-Star Wars sentiment, "let he who is without sin..."
I just read (OK, I only skimmed) the files. Someone actually seems to have put some good effort into these, as opposed to the simple earlier blurb on cold fusion. I especially like the ASCII pigeons. --FroBugg
I can fondly remember my old A500 with 1meg RAM, no HD, 2 floppies. I even remember painstakingly drawing and animating that little red and white ball in DPaint III. I had this nicely redone desktop with this custom-drawn pointer, and some really good games. The game I remember most was a D&D flight sim, where you flew these dragons around and killed things. Anyone else ever play that? --FroBugg
Slashdot Mirror
Will we end up with people who make a living finding information, uploading it, and seeing if it sells?
While we've got a /. story here, I'd like to put in a request for a feature.
Whenever I adjust my slashboxes, its a serious pain to get them set where I like it, moving each one in single increments and having to reload the front page each time on a slow connection.
Could we possibly have an easier way of doing this? Maybe a series of dropdown menus on our preferences page.
Anybody else like this idea?
Um, just to help you out, down here in Miami about a month ago there was a major bust with upwards of 80 (I think) airline employees arrested for drug trafficking. A good deal of cocaine was found, not only on the plane, but in the food cart.
Just thought I'd clear that up for you. It does happen.
I learned this a few years back when me and some of my friends were interning over at NOAA, a gov't organization.
One of my friends was doing data backup onto CD-R's, and it was his boss who told him to microwave the ones that got screwed up.
I always found it amusing to see us bunch of high school guys huddled around the microwave in a government building lunch room with the lights out and an occasional crackle of electricity.
Just in case anyone was wondering, yes, this is your tax dollars at work.
I didn't se it, but my friend mentioned the same exact thing afterwards. I'm gonna have to pay closer attention if I get around to seeing it a second time.
Here's an idea.
How about we scrap this movie thing, which'll most likely turn out to be underwhelming and barely keep the interest of even the hardcore old gamer.
Then, we start up the old cartoon again on TV. Now that was quality programming.
Of course none of us have noticed anything even slightly resembling this.
/.
No, no similarities at all in constantly reloading
First?
Bah. Thats why I drove a real old pickup with next to no electronics on it. I got plenty of room on the bed, and firing that thing would probably kill my stereo but nothing else.
And fry the actual wiring? I've got more wires in my old walkman than are in that truck.
The test seems more like it studies the method we use to examine things, which I would consider a behavioral trait, and not an indication of how the brain is working.
Just because I look at each block in order doesn't mean thats how I think about those blocks.
My take on the whole thing was that both the hermit and the witch (and whoever was out there in the present time) were all being controlled by some single entity. You can call it a ghost, a malevolent spirit, the devil, whatever you want; but I think that all of those people were just pawns being used.
I think the hermit mentioned voices or something like that (I don't really remember, correct me if I'm wrong).
What was in the sticks? Several possibilities or any combination thereof:
His teeth. So far, the most common answer, and I saw something that looked like the roots of a molar.
His necklace. Also possible, since I think there was something longer than normal teeth in there.
His ear. This was my very first reaction, but after a few seconds I started to think the shape wasn't quite right. Of course, depending on where you cut the ear, you could get some wierd shapes.
His finger(s). This was my second thought, and I think this one is actually pretty likely, since teeth aren't as long as some of the stuff I think I saw in there.
Anyone catch the "In Like Flint" scene in the very beginning? I found that to be hilarious, seeing as the Flint movies (were the two or three?) were some of the first movies to spoof the spy genre.
Great movie overall, even the recycled jokes were still funny.
--FroBugg
Well, I've always known the word as a sort of slang for "Nicarauguan", but that's prolly just cuz I live in Miami.
Kinda hard for me to shake the thought of them handing Linus this little gold-plated South American kid, tho.
Just one quick comment:
What if, instead of our genomes containing all the pertinent information, they simply contain the basic seed, and the instincts can reliably grow from that. (i.e.:We have an equation for a fractal, then can take that relatively small amount of data and create an infinite and complex item).
Excuse me if this sounds at all stupid to you, but I've got a chem exam tomorrow and I'm tired.
--FroBugg
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I'm sure everyone's noticed the email where the webmaster mocks some guy for poor spelling. Anyway, I've gone through and compiled a list of
misspellings on this page.
I sent an email of this to the webmaster, so he may be fixing them without commenting, so check them quick.
Original Films are Crap section: 2nd paragraph, 'Furthermore' is
misspelled as 'Futhermore', and 'suspension' is misspelled
as 'supsension'. In the 3rd paragraph, 'inappropriately' is
misspelled as 'inapropriately', and 'commercial' is misspelled
as 'comercial'. In the 4th paragraph, 'amaturely' is misspelled
as 'amaturly'. In the 7th paragraph, 'peeves' is misspelled as
'peves'
Moral Issues section: In the 2nd paragraph, 'largely' is misspelled as
'largerly'. In the 4th paragraph, 'ostensibly' is misspelled as
'obstensibly', and 'you' is misspelled as 'ou'.
Speeder Bike Implausibilities section: In the last paragraph, 'scene'
is misspelled as 'sceen'.
Selected Comments section: In the 3rd paragraph, 'certain' is
misspelled as 'ceartain'. In the 2nd response, 'discussion' is
misspelled as 'dicussion'. In the 4th response, 'sentence' is
misspelled as 'sentance', and 'whipped' is misspelled as 'wipped'.
As for the author's Christian basis of anti-Star Wars sentiment, "let he who is without sin..."
I didn't know we were allowed to have real news today.
--FroBugg
I just read (OK, I only skimmed) the files. Someone actually seems to have put some good effort into these, as opposed to the simple earlier blurb on cold fusion. I especially like the ASCII pigeons.
--FroBugg
I can fondly remember my old A500 with 1meg RAM, no HD, 2 floppies. I even remember painstakingly drawing and animating that little red and white ball in DPaint III. I had this nicely redone desktop with this custom-drawn pointer, and some really good games.
The game I remember most was a D&D flight sim, where you flew these dragons around and killed things. Anyone else ever play that?
--FroBugg