hoard 1 A collection, esp. of valuable items,
horde 2 A numerous company; a gang, a troop
Are you saying he should have used "hordes" instead of "hoards"? Cuz I'm thinkin "A collection, esp. of valuable items" works just fine with regard to Wookiees... I mean, they'd probably fetch a pretty decent price on eBay...
No... There are pens made specifically for detecting starch, NOT for seeing if bills are real or not...
James Randi and Michael Shermer have been debunking this particular myth for years (I remember seeing it about 4 years ago in "Skeptic" magazine), but obviously people are still buying them...
The only reason we haven't seen this sooner is that the BBS world wasn't quite so accessible to your average kid-- you had to know a lot more to get online than you do now.
Based on my memories of BBS'ing in the 80's at 300 and 1200 (WHOA, that's fast) baud, "you had to know a lot more" meant you had to know:
1. The phone numbers of BBS's
2. that weren't busy all the time
3. and had decent content for YOUR system (C64, Apple, TRS-80, Coleco Adam. Yes, Coleco Adam. Shut up.)
Technically, any movie that takes place before the 22nd century is a prequel... Titanic? Prequel. Saving Private Ryan? Prequel. Hudson Hawk? Prequel. Gigli? Prequel.
You get the idea...
Once again, typically for Slashdot, the headline is very inaccurate. It's not that IT workers aren't eligible for overtime pay, it's just that it's no longer guaranteed. If your employer wants to pay you overtime, that's still their prerogative, not to mention a good idea for retention. Believe, there are folks out there earning overtime for IT work that this will not affect at all.
Considering you just posted on a high-traffic web site that you're going to drink 100 cups of coffee, if it did kill you, your death wouldn't be so mysterious.
So I say, Go for it. If you die, we'll let folks know.
I had similar experiences in high school whenever a girl would actually try to talk to me. <snip> This probably isn't too unusual for the slashdot crowd.
Actually, I'm guessing the experience of a girl trying to talk to them was very unusual for most of the slashdot crowd...
Everyone is commenting on the fact that the MPAA wrote this document, but what is more disturbing to me is the actual precedent this kind of thing sets, as mentioned in the article:
"It's one thing for the MPAA to come up with a theory like that," said Electronic Frontier Foundation senior intellectual property attorney Fred Von Lohmann, "But it would be quite another for a state attorney general to adopt it. The principle has no limit -- you can use Internet Explorer to violate the law or unintentionally access pornography, so does he want to suggest that Microsoft is also breaking the law? Why stop at the Internet -- should Ford be held liable for failing to warn drivers that exceeding the speed limit will expose them to citations?"
So, while Congress says "Hey you have to be responsibile for your own actions with regard to the products you use, even if you use those products as intended", the state attorneys general are saying "Hey if you get in trouble, it's the product manufacturer's fault, even if you're choosing to use the software in a way not intended by the company."
So why not take the EFF's argument one step further? If I drive a Ford to rob a bank, is Ford then responsible also for not warning me not to do so?
Of course, I'll probably get modded down for being off-topic...
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Really, what else would it be?
Max Power?
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Actually, if memory serves, it was "Tales of the Gold Monkey". I remember it - a pre-Star Trek The Motion Picture Stephen Collins, and the dog had one eye (and named Jack, appropriately). The seaplane was named "Cutter's Goose" I think (the main character's name was Cutter). Again, this is all from memory. Bonus question, though... Who remembers "Bring Em Back Alive"? That had Bruce Boxleitner, and was the OTHER WWII-era action-adventure show that tried to cash in, like "Gold Monkey", on the popularity of "Raiders"...
The recording artist is adding to the value of the composition played on the radio station.
Basically, what they're saying is that the value added by the popularity of the Rolling Stones exceeds the popularity of the local children's choir. In other words, the radio station gets more value out of playing name bands than by playing "nobodies" which would cost the same price.
America Online client
Released in late 1990. Also referred to as PCAO, to distinguish it from the Windows-based client, WAOL. Version 1.0 was the very first client software for AOL. This was a minimal installation of PC/GEOS. PCAO was updated quite frequently, with versions 1.2, 1.3, 1.5 released across 1991 and 1992. Version 1.5a was released in late 1993, and was followed in 1994 by version 1.6. Surprisingly, this occured after the release of the 2.0 client for Geos 2.0 (see below). PCAO required a Tymnet or Sprint connection. AOL stopped supporting Tymnet around 1995, and abandoned Sprint recently, so PCAO is now officially unsupported completely.
Actually, the Vorlons inability to provide a straight answer would make for a VERY short confrontation. Remember when Data came up with an endless loop/unsolvable math problem to disable the Borg? (I think it was something like 10 PRINT "Hello" 20 GOTO 10 or What's the value of Pi? or something like that.) Imagine what would happen if the Borg tried to understand what the Vorlons are saying...
Borg: Resistance is futile. Vorlon: When the turtles are happy, the magnolias sing sweetly. All the Borg go to sleep
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Are you saying he should have used "hordes" instead of "hoards"? Cuz I'm thinkin "A collection, esp. of valuable items" works just fine with regard to Wookiees... I mean, they'd probably fetch a pretty decent price on eBay...
Have you never even seen Crustables(TM)? They're closed, that's the whole idea.
Sorry, couldn't resist...
No... There are pens made specifically for detecting starch, NOT for seeing if bills are real or not...
James Randi and Michael Shermer have been debunking this particular myth for years (I remember seeing it about 4 years ago in "Skeptic" magazine), but obviously people are still buying them...
Yeah, really! Why can't they do friendly URL's like Slashdot?
(Posted to Slashdot article at http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/28/23
What are TTs?
The only reason we haven't seen this sooner is that the BBS world wasn't quite so accessible to your average kid-- you had to know a lot more to get online than you do now.
Based on my memories of BBS'ing in the 80's at 300 and 1200 (WHOA, that's fast) baud, "you had to know a lot more" meant you had to know:
1. The phone numbers of BBS's
2. that weren't busy all the time
3. and had decent content for YOUR system (C64, Apple, TRS-80, Coleco Adam. Yes, Coleco Adam. Shut up.)
What next? The director of Peewee's Big Adventure doing a film adaptation of Promethia ?
No, silly, he did Batman.
Imagine that. A "drafer" who makes spelling errors.
Technically, any movie that takes place before the 22nd century is a prequel...
Titanic? Prequel.
Saving Private Ryan? Prequel.
Hudson Hawk? Prequel.
Gigli? Prequel.
You get the idea...
Once again, typically for Slashdot, the headline is very inaccurate. It's not that IT workers aren't eligible for overtime pay, it's just that it's no longer guaranteed. If your employer wants to pay you overtime, that's still their prerogative, not to mention a good idea for retention. Believe, there are folks out there earning overtime for IT work that this will not affect at all.
Considering you just posted on a high-traffic web site that you're going to drink 100 cups of coffee, if it did kill you, your death wouldn't be so mysterious.
So I say, Go for it. If you die, we'll let folks know.
I had similar experiences in high school whenever a girl would actually try to talk to me. <snip> This probably isn't too unusual for the slashdot crowd.
Actually, I'm guessing the experience of a girl trying to talk to them was very unusual for most of the slashdot crowd...
You mean bright Pink isn't already an option? I think if you REALLY want to make an Apple product unsellable, just have the dye pack gray or silver...
Everyone is commenting on the fact that the MPAA wrote this document, but what is more disturbing to me is the actual precedent this kind of thing sets, as mentioned in the article:
And it's interesting that this comes right around the time that Congress is passing legislation banning liability suits against the fast food industry...
So, while Congress says "Hey you have to be responsibile for your own actions with regard to the products you use, even if you use those products as intended", the state attorneys general are saying "Hey if you get in trouble, it's the product manufacturer's fault, even if you're choosing to use the software in a way not intended by the company."
So why not take the EFF's argument one step further? If I drive a Ford to rob a bank, is Ford then responsible also for not warning me not to do so?
Of course, I'll probably get modded down for being off-topic...
Max Power?
Actually, if memory serves, it was "Tales of the Gold Monkey". I remember it - a pre-Star Trek The Motion Picture Stephen Collins, and the dog had one eye (and named Jack, appropriately). The seaplane was named "Cutter's Goose" I think (the main character's name was Cutter).
Again, this is all from memory.
Bonus question, though... Who remembers "Bring Em Back Alive"? That had Bruce Boxleitner, and was the OTHER WWII-era action-adventure show that tried to cash in, like "Gold Monkey", on the popularity of "Raiders"...
No, but one "wrong", legally speaking, makes what we call a "precedent."
Keep reading... The next sentence is:
Basically, what they're saying is that the value added by the popularity of the Rolling Stones exceeds the popularity of the local children's choir. In other words, the radio station gets more value out of playing name bands than by playing "nobodies" which would cost the same price.
From the PC/GEOS History page:
Um.... does that mean you can read?
Shouldn't that be SPEAK proper English?
That dropdown would still leave one in "Total Recall"...
Does anyone else find it ironic that the two biggest criticisms being leveled against Enterprise/Berman are...
1. They're rehashing old ideas/characters/plotlines
2. They should make it just like B5/Farscape/insert my favorite sci-fi universe here.
Actually, the Vorlons inability to provide a straight answer would make for a VERY short confrontation. Remember when Data came up with an endless loop/unsolvable math problem to disable the Borg? (I think it was something like 10 PRINT "Hello" 20 GOTO 10 or What's the value of Pi? or something like that.) Imagine what would happen if the Borg tried to understand what the Vorlons are saying...