INTRODUCTION: Although I usually ignore trolls, I have decided that this particular trolling deserves a very long rant, to the point of it being an essay. Since this is slashdot, I shalll keep it brief, simple and minimal, mentioning only the unlfoccinaucinihilipilificatable.
CHAPTER 1: ANONYMOUS COWARD'S POOR UNDERSTANDING OF PHYSICS Section 1: on Cathode Ray Tubes
Instead of shooting electron beams at a periodic table to see what happens
The effect of firing cathode rays at solid materials is quite easy to predict, although it probably has never been done before. Some electrons would diffract through the paper, while others would collide with the molecules therein, possibly altering the composition thereof slightly. Section 2: on the Discovery of the Elements of the Periodic Table
Those same starving children probably mined the periodic table for you so you could play with it in your lab
No child is old enough to have mined an undiscovered element, since hafnium is the last element to have been discovered 'in the wild', which was in 1911. Also, periodic tables are printed, not mined.
CHAPTER 2: SCIENTIFIC DISREGARD OF THE ANONYMOUS COWARD Obviously, the Anonymous Coward, hereafter referred to as 'AC', holds science in low regard, as he so rudely denigrates the peridic table by saying
Who cares about a fucking periodic table
This monument of scientific knowledge, which has aided many scientists, scholars and technologists most certainly deserves better.
CHAPTER 3: AC'S ABUSE OF PUNCTUATION The sentence
Who cares about a fucking periodic table.
should end in a question mark, and I will not even begin to address the grammatical horror of this cluster of words:
what happens these scientists should be
CHAPTER 4: AC'S SEXUAL OBSESSION The word 'fuck' appears quite frequently in AC's words, whence I have deduced yon poster is obsessed with the coital act. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this, but please do remember that this is not the subject of this discussion.
CHAPTER 5: AC'S USE OF CONTROVERSIAL TERMS The concepts of a first and third world are at best disputable as
INTRODUCTION: Although I usually ignore trolls, I have decided that this particular trolling deserves a very long rant, to the point of it being an essay. Since this is slashdot, I shalll keep it brief and minimal, mentioning only the unlfoccinaucinihilipilificatable.
CHAPTER 1: ANONYMOUS COWARD'S POOR UNDERSTANDING OF PHYSICS Section 1: on Cathode Ray Tubes
Instead of shooting electron beams at a periodic table to see what happens
The effect of firing cathode rays at solid materials is quite easy to predict, although it probably has never been done before. Some electrons would diffract through the paper, while others would collide with the molecules therein, possibly altering the composition thereof slightly. Section 2: on the Discovery of the Elements of the Periodic Table
Those same starving children probably mined the periodic table for you so you could play with it in your lab
No child is old enough to have mined an undiscovered element, since hafnium is the last element to have been discovered 'in the wild', which was in 1911. Also, periodic tables are printed, not mined.
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a tutorial. If you want to learn a topic, you don't look it up in an encyclopedia, you read an introductory tutorial. Wikipedia is a reference for people that already know a thing or two about the subject. Reading the article on Galois Theory with a minimal maths background would be like reading the ANSI standard for C while having programmed only in logo.
The only reason this deal ever went through is because.... well fuck it I'll be blunt.. look who Nokia hired to captain the ship..
Stop being so hard on Elop. He was desperate to get out of MS, and Nokia seemed like a good idea at the time. Image working with Windows, for MS, all day, five days a week, all year, for decades... *shudder* Either that or he was sent by Ballmer so that MS could control Nokia from within.
But yeah, whoever is in charge of CEO acquisition at Nokia should be fired.
A series of countries in the Middle East has recently changed their government, so why can't we? In our case it's even easier... we have regular elections.
The Dutch elections were last month and although the current government is demissionary, it is very likely the new government will continue the old governments policy. Minister Opstelten belongs to the VVD, which, after last month's elections, is still the largest party in the Dutch House of Representatives.
mandatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/297/ I'm part of that new generation, so don't you dare dis LISP or I'll mod you down! Oh, wait I posted. I can't do that anymore.
The population will never accept a tax on food (isn't there something about that in the constitution?), especially if the food in question contains sugar or caffeine. That CID is plain scary, and there is no way anyone is going to allow that to happen.
Or go the opposite route... buy a bunch of empty "surveillance camera" big white cases and install them prominently near a big "No Dumping" sign. Probably a lot cheaper.
Unfortunately, a certain/. reader dumps that stuff and knows there are no cameras. He probably cracked the server logs and found your IP address to make sure he has the right guy's cottage.
When I was working in aerospace, we would often write the manual first, then implement. This forces developers to deal with ugly problems cleanly, rather than having some elaborate after-the-fact explanation of how to work around some limitation.
Also, this gives you a design plan that you can follow while coding.
> your programmers don't actually need to wear suits, do they?
Suit in the jargon file: suit: n. 1. Ugly and uncomfortable ‘business clothing’ often worn by non-hackers. Invariably worn with a ‘tie’, a strangulation device that partially cuts off the blood supply to the brain. It is thought that this explains much about the behavior of suit-wearers. Compare droid.
2. A person who habitually wears suits, as distinct from a techie or hacker. See pointy-haired, burble, management, Stupids, SNAFU principle, PHB, and brain-damaged.
You would probably go to a place that you are reasonably familiar with (nothing worse than being caught because you took the wrong turn) and if you are familiar with the place, you might still have some information about it lingering on your computer (browser history, photo's) and on other people's computers (Picasa, Facebook). You'll have to have a tcp/ip server daemon running at all times on your home computer that will activate a destruction script when it receives a certain data packet. This script will wipe your and your family members' Google, Facebook and Twitter accounts and then modify/boot/grub.conf so that upon reboot dban is booted. The script should then activate an arduino board that sends a signal to your other computers so that they will also boot into dban by default. Then all the computers reboot and their disks are nuked. Send this packet with your iFoo or other electronic device and you should be a little bit safer.
Our blogging service will not be held responsible for blog-induced damage to life, limb and human rights if the name of the country in which the blogging took place includes any of the following words; 'people', 'republic' or 'democratic', unless multiple nongovernmental proxies and an up to date Liberte Linux live cd are used.
Those students are probably there only because their parents are so fanatical, and if that's the case they'll probably have drilled the no-question-god=good-science=bad altitude into them.
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INTRODUCTION:
Although I usually ignore trolls, I have decided that this particular trolling deserves a very long rant, to the point of it being an essay. Since this is slashdot, I shalll keep it brief, simple and minimal, mentioning only the unlfoccinaucinihilipilificatable.
CHAPTER 1: ANONYMOUS COWARD'S POOR UNDERSTANDING OF PHYSICS
Section 1: on Cathode Ray Tubes
Instead of shooting electron beams at a periodic table to see what happens
The effect of firing cathode rays at solid materials is quite easy to predict, although it probably has never been done before. Some electrons would diffract through the paper, while others would collide with the molecules therein, possibly altering the composition thereof slightly.
Section 2: on the Discovery of the Elements of the Periodic Table
Those same starving children probably mined the periodic table for you so you could play with it in your lab
No child is old enough to have mined an undiscovered element, since hafnium is the last element to have been discovered 'in the wild', which was in 1911. Also, periodic tables are printed, not mined.
CHAPTER 2: SCIENTIFIC DISREGARD OF THE ANONYMOUS COWARD
Obviously, the Anonymous Coward, hereafter referred to as 'AC', holds science in low regard, as he so rudely denigrates the peridic table by saying
Who cares about a fucking periodic table
This monument of scientific knowledge, which has aided many scientists, scholars and technologists most certainly deserves better.
CHAPTER 3: AC'S ABUSE OF PUNCTUATION
The sentence
Who cares about a fucking periodic table.
should end in a question mark, and I will not even begin to address the grammatical horror of this cluster of words:
what happens these scientists should be
CHAPTER 4: AC'S SEXUAL OBSESSION
The word 'fuck' appears quite frequently in AC's words, whence I have deduced yon poster is obsessed with the coital act. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this, but please do remember that this is not the subject of this discussion.
CHAPTER 5: AC'S USE OF CONTROVERSIAL TERMS
The concepts of a first and third world are at best disputable as
Why am I even spending time on this?
INTRODUCTION:
Although I usually ignore trolls, I have decided that this particular trolling deserves a very long rant, to the point of it being an essay. Since this is slashdot, I shalll keep it brief and minimal, mentioning only the unlfoccinaucinihilipilificatable.
CHAPTER 1: ANONYMOUS COWARD'S POOR UNDERSTANDING OF PHYSICS
Section 1: on Cathode Ray Tubes
Instead of shooting electron beams at a periodic table to see what happens
The effect of firing cathode rays at solid materials is quite easy to predict, although it probably has never been done before. Some electrons would diffract through the paper, while others would collide with the molecules therein, possibly altering the composition thereof slightly.
Section 2: on the Discovery of the Elements of the Periodic Table
Those same starving children probably mined the periodic table for you so you could play with it in your lab
No child is old enough to have mined an undiscovered element, since hafnium is the last element to have been discovered 'in the wild', which was in 1911. Also, periodic tables are printed, not mined.
CHAPTER 2: SCIENTIFIC DISREGARD O
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Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a tutorial.
If you want to learn a topic, you don't look it up in an encyclopedia, you read an introductory tutorial. Wikipedia is a reference for people that already know a thing or two about the subject.
Reading the article on Galois Theory with a minimal maths background would be like reading the ANSI standard for C while having programmed only in logo.
They have fantastic engineering talent that is being wasted by a dead platform.
It's quite saddening that the home country of Linux, the molotov cocktail and the dish draining closet is exporting Windows phones.
The only reason this deal ever went through is because.... well fuck it I'll be blunt.. look who Nokia hired to captain the ship..
Stop being so hard on Elop. He was desperate to get out of MS, and Nokia seemed like a good idea at the time.
Image working with Windows, for MS, all day, five days a week, all year, for decades... *shudder*
Either that or he was sent by Ballmer so that MS could control Nokia from within.
But yeah, whoever is in charge of CEO acquisition at Nokia should be fired.
A series of countries in the Middle East has recently changed their government, so why can't we? In our case it's even easier ... we have regular elections.
The Dutch elections were last month and although the current government is demissionary, it is very likely the new government will continue the old governments policy. Minister Opstelten belongs to the VVD, which, after last month's elections, is still the largest party in the Dutch House of Representatives.
http://xkcd.com/224/
I really should start posting my own words and not some other guy's cartoons.
mandatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/297/
I'm part of that new generation, so don't you dare dis LISP or I'll mod you down!
Oh, wait I posted. I can't do that anymore.
The population will never accept a tax on food (isn't there something about that in the constitution?), especially if the food in question contains sugar or caffeine.
That CID is plain scary, and there is no way anyone is going to allow that to happen.
The US convert to metric? Come on.
The 9 mm bullet is a big success.
I just built a new one
I predict a future wherein we buy smartphone-sized computer casings and put the CPU, memory, post-SSD storage stuff, etc in there with tweezers. (Anything smaller would be impractical.)
We then connect these to screens and keyboards. There is no way I'm going to exchange my keyboard for a touchscreen, I have to feel the keys.
After a while, when we are all illiterate and , we get voice-controlled computers that we don't understand but upon which we are completely dependent.
Or go the opposite route... buy a bunch of empty "surveillance camera" big white cases and install them prominently near a big "No Dumping" sign. Probably a lot cheaper.
Unfortunately, a certain /. reader dumps that stuff and knows there are no cameras.
He probably cracked the server logs and found your IP address to make sure he has the right guy's cottage.
Do those who insist on the name GNU/Linux have a point, or is this entire naming controversy/flamewar plain nonsense?
Also, in the Netherlands we have some separate roads for bikers. I have yet to see one of those in the USA.
Is there a "report abuse" button for those who catch illegal treecutters?
When I was working in aerospace, we would often write the manual first, then implement. This forces developers to deal with ugly problems cleanly, rather than having some elaborate after-the-fact explanation of how to work around some limitation.
Also, this gives you a design plan that you can follow while coding.
> your programmers don't actually need to wear suits, do they?
Suit in the jargon file:
suit: n.
1. Ugly and uncomfortable ‘business clothing’ often worn by non-hackers. Invariably worn with a ‘tie’, a strangulation device that partially cuts off the blood supply to the brain. It is thought that this explains much about the behavior of suit-wearers. Compare droid.
2. A person who habitually wears suits, as distinct from a techie or hacker. See pointy-haired, burble, management, Stupids, SNAFU principle, PHB, and brain-damaged.
OS X versions are named after German tanks, not cats!
You would probably go to a place that you are reasonably familiar with (nothing worse than being caught because you took the wrong turn) and if you are familiar with the place, you might still have some information about it lingering on your computer (browser history, photo's) and on other people's computers (Picasa, Facebook). You'll have to have a tcp/ip server daemon running at all times on your home computer that will activate a destruction script when it receives a certain data packet. /boot/grub.conf so that upon reboot dban is booted. The script should then activate an arduino board that sends a signal to your other computers so that they will also boot into dban by default. Then all the computers reboot and their disks are nuked.
This script will wipe your and your family members' Google, Facebook and Twitter accounts and then modify
Send this packet with your iFoo or other electronic device and you should be a little bit safer.
Our blogging service will not be held responsible for blog-induced damage to life, limb and human rights if the name of the country in which the blogging took place includes any of the following words; 'people', 'republic' or 'democratic', unless multiple nongovernmental proxies and an up to date Liberte Linux live cd are used.
They get government money. (better spent on people with brains or the millions of poor people in the US)
Those students are probably there only because their parents are so fanatical, and if that's the case they'll probably have drilled the no-question-god=good-science=bad altitude into them.