Of course... I'm just saying that adding the aprilfool tag spoils the joke. Unfortunately, many Slashdotters are killjoys, so it shouldn't surprise me.
Well... it was infinitely large yesterday. But it's bigger today. (Of course, "yesterday" and "today" being the terms associated with the Earth's spin around its axis -- something the universe itself could care less about, had it a mind of its own. "Yesterday" and "tomorrow" have no meaning within the context of the universe -- "Yesterday" could be when the BB happened. Would that be considered "yesterbang?"
Re:Anyone who is really upset by this spoiler...
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3) Things That Are Fairly Obscure Knowledge Or At Least Were Until The Movie Came Out But At Least I Still Know More About Tom Bombadill Than The General Public.
Re:Anyone who is really upset by this spoiler...
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Geeks and Nerds love anything that shows either 1) extreme intelligence or 2) tremendous knowledge of truly useless information. Jeopardy satisfies both of these.
Re:I think they should give Ken Alex's job.
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Perhaps he is intelligent... but he's an asshole.
Quoted from http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,6216,00.html:
It also may be that Trebek is too tied up with potential court dates to appear on the show. The 59-year-old host was sued Monday by a United Airlines employee, who says he left her with serious hand injuries during a confrontation at Los Angeles International Airport.
Marlene Andrade, 31, of Hawthorne, California, claims Trebek got irate last May when she said his carry-on luggage was too big for the plane. She allegedly asked him to place his bag through a metal template at the front of an X-ray machine to test whether it was too big. She claims Trebek lifted the hinged plate and began passing the luggage through anyway. "He said... 'Don't you know who I am?' " says Andrade's lawyer, Steven Lerman. "And she said, 'I don't care who you are, these are the rules.' "
Andrade alleges that Trebek then slammed the plate down on her hands, and she's seeking unspecified damages for the incident. Trebek has declined to comment on the matter, pending ongoing litigation.
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I didn't mean to imply that you called my book a bookend:)
Beginning PHP, Apache, MySQL Web Development is the name of the book -- not a plug, just answering the question. I only wrote 35% of the book -- it was a collaboration (Wrox Press book).
I'll be the first to admit that my book is not necessarily the best one about PHP. But hey, it was fun to write, and it looks cool on my resumé:D
Re:I don't get the spoiler anger
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1) So? That doesn't excuse it. Your mother did use the "friend jumping off a bridge" metaphor with you, didn't she?
2) True, but we wouldn't know WHEN he loses, or what the specifics were. If the 75th day loss is true, it negates some of the excitement of watching every night to see if he finally loses.
3) If you visit New York and walk down an alleyway, you're likely to get mugged. So, why don't you just hand over your money to me right now?
4) It still would have been nice if/. had taken the high road. Yes, the world is full of trolls -- I would just as soon prefer that there were no trolls at/. responsible for delivering us the day's news.
I would imagine that anyone capable of unseating Ken (if that's what ends up happening) is capable of making a pretty good run like he did. My guess is that Jeopardy will modify the rules a bit (although not much -- they gotta love the ratings!).
The odds of THIS spoiler happening again are slim, but that doesn't mean other spoilers won't happen. Which reminds me... in case nobody knows, Darth Vader doesn't die in SW3.
Yes. Of course. We all should have realized that the Jeopardy results would be pasted on the front page of/. Aren't we all idiots?
So, what you are saying is that if we don't want to see leaked results from Jeopardy (which Jeopardy tries very hard to keep secret), we should stop interacting with the world, stop reading/., turn off the news, etc?
God forbid we should expect news sources to show a little restraint and at the VERY least, give us a spoiler buffer zone. Isn't that what the "Read More" link is for?
Re:this guy WRITES QUIZ SOFTWARE FOR A LIVING
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Um... you can't really be that dumb, can you?
What difference does writing the code have to do with the questions? He doesn't come up with the questions/answers, and no amount of knowledge of the software system used to present those questions is going to give him an advantage.
Besides, I seriously doubt he writes the code used on Jeopardy itself. I am sure they have rules about contestants not having any ties to the show.
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Funny how comments like this always seem to be anonymous.
Fact is, geeks and nerds love Jeopardy. Ken is a geek, too, so we feel a sort of kinship, and most of us are rooting for him to soak Jeopardy for all it's worth. I personally hate Trebek, since he's a complete asshole (off the set), but I love the show.
I am sorely disappointed that there was no spoiler warning. I have/. as my home page, so of course as soon as I launched my browser and saw the article I was a little miffed. I am not pleased, but I have to say that I will continue to watch, to see if he breaks any other records, and because I like to try to answer the questions myself. And there is a very small part of me that thinks, perhaps, that this is a joke, and he gets knocked out sooner than 75 days.
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As an author of one of those "bookends," I'd have to assume that AccordianGuy has never written one. The money is certainly not a huge draw -- it's not enough to live on, for sure. I can't speak for all authors, but for me, it was an opportunity to do two things that I love - play with one of my favorite programming languages, and write. Perhaps it really is crap, but at least I enjoyed writing it!
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Of course... I'm just saying that adding the aprilfool tag spoils the joke. Unfortunately, many Slashdotters are killjoys, so it shouldn't surprise me.
If you are going to post an April Fool's joke, it's probably best not to use "aprilfool" as one of the keywords.
I'm just sayin'...
It's not sharks with lasers.
It's sharks with frickin' "laser" beams!
I hear they taste just like tuna...
Well... it was infinitely large yesterday. But it's bigger today. (Of course, "yesterday" and "today" being the terms associated with the Earth's spin around its axis -- something the universe itself could care less about, had it a mind of its own. "Yesterday" and "tomorrow" have no meaning within the context of the universe -- "Yesterday" could be when the BB happened. Would that be considered "yesterbang?"
3) Things That Are Fairly Obscure Knowledge Or At Least Were Until The Movie Came Out But At Least I Still Know More About Tom Bombadill Than The General Public.
Geeks and Nerds love anything that shows either 1) extreme intelligence or 2) tremendous knowledge of truly useless information. Jeopardy satisfies both of these.
Perhaps he is intelligent... but he's an asshole.
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Quoted from http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,6216,00.htm
It also may be that Trebek is too tied up with potential court dates to appear on the show. The 59-year-old host was sued Monday by a United Airlines employee, who says he left her with serious hand injuries during a confrontation at Los Angeles International Airport.
Marlene Andrade, 31, of Hawthorne, California, claims Trebek got irate last May when she said his carry-on luggage was too big for the plane. She allegedly asked him to place his bag through a metal template at the front of an X-ray machine to test whether it was too big. She claims Trebek lifted the hinged plate and began passing the luggage through anyway. "He said... 'Don't you know who I am?' " says Andrade's lawyer, Steven Lerman. "And she said, 'I don't care who you are, these are the rules.' "
Andrade alleges that Trebek then slammed the plate down on her hands, and she's seeking unspecified damages for the incident. Trebek has declined to comment on the matter, pending ongoing litigation.
I didn't mean to imply that you called my book a bookend :)
:D
Beginning PHP, Apache, MySQL Web Development is the name of the book -- not a plug, just answering the question. I only wrote 35% of the book -- it was a collaboration (Wrox Press book).
I'll be the first to admit that my book is not necessarily the best one about PHP. But hey, it was fun to write, and it looks cool on my resumé
1) So? That doesn't excuse it. Your mother did use the "friend jumping off a bridge" metaphor with you, didn't she?
/. had taken the high road. Yes, the world is full of trolls -- I would just as soon prefer that there were no trolls at /. responsible for delivering us the day's news.
2) True, but we wouldn't know WHEN he loses, or what the specifics were. If the 75th day loss is true, it negates some of the excitement of watching every night to see if he finally loses.
3) If you visit New York and walk down an alleyway, you're likely to get mugged. So, why don't you just hand over your money to me right now?
4) It still would have been nice if
I would imagine that anyone capable of unseating Ken (if that's what ends up happening) is capable of making a pretty good run like he did. My guess is that Jeopardy will modify the rules a bit (although not much -- they gotta love the ratings!).
The odds of THIS spoiler happening again are slim, but that doesn't mean other spoilers won't happen. Which reminds me... in case nobody knows, Darth Vader doesn't die in SW3.
"Don't try to actively seek any information?"
/. Aren't we all idiots?
/., turn off the news, etc?
Yes. Of course. We all should have realized that the Jeopardy results would be pasted on the front page of
So, what you are saying is that if we don't want to see leaked results from Jeopardy (which Jeopardy tries very hard to keep secret), we should stop interacting with the world, stop reading
God forbid we should expect news sources to show a little restraint and at the VERY least, give us a spoiler buffer zone. Isn't that what the "Read More" link is for?
Um... you can't really be that dumb, can you?
What difference does writing the code have to do with the questions? He doesn't come up with the questions/answers, and no amount of knowledge of the software system used to present those questions is going to give him an advantage.
Besides, I seriously doubt he writes the code used on Jeopardy itself. I am sure they have rules about contestants not having any ties to the show.
Funny how comments like this always seem to be anonymous.
/. as my home page, so of course as soon as I launched my browser and saw the article I was a little miffed. I am not pleased, but I have to say that I will continue to watch, to see if he breaks any other records, and because I like to try to answer the questions myself. And there is a very small part of me that thinks, perhaps, that this is a joke, and he gets knocked out sooner than 75 days.
Fact is, geeks and nerds love Jeopardy. Ken is a geek, too, so we feel a sort of kinship, and most of us are rooting for him to soak Jeopardy for all it's worth. I personally hate Trebek, since he's a complete asshole (off the set), but I love the show.
I am sorely disappointed that there was no spoiler warning. I have
As an author of one of those "bookends," I'd have to assume that AccordianGuy has never written one. The money is certainly not a huge draw -- it's not enough to live on, for sure. I can't speak for all authors, but for me, it was an opportunity to do two things that I love - play with one of my favorite programming languages, and write. Perhaps it really is crap, but at least I enjoyed writing it!
Uh... I believe this was posted as humor...
However, thanks for the info... I'll have to try that.