This is the least important article I read all day.
The next time I brush my teeth maybe malda willpublish a story on that.
Tragedy and unfairness make realistic
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A Game of Thrones
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· Score: 3, Insightful
I found this series to be, as the reviewer said, one of the best I'd read in a decade.
I was impressed with the author's courage to lead the reader into the life of a main character, cause the reader to empathise with and respect the character, and then unmercilessly have the character killed, unfairly and unjustly.
This is much more believable and realistic than the happy-happy tripe spoon fed by most authors: "The Rambo Syndrome" where a formulaic plot consists of 1. no bad guys can hit anything they shoot at 2. no good guys die 3. the bad guy is 100% evil 4. the good guy is about 98.44% pure 5. truth and love win EVERYTHING at the end For these types of stories, you don't even have to read the whole book, or watch the whole movie. You know that if you flip to the last few chapters, the bad guy will be vanquished and the good guys will give each other hugs and high-fives.
Spammers are notoriously resiliant. Within a few days/weeks/nanoseconds the spammers would realize they need to retry after a delay, and they would stop with the fire-forget mentality.
I wish your plan would work but I just don't think it will.
Plus the spammers can get their viagra at wholesale cost!
Those of us in the know realize that Disney concocted Hatch's zany stance and then crazy subversion of his own policy in order to promote their new movie
Pirates of the Great Salt Lake: Curse of the Ironic Pearl
I would slingshot a groundhog with monkey pox into outerspace to be an ambassador for all mankind.
I would call the groundhog V-GER and if you waited for hundreds of years I bet earth would be attacked by a giant three-toed space-sloth with an even worse type of pox, like ELEPHANT POX! Don't worry, because Leonard Nimoy's great great grandson would team up with Will Weaton's cryogenically frozen head and save the day.
If airlines increased the fees for their Sky-Phones and used that money wisely, it could fund this NASA initiative.
I have read several of your books, including the Ringworld series. I thought the first Ringworld was awesome! However, as you progressed through the other two, the plots seemed to center more and more around having sex with aliens.
It seemed to me that you were using "rish" way past the point of being an interesting plot twist, or a literary device to illustrate how different people are all the same inside, and even too far to set up the evil power of vampires.
It seemed to me like you needed to get out and find yourself a girlfriend!
Can you explain why you were so obsessed with inter-planetary inter-species lust?
Disclaimer: I am generally in favour of sex -- I like pictures of sex, reading about sex, having sex, etc... but just not with aliens.
In the article they say: Red Hat hasn't stated how much it would cost per student to run a course but, given that the schools and colleges can give students free copies of Linux, the cost is likely to be low.
But I don't think that the cost of the course will be really related to the cost of the software. That's like saying the cost of tuition at a college is directly related to the price of the textbooks. The real cost is paying smart, trained teachers who can push the information into students' heads.
I think this glory-seeking, self-congratulatory stunting is really inappropriate.
If he had a societal concience he would take the zillions of dollars he is spending on this show-boating and give back to his community, in the form of a scholarship trust fund, or a new health care clinic, etc.
When I see this guy on the front page of the newspaper, it makes me really angry. I mean, who really cares if some rich guy goes high up into the atmosphere?
does anyone else remember the computers that the canadian government designed and built in the late 80's and early 90's (i think they were called "icons"). they had a trackball and came with a built-in rabbit catching game. i believe that the entire school worked off of a single 5 1/2 inch drive... and it really sucked
if hardware/software is too closely regulated and controlled by the government or associations, then it will lose a lot of its coolness. i agree that some regulations are required, but don't fool yourself and let yourself think that the regulators know best.
It's your duty to work hard enough to not get fired. It's the company's duty to pay you enough to not quit. As soon as the balance is tipped, a change happens, and the balance can reset. Zen.
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nerds, and nerdish behaviour, will never be cool...
How much responsibility does the owner of an Internet-connected computer have for crimes committed using their equipment
Just ask the RIAA and SCO. They'll tell you.
Are you sure this is off-topic? I think it is decidely on-topic. I guess I just don't understand the mentality of /. moderators.
Let's face it, the true Helix requires no spoofing and will never stop rocking!
I would buy one of those.
Is this a Microsoft bug?
OR an opensource bug?
Sorry... the real question is where do I buy my beers?
I don't care if the heroically judicious moderators mark this as off-topic again. I did break my own record and I'm proud of it.
I broke my own record by eating 15 hamburgers today.
This is the least important article I read all day.
The next time I brush my teeth maybe malda willpublish a story on that.
I found this series to be, as the reviewer said, one of the best I'd read in a decade.
I was impressed with the author's courage to lead the reader into the life of a main character, cause the reader to empathise with and respect the character, and then unmercilessly have the character killed, unfairly and unjustly.
This is much more believable and realistic than the happy-happy tripe spoon fed by most authors: "The Rambo Syndrome" where a formulaic plot consists of
1. no bad guys can hit anything they shoot at
2. no good guys die
3. the bad guy is 100% evil
4. the good guy is about 98.44% pure
5. truth and love win EVERYTHING at the end
For these types of stories, you don't even have to read the whole book, or watch the whole movie. You know that if you flip to the last few chapters, the bad guy will be vanquished and the good guys will give each other hugs and high-fives.
I think that Martin's series is closer to some of the good old stuff like For Whom the Bell Tolls or Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Even though ink is more expensive than fine champagne, and therefore is better than fine champagne (proof by induction), you shouldn't drink it.
It would stain your teeth some ugly color like #006666, and you would never get a date and you would die cold and alone, a pitiful 30 year old virgin.
Instead, drink beer -- it's been helping ugly people get laid for over 200 years!
This has been going on since the dawn of software.
Sales guys oversell, coders make new features, clients want something different...
Where's the insight?
Spammers are notoriously resiliant. Within a few days/weeks/nanoseconds the spammers would realize they need to retry after a delay, and they would stop with the fire-forget mentality.
I wish your plan would work but I just don't think it will.
Plus the spammers can get their viagra at wholesale cost!
I once ate so much pizza that I got sick. I knew I was eating too much, but was so tasty I just couldn't stop until all the pizza was gone.
Stop giving me pizza, dammit!
I hear you. My mom used to count in pseudo-binary, indexed from 0, too.
Those of us in the know realize that Disney concocted Hatch's zany stance and then crazy subversion of his own policy in order to promote their new movie
Pirates of the Great Salt Lake: Curse of the Ironic Pearl
ARRR MATEY! Everyone loves a pirate! Am I right?
I compress things by typing carelessly, or using acronyms.
K?
lol.
I would slingshot a groundhog with monkey pox into outerspace to be an ambassador for all mankind.
I would call the groundhog V-GER and if you waited for hundreds of years I bet earth would be attacked by a giant three-toed space-sloth with an even worse type of pox, like ELEPHANT POX!
Don't worry, because Leonard Nimoy's great great grandson would team up with Will Weaton's cryogenically frozen head and save the day.
If airlines increased the fees for their Sky-Phones and used that money wisely, it could fund this NASA initiative.
...to take the ferry costs a nickel. And in those days nickels had pictures of Bumble Bees on them. `Gimme five bees for a quarter' you'd say.
I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize the eighteen cent coin.
I have read several of your books, including the Ringworld series. I thought the first Ringworld was awesome! However, as you progressed through the other two, the plots seemed to center more and more around having sex with aliens.
It seemed to me that you were using "rish" way past the point of being an interesting plot twist, or a literary device to illustrate how different people are all the same inside, and even too far to set up the evil power of vampires.
It seemed to me like you needed to get out and find yourself a girlfriend!
Can you explain why you were so obsessed with inter-planetary inter-species lust?
Disclaimer: I am generally in favour of sex -- I like pictures of sex, reading about sex, having sex, etc... but just not with aliens.
In the article they say:
Red Hat hasn't stated how much it would cost per student to run a course but, given that the schools and colleges can give students free copies of Linux, the cost is likely to be low.
But I don't think that the cost of the course will be really related to the cost of the software. That's like saying the cost of tuition at a college is directly related to the price of the textbooks. The real cost is paying smart, trained teachers who can push the information into students' heads.
I think this glory-seeking, self-congratulatory stunting is really inappropriate.
If he had a societal concience he would take the zillions of dollars he is spending on this show-boating and give back to his community, in the form of a scholarship trust fund, or a new health care clinic, etc.
When I see this guy on the front page of the newspaper, it makes me really angry. I mean, who really cares if some rich guy goes high up into the atmosphere?
computing at the speed of government is s-l-o-w
does anyone else remember the computers that the canadian government designed and built in the late 80's and early 90's (i think they were called "icons"). they had a trackball and came with a built-in rabbit catching game. i believe that the entire school worked off of a single 5 1/2 inch drive... and it really sucked
if hardware/software is too closely regulated and controlled by the government or associations, then it will lose a lot of its coolness. i agree that some regulations are required, but don't fool yourself and let yourself think that the regulators know best.
hey katz,
you should really read chomsky's "manufacturing consent" before writing an article like this.
It's your duty to work hard enough to not get fired.
It's the company's duty to pay you enough to not quit.
As soon as the balance is tipped, a change happens, and the balance can reset.
Zen.