Bill Gates not part of the ruling class? Come on. His father is a prominent corporate lawyer, he attended the best prep school in Seattle, he was a congressional page, he attended the leading ruling class university in America, and his company got the IBM contract because his mother was on the United Way board of directors with the IBM president at the time. ("Bill Gates? Oh, yes, he's Mary's boy. He's all right." )
>In real life, when you ask someone experienced a question that you know is covered somewhere (and > maybe you even know where exactly) and the person is able to answer you without getting annoyed, >and quite possibly bringing on the table the non-obvious ramifications and > implications to the question, is it cheating? No way, I say.
Andover needs to encourage Slashdot readership by giving away free computers and Internet access to all registered non-anonymous users... (and give extra processor capability to those that will post compliments in response to Katz articles)
newspapers contain unnecessary and demeaning articles such as puff pieces about Leonardo DiCaprio. Thank goodness one will not find those in the electronic media.
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Bill Gates not part of the ruling class? Come on. His father is a prominent corporate lawyer, he attended the best prep school in Seattle, he was a congressional page, he attended the leading ruling class university in America, and his company got the IBM contract because his mother was on the United Way board of directors with the IBM president at the time. ("Bill Gates? Oh, yes, he's Mary's boy. He's all right." )
uh ... it's April 2000, aren't you supposed to be in a bomb shelter somewhere?
>In real life, when you ask someone experienced a question that you know is covered somewhere (and
> maybe you even know where exactly) and the person is able to answer you without getting annoyed,
>and quite possibly bringing on the table the non-obvious ramifications and
> implications to the question, is it cheating? No way, I say.
Isn't that called "open source" ?
Hmm, if I report Plas to Wave, will I get a T-shirt?
Ewing's wife is getting a PhD in Marxist theory. One way to return money to the community, I guess :-)
Andover needs to encourage Slashdot readership by giving away free computers and Internet access to all registered non-anonymous users ... (and give extra processor capability to those that will post compliments in response to Katz articles)
Today's
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Sorry, it has to be Katz.
newspapers contain unnecessary and demeaning articles such as puff pieces about Leonardo DiCaprio. Thank goodness one will not find those in the electronic media.
One Yes vote.
Advertising, of course.
Is this the worst story ever posted by Slashdot?
>No, it's a toss up between Al Gore and Dan Quayle! ...
George W. beats both, easily
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That's Addison-_Wesley_. Like, you know, the ST-TNG kid ...
Not if it makes money ...
but the repeat post was funnier (look at the moderation!)
He doesn't need to write one. He just goes to http://www.webho.com/WealthClock.
He doesn't need to write one. He just goes to http://www.webho.com/WealthClock
We keep sending probes, and the Martians keep shooting them down ...
No Katz flames ...
>Also it would be interesting to try to use some of the same technology to try to see if there are indead liquid oceans beneath the ice of Europa.
What, you want the monoliths after you?
"All these worlds are yours. Except Europa. Attempt no landings there." -Clarke, 2010
Actually, it was God hacking the universe. He couldn't get it to work without inserting that kludgy constant.
> COMPUTER> THERE IS NOW
Classic SF short-short by Fredric Brown back in the fifties.
Now the Gates was more subtil than any beast of the field which Unix had made ...