So basically you think that the solar system began as a disorderly system and became more orderly. Isn't that contrary to the second law of thermodynamics?
It's "orderly" in the sense that most of the things that were going to either fly off or crash into each other have already done so. What do you think should happen? That everything should keep bouncing off everything else forever?
Just in case not everyone in the world knows, it's a takeoff of The Music Man, in which a fast-talking con-man comes to town and sells them on the idea of creating a marching band to combat the problem of idle youth. In the original song he's singing about the evils of pool playing. It goes something like this:
Ya got trouble, folks, right here in River City
with a capital 'T' and that rhymes with 'P' and that
stands for 'pool'
Just in case this post isn't yet sufficiently trivial, in the movie a very young Ronnie Howard plays the little boy who helps soften the con man.
Here's the whole thing.
Oh please. You like it when people make errors in spelling and grammar. It gives you a chance to show what fools they are, and how special you are that you know the difference between it's and its, how to spell definitely, and when to use me instead of I.
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Or at least I do. OK, listen up, ya Slashdot knuckleheads:
It's is the contraction of it is. To show possession leave out the apostrophe. Weird, I know, but that's the way it is. Definitely. If you can't find the word finite inside it then you've spelled it wrong. You and me. If you would say us, say me. If you would say we, say I. For example: "He gave the books to us." "He gave the books to my friend and me." If that still seems wrong, leave out your friend. You certainly wouldn't say "He gave the books to I," now would ya?
Tune in next week when we discuss you're and your.
perhaps with a way to mark that you were about to submit the story as well, so to show that more than one person found it submit-worthy. Not exactly a binding vote, but a way to express interest.
How about if subscribers get a 20 minute advantage on posting comments to a story?
He said they wouldn't take anything away from non-subscribers. Irrespective of that, it would drive people away. Slashdot, like any publication, must pursue new readers. If it does things to make them feel unwelcome or less worthy then they won't come back, and eventually slashdot withers and dies.
It was similar to the magic trick where a person gets in a box that gets swords stuck through it. The operator would make a big show of opening parts of the box and shine a candle through from behind, with nothing but gears and machinery visible. The smallish person inside would in turn be hiding in another part of the box. I don't think it's been discovered who was inside. Over the years several players must have been involved.
Day one, January 3rd The inside of my glove. Day two, January 4th The inside of my glove. Day three, January 5th The inside of my glove. Day seventeen, January 19th Still the inside of my glove. Man I can't wait for Spring.
I suggest adding a new criterion to the article screening process. Imagine that the article had been posted on April First. If seems like a lame April Fools joke then maybe it shouldn't be posted.
I'm convinced that amateurs are usually better at most things than professionals, for the simple reason that they care more.
I couldn't agree more! In fact next week I'm having my Uncle Leroy take out my spleen instead of some "doctor" who thinks he knows what he's doing just because he went to "medical school" and then trained for a dozen years.
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You mean the part where it says "This product offers consumers the Internet applications they have come to depend on, including the Netscape Navigator browser"?
If someone comes to my company and offers us 3x what we normally charge for our services we will happily take the extra cash, so will every other company on the planet.
Except maybe Bill Gates, who would rock back and forth and explain why they should actually pay 6x.
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It's "orderly" in the sense that most of the things that were going to either fly off or crash into each other have already done so. What do you think should happen? That everything should keep bouncing off everything else forever?
45 points is a ripoff. I could build my own with off the shelf parts for 38 points tops.
In Vegas, all tourists are considered marks and the locals feel obligated to separate them from their cash at every opportunity.
Does that mean the book made money or not? What am I thinking? With such clarity and deftness I'm sure it did very well.
How would you know?
It's Jigawatts, Marty!
Pardon me for being such an old fogey, but is being edgy good or bad?
Oh please. You like it when people make errors in spelling and grammar. It gives you a chance to show what fools they are, and how special you are that you know the difference between it's and its, how to spell definitely, and when to use me instead of I.
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Or at least I do. OK, listen up, ya Slashdot knuckleheads:
It's is the contraction of it is. To show possession leave out the apostrophe. Weird, I know, but that's the way it is.
Definitely. If you can't find the word finite inside it then you've spelled it wrong.
You and me. If you would say us, say me. If you would say we, say I. For example: "He gave the books to us." "He gave the books to my friend and me." If that still seems wrong, leave out your friend. You certainly wouldn't say "He gave the books to I," now would ya?
Tune in next week when we discuss you're and your.
perhaps with a way to mark that you were about to submit the story as well, so to show that more than one person found it submit-worthy. Not exactly a binding vote, but a way to express interest.
He said they wouldn't take anything away from non-subscribers. Irrespective of that, it would drive people away. Slashdot, like any publication, must pursue new readers. If it does things to make them feel unwelcome or less worthy then they won't come back, and eventually slashdot withers and dies.
Sorry, it's a two-part explanation. Here's the second part.
Here's a good explanation.
It was similar to the magic trick where a person gets in a box that gets swords stuck through it. The operator would make a big show of opening parts of the box and shine a candle through from behind, with nothing but gears and machinery visible. The smallish person inside would in turn be hiding in another part of the box. I don't think it's been discovered who was inside. Over the years several players must have been involved.
Day one, January 3rd The inside of my glove.
Day two, January 4th The inside of my glove.
Day three, January 5th The inside of my glove.
Day seventeen, January 19th Still the inside of my glove. Man I can't wait for Spring.
You must be a riot at parties.
I suggest adding a new criterion to the article screening process. Imagine that the article had been posted on April First. If seems like a lame April Fools joke then maybe it shouldn't be posted.
I couldn't agree more! In fact next week I'm having my Uncle Leroy take out my spleen instead of some "doctor" who thinks he knows what he's doing just because he went to "medical school" and then trained for a dozen years.
That's because you don't chew thoroughly.
well, yeah. Support good acts, denounce the bad. It tends to promote sensible behavior in children and small animals. Maybe it works on senators, too.
You mean the part where it says "This product offers consumers the Internet applications they have come to depend on, including the Netscape Navigator browser"?
Except maybe Bill Gates, who would rock back and forth and explain why they should actually pay 6x.
The browser is not called "Netscape."
Exactly. a dia-meter. It measures the diagonal.
well said. You must have used a lot of brain power.