I hope Seven-Eleven gets these readers. Maybe it would speed up all those bonehads desperately buying lottery tickets. Heck, they could even stick 'em in a corner with slot machine levers with readers next to them, so that their watches wave by as they pull. That way I could get my twinkies faster.
You can't do squat if there's no friction. Skating requires lots of it. There are only two things you can do: add something that increases the available friction (like sand or sawdust), or penetrate to the surface below (such as using spiked shoes on grass.)
If I were a terrorist, I would be tickled pink to see this used. I'd be in a 5 star hotel one block from the protesters, and when they get hit with the slime, I'd start dropping the chloring gas canisters
So then you're saying that the only reason that doesn't happen now is because the people can run away?
I gotta agree with Watts Martin. The way I read it, dustmite was patient until you continued to ingore what he said. The feeling I got was that it was as if you were simply waiting for him to stop typing so that you could ask for it again.
It wasn't like he didn't understand you, he just didn't think it was a good idea. Then instead of either accepting that and giving up, or trying to persuade him, you simply repeated that you'd like to have it, as if you thought he somehow hadn't heard you in the first place.
i think this new apple.slashdot.org site is a bad idea
I like it. It doesn't mean that no Apple stories appear on the main page - some of them still do, and probably just as many as appeared before. It just means that we also get those stories that don't merit the main page.
IMO, there are two types of people who trade tv shows:
There's a third: People who live in countries where the prime-time shows are unavailable. In Costa Rica, for instance, the US networks are available on cable except for the prime-time hours, during which those channels are blocked.
The owener took risks to get there. The owner invested time learning how to do it. The owener persevered through failure after failure. The guy digging the ditches took no risks. He did not spend the time educating himself. He simply shows up and lifts dirt, then goes home at the end of the day, grumbling about his sorry lot in life.
I would think the readers of slashdot would appreciate the difference more than most. Remember back in high school when you were busting your ass learning stuff while other kids slacked off and ostracized you for doing it? Well those same guys are the ones now busting their asses trying to keep their pickup truck from being repossesed, all the while not having the skills to understand what's wrong with paying 21% interest on their credit card debt.
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I hope Seven-Eleven gets these readers. Maybe it would speed up all those bonehads desperately buying lottery tickets. Heck, they could even stick 'em in a corner with slot machine levers with readers next to them, so that their watches wave by as they pull. That way I could get my twinkies faster.
I'm not being sarcastic, I'm really asking.
Sometimes it's not so easy to extricate yourself. When they're flipping over your car you can't just say "Excuse me! I was going to use that!"
You can't do squat if there's no friction. Skating requires lots of it. There are only two things you can do: add something that increases the available friction (like sand or sawdust), or penetrate to the surface below (such as using spiked shoes on grass.)
Modulo this little piece o' paper, of course.
That's pretty funny. The mental image it conjurs seems like a panel from a Far Side cartoon.
So then you're saying that the only reason that doesn't happen now is because the people can run away?
Well, it's one thing to see people forcibly driven back, it's another to see them falling like fools all over each other.
It wasn't like he didn't understand you, he just didn't think it was a good idea. Then instead of either accepting that and giving up, or trying to persuade him, you simply repeated that you'd like to have it, as if you thought he somehow hadn't heard you in the first place.
I had no idea what the title meant, but I thought maybe they'd picked up a couple of volumes of some strange encyclopedia.
Sheesh, uh, buddy - it's a metaphor. Or did you go through all that just to get in your pun?
The other way ("I could care less") isn't wrong, it's sarcastic.
I like it. It doesn't mean that no Apple stories appear on the main page - some of them still do, and probably just as many as appeared before. It just means that we also get those stories that don't merit the main page.
You misspelled "want." Or do you mean to imply that Unix detects the keyboard layout and refuses to function if the control key is not in its place?
Or I could just introduce you to my uncle Fred.
No no no. When he wrote "he received very little renumeration" he meant they wouldn't change the numbers.
From the people who brought you gunpowder.
It'd have to actually relay individual emails, but once they cross a certain threshold it goes into anti-spam mode.
There's a third: People who live in countries where the prime-time shows are unavailable. In Costa Rica, for instance, the US networks are available on cable except for the prime-time hours, during which those channels are blocked.
Thanks for the link. Lots of good articles there. The URL as posted doesn't quite work, so here's a cleaned-up version.
Well, you've run rings around me with your powerful logic.
The owener took risks to get there. The owner invested time learning how to do it. The owener persevered through failure after failure.
The guy digging the ditches took no risks. He did not spend the time educating himself. He simply shows up and lifts dirt, then goes home at the end of the day, grumbling about his sorry lot in life.
I would think the readers of slashdot would appreciate the difference more than most. Remember back in high school when you were busting your ass learning stuff while other kids slacked off and ostracized you for doing it? Well those same guys are the ones now busting their asses trying to keep their pickup truck from being repossesed, all the while not having the skills to understand what's wrong with paying 21% interest on their credit card debt.
Well pasted is more like it. Which part did you think was well done - the properly constructed sentences or the broad, unsupported claims?
If you're going to go to the trouble of saying "one" instead of "you," why then get lazy and say "they?"
There's no point in building extra churches, either.