That OEM copy of 'doze 2k you filched from work for your girlfriend's laptop really *hurts* those poor, poor, Redmond urchins that have to spend sweatshop-centuries at industrial keyboards. How could you be so immoral?
I think the deaths have to do with a corporation that has a twenty-year-old pile of PCB transformers rotting in the middle of the Boston harbour, and has surreptitiously genetically engineered a bacteria that converts PCBs to salt water.
Either that, or I've been reading too much Neal Stephenson again.
There are statistical problems with the study you linked to. The results are far, far too crude to be useful.
Consider:
* Is the effect of cigarette smoking linear with the number of cigarettes consumed? (No)
* Given some randomly chosen x ( as in the study), does the 'average amount' of life deducted by x cigarettes tell us much about what will happen to a given smoker? Not without including the standard deviation, it won't.
This, like the above article, is an example of scaremongering for no good reason. People already *know* this stuff is bad for them; but media-savvy scientists have apparently discovered the extent to which the news is 'interrupt-driven', and therefore look around for "shocking new finds" or "novel interpetations" to fire off another round of warnings. Geez, scientists! Just buy a senator, like everyone else!
According to the article, this phenomenon not limited to fried food. *All* heated high-carb/aliments/ --- eg, the staple foods of pretty much every industrialised society --- are now ostensibly Bad Food. So don't eat that sandwich; shun that rice: Death lives in every bite!
Me? I'm just glad that I only eat deep-fried pork giblets. Mmm. Healthy *and* refreshing! Beefcake! BEEFCAKE!
This safety issue is the primary drawback to using an unprepared fiberglass head....Some things to consider when choosing a head are that the space behind the eye openings has enough room for the moving Eye-Bracket.
Geez, yeah! I went into an exam the other day with a completely unprepared fibreglass head. Or at least, all that late-night vodka sure made it feel like fibreglass! There was certainly no space behind the eye openings for any sort of ocular movment --- just reading the assignment was painful. Do you know where I could buy a pre-prepared head of the correct proportions? I didn't even know they were detatchable! Dammit I should never have slept so much during first-year bio.....
Don't forget canada either, i'm sure with the new tariff's imposed on recordable media, MP3 ripping will get even more popular over there than ever before.
Oh god, yes. The levies (legally speaking, levy != tariff) on CDs have been bad here for quite some time, but they're set to get draconian. I think someone in the federal cabinet is in the pay of Maxtor.;) The 'burning culture' in canada isn't half as entrenched as the ripping culture; burning is only done for friends who don't have computers (or, more usually, don't have computers that connect to their stereo system).
On another note, I think the music industry's ability to magically 'forget' about the existence and popularity of analog cassette tapes, and their relative failure to cause IP armageddon, should be more widely advertised by our side.
Well, it wouldn't be so expensive/ridiculous if we *teleported* the equipment into orbit.
Of course, teleportation would make acheiving orbit so easy that you'd need a special flying guard of cyborg-modified hoplites, with rockets in their feet and 'ion swords' for close battle with the enemies of democracy and markets and the free world's infinite supply of energy, but hey, that's what science is for, right?
What, does the KVM in question activated with thumbs rather than forefingers? Or has it merely been
irradiated?
Geez, this word is getting bandied about by/. in a lot of inappropriate contexts lately. Now certainly, some allowance should be made for metaphor and analogy, but as it stands I think the eds. are simply attempting to juice up coverage with pseudo-science verbiage.What's next? Bodybuilders "resequencing" their cells with exercise? Companies 'telepathically manipulating' employees with cell phones?
Perhaps it isn't so much a matter of mutation as chlorine in the slashdot gene pool.
What protocol do the old NeXT cubes use for UI peripherals? I picked up a petite, sexy, never-used NeXT keyboard at my university's 'slough-sale' for about $10CD (about $0.2 american, I'm sure). But I haven't been able to get it to work 'out of the box' with PS/2 ports (it has a mini-DIN 5 connector). Is it ADB? Or do I have to reverse-engineer the protocol myself?
I think we're going to witness the developmental evolution of KDE application naming.
Simply prefixing the program with the letter 'k' is not enough, as those lamers developers over at Gnome can simply take the same program, s/qt/gtk+/g, and s/^k/g/g. How's a KDE developer to cope?
Here's an idea: Give all KDE apps girl's names. We have Kate; now all we need is Kim, Kamilla, Katherine, Kookie, Koko, Kitty, and so forth.
Gnome will no longer be able to follow. Aside from 'gertrude', there aren't that many female names beginning with the letter G. And in any case, what are they going to call 'gnome-kate'? Gate? Gkate? Gnate?
Mwahaha! Now all we need is a non-crashing build of KDE3.0, and we shall rule the world!
Really. I had the opposite reaction; I found that article to be precisely the sort of maudlin self-contradictory guck that makes me question my staunch (medium-far) leftist politics.
The article runs: Scientists are chatting up the elders of this ancient people to better understand how warm weather is destroying 2500 years of tradition; but, wait, at least on the Siberian side of things, the Soviets got there first, and all the elders that actually knew anything about hunting are all dead; the current batch has only been going at this hunting thing since the death of the Soviet Union; oh, and a few centuries back the Artic was waaay warmer than it was until recently, and the climate swing killed a bunch of guys then, too; but it's all really sad and stuff that more scientists aren't willing to forsake their precious 'facts and figures' to really *talk* to these wonderful, hardy, precious little men and women.
*Bleech*. Yet another make-work puff-piece assignment for a journalist who apparently knows that any contradiction can make sense if you tart it up in the right sort of narrative.
I could go on. However, I'll close with one final question: Why in God's name do Americans still refer to the Inuit as 'Eskimos'? It shows all the social sensitivity of 'negro' or 'indian'.
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There's a worse problem. As there are obviously lots of universes trivially different from our own, there is the possibility --- nay, extreme probability --- that two people will attempt to slide to exactly the same spot.
I don't want to be in the general viscinity when that happens.
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Great. I can just imagine us creating 'landfill timelines' for all of our useless crap.
This is akin to shipping all our garbage to a foreign country. Just because we can't talk with those guys over at [insert 11-tuple coordinate] doesn't mean that they aren't people (or, perhaps, intelligent dinosaur-evolved cyborg-bipeds) too!
...passes the Porn Test (as developed by some fellow Slashdotter whose handle I forget).
Basically, the Porn Test says that unless a communications technology helps the dissemination of porn, it will fail. The applications of 3DTV to the adult entertainment industry are obvious, so the technology is bound to succeed.HDTV on the other hand (for instance) is much less useful, as most porn-watchers are too (ahem) busy to notice the higher resolution. So hold off with the $ until you see 3DTVs in Future Shop.
"Junior! Stop trying to fondle the Wonderbra commercial!"
Mr. Warwick has just undergone his most extensive and painful 'cyber-surgery' to date. After a gruelling twenty-hour operation, cutting-edge 'cyber-medicine' has managed to give Warwick a prosthetic clue. The electronic 'micro-chip' helps regulate Warwick's desperate appetite for publicity. Scientists hope that one day, clueless people everywhere will be able to benefit from this technology, including such celebrities as George Bush and the Church of Scientology.
Here we go again. More, better ways of starting a nuclear war without the inconvenience of an obvious M.A.D-type scenario to dissuade crackpot presidents and dictators, at home or abroad. As if already being able to drop hundreds of megatonnes of death wasn't enough!
I'd like to give all the scientists and engineers involved directly involved with this project a big 'fuck you'.
...but have they managed to explain why French sounds sexy to Americans, whilst Canadians find Spanish more erotic, and both can think of naught but canned pasta in tomato sauce when they hear Italian?
Romance languages: Especially meaningful to anglos that don't speak them.(tm)
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That OEM copy of 'doze 2k you filched from work for your girlfriend's laptop really *hurts* those poor, poor, Redmond urchins that have to spend sweatshop-centuries at industrial keyboards. How could you be so immoral?
I think the deaths have to do with a corporation that has a twenty-year-old pile of PCB transformers rotting in the middle of the Boston harbour, and has surreptitiously genetically engineered a bacteria that converts PCBs to salt water.
Either that, or I've been reading too much Neal Stephenson again.
There are statistical problems with the study you linked to. The results are far, far too crude to be useful.
Consider:
* Is the effect of cigarette smoking linear with the number of cigarettes consumed? (No)
* Given some randomly chosen x ( as in the study), does the 'average amount' of life deducted by x cigarettes tell us much about what will happen to a given smoker? Not without including the standard deviation, it won't.
This, like the above article, is an example of scaremongering for no good reason.
People already *know* this stuff is bad for them; but media-savvy scientists have apparently discovered the extent to which the news is 'interrupt-driven', and therefore look around for "shocking new finds" or "novel interpetations" to fire off another round of warnings. Geez, scientists! Just buy a senator, like everyone else!
According to the article, this phenomenon not limited to fried food. *All* heated high-carb /aliments/ --- eg, the staple foods of pretty much every industrialised society --- are now ostensibly Bad Food. So don't eat that sandwich; shun that rice: Death lives in every bite!
Me? I'm just glad that I only eat deep-fried pork giblets. Mmm. Healthy *and* refreshing! Beefcake! BEEFCAKE!
This safety issue is the primary drawback to using an unprepared fiberglass head....Some things to consider when choosing a head are that the space behind the eye openings has enough room for the moving Eye-Bracket.
Geez, yeah! I went into an exam the other day with a completely unprepared fibreglass head. Or at least, all that late-night vodka sure made it feel like fibreglass! There was certainly no space behind the eye openings for any sort of ocular movment --- just reading the assignment was painful. Do you know where I could buy a pre-prepared head of the correct proportions? I didn't even know they were detatchable! Dammit I should never have slept so much during first-year bio.....
Oh god, yes. The levies (legally speaking, levy != tariff) on CDs have been bad here for quite some time, but they're set to get draconian. I think someone in the federal cabinet is in the pay of Maxtor.
On another note, I think the music industry's ability to magically 'forget' about the existence and popularity of analog cassette tapes, and their relative failure to cause IP armageddon, should be more widely advertised by our side.
Well, it wouldn't be so expensive/ridiculous if we *teleported* the equipment into orbit.
Of course, teleportation would make acheiving orbit so easy that you'd need a special flying guard of cyborg-modified hoplites, with rockets in their feet and 'ion swords' for close battle with the enemies of democracy and markets and the free world's infinite supply of energy, but hey, that's what science is for, right?
Geez, this word is getting bandied about by /. in a lot of inappropriate contexts lately. Now certainly, some allowance should be made for metaphor and analogy, but as it stands I think the eds. are simply attempting to juice up coverage with pseudo-science verbiage.What's next? Bodybuilders "resequencing" their cells with exercise? Companies 'telepathically manipulating' employees with cell phones?
Perhaps it isn't so much a matter of mutation as chlorine in the slashdot gene pool.
What protocol do the old NeXT cubes use for UI peripherals? I picked up a petite, sexy, never-used NeXT keyboard at my university's 'slough-sale' for about $10CD (about $0.2 american, I'm sure). But I haven't been able to get it to work 'out of the box' with PS/2 ports (it has a mini-DIN 5 connector). Is it ADB? Or do I have to reverse-engineer the protocol myself?
I think we're going to witness the developmental evolution of KDE application naming.
Simply prefixing the program with the letter 'k' is not enough, as those lamers developers over at Gnome can simply take the same program, s/qt/gtk+/g, and s/^k/g/g. How's a KDE developer to cope?
Here's an idea: Give all KDE apps girl's names. We have Kate; now all we need is Kim, Kamilla, Katherine, Kookie, Koko, Kitty, and so forth.
Gnome will no longer be able to follow. Aside from 'gertrude', there aren't that many female names beginning with the letter G. And in any case, what are they going to call 'gnome-kate'? Gate? Gkate? Gnate?
Mwahaha! Now all we need is a non-crashing build of KDE3.0, and we shall rule the world!
Really. I had the opposite reaction; I found that article to be precisely the sort of maudlin self-contradictory guck that makes me question my staunch (medium-far) leftist politics.
The article runs: Scientists are chatting up the elders of this ancient people to better understand how warm weather is destroying 2500 years of tradition; but, wait, at least on the Siberian side of things, the Soviets got there first, and all the elders that actually knew anything about hunting are all dead; the current batch has only been going at this hunting thing since the death of the Soviet Union; oh, and a few centuries back the Artic was waaay warmer than it was until recently, and the climate swing killed a bunch of guys then, too; but it's all really sad and stuff that more scientists aren't willing to forsake their precious 'facts and figures' to really *talk* to these wonderful, hardy, precious little men and women.
*Bleech*. Yet another make-work puff-piece assignment for a journalist who apparently knows that any contradiction can make sense if you tart it up in the right sort of narrative.
I could go on. However, I'll close with one final question: Why in God's name do Americans still refer to the Inuit as 'Eskimos'? It shows all the social sensitivity of 'negro' or 'indian'.
There's a worse problem. As there are obviously lots of universes trivially different from our own, there is the possibility --- nay, extreme probability --- that two people will attempt to slide to exactly the same spot.
I don't want to be in the general viscinity when that happens.
Great. I can just imagine us creating 'landfill timelines' for all of our useless crap.
This is akin to shipping all our garbage to a foreign country. Just because we can't talk with those guys over at [insert 11-tuple coordinate] doesn't mean that they aren't people (or, perhaps, intelligent dinosaur-evolved cyborg-bipeds) too!
...passes the Porn Test (as developed by some fellow Slashdotter whose handle I forget).
Basically, the Porn Test says that unless a communications technology helps the dissemination of porn, it will fail. The applications of 3DTV to the adult entertainment industry are obvious, so the technology is bound to succeed.HDTV on the other hand (for instance) is much less useful, as most porn-watchers are too (ahem) busy to notice the higher resolution. So hold off with the $ until you see 3DTVs in Future Shop.
"Junior! Stop trying to fondle the Wonderbra commercial!"
And Gibson *isn't* a pompous buffoon?
If I have to hear his childhood described as 'southern gothic' one more time, I'm going to claim the title for *myself*, dammit.
Mr. Warwick has just undergone his most extensive and painful 'cyber-surgery' to date. After a gruelling twenty-hour operation, cutting-edge 'cyber-medicine' has managed to give Warwick a prosthetic clue.
The electronic 'micro-chip' helps regulate Warwick's desperate appetite for publicity. Scientists hope that one day, clueless people everywhere will be able to benefit from this technology, including such celebrities as George Bush and the Church of Scientology.
...other members of the jury selected from you address book.
Here we go again. More, better ways of starting a nuclear war without the inconvenience of an obvious M.A.D-type scenario to dissuade crackpot presidents and dictators, at home or abroad. As if already being able to drop hundreds of megatonnes of death wasn't enough!
I'd like to give all the scientists and engineers involved directly involved with this project a big 'fuck you'.
Sigh....
What? You don't like modes?
Must be a goddamned Emacs weenie....
o/~ Do you want to see
Britannia rule the world
Again? My friends?
Follow the wombs! o/~
(The o/~ are music notes. Apologies to Pink Floyd.)
Sure, it's harmless to *boot* Aqua. But God help you if you attempt to install iTunes.....
My coffee cup is clearly fused to the Ikea bookshelf beside my computer.
Trust those Nordic types to always be one step ahead! Next they're going to be inventing, like, operating systems, or something, on their tabletops!
No, use x-rays!
I have the *perfect* name for the intensive, open-air six-month live-in training programme....
Goddammit! If Europe gets the SSSCA, my plans to become an irresistably chic Espresso-sipping Parisian nouveau hacker are dashed.
Looks like I'm moving to Sealand. They better have a whole lotta instant, that's all I can say.....
...but have they managed to explain why French sounds sexy to Americans, whilst Canadians find Spanish more erotic, and both can think of naught but canned pasta in tomato sauce when they hear Italian?
Romance languages: Especially meaningful to anglos that don't speak them.(tm)