> If you take them to their logical conclusion, then my sperm and some random woman's eggs are a potential child so (to keep from sinning), I need to have sex with every woman I come across.
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
I find it interesting that the Apple reality distortion field works outwardly on others, while the Microsoft reality distortion field works inwardly on themselves.
I had a similar experience when I was at N.E.C. We were showing off one of our fully redundant servers to some execs from a Wall St. firm (I won't name them, but they are still in business, but with a merger). While my manager was talking about how fail-safe the server is one of the execs walked around behind the rack and just jammed his pen through the fan in the back to see what would happen. Luckily back-up fans spun up and everything was fine, but there were a lot of sweaty foreheads in the room...
> Isaac Newton published many of the founding principles of physics aged 17 and heÂd already written a great deal before that, even before he was 15 in fact.
Isaac Newton was born in 1643. Newton developed the generalized binomial theorem, his first work, in 1665 when he was 22 years old but didn't publish any of it for many years. He published his most important and famous work, the "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica" in 1687 when he was 44 years old.
Now that I am getting older my hearing is starting to go. I am re-encoding my MP3 collection downward from 192K to 64K. I should save a lot of disk space, and I can hardly hear the difference. Every ten years I will re-encode to shittier and shittier bitrates, until I'm blind, deaf and toothless. That's when I can just delete the whole collection!
> MP3s last a long time but not forever. I have copied my collection to a few different computers now and I have had to re-rip a lot of it. The songs started to sound wrong. They had pops and squeals and scratches that were not there before.
You are suffering from bit-rot. Your computer needs more voltage. Try attaching raw A/C power directly to your motherboard. That should give your bits the extra juice they need.
I hope you are not responsible for any important data.
"I have spent the past six minutes working on reading your joke, and while I can see some funny words, I just can't seem to sit down in front of the computer and finish reading the whole thing. I sit there and I just can't concentrate. I don't know whether this is akin to reader's block, but it feels like it. Have any other Slashdotters run into this and if so how did you get out of it? It is bothering me since the joke sounds like it might be funny and I really want to read it to the end. I have a sense of humor, if that makes a difference."
What I don't understand is why this guy is being prosecuted for pasting together a picture of Miley Cyrus on a nude body, when there is (was) an actual 20 year old adult HAVING SEX with her. Isn't that statuary rape? Oh... but they are rich and famous so it's ok?!
See what I did there? I made a sports joke. I made it sound like the sportsy things I've heard people say. I hope it's funny. I don't actually know anything about sports and I suspect many geeks on Slashdot don't either, unless it's RobotWars.
> the nearly inevitible $100K verdict will not be justice, even if it is legally correct.
The judge in this case has stated that he thinks the size of the penalty is excessive, but he is bound by the current laws. He has urged congress to fix this.
Congress replied "but the RIAA is buying us lots of great stuff" - ok, that last part isn't true... Congress didn't SAY that in public.
I remember how angry we all got at Canter and Siegel for their mass posting about some immigration service. Admins all over called them personally to explain how the Internet was for educational and military use and can never be used for commercial purposes.
> It's essentially a question of what do you trust most: a human being's ingenuity or a computer's infinitely faster access and reaction to information.
No, it's who do you trust most: a human pilot's ingenuity in reacting to a novel situation or a human programmer's foresight in accounting for every possible situation.
> When I was a kid, we used to catch wasps in tupperwares and release them into the lockers of kids that we didn't like. I wonder what the Solicitor General would think of that!
I remember you. I, and thousands of my tiny friends, are hunting you down. I will encase you in a clay cylinder and explain my terrible plan in intricate detail while my wasps prepare to sting you.
Thank you for supporting what I said. This is a controversial subject for a lot of people and I have literally put my childrens' future at stake taking an unconventional approach that I think will make them better, more competent, and happier people.
A friend of ours moved to a very expensive town nearby, got a bigger house, and switched their child from home schooling into one of the highest ranked public schools in the nation. In three months the child has become withdrawn and has lost much of her enthusiasm for learning.
> the answer is to form home schooling guilds where you trade kids around between rotating groups of three or four parents per class, and just stop using the public school system.
That's what we did. I started skeptical but the results have been fantastic. My kids sit in front of workbooks no more than 2 hours a day. The rest of the day they play with 10-20 other home schooled kids. Their play includes digging up clams, playing soccer, playing violin, making models, painting, sculpting, doing experiments, building things, writing stories, performing their stories, reciting poetry, and sometimes just doing whatever kids want to do without guidance.
I am jealous because *I* had to spend 12 years sitting in a tiny uncomfortable wooden chair while bad teachers droned on and on without enthusiasm about topics they were forced to cover by the administration. My "3rd grader" is doing 7th grade math and finds it fascinating. His group has performed plays in front of real audiences. He has played violin at Carnegie Hall (and has no idea how special that is).
What is he missing? He doesn't get teased for excelling at academics. He doesn't sit all day in one spot, come home and sit all evening in front of the TV. His friends don't have bad attitudes, don't curse at their parents (much), don't whine for the latest electronic gadget. There are no drugs in his "school". He has no idea who Hannah-Montana is.
I'm sure some replies will say he needs to deal with "real life", but what does school have to do with real life, unless you are preparing your kids for prison - the institution that most resembles school.
I let him wield a hammer, and get hurt sometimes. I listen to his opinion and it's often quite sound.
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> If you take them to their logical conclusion, then my sperm and some random woman's eggs are a potential child so (to keep from sinning), I need to have sex with every woman I come across.
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
I find it interesting that the Apple reality distortion field works outwardly on others, while the Microsoft reality distortion field works inwardly on themselves.
I had a similar experience when I was at N.E.C. We were showing off one of our fully redundant servers to some execs from a Wall St. firm (I won't name them, but they are still in business, but with a merger). While my manager was talking about how fail-safe the server is one of the execs walked around behind the rack and just jammed his pen through the fan in the back to see what would happen.
Luckily back-up fans spun up and everything was fine, but there were a lot of sweaty foreheads in the room...
> Isaac Newton published many of the founding principles of physics aged 17 and heÂd already written a great deal before that, even before he was 15 in fact.
Isaac Newton was born in 1643. Newton developed the generalized binomial theorem, his first work, in 1665 when he was 22 years old but didn't publish any of it for many years. He published his most important and famous work, the "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica" in 1687 when he was 44 years old.
Not 15 or 17.
In fact.
> At 30, you move on to Carousel.
Nice reference to Soylent Green there!
> At 30, you move on to Carousel.
Nice reference to Silent Running there!
> At 30, you move on to Carousel
Nice reference to Blade Runner there!
> Posted by timothy on Fri 10 Jul 01:41AM
> hard drives wiped of data come Friday.
NOW you tell me?!
Now that I am getting older my hearing is starting to go. I am re-encoding my MP3 collection downward from 192K to 64K. I should save a lot of disk space, and I can hardly hear the difference. Every ten years I will re-encode to shittier and shittier bitrates, until I'm blind, deaf and toothless. That's when I can just delete the whole collection!
> MP3s last a long time but not forever. I have copied my collection to a few different computers now and I have had to re-rip a lot of it. The songs started to sound wrong. They had pops and squeals and scratches that were not there before.
You are suffering from bit-rot. Your computer needs more voltage. Try attaching raw A/C power directly to your motherboard. That should give your bits the extra juice they need.
I hope you are not responsible for any important data.
I feel a great disturbance in the force, as if millions of hands are reaching for Big Macs...
"I have spent the past six minutes working on reading your joke, and while I can see some funny words, I just can't seem to sit down in front of the computer and finish reading the whole thing. I sit there and I just can't concentrate. I don't know whether this is akin to reader's block, but it feels like it. Have any other Slashdotters run into this and if so how did you get out of it? It is bothering me since the joke sounds like it might be funny and I really want to read it to the end. I have a sense of humor, if that makes a difference."
What I don't understand is why this guy is being prosecuted for pasting together a picture of Miley Cyrus on a nude body, when there is (was) an actual 20 year old adult HAVING SEX with her. Isn't that statuary rape? Oh... but they are rich and famous so it's ok?!
See what I did there? I made a sports joke. I made it sound like the sportsy things I've heard people say. I hope it's funny. I don't actually know anything about sports and I suspect many geeks on Slashdot don't either, unless it's RobotWars.
> Is a sports championship a positive or a negative? It can be either one or neither, but it can't be both!
It's a positive.
Unless it's the Red Sox.
> the nearly inevitible $100K verdict will not be justice, even if it is legally correct.
The judge in this case has stated that he thinks the size of the penalty is excessive, but he is bound by the current laws. He has urged congress to fix this.
Congress replied "but the RIAA is buying us lots of great stuff" - ok, that last part isn't true... Congress didn't SAY that in public.
I remember how angry we all got at Canter and Siegel for their mass posting about some immigration service.
Admins all over called them personally to explain how the Internet was for educational and military use and can never be used for commercial purposes.
> It's essentially a question of what do you trust most: a human being's ingenuity or a computer's infinitely faster access and reaction to information.
No, it's who do you trust most: a human pilot's ingenuity in reacting to a novel situation or a human programmer's foresight in accounting for every possible situation.
Dennis Miller, is that you?
String theorists don't make predictions, they make excuses. -Feynman
Come on people, CLEARLY the large long-necked dinosaurs kept their necks curled back and their heads resting on top of their backs.
Only on Slashdot is it helpful to explain how something works by pointing out it is similar to devices in the Pegasus galaxy.
> When I was a kid, we used to catch wasps in tupperwares and release them into the lockers of kids that we didn't like. I wonder what the Solicitor General would think of that!
I remember you. I, and thousands of my tiny friends, are hunting you down.
I will encase you in a clay cylinder and explain my terrible plan in intricate detail while my wasps prepare to sting you.
Thank you for supporting what I said. This is a controversial subject for a lot of people and I have literally put my childrens' future at stake taking an unconventional approach that I think will make them better, more competent, and happier people.
A friend of ours moved to a very expensive town nearby, got a bigger house, and switched their child from home schooling into one of the highest ranked public schools in the nation. In three months the child has become withdrawn and has lost much of her enthusiasm for learning.
> the answer is to form home schooling guilds where you trade kids around between rotating groups of three or four parents per class, and just stop using the public school system.
That's what we did. I started skeptical but the results have been fantastic.
My kids sit in front of workbooks no more than 2 hours a day. The rest of the day they play with 10-20 other home schooled kids. Their play includes digging up clams, playing soccer, playing violin, making models, painting, sculpting, doing experiments, building things, writing stories, performing their stories, reciting poetry, and sometimes just doing whatever kids want to do without guidance.
I am jealous because *I* had to spend 12 years sitting in a tiny uncomfortable wooden chair while bad teachers droned on and on without enthusiasm about topics they were forced to cover by the administration.
My "3rd grader" is doing 7th grade math and finds it fascinating. His group has performed plays in front of real audiences. He has played violin at Carnegie Hall (and has no idea how special that is).
What is he missing? He doesn't get teased for excelling at academics. He doesn't sit all day in one spot, come home and sit all evening in front of the TV. His friends don't have bad attitudes, don't curse at their parents (much), don't whine for the latest electronic gadget. There are no drugs in his "school". He has no idea who Hannah-Montana is.
I'm sure some replies will say he needs to deal with "real life", but what does school have to do with real life, unless you are preparing your kids for prison - the institution that most resembles school.
I let him wield a hammer, and get hurt sometimes. I listen to his opinion and it's often quite sound.