The Laser Scaling and Measurement Device for Photographic Images (LSMDPI) was designed to provide a non-intrusive means of adding a scale to a photograph, which is very useful when looking at an object in space when there is no size reference.
It is often at this point in a product's review, when the hype has been carefully peeled away from the packaging, the box has been delicately opened, and the packing materials have been placed in neat piles and sorted according to color or specific gravity or biodegradability, that there is a moment of panic and surreal confusion as realization dawns: the box is empty, and we are left with nothing but ribbon and tinsel and wrapping paper.
I usually try to make something from the ribbon and tinsel and round things up with a few paragraphs about the pretty, pretty paper.
I know we've always been a representative democracy, but if we can't have transparency to the voters, it's really just a dictatorship by whomever presents the cleanest TV image.
Exactly. If our government doesn't obey it's own laws, we're already in a state of tyranny (albeit a tyranny of rotating tyrants: today Congress, tomorrow the Supreme Court, the next day the President)
Give the questioner the benefit of the doubt and expect that obvious solutions have been tried.
When it comes to computer problems, if I were to count all the times that giving someone the benefit of the doubt has helped solve the problem, I'd still have all of my fingers left. Nowadays, when someone comes to me with a computer question, I like to go back to the very beginning (whether it's a configuration file, or a system install, or whatever) and work from there. Nine times out of ten, the solution is simple and just got overlooked in all the comlpexity.
"Mystery Explosion" only 440 million light-years away. Take exit Alpha Gamma 12, Just past Blorgon 7.
If this makes no sense to you, then you have never lived or spent any significant amount of time in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. You poor, poor troll. Go home and kiss your children.
I don't know. If you lose enough money, you get replaced. At some point, someone will get put in charge who has a new sort of vision for content distribution.
This will only change when the majority of consumers stop respond to these kind of actions with the expected, "Thank you sir, may I please have another."
If HD fails in the marketplace, and I mean utterly fails , the MPAA might start to get the idea.
Diceman! Making copies! Writing reviews of the Lapinator and the Mousitizer. DiceMan-arino! trying out the laptops. cheking for heat-resistance. Laptop-a-ding-dong. Sham-a-lamma-Thinsulate-amma. Alright. good review.
Ironically, it is reported that prior to the raid, Swiss authorities had called Razorback2 and requested certain information. The raid was prompted only when they received a response in the form of:
Information requested. You are number 563432 in the queue. Please wait...
I'm torn between whether this is kind of cool or the stupidest thing ever. The image of a family gathered around the cofee table playing games is located in the part of my brain where I keep things like the Brady Bunch (Marcia, Marcia, Marcia), so I just don't see that taking off (maybe a commercial showing small children and their robot nannies playing games...?)
At the same time, the idea seems kind of cool as I think some interesting applications could be developed for such a device. Think interactive TV/movie trivia, centrally-located, non-tacky looking, digital-music interface, etc...
Not really. The point of his quotes was that it matters what people write on and with (and his point was that no, it doesn't), which was clearly a different argument than was being made in the article. Even pointing out a general lack of decline up through the 1950s is also irrelevant as the article placed a heavy significance upon technological changes, instant messaging, etc.
My point, was that the only way he could have made a point with such a series of quotes, was to show a decline (which would support that the decline was independent of the technological changes lamented in the article).
Accuracy of the quotes aside, you'd have made a much more interesting and relevant point had the progression gone more like this.
"Students today can't prepare bark to calculate their problems.
They depend upon their slates which are more expensive. What will they do
when their slate is dropped and it breaks? They will be unable to write!"
-Teacher's Conference, 1790
"Students today use too much paper too much. They don't know how
to write on slate without getting all dusty. They can't clean a slate.
What will they do when they all run all out of paper?"
-Principal's Association, 1815
"Students are loosing their mind. They don't know how to do the things
that get them ink. When they run out of ink they will be unable to write
all those curly letters and cute numbers until they're next trip to the
place with shops and stores. I am crying."
-The Rural Amercan Teecher, 1929
"Students 2day use spensive pens. They like, what the heck is a strait
pin and nib(?) (dont' get me started on quills). They need to stop riting
and facus on sports and singing so they can be rich."
-PTA Paper,1941
"Pens ruin teachy-smarts in US. Kids use pens. Throw pens away.
Good US goodness, not waste, gone. Shop-shop and save-save all gone.
Me eat pens. Pens good food, not write-write."
-a cave, 1950
The quotes above are real, btw, I got them using my time machine (thanks John T.), a Britney Spears album which I dropped off in the early 1800's, and Google Talk, so please no comments to the effect that I made these up. That kind of thing hurts. Seriously. Ouch.
There was this one time, when I was ten, I was hiding in the hall and I heard my mom and dad talking about my birthday present. That was pretty cool.
Then there was this time in high school when I hid in the principal closet and hoped to hear something interesting, like him having a secret affair or him reading the final exams out loud for fun or something, but he just made a phone call to his doctor and passed gas a few times.
Then there was this time I was in a Jefferies tube with Seven of Nine, and we were listening to the Cardassians who had taken over our ship, but I'm pretty sure that was just a dream.
There was some other stuff, but I don't remember most of it.
Hopefully, no one else had the same initial reaction that I had, namely: "Man, I hope the title doesn't perform double-duty as a description of the authors..."
15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; 16 Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction,
[Starscream holds a press conference] Ummmm, yes... we were hoping no one would notice, but it's the fricking Insecticons gathering Energon for Megatron... Again. Microsoft only got involved because they own the North American rights to all acts of evil.
In other news, according to Gordon Shumway,Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University, Iran may be converting to Judaism. Not convinced yet? Then read on. "It's true," says Shumway. Convinced now? Fine, be stubborn. Shumway went on to make four observations. The first was that Iran has tried to convert the world to Islam and failed. The seconds was that some other stuff happened. The third was blowing people up was designed to get people to convert and this didn't happen. And of course, that Arabs have switched to the Gaza Strip.
Though these points aren't a slam-dunk for Shumway's thesis, other observations support it. The theory explains several odd occurrences, including Iran's freak-out and violent reaction over cartoons featuring Mohammed that ran in newspapers around the world. Like, who cares? But if Islam's saber-rattling was done to scare the world-community into backing off so it wouldn't discover the "Abraham" stratagem, then the incident makes more sense.
"Huh-uh," you say? Well, try this on for size. "Uh-huh," says Shumway?
Slashdot Mirror
You should check out the Constitution Party. He're a link to their platform document
The Laser Scaling and Measurement Device for Photographic Images (LSMDPI) was designed to provide a non-intrusive means of adding a scale to a photograph, which is very useful when looking at an object in space when there is no size reference.
I can just see the new spam now:
Want your equipment to look bigger from space?
try SeeAlice today...
I personally, use Comet, but only because it has a cool song
Oh, that Ajax.
Nevermind...
They take apart the marketing hype
It is often at this point in a product's review, when the hype has been carefully peeled away from the packaging, the box has been delicately opened, and the packing materials have been placed in neat piles and sorted according to color or specific gravity or biodegradability, that there is a moment of panic and surreal confusion as realization dawns: the box is empty, and we are left with nothing but ribbon and tinsel and wrapping paper.
I usually try to make something from the ribbon and tinsel and round things up with a few paragraphs about the pretty, pretty paper.
I know we've always been a representative democracy, but if we can't have transparency to the voters, it's really just a dictatorship by whomever presents the cleanest TV image.
Exactly. If our government doesn't obey it's own laws, we're already in a state of tyranny (albeit a tyranny of rotating tyrants: today Congress, tomorrow the Supreme Court, the next day the President)
Give the questioner the benefit of the doubt and expect that obvious solutions have been tried.
When it comes to computer problems, if I were to count all the times that giving someone the benefit of the doubt has helped solve the problem, I'd still have all of my fingers left. Nowadays, when someone comes to me with a computer question, I like to go back to the very beginning (whether it's a configuration file, or a system install, or whatever) and work from there. Nine times out of ten, the solution is simple and just got overlooked in all the comlpexity.
Computer 'Worms' Turn on Macs
Worst. Switch Ad. Ever.
And, somewhere in the UP, between Watersmeet and Marquette a billboard has silently been erected along US2 that reads:
"Mystery Explosion" only 440 million light-years away. Take exit Alpha Gamma 12, Just past Blorgon 7.
If this makes no sense to you, then you have never lived or spent any significant amount of time in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. You poor, poor troll. Go home and kiss your children.
I don't know. If you lose enough money, you get replaced. At some point, someone will get put in charge who has a new sort of vision for content distribution.
HD DVD to Screw Early HDTV Adopters
This will only change when the majority of consumers stop respond to these kind of actions with the expected, "Thank you sir, may I please have another."
If HD fails in the marketplace, and I mean utterly fails , the MPAA might start to get the idea.
including a case of one voting machine being 'powered down 128 times during the election'
Though this was later revealed to be due to the fact that this particular voting machine ran Windows Millennium Edition as its OS.
Did Bloody Stupid Johnson have anything to do with this? If so, it sounds an awful lot like he used a few lessons he learned from his work on the Post Office Mail Sorter and the New Pie
Three and a bit. You gotta have it.
Diceman! Making copies! Writing reviews of the Lapinator and the Mousitizer. DiceMan-arino! trying out the laptops. cheking for heat-resistance. Laptop-a-ding-dong. Sham-a-lamma-Thinsulate-amma. Alright. good review.
Ironically, it is reported that prior to the raid, Swiss authorities had called Razorback2 and requested certain information. The raid was prompted only when they received a response in the form of:
Information requested. You are number 563432 in the queue. Please wait...
I'm not sure what rock you have been living under
It's a rock in the US.
I'm torn between whether this is kind of cool or the stupidest thing ever. The image of a family gathered around the cofee table playing games is located in the part of my brain where I keep things like the Brady Bunch (Marcia, Marcia, Marcia), so I just don't see that taking off (maybe a commercial showing small children and their robot nannies playing games...?)
At the same time, the idea seems kind of cool as I think some interesting applications could be developed for such a device. Think interactive TV/movie trivia, centrally-located, non-tacky looking, digital-music interface, etc...
Anyway, I'm gonna go watch the Partridge Family.
Not really. The point of his quotes was that it matters what people write on and with (and his point was that no, it doesn't), which was clearly a different argument than was being made in the article. Even pointing out a general lack of decline up through the 1950s is also irrelevant as the article placed a heavy significance upon technological changes, instant messaging, etc.
My point, was that the only way he could have made a point with such a series of quotes, was to show a decline (which would support that the decline was independent of the technological changes lamented in the article).
Accuracy of the quotes aside, you'd have made a much more interesting and relevant point had the progression gone more like this.
"Students today can't prepare bark to calculate their problems.
They depend upon their slates which are more expensive. What will they do
when their slate is dropped and it breaks? They will be unable to write!"
-Teacher's Conference, 1790
"Students today use too much paper too much. They don't know how
to write on slate without getting all dusty. They can't clean a slate.
What will they do when they all run all out of paper?"
-Principal's Association, 1815
"Students are loosing their mind. They don't know how to do the things
that get them ink. When they run out of ink they will be unable to write
all those curly letters and cute numbers until they're next trip to the
place with shops and stores. I am crying."
-The Rural Amercan Teecher, 1929
"Students 2day use spensive pens. They like, what the heck is a strait
pin and nib(?) (dont' get me started on quills). They need to stop riting
and facus on sports and singing so they can be rich."
-PTA Paper,1941
"Pens ruin teachy-smarts in US. Kids use pens. Throw pens away.
Good US goodness, not waste, gone. Shop-shop and save-save all gone.
Me eat pens. Pens good food, not write-write."
-a cave, 1950
The quotes above are real, btw, I got them using my time machine (thanks John T.), a Britney Spears album which I dropped off in the early 1800's, and Google Talk, so please no comments to the effect that I made these up. That kind of thing hurts. Seriously. Ouch.
Domestic Spying Records Ordered Released
Domestic spying... ok.
There was this one time, when I was ten, I was hiding in the hall and I heard my mom and dad talking about my birthday present. That was pretty cool.
Then there was this time in high school when I hid in the principal closet and hoped to hear something interesting, like him having a secret affair or him reading the final exams out loud for fun or something, but he just made a phone call to his doctor and passed gas a few times.
Then there was this time I was in a Jefferies tube with Seven of Nine, and we were listening to the Cardassians who had taken over our ship, but I'm pretty sure that was just a dream.
There was some other stuff, but I don't remember most of it.
At last, a google repository that won't be dominated by porn and blog results*...
unless you count Google News, Froogle, Maps, Catalogs, and a few others... but really, who's counting!!!
Linux Multimedia Hacks
Hopefully, no one else had the same initial reaction that I had, namely:
"Man, I hope the title doesn't perform double-duty as a description of the authors..."
Job 33:15-16
15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;
16 Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction,
My ATI gives BS and my HDCP card is DOA. HDML is MIA and I am PO'd and SOL.
CRAP
Core Duo Power Sapping Bug
[Starscream holds a press conference]
Ummmm, yes... we were hoping no one would notice, but it's the fricking Insecticons gathering Energon for Megatron... Again. Microsoft only got involved because they own the North American rights to all acts of evil.
In other news, according to Gordon Shumway,Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University, Iran may be converting to Judaism. Not convinced yet? Then read on. "It's true," says Shumway. Convinced now? Fine, be stubborn. Shumway went on to make four observations. The first was that Iran has tried to convert the world to Islam and failed. The seconds was that some other stuff happened. The third was blowing people up was designed to get people to convert and this didn't happen. And of course, that Arabs have switched to the Gaza Strip.
Though these points aren't a slam-dunk for Shumway's thesis, other observations support it. The theory explains several odd occurrences, including Iran's freak-out and violent reaction over cartoons featuring Mohammed that ran in newspapers around the world. Like, who cares? But if Islam's saber-rattling was done to scare the world-community into backing off so it wouldn't discover the "Abraham" stratagem, then the incident makes more sense.
"Huh-uh," you say? Well, try this on for size. "Uh-huh," says Shumway?
Convinced now?