...A marketroid's wet dream of a slogan. Knocks the old "Coke Adds Life" ad campaign into the trashbin of history. Because if this stuff really works, then it's not just a stupid slogan, it's a fact! Think about it: Sleep devours on average a third of everybody's life. If you survive till ninety, you've only actually lived sixty years of it! If it really is as side-effect free as they say, then make no mistake, sooner or later it WILL take over the (industrialized) world. Coffee will be a storm in a teacup. ...But I won't hold my breath. Personally, I'd be very surprised if they didn't find some side effects. The question is, will they be severe enough to deter the PHBs?
I can only conclude this from my own experience and my friends'. I've NEVER installed Kazaa on my computer and I too have been infected by this "Brilliant" *gaghurl* virus.
OK, maybe 'virus' isn't a technically accurate description, but it sure covers the way I feel about this stinking lump of $#!+
I'm not the only one who's in this situation either: (never installed Kazaa, but has installed Morpheus).
You call that "thinking"? You snivelling little bigot, you don't know the meaning of the word. I know you're not black, because nobody who's black thinks of their own skin as a "curse".
"Instead, if each developer has a few small "pet features" that are in the "nice to have but unnecessary" category, that will go quite far in motivating people."
Ye gods! Now I've heard it all! That explains it. All the bloatware, all the bloody creeping featurism. I see the light! Features aren't there to actually be used, they're there to keep the programmers motivated! (as if salaries/bawls-on-tap/etc isn't enough!)
*gibber twitch*...Excuse me while I go beat myself over the head with the 1000 Gig drive you'll need to install the next version of Office.
"Just because some people want to redefine a word doesn't mean I have to buy into their "claptrap"."
Reality check. Language is not and has never been set in stone. The meanings of words are in a constant state of flux. Just because you don't like a definition doesn't mean it's not the case.
Just as an aside, swillden, are you an atheist/agnostic/disbeliever? I'd bet large sums the answer's no. How then can you claim to speak with any authority whatsoever on exactly what is and is not believed by other people?
And even if Mr Webster's particular definition, as opposed to, say, the OED, is taken to be the be-all and end-all (and there's no reason why it should), you're still wrong. Do explain exactly how "the belief that God's existence is not known." is the same thing as "the absence of a belief in the existence of deities".
Ack! I just found out I'm not as much of a geek as I thought I was. On my first glance at the header I did a doubletake and wondered what dastardly deeds the Boy Scouts of America were up to now!:)
Thank you, AC, for that ample demonstration that you have no understanding of the meaning of the scientific (as opposed to the general) meaning of the word "theory. (Hint for the terminally clueless: as used in science, "theory" is not and has never been a synonym for "guess".)
They don't think that "atheism" comes from the Greek prefix "a-" plus the Greek word "theos"???
News to me, sunshine, and I bet it's news to them too.
And if you think a god, any god, can be proven, then why don't you just step right up and try. If you had anything even vaguely resembling a clue about linguistics, theology or anything else for that matter, you'd know that the field of apologetics has been striving to come up with a conclusive, logical proof of the existence of a deity, any deity, way back to the origins of philosophy in Ancient Greece....And you know what? No-one's come up with a single argument that's completely logically coherent yet. No-one.
But, as they say, fools rush in. So go ahead, chfleming. Tell you what, I'll even cut you some slack. Start small. You don't even have to start off with this so-called "logical proof" of yours. Start by just providing the breathlessly waiting world with a definition of your god that is not logically incoherent.
"Naw, atheism is the belief in absence of deities."
Sorry to burst your bubble, AC, but you're wrong.
"The word itself could mean either, athe-ism or a-theism."
No. For your information, the word atheism is known to derive directly from the Greek word atheos, which in turn comes from the Greek prefix a- meaning "the absence of-" (c.f. apolitical, atheoretical) plus the Greek word theos meaning "god".
That's known as etymology. It's a fact. Now it's also a fact that there is no meaningful word or word fragment "athe", no matter how much you might like one to exist.
"Scientists extracting small bits of DNA from dinosaurs isn't fiction."
Oh really? And you heard this where, exactly? *sniff*sniff* I smell a crock!
Hey, point me to something printed in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, and I'll cheerfully chow down on a heaping helping of crow....But I'm not holding my breath.
"What about the geeks who can only bring kindness and attentiveness to the table" [...] To the young ladies of college, I say fuck you. Fuck you feminists who blame the actions of your abusive boyfriends on the kind geeks. Fuck you optimists who have never had to hit on a person in your life. Fuck all of you."
You'll pardon me if I'm underwhelmed by your display of *coughcough* "kindness".
All we want is the joy and happiness of a relationship that can instantly render meaningless the cobwebs of antisocial lonliness. We will never get it, because it is up to the girl to choose who she lets into her pants
How dare they! The nerve of those girls, actually daring to _choose_ who they have a relationship with! (Here's a free clue, Velex, these things amount to a hell of a lot more than "letting someone into your pants"!)
I _really_ don't think it's a general design flaw.
I've had a Dell Inspiron 7500 for about a year now, I open it up twice daily, and the hinges on mine are rock solid and still stiff enough to support that LCD screen (and it _is_ a honkin' huge screen) at any angle I want to place it.
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...Lembas, whose name is shorthand for "lemme bash the next person who comes up with a gratuitous Tolkien reference!"
:)
...A marketroid's wet dream of a slogan. Knocks the old "Coke Adds Life" ad campaign into the trashbin of history. Because if this stuff really works, then it's not just a stupid slogan, it's a fact!
Think about it: Sleep devours on average a third of everybody's life. If you survive till ninety, you've only actually lived sixty years of it! If it really is as side-effect free as they say, then make no mistake, sooner or later it WILL take over the (industrialized) world. Coffee will be a storm in a teacup.
...But I won't hold my breath. Personally, I'd be very surprised if they didn't find some side effects. The question is, will they be severe enough to deter the PHBs?
What utter bullshit! They didn't HAVE computer databases during WW2. Hell, depending on your definition, they barely had computers.
"Forever Amber" :)
I can only conclude this from my own experience and my friends'. I've NEVER installed Kazaa on my computer and I too have been infected by this "Brilliant" *gaghurl* virus.
OK, maybe 'virus' isn't a technically accurate description, but it sure covers the way I feel about this stinking lump of $#!+
I'm not the only one who's in this situation either: (never installed Kazaa, but has installed Morpheus).
"but now everyone sounds like Stephen Hawking"
;>
Hey, if everyone could rap like MC Hawking that'd be cool!
You call that "thinking"? You snivelling little bigot, you don't know the meaning of the word. I know you're not black, because nobody who's black thinks of their own skin as a "curse".
Now kindly FOAD.
"
Can't you feel the lurve? Thanks for showing your racist colors, you bigoted little worm.
Something old (CP/M)
:)
Something GNU,
Something borrowed (C#, from Java)
Something blue (IBM)
Best wishes flood from geeks to geeks,
Looks like this topic'll be going for weeks!
@>--,--`-- A rose for the bride
*Also throws punchcard chad confetti for added geekiness*
"Instead, if each developer has a few small "pet features" that are in the "nice to have but unnecessary" category, that will go quite far in motivating people."
...Excuse me while I go beat myself over the head with the 1000 Gig drive you'll need to install the next version of Office.
Ye gods! Now I've heard it all! That explains it. All the bloatware, all the bloody creeping featurism. I see the light! Features aren't there to actually be used, they're there to keep the programmers motivated! (as if salaries/bawls-on-tap/etc isn't enough!)
*gibber twitch*
"Just because some people want to redefine a word doesn't mean I have to buy into their "claptrap"."
Reality check. Language is not and has never been set in stone. The meanings of words are in a constant state of flux. Just because you don't like a definition doesn't mean it's not the case.
Just as an aside, swillden, are you an atheist/agnostic/disbeliever? I'd bet large sums the answer's no. How then can you claim to speak with any authority whatsoever on exactly what is and is not believed by other people?
And even if Mr Webster's particular definition, as opposed to, say, the OED, is taken to be the be-all and end-all (and there's no reason why it should), you're still wrong. Do explain exactly how "the belief that God's existence is not known." is the same thing as "the absence of a belief in the existence of deities".
"To me it seems natural to call it C-Hash, which I find funny for some reason."
;>
I like it! Two possibilities, both of which are sad/funny/true:
(1) It makes a hash out of C
(2) It sounds like "Cash", which of course is the real reason M$ came up with the language in the first place.
Ack! I just found out I'm not as much of a geek as I thought I was. On my first glance at the header I did a doubletake and wondered what dastardly deeds the Boy Scouts of America were up to now! :)
Thank you, AC, for that ample demonstration that you have no understanding of the meaning of the scientific (as opposed to the general) meaning of the word "theory. (Hint for the terminally clueless: as used in science, "theory" is not and has never been a synonym for "guess".)
They don't think that "atheism" comes from the Greek prefix "a-" plus the Greek word "theos"???
...And you know what? No-one's come up with a single argument that's completely logically coherent yet. No-one.
News to me, sunshine, and I bet it's news to them too.
And if you think a god, any god, can be proven, then why don't you just step right up and try. If you had anything even vaguely resembling a clue about linguistics, theology or anything else for that matter, you'd know that the field of apologetics has been striving to come up with a conclusive, logical proof of the existence of a deity, any deity, way back to the origins of philosophy in Ancient Greece.
But, as they say, fools rush in. So go ahead, chfleming. Tell you what, I'll even cut you some slack. Start small. You don't even have to start off with this so-called "logical proof" of yours. Start by just providing the breathlessly waiting world with a definition of your god that is not logically incoherent.
But I won't hold my breath waiting for it.
"Naw, atheism is the belief in absence of deities."
Sorry to burst your bubble, AC, but you're wrong.
"The word itself could mean either, athe-ism or a-theism."
No. For your information, the word atheism is known to derive directly from the Greek word atheos, which in turn comes from the Greek prefix a- meaning "the absence of-" (c.f. apolitical, atheoretical) plus the Greek word theos meaning "god".
That's known as etymology. It's a fact. Now it's also a fact that there is no meaningful word or word fragment "athe", no matter how much you might like one to exist.
"There's nothing oxymoronic about "belief in atheism". Atheism requires just as much belief as theism does."
Not that tired old piece of claptrap again. For your information, atheism is the absence of belief in deities.
If atheism is a belief, then health is a disease.
Gand means Wand. Thus, Wand-Elf. A very applicable name for a wizard.
Oh really? And you heard this where, exactly? *sniff*sniff* I smell a crock!
Hey, point me to something printed in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, and I'll cheerfully chow down on a heaping helping of crow.
*Bwahahahahaa!* Um. Earth to Fenresulven: Jurassic Park was FICTION, moron. FICTION.
ROTFL! Mod parent up, someone!!!
You'll pardon me if I'm underwhelmed by your display of *coughcough* "kindness".
All we want is the joy and happiness of a relationship that can instantly render meaningless the cobwebs of antisocial lonliness. We will never get it, because it is up to the girl to choose who she lets into her pants
How dare they! The nerve of those girls, actually daring to _choose_ who they have a relationship with! (Here's a free clue, Velex, these things amount to a hell of a lot more than "letting someone into your pants"!)
*sigh* Somebody smacked me with the slow stick today. That's it. I'm going back to bed. :)
idiot? What's that? *clicketyclickety* Nopenope, duh, nuthin about it in muh handydandy computer thesaurus thingie. Dunno what ya talkin about.
:)
I've had a Dell Inspiron 7500 for about a year now, I open it up twice daily, and the hinges on mine are rock solid and still stiff enough to support that LCD screen (and it _is_ a honkin' huge screen) at any angle I want to place it.