If it makes you feel any better, Zuckerberg doesn't get laid. He has a Chinese girlfriend who has more than a few extra pounds, and who is not particularly attractive. Obviously, he is a nerd who just wants a submissive Asian woman to serve him. Didn't he have any racism sensitivity courses at Harvard? Look at this photo of the couple. Ugh.
I like playing craps, whenever I'm in a jurisdiction that allows gambling. It's a very social game, and you don't need to bet a lot of money to have several hours of fun at almost fair odds (and get free drinks, the real secret to being a low, low, low roller). One thing I frequently saw was players betting a large amount, and then throwing in a dollar or two "for the dealer to play along". I never really thought much of it until I read some forum while in search of the elusive $2 pass line bet + 10x odds instead of the crappy $10 pass line bet + 4/5/6 odds offered by most Strip casinos. The craps dealers on the forum hated when players would make them "play along". Why? Because the player had already decided to spend the money to tip the dealers, and now the player is gambling with their money. This Google thing strikes me as the same thing - some high roller thinks it's a great idea and a lot of fun without ever actually asking the beneficiary if it's what they want. Scratch that, without even thinking to ask the beneficiary if it's what they want.
We live in a global world now. Didn't you get the memo?
Could you explain how, exactly, this is wrong? I'm just curious to know.
PS Slashdot story links are frequently thrice-removed from original sources. Do not mistake the submitter's and editor's laziness and incompetence for anything other than what it is.
Yeah, and it used broadcast packets and flooded any network it was attached to. Got banned from university networks as a result and hindered multiplayer games for years afterwards.
Back in the VGA gaming days, games were all single-player. We had modems that could talk to other players, and if you had access to an office you could use a network to play. That is, if any dang games ever had multiplayer capability. Game designers didn't like the idea of multiplayer and said it would never sell. One famous game designer stated, quite bluntly, that his customers didn't have friends. Now, the idea that gamers would play alone is heresy and gamers are complaining about the lack of good single-player games. One thing hasn't changed: game companies are usually moronic and 95% of games are still crap.
Now this is strange. I have heard, multiple times right here on Slashdot, that there is no difference between (D) and (R). Now, someone says there is? Can someone clarify this for me? I get confused when someone reads a story and posts a bunch of off-topic links attacking the "other" party.
Hint: dinosaur names are not in English, they are in Latin. Native English speakers cannot pronounce Latin, either. Good post, though, I like the implied hateful anti-Americanism.
Are you suggesting that English speakers should use the Mandarin pronounciation? That's insane. Where'd you get that idea? English speakers can't do it. It just gets pronounced zzzzzh. Try giving Mandarin speakers a name like Worthington or Covington, there is no way that they can pronouce it correctly, nor should they be expected to.
P.S. zh is not the most difficult sound in Mandarin for English speakers. The worst are j, q, x, and especially r. I have known several long-term residents of China who speak Chinese much better than I do, and they still say "shay-shay" instead of "xiexie". Your advice on pronounciation is listed among the common misconceptions. Please stop giving strange, creative, and wrong instructions on how to pronounce Mandarin's sounds. Read this page to learn how to pronouce zh correctly. People who will never speak a word of Mandarin in their lives don't need to worry about it.
I'm sure the name is just a result of the scientist trying to be a proper multiculturalist. It is suitable that the dinosaur be named with this way, it is good behavior and will go over well with his academic colleagues. If the plebes can't pronounce it, fuck 'em.
Amelia Earhart? What the hell? You lost me there. Earhart was just a face, men did most of the things she got the credit for. If you want to insert gratuitous females with achievements in aviation, talk about Hanna Reitsch. She was a real pilot. The kind who flew her own planes. But oops! She served Germany during WWII - inconvenient truth. No wonder she's unknown by the world at large.
1. It looks good as a bullet point on a presentation explaining how this quarter's development is coming along. 2. Some manager probably got a bonus for innovation for implementing the feature. 3. You should use Microsoft products as much as possible. Not being able to embed flash into an Excel file might, someday, make someone not use Excel. This would be bad. 4. Because it's technically possible. Why do web browsers store a list of every website you ever visited? Same reason, it's technically possible and easy to implement.
Funny, I live in a developing country too, and the best thing they ever did was stop controlling their citizens' lives and let individuals flourish. You see, government used to be a part of citizens' everyday lives. You had to have a permit for this, a permit for that, the government would assign you a job on graduation, population was kept even by a system of assigning households, and so on. People are continually amazed by the stuff I do - "you mean you didn't ask permission first?" It simply never occurred to me that the government has a place in my life.
The new approach of "let people do what they want" is working quite well, too. Hospitals aren't scary and dirty any more. People can live in nice places instead of the "warren of hundreds of identical blocks of apartments" that are still around (and crumbling badly). I could think of another dozen examples, but you get the idea.
What is it about modern airliners that makes them so fragile? Increase power, point nose up. These crashes make modern airliners seem like 1920s aircraft designs, before data was analyzed regarding what was safe and what was not.
The real secret of success of twitter is that it makes the other 99.5% of narcissists believe that what they write is Really Important. Remember the Twitter Revolution in the Islamic Republic of Iran? Twitter users really thought that their tweets were important, and all they had to do was wish hard enough and the theocracy would fall. Strangely enough, it didn't happen. I know, I don't get it, either. How many bloggers changed their page backgrounds to green? Still, the religious nuts didn't get the signal. If they would have all had twitter accounts, they would have seen just how much opposition there was, and surely they would have resigned - to avoid the devastating ridicule of twitter users if nothing else. Another thing: either there needs to be a universal translator or these theocrats need to have mandatory English lessons, otherwise how can they understand the depth of condemnation the world sends their way?
Deal with it. Journalists have to hear complaints all day long about their work from less-qualified individuals. It's not surprising if one acts out from time to time. A little sarcasm never killed anyone, unlike US bombs in Libya.
NPR is sober, careful news from The Smart People. If they say something's a problem, then it is. Why don't you go back to your Bud Lite and sports channels, redneck?
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If it makes you feel any better, Zuckerberg doesn't get laid. He has a Chinese girlfriend who has more than a few extra pounds, and who is not particularly attractive. Obviously, he is a nerd who just wants a submissive Asian woman to serve him. Didn't he have any racism sensitivity courses at Harvard? Look at this photo of the couple. Ugh.
Science fiction!?! Star Wars isn't any sort of science fiction. It's a drama set in space. "It has lasers" doesn't mean it's science fiction.
I like playing craps, whenever I'm in a jurisdiction that allows gambling. It's a very social game, and you don't need to bet a lot of money to have several hours of fun at almost fair odds (and get free drinks, the real secret to being a low, low, low roller). One thing I frequently saw was players betting a large amount, and then throwing in a dollar or two "for the dealer to play along". I never really thought much of it until I read some forum while in search of the elusive $2 pass line bet + 10x odds instead of the crappy $10 pass line bet + 4/5/6 odds offered by most Strip casinos. The craps dealers on the forum hated when players would make them "play along". Why? Because the player had already decided to spend the money to tip the dealers, and now the player is gambling with their money. This Google thing strikes me as the same thing - some high roller thinks it's a great idea and a lot of fun without ever actually asking the beneficiary if it's what they want. Scratch that, without even thinking to ask the beneficiary if it's what they want.
Blame the foreigners for our domestic problems...now where have I seen that before?
That happens enough in real life, with real submarine commanders at the helm. I don't think DARPA needs research in that field.
Bah. Clearly you never dealt with Baby Bells back in the day. Telco's idea of a "redundant circuit" was two wires in the same conduit.
[citation needed] How many Americans actually thought that? Please provide examples.
We live in a global world now. Didn't you get the memo?
Could you explain how, exactly, this is wrong? I'm just curious to know.
PS Slashdot story links are frequently thrice-removed from original sources. Do not mistake the submitter's and editor's laziness and incompetence for anything other than what it is.
Yeah, and it used broadcast packets and flooded any network it was attached to. Got banned from university networks as a result and hindered multiplayer games for years afterwards.
Back in the VGA gaming days, games were all single-player. We had modems that could talk to other players, and if you had access to an office you could use a network to play. That is, if any dang games ever had multiplayer capability. Game designers didn't like the idea of multiplayer and said it would never sell. One famous game designer stated, quite bluntly, that his customers didn't have friends. Now, the idea that gamers would play alone is heresy and gamers are complaining about the lack of good single-player games. One thing hasn't changed: game companies are usually moronic and 95% of games are still crap.
Now this is strange. I have heard, multiple times right here on Slashdot, that there is no difference between (D) and (R). Now, someone says there is? Can someone clarify this for me? I get confused when someone reads a story and posts a bunch of off-topic links attacking the "other" party.
Hint: dinosaur names are not in English, they are in Latin. Native English speakers cannot pronounce Latin, either. Good post, though, I like the implied hateful anti-Americanism.
Are you suggesting that English speakers should use the Mandarin pronounciation? That's insane. Where'd you get that idea? English speakers can't do it. It just gets pronounced zzzzzh. Try giving Mandarin speakers a name like Worthington or Covington, there is no way that they can pronouce it correctly, nor should they be expected to.
P.S. zh is not the most difficult sound in Mandarin for English speakers. The worst are j, q, x, and especially r. I have known several long-term residents of China who speak Chinese much better than I do, and they still say "shay-shay" instead of "xiexie". Your advice on pronounciation is listed among the common misconceptions. Please stop giving strange, creative, and wrong instructions on how to pronounce Mandarin's sounds. Read this page to learn how to pronouce zh correctly. People who will never speak a word of Mandarin in their lives don't need to worry about it.
I'm sure the name is just a result of the scientist trying to be a proper multiculturalist. It is suitable that the dinosaur be named with this way, it is good behavior and will go over well with his academic colleagues. If the plebes can't pronounce it, fuck 'em.
Amelia Earhart? What the hell? You lost me there. Earhart was just a face, men did most of the things she got the credit for. If you want to insert gratuitous females with achievements in aviation, talk about Hanna Reitsch. She was a real pilot. The kind who flew her own planes. But oops! She served Germany during WWII - inconvenient truth. No wonder she's unknown by the world at large.
1. It looks good as a bullet point on a presentation explaining how this quarter's development is coming along.
2. Some manager probably got a bonus for innovation for implementing the feature.
3. You should use Microsoft products as much as possible. Not being able to embed flash into an Excel file might, someday, make someone not use Excel. This would be bad.
4. Because it's technically possible. Why do web browsers store a list of every website you ever visited? Same reason, it's technically possible and easy to implement.
Ten years ago! Jeez louise...what's next, zombo.com? hamsterdance.com?
Funny, I live in a developing country too, and the best thing they ever did was stop controlling their citizens' lives and let individuals flourish. You see, government used to be a part of citizens' everyday lives. You had to have a permit for this, a permit for that, the government would assign you a job on graduation, population was kept even by a system of assigning households, and so on. People are continually amazed by the stuff I do - "you mean you didn't ask permission first?" It simply never occurred to me that the government has a place in my life.
The new approach of "let people do what they want" is working quite well, too. Hospitals aren't scary and dirty any more. People can live in nice places instead of the "warren of hundreds of identical blocks of apartments" that are still around (and crumbling badly). I could think of another dozen examples, but you get the idea.
A: Why is starting a comment in the Subject: line incredibly irritating?
What is it about modern airliners that makes them so fragile? Increase power, point nose up. These crashes make modern airliners seem like 1920s aircraft designs, before data was analyzed regarding what was safe and what was not.
Huh? Want to explain that comment? I think nobody but you gets that.
The real secret of success of twitter is that it makes the other 99.5% of narcissists believe that what they write is Really Important. Remember the Twitter Revolution in the Islamic Republic of Iran? Twitter users really thought that their tweets were important, and all they had to do was wish hard enough and the theocracy would fall. Strangely enough, it didn't happen. I know, I don't get it, either. How many bloggers changed their page backgrounds to green? Still, the religious nuts didn't get the signal. If they would have all had twitter accounts, they would have seen just how much opposition there was, and surely they would have resigned - to avoid the devastating ridicule of twitter users if nothing else. Another thing: either there needs to be a universal translator or these theocrats need to have mandatory English lessons, otherwise how can they understand the depth of condemnation the world sends their way?
your the idiot now
Way to totally invalidate everything you just said. *golf clap*
Deal with it. Journalists have to hear complaints all day long about their work from less-qualified individuals. It's not surprising if one acts out from time to time. A little sarcasm never killed anyone, unlike US bombs in Libya.
It's just a hipster being ironic. Don't get your nose bent out of shape about it.
NPR is sober, careful news from The Smart People. If they say something's a problem, then it is. Why don't you go back to your Bud Lite and sports channels, redneck?