Actually, Astroturf was merely the first artificial surface. It has long since been superceded by other, better playing surfaces. The latest, FieldTurf, has been praised as being actually better than a natural grass surface.
The reason for Astroturf's rise was the world's first indoor stadium, the Astrodome in Houston, Texas. Anyone who has spent so much as a single day in Houston between March and November will understand immediately why they chose to build a fully air-conditioned, indoor stadium. At first, they tried planting grass, but the grass died due to lack of light. Then, the Aggies at Texas A&M University developed the artificial turf, ostensibly to fill this new need. But, the real reason was to stop their cheerleaders from grazing at Kyle Field.
The Simpsons isn't a cartoon! It's a graphic video.
See how dumb that sounds? If you're a full-grown man who still likes comic books, for Pete's sake come out and admit it. It's not like there's anything wrong with that.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Big Iron needs a seperate building to be built to contain it. Big Iron takes three years to install and build. Big Iron needs a staff of 12 to monitor it at all times. Big Iron does not run piddly-ass consumer-level operating systems like Unix. Nice try, but seriously, you're a backwoods tribesman thinking a Piper Cub or a Twin Beech is the sine qua non of aviation. Obviously you've never seen a real modern airliner, much less a beast like the 747 or C-17. Putz.
Whaa...since when does Silicon Graphics make Big Iron? Nothing their company makes requires a seperate building to contain its own chilling machinery. You're expected to maintain and administer the machines yourself! They don't even come with a staff of technicians when you buy one! Big Iron indeed. Putz.
And where does it go then? Into our lakes and rivers. Way to "solve" a problem, science. Let's give them more money and cancel the NEA and homeless shelters.
Yeah, and what happens when in 20 years they find out it causes cancer and has been polluting our skies far worse than the old-fashioned pollutants it "cleaned". Way to go, science.
Why don't we concentrate a wee bit more on USING LESS so we don't need so many smog-producing factories? SUV drivers, I'm talking to you.
They resigned because, like the New York Times, the blinding light of truth has been (very briefly) shone on this media giant, and processes taught in journalism school were shown not to have been followed. The fact is, the BBC had a position on a political issue, and used its reporting to color public opinion on that issue. Hardly "unbiased".
This *is* the BBC we're talking about here. I mean, they're not exactly up to the standards of a true world-class organization like the New York Times.
How can you believe anything the BBC puts out? They fabricate stories at will, put their spin on them, and release them as God's Own Truth. They finally got called on it by the recent report that established they were lying.
Jeez, you might as well read the New York Times or Weekly World News for this kind of drek.
Are you kidding? This guy is a genius. Not only did he actually figure out that the UltraSPARC-II processor is 64-bit, but he can actually use the file and time utilities! Most of the "linux admin" types I know who buy old Sparcs for the novelty factor end up putting linux on them anyway..."This Solaris stuff is too hard".
This is a good thing, people. This prevents Rufus T. Redneck's son from landing himself a 20-year stretch in federal prison because he thought it would be a fun idea to run off a few copies of money and use it to pay for frito pies and cow testicles and whatever the fuck else hicks eat in their squalid hovels in flyover territory. Professional counterfeiters won't use HP printers to do their counterfeiting, and anyone amateur enough to do so will be caught quickly. It's like passing a law mandating an intelligence test before a computer can be purchased.
Oh, forgot to add, SJG got $250,000 in damages from the government for its ill-treatment. $50,000 compensation (subject to taxation as income) and $200,000 for the lawyers. Who really won in this case?
Steve Jackson Games had this happen back in the 80s...you know, before the invention of Half-Life and Everquest, and hence before computers were interesting. They were raided by the SS (for a totally bogus reason) and had their computers siezed. Came really, really close to shutting down the company for good because of this. Years later, when the computers were obsolete, and after the SS had been criticized by a federal judge for being abusive, SJG got its 286 computers returned. Hooray for justice!
Sigh...federal prisons are not of the "pound-me-in-the-ass" type. If you misbehave in a federal prison you will very quickly find yourself isolated from all human contact for 23 hours a day. The feds do not tolerate shenanigans like this.
State prisons are where you find inmate rape. Just because movies say it's true doesn't mean it's so! Unfortunately despite mountains of evidence to the contrary, people still believe everything they see in the cinema. Sad really.
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Why am I not surprised that it's a Microsoft admin...
The reason for Astroturf's rise was the world's first indoor stadium, the Astrodome in Houston, Texas. Anyone who has spent so much as a single day in Houston between March and November will understand immediately why they chose to build a fully air-conditioned, indoor stadium. At first, they tried planting grass, but the grass died due to lack of light. Then, the Aggies at Texas A&M University developed the artificial turf, ostensibly to fill this new need. But, the real reason was to stop their cheerleaders from grazing at Kyle Field.
See how dumb that sounds? If you're a full-grown man who still likes comic books, for Pete's sake come out and admit it. It's not like there's anything wrong with that.
Now excuse me while I spank the monkey to a cartoon show. Er, I mean, anime.
I thought linux had "directories". My mistake.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Big Iron needs a seperate building to be built to contain it. Big Iron takes three years to install and build. Big Iron needs a staff of 12 to monitor it at all times. Big Iron does not run piddly-ass consumer-level operating systems like Unix. Nice try, but seriously, you're a backwoods tribesman thinking a Piper Cub or a Twin Beech is the sine qua non of aviation. Obviously you've never seen a real modern airliner, much less a beast like the 747 or C-17. Putz.
Learning tools? Surely you mean "cautionary examples of how to fuck up a simple task like an operating system." 20-bit addressing?
Whaa...since when does Silicon Graphics make Big Iron? Nothing their company makes requires a seperate building to contain its own chilling machinery. You're expected to maintain and administer the machines yourself! They don't even come with a staff of technicians when you buy one! Big Iron indeed. Putz.
Thailand maybe? Just a guess.
And where does it go then? Into our lakes and rivers. Way to "solve" a problem, science. Let's give them more money and cancel the NEA and homeless shelters.
Why don't we concentrate a wee bit more on USING LESS so we don't need so many smog-producing factories? SUV drivers, I'm talking to you.
They resigned because, like the New York Times, the blinding light of truth has been (very briefly) shone on this media giant, and processes taught in journalism school were shown not to have been followed. The fact is, the BBC had a position on a political issue, and used its reporting to color public opinion on that issue. Hardly "unbiased".
This *is* the BBC we're talking about here. I mean, they're not exactly up to the standards of a true world-class organization like the New York Times.
Jeez, you might as well read the New York Times or Weekly World News for this kind of drek.
Best thing slashdot ever did, IMO.
HAHAHAHA fun SNORT rewarding...sure, kid, software development is all those things. FUN, hee hee hee.
Are you kidding? This guy is a genius. Not only did he actually figure out that the UltraSPARC-II processor is 64-bit, but he can actually use the file and time utilities! Most of the "linux admin" types I know who buy old Sparcs for the novelty factor end up putting linux on them anyway..."This Solaris stuff is too hard".
Your cell phone doesn't have a calculator? Every one I've ever had had one.
Isn't gold the best conducting element?
If they showed any tolerance, it wouldn't be a zero-tolerance policy, now, would it?
This is a good thing, people. This prevents Rufus T. Redneck's son from landing himself a 20-year stretch in federal prison because he thought it would be a fun idea to run off a few copies of money and use it to pay for frito pies and cow testicles and whatever the fuck else hicks eat in their squalid hovels in flyover territory. Professional counterfeiters won't use HP printers to do their counterfeiting, and anyone amateur enough to do so will be caught quickly. It's like passing a law mandating an intelligence test before a computer can be purchased.
Everyone I know who's been inside says "Oz" is a joke and is about as realistic as "U-571".
Oh, forgot to add, SJG got $250,000 in damages from the government for its ill-treatment. $50,000 compensation (subject to taxation as income) and $200,000 for the lawyers. Who really won in this case?
Steve Jackson Games had this happen back in the 80s...you know, before the invention of Half-Life and Everquest, and hence before computers were interesting. They were raided by the SS (for a totally bogus reason) and had their computers siezed. Came really, really close to shutting down the company for good because of this. Years later, when the computers were obsolete, and after the SS had been criticized by a federal judge for being abusive, SJG got its 286 computers returned. Hooray for justice!
State prisons are where you find inmate rape. Just because movies say it's true doesn't mean it's so! Unfortunately despite mountains of evidence to the contrary, people still believe everything they see in the cinema. Sad really.