Me - Hi. Welcome to Earth. Please study up on our language. Earthlings who can't even manage a basic comprehension of their mother tongue are frequently ridiculed as idiots. We expect no less from "supreme species" such as yours.
Idiot - Who says english was his mother tongue?
Nobody. Try reading it again. Maybe a couple times. Yeah, that oughta help.
Idiot - Why should the alien super species learn english ?
He's trying to use it. Fuck. Your name really suits you.
Hi. Welcome to Earth. Please study up on our language. Earthlings who can't even manage a basic comprehension of their mother tongue are frequently ridiculed as idiots. We expect no less from "supreme species" such as yours.
Unless they put the installation where they get almost perpetual sun they are going to face a long night every lunar month. [...] perching a moonbase on the peak of the mountain might be tricky.
Yeah, hadn't thought of the sunse thing. Good news about the peak; they just need to put the panels there. Compared to the rest of the materials, extension cables should be cheap.
I was thinking the same thing. The process would have to be electric; if it is, they have an unlimited supply of virtually atmosphere-unimpeded solar energy.
Put your hand on the left side of a photocopier pane. Press copy. After it scans your hand once, move your hand to the right side of the pane and it will scan your hand again.
The speed and direction of the copier's scanning head and the speed and direction of your hand can vary greatly and cause all sorts of combinations and duplicates of the same hand all in one finished product image.
If that's the case, why are two cameras necessary? I supposed it could result in more speed and flexibility, but it sounds as though the same thing can be done with careful aiming and timing using just one camera.
K.I.S.S.
Two stationary cameras = redundancy and the benefit of no moving parts to break.
Infringing on rights? Having IM at work is not a Constitutional right.
Not all rights are declared in the Constitution. In fact, the way the US Gov't is set up, anything NOT specified as illegal is a right. Here's a quarter. Buy a book or two.
If IM is allowed at work, the managers are going to require me to sign-in everyday. I really don't have a choice when somebody IMs me over stupid crap.
Sounds like your workplace sucks. IM is allowed at my place of business, and there are no rules about it. (And yes, I am the network admin.) If, at the end of the day, people have done their job, all is well. If they haven't, nobody cares why. The fact is they haven't and the possible results are the same as they have always been.
If I turn off my IM my manager will be like "turn on your IM so I can IM you stupid crap all day".
He pays you for that right. It's a situation to which to implicitly agree by continuing voluntary employment. Don't like it? Quit.
There is never going to be a corporate policy of allowing IM for personal use only.
Have we jumped to the "rediculous extreme therefore everything else I've said is right" logic fallacy already? I'm more than a little disappointed.
You are allowing a hole into the network for viruses and you are allowing a huge productivity killer.
Computer policies are clear and file transfer over IM ports are closed. Nothing is iron-clad, and if they violate policy and infect a system, they are fired. As for a 'huge productivity killer', I bet there were people like you whining when phones were brought into the workplace.
The mind can only handle so many distractions.
Sounds like 'the mind' thinks he's a bit more representative of the entire world than he actually is.
When our IT department took away IM, I thought it would decline the my productivity. It actually increased my productivity and I would never want IM back
There's plenty of people who would say the same thing about many modern conveniences. The funny thing is, you basically admit that it was your use of IM that was the problem.
This is typical. Person A has a problem where they can't stop using item X. Person A therefore campaigns for the restriction of item X, regardless of the positive results of others, and infringing the rights of all other persons who can actually control themselves.
A better phrasing of what I believed, and will continue to believe outside of Adventure Capitalism (I just made that up!) would include the phrase "more or less" somewhere in the "we are all equal in a MMORPG".
Both you and the other reply (that preceded you but you seem not to have read) with your oh so original "wake up" calls seem to ignore the fact that a minority of insanely serious players (Don't argue; you know it's a minority) doing this on the side is not the same as all of the players being encouraged and practically having to do this in order to compete.
One of the great things about online games has always been that if you are black, white, poor, or rich, you all start the game with equal footing and have equal chance at success.
Not any more. Once again, the old money will reign and trod on the up-and-coming, or the hobbyist player.
Hey, wait a minute. That means eventually the vast majority of people playing will be those who have been economically filtered to the top; those who have, and are willing to pay, lots of money for games. And Sony will have their names, addresses, and the ability to advertise directly to them.
Wow. Sony is fucking brilliant.
--- Students, children, those in countries of economic hardship, don't whine. Your computer COMES with solitaire. For free!
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Me - Hi. Welcome to Earth. Please study up on our language. Earthlings who can't even manage a basic comprehension of their mother tongue are frequently ridiculed as idiots. We expect no less from "supreme species" such as yours.
Idiot - Who says english was his mother tongue?
Nobody. Try reading it again. Maybe a couple times. Yeah, that oughta help.
Idiot - Why should the alien super species learn english ?
He's trying to use it. Fuck. Your name really suits you.
As a Google user that is beyond you're planet,
Hi. Welcome to Earth. Please study up on our language. Earthlings who can't even manage a basic comprehension of their mother tongue are frequently ridiculed as idiots. We expect no less from "supreme species" such as yours.
Google has released a beta of it's Google Earth software[...]
//Is this really one of the most difficult aspects of the written English language?
Submitter, please read this important memo.
Read along as she determines the flexibilty this unit offers in it's modular construction
/this goes for you too, Cecil (37810)
//Is this really one of the most difficult aspects of the written English language?
Please read this informative memo.
Although, he was "slightly" dismissive of the phenomena, describing it as "Wayne's World for radio".
/just sayin
This reminds me of those sentences from grade-school, where you had to circle all the problems with the sentence and rewrite it so it made sense.
Unless they put the installation where they get almost perpetual sun they are going to face a long night every lunar month. [...] perching a moonbase on the peak of the mountain might be tricky.
Yeah, hadn't thought of the sunse thing. Good news about the peak; they just need to put the panels there. Compared to the rest of the materials, extension cables should be cheap.
I was thinking the same thing. The process would have to be electric; if it is, they have an unlimited supply of virtually atmosphere-unimpeded solar energy.
Put your hand on the left side of a photocopier pane. Press copy. After it scans your hand once, move your hand to the right side of the pane and it will scan your hand again.
The speed and direction of the copier's scanning head and the speed and direction of your hand can vary greatly and cause all sorts of combinations and duplicates of the same hand all in one finished product image.
Opera!
No, Firefox!
Yeah. Firefox. Well, there you have it.
have you seen voltron since growing up? i don't know how i ever even thought that made sense!
I'd like to see you walk up to the defender of the universe and say that to his FACE.
Heheh :-P I giggled at this myself. I'm sure it's just someone to whom English is not his primary tongue.
/I hope...
and their's no privacy policy
their's no gramur eyethur
If that's the case, why are two cameras necessary? I supposed it could result in more speed and flexibility, but it sounds as though the same thing can be done with careful aiming and timing using just one camera.
K.I.S.S.
Two stationary cameras = redundancy and the benefit of no moving parts to break.
One moving camera = neither.
Surprised this hasn't already been posted:
Courtney Love Does the Math
Fantastic article about how RIAA appears to the Artistry
(Link to GCache to avoid slashdotting)
Infringing on rights? Having IM at work is not a Constitutional right.
Not all rights are declared in the Constitution. In fact, the way the US Gov't is set up, anything NOT specified as illegal is a right. Here's a quarter. Buy a book or two.
If IM is allowed at work, the managers are going to require me to sign-in everyday. I really don't have a choice when somebody IMs me over stupid crap.
Sounds like your workplace sucks. IM is allowed at my place of business, and there are no rules about it. (And yes, I am the network admin.) If, at the end of the day, people have done their job, all is well. If they haven't, nobody cares why. The fact is they haven't and the possible results are the same as they have always been.
If I turn off my IM my manager will be like "turn on your IM so I can IM you stupid crap all day".
He pays you for that right. It's a situation to which to implicitly agree by continuing voluntary employment. Don't like it? Quit.
There is never going to be a corporate policy of allowing IM for personal use only.
Have we jumped to the "rediculous extreme therefore everything else I've said is right" logic fallacy already? I'm more than a little disappointed.
You are allowing a hole into the network for viruses and you are allowing a huge productivity killer.
Computer policies are clear and file transfer over IM ports are closed. Nothing is iron-clad, and if they violate policy and infect a system, they are fired. As for a 'huge productivity killer', I bet there were people like you whining when phones were brought into the workplace.
The mind can only handle so many distractions.
Sounds like 'the mind' thinks he's a bit more representative of the entire world than he actually is.
Recently a tiny blackhole was discovered near ./ server room.
./ the antimatter version of /. ?
Is
When our IT department took away IM, I thought it would decline the my productivity. It actually increased my productivity and I would never want IM back
There's plenty of people who would say the same thing about many modern conveniences. The funny thing is, you basically admit that it was your use of IM that was the problem.
This is typical. Person A has a problem where they can't stop using item X. Person A therefore campaigns for the restriction of item X, regardless of the positive results of others, and infringing the rights of all other persons who can actually control themselves.
"If you expect good articles on slashdot, you're in the wrong damned place. This is where self-righteous losers come[...]"
Speaking of, how are ya doing these days?
I know where they can get at LEAST a gigawatt for FREE.
Duh.
Check your spellchecker. I thing is wrongly accepting[...]
Isn't it ironic? Dontcha think?
A better phrasing of what I believed, and will continue to believe outside of Adventure Capitalism (I just made that up!) would include the phrase "more or less" somewhere in the "we are all equal in a MMORPG".
Both you and the other reply (that preceded you but you seem not to have read) with your oh so original "wake up" calls seem to ignore the fact that a minority of insanely serious players (Don't argue; you know it's a minority) doing this on the side is not the same as all of the players being encouraged and practically having to do this in order to compete.
One of the great things about online games has always been that if you are black, white, poor, or rich, you all start the game with equal footing and have equal chance at success.
Not any more. Once again, the old money will reign and trod on the up-and-coming, or the hobbyist player.
Hey, wait a minute. That means eventually the vast majority of people playing will be those who have been economically filtered to the top; those who have, and are willing to pay, lots of money for games. And Sony will have their names, addresses, and the ability to advertise directly to them.
Wow. Sony is fucking brilliant.
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Students, children, those in countries of economic hardship, don't whine. Your computer COMES with solitaire. For free!
In Soviet Russia, Half-Life maps play YOU.
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