I think that if life from Earth reaches the stars then the creatures that do it will have the same similarity to Homo Sapiens as Homo Sapiens has to the first creatures to crawl out of the oceans...
So, you fire your laser up into the thundercloud, and it causes the lightning strike to follow it back, directing several million amps into... your laser. Good luck with that then.
Also "In Soviet Russia, laser looks into eye! (of storm)"
These people don't understand something. Nobody is 'from' Slashdot, or 4chan, or any other websites. They are just users 'of' Slashdot or 4chan. To say they are 'from Slashdot' shows a pretty basic misunderstanding of the user-website relationship.
Yup, google maps has quite a good view of it. Looks like a load of identical fuck-hutches - no wonder the burglars need some special treatment in order to decide which house to burgle.
Using google maps you can look into their gardens and see which houses have children's trampolines. They look like blue bulls-eyes. Cue Daily Mail paedogeddon outrage!
What's with the rainbow colours? Each story has a little flash of colour on it, and then top right there's a dropdown with some colours on it, and if I choose a colour the stories all seem to dance about a bit and shuffle around. What. The. Flip? And then on the top left there's an 'Edit' box which has - amongst it's other unexplained options - another colour selector. Which does what? I have no idea. Is it some kind of quality thing? I don't have a map of quality to colour in my head. This is meaningless. And don't try and explain what it all means - I'm trying to read the news here, I don't want to have to read a manual. I'll go elsewhere.
And what do colour-blind people think? At least if you are playing with colour be smart and use Color Brewer palettes.
Honestly, I think slashdot looked pretty good enough in 2002:
If your study area is really just a training course for package FooBar then that's not what I'd call an education. Principles learnt from Gimp can be applied in Photoshop, even if the way of scripting multiple actions into a macro are widely different. College should be about understanding the principles of the practice.
We solved the 'specialized software' problem by going open-source. Our introductory maths course uses Scilab instead of Matlab to teach linear algebra processing, R instead of SPSS for statistics, and Maxima instead of Maple for computer algebra. We help the students download and install these programs on their laptops.
We do still have PC labs because it seems quite a few students don't like having to lug in the massive weight of a laptop computer when they live off-campus. I also imagine there are students who have a pimped-out gaming rig instead of a laptop.
Conspiracy theory anyone? Microsoft Virtual Earth has better and more recent imagery than Google Earth - there's some obvious new earthworks. No mention of MS Virtual Earth in The Sun. What's the Fox/MS relationship?
Ooh, like the Russians never knew there was a submarine base at Faslane before...
Since Sputnik went up, governments have known that secret locations wouldn't be secret for long. And if the Russians can photograph it, they can sell the photos to terrorists. Google will get them sometime after.
If governments want to do stuff in secret they know they have to do it undercover. There's a big covered dock right next to the two obvious submarines on the Faslane google maps imagery. That's where the secret stuff happens. Until we get Google Thermal Imagery Earth, of course.
Anyone know what the circular mounds are to the north of the base?
We have a pretty small RT system for managing departmental issues. It used to get very slow, and checking on the server revealed apache spinning like mad, so we'd have to kick apache and it would get going okay again.
I asked our university RT admin guy if he ever had this problem. And he said no, his RT was always pretty slick. Then I saw a lightbulb come on. Ah, he said, I do have a cron job that kicks apache every night at 3am. Why? I asked. Well, he replied, because RT used to get very slow and their apache would spin, was the answer.
So now we kick our apache at 3am every morning and RT hasn't grinded to a halt since.
Misleading and rubbish. Shiny, 3-d, translucent, textured pie charts with reflections. A whole load of screen real estate to show four numbers, and not in a very good way either. Is the purple bit really bigger than the blue bit? By how much? I can't tell.
Is this the default Office 2k7 chart option? I suspect it is.
Plus the multiple gradient backgrounds doing my head in. Even without flying chairs I reckon a Ballmer presentation is headache-inducing.
About seven years ago I worked on some malaria data analysis which was funded by a grant from the B+M Gates Foundation to Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine who then paid for us stats experts at Lancaster University. I did the analysis in R, running on Linux. All open source.
If I'd had to use MS products for this I'd still be trying to implement modelling of Gaussian random fields in Excel. I'd only have the Markov-chain Monte-Carlo simulation to do then.
The one good thing that has come out of our surveillance society - Sheriff John Burnell (and his amazing hair). Oh, all the other Cops With Cameras-style TV shows too. I'm not sure those shows would work on radio...
Slashdot Mirror
I think that if life from Earth reaches the stars then the creatures that do it will have the same similarity to Homo Sapiens as Homo Sapiens has to the first creatures to crawl out of the oceans...
Then I reckon they need Ajax and rounded corners. Cleaner cabs with fewer sharp edges on them. Plus they'd have to be called "yellowcbs".
So, you fire your laser up into the thundercloud, and it causes the lightning strike to follow it back, directing several million amps into... your laser. Good luck with that then.
Also "In Soviet Russia, laser looks into eye! (of storm)"
These people don't understand something. Nobody is 'from' Slashdot, or 4chan, or any other websites. They are just users 'of' Slashdot or 4chan. To say they are 'from Slashdot' shows a pretty basic misunderstanding of the user-website relationship.
Hybrid Assisted Limb? Or H-A-L for short? HAL?
I'm waiting for the model 9000.
Yup, google maps has quite a good view of it. Looks like a load of identical fuck-hutches - no wonder the burglars need some special treatment in order to decide which house to burgle.
Using google maps you can look into their gardens and see which houses have children's trampolines. They look like blue bulls-eyes. Cue Daily Mail paedogeddon outrage!
What's with the rainbow colours? Each story has a little flash of colour on it, and then top right there's a dropdown with some colours on it, and if I choose a colour the stories all seem to dance about a bit and shuffle around. What. The. Flip? And then on the top left there's an 'Edit' box which has - amongst it's other unexplained options - another colour selector. Which does what? I have no idea. Is it some kind of quality thing? I don't have a map of quality to colour in my head. This is meaningless. And don't try and explain what it all means - I'm trying to read the news here, I don't want to have to read a manual. I'll go elsewhere.
And what do colour-blind people think? At least if you are playing with colour be smart and use Color Brewer palettes.
Honestly, I think slashdot looked pretty good enough in 2002:
http://web.archive.org/web/20020806091841/slashdot.org/
- go back to that, change the fonts and colours a bit, perfect.
Another recent example of a design-gone-bad - www.freshmeat.net - is the current new implementation:
http://www.freshmeat.net/
really better in terms of ease of use than 2002?
http://web.archive.org/web/20020603034258/http://freshmeat.net/
Raaaaage!
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Hmmm, why does that word ring bells... Oh yes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair
If your study area is really just a training course for package FooBar then that's not what I'd call an education. Principles learnt from Gimp can be applied in Photoshop, even if the way of scripting multiple actions into a macro are widely different. College should be about understanding the principles of the practice.
We solved the 'specialized software' problem by going open-source. Our introductory maths course uses Scilab instead of Matlab to teach linear algebra processing, R instead of SPSS for statistics, and Maxima instead of Maple for computer algebra. We help the students download and install these programs on their laptops.
We do still have PC labs because it seems quite a few students don't like having to lug in the massive weight of a laptop computer when they live off-campus. I also imagine there are students who have a pimped-out gaming rig instead of a laptop.
Compulsory big spike in the middle of the steering wheel.
Yeah, like being able to load old versions of their Office files. Oh, wait...
Perfect for connecting to iTunes via your MacTini:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGGOn-H7s3Q
Conspiracy theory anyone? Microsoft Virtual Earth has better and more recent imagery than Google Earth - there's some obvious new earthworks. No mention of MS Virtual Earth in The Sun. What's the Fox/MS relationship?
Ooh, like the Russians never knew there was a submarine base at Faslane before...
Since Sputnik went up, governments have known that secret locations wouldn't be secret for long. And if the Russians can photograph it, they can sell the photos to terrorists. Google will get them sometime after.
If governments want to do stuff in secret they know they have to do it undercover. There's a big covered dock right next to the two obvious submarines on the Faslane google maps imagery. That's where the secret stuff happens. Until we get Google Thermal Imagery Earth, of course.
Anyone know what the circular mounds are to the north of the base?
We have a pretty small RT system for managing departmental issues. It used to get very slow, and checking on the server revealed apache spinning like mad, so we'd have to kick apache and it would get going okay again.
I asked our university RT admin guy if he ever had this problem. And he said no, his RT was always pretty slick. Then I saw a lightbulb come on. Ah, he said, I do have a cron job that kicks apache every night at 3am. Why? I asked. Well, he replied, because RT used to get very slow and their apache would spin, was the answer.
So now we kick our apache at 3am every morning and RT hasn't grinded to a halt since.
I'd pay Nigerians to *keep* Jack Straw. As would a lot of people. Thank god we can vote him out, and get in... hmmm... well...
Misleading and rubbish. Shiny, 3-d, translucent, textured pie charts with reflections. A whole load of screen real estate to show four numbers, and not in a very good way either. Is the purple bit really bigger than the blue bit? By how much? I can't tell.
Is this the default Office 2k7 chart option? I suspect it is.
Plus the multiple gradient backgrounds doing my head in. Even without flying chairs I reckon a Ballmer presentation is headache-inducing.
I have a counter-example.
About seven years ago I worked on some malaria data analysis which was funded by a grant from the B+M Gates Foundation to Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine who then paid for us stats experts at Lancaster University. I did the analysis in R, running on Linux. All open source.
If I'd had to use MS products for this I'd still be trying to implement modelling of Gaussian random fields in Excel. I'd only have the Markov-chain Monte-Carlo simulation to do then.
Disregard that, I cook socks. It's "Bunnell", not "Burnell".
More info on wackypedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bunnell
The one good thing that has come out of our surveillance society - Sheriff John Burnell (and his amazing hair). Oh, all the other Cops With Cameras-style TV shows too. I'm not sure those shows would work on radio...
A cop on every corner? Yeah, because cops are reliable witnesses who never lie or 'accidentally' not notice a little crime going on.
What about a cop with a camera on every corner?
The "speed" is how long the burst lasts for - not how fast the gamma rays go!
Try phoning your local Gamestop and asking them how much Battletoads is...
I was going to explain this meme to people but someone seems to have accidentally the whole of encyclopediadramatica.org
Google cache tiem:
http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:w7oVzuVvJRYJ:encyclopediadramatica.com/I_accidentally_X+accidentally+encyclopediadramatica&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=uk&client=firefox-a