I think this technology would be good for Taco Bell, Pancho's, any school cafeteria, airlines, and any Mexican food buffet where the "meat" is "meat". Grown meat would be better than whatever is they're serving.
Oops. I thought it was funny, but a mod like that reminds me to be more a) CLEAR in meaning and verbage and b) must be OVERLY funny or OVERLY sarcastic, or use some sort of emoticon to insure that the correct meaning and inference is understood.
The moderators get my meaning about 99.9% of the time, so every once in a while we get our wires crossed. Just a part of slashdot.
I'll take my -1 TROLL and keep my head high (and try to be more precise in the future).
The FUNNY part of the story (and I can see how it's trolled) is that the article dicusses, to use a pun, things we can't turn back, like an AOL CD. And, of course, explaining the joke now is really, really not funny.
I haven't moderated, but I assume that the inference, pognancy, and meaning can often be conveyed in different ways. Unless of course of a first post:)
Like my daddy always said, "If you can't think of anything to intelligently post, post anyway." So here goes: with all the problems on the internet today the BACK button is like number 12,342,342,352,352,352,352,350,230,235,023,052,035,203 on the list of priorities. Number one being AOL CDs.
I really think it's all about the pendulum swinging the other way. Microsoft, for most of us, has been around since we first started putting together our IBM-Clones, I mean that's all there was. The industry has had MS for so long that maybe the pendulum will swing the other way now -- what that future means, I'm not sure.
This is typified, in a similar vein, in the Patriot Act. For many decades, immigrants and foriegners, were granted carte-blanche access to the US, and citizens, likewise were finding that we were unable to find a middle ground on the appropriate amount of inalienable rights -- letting therefore the courts to define what that really is (for anyone who cared to sue somebody). Now I think the pendulum has swung the other way.
Now as I step down from my soap box, I leave you with this: your rights end where the rights of the next person's start. It ends up being a small circle.
The answer to the article as to MS's greatest threat: nothing (with a GDP of a small country, they can buy away any threat).
You mean we don't win in the end? Come on, we're going to see the Wizard of Oz at the end right? And realize he's just a man behind a green curtain. Oh, I'm gonna wish for a new brain....:)
Read-singing those songs has really got me in the Christmas spirit. The only question I have is where is the official Slashdot Christmas party going be this year? Also, what's the dress..casual?
Thanks and Merry Christmas. Airrage.
Some interesting quotes about the flick...
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LOTR: The Two Towers
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· Score: 4, Interesting
Here's a few of my favorite paragraphs from the review in the ny times:
With the narrative of "Rings," Tolkien was investigating determination, loyalty and, finally, faith, finding innumerable ways to offer up the concept of purity of heart, as found in Matthew 5:8 and in Kierkegaard, whose contention was that purity of heart was the ability to will one thing into being. The pursuit of purity is at the center of "Towers."
Mr. Jackson's mastery of craft in some areas is so powerful that the flaws are more noticeable than in the first film. The little-boy allure of the storytelling in "Towers" is sure to evoke the same reaction that it did in "Fellowship." "Towers" is like a family-oriented E-rated video game, with no emotional complications other than saving the day. Women have so little to do here that they serve almost as plot-device flight attendants, offering a trough of Diet Coke to refresh the geek-magnet story.
Not sure if I should enjoy the movie or write a critical essay about it. But there's a couple of lines in there that are real zingers.
Yes, the exact same story was posted yesterday, but obviously there is method in their madness. Since the first story came out at 5 PM (CST), I'm assuming that the East Coast had already gone home for the day.
That same story of course would still be "fresh" for the Westies. So, in getting around this whole we-live-left-to-right instead of north-to-south issue, we need to repost some stories from time to time. Naturally, a good, fresh story that has gone "stale", may be, reposted to let those Easties catch up with the rest of us.
I'm sure there is an algorith that could take in the time it was posted, time left to view in the normal working hours, etc.
So the next time/. reposts a story, realize that there are those that are less fortunate...:)
You know, I'm thinking, Bill Gates has all this money and yet, he's probably the loneliest guy in the world. Does anyone ever say, 'Hey Bill, wanna go fishing?' or 'Did you catch Letterman last night?'; yeah, I thought it sucked too.
So this Christmas, as Bill is drinking Crystal and eating Beluga Caviar, I just wish Bill would get his little Christmas wish of new best friend.
So Bill, I don't know what your getting this year man (maybe a H2 Hummer), but I really hope you find someone you can really talk to.
"Seems like a pretty interesting way to use technology to help the environment, which isn't something you see everyday."
We'll let's see here newbie, Blockbuster now simply charges my credit card for late movies, and I think that's a stretch more interesting use of technology than stringing cable through the evergreens. And Donna, remember sitting in a forest writing a diary on logging is like camping out on Aisle 5 and writing about a Mom who chooses Jif over Peter Pan. It's gonna happen sweetheart. Now sweetie, I know your getting your birkenstocks all in a wad, but before you fill your all-natural-llama-hair sweater full of crocodile tears, let me remind you of something you may have forgotten between you double-lattes served in a styrene cup: specifically, the tree in which you now sit, his brother, though now long gone, is the very thing which allows us all to heat our homes, preserve our thoughts, and keep our bottoms clean.
Okay, I think we've hammered this guy for making a few minor mistakes, but what if anything did the criminal do wrong (in his MO -- not his legality)?
I would suggest the following:
a) PO BOX, physical address is a dead giveaway. b) Throw-away hotmail/yahoo account. c) Complete arsenal of fake documents. d) Reverse the scam, don't buy stuff sell it and just have to launder the money.
Okay, running Gail Cooke through an Anagram Generator, I get 'A GECKO OIL'. As we all know a gecko is a type of reptile, or should I say snake? We all know that selling 'Snake Oil' conjures up a marketing scam. So, Gail Cooke = Snake Oil.
Thank you. Is there like a prize or something for like the best post ever? I now kneel as you bestow thy Karma upon thee.
Remington Arms has been around sometime. I own a Remington 11-87 Special Purpose Shotgun. I call it a working gun. It's routinely my duck-hunting gun, so naturally, it's been covered in salt-spray, mud, dirt, I've used the butt to pound in stakes, it's been thrown around, dropped, and never, ever misses.
The problem with all this technology today is there is no tradition. No one in today's market place is proud to have started from a little shop in the East End of London where we "took pride in making the finest quality harddrives, by hand, with pride." I look into the slashdot headers and see the old atari-style joystick, even that thing the plastic inserts that held up the stick and pushed the contacts routinely failed under heavy gameplay. I would order 6 at a time, we used to go threw those things like butter.
Has quality improved? I'm not sure if it's up or down, but I do know that every gadget I buy now seems to have a certain decaying-before-my-very-eyes feel about it as soon as I open it.
By the way, Nike PSAPlay, 6 months, 3 days, could be a record.
...Or because I don't just sit on slashdot all day I had already read one of the articles in particular (ever think of that?), so yes I didn't read all three -- but I think one is sufficient enough to post an intelligent comment.
The author clearly was attempting to elicit a response to "What do you think is the key to a great RPG?", to which I answered correctly.
Slashdot Mirror
I think this technology would be good for Taco Bell, Pancho's, any school cafeteria, airlines, and any Mexican food buffet where the "meat" is "meat". Grown meat would be better than whatever is they're serving.
Oops. I thought it was funny, but a mod like that reminds me to be more a) CLEAR in meaning and verbage and b) must be OVERLY funny or OVERLY sarcastic, or use some sort of emoticon to insure that the correct meaning and inference is understood.
:)
The moderators get my meaning about 99.9% of the time, so every once in a while we get our wires crossed. Just a part of slashdot.
I'll take my -1 TROLL and keep my head high (and try to be more precise in the future).
The FUNNY part of the story (and I can see how it's trolled) is that the article dicusses, to use a pun, things we can't turn back, like an AOL CD. And, of course, explaining the joke now is really, really not funny.
I haven't moderated, but I assume that the inference, pognancy, and meaning can often be conveyed in different ways. Unless of course of a first post
Like my daddy always said, "If you can't think of anything to intelligently post, post anyway." So here goes: with all the problems on the internet today the BACK button is like number 12,342,342,352,352,352,352,350,230,235,023,052,035 ,203 on the list of priorities. Number one being AOL CDs.
I really think it's all about the pendulum swinging the other way. Microsoft, for most of us, has been around since we first started putting together our IBM-Clones, I mean that's all there was. The industry has had MS for so long that maybe the pendulum will swing the other way now -- what that future means, I'm not sure.
This is typified, in a similar vein, in the Patriot Act. For many decades, immigrants and foriegners, were granted carte-blanche access to the US, and citizens, likewise were finding that we were unable to find a middle ground on the appropriate amount of inalienable rights -- letting therefore the courts to define what that really is (for anyone who cared to sue somebody). Now I think the pendulum has swung the other way.
Now as I step down from my soap box, I leave you with this: your rights end where the rights of the next person's start. It ends up being a small circle.
The answer to the article as to MS's greatest threat: nothing (with a GDP of a small country, they can buy away any threat).
Happy New Year
You mean we don't win in the end? Come on, we're going to see the Wizard of Oz at the end right? And realize he's just a man behind a green curtain. Oh, I'm gonna wish for a new brain.... :)
I know this entire thread will probably turn into some sort of grip session, so I'll just throw the first volley:
Number one: no website contact for links not working etc, ie American Express, etc.
Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Universe.
Read-singing those songs has really got me in the Christmas spirit. The only question I have is where is the official Slashdot Christmas party going be this year? Also, what's the dress..casual?
Thanks and Merry Christmas.
Airrage.
Here's a few of my favorite paragraphs from the review in the ny times:
With the narrative of "Rings," Tolkien was investigating determination, loyalty and, finally, faith, finding innumerable ways to offer up the concept of purity of heart, as found in Matthew 5:8 and in Kierkegaard, whose contention was that purity of heart was the ability to will one thing into being. The pursuit of purity is at the center of "Towers."
Mr. Jackson's mastery of craft in some areas is so powerful that the flaws are more noticeable than in the first film. The little-boy allure of the storytelling in "Towers" is sure to evoke the same reaction that it did in "Fellowship." "Towers" is like a family-oriented E-rated video game, with no emotional complications other than saving the day. Women have so little to do here that they serve almost as plot-device flight attendants, offering a trough of Diet Coke to refresh the geek-magnet story.
Not sure if I should enjoy the movie or write a critical essay about it. But there's a couple of lines in there that are real zingers.
Yes, the exact same story was posted yesterday, but obviously there is method in their madness. Since the first story came out at 5 PM (CST), I'm assuming that the East Coast had already gone home for the day.
/. reposts a story, realize that there are those that are less fortunate... :)
That same story of course would still be "fresh" for the Westies. So, in getting around this whole we-live-left-to-right instead of north-to-south issue, we need to repost some stories from time to time. Naturally, a good, fresh story that has gone "stale", may be, reposted to let those Easties catch up with the rest of us.
I'm sure there is an algorith that could take in the time it was posted, time left to view in the normal working hours, etc.
So the next time
Oh, it is so on...you are now my foe. If only I could figure out how to do that :)
You know, I'm thinking, Bill Gates has all this money and yet, he's probably the loneliest guy in the world. Does anyone ever say, 'Hey Bill, wanna go fishing?' or 'Did you catch Letterman last night?'; yeah, I thought it sucked too.
So this Christmas, as Bill is drinking Crystal and eating Beluga Caviar, I just wish Bill would get his little Christmas wish of new best friend.
So Bill, I don't know what your getting this year man (maybe a H2 Hummer), but I really hope you find someone you can really talk to.
Merry Christmas Bill...and Happy New Year.
"Seems like a pretty interesting way to use technology to help the environment, which isn't something you see everyday."
We'll let's see here newbie, Blockbuster now simply charges my credit card for late movies, and I think that's a stretch more interesting use of technology than stringing cable through the evergreens. And Donna, remember sitting in a forest writing a diary on logging is like camping out on Aisle 5 and writing about a Mom who chooses Jif over Peter Pan. It's gonna happen sweetheart. Now sweetie, I know your getting your birkenstocks all in a wad, but before you fill your all-natural-llama-hair sweater full of crocodile tears, let me remind you of something you may have forgotten between you double-lattes served in a styrene cup: specifically, the tree in which you now sit, his brother, though now long gone, is the very thing which allows us all to heat our homes, preserve our thoughts, and keep our bottoms clean.
Okay, I think we've hammered this guy for making a few minor mistakes, but what if anything did the criminal do wrong (in his MO -- not his legality)?
...
I would suggest the following:
a) PO BOX, physical address is a dead giveaway.
b) Throw-away hotmail/yahoo account.
c) Complete arsenal of fake documents.
d) Reverse the scam, don't buy stuff sell it and just have to launder the money.
I guess there's probably something I've missed
Okay, running Gail Cooke through an Anagram Generator, I get 'A GECKO OIL'. As we all know a gecko is a type of reptile, or should I say snake? We all know that selling 'Snake Oil' conjures up a marketing scam. So, Gail Cooke = Snake Oil.
Thank you. Is there like a prize or something for like the best post ever? I now kneel as you bestow thy Karma upon thee.
Remington Arms has been around sometime. I own a Remington 11-87 Special Purpose Shotgun. I call it a working gun. It's routinely my duck-hunting gun, so naturally, it's been covered in salt-spray, mud, dirt, I've used the butt to pound in stakes, it's been thrown around, dropped, and never, ever misses.
The problem with all this technology today is there is no tradition. No one in today's market place is proud to have started from a little shop in the East End of London where we "took pride in making the finest quality harddrives, by hand, with pride." I look into the slashdot headers and see the old atari-style joystick, even that thing the plastic inserts that held up the stick and pushed the contacts routinely failed under heavy gameplay. I would order 6 at a time, we used to go threw those things like butter.
Has quality improved? I'm not sure if it's up or down, but I do know that every gadget I buy now seems to have a certain decaying-before-my-very-eyes feel about it as soon as I open it.
By the way, Nike PSAPlay, 6 months, 3 days, could be a record.
...Or because I don't just sit on slashdot all day I had already read one of the articles in particular (ever think of that?), so yes I didn't read all three -- but I think one is sufficient enough to post an intelligent comment.
The author clearly was attempting to elicit a response to "What do you think is the key to a great RPG?", to which I answered correctly.
So there! Now go to your room for a time-out.
Blood.
I know he's a troll, but it was rather a nice bit of creative writing, except for the pornographic part at the end...
Remember where you are. This is Thunderdome. Death is listening, and will take the first man who screams.
Of course, I say Remember where you are. This is Slashdot. Mod is listening, and will take the first man who posts.
We don't need another hero, hero, all we want is what's beyond Thunderdome!
Thanks, that's the answer I was looking for. Not something I could look up, but someone who obviously knows the way it really works.
What type of judicial system do they implore: either the English Common Law (presumed guilty) or the German way (guilty, and must prove innocence)?
Do they have the death penalty?
I think one of this guy's answers had as many words as the entire Bill Shatner interview. Nice job.
221. Slick looking Linux Interface
222. A secure Windows Web Server
223. A geek with a girlfriend
224. A slashdot firstpost
Don't worry the gateway will soon break and the crisis will soon be over...