Just start the text books by explaining how science fiction has had many ideas that were later 'invented' by scientists.
Pulp scifi in the 1920's talked about ray guns, which all the established scientists ignored, knowing they were impossible. Now we have lasers.
Rocket ships. Same story.
As anyone who read much of Robert A. Heinlein's work knows, he wrote about a bed made out of a soft bladder filled with water. Now waterbeds are taken for granted.
Those people also read about all the beautiful and sexy women in the 'average' scientist's life. Nowadays we have breast implants, nose jobs, face lifts, liposuction, and every other procedure needed to make that a reality.
Finally, every male character, no matter their age, could please all those women all night. Viola, Viagra.
See how interesting they could make science if they really tried?
[voice=Homer] And I guess you are using some sort of network connection that doesn't use a wire. It's like the cable router somehow senses the computer's need to transmit data, and the router just picks the data out of the air. And then when the router has data for the computer it just thinks about the data really hard, and the computer reads its thoughts. Sure, Lisa. You have a magical cable router, that can send and receive data wirelessly. do-di-do-di-do...
We had to replace our plastic butter dish and electric buffet range (we have a _very_ small kitchen) once, because I didn't notice the burner was still on the '1' setting after someone made soup. I took the cover off the butter dish and sat it on the burner, buttered my bread, and when I picked up the cover, it was melted to the burner. That sucked. Now we unplug the damn burners when they are not in use.
That last line was great. You should make it your sig. I sat here thinking "Who the hell is Connor McWhatever?" Then it sank in, and I read the rest. Great joke, really.
By the way, why does he pronounce it McCloud, when it's not spelled that way? "I'm Connor McCloud of the clan McCloud." But then when I see it spelled out, I think "That should be "I'm Connor McClee-od of the clan McClee-od."" Do the Scottish just pronounce "eo" as "ow"?
What? You've never been in the middle of a Word document, and tried to add one of the "features" they trumpet, only to have the entire damn document go ape-shit?
It's happened to me a few times. I no longer use the special features such as Bullets, Auto-numbering items, indentations, any tab other than left or decimal, or Format Painter. If something goes wrong, you have no idea why, because you can't see the codes to know what the stupid word processor is doing to the document. All I know is suddenly an entire document that was lined up nicely is totally butchered because I tried to indent one paragraph as a blockquote.
Sure, I can use the Undo button to get it back how it was, but then I spend half an hour trying to get the program to do what I want it to do. Better to just save myself the grief. I would go with WordPerfect in an heartbeat, but we are on the MS bandwagon here, and it's not my choice.
So, it looks amateurish, and can't survive/.ing. Big deal. It is an amateur site, now. Maybe it will grow in the future, but it certainly won't grow if everyone has your attitude. "Hell, it can't even survive a slashdotting, it's junk!" Do you really think it is going to get slashdotted every day?
Hell, just to spite you, I think I will subscribe, and give reviews of some of the books I've read lately. These include "The Best of Leigh Brackett", "The Very Hungry Catepillar", and "The Hacker Ethic".
As other have said, this is how IMDB and CDDB both started. Everything has to start somehow.
Actually, I would argue you should use a word other than "information" for that first statement. "Information" is not a naturally occuring state. "Data" would be a better word there. "Information" is what you get after processing various "Data", along with "Facts" and "Correlations". For example, the data may be '150 degrees Fahrenheit', a fact would be 'water above 120 degrees Fahrenheit will cause burns' and a correlation would be 'a burn from hot water hurts'. The information would then be, 'If you put your hand in the water, you will get a painful burn.'
If I had to do all that processing just to tell you not to put your hand in hot water, I would expect to be compensated for it, even if only with good will. If I didn't warn you, you would be acquiring the data, and processing it youself, at considerable expense in physical well-being. So, I say "No, information is not free."
"how long before we have subscribers getting all of the karma(mirroring and other methods), "
I don't subscribe yet, but I might for this "See the future stories" thing. I couldn't care less about the ads, one way or the other. As far as karma, mine's maxed out, 50 points, excellent, whatever. Why would I karma whore just because I get to see the story before it's slashdotted?
If anything, the moderators would probably not be able to moderate until the story goes live, maybe even for some time after that. Then, when moderators can mod posts, why would they mod karma whoring posts, rather than actual insightful or informative posts. The trolls-in-moderator's-clothing would actually hit those first posts harder actually. So I wouldn't even want to post during that sneak-preview time, let alone whore for karma.
Hmmm, guess that's my "learn something new" for today. I'm going home now.:^)
Seriously, I've never noticed it before. Even with my posts that are modded to 0. Maybe I will do some tests to see. Or maybe it's in the faq.
Thanks for the response. Which, by the way, was at the bottom of the page, where responses to under-threshold comments usually are. It wasn't attached to my original or followup post. Stranger and stranger.
This post got modded down to -1 almost immediately, no surprise. But I still see it when I look at this topic. I have the threshhold set to '1', and there is the normal message at the bottom "14 replies beneath your current threshold." So I shouldn't see any posts that are -1 or 0. But I see this one.
What part of the Slashdot code would let my own below-threshhold post show up but not anyone elses? Maybe because the moderation was a editor rather than a user? What other things could cause this aberration?
Anyone care to test it with their own karma points? The results would be interesting.
When is that damn poll going to go away. I see it finally got 20,000 votes. Is that what they were waiting for? Or is Chris hoping his favorite character will win, if he waits long enough?
I don't even know which character is ahead. I don't watch the show, and couldn't care less who the favorite buffy fluffer is.
C'mon dammit. Give me something about computers to vote on. Or at least the original Star Trek.
Sunlight: skin cancer, sunburn Tobacco--
Cigarettes: lung cancer
Pipes/Cigars: mouth cancer
Chewing: tounge cancer Sugar: diabetes, obesity Salt: high blood pressure Cholesterol: cholesterol Red meat: see cholesterol Chicken--
Meat: full of antibiotics
Eggs: cholesterol Veal: more antibiotics than chicken Jogging: shin splints Running: heart failure Sex: as if we'd know
Please feel free to expand on this list. I am releasing it under the LGPL.
Hey, maybe you could help me. I bought a old record player, Decca brand, and it makes a loud hum from the speaker. Doesn't change when I turn the volume knob. It starts to hum about 20 seconds after I turn it on. The guy I bought it from said I needed to have the vacuum tube replaced. I checked Radio shack and found plenty of older technology parts, but no vacuum tubes. Do you know which 'store' could do that? I don't want to try to do it myself, since I don't know even what type tube it is. It would suck to blow it up with a mismatch.
And for those wondering why I bought it, it was only $5. Even if I can't get it working, it will look nice with my collection of old computers.
That still ignores the possibility that the person reading the message can write the text out on a notepad, and then type it into a Word document and email that to everyone. Or even take pictures with a camera or video with a cam-corder, and show those on a webpage. If a person wants to share a message they received, they will unless they are physically restrained.
Talking of which, I wish someone would put a straight-jacket on my mother, before she sends me more of those chain letters. Sometimes I feel like forwarding them to a spammer address, just so the 800 people shown in the 50 included header segments all get spammed even more. But then I remember it's my mom, and I love her and all that, so I don't.
It is not uncommon for people who make a quiet joke at a party on Friday to disappear with all their family, including cousins, before the weekend is over. They have no due process, they have no court to appeal to, the people are simply gone and never come back.
When people tell me that civilians will die in a war, I tell them that Saddam has already spilled more Iraqi blood than any aggressor. He is not a polite, reasonable man. He kills without thought. His son Uday rapes little girls and chops off the heads of prostitutes on the street.
War or no war, this man needs killing like a rabid dog. And Iraq needs to be free.
I can't verify the claims of course, but have no reason to doubt them.
Osama was not a terrorist when the US supported him. He fought against Russian troops. He didn't fly a plane into the Kremlin and Red Square.
The reason Iraq is supposed to disarm and give up its WDM, and the US is not supposed to do the same, is that Iraq lost the Gulf War and that was one of the stipulations in the peace agreement. The US is just trying to enforce what Iraq already agreed to. This is a UN peace agreement by the way, not just between US and Iraq, so all the countries in the world that are in the United Nations should be agreeing that it should be enforced.
Better watch out there. You are coming close to mentioning a certain time in history with a certain war started by a certain leader of a certain country that did certain things to certain people in certain parts of the world. And once you do that someone gets to say "You lose." I know it's a strange rule, but that's how everyone else plays.
Maybe it's just a big city thing then. Over on the west side of the state I never heard anyone say they were 30 minutes outside of Grand Rapids. Also, don't you know the traffic speed changes several times a day? That is what really gets me, at 9am 45 minutes is about 10 miles, but at noon it can be 30 miles, and at midnight it can be 60 miles. I'm an optimist, I always use the the midnight distance in my calculations.;^)
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Just start the text books by explaining how science fiction has had many ideas that were later 'invented' by scientists.
Pulp scifi in the 1920's talked about ray guns, which all the established scientists ignored, knowing they were impossible. Now we have lasers.
Rocket ships. Same story.
As anyone who read much of Robert A. Heinlein's work knows, he wrote about a bed made out of a soft bladder filled with water. Now waterbeds are taken for granted.
Those people also read about all the beautiful and sexy women in the 'average' scientist's life. Nowadays we have breast implants, nose jobs, face lifts, liposuction, and every other procedure needed to make that a reality.
Finally, every male character, no matter their age, could please all those women all night. Viola, Viagra.
See how interesting they could make science if they really tried?
[voice=Homer]
And I guess you are using some sort of network connection that doesn't use a wire. It's like the cable router somehow senses the computer's need to transmit data, and the router just picks the data out of the air. And then when the router has data for the computer it just thinks about the data really hard, and the computer reads its thoughts. Sure, Lisa. You have a magical cable router, that can send and receive data wirelessly. do-di-do-di-do...
Four day week, huh? Must be nice. :^P
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We had to replace our plastic butter dish and electric buffet range (we have a _very_ small kitchen) once, because I didn't notice the burner was still on the '1' setting after someone made soup. I took the cover off the butter dish and sat it on the burner, buttered my bread, and when I picked up the cover, it was melted to the burner. That sucked. Now we unplug the damn burners when they are not in use.
That last line was great. You should make it your sig. I sat here thinking "Who the hell is Connor McWhatever?" Then it sank in, and I read the rest. Great joke, really.
By the way, why does he pronounce it McCloud, when it's not spelled that way? "I'm Connor McCloud of the clan McCloud." But then when I see it spelled out, I think "That should be "I'm Connor McClee-od of the clan McClee-od."" Do the Scottish just pronounce "eo" as "ow"?
Well no, but then I don't use widgets. I do wish though that the US would lift the embargo of Cuba. Or at least let only tobacco products through.
Dude, you spelled "pelicans" wrong.
What? You've never been in the middle of a Word document, and tried to add one of the "features" they trumpet, only to have the entire damn document go ape-shit?
It's happened to me a few times. I no longer use the special features such as Bullets, Auto-numbering items, indentations, any tab other than left or decimal, or Format Painter. If something goes wrong, you have no idea why, because you can't see the codes to know what the stupid word processor is doing to the document. All I know is suddenly an entire document that was lined up nicely is totally butchered because I tried to indent one paragraph as a blockquote.
Sure, I can use the Undo button to get it back how it was, but then I spend half an hour trying to get the program to do what I want it to do. Better to just save myself the grief. I would go with WordPerfect in an heartbeat, but we are on the MS bandwagon here, and it's not my choice.
So, it looks amateurish, and can't survive /.ing. Big deal. It is an amateur site, now. Maybe it will grow in the future, but it certainly won't grow if everyone has your attitude. "Hell, it can't even survive a slashdotting, it's junk!" Do you really think it is going to get slashdotted every day?
Hell, just to spite you, I think I will subscribe, and give reviews of some of the books I've read lately. These include "The Best of Leigh Brackett", "The Very Hungry Catepillar", and "The Hacker Ethic".
As other have said, this is how IMDB and CDDB both started. Everything has to start somehow.
In my opinion, you sir, are an idiot. ...
;^)
My god, you're right.
Actually, I would argue you should use a word other than "information" for that first statement. "Information" is not a naturally occuring state. "Data" would be a better word there. "Information" is what you get after processing various "Data", along with "Facts" and "Correlations". For example, the data may be '150 degrees Fahrenheit', a fact would be 'water above 120 degrees Fahrenheit will cause burns' and a correlation would be 'a burn from hot water hurts'. The information would then be, 'If you put your hand in the water, you will get a painful burn.'
If I had to do all that processing just to tell you not to put your hand in hot water, I would expect to be compensated for it, even if only with good will. If I didn't warn you, you would be acquiring the data, and processing it youself, at considerable expense in physical well-being. So, I say "No, information is not free."
"how long before we have subscribers getting all of the karma(mirroring and other methods), "
I don't subscribe yet, but I might for this "See the future stories" thing. I couldn't care less about the ads, one way or the other. As far as karma, mine's maxed out, 50 points, excellent, whatever. Why would I karma whore just because I get to see the story before it's slashdotted?
If anything, the moderators would probably not be able to moderate until the story goes live, maybe even for some time after that. Then, when moderators can mod posts, why would they mod karma whoring posts, rather than actual insightful or informative posts. The trolls-in-moderator's-clothing would actually hit those first posts harder actually. So I wouldn't even want to post during that sneak-preview time, let alone whore for karma.
Hmmm, guess that's my "learn something new" for today. I'm going home now. :^)
Seriously, I've never noticed it before. Even with my posts that are modded to 0. Maybe I will do some tests to see. Or maybe it's in the faq.
Thanks for the response. Which, by the way, was at the bottom of the page, where responses to under-threshold comments usually are. It wasn't attached to my original or followup post. Stranger and stranger.
This post got modded down to -1 almost immediately, no surprise. But I still see it when I look at this topic. I have the threshhold set to '1', and there is the normal message at the bottom "14 replies beneath your current threshold." So I shouldn't see any posts that are -1 or 0. But I see this one.
What part of the Slashdot code would let my own below-threshhold post show up but not anyone elses? Maybe because the moderation was a editor rather than a user? What other things could cause this aberration?
Anyone care to test it with their own karma points? The results would be interesting.
When is that damn poll going to go away. I see it finally got 20,000 votes. Is that what they were waiting for? Or is Chris hoping his favorite character will win, if he waits long enough?
I don't even know which character is ahead. I don't watch the show, and couldn't care less who the favorite buffy fluffer is.
C'mon dammit. Give me something about computers to vote on. Or at least the original Star Trek.
Well, let's go down the list and see:
Sunlight: skin cancer, sunburn
Tobacco--
Cigarettes: lung cancer
Pipes/Cigars: mouth cancer
Chewing: tounge cancer
Sugar: diabetes, obesity
Salt: high blood pressure
Cholesterol: cholesterol
Red meat: see cholesterol
Chicken--
Meat: full of antibiotics
Eggs: cholesterol
Veal: more antibiotics than chicken
Jogging: shin splints
Running: heart failure
Sex: as if we'd know
Please feel free to expand on this list. I am releasing it under the LGPL.
Hey, maybe you could help me. I bought a old record player, Decca brand, and it makes a loud hum from the speaker. Doesn't change when I turn the volume knob. It starts to hum about 20 seconds after I turn it on. The guy I bought it from said I needed to have the vacuum tube replaced. I checked Radio shack and found plenty of older technology parts, but no vacuum tubes. Do you know which 'store' could do that? I don't want to try to do it myself, since I don't know even what type tube it is. It would suck to blow it up with a mismatch.
And for those wondering why I bought it, it was only $5. Even if I can't get it working, it will look nice with my collection of old computers.
That still ignores the possibility that the person reading the message can write the text out on a notepad, and then type it into a Word document and email that to everyone. Or even take pictures with a camera or video with a cam-corder, and show those on a webpage. If a person wants to share a message they received, they will unless they are physically restrained.
Talking of which, I wish someone would put a straight-jacket on my mother, before she sends me more of those chain letters. Sometimes I feel like forwarding them to a spammer address, just so the 800 people shown in the 50 included header segments all get spammed even more. But then I remember it's my mom, and I love her and all that, so I don't.
I can't verify the claims of course, but have no reason to doubt them.
[ComicBookGuy]
Worst haiku . . . ever.
[/ComicBookGuy)]
Three points:
You left out Nagasaki.
Osama was not a terrorist when the US supported him. He fought against Russian troops. He didn't fly a plane into the Kremlin and Red Square.
The reason Iraq is supposed to disarm and give up its WDM, and the US is not supposed to do the same, is that Iraq lost the Gulf War and that was one of the stipulations in the peace agreement. The US is just trying to enforce what Iraq already agreed to. This is a UN peace agreement by the way, not just between US and Iraq, so all the countries in the world that are in the United Nations should be agreeing that it should be enforced.
Better watch out there. You are coming close to mentioning a certain time in history with a certain war started by a certain leader of a certain country that did certain things to certain people in certain parts of the world. And once you do that someone gets to say "You lose." I know it's a strange rule, but that's how everyone else plays.
Maybe it's just a big city thing then. Over on the west side of the state I never heard anyone say they were 30 minutes outside of Grand Rapids. Also, don't you know the traffic speed changes several times a day? That is what really gets me, at 9am 45 minutes is about 10 miles, but at noon it can be 30 miles, and at midnight it can be 60 miles. I'm an optimist, I always use the the midnight distance in my calculations. ;^)
"uuhhhhh, bigger is better only if it says Intel Inside, ...!" ...with blue men and people in iridescent environment suits dancing around it.