There are at least a couple of Freemasonry orders where you as part of the rites of ascending in rank have to sacrifice a live animal.
Yeah... unless you can back that one up, I'm going to have to call bullshit on that.
The technical term for this ritual is "Going out to Hooters with the guys for beers and wings", and yes it does involve the sacrifice of dozens of animals. The fact that the actual slaughter is conducted by anointed priests in a remote temple does nothing to change it.
You don't even want to know the body count of the "Putting some burgers on the grill" ceremony. It's abominable.
If mixing metaphors were illegal...
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Recomputing the Sky
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It's like going from Super Mario Brothers on 1985-era Nintendo consoles to Halo 2 on Xbox 360s
You mean the sky it gets a whole lot easier, starts holding your hard and tells you which stars to look at?
Or can we now look at the old night sky on our mobile phones using emulators, now that the new night sky is filled with nerd-raging teenaged frat boys?
Well...see above comment regarding the important bits, but I'll repeat it for you since you could not be bothered to RTFA.
Maybe I wasn't clear enough for everybody.
If I have to read the entire article just to figure out what the article is about, then what is the point of the summary?
If the summary assumes that I already know everything that is in the article, then what is the point of linking the article at all?
My point is not that I demand that all articles be pre-digested and rewritten in terms understandable to even the most mentally incompetent mouth-breather (There's always C-Net for that), it is that the quality of that summary was abysmal even by Slashdot's traditionally subterranean standards. It was nothing more than a cut-and-paste of a section which had itself been cut-and-pasted from another source, and made no effort to convey any information at all being "Wow, look at what I can do with control V!" Considering the average lifespan of a slashdotted web server is measured in minutes with mirrors and caches being unreliable at best, posting a link and going to the effort of attaching a summary entirely devoid of useful information is just a waste of everybody's time.
What that means is: If you're going to write, then write. If you're not going to bother writing, don't.
An eFuse is... what exactly? Why should I care about it? How is it connected to a "Droid X", whatever that is?
Really, what's the purpose of an article summary if not to summarize the important bits of the article? If this keeps up I'm going to need more red pens.
The only issue with your post is that because this is Slashdot, people may assume that "library" means code library in such a context, rather than "collection of".
To be more accurate, because this is Slashdot people will misinterpret anything that you say in whatever way is possible just so that they can disagree with you.
And everything that you said about ducks is completely and totally wrong. Stupid git.
That is actually one of the most significant problems with HTML5. It provides no way for the video to maximize to full screen and is actually even against such functionality with JavaScript
I don't see this as a problem. The last thing I need is for random pages to be able hijack the entire screen without my consent. If I want something to be full screen, I will make it that way myself, and then turn it back off again when I want to.
If you don't see why this is in your best interest, please start up Internet Explorer 6 and start browsing porn sites until you achieve enlightenment.
Now probably isn't the best time to tell them the Sun is a giant radio, amongst other things.
The sun emits light and heat as well, in proportions which most life on Earth has evolved to deal with. Strangely increasing that light and heat with a magnifying glass seems to have negative results on the growth patterns of ants.
Just because someone sounds like a crackpot doesn't always mean that they are wrong. Even a stopped clock wearing a tinfoil hat which is convinced that 9/11 was an inside job masterminded by Elvis and JFK as part of their plan to infect children with autism through vaccinations can be right sometimes.
"As an aspiring social scientist preparing to apply to Ph.D. programs"
Why?
Are you independently wealthy and feel that having a bonfire is an insufficiently showy way to destroy a quarter million dollars? Or do you think that your name would sound a lot better with 'Dr' in front of it?
Because I can't think of any other reason to go for a PhD. Unless you think that once you graduate you're going to be one of the three people on the entire continent who somehow manages to get a University job teaching the next generation of misguided students who think that a PhD is a good idea too. And that's just crazy, seeing as most universities can barely afford to keep the faculty they already have and think that "tenure" is a dirty word.
Entering a PhD program may be an effective way to fill the next ten years of your life, but it's not going to help you work in your field. Unless your idea of "working in your field" is traveling to three different schools a week to teach undergraduates while taking home less than minimum wage, in which case you still don't need anything more than a Masters degree.
Why not save yourself some time and aggravation? Borrow a couple hundred thousand dollars from the bank, use it to buy a small sledge hammer and about twenty bottles of Night Train, head down to the waterfront and burn all of the remaining money in a barrel. While you're doing that share all of the wine with whoever else happens to be there and after about two hours of hard drinking and vomiting, try to convince them all to provide feedback on your research. Or ask them what colour the moon is. If you can wake one of the slobbering drunks long enough to tell you "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun", then you win. Oh, and the sledge hammer? Smash yourself in the forehead with it every two minutes, and twice if you start to feel like you're making progress.
Congratulations, you've just had the full experience of a PhD program in only one weekend, saving you countless years of otherwise wasted time. For the extended experience make sure to put your drunken binge on your resume whenever you apply for a job, guaranteeing that you will be passed over in favour of someone younger and saner, and try to pay off the huge loan you took out for the rest of your life.
Imagine Apple said, "We won't use iOS on new versions of the iPad, but we'll keep developing it for the iPhone and iPod. iPads will use the full OS X." Would that mean iOS is dead too?
If you wanted an Apple analogy, try "We won't use MacOS 9 for new versions of our desktops and notebooks, but you can still run it on your old hardware. Our new line will use only OS X." And then one year later this happened.
While the Symbian software may be alive and well, its biggest supporter has decided that it is no longer a viable product in the smart phone market and is phasing it out in favour of the Next Big Thing. That's what they do.
Really? They say "We will use Symbian in all but one of our lines, the ones where we sell ~75% of our smartphones", and you see that as "Symbian is dead"? Really?
Last year 100% of their smartphones used Symbian. This year it is 75%. It's not going to stay at 75% next year, though. Can you buy a phone with Symbian OS 6? No, they were phased out in 2003 in favour of Symbian 7. Can you still buy that? Nope, it was kicked to the curb in 2005 so that Symbian 8 and 9 could replace it. If you replace the words "Symbian 10.0" with "Meego" then the next step is obvious.
That would depend on whether or not I'm telling passers-by that they're schmucks for shopping for food at supermarkets instead of growing their own free food.
He doesn't understand the issue, so he asked a question. Sorry that offends your sensibilities.
Clearly he doesn't understand the way we do things here. If you don't understand the issue, pretend that you do. If you do understand the issue, read the other comments, hold your head in your hands and rock back and forth hoping that the pain will stop.
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The technical term for this ritual is "Going out to Hooters with the guys for beers and wings", and yes it does involve the sacrifice of dozens of animals. The fact that the actual slaughter is conducted by anointed priests in a remote temple does nothing to change it.
You don't even want to know the body count of the "Putting some burgers on the grill" ceremony. It's abominable.
That's about 960 degrees R or 85 degrees N.
No matter how poorly Windows Phone 7 does, Microsoft has done everything in its power to ensure that it lasts longer than its predecessor, the Kin.
854,000 people can keep a secret, if 853.999 of them are dead.
Wow. That would make it the only movie in Hollywood history to show a profit.
That Costner is a genius!
Thanks for volunteering.
You mean the sky it gets a whole lot easier, starts holding your hard and tells you which stars to look at?
Or can we now look at the old night sky on our mobile phones using emulators, now that the new night sky is filled with nerd-raging teenaged frat boys?
Maybe I wasn't clear enough for everybody.
If I have to read the entire article just to figure out what the article is about, then what is the point of the summary?
If the summary assumes that I already know everything that is in the article, then what is the point of linking the article at all?
My point is not that I demand that all articles be pre-digested and rewritten in terms understandable to even the most mentally incompetent mouth-breather (There's always C-Net for that), it is that the quality of that summary was abysmal even by Slashdot's traditionally subterranean standards. It was nothing more than a cut-and-paste of a section which had itself been cut-and-pasted from another source, and made no effort to convey any information at all being "Wow, look at what I can do with control V!" Considering the average lifespan of a slashdotted web server is measured in minutes with mirrors and caches being unreliable at best, posting a link and going to the effort of attaching a summary entirely devoid of useful information is just a waste of everybody's time.
What that means is: If you're going to write, then write. If you're not going to bother writing, don't.
An eFuse is... what exactly? Why should I care about it? How is it connected to a "Droid X", whatever that is?
Really, what's the purpose of an article summary if not to summarize the important bits of the article? If this keeps up I'm going to need more red pens.
I think the phrase you were looking for was "None of them there games are HTML5, yay boy."
To be more accurate, because this is Slashdot people will misinterpret anything that you say in whatever way is possible just so that they can disagree with you.
And everything that you said about ducks is completely and totally wrong. Stupid git.
I don't see this as a problem. The last thing I need is for random pages to be able hijack the entire screen without my consent. If I want something to be full screen, I will make it that way myself, and then turn it back off again when I want to.
If you don't see why this is in your best interest, please start up Internet Explorer 6 and start browsing porn sites until you achieve enlightenment.
If by "heavily based" you mean "Could get you thrown out of school for plagiarism", then yes, yes it was heavily based on that.
Then it's time to trot out Spider Robinson's short story "Melancholy Elephants", which was thoughtfully released under a Creative Commons NonCommercial license.
Share and enjoy.
The sun emits light and heat as well, in proportions which most life on Earth has evolved to deal with. Strangely increasing that light and heat with a magnifying glass seems to have negative results on the growth patterns of ants.
Just because someone sounds like a crackpot doesn't always mean that they are wrong. Even a stopped clock wearing a tinfoil hat which is convinced that 9/11 was an inside job masterminded by Elvis and JFK as part of their plan to infect children with autism through vaccinations can be right sometimes.
You also read Slashdot.
All those numbers can't be good for you. Math is hard. Let's go shopping.
Why?
Are you independently wealthy and feel that having a bonfire is an insufficiently showy way to destroy a quarter million dollars? Or do you think that your name would sound a lot better with 'Dr' in front of it?
Because I can't think of any other reason to go for a PhD. Unless you think that once you graduate you're going to be one of the three people on the entire continent who somehow manages to get a University job teaching the next generation of misguided students who think that a PhD is a good idea too. And that's just crazy, seeing as most universities can barely afford to keep the faculty they already have and think that "tenure" is a dirty word.
Entering a PhD program may be an effective way to fill the next ten years of your life, but it's not going to help you work in your field. Unless your idea of "working in your field" is traveling to three different schools a week to teach undergraduates while taking home less than minimum wage, in which case you still don't need anything more than a Masters degree.
Why not save yourself some time and aggravation? Borrow a couple hundred thousand dollars from the bank, use it to buy a small sledge hammer and about twenty bottles of Night Train, head down to the waterfront and burn all of the remaining money in a barrel. While you're doing that share all of the wine with whoever else happens to be there and after about two hours of hard drinking and vomiting, try to convince them all to provide feedback on your research. Or ask them what colour the moon is. If you can wake one of the slobbering drunks long enough to tell you "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun", then you win. Oh, and the sledge hammer? Smash yourself in the forehead with it every two minutes, and twice if you start to feel like you're making progress.
Congratulations, you've just had the full experience of a PhD program in only one weekend, saving you countless years of otherwise wasted time. For the extended experience make sure to put your drunken binge on your resume whenever you apply for a job, guaranteeing that you will be passed over in favour of someone younger and saner, and try to pay off the huge loan you took out for the rest of your life.
If you wanted an Apple analogy, try "We won't use MacOS 9 for new versions of our desktops and notebooks, but you can still run it on your old hardware. Our new line will use only OS X." And then one year later this happened.
While the Symbian software may be alive and well, its biggest supporter has decided that it is no longer a viable product in the smart phone market and is phasing it out in favour of the Next Big Thing. That's what they do.
Last year 100% of their smartphones used Symbian. This year it is 75%. It's not going to stay at 75% next year, though. Can you buy a phone with Symbian OS 6? No, they were phased out in 2003 in favour of Symbian 7. Can you still buy that? Nope, it was kicked to the curb in 2005 so that Symbian 8 and 9 could replace it. If you replace the words "Symbian 10.0" with "Meego" then the next step is obvious.
Well, technically Nokia says so, but what would they know about phones?
Or, better yet, if you were being paid half a million pounds to be the spokesperson for a supermarket but still told passers by that you would never shop there.
Sometimes it's worth paying attention to the people whom you work for, or who work for you.
Yes, I used to have high expectations too. Then reality met me in a dark alley holding a two-by-metaphor and I changed to my outlook.
Clearly he doesn't understand the way we do things here. If you don't understand the issue, pretend that you do. If you do understand the issue, read the other comments, hold your head in your hands and rock back and forth hoping that the pain will stop.
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The Bank of San Seriffe is going to start issuing its own currency.