Screw Farscape, what we *need* is a grassroots movement to bring back Miss Cleo commercials. We'll start by taking up a collection to pay off her legal troubles...Clinton-style!
...but one thought I had after reading that article was this: Betterly has clearly put in a significant effort into her spam. She's described as a very effective broker and negotiator. But, it's really only then that she make good profits. To me this means that it's a nice thing realizing that the average person that believes his average tech skills might be enough to pump spam and make profit off of 0.0001% response is going to fail. It takes a bit more effort and something other than meager tech skills to make something of it.
I also wonder how many people are going to egg her house tonight?
Other noble thoughts...
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"Having Linux and open source as a crucial part of studio operations may help executives rethink their corporate position on open source and Linux issues."
If my grocery store has a super friendly cashier then maybe the marketing executives will rethink their privacy-invading club-card discount crap?
If I have a Mac at home then maybe I will become a good artist?
If 18,000 peace activists sit in a stadium thinking about world peace then maybe we'll have it?
We need a new Slashdot feature. MT SMS messages alerting us all whenever BrokenPipe buys another game for his wonderful Playstation2 setup. The crap that is posted boggles the mind.
So...what? You suggest is that the cars don't touch anything; it's not a snug fit? I suppose then that the cars kinda bounce around within the tube?
Let's see what the silly high-school paper mentions:
"travel in the tubes on thin steel wheels or on nearly frictionless Maglev"
Let's ignore the thin steel wheels. As for maglev- it's one thing to make a car hover. Another thing to make it stay centered in a tube that curves left/right and probably pitches up/down as well (if you want a useful system in a city like San Francisco or Seattle). There goes your grand energy savings. You can calculate the energy required to overcome inertia in a turn.
I won't call you a moron...you make it too easy.
PS: You might be interested in my forthcoming patent: maglev dishware which automatically brings food to me for less than 2% of the energy it normally requires for me to walk from the couch to the fridge.
Oh, you mean like Google's cache? The FAQ about why caching isn't done here doesn't actually say why. It simply states a few obstacles, and even some solutions, and then merely drops off with a punt of the issue. IE: Anything difficult is not done here. Slashdot works because it's a fun kind of news category. Yahoo has "odd news" and "tech news", etc... Slashdot represents such a category. The rest is trivial and not implemented in any spectacular way.
We've also all heard that every single one of the so-called planets have been determined false. The wobble spazm is a bogus technique. I'm sure that there are some "extra-solar" planets out there...but so far exactly zero have been found.
Where's the choice "all of the above"? I think these dudes have been showering with JKatz and a soap-on-rope. How else can these stories be getting so gay?
No, AppleScript is not required to get the slide show set up to automatically run on start-up.
But, AppleScript could be used for anything else that you want a keyboard for.
Also, don't worry about needing another older Mac for networking. Just put the frame on your ethernet network with an Ethernet to LocalTalk bridge, such as "Farallon EtherMac iPrint Adapter LT" or "AsanteTalk".
My problem with the Duo is I was never happy with the screen. Also, I'd prefer a machine that could use cheaper tiny harddrives. So, I guess if I made one of these I might put a slim CD drive in it, too.
What's more...I didn't even need to read your reply to know about your lack of a social life. The fact that anyone would reply to my post tells me all I need to know... LOL
I only needed to watch about 1 minute of 1 episode to realize that the show is crap. I'll be happy to send them a letter saying "thank you for ending it". Well, there is one reason I'd encourage them to keep the show...if after killing the show, what if they fill the extra hour of time with even more "Crossing Over" crap? That whole channel has become so retarded.
Slashdot certainly does not "rock". It's one of the better glorified bookmark sites with usually interesting link-aways. Besides the links, the actual comments here are generally sucky, the editors are spaztics with retarded political opinions, and everyone thinks they're a genius (including me). But, you're right...the Internet would be a little more boring without it.
This is not a problem that needs a "scalable" solution to work. Serving up articles is, but the process of reviewing submitted articles for publication has absolutely zero requirement for scalability. Another non-engineer repeating buzzwords...
Yes! I *am* cheering for this GI Joe Magnifying surgery. Insightfully clever. The humor was both subtle and heartwarming. It is the author's natural exuberance that makes him so darn endearing.
However, I will truly be excited when, finally, the AMA endorses surgery techniques based on my research which involved firecrackers and gardner snakes.
How did you get scored "off topic"?? I would have scored you totally correct and on-topic. But then again, I'm not a lame slashdot moderator....don't get me started....
I have a similar question...but I'm looking for a player that works on a 7 mile run. While everyone is busy researching 8 mile MP3 players for that dude, keep an eye-ball open for one for me, too, eh?? Thanks, because I'm too stinking lazy to do it myself.
Our DVD player gets a decent amount of adult use with NetFlix rentals. But, the real big-time users of our DVD player are our kids. For those that say "solli" is being impatient and should just pick his nose for 12 seconds instead of fretting over unskippable chapters on a disc...you don't have kids. You don't know how annoying it is, when you have zero interest in watching the movie yourself...but need to wait (not 12 seconds, but 2 minutes) before the menu comes up just so you can finally press the enter button. Then, your one kid can see his movie while you put have a chance to put your younger kid in bed for a nap. Then, finally get back to some house work.
Here's an idea I'd love to see in a PC-based DVD player...something kind of like ID tags in MP3 songs and the whole CDDB thing. You pop in a DVD and some CDDB-like-thing is queried for a hint for where to find the *real* start of the thing. If not in the DB then you can choose to contribute the info. Then, you can choose to use this info or not.
There should be "whistle blower" protection.
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A while back I worked with as a contractor to NOAA and the Coast Guard for 8 years on oil spills. It's pretty routine to use a spill to study different spill recovery techniques. Surface skimming, high-pressure hot-water wash, all kinds of things. In-situ burning works well (my friend Al Allen, Spiltec, has done a huge amount of work in this field and tells some really cool stories...dang, should've invited him to the BBQ). At the Exxon Valdez spill many dozens of contractor-wanna-be's came around hoping to sell "technology". The funniest I saw was a video tape from Body Glove (seriously) showing two employees attempting to use an absorbant pad and both ended up slipping and falling into the oily water (well, guess it's one of those "had to see it" to be funny). Anyways, some of the beach segments set aside to study BioRemediation (is what it's called) have shown impressive results; such as at Montague Island. The bacteria is NOT a virus. It is NOT customized. And it DOES NOT get out of control and destroy the planet's oil reserves. That is simply a STUPID thought. If you believe that something like that could happen, then why don't you also believe that the Army should not bomb a fuel depot? What if the fuel depot caught fire in the bombing (which it would) and then the fire spread around the world and burned up all the fuel?!?!?! OH NO!! BioRemediation used as a weapon is NOT a kind of Ice-9 expirement gone bad! Oh, if you don't know...Ice-9 is a myth where some general during WWI or II or something was supposedly tired of marching his mean through knee-deep mud. So, scientists invent a substance to poor into the mud, causing the water in it to freeze...but a change reaction would occur and the entire planet would freeze because of the water that is within basically everything. People that enjoy crop-circles and chupacabra might believe in Ice-9...or even BioRemediation weaponry gone awry.
"compared to the increasingly elephantine Skywalker saga, which seems more like a graduate program than a story each time there's a new movie"... hmm, seems like Katz was busy reading the New York Times review of the movie. A.O.Scott wrote a clever and interesting review. Katz, obviously "borrowed" from that, but didn't manage to borrow the "clever" or "interesting" factors. What an idiot. OK...I understand that there's a feature here somewhere such that all Katz postings never show up for me, eh? Time to make use of that!!
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Screw Farscape, what we *need* is a grassroots movement to bring back Miss Cleo commercials. We'll start by taking up a collection to pay off her legal troubles...Clinton-style!
...but one thought I had after reading that article was this: Betterly has clearly put in a significant effort into her spam. She's described as a very effective broker and negotiator. But, it's really only then that she make good profits. To me this means that it's a nice thing realizing that the average person that believes his average tech skills might be enough to pump spam and make profit off of 0.0001% response is going to fail. It takes a bit more effort and something other than meager tech skills to make something of it.
I also wonder how many people are going to egg her house tonight?
"Having Linux and open source as a crucial part of studio operations may help executives rethink their corporate position on open source and Linux issues."
If my grocery store has a super friendly cashier then maybe the marketing executives will rethink their privacy-invading club-card discount crap?
If I have a Mac at home then maybe I will become a good artist?
If 18,000 peace activists sit in a stadium thinking about world peace then maybe we'll have it?
We need a new Slashdot feature. MT SMS messages alerting us all whenever BrokenPipe buys another game for his wonderful Playstation2 setup. The crap that is posted boggles the mind.
So...what? You suggest is that the cars don't touch anything; it's not a snug fit? I suppose then that the cars kinda bounce around within the tube? Let's see what the silly high-school paper mentions: "travel in the tubes on thin steel wheels or on nearly frictionless Maglev" Let's ignore the thin steel wheels. As for maglev- it's one thing to make a car hover. Another thing to make it stay centered in a tube that curves left/right and probably pitches up/down as well (if you want a useful system in a city like San Francisco or Seattle). There goes your grand energy savings. You can calculate the energy required to overcome inertia in a turn. I won't call you a moron...you make it too easy. PS: You might be interested in my forthcoming patent: maglev dishware which automatically brings food to me for less than 2% of the energy it normally requires for me to walk from the couch to the fridge.
"Air is permanently removed from the tubes; so travel takes place without friction."
So, air is the only source of friction?? Well, lucky for me, then, the disc brakes in my car must be full of air!
Lately, my 5-year-old son enjoys the word "moron". It might apply.
Oh, you mean like Google's cache? The FAQ about why caching isn't done here doesn't actually say why. It simply states a few obstacles, and even some solutions, and then merely drops off with a punt of the issue. IE: Anything difficult is not done here. Slashdot works because it's a fun kind of news category. Yahoo has "odd news" and "tech news", etc... Slashdot represents such a category. The rest is trivial and not implemented in any spectacular way.
We've also all heard that every single one of the so-called planets have been determined false. The wobble spazm is a bogus technique. I'm sure that there are some "extra-solar" planets out there...but so far exactly zero have been found.
Scientists have also found that much more water exists than previously thought...in your butthole.
Where's the choice "all of the above"? I think these dudes have been showering with JKatz and a soap-on-rope. How else can these stories be getting so gay?
No, AppleScript is not required to get the slide show set up to automatically run on start-up. But, AppleScript could be used for anything else that you want a keyboard for. Also, don't worry about needing another older Mac for networking. Just put the frame on your ethernet network with an Ethernet to LocalTalk bridge, such as "Farallon EtherMac iPrint Adapter LT" or "AsanteTalk". My problem with the Duo is I was never happy with the screen. Also, I'd prefer a machine that could use cheaper tiny harddrives. So, I guess if I made one of these I might put a slim CD drive in it, too.
What's more...I didn't even need to read your reply to know about your lack of a social life. The fact that anyone would reply to my post tells me all I need to know... LOL
I only needed to watch about 1 minute of 1 episode to realize that the show is crap. I'll be happy to send them a letter saying "thank you for ending it". Well, there is one reason I'd encourage them to keep the show...if after killing the show, what if they fill the extra hour of time with even more "Crossing Over" crap? That whole channel has become so retarded.
Slashdot certainly does not "rock". It's one of the better glorified bookmark sites with usually interesting link-aways. Besides the links, the actual comments here are generally sucky, the editors are spaztics with retarded political opinions, and everyone thinks they're a genius (including me). But, you're right...the Internet would be a little more boring without it.
This is not a problem that needs a "scalable" solution to work. Serving up articles is, but the process of reviewing submitted articles for publication has absolutely zero requirement for scalability. Another non-engineer repeating buzzwords...
Yes, someone *did* say that. It was me. I also am known for saying "you couldn't tell the difference between bear poop and apple butter".
Yes! I *am* cheering for this GI Joe Magnifying surgery. Insightfully clever. The humor was both subtle and heartwarming. It is the author's natural exuberance that makes him so darn endearing. However, I will truly be excited when, finally, the AMA endorses surgery techniques based on my research which involved firecrackers and gardner snakes.
How did you get scored "off topic"?? I would have scored you totally correct and on-topic. But then again, I'm not a lame slashdot moderator....don't get me started....
I have a similar question...but I'm looking for a player that works on a 7 mile run. While everyone is busy researching 8 mile MP3 players for that dude, keep an eye-ball open for one for me, too, eh?? Thanks, because I'm too stinking lazy to do it myself.
Thank you for keeping the suck-level high on slashdot.
Our DVD player gets a decent amount of adult use with NetFlix rentals. But, the real big-time users of our DVD player are our kids. For those that say "solli" is being impatient and should just pick his nose for 12 seconds instead of fretting over unskippable chapters on a disc...you don't have kids. You don't know how annoying it is, when you have zero interest in watching the movie yourself...but need to wait (not 12 seconds, but 2 minutes) before the menu comes up just so you can finally press the enter button. Then, your one kid can see his movie while you put have a chance to put your younger kid in bed for a nap. Then, finally get back to some house work. Here's an idea I'd love to see in a PC-based DVD player...something kind of like ID tags in MP3 songs and the whole CDDB thing. You pop in a DVD and some CDDB-like-thing is queried for a hint for where to find the *real* start of the thing. If not in the DB then you can choose to contribute the info. Then, you can choose to use this info or not.
Yap.
A while back I worked with as a contractor to NOAA and the Coast Guard for 8 years on oil spills. It's pretty routine to use a spill to study different spill recovery techniques. Surface skimming, high-pressure hot-water wash, all kinds of things. In-situ burning works well (my friend Al Allen, Spiltec, has done a huge amount of work in this field and tells some really cool stories...dang, should've invited him to the BBQ). At the Exxon Valdez spill many dozens of contractor-wanna-be's came around hoping to sell "technology". The funniest I saw was a video tape from Body Glove (seriously) showing two employees attempting to use an absorbant pad and both ended up slipping and falling into the oily water (well, guess it's one of those "had to see it" to be funny). Anyways, some of the beach segments set aside to study BioRemediation (is what it's called) have shown impressive results; such as at Montague Island. The bacteria is NOT a virus. It is NOT customized. And it DOES NOT get out of control and destroy the planet's oil reserves. That is simply a STUPID thought. If you believe that something like that could happen, then why don't you also believe that the Army should not bomb a fuel depot? What if the fuel depot caught fire in the bombing (which it would) and then the fire spread around the world and burned up all the fuel?!?!?! OH NO!! BioRemediation used as a weapon is NOT a kind of Ice-9 expirement gone bad! Oh, if you don't know...Ice-9 is a myth where some general during WWI or II or something was supposedly tired of marching his mean through knee-deep mud. So, scientists invent a substance to poor into the mud, causing the water in it to freeze...but a change reaction would occur and the entire planet would freeze because of the water that is within basically everything. People that enjoy crop-circles and chupacabra might believe in Ice-9...or even BioRemediation weaponry gone awry.
http://money.cnn.com/2002/05/14/technology/ps2_pri cecuts/index.htm
But, who the heck cares? I'm still waiting for a price drop on something more interesting. Like, toothpaste.
"compared to the increasingly elephantine Skywalker saga, which seems more like a graduate program than a story each time there's a new movie"... hmm, seems like Katz was busy reading the New York Times review of the movie. A.O.Scott wrote a clever and interesting review. Katz, obviously "borrowed" from that, but didn't manage to borrow the "clever" or "interesting" factors. What an idiot. OK...I understand that there's a feature here somewhere such that all Katz postings never show up for me, eh? Time to make use of that!!