Dear Rear-Admiral Arthur Mellish Winstanley (Mrs.),
As a Slashdot editor I abhor the implication that the website is a haven for cannibalism. It is well known that we now have the problem relatively under control, and that it is ThinkGeek who now suffer the largest casualties in this area. And where do you think they get their caffeine from? Arabs?
Yours etc.
Cmdr. Taco in a white wine sauce with shallots, mushrooms and garlic
Can you name the truck with four wheel drive, Smells like a steak, and seats thirty five? Canyonero! Canyonero! Well, it goes real slow with the hammer down It's the country-fried truck endorsed by a clown Canyonero! Canyonero! Hey, hey! Twelve yards long, two lanes wide, Sixty five tons of American pride! Canyonero! Canyonero! Top of the line in utility sports, Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts! Canyonero! Canyonero! She blinds everybody with her super high beams She's a squirrel-squashin', deer-smackin' drivin' machine Canyonero! Canyonero! Canyonero! Whoa, Canyonero! Whoa!
It's interesting that you called it a kid's show. Originally, that's exactly what it was: for the first five years or so, the time travel premise was used as a way to teach history for schoolchildren. Without the TARDIS, the best they could realistically do was to either have a typical documentary format, or be stuck in one time period with the characters. Many of the Hartnell episodes reflect this, with adventures involving the Crusades, the Roman Empire, the Mongols, the Wild West, you name it.
Of course, with early successes like the Daleks, they realized that the sci-fi storylines were keeping kids interested in the show as well, so they kept producing them. Eventually, new topics in world history that they hadn't covered became more scarce, so more science fiction crept in, and with it came older viewers as well. The Pertwee era shows the focus change well, with plenty of UNIT gunfights and the like in nearly every story. I'd cover later evolution in this thread, but I think previous posters covered it better than I would.
And so ends the Doctor Who history lesson for the day.
You may have some difficulty with that. The last I heard, there are only something like eleven PBS stations that currently run episodes. It's a far cry from the eighties, when hundreds of stations were buying the rights to transmit, despite the high cost. Even some of the larger PBS stations have dropped it, including the behemoth WGBH in Boston. Apparently there wasn't enough interest for them.
In case you happen to live in New England, WENH channel 11 in Durham, New Hampshire still shows them. It's an awful time slot (I recall it's at about midnight on Thursday, two episodes back-to-back, then rerun at midnight on Saturday), but at least it's there.
I'd also like to know some results from subsets of this statistic. For example:
How many of that billion are in North America? In Europe? Japan? In landfills?
How many are 286 processors? 386?...Pentium 4?
How many were bought from Dell, Gateway, etc., and how many were built from scratch? Also, define "PCs sold." Is a processor a sale? Is a new motherboard a sale? Or must it be a complete system?
That's not entirely correct. Although the court itself is located in CA, it serves a number of west coast states on a Federal level. As a result, we're all affected.
The only level that can strike it down now is the U.S. Supreme Court. Let's hope they do so.
I was under the impression that "Gone gold" means that the game has sold 500,000 copies, sort of a parallel to the recording industry.
Since I've seen some games come along that have gone gold before they've hit the shelves (preordering is great!), I think my definition holds more wight than the two previous responses.
Honestly, however, this does raise some interesting issues. The thought that comes to my mind is, how much is enough? Should the changes be made without alerting the readers? Should there be a link to a separate page for changes/addenda? If the article is found to be a hoax, should it simply be retracted? How much should the readers know about this?
Fortunately,/. has the luxury of thousands of readers to critique the articles, and the comments ultimately help to sculpt the articles into more accurate works. Pick the topic, and at least a handful of experts in the field can be found in the reader base. Most "news" websites must rely on third-hand opinions from second-rate experts (you get what you pay for, and the money isn't bottomless).
Count your blessings. This site could be just another Cosmiverse.
I just had a revelation: most of my hardcover is nonfiction, while my fiction is primarily paperback. IIRC, nonfiction rarely makes it onto any of the best seller lists, and certainly not near the top. The sales just aren't there.
If we cover historical data, rather than the one month or one week period of sales to fill the lists, I'd imagine the Bible would top the list. I doubt the best seller lists would be as sexy a concept if the same titles stayed at the top of the list week after week, so as a result they stick to their most recent sales figures.
I couldn't find non-alloy W, but maybe Tungsten Carbide is good enough? These guys also have plenty of other metals in various forms, like diamond plate or titanium sheets, for when you hunger for other materials.
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I know it's nitpicking, but a spider's spinnerets are actually in its abdomen.
Somehow I don't see people wanting to see that feature added to Spider-Man.
Oh, and why study geeks? I'm guessing because we are far more enthusiastic about our interests than the average Joe. I'll bet that everyone reading this post knows how many times they've seen The Matrix, but try and find a group of people willing to group together to watch The Bridges of Madison County nonstop for a day.
Hell, we practically document our own statistics while we're at it, which meshes nicely with the current trend of getting the most bang out of the least effort.
Here's a quick thought on how to keep a larger structure cooler, and possibly allow maintenance in the inner layers of blocks. How about a Sierpinski sponge?
The bigger the cube, the more perforations, and more ways to get at the inner cubes. Nearly all the cubes could be accessed since they would have an outer surface exposed. Of course, in a 3x3x3 structure you would have only 20 bricks instead of 27, but any of them could be accessed.
I'm all for the Darwinist approach. After all, if enough people cripple their own systems due to a lack of security/awareness, perhaps we may get a better online culture. Remember how nice it was on the net even ten years ago, before serious spam issues and X10 ads? I wouldn't mind seeing a mass exodus that would lead to a rebirth of that era.
The problem, of course, is that with viruses the ignorant among us will spread said viruses (I expect via "good luck" chain letters) to plenty of us who *do* know better, and just don't have appropriate anti-virus protection for the next big one. Just because you have protection software, it doesn't mean that you'll be protected from everything out there.
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Dear Rear-Admiral Arthur Mellish Winstanley (Mrs.),
As a Slashdot editor I abhor the implication that the website is a haven for cannibalism. It is well known that we now have the problem relatively under control, and that it is ThinkGeek who now suffer the largest casualties in this area. And where do you think they get their caffeine from? Arabs?
Yours etc.
Cmdr. Taco in a white wine sauce with shallots, mushrooms and garlic
Well, let's see...
Either you have a fire when something goes wrong, or you don't.
Sounds like about one half of all standard problems to me!
I'm betting it's a Canyonero:
Can you name the truck with four wheel drive,
Smells like a steak, and seats thirty five?
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Well, it goes real slow with the hammer down
It's the country-fried truck endorsed by a clown
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Hey, hey!
Twelve yards long, two lanes wide,
Sixty five tons of American pride!
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Top of the line in utility sports,
Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts!
Canyonero! Canyonero!
She blinds everybody with her super high beams
She's a squirrel-squashin', deer-smackin' drivin' machine
Canyonero! Canyonero! Canyonero!
Whoa, Canyonero! Whoa!
It's interesting that you called it a kid's show. Originally, that's exactly what it was: for the first five years or so, the time travel premise was used as a way to teach history for schoolchildren. Without the TARDIS, the best they could realistically do was to either have a typical documentary format, or be stuck in one time period with the characters. Many of the Hartnell episodes reflect this, with adventures involving the Crusades, the Roman Empire, the Mongols, the Wild West, you name it.
Of course, with early successes like the Daleks, they realized that the sci-fi storylines were keeping kids interested in the show as well, so they kept producing them. Eventually, new topics in world history that they hadn't covered became more scarce, so more science fiction crept in, and with it came older viewers as well. The Pertwee era shows the focus change well, with plenty of UNIT gunfights and the like in nearly every story. I'd cover later evolution in this thread, but I think previous posters covered it better than I would.
And so ends the Doctor Who history lesson for the day.
You may have some difficulty with that. The last I heard, there are only something like eleven PBS stations that currently run episodes. It's a far cry from the eighties, when hundreds of stations were buying the rights to transmit, despite the high cost. Even some of the larger PBS stations have dropped it, including the behemoth WGBH in Boston. Apparently there wasn't enough interest for them.
In case you happen to live in New England, WENH channel 11 in Durham, New Hampshire still shows them. It's an awful time slot (I recall it's at about midnight on Thursday, two episodes back-to-back, then rerun at midnight on Saturday), but at least it's there.
I'd also like to know some results from subsets of this statistic. For example:
How many of that billion are in North America? In Europe? Japan? In landfills?
How many are 286 processors? 386? ...Pentium 4?
How many were bought from Dell, Gateway, etc., and how many were built from scratch? Also, define "PCs sold." Is a processor a sale? Is a new motherboard a sale? Or must it be a complete system?
That's not entirely correct. Although the court itself is located in CA, it serves a number of west coast states on a Federal level. As a result, we're all affected.
The only level that can strike it down now is the U.S. Supreme Court. Let's hope they do so.
I was under the impression that "Gone gold" means that the game has sold 500,000 copies, sort of a parallel to the recording industry.
Since I've seen some games come along that have gone gold before they've hit the shelves (preordering is great!), I think my definition holds more wight than the two previous responses.
You really shouldn't mention strangling and Valenti in the same sentence.
I'm young and impressionable, and my attention span is short on Fridays. I might take the reference as a suggestion.
Must...resist...John...Katz...reference!
Honestly, however, this does raise some interesting issues. The thought that comes to my mind is, how much is enough? Should the changes be made without alerting the readers? Should there be a link to a separate page for changes/addenda? If the article is found to be a hoax, should it simply be retracted? How much should the readers know about this?
Fortunately, /. has the luxury of thousands of readers to critique the articles, and the comments ultimately help to sculpt the articles into more accurate works. Pick the topic, and at least a handful of experts in the field can be found in the reader base. Most "news" websites must rely on third-hand opinions from second-rate experts (you get what you pay for, and the money isn't bottomless).
Count your blessings. This site could be just another Cosmiverse.
I just had a revelation: most of my hardcover is nonfiction, while my fiction is primarily paperback. IIRC, nonfiction rarely makes it onto any of the best seller lists, and certainly not near the top. The sales just aren't there.
If we cover historical data, rather than the one month or one week period of sales to fill the lists, I'd imagine the Bible would top the list. I doubt the best seller lists would be as sexy a concept if the same titles stayed at the top of the list week after week, so as a result they stick to their most recent sales figures.
I couldn't find non-alloy W, but maybe Tungsten Carbide is good enough? These guys also have plenty of other metals in various forms, like diamond plate or titanium sheets, for when you hunger for other materials.
I know it's nitpicking, but a spider's spinnerets are actually in its abdomen.
Somehow I don't see people wanting to see that feature added to Spider-Man.
Clinton bought a hammer? Oh, that's newsworthy...
Oh, a h$mmer! I need to get out more.
Oh, and why study geeks? I'm guessing because we are far more enthusiastic about our interests than the average Joe. I'll bet that everyone reading this post knows how many times they've seen The Matrix, but try and find a group of people willing to group together to watch The Bridges of Madison County nonstop for a day.
Hell, we practically document our own statistics while we're at it, which meshes nicely with the current trend of getting the most bang out of the least effort.
It's already been done, and has been used successfully. some details can be found here.
Good thing it's intended for astronauts. I'd imagine it's hard to get volunteers to drink the results.
rather a keyboard key is designated as the left and right mouse button.
Well then, it isn't exactly hands-free, is it?
Here's a quick thought on how to keep a larger structure cooler, and possibly allow maintenance in the inner layers of blocks. How about a Sierpinski sponge?
The bigger the cube, the more perforations, and more ways to get at the inner cubes. Nearly all the cubes could be accessed since they would have an outer surface exposed. Of course, in a 3x3x3 structure you would have only 20 bricks instead of 27, but any of them could be accessed.
I'm all for the Darwinist approach. After all, if enough people cripple their own systems due to a lack of security/awareness, perhaps we may get a better online culture. Remember how nice it was on the net even ten years ago, before serious spam issues and X10 ads? I wouldn't mind seeing a mass exodus that would lead to a rebirth of that era.
The problem, of course, is that with viruses the ignorant among us will spread said viruses (I expect via "good luck" chain letters) to plenty of us who *do* know better, and just don't have appropriate anti-virus protection for the next big one. Just because you have protection software, it doesn't mean that you'll be protected from everything out there.
More accurate:
if (drand48()
return "Yippee!"
else
return "you assume too much";
...Greek for, "This bath is too hot." - Dr. Who
I'm not surprised; after all, five out of four Americans have problems with percentages.
I'll get back to you in 2-5 years.
While we are still working on effecencies, the current weight to thrust ratio is that of a model rocket engine pushing an adult's mountain bike
To make matters worse, the engine doesn't run well underwater, and the bike isn't very streamlined.
Why are you asking us? For all you know, we may not exist outside of your mind...
The droid could be called upon to perform an enema to the occupant of bed #1127.
I'd just hope the nurses remember to record my bed swap in a timely fashion...