Really? Well, I received the following letter from Bill Gates and The Walt Disney Company just the other day:
Subject: This is NOT a joke!! Read NOW!!
Disney message & $5,000.00
If you read below you will see the note from Walt Disney Jr. &
Management at Disney World. Basically if this messages reaches
13,000 people, everyone will receive $5,000.00 or a free, all
expenses paid, trip to Disney World in anytime during the summer
of 1999.
See the note below - its worth it!!!!
Everyone is to resend to 15 individuals. Please read and forward
to as many friends as possible...we've checked up on this and
this is no joke of a chain letter or something if this reaches
13,000 people...duplicate entries don't count, though...So,
please help & pass on... thank you, and here you go!!!
WALT DISNEY JR. GREETING
Hello Disney fans,
And thank you for signing up for Bill Gates' Beta Email Tracking
My name is Walt Disney Jr. Here at Disney we are working with
Microsoft which has just compiled an e-mail tracing program that
tracks everyone to whom this message is forwarded to. It does
this through an unique IP (Internet Protocol) address log book
database. We are experimenting with this and need your help.
Forward this to everyone you know and if it reaches 13,000
people, 1,300 of the people on the list will receive $5,000, and
the rest will receive a free trip for two to Disney World for one
week during the summer of 1999 at our expense. Enjoy.
Note: Duplicate entries will not be counted. You will be notified by
email with further instructions once this email has reached 13,000
people.
Your friends,
Walt Disney Jr., Disney, Bill Gates, & The Microsoft
Development Team.
I'm not exactly sure who this Walt Disney Jr. guy is, but since it has Microsoft's name on it, it must be reputable. After all, everybody I know uses MS Windows.
1. A figure of speech in which the intended meaning is the opposite of that expressed by the words used; usually taking the form of sarcasm or ridicule in which laudatory expressions are used to imply condemnation or contempt.
1502 [see 3]. 1533 MORE Debell. Salem v. Wks. 939/1 When he calleth one self noughty lad, both a shreud boy & a good sonne, the tone in ye proper simple spech, the tother by the fygure of ironye or antiphrasis. 1540 COVERDALE Confut. Standish Wks. (Parker Soc.) II. 333 Now is ironia as much to say as a mockage, derision. 1589 PUTTENHAM Eng. Poesie III. xviii. (Arb.) 199 By the figure Ironia, which we call the drye mock. 1617 MORYSON Itin. I. 160 Your quip..that you were ashamed to write to mee for your rude stile. Very good, I finde the Irony. 1620 MIDDLETON & ROWLEY World Tost at Tennis 124 By his needle he understands ironia, That with one eye looks two ways at once. 1788 F. BURNEY Diary 13 Feb., He believed Irony the ablest weapon of oratory. 1828 WHATELY Rhet. in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) I. 265/1 Aristotle mentions..Eironeia, which in his time was commonly employed to signify, not according to the modern use of 'Irony, saying the contrary to what is meant', but, what later writers usually express by Litotes, i.e. 'saying less than is meant'. 1837 MACAULAY Ess., Bacon (1887) 428 A drayman, in a passion, calls out, 'You are a pretty fellow', without suspecting that he is uttering irony. 1876 J. WEISS Wit, Hum, & Shaks. ii. 44 It is irony when Lowell, speaking of Dante's intimacy with the Scriptures, adds, 'They do even a scholar no harm'.
b. with an and pl. An instance of this; an ironical utterance or expression.
1551 GARDINER Sacram. 22 He spake it by an Ironie or skorne. 1612-15 BP. HALL Contempl., O.T. XIX. iii, Ironies deny strongest in affirming. 1656 E. REYNER Rules Govt. Tongue 227 An Irony is a nipping jeast, or a speech that hath the honey of pleasantnesse in its mouth, and a sting of rebuke in its taile. 1706-7 Reflex. upon Ridicule 221 Subtil and delicate Ironies. 1738 WARBURTON Div. Legat. I. Ded. 9 A thorough Irony addressed to some hot Bigots. 1894 W. J. DAWSON Making of Manhood 29 Smart sneers and barbed ironies at the expense of every movement which seeks to meliorate the common lot.
2. fig. A condition of affairs or events of a character opposite to what was, or might naturally be, expected; a contradictory outcome of events as if in mockery of the promise and fitness of things. (In F. ironie du sort.)
1649 G. DANIEL Trinarch., Hen. V, cxcviii, Yet here: (and 'tis the Ironie of Warre Where Arrowes forme the Argument,) he best Acquitts himselfe, who doth a Horse præfer To his proud Rider. 1833 THIRLWALL in Philol. Museum II. 483 (title) On the Irony of Sophocles. Ibid. 493 The contrast between man with his hopes, fears, wishes, and undertakings, and a dark, inflexible fate, affords abundant room for the exhibition of tragic irony. 1860 W. COLLINS Wom. White III. xi. 413 The irony of circumstances holds no mortal catastrophe in respect. 1878 MORLEY Carlyle 194 With no eye for..the irony of their fate. 1884 Nonconf. & Indep. Lit. Suppl. 6 Nov. 1/1 The irony of time is wonderful. 1894 T. HARDY (title) Life's Little Ironies.
3. In etymological sense: Dissimulation, pretence; esp. in reference to the dissimulation of ignorance practised by Socrates as a means of confuting an adversary (Socratic irony).
1502 Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W. 1506) IV. xxii. 293 To say of hym selfe ony thynge of his feblenesses & necessytes, or of his synnes..to the end that a man be renowmed & reputed humble abiect & grete thynge in merytes & deuocyons before god..such synne is named yronye, not that the whiche is of grammare, by the whiche a man sayth one & gyueth to understande the contrarye. 1655 STANLEY Hist. Philos. III. (1701) 76/1 The whole confirmation of the Cause, even the whole Life seems to carry an Irony, su
One very nice implementation of the wiki concept is TWiki. My school's CS department has its own TWiki set up, divided into subwebs for many different courses. The courses on our wiki are almost all Computer Science courses, but there are a few First Year Seminar webs (located here, here, and here) that might give you some ideas as to how to use a wiki in a non-technical class.
Here's the text of the/. IRC chat [also available as text and as HTML. ----- [20:00:40] Welcome to tonight's SlashNET forum. [20:00:46] Tonight our guests are Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda and Jeff "Hemos" Bates. [20:00:52] They are two of the figures behind Slashdot.org, as you all know. [20:00:58] Topics they'd like to talk about tonight include comment moderation, story selection, code plans, and technical stuff. [20:01:06] If you have a question you'd like to ask, you can submit it to the queue by sending it in a private message to "Questions":/msg Questions [20:01:11] Before we get started with queued questions, would either of you like to say anything? Possibly a brief intro as to who you are? CmdrTaco first? [20:01:21] Uhh... we do slashdot. [20:01:25] first question! [20:01:41] rfoster asks: How has the Slashdot info structure changed over the last year are you still experiencing growth and what hardware are you running to accommodate these needs? [20:02:14] Well, we can answer what hardware we are using now... [20:02:14] The system continues to be refined. We add new hardware. [20:02:20] and I can answer the hardware that's coming. [20:02:21] The FAQ lists most of the hardware. [20:02:34] A dozen web servers... a few mysql boxes. [20:02:37] The major upgrade for hardware will be webservers/DB readers. [20:03:24] Yeah, we're getting new hardware for the first time in years. [20:03:28] Literally. [20:03:33] Like, I think 30 months or so. [20:03:35] We've added a few boxes, but really not much. [20:03:44] I mean, yeah, we've added new boxes, but they have been 2 - 3 year old machines. [20:03:55] w00t asks: Will/. users ever be able to change the "look and feel" of Slashdot? Such as the colors, and general layout? [20:04:04] Maybe a little, but not much. [20:04:30] It's computationally expensive. [20:04:32] The new machines will be 2x P3 1.4 Ghz, with 2 gigs of RAM. [20:04:34] It's programatically tricky. [20:04:43] And only a tiny tiny percentage of users care. [20:04:58] Patches are always welcome tho;) [20:05:00] Aridhol asks: What advice would you give to people trying to start up their own content site(games,news etc...) How did slashdot get so many viewers? [20:05:13] Please don't msg me. [20:05:25] Aridhol: Being there first. [20:05:29] And not looking like ass. [20:05:33] Do something other people aren't. [20:05:55] reefer asks: Is there any system in place or a plan on developing some system to prevent duplicate posts? [20:06:03] Whatever. [20:06:04] Next. [20:06:11] Reefer: There is one. [20:06:12] jew asks: At LWCE 2000 NYC, you stated that you were considering developing alternate systems of accessing the site's content than HTTP/HTML. You mentioned NNTP. Have you considered or implemented any alternate means of accessing the site, such as RRS? If not, why? [20:06:19] It's just that the media spreads stories around. [20:06:29] And there's something like 30,000 stories, so dupes happen... [20:06:37] Well Jew, Patches are always welcome:) [20:06:39] Look at the bottom of CNN's top stories - usually that's all dupes. [20:06:47] We don't have time to implement much in the way of other protocols. [20:06:59] CmdrTaco: We did try the chat thing with whatever program that was. [20:07:03] Er, not chat. [20:07:09] Discussion thing. [20:07:11] Yeah, we had an IRC bot. [20:07:16] That gated stories & discussions. [20:07:17] Salsa. [20:07:18] That was fun. [20:07:21] Worked really well. [20:07:24] Nobody used it:) [20:07:36] The deal is that other protocols are fun, but HTML/HTTP is bread & butter. [20:07:43] Supporting other protocols is a lot of time,
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There must be somebody out there who's really desperate for a good Slashdotting of their Commodore 64.
Because SCO owns that file archive, or at least the OS that runs it.
Can that run Linux?
Laptops own YOU!!!
No, the correct logic is: 1 + 1 = 2 2 * 2 = 4
Looks like the mirror is /.'ed, too. :( Anybody got a mirror of the mirror?
will devastate business and cost as many as two million jobs Telephonus Marketroidae are getting closer to the Endangered Species List.
When backpacking across North America, I would suggest that you take "Weird Al" Yankovic's advice and venture off the beaten path:
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Like Elvis-a-Rama, the Tupperware Museum,
The Boll Weevil Monument, and Cranberry World,
The Shuffleboard Hall of Fame, Poodle Dog Rock,
And the Mecca of Albino Squirrels.
Oh, and don't forget to see the Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota while you're at it.
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Really? Well, I received the following letter from Bill Gates and The Walt Disney Company just the other day:
Subject: This is NOT a joke!! Read NOW!!
Disney message & $5,000.00
If you read below you will see the note from Walt Disney Jr. &
Management at Disney World. Basically if this messages reaches
13,000 people, everyone will receive $5,000.00 or a free, all
expenses paid, trip to Disney World in anytime during the summer
of 1999.
See the note below - its worth it!!!!
Everyone is to resend to 15 individuals. Please read and forward
to as many friends as possible...we've checked up on this and
this is no joke of a chain letter or something if this reaches
13,000 people...duplicate entries don't count, though...So,
please help & pass on... thank you, and here you go!!!
WALT DISNEY JR. GREETING
Hello Disney fans,
And thank you for signing up for Bill Gates' Beta Email Tracking
My name is Walt Disney Jr. Here at Disney we are working with
Microsoft which has just compiled an e-mail tracing program that
tracks everyone to whom this message is forwarded to. It does
this through an unique IP (Internet Protocol) address log book
database. We are experimenting with this and need your help.
Forward this to everyone you know and if it reaches 13,000
people, 1,300 of the people on the list will receive $5,000, and
the rest will receive a free trip for two to Disney World for one
week during the summer of 1999 at our expense. Enjoy.
Note: Duplicate entries will not be counted. You will be notified by
email with further instructions once this email has reached 13,000
people.
Your friends,
Walt Disney Jr., Disney, Bill Gates, & The Microsoft
Development Team.
I'm not exactly sure who this Walt Disney Jr. guy is, but since it has Microsoft's name on it, it must be reputable. After all, everybody I know uses MS Windows.
Well, off to forward this to 1500 more people...
MS' IM translation magic
Joe Lunchbucket gets: All your Next Generation Secure Computing Base are belong to us!
Actually, my sig is a reference to this comment that I made a while back.
or are you just happy to see me?
You won't get spam.
C:\>SPOT
C:\>SPOT\RUN
RUN SPOT RUN
Bad command or file name.
since it's a proprietary service, when the service provider decides to stop providing it, the device becomes useless.
True, true... that is, until the hardware hackers port Linux to the watches and write their own software for them.
One very nice implementation of the wiki concept is TWiki. My school's CS department has its own TWiki set up, divided into subwebs for many different courses. The courses on our wiki are almost all Computer Science courses, but there are a few First Year Seminar webs (located here, here, and here) that might give you some ideas as to how to use a wiki in a non-technical class.
Here's the text of the /. IRC chat [also available as text and as HTML. /msg Questions /. users ever be able to change the "look and feel" of Slashdot? Such as the colors, and general layout? ;) :) :)
-----
[20:00:40] Welcome to tonight's SlashNET forum.
[20:00:46] Tonight our guests are Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda and Jeff "Hemos" Bates.
[20:00:52] They are two of the figures behind Slashdot.org, as you all know.
[20:00:58] Topics they'd like to talk about tonight include comment moderation, story selection, code plans, and technical stuff.
[20:01:06] If you have a question you'd like to ask, you can submit it to the queue by sending it in a private message to "Questions":
[20:01:11] Before we get started with queued questions, would either of you like to say anything? Possibly a brief intro as to who you are? CmdrTaco first?
[20:01:21] Uhh... we do slashdot.
[20:01:25] first question!
[20:01:41] rfoster asks: How has the Slashdot info structure changed over the last year are you still experiencing growth and what hardware are you running to accommodate these needs?
[20:02:14] Well, we can answer what hardware we are using now...
[20:02:14] The system continues to be refined. We add new hardware.
[20:02:20] and I can answer the hardware that's coming.
[20:02:21] The FAQ lists most of the hardware.
[20:02:34] A dozen web servers... a few mysql boxes.
[20:02:37] The major upgrade for hardware will be webservers/DB readers.
[20:03:24] Yeah, we're getting new hardware for the first time in years.
[20:03:28] Literally.
[20:03:33] Like, I think 30 months or so.
[20:03:35] We've added a few boxes, but really not much.
[20:03:44] I mean, yeah, we've added new boxes, but they have been 2 - 3 year old machines.
[20:03:55] w00t asks: Will
[20:04:04] Maybe a little, but not much.
[20:04:30] It's computationally expensive.
[20:04:32] The new machines will be 2x P3 1.4 Ghz, with 2 gigs of RAM.
[20:04:34] It's programatically tricky.
[20:04:43] And only a tiny tiny percentage of users care.
[20:04:58] Patches are always welcome tho
[20:05:00] Aridhol asks: What advice would you give to people trying to start up their own content site(games,news etc...) How did slashdot get so many viewers?
[20:05:13] Please don't msg me.
[20:05:25] Aridhol: Being there first.
[20:05:29] And not looking like ass.
[20:05:33] Do something other people aren't.
[20:05:55] reefer asks: Is there any system in place or a plan on developing some system to prevent duplicate posts?
[20:06:03] Whatever.
[20:06:04] Next.
[20:06:11] Reefer: There is one.
[20:06:12] jew asks: At LWCE 2000 NYC, you stated that you were considering developing alternate systems of accessing the site's content than HTTP/HTML. You mentioned NNTP. Have you considered or implemented any alternate means of accessing the site, such as RRS? If not, why?
[20:06:19] It's just that the media spreads stories around.
[20:06:29] And there's something like 30,000 stories, so dupes happen...
[20:06:37] Well Jew, Patches are always welcome
[20:06:39] Look at the bottom of CNN's top stories - usually that's all dupes.
[20:06:47] We don't have time to implement much in the way of other protocols.
[20:06:59] CmdrTaco: We did try the chat thing with whatever program that was.
[20:07:03] Er, not chat.
[20:07:09] Discussion thing.
[20:07:11] Yeah, we had an IRC bot.
[20:07:16] That gated stories & discussions.
[20:07:17] Salsa.
[20:07:18] That was fun.
[20:07:21] Worked really well.
[20:07:24] Nobody used it
[20:07:36] The deal is that other protocols are fun, but HTML/HTTP is bread & butter.
[20:07:43] Supporting other protocols is a lot of time,
oh yeah baby mod parent up yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
As long as it takes someone to submit a story about the chat to ./ with a link to the IRC server. :)