I think that while the crater is still smoking, IBM will find a way to sue Darl personally. They will find grounds to do it, and defending himself will take care of any personal profits he might have left.
When I think of Darl, I picture Hitler down in his bunker. As shells from the Red Army explode overhead, Adolf is still moving nonexistent German divisions around on a map and babbling about ultimate victory.
Okay. The first day on my vacation, what I did on my summer vacation, the first day on my vacation, I woke up. Then, I went downtown to look for a job. Then I hung out in front of the drugstore.
The second day on my summer vacation, I woke up, then I went downtown to look for a job. Then I hung out in front of the drugstore.
The third day on my summer vacation, I woke up. Then I went downtown to look for a job......Then I got a job, keeping people from hanging out in front of the drugstore.
Not so. Kerry didn't go to Hanoi, Kerry didn't broadcast speaches designed to harm soldier's moral, Kerry stayed here and worked within the law for what he believed in. I have no respect for Hanoi Jane, but I do for Kerry.
Kerry didn't stay here. He was on the Mekong in a thin-sided aluminum boat. A lot of the time, his mission was to draw automatic fire from the shore. He was sent home after being wounded three times.
I know (or knew) a rancher who rebuilt a Mustang. He used to fly it over his cattle drives on occasion to keep an eye on things. One day the cowboys saw him fly it straight into the side of a hill. Not only was he rendered into many tiny pieces, but an irreplacable piece of American aviation history was lost forever.
Men have this fascination with warbirds - both prop and jet. The problem is that these things were designed - especially the old WWII birds - to fly just this side of stable. Airspeed, altitude, and maneuverability were prioritized over forgiveness. Even well-maintained aircraft flown by pilots with many hours all too often augered in. That was the price the military knew they would have to pay to get the job at hand done.
Now we see weekend amateurs with too much money flying these things, when they should be flying Cessnas.
I was right in the middle of a solo, and the music went like beep beep beep and then it was dead and I had to start all over again! And it was a really good solo!
This will happen because the open bag model, which lets anyone look into the bag and sell or distribute the grapes, virtually guarantees that someone, somewhere, will insert spiders into the grapes.
If you can see the grapes and the bag is transparent, then any spiders can be removed. If the grapes are sold in a can and you have to eat them in the dark, you might swallow a spider.
I don't want the (original) author to be shopping for my produce.
The younger Watson dutifully answered, seeking to impress his father with his skill at observing people. The elder paused and then berated the young man for daring to form an opinion about a seasoned executive who had years of experience behind him. Who did the young man think he was to judge someone who had been in the business since before he was born?
Great comments. Unfortunately, you made at least one error in punctuation and one error in spelling, just from my quick reading. I hate to be pedantic, but in this case and others it is worthwhile. Note to the community: When you write to the media, your audience is journalism/English majors who live in fear of the editor. They will pick out your stray incorrect use of its/it's and the occasional spelling/dyslexic typo, because those will stand out like beacons to them - like a clumsy line of code would stand out to you. So use spellcheck and reread what you have written carefully before hitting submit. In the end, your submission will carry more weight.
Darl goes to Harvard. Gates went to Harvard. When you are at MIT, you come to realize that evil lives up the river. Like they built over a fucking Indian graveyard or something. Kissinger? Hearst? Updike? Kaczynski? Love Story? Hello?
Oh yeah, this is the country that took over twenty million casualties in WWII and didn't cave, but they toss in the towel from a gas explosion and some computer problems.
Too bad Adolf didn't know that cold wars are so much easier to win than hot ones.
At first I enjoyed the stories posted in this topic: "I saw a Rolex listed on eBay under Rollex. Bought it from the idiot for $10, turned around and sold it for $500. What a loser!"
Then I started to think: what if instead of trying to make a few bucks off of someone's typo, why not email them and tell them about the error? Here on Slashdot there is endless (and justified) ranting about the greed of corporate officers and their PHB minions. But are picking up a dollar off the floor in 7-11 and pocketing it even though you saw who dropped it or pulling these eBay spelling error tricks or laying off 1000 programmers to boost your stock price before cashing in your options not all acts from the same human motivation?
Methods that have been developed in the political arena to counter organizations which have much more money for traditional advertising might be of use here - with a little organization. Candidates have fax teams, who relentlessly fact-check and respond to opposition disinformation with an immediate blizzard of faxes to news organizations full of counterarguments and facts. Recently, the Dean campaign used the Internet pretty effectively as a fairly low-cost tool to organize. So why can't Linux have a website that exists only to counter with some of the detailed analyses I see on Slashdot of MS bullshit ? Why isn't there a rapid response team to send out faxes and emails to journalists all over the world with a quick rebuttal to FUD and links to a site where they would be archived in greater detail? Political candidates find that journalists like to have things parboiled for them (like Rachel Ray having her lettuce already washed). Writers are on deadline. They don't have time to scroll through Slashdot and don't usually have a deep background in computing. You can bet that MS had a PR department that peels the carrots for the press. Why can't Linux do the same? A little time and money can be leveraged into a great deal of visibility by these methods.
For mentioning Bill Gates and vision in the same breath, I am dropping the mod bomb. It wipes out your karma and tattoos a "-5 Ballwashing Dunce" on your pale sunken chest.
I was just watching a "Tales of the Gun" episode that said this very thing. In WWII, troops were being instructed in the "don't shoot until you see the whites of their eyes, make every round count" school. Once they got to the ETO, veterans told them to fire early, often, and at everything so as to keep the enemy's head down and prevent them from firing at you.
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I think that while the crater is still smoking, IBM will find a way to sue Darl personally. They will find grounds to do it, and defending himself will take care of any personal profits he might have left.
When I think of Darl, I picture Hitler down in his bunker. As shells from the Red Army explode overhead, Adolf is still moving nonexistent German divisions around on a map and babbling about ultimate victory.
Okay. The first day on my vacation, what I did on my summer vacation, the first day on my vacation, I woke up. Then, I went downtown to look for a job. Then I hung out in front of the drugstore.
...Then I got a job, keeping people from hanging out in front of the drugstore.
The second day on my summer vacation, I woke up, then I went downtown to look for a job. Then I hung out in front of the drugstore.
The third day on my summer vacation, I woke up. Then I went downtown to look for a job...
The fourth day on my...
Not so. Kerry didn't go to Hanoi, Kerry didn't broadcast speaches designed to harm soldier's moral, Kerry stayed here and worked within the law for what he believed in. I have no respect for Hanoi Jane, but I do for Kerry.
Kerry didn't stay here. He was on the Mekong in a thin-sided aluminum boat. A lot of the time, his mission was to draw automatic fire from the shore. He was sent home after being wounded three times.
I know (or knew) a rancher who rebuilt a Mustang. He used to fly it over his cattle drives on occasion to keep an eye on things. One day the cowboys saw him fly it straight into the side of a hill. Not only was he rendered into many tiny pieces, but an irreplacable piece of American aviation history was lost forever.
Men have this fascination with warbirds - both prop and jet. The problem is that these things were designed - especially the old WWII birds - to fly just this side of stable. Airspeed, altitude, and maneuverability were prioritized over forgiveness. Even well-maintained aircraft flown by pilots with many hours all too often augered in. That was the price the military knew they would have to pay to get the job at hand done.
Now we see weekend amateurs with too much money flying these things, when they should be flying Cessnas.
...a theory is an unproven statement...
Sigh.
Two theories have been put forward.
You cannot have two contradictory possible explanations and have them both be theories. What you have are two hypotheses.
The hypothesis that fits with the evidence might become a theory.
I was right in the middle of a solo, and the music went like beep beep beep and then it was dead and I had to start all over again! And it was a really good solo!
This will happen because the open bag model, which lets anyone look into the bag and sell or distribute the grapes, virtually guarantees that someone, somewhere, will insert spiders into the grapes.
If you can see the grapes and the bag is transparent, then any spiders can be removed. If the grapes are sold in a can and you have to eat them in the dark, you might swallow a spider.
I don't want the (original) author to be shopping for my produce.
My percent is off the net? Unpossible!
The younger Watson dutifully answered, seeking to impress his father with his skill at observing people. The elder paused and then berated the young man for daring to form an opinion about a seasoned executive who had years of experience behind him. Who did the young man think he was to judge someone who had been in the business since before he was born?
Fuck that 360 degree review process.
1. There is a short path from genius to crackpot.
2. I see the predicatable "they laughed/scoffed at Einstein, too" responses. And of course, they laughed at Bozo the Clown as well. Proves nothing.
3. Does Wolfram's solution of a hammer turn every problem he sees into a nail?
4. They said that Hemingway was a pretty mediocre war correspondent in the ETO. Yeah, he wrote beautiful stuff, but it was all about him.
5. People who tell me how smart they are make me uncomfortably sad for them.
All I thought of was Fat Bastard with the huge RFID implanted in his arse.
Great comments. Unfortunately, you made at least one error in punctuation and one error in spelling, just from my quick reading. I hate to be pedantic, but in this case and others it is worthwhile. Note to the community: When you write to the media, your audience is journalism/English majors who live in fear of the editor. They will pick out your stray incorrect use of its/it's and the occasional spelling/dyslexic typo, because those will stand out like beacons to them - like a clumsy line of code would stand out to you. So use spellcheck and reread what you have written carefully before hitting submit. In the end, your submission will carry more weight.
As he writes:
There's no proof, of course, but it must be one of the theories at the top of any investigator's list.
You ignorant Limey! If there is no proof, it is not a theory. It is a hypothesis.
Darl goes to Harvard. Gates went to Harvard. When you are at MIT, you come to realize that evil lives up the river. Like they built over a fucking Indian graveyard or something. Kissinger? Hearst? Updike? Kaczynski? Love Story? Hello?
Oh yeah, this is the country that took over twenty million casualties in WWII and didn't cave, but they toss in the towel from a gas explosion and some computer problems.
Too bad Adolf didn't know that cold wars are so much easier to win than hot ones.
They did not have a theory, they had a hypothesis. Christ, if professional engineers can't get it right....
Regardless of your party affiliation -
This guy commanded a Mekong riverboat, for Christ's sake. You can only dream about having the kind of balls it takes to do that.
Father! (Score:IV, Runelike)
by Lowysbot (0000087)
on Wednesday January 28, 1392
Overthwart this forseide longe lyne ther crossith him another lyne of the same lengthe from eest to west? WTF?
Siggurus infantium!
re: Father! (Score:II, Plagued)
by ACerteyneMortale (0000004)
on Wednesday January 28, 1392
RTAM!
(Rede thy accursd manuale!
Mie tayle is too loge for God's sig.
At first I enjoyed the stories posted in this topic: "I saw a Rolex listed on eBay under Rollex. Bought it from the idiot for $10, turned around and sold it for $500. What a loser!"
Then I started to think: what if instead of trying to make a few bucks off of someone's typo, why not email them and tell them about the error? Here on Slashdot there is endless (and justified) ranting about the greed of corporate officers and their PHB minions. But are picking up a dollar off the floor in 7-11 and pocketing it even though you saw who dropped it or pulling these eBay spelling error tricks or laying off 1000 programmers to boost your stock price before cashing in your options not all acts from the same human motivation?
Methods that have been developed in the political arena to counter organizations which have much more money for traditional advertising might be of use here - with a little organization. Candidates have fax teams, who relentlessly fact-check and respond to opposition disinformation with an immediate blizzard of faxes to news organizations full of counterarguments and facts. Recently, the Dean campaign used the Internet pretty effectively as a fairly low-cost tool to organize. So why can't Linux have a website that exists only to counter with some of the detailed analyses I see on Slashdot of MS bullshit ? Why isn't there a rapid response team to send out faxes and emails to journalists all over the world with a quick rebuttal to FUD and links to a site where they would be archived in greater detail? Political candidates find that journalists like to have things parboiled for them (like Rachel Ray having her lettuce already washed). Writers are on deadline. They don't have time to scroll through Slashdot and don't usually have a deep background in computing. You can bet that MS had a PR department that peels the carrots for the press. Why can't Linux do the same? A little time and money can be leveraged into a great deal of visibility by these methods.
On the other hand, the return of Elian made it easier for Cornelia Streeter to get her two children back from Cuba.
For mentioning Bill Gates and vision in the same breath, I am dropping the mod bomb. It wipes out your karma and tattoos a "-5 Ballwashing Dunce" on your pale sunken chest.
I was just watching a "Tales of the Gun" episode that said this very thing. In WWII, troops were being instructed in the "don't shoot until you see the whites of their eyes, make every round count" school. Once they got to the ETO, veterans told them to fire early, often, and at everything so as to keep the enemy's head down and prevent them from firing at you.