That should read: Disney Trades Person for Lucky Rabbit
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit looks very similar to Mickey (I haven't seen any of the films with him yet), but this is certainly a win for the whole gang at Disney -- one for Walt. Something they can all be proud of.
Studies show that people who socialize are more productive -- even if it's through taking frequent smoke breaks. Why? Because their morale is much higher after they have had a social break, so their quality of work is higher when they return. Non-smokers often spiral into gloom and doom when sales are down, while smokers are optimistic -- they smoke even though they know it will kill them! We're all going to die anyway, might as well die happy -- right?;-)
I don't believe someone got that reference! We stayed up so late during the summer at my bud's cottage copying out Asylum for TI, line for line, from a 99er mag (or at least I think it was in 99er??). Those were the days (before girls).
Nobody ever taught me about how lucrative this patent business was in school. Here I am, just a small-time dev working at an electronics shop to support my family. I need to patent something!
I think Nero paid because they don't want to be shut down. AT&T could easily hold up a small company in court for years, bleeding their profits dry. I guess someone just did the math and figured it would be cheaper to pay off the patent mafia.
Of course our grandparents think it is ridiculous to drive to the store and buy a plastic disc with data on it too.
Nobody understands us!!!! Back in the good old days, I used to run to the store and buy a cassette with all the hottest games. Sometimes it came with 99er, sometimes it was stand-alone.
> You are facing north. > Look up. > A piano falls on your head. GAME OVER
How can Google create an online payment system without competing with PayPal? Google doesn't want to piss off eBay, because eBay is one of Google's largest advertisers -- so I completely understand why Google would say that they won't compete directly against PayPal -- I get it. Never bite the hand that feeds. (great NiN tune!)
But what I don't understand is the resulting system... what could it possibly consist of if it can't compete against PayPal? Perhaps they will use PayPal's services within the scope of the new system and defer customers to PayPal for the actual transactions? Partnerships happen when companies fear retaliation or when companies see greater profits by working together, and I think it's possible that is what's going on, in this case. Either that or we'll be seeing a very crippled new system from Google.
It's your lucky day. I'm a programmer analyst who would love to get a paying job. Email me! But only if you're ready to spend millions of dollars on this project and give me all the credit.
What the hell is this guy doing? Don't answer that. I'm going to get this one for those days when I want to look like Snuffaluffagus. Oh and whenever I update my blog, I'm going to wear this blogger hoodie. It's a blogger hoodie because...
No, no... I think if you think about it, you'll realise that that's the past.
I think he meant to say that there is only now. It might happen fast but while the computer accesses the data left on this archaic machine -- the machine is still only working in the present, while it may seem to be accessing the past.
I take offense to this! [...] I am a really smart wife and my slashdotter husband is neither stupid nor unsuccessful. Of course, I'm hot, too, so maybe that accounts for it.
Not sure why you would take offense. You are hot and bright, and these are two traits that everyone looks for in a soulmate, independently. It's far more likely that these traits are not evenly ranked as requirements in the selection process, and therefore this is either a fluke or your mate has demonstrated a lack of accuracy/precision in his selective processes. Either way does not bode well for you!
However, it's not a frequent occurrence that someone is born who is both hot and bright. Genetics doesn't permit this to happen very often. Because you're hot, that means your spouse is successful. Because you're very intelligent, it would indicate that you are more intelligent than your husband -- or he would have avoided you in fear of losing his total freedom to a superior mind.
(Or you're a liar, and you are either hot or bright -- or neither.)
Of course I'm only demonstrating the Slashdot sense of humour.;-)
I've found that the majority of slashdotters have great senses of humor. But are they considered funny outside the slashdot realm?
That depends on which side of the table you're sitting on. When you remove the veneer and examine the Slashdotter directly, the remaining sense of humour is vivid and wonderful; it's non-standard humour (unless it's a Slashdot Troll). Slashdotters are typically stronger verbally than the average person, so when they make light of a situation, it's often brimming with comedic genius.
Take a ski vacation with Nobel Laureates, for example. These bright people might be able to ski, yet when they bail on a mogul, the physics and probability tables could only feed the frenzy of laughter soon to follow a ride down the hill in the ski patrol sled. Ski bunnies will laugh at the antics too, but they might look sideways at some of the nerdy Score 5: Funny comments later that day in the lodge over poutine and hot chocolate.
Give the link that is being suggested by this article, could it entirely be possible that Asperger's Syndrome comes from parents who lack some degree of social sensitivity on a genetic basis?
No -- the opposite would be true if it holds to the logic of the article; the less diverse the genetics, the greater the chance of failure. Therefore highly socially adept (jocks) people would potentially produce someone with Ausperger's Syndrome, and two really unhappy people would potentially produce someone with Down Syndrome.
There must be a kind of balancing code in our genetic structure; balance is required and it's delivered whenever an imbalance is detected.
He believes the genes which make someone analytical may also impair their social and communication skills.
Genetics thrives on diversity and buckles under similarities; look at incestuous offspring and you'll see that diversity is the core requirement for better results.
Most of the geekiest people here at Slashdot lack the necessary tools to hold a decent conversation; if two slashdotters marry and produce offspring, the result would be dangerous to society!
Successful geeks have really hot wives (with possibly no intellect whatsoever) -- so perhaps science accounts for success and rewards success and punishes failure?
The point being -- if you have a really smart wife, you must be stupid or unsuccessful because that woman will own your ass.
Covenants must benefit all people, or they are simple applications of oppression from one group to another. Freedom to download is the cornerstone of the internet (right or wrong). That's why so many great bands are joining the clue train!
Smart robots need three basic functions of sensing, processing and action. Thus far, robotics researchers have tried to cram the three into a single dummy, causing expenses to soar. [...] Instead, the planned robots will be receiving most sensing and processing capabilities via a Web connection. Only the ability of movement will be located in the robot.
Nothing could possibly go wrong, there. Clones will have a better chance of getting the job done than web vulnerable policing units carrying live ammo.
The schools keep cutting prof wages. What do they expect?
I look at this as a kind of moral erosion that will eventually lead to greater teaching discoveries.
I'm a programmer and I did all my own work through college. But thinking about this problem of cheating in a realistic light -- so what if they outsource? They should get some experience in outsourcing, and if they start early then they will be well ahead of other coders who work in a project management capacity.
That said, it's dishonest to pass work off as your own, if it's outsource material.
What profs should really do is:
1. Allow and encourage outsourcing. 2. Mark much harder on students who have outsourced. 3. Require all outsourcing meeting minutes (from RAC, MSN...etc). 4. Require superior design elements. 5. Require a receipt to keep track of how much was spent on the project. 6. Require project management reports.
This would give coders an idea of what it's really like, plus it will keep students from learning to become great liars (which really hurts us all).
Eventually computers will simply case out most code for us, so teaching coders to be casers is not really that enlightened, and yet most schools pound these kinds of requirements into students, dulling their wits and making them crabby.
Teaching coders to see the big picture will only come from a strong project management regiment, which is currently missing from most major programs. To them it's more about the lexicon, than the abstract understanding!
Yeah, many folks wouldn't get the cosmic joke, but you seem to have a pretty good handle on it yourself. I've been enlightened and overburdened, on and off now for the past decade. Enlightenment is not at all something you can hold onto though -- and I think that's the whole point. We challenge ourselves to learn more about what we aren't, thinking it will somehow have an impact on anything tangible. We're aching to please! It's like suggesting the politics of societies within the tiny grain of sand stuck to the roof of your mouth will have any bearing on anything whatsoever -- it's impossible. But we're no different from that society. We have rules, too. We have pain, too.
So then, we wonder; what's possible?
Heart!
Only heart is possible, anywhere. Everything else is just meaningless, on each plane.
Slashdot Mirror
That should read: Disney Trades Person for Lucky Rabbit
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit looks very similar to Mickey (I haven't seen any of the films with him yet), but this is certainly a win for the whole gang at Disney -- one for Walt. Something they can all be proud of.
Studies show that people who socialize are more productive -- even if it's through taking frequent smoke breaks. Why? Because their morale is much higher after they have had a social break, so their quality of work is higher when they return. Non-smokers often spiral into gloom and doom when sales are down, while smokers are optimistic -- they smoke even though they know it will kill them! We're all going to die anyway, might as well die happy -- right? ;-)
I don't believe someone got that reference! We stayed up so late during the summer at my bud's cottage copying out Asylum for TI, line for line, from a 99er mag (or at least I think it was in 99er??). Those were the days (before girls).
Who's got the Asylum source code now?
Nobody ever taught me about how lucrative this patent business was in school. Here I am, just a small-time dev working at an electronics shop to support my family. I need to patent something!
I think Nero paid because they don't want to be shut down. AT&T could easily hold up a small company in court for years, bleeding their profits dry. I guess someone just did the math and figured it would be cheaper to pay off the patent mafia.
Of course our grandparents think it is ridiculous to drive to the store and buy a plastic disc with data on it too.
Nobody understands us!!!! Back in the good old days, I used to run to the store and buy a cassette with all the hottest games. Sometimes it came with 99er, sometimes it was stand-alone.
> You are facing north.
> Look up.
> A piano falls on your head. GAME OVER
How can Google create an online payment system without competing with PayPal? Google doesn't want to piss off eBay, because eBay is one of Google's largest advertisers -- so I completely understand why Google would say that they won't compete directly against PayPal -- I get it. Never bite the hand that feeds. (great NiN tune!)
But what I don't understand is the resulting system... what could it possibly consist of if it can't compete against PayPal? Perhaps they will use PayPal's services within the scope of the new system and defer customers to PayPal for the actual transactions? Partnerships happen when companies fear retaliation or when companies see greater profits by working together, and I think it's possible that is what's going on, in this case. Either that or we'll be seeing a very crippled new system from Google.
Just sell your slashdot id. You can make a few hundred grand. ;-)
Already bought it on Ebay, so it's not for sale.
It's your lucky day. I'm a programmer analyst who would love to get a paying job. Email me! But only if you're ready to spend millions of dollars on this project and give me all the credit.
... worst Score: -1 Troll, today.
Meet last year's winner of the tech fashion contest. Layered Tech is going to explode with these high rez images of the clothing to be used at the MIT event, although I am pretty sure that MIT can handle the bandwidth used by the streaming video. (More Tron Guy Pix HA! HA!)
What the hell is this guy doing? Don't answer that . I'm going to get this one for those days when I want to look like Snuffaluffagus. Oh and whenever I update my blog, I'm going to wear this blogger hoodie. It's a blogger hoodie because...
No, no... I think if you think about it, you'll realise that that's the past.
I think he meant to say that there is only now. It might happen fast but while the computer accesses the data left on this archaic machine -- the machine is still only working in the present, while it may seem to be accessing the past.
An added benefit, I already know what all of the posts are going to say, including this one!
Impossible:
9EF5A76EB34EDCC29CC88F18722CF99A
This is the md5 of a phrase. You can use google to see what it is, but it would be completely impossible for you to know I would post that exact hash.
Furthermore, there is actually no solid evidence that the future exists, only the present (and the qualified jury is still out on that one).
I take offense to this! [...] I am a really smart wife and my slashdotter husband is neither stupid nor unsuccessful. Of course, I'm hot, too, so maybe that accounts for it.
;-)
Not sure why you would take offense. You are hot and bright, and these are two traits that everyone looks for in a soulmate, independently. It's far more likely that these traits are not evenly ranked as requirements in the selection process, and therefore this is either a fluke or your mate has demonstrated a lack of accuracy/precision in his selective processes. Either way does not bode well for you!
However, it's not a frequent occurrence that someone is born who is both hot and bright. Genetics doesn't permit this to happen very often. Because you're hot, that means your spouse is successful. Because you're very intelligent, it would indicate that you are more intelligent than your husband -- or he would have avoided you in fear of losing his total freedom to a superior mind.
(Or you're a liar, and you are either hot or bright -- or neither.)
Of course I'm only demonstrating the Slashdot sense of humour.
I've found that the majority of slashdotters have great senses of humor. But are they considered funny outside the slashdot realm?
That depends on which side of the table you're sitting on. When you remove the veneer and examine the Slashdotter directly, the remaining sense of humour is vivid and wonderful; it's non-standard humour (unless it's a Slashdot Troll). Slashdotters are typically stronger verbally than the average person, so when they make light of a situation, it's often brimming with comedic genius.
Take a ski vacation with Nobel Laureates, for example. These bright people might be able to ski, yet when they bail on a mogul, the physics and probability tables could only feed the frenzy of laughter soon to follow a ride down the hill in the ski patrol sled. Ski bunnies will laugh at the antics too, but they might look sideways at some of the nerdy Score 5: Funny comments later that day in the lodge over poutine and hot chocolate.
Besides, whether your wife has an IQ of 60 or 120, it wont make a difference to you if your own IQ is over 200.
Exactly! The dumber one will be more interesting if your IQ is high enough.
And you smoke what flavor of crack now?
Seriously.
I was mostly joking around, but on another note -- crack comes in flavours now???
Give the link that is being suggested by this article, could it entirely be possible that Asperger's Syndrome comes from parents who lack some degree of social sensitivity on a genetic basis?
No -- the opposite would be true if it holds to the logic of the article; the less diverse the genetics, the greater the chance of failure. Therefore highly socially adept (jocks) people would potentially produce someone with Ausperger's Syndrome, and two really unhappy people would potentially produce someone with Down Syndrome.
There must be a kind of balancing code in our genetic structure; balance is required and it's delivered whenever an imbalance is detected.
He believes the genes which make someone analytical may also impair their social and communication skills.
Genetics thrives on diversity and buckles under similarities; look at incestuous offspring and you'll see that diversity is the core requirement for better results.
Most of the geekiest people here at Slashdot lack the necessary tools to hold a decent conversation; if two slashdotters marry and produce offspring, the result would be dangerous to society!
Successful geeks have really hot wives (with possibly no intellect whatsoever) -- so perhaps science accounts for success and rewards success and punishes failure?
The point being -- if you have a really smart wife, you must be stupid or unsuccessful because that woman will own your ass.
Bill Gates wouldn't deny software licenses to The Mob, for example. Commerce should be free and open.
Covenants must benefit all people, or they are simple applications of oppression from one group to another. Freedom to download is the cornerstone of the internet (right or wrong). That's why so many great bands are joining the clue train!
The schools keep cutting prof wages. What do they expect?
I look at this as a kind of moral erosion that will eventually lead to greater teaching discoveries.
I'm a programmer and I did all my own work through college. But thinking about this problem of cheating in a realistic light -- so what if they outsource? They should get some experience in outsourcing, and if they start early then they will be well ahead of other coders who work in a project management capacity.
That said, it's dishonest to pass work off as your own, if it's outsource material.
What profs should really do is:
1. Allow and encourage outsourcing.
2. Mark much harder on students who have outsourced.
3. Require all outsourcing meeting minutes (from RAC, MSN...etc).
4. Require superior design elements.
5. Require a receipt to keep track of how much was spent on the project.
6. Require project management reports.
This would give coders an idea of what it's really like, plus it will keep students from learning to become great liars (which really hurts us all).
Eventually computers will simply case out most code for us, so teaching coders to be casers is not really that enlightened, and yet most schools pound these kinds of requirements into students, dulling their wits and making them crabby.
Teaching coders to see the big picture will only come from a strong project management regiment, which is currently missing from most major programs. To them it's more about the lexicon, than the abstract understanding!
Yeah, many folks wouldn't get the cosmic joke, but you seem to have a pretty good handle on it yourself. I've been enlightened and overburdened, on and off now for the past decade. Enlightenment is not at all something you can hold onto though -- and I think that's the whole point. We challenge ourselves to learn more about what we aren't, thinking it will somehow have an impact on anything tangible. We're aching to please! It's like suggesting the politics of societies within the tiny grain of sand stuck to the roof of your mouth will have any bearing on anything whatsoever -- it's impossible. But we're no different from that society. We have rules, too. We have pain, too.
So then, we wonder; what's possible?
Heart!
Only heart is possible, anywhere. Everything else is just meaningless, on each plane.
It can't work because it doesn't exist.
By far the easiest description of Qubits I've read to date. You sir, deserve mod points.