Ah - but the toast only lands butter side up if you do it from a table - if you do it from a worktop which is higher it has further to fall and usually lands the right way up.
People are just as apathetic in the U.K. As to car owning - I just have a pedal bike as I realise I need the exercise every so often. As to your "low income white trash" remark there are a lot of people who have very low aspirations & the monotony of a low-paid job can lower their self-esteem to the point where they don't bother thinking of changing career. They also may have a family to support (which at a guess you don't). As to it's never too late to learn new skills - I agree - but it takes older people longer (I should know I've taught people in their 50s). As to the online pretest - they make those things *too* easy. As to the IQ test - the only way you get proper results is by taking it under exam conditions - also different grading systems give you different numbers & the number needed to join Mensa varies from country to country. As to elitist - all you have to do is read a few Mensa usenet posts to see that! Oh and BTW I'm only 21 so what do I know? People get too easily swayed by adverts these days into buying things they don't need. What is this good job you do then?
Yeah but it also means 49 out of 50 won't. The day I took it I felt tired and ill so maybe I'd have scored higher had I been my normal self. Oh and BTW I'm not American which you seem to imply in your reply - and yes you do come over as an *elitist snob* but have not written anything to back it up. In fact I'm wondering if your entire comment is meant to be funny & not takem seriously.
You're right it is usually only big companies that fight patent infringement suits because of the extremely high costs of doing so. That's why a lot of patents that are owned by small businesses who can't afford to manufacture their product licence the patent off to larger ones.
And GPS helped the helicopter company do the job. who obviously hadn't heard of cheese and traps. (and exactly how are you supposed to aim at a rat from a helicopter I ask you)?
Apart from taste concerns I think just the euugh! factor would be enough to put most people off.
Q. Oh - what are you having to drink?
A. Oh - just the juices of some rancid meat
Then you'll either get hauled away to the mental hospital or slung in jail. Then again it wasn't a good idea to write that original letter to him in your own blood was it?
Yes but remember that Google doesn't have very many staff & they probably get far more e-mail each day than they can adequately deal with. As to your version of MSIE taking you to the.nl page - Are you from New Zealand or is it just a mistake?
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What's the matter with search engine spiders doing deep linking anyway? I've had some people come to my website only because a keyword they typed happened to be the same as one of the deep linked pages - without the spidering I would've lost that visitor.
It looks like a rapidly dissolving marshmallow to me too (don't know how you get cigarette butts from it) - maybe it's like one of those magic eye pictures - some people can see the marshmallow and some people can't.:o)
Yes - and we all prefer to be modded up *hint* *hint* *nudge* *nudge* than modded down. Mind you the opinions of the ones holding the points varies - I've had the same post modded up and down before.
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I think the underlying message here is this. Without the killer ap (entertainment) there won't be enough impetus for most people to get broadband. The companies that own the content (rights to movies, CDs etc) feel there's no point putting their copyrighted material for download when it's just going to get copied. So they've paid lobbyists to lobby the Senate to come up with legislation to make sure they continue to make money (despite falling CD sales etc) from online sales/ downloads without the risk of piracy.
in this big acronym war but what effect will this have (if any) on those of us who don't live in the U.S..As far as I can make out it's only a bill introducing copy protection - so what's the big deal?
Our governments line tends to be not that broadband is for entertainment purposes but that it is necessary for business growth in the IT sector - that's why they're concentrating what (meagre) funds they have towards promoting broadband into trying to get businesses to adopt it as opposed to its residential uses. Of course this makes sense because if they make businesses more profitable they will generate more tax revenue. Of course finding anyone in politics who has a clue about computers is another matter!
If you must know I had the page on auto refresh, thought of a good joke, got halfway through typing it and the page auto refreshed - this happened a few times until I got so frustrated I forgot half the joke - and that's the problem! Anyway for all your criticism I don't see you coming up with something better!
Yes I'm the person who started the thread and lost two karma this topic for not knowing what a shim was! Last time I saw a heat sink it was connected view a screw to the thing it was drawing heat from not a shim. By shim is this what it is referring to? Or is a shim the metal bit connected to the chip that the heatsink is screwed too? Then again it probably wasn't a chip I saw as it was part of a transformer.
I disagree with that statement I happen to have a Mensa level IQ and I still wasn't smart enough to spot that shim in the original article wasn't a spelling mistake & got marked down accordingly. The point being - just because you are intelligent doesn't mean you're going to post intelligently. As to/.ers getting sick of/. - well I've noticed a considerable drop in the quality of/. stories (and posters) recently too. (and no that isn't a troll - just an observation)
There are various reasons people don't get broadband.
1) They don't know much about it.
2) They haven't used the Internet long enough to get sick of 56k access
3) They don't know what hardware to get/ are put off by the ongoing expense.
and of course availability too.
in 1920.. or was it '21 I came up with the idea for slashdot. Of course computers and the internet hadn't been invented yet and by the time they were I was too senile to remember I'd had the idea in the first place so I turned my efforts to thermally conductive foam.
Nurse.. nurse!?
Actually now I re-read it : " Sounds like the perfect heat sink shim to me. " I'm even more puzzled by what they meant. Can anybody enlighten me as to what a shim is then?
CmdrTaco insisted all his/. staff go on typing courses to improve their accuracy & employed an extra proofreader. "We r doign a lto 2 improve smelling mistkaes" he said.
From a personal perspective I'd say experience counts more than qualifications as employers like to see that you've actually had experience of doing the job they'll be hiring you for. Mind you with hiring being outsourced so much these days to HR companies which aren't as savvy about experience or job descriptions being written by a committe where things like "6 years experience of Windows 2000" required then more qualifications than the next applicant helps you move up the shortlist for interview. Mind you - you still have to get past the interview.
Slashdot Mirror
Ah - but the toast only lands butter side up if you do it from a table - if you do it from a worktop which is higher it has further to fall and usually lands the right way up.
People are just as apathetic in the U.K. As to car owning - I just have a pedal bike as I realise I need the exercise every so often. As to your "low income white trash" remark there are a lot of people who have very low aspirations & the monotony of a low-paid job can lower their self-esteem to the point where they don't bother thinking of changing career. They also may have a family to support (which at a guess you don't). As to it's never too late to learn new skills - I agree - but it takes older people longer (I should know I've taught people in their 50s). As to the online pretest - they make those things *too* easy. As to the IQ test - the only way you get proper results is by taking it under exam conditions - also different grading systems give you different numbers & the number needed to join Mensa varies from country to country. As to elitist - all you have to do is read a few Mensa usenet posts to see that! Oh and BTW I'm only 21 so what do I know? People get too easily swayed by adverts these days into buying things they don't need. What is this good job you do then?
Yeah but it also means 49 out of 50 won't. The day I took it I felt tired and ill so maybe I'd have scored higher had I been my normal self. Oh and BTW I'm not American which you seem to imply in your reply - and yes you do come over as an *elitist snob* but have not written anything to back it up. In fact I'm wondering if your entire comment is meant to be funny & not takem seriously.
You're right it is usually only big companies that fight patent infringement suits because of the extremely high costs of doing so. That's why a lot of patents that are owned by small businesses who can't afford to manufacture their product licence the patent off to larger ones.
And GPS helped the helicopter company do the job. who obviously hadn't heard of cheese and traps. (and exactly how are you supposed to aim at a rat from a helicopter I ask you)?
Apart from taste concerns I think just the euugh! factor would be enough to put most people off.
Q. Oh - what are you having to drink?
A. Oh - just the juices of some rancid meat
Then you'll either get hauled away to the mental hospital or slung in jail. Then again it wasn't a good idea to write that original letter to him in your own blood was it?
Surely you mean the Netherlands and not New Zealand? (goes quietly mad answering his own posts)
Yes but remember that Google doesn't have very many staff & they probably get far more e-mail each day than they can adequately deal with. As to your version of MSIE taking you to the .nl page - Are you from New Zealand or is it just a mistake?
What's the matter with search engine spiders doing deep linking anyway? I've had some people come to my website only because a keyword they typed happened to be the same as one of the deep linked pages - without the spidering I would've lost that visitor.
It looks like a rapidly dissolving marshmallow to me too (don't know how you get cigarette butts from it) - maybe it's like one of those magic eye pictures - some people can see the marshmallow and some people can't. :o)
Yes - and we all prefer to be modded up *hint* *hint* *nudge* *nudge* than modded down. Mind you the opinions of the ones holding the points varies - I've had the same post modded up and down before.
I think the underlying message here is this. Without the killer ap (entertainment) there won't be enough impetus for most people to get broadband. The companies that own the content (rights to movies, CDs etc) feel there's no point putting their copyrighted material for download when it's just going to get copied. So they've paid lobbyists to lobby the Senate to come up with legislation to make sure they continue to make money (despite falling CD sales etc) from online sales/ downloads without the risk of piracy.
in this big acronym war but what effect will this have (if any) on those of us who don't live in the U.S. .As far as I can make out it's only a bill introducing copy protection - so what's the big deal?
Our governments line tends to be not that broadband is for entertainment purposes but that it is necessary for business growth in the IT sector - that's why they're concentrating what (meagre) funds they have towards promoting broadband into trying to get businesses to adopt it as opposed to its residential uses. Of course this makes sense because if they make businesses more profitable they will generate more tax revenue. Of course finding anyone in politics who has a clue about computers is another matter!
If you must know I had the page on auto refresh, thought of a good joke, got halfway through typing it and the page auto refreshed - this happened a few times until I got so frustrated I forgot half the joke - and that's the problem! Anyway for all your criticism I don't see you coming up with something better!
Yes I'm the person who started the thread and lost two karma this topic for not knowing what a shim was! Last time I saw a heat sink it was connected view a screw to the thing it was drawing heat from not a shim. By shim is this what it is referring to? Or is a shim the metal bit connected to the chip that the heatsink is screwed too? Then again it probably wasn't a chip I saw as it was part of a transformer.
I disagree with that statement I happen to have a Mensa level IQ and I still wasn't smart enough to spot that shim in the original article wasn't a spelling mistake & got marked down accordingly. /.ers getting sick of /. - well I've noticed a considerable drop in the quality of /. stories (and posters) recently too. (and no that isn't a troll - just an observation)
The point being - just because you are intelligent doesn't mean you're going to post intelligently. As to
There are various reasons people don't get broadband.
1) They don't know much about it.
2) They haven't used the Internet long enough to get sick of 56k access
3) They don't know what hardware to get/ are put off by the ongoing expense.
and of course availability too.
in 1920.. or was it '21 I came up with the idea for slashdot. Of course computers and the internet hadn't been invented yet and by the time they were I was too senile to remember I'd had the idea in the first place so I turned my efforts to thermally conductive foam. Nurse.. nurse!?
poster was drunk...
Well... you put the heat sink shim here.
Actually now I re-read it : " Sounds like the perfect heat sink shim to me. " I'm even more puzzled by what they meant. Can anybody enlighten me as to what a shim is then?
CmdrTaco insisted all his /. staff go on typing courses to improve their accuracy & employed an extra proofreader. "We r doign a lto 2 improve smelling mistkaes" he said.
surely you mean sink not shim!?
From a personal perspective I'd say experience counts more than qualifications as employers like to see that you've actually had experience of doing the job they'll be hiring you for. Mind you with hiring being outsourced so much these days to HR companies which aren't as savvy about experience or job descriptions being written by a committe where things like "6 years experience of Windows 2000" required then more qualifications than the next applicant helps you move up the shortlist for interview. Mind you - you still have to get past the interview.