Of the "more than 40 years of working in libraries," I wonder how many Mr. Gorman spent answering silly questions on the telephone. Now "who was Henry VIII's second wife?" can be fielded by McGoogle, freeing Mr. Gorman to draft more vitriolic treatises against the digital age.
Keep an electronic bookshelf of any 5 titles for $9.99 a month. (Though I didn't check to see if this title is available. Most printed titles seem to be.)
It's not the cows' faults; they're not challenged.
Rodents must be very clever to survive in the human world; they must obtain food while avoiding countless lethal obstacles. The smart mouse breeds more smart mice. Cows, however, are given everything necessary to ensure their survival until slaughter. Even their breeding mates are chosen for them using criteria to ensure their offspring are big and tasty, not smart and agile.
This article says the fake spokesperson claims to be a member of the Yes Men group, who has been doing this sort of thing for a while. But there is not confirmation of the Bhopal hoax on their site. (The hoaxster could be lying!)
Here's the salient bit from the article:
"Finisterra, whose identity could not be confirmed, later told BBC's Radio 4 he was part of the group Yes Men, which hoaxes businesses and governments and which has gone after Dow before over Bhopal."
While this doesn't eliminate the possibility of simultaneous robot flashes, you probably wouldn't notice problems until your robot farm population became unmanageable, at which point you have other things to worry about.
Different shadow colors? Shadows are the absence of light.
Additionally, you know what you get when you mix red, green, and blue light? White light. I can't imagine how the resulting data would be useful, especially when you consider ambient light sources and differently-colored reflective materials further mucking-up the scene.
Whom no one can understand in spoken communication. Maybe native English isn't worth $40k/yr extra, but my God I have had some difficult meetings with foreigners. If they coded like they spoke they'd never have been hired.
Don't get me wrong; I love foreigners (my mom is one!). But isn't English the most important language a US developer should know? The inter-developer communications protocol uses it almost exclusively.
No, I think most obviously disabled infants were probably killed. When you're part of a small group of people busting their asses 24/7 to simply survive, the value of your life is measured by a far more practical scale.
But that's really the fault of the stats engine. If you have a stats engine that calculates a "skill level," it's going to generate a qualitative figure that is does not exist in the raw game log. If that calculation rewards team-oriented events (e.g., planting or diffusing bombs, resucing hostages, defending targets, etc.) the behaviors you describe will probably diminish.
But it's far easier to calculate gross kills and damage dealt than it is a player's strategic value or team contribution.
One solution would be to force log-ins/log-outs of public PCs. You'd have to go to the librarian or coffee jerk and request a "user card," which is just a slip of paper with a dynamic username/password generated by an administration machine. That admin machine has remote access to the public machines, and can make a new, dynamic user (e.g., pubsuer_230) by the batch for the day or even on-the-fly. Or just update an LDAP table that all the public machines look to...
The account expires in 24 hours and-- pfft!-- so do all of the files in that account's home directory (or Documents and Settings).
I'm disappointed in the Slashdot community. We're allegedly a population of brighter-than-average society members, many of whom have been ostracized in our lives for having thoughts, opinions, ideas, or interests that vary from the "norm." Yet nearly every poster to this thread falls right in line behind Average Person, believing that rats are filthy and evil and would love to eat our brains out. This belief comes from tall tales and mythology and hyperbolized crack house anecdotes.
Rats are intelligent mammals that got a very bad reputation for carrying the fleas the spread Bubonic Plague. Do you know who else carried those fleas? Humans. Now, rats are known for exploiting humans' wastefulness, thriving on the prolific volume of garbage we produce. Yet, if you spend 5 minutes with a well-treated domestic rat you will see that they clean and friendly and bear many of the same attributes as Man's Best Friend.
If you have had a negative first-hand experience with rats, then you're excused for deprecating them. Otherwise, try to keep your mind clear, open, and original.
You should only pen females together. Males and males will fight for territory (probably what happend in your anecdote), and males and females will make more rats, some of whom will be males.
The bunny part of this is... odd. I'll assume that the rat wasn't treated very well.
I've been told that one big problem is giving a guarantee that the rats don't begin eating the people (dead or alive) they find.
Nonsense. These aren't starved wild city rats. Any animal will eat you (dead or alive) if it's desperate enough, even human animals.
Domestic rats don't just "bite victims." They're handled by humans from birth and become as docile and friendly as a well-treated dog. Mass media makes people think rats are vicious. Any wild animal will defend itself if you fuck with it.
I've been storing hundreds of gallons of polychlorinated biphenyls in the back of my shop for years. Now maybe I can dump them into the big drink again without suffering the wrath of that damned coral-hugging MIT hippie in his little Zodiac.
Chu Chu Rocket kicks ass. There's a "clone" of it for Linux called "mures" but it's just not the same. The Dreamcast version had style. Boy, I miss that. Even though I got my ass handed to me online.
I just did an option-f on "brian" to see if anyone else read that. I read it peripherally as, "Brian Cache's Memorial Fund." I wondered who Brian was, what he died of, and why a fund was founded.
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It's not odd. Fungi are not in the animal kingdom. However, it is odd that they eat plenty of animal products, which are not vegetables.
Please don't use glue traps.
Wow, I disliked that book. Maybe some modern treatment in a film will improve the story. The interminable gay sex ought to be interesting, at least.
Of the "more than 40 years of working in libraries," I wonder how many Mr. Gorman spent answering silly questions on the telephone. Now "who was Henry VIII's second wife?" can be fielded by McGoogle, freeing Mr. Gorman to draft more vitriolic treatises against the digital age.
O'Reilly to the rescue:
http://safari.oreilly.com
Keep an electronic bookshelf of any 5 titles for $9.99 a month. (Though I didn't check to see if this title is available. Most printed titles seem to be.)
It's not the cows' faults; they're not challenged.
Rodents must be very clever to survive in the human world; they must obtain food while avoiding countless lethal obstacles. The smart mouse breeds more smart mice. Cows, however, are given everything necessary to ensure their survival until slaughter. Even their breeding mates are chosen for them using criteria to ensure their offspring are big and tasty, not smart and agile.
I wonder how many fatal asteroids have nearly missed the earth before we had the technology to see them.
This article says the fake spokesperson claims to be a member of the Yes Men group, who has been doing this sort of thing for a while. But there is not confirmation of the Bhopal hoax on their site. (The hoaxster could be lying!)
Here's the salient bit from the article:
"Finisterra, whose identity could not be confirmed, later told BBC's Radio 4 he was part of the group Yes Men, which hoaxes businesses and governments and which has gone after Dow before over Bhopal."
Consumer camera flashes last 1/60 of a second.
While this doesn't eliminate the possibility of simultaneous robot flashes, you probably wouldn't notice problems until your robot farm population became unmanageable, at which point you have other things to worry about.
Different shadow colors? Shadows are the absence of light.
Additionally, you know what you get when you mix red, green, and blue light? White light. I can't imagine how the resulting data would be useful, especially when you consider ambient light sources and differently-colored reflective materials further mucking-up the scene.
I never had a C-64; I was an Apple IIe youth. But I had a blast with my friend's C64! It had some kick-ass two player games.
But how do you play two-player games with one stick? Is it possible? Now that I really only play networked games I prefer human competition.
And Excel for Dummies will take you to a more advanced level.
Whom no one can understand in spoken communication. Maybe native English isn't worth $40k/yr extra, but my God I have had some difficult meetings with foreigners. If they coded like they spoke they'd never have been hired.
Don't get me wrong; I love foreigners (my mom is one!). But isn't English the most important language a US developer should know? The inter-developer communications protocol uses it almost exclusively.
No, I think most obviously disabled infants were probably killed. When you're part of a small group of people busting their asses 24/7 to simply survive, the value of your life is measured by a far more practical scale.
But that's really the fault of the stats engine. If you have a stats engine that calculates a "skill level," it's going to generate a qualitative figure that is does not exist in the raw game log. If that calculation rewards team-oriented events (e.g., planting or diffusing bombs, resucing hostages, defending targets, etc.) the behaviors you describe will probably diminish. But it's far easier to calculate gross kills and damage dealt than it is a player's strategic value or team contribution.
One solution would be to force log-ins/log-outs of public PCs. You'd have to go to the librarian or coffee jerk and request a "user card," which is just a slip of paper with a dynamic username/password generated by an administration machine. That admin machine has remote access to the public machines, and can make a new, dynamic user (e.g., pubsuer_230) by the batch for the day or even on-the-fly. Or just update an LDAP table that all the public machines look to... The account expires in 24 hours and-- pfft!-- so do all of the files in that account's home directory (or Documents and Settings).
I'm disappointed in the Slashdot community. We're allegedly a population of brighter-than-average society members, many of whom have been ostracized in our lives for having thoughts, opinions, ideas, or interests that vary from the "norm." Yet nearly every poster to this thread falls right in line behind Average Person, believing that rats are filthy and evil and would love to eat our brains out. This belief comes from tall tales and mythology and hyperbolized crack house anecdotes.
Rats are intelligent mammals that got a very bad reputation for carrying the fleas the spread Bubonic Plague. Do you know who else carried those fleas? Humans. Now, rats are known for exploiting humans' wastefulness, thriving on the prolific volume of garbage we produce. Yet, if you spend 5 minutes with a well-treated domestic rat you will see that they clean and friendly and bear many of the same attributes as Man's Best Friend.
If you have had a negative first-hand experience with rats, then you're excused for deprecating them. Otherwise, try to keep your mind clear, open, and original.
Well, if you use a robot you're not exploiting a rat's life.
You should only pen females together. Males and males will fight for territory (probably what happend in your anecdote), and males and females will make more rats, some of whom will be males. The bunny part of this is... odd. I'll assume that the rat wasn't treated very well.
I've been told that one big problem is giving a guarantee that the rats don't begin eating the people (dead or alive) they find. Nonsense. These aren't starved wild city rats. Any animal will eat you (dead or alive) if it's desperate enough, even human animals.
Domestic rats don't just "bite victims." They're handled by humans from birth and become as docile and friendly as a well-treated dog. Mass media makes people think rats are vicious. Any wild animal will defend itself if you fuck with it.
I've been storing hundreds of gallons of polychlorinated biphenyls in the back of my shop for years. Now maybe I can dump them into the big drink again without suffering the wrath of that damned coral-hugging MIT hippie in his little Zodiac.
Yeah, I was bummed I couldn't read for the 900th time that PHP/MySQL tutorial from '99.
Chu Chu Rocket kicks ass. There's a "clone" of it for Linux called "mures" but it's just not the same. The Dreamcast version had style. Boy, I miss that. Even though I got my ass handed to me online.
I just did an option-f on "brian" to see if anyone else read that. I read it peripherally as, "Brian Cache's Memorial Fund." I wondered who Brian was, what he died of, and why a fund was founded.