I'm surprised the French have so many problems with the color of their socks. It's always sock ray blue this and sock ray blue that.
It's like when in Spanish "white house" becomes "casa blanca", with the adjective following the noun it modifies instead of preceeding it, when you move from English to French "blu-ray" become "ray blue".
Well, that particular time the smartest physician I know assured me it was influenza, and fortunately the stomach part only lasted a couple of days out of the week I spent in bed with my eyelids hot enough to fry eggs on.
The time before that, when my stomach was reasonably well behaved during the week I was only semi-conscious, he was still in med school, but the doc I saw the first day when I could still manage to stagger into the ER assured me it was the flu.
You base this on... nothin'. Just because he'd rather have the flu than get a shot doesn't mean he hasn't had the flu (which is rather unlikely to begin with).
I never get flu shots but have had the flu multiple times, and on almost all of those occasions lasted almost a week.
I base it on the relative levels of discomfort.
I don't enjoy flu shots. I don't look forward to them. They don't feel good. And I generally prefer not to think about needles at all.
But on an unpleasantness scale with enough scope to contain the actual experience of suffering an influenza infection, a flu shot is almost too small to see.
If you are the native english speaker then it is certainly your job to write as clearly as possible and if being misunderstood to try to clarify. Possibly without insulting people for not knowing _your_ native language - that makes you look like an idiot. being non-native in english does not in any way invalidate ZK's points.
I am not a native english speaker. so therefore anything i say must be wrong (especially since my grammar and spelling sucks), right mr. bigot?
Except for failure to capitalize the first letter of stuff when you should have, you seem to be handling the English language fairly well, better, in fact, than a number of my fellow persons here in the U.S. for whom it is their first and only language.
... and you have the combination of balls and shear stupidity to suggest that English might not be my first language? You are one funny SOB! Thanks for the laugh.
I don't know if he/she should be trusted to behave intelligently with large scissors or not, but suspect you meant sheer stupidity.
i hated needles as a kid, and STILL hate needles. i almost never get anything with a needle unless i absolutely have to. ill generally take the flu over a vaccine.
Then you've probably never really had the flu.
Oh, and before you wound up completely out of action for a week except to grab the trash can near the bed when your stomach tries to turn itself inside out and escape your body via your throat, and you have spasms in abodmen muscles you never knew you had, you've probably helped spread the disease to who knows how many others.
Do like I do, look the other way and accept that there's going to be some momentary pain.
People with cable TV don't own the wire that carries the signal to their house, nor do they typically own their cable box or DVR. It's all rented. So what's the difference if your rented DVR lives at a co-location facility?
But with cable TV the cable company uses one antenna and distributes the received OTA channels to everyone, quite possibly demodulating and remodulating one or more of them in the process, so the broadcasters can claim that the cable companies are "re-transmitting", and that lets them charge the cable companies (who pass that on to subscribers, of course).
Aereo gives each customer their own antenna, so there's a legal distinction, although not necessarily a completely clear-cut one.
I've discovered that the stackable Linksys stuff, like the WRT54G and BEFSR41, benefit greatly by adding something along the lines of a 486 heat sink fan.
You should be able to find a 12V DC tap off point near where the wall wart plugs in*, and plastic/nylon motherboard standoffs, with the mobo end stuck in the fan's screw holes, and the chassis end clipped off flush with the flange and a little RTV silicon caulking compound added to glue them to the circuit board, will suspend the fan over or near whichever chip gets hottest.
*This portion of the exercise will involve knowing by which end of a soldering iron not to pick it up, and the observance of polarity.
No. Terrible design that makes it look like a cheap WordPress site using a free theme because/. was too cheap to spend $40 for a premium theme. What are you thinking?
THIS
Been here since the Halloween Papers (0ctober '98)
Liked some of the changes, haven't cared for other ones quite so much.
But if you go with that, it won't be Slashdot anymore.
"As a daily visitor for the last 15 years... (1) Joe Jordan | yesterday No. Terrible design that makes it look like a cheap WordPress site using a free theme because/. was too cheap to spend $40 for a premium theme. What are you thinking?" *THIS* Been here since the Halloween Papers (October '98). UID 5733 I've liked some of the changes over the years and not cared so much for others. But if you go through with this, it won't be Slashdot anymore.
Please be very careful to differentiate between the three books written by Robert Ludlum featuring the Jason Bourne character and any and everything else that's come along since involving a character with the same name.
Well, the Neuse might flow past Goldsboro to somewhere near Cherry Point/Havelock, but Lejune has it's own river, although it shares it with MCAS New River.
Bragg, Seymore Johnson (where they had lots of B-52s), the world's largest amphibious training base (Camp Lejune), MCAS Cherry Point, MCAS New River, Pope AFB, near Bragg, various Coast Guard facilities, and that's just the stuff in Eastern NC.
I knew I'd misspell Seymour Johnson one of these days.
Bragg, Seymore Johnson (where they had lots of B-52s), the world's largest amphibious training base (Camp Lejune), MCAS Cherry Point, MCAS New River, Pope AFB, near Bragg, various Coast Guard facilities, and that's just the stuff in Eastern NC.
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...For me, hanging out with smart people is the best way to keep my mind open and learning.
Insert obligatory "...then what in the bleep are you doing on Slashdot?"
I'm surprised the French have so many problems with the color of their socks. It's always sock ray blue this and sock ray blue that.
It's like when in Spanish "white house" becomes "casa blanca", with the adjective following the noun it modifies instead of preceeding it, when you move from English to French "blu-ray" become "ray blue".
Did I hear somebody mention Wordpress? ;)
You mean the stuff so bad it makes VBulletin look good?
Well, that particular time the smartest physician I know assured me it was influenza, and fortunately the stomach part only lasted a couple of days out of the week I spent in bed with my eyelids hot enough to fry eggs on.
The time before that, when my stomach was reasonably well behaved during the week I was only semi-conscious, he was still in med school, but the doc I saw the first day when I could still manage to stagger into the ER assured me it was the flu.
Then you've probably never really had the flu.
You base this on... nothin'. Just because he'd rather have the flu than get a shot doesn't mean he hasn't had the flu (which is rather unlikely to begin with).
I never get flu shots but have had the flu multiple times, and on almost all of those occasions lasted almost a week.
I base it on the relative levels of discomfort.
I don't enjoy flu shots. I don't look forward to them. They don't feel good. And I generally prefer not to think about needles at all.
But on an unpleasantness scale with enough scope to contain the actual experience of suffering an influenza infection, a flu shot is almost too small to see.
If you are the native english speaker then it is certainly your job to write as clearly as possible and if being misunderstood to try to clarify. Possibly without insulting people for not knowing _your_ native language - that makes you look like an idiot. being non-native in english does not in any way invalidate ZK's points.
I am not a native english speaker. so therefore anything i say must be wrong (especially since my grammar and spelling sucks), right mr. bigot?
Except for failure to capitalize the first letter of stuff when you should have, you seem to be handling the English language fairly well, better, in fact, than a number of my fellow persons here in the U.S. for whom it is their first and only language.
From your original post:
... and you have the combination of balls and shear stupidity to suggest that English might not be my first language? You are one funny SOB! Thanks for the laugh.
I don't know if he/she should be trusted to behave intelligently with large scissors or not, but suspect you meant sheer stupidity.
i hated needles as a kid, and STILL hate needles. i almost never get anything with a needle unless i absolutely have to. ill generally take the flu over a vaccine.
Then you've probably never really had the flu.
Oh, and before you wound up completely out of action for a week except to grab the trash can near the bed when your stomach tries to turn itself inside out and escape your body via your throat, and you have spasms in abodmen muscles you never knew you had, you've probably helped spread the disease to who knows how many others.
Do like I do, look the other way and accept that there's going to be some momentary pain.
People with cable TV don't own the wire that carries the signal to their house, nor do they typically own their cable box or DVR. It's all rented. So what's the difference if your rented DVR lives at a co-location facility?
But with cable TV the cable company uses one antenna and distributes the received OTA channels to everyone, quite possibly demodulating and remodulating one or more of them in the process, so the broadcasters can claim that the cable companies are "re-transmitting", and that lets them charge the cable companies (who pass that on to subscribers, of course).
Aereo gives each customer their own antenna, so there's a legal distinction, although not necessarily a completely clear-cut one.
I believe the actual term for someone who uses Twitter rumors for stock trading is "twit".
I was thinking the term might be something more technical sounding, like "self-inflicted insolvency".
...than a case of how far away from your TV your DVR is allowed to be located.
Which is to say the broadcasters are trying to use smoke and mirrors to cover up rent seeking.
..."Yahoo To Offer Bugs Bunny Rewards Up To $15,000"
Darn floaters.
I've discovered that the stackable Linksys stuff, like the WRT54G and BEFSR41, benefit greatly by adding something along the lines of a 486 heat sink fan.
You should be able to find a 12V DC tap off point near where the wall wart plugs in*, and plastic/nylon motherboard standoffs, with the mobo end stuck in the fan's screw holes, and the chassis end clipped off flush with the flange and a little RTV silicon caulking compound added to glue them to the circuit board, will suspend the fan over or near whichever chip gets hottest.
*This portion of the exercise will involve knowing by which end of a soldering iron not to pick it up, and the observance of polarity.
The mini-series with Richard Chamberlain was a good adaptation of the book.
I keep meaning to try to track that down and watch it.
...for me a different 4 letter word comes immediately to mind.
In fact it's difficult to fully express my dislike of it without resorting to 4 letter words.
No. Terrible design that makes it look like a cheap WordPress site using a free theme because /. was too cheap to spend $40 for a premium theme. What are you thinking?
THIS
Been here since the Halloween Papers (0ctober '98)
Liked some of the changes, haven't cared for other ones quite so much.
But if you go with that, it won't be Slashdot anymore.
"As a daily visitor for the last 15 years... (1) /. was too cheap to spend $40 for a premium theme. What are you thinking?"
Joe Jordan | yesterday
No. Terrible design that makes it look like a cheap WordPress site using a free theme because
*THIS*
Been here since the Halloween Papers (October '98).
UID 5733
I've liked some of the changes over the years and not cared so much for others.
But if you go through with this, it won't be Slashdot anymore.
Please be very careful to differentiate between the three books written by Robert Ludlum featuring the Jason Bourne character and any and everything else that's come along since involving a character with the same name.
In a global financial market, there are no non-trading hours.
There's always an exchange open somewhere.
The Fed shouldn't have been giving CNBC the info any sooner than they gave it to anyone else.
There's way too much potential for shenanigans for the Fed to be giving anyone an embargoed story.
"Drinking over a shoe meant drinking too much."
By "over", do all these people talking about shoes mean "more than"?
In other words, it's not a question of relative vertical locations?
Well, the Neuse might flow past Goldsboro to somewhere near Cherry Point/Havelock, but Lejune has it's own river, although it shares it with MCAS New River.
Bragg, Seymore Johnson (where they had lots of B-52s), the world's largest amphibious training base (Camp Lejune), MCAS Cherry Point, MCAS New River, Pope AFB, near Bragg, various Coast Guard facilities, and that's just the stuff in Eastern NC.
I knew I'd misspell Seymour Johnson one of these days.
Bragg, Seymore Johnson (where they had lots of B-52s), the world's largest amphibious training base (Camp Lejune), MCAS Cherry Point, MCAS New River, Pope AFB, near Bragg, various Coast Guard facilities, and that's just the stuff in Eastern NC.
That's not what Murphy said. Murphy said "If that guy has any way of making a mistake, he will." Look it up on wikipedia.
Maybe it isn't so OT after all. If that 4th switch had failed...
But when Murphy's Law was put down in print, Murphy's Law was in effect.