Quoting the post to which I reply-- "What about marathonians? At my knowledge, there was only one sample of this media type. Others were not made of the same stuff, only the very first one was motivated enough to die after message delivery." The above deserves at least a +1, it is funny and insightful. If it had been posted earlier, it probably would have been moderated as both, but, as they say in comedy, timing is everything.
Actually I am aware that they are located in the Concentrated Area of Relocated Yankees, but years ago I got the founder of SAS temporarily confused with the club Charlie Goodnight's and it pops back up from time to time. It's been a long time since I lived anywhere in the RTP area or even got up there to visit and have to rely on the News and Observer to keep up.
Actually I agree with you. Whoever was kind enough to correct the moderation down as offtopic really should have marked it as underrated rather than informative (although I suppose there are a few people that didn't realize that SAS Institute is quite close by to Red Hat in Durham, N.C., as it is just down the road in Raleigh, N.C). I thank them all the same.
They're probably in the catalog but with the purple stock numbers so that you have to special order them. Of course if actually want the thing to work you might not want to use Radio Shack parts:)
"...we have to fly our people to Durham, [N.C.]." Look on the bright side, Chapel Hill/Carrboro are practically right next door so you can hit Cat's Cradle before going home.
"I moderated this one up..." Doesn't commenting on it undo the moderation you just did, or are you bragging about having found a way to cheat on the moderation system?
--begin karma burn mode--guerrilla story submission-- According to this story, soon to age off The Register, your computer may be possessed, but only if there's enough space on the hard drive. It's funny, and worth the time to read.
The suit wasn't filed by any television stations or television networks, ie, the supposed injured parties, but by the MPAA. They must fear something other than loss of local advertising revenue by local network affilliate broadcast stations, but what, and why is this the way to stop it?
I think the pig heart thing was a stopgap measure to provide a temporary heart while waiting for a human one to become available. Something that experimental would probably have been done on someone who was so sick that it couldn't have made their chances any worse, so they probably would have died soon afterwards even if the pig heart worked. The columnist Lewis Grizzard lived for several years with a transplanted pig heart valve.
If their ideas are worthless, then those ideas probably won't be "copied and used" by anyone else, so those with worthless ideas probably won't be the ones whining about piracy.
It sounds as though you're describing tolerance of faults in hardware, but isn't software fault tolerance an important something that has to be anticipated and designed for as well? So that one failing program doesn't freeze or crash the entire system?
The unconscionable "make Phelps the bad guy" which ruined the first Mission Impossible movie is more than sufficent reason for a boycott all by itself.
"How can one own such a thing?" Because they thought of it and you didn't! By and large it seems that those with no ideas worth having are a lot more enthusiastic about people having no rights over their own ideas as are those with ideas worth having.
Despite his many other flaws (as I perceive them), Katz regularly reads the responses to his articles and posts replies when (apparently) he feels they are warrented. I have a lot of complaints about him, but "elitist snob" isn't one of them.
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Quoting the post to which I reply--
"What about marathonians? At my knowledge, there was only one sample of this media type. Others were not made of the same stuff, only the very first one was motivated enough to die after message delivery."
The above deserves at least a +1, it is funny and insightful. If it had been posted earlier, it probably would have been moderated as both, but, as they say in comedy, timing is everything.
"Have you ever seen Windows do anything useful in safe mode?"
Does letting you play Freecell count?
Ignoring for the moment whether those words rhymed in Latin as well, this does a lot to explain why they thought the Roman Numeral system made sense :)
Actually I am aware that they are located in the Concentrated Area of Relocated Yankees, but years ago I got the founder of SAS temporarily confused with the club Charlie Goodnight's and it pops back up from time to time. It's been a long time since I lived anywhere in the RTP area or even got up there to visit and have to rely on the News and Observer to keep up.
Actually I agree with you. Whoever was kind enough to correct the moderation down as offtopic really should have marked it as underrated rather than informative (although I suppose there are a few people that didn't realize that SAS Institute is quite close by to Red Hat in Durham, N.C., as it is just down the road in Raleigh, N.C). I thank them all the same.
They and RedHat*are*practically next door neighbors.
Then they could have posted that "Stephen King book on the internet" story back when it *was* news. :)
They're probably in the catalog but with the purple stock numbers so that you have to special order them. Of course if actually want the thing to work you might not want to use Radio Shack parts :)
If the phrase "wormy-talkies" is original to you, better get it copyrighted, registered, whatevered right away :)
It could be worse. What if Red Hat were in Eastern North Carolina and you went there during hurricane season?
My computer must be malfunctioning. It shows this story as an "Ask Slashdot", not as news.
"...we have to fly our people to Durham, [N.C.]."
Look on the bright side, Chapel Hill/Carrboro are practically right next door so you can hit Cat's Cradle before going home.
"I moderated this one up..."
Doesn't commenting on it undo the moderation you just did, or are you bragging about having found a way to cheat on the moderation system?
--begin karma burn mode--guerrilla story submission--
According to this story, soon to age off The Register, your computer may be possessed, but only if there's enough space on the hard drive. It's funny, and worth the time to read.
The suit wasn't filed by any television stations or television networks, ie, the supposed injured parties, but by the MPAA. They must fear something other than loss of local advertising revenue by local network affilliate broadcast stations, but what, and why is this the way to stop it?
I think the pig heart thing was a stopgap measure to provide a temporary heart while waiting for a human one to become available. Something that experimental would probably have been done on someone who was so sick that it couldn't have made their chances any worse, so they probably would have died soon afterwards even if the pig heart worked. The columnist Lewis Grizzard lived for several years with a transplanted pig heart valve.
So there's really nothing wrong with my system except that it's been programmed to ignore me?
If their ideas are worthless, then those ideas probably won't be "copied and used" by anyone else, so those with worthless ideas probably won't be the ones whining about piracy.
There must be an IPO involved. Every time there's an IPO involved stories disappear from Slashdot without a trace or an explanation.
It sounds as though you're describing tolerance of faults in hardware, but isn't software fault tolerance an important something that has to be anticipated and designed for as well? So that one failing program doesn't freeze or crash the entire system?
Because of all the people stealing, I mean, liberating, Katz's writings. :)
The unconscionable "make Phelps the bad guy" which ruined the first Mission Impossible movie is more than sufficent reason for a boycott all by itself.
"How can one own such a thing?"
Because they thought of it and you didn't!
By and large it seems that those with no ideas worth having are a lot more enthusiastic about people having no rights over their own ideas as are those with ideas worth having.
Despite his many other flaws (as I perceive them), Katz regularly reads the responses to his articles and posts replies when (apparently) he feels they are warrented. I have a lot of complaints about him, but "elitist snob" isn't one of them.
"Once we can all cheaply create content..." the value of most of it will be the equivalent of First Post, hot grits, petrified Portman, etc.