there is some truth to the whole "read for the articles" bit Of course there is, it's a word-play. One doesn't "read" a picture, one looks at it. So it's read for the articles and looked at for the pictures.
When I was growing up we had no interwebs. I regularly consulted my parents' Britannica to answer my questions or give me a starting point for further investigation. I can't imagine what growing up with the interwebs would be like, but I think it would have doused my imaginary fire with gasoline.
I for one welcome our Post-Apocalyptic Giant Mutant Bird overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted/.er, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground Seed Vault.
In crews with women, he notes, there seems to be less competition, and the crews seem to get along a little better. At the high school I went to (private, single-sex, English-style) they introduced girls in the senior years to encourage competition.
A friend and I used to have cell-phone conversations like this - extremely weird form of humour - the form was to see how far we could push it while maintaining composure. I always wondered what the spooks would think if they were listening in.
Well, I will reserve my opinion as it comes to nVidia, but how could anyone do a worse job of writing drivers than ATI? Ya, I got ubuntu on my laptop and was really happy with the way it Just Works. I tried the ATI driver for my graphics card and Gnome would restart when you interrupted the screen saver. I went back to using the generic driver, no probs. Still got to get WPA and my 7134 digital TV card going, but happy so far.
How else are we going to evolve as a species if the government tries to legislate out of existence those activities that get people into the Darwin Awards? They're not in a hurry to do that; stupid people pay the most tax.
Agreed, recycled paper is crap quality.
Before I got into IT I studied printing and one of our teachers discussed recycled paper. The main point he made was that paper made from hemp fibres was not only of a better quality but could also be recycled into high quality paper (IIRC up to 7 times). WTF is wrong with the World's governments that they ban the agricultural mass production of hemp fibre, it used to be the US's biggest cash crop!?
Don't forget the cancer you're likely to get within 10 years due to not being shielded from cosmic rays. Unless you live deep underground all the time, which is just oodles of fun, I can tell you.
--Nathaniel (neutrino physicist in a mine shaft) Are you posting from the mine shaft?
Personally, I'd prefer slashvertisements to me marked as such and not passed off as real stories, so I'm OK with it. Now if they'd just follow suit with the others and not just one vendor's.
For goodness sake a Linux user that I work with said he was going to buy Vista just because he thought the box looks cool. That's weird, the Linux users that I work with just download the torrent.
Bad Billy is truly Bad. He's a fucking asshole. He's going to end up living out life in jail if you don't do something about it NOW. Not always, with two of the kids that bullied me in primary school, ones a lawyer and the other is a high-flying banker. People change. I don't have a problem with them now, that doesn't make it OK what they did but that was 18 years ago now. I still have emotional baggage (anyone who says they don't is either enlightened or full of it) but not all bullies keep making trouble when they grow up.
Perhaps someone here can tell me, what is the real difference between this fancy 'Activia' brand, and normal live culture yogurt (such as the Yoplait custard style I've been eating for 20 years when I want yogurt)?
Well with Yakult, which is the brand we get here, the Lactobacillus casei Shirota strain they use is supposed to reach the intestines unharmed. Could all just be a marketing ploy but I find it makes a big difference.
The survivors of the Ice Age that killed off almost all Homo Sapiens all those Millenia ago were known to be huge meat eaters, dining on the wicked fast shellfish that gathered on the shores of ancient Africa (HUGE piles of proto-oyster shells are ample evidence of the evolutionary presence of meat in our diets).
Just to clarify; are you suggesting we were killing ourselves off or some other Homo sp.?
This "offsite word processing" crap is for chumps - anyone with sensitive data would be utter idiots to go there.
That's where a Google Appliance would be handy, you get anywhere access to corporate documents stored on your corporate network - and you don't need an in-house web-monkey to maintain the software.
I know that competition is a good thing for consumers, and monopolies are generally only good for companies.
Personally, I don't want every Tom, Dick and Harry laying utility services in my street, this includes fibre & cables as well as gas and water pipes. What a nightmare that'd be. I don't want their RF pollution either. And being granted such a monopoly isn't necessarily good for companies as they have to play fair due to anti-competition regulations and provide good wholesale rates to their competitors.
With music, software or any other media, however, there's no digging or interruption to local traffic. Companies trying to hold a monopoly there, e.g. by lobbying politicians, can go and fuck themselves.
Also, If you pollute my space with your RF transmissions, I'll do what ever the hell I like with them.
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When I was growing up we had no interwebs. I regularly consulted my parents' Britannica to answer my questions or give me a starting point for further investigation. I can't imagine what growing up with the interwebs would be like, but I think it would have doused my imaginary fire with gasoline.
I for one welcome our Post-Apocalyptic Giant Mutant Bird overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted /.er, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground Seed Vault.
No no, you need to use a vaporizer man.
A friend and I used to have cell-phone conversations like this - extremely weird form of humour - the form was to see how far we could push it while maintaining composure. I always wondered what the spooks would think if they were listening in.
Agreed, recycled paper is crap quality.
Before I got into IT I studied printing and one of our teachers discussed recycled paper. The main point he made was that paper made from hemp fibres was not only of a better quality but could also be recycled into high quality paper (IIRC up to 7 times). WTF is wrong with the World's governments that they ban the agricultural mass production of hemp fibre, it used to be the US's biggest cash crop!?
--Nathaniel (neutrino physicist in a mine shaft) Are you posting from the mine shaft?
Personally, I'd prefer slashvertisements to me marked as such and not passed off as real stories, so I'm OK with it. Now if they'd just follow suit with the others and not just one vendor's.
Cue the greasemonkey in 3, 2...
Oh, and the current story in there is Give Intel a Piece of Your Mind, go on... do it.
D'oh! You're right. I didn't read it that way, I think my caffeine gauge was on E.
BTW: Why was it modded funny!?
With music, software or any other media, however, there's no digging or interruption to local traffic. Companies trying to hold a monopoly there, e.g. by lobbying politicians, can go and fuck themselves.
Also, If you pollute my space with your RF transmissions, I'll do what ever the hell I like with them.