It's a reference to the slashdot effect. Although I think mozilla's servers can handle a slashdotting.
Side note: I was expecting the red lizard on the front page, not the newspaper and glasses. My world has been shattered. I'm going to go collapse in a heap of goo now.
Now now... don't be too quick to judge. Maybe he's Leibniz reincarnated.
After all, Newton went public with his Calculus because Leibniz was parading around with his error-laden version of Calculus. Leibniz is just the type of guy who would love Slashdot.
They'll probably do that anyway. In Japan, giving a business card to another person is almost ceremonial, so I doubt that it'll give way to electronic data transfer. Besides, knowing how marketing exaggerates things, you probably have to grab hold of the other person's hand, open your networking program, wait for a connection to be verified, do the hokey-pokey, then have the file sent. Interesting, but perhaps a ways away from practical use.
What makes the American Civil Liberties Union "diametrically opposed" to God? The ACLU doesn't oppose anything. It's merely that they support the rights of the extremists. Yes, some extremists are "diametrically opposed" to the idea of the Judeo-Christian deity. But some aren't.
Any other nonsense you'd like to spout forth in order to get me modded down by going further offtopic at the prodding of a troll?
BAH! You fool! You missed a big one! Twice! You're not supposed to start a sentence with a conjunction!
Seriously though, I also do my best to type in proper English online. I'm even anal-retentive enough to get really irritated by people who type in L33T or refuse to use punctuation. I still make mistakes, especially when I'm in a hurry, but the utter lack of effort is what gets me.
The weird thing is, when using IMs, I type in a dialect. If I mean to say "I'm goin' ta the store wit' ya later," then that's exactly how I type it. Although I rarely "sound" quite so hillbilly-esque.
That's pretty sad, now that I think about it. I think that dialect typing means that I'm even a loser when compared to slashdotters.
I just thought of the old LucasArts adventure game, "The Dig." I poked around on the LucasArts website for any info on it, but couldn't find anything. I could google, but I'm lazy. I'll just describe the thing.
Big rock shows up in orbit around Earth. Five people head up to take a look-see. Three people go EVA and discover it's hollow. They fiddle around inside it for a bit and it whips off and ridiculously high speeds to whisk them away to a mostly dead planet. They fix the planet, even though the German guy went nuts.
Every single post you have made up to this point has been ridiculously rude. You insist that Blue Gecko couldn't -possibly- have a friend with enough money to purchase your company's precious equipment. Tell me, do you know all of his friends?
Let's look at the response from another Escient chap on/., gkhurst.
To the guy talking about his friend's Escient system that doesn't work, then just call our full-time service manager who will take care of it ASAP. Screen curtains are on a relay so it's pretty unlikely they'd just close during a movie. You might be confusing a system with Escient Convergence products with one Escient Solutions installed.
See? Civil. Polite. My word, perhaps even helpful!
We need faster computers to do things like... smart databases that run in the background and look at everything you're doing and help you as you do those things.
Just please, for the love of god, don't let the help be provided by a friendly paper clip.
<I>Virtually every culture has a flood tale. That is what there is to disprove.</I>
Lots of cultures also have tales of extremely powerful and massive flying reptiles called dragons.
On another note, there are lots of TV shows with episodes where the characters are trapped in an elevator. You know why? Because it's a good plot for a sitcom. (Or at least it was before everyone got sick of it.) Just because a bunch of cultures made up stories about a whole bunch of water doesn't mean that there was a massive worldwide flood.
There just seems something so wrong with the phrase, "Dude, you're gettin' Linux!" Which means, of course, that the people in marketing will think it's a fantastic idea.
Plus, there's the fact that all languages move their lips exactly the same way to pronounce their words as they would to speak the english translation. Absolutely amazing, eh?
Only when the program can quickly and seamlessly convert a hitherto unknown language into everyday English will I be satisfied. The differences between Star Trek and reality must continue to dwindle.
But hey, they could at -least- program Klingon into it.
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No... that proves the statement
Lim 26,000,000/X=infinity (X -> 0+)
(For those who can't make sense of that, it's saying that as the value of X approaches zero from the positive direction (decreases to zero), the value of 26,000,000/X approaches infinity.)
However, 26,000,000/0 is still undefined. For those graphing along at home, that means you use an empty circle as opposed to a filled-in dot.
This has been another presentation of more pre-calc than any of us really care to know.
P.S. Please forgive the sloppy notation. It's a little difficult to do the necessary sub and superscripts on/..
Slashdot Mirror
It's a reference to the slashdot effect. Although I think mozilla's servers can handle a slashdotting.
Side note: I was expecting the red lizard on the front page, not the newspaper and glasses. My world has been shattered. I'm going to go collapse in a heap of goo now.
1) Gripe about running gags and/or in-jokes on /.
2) ???
3) Profit
Now now... don't be too quick to judge. Maybe he's Leibniz reincarnated.
After all, Newton went public with his Calculus because Leibniz was parading around with his error-laden version of Calculus. Leibniz is just the type of guy who would love Slashdot.
But if we can't mod up ridiculous in-jokes as informative, then the terrorists have already won!
I forsee a future where people can get life in prison for tapping someone's shoulder.
They'll probably do that anyway. In Japan, giving a business card to another person is almost ceremonial, so I doubt that it'll give way to electronic data transfer. Besides, knowing how marketing exaggerates things, you probably have to grab hold of the other person's hand, open your networking program, wait for a connection to be verified, do the hokey-pokey, then have the file sent. Interesting, but perhaps a ways away from practical use.
Th... they... Miracles DO happen! Thank you AC! Thank you and all your spiffiness!
No. See Looking Glass for an example. Killed thanks to Daikatana, that oh so successful FPS.
Noooo! Now the painful feelings of loss from the Thief games are flooding back to me. Why did you have to bring up those memories? WHY!?
What makes the American Civil Liberties Union "diametrically opposed" to God? The ACLU doesn't oppose anything. It's merely that they support the rights of the extremists. Yes, some extremists are "diametrically opposed" to the idea of the Judeo-Christian deity. But some aren't.
Any other nonsense you'd like to spout forth in order to get me modded down by going further offtopic at the prodding of a troll?
BAH! You fool! You missed a big one! Twice! You're not supposed to start a sentence with a conjunction!
Seriously though, I also do my best to type in proper English online. I'm even anal-retentive enough to get really irritated by people who type in L33T or refuse to use punctuation. I still make mistakes, especially when I'm in a hurry, but the utter lack of effort is what gets me.
The weird thing is, when using IMs, I type in a dialect. If I mean to say "I'm goin' ta the store wit' ya later," then that's exactly how I type it. Although I rarely "sound" quite so hillbilly-esque.
That's pretty sad, now that I think about it. I think that dialect typing means that I'm even a loser when compared to slashdotters.
Soldering iron? BAH! In my day, we had to spit on the parts and hold 'em together real tight. And by God, we -liked- it!
I just thought of the old LucasArts adventure game, "The Dig." I poked around on the LucasArts website for any info on it, but couldn't find anything. I could google, but I'm lazy. I'll just describe the thing.
Big rock shows up in orbit around Earth. Five people head up to take a look-see. Three people go EVA and discover it's hollow. They fiddle around inside it for a bit and it whips off and ridiculously high speeds to whisk them away to a mostly dead planet. They fix the planet, even though the German guy went nuts.
Anyone else remember this game?
Technically, it'd be an intrasolar planet. Intersolar would go between 2 or more solar systems. Intrasolar would be within a single solar system.
Every single post you have made up to this point has been ridiculously rude. You insist that Blue Gecko couldn't -possibly- have a friend with enough money to purchase your company's precious equipment. Tell me, do you know all of his friends?
/., gkhurst.
Let's look at the response from another Escient chap on
To the guy talking about his friend's Escient system that doesn't work, then just call our full-time service manager who will take care of it ASAP. Screen curtains are on a relay so it's pretty unlikely they'd just close during a movie. You might be confusing a system with Escient Convergence products with one Escient Solutions installed.
See? Civil. Polite. My word, perhaps even helpful!
Try that sometime.
lights, breaks, bumper, mirrors?
Breaks, eh? Just a mistake, I'm sure... but that form of the word is probably more accurate with a Ford. Especially one with >100k miles.
Yeah. We should all spend our time doing something productive. Like posting on Slashdot.
We need faster computers to do things like ... smart databases that run in the background and look at everything you're doing and help you as you do those things.
Just please, for the love of god, don't let the help be provided by a friendly paper clip.
HyperCaffeine!? Oh man! I can't take this kind of pressure!
Hrm... naturally, I have to discredit myself by screwing up the formatting so that I look totally inept and moronic.
I demand to be modded down! Beat me like a redheaded stepchild, it's the only way I'll learn.
<I>Virtually every culture has a flood tale. That is what there is to disprove.</I>
Lots of cultures also have tales of extremely powerful and massive flying reptiles called dragons.
On another note, there are lots of TV shows with episodes where the characters are trapped in an elevator. You know why? Because it's a good plot for a sitcom. (Or at least it was before everyone got sick of it.) Just because a bunch of cultures made up stories about a whole bunch of water doesn't mean that there was a massive worldwide flood.
Why would people who work with window coverings need cortical implants?
There just seems something so wrong with the phrase, "Dude, you're gettin' Linux!" Which means, of course, that the people in marketing will think it's a fantastic idea.
Plus, there's the fact that all languages move their lips exactly the same way to pronounce their words as they would to speak the english translation. Absolutely amazing, eh?
Only when the program can quickly and seamlessly convert a hitherto unknown language into everyday English will I be satisfied. The differences between Star Trek and reality must continue to dwindle.
But hey, they could at -least- program Klingon into it.
No... that proves the statement
/..
Lim 26,000,000/X=infinity
(X -> 0+)
(For those who can't make sense of that, it's saying that as the value of X approaches zero from the positive direction (decreases to zero), the value of 26,000,000/X approaches infinity.)
However, 26,000,000/0 is still undefined. For those graphing along at home, that means you use an empty circle as opposed to a filled-in dot.
This has been another presentation of more pre-calc than any of us really care to know.
P.S. Please forgive the sloppy notation. It's a little difficult to do the necessary sub and superscripts on