If this trend continues, someday kids won't know how to adjust the spark advance to match the engine RPM, or patch an inner tube, or adjust the fuel idle mixture based on the temperature and humidity!
Imagine a driver who can't fashion a new engine bearing from with a coffee can and a tin snips, and can't fill an acetylene running lamp!
Every other time I've read "Ask Slashdot", I've thought "that was a pretty fucking stupid question. I wonder if Slashdot can ever get any dumber."
But not any more. Today, I'm convinced Slashdot is as stupid as it will ever possibly get.
Fuck you guys. Seriously. If you're not even going to try to post interesting articles, I'm not going to bother reading anymore. Frankly, you shit on your readers when you post bullshit articles like this, and lately every time I've read slashdot I've felt like I was sharing a shower with tubgirl.
Something "jumps the shark" when it reachs a peak that surpasses any other part of it. By definition: after Fonz jumped the shark nothing in the series would ever compare to that.
No, it jumps the shark when it reaches the peak of absurdity that finally makes the majority of the public realize something just isn't entertaining anymore.
i don't care what happens to him. he picked the wrong side.
And, I'm sure he doesn't care what happens to you. After all, to him it was you that picked the wrong side.
The only real difference is that he's working to bring down the evelolution of 2500 years of of western culture, philosophy, and legal tradition from the outside. You're working on bringing it down from the inside.
I stopped reading it after the old man died and it turned into a mouthpiece for Steve's celebration of unearned wealth.
If it's been turned around again into a real magazine, that would be wonderful. It would have been a shame to see a great magazine run into the ground by a giant douchebag like Steve Forbes.
Dada is undisputedly the best troll currently on Slashdot. His incoherent arguments, muddled facts, and raw appeals to emotion often spawn threads with hundreds of replies. And the responses to his posts are usually hilarious, like when a television commentator takes an Onion article seriously.
Frankly, if his arguments don't impress you, then I can't imagine why you bother to read slashdot at all. There's nothing else on slashdot worth reading.
Maybe they look at you with a funny confused look because it's impossible to dial any international call just by "dial(ing) a 1 before the number."
Every country's telephone system has an International Direct Dial prefix you need to dial before the country code. It's usually 00 or 011. If you try to dial North America by just "dial(ing) a 1 before the number" it's almost certainly never going to work.
I have no clue why this tactless behaviour is modded +4
There is a large group of slashdot users who routinely mod up trolls. I think it's tasteless that they would mod up a transliteration troll in an obituary, but that's just how the site works.
This may be a dumb question, but why can't Java just provide access to the existing desktop GUI
Because Java is supposed to work on Unix, and Unix doesn't have an existing desktop GUI. For many years, Motif was the standard, but those days are long gone. Now, Unix (and especially linux) are just a confusing mush of unstandardized toolkits that make no effort to maintain compatibility with anything (even themselves).
To this day, if you want a standard toolkit on Linux, you may as well just write one yourself. Mozilla, Eclipse, Java, Star Office, GIMP, Gnome, KDE, and a half-dozen other large projects agree! If you want it done half-assed, do it yourself.
I wasn't talking about the MSDN "help menu." As far as I know, the MSDN help system is absolutely free, and most of my google searches bring it up first anyhow.
I was talking about the MSDN developers subscription. It's basically a developer's license to every piece of software MS makes (including all server software and operating systems), plus access to most beta software, plus free upgrades for a year, plus "real-ish" support.
Given the price difference between the two, anyone who purchases a full version of Visual Studio is seriously uninformed, and doesn't deserve to manage even one developer (much less 300).
If you have 300 developers, talk to Microsoft. You're dropping a half million a year just for MSDN licenses. They can afford to have a product expert hold your hand for week.
the scriptures of islam have no bearing whatsoever on someone who isn't one.
The prohibition against representing the prophet is one of the Ten Commandments. And, many of the people who have condemned the cartoon publication are American politicians.
Of course, the American State Department may be run by Muslims. Who knows?
Hundreds of people have killed each other over a bunch of cartoons.
Actually, out of the billion or so muslims in the world, a few thousand have attended protests ( 0.0001%) of people have held protests. Some of those protests have turned into riots. Security forces have killed some of those ioters.
No-one has killed anyone for the cartoons. Security forces have killed rioters.
My sig? It's a 9mm semi-auto, and you can take it over my cold dead body.
Your sig is offensively dense.
Regardless, I agree that the grandparent's post was off. There really aren't many oil profits, frankly. Bush never could make money -- the guy is pretty damned incompetent.
It doesn't matter that there are no oil profits, though. Every sand nigger we've killed cost us about $10,000,000.00, and most of that money seems to go to Bush's drinking buddies. And we've killed a lot of sand niggers.
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If this trend continues, someday kids won't know how to adjust the spark advance to match the engine RPM, or patch an inner tube, or adjust the fuel idle mixture based on the temperature and humidity!
Imagine a driver who can't fashion a new engine bearing from with a coffee can and a tin snips, and can't fill an acetylene running lamp!
The horror!
Every other time I've read "Ask Slashdot", I've thought "that was a pretty fucking stupid question. I wonder if Slashdot can ever get any dumber."
But not any more. Today, I'm convinced Slashdot is as stupid as it will ever possibly get.
Fuck you guys. Seriously. If you're not even going to try to post interesting articles, I'm not going to bother reading anymore. Frankly, you shit on your readers when you post bullshit articles like this, and lately every time I've read slashdot I've felt like I was sharing a shower with tubgirl.
Something "jumps the shark" when it reachs a peak that surpasses any other part of it. By definition: after Fonz jumped the shark nothing in the series would ever compare to that.
No, it jumps the shark when it reaches the peak of absurdity that finally makes the majority of the public realize something just isn't entertaining anymore.
See also "jumped the couch."
i don't care what happens to him. he picked the wrong side.
And, I'm sure he doesn't care what happens to you. After all, to him it was you that picked the wrong side.
The only real difference is that he's working to bring down the evelolution of 2500 years of of western culture, philosophy, and legal tradition from the outside. You're working on bringing it down from the inside.
I stopped reading it after the old man died and it turned into a mouthpiece for Steve's celebration of unearned wealth.
If it's been turned around again into a real magazine, that would be wonderful. It would have been a shame to see a great magazine run into the ground by a giant douchebag like Steve Forbes.
Dada is undisputedly the best troll currently on Slashdot. His incoherent arguments, muddled facts, and raw appeals to emotion often spawn threads with hundreds of replies. And the responses to his posts are usually hilarious, like when a television commentator takes an Onion article seriously.
Frankly, if his arguments don't impress you, then I can't imagine why you bother to read slashdot at all. There's nothing else on slashdot worth reading.
This is first class. You never fail to impress me, dada.
Maybe they look at you with a funny confused look because it's impossible to dial any international call just by "dial(ing) a 1 before the number."
Every country's telephone system has an International Direct Dial prefix you need to dial before the country code. It's usually 00 or 011. If you try to dial North America by just "dial(ing) a 1 before the number" it's almost certainly never going to work.
I have no clue why this tactless behaviour is modded +4
There is a large group of slashdot users who routinely mod up trolls. I think it's tasteless that they would mod up a transliteration troll in an obituary, but that's just how the site works.
Dada21 is the undisputed master. I worship the ground he walks on.
I think he's perfected his anarcho capitalist troll, and he's decided it's time to practice with different bait.
I personally don't like the iPod -- the interface is nice, but it isn't easy enough or fast enough.
Beautiful.
It's wonderful to have you back, dada. Your posts are the only thing that still makes slashdot worth reading.
King King was a disaster becasue the studio couldn't rein in the director and force him to put out a movie that would actually sell.
King Kong has $200 million domestic, and nearly $600 million world wide box office.
If that's a "disaster", I'm not sure what qualifies as a success.
This may be a dumb question, but why can't Java just provide access to the existing desktop GUI
Because Java is supposed to work on Unix, and Unix doesn't have an existing desktop GUI. For many years, Motif was the standard, but those days are long gone. Now, Unix (and especially linux) are just a confusing mush of unstandardized toolkits that make no effort to maintain compatibility with anything (even themselves).
To this day, if you want a standard toolkit on Linux, you may as well just write one yourself. Mozilla, Eclipse, Java, Star Office, GIMP, Gnome, KDE, and a half-dozen other large projects agree! If you want it done half-assed, do it yourself.
I wasn't talking about the MSDN "help menu." As far as I know, the MSDN help system is absolutely free, and most of my google searches bring it up first anyhow.
I was talking about the MSDN developers subscription. It's basically a developer's license to every piece of software MS makes (including all server software and operating systems), plus access to most beta software, plus free upgrades for a year, plus "real-ish" support.
Given the price difference between the two, anyone who purchases a full version of Visual Studio is seriously uninformed, and doesn't deserve to manage even one developer (much less 300).
In the two weeks since the SuperBowl, I have not purchased a Hummer
I turned into a giant robot and had sex with godzilla.
Also, I used my company's FedEx account to send human body parts cross country.
300 people and 2 years of development
If you have 300 developers, talk to Microsoft. You're dropping a half million a year just for MSDN licenses. They can afford to have a product expert hold your hand for week.
When I paid over $2000 to get Visual Studio 2002, little did I know that it only supported .net Framework 1.0.
I paid over $10,000 to get Visual Studio 2002.
I guess Microsoft thinks I'm five times better than you.
the scriptures of islam have no bearing whatsoever on someone who isn't one.
The prohibition against representing the prophet is one of the Ten Commandments. And, many of the people who have condemned the cartoon publication are American politicians.
Of course, the American State Department may be run by Muslims. Who knows?
Hundreds of people have killed each other over a bunch of cartoons.
Actually, out of the billion or so muslims in the world, a few thousand have attended protests ( 0.0001%) of people have held protests. Some of those protests have turned into riots. Security forces have killed some of those ioters.
No-one has killed anyone for the cartoons. Security forces have killed rioters.
Read the slashdot editor's writeup again. He's comparing 93 million messages per day versus 700 million messages per year.
That's not twice as often. It's less than 1/100th as often.
Jeez, I wish people who have no earthly clue what they're talking about would refrain from posting.
Can we still moderate?
My sig? It's a 9mm semi-auto, and you can take it over my cold dead body.
Your sig is offensively dense.
Regardless, I agree that the grandparent's post was off. There really aren't many oil profits, frankly. Bush never could make money -- the guy is pretty damned incompetent.
It doesn't matter that there are no oil profits, though. Every sand nigger we've killed cost us about $10,000,000.00, and most of that money seems to go to Bush's drinking buddies. And we've killed a lot of sand niggers.
three VAX 4000-300 (all running OpenBSD, of course, it's my home firewall)
What, if your house starts on fire you jump behind them and wait for the firetrucks?