I see. I should have remembered the "joke appears in the last line of article" rule, on Slashdot. Unfortunately, some people would read it and think you were being completely serious. I guess only time and experience will tell if constant cosmic radiation is a greater threat to human health than sporadic solar radiation.
Why is this moderated Funny? It's darn insightful, because Time/Warner Brothers/CNN/AOL/Satan is one of the leading evil empires of America.
Google is known for it's non-insipid advertising and useful products. If they team up with AOL it's entirely possible that they'll annialate each other, much as matter and anti-matter meeting does. On the other hand, we might be able to harness the energy release and invent warp drive.
"Oh, that phrase "solution stack" (or its close cousin, "software stack") doesn't mean anything to you? Just because you don't know the meaning of a word doesn't mean it has no meaning. "
I obviously know what a "soluction stack" is, since I offered a definition in my post. The problem is, that I was pointing out, is that it's just mumbo jumbo talk that gets people to turn their brains off and feel intimidated enough to just accept the speaker as an expert in the field of "solution stacking".
It's an age old marketing practise. Just use fancy words to describe your product or service, and people are more likely to trust you as an expert if you come armed with Vitamin B5, space age polyethylene, and solution stacks.
" A sure sign of a maturing market is when vendors stop talking about products and start talking about services and 'solution stacks'."
That kind of buzz word lingo is also a sure sign of bloat. It makes my skin crawl to hear words like "solution stack", not only because I don't know what the heck it means, but also because it doesn't mean anything. It's a fuzzy complicated way of saying, "a bunch of related software products that you'll find useful in your company".
I guess for OSS to join the mainstream, it will have to use the same insipid lingo that the big guns like IBM and Symantec are using.
You're correct. The submitter didn't realize that cosmic radiation and solar radiation are not the same thing, since solar radiation is the stuff that comes from our sun, and cosmic radiation comes from sources outside of our solar system like other stars, black holes, pulsars, nova, and other big bad radiation machines out there.
There may be a decrease in radiation coming from elsewhere, but the ship would still be hammered by high speed Coronal Mass Ejection particles. Radiation sheilding is essential; Bring your polyethylene, in other words.
eBay has had 18+ chat boards since at least 2001, and I think since forever. Since kids can't hold an account until they are the age of majority anyway, it only makes sense.
As a 16 year old kid I tried chat boards for a couple days back when IChat was the new thing. I found the conversation to be vapid and entirely sex related whenever I tried to initiate a conversation. I simply avoided it for the next 6 years, and I'm glad I did, since now I'm stuck posting on Slashdot and eBay for entertainment, when I could be doing more productive things like watching TV or reading the paper. Kids don't need to chat, and shouldn't chat in most cases.
My place of work bought a 2005 Vibe which is supposed to get 33MPG on the highway, or better, I don't recall. Anyway, I looked at the fine print, and GM figures that 70Km/h is a highway speed. I don't know about you, but there's only about 2% of any highway journey that is driven within 10Km/h of 70Km/h. Typical highway speed is 100Km/h.
It seems Uncyclopedia forgot to upgrade their server with a 200 Trilobyte WAN connection. You'd think they'd put their own good advice to use and avoid the Slashdot effect?
I hope when they merge code, they keep Yahoo's voice system which I've found to be easier to make connections with, and MSN's video, as Yahoo's video system crashes my Windows XP system. It hangs Y! Messenger and it won't End Task even.
If it's fast, and has the capability for "flashy" to be added in easily, so that people can download a theme to cover over it or modify their darn icons into stupid creatures or shapes, then I'm sure it will be adopted as a godsend by the Windows hordes looking to migrate to something that is familiar.
Linux has suffered too long by having its brand diluted with no unifying logo besides the penguin Tux. And there's only so much you can do with a chubby little black and orange/yellow bird. What's most important is the "Start" buttons work the same as they do in windows, and that Radio Buttons don't show abmiguous shadows so you never know if it's pressed in already, or if it's popped out.
I discovered Fark.com linking to a story with a Myway.com address, and I almost banned that site from my bookmarks. There's no good reason for anyone to install MyWebSearch or any of the CoolWebSearch scamware.
It make my blood boil that they aren't treated like the virus writers that they are.
"why would a country like Canada resort to such drastic measures? To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin, 'Who would give up liberty to gain security deserves neither liberty nor security.'"
This isn't about terrorism, although it is about a criminal organization: the MPAA and RIAA. So it is American pressure bringing this law down, but it's snuck into a Copyright Act bill, C-60 I think.
The real reason isn't to fight terrorism, it's to give corporations information about private citizens so that they can sue them into the ground and make them indentured servants of the RIAA/CIRA.
Can you imagine Canadians favouring a law that simultaneously: A) Benefits a big business famous for suing people just like the voter's friends and teenage family? B) Increases the cost of Internet access? C) Charges schools and libraries excessive fees just for having a photocopier available? D) Records where you go on the Internet so you can be sued, or have that information hacked and stolen? E) Prevents you from legally making a backup copy of your CD you bought, but still you're charged a levy on blank CD media you buy to pay "artists"?
I'm afraid I can't agree with you. I've managed to disable the Start Center and Jukebox from auotloading, but I don't think anyone's found the elusive cure for herpes yet. Real is also slightly less contagious, but the automated re-billing is about as deadly I have to agree.
...Imagining a Beowulf cluster of King Kongs terrifies old people in Korea.
It must be one heck of a movie to require 250 blade servers to render it effectively. But then again, when you're working with graphics, it doesn't hurt to have a lot of horsepower.
It's simple math to determine how much it will cost per page for your ink, and paper.
Buy 30 sheets of photo paper at $20, and your sheet cost per large photo is 20/30 = $0.66.
Then with the HP Laser Jet 2550 colour printer, you get about 4000 sheets and ink is about $100 for black, and $100 for each of the three colours, and there's an imaging drum to replace too, so it's at a minium $400/4000sheets, so $0.10/page of ink expenses.
In this example, it's nearly 80 cents per 8"/10" photo page, and that's with the traditionally MORE economical laser printer. A crappy buble jet that HP makes these days, gives you 15mL of ink for your 3 colours, and 13mL for the black, and that costs $35 and might last, well I'm guessing since I'm not rich enough to buy and use one, 25 pages at 8"/10". So with the photo paper that means you'd get about 35/20 for ink + $0.66 for the paper = $2.06 for my example. Compare that to Walmart, and I'm sure that box store is going to kick the pants off of the price for printing at home.
Good things take time, so I guess Bit Torrent users will just have to wait a little longer for legitimate video files to become available if they desperately want to see this show.
Yeah, it can be vandalized. So can an ordinary dictionary, or encyclopedia. Some page could be ripped out, or an editor could have inserted a joke or mistake. The only difference, is that everyone believes everything they read on the Internet, so it's more dangerous for an online resource to contain misinformation.
What are things that are driven by lightning or static electricity? The only things that run off of those that I can think of are secondary, like the UPS industry, anti static bag manufactures, and lightning rod installers.
Lazy is part of it, but a failure of imagination is the majority of it. Because if you think about it, it's more work some times to get into your car and drive somewhere than it is to bike or walk to the same place. And if we made minor modifications to the layout of our cities and suburbs, then it would almost always be faster to bike someplace than drive in the Summer on a nice-weather day. Parking takes time and effort, a lot more with a car than with a bicycle.
We just don't take into account all of the effort we put into being lazy. These discs that blow up after being used for example. Someone has to go out and pick it up, bring it home, and then after throw it away. That's a lot more work than going to your computer and having Netflix delivered to your mailbox, or downloading the movie from BitTorrent. And all the wasted effort that went into making these worthless disks, well, that just makes me mad that so many people contributed to something so unimportant and even destructive. I happen to feel the same way about people who make cigarettes. In fact, these disks are a lot like cigarettes. They cost everyone too much, they burn once, then you toss them away, and probably get cancer from them.
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I see. I should have remembered the "joke appears in the last line of article" rule, on Slashdot. Unfortunately, some people would read it and think you were being completely serious. I guess only time and experience will tell if constant cosmic radiation is a greater threat to human health than sporadic solar radiation.
Why is this moderated Funny? It's darn insightful, because Time/Warner Brothers/CNN/AOL/Satan is one of the leading evil empires of America.
Google is known for it's non-insipid advertising and useful products. If they team up with AOL it's entirely possible that they'll annialate each other, much as matter and anti-matter meeting does. On the other hand, we might be able to harness the energy release and invent warp drive.
"Oh, that phrase "solution stack" (or its close cousin, "software stack") doesn't mean anything to you? Just because you don't know the meaning of a word doesn't mean it has no meaning. "
I obviously know what a "soluction stack" is, since I offered a definition in my post. The problem is, that I was pointing out, is that it's just mumbo jumbo talk that gets people to turn their brains off and feel intimidated enough to just accept the speaker as an expert in the field of "solution stacking".
It's an age old marketing practise. Just use fancy words to describe your product or service, and people are more likely to trust you as an expert if you come armed with Vitamin B5, space age polyethylene, and solution stacks.
" A sure sign of a maturing market is when vendors stop talking about products and start talking about services and 'solution stacks'."
That kind of buzz word lingo is also a sure sign of bloat. It makes my skin crawl to hear words like "solution stack", not only because I don't know what the heck it means, but also because it doesn't mean anything. It's a fuzzy complicated way of saying, "a bunch of related software products that you'll find useful in your company".
I guess for OSS to join the mainstream, it will have to use the same insipid lingo that the big guns like IBM and Symantec are using.
You're correct. The submitter didn't realize that cosmic radiation and solar radiation are not the same thing, since solar radiation is the stuff that comes from our sun, and cosmic radiation comes from sources outside of our solar system like other stars, black holes, pulsars, nova, and other big bad radiation machines out there.
There may be a decrease in radiation coming from elsewhere, but the ship would still be hammered by high speed Coronal Mass Ejection particles. Radiation sheilding is essential; Bring your polyethylene, in other words.
NASA Science News for October 7, 2005
Another source:
Strange, but true: Solar flares can be good for astronauts.
eBay has had 18+ chat boards since at least 2001, and I think since forever. Since kids can't hold an account until they are the age of majority anyway, it only makes sense.
As a 16 year old kid I tried chat boards for a couple days back when IChat was the new thing. I found the conversation to be vapid and entirely sex related whenever I tried to initiate a conversation. I simply avoided it for the next 6 years, and I'm glad I did, since now I'm stuck posting on Slashdot and eBay for entertainment, when I could be doing more productive things like watching TV or reading the paper. Kids don't need to chat, and shouldn't chat in most cases.
My place of work bought a 2005 Vibe which is supposed to get 33MPG on the highway, or better, I don't recall. Anyway, I looked at the fine print, and GM figures that 70Km/h is a highway speed. I don't know about you, but there's only about 2% of any highway journey that is driven within 10Km/h of 70Km/h. Typical highway speed is 100Km/h.
I get a little tired of people's lose use of bits when they mean Bytes. I mean did they loose their mind or something?
Fortunately, I'd never be that moranic as I never misspeel or misunderstand good spelling advise.
"a terabyte is a thousand gigabytes" ...Thus the humour in my comment and the +5 moderation :-)
But thanks for the tip just in case I was serious. A petabyte connection would have been overkill anyhow.
It seems Uncyclopedia forgot to upgrade their server with a 200 Trilobyte WAN connection. You'd think they'd put their own good advice to use and avoid the Slashdot effect?
I hope when they merge code, they keep Yahoo's voice system which I've found to be easier to make connections with, and MSN's video, as Yahoo's video system crashes my Windows XP system. It hangs Y! Messenger and it won't End Task even.
If it's fast, and has the capability for "flashy" to be added in easily, so that people can download a theme to cover over it or modify their darn icons into stupid creatures or shapes, then I'm sure it will be adopted as a godsend by the Windows hordes looking to migrate to something that is familiar.
Linux has suffered too long by having its brand diluted with no unifying logo besides the penguin Tux. And there's only so much you can do with a chubby little black and orange/yellow bird. What's most important is the "Start" buttons work the same as they do in windows, and that Radio Buttons don't show abmiguous shadows so you never know if it's pressed in already, or if it's popped out.
I discovered Fark.com linking to a story with a Myway.com address, and I almost banned that site from my bookmarks. There's no good reason for anyone to install MyWebSearch or any of the CoolWebSearch scamware.
It make my blood boil that they aren't treated like the virus writers that they are.
"why would a country like Canada resort to such drastic measures? To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin, 'Who would give up liberty to gain security deserves neither liberty nor security.'"
This isn't about terrorism, although it is about a criminal organization: the MPAA and RIAA.
So it is American pressure bringing this law down, but it's snuck into a Copyright Act bill, C-60 I think.
The real reason isn't to fight terrorism, it's to give corporations information about private citizens so that they can sue them into the ground and make them indentured servants of the RIAA/CIRA.
Can you imagine Canadians favouring a law that simultaneously:
A) Benefits a big business famous for suing people just like the voter's friends and teenage family?
B) Increases the cost of Internet access?
C) Charges schools and libraries excessive fees just for having a photocopier available?
D) Records where you go on the Internet so you can be sued, or have that information hacked and stolen?
E) Prevents you from legally making a backup copy of your CD you bought, but still you're charged a levy on blank CD media you buy to pay "artists"?
"Real is worse than herpes."
I'm afraid I can't agree with you. I've managed to disable the Start Center and Jukebox from auotloading, but I don't think anyone's found the elusive cure for herpes yet. Real is also slightly less contagious, but the automated re-billing is about as deadly I have to agree.
"The deal would include Microsoft paying cash as well as advertising for Real services, and products through channels such as MSN. "
This means that ads in MSN messenger are going to say
"Buffering... 33%"
And Microsoft should really consider advertising for Mozilla too.
...Imagining a Beowulf cluster of King Kongs terrifies old people in Korea.
It must be one heck of a movie to require 250 blade servers to render it effectively. But then again, when you're working with graphics, it doesn't hurt to have a lot of horsepower.
China, the bastion for personal freedom in the eastern hemisphere, doesn't have a history of modifying the normal behaviour of its citizens. I'm frankly very surprised and dismayed that this is taking place.
And yes I'm being mostly sarcastic.
It's simple math to determine how much it will cost per page for your ink, and paper.
Buy 30 sheets of photo paper at $20, and your sheet cost per large photo is 20/30 = $0.66.
Then with the HP Laser Jet 2550 colour printer, you get about 4000 sheets and ink is about $100 for black, and $100 for each of the three colours, and there's an imaging drum to replace too, so it's at a minium $400/4000sheets, so $0.10/page of ink expenses.
In this example, it's nearly 80 cents per 8"/10" photo page, and that's with the traditionally MORE economical laser printer. A crappy buble jet that HP makes these days, gives you 15mL of ink for your 3 colours, and 13mL for the black, and that costs $35 and might last, well I'm guessing since I'm not rich enough to buy and use one, 25 pages at 8"/10". So with the photo paper that means you'd get about 35/20 for ink + $0.66 for the paper = $2.06 for my example. Compare that to Walmart, and I'm sure that box store is going to kick the pants off of the price for printing at home.
Rome wasn't downloaded in a day either, I guess.
Good things take time, so I guess Bit Torrent users will just have to wait a little longer for legitimate video files to become available if they desperately want to see this show.
Yeah, it can be vandalized. So can an ordinary dictionary, or encyclopedia. Some page could be ripped out, or an editor could have inserted a joke or mistake. The only difference, is that everyone believes everything they read on the Internet, so it's more dangerous for an online resource to contain misinformation.
Yeah, I'm kidding just a little.
Next they'll come up with something crazy like disposable printers, or USB flash memory that wears out after being used.
What are things that are driven by lightning or static electricity? The only things that run off of those that I can think of are secondary, like the UPS industry, anti static bag manufactures, and lightning rod installers.
Lazy is part of it, but a failure of imagination is the majority of it. Because if you think about it, it's more work some times to get into your car and drive somewhere than it is to bike or walk to the same place. And if we made minor modifications to the layout of our cities and suburbs, then it would almost always be faster to bike someplace than drive in the Summer on a nice-weather day. Parking takes time and effort, a lot more with a car than with a bicycle.
We just don't take into account all of the effort we put into being lazy. These discs that blow up after being used for example. Someone has to go out and pick it up, bring it home, and then after throw it away. That's a lot more work than going to your computer and having Netflix delivered to your mailbox, or downloading the movie from BitTorrent. And all the wasted effort that went into making these worthless disks, well, that just makes me mad that so many people contributed to something so unimportant and even destructive. I happen to feel the same way about people who make cigarettes. In fact, these disks are a lot like cigarettes. They cost everyone too much, they burn once, then you toss them away, and probably get cancer from them.