You are in an open shire west of a little, white house with a rounded front door. To the north stands your old pal, Gandalf.
> N
Gandalf appears glad to see you. "I am glad to see you," he says, "I hear you were given a ring. Could I see it?"
> I
You have:
Flask of ale
Bread
Contract for three movies
One ring to rule them all
> SHOW RING
I don't know which ring you mean.
> SHOW ONE RING TO RULE THEM ALL
Who are you showing the ring to?
> SHOW ONE RING TO RULE THEM ALL TO GANDALF
You are eaten by a grue.
I think it's best we look at Hollywood to answer this little problem. What happened when George Newman needed money to save his UHF station, U62? Why, he sold shares in the company.
Why should someone donate $50 or whatever to Mandrake and see the same benefit as the guy who donated nothing?
Now all they need is Stanley Spidowski's Word Processing program pre-installed as well as Conan the Librarian's File-Sharing client.
With the Paine Webber guy, I was amazed this guy didn't think the SEC could put 2 and 2 together.
"Hmmm, there's the guy who had access to the company's computers and made all those put options, but I don't know if there's any way we can prove motive or opportunity."
A slower tool of higher quality can still get the job done faster
True but I'm pretty sure the functionality of Mac Photoshop and PC Photoshop are the same or extremely close. So I don't know if it matters in this argument.
Now if you're comparing the fasting Microsoft Paint to the slower Adobe Photoshop, then definitely I'd want the slower tool:)
I'm more and more convinced that each of these "such-and-such chose Linux" stories is actually done via Mad Lib.
"{company name} has switched all {number} of their servers to Linux. 'They say Linux is for {adjective} people, but I'm a {noun} and I find it much easier to support and to {verb}. I hope to save {large number} this year.' Oh, and Microsoft is very {adjective}."
First, I definitely think this is a good idea. Yes, this may prove overly restrictive but if people are opting to go into a kids.us domain then it's their choice. It's another tool to help parents prevent their kids from accessing things they deem unsuitable.
But one caveat is that anyone who thinks this is foolproof will surely be disappointed. The problem is links. Let's say some Disney television program gets a kids.us domain pointing to it. That site has a link to abcfamily.com which links to abc.com which links to abcnews.com which links to the latest celebrity sex scandal.
OK, hear me out. I'm just not getting the whole "TiVo is da bomb and if you're still using VCRs then you're human refuse" tone. It's not just from these posts but in general.
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but there is a limit to the amount of space you can store programs on a TiVo. What happens if I want to see an episode of Alias I recorded three weeks ago, or the Laverne & Shirley christmas episode I caught on Nick at Nite last year, or "All You Need is Cash" I happened to catch five years ago?** I'm pretty much stuck.
While the commercial skip feature is nice, it's not so much better than the fast forward button to warrant an additional expense. (Plus as an added bonus you can pop in an old tape from several years back. Commercials make fun nostalgia.)
Plus with a VCR, I can tell my friend, "Hey I missed Buffy last night, did you tape it?". Again, I could be wrong, but I don't know if TiVo offers such a feature.
And one argument I've seen in like half-a-dozen posts is how "bulky" VCRs are. Is 3 square feet of shelf space really that precious?
Now I'm not saying Tivos are bad. I'm just stating VCRs are good too.
** Feel free to make fun of my recording choices:)
Because of this Nintendo will have to cut prices across the board. The red potion in the original Zelda will only cost 20, and you only need 80 coins in Super Mario Bros. to get an extra life.
I'd love to help, but I'll be busy submitting all these entries into the Frito-Lay sweepstakes. It says you can enter as often as you like. I expect to win 46% of the prizes, including the car.
When they say they're free books, do they mean novel-length stories with real plots, or do they mean things like Seven-of-Nine/Highlander crossover fan-fiction?
Users who stand to fare the worst are those who have purchased their computer from a computer super store and/or discount retailer. These systems are generally fitted with cheaply made, low-cost power supplies, which often can sustain damage even under minimal loads.
I realize that me and the half of my friends and family that are not hardware-savvy only make up a small sampling. But none of the people that I know that have bought pre-built machines have had a problem with power supplies. Whereas at work, where my office is filled with machines constructed from the parts of other machines, we've had two instances of power supply failure.
Of course the machines at the office are older and are used more often than the home-based ones, but I figured I'd put in my 2 cents.
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I am in no way a chess master (or even a decent player) but even I know that there is an advantage to playing white. I had always thought that chess tournaments featured an even number of games, so each player have equal shots at playing black and white.
What's next, a description of the keyboard as "that typewriter thing on the desk" and the monitor as "the TV thing with all the pictures"
I do online tech-support for an internet company and unfortunately I have to do that far too often.
Me: Hit the Escape or E-S-C key. It's at the top left corner of your keyboard. Cust.: I don't see it. Me: Are you looking at the top left corner of your keyboard? Cust.: Yes. Me: Are you looking at the top left corner of your keyboard or your screen? Cust.: What's the difference? Me: The keyboard is the typewriter thing Cust.: [silence] Me: It's where you place your fingers with all the number and letter keys. Cust: Oh, okay!
When I went for my Comp Sci bachelor's I was amazed at how many math-phobics there were in my Comp Sci classes. As part of earning the degree you had to take 4 specified math classes (Calc 1 & 2, Linear Systems, Probability). You only had to take one more math class to get a minor in mathematics, Calculus 3.
Now I've always been big on math but I was kind of surprised at how few people were willing to take a single class to earn a full-fledged minor.
Slashdot Mirror
You are in an open shire west of a little, white house with a rounded front door. To the north stands your old pal, Gandalf.
> N
Gandalf appears glad to see you. "I am glad to see you," he says, "I hear you were given a ring. Could I see it?"
> I
You have:
Flask of ale
Bread
Contract for three movies
One ring to rule them all
> SHOW RING
I don't know which ring you mean.
> SHOW ONE RING TO RULE THEM ALL
Who are you showing the ring to?
> SHOW ONE RING TO RULE THEM ALL TO GANDALF
You are eaten by a grue.
And then he went off to see his girlfriend in Canada.
Oh and as he was leaving he, uh, fought off some ninjas. Yeah, that's it. Ninjas.
I think it's best we look at Hollywood to answer this little problem. What happened when George Newman needed money to save his UHF station, U62? Why, he sold shares in the company.
Why should someone donate $50 or whatever to Mandrake and see the same benefit as the guy who donated nothing?
Now all they need is Stanley Spidowski's Word Processing program pre-installed as well as Conan the Librarian's File-Sharing client.
With the Paine Webber guy, I was amazed this guy didn't think the SEC could put 2 and 2 together.
"Hmmm, there's the guy who had access to the company's computers and made all those put options, but I don't know if there's any way we can prove motive or opportunity."
A slower tool of higher quality can still get the job done faster
:)
True but I'm pretty sure the functionality of Mac Photoshop and PC Photoshop are the same or extremely close. So I don't know if it matters in this argument.
Now if you're comparing the fasting Microsoft Paint to the slower Adobe Photoshop, then definitely I'd want the slower tool
I'm more and more convinced that each of these "such-and-such chose Linux" stories is actually done via Mad Lib.
"{company name} has switched all {number} of their servers to Linux. 'They say Linux is for {adjective} people, but I'm a {noun} and I find it much easier to support and to {verb}. I hope to save {large number} this year.' Oh, and Microsoft is very {adjective}."
Thank you! I was wondering what the hell that original post meant.
I would have rather seen those things they put in the comic strips where you have to find 6 differences between the two pictures.
Reading the little fable, I wished some of the "wagonauts" brought back some subtlety to give to the author.
First, I definitely think this is a good idea. Yes, this may prove overly restrictive but if people are opting to go into a kids.us domain then it's their choice. It's another tool to help parents prevent their kids from accessing things they deem unsuitable.
But one caveat is that anyone who thinks this is foolproof will surely be disappointed. The problem is links. Let's say some Disney television program gets a kids.us domain pointing to it. That site has a link to abcfamily.com which links to abc.com which links to abcnews.com which links to the latest celebrity sex scandal.
"Moe" anime is the type that somewhat arouses sexual fantasies
...baby sister...
More than half of the anime contains at least one of the following components:
Is anyone else as squicked out as me?
I thought NAT IPs were all 192.168.x.x
I could be very wrong, anyone know for sure?
Just a quick thanks to those people who've educated me on the Tivo, especially those who explained how it can work in conjunction with the VCR.
:)
I'm probably not going to get one, but at least I'll now look into it.
P.S. Please don't mod this post. I'm not fishing for moderation points here
OK, hear me out. I'm just not getting the whole "TiVo is da bomb and if you're still using VCRs then you're human refuse" tone. It's not just from these posts but in general.
:)
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but there is a limit to the amount of space you can store programs on a TiVo. What happens if I want to see an episode of Alias I recorded three weeks ago, or the Laverne & Shirley christmas episode I caught on Nick at Nite last year, or "All You Need is Cash" I happened to catch five years ago?** I'm pretty much stuck.
While the commercial skip feature is nice, it's not so much better than the fast forward button to warrant an additional expense. (Plus as an added bonus you can pop in an old tape from several years back. Commercials make fun nostalgia.)
Plus with a VCR, I can tell my friend, "Hey I missed Buffy last night, did you tape it?". Again, I could be wrong, but I don't know if TiVo offers such a feature.
And one argument I've seen in like half-a-dozen posts is how "bulky" VCRs are. Is 3 square feet of shelf space really that precious?
Now I'm not saying Tivos are bad. I'm just stating VCRs are good too.
** Feel free to make fun of my recording choices
but they're running a competition to guess the exact date and time that the bug will be reported to Bugzilla.
Also if the person with the 200,00th bug can name the song of the day he'll win two tickets to see Styx live at The Meadowlands.
Because of this Nintendo will have to cut prices across the board. The red potion in the original Zelda will only cost 20, and you only need 80 coins in Super Mario Bros. to get an extra life.
I'd love to help, but I'll be busy submitting all these entries into the Frito-Lay sweepstakes. It says you can enter as often as you like. I expect to win 46% of the prizes, including the car.
Airborne Mouse + Adobe Photoshop = Jackson Pollock
When they say they're free books, do they mean novel-length stories with real plots, or do they mean things like Seven-of-Nine/Highlander crossover fan-fiction?
Users who stand to fare the worst are those who have purchased their computer from a computer super store and/or discount retailer. These systems are generally fitted with cheaply made, low-cost power supplies, which often can sustain damage even under minimal loads.
I realize that me and the half of my friends and family that are not hardware-savvy only make up a small sampling. But none of the people that I know that have bought pre-built machines have had a problem with power supplies. Whereas at work, where my office is filled with machines constructed from the parts of other machines, we've had two instances of power supply failure.
Of course the machines at the office are older and are used more often than the home-based ones, but I figured I'd put in my 2 cents.
By the way, Linux 3.0 will officially be known as "Linux III: The Domination" and when they get around to Linux 4.0 it'll be "Linux 4: Citizens on Patrol"
Oops, maybe I should read the f'ing article :)
My mistake. I guess mod me down to oblivion. Heh.
I am in no way a chess master (or even a decent player) but even I know that there is an advantage to playing white. I had always thought that chess tournaments featured an even number of games, so each player have equal shots at playing black and white.
Can anyone back me up or correct me? Thanks.
We didn't land on Aqua! Aqua landed on us!
What's next, a description of the keyboard as "that typewriter thing on the desk" and the monitor as "the TV thing with all the pictures"
I do online tech-support for an internet company and unfortunately I have to do that far too often.
Me: Hit the Escape or E-S-C key. It's at the top left corner of your keyboard.
Cust.: I don't see it.
Me: Are you looking at the top left corner of your keyboard?
Cust.: Yes.
Me: Are you looking at the top left corner of your keyboard or your screen?
Cust.: What's the difference?
Me: The keyboard is the typewriter thing
Cust.: [silence]
Me: It's where you place your fingers with all the number and letter keys.
Cust: Oh, okay!
Sorry, I had to vent...
When I went for my Comp Sci bachelor's I was amazed at how many math-phobics there were in my Comp Sci classes. As part of earning the degree you had to take 4 specified math classes (Calc 1 & 2, Linear Systems, Probability). You only had to take one more math class to get a minor in mathematics, Calculus 3.
Now I've always been big on math but I was kind of surprised at how few people were willing to take a single class to earn a full-fledged minor.