Like a lot of my drawers, I have several white and black, and blue colleagues for various purposes: school, work, social, etc. These things are handy to have around, offer easy and significant entertainment, but are very easily lost. We have also have run into some instances where it wasn't clear whose colleagues were whose, and have also started to see a need for a storage mechanism. I have seen colleague 'children' and such, but have never seen anyone actually use one. So: How do you manage and keep track of your colleagues?
Too bad indeed, but I'm sure it'd still be nice to be able to pin the 1 or 2 postcards you get (out of the thousands of downloads) to your noticeboard and say, "Someone got my software for free, and was appreciative enough to buy a postcard and mail it to me, even though they didn't really need to". Outside of the Free Software discussion, but still on topic, if/when I get a bonus from my employer, or an "attaboy" from my manager, I appreciate it, but it means 10x more to hear from someone who actually uses what I write and goes out of their way to thank me...maybe I'm getting less mercenary in my old age.
You're right on the money in dismissing the "ageist conspiracy"...however I think your nostalgia is blinding you to the fact that Peter Davidson wasn't a particularly great Doctor.
David Tennant is the only one under 40 on that list that I think does the character justice. (I never really liked Paul McGann either.)
As an aside, McGann's Withnail & I co-star Richard E. Grant was 46 when he voiced the 8.5th Doctor in Scream of The Shalka. All this leads me to believe that older = better:)
...Resident Evil. It had loading screens, but they were well thought out. You'd get to a door and press the action/use button to go through, the screen would go dark and show you an animation of a door opening. Everyone knew what was going on, you could hear the Playstation accessing the CD, but showing that animation instead of presenting a "PLEASE WAIT, LOADING..." screen was enough that you could suspend disbelief if you so chose.
I proposed restored celebacy for Chinese, yeah. Putin endured knee surgery, and speared plain Chinese crackers, yo. Their labernum is bustier than your mother.
I propose we ban Chinese Whispers. That's how things really get out of hand.
No man is an island, entire of itself
every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main
if a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were,
as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were
any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind
and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls
it tolls for thee.
Err, yeah. Perhaps because you would also benefit, by having access to the aggregated data as well?
An engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician were on a train heading north, and had just crossed the border into Scotland.
The engineer looked out of the window and said "Look! Scottish sheep are black!"
The physicist said, "No, no. Some Scottish sheep are black."
The mathematician looked irritated. "There is at least one field, containing at least one sheep, of which at least one side is black."
The geek looked out of the window and said "Look! Scottish sheep are black!" then looked out of the window twice more, and confirming it was still black each time, posted this fact to/.
"Per Ardua ad Astra" is the motto of the RAF, and "Per Aspera ad Astra" is the motto of NASA, which has a similar translation: "Through hardwork/hardship to the stars".
The "Ad Astra" part meaning "to the stars", so it's not all that coincidental.
Doubt it. Unless they can prove that he hasn't stashed a copy of the TS pictures steganographically inside some of his own photo's why would they give any of his data back? Or maybe they could just give back all files that are smaller in size than the smallest picture.
Oh and "someone with experience in dealing with sensitive materials"? Heh..you realise you're commenting on a story about an intelligence agency that has managed to let a camera with sensitive information on it get into at least one set of wrong hands...:)
A recruitment ad I saw in one of the free London papers the other day had the basic rate of a "Security Officer" at MI6 as £19k. Is it any wonder they're pilfering/fencing company equipment to make ends meet..
My mother went through a 6 week series of trials of epsom salts against colo-rectal cancer.
The mixture was ineffective.
My, how very useful this information is for cancer patients!
Yes, because that is exactly the same thing. *sigh*
Would my mother have received the quality of the care she eventually did get if her doctors had missed relevant articles in medical journals thanks to the massive signal to noise ratio?
If every failure were published, the cancer research community would suffer the same "eternal september" the usenet community did.
What if the researchers developing new drugs and treatments had access to the failures of others so that they knew what *not* to try. Outside of your pathetically childish and facetious example about Epsom salts, this information could be invaluable. Would you have wanted your mother to die because scientists working for Pfizer didn't tell the community about a failed treatment that they had already tried which GlaxoSmithkline then spent 2 years replicating, at the expense of another possibly more fruitful avenue of research?
ffs. You're saying I need to completely update *all* my sweeping generalisations about the peoples of the world??! Thanks. Just when I thought I had everything figured out.
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Like a lot of my drawers, I have several white and black, and blue colleagues for various purposes: school, work, social, etc. These things are handy to have around, offer easy and significant entertainment, but are very easily lost. We have also have run into some instances where it wasn't clear whose colleagues were whose, and have also started to see a need for a storage mechanism. I have seen colleague 'children' and such, but have never seen anyone actually use one. So: How do you manage and keep track of your colleagues?
Sorry, but his professor already stole that idea.
Too bad indeed, but I'm sure it'd still be nice to be able to pin the 1 or 2 postcards you get (out of the thousands of downloads) to your noticeboard and say, "Someone got my software for free, and was appreciative enough to buy a postcard and mail it to me, even though they didn't really need to". Outside of the Free Software discussion, but still on topic, if/when I get a bonus from my employer, or an "attaboy" from my manager, I appreciate it, but it means 10x more to hear from someone who actually uses what I write and goes out of their way to thank me...maybe I'm getting less mercenary in my old age.
1 GBP in USD = 1.4456
1 USD in grams of fairy dust = ?
All "Whoosh" aside, that's about 19 cents.
Yes.
You're right on the money in dismissing the "ageist conspiracy"...however I think your nostalgia is blinding you to the fact that Peter Davidson wasn't a particularly great Doctor.
:)
David Tennant is the only one under 40 on that list that I think does the character justice. (I never really liked Paul McGann either.)
As an aside, McGann's Withnail & I co-star Richard E. Grant was 46 when he voiced the 8.5th Doctor in Scream of The Shalka. All this leads me to believe that older = better
Let me guess, you didn't have enough room in your sig for "New dictionary update: 'of' now means the same as 'have'" ? ;)
That was then. I think Chuck Norris would have a distinct advantage if they had a re-match today...
...Resident Evil. It had loading screens, but they were well thought out. You'd get to a door and press the action/use button to go through, the screen would go dark and show you an animation of a door opening. Everyone knew what was going on, you could hear the Playstation accessing the CD, but showing that animation instead of presenting a "PLEASE WAIT, LOADING..." screen was enough that you could suspend disbelief if you so chose.
I would happily spend *all* my time downgrading each and every result pointing to experts(-)exchange.com
I propose we ban Chinese Whispers. That's how things really get out of hand.
Just be glad it's not i-speak.
"Schrödinger", or "Schroedinger" cannot be typed with just the keys on the left side of the keyboard.
;)
Neither can "woosh", I know
Kids are awake during the day right? So you play by night and sleep by day. I fail to see the problem. ;)
Ah, the chainsaw: an elegant weapon for a more civilised age.
Living in a biosphere?
Ben Heckendorn, has also done something similar for the XBox 360 controller, with left-hand and right-hand versions.
Err, yeah. Perhaps because you would also benefit, by having access to the aggregated data as well?
The geek looked out of the window and said "Look! Scottish sheep are black!" then looked out of the window twice more, and confirming it was still black each time, posted this fact to /.
(I would have done the same thing)
You've got it the wrong way round, you insensitive clod.
"Per Ardua ad Astra" is the motto of the RAF, and "Per Aspera ad Astra" is the motto of NASA, which has a similar translation: "Through hardwork/hardship to the stars".
The "Ad Astra" part meaning "to the stars", so it's not all that coincidental.
Doubt it. Unless they can prove that he hasn't stashed a copy of the TS pictures steganographically inside some of his own photo's why would they give any of his data back? Or maybe they could just give back all files that are smaller in size than the smallest picture.
:)
Oh and "someone with experience in dealing with sensitive materials"? Heh..you realise you're commenting on a story about an intelligence agency that has managed to let a camera with sensitive information on it get into at least one set of wrong hands...
A recruitment ad I saw in one of the free London papers the other day had the basic rate of a "Security Officer" at MI6 as £19k. Is it any wonder they're pilfering/fencing company equipment to make ends meet..
So you haven't seen Memento then?
Yes, because that is exactly the same thing. *sigh*
What if the researchers developing new drugs and treatments had access to the failures of others so that they knew what *not* to try. Outside of your pathetically childish and facetious example about Epsom salts, this information could be invaluable. Would you have wanted your mother to die because scientists working for Pfizer didn't tell the community about a failed treatment that they had already tried which GlaxoSmithkline then spent 2 years replicating, at the expense of another possibly more fruitful avenue of research?
ffs. You're saying I need to completely update *all* my sweeping generalisations about the peoples of the world??! Thanks. Just when I thought I had everything figured out.