Scientists for the International Society of Alchemy held their 284th annual conference next door to the cold fusion conference. Still under debate is: did Gaythorpe the Great really turn lead into gold?
On the 21st of this month the Galileo Space Probe, which has been orbiting Jupiter for nearly eight years, will plummet fatefully into the crushing pressures and searing heat of that planet's interior.
And isn't September 21st the first day of Fall? How appropriate.
Open on young boy sitting in chair, camera pans overhead. Male Voice: I think you should see this. Female Voice: It's just a kid.
Cut to young boy sitting in front of rock musician. Rock Guy: This is a G cord. (Strums his guitar)
Cut to boy sitting in chair, side view (overhead). Male Voice: He's learning. Absorbing. He's getting smarter every day.
Cut to boy with anthropologist sitting across from him. Anthropologist: Homo habilis was the first to use tools.
Cut to Coach John R. Wooden speaking to boy. Coach Wooden: A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group, that's teamwork.
Cut to close-up of boy. Male Voice: It's happening fast.
Cut to astrologer speaking to boy. Astrologer: We've always watched the stars. If you look at the sky, you can see the beginning of time.
Cut to soccer player bouncing ball on knee in front of boy. Cut to Professor Gates speaking to boy. Mr. Gates: Collecting data is only the first step toward wisdom. But sharing data is the first step toward community.
Cut to side shot of poet speaking to boy. Poet: Poetry. There's not much glory in poetry, only achievement.
Cut to overhead shot of boy. Voice: Knowledge amplification. What he learns, we all learn. What he knows, we all benefit from.
Cut to side shot of Sylvia Nasar speaking to boy. Ms. Nasar: One little thing can solve an incredibly complex problem.
Cut to frontal shot of Penny Marshall speaking to boy. Ms. Marshall: Everything's about timing kid.
Cut to side shot of businessman speaking to boy. CEO: This is business. Faster. Better. Cheaper. Constant improvement.
Cut to camera panning overhead, then to Pilot speaking to boy. Pilot: So, you wanna fly, huh? Wind speed, thrust, it's physics. Latin Teacher: Res publica non dominetur.
Cut to plumber speaking to boy. Plumber: Plumbing, it's all about the tools.
Cut to Muhammad Ali. Ali: Speak your mind. Don't back down.
Cut to camera panning over boy's head into white. Female Voice: Does he have a name? Male Voice: His name is BSD. He's dying.
Another Gnu/Linux Grammar School broke ground in Seattle about six years ago. Known as K-12, the project's gotten stalled as the masons and carpenters juggle its construction with the demands of their paying jobs. I understand the foundation is "stable," however.
That's a far cry better than the BSD school which opened three years ago. As last reported, all the students are either dying or dead already.
I think the theory is that a government is supposed to represent all of the people, so therefore all of the people are supposed to have an equal voice (yeah, there's theory and reality and never the twain, yada yada).
The quote you might be looking for is:
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.
Researchers at MIT have solved the mystery of how teenage boys satisfy themselves several times daily and in the process have created a robot called Robostroker that mimics the behavior.
Cindy is the name of the SimPal(TM) from the Arnie movie The Sixth Day.
I'll bet if this Cindy doll is as annoying, after all of three minutes in my general vicinity, I'll likely be hearing "Uh oh, Cindy has a boo-boo" as I casually watch her dismembered head rolling down the sidewalk.
After conducting a scientific survey based on all 'Funny' moderated comments in your user history, I have been able to diagnose you as severely humor-impaired.
What you fail to realize is that I just write the comments. Other people mod them as funny. Such as your comments, which only show 1 posting which got a score of 1, Funny -- not a very impressive humor history there, bud. Pot. Kettle. You connect the dots.
Past this, I don't see any reason for the auto-replies.
I've considered the possibility that, even though most modern viruses spoof the from: address, there is some marketing value in saying that Norton AntiVirus Super Gate 5000 found a virus in your message.
After all, Norton says that you sent a virus. Maybe Norton knows something that you don't, huh? Maybe you ought to go out there and buy a copy of Norton AntiVirus yourself just to be sure you're protected. After all, Norton catches all these other viruses, so it must be good, right?
I wouldn't put it past the marketing department to consider something like that.
Ignoring that breast implants are silicone and chips are silicon and the two are not readily interchangable, i'd just like to point out that Bambi went frmo a 32B to 38DD because she put on so much goddamned weight that her band size went up by six inches.
The difference, of course, is that along with the Old Man Murray shtick, they actually do have something to say. Usually something perceptive, presented in a persuasive and entertaining way, where persuasive=damning and entertaining=pee in my pants funny.
Check out their diatribe on adventure games:
http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/77.html
Okay, now *that* is pretty god damned funny. But the "start to crate" article? At best, I would give that a rating of "amusing", and only when it's 4am, I've had a few drinks, and I'm really tired.
It's a joke you fucking idiot. It's not really supposed to be a measure of gameplay quality, it's a comment on the lack of creativity exhibited by game designers.
Man, I'm in the wrong industry. All I have to do is come up with some cheap, juvenile humor and I, too, can have fanboys who laugh at my crap. Maybe I'll comment on the lack of creativity in games by developing a "Time to Weapon" measurement. After all, sooner or later all these FP games have weapons, so therefore this must be a lack of creativity. Throw in some really trashy humor that would make Mad Magazine look like Shakespeare, and I'll have morons like you rolling in the aisles. Maybe I'll try it now...
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Okay, folks, here's my review of the upcoming G5 chip from Apple. Now, we all know that computer chips are made from silicon, so I've invited a guest reviewer here. Folks, meet Bambi, she used to be a 32B cup but is now a whopping 38DD thanks to the miracles of modern technology.
[image showing before and after]
Now no review of an Apple product would be complete without inviting in Farmer Bill, a leading expert on growing apples. Since he's such an ugly bastard, we photoshopped an image of his head onto this big fat sumo wrestler:
[image]
So now with our panel of experts in place, all we have left to do is to find a big jar of peanut butter and...
their benchmark "time to crate" (the time it takes from when you start a first person shooter to when you see the first crate or barrel) is still a good indicator of at what point the developers ran out of ideas.
In the interest of scoring some points with our peers in science, such as our new colleague Dr. Jonas Salk, we've utilized all of the components of the very popular scientific method, including the notion of a control group. Our initial control group was this picture of Paul Steed's head digitally imaged onto the body of a chubby waiter at the Lebanese Hooters:
[image]
We asked a fellow scientist at Case Western Reserve University here in Cleveland to peer review our experiment. He had some difficult-to-understand, but serious-sounding concerns regarding our control group. In response to his generally negative tone, we put Steed's head on a much fatter body and gave him a little cowboy hat:
[image]
With our control group finally in place, all we needed was a research assistant and a microscope. After a brief search, we narrowed the field of potential assistants down to two candidates: Dr. Stephen Hawking and our friend Kevin. While Hawking is a TV star like Allie McBeal, owns his own microscope, and sounds like a robot, Kevin is the only one of the two who talks to us, making him the winner by one degree Kelvin.
That still left us without a microscope. Kevin validated our choice of him over Dr. Hawking by helpfully suggesting that we eliminate step 4 of our scientific review procedure, "Look at the game through a microscope", and we were off.
Their "Start to Crate" measure is assinine and doesn't measure anything remotely close to gameplay. It's riddled with juvenile humor (see above for a small sampling or the link above for the full crapola) and doesn't make any sense.
of companies using Linux (or other Open Source software) throughtout their company?
I sell people hope, and I fully support Linux and Open Source in general. Need some hope? Only $100 each. Hey, forget about the merits of what I'm proposing... the very fact that I'm open source should be all the proof you need! Just send your payment via PayPal to i_am_a_sucker@hope.com and I'll be happy to fulfill your request with a big open source shit-eating grin on my face.;-)
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I think that true AI will result from this "survival instinct" - because robots will eventually learn that in order to survive/continue they will need to be loved, to fix themselves (eat, be healthy), and to have shelter (come out of the rain)
Why don't you export this artificial intelligence to the middle east? I don't know what kind of intelligence they're running on, but it sure sounds like they could use some of this!
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Scientists for the International Society of Alchemy held their 284th annual conference next door to the cold fusion conference. Still under debate is: did Gaythorpe the Great really turn lead into gold?
On the 21st of this month the Galileo Space Probe, which has been orbiting Jupiter for nearly eight years, will plummet fatefully into the crushing pressures and searing heat of that planet's interior.
And isn't September 21st the first day of Fall? How appropriate.
23 million well spent. probably cost less than an Ad campaitgn on the major networks.
Wow, I didn't know it cost that much to put up an ad campaign for Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 on Slashdot.
Another Gnu/Linux Grammar School broke ground in Seattle about six years ago. Known as K-12, the project's gotten stalled as the masons and carpenters juggle its construction with the demands of their paying jobs. I understand the foundation is "stable," however.
That's a far cry better than the BSD school which opened three years ago. As last reported, all the students are either dying or dead already.
someone who does not want to loose his job does not tell anyone
What about someone who doesn't want to tighten his job? Maybe he likes it loose.
How much does all the spam sent on the internet each day weigh?
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Is there any place big enough to store it?
Yes:
you read the title as:
A Galaxy of Possibility: Mandrake 9.1 Prostitute
The quote you might be looking for is:
Who moderated this as offtopic? It's certainly on-topic and insightful at that.
Researchers at MIT have solved the mystery of how teenage boys satisfy themselves several times daily and in the process have created a robot called Robostroker that mimics the behavior.
LOL i bet this is the same kind of shit the hitler youth where saying!
LLOLOLOLLOLOLO
So if I understand correctly, your last sentence is saying:
Laughing Laughing Out Loud Out Loud Out Laughing Laughing Out Loud Out Laughing Out
Man, that's fucked!
But when you did, I thought to myself, "Whale oil beef hooked."
Cindy is the name of the SimPal(TM) from the Arnie movie The Sixth Day.
I'll bet if this Cindy doll is as annoying, after all of three minutes in my general vicinity, I'll likely be hearing "Uh oh, Cindy has a boo-boo" as I casually watch her dismembered head rolling down the sidewalk.
After conducting a scientific survey based on all 'Funny' moderated comments in your user history, I have been able to diagnose you as severely humor-impaired.
What you fail to realize is that I just write the comments. Other people mod them as funny. Such as your comments, which only show 1 posting which got a score of 1, Funny -- not a very impressive humor history there, bud. Pot. Kettle. You connect the dots.
Past this, I don't see any reason for the auto-replies.
I've considered the possibility that, even though most modern viruses spoof the from: address, there is some marketing value in saying that Norton AntiVirus Super Gate 5000 found a virus in your message.
After all, Norton says that you sent a virus. Maybe Norton knows something that you don't, huh? Maybe you ought to go out there and buy a copy of Norton AntiVirus yourself just to be sure you're protected. After all, Norton catches all these other viruses, so it must be good, right?
I wouldn't put it past the marketing department to consider something like that.
Ignoring that breast implants are silicone and chips are silicon and the two are not readily interchangable, i'd just like to point out that Bambi went frmo a 32B to 38DD because she put on so much goddamned weight that her band size went up by six inches.
Ah, you got me there.
The difference, of course, is that along with the Old Man Murray shtick, they actually do have something to say. Usually something perceptive, presented in a persuasive and entertaining way, where persuasive=damning and entertaining=pee in my pants funny.
Check out their diatribe on adventure games:
http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/77.html
Okay, now *that* is pretty god damned funny. But the "start to crate" article? At best, I would give that a rating of "amusing", and only when it's 4am, I've had a few drinks, and I'm really tired.
It's a joke you fucking idiot. It's not really supposed to be a measure of gameplay quality, it's a comment on the lack of creativity exhibited by game designers.
Man, I'm in the wrong industry. All I have to do is come up with some cheap, juvenile humor and I, too, can have fanboys who laugh at my crap. Maybe I'll comment on the lack of creativity in games by developing a "Time to Weapon" measurement. After all, sooner or later all these FP games have weapons, so therefore this must be a lack of creativity. Throw in some really trashy humor that would make Mad Magazine look like Shakespeare, and I'll have morons like you rolling in the aisles. Maybe I'll try it now...
****
Okay, folks, here's my review of the upcoming G5 chip from Apple. Now, we all know that computer chips are made from silicon, so I've invited a guest reviewer here. Folks, meet Bambi, she used to be a 32B cup but is now a whopping 38DD thanks to the miracles of modern technology.
[image showing before and after]
Now no review of an Apple product would be complete without inviting in Farmer Bill, a leading expert on growing apples. Since he's such an ugly bastard, we photoshopped an image of his head onto this big fat sumo wrestler:
[image]
So now with our panel of experts in place, all we have left to do is to find a big jar of peanut butter and...
Wow. I never believed that the whole "humor-impaired" condition actually existed, but it looks like I have been wrong all this time!
:)
"Humor, this is nacturation. Nacturation, humor."
Sure, juvenile humor. I might have found that schlock funny when I was 13, but not now. I'll bet your idea of pornography is the Sears catalog too.
their benchmark "time to crate" (the time it takes from when you start a first person shooter to when you see the first crate or barrel) is still a good indicator of at what point the developers ran out of ideas.
And, from this revolutionary idea, we have the following review:
In the interest of scoring some points with our peers in science, such as our new colleague Dr. Jonas Salk, we've utilized all of the components of the very popular scientific method, including the notion of a control group. Our initial control group was this picture of Paul Steed's head digitally imaged onto the body of a chubby waiter at the Lebanese Hooters:
[image]
We asked a fellow scientist at Case Western Reserve University here in Cleveland to peer review our experiment. He had some difficult-to-understand, but serious-sounding concerns regarding our control group. In response to his generally negative tone, we put Steed's head on a much fatter body and gave him a little cowboy hat:
[image]
With our control group finally in place, all we needed was a research assistant and a microscope. After a brief search, we narrowed the field of potential assistants down to two candidates: Dr. Stephen Hawking and our friend Kevin. While Hawking is a TV star like Allie McBeal, owns his own microscope, and sounds like a robot, Kevin is the only one of the two who talks to us, making him the winner by one degree Kelvin.
That still left us without a microscope. Kevin validated our choice of him over Dr. Hawking by helpfully suggesting that we eliminate step 4 of our scientific review procedure, "Look at the game through a microscope", and we were off.
Their "Start to Crate" measure is assinine and doesn't measure anything remotely close to gameplay. It's riddled with juvenile humor (see above for a small sampling or the link above for the full crapola) and doesn't make any sense.
The correctly formatted Slashdot-approved joke template is:
It's a whole long series - read all 11 parts.
You must be new around here.
Gillette is going to know where you shave in the morning?
of companies using Linux (or other Open Source software) throughtout their company?
;-)
I sell people hope, and I fully support Linux and Open Source in general. Need some hope? Only $100 each. Hey, forget about the merits of what I'm proposing... the very fact that I'm open source should be all the proof you need! Just send your payment via PayPal to i_am_a_sucker@hope.com and I'll be happy to fulfill your request with a big open source shit-eating grin on my face.
I think that true AI will result from this "survival instinct" - because robots will eventually learn that in order to survive/continue they will need to be loved, to fix themselves (eat, be healthy), and to have shelter (come out of the rain)
Why don't you export this artificial intelligence to the middle east? I don't know what kind of intelligence they're running on, but it sure sounds like they could use some of this!