This device is for idiots with disposable income who's main priority is to listen to music and text their friends about what they're doing tonight. These idiots don't know Ogg Vorbis from VLC.
Scientists: We've confirmed there are numerous asteroids headed towards Earth, one of the largest will hit the middle of Europe!
Crazy Scientists: We're not positive it will hit the Middle of Europe, it could hit slightly to the left, I'll take any sum of money to argue that you are wrong about the asteroid hitting the Earth....
Government: We have vague reports from scientists saying there are asteroids, they all agree almost all of them will miss the Earth, or at least not hit our country directly.
Public: My name is Earl is on tonight.
Re:Nothing inconvenient about the results
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They can't even predict the weather next week
Won't it be hilarious for climatologists when the Ocean Conveyor shuts down and Europe experiences a mini ice age, killing 25% of Europe's population, but it happens 70 years after they predicted it? I can just see your kid (if God forbid you reproduce) posting on Slashdot saying "My Pa always said you were good for nothing bastards, you expected this 70 years ago!"
I'm no climatologist, but I think they're different than weathermen.
Here are some famous climatologists. Here are some famous weathermen.
Re:Scientific consensus not quite there yet...
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Our information is that seven of 13 populations of polar bears in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (more than half the world's estimated total) are either stable or increasing.....
Sure, and the Northern territories of Siberia will become firtile land thanks to nature's wonders, that doesn't mean New York City will enjoy being the new Venice.
And how about those humans, I hear their population is holding up pretty well through this warming...
I hope you live in the lowlands.
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Our information is that seven of 13 populations of polar bears in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (more than half the world's estimated total) are either stable or increasing..... Of the three that appear to be declining, only one has been shown to be affected by climate change. No one can say with certainty that climate change has not affected these other populations, but it is also true that we have no information to suggest that it has." -- Dr. Mitchell Taylor, manager, wildlife research section, Department of Environment, Igloolik, Nunavut.
You tell 'em, Mitch! That was the stupidest of the populations anyway.
OR: The mysterious 13th tribe of polar bears have gone far away to a place called... Miami?
MY FINAL ANSWER: You won't debunk global warming with facts that support it.
I don't think the message has been suppressed because Gore is a "nerd", it has more to do with politicians being, in general, idiots. Many elected officials, especially in the big leagues are more concerned about quick fixes for minor issues that will raise their visibility to get them elected again to do more of the same. I don't think many of them are capable of grasping the severity of the problem. Then there's big oil lobbyists manipulating their decisions in ways big oil lobbyists don't understand.
As we've always known if you're smart enough to understand the impact of these issues, you're probably too smart to want to run for office.
This review says more about the reviewer's issues as a nerd in high school, which he either graduated from last year or harbors such deep seated issues that he'll go "falling down" at his reunion.
how do you respond when you try to say something serious and the cool kids laugh at you?
Seriously, who thinks Republicans are "the cool kids"?
Remember that Andromeda was Roddenberry's vision of the Trek universe. The Andromeda was the last ship in the Federation. All the ideas are always, go back, go forward, seperate area of an existing timeline, but this is the winner. Far in the future, different set of technologies, different agendas. I would have been all about Andromeda if it was done this way.
Too bad its always about the money and never the artist creativity. ***COUGH *** SG-1 ***COUGH****FARSCAPE ****CO... screw it, Firefly, Sliders, Futurama, The Sci-Fi network, Star Wars, you know, anything that's not a book.
Analysts for Needham & Co this week said they believe Apple will hold a special media event sometime in April to unveil Intel-based iBooks and a touch-screen video iPod.
We've already fogotten the rumors from the last conference. Apple will release a mac mini with frontrow 2 that has dvr functionality in conjunction with this vIpod where the two complete the media experience suggested by the existance of Tivo and PSP. With all the content deals Apple's been working on as well as the Disney deal, Apple's not so much poised to rule the living room as it is to moving the TV watching experience out of the living room entirely.
And why bother with this vIpod anyway, does it not make tons more sense to invest in some kind of heads up display/glasses unit that turns that crappy little screen into a 12 ft personal movie screen? Didn't somebody announce that at CES?
The funny thing is, I didn't even read the article. Slashdot is my homepage one one of my browsers, and when it came up, I noticed the latest story had no "Read More" line following the article (which means it was posted only seconds before). So after 10 years of reading Slashdot, I thought A new article, and nobody noticed yet! This may be my best chance ever!.
The beautiful irony that resulted from my positive karma is that I pulled the ultimate geek stunt on this particular article.
I'll tell you, the cosmic and real 100 karma points of my first and probably only successful first post far outweighs the slashdot negative karma of "troll"
I also learned that you have to wait between clicking "reply" and clicking "submit", when that happened, my hopes were almost dashed.
Now all I have to do is post every article I see on slashdot back to Slashdot so Zonk can post my first article.
First, I didn't need to fool with money to buy my Wild Turkey, I just had to swipe my card through a slot. NOW instead on the complex motion of finding the actual slot to swipe the card in, I just waive it near the reader! I'll be able to be AT LEAST 25% more drunk in public!
"where menu links will change without having to manually change them in each page"
I think your looking for SSI, not CSS. SSI will allow you to "include" a menu page on all your other pages. If you make a change to that menu page, it appears sitewide instantly. It's like Dreamweaver "Templates", but usable.
Are Dvorak users all sick like that? I've never seen so much coughing in a comic! I'd be afraid to use Dvorak for fear I'll catch that terrible Dvorak Hack.
Rocky Horror is something totally different than MST3K, Rocky Horror is audience participation, they love that movie. In MST3K, they HATE those movies and are acting out against them.
They are as similar as NYPD Blue is to Barney Miller
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If they were, they'd have thought twice about announcing a conflicting name, right? Um lawyers think, right?
Business was never the target market
Sysadmins were never the target market
This device is for idiots with disposable income who's main priority is to listen to music and text their friends about what they're doing tonight. These idiots don't know Ogg Vorbis from VLC.
It will sell.
It was never going to sell to you.
I know three people who got them as gifts.
Scientists: We've confirmed there are numerous asteroids headed towards Earth, one of the largest will hit the middle of Europe!
Crazy Scientists: We're not positive it will hit the Middle of Europe, it could hit slightly to the left, I'll take any sum of money to argue that you are wrong about the asteroid hitting the Earth....
Government: We have vague reports from scientists saying there are asteroids, they all agree almost all of them will miss the Earth, or at least not hit our country directly.
Public: My name is Earl is on tonight.
I'm no climatologist, but I think they're different than weathermen.
Here are some famous climatologists.
Here are some famous weathermen.
And how about those humans, I hear their population is holding up pretty well through this warming...
I hope you live in the lowlands.
OR: The mysterious 13th tribe of polar bears have gone far away to a place called... Miami?
MY FINAL ANSWER: You won't debunk global warming with facts that support it.
As we've always known if you're smart enough to understand the impact of these issues, you're probably too smart to want to run for office.
This review says more about the reviewer's issues as a nerd in high school, which he either graduated from last year or harbors such deep seated issues that he'll go "falling down" at his reunion. Seriously, who thinks Republicans are "the cool kids"?
Remember that Andromeda was Roddenberry's vision of the Trek universe. The Andromeda was the last ship in the Federation. All the ideas are always, go back, go forward, seperate area of an existing timeline, but this is the winner. Far in the future, different set of technologies, different agendas. I would have been all about Andromeda if it was done this way.
Too bad its always about the money and never the artist creativity. ***COUGH *** SG-1 ***COUGH****FARSCAPE ****CO... screw it, Firefly, Sliders, Futurama, The Sci-Fi network, Star Wars, you know, anything that's not a book.
Here's my chance to open a chain of convenient suicide booths!
I read this headline and wanted to know what a "flasco" was.
It's "Global Climate Change",
http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1522
So there's one...
We've already fogotten the rumors from the last conference. Apple will release a mac mini with frontrow 2 that has dvr functionality in conjunction with this vIpod where the two complete the media experience suggested by the existance of Tivo and PSP. With all the content deals Apple's been working on as well as the Disney deal, Apple's not so much poised to rule the living room as it is to moving the TV watching experience out of the living room entirely.
And why bother with this vIpod anyway, does it not make tons more sense to invest in some kind of heads up display/glasses unit that turns that crappy little screen into a 12 ft personal movie screen? Didn't somebody announce that at CES?
The funny thing is, I didn't even read the article. Slashdot is my homepage one one of my browsers, and when it came up, I noticed the latest story had no "Read More" line following the article (which means it was posted only seconds before). So after 10 years of reading Slashdot, I thought A new article, and nobody noticed yet! This may be my best chance ever!.
The beautiful irony that resulted from my positive karma is that I pulled the ultimate geek stunt on this particular article.
I'll tell you, the cosmic and real 100 karma points of my first and probably only successful first post far outweighs the slashdot negative karma of "troll"
I also learned that you have to wait between clicking "reply" and clicking "submit", when that happened, my hopes were almost dashed.
Now all I have to do is post every article I see on slashdot back to Slashdot so Zonk can post my first article.
...not
You guys could totally go back and rescue those guys from season 1! heck, you'll even be able to wait till season 12.
I found that dual monitors with different sync rates give me headaches
First, I didn't need to fool with money to buy my Wild Turkey, I just had to swipe my card through a slot. NOW instead on the complex motion of finding the actual slot to swipe the card in, I just waive it near the reader! I'll be able to be AT LEAST 25% more drunk in public!
But can it perform cunnilingus on a hardwood floor?
"where menu links will change without having to manually change them in each page"
I think your looking for SSI, not CSS. SSI will allow you to "include" a menu page on all your other pages. If you make a change to that menu page, it appears sitewide instantly. It's like Dreamweaver "Templates", but usable.
"Come use my software for only legitimate reasons"
See? Now I'm good.
Are Dvorak users all sick like that? I've never seen so much coughing in a comic! I'd be afraid to use Dvorak for fear I'll catch that terrible Dvorak Hack.
[Dvorak User]
Um, NO!
Rocky Horror is something totally different than MST3K, Rocky Horror is audience participation, they love that movie. In MST3K, they HATE those movies and are acting out against them.
They are as similar as NYPD Blue is to Barney Miller