You know, following that link is the first time I've seen MSN search. Never heard of it until today. You guys are right, it doesn't look very good.
On the other hand, MSN search lists our site as #1 for our keywords and google doesn't have us indexed at all yet. Dammit! Who do you have to bribe at google to get listed?!?
Australia doesn't like graffiti much... a while back they started putting spray cans behind locked doors in hardware stores and art supply shops to stop them being stolen - because of course the only tool you can use to graffiti with is a spray can. Might even be an ID age check when you buy them. Not being a graffiti artist myself I don't know the full details.
Married men are happier and live longer than single men.
Single women are happier and live longer than married women.
Never read any statistics about what happens when women marry women:) (but gay men get more stressed out about their appearance than straight women, who get more stressed than men, and lesbians don't care about looks at all)
You lie. I work with people like you and they don't even use email, let alone IMs. It would never work. Maths people are... strange. However, one could deduce that it is *because* they don't use IMs that they are such brainiacs (we have a few here that don't even have televisions).
BTW I just quit, so if you want a job where you can do math stuff all day, and you can teleport over here to Australia, you can have my old job;)
I think I have your job (some big R&D place?) or something similar.
I hate it. I really hate it. Its so introverted and cloistered and full of strange people that never moved on since university.
I quit today... I have a (very cheap) house in the country that has the internet on, so we're off to do some serious work on a big project we've been plotting for the last month or two. I would have killed for the chance to be a designer, and since that just doesn't mesh with work, I'm doing it myself on my own time with my own project.
My last day this week will be the beginning of the next phase of my life...
Same... I almost never swear, and the only time in my entire life that I have was with a partner who delighted in calling me a bitch or slut at every opportunity. Normally 'naughty words' wouldn't cross my lips (or my typing fingers) but this one person swore, and I ended up swearing as well in an attempt to get my point across. It didn't come naturally though - as someone who normally wouldn't swear, I had to force those words out.
I never could manage to get my point across no matter what words I used, he's now an ex, and I'm back to my happy little non-swearing world, with a new non-swearing partner.
Words like 'crap' and 'geez' tend to come up in those thumb-hammering moments. You have to say *something*!
The page loaded with errors for me (all I saw was the word start and a search box) and I use whatever crappy version of IE is on this crappy win2k computer.
My father is an artist... my mother would have made a great programmer if she hadn't been a mother and they had computers back then. The result? I'm a female computer scientist! My daughter will probably wind up being a serious geek when she grows up, her father is a computer systems engineer.
I work in a large research environment and most people here that I know with kids have daughters. Could it be all that radiation?
I had a house made entirely from corrugated galvanised iron, with metal flyscreens on the windows and security doors, and I had no reception whatsoever inside - tv, phone, radio, you name it. Had to use outdoor aerials for everything.
Yup. My mail seems to always take 10+ days to travel a few blocks to me, wheras at my last house it was always next day delivery. And I keep coming home to find people have been rifling through my mailbox. Or maybe the huge quantities of junkmail that appear there each day just spontaneously explode. Either way, if I didn't have all my bills paid automatically via my credit card, I'd be buried in a sea of "late payment" letters printed on red paper.
In Australia, flat-rate DSL is only just beginning to take off. A year or so ago, Telstra's 3GB cap spawned a flurry of competing DSL providers. Telstra is God here.
I think its funny that the rare females on slashdot are all posting furiously on this thread, and the females are effectively going "look how much like a man I am!". Sure, geek female are often more "male" than non-geek females, but we aint the same, never will be, and saying you're researching the differences is a great way to get grants off the government!
I have a toddler, so I've been writing a site for her so she can surf the web on my lap. Little sod keeps hitting shortcut keys I never knew existed, but she can count now;-)
If they survived lack of clean water and lack of sewers long enough to get to use a computer, they'll survive a bit of grime on a communal keyboard. Diseases are having lots more fun in the Western world growing antibiotic resistant (from antibiotic overuse - I'm sure you're using antimicrobial cleaner in your kitchen) and bumping off people with low immune systems in hospitals.
The worst thing that could happen is all the porn found on the internet may inspire these people to have more sex and thus increase the spread of AIDS!
This happens all the time. While slashdot itself doesn't mirror, ever noticed that several readers may mirror the article/whatever so *we* still get to read it while the original site owner is off trying to sell their children to pay for the bandwidth bill.
Mirroring by proxy, basically.
Slashdot Mirror
No, wrongknowledge has been listed for years now ... hidden waters (in sig) has only been up a month. The googlebots will come ... soon ... :)
You know, following that link is the first time I've seen MSN search. Never heard of it until today. You guys are right, it doesn't look very good.
On the other hand, MSN search lists our site as #1 for our keywords and google doesn't have us indexed at all yet. Dammit! Who do you have to bribe at google to get listed?!?
Australia doesn't like graffiti much ... a while back they started putting spray cans behind locked doors in hardware stores and art supply shops to stop them being stolen - because of course the only tool you can use to graffiti with is a spray can. Might even be an ID age check when you buy them. Not being a graffiti artist myself I don't know the full details.
Some statistics on happiness:
:) (but gay men get more stressed out about their appearance than straight women, who get more stressed than men, and lesbians don't care about looks at all)
Married men are happier and live longer than single men.
Single women are happier and live longer than married women.
Never read any statistics about what happens when women marry women
Am I off topic enough now?
You lie. I work with people like you and they don't even use email, let alone IMs. It would never work. Maths people are ... strange. However, one could deduce that it is *because* they don't use IMs that they are such brainiacs (we have a few here that don't even have televisions).
;)
BTW I just quit, so if you want a job where you can do math stuff all day, and you can teleport over here to Australia, you can have my old job
I think I have your job (some big R&D place?) or something similar.
... I have a (very cheap) house in the country that has the internet on, so we're off to do some serious work on a big project we've been plotting for the last month or two. I would have killed for the chance to be a designer, and since that just doesn't mesh with work, I'm doing it myself on my own time with my own project.
...
I hate it. I really hate it. Its so introverted and cloistered and full of strange people that never moved on since university.
I quit today
My last day this week will be the beginning of the next phase of my life
Same ... I almost never swear, and the only time in my entire life that I have was with a partner who delighted in calling me a bitch or slut at every opportunity. Normally 'naughty words' wouldn't cross my lips (or my typing fingers) but this one person swore, and I ended up swearing as well in an attempt to get my point across. It didn't come naturally though - as someone who normally wouldn't swear, I had to force those words out.
I never could manage to get my point across no matter what words I used, he's now an ex, and I'm back to my happy little non-swearing world, with a new non-swearing partner.
Words like 'crap' and 'geez' tend to come up in those thumb-hammering moments. You have to say *something*!
Scuttlemonkey sounds a lot like CodeMaster from Internode ...
No flash here either. You miss some real quality stuff without it.
...
I believe I missed a certain "badger badger mushroom" animation for months and months before I saw it on a friend's computer.
Oh, wait
That got a giggle out of me. Love the language you used. Mind if I swipe that comment and put it on my *other* website? Please :)
They also make good coasters, and if you hang them in fruit trees they scare birds away.
The page loaded with errors for me (all I saw was the word start and a search box) and I use whatever crappy version of IE is on this crappy win2k computer.
My father is an artist ... my mother would have made a great programmer if she hadn't been a mother and they had computers back then. The result? I'm a female computer scientist! My daughter will probably wind up being a serious geek when she grows up, her father is a computer systems engineer.
I work in a large research environment and most people here that I know with kids have daughters. Could it be all that radiation?
I had a house made entirely from corrugated galvanised iron, with metal flyscreens on the windows and security doors, and I had no reception whatsoever inside - tv, phone, radio, you name it. Had to use outdoor aerials for everything.
I imagine its fairly common, workplaces that ban cameras/recording devices/laptops etc ... even *phones* are banned in a lot of places!
Yup. My mail seems to always take 10+ days to travel a few blocks to me, wheras at my last house it was always next day delivery. And I keep coming home to find people have been rifling through my mailbox. Or maybe the huge quantities of junkmail that appear there each day just spontaneously explode. Either way, if I didn't have all my bills paid automatically via my credit card, I'd be buried in a sea of "late payment" letters printed on red paper.
In Australia, flat-rate DSL is only just beginning to take off. A year or so ago, Telstra's 3GB cap spawned a flurry of competing DSL providers. Telstra is God here.
Which is why you get [computer based] decision SUPPORT systems not DECISION systems!
I think its funny that the rare females on slashdot are all posting furiously on this thread, and the females are effectively going "look how much like a man I am!". Sure, geek female are often more "male" than non-geek females, but we aint the same, never will be, and saying you're researching the differences is a great way to get grants off the government!
As an obsessive chat using female dating an obsessive gamer male, I resent that comment :)
I have a toddler, so I've been writing a site for her so she can surf the web on my lap. Little sod keeps hitting shortcut keys I never knew existed, but she can count now ;-)
Kids stuff here.If they survived lack of clean water and lack of sewers long enough to get to use a computer, they'll survive a bit of grime on a communal keyboard. Diseases are having lots more fun in the Western world growing antibiotic resistant (from antibiotic overuse - I'm sure you're using antimicrobial cleaner in your kitchen) and bumping off people with low immune systems in hospitals.
The worst thing that could happen is all the porn found on the internet may inspire these people to have more sex and thus increase the spread of AIDS!
This happens all the time. While slashdot itself doesn't mirror, ever noticed that several readers may mirror the article/whatever so *we* still get to read it while the original site owner is off trying to sell their children to pay for the bandwidth bill. Mirroring by proxy, basically.