I heard on the radio that there was a chance the plutonium in the probe was going to ignite Jupiter into a second star, and it would kill/sterilize most humans on Earth! Glad that didn't happen.
I heard that you can't get radio reception in a room lined with tinfoil.
I think that the Internet is needed to offset the damage done by things like television and large newspapers... only taking information in, never sending anything back.
I agree with this. All the jokes about blog about peoples' boring lives aside, the net lets average people try and publish their ideas. Sure 80% of it's crap, but at least people are doing something.
I love the fact that I can publish a blog and see how people like my writing style. It lets me know without having to write a whole book if I have any talent or not. Try doing that without the net.
Look at the graph. 100% of students use the Internet. Just wait a generation and everyone will be online all the time. Once you start down the internet path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.
While the battle for digital access is being won, we now face a struggle to convince everyone the net is worth using
Not at the prices they charge here. I moved to London and was shocked to find that internet access is a small fortune in some areas. About $2 an hour for a slow modem or $35 for one gig of high speed wireless access.
I just want to say congratulations for what you have done. Many of us bitch and complain about these issues, but you took time out of your life to do something about it. I just wanted to thank you for that.
Reminds me why I hate Lucas. I will never believe that a professional bounty hunter could miss his mark by three feet at point blank range. Han was cooler when he shot first anyway.
But he said better personalization is one way to improve searching. For example, if MSN knows that the computer user searching for "pizza" lives in a specific ZIP code, it can deliver results of pizza places in that ZIP code.
As much as I hate Microsoft, if they made a good proximity search engine, I would use it all the time. It's one feature I wish google had.
Not everyone who catches a common cold will die from it, but that doesn't mean that the cold virus has never played any role in anyone's death, ever.
I agree completely, but, if your kid can be turned into a killer because of a video game, there is something wrong with the kid, not the game. If a common cold can kill you there is something wrong with your immune system
Grand Theft Auto and its three sequels are designed in Britain and have topped the UK and US games charts, selling more than 20 million copies in the past five years.
Slashdot Mirror
I can't read a page here without picturing blathering, drooling morons.
I think that's a bit harsh. Repetive and 'in' jokes help define a community.
herd of stegosaurs
stegosauri?
I heard on the radio that there was a chance the plutonium in the probe was going to ignite Jupiter into a second star, and it would kill/sterilize most humans on Earth! Glad that didn't happen.
I heard that you can't get radio reception in a room lined with tinfoil.
Galileo, Consumed by Jupiter
Conceived in 1977, launched in 1989, the spacecraft Galileo ends its 34th orbit exactly one hour from now
Little early for the past tense 'consumed' don't you think?
(I can already see the 'not any more' post below this one in an hour)
I think that the Internet is needed to offset the damage done by things like television and large newspapers... only taking information in, never sending anything back.
I agree with this. All the jokes about blog about peoples' boring lives aside, the net lets average people try and publish their ideas. Sure 80% of it's crap, but at least people are doing something.
I love the fact that I can publish a blog and see how people like my writing style. It lets me know without having to write a whole book if I have any talent or not. Try doing that without the net.
Look at the graph. 100% of students use the Internet. Just wait a generation and everyone will be online all the time. Once you start down the internet path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.
While the battle for digital access is being won, we now face a struggle to convince everyone the net is worth using
Not at the prices they charge here. I moved to London and was shocked to find that internet access is a small fortune in some areas. About $2 an hour for a slow modem or $35 for one gig of high speed wireless access.
Good old Dictionary.com
indemnify ( P ) Pronunciation Key (n-dmn-f) tr.v. indemnified, indemnifying, indemnifies
1. To protect against damage, loss, or injury; insure. 2. To make compensation to for damage, loss, or injury suffered.
IBM is being so hypocritical. If the issue is a non-issue, why don't they indemnify their customers?
Why don't you use a word people know.
My problem with all these worms is that it doesn't do anything after it propogates, so no one will really care except bandwidth-concious IT people.
I don't know, the file it came with was pretty large, I bet it filled up many 'normal' people's inboxes and prevented getting further mail.
I was waiting for a slashdot story to tell my why I found 500 'patch' emails in my inbox over the weekend.
w00t!
:)
Glad I just moved to London just in time
I just want to say congratulations for what you have done. Many of us bitch and complain about these issues, but you took time out of your life to do something about it. I just wanted to thank you for that.
Hmm so geeks are supposed to automatically distrust anything conservative?
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Conservative is doubleplus good.
You're choice of letters is too shift-key centric! ;)
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
Reminds me why I hate Lucas. I will never believe that a professional bounty hunter could miss his mark by three feet at point blank range. Han was cooler when he shot first anyway.
Bell has developed a way to store phone calls, bills, pictures and music on a computer hard drive, with a search tool that can sort through it all.
Windows button + F
But he said better personalization is one way to improve searching. For example, if MSN knows that the computer user searching for "pizza" lives in a specific ZIP code, it can deliver results of pizza places in that ZIP code.
As much as I hate Microsoft, if they made a good proximity search engine, I would use it all the time. It's one feature I wish google had.
It won't be easy to shove [google and yahoo] aside
Shouldn't be too difficult with an unfair monopoly on the computer market.
By now, the whole world has heard of Ifinium Labs and their infamous Phantom Game Console
Nope.
I press CTRL-F and can find what I'm looking for faster on a webpage than a hardcopy.
All of the information in the book can be gathered from Google for free
I think this covers all public data known to mankind. As soon as google figures out how to crawl and index grey matter, it will include all knowledge.
Not everyone who catches a common cold will die from it, but that doesn't mean that the cold virus has never played any role in anyone's death, ever.
I agree completely, but, if your kid can be turned into a killer because of a video game, there is something wrong with the kid, not the game. If a common cold can kill you there is something wrong with your immune system
Grand Theft Auto and its three sequels are designed in Britain and have topped the UK and US games charts, selling more than 20 million copies in the past five years.
And how many of those 2x10^7 kids became killers?
Yeah, that's what I thought.