Re:Hard Work (Score:5, Funny) by droid_rage (535157) on 11:16 AM -- Wednesday October 13 2004 (#10515296) Is it possible that he's just a very poor public speaker, but given the chance to sit down and think over his answers, can provide at least coherent responses? That's my guess.
Oh man. I wish I could metamod that moderation itself as "Funny".
...is so we can sound like old-timers to the kiddies.
[Me] In myyyy dayyyy...we didn't have no fancy http://pricewatch.com/! [Kid][Rolls eyes, thinking:] Pricewatch? Geez, get with the times, grandpa...try http://pricegrabber.com/... [Me] We had to go to an actual store, where we paid money for a big huge thick heavy book, printed on actual paper! Aaaaand we had to search (and I don't mean with no fancy Google!) through the pages and pages of ads! [Kid] Uh...really? [Me] Hell yeah! And, half the time, instead of a price, the ads would say "Call", meaning you had to use the telephone to get the actual price! [Kid] Man. That sucks. [Me][Wistfully]No, actually...it was great. All I did was party and get laid. Er, I mean, play games and code. I had my whole life ahead of me.
Clearly, filmmakers are going to have to adopt the version numbering system we've enjoyed (hah!) for so long in the software arena.
Original, theatrical release of Star Wars = "Star Wars 1.0" Revised with "Episode IV: A New Hope" = "Star Wars 1.0.1" Revised in 1997 = "Star Wars 1.1" Revised for these DVDs = "Star Wars 1.2"
(Whether Episode IV should be 4.x vs. 1.x is left as a flamewar for the reader.)
Oh, and has anyone seen the new "THX 1138 v.1.1" yet? Not bad.
I'm bored and feel like flaming a troll, so here goes. (Oh, if only Slashdot had a "+1, Over-the-top Troll-food" mod, I'd be rolling in it.)
Too expensive, huh? Sounds like sour grapes to me.
Not in the least. They're too big to fit in normal-size parking spots/garages; they roll over easily; they get lousy mileage; and they're not even that good for hauling things, as the cargo area is height-limited (and possibly occupied with seats -- not to mention that no SUV owner wants to scratch up his plush interior). In fact, you'd have to pay me to regularly use one.
It's one thing to complain about gas usage, visibility, etc., but how someone else spends their money?
You're right about that. I should be glad there are so many idiots willing to drop a major chunk of change on something that's only going to drop precipitously in value as time goes on. (What are those auto-manufacturer stock ticker symbols again...)
Actually, most people I know driving SUVs haul more than a wireless router and zit cream, so that could be the disconnect.
Ooo, wutta burn. See, 'cuz you're implying that I'm some loser teeny-bopper with no experience in the world. Doesn't matter that I'm 33, didn't need zit cream even when I was a kid, and don't care for wireless, either, thanks very much. But thanks for playing, 'cuz that was a totally sweet burn, dude.
Sometimes those of us that own houses actually buy things that don't fit inside our pockets, so we take the SUV.
Yeah. I could see how one might need a three-ton vehicle the size of a storage shed to carry five bags of groceries home from Albertson's. Not like that would fit in a car's trunk. And, hey, when you need to carry a refrigerator, you can always lay it down on its side and slide it in, once you've folded down the six extra seats you optioned in, assuming that's possible, right? Well, once you strip the box off the fridge, in the Circuit City parking lot. And you're buying major appliances practically every other day, am I right people? Not like you could, oh, I dunno, have it delivered? Or rent a truck for $20 when you need one? Or, $DEITY forbid, buy an old pickup truck for two grand instead of the SUV? No, see, that wouldn't impress the neighbors, nor inspire envy in them, so what's the point, right?
I drive a Toyota 4Runner which is pretty reasonable for most things we buy, build, and haul
Not to mention when you're completely alone and cruising down the freeway. All that extra volume and weight comes in extra-handy at those times.
it works well for camping
So would a station wagon, like it did when I was a kid. Oh, and by the way -- your SUV is nothing but a tall station wagon. I dare you to feel cool in it now, smarty-pants!
taking all 3 dogs to the inlaws place
I bet the in-laws are thrilled about that, too.
compared to my Acura NSX, I can actually see the road ahead instead of staring at someones bumper stickers.
Bully for you. Till someone else buys a yet taller vehicle and drives in front of you. But you'll show them, won'tcha! You'll get an even taller one! That'll fix 'em permanently! (And don't worry about those losers driving normal, human-scale cars -- they don't count. If they're not willing to pay up to stay in the vehicle-height arms race, they get what they deserve: your headlights blinding them via rearview mirror, or your tailgate blotting out the very sky. Hell, I bet they don't even buy a new vehicle of any kind every other year! Savages!)
The only thing americans wont buy this for in many cases is the higher price.
Are you kidding? Half the draw of SUVs (to the idiots who buy them) is the bragging rights: "Yeah, I ponied up $48K for this monster. Worth every penny, though, every time I intimidate the compact in front of me on the highway into moving over to the next lane. All it takes is to follow them closely enough that you can't get a ping-pong ball between the bumpers." The more expensive it is, the more they'll like it. Sick bastards.
I just hope that when they inevitably roll it over, the battery pack breaks loose and squashes them flat, just before rupturing acid all over their Starbuck's Super Duper Huge Size Fancily-Named Coffee(tm).
This technology would be very expensive, initially, so you could even get one of Sun's guys to come out and do it for you.
Hmm. Oh, I know -- they could attach the pinless connector to an easy-to-mount package the home user could deal with. Something with a bunch of pins that go in little holes or something.
I was more interested in the second article, which theorized using electric cars's batteries as emergency "Peek hour" generators
Where I live, if you peek for a whole hour, you're very likely to be caught and arrested for invasion of privacy, regardless of whether you use your car to do so.
Yes, but unless no one outside that unit, or the military as a whole, has downloaded the thing...the cat is out of the bag. And as the blogger in question demonstrated, people outside the military did download it.
So you're willing to pay $330 for a TV tuner and a pair of crappy speakers?
Hang on...I think I have some left! I can sell you all the TV tuner/crappy speaker sets you like, and I'll even discount them to...oh, say, $300 -- 10% off? How many can I sign you up for? 100 sets? 1000?
You hit the nail on the head. The same principles apply to soldiers gabbing about classified stuff F2F, never mind P2P.
Oh, and I submitted this with a funnier headli...er, wait, this isn't Fark, is it.
Well, I did submit it, with a link to a ZDNet article about it, in which they give a little more detail about what happened with the blogger's attempts to get the authorities involved:
In an interview from Germany, where he lives with his wife, a U.S. Army officer, Wallace said he had contacted local military intelligence about the issue. They forwarded the information to a higher level, but there was little further response until he contacted the office of Sen. Conrad Burns, who represents Wallace's home state of Montana, Wallace said. ... Shortly after Wallace got in contact with Burns' office, the file of classified documents disappeared from Gnutella.
Ummmm...what??? How powerful is this senator, that he can pluck a given file off a decentralized P2P network? How did he do that? Am I going to get an insistent knock on my door for even questioning this?
Google going down is the first sign of the apocalypse. Now if my wife asks me for sex (the second sign), I'll know the world is going to end...
I can't believe you didn't make the obvious joke there. I mean, c'mon. Think about it. "Going down"..."my wife"...Jebus! It fairly slaps you in the face! And you call yourself a Slashdotter...
I would think it would be for artists using Photoshop or some other graphical blandisher -- especially if the touchscreen is pressure-sensitive. All the advantages of a fancy touch tablet, but directly on the screen.
I saw the same Macs disappearing/PCs breeding syndrome when I was in school. But my wife is going to school now, and what seems to be the main computer lab (this is just a community college, mind you) has about 2/3 W2K machines and the other third have "Linux" labels on them. So maybe Linux is growing where Macs are shrinking.
However, instead of saying they have "Linux" labels on them, I'd simply say they're Linux machines, except that I've been unable to get any to boot to the point where I could use one. The Windows machines may be awakened from sleep mode by hitting a key and/or moving the mouse, then one logs on with a standard user/password combo written on the whiteboards (or, more usually, you come back to the desktop showing someone's homework in a Word session). The LinuxBoxen, however, are actually powered down, and when you start them up, you get a BIOS error. They have one funky-looking drive bay each that may be a removable drive slot. Maybe they boot from that, and someone or other has removable drives that they use for that. Dunno. Also dunno why they would do something dumb like that. Oh well.
Sometimes, when a good, hard slashdotting like this takes place, people suggest that Slashdot be nice and create an internal mirror of the site before posting. Then it is inevitably pointed out that this would be copyright infringement and take hard-earned food from the mouths of the developers, ad-clickthrough-sellers, etc.
But no one seems to have a problem with caching proxies -- right?
Therefore, I suggest that instead Slashdot create its own caching proxy specifically for use with the sites it tries to melt. Maybe it would simply forward you directly to the site if the site was still responding, and respond with its internal cached copy if the site was struggling.
At the Metreon in San Francisco, they have a bar set up in the middle of several large installations of HyperBowling. The trackballs use actual bowling balls. 'S pretty fun.
Slashdot Mirror
...is so we can sound like old-timers to the kiddies.
[Me] In myyyy dayyyy...we didn't have no fancy http://pricewatch.com/!
[Kid] [Rolls eyes, thinking:] Pricewatch? Geez, get with the times, grandpa...try http://pricegrabber.com/...
[Me] We had to go to an actual store, where we paid money for a big huge thick heavy book, printed on actual paper! Aaaaand we had to search (and I don't mean with no fancy Google!) through the pages and pages of ads!
[Kid] Uh...really?
[Me] Hell yeah! And, half the time, instead of a price, the ads would say "Call", meaning you had to use the telephone to get the actual price!
[Kid] Man. That sucks.
[Me] [Wistfully] No, actually...it was great. All I did was party and get laid. Er, I mean, play games and code. I had my whole life ahead of me.
Ok, now I'm depressed.
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Sorry.
TAPE?? Please. The war is over. Disks (optical and magnetic) won.
Clearly, filmmakers are going to have to adopt the version numbering system we've enjoyed (hah!) for so long in the software arena.
Original, theatrical release of Star Wars = "Star Wars 1.0"
Revised with "Episode IV: A New Hope" = "Star Wars 1.0.1"
Revised in 1997 = "Star Wars 1.1"
Revised for these DVDs = "Star Wars 1.2"
(Whether Episode IV should be 4.x vs. 1.x is left as a flamewar for the reader.)
Oh, and has anyone seen the new "THX 1138 v.1.1" yet? Not bad.
I just hope that when they inevitably roll it over, the battery pack breaks loose and squashes them flat, just before rupturing acid all over their Starbuck's Super Duper Huge Size Fancily-Named Coffee(tm).
So is that trivially true or vacuously true? I can never keep those straight.
Lemme Google for a sec...
Ok. Maybe this helps.
...when they see Darth Vader coming for them, they'll have an intra-pants biohazard situation.
<mst3k>GAH! Don't DO that!</mst3k>
You just described Mad Culture Disease!
Poor infected cultures -- staggering around, unable to support themselves properly, getting stupider and stupider...tsk, tsk.
Yes, but unless no one outside that unit, or the military as a whole, has downloaded the thing...the cat is out of the bag. And as the blogger in question demonstrated, people outside the military did download it.
So you're willing to pay $330 for a TV tuner and a pair of crappy speakers?
Hang on...I think I have some left! I can sell you all the TV tuner/crappy speaker sets you like, and I'll even discount them to...oh, say, $300 -- 10% off? How many can I sign you up for? 100 sets? 1000?
Oh, and I submitted this with a funnier headli...er, wait, this isn't Fark, is it.
Well, I did submit it, with a link to a ZDNet article about it, in which they give a little more detail about what happened with the blogger's attempts to get the authorities involved:Ummmm...what??? How powerful is this senator, that he can pluck a given file off a decentralized P2P network? How did he do that? Am I going to get an insistent knock on my door for even questioning this?
Tell my wife I love her! AIEEEE!!!
...that he gets to bang Sarah Lane.
(That said, you're right about him not really being a guru.)
E) Slashdot gets kickback from Apple -- Profit!
I would think it would be for artists using Photoshop or some other graphical blandisher -- especially if the touchscreen is pressure-sensitive. All the advantages of a fancy touch tablet, but directly on the screen.
I saw the same Macs disappearing/PCs breeding syndrome when I was in school. But my wife is going to school now, and what seems to be the main computer lab (this is just a community college, mind you) has about 2/3 W2K machines and the other third have "Linux" labels on them. So maybe Linux is growing where Macs are shrinking.
However, instead of saying they have "Linux" labels on them, I'd simply say they're Linux machines, except that I've been unable to get any to boot to the point where I could use one. The Windows machines may be awakened from sleep mode by hitting a key and/or moving the mouse, then one logs on with a standard user/password combo written on the whiteboards (or, more usually, you come back to the desktop showing someone's homework in a Word session). The LinuxBoxen, however, are actually powered down, and when you start them up, you get a BIOS error. They have one funky-looking drive bay each that may be a removable drive slot. Maybe they boot from that, and someone or other has removable drives that they use for that. Dunno. Also dunno why they would do something dumb like that. Oh well.
So you're saying that the issue is so complicated that four years has not been enough time for Taco & Co to think it through.
Sigh.
Sometimes, when a good, hard slashdotting like this takes place, people suggest that Slashdot be nice and create an internal mirror of the site before posting. Then it is inevitably pointed out that this would be copyright infringement and take hard-earned food from the mouths of the developers, ad-clickthrough-sellers, etc.
But no one seems to have a problem with caching proxies -- right?
Therefore, I suggest that instead Slashdot create its own caching proxy specifically for use with the sites it tries to melt. Maybe it would simply forward you directly to the site if the site was still responding, and respond with its internal cached copy if the site was struggling.
Taco? Anyone?
At the Metreon in San Francisco, they have a bar set up in the middle of several large installations of HyperBowling. The trackballs use actual bowling balls. 'S pretty fun.
See some photos here.