ahh... being a beta tester... I do indeed feel sorry for you.
I really enjoy the features that have been previously spoken of, and the "conversation" feature is especially nice. Just wait it out... it's definitely worth it!
That reminds me of F451 (ray bradbury). The girl's (her name escapes me) father would drive at the miimum speed limit, just to slow things down a bit, and she remembered the 400' billboards goin on forever. The way today's world is, it wouldn't suprise me at all to see the speeds increase, and even everything become automated at some point (maybe the track cars like Minority Report?). It's just become a rush world... sadly, but truly.
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yeah... well that computer is small... but my penis is sma....... never mind.
Statistically, its almost correct, but in blackjack the house will always win eventually... the trick is not more difficult than quitting when you get ahead.
In blackjack, he house is at the advantage, at every turn. This however doesn't guarentee a win. So play statistical odds, and leave the table when you get to a preset goal.
The only real way to win gambling, is to have discipline. or sheer luck.
No, as a slinky has a clear begining and end, and transferes energy from its ends at regular intervals. Instead, they will blast given areas with large amounts of radiation, and anti-matter to create actual small wormholes;)
Security and stability are big points in Linux's favor.
you (read: all of us) say Linux is secure.... how much of that is "security by obscurity?" When Linux gets to be better known and more wide-spread will this same level of security hold? That is, I think, one of the big problems with Windows. It is so spread out, that anyone can write malicious code for it, and anyone can find a hole... how would this be different for Linux? Granted, I'm no programmer, but it just seems that the more used a product is, the more likely it is to be compromised.
It's from The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul. Dirk Gently (of Dirk Gently's Holistic Dectective Agency)has a refridgerator which is the epitomy of gross. So rather than clean it out... he buys a new one. Both books are by Douglass Adams.
yout think that's bad, i got my 20gig Ipod and no USB/Firewire cable:( you try putting music on one playlist at a time, then going to charge it for an hour before you do one more playlist.:-( Bah Humbug
Geek
It is commonly touted that geek originally meant a sideshow performer who bites the heads off chickens or snakes. While this is a sense of the word, it is not the original one.
Geek is actually a very old word. It is a variant of geck, a term of Low German/Dutch origin that dates in English to 1511. It means a fool, simpleton, or dupe. Geck is even used by Shakespeare in Twelfth Night, V.i.:
Why haue you suffer'd me to be imprison'd. And made the most notorious gecke and gull That ere inuention plaid on?
The geek spelling is an American variation, even though Shakespeare uses the spelling geeke in Cymbeline V.iv., but this is probably just a misspelling. Geek first appears (outside the single Shakespearean usage) in 1876 America. American usage adds the connotation of offensive or undesirable to the original foolish and stupid sense. The Carnival sideshow sense appears in 1928.
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its low german/dutch! and you can't pronounce it? for shame
Maybe you are just talking about the development. If you are talking about the gamers too, then I would have to disagree. Many of the gamers are incredibly creative. They have to be to "create" tehr characters. Each character is different, because a person controls it. I see it as both creative (i.e skill point use etc) and original (e.g. no two characters area like). The developers stick to their ways, but the gamer can change the course of thier respective games.
ahh, uhh.. sorry, a little vague:) (i knew what im ment)
what i ment was: If you run more than one of the distributed computing clients (e.g. google compute, seti at home etc) then wont thy just slow each other down, making less progress on each over a greater amount of time? and doesn't that defeat the purpose somewhat? (geting alot done on one, in my opionion, is better than a little done on a lot, but i guess it is a matter of opinion)
Call me ignorant, and no, i didnt RTFA, but wouldnt running different ones slow itself, and the others down? causeing there to be less progress made in each individual one?
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ahh... being a beta tester... I do indeed feel sorry for you. I really enjoy the features that have been previously spoken of, and the "conversation" feature is especially nice. Just wait it out... it's definitely worth it!
I knock, knock, knocked on that Gibson's door!
no....I remember reading articles about them several years back, and they were in the Bahamas 3-4 years ago...
also, a quick trace of the IP in the URL, shows that the page resieds on cox.net somewhere...
That reminds me of F451 (ray bradbury). The girl's (her name escapes me) father would drive at the miimum speed limit, just to slow things down a bit, and she remembered the 400' billboards goin on forever. The way today's world is, it wouldn't suprise me at all to see the speeds increase, and even everything become automated at some point (maybe the track cars like Minority Report?). It's just become a rush world... sadly, but truly.
Statistically, its almost correct, but in blackjack the house will always win eventually... the trick is not more difficult than quitting when you get ahead. In blackjack, he house is at the advantage, at every turn. This however doesn't guarentee a win. So play statistical odds, and leave the table when you get to a preset goal. The only real way to win gambling, is to have discipline. or sheer luck.
No, as a slinky has a clear begining and end, and transferes energy from its ends at regular intervals. Instead, they will blast given areas with large amounts of radiation, and anti-matter to create actual small wormholes ;)
is it just me... or does "Melting Europa" sound like a bad Lifetime movie?
won't matter... "Duke Nukem: Forever" was never made and ported to linux.... ;-)
you (read: all of us) say Linux is secure.... how much of that is "security by obscurity?" When Linux gets to be better known and more wide-spread will this same level of security hold? That is, I think, one of the big problems with Windows. It is so spread out, that anyone can write malicious code for it, and anyone can find a hole... how would this be different for Linux? Granted, I'm no programmer, but it just seems that the more used a product is, the more likely it is to be compromised.
just my .02
It's from The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul. Dirk Gently (of Dirk Gently's Holistic Dectective Agency)has a refridgerator which is the epitomy of gross. So rather than clean it out... he buys a new one. Both books are by Douglass Adams.
Who let Dirk Gently into slashdot?
Ah... And you all said I was crazy to build a tinfoil box around my house!
ahh.. we tried.... all our base are belong to neutralization.
Just posting for shits and giggles? Hell, I'm in!
they were wary of the infamous /. effect
This shirt?
It's not that they just don't come back; they get busy! They
1)become ww2 fighter piolets
or 2)Live in a cactus in the desert
yout think that's bad, i got my 20gig Ipod and no USB/Firewire cable:( you try putting music on one playlist at a time, then going to charge it for an hour before you do one more playlist. :-( Bah Humbug
Sorry to burst your bubble... but if Apple calls it the Imace, they would fail again. If it's on a chain, it should be the "iFlail" not iMace. ;-)
It is commonly touted that geek originally meant a sideshow performer who bites the heads off chickens or snakes. While this is a sense of the word, it is not the original one.
Geek is actually a very old word. It is a variant of geck, a term of Low German/Dutch origin that dates in English to 1511. It means a fool, simpleton, or dupe. Geck is even used by Shakespeare in Twelfth Night, V.i.:
Why haue you suffer'd me to be imprison'd. And made the most notorious gecke and gull That ere inuention plaid on? The geek spelling is an American variation, even though Shakespeare uses the spelling geeke in Cymbeline V.iv., but this is probably just a misspelling. Geek first appears (outside the single Shakespearean usage) in 1876 America. American usage adds the connotation of offensive or undesirable to the original foolish and stupid sense. The Carnival sideshow sense appears in 1928.
(taken from Here) its low german/dutch! and you can't pronounce it? for shame
Maybe you are just talking about the development. If you are talking about the gamers too, then I would have to disagree. Many of the gamers are incredibly creative. They have to be to "create" tehr characters. Each character is different, because a person controls it. I see it as both creative (i.e skill point use etc) and original (e.g. no two characters area like). The developers stick to their ways, but the gamer can change the course of thier respective games.
ahh, uhh.. sorry, a little vague:) (i knew what im ment) what i ment was: If you run more than one of the distributed computing clients (e.g. google compute, seti at home etc) then wont thy just slow each other down, making less progress on each over a greater amount of time? and doesn't that defeat the purpose somewhat? (geting alot done on one, in my opionion, is better than a little done on a lot, but i guess it is a matter of opinion)
Call me ignorant, and no, i didnt RTFA, but wouldnt running different ones slow itself, and the others down? causeing there to be less progress made in each individual one?