As soon as a scientist beats a creationist up and sends him to the hospital, we can see what happens. Unlike the creationist religous twits, I would not be two-faced and justify violence against someone for their beliefs.
I'd disagree. I've seen far more pettiness on the side of evolution's supporters
Really, now? Aside from evolution not needing "supporters" on its side because it has EVIDENCE on its side, when was the last time you read a news story on CNN.COM about a scientist being up a dumbass creationist and sending him to the hospital as a result?
To be fair, his childesh behavior is more or less how the majority of creationists act. They use little logic, false arguments to bolster their view and when all else fails, they call people names and insult them while simultaneously playing the "don't attack my christian fews you hater!" card.
No problem. Since we offshore all our work to you guys, we'll just have one of them stop on by and do some mentoring and training on the cheap laptops we provide so that you can get up to speed so we can hire you as an offshore employee.
Really, this is the turning of the worm. Mark my words - this is the most distinct moment in which the US turns from knowledge-work while farming out physical work and manufacturering to other nations into us doing manufacturering work for the knowledge-workers in other nations.
Don't take my comments wrong, either - I have had offers from well-known's wanting to buy my site and services and if they were offering millions like everyone else is getting for their services when corps aquire them, I'd go for it as well. I think one can despise the aquisition and refuse to participate as a user any longer out of principle and still be happy for the guy who created it and made off like a bandit in the process of selling it.:)
Do they have a nice way to import del.icio.us data? I want to switch. I'm not sticking with sellouts - and that's what I consider it. Come on - delicious goes to Yahoo! MySpace goes to FOX! -- anything worth anything gets bought up by the traditional conglomerates for half a billion dollars and the guy who originated the projects goes off to.. do whatever..
If I wanted to use Yahoo! services, I'd already BE using them. Thanks.
We just care if you're cute. We don't have arbitrary requisites. When was the last time you gave a fuck what career your female-of-interest had or if she was even employed? I don't think I even know any guys who have arbitrary requirements for a chick other than she has to be physically appealing to him. No "she has to be at least 5'7" and 110lbs" or anything. And certainly nothing in the realm of "she has to make at least $60k/yr, be college educated and have a successful career I can brag to my boyfriends about".
Just don't abuse it. There's nothing I hate more than people implementing stuff like AJAX where it isn't even needed. I run an auction site. This interactive stuff isn't necessary for such a site or service. Yet, of course, there are plenty of people who will think web2.0/AJAX type stuff is absolutely necessary for everything under the sun.
I doubt I'll ever use it, because I just don't have the kind of time to dedicate to learning everything involved to do it (especially since that isn't what I do for a living and I wouldn't use it in my own site).
Frankly, I kind of prefer a more static web anyway. I don't want everythign to behave like a locally installed application. Loading another page or refreshing won't kill me.
I see people always throwing the word "sexist" around in these conversations. Excuse me for asking, but how is it "descriminatory based on one's sex" to want to see HOT female characters rather than your typical North American chunkster? That's not discriminatory, period - but even if it were, it would be discrimination BASED ON APPEARANCE (which goes across the board male and female - depending on who your audience is) NOT SEX.
And frankly, who cares? Do chicks want to see a chick flick with Orlando Bloom as the leading hunk who romances a destitute maid and rescues her from her dreary life or do they want to see Chris Farley? Come on now.
I'd rather live in a society where people stop bullshitting each other and pretending anything other than nice tits and ass and points for fuckability or nice pecs an ass and being tall and handsome mean a fucking thing. The fact is, dudes want to see and have hot, sexy, youthful babes and chicks want to see and have hot, confident, successful, wealthy, svelt, tall men.
I saw a conversation drag on forever on my own website where all of the women (the site is 95% women) droned on about how they wouldn't even TALK to a guy unless he was at least 6'2" *minimum* and if he didn't have at least 7" of dick, there wasn't going to be a second or third date. So don't give me this bullshit for one fucking minute that men are big evil sexist jerks that demean women when they do the same fucking thing. At least our requisites are simple "cute and fuckable" versus all the peculiar little requisites that chicks have.
I block all ads (yay adblocker!) on Slashdot. I don't subscribe anymore. Oh, but I do contribute and support the site. You know - by creating content just like every other poster.
What do you mean he's "getting screwed"? As he said, the program will close just AFTER he gets his degree. Sounds reasonable to me. And how would it make your existing degree worthless?
Anyway, it's a completely reasonable move by the school. As they said in their press release, they're doing this because cuts are necessary for financial reasons due to the recovery process. They have to cut somewhere and considering the state of the industry (especially globally) - why not CS?
Sure, we'd all like to see sports completely cut before they even touch the educational things, but that's insane. People who overturn cars and set trash cans on fire and smash windows when their team wins probably won't be too kind when the team is gone entirely. Plus, sports is what draws people to college. You know who college football teams and players and coaches are. Who the fuck knows anything about some random genius in a school? It'd be like shooting themselves in the foot.
I don't want to talk voice (or video) with the same people I IM with. The only exceptions might be family - and I'd probably just call them (you know - on the phone be it cell, land or VoIP) rather than use some lame Yahoo!/AOL/Google/BlabbityBlahBlah IM thing.
Here's the thing - marketing is not R&D. Marketing markets stuff that R&D and programmers make. I make something and you sell it. If you oversell it or tell complete lies (I see this ALL the time) then that's your problem. If you sell a v6 sports car as a v8 muscle car to a customer - it's not MY fault you either didn't know what you were talking about or bullshitted the customer. And if you knew what made a good (fill in the blank product) then YOU would be making or designing it rather than marketing it.
I don't tell marketing how to promote anything. They can stuff it and not tell me how to MAKE anything.
Well, they're at his school and they're going to have a much better clue about what the school is offering and how he can use those services than a bunch of random slashdotters who don't know a thing about his school (and many who have either never been or haven't been to college in eons).
If this was a more general question that didn't hinge on cuts at his school, that'd be different.
That wouldn't have much to do with the article's submission then, though. After all, if he wants to get a degree in liberal arts or something after he gets his CS degree - and they're still going to teach liberal arts stuff - then what question is there to ask us in the first place?
I think there's something missing in the overall statement. It's kind of like "My boss is kind of goofy and likes to eat meatball sandwhiches every day - should I drive my car to 3,000 miles before I tune it up or run it a little over?"
Besides, its snowing like crazy now, its 20 degrees outside, what the hell else am I going to do?
Well, it has been about -6 here in Broomfield the last few days. I thought playing a board game or some cards would be fun. Unfortunately of the two people I live with, one was busy chatting on AIM and playing around the crapfest that is MySpace and the other was busy playing a videogame.
You talk to your student advisors? That's what you pay your tuition for. How the hell would a bunch of random people on Slashdot know what you should do in some strange particular circumstances that we couldn't possibly know the details of since we aren't on the staff for your school?
Hm.. I guess Godaddy offers a lot of services I didn't know about. I only use them as my registrar. As far as that goes, I've never had any problems - but I'm always looking for alternatives that are reliable and cheap(er).
At the moment, my GothicAuctions.com domain and a few others are registered until like 2012 though. Heh.
Unless you're the other Seamus (the one who created the XBOX), this hardly qualifies as a flame, you tards. It's a simple point that most people who see Halo (as with most audiences in general) won't know the details about the movie and just want to see a good flick. Period.
You fanboys are so sad. Wish you could hear an opinion that disagrees with yours and not get your panties all wet and twisted.:(
How is this flamebait? This is a perfectly solid and reasonable statement. It's not even one step removed from "well, he wouldn't be the ALLEGED suspect of that crime if he didn't actually COMMIT it!" or "if they want to inspect your home, they must have a reason and you probably did something wrong!".
This is terrible *terrible* thinking and it really makes me sick to know that a generation barely removed from my own isn't being taught their freedoms, rights and liberties (not to mention thinking for themselves) in school beyond the freedom to have abortions and wear rubbers (not that there is anything terribly wrong about *that* - but let's teach the things those rights are themselves founded on, too huh?).
Whatever happened to those radical hippies from the 60s and 70s? Aren't they supposed to be today's parents? If so - why aren't they countering the improper balance of the public school system by reinforcing fundemental premises of human (and American) existance? You wouldn't have condoned illegal search, seizure or forfeit of due process when you were 20 or 30 -- why is it okay for you to shrug your shoulders and allow your children to be pumped full of such horrible compliance?
Between the public school system and my parents, it's amazing I grew up to be able to think for myself and realize such obvious things as "you have a right to expect privacy and certain legal classifications until actually convicted of something".
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As soon as a scientist beats a creationist up and sends him to the hospital, we can see what happens. Unlike the creationist religous twits, I would not be two-faced and justify violence against someone for their beliefs.
I'd disagree. I've seen far more pettiness on the side of evolution's supporters
Really, now? Aside from evolution not needing "supporters" on its side because it has EVIDENCE on its side, when was the last time you read a news story on CNN.COM about a scientist being up a dumbass creationist and sending him to the hospital as a result?
Er. Yeah. That was supposed to be "views".
I guess fews was just a wishful Freudian-slip.
To be fair, his childesh behavior is more or less how the majority of creationists act. They use little logic, false arguments to bolster their view and when all else fails, they call people names and insult them while simultaneously playing the "don't attack my christian fews you hater!" card.
No problem. Since we offshore all our work to you guys, we'll just have one of them stop on by and do some mentoring and training on the cheap laptops we provide so that you can get up to speed so we can hire you as an offshore employee.
Really, this is the turning of the worm. Mark my words - this is the most distinct moment in which the US turns from knowledge-work while farming out physical work and manufacturering to other nations into us doing manufacturering work for the knowledge-workers in other nations.
Sony's next step should be this.
Sweet. Just made the switch.
:)
Don't take my comments wrong, either - I have had offers from well-known's wanting to buy my site and services and if they were offering millions like everyone else is getting for their services when corps aquire them, I'd go for it as well. I think one can despise the aquisition and refuse to participate as a user any longer out of principle and still be happy for the guy who created it and made off like a bandit in the process of selling it.
Do they have a nice way to import del.icio.us data? I want to switch. I'm not sticking with sellouts - and that's what I consider it. Come on - delicious goes to Yahoo! MySpace goes to FOX! -- anything worth anything gets bought up by the traditional conglomerates for half a billion dollars and the guy who originated the projects goes off to.. do whatever..
If I wanted to use Yahoo! services, I'd already BE using them. Thanks.
We just care if you're cute. We don't have arbitrary requisites. When was the last time you gave a fuck what career your female-of-interest had or if she was even employed? I don't think I even know any guys who have arbitrary requirements for a chick other than she has to be physically appealing to him. No "she has to be at least 5'7" and 110lbs" or anything. And certainly nothing in the realm of "she has to make at least $60k/yr, be college educated and have a successful career I can brag to my boyfriends about".
Just don't abuse it. There's nothing I hate more than people implementing stuff like AJAX where it isn't even needed. I run an auction site. This interactive stuff isn't necessary for such a site or service. Yet, of course, there are plenty of people who will think web2.0/AJAX type stuff is absolutely necessary for everything under the sun.
I doubt I'll ever use it, because I just don't have the kind of time to dedicate to learning everything involved to do it (especially since that isn't what I do for a living and I wouldn't use it in my own site).
Frankly, I kind of prefer a more static web anyway. I don't want everythign to behave like a locally installed application. Loading another page or refreshing won't kill me.
I see people always throwing the word "sexist" around in these conversations. Excuse me for asking, but how is it "descriminatory based on one's sex" to want to see HOT female characters rather than your typical North American chunkster? That's not discriminatory, period - but even if it were, it would be discrimination BASED ON APPEARANCE (which goes across the board male and female - depending on who your audience is) NOT SEX.
And frankly, who cares? Do chicks want to see a chick flick with Orlando Bloom as the leading hunk who romances a destitute maid and rescues her from her dreary life or do they want to see Chris Farley? Come on now.
I'd rather live in a society where people stop bullshitting each other and pretending anything other than nice tits and ass and points for fuckability or nice pecs an ass and being tall and handsome mean a fucking thing. The fact is, dudes want to see and have hot, sexy, youthful babes and chicks want to see and have hot, confident, successful, wealthy, svelt, tall men.
I saw a conversation drag on forever on my own website where all of the women (the site is 95% women) droned on about how they wouldn't even TALK to a guy unless he was at least 6'2" *minimum* and if he didn't have at least 7" of dick, there wasn't going to be a second or third date. So don't give me this bullshit for one fucking minute that men are big evil sexist jerks that demean women when they do the same fucking thing. At least our requisites are simple "cute and fuckable" versus all the peculiar little requisites that chicks have.
I probably don't understand japanese monetary systems or anything, but how do you "typo" '610,000' instead of '1'.
That's like typo-turretts.
"You stupid cocksucking ass-wagger! -- Er.. I mean... Good morning!".
I block all ads (yay adblocker!) on Slashdot. I don't subscribe anymore. Oh, but I do contribute and support the site. You know - by creating content just like every other poster.
Get the fuck out! - are you shitting me?!
What do you mean he's "getting screwed"? As he said, the program will close just AFTER he gets his degree. Sounds reasonable to me. And how would it make your existing degree worthless?
Anyway, it's a completely reasonable move by the school. As they said in their press release, they're doing this because cuts are necessary for financial reasons due to the recovery process. They have to cut somewhere and considering the state of the industry (especially globally) - why not CS?
Sure, we'd all like to see sports completely cut before they even touch the educational things, but that's insane. People who overturn cars and set trash cans on fire and smash windows when their team wins probably won't be too kind when the team is gone entirely. Plus, sports is what draws people to college. You know who college football teams and players and coaches are. Who the fuck knows anything about some random genius in a school? It'd be like shooting themselves in the foot.
I don't want to talk voice (or video) with the same people I IM with. The only exceptions might be family - and I'd probably just call them (you know - on the phone be it cell, land or VoIP) rather than use some lame Yahoo!/AOL/Google/BlabbityBlahBlah IM thing.
Here's the thing - marketing is not R&D. Marketing markets stuff that R&D and programmers make. I make something and you sell it. If you oversell it or tell complete lies (I see this ALL the time) then that's your problem. If you sell a v6 sports car as a v8 muscle car to a customer - it's not MY fault you either didn't know what you were talking about or bullshitted the customer. And if you knew what made a good (fill in the blank product) then YOU would be making or designing it rather than marketing it.
I don't tell marketing how to promote anything. They can stuff it and not tell me how to MAKE anything.
(Note: I don't make or promote anything.)
Well, they're at his school and they're going to have a much better clue about what the school is offering and how he can use those services than a bunch of random slashdotters who don't know a thing about his school (and many who have either never been or haven't been to college in eons).
If this was a more general question that didn't hinge on cuts at his school, that'd be different.
That wouldn't have much to do with the article's submission then, though. After all, if he wants to get a degree in liberal arts or something after he gets his CS degree - and they're still going to teach liberal arts stuff - then what question is there to ask us in the first place?
I think there's something missing in the overall statement. It's kind of like "My boss is kind of goofy and likes to eat meatball sandwhiches every day - should I drive my car to 3,000 miles before I tune it up or run it a little over?"
Not so much cluing in to the problem as surrendering to the inevitability that we can't compete with the rest of the world in the field?
Besides, its snowing like crazy now, its 20 degrees outside, what the hell else am I going to do?
Well, it has been about -6 here in Broomfield the last few days. I thought playing a board game or some cards would be fun. Unfortunately of the two people I live with, one was busy chatting on AIM and playing around the crapfest that is MySpace and the other was busy playing a videogame.
You talk to your student advisors? That's what you pay your tuition for. How the hell would a bunch of random people on Slashdot know what you should do in some strange particular circumstances that we couldn't possibly know the details of since we aren't on the staff for your school?
Hm.. I guess Godaddy offers a lot of services I didn't know about. I only use them as my registrar. As far as that goes, I've never had any problems - but I'm always looking for alternatives that are reliable and cheap(er).
At the moment, my GothicAuctions.com domain and a few others are registered until like 2012 though. Heh.
Unless you're the other Seamus (the one who created the XBOX), this hardly qualifies as a flame, you tards. It's a simple point that most people who see Halo (as with most audiences in general) won't know the details about the movie and just want to see a good flick. Period.
:(
You fanboys are so sad. Wish you could hear an opinion that disagrees with yours and not get your panties all wet and twisted.
How is this flamebait? This is a perfectly solid and reasonable statement. It's not even one step removed from "well, he wouldn't be the ALLEGED suspect of that crime if he didn't actually COMMIT it!" or "if they want to inspect your home, they must have a reason and you probably did something wrong!".
This is terrible *terrible* thinking and it really makes me sick to know that a generation barely removed from my own isn't being taught their freedoms, rights and liberties (not to mention thinking for themselves) in school beyond the freedom to have abortions and wear rubbers (not that there is anything terribly wrong about *that* - but let's teach the things those rights are themselves founded on, too huh?).
Whatever happened to those radical hippies from the 60s and 70s? Aren't they supposed to be today's parents? If so - why aren't they countering the improper balance of the public school system by reinforcing fundemental premises of human (and American) existance? You wouldn't have condoned illegal search, seizure or forfeit of due process when you were 20 or 30 -- why is it okay for you to shrug your shoulders and allow your children to be pumped full of such horrible compliance?
Between the public school system and my parents, it's amazing I grew up to be able to think for myself and realize such obvious things as "you have a right to expect privacy and certain legal classifications until actually convicted of something".