Scully, are you familiar with the Apollo 18 mission? It was a secret launch to test the survival times of unprotected humans in space.
But Mulder, that's crazy, the government would never--
Would never what, Scully? Never kill to hide the TRUTH? Never cover up what the public has a right to know?
I see a lot of this happening in Wikipedia articles lately, too. Someone let the hyperpedantic nerds out of their basements to confuse every normal person on the fucking planet.
Similar to the new prevalence of BCE and CE vs. BC and AD. Come on, you must admit that "Anno Domine" is far cooler than "Current/Christian Era". Up next, we change "Wednesday" to "Threeday", because references to Odin are just far too Euro-centric. That is, assuming we stick with that Judeo-Christian concept about Sunday being the seventh day.
Us Slashdot readers are far more intelligent, parking ourselves in front of a WoW screen with fly agape, saying "Thank you, Blizzard, may I have another month of grinding? Here's your cash".
Although the robots in I, Robot looked like some sort of Apple product (pale, shiny, thin), I think you have just increased Asimov's rate of in-grave rotation by spelling it like that. Assuming he didn't already reach a top speed at about the time that movie came out.
Sometimes when they're doing a Twilight Zone marathon on the Sci-Fi Channel (yeah, low-brow channel, but the Twilight Zone rocks), they play the 'teasers' for upcoming episodes, in which Serling stands there smoking, tells you a little bit about the next episode, then explains how he always smokes cigarette brand X. Great stuff, reflects a different, less "THINK OF THE CHILDREN" time in history.
I don't work in San Francisco, I work in Livermore. You know what? I tell people I'm in San Francisco, because everybody knows where that is. This is called "the lowest common demoninator", and I'm aiming for it because I'm posting about Macs on Slashdot.
I bet Apple and their lawyers are in their humidors sipping cognac, laughing at these amateurs.
Assuming you mean Steve Jobs when you say "Apple", I find it highly unlikely that Steve Jobs has a humidor, much less a humidor large enough to sit in--smoking's bad, mmkay? More likely, he would celebrate with mineral water and extra-dark chocolate (you see, the higher the cacao content, the snobbier you can act, never mind that it tastes like dirt), or maybe a joint rolled in Psystar's business registration paperwork--his company *is* headquartered in San Francisco, after all.
there was a chinese company called NEC which duplicated the Real NEC's tv's poorly but close enough to work for several years before they got caught.
Not only did they make the TVs, but apparently they also dealt with real NEC plants on a regular basis, and due to poor organization, nobody caught on.
Not every single moment of a lecture contains vital information, but you will never know for a given moment unless you listen... odds are pretty good you'll miss something important while browsing wall posts on that girl's Facebook profile (she doesn't like you, quit stalking her)
Students are incapable of multitasking. Multitasking is what computers do, and do you know how they do it? They focus on one thing at a time, one after the other.
The student is wrong. Students are almost always wrong, because 20 year olds are stupid. As a college student, I can testify that we're almost all wrong about pretty much every thing ALL THE TIME.
My time taking notes on a laptop lasted about one lecture. The professor said, "This is a MUX", drew a diagram, and I was screwed. Circuit diagrams, k-maps, various logic plots, they're all pretty hard to do on a laptop before the prof moves on to something new. I'm now back to pen and paper, save the laptop for playing nethack between classes.
Are you the guy who keeps visiting my web pages at 800x600 resolution? Crazy old folks, I tell ya. Of course, I write all my stuff in plain old HTML because I'm lazy and hate flashy crap, so you will have no problems reading my black-on-white and black-on-light-grey pages.
Drive heavy machinery much? It's not difficult once you get used to it, but being able to pick up, move, stack, etc. various heavy things using my hands instead of a rather crude and clumsy mechanical manipulator (forks) would be great.
Speech patterns--they're funny! Bostonians are idiots because they drop the 'r'!
Seriously, some of the smartest people I know say "nukular", it's just how some parts of the country say it. There are far better criticisms of the Pres. than how he says "nuclear".
I usually hate pedantry, but... of course your school didn't have a DC++ network. It may have not had a DC network, and students most certainly didn't connect using a Windows client called DC++, and there definitely aren't a number of other DC clients such as Valknut, Shakespeer, etc.
In summary, DC == protocol, DC++ == Windows DC client.
I still use gnutella because I can *generally* find a specific mp3 within a few minutes. That's what it's good for, an impulse downloading of a reasonably popular song.
The best thing about living on campus is the possibility of having a nice big Direct Connect network, not that *my* school ever had one, oh no, nor did it rank #8 in the MPAA's top pirate schools of 2007...
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I'm not sure we should focus on the salamander angle too much
Scully, are you familiar with the Apollo 18 mission? It was a secret launch to test the survival times of unprotected humans in space.
But Mulder, that's crazy, the government would never--
Would never what, Scully? Never kill to hide the TRUTH? Never cover up what the public has a right to know?
Referring to the Wikipedia article, I see it referred to as Common, Current, and Christian. Pick your favorite.
Ok, so I suck at religion.
I'm just happy to see that my school (RIT) made it to the finals. Didn't even know we had a team.
I see a lot of this happening in Wikipedia articles lately, too. Someone let the hyperpedantic nerds out of their basements to confuse every normal person on the fucking planet.
Similar to the new prevalence of BCE and CE vs. BC and AD. Come on, you must admit that "Anno Domine" is far cooler than "Current/Christian Era". Up next, we change "Wednesday" to "Threeday", because references to Odin are just far too Euro-centric. That is, assuming we stick with that Judeo-Christian concept about Sunday being the seventh day.
Sandia National Lab, yeah. Overshadowed by Lawrence Livermore right across the road.
Us Slashdot readers are far more intelligent, parking ourselves in front of a WoW screen with fly agape, saying "Thank you, Blizzard, may I have another month of grinding? Here's your cash".
Although the robots in I, Robot looked like some sort of Apple product (pale, shiny, thin), I think you have just increased Asimov's rate of in-grave rotation by spelling it like that. Assuming he didn't already reach a top speed at about the time that movie came out.
Sometimes when they're doing a Twilight Zone marathon on the Sci-Fi Channel (yeah, low-brow channel, but the Twilight Zone rocks), they play the 'teasers' for upcoming episodes, in which Serling stands there smoking, tells you a little bit about the next episode, then explains how he always smokes cigarette brand X. Great stuff, reflects a different, less "THINK OF THE CHILDREN" time in history.
I don't work in San Francisco, I work in Livermore. You know what? I tell people I'm in San Francisco, because everybody knows where that is. This is called "the lowest common demoninator", and I'm aiming for it because I'm posting about Macs on Slashdot.
I bet Apple and their lawyers are in their humidors sipping cognac, laughing at these amateurs.
Assuming you mean Steve Jobs when you say "Apple", I find it highly unlikely that Steve Jobs has a humidor, much less a humidor large enough to sit in--smoking's bad, mmkay? More likely, he would celebrate with mineral water and extra-dark chocolate (you see, the higher the cacao content, the snobbier you can act, never mind that it tastes like dirt), or maybe a joint rolled in Psystar's business registration paperwork--his company *is* headquartered in San Francisco, after all.
What would they like to do, have a big central server to send everything through?
How about a giant Linksys router in an underground bunker in New Mexico?
Yeah, if German schoolkids are to be believed, that damn space junk will bump the Apophis asteroid into a more dangerous orbit! Curses!
there was a chinese company called NEC which duplicated the Real NEC's tv's poorly but close enough to work for several years before they got caught.
Not only did they make the TVs, but apparently they also dealt with real NEC plants on a regular basis, and due to poor organization, nobody caught on.
Not every single moment of a lecture contains vital information, but you will never know for a given moment unless you listen... odds are pretty good you'll miss something important while browsing wall posts on that girl's Facebook profile (she doesn't like you, quit stalking her)
Students are incapable of multitasking. Multitasking is what computers do, and do you know how they do it? They focus on one thing at a time, one after the other.
The student is wrong. Students are almost always wrong, because 20 year olds are stupid. As a college student, I can testify that we're almost all wrong about pretty much every thing ALL THE TIME.
My time taking notes on a laptop lasted about one lecture. The professor said, "This is a MUX", drew a diagram, and I was screwed. Circuit diagrams, k-maps, various logic plots, they're all pretty hard to do on a laptop before the prof moves on to something new. I'm now back to pen and paper, save the laptop for playing nethack between classes.
I don't know, Scully... the truth is out there, but they are trying to keep it secret. Blah blah blah conspiracy theories.
That's basically what I do, although I use drawterm instead because my stuff is on a Plan 9 box.
Are you the guy who keeps visiting my web pages at 800x600 resolution? Crazy old folks, I tell ya. Of course, I write all my stuff in plain old HTML because I'm lazy and hate flashy crap, so you will have no problems reading my black-on-white and black-on-light-grey pages.
Drive heavy machinery much? It's not difficult once you get used to it, but being able to pick up, move, stack, etc. various heavy things using my hands instead of a rather crude and clumsy mechanical manipulator (forks) would be great.
Speech patterns--they're funny! Bostonians are idiots because they drop the 'r'!
Seriously, some of the smartest people I know say "nukular", it's just how some parts of the country say it. There are far better criticisms of the Pres. than how he says "nuclear".
I usually hate pedantry, but... of course your school didn't have a DC++ network. It may have not had a DC network, and students most certainly didn't connect using a Windows client called DC++, and there definitely aren't a number of other DC clients such as Valknut, Shakespeer, etc.
In summary, DC == protocol, DC++ == Windows DC client.
I still use gnutella because I can *generally* find a specific mp3 within a few minutes. That's what it's good for, an impulse downloading of a reasonably popular song.
The best thing about living on campus is the possibility of having a nice big Direct Connect network, not that *my* school ever had one, oh no, nor did it rank #8 in the MPAA's top pirate schools of 2007...