Not that I want to contradict your thoughts, which I share (especially the pay check part), but let's put it into perspective.
Someone might be able to write the tool to balance the checkbooks but at the same time be unable to actually make good use of the program.
Another example would be Photoshop. I'm pretty sure the people who programmed it aren't nearly as good at using it as actual artists. The programmer probably never went to design school, etc.
Yet another example would be Word, Pages or any other word-processing program. Just because you can program such a beast doesn't automatically make you an award-winning writer.
In an experiment they recently created enzymes that can replicate and evolve. 'It kind of blew me away,' said team member Tracey Lincoln of the Scripps Research Institute, who is working on her Ph.D.
If we read the text long enough, maybe we'll be able to decode the secret message inside that weird ASCII Art? It does look like a regular sentence to me, but isn't that the point?
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Because they like to say SALLLLLLLLSAAAA... I mean Ubunnnnnnnntu.
Did you mean: whooooosh.
If you can prove to people that you can download pr0n faster using Linux, they WILL switch!
I'm kidding! I'm kidding!
(or, am I?)
Am I the only one who keeps getting bounced between
http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b79139_ricardo_montalban_tvs_mr_roarke_treks.html
and
http://ca.eonline.com/uberblog/b79139_ricardo_montalban_tvs_mr_roarke_treks.html
?
Who the hell configured their server?
That's completely insane. EVERYTHING is obscene to at least one individual, somewhere.
They just outlawed everything to make everyone (in their state) an outlaw.
If I hit my screwdriver on the wall, it makes a sound, doesn't it?
Is it Flash-based? My plug-ins are disabled yet it displays the two graph bars.
You've been playing World of Goo a bit too much.
Windows 98SE it is, then.
Not true. Some people use them as projectiles.
A red header! My eyes! My eyes! - Typical slashdotter
Actually Dvorak is so often wrong about Apple that you can almost be sure the opposite of what he says will become true.
That's "cups of tea". But yeah, I guess that's the new CO2 joke now.
Let's say that adding DRM to a file costs Apple 0.059 cup of tea.
Not that I want to contradict your thoughts, which I share (especially the pay check part), but let's put it into perspective.
Someone might be able to write the tool to balance the checkbooks but at the same time be unable to actually make good use of the program.
Another example would be Photoshop. I'm pretty sure the people who programmed it aren't nearly as good at using it as actual artists. The programmer probably never went to design school, etc.
Yet another example would be Word, Pages or any other word-processing program. Just because you can program such a beast doesn't automatically make you an award-winning writer.
You get the idea.
The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a 'mouse'. There is no evidence that people want to use these things. I dont want one of these new fangled devices. - Dvorak.
The water is so freakin' cold around here, I don't need to add actual ice cubes. Even in the middle of the summer.
Would make a weird title for the next Tecmo fighting game: Dead or Not Alive.
I wonder what she'd think about this evolution.
Still using a 40-columns monitor, I see.
The class, however, is only available for punks.
Hey you, how did you get out?! Get back in your cage!!!
Dude, I live in Québec and I've never had any such prob{#`AX%$G{%5&`+'2h${`%&NO CARRIER
Screw cyberpunk, we're switching to steampunk!
If we read the text long enough, maybe we'll be able to decode the secret message inside that weird ASCII Art? It does look like a regular sentence to me, but isn't that the point?
The Brits and everybody else on the planet. ;)