No, but they have to give you the blueprints to the carwash so you can go home and build your own carwash and tweak it so it's optimized for your car.
Of course, building your own carwash is a lot of work, and a lot of homeowner's associations seem to have a problem with people putting up noisy carwashes in the back yard for some reason, so most people just go to RedHat Car Wash because it's a lot easier.
Before long, SCO will claim all car washes use their intellectual property and will start suing all the big oil companies for infringing on their patents with all the car washes they have at their gas stations.
- Watch one of the LOTR movies. - Watch a Harry Potter movie. - Drive across the Bay Bridge (god I hate traffic) - Fly from Austin to Boston - Send a message to your friend (5400*3e5) km away and wait for the response. - Spell/grammar check your copy&paste trolls (GNAA members only) - Sleep
What a shame it would be to spend all that money putting Hubble up there and then not servicing it because of budget cuts. That would be like spending $20,000 on a new car and then deciding a few years later that you can't afford to take it in for an oil change. It's already up there, they might as well service it.
I'm not sure why you posted that link... according to that page, dragonflybsd.org is running FreeBSD. Dragonfly BSD is a fork of FreeBSD.
Question - is it possible that a Dragonfly BSD installation would report itself as a FreeBSD installation, since that's what it forked off of? If so, Dragonfly BSD is not dead. And regardless, BSD in general is far from dead. I'll bet the trolls that post "BSD is dead" all the time are running BSD themselves.
We humans aren't going to have any immunity to these microbes that have been isolated for 500000 years. I hope whoever's studying these lakes takes appropriate precautions against both accidental release and theft by terrorist organizations.
There's no rule that says blogs have to be personal. For example, both presidential candidates have blogs, and it's about their campaign, not stuff like "Laura cooked scrambled eggs for me this morning she hasn't done that in years."
Just because most blogs are people who somehow managed to set up a Blogger or Livejournal account and only use it to talk about boring useless stuff no one cares about doesn't mean all blogs have to be that way.
He said he'd rather "sip coffee at Borders." I assume this means taking the book off the shelf, going to the cafe, buying a cup of coffee, reading the book, and then putting it back on the shelf. It's free (the reading part that is) and, if you knew anything about the bookstore industry, you would know that Borders probably makes more money that way than if you were to skip the coffee and actually buy the book and read it at home.
We have lab techs with MS degrees that make less than prison guards start at in this state.
Do you live in California by any chance? The prison guards out there have a powerful union, which just happened to be buddy-buddy with Gray Davis when he was governor.
As other posters have mentioned, maybe all the scientists need is a good union.
My business faces ruin. Book sales have dropped through the floor. People aren't buying half as many books as they did just a year ago. Revenue is down and costs are up. My store has survived for years, but I now face the prospect of bankruptcy. Every day I ask myself why this is happening.
I bought the store about 12 years ago. It was one of those boutique bookstores that sell obscure, independent releases that no-one reads, not even the people that buy them. I decided that to grow the business I'd need to aim for a different demographic, the family market. My store specialised in family reading - stuff that the whole family could read together. I don't sell sick stuff like Stephen King or trashy romance novels, and I'm proud to have one of the most extensive Christian sections that I know of.
The business strategy worked. People flocked to my store, knowing that they (and their children) could safely purchase books without profanity or violent scenes. Over the years I expanded the business and took on more clean-cut and friendly employees. It took hard work and long hours but I had achieved my dream - owning a profitable business that I had built with my own hands, from the ground up. But now, this dream is turning into a nightmare.
Every day, fewer and fewer customers enter my store to buy fewer and fewer books. Why is no one buying books? Are people not interested in literature? Do people prefer to watch TV, see films, listen to music? I don't know. But there is one, inescapable truth - Slashdot use is mostly to blame. The statistics speak for themselves - one in three hours spent reading is spent on Slashdot. On Slashdot, you can find and download hundreds of dollars worth of reading material in just minutes. It has the potential to destroy the publishing industry, from authors, to publishers to stores like my own. Before you point to the supposed "economic downturn", I'll note that the movie rental store just across from my store is doing great business. Unlike text, it's harder to get video clips posted to Slashdot.
A week ago, an unpleasant experience with Slashdot junkies gave me an idea. In my store, I overheard a teenage patron talking to his friend.
"Dude, I'm going to go home and post a comment to Slashdot right away."
"Yeah, dude, that's really lete [sic], you'll get lots of respect."
I was fuming. So they were out to destroy the publishing industry from right under my nose? Fat chance. When they came to the counter to make their purchase, I grabbed the little shit by his shirt. "So...you're going to go home and post to Slashdot, punk?" I asked him in my best Clint Eastwood/Dirty Harry voice.
"Uh y-yeh." He mumbled, shocked.
"That's it. What's your name? You're blacklisted. Now take yourself and your little bitch friend out of my store - and don't come back." I barked. Cravenly, they complied and scampered off.
So that's my idea - a national blacklist of Slashdot readers. If somebody cannot obey the basic rules of society, then they should be excluded from society. If Slashdotters want to steal from the publishing industry, then the publishing industry should exclude them. It's that simple. One strike, and you're out - no reputable bookstore will allow you to buy another book. If the Slashdotters can't buy the books to begin with, then they will become illiterate, and they won't be able to post to Slashdot, will they? It's no different to doctors blacklisting drug dealers from buying prescription medicine.
I have just written a letter to the publishing industry outlining my proposal. Suing Slashdotters one by one isn't going far enough. Not to mention Slashdotters use the fact that they're being sued to unfairly portray themselves as victims. A national register of Slashdotters would make the problem far easier to deal with. People would be encouraged to give the names of suspected Slashdotters to a hotline, similar to TIPS. Once we know the size of the problem, the police and other law enforcement agencies will be force
Invites are based on how much the account is used?
Here's what you do: Using Ebay tends to generate a lot of emails. So, when you get invites, sell them on Ebay, and the email that this generates causes you to get more invites, which you then sell on Ebay, etc. etc. etc.
Fuck working, fuck the stock market, selling gmail invites on ebay is the key to early retirement.
Wouldn't this give your email address to spammers? Gmail's spam filtering is nice and all, but I'd rather just not get the junk in the first place.
I know, I know, just set up 2 different gmail accounts, but I don't want to pay another $20 on Ebay just to be able to post to Usenet without being spammed.
MMORPG's? How tame. You don't even want to know what the bored judges in Oklahoma are doing while they're in court:
Visitors to Thompson's Creek County courtroom reported hearing a "swooshing" sound coming from the bench, a noise the court reporter said "sounded like a blood pressure cuff being pumped up."
I can think of something BSD can't do. Die. Despite the fact that BSD has been in the process of dying for years now (thanks trolls for reminding us), it still manages to hang on and even get stronger and stronger.
I predict that when the 10,000,000th Slashdot comment is posted (which will happen in a few weeks), we will find that the Slashcode is not built to handle 8-digit comment IDs, and the entire site will come to a grinding halt.
This is a great idea. If only these press releases could be posted to a major news site that hundreds of thousands of nerds read every day, think of the exposure! Hey, wait a minute....
Even better, imagine if that news site would post your press release again a couple of days later, just in case anyone missed it!
Slashdot Mirror
If math becomes a sport, how long will it be before there's a scandal involving those "smart pills" they advertise on late night TV?
No, but they have to give you the blueprints to the carwash so you can go home and build your own carwash and tweak it so it's optimized for your car.
Of course, building your own carwash is a lot of work, and a lot of homeowner's associations seem to have a problem with people putting up noisy carwashes in the back yard for some reason, so most people just go to RedHat Car Wash because it's a lot easier.
Before long, SCO will claim all car washes use their intellectual property and will start suing all the big oil companies for infringing on their patents with all the car washes they have at their gas stations.
Thanks for clearing that up. I was wondering where the flamebait mod came from. I really didn't intend that as flamebait/trolling, honest.
Some ideas...
:-)
- Watch one of the LOTR movies.
- Watch a Harry Potter movie.
- Drive across the Bay Bridge (god I hate traffic)
- Fly from Austin to Boston
- Send a message to your friend (5400*3e5) km away and wait for the response.
- Spell/grammar check your copy&paste trolls (GNAA members only)
- Sleep
Better post this before 6
What a shame it would be to spend all that money putting Hubble up there and then not servicing it because of budget cuts. That would be like spending $20,000 on a new car and then deciding a few years later that you can't afford to take it in for an oil change. It's already up there, they might as well service it.
I'm not sure why you posted that link... according to that page, dragonflybsd.org is running FreeBSD. Dragonfly BSD is a fork of FreeBSD.
Question - is it possible that a Dragonfly BSD installation would report itself as a FreeBSD installation, since that's what it forked off of? If so, Dragonfly BSD is not dead. And regardless, BSD in general is far from dead. I'll bet the trolls that post "BSD is dead" all the time are running BSD themselves.
Sterilize the drill really really carefully.
We humans aren't going to have any immunity to these microbes that have been isolated for 500000 years. I hope whoever's studying these lakes takes appropriate precautions against both accidental release and theft by terrorist organizations.
The invention of cars killed jobs in the buggy-whip industry.
The invention of email and corporate intranets killed secretarial jobs.
Anti-smoking campaigns are killing jobs in the tobacco industry.
Hybrid cars are killing jobs in the oil industry (or will in the future anyway).
CD Baby threatens to kill jobs in the recording industry.
Should I go on?
There's no rule that says blogs have to be personal. For example, both presidential candidates have blogs, and it's about their campaign, not stuff like "Laura cooked scrambled eggs for me this morning she hasn't done that in years."
Just because most blogs are people who somehow managed to set up a Blogger or Livejournal account and only use it to talk about boring useless stuff no one cares about doesn't mean all blogs have to be that way.
I was kind of hoping someone would notice.
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http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=84196&cid=735
It's amazing how little I had to change to make it work.
He said he'd rather "sip coffee at Borders." I assume this means taking the book off the shelf, going to the cafe, buying a cup of coffee, reading the book, and then putting it back on the shelf. It's free (the reading part that is) and, if you knew anything about the bookstore industry, you would know that Borders probably makes more money that way than if you were to skip the coffee and actually buy the book and read it at home.
We have lab techs with MS degrees that make less than prison guards start at in this state.
Do you live in California by any chance? The prison guards out there have a powerful union, which just happened to be buddy-buddy with Gray Davis when he was governor.
As other posters have mentioned, maybe all the scientists need is a good union.
My business faces ruin. Book sales have dropped through the floor. People aren't buying half as many books as they did just a year ago. Revenue is down and costs are up. My store has survived for years, but I now face the prospect of bankruptcy. Every day I ask myself why this is happening.
I bought the store about 12 years ago. It was one of those boutique bookstores that sell obscure, independent releases that no-one reads, not even the people that buy them. I decided that to grow the business I'd need to aim for a different demographic, the family market. My store specialised in family reading - stuff that the whole family could read together. I don't sell sick stuff like Stephen King or trashy romance novels, and I'm proud to have one of the most extensive Christian sections that I know of.
The business strategy worked. People flocked to my store, knowing that they (and their children) could safely purchase books without profanity or violent scenes. Over the years I expanded the business and took on more clean-cut and friendly employees. It took hard work and long hours but I had achieved my dream - owning a profitable business that I had built with my own hands, from the ground up. But now, this dream is turning into a nightmare.
Every day, fewer and fewer customers enter my store to buy fewer and fewer books. Why is no one buying books? Are people not interested in literature? Do people prefer to watch TV, see films, listen to music? I don't know. But there is one, inescapable truth - Slashdot use is mostly to blame. The statistics speak for themselves - one in three hours spent reading is spent on Slashdot. On Slashdot, you can find and download hundreds of dollars worth of reading material in just minutes. It has the potential to destroy the publishing industry, from authors, to publishers to stores like my own. Before you point to the supposed "economic downturn", I'll note that the movie rental store just across from my store is doing great business. Unlike text, it's harder to get video clips posted to Slashdot.
A week ago, an unpleasant experience with Slashdot junkies gave me an idea. In my store, I overheard a teenage patron talking to his friend.
"Dude, I'm going to go home and post a comment to Slashdot right away."
"Yeah, dude, that's really lete [sic], you'll get lots of respect."
I was fuming. So they were out to destroy the publishing industry from right under my nose? Fat chance. When they came to the counter to make their purchase, I grabbed the little shit by his shirt. "So...you're going to go home and post to Slashdot, punk?" I asked him in my best Clint Eastwood/Dirty Harry voice.
"Uh y-yeh." He mumbled, shocked.
"That's it. What's your name? You're blacklisted. Now take yourself and your little bitch friend out of my store - and don't come back." I barked. Cravenly, they complied and scampered off.
So that's my idea - a national blacklist of Slashdot readers. If somebody cannot obey the basic rules of society, then they should be excluded from society. If Slashdotters want to steal from the publishing industry, then the publishing industry should exclude them. It's that simple. One strike, and you're out - no reputable bookstore will allow you to buy another book. If the Slashdotters can't buy the books to begin with, then they will become illiterate, and they won't be able to post to Slashdot, will they? It's no different to doctors blacklisting drug dealers from buying prescription medicine.
I have just written a letter to the publishing industry outlining my proposal. Suing Slashdotters one by one isn't going far enough. Not to mention Slashdotters use the fact that they're being sued to unfairly portray themselves as victims. A national register of Slashdotters would make the problem far easier to deal with. People would be encouraged to give the names of suspected Slashdotters to a hotline, similar to TIPS. Once we know the size of the problem, the police and other law enforcement agencies will be force
Invites are based on how much the account is used?
Here's what you do: Using Ebay tends to generate a lot of emails. So, when you get invites, sell them on Ebay, and the email that this generates causes you to get more invites, which you then sell on Ebay, etc. etc. etc.
Fuck working, fuck the stock market, selling gmail invites on ebay is the key to early retirement.
Wouldn't this give your email address to spammers? Gmail's spam filtering is nice and all, but I'd rather just not get the junk in the first place.
I know, I know, just set up 2 different gmail accounts, but I don't want to pay another $20 on Ebay just to be able to post to Usenet without being spammed.
How do you expect to earn enough money to buy the next version of Counterstrike if you don't get your master's degree?
Not to mention hardware upgrades, DSL subscription after you leave school, electricity to run the computer, etc.
Only if the horse is wearing its tinfoil hat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrasolar_planet
MMORPG's? How tame. You don't even want to know what the bored judges in Oklahoma are doing while they're in court:
Visitors to Thompson's Creek County courtroom reported hearing a "swooshing" sound coming from the bench, a noise the court reporter said "sounded like a blood pressure cuff being pumped up."
I can think of something BSD can't do. Die. Despite the fact that BSD has been in the process of dying for years now (thanks trolls for reminding us), it still manages to hang on and even get stronger and stronger.
Fact: *BSD can't die.
I predict that when the 10,000,000th Slashdot comment is posted (which will happen in a few weeks), we will find that the Slashcode is not built to handle 8-digit comment IDs, and the entire site will come to a grinding halt.
Throw that junk away, man, it's an antique.
How exactly does the US (or other first world country) go about writing a code of law that puts Nigerian spammers in jail?
This is a great idea. If only these press releases could be posted to a major news site that hundreds of thousands of nerds read every day, think of the exposure! Hey, wait a minute....
Even better, imagine if that news site would post your press release again a couple of days later, just in case anyone missed it!