Only one? So, assuming Bill has the only original, that means Stevie B is pirating it. Damn. I always knew there was something fishy behind the Monkey Boy charm.
Space tourists will not land on its surface but will circle its dark side and orbit close enough to examine its cratered lunar crust
In other news, the space agency was approached by a space enthusiast who suggested paying using the jingling sound of quarters worth $100 million in a tin cup. The sources confirm that the agency denied him the ride.
Mod parent up up up. I don't care which browser I am using. I switched to IE (Version 4 I think) from Netscape since IE4 was better. I switched to Firefox (around ver 0.7 I think) since IE had gone down the tube. If IE7 is better than FF (I don't think it will be), I will switch. Otherwise, I am happy with FF.
'Better' is relative and don't try to nitpick on that.
Meanwhile, some dubious theory from the Internet will be swallowed hook, line and sinker nine times out of 10.
While the statement looks to be true on surface, a friend of mine had a life changing experience after reading a theory.
He played basketball in college and had some knee problems that eventually prohibited him from continuing to play. He was getting physiotherapy done but it was only a temporary relief. The doctors that he went to basically said that he might have to live with that. So, out of all desperation, he turned to Google and started digging up details based on his symptoms. And after a while, he took his research to a few doctors. One of them actually took initiative saying that it was an area that he had not previously explored. So, the doctor did some study and possibly discussed it with experts in the field. My friend had an operation done 3-4 years ago and he is as good as he used to be before the problem.
So, 9 out of 10 might be bogus but still if you have nowhere else to go, that remaining 1 out of 10 might help.
At this point, hotmail, atleast for me is not about email. It's the friggin' Messenger that has me tied up. Quite a few people I know would have switched to gmail but Google doesn't have a messenger yet. I can't emphasize enough how big a help GMessenger would be.
They are going to begin the troubleshooting process
Trouleshooting prcocess??? Alright. In words of George Carlin:
Whole thing starts when you get to the gate. First announcement, "We would like to begin the boarding process." Extra word, "process", not necessary. Boarding is enough, "We'd like to begin the boarding." Simple! Tells the story...
People add extra words when they want things to sound more important than they really are. "Boarding Process" sounds important.... It isn't! It's just a bunch of people getting on an airplane. People like to sound important. Weather men on television talk about shower activity, sounds more important than showers. I even heard one guy on CNN talk about a rain event. Swear to god. He said, "Louisiana is expecting a rain event." I thought HOLY SHIT I hope I can get tickets to that!
People take the computer too lightly, like it was a TV set or something. It's more like a small nuclear bomb in each home, great for powering the house, but not so much something you want the kids mucking around with unsupervised
I was thinking it's kinda like those application junk you get for credit cards. The companies are not giving you a credit card right away but it's an offer to apply because you are qualified enough to 'apply'. Then they decide on some internal criteria whether you actually get a credit card.
Same thing with this guy. With a CS PhD, he is qualified for the interview. Whether he will get a job depends on how his performance at the interview is. Just a thought...
A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members. In much the same way, the Internet is only as good as the slowest Windows members. Excessive going online, as we know, gets Windows machines pwn3d. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest Windows machines first. In this way, continuously going online eliminates the weaker Windows machines, making the Internet a faster and more efficient place.
Shameless parody of the 'beer is good for you' joke
No one has their shit together at 22. Now, outside of the basic fairness of placing George Bush in with all the other young men of his era who found a way to avoid Vietnam, I don't really care if our president showed up for all his National Guard jumping jacks in 1973. I don't care that there's evidence that John Kerry once very nearly met Jane Fonda.
We've all made mistakes when young and chasing a buzz. Bush blew off his calisthenics. Saddam gassed his own people. I bought the John and Yoko album where they just farted for an hour into a tape recorder!
The phrase, "youthful indiscretions" is redundant, because how many discreet young people do you know? No, the people you need to worry about are not the one who sowed their wild oats, but the ones who didn't. Michael Jackson had to wait until he was an adult to have a childhood, and I think we see how well that turned out.
Go back far enough in any great man's life and you will eventually get to the stuff he did or said before he was great or even a man. Don King started out life in Cleveland as a corrupt, murderous thug, but then - okay, bad example.
But the point remains, trying to define a person's current self by their past self is the worst kind of "gotcha." Our mistakes from the past are just that: mistakes. And they were necessary to make in order to become the wiser person we became.
You never got drunk and pissed yourself? Or sold drugs to school children? Or panicked when you couldn't get it up at a bachelor party and killed a hooker?
Hey, if only hindsight could come without having to mess up first. And believe me, I have the platform shoes to prove that one. But to exploit youthful mistakes for political gain is, well, let's just say, when you get older, you might look back and regret it.
>> Wait, how do I dial a phone that only has one butan?
Don't worry. It's a special Apple BUTAN. All you have to do is to hold down the button and think of the person you are dialing. The BUTAN does it for you. All bow to the BUTAN!
You got it backwards. Google knows the penchant Windows users have for pretty pictures. That's why, all this 3D and 45degree angle jazz is for those snobbish Windows users. For us Unix and Linux people, Google will release a tool that will allow us to draw our own buildings on Earth. I say that will kick ass!
[New York State Department of Labor]
MRS. SOKOL: You know you only have two more weeks before your benefits run out.
GEORGE: Yes and I was hoping... to get a thirteen week extension.
MRS. SOKOL: So where have you been looking for work?
GEORGE: Well you know what I've discovered Mrs. Sokol. It's not so much the
looking as the listening. I listen for work. And as I'm looking and listening I
am also looking. You can't discount looking. It's sort of a combination. It's
looking, and listening, listening and looking. But you must look.
MRS. SOKOL: Can you be specific about any of these companies?
GEORGE: Specific, Ah, lets see. I've walked in and out of so many buildings
they all.. blend in together, I uh,..
MRS. SOKOL: Well just give me one name.
GEORGE: Absolutely, uh, lets see there's, uh, Vandaley Industries, I just saw
them. I got very close there. very close.
MRS. SOKOL: And what type of company is that?
GEORGE: Latex, latex manufacturing
MRS. SOKOL: And you interviewed there?
GEORGE: Yes, for a sales position. Latex salesman, the selling of latex, and
latex related products. They just wouldn't give me a chance.
MRS. SOKOL: I'm going to need an address and a phone number for this uh,
Vandaley company...
GOERGE: You like gum? 'Cause I have a friend in the gum business. I got a
gum guy. I make one phone call. I got boxes of delivered right to your door.
MRS. SOKOL: The address!
GEORGE: YYYDDSSHE(?)... Jose Jimenez. You recognize it?
MRS. SOKOL: No.
GEORGE: Jose Jimenez,... verrry funny...very funny.
MRS. SOKOL: The ADDRESS!
GEORGE: uh, Uh, Vandaley Industries, is uh. 129 West 81st street. It's a very
small industry Vandaley. It's one of the reasons I wanted to uh, work for them.
MRS. SOKOL: The PHONE number.
GEORGE: That's uh, KL5-8383. Are you calling them soon because, they keep very
strange hours.
MRS. SOKOL: As soon as I'm done wit you!
GEORGE: Sure, well uh, you know I'll check in with you next week uh, I gotta run
now because I got a full plate this afternoon. All right, really go to
uh,.
[George runs down hall]
Slashdot Mirror
That's my state's citizens
Citizens of Virginia? Well, I have a globe of United States that you might be intested in buying!
Only one? So, assuming Bill has the only original, that means Stevie B is pirating it. Damn. I always knew there was something fishy behind the Monkey Boy charm.
Best way for Microsoft to kill Linux is to embrace it.
Space tourists will not land on its surface but will circle its dark side and orbit close enough to examine its cratered lunar crust
In other news, the space agency was approached by a space enthusiast who suggested paying using the jingling sound of quarters worth $100 million in a tin cup. The sources confirm that the agency denied him the ride.
/.ers have shown signs of rapping skills too!
9 1695
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=118242&cid=99
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/20/18 23206&mode=thread&tid=126&tid=133&tid=186&tid=95
Somebody needs to call Borland.
Mod parent up up up. I don't care which browser I am using. I switched to IE (Version 4 I think) from Netscape since IE4 was better. I switched to Firefox (around ver 0.7 I think) since IE had gone down the tube. If IE7 is better than FF (I don't think it will be), I will switch. Otherwise, I am happy with FF.
'Better' is relative and don't try to nitpick on that.
Meanwhile, some dubious theory from the Internet will be swallowed hook, line and sinker nine times out of 10.
While the statement looks to be true on surface, a friend of mine had a life changing experience after reading a theory.
He played basketball in college and had some knee problems that eventually prohibited him from continuing to play. He was getting physiotherapy done but it was only a temporary relief. The doctors that he went to basically said that he might have to live with that. So, out of all desperation, he turned to Google and started digging up details based on his symptoms. And after a while, he took his research to a few doctors. One of them actually took initiative saying that it was an area that he had not previously explored. So, the doctor did some study and possibly discussed it with experts in the field. My friend had an operation done 3-4 years ago and he is as good as he used to be before the problem.
So, 9 out of 10 might be bogus but still if you have nowhere else to go, that remaining 1 out of 10 might help.
At this point, hotmail, atleast for me is not about email. It's the friggin' Messenger that has me tied up. Quite a few people I know would have switched to gmail but Google doesn't have a messenger yet. I can't emphasize enough how big a help GMessenger would be.
A little off topic, I know but I had to say it.
The Pinto dealer down the block said that they have added a couple of air bags on the passenger side doors to get it at par with a Volvo. Coincidence?
Performance is nice, but it isn't always everything
Will you explain that to my girlfriend please? Please?
They are going to begin the troubleshooting process
Trouleshooting prcocess??? Alright. In words of George Carlin:
Whole thing starts when you get to the gate. First announcement, "We would like to begin the boarding process." Extra word, "process", not necessary. Boarding is enough, "We'd like to begin the boarding." Simple! Tells the story...
People add extra words when they want things to sound more important than they really are. "Boarding Process" sounds important.... It isn't! It's just a bunch of people getting on an airplane. People like to sound important. Weather men on television talk about shower activity, sounds more important than showers. I even heard one guy on CNN talk about a rain event. Swear to god. He said, "Louisiana is expecting a rain event." I thought HOLY SHIT I hope I can get tickets to that!
What kind of RAID was it? 1, 2, 5...
http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/games/career /bin/ms.cgi
People take the computer too lightly, like it was a TV set or something. It's more like a small nuclear bomb in each home, great for powering the house, but not so much something you want the kids mucking around with unsupervised
You are opening a can of worms.
Sorry.
I was thinking it's kinda like those application junk you get for credit cards. The companies are not giving you a credit card right away but it's an offer to apply because you are qualified enough to 'apply'. Then they decide on some internal criteria whether you actually get a credit card.
Same thing with this guy. With a CS PhD, he is qualified for the interview. Whether he will get a job depends on how his performance at the interview is. Just a thought...
"How Would You Move Mount Fuji?"
/mnt/fuji /dev/null
mv
A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members. In much the same way, the Internet is only as good as the slowest Windows members. Excessive going online, as we know, gets Windows machines pwn3d. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest Windows machines first. In this way, continuously going online eliminates the weaker Windows machines, making the Internet a faster and more efficient place.
Shameless parody of the 'beer is good for you' joke
I will quote Bill Maher.
No one has their shit together at 22. Now, outside of the basic fairness of placing George Bush in with all the other young men of his era who found a way to avoid Vietnam, I don't really care if our president showed up for all his National Guard jumping jacks in 1973. I don't care that there's evidence that John Kerry once very nearly met Jane Fonda.
We've all made mistakes when young and chasing a buzz. Bush blew off his calisthenics. Saddam gassed his own people. I bought the John and Yoko album where they just farted for an hour into a tape recorder!
The phrase, "youthful indiscretions" is redundant, because how many discreet young people do you know? No, the people you need to worry about are not the one who sowed their wild oats, but the ones who didn't. Michael Jackson had to wait until he was an adult to have a childhood, and I think we see how well that turned out.
Go back far enough in any great man's life and you will eventually get to the stuff he did or said before he was great or even a man. Don King started out life in Cleveland as a corrupt, murderous thug, but then - okay, bad example.
But the point remains, trying to define a person's current self by their past self is the worst kind of "gotcha." Our mistakes from the past are just that: mistakes. And they were necessary to make in order to become the wiser person we became.
You never got drunk and pissed yourself? Or sold drugs to school children? Or panicked when you couldn't get it up at a bachelor party and killed a hooker?
Hey, if only hindsight could come without having to mess up first. And believe me, I have the platform shoes to prove that one. But to exploit youthful mistakes for political gain is, well, let's just say, when you get older, you might look back and regret it.
IBM has been working on this for a while
>> Wait, how do I dial a phone that only has one butan?
Don't worry. It's a special Apple BUTAN. All you have to do is to hold down the button and think of the person you are dialing. The BUTAN does it for you. All bow to the BUTAN!
With the Space Ring and Google Earth, I knew the Eclipse was coming!
You got it backwards. Google knows the penchant Windows users have for pretty pictures. That's why, all this 3D and 45degree angle jazz is for those snobbish Windows users. For us Unix and Linux people, Google will release a tool that will allow us to draw our own buildings on Earth. I say that will kick ass!
[New York State Department of Labor] ... to get a thirteen week extension.
.. blend in together, I uh, ..
... Jose Jimenez. You recognize it?
... verrry funny. ..very funny.
MRS. SOKOL: You know you only have two more weeks before your benefits run out.
GEORGE: Yes and I was hoping
MRS. SOKOL: So where have you been looking for work?
GEORGE: Well you know what I've discovered Mrs. Sokol. It's not so much the looking as the listening. I listen for work. And as I'm looking and listening I am also looking. You can't discount looking. It's sort of a combination. It's looking, and listening, listening and looking. But you must look.
MRS. SOKOL: Can you be specific about any of these companies?
GEORGE: Specific, Ah, lets see. I've walked in and out of so many buildings they all
MRS. SOKOL: Well just give me one name.
GEORGE: Absolutely, uh, lets see there's, uh, Vandaley Industries, I just saw them. I got very close there. very close.
MRS. SOKOL: And what type of company is that?
GEORGE: Latex, latex manufacturing
MRS. SOKOL: And you interviewed there?
GEORGE: Yes, for a sales position. Latex salesman, the selling of latex, and latex related products. They just wouldn't give me a chance.
MRS. SOKOL: I'm going to need an address and a phone number for this uh, Vandaley company...
GOERGE: You like gum? 'Cause I have a friend in the gum business. I got a gum guy. I make one phone call. I got boxes of delivered right to your door.
MRS. SOKOL: The address!
GEORGE: YYYDDSSHE(?)
MRS. SOKOL: No.
GEORGE: Jose Jimenez,
MRS. SOKOL: The ADDRESS!
GEORGE: uh, Uh, Vandaley Industries, is uh. 129 West 81st street. It's a very small industry Vandaley. It's one of the reasons I wanted to uh, work for them.
MRS. SOKOL: The PHONE number.
GEORGE: That's uh, KL5-8383. Are you calling them soon because, they keep very strange hours.
MRS. SOKOL: As soon as I'm done wit you!
GEORGE: Sure, well uh, you know I'll check in with you next week uh, I gotta run now because I got a full plate this afternoon. All right, really go to uh,.
[George runs down hall]