But what is the difference between a man marrying a woman, a man marrying a man, and a woman marrying a woman? What real difference is there?
Penis count.
Some may say that same sex relationships are "ungodly" because they don't produce children, but given that something like 80% of parents shouldn't have been allowed to breed, I don't see a problem with it.
What's up with the whole "We're pregnant, aren't we clever?" attitude. Its not like getting up the duff is particularly difficult. Hell... every species from sandflies up do it. The hardpart is bringing up baby, but it seems that once they've popped it out, it becomes SEP (somebody else's problem).. usually their teachers', the government's, etc etc.
Anyway, if non-vanilla sex between consenting adults was wrong, they wouldn't enjoy it so much.
Inkjet cartridges. She has decided on the Gillette business model and in the process killed off one hell of an R&D department.
Actually, that's an interesting observation.
I remember reading somewhere (God knows where) about the amount of physical chemistry R&D that one of the major players (probably Epson or Canon) put into their printer inks.
If HP aren't spending and R&D money on this stuff, they are going to end up way behind in this technology as well.
BTW, I don't own and inkjet printer. I bit the bullet and bought a colour laser. I'm probably not ahead of where I would be with cartridges, but I have none of the "My report is due tomorrow and I've run out of yellow" problems either.
Today's CPUs are overkill for general-usage machines...
You obviously don't run windows.
Seriously, you are probably right... but then I use my machine principally as a home entertainment centre, and having a nice fast CPU means I can watch nicely compressed DivX movies (95% of which I own, but DVDs are fragile) with full AC3 5.1 sound without skips.
A friend of mine recently bough a philips dvp-642 (I think) with DivX playback. It obvious the difference in processing power. He suffers a lot of pixelation and slowdowns when decoding movies.
HP's current innovation strategy may be sumarized in the their unwritten Mission statement:
Carly Gets Paid.
Under Carly, the Calculator division has had the guts ripped out of it, the printer division has had the guys ripped out of it, the server division has had the guts ripped out of it.
Um.. what else does HP make?
And Carly gets her US$20m a year, despite the fact that none of her "innovations" have moved the company forward.
We need a new "random generator" type page to produce book titles of the form:
"The n secrets of highly keyword1 keyword2"
Where
n is an integer
keyword1 is empowering adjective:effective, secure, world dominating, goatsecxing
keyword2 is the empowered noun: organisations, individuals, dictatorships, tubgirls.
Maybe then we'll escape this sort of crud. I am studying an MBA, there is a lot of useful stuff in it, but I am already sick of all the goddamn management speak used to obfuscate otherwize valid observations. Its taken years to get "plain english" into academic writing and tech manuals. Lets now start hammering it into managers.
it's probably been completely gutted for the cool parts anyway.
If you look carefully at the photo, you can see that the wheels have been taken and that the shuttle is actually up on small piles of bricks.
Also the hood ornament's been torn off and the driver's side window smashed to take at the radio (which since a small shunt in the late 80s has been able to pick up AM anyway, so that's not too much of a loss).
I still have my first-gen Power Mac G4 from 1999, which has outlasted three of its hard drives, two displays... the original video card, keyboard and mouse, and hp deskjet printer
Yep, And I chop wood every day with the same Axe that my grandfather's grandfather used when he was a boy!
In all that time, we've only replaced the head 7 times and the handle 11 times, but its still my grandfather's axe!
Obviously this is marketting crap aimed at the home user, but if they haven't yet worked out that YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR, will sticking yet another number help any?
If you are data crunching, you may need a level 5 Hard drive, a level 8 CPU, but a level 3 graphics card. If this is your home entertainment center,, you may be fine with a level 8 HD, level 6 CPU, level 4 graphics. Which machine is "better"? Its too easy to pull the wool over consumer's eyes. I'm sure we could all populate a m/board with heaps of the cheapest RAM available to knock a computer system up a notch or two.
Of course, to run Longhorn, you are looking at level 15, right off the bat, across the board.
- Memory stick is too generic: It could be any format. Think about the multitude of different ways of sticking flash in a digital camera.
- Flash drive doesn't differentiate between the USB and small solid state drives that replace traditional HDs
- USB drive. Lots of different drives you can hang of a USB port. Not specific enough.
- Keychain drive. Unless its made out of steel, don't encourage putting it on a key chain.. especially considering the amount of shit most of us already carry in our pockets.
- Memory Drive. Yuck.
- Jump Drive. WTF?
So I vote for Thumb drive or Pen Drive, prepending "USB" if you want, as by referring to size it differentiates its from other forms of "flash" and "memory".
Make a pretty one, call it a "handbag data companion" and sell it to NY women looking for geek chic.
(And I have a Cruzer mini too. I have the neck cord attached to give it a bit more bulk and make it harder to lose, but it usually lives in my shirt pocket.)
Because Bill O'Reilly has got nothin' on Michael Moore.
You seem to be missing half your argument.
Farenheit 9/11 is a propaganda piece. Michael Moore has said that he made it for one reason: To get Bush out of the Whitehouse. Its propaganda, its always been propaganda, and a link stating its propaganda doesn't tell us anything we don't already know.
However, where's the link that shows that Bill O'Reilly is clean?
Point it: Fox (as the most obvious ofender) has a picture to paint, and elects and edits its stories to support its point of view. In general, nobody cares. Michael Moore applies the same techniques to the other side of the argument, and people start accusing him of "spreading propaganda". (To which Moore replies: "Duh!").
Moore may be more extreme in his FUD than Fox, but then he has a 2 hour movie in which to present his side of the story. How many channels does Fox own, and for how many hours a day do they broadcast?
I'm not defending Moore as a "balanced" reporter, but people who accept Fox and blast Moore are missing something fundamental.
Wearing one around your neck identifies you as one of the techno-congniscenti.
No, it makes you look like a dick. The same way that you look when you walk around with your mobile-phone cord permanently wedged in your ear, whether you are on the phone or not.
Personally, I hate having anything hanging around my neck. My office just issued new ID swipe tags which they supplied with a rediculously short neck cord. (I find it really uncomfortable to have a plastic card banging against my nipples all day. Its really distracting.)
Those little retracting belt thingies are the best, even though they tend to die in the hands of a bored 3 year old.
By how many degrees will the average global temperature rise by the greenhouse gases that will be emitted from the bullshit that comes out of the mouths of all the presidencial candidates? Wouldn't it be more environmentally friendly just to declare the US to be a loose conglomeration of anarcho-syndicalist communities, rather than waste all the money, time, effort on elections?
I'm curious how many people who make TV you've actually met.
To whom do you refer?
If you mean the people who make "programs", then I know a few... but they work for Australian government channels (ABC and SBS), and thus are the exception rather than the rule as these are ad-free stations and they aren't under any great pressure from the network for ratings. In general, if they top a 4, they are considered doing well.
If you mean people who make the advertisements, then yes, I'm actually related to one of them. My brother scores music for TV commercials. As far as the Networks are concerned, the Ads are the important thing. Programs just exist to draw people to watch the Ads.
... and Ads are designed to influence audience behaviour: namely "buy this stuff".
That is a rather simplified depiction of the TV industry, but if your friends who "make TV" also must think about "controlling" the audience. They need that the viewing public stay with their program while tolerating 2 or 3 minutes of Ads ever 10 minutes. If not, they don't make money for the network, and they are unlikely to get more work.
No. TV is about control... taking the role traditionally held by the village priest/medicine woman/witchdoctor in providing the "norms" by which a society must live.
Before you pull the tin-foil hat over my ears, think about what would happen without TV:
People would be forced to think for themselves or find alternative methods of moral guidance. Church congregations of all religions and denominations would increase.
Consumer spending would decrease with the decreased exposure to advertising.
People would start talking to each other more. This may mean finally discovering that they don't actually like their spouses anymore, resulting in an increased divorce rate. Or, thinking positively, that couples would take the time to resolve problems.
Ok, so this is a bit tongue-in-cheek, but whether you agree with him or not, why is it that Michael Moore gets condemned for bias, whereas you hardly ever hear a voice raised against Fox?
Even if this is an advertisement... either paid to OSDN or by sending pizza to Taco... its a pretty dumb thing to do if your business has a history of unhappy geek customers.
I read the first couple of posts "hey, this looks interesting", but when I got around post 30 and the "emusic used to be unlimited but they didn't honor their contracts" a few neurons fired, and now I remember who these guys are.
Moral: If you are going to try "advertise" on slashdot, you better have a spotless history, because we are better at digging up dirt than the Washington Post armed with an auger.
There are only so many that can be tolerated before the panel is useless
And in my book, than number is 1.
A hate working on a monitor that has a little black dot in the middle of the screen. This is one advantage that CRTs still have over LCD. Maybe when resolutions get so his that a single missing pixel is effectively unnoticable, it won't bug me so much.
There was a survey a year or so ago (I don't know by whom and I don't feel like googling.. was up all night watching the 70s cop movies I picked up for $5 each on DVD [You the man, Shaft] and I'm cranky as a cat full of cut snakes), but most companies wouldn't replace and LCD until there were anywhere from 6 to 20 dead pixels.
Given how annoying one is, something with half a dozen or more would drive me nuts.
Slashdot Mirror
No, but the toner cart, though obviously more expensive, does a lot more pages than the 10cc shots you get in your average inkjet.
To whom is your question addressed, and do you refer to giving or receiving?
Penis count.
Some may say that same sex relationships are "ungodly" because they don't produce children, but given that something like 80% of parents shouldn't have been allowed to breed, I don't see a problem with it.
What's up with the whole "We're pregnant, aren't we clever?" attitude. Its not like getting up the duff is particularly difficult. Hell... every species from sandflies up do it. The hardpart is bringing up baby, but it seems that once they've popped it out, it becomes SEP (somebody else's problem).. usually their teachers', the government's, etc etc.
Anyway, if non-vanilla sex between consenting adults was wrong, they wouldn't enjoy it so much.
Mr Bush, Why are you such a dick?
Mr Kerry, Why are you such a dick?
Actually, that's an interesting observation.
I remember reading somewhere (God knows where) about the amount of physical chemistry R&D that one of the major players (probably Epson or Canon) put into their printer inks.
If HP aren't spending and R&D money on this stuff, they are going to end up way behind in this technology as well.
BTW, I don't own and inkjet printer. I bit the bullet and bought a colour laser. I'm probably not ahead of where I would be with cartridges, but I have none of the "My report is due tomorrow and I've run out of yellow" problems either.
You obviously don't run windows.
Seriously, you are probably right... but then I use my machine principally as a home entertainment centre, and having a nice fast CPU means I can watch nicely compressed DivX movies (95% of which I own, but DVDs are fragile) with full AC3 5.1 sound without skips.
A friend of mine recently bough a philips dvp-642 (I think) with DivX playback. It obvious the difference in processing power. He suffers a lot of pixelation and slowdowns when decoding movies.
HP's current innovation strategy may be sumarized in the their unwritten Mission statement:
Carly Gets Paid.
Under Carly, the Calculator division has had the guts ripped out of it, the printer division has had the guys ripped out of it, the server division has had the guts ripped out of it.
Um.. what else does HP make?
And Carly gets her US$20m a year, despite the fact that none of her "innovations" have moved the company forward.
We need a new "random generator" type page to produce book titles of the form:
"The n secrets of highly keyword1 keyword2"
Where
n is an integer
keyword1 is empowering adjective:effective, secure, world dominating, goatsecxing
keyword2 is the empowered noun: organisations, individuals, dictatorships, tubgirls.
Maybe then we'll escape this sort of crud. I am studying an MBA, there is a lot of useful stuff in it, but I am already sick of all the goddamn management speak used to obfuscate otherwize valid observations. Its taken years to get "plain english" into academic writing and tech manuals. Lets now start hammering it into managers.
If you look carefully at the photo, you can see that the wheels have been taken and that the shuttle is actually up on small piles of bricks.
Also the hood ornament's been torn off and the driver's side window smashed to take at the radio (which since a small shunt in the late 80s has been able to pick up AM anyway, so that's not too much of a loss).
Yep, And I chop wood every day with the same Axe that my grandfather's grandfather used when he was a boy!
In all that time, we've only replaced the head 7 times and the handle 11 times, but its still my grandfather's axe!
British English: double the last letter before adding ing or ed. I understand that this may be a complicated rule for you.
I market.
I marketted
I am marketting.
In spite of that, is that the most valuable contribution you can make, pedant?
Try:
http://google.ca.eh
What a load of bollocks.
Obviously this is marketting crap aimed at the home user, but if they haven't yet worked out that YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR, will sticking yet another number help any?
If you are data crunching, you may need a level 5 Hard drive, a level 8 CPU, but a level 3 graphics card. If this is your home entertainment center,, you may be fine with a level 8 HD, level 6 CPU, level 4 graphics. Which machine is "better"? Its too easy to pull the wool over consumer's eyes. I'm sure we could all populate a m/board with heaps of the cheapest RAM available to knock a computer system up a notch or two.
Of course, to run Longhorn, you are looking at level 15, right off the bat, across the board.
- Memory stick is too generic: It could be any format. Think about the multitude of different ways of sticking flash in a digital camera.
- Flash drive doesn't differentiate between the USB and small solid state drives that replace traditional HDs
- USB drive. Lots of different drives you can hang of a USB port. Not specific enough.
- Keychain drive. Unless its made out of steel, don't encourage putting it on a key chain.. especially considering the amount of shit most of us already carry in our pockets.
- Memory Drive. Yuck.
- Jump Drive. WTF?
So I vote for Thumb drive or Pen Drive, prepending "USB" if you want, as by referring to size it differentiates its from other forms of "flash" and "memory".
Make a pretty one, call it a "handbag data companion" and sell it to NY women looking for geek chic.
There's a sig there somewhere.
(And I have a Cruzer mini too. I have the neck cord attached to give it a bit more bulk and make it harder to lose, but it usually lives in my shirt pocket.)
You seem to be missing half your argument.
Farenheit 9/11 is a propaganda piece. Michael Moore has said that he made it for one reason: To get Bush out of the Whitehouse. Its propaganda, its always been propaganda, and a link stating its propaganda doesn't tell us anything we don't already know.
However, where's the link that shows that Bill O'Reilly is clean?
Point it: Fox (as the most obvious ofender) has a picture to paint, and elects and edits its stories to support its point of view. In general, nobody cares. Michael Moore applies the same techniques to the other side of the argument, and people start accusing him of "spreading propaganda". (To which Moore replies: "Duh!").
Moore may be more extreme in his FUD than Fox, but then he has a 2 hour movie in which to present his side of the story. How many channels does Fox own, and for how many hours a day do they broadcast?
I'm not defending Moore as a "balanced" reporter, but people who accept Fox and blast Moore are missing something fundamental.
No, it makes you look like a dick. The same way that you look when you walk around with your mobile-phone cord permanently wedged in your ear, whether you are on the phone or not.
Personally, I hate having anything hanging around my neck. My office just issued new ID swipe tags which they supplied with a rediculously short neck cord. (I find it really uncomfortable to have a plastic card banging against my nipples all day. Its really distracting.)
Those little retracting belt thingies are the best, even though they tend to die in the hands of a bored 3 year old.
Declare that if you win, you'll give the Whitehouse an environmentally friendly paint-job, so we can then call it the "GreenHouse".
Will make it a more difficult target for terrorists too. Camoflague!
By how many degrees will the average global temperature rise by the greenhouse gases that will be emitted from the bullshit that comes out of the mouths of all the presidencial candidates? Wouldn't it be more environmentally friendly just to declare the US to be a loose conglomeration of anarcho-syndicalist communities, rather than waste all the money, time, effort on elections?
To whom do you refer?
If you mean the people who make "programs", then I know a few... but they work for Australian government channels (ABC and SBS), and thus are the exception rather than the rule as these are ad-free stations and they aren't under any great pressure from the network for ratings. In general, if they top a 4, they are considered doing well.
If you mean people who make the advertisements, then yes, I'm actually related to one of them. My brother scores music for TV commercials. As far as the Networks are concerned, the Ads are the important thing. Programs just exist to draw people to watch the Ads.
... and Ads are designed to influence audience behaviour: namely "buy this stuff".
That is a rather simplified depiction of the TV industry, but if your friends who "make TV" also must think about "controlling" the audience. They need that the viewing public stay with their program while tolerating 2 or 3 minutes of Ads ever 10 minutes. If not, they don't make money for the network, and they are unlikely to get more work.
No. TV is about control... taking the role traditionally held by the village priest/medicine woman/witchdoctor in providing the "norms" by which a society must live.
Before you pull the tin-foil hat over my ears, think about what would happen without TV:
Ok, so this is a bit tongue-in-cheek, but whether you agree with him or not, why is it that Michael Moore gets condemned for bias, whereas you hardly ever hear a voice raised against Fox?
3 1/2' of 3/4 PVC tubing could replace both of them.
That will stop all those people joining the space program just for the free feed, right!
Yeah, but we all know that websites are authorative sources of all the worlds knowledge.
Even if this is an advertisement... either paid to OSDN or by sending pizza to Taco... its a pretty dumb thing to do if your business has a history of unhappy geek customers.
I read the first couple of posts "hey, this looks interesting", but when I got around post 30 and the "emusic used to be unlimited but they didn't honor their contracts" a few neurons fired, and now I remember who these guys are.
Moral: If you are going to try "advertise" on slashdot, you better have a spotless history, because we are better at digging up dirt than the Washington Post armed with an auger.
And in my book, than number is 1.
A hate working on a monitor that has a little black dot in the middle of the screen. This is one advantage that CRTs still have over LCD. Maybe when resolutions get so his that a single missing pixel is effectively unnoticable, it won't bug me so much.
There was a survey a year or so ago (I don't know by whom and I don't feel like googling.. was up all night watching the 70s cop movies I picked up for $5 each on DVD [You the man, Shaft] and I'm cranky as a cat full of cut snakes), but most companies wouldn't replace and LCD until there were anywhere from 6 to 20 dead pixels.
Given how annoying one is, something with half a dozen or more would drive me nuts.