You should try living in Australia... the channel 7 coverage is awful; only things that Australians have a chance of winning. Fortunately for us, one of our publicly funded channels, SBS, has picked up the slack and is showing much more entertaining and diverse stuff... It's a shame that there is nothing like that for you in the States!
I like your idea! I'm already thinking very carefully about every negative moderation that I metamoderate, with this exact problem in mind. I would personally have modded that tip +1, funny, had I the mod points; I just don't get some mods sometimes!
I'm fairly certain that the current amendment put forth by the Labor Fence-Sitters Club is specifically about the pharmaceutical side of patent law, and has been designed to specifically stop drug companies from using patent applications to prevent generic alternatives being produced or marketed. I don't think it will have any effect anywhere else, as it will be very much a targeted piece of legislation. As it happens, Labor still hasn't even drawn up this amendment yet, so we will see what happens there.
More generally, no-one in Australia seems to have noticed the changes to copyright and patent law that have been attached to the FTA; the SMH/Age article this morning is really the first mention of broader problems that we might be importing for ourselves...
Best wardrobe, generally! Entire scenes of stories like 'The Aztecs' appear to have been casted, set and shot in the seedier kind of drag queen establishment, complete with makeup. The fact that any of the actors could keep a straight face just shows how talented they were!
DOn't get me wrong though, I love Doctor Who. It's still on tv every weeknight here (yes, we ARE that backward Down Here)...
I think/. may have some kind of filter that adds random mistakes to any code examples posted... every single bloody snippet I ever post has some problem or other...
You make a very good point, but the competition wasn't to find the worst government agency, but the most invasive one. I'm not sure that Mugabe, for example, really has the resources to fingerprint everyone entering Zimbabwe. They are pretty keen on political violence and the like though.
But come on, Ashcroft tries to serve the public? I'm not sure who he is serving, but I don't think cracking down on dissent and launching paranoid security measures is in the public's best interest.
Indeed... apparently all sorts of animals are fed to cows, pigs and other animals in the form of *ahem* 'Animal meal'. Not pleasant to know that the steak you're eating could contain bits of pigs that contained small parts of another cow...
I think spending money on 'pointless things' is pretty much what NASA does. I don't really think that sending people to Mars or investigating Saturn's moons seems all that useful initially, but who knows when it might come in handy? If you want to be negative about it, you could say that NASA have done nothing but waste money in their entire history. After all, the US-Soviet Space Race was more or less an international pissing competition... but at least it kept that money from being directly spent on weapons.
This is somewhat OT, I admit, but does your username possibly refer to a certain song by a certain truly indie band, by the way? Or are you just a fan of Mr James K Polk, our eleventh president?
that explains it, I was wondering what that was about. Too late, tho, as it has already been marked as flamebait for some reason... thanks for the info!
Up until now, market capitalism has always been concerned with physical products. It will be interesting to see how the free market copes with a free product that, once created, can be more or less redistributed endlessly for nothing...
You will also find, weird though it may seem, there are Apple and BSD sections of the site too. Us nerds need our relaxation as much as the next person...
I reckon you've hit the nail on the head. Python is funny because it's so silly, so unexpected, so against the grain that you just can't help laughing at even the simplest things... it sounds like psychological mumbo-jumbo, but it taps in to children of all ages. I used to laugh at the French taunter when I was 6, and I still do!
Well, absolutely, and what makes it worse, sometimes at the end of a sentence I'll come out with entirely the wrong fusebox. And the thing about saying the wrong word is a) I don't notice it, and b) orange water given bucket of plaster.
Coke is instant death in a whole lot of organisms! A friend of mine wrote off a brand new PS2 controller by allowing it to fall off a table into a pint glass of coke. Not good.
I wouldn't take it personally... I think the consensus seems to be that the event you describe, while possible, is so unlikely as to be statistically insignificant. I don't think that's any reason to jump all over you and describe the thread as 'scary dumb', an epithet more than slightly ironic, but that's Slashdot for you I'm afraid. The only pleasure some people get is humiliating others... it's sad, really!
I've got an even older thinkpad (486, no cdrom) and it gets at least 90 minutes from a charge. Possibly because it is so ancient it draws next to no power, I'm not quite sure.
Because I'm lazy and can't be bothered doing an NFS or HTTP install of some proper linux distro on it, I use basic linux , which is somewhat limited but can do a few basic things. There's a collection of these types of things available here if anyone is interested...
A few people I know can use a reasonably simple form of echo-location (sonar!) to "see" the layout of a room, furniture, doors and windows etc. By listening to the echoes of a sound (for example the finger-click noise) a blind person can build up a spatial picture of their environment. Doesn't work so well outdoors for obvious reasons though.
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That would be perfect dark I believe. So many hours wasted when I should have been studying :)
Homocide is a terrible hate-crime! Stop homocide now!
Skynet is doing this! They don't want us trained in robot-killin' and such. I, for one, welcome our shiny metal overlords...
Do you have a source for that at all? Without one, you're sounding more than a little Twittery, if you know what I mean...
You're right. I'm stuck with this useless 2 dimensional desktop and dull, flat icons. It's just not pretty enough, dammit!
You should try living in Australia... the channel 7 coverage is awful; only things that Australians have a chance of winning. Fortunately for us, one of our publicly funded channels, SBS, has picked up the slack and is showing much more entertaining and diverse stuff... It's a shame that there is nothing like that for you in the States!
I like your idea! I'm already thinking very carefully about every negative moderation that I metamoderate, with this exact problem in mind. I would personally have modded that tip +1, funny, had I the mod points; I just don't get some mods sometimes!
Cheers!
I'm fairly certain that the current amendment put forth by the Labor Fence-Sitters Club is specifically about the pharmaceutical side of patent law, and has been designed to specifically stop drug companies from using patent applications to prevent generic alternatives being produced or marketed. I don't think it will have any effect anywhere else, as it will be very much a targeted piece of legislation. As it happens, Labor still hasn't even drawn up this amendment yet, so we will see what happens there.
More generally, no-one in Australia seems to have noticed the changes to copyright and patent law that have been attached to the FTA; the SMH/Age article this morning is really the first mention of broader problems that we might be importing for ourselves...
Best wardrobe, generally! Entire scenes of stories like 'The Aztecs' appear to have been casted, set and shot in the seedier kind of drag queen establishment, complete with makeup. The fact that any of the actors could keep a straight face just shows how talented they were!
DOn't get me wrong though, I love Doctor Who. It's still on tv every weeknight here (yes, we ARE that backward Down Here)...
I think /. may have some kind of filter that adds random mistakes to any code examples posted... every single bloody snippet I ever post has some problem or other...
You make a very good point, but the competition wasn't to find the worst government agency, but the most invasive one. I'm not sure that Mugabe, for example, really has the resources to fingerprint everyone entering Zimbabwe. They are pretty keen on political violence and the like though.
But come on, Ashcroft tries to serve the public? I'm not sure who he is serving, but I don't think cracking down on dissent and launching paranoid security measures is in the public's best interest.
Indeed... apparently all sorts of animals are fed to cows, pigs and other animals in the form of *ahem* 'Animal meal'. Not pleasant to know that the steak you're eating could contain bits of pigs that contained small parts of another cow...
because robots and computers don't get drunk or make passes at each other. And because the film-makers wanted less wooden actors, possibly.
great sig, by the way!
I think spending money on 'pointless things' is pretty much what NASA does. I don't really think that sending people to Mars or investigating Saturn's moons seems all that useful initially, but who knows when it might come in handy? If you want to be negative about it, you could say that NASA have done nothing but waste money in their entire history. After all, the US-Soviet Space Race was more or less an international pissing competition... but at least it kept that money from being directly spent on weapons.
I think it's a nice gesture, letting people complete the quote for themselves with whatever they like. That way no-one gets offended!
This is somewhat OT, I admit, but does your username possibly refer to a certain song by a certain truly indie band, by the way? Or are you just a fan of Mr James K Polk, our eleventh president?
that explains it, I was wondering what that was about. Too late, tho, as it has already been marked as flamebait for some reason... thanks for the info!
Up until now, market capitalism has always been concerned with physical products. It will be interesting to see how the free market copes with a free product that, once created, can be more or less redistributed endlessly for nothing...
You will also find, weird though it may seem, there are Apple and BSD sections of the site too. Us nerds need our relaxation as much as the next person...
I reckon you've hit the nail on the head. Python is funny because it's so silly, so unexpected, so against the grain that you just can't help laughing at even the simplest things... it sounds like psychological mumbo-jumbo, but it taps in to children of all ages. I used to laugh at the French taunter when I was 6, and I still do!
Well, absolutely, and what makes it worse, sometimes at the end of a sentence I'll come out with entirely the wrong fusebox. And the thing about saying the wrong word is a) I don't notice it, and b) orange water given bucket of plaster.
Coke is instant death in a whole lot of organisms! A friend of mine wrote off a brand new PS2 controller by allowing it to fall off a table into a pint glass of coke. Not good.
I wouldn't take it personally... I think the consensus seems to be that the event you describe, while possible, is so unlikely as to be statistically insignificant. I don't think that's any reason to jump all over you and describe the thread as 'scary dumb', an epithet more than slightly ironic, but that's Slashdot for you I'm afraid. The only pleasure some people get is humiliating others... it's sad, really!
Cheers, and good luck with the cooling!
I've got an even older thinkpad (486, no cdrom) and it gets at least 90 minutes from a charge. Possibly because it is so ancient it draws next to no power, I'm not quite sure.
Because I'm lazy and can't be bothered doing an NFS or HTTP install of some proper linux distro on it, I use basic linux , which is somewhat limited but can do a few basic things. There's a collection of these types of things available here if anyone is interested...
A few people I know can use a reasonably simple form of echo-location (sonar!) to "see" the layout of a room, furniture, doors and windows etc. By listening to the echoes of a sound (for example the finger-click noise) a blind person can build up a spatial picture of their environment. Doesn't work so well outdoors for obvious reasons though.