Uh, what he said. I'd mod him up if I had any mod points. Not that I have had any for months, despite excellent karma. The new Slashdot: too buggy to be fit for purpose.
... and where are my mod points? What is the point of excellent karma if you get no mod points for months and months? The new Slashdot has its advantages, but it is also stuffed full of bugs which could really do with fixing.
If Slashdot had somewhere where you could report faults I would mod you down. As it has no such feature I would mod you up. However, despite my excellent karma I have not had any mod points for months and months. Come on, Taco, get your myrmidons to fix this stuff!
Mod parent up. His link is to the same MODIS images as in the IBTimes page linked by the original submitter. But as parent's link is to earthobservatory.nasa.gov it has the images at higher resolution and with more useful information.
Can we get rid of this stupid meme about the British having bad teeth? It may have been true in the 1950s but an entire generation has been brought up on Fluoride toothpaste since then. As a result the old drilling, filling and extracting business has dried up to such an extent that dentists are desperately trying to stay in business by bleaching teeth to an un-natural #ffffff white, giving Botox injections etc. The meme may come from a Simpsons episode but the British can like the Simpsons without believing that Americans are all made of yellow plastic.
the reason it looks relatively dull is because it was taken in early to mid-March
It was actually taken on 11 October 2010, according to this page http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=49687 linked in a post somewhere above here.
BTW, a conference publication isn't considered a "journal" publication, and doesn't confer the same status.
This is true in my own field (Earth Science) but I get the impression that other fields can be different in this respect and that in computing science in particular, conference proceedings are a much more important thing.
(BTW I would agree with the majority advice here: it is worth going to these things to meet people, put names to faces etc.)
"But who knows, steam itself might partly return... [via the proposed 5AT]"
To some extent it already has, with the arrival of A1 Pacific N0. 60163 I saw this start off from Edinburgh Waverley a few months ago; the experience left me blubbing like a girl and temporarily rather deaf.
I am a fan of the BBC, astronomy, Brian Cox and Dara O'Briean [2]. But this show was pretty dull. It had a few interesting things but for the most part the presenters looked faintly embarrassed to be there and with good reason.
Well, I typed an intelligent first post in this thread. And it never appeared when I pressed submit. Given the complete lack of other posts, I have a suspicion that something is broken here.
I certainly hate the trend of bringing laptops to meetings. The user may well claim to be saving paper by bringing the meeting documents on his laptop. But to everyone else at the meeting he might as well be checking his email, posting on FB or writing a novel.
As a university lecturer I don't see much of a trend to bring laptops to lectures: our students seem to prefer sleeping or not attending at all. But I think if I was faced with a wall of laptop backs when I looked at the audience I would suggest that their owners should close them down and pay attention to the lecture. Given that there might be some dyslexics who can take notes more easily with a keyboard, a better approach would be to walk around the theatre and publicly mock anyone who was reading email or facebook --- the radio mike and laser pointer mean that one is not stuck at the front of the room any more. Maybe mocking would be too harsh: one could just ask them a hard question about the subject of the lecture and wave the radio mike under their nose.
he had an apple 1, and it was numbered 151.
Heh. A magic Apple number. ISTR that on the Apple ][ you could type "CALL -151" at the Basic prompt to drop yourself into the monitor/disassembler mode.
REAL American beer is done in microbrews.... like here in Portland, Oregon.
True, nowadays, and in big cities or nice trendy towns like Portland. When I lived in rural Mississippi in the late 1980s, you had a choice of Bud or Bud light. (Even in the so-called Irish bar. Honest! No Guinness in an Irish bar.) The "fscking close to water" joke dates back to that era, if not to an earlier one.
Apple sues for the use of "X"
Followed closely by that company that makes the X-box. What were they called, now? ISTR them having a lot of lawyers. I don't imagine that the current providers of the X Window System will bother.
I imagine not brushing your teeth gives you a few minutes extra every day, and that adds up.
That slur is common, but is very out of date. British dentists have persuaded an entire generation to clean their teeth with Fluoride toothpaste. As a result, there is now so little of the old drilling, filling and extracting work to be done that most dentists are desperately trying to get their patients interested in botox injections, getting their teeth bleached to an un-natural #ffffff white and so forth, just to keep themselves in business. It is almost like the USA, in fact.
Parent answers this by suggesting a few Olympians, but TFA was about Cambridge. If you have ever been there during the University term, you will know that a navigational device is superfluous and unusable. Your bike will be sucked in, swept along and deposited somewhere at random by the dense, kerb-to-kerb flow of other cyclists.
To pick up another thread, the only sort of clothes they are unlikely to be wearing are Chris-Hoy-style spandex.
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Uh, what he said. I'd mod him up if I had any mod points. Not that I have had any for months, despite excellent karma. The new Slashdot: too buggy to be fit for purpose.
... and where are my mod points? What is the point of excellent karma if you get no mod points for months and months? The new Slashdot has its advantages, but it is also stuffed full of bugs which could really do with fixing.
If Slashdot had somewhere where you could report faults I would mod you down. As it has no such feature I would mod you up. However, despite my excellent karma I have not had any mod points for months and months. Come on, Taco, get your myrmidons to fix this stuff!
Mod parent up. His link is to the same MODIS images as in the IBTimes page linked by the original submitter. But as parent's link is to earthobservatory.nasa.gov it has the images at higher resolution and with more useful information.
Can we get rid of this stupid meme about the British having bad teeth? It may have been true in the 1950s but an entire generation has been brought up on Fluoride toothpaste since then. As a result the old drilling, filling and extracting business has dried up to such an extent that dentists are desperately trying to stay in business by bleaching teeth to an un-natural #ffffff white, giving Botox injections etc. The meme may come from a Simpsons episode but the British can like the Simpsons without believing that Americans are all made of yellow plastic.
Darn. I could have got First Post if I wasn't in a rural area of Britain.
the reason it looks relatively dull is because it was taken in early to mid-March
It was actually taken on 11 October 2010, according to this page http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=49687 linked in a post somewhere above here.
BTW, a conference publication isn't considered a "journal" publication, and doesn't confer the same status.
This is true in my own field (Earth Science) but I get the impression that other fields can be different in this respect and that in computing science in particular, conference proceedings are a much more important thing.
(BTW I would agree with the majority advice here: it is worth going to these things to meet people, put names to faces etc.)
"But who knows, steam itself might partly return... [via the proposed 5AT]"
To some extent it already has, with the arrival of A1 Pacific N0. 60163 I saw this start off from Edinburgh Waverley a few months ago; the experience left me blubbing like a girl and temporarily rather deaf.
Anyone who doesn't recognise the quote or has not heard the Weird Al song from which it is taken should find it in YouTube ASAP: it is very funny.
I am a fan of the BBC, astronomy, Brian Cox and Dara O'Briean [2]. But this show was pretty dull. It had a few interesting things but for the most part the presenters looked faintly embarrassed to be there and with good reason.
[2] Not of Gaelic spelling rules, though.
Well, I typed an intelligent first post in this thread. And it never appeared when I pressed submit. Given the complete lack of other posts, I have a suspicion that something is broken here.
I certainly hate the trend of bringing laptops to meetings. The user may well claim to be saving paper by bringing the meeting documents on his laptop. But to everyone else at the meeting he might as well be checking his email, posting on FB or writing a novel.
As a university lecturer I don't see much of a trend to bring laptops to lectures: our students seem to prefer sleeping or not attending at all. But I think if I was faced with a wall of laptop backs when I looked at the audience I would suggest that their owners should close them down and pay attention to the lecture. Given that there might be some dyslexics who can take notes more easily with a keyboard, a better approach would be to walk around the theatre and publicly mock anyone who was reading email or facebook --- the radio mike and laser pointer mean that one is not stuck at the front of the room any more. Maybe mocking would be too harsh: one could just ask them a hard question about the subject of the lecture and wave the radio mike under their nose.
Why yes, since you ask, I am the BLFH.
XIVth post?
he had an apple 1, and it was numbered 151. Heh. A magic Apple number. ISTR that on the Apple ][ you could type "CALL -151" at the Basic prompt to drop yourself into the monitor/disassembler mode.
REAL American beer is done in microbrews.... like here in Portland, Oregon.
True, nowadays, and in big cities or nice trendy towns like Portland. When I lived in rural Mississippi in the late 1980s, you had a choice of Bud or Bud light. (Even in the so-called Irish bar. Honest! No Guinness in an Irish bar.) The "fscking close to water" joke dates back to that era, if not to an earlier one.
Brilliant. It arrives just at the point in my life where my eyesight is deteriorating, so that I have no chance of benefiting from it. Sigh.
What kind of a unit is Jupiter masses anyway? How much is that in Humvees?
Meh. I, for one, welcome our new self-assembling, replicating lego overlords.
Oh so nearly Haiku! Let's try again:
Adobe Reader X
Slow, more bloated than before
New holes to exploit
Darn. You have to pronounce "Adobe" as "A-dob".
Apple sues for the use of "X"
Followed closely by that company that makes the X-box. What were they called, now? ISTR them having a lot of lawyers. I don't imagine that the current providers of the X Window System will bother.
Did I really type RIAA instead of RAII?
You did, but it may intentionally have managed to be both funny and insightful.
I imagine not brushing your teeth gives you a few minutes extra every day, and that adds up.
That slur is common, but is very out of date. British dentists have persuaded an entire generation to clean their teeth with Fluoride toothpaste. As a result, there is now so little of the old drilling, filling and extracting work to be done that most dentists are desperately trying to get their patients interested in botox injections, getting their teeth bleached to an un-natural #ffffff white and so forth, just to keep themselves in business. It is almost like the USA, in fact.
Parent answers this by suggesting a few Olympians, but TFA was about Cambridge. If you have ever been there during the University term, you will know that a navigational device is superfluous and unusable. Your bike will be sucked in, swept along and deposited somewhere at random by the dense, kerb-to-kerb flow of other cyclists.
To pick up another thread, the only sort of clothes they are unlikely to be wearing are Chris-Hoy-style spandex.
I'm thinking the current IT disaster by EADS
I think you might mean EDS rather than EADS.