rrrrrrrreally ? i've seen crew walk through without going through checks everybody else does. i've seen maintenance worker being waved through after metal detector beeped (he had some toolbox). i've seen some employee pull a trolley full with plastic bottles of some fluid and proceed to place them all on the scanner belt.
sorry, i've never seen personnel being subjected to tougher checks. not that there would be anything useful in that anyway...
and at the same time, many more people decided that the product is a piece of shit and that coders are clearly very crappy to put out such a shitty product. but that was probably a correct assessment in the end:)
so why not design the class so that no mechanical tools (like calculators) would be needed at all ? not trolling here. i had advanced mathematics in highschool, and i actually enjoyed it. i massively enjoyed advanced geometry course during the same time and did fairly well at both of them. but i eventually dropped out of further math and related education because it required so much memorising of formulas and routine calculations. i did learn and succeed at proving all those formulas - but only for a while. after that we moved to other topics that i enjoyed and embraced, but the previous ones that were not directly beneficial (and thus discarded from the memory) - i wrote them down inside my citizen calculator that i saved money for a year. i'm not claiming it was good - i might have benefited from that education. but to accept it as mandatory, i'd love to hear why actually using tools to automate parts that my brain is slower at doing is a bad thing.
it would be kinda cool if we had some technology to distribute books and other content like that to people without having massive expenses for maintaining physical storages and systems for lending them. of course, we could not reach whole population at first, but we could at least serve part in that way, thus significantly reducing the costs to the society.
while it might reduce the income for some authors, we are seeing a huge growth in content provided with no room of growth for demand for it, so it would fit nicely with demand-supply curve. it's somewhat of a shame that technology does not keep up with our increased artistic output. society has outgrown the technology for sure.
You don't have a clue about the Tea Party if you read about it on any media outlet. If you don't care for Reagan, you understand *nothing* about America - nothing. Or you genuinely *don't* like America.
the amount of self-centered self-importance in this post has overflown even normal slashdot american post limits. also, brazilians object to the word "american" being used to describe the greedy nation to the north of them, but hey.
sounds like a good idea. really. everybody would ignore it, except a few freaks who would run all over wikipedia setting these ratings. but at least they would be busy;)
if somehow that chat would be exposed to the public, what would happen ? first stop the hysteria over "pedophilia" (which many don't even know what that word means - citing wikipedia, "sexual interest in prepubescent children"). somehow stories of persons in late teens exchanging their own photos being accused of creating pedophilic material doesn't show that happening.
a link to the movie "witch hunt" was posted before - i haven't seen it, but i think i'll put it on my "to see" list (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1196112/)
Double-clicking the menu bar is something that can be learned (although certainly confusing if you expect it to windowshade the window).
that. shading is awesome and, depending on the task or application, i use it pretty much daily. it's a good thing i use kde, they'd never do such stupid thing. er, wait... =)
(one of the lamest changes in kde was making list of applets/plasmoids to add to the panel horizontal instead of a vertical list. just braindead waste of space - at least in kde 4.3, haven't checked yet whether they returned to sanity later)
Lets face it there's no way that the various horrendously bloodthirsty endings in Mortal Kombat deserve anything other than an 18+ rating.
...just so that kids would pirate it, get others to buy it etc ? i don't recall when we played the old versions of mk, but we definitely had many years to sweat in the school before finishing it. at the time it was freely obtainable in the markets - it was shortly after the collapse of the soviet union, so regulations in some areas were... sane;) we had mastered most of the fatalities and memorised them. i still recall some vivid details. i think subzero was one of my favourites - freeze-roundkick-freeze... in some versions, if done properly, opponent never hit the ground.
trying to get that thing out of our hands would probably increase playtime more (if that would be possible). i think i should get to organising that retro lanparty (or even more like gameparty...) and see whether i can get mk and mkII running with two players on something recent. should also invite a few kids so they can laugh at the blocky 2d graphics.
"best tool" should be evaluated by taking into account long term expenses, flexibility, fostering competition in the marketplace (we're talking about public bodies), maximising the benefit to citizens and sooooo on.
so essentially, nothing happened to the "best tool for the job", it's just that some people have started to look at the job at hand and figured out that "moving papers around" might not be all there is.
"eagerly awaited Windows 8" - say what ? next version of grub might be more eagerly awaited than windows 8 or whatever. ms hired a pr company to build up some buzz ?:)
on a more serious note, that part about "common myth" is just stupid. no unix-like system admin i've met has advocated for that. quite the contrary, all of them have argued heavily against it and for finding the root cause of the problem.
the only ones who have screamed "reboot !" were windows people who were trying to figure out this linux thing.
an important thing to note is that i don't see such a claim (about persistent myth) in the article - seems to be an artistic (read, crap) submission. also, splitting that short article on two pages makes me want to kick them hard when accessing it over gprs.
I have yet to see one single study that finds economical benefits in using DST.
that would have to be a fake one. or only focusing on some specific niche, like "dst programmers". it's a complete mess and topmost idiocy - to waste so much time on a created problem...
to give us more daylight time in the day
right. MAGIC ! or some astro-engineering. just moving the clock an hour or two would be an option (because it makes evenings have more light blahblah), but DON'T MOVE IT ALL THE TIME.
what the hell _is_ "worth of entertainment" ? badminton set can provide countless hours of "entertainment" to some people. i haven't met an idiot who would try to value a badminton set based on the amount of "worth of entertainment" it would be supposed to provide. people assess the value of goods based on how expensive they perceive them to be to manufacture, store and ship, plus some margin (which includes advertising and whatnot). and that is a sane approach.
i hereby proclaim "worth of entertainment" as absolute bullshit measure.
i was expecting any other rule labeled as stupid, except 9... see, i even called it a rule, not a trait. it should be a rule. i've seen too many windows-turned-*x-admins who just bring over their old habit of "reboot and check again". i'll stop describing them here before getting a full flamebait post:)
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rrrrrrrreally ?
i've seen crew walk through without going through checks everybody else does. i've seen maintenance worker being waved through after metal detector beeped (he had some toolbox). i've seen some employee pull a trolley full with plastic bottles of some fluid and proceed to place them all on the scanner belt.
sorry, i've never seen personnel being subjected to tougher checks. not that there would be anything useful in that anyway...
is "intel duel" some competition between intelligence agencies ? or is that an internally-competing new product from a company called intel ?
i think editor should be the one responsible for that - submitter might have english as the second, third or whichever language.
hey ! and to continue the cycle of good intentions, donate the imagery to osm.org to improve maps ;)
and at the same time, many more people decided that the product is a piece of shit and that coders are clearly very crappy to put out such a shitty product. but that was probably a correct assessment in the end :)
so why not design the class so that no mechanical tools (like calculators) would be needed at all ?
not trolling here. i had advanced mathematics in highschool, and i actually enjoyed it. i massively enjoyed advanced geometry course during the same time and did fairly well at both of them. but i eventually dropped out of further math and related education because it required so much memorising of formulas and routine calculations.
i did learn and succeed at proving all those formulas - but only for a while. after that we moved to other topics that i enjoyed and embraced, but the previous ones that were not directly beneficial (and thus discarded from the memory) - i wrote them down inside my citizen calculator that i saved money for a year.
i'm not claiming it was good - i might have benefited from that education. but to accept it as mandatory, i'd love to hear why actually using tools to automate parts that my brain is slower at doing is a bad thing.
it would be kinda cool if we had some technology to distribute books and other content like that to people without having massive expenses for maintaining physical storages and systems for lending them. of course, we could not reach whole population at first, but we could at least serve part in that way, thus significantly reducing the costs to the society.
while it might reduce the income for some authors, we are seeing a huge growth in content provided with no room of growth for demand for it, so it would fit nicely with demand-supply curve. it's somewhat of a shame that technology does not keep up with our increased artistic output. society has outgrown the technology for sure.
but it's very easy to avoid !
get a car with kilometers on the speed/odometer. HA.
i don't object to that. i don't care much. as noted, some other people from americas do.
You don't have a clue about the Tea Party if you read about it on any media outlet. If you don't care for Reagan, you understand *nothing* about America - nothing. Or you genuinely *don't* like America.
the amount of self-centered self-importance in this post has overflown even normal slashdot american post limits.
also, brazilians object to the word "american" being used to describe the greedy nation to the north of them, but hey.
i searched for "slashdot" in comments. only came up in the middle of the page. i guess geeks must suck at security :)
also, regarding slashdot and https - they probably lack the technical competency to set it up.
YEAH. hope to see https next week, thanks.
any sources for "Wikileaks is sitting on all sorts of good stuff about Russia." ?
sounds like a good idea. really. everybody would ignore it, except a few freaks who would run all over wikipedia setting these ratings. but at least they would be busy ;)
there could be a banner like the wikipedi ones, just saying "personal appeal from jimbo wales - please, please, stop deleting content"
if somehow that chat would be exposed to the public, what would happen ?
first stop the hysteria over "pedophilia" (which many don't even know what that word means - citing wikipedia, "sexual interest in prepubescent children"). somehow stories of persons in late teens exchanging their own photos being accused of creating pedophilic material doesn't show that happening.
a link to the movie "witch hunt" was posted before - i haven't seen it, but i think i'll put it on my "to see" list (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1196112/)
KDE decided that icons are unnecessary
can you specify what you meant by that, btw ?
Double-clicking the menu bar is something that can be learned (although certainly confusing if you expect it to windowshade the window).
that. shading is awesome and, depending on the task or application, i use it pretty much daily. it's a good thing i use kde, they'd never do such stupid thing. er, wait... =)
(one of the lamest changes in kde was making list of applets/plasmoids to add to the panel horizontal instead of a vertical list. just braindead waste of space - at least in kde 4.3, haven't checked yet whether they returned to sanity later)
Lets face it there's no way that the various horrendously bloodthirsty endings in Mortal Kombat deserve anything other than an 18+ rating.
...just so that kids would pirate it, get others to buy it etc ? ;)
i don't recall when we played the old versions of mk, but we definitely had many years to sweat in the school before finishing it. at the time it was freely obtainable in the markets - it was shortly after the collapse of the soviet union, so regulations in some areas were... sane
we had mastered most of the fatalities and memorised them. i still recall some vivid details. i think subzero was one of my favourites - freeze-roundkick-freeze... in some versions, if done properly, opponent never hit the ground.
trying to get that thing out of our hands would probably increase playtime more (if that would be possible).
i think i should get to organising that retro lanparty (or even more like gameparty...) and see whether i can get mk and mkII running with two players on something recent. should also invite a few kids so they can laugh at the blocky 2d graphics.
"best tool" should be evaluated by taking into account long term expenses, flexibility, fostering competition in the marketplace (we're talking about public bodies), maximising the benefit to citizens and sooooo on.
so essentially, nothing happened to the "best tool for the job", it's just that some people have started to look at the job at hand and figured out that "moving papers around" might not be all there is.
"eagerly awaited Windows 8" - say what ? :)
next version of grub might be more eagerly awaited than windows 8 or whatever.
ms hired a pr company to build up some buzz ?
"It's a persistent myth that only the beating of tom-toms restores the sun after an eclipse. But is that really true?"
why would you want to beat tomtoms ? :/
on a more serious note, that part about "common myth" is just stupid. no unix-like system admin i've met has advocated for that. quite the contrary, all of them have argued heavily against it and for finding the root cause of the problem.
the only ones who have screamed "reboot !" were windows people who were trying to figure out this linux thing.
an important thing to note is that i don't see such a claim (about persistent myth) in the article - seems to be an artistic (read, crap) submission. also, splitting that short article on two pages makes me want to kick them hard when accessing it over gprs.
I have yet to see one single study that finds economical benefits in using DST.
that would have to be a fake one. or only focusing on some specific niche, like "dst programmers".
it's a complete mess and topmost idiocy - to waste so much time on a created problem...
to give us more daylight time in the day
right. MAGIC !
or some astro-engineering.
just moving the clock an hour or two would be an option (because it makes evenings have more light blahblah), but DON'T MOVE IT ALL THE TIME.
what the hell _is_ "worth of entertainment" ?
badminton set can provide countless hours of "entertainment" to some people. i haven't met an idiot who would try to value a badminton set based on the amount of "worth of entertainment" it would be supposed to provide.
people assess the value of goods based on how expensive they perceive them to be to manufacture, store and ship, plus some margin (which includes advertising and whatnot). and that is a sane approach.
i hereby proclaim "worth of entertainment" as absolute bullshit measure.
i was expecting any other rule labeled as stupid, except 9... see, i even called it a rule, not a trait. it should be a rule. :)
i've seen too many windows-turned-*x-admins who just bring over their old habit of "reboot and check again". i'll stop describing them here before getting a full flamebait post
The game has been in development for longer than some of the people who will play it.
that would be a MIGHTY long development time for a human...