A side effect of which is that anyone used to reading Fark will unfilter this thread in their heads as they read it, making for the strangest article and comment thread on Slashdot ever.
Of course they want to go online only, think about it, a 10 year subscription is over $2,000 for them to pocket compared to only $1,165 for the printed copy that lasts a decade.
Lasts far more, I imagine. Probably 95% of the definitions haven't changed recently, so using last decade's edition is hardly the sin that using, say, a ten-year-old IT book would be.
While an OED would be awesome, even if I shelled out for one I wouldn't pay again in ten years. How many people who need one now will have the money, space, and incentive to get a new one in a few years?
It almost reminds me of that scene in Fahrenheit 451, yelling back at the ad for Denham's Dentifrice. At least they aren't congratulating me on winning something in a terrible synthesized voice.
Is congratulating me on winning something with a bright flashing banner or a fake Windows dialog any better?
Heh, true. I'm thinking the case of someone literally saying "lol". There are rumours of people doing this, but thankfully I'm yet to meet one of these people.
You've never been stuck on the bus next to teenagers, have you? I've heard "lol", "omg", and in one situation, "lololol". If ever I wanted to hurt someone....
Strange, it's been my experience that work hardware is exactly the opposite. And while the work place *may* have a better connection than you do at home ( not a guarantee in the age of Verizon FIOS and cable speeds ), their proxy usually ruins the experience entirely, by it's very nature.
Alternately, at smaller business they'll have 30 people on an Internet connection meant for less than five. In which case streaming video is impossible. Hell, I've had my work day grind to a halt because I need to download some drivers and someone else decided to download a few DVD images.
The home computer experience is often much better than work, and you have the benefit of not getting in trouble for indulging in your albino midget fantasies.
... how did you... I... (deletes history) yeah, those people are frrrrreeeeeaks.
The only possible explanation is that a computer virus has jumped more than the species barrier to infect humans! No doubt related of the computer virus used to infect the Borg in Star Trek: Voyager! That's it! It's spread by writers! Kill them, kill them all before it's too late!
Kill the Voyager writers? I've been saying that for YEARS.
It's amazing. 100% of the houses of all "school shooters" contain toothpaste. Yet nobody has demanded that toothpaste be banned because it causes school shootings.
It's the toothpaste lobby. Too powerful, man. You cross them and you'll be found in a gutter, tartar controlled to death.
There's a guy over here in Germany who managed to get on national TV with his "electromagnetic sensitivity".
During a 30 minute program, one thing was blatantly absent, or maybe that's just because I've got a science education: An actual test. You know, a double-blind test or something.
Double-blind tests? Repeatable results? Logic? Truth? You crazy, man?! Advertisers don't pay for the truth, they pay for watching eyeballs! Now excuse me, I've got to get back to praying that some photogenic woman gets kidnapped tomorrow so I'll have a lead story for the evening news.
A simple test: switch off WiFi for the first week of term without telling anyone. See if the number of complaints changes.
Never does. Just like putting self-diagnosed "sensitives" in a room with a box of nothing but LED blinkenlights and a hidden wireless device: Their symptoms come and go with the activity of the visible no-wireless LED box, not the hidden wireless box.
This is the real problem right here:
Professor Magda Havas of Trent University in Peterborough, Ont., who does research on the health effects of electromagnetic radiation, issued an open letter to parents and boards saying she is "increasingly concerned" about Wi-Fi and cellphone use at schools.
So no real hard evidence, just "concern". When are the experts going to take responsibility for giving clear and fact based advice. Wait, oh here it is: Magda Havas' homepage where it seems clear to me she has already made up her mind in advance and is very vocal about publicising herself. I'm surprised she's not out there campaigning against water fluoridation and wearing clothes made from mixed fibres.
Not her again. This is the third time I've read a Wi-Fi or cellphone tower article that mentions her. I wish snopes.com's message board had a slightly longer thread retention time - there was one about some guy in LA who was complaining about Wi-Fi and dimmer switches in the house down the road forcing him to sleep in his car to get away from all the electromagnetic things (I guess his car ran on a hamster wheel). Someone in the thread posted a few choice quotes from the "Wi-Fi is evil" camp and it was either Havas or one of the others like her who specifically said a wireless router was identical to a microwave.
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I bow to your superior grammar Nazism.
Well, superiority is one of the things Nazis always go on about....
I didn't get either vaccine last year (that is, neither H1N1 nor the regular one), and I haven't caught either flu. Basic sanitary practices like washing my hands when I use the bathroom and refusing to share drinks seem to work in today's world.
Well I got both vaccines and I didn't catch either one, so they must've worked.
Thing is, I have as much proof I was exposed and protected by the vaccines as you have that you were exposed and protected by washing your hands. Which is to say, none. Preventative measures are invisible if they work and invisible if they're never tested, which makes anecdotes even less useful than normal.
But I gotta say... washing hands just after using the bathroom? Maybe if you work from home, but I'd at least add before meals or even snacking to that list. (Edges away from semi-public keyboard used for work.)
In my experience, your typical hard drive lasts anywhere from 2-5 years before failing -- and if you have one older than that its probably making grinding noises reminiscent of a 2400 baud modem connecting.
You have had horrible luck with hard drives, if that's the case. I use several in that age range that are as quiet and work as well as the day they were first fired up. I'm not saying mechanical drives won't fail, but you're selling them rather short.
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Silly customer. You don't eat money!
Sure you do. It's the only way to make sure it ends up in the same place this enforcement money is going to go.
Nubian please!
A side effect of which is that anyone used to reading Fark will unfilter this thread in their heads as they read it, making for the strangest article and comment thread on Slashdot ever.
Let's all chip in, buy the whole mess, release anything of value to the public domain, then burn the rest.
(Thinks back on SCO's recent output.) So, burn everything then?
Of course they want to go online only, think about it, a 10 year subscription is over $2,000 for them to pocket compared to only $1,165 for the printed copy that lasts a decade.
Lasts far more, I imagine. Probably 95% of the definitions haven't changed recently, so using last decade's edition is hardly the sin that using, say, a ten-year-old IT book would be.
While an OED would be awesome, even if I shelled out for one I wouldn't pay again in ten years. How many people who need one now will have the money, space, and incentive to get a new one in a few years?
I, for one, find your lack of faith disturbing.
I, for one, welcome our new quote-and-meme-combining overlords.
It almost reminds me of that scene in Fahrenheit 451, yelling back at the ad for Denham's Dentifrice. At least they aren't congratulating me on winning something in a terrible synthesized voice.
Is congratulating me on winning something with a bright flashing banner or a fake Windows dialog any better?
Heh, true. I'm thinking the case of someone literally saying "lol". There are rumours of people doing this, but thankfully I'm yet to meet one of these people.
You've never been stuck on the bus next to teenagers, have you? I've heard "lol", "omg", and in one situation, "lololol". If ever I wanted to hurt someone....
Are these really the brains we want as our basis for research?
You think yours would be better somehow?
Mine would be since I never use it, having found something else to think with.
Speaking of which I'm very disappointed this headline wasn't code for sexy women in nun outfits giving head to old guys. I've got a fetish, you see.
LOL.
And yeah, I've heard people say it IRL. I've also heard people say IRL IRL.
And the first time in my life I thought teenagers should be tested and culled was when I heard one say "lololol". As if "lol" wasn't bad enough.
Strange, it's been my experience that work hardware is exactly the opposite. And while the work place *may* have a better connection than you do at home ( not a guarantee in the age of Verizon FIOS and cable speeds ), their proxy usually ruins the experience entirely, by it's very nature.
Alternately, at smaller business they'll have 30 people on an Internet connection meant for less than five. In which case streaming video is impossible. Hell, I've had my work day grind to a halt because I need to download some drivers and someone else decided to download a few DVD images.
The home computer experience is often much better than work, and you have the benefit of not getting in trouble for indulging in your albino midget fantasies.
... how did you... I... (deletes history) yeah, those people are frrrrreeeeeaks.
Alien deathshock reindeers storming Stockholm. All the secret files now on Wikileaks! works good enough...
And it'd probably be the most-clicked-on Wikileaks item ever.
- Does the spike coincide with a change in the wifeless
Yeah, when I first got high-speed Internet my relationship suffered too.
The only possible explanation is that a computer virus has jumped more than the species barrier to infect humans! No doubt related of the computer virus used to infect the Borg in Star Trek: Voyager! That's it! It's spread by writers! Kill them, kill them all before it's too late!
Kill the Voyager writers? I've been saying that for YEARS.
It's amazing. 100% of the houses of all "school shooters" contain toothpaste. Yet nobody has demanded that toothpaste be banned because it causes school shootings.
It's the toothpaste lobby. Too powerful, man. You cross them and you'll be found in a gutter, tartar controlled to death.
Oh damn! I think we have that where I work. I'll forward this on to my boss to explain why I won't be there on Monday.
Me too. The great thing is I can do it from my bed because my laptop has wireless.
There's a guy over here in Germany who managed to get on national TV with his "electromagnetic sensitivity".
During a 30 minute program, one thing was blatantly absent, or maybe that's just because I've got a science education: An actual test. You know, a double-blind test or something.
Double-blind tests? Repeatable results? Logic? Truth? You crazy, man?! Advertisers don't pay for the truth, they pay for watching eyeballs! Now excuse me, I've got to get back to praying that some photogenic woman gets kidnapped tomorrow so I'll have a lead story for the evening news.
The next week, we were banned from drinking from the water fountains and water colors were put in place.
And drinking paint made you better ?
Would've went well with the turpentine that came out of the water fountains at my old school.
A simple test: switch off WiFi for the first week of term without telling anyone. See if the number of complaints changes.
Never does. Just like putting self-diagnosed "sensitives" in a room with a box of nothing but LED blinkenlights and a hidden wireless device: Their symptoms come and go with the activity of the visible no-wireless LED box, not the hidden wireless box.
This is the real problem right here:
So no real hard evidence, just "concern". When are the experts going to take responsibility for giving clear and fact based advice. Wait, oh here it is: Magda Havas' homepage where it seems clear to me she has already made up her mind in advance and is very vocal about publicising herself. I'm surprised she's not out there campaigning against water fluoridation and wearing clothes made from mixed fibres.
Not her again. This is the third time I've read a Wi-Fi or cellphone tower article that mentions her. I wish snopes.com's message board had a slightly longer thread retention time - there was one about some guy in LA who was complaining about Wi-Fi and dimmer switches in the house down the road forcing him to sleep in his car to get away from all the electromagnetic things (I guess his car ran on a hamster wheel). Someone in the thread posted a few choice quotes from the "Wi-Fi is evil" camp and it was either Havas or one of the others like her who specifically said a wireless router was identical to a microwave.
I bow to your superior grammar Nazism.
Well, superiority is one of the things Nazis always go on about....
Last time I was in one, I waited 5 minuets while the metal detector operator replied to a text message.
With an estimated average duration for a minuet by composers such as Bach and Beethoven to be about 2 minutes, 5 minuets would last about 10 minutes.
That's nothing. I once had to wait an oratorio and two cantatas on hold with DLink.
I was thinking the same thing.
I didn't get either vaccine last year (that is, neither H1N1 nor the regular one), and I haven't caught either flu. Basic sanitary practices like washing my hands when I use the bathroom and refusing to share drinks seem to work in today's world.
Well I got both vaccines and I didn't catch either one, so they must've worked.
Thing is, I have as much proof I was exposed and protected by the vaccines as you have that you were exposed and protected by washing your hands. Which is to say, none. Preventative measures are invisible if they work and invisible if they're never tested, which makes anecdotes even less useful than normal.
But I gotta say... washing hands just after using the bathroom? Maybe if you work from home, but I'd at least add before meals or even snacking to that list. (Edges away from semi-public keyboard used for work.)
That looks like a Ghost in The Shell based game.
... as opposed to a Deus Ex based game...?
Earth! Fire! Wind! Water! Heart! So, you're saying love is the fifth element?
Actually it's more like communing with animals. (Insert preemptive "getcher minds outta the gutter" here.)
People aren't trying to read Wikipedia on it though. And if people didn't complain about it in the past, it's because there was nothing better
But if it's meant for developing nations, they may well NOT have anything better.
In my experience, your typical hard drive lasts anywhere from 2-5 years before failing -- and if you have one older than that its probably making grinding noises reminiscent of a 2400 baud modem connecting.
You have had horrible luck with hard drives, if that's the case. I use several in that age range that are as quiet and work as well as the day they were first fired up. I'm not saying mechanical drives won't fail, but you're selling them rather short.