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Many people before me have told stories of how they would fix their post-warranty, PS2 by buying a new one from Walmart, swapping it with their broken one, returning it, and claiming that it was broken and would not want a new one. This was less common with the PSP since the dead pixels came in within the warranty period. Maybe Sony should stop outsourcing the important technological work so they can provide quality hardware?
By the time American children graduate from highschool they will still need to take a couple of remedial university courses to finish learning to read and write, while the Chinese students are already studying biochemistry and quantum physics.
I go to an American school; I haven't graduated yet, but I am studying quantum physics, calculus, computer science, and other AP courses. Remember, not everyone is the same, even in America.
Oh boy, I remember hearing stories of the Chemistry professors playing practical jokes on people with NI3. One of my favourites was sticking it in the somebody's keyhole and letting it dry. When the unsuspecting person tries to unlock that door later... *BLAM*
Sidenote: I was told this story about 1.5 years ago, and the Chemistry teacher who told us is still teaching quite well. I know that you're just playing tinfoil-hat's advocate, but things like this are "too cool" for the kids who learn about it to rat out a teacher for having a nitrogen iodide demonstration (and the subsequent purple crap all over his clothes afterwards).
I already bugged CmdrTaco about XHTML, and he said the only reason he can't is due to the advertisers. Someone needs to talk to them and beat some sense into them.
The World Wide Web Consortium defines the standards, just like ISO, IEEE, MPEG, etc. In fact, Microsoft is one of the many corporations and organisations part of the W3C, so the "masses" are in fact represented by the W3C.
Slashdot is going for HTML 4.01 and CSS conformity in the upcoming weeks, so this tried and true joke won't last much longer. Check Slashcode to see what they've updated.
Firefox is still being worked on to pass the Acid2 test (see bug 289480, no direct link since this is/.), and it's still a high priority (P2) bug that should see the light of day by 1.5.
But what Acid2 does test is for the browser's compliance with how to degrade gracefully with syntax errors in the CSS document or when source files are unavailable. The W3C defines how things are supposed to degrade correctly, and a browser that follows those standards will display the Acid2 smiley face correctly.
Now all we need is an Acid-esque test that tests for all the standards defined in CSS 1, CSS 2.1, and in the future, CSS 3 and all the CSS modules that become W3C Recommendations.
Let's also hope that IE7 actually displays "application/xhtml+xml" pages correctly; you can't go quirks mode on XML pages. Hell, they also need to work on the XSLT support, but at least they're already doing it better than Opera...
They could get all the money they wanted if they jumped on the bandwagon and provided pay-per-download music and movies, but they refuse to change their current business model, and that's fucking them over.
The total energy of Earth is about 5.36934319 × 10^41 joules (or 1.28330382 × 10^38 kilocalories). I'm pretty sure that TFA's experiment couldn't reproduce that much energy.
Hey, Jesus said a lot of things, but he never said that abstinence was best. He even forgave a prostitute and allowed her to follow as a devout disciple of Him. Jesus is and was very forgiving, but Bush (along with hundreds of others of people who break the 2nd Commandment) is unforgiving and filled with hate and intolerence. These sort of people are just as scummy as the Muslims who take their beliefs completely out of context in order to justify their own intolerence and hate.
Religion is not supposed to be used as scapegoat like it is all the damn time these days. Damn WASPs...
Funny how you use the word "bloody" in a subtle attempt to refer to King George's inane taxes on nearly everything back in the 18th century in an attempt to regain lost money from fighting along with the Colonies against, well, I can't remember right now, and Google can't seem to figure out that something happened before the American Revolutionary War.
I'm pretty sure that all taxes are put into said pool anyways, so you aren't too far off of reality with that statement. The "stealth taxes" idea is just a way to get a new tax passed more easily; it's quite similar to a rider bill (see: broadcast flag) where a completely unrelated bill that would normally have little or no credibility is attached to a bill that is sure to pass (lest the nay-sayers lose their own credibility by voting against a bill that is going to help the oversea forces or will protect the children). Other bills that would normally have no credibility usually include the idea that "it's for the children", "it's for the poor souls fighting overseas", "it's to fight terrorism/communism/*ism", or "it's to help the economy". Sadly, these bills have a much-too-high-for-comfort success rate when one of these ideas is added to the bill.
I think that it might have to do with the fact that the U.S. is at war, so promoting violence in younger people these days should help promote the Armed Forces as a viable option to these people. We aren't over in Iraq fucking all the Iraqi women, so sex is not the subject to be promoting right now.
I know that it's a very low thing for the government to do, but they are the people who get to set the line to where "low" is each and every day through their actions.
The problem with requiring the.xxx domain for pornographic sites would be that the U.S. still owns all TLDs, so they would still have control over censoring content from said domains if they desired.
1. Create the.xxx domain. 2. Force all sites that host or provide pornographic content to transfer to the.xxx domain. 3. Shut down remaining sites that don't transfer. 4. Tax the.xxx domain (or allow censoring of sites in the.xxx domain). 5. Profit!
Hmm, Slashdot seems to be getting better at finding the missing "#. ???" step in these profit-making schemes. I do recall that getting bought by Google is an acceptable "#. ???" step for many lists out there.
Yay, communism* defeats capitalism once again in the.torrent format! Go BitTorrent!
* Please note that I am not advocating communism on the basis that I may be red-listed as a Stalin-loving, Commie bastard. I do, however, support the notion that information should be free, and so should sex.
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Hmm, I think I get it...
Many people before me have told stories of how they would fix their post-warranty, PS2 by buying a new one from Walmart, swapping it with their broken one, returning it, and claiming that it was broken and would not want a new one. This was less common with the PSP since the dead pixels came in within the warranty period. Maybe Sony should stop outsourcing the important technological work so they can provide quality hardware?
By the time American children graduate from highschool they will still need to take a couple of remedial university courses to finish learning to read and write, while the Chinese students are already studying biochemistry and quantum physics.
I go to an American school; I haven't graduated yet, but I am studying quantum physics, calculus, computer science, and other AP courses. Remember, not everyone is the same, even in America.
Oh boy, I remember hearing stories of the Chemistry professors playing practical jokes on people with NI3. One of my favourites was sticking it in the somebody's keyhole and letting it dry. When the unsuspecting person tries to unlock that door later... *BLAM*
Sidenote: I was told this story about 1.5 years ago, and the Chemistry teacher who told us is still teaching quite well. I know that you're just playing tinfoil-hat's advocate, but things like this are "too cool" for the kids who learn about it to rat out a teacher for having a nitrogen iodide demonstration (and the subsequent purple crap all over his clothes afterwards).
Except, in that show, the math guy, while smart, is a social outcast, while the cool guy is the FBI agent.
Now now, a math professor at Caltech being a social outcast? Maybe you've never met anyone there...
Well, there was the crack-in by Trinity in Reloaded, and I could've sworn I saw her make a typo that would normally cause OpenSSH to hang...
You idiot! Everyone knows that sperm needs to be swallowed in order to conceive! What videos were you watching?
Futurama.
Sorry, Kiff!
I already bugged CmdrTaco about XHTML, and he said the only reason he can't is due to the advertisers. Someone needs to talk to them and beat some sense into them.
The World Wide Web Consortium defines the standards, just like ISO, IEEE, MPEG, etc. In fact, Microsoft is one of the many corporations and organisations part of the W3C, so the "masses" are in fact represented by the W3C.
Slashdot is going for HTML 4.01 and CSS conformity in the upcoming weeks, so this tried and true joke won't last much longer. Check Slashcode to see what they've updated.
Oy, you're getting the European Union confused with the United Kingdom.
Firefox is still being worked on to pass the Acid2 test (see bug 289480, no direct link since this is /.), and it's still a high priority (P2) bug that should see the light of day by 1.5.
But what Acid2 does test is for the browser's compliance with how to degrade gracefully with syntax errors in the CSS document or when source files are unavailable. The W3C defines how things are supposed to degrade correctly, and a browser that follows those standards will display the Acid2 smiley face correctly.
Now all we need is an Acid-esque test that tests for all the standards defined in CSS 1, CSS 2.1, and in the future, CSS 3 and all the CSS modules that become W3C Recommendations.
Let's also hope that IE7 actually displays "application/xhtml+xml" pages correctly; you can't go quirks mode on XML pages. Hell, they also need to work on the XSLT support, but at least they're already doing it better than Opera...
No, but the "+1 Tinfoil Hat" is in alpha testing right now.
They could get all the money they wanted if they jumped on the bandwagon and provided pay-per-download music and movies, but they refuse to change their current business model, and that's fucking them over.
The total energy of Earth is about 5.36934319 × 10^41 joules (or 1.28330382 × 10^38 kilocalories). I'm pretty sure that TFA's experiment couldn't reproduce that much energy.
Hey, Jesus said a lot of things, but he never said that abstinence was best. He even forgave a prostitute and allowed her to follow as a devout disciple of Him. Jesus is and was very forgiving, but Bush (along with hundreds of others of people who break the 2nd Commandment) is unforgiving and filled with hate and intolerence. These sort of people are just as scummy as the Muslims who take their beliefs completely out of context in order to justify their own intolerence and hate.
Religion is not supposed to be used as scapegoat like it is all the damn time these days. Damn WASPs...
Funny how you use the word "bloody" in a subtle attempt to refer to King George's inane taxes on nearly everything back in the 18th century in an attempt to regain lost money from fighting along with the Colonies against, well, I can't remember right now, and Google can't seem to figure out that something happened before the American Revolutionary War.
Anyways, nice touch.
I'm pretty sure that all taxes are put into said pool anyways, so you aren't too far off of reality with that statement. The "stealth taxes" idea is just a way to get a new tax passed more easily; it's quite similar to a rider bill (see: broadcast flag) where a completely unrelated bill that would normally have little or no credibility is attached to a bill that is sure to pass (lest the nay-sayers lose their own credibility by voting against a bill that is going to help the oversea forces or will protect the children). Other bills that would normally have no credibility usually include the idea that "it's for the children", "it's for the poor souls fighting overseas", "it's to fight terrorism/communism/*ism", or "it's to help the economy". Sadly, these bills have a much-too-high-for-comfort success rate when one of these ideas is added to the bill.
16^H8/f/ca how bout u? :):):):):)
I think that it might have to do with the fact that the U.S. is at war, so promoting violence in younger people these days should help promote the Armed Forces as a viable option to these people. We aren't over in Iraq fucking all the Iraqi women, so sex is not the subject to be promoting right now.
I know that it's a very low thing for the government to do, but they are the people who get to set the line to where "low" is each and every day through their actions.
The problem with requiring the .xxx domain for pornographic sites would be that the U.S. still owns all TLDs, so they would still have control over censoring content from said domains if they desired.
.xxx domain. .xxx domain. .xxx domain (or allow censoring of sites in the .xxx domain).
1. Create the
2. Force all sites that host or provide pornographic content to transfer to the
3. Shut down remaining sites that don't transfer.
4. Tax the
5. Profit!
Hmm, Slashdot seems to be getting better at finding the missing "#. ???" step in these profit-making schemes. I do recall that getting bought by Google is an acceptable "#. ???" step for many lists out there.
Anyone can tell the difference between porn and a breast cancer website.
I'm not so sure about that.
And the word is tariff. Besides, a tariff only applies to imported goods, and I don't recall ever seeing a digital good being taxed due to tariffs.
Yay, communism* defeats capitalism once again in the .torrent format! Go BitTorrent!
* Please note that I am not advocating communism on the basis that I may be red-listed as a Stalin-loving, Commie bastard. I do, however, support the notion that information should be free, and so should sex.