>>You get to people young enough- you define who they are and what they feel is right and wrong.
Not really, especially in when the one doing the teaching isnt the child's own parent. Every kid I know had to take the DARE class in middle school and at least 90% of them later dismissed it as bullshit.
>>"You know you are a fat geek when...
the first thing that came to your mind when reading this summary was:
"Oh cool, no more burnt and undercooked mini-pizzas!" "
Incorrect. You know you're a geek when the first thing that came to your mind was "ZOMG now i can complete construction on my operational Klingon bird of prey in my basement!"
Its not a damn 10th planet, its just a large kuiper balt object. So's pluto for that matter. Theyre not really planets, its just that UB313 isnt cool sounding enough to be on a headline. I highly doubt the story "Kuiper Belt object UB313 found to be of different size than previously ascertained".
How the hell is some random guy getting banned from WoW for botting with a programmable keyboard "Stuff that matters" or "News"? I guess somehow just because he was using WINE all of a sudden its cool. My friend got a message from Blizzard the other day for yelling "SUCK MY NUTS" in Orgrimmar on an RP server. Man, if only he'd done that on a linux machine then he could get on Slashdot frontpage... shucks.
This is obviously not a useful item. This is the kind of crap that ends up in those Sharper Image catalogs that they wont stop sending me. Its about as useful as the Simpsons mockery of Sharper Image hardware, the frying pan with a radio in it.
Ive been noticing recently that items such as this and the Moto ROKR are consistently inferior to the alternate solution of just taking something and taping an iPod Nano to it. We have some very good music players and some very good other devices, why is it whenever they try to integrate those two together it always ends up in a product vastly inferior to the two original products?
"So if being a geek has really become cool, why has interest in CS as a major dropped among incoming freshmen and women are still a minority in computer and engineering fields?"
Maybe because kids have figured out that a career in comp sci is more like being an indentured servant to EA in a cubicle farm than it is like being in the movie "Hackers" ?
"it's not easy to improve the world's most popular toy"
Pssht. Bubbles are definitely NOT the world's most popular toy. That honor definitely belongs to the penis.
I wouldn't say this is true in the least. XP installation for the most part can be done by pressing "Return" alot. Linux on the other hand can be a pain, depending on which distro. The easiest distroes are only _as_ easy as XP, and the more annoying ones like Debian could cause Joe Blow to blow his brains out.
Wow, heres an ingenius idea. If you're not interested in a post, how about you not read it?
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Why do you expect us to believe your information over anyone else' then? YOUR comment should have a disclaimer saying
"I'm just another chmoe with no real expertise and I'm prone to make stuff up if it sounds good."
Somehow I'm inclined to trust the opinions and comments of an author on Anandtech more than those of a random poster on Slashdot.
Actually instead of scientists bidding for time, every astronomer who currently wants to use HST for observation time submits a proposal for what time they want to use HST, how much time and what objects they will be looking at. All propsals are reviewed by the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI).
Also, if there was enough money from scientific interests to pay for by hour time, why not just band together an pitch in to pay for a servicing mission?
"auction it off as surplus - let free market pick it up if they want to."
Why? Theres no private firm that i can see that would have a use for HST. Why would a private firm pay a large sum of money to look at galaxies? Also, the hunnle will still be operating for a while until it dies, why lose that time, best to keep it and make good use of the time we have left with HST.
This is somewhat similiar to Corsairs older XMS RAM that has LEDs to indicate memory activity. The thing is it look kind of flashy, but its completely useless as an accurate measurement, and you have to look deep into the case to see it anyways. May as well just install some pointless LEDs in there that have nothing to do with RAM.
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>>You get to people young enough- you define who they are and what they feel is right and wrong.
Not really, especially in when the one doing the teaching isnt the child's own parent. Every kid I know had to take the DARE class in middle school and at least 90% of them later dismissed it as bullshit.
>>"You know you are a fat geek when... the first thing that came to your mind when reading this summary was: "Oh cool, no more burnt and undercooked mini-pizzas!" " Incorrect. You know you're a geek when the first thing that came to your mind was "ZOMG now i can complete construction on my operational Klingon bird of prey in my basement!"
Its not a damn 10th planet, its just a large kuiper balt object. So's pluto for that matter. Theyre not really planets, its just that UB313 isnt cool sounding enough to be on a headline. I highly doubt the story "Kuiper Belt object UB313 found to be of different size than previously ascertained".
How the hell is some random guy getting banned from WoW for botting with a programmable keyboard "Stuff that matters" or "News"? I guess somehow just because he was using WINE all of a sudden its cool. My friend got a message from Blizzard the other day for yelling "SUCK MY NUTS" in Orgrimmar on an RP server. Man, if only he'd done that on a linux machine then he could get on Slashdot frontpage... shucks.
If you dont like it, stop reading it, moron.
This is obviously not a useful item. This is the kind of crap that ends up in those Sharper Image catalogs that they wont stop sending me. Its about as useful as the Simpsons mockery of Sharper Image hardware, the frying pan with a radio in it. Ive been noticing recently that items such as this and the Moto ROKR are consistently inferior to the alternate solution of just taking something and taping an iPod Nano to it. We have some very good music players and some very good other devices, why is it whenever they try to integrate those two together it always ends up in a product vastly inferior to the two original products?
A crappy US cable channel that plays professional wrestling and Star Trek reruns. I dont recall them having any original programming worth mentioning.
>>More specifically, what about them gives them any credibility when it comes to judging computer and video games?
Nothing.
>>Does their regular programming even focus on video games?
Not really.
"So if being a geek has really become cool, why has interest in CS as a major dropped among incoming freshmen and women are still a minority in computer and engineering fields?" Maybe because kids have figured out that a career in comp sci is more like being an indentured servant to EA in a cubicle farm than it is like being in the movie "Hackers" ?
Ive seen alot of college kids with Save Pedro shirts around, and I can tell you with some certainty that NONE of them are geeks.
"it's not easy to improve the world's most popular toy" Pssht. Bubbles are definitely NOT the world's most popular toy. That honor definitely belongs to the penis.
Since when is watching all 6 movies simultaneously "news" ? Any of you can do that at home right now.
Kazaa was riddled with spyware and adware long before it was bought by Sharmann Networks.
You mean Voltron == Any japanese mecha show from 1975-1990. Theyre basically all the same.
I wouldn't say this is true in the least. XP installation for the most part can be done by pressing "Return" alot. Linux on the other hand can be a pain, depending on which distro. The easiest distroes are only _as_ easy as XP, and the more annoying ones like Debian could cause Joe Blow to blow his brains out.
Wow, heres an ingenius idea. If you're not interested in a post, how about you not read it?
Why do you expect us to believe your information over anyone else' then? YOUR comment should have a disclaimer saying "I'm just another chmoe with no real expertise and I'm prone to make stuff up if it sounds good." Somehow I'm inclined to trust the opinions and comments of an author on Anandtech more than those of a random poster on Slashdot.
Actually instead of scientists bidding for time, every astronomer who currently wants to use HST for observation time submits a proposal for what time they want to use HST, how much time and what objects they will be looking at. All propsals are reviewed by the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI). Also, if there was enough money from scientific interests to pay for by hour time, why not just band together an pitch in to pay for a servicing mission?
"auction it off as surplus - let free market pick it up if they want to." Why? Theres no private firm that i can see that would have a use for HST. Why would a private firm pay a large sum of money to look at galaxies? Also, the hunnle will still be operating for a while until it dies, why lose that time, best to keep it and make good use of the time we have left with HST.
"...consumers will win once the US dollar rises over Euro." Yeah. Uh-huh. Id look forward to that maybe sometime in the 23rd century.
This is interesting -
Monsanto bribes officials
Apparently Monsanto doesnt like to play by the rules either.
This is somewhat similiar to Corsairs older XMS RAM that has LEDs to indicate memory activity. The thing is it look kind of flashy, but its completely useless as an accurate measurement, and you have to look deep into the case to see it anyways. May as well just install some pointless LEDs in there that have nothing to do with RAM.