Coincidentally, yesterday I read a post by someone whose signature was "Blocking stories posted by Zonk since [some date]". Maybe we should start doing the same; to me at least, his stories usually aren't worth the reading time. It wouldn't be unreasonable to say his stories actually makes us dumber in the long run.
Stop listening to this guy. Stop posting his articles. Ban PC Magazine for publishing this nonsense. Otherwise Slashdot becomes just as bad as Dvorak himself.
You are 100% correct, and I think the vast majority of Slashdot readers agrees with you (well, at least those with mod points do).
Question is, will Slashdot EVER stop posting this Dvorak crap? Don't get me wrong here: it's nice to have some controversial topic to debate now and then, but what this guy writes is
Being told by the/. staff "here, discuss this complete bullshit" is an affront, an outrage against anyone with a brain.
I once found this interesting text about Tetris as an analysis of our own lives:
Apart from being a fine game, Tetris is also a perfect mirror of the human condition. For a while the game is entertaining, and we seem to have mastered it and are having fun. Then, something goes wrong -- a rash mistake, or an unfulfilled wish, and we're fighting to repair the damage, but we've been thrown off-balance, and everything is piling up. Blocks that were once orderly and harmonious are jumbled and filled with holes, and our cup is on the verge of running over. There's always a point at which we stop planning for the future, and realize that we don't have one -- all we can do is cling to the present and concentrate, focus our minds on what it's like to be alive, to play the game, before it's all over.
You were waiting for a four-by-one block that never came.
Sometimes we resist to the bitter end, moving blocks left and right without thought or care, just to hang on, and sometimes we accept the inevitable and pull the blocks down to us, smiling inwardly at the great joke. The rest is silence.
It could easily be defined as a "Tetris-do" of sorts.
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Is there really a reason I should have to enter my schedule into my phone? Because it's not going to happen.
Well, you really don't have to. My college has a (free) service that allows you to subscribe to your class schedule in an iCal-readable file format, which is then exported to my bluetooth cellphone so it knows when to automatically change to silent mode. I don't really have to enter anything into my phone, and any changes in schedule are automatically re-exported to my phone whenever it gets within range of the computer.
you know, it's that newfangled "technology" thingie, as they call it. It's supposed to work.
Humans sure do have all those feelings, but not every "feeling" is a sense. A sense is an interface that allows an organism to get information about the world around it, not its own self. There's some discussion around whether to classify pressure, pain and temperature separately or to group them all as "touch", but the classical 5-sense classification prevails.
Other than that, the ever-so-suggested "equilibrium" doesn't count because it is just another information we have about our own selves. So is thirst and hunger, and headaches, and the feeling your body gives you when it's time to take a dump.
No one, but that's not the point. True, no one is going to buy a Mac only to run Windows, but bearing in mind that people actually pay for the slow VirtualPC, being able to boot both Mac OS X and Windows at full speed is a good thing.
That kind of "undocumented feature" reminds me of this. I was stunned when I watched the video of the scanner in action; it's incredible how much "power" is hidden within most electrical devices!
The article says: "Evidence of humans in the Caucasus [region of Asia], China, and Java more than 1.6 million years ago implies either a very rapid spread from Africa after about 1.8 millions years ago, or that such populations were established outside Africa earlier than present evidence suggests," he said.
so, the theory assumes that 200,000 years is not enough for such a migration? Isn't that a bit of an underestimation, or even wishful thinking just to backup a sensationalist theory?
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That, my friend, has already been done.
Of course! Macs are so good that even Microsoft applications run well.
But really, the WMP app was worse than Real Player. Good thing MS gave up developing it and licensed a third-party solution.
So, now I can finally play Doom on my iPod Shuffle!
...by ear, that is.
Sorry to be a grammar nazi in Japanese, but if you've been studying Japanese for 5 years you should know that it's not "romanji", but "rômaji".
Rôma = Rome
Roman = romance
Why, just read Slashdot in Japanese!
actually, I read it using an interesting web service that shows the definition of each word when you mouse over them. Try it!
how come you passed 4, 3 and 2 all in 1990, if the test happens once a year and only one level can be taken?
you're probably just a pompous ass.
From Wikipedia: People with Asperger syndrome often are noted for having a highly pedantic way of speaking
A WINNER IS YOU!!!
Coincidentally, yesterday I read a post by someone whose signature was "Blocking stories posted by Zonk since [some date]". Maybe we should start doing the same; to me at least, his stories usually aren't worth the reading time. It wouldn't be unreasonable to say his stories actually makes us dumber in the long run.
No wireless slurping. Steals less data than a Nomad. Lame.
When DNF comes out Microsoft will have dropped support for legacy OS's like Vista!
or rather, Windows Vista won't run such an old game!
Stop listening to this guy. Stop posting his articles. Ban PC Magazine for publishing this nonsense. Otherwise Slashdot becomes just as bad as Dvorak himself.
/. staff "here, discuss this complete bullshit" is an affront, an outrage against anyone with a brain.
You are 100% correct, and I think the vast majority of Slashdot readers agrees with you (well, at least those with mod points do).
Question is, will Slashdot EVER stop posting this Dvorak crap? Don't get me wrong here: it's nice to have some controversial topic to debate now and then, but what this guy writes is
Being told by the
I once found this interesting text about Tetris as an analysis of our own lives:
Apart from being a fine game, Tetris is also a perfect mirror of the human condition. For a while the game is entertaining, and we seem to have mastered it and are having fun. Then, something goes wrong -- a rash mistake, or an unfulfilled wish, and we're fighting to repair the damage, but we've been thrown off-balance, and everything is piling up. Blocks that were once orderly and harmonious are jumbled and filled with holes, and our cup is on the verge of running over. There's always a point at which we stop planning for the future, and realize that we don't have one -- all we can do is cling to the present and concentrate, focus our minds on what it's like to be alive, to play the game, before it's all over.
You were waiting for a four-by-one block that never came.
Sometimes we resist to the bitter end, moving blocks left and right without thought or care, just to hang on, and sometimes we accept the inevitable and pull the blocks down to us, smiling inwardly at the great joke. The rest is silence.
It could easily be defined as a "Tetris-do" of sorts.
Is there really a reason I should have to enter my schedule into my phone? Because it's not going to happen.
Well, you really don't have to. My college has a (free) service that allows you to subscribe to your class schedule in an iCal-readable file format, which is then exported to my bluetooth cellphone so it knows when to automatically change to silent mode. I don't really have to enter anything into my phone, and any changes in schedule are automatically re-exported to my phone whenever it gets within range of the computer.
you know, it's that newfangled "technology" thingie, as they call it. It's supposed to work.
Humans sure do have all those feelings, but not every "feeling" is a sense. A sense is an interface that allows an organism to get information about the world around it, not its own self. There's some discussion around whether to classify pressure, pain and temperature separately or to group them all as "touch", but the classical 5-sense classification prevails.
Other than that, the ever-so-suggested "equilibrium" doesn't count because it is just another information we have about our own selves. So is thirst and hunger, and headaches, and the feeling your body gives you when it's time to take a dump.
Did you also know that 98% of Slashdot summaries have errors??
really? I thought all of them had!
(the above line is a joke. If you don't get it, feel free to "-1, troll" away.)
in Korea, only old people use Firefox!
No one, but that's not the point. True, no one is going to buy a Mac only to run Windows, but bearing in mind that people actually pay for the slow VirtualPC, being able to boot both Mac OS X and Windows at full speed is a good thing.
That kind of "undocumented feature" reminds me of this. I was stunned when I watched the video of the scanner in action; it's incredible how much "power" is hidden within most electrical devices!
Excellent post, especially the last line.
Use your nose.
The article says:
"Evidence of humans in the Caucasus [region of Asia], China, and Java more than 1.6 million years ago implies either a very rapid spread from Africa after about 1.8 millions years ago, or that such populations were established outside Africa earlier than present evidence suggests," he said.
so, the theory assumes that 200,000 years is not enough for such a migration? Isn't that a bit of an underestimation, or even wishful thinking just to backup a sensationalist theory?
Prank photography at its best!
Apostrophes indicate ownership or relation, not pluralality.
must be hard to be a grammar nazi... there's a plurality of details to care about!
Sorry for the double post, just found this one too: Windows version torrent