the flood of media coverage on Paris Hilton or the Miss Universe pageant and so on.
Hmm,... that gives me a great idea! I'd like to nominate Paris Hilton as the next woman to (a) go into space and (b) break the record for longest female spaceflight. I'd like to set the duration at infinity, please. That would spare us a whole lot down here on earth!:-)
Interesting how our government is worried about scientific satellites going well past their "designed lifetime,..." Isn't there another project that went (and is still going) well past it's designed lifetime. Maybe they ought to let the Mars Rover team design the next hurricane satellite?
Everyone just considered PC's a passing fad. Like electrical pet rocks.
But the guy did make a million dollars! Just wait until I release my big invention,... the, "Jump to Conclusions Mat." You see, it would be this mat that you would put on the floor, and it would have different conclusions written on it that you could jump to.;-)
Of course, just because something is "high-end" doesn't necessarily mean it's a smart product. Look at the zero gravity pen, which NASA spent hundreds of thousands, even millions, of dollars, to develop for use in space. The Russians, they didn't need a zero gravity pen. A pencil worked just fine for them in space,...;-)
The bottom line, everyone is different, and different products work better for different people doing different things.
If coal is formed in weeks, how long does it take to form new oil? I'd love to hear the neocon's philosophy on how oil is formed! That might explain a lot about why the oil companies aren't worried about the supply of oil,...
No longer having to search for an ethernet cable or phone jack for my modem was great! In a few years, I won't have to battle against the hippie-chick mac users in the coffee shop for one of the tables next to one of the three electrical outlets in the joint! The only problem is, I wouldn't call my computer a, "lap top," anymore, as I wouldn't want to put any device that is recharged wirelessly anywhere near my,... um,... "equipment."
As mentioned in the article, online resumes are one easy way of verifying credentials. But even that's not perfect, as they can be faked quite easily. Heck, people have been fudging information in their resumes even before the internet was invented!
Maybe somebody like Google can use their search engine technology to develop an improved algorithm that would perform multiple searches across multiple websites and databases to come up with some type of score rating an individual's credibility. But even this has drawbacks; do we really want to give Google that kind of power?
In another move that was sure to infuriate many geeks, the 70 year old presidential hopeful also said that he would ask Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to serve on his cabinet to deal with technology issues if elected. He did not however say what position Ballmer might be hired in, but did joke that he might consider him for a diplomatic position, such as ambassador to China.
I really expected someone like McCain to know better, but someone really ought to tell him that the position of Ambassador to China is not a Cabinet-level position. It would fall under the Secretary of State, and the President still appoints all ambassadors, but ambassadors are still several rungs on the ladder down from the cabinet,...
Still, I thought I liked McCain, and thought he'd make a better President than Bush back in 2000 when I voted for him in the primary. Then again, anybody would make a better president than Bush, but that's another story. But his recent actions, namely his recent leanings towards the religious right (see speech at Liberty University), his views on net neutrality, and also his age, make me question whether he's the ideal candidate for the republican nomination.
Of course, I could always just ditch the republicans and go for somebody like Barack Obama, but even he's not perfect,... After all, it was recently exposed that he (and Senator Clinton) accepted funds from the RI^H^H^H^H MAFIAA.
Well, the bad news is that the best show on television will be coming to and end, probably sometime in mid to late 2008,... But the good news is, at least we won't see our favorite show degrade into endless time travel plot twists, bringing back fat, old and balding actors just to save their career, and Nazis in Space.
I think it's probably a good bet that one could easily find more than a good handful of people that hate just about ANY company in the United States world. I mean, seriously, if you don't hate Circuit City, you hate Best Buy. If you don't hate Wal-Mart, you hate Target. If you don't hate Dell, you hate HP. Perhaps the only company that is universally hated is Micro$loth. That, and I haven't really heard anything too negative about Apple, so they're probably hated less,... but I'm sure you can find SOMEBODY that hates 'em!
Circuit City was actually a whole lot better than Best Buy up to a point. Right about the time when they sided with the RI MAFIAA and tried to shove DivX down our throats!
In the, "old days," back when I grew up, parents actually talked to their kids and educated them not to talk to strangers. Today, parents don't seem to be capable of this, and instead want the government, schools, and internet service & content providers to make sure their precious little f**ktards don't get into trouble.
This story deals with watermelons, kumquats, and God. It's probably only a matter of time before the Kook Cameron and his buddy make a video of this,. ..
If kids are starting to better communicate in short abbreviations via text message and such, maybe this is the next step in the evolution of language. One of these days, people will be communicating in R2D2-speak . . . with short beeps and whirrs and whistles . . . no words whatsoever!
Into this evolution, Yoda-speak goes, somehow,. . . I think.;-)
Traveling to OTHER countries and terrorizing OTHER people
Apparently, slashdotters already forgot about YOUR Queen's visit to America two weeks ago,... granted, she may not have blocked cell phones from working, but she did fark up traffic real bad in just about every city she visited.
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Hmm,... that gives me a great idea! I'd like to nominate Paris Hilton as the next woman to (a) go into space and (b) break the record for longest female spaceflight. I'd like to set the duration at infinity , please. That would spare us a whole lot down here on earth! :-)
There have been entire notebook computers that have been dishwasher safe for several years now,...
Interesting how our government is worried about scientific satellites going well past their "designed lifetime,..." Isn't there another project that went (and is still going) well past it's designed lifetime. Maybe they ought to let the Mars Rover team design the next hurricane satellite?
But the guy did make a million dollars! Just wait until I release my big invention,... the, "Jump to Conclusions Mat." You see, it would be this mat that you would put on the floor, and it would have different conclusions written on it that you could jump to. ;-)
The bottom line, everyone is different, and different products work better for different people doing different things.
If coal is formed in weeks, how long does it take to form new oil? I'd love to hear the neocon's philosophy on how oil is formed! That might explain a lot about why the oil companies aren't worried about the supply of oil,...
No longer having to search for an ethernet cable or phone jack for my modem was great! In a few years, I won't have to battle against the hippie-chick mac users in the coffee shop for one of the tables next to one of the three electrical outlets in the joint! The only problem is, I wouldn't call my computer a, "lap top," anymore, as I wouldn't want to put any device that is recharged wirelessly anywhere near my, ... um,... "equipment."
The RIAA is already planning their next major lawsuit against the paper industry,...
Did you actually expect anybody in the Bush Administration to be capable of analyzing scientific data properly?!?!
Wow! The UA server crashed already,... and it wasn't even porn!
Maybe somebody like Google can use their search engine technology to develop an improved algorithm that would perform multiple searches across multiple websites and databases to come up with some type of score rating an individual's credibility. But even this has drawbacks; do we really want to give Google that kind of power?
I really expected someone like McCain to know better, but someone really ought to tell him that the position of Ambassador to China is not a Cabinet-level position. It would fall under the Secretary of State, and the President still appoints all ambassadors, but ambassadors are still several rungs on the ladder down from the cabinet,...
Still, I thought I liked McCain, and thought he'd make a better President than Bush back in 2000 when I voted for him in the primary. Then again, anybody would make a better president than Bush, but that's another story. But his recent actions, namely his recent leanings towards the religious right (see speech at Liberty University), his views on net neutrality, and also his age, make me question whether he's the ideal candidate for the republican nomination.
Of course, I could always just ditch the republicans and go for somebody like Barack Obama, but even he's not perfect,... After all, it was recently exposed that he (and Senator Clinton) accepted funds from the RI^H^H^H^H MAFIAA.
Why vote for the lesser of two evils. Write-in Cthulhu in 2008!
Well, the bad news is that the best show on television will be coming to and end, probably sometime in mid to late 2008,... But the good news is, at least we won't see our favorite show degrade into endless time travel plot twists, bringing back fat, old and balding actors just to save their career, and Nazis in Space.
Circuit City was actually a whole lot better than Best Buy up to a point. Right about the time when they sided with the RI MAFIAA and tried to shove DivX down our throats!
In the, "old days," back when I grew up, parents actually talked to their kids and educated them not to talk to strangers. Today, parents don't seem to be capable of this, and instead want the government, schools, and internet service & content providers to make sure their precious little f**ktards don't get into trouble.
More male sharks are going to come to slashdot now, . . . complaining about why they don't have a girlfriend! Oh no!
This story deals with watermelons, kumquats, and God. It's probably only a matter of time before the Kook Cameron and his buddy make a video of this,. . .
Into this evolution, Yoda-speak goes, somehow,. . . I think. ;-)
Today's kids will think that taking away their phone classifies as, "child abuse."
On an unrelated note, you've gotta check out the banana video,. . .
Behold, the power of Slashdot!
So much for that plan of getting Hillary Clinton to go to the theater if she gets elected in 2008! ;-)
But,. . . will Microsoft Vaporware run Duke Nukem Forever?
Apparently, slashdotters already forgot about YOUR Queen's visit to America two weeks ago,... granted, she may not have blocked cell phones from working, but she did fark up traffic real bad in just about every city she visited.