Oh great, mysterious and anonymous time traveler, what year did you start using the internet so that we may know what year you are posting from and get lottery numbers, World Series and Superbowl winners from you?
Every few days I run into whole sections of core Facebook functionality that are just plain broken for hours. Earlier this week, my main page wouldn't load for most of the day. And every couple of weeks I'm greeted with a "Sorry, you can't log in right now." message.
Are you kidding me? That's not broken, those may be value added features. I'd give a kidney if I didn't need to see the results every time a "friend" - using the term loosely - took a goddamn quiz to find out they were Pablo Picasso in a previous life, yet they were born in 1972 and Pablo died in 1973.
Are you sure that's from a/. signature and not the movie "Hackers?"
The Thought Police were feared not because they were known for determining that you had actually committed a crime or spoke out against the Party, but that you'd thought about it, hence thoughtcrime, and in the eyes of the Party both were equally punishable.
The guy put it out there, so by definition, not thoughtcrime, not Thought Police.
A brilliant example of how I think the process of the Thought Police was envisioned is Brad Pitt's character Jeffrey Goines from 12 Monkeys, when he goes off on the rant that they keep track of everything and determined from all the variables that he would create the Army of the 12 Monkeys.
A judge is essentially a government employee. Name one competent government employee. I double dare you. Nobody in government gets fired for incompetence.
Only because you double dared. Military members are discharged - either honorably or otherwise - every day due to incompetence doing their job - (except for Cops, Cooks and Crew Chiefs - there doesn't seem to be a bar for how low they can go - this is an inside joke for Air Force members/vets). Technically they are government employees.
I think it was ironic. They're trying to point out that you can deliver a dark and visceral experience without gratuitous blood, boobs and excessive use of the word "fuck." My detector went off when they said they wouldn't go see a PG-13 movie in theaters due to it being rated PG-13.
I'm in this boat unfortunately. I have an Associate Degree in Computer Programming but have never really liked doing it when I'm not at work. I have a bunch of great ideas, most quite profitable when I actually do them, but I'm seldom motivated enough to do it frequently.
However I do have uncanny natural gifts with SQL and anything to do with getting data in or out of a database (including ETLs), so those pay the bills quite nicely.
divide into paragraphs, as of text; "This story is well paragraphed"
one of several distinct subdivisions of a text intended to separate ideas; the beginning is usually marked by a new indented line
I hate being a grammar Nazi, but every time I read a wall of text I want to commit linguicide*.
*Interestingly enough I constructed the word - lingui (language root, from French.) + cide (death, forced abandonment) - thinking it was fictitious, but then looked it up and it was correct.
Unfortunately you were probably going to have an informative example, but/. stripped out everything after the "<" on that line. (Assumption based on standard "for (i=0; i<number; i++)")
Slashdot Mirror
That's how I tagged this story this morning but apparently it didn't take.
Movie encoding or TV encoding?
If TV that's going to be 4 and 2/3 seconds. Movies it would be 5 and 5/6 seconds. Imagine how much more you could convey if you recorded it on film.
What gets me is this part:
" in a bid to tackle ethical pitfalls before they become a problem."
Ok, I'm stumped, what are the ethical pitfalls of the current things like twitter, facebook, etc?
Aside from a great deal of inane banter, and some bad webpages...what is ethically bad about these things?
It appears to be an obscure reference to a study done at USC that has some dubious claims about how information overload makes us amoral.
I'm not sure how I feel about it, but if I cared about contributing to the discourse I'd say it's made me apathetic.
From tinyurl:
Copyright © 2002-2009 Gilby Productions. All rights reserved.
(2009 - 2002) < 11+
Fearmongering will get us nowhere.
I don't know about that. Al Gore has made many millions of dollars off of fearmongering.
True, but to be fair so has the Catholic Church and every large political campaign ever ran.
I live in Minnesota. Even pencils didn't save us from court appointed observers. Our Senate election is still up in the air.
Every few days I run into whole sections of core Facebook functionality that are just plain broken for hours. Earlier this week, my main page wouldn't load for most of the day. And every couple of weeks I'm greeted with a "Sorry, you can't log in right now." message.
Are you kidding me? That's not broken, those may be value added features. I'd give a kidney if I didn't need to see the results every time a "friend" - using the term loosely - took a goddamn quiz to find out they were Pablo Picasso in a previous life, yet they were born in 1972 and Pablo died in 1973.
for the new Terminator flick?
That's not what she said.
Are you sure that's from a /. signature and not the movie "Hackers?"
The Thought Police were feared not because they were known for determining that you had actually committed a crime or spoke out against the Party, but that you'd thought about it, hence thoughtcrime, and in the eyes of the Party both were equally punishable.
The guy put it out there, so by definition, not thoughtcrime, not Thought Police.
A brilliant example of how I think the process of the Thought Police was envisioned is Brad Pitt's character Jeffrey Goines from 12 Monkeys, when he goes off on the rant that they keep track of everything and determined from all the variables that he would create the Army of the 12 Monkeys.
... followed by a "constitution offender" registration.
I like to call it congressional pension.
A judge is essentially a government employee. Name one competent government employee. I double dare you. Nobody in government gets fired for incompetence.
Only because you double dared. Military members are discharged - either honorably or otherwise - every day due to incompetence doing their job - (except for Cops, Cooks and Crew Chiefs - there doesn't seem to be a bar for how low they can go - this is an inside joke for Air Force members/vets). Technically they are government employees.
myspace?
And so the script for "Slashdotits" begins to take form.
I think it was ironic. They're trying to point out that you can deliver a dark and visceral experience without gratuitous blood, boobs and excessive use of the word "fuck." My detector went off when they said they wouldn't go see a PG-13 movie in theaters due to it being rated PG-13.
Although perhaps i should qualify that ;-)
i imagine you'd want to.
I'm in this boat unfortunately. I have an Associate Degree in Computer Programming but have never really liked doing it when I'm not at work. I have a bunch of great ideas, most quite profitable when I actually do them, but I'm seldom motivated enough to do it frequently.
However I do have uncanny natural gifts with SQL and anything to do with getting data in or out of a database (including ETLs), so those pay the bills quite nicely.
More importantly, WTF is dickering? A combination of dicking around and tinkering? Wouldn't that just be what nerds do when they are bored?
Basically yes, however the more colloquial term is masturbation.
All hail our "no more overlord references" overlords.
I wouldn't have blamed you for, and probably would have encouraged you to, post anonymously. If true, and not by choice, I'm sorry.
Probably Jonas Brothers.
If I were a young girl I'd probably feel a tingle in my "giney."
I hate being a grammar Nazi, but every time I read a wall of text I want to commit linguicide*.
*Interestingly enough I constructed the word - lingui (language root, from French.) + cide (death, forced abandonment) - thinking it was fictitious, but then looked it up and it was correct.
... I always felt that blocked calls were the equivalent of someone showing up at your front door with a paper bag (with eye-holes) over their head...
Sounds like my past couple of dates.
OH YEAH!
Unfortunately you were probably going to have an informative example, but /. stripped out everything after the "<" on that line. (Assumption based on standard "for (i=0; i<number; i++)")