...speak to people LOUDLY and ask them if England is anywhere near London because they're all deaf and stupid just like you see on American TV. Tell everyone you meet how everything is bigger in the States and how proud you are to be a Republican.
You get to win a prize if you can piss more than 25 feet from Landseer's lions in Trafalgar Square - its a well known custom.
...2012 is almost upon us. Microsoft open sources code including GPL code that they had not noticed was included. Slashdotters praise Microsoft for correct response.
The phrase "patent pending" has no legal effect until the patent is granted. Because the patent is granted starting from the date of the original filing NOT when it is granted.
Then you become liable.
I'm amazed that someone hadn't mentioned MathCAD before because it's excellent at writing equations down at high speed. Instead we had the joys of 60 replies as to what "learning curve" actually means because it appears that 50% of Slashdotters are obsessive-compulsive pedants.
MathCAD would be the way I'd do it if I was in college again.
You fail to realise that saving $70 a year, spending $280+ will take at least four years to recoup the savings. Irrespective of how many people do it, it has to make economic sense, otherwise its a waste of money (and energy).
It's like those people who buy a Prius without comprehending the extra cost of buying the car outweighs any economic or environmental benefit from so doing.
No, I think he's suggesting that there is no catastrophe. The Maldives are 1 metre above sea-level because they are coral atolls. When the sea-levels rise (as they have done in the past, the coral simply grows upwards - when the sea-level falls, the coral erodes, leaving them constantly about a metre above sea-level.
Nope, of this I'm sure. I've only been doing this for a short while, but there's open communication in the team and questions and queries come up frequently, but none of it is hostile to me. Unless you're completely stupid, a team of engineers would let you know pretty quickly if they disrepect you.
Probably because they've had a manager who was pretty bad, narcissistic and difficult, I come across as competent and workmanlike by comparison. You never really know for while whether you're cutting the mustard, but at the moment its pretty good between team members.
Not everywhere is like Dilbert, but everyone has known PHBs and know how destructive they can be. But I'm not one of them.
...and become a manager. It's hard work with lots of moving parts that need to keep spinning and lots of things that need to be done by this or that timeline. My team members respect me and do as I ask because I'm not full of shit.
But when I reflect on managers that I've had, a significant number have been seriously mentally ill. I refused to work for one recently when I realised he was paranoid schizophrenic (and I know what I'm talking about on that one).
Those managers appear to have been chosen because of their mental illness which makes them unable to empathize with their underlings and spend most of their time in controlfreakery or worse to keep the people below off balance and never know whats going on.
Not too many sociopaths but plenty of managers with schizophrenic spectrum type disorders.
I can't help feeling that sending humans to Martian orbit and keeping them there in microgravity until the return to Earth trajectory window would be more dangerous than making a landing.
The critical problem that no-one has yet solved (although there are lots of ideas) is how to land humans or anything heavy onto the surface of Mars because of its thin atmosphere, which is worse than having no atmosphere at all.
Until those problems are solved, robots are still the best way to go.
The Pirate Party is coming to Canada. The party's goals are fairly simple.... It... wants to phase out patents.
Of course. What better way for people to be robbed of their intellectual property and the fruits of their hard work than to find that they cannot patent it, so it will be ripped off by the nearest corporation with the deepest pockets.
The Pirate Party of Somalia is similarly opposed to the notion of private shipping and of the notion of the personal liberty of seamen without payment, feeling as it does that the contents of shipowners bank accounts should be freely available to all gun-toting, Allah-fearin' liberators of other people's wealth.
James Hansen: paid consultant to the extremely corrupt fossil fuel transportation company Enron.
Al Gore: Family fortune based on mining and stocks in Armand Hammer's fossil fuel company Occidental Oil.
You like to spout crap, don't you?
By the way, Sallie Baliunas was not paid by the Greening Earth Society - but then what does it matter? A smear is just a smear, and sourcewatch.org is bought and paid for by organizations who rake in billions from environmental panic.
Yes, of course Aldrin had been provoked. That and the fact that no jury in the US would convict Aldrin had he pulled out a gun and shot him live on TV.
I don't know why I'm still incensed, but I guess spending too much time studying the Apollo missions makes me just in awe as to what Armstrong and Aldrin did, and makes me angrier than hell that anyone could seriously call Aldrin a liar for saying he did what he did.
...punch Bart Sibrel in the mouth. Repeatedly.
My only criticism of Buzz Aldrin is he didn't plant his feet hard enough to break Sibrel's jaw with the punch. And have me there so I could hold Buzz's coat.
Hey! Maybe we could fire Sibrel at Mars to colonize it on his own. And then deny he ever existed.
Slashdot headlines with "Phony Wikipedia" should be marked {{tautology}}.
The mere fact that supposedly responsible journalists are even citing Wikipedia shows what an intellectual cancer Wikipedia is on the Internet.
Wikipedia is extremely difficult to avoid - there are many thousands of scrapes of Wikipedia around the Internet and millions of blogs that cite it.
Any alternative to Wikipedia (and I don't mean Citizendium) had better grasp why Wikipedia is so easily disseminated and deliver something better.
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...speak to people LOUDLY and ask them if England is anywhere near London because they're all deaf and stupid just like you see on American TV. Tell everyone you meet how everything is bigger in the States and how proud you are to be a Republican. You get to win a prize if you can piss more than 25 feet from Landseer's lions in Trafalgar Square - its a well known custom.
...2012 is almost upon us. Microsoft open sources code including GPL code that they had not noticed was included. Slashdotters praise Microsoft for correct response.
And now for the Four Horsemen....
The casino is in Florida, thus making your fascinating observation irrelevant
Yep. And we could also say that laws against killing encourage murder. For the same reason.
The phrase "patent pending" has no legal effect until the patent is granted. Because the patent is granted starting from the date of the original filing NOT when it is granted. Then you become liable.
Generally patents are derided from people who have not had nor ever will have, an original idea.
Wait for the inevitable horde to tell us that its patents that are evil and that they only encourage stealing.
I'm amazed that someone hadn't mentioned MathCAD before because it's excellent at writing equations down at high speed. Instead we had the joys of 60 replies as to what "learning curve" actually means because it appears that 50% of Slashdotters are obsessive-compulsive pedants.
MathCAD would be the way I'd do it if I was in college again.
You fail to realise that saving $70 a year, spending $280+ will take at least four years to recoup the savings. Irrespective of how many people do it, it has to make economic sense, otherwise its a waste of money (and energy).
It's like those people who buy a Prius without comprehending the extra cost of buying the car outweighs any economic or environmental benefit from so doing.
No, I think he's suggesting that there is no catastrophe. The Maldives are 1 metre above sea-level because they are coral atolls. When the sea-levels rise (as they have done in the past, the coral simply grows upwards - when the sea-level falls, the coral erodes, leaving them constantly about a metre above sea-level.
Its the same with coral atolls everywhere.
That's right. But a lot of the Netherlands is below sea level whereas the Maldives are above sea-level. So who has most to fear?
Around 1970 the sea level dropped by 20-30 cms and since then there has been no sea-level rise: http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/inqu/finalprogram/abstract_54486.htm
But don't let scientific and historical facts get in the way of a good piece of hysteria.
Nope, of this I'm sure. I've only been doing this for a short while, but there's open communication in the team and questions and queries come up frequently, but none of it is hostile to me. Unless you're completely stupid, a team of engineers would let you know pretty quickly if they disrepect you.
Probably because they've had a manager who was pretty bad, narcissistic and difficult, I come across as competent and workmanlike by comparison. You never really know for while whether you're cutting the mustard, but at the moment its pretty good between team members.
Not everywhere is like Dilbert, but everyone has known PHBs and know how destructive they can be. But I'm not one of them.
...and become a manager. It's hard work with lots of moving parts that need to keep spinning and lots of things that need to be done by this or that timeline. My team members respect me and do as I ask because I'm not full of shit.
But when I reflect on managers that I've had, a significant number have been seriously mentally ill. I refused to work for one recently when I realised he was paranoid schizophrenic (and I know what I'm talking about on that one).
Those managers appear to have been chosen because of their mental illness which makes them unable to empathize with their underlings and spend most of their time in controlfreakery or worse to keep the people below off balance and never know whats going on.
Not too many sociopaths but plenty of managers with schizophrenic spectrum type disorders.
...but its now called Eve Online. Its the same game only with Internet enabled multiplayer option.
As a former owner of a BBC Micro Model B as a teenager, I remember Elite and an amazing (for its time) racing game called Revs.
Oh G-d I feel old...
I suggest NUZBL.
I can't help feeling that sending humans to Martian orbit and keeping them there in microgravity until the return to Earth trajectory window would be more dangerous than making a landing.
The critical problem that no-one has yet solved (although there are lots of ideas) is how to land humans or anything heavy onto the surface of Mars because of its thin atmosphere, which is worse than having no atmosphere at all.
Until those problems are solved, robots are still the best way to go.
Science does not operate in a vacuum.
I can assure you it does.
The Pirate Party is coming to Canada. The party's goals are fairly simple. ... It ... wants to phase out patents.
Of course. What better way for people to be robbed of their intellectual property and the fruits of their hard work than to find that they cannot patent it, so it will be ripped off by the nearest corporation with the deepest pockets.
The Pirate Party of Somalia is similarly opposed to the notion of private shipping and of the notion of the personal liberty of seamen without payment, feeling as it does that the contents of shipowners bank accounts should be freely available to all gun-toting, Allah-fearin' liberators of other people's wealth.
IS that like Italian^2? More Italian than Italians? Able to leap across piazzas in a single bound?
Also
James Hansen: paid consultant to the extremely corrupt fossil fuel transportation company Enron.
Al Gore: Family fortune based on mining and stocks in Armand Hammer's fossil fuel company Occidental Oil.
You like to spout crap, don't you?
By the way, Sallie Baliunas was not paid by the Greening Earth Society - but then what does it matter? A smear is just a smear, and sourcewatch.org is bought and paid for by organizations who rake in billions from environmental panic.
Yes, of course Aldrin had been provoked. That and the fact that no jury in the US would convict Aldrin had he pulled out a gun and shot him live on TV. I don't know why I'm still incensed, but I guess spending too much time studying the Apollo missions makes me just in awe as to what Armstrong and Aldrin did, and makes me angrier than hell that anyone could seriously call Aldrin a liar for saying he did what he did.
...punch Bart Sibrel in the mouth. Repeatedly. My only criticism of Buzz Aldrin is he didn't plant his feet hard enough to break Sibrel's jaw with the punch. And have me there so I could hold Buzz's coat. Hey! Maybe we could fire Sibrel at Mars to colonize it on his own. And then deny he ever existed.
Slashdot headlines with "Phony Wikipedia" should be marked {{tautology}}. The mere fact that supposedly responsible journalists are even citing Wikipedia shows what an intellectual cancer Wikipedia is on the Internet. Wikipedia is extremely difficult to avoid - there are many thousands of scrapes of Wikipedia around the Internet and millions of blogs that cite it. Any alternative to Wikipedia (and I don't mean Citizendium) had better grasp why Wikipedia is so easily disseminated and deliver something better.
...laughing at the version of Roxanne produced by Songsmith. It could be a classic. Very, very funny.
...why anyone would want to run Linux on a PS3 which is both expensive and underpowered to run it? Why not get a cheap laptop on eBay?