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  1. Re:In other new... on The Science Education Myth · · Score: 1
    85% of all educational statistics are made up on the spot.

    you forgot to add "including this one"

  2. Re:Combine on Samsung Unveils 64-Gbit Flash Memory Chip · · Score: 2, Funny
    See, if you combine 16 of them, you'll probably just lose your computer, and be otherwise ok. However at 256, the room your computer is in will probably be a lost cause. At 128? Good by city.

    What's the point in blowing up just a room, when I could blow up entire city with half the number of chips.:-P

  3. Re:Hello, Google? on 1-800-Google Launches · · Score: 1
    Totally offtopic -1

    Can anybody please tell me which project this image is associated with?

  4. Cool but.. on Flexible, Plastic Sheets of Power · · Score: 1
    Might be expensive..

    I know some doctors, who feel that wires (to power/recharge their equipments) is a big distraction when they want to focus on examination. This could be a good news for them.

  5. Re:awww... on Battlestar Galactica DVD Movie In the Works? · · Score: 1
    And to all you grammar Nazis out there, the "an" was of course the result of too much crack.

    Oh, I thought you wrote 'what an appointment' first, and later decided to add 'dis':P

  6. Re:Unnecessary Decline? on Vista Security The 'Longest Suicide Note in History'? · · Score: 1

    Absolutely. Iran and Iraq were in war for 27 fscking years. But US operations of 1 month in 1991 got more attention/exposure.

  7. Re:for cheapskates only on Rotating Solar-Powered Skyscraper · · Score: 1
    The truly rich build skyscrapers that revolve around the earth, so they're constantly in sunlight.

    I have skyscrapper, that stays on north pole or south pole, depending upon where sunlight is. For that you do not need skyscrappers that revolve around the earth.

  8. They need on UK Bank Laptop Stolen With 11M Customer Records · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They need to check my SIG once...

  9. Re:Two Wrongs on AIDS Can Fight AIDS · · Score: 1
    No, better is.. lohaa lohe ko kaatataa hai /hindi

    Means.. use iron to cut iron.

  10. Bites me on Computer Date Glitch May Limit Next Shuttle Launch · · Score: 2, Interesting
    The shuttle computers were never envisioned to fly through a year-end changeover

    Sorry to sonud so skeptical....but am I the only one who is worried about capability of missiles (and other defence systems) to handle war through a year-end changeover?

  11. me too on What's a Media Mogul To Do · · Score: 0
    Even Katie Couric is confused. Like the elephant and the seven blind guys....

    I am also confused....So I used to see everything as cake in the pipe....or vice versa.

    Now the pictures in my brain are totally shuffled.

  12. Thats the reason for french google? on Google Ad Revenue To Top UK Broadcaster's · · Score: 1
    By the end of the year advertisers in the UK will have spent more money advertising on Google than they did on the UK's Channel Four TV station.

    No wonder french president Jacques Chirac has plans for a European search engine called "Quaero".

  13. Re:First Of All, Congrats on Former MS Security Strategist Joins Mozilla · · Score: 1
    OR,

    I thought your post was going to go something like this:

    Window's an old friend of mine, so let me be the first to congratulate her.

    Sincerely,
    Gates

  14. Re:New meaning to accident in the toilet on Ladies and Gentlemen, the Electronic Toilet · · Score: 1
    LMAO,

    reminds me of a joke....

    A man traveling by plane was in urgent need of a restroom facility. But each time he tried, it was occupied. The flight attendant, aware of his predicament, suggested he use the attendant's ladies room, but cautioned him not to press any of the buttons.

    There next to the paper roll were four buttons marked: WW WA PP ATR. Making the mistake soooo many geeks make out of curiosity, he disregarded what she said when his curiosity got the best of him. He carefully pressed the WW button and immediately a gentle flush of Warm Water sprayed on his bare bottom.

    He thought "Wow" these gals really have it nice!! So a little more boldly he pressed the WA button and body temperature Warm Air blew across his wet bottom and dried it comfortably. "aha" he thought, "no wonder these women take so long in the bathroom with these kinds of services!" So he pushed the next button PP with anticipation. A soft disposable Powder Puff swung below him and dusted his bottom lightly with talc. "Man, this is great," he thought as he reach out for the ATR button.

    When he awoke in the hospital, the morphine was just wearing off...confused he buzzed the nurse to find out what happened. He explained the last thing he remembered was intense pain in the ladies room on the plane. The nurse explained, "Yes, you must have been having a great time until you pushed the Automatic Tampon Removal button. By the way, your penis is under your pillow."

  15. Re:What is is about the "news" from Roland Piquepa on Power, Water and Refrigeration in One Box · · Score: 1

    A diesel engine roaring during war might not be a good idea!!

  16. Climbing Tree is a crime?? on Children Arrested, DNA Tested for Playing in a Tree? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    [rant]I mean, call me crazy, but do cops have nothing else to do on this earth, except arresting innocent kids?? WTF they think they were doing?? Somebody needs to sit down and explain them how to perform their duties without creating too much nuisance with all the powers showered on them.

    Sorry to rant, but I feel disgusted with law enforcement agencies lately.

    Why the parents have to be under constant pressure, whether their kids will be in trouble for doing something innocent over the web, that might qualify as hacking, the websites they visit, the files they download, the files they share and so on.[/rant]

    Are we losing humanity in cops?? Makes me sick of them. Sorry...

  17. reminds me of.... on ComputerWorld's Help Form Elicits Some Laughs · · Score: 5, Funny
    Definition of programming.

    Programming is race between Programmers, to produce idiot proof apps, and God, to create better idiots.

    So far God is winning.

  18. Umm.. on Leopard Fake Screenshot Contest Winners Announced · · Score: 5, Funny
    "Well, this guy sure likes Asian women...

    Good, I stayed away from the contest. Otherwise, he would have easily guessed, that I like Canadian women.

  19. Clit? on Shake Hands with the Zero Tension Mouse · · Score: 1
    Might be good. But looks like the clit is in wrong position. I am afraid, it might be difficult for me to handle it vertically :-|

  20. Re:Sweet Mother of Potatoes! on 2.5Gb/s Internet For French Homes · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Well, at least bittorrent and some download managers will have nice time, which make parallel connections to different sources for dowloading.

    Also, you might not lose quality of Video/Audio chat if you are doing something else on net as well.

  21. Re:2D-3D? on Fear of Snakes May Have Driven Pre-Human Evolution · · Score: 1
    Could we evolve to see 4 dimensions, then?

    Yes. They are called psychic.

  22. GB? on Inside Vista's Image-Based Install Process · · Score: 1
    the install DVD is actually a preinstalled copy of Windows that simply gets decompressed onto your PC

    Yeah.. And by the time Vista will be released, we will have 100 GB DVDs to accomodate it.

  23. Think like on Howard Rheingold On Our Mobile World · · Score: 5, Funny
    The professor of a contract law class asked one of his better students, "If you were to give someone an orange, how would you go about it?"

    The student replied, "Here's an orange."

    The professor was outraged. "No! No! Think like a lawyer!"

    The student then replied, "Okay. I'd tell him `I hereby give and convey to you all and singular, my estate and interests, rights, claim, title, claim and advantages of and in, said orange, together with all its rind, juice, pulp, and seeds, and all rights and advantages with full power to bite, cut, freeze and otherwise eat, the same, or give the same away with and without the pulp, juice, rind and seeds, anything herein before or hereinafter or in any deed, or deeds, instruments of whatever nature or kind whatsoever to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding...'"

    In another classroom, professor asked his best student. "If you have to predict impact of technology on society, how would you go?"

    He said "There will be more features in mobile"

    The professor was outraged. "No! No! Think like a Howard Rheingold!"

    The student then replied,"Okay. The power of the technologies packed into mobile devices continues to multiply, the diffusion of devices to all parts of the world and socioeconomic strata broadens, the spread of knowledge about how to use technologies to organize political, economic, social, cultural collective action quickens. It is in the convergence of the technical, cognitive, and social forces generates that the real power of smart mobs -- for both constructive and destructive"

  24. Google is a verb now on Google Doubles its Profits · · Score: 5, Funny
    Offtopic -1

    Does somebody else find it funny, how the web sites have become verbs. Look at the button 'Google Slashdot'. Imagine 'Slashdot Google' or 'Slashdot University of California' buttons to kill the web sites.

  25. Re:How nice on Microsoft Softens Up On Competition · · Score: 1

    The article gave me a warm and fuzzy feeling for Microsoft. They really are nice people after all. They are even going through a twelve step program to make themselves better.

    Yeah... reminds me of that famous quote...

    How to make 5 pounds of fat look better?

    Just put nipple on it;)