Being as my last name is unpronounceable in English, I know the feeling very well.;-) Still, teaching people a just another wrong way of saying his name doesn't make much sense to me. Then again, if he's happy with that, good for him. In my case, I just gave up and adjusted.
I realize that I should have added that I'm Norwegian, and that I've lived in the US for many years. "How" does not remotely sound like "hå", unless spoken with a heavy accent. The "å" sound is very close to the "oo" sound in "door". The closest I can come up with right now must be "hoakohn", though the last "o" isn't used much in the English language. Hope this clears it up.
Steve Jobs really is a badass! I played hardball once in high school; broke my leg, three ribs, and four fingers. I hope the engineers weren't too severly hurt...
Which Bacon are we talking about here? I bet it's Kevin, cause it's probably not Michael or Sir Francis. Assuming it's Kevin, should he be served at 6 degrees?
Any good file system has proper lookahead. This lookahead made Novell capable of knowing that Hans Reiser would indeed be arrested. Had they used Reiser4, they could probably have been able to look even further ahead and predict that murder several months ago. In comparison, my box running Ext2 just predicted that we'll have a second president from the Bush family. Now, that's just silly, so I guess it's about time to upgrade to Reiser4...
But yeah, only crazy people eat lutefisk. And crazy people are not to be messed with!
Bah. Just because you're too sissy to eat lutefisk doesn't mean that those of us who do eat it are crazy. In fact, in northern Norway, we eat most things that move. Or has moved... Or could move... OK then, we eat most things. On a related note, here's a tip if you're ever visiting Norway: Never wear fur in northern Norway.
I did a Google search for other articles on this topic, and nobody has the actual satellite images, just a bunch of lame pictures of *small* icebergs from 2003?
Yes, it's a classic fallacy: "I don't understand it/can't do it, so then it's false/impossible." It's not quite a knee-jerk reaction, but I'm not certain which bodypart he jerked to come up with that conclusion.
Just reading your message, without the accompanying title, it turned out to be rather ambiguous. With the title, it's obvious that the joke would be so funny that people should die laughing from it.
I, however, agreed completely with the alternate meaning, namely that if people really think this is the ultimate joke, they deserve to die laughing from it. Either that, or they should get a life. Just like us who read Slashdot have. Oh, wait...
He probably meant Europe as in UK, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Spain, France, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, and probably others.
I guess you can say the exact thing about buying vegetables, fruit, and berries as well. In other words, unless you happen to run around in the bush manually strangeling unfortunate bypassing woodland creatures or harvest the plants by hand, then your diet is unnatural?
Not that I don't understand what you mean, but you're presenting a pretty moot point.
No, silly, they want it for outsourcing. People in space work much cheaper than humans, plus they don't have anything but work to spend their spare time on. The only downside is that their English is really broken, though.
Slashdot Mirror
...haven't met my wife!
I kid, I kid; as if a Slashdotter would ever have a wife...
I was kinda expecting this to be the first link...
Being as my last name is unpronounceable in English, I know the feeling very well. ;-) Still, teaching people a just another wrong way of saying his name doesn't make much sense to me. Then again, if he's happy with that, good for him. In my case, I just gave up and adjusted.
I realize that I should have added that I'm Norwegian, and that I've lived in the US for many years. "How" does not remotely sound like "hå", unless spoken with a heavy accent. The "å" sound is very close to the "oo" sound in "door". The closest I can come up with right now must be "hoakohn", though the last "o" isn't used much in the English language. Hope this clears it up.
Really? I wonder if he knows that they are pronounced completely differently.
Though, come to think of it, they may sound alike if spoken with a really heavy Norwegian accent.
Steve Jobs really is a badass! I played hardball once in high school; broke my leg, three ribs, and four fingers. I hope the engineers weren't too severly hurt...
...the most obvious one:
Dangerous, Raging Monkeyboy
If you don't feel up for the task of telling him, it was already covered by Tom Brokaw...
The chairs will probably fly so fast that they'll enter the jurisdiction of NASA.
Which Bacon are we talking about here? I bet it's Kevin, cause it's probably not Michael or Sir Francis. Assuming it's Kevin, should he be served at 6 degrees?
Any good file system has proper lookahead. This lookahead made Novell capable of knowing that Hans Reiser would indeed be arrested. Had they used Reiser4, they could probably have been able to look even further ahead and predict that murder several months ago. In comparison, my box running Ext2 just predicted that we'll have a second president from the Bush family. Now, that's just silly, so I guess it's about time to upgrade to Reiser4...
...you're rather satisfied that you only need to apply once every nine months, right?
...you can watch it much faster!!!
Bah. Just because you're too sissy to eat lutefisk doesn't mean that those of us who do eat it are crazy. In fact, in northern Norway, we eat most things that move. Or has moved... Or could move... OK then, we eat most things. On a related note, here's a tip if you're ever visiting Norway: Never wear fur in northern Norway.
Yes, it's a classic fallacy: "I don't understand it/can't do it, so then it's false/impossible." It's not quite a knee-jerk reaction, but I'm not certain which bodypart he jerked to come up with that conclusion.
Damn, that Appalachia place sounds rather dangerous. I hear they have both beers and lepers there as well.
Good points you have there, and for further probing, here is an excellent article on the topic from the always excellent IEEE Spectrum:
The Silicon SolutionSounds like a GREAT idea! Especially since the suing company is suing because their emails are being blocked. This is brilliance you see too rarely...
Just reading your message, without the accompanying title, it turned out to be rather ambiguous. With the title, it's obvious that the joke would be so funny that people should die laughing from it.
I, however, agreed completely with the alternate meaning, namely that if people really think this is the ultimate joke, they deserve to die laughing from it. Either that, or they should get a life. Just like us who read Slashdot have. Oh, wait...
He probably meant Europe as in UK, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Spain, France, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, and probably others.
does that mean that we can't eat you?
Sincerely,
Dr. Lecter
I guess you can say the exact thing about buying vegetables, fruit, and berries as well. In other words, unless you happen to run around in the bush manually strangeling unfortunate bypassing woodland creatures or harvest the plants by hand, then your diet is unnatural?
Not that I don't understand what you mean, but you're presenting a pretty moot point.
No, silly, they want it for outsourcing. People in space work much cheaper than humans, plus they don't have anything but work to spend their spare time on. The only downside is that their English is really broken, though.
BTW, apparently Erich von Däniken is their HR rep here on earth.