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It's a troll in the most classic sense of the word. He's posting something that is obviously twisted and silly and he's trying to see how many people will take him seriously and respond. That makes him a troll.
I'd write more but I've got to finish washing Rob's car. (while drinking Pepsi.)
My microwave has an analog controll. I've determined that the only way to get anything to cook right is to twist the knob all the way up 1hour and just count off the seconds myself.
I know you're just trolling for a responce but I'm going to answer anyway because a lot of people seem to be thinking the same thing.
This is news for nerds. It's news that applies a technology in ways that wasn't possible before an now is. It's news about people pressing their equipment to the edge to get results. And it's news about science and space exploration. This is the sort of thing that IS News for Nerds. Sure it's not important to our day-to-day lives. But who cares? News that effects everybody in thier day to day lives is NOT news for nerds. Recently people seem to think that this site should be about legal technicalities and stock quotes. Somehow this new "Geek Trend" has swept up people who should be reading CNN.com or News.yahoo.com.
Remember when PBS shows would end with the word THANK YOU on the screen and an anoucer would say "This show was brought to you buy Toyota and viewers like you." Now they skip the whole thank you bit and just run an add for Toyota. (Slightly modified so you know it's still a 'sponsership'. I don't think anyone would realy have a serious problem with one-line thank you's in their start up. But what if they get to be multi-line? Or graphical? or even audio or video?
These are realy releated points. Metallica is hoping that Napster can't handle all this extra work and is therefor forced to pull the plug on the hole thing.
The fact that these people will all just resurface a few days later makes it even better for them. They can do the whole thing over and over until Napster finaly relents.
I wonder how well they check for accuracy. The local newspapers here often have rather serious errors in thier reporting of this sort of stuff. Not only that they often spell peoples name wrong or accidentaly swap one person's first name with anouther's last name. Stuff like this could cause all sorts of problems for a database like this one.
But it's not the just case we're talking about. It's the actual meaning of the words. NEAR is a NASA program. "Near" describes something that is not "far".
This is because most other pieces of equipment are more or less at thier technological peak. If my toaster took 15 min to make a piece of toast, I'd consider doing something to make it toast faster. Make it hotter or whatever. But as it is, My toast is ready by the time I've poured my OJ and gotten out my peanut-butter. (granted I toast on "light" but still.)
This isn't true with computers. Every 6 months news and faster computers hit the market. When was the last time a better toaster hit the market?
Yea! Yea! pretty soon we'll be able to have a "The Music of Geeks in Space". Complete with "My Laptop is Booting" "Dr. Zeus" and many more timeless classics!
Forget the article did you even finish reading the summary? The news here is the discovery and analysis of the Dino-heart. Not the warm blooded theory.
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It's a troll in the most classic sense of the word. He's posting something that is obviously twisted and silly and he's trying to see how many people will take him seriously and respond.
That makes him a troll.
I'd write more but I've got to finish washing Rob's car. (while drinking Pepsi.)
You could if it was a optical mouse.
My microwave has an analog controll. I've determined that the only way to get anything to cook right is to twist the knob all the way up 1hour and just count off the seconds myself.
Because the register's keep track of how much money is suppost to be in the till.
I know you're just trolling for a responce but I'm going to answer anyway because a lot of people seem to be thinking the same thing.
This is news for nerds. It's news that applies a technology in ways that wasn't possible before an now is. It's news about people pressing their equipment to the edge to get results. And it's news about science and space exploration. This is the sort of thing that IS News for Nerds.
Sure it's not important to our day-to-day lives. But who cares?
News that effects everybody in thier day to day lives is NOT news for nerds. Recently people seem to think that this site should be about legal technicalities and stock quotes. Somehow this new "Geek Trend" has swept up people who should be reading CNN.com or News.yahoo.com.
Ok, I'm done ranting now.
How does it do this? How does it know which people have clients and which don't?
Remember when PBS shows would end with the word THANK YOU on the screen and an anoucer would say "This show was brought to you buy Toyota and viewers like you."
Now they skip the whole thank you bit and just run an add for Toyota. (Slightly modified so you know it's still a 'sponsership'.
I don't think anyone would realy have a serious problem with one-line thank you's in their start up. But what if they get to be multi-line? Or graphical? or even audio or video?
Well, you're two short then. Why don't you finish reading the series before you ask questions about how the story ended?
These are realy releated points.
Metallica is hoping that Napster can't handle all this extra work and is therefor forced to pull the plug on the hole thing.
The fact that these people will all just resurface a few days later makes it even better for them. They can do the whole thing over and over until Napster finaly relents.
The article said "60,000 pages of documents".
Are they delivering them on paper? If so that'll be an effective method of harassment.
I wonder how well they check for accuracy. The local newspapers here often have rather serious errors in thier reporting of this sort of stuff. Not only that they often spell peoples name wrong or accidentaly swap one person's first name with anouther's last name.
Stuff like this could cause all sorts of problems for a database like this one.
The Iraqi didn't have a significant number of GPS recievers until after the war.
But it's not the just case we're talking about. It's the actual meaning of the words. NEAR is a NASA program. "Near" describes something that is not "far".
"Roughly 199 million miles from where you sit, "
How does he know where I'm sitting?
NEAR isn't a recursive actonym.
The "N" in NEAR stands for "near". What does the 'n' in "near" stand for?
It's only recursive if the First letter stands for the acronym itself.
If we could get an english version of this program we could sell it as Judge Judy : The Home Version.
They'd make millions!
This is because most other pieces of equipment are more or less at thier technological peak. If my toaster took 15 min to make a piece of toast, I'd consider doing something to make it toast faster. Make it hotter or whatever. But as it is, My toast is ready by the time I've poured my OJ and gotten out my peanut-butter. (granted I toast on "light" but still.)
This isn't true with computers. Every 6 months news and faster computers hit the market. When was the last time a better toaster hit the market?
He means winnings from lawsuits.
It wasn't hidden at all. Click on the story "Unix.com for sale on eBay". The poll is in a slashbox within the story.
Oh yea? Well I saw the movie
Top that!
Moderators should be predictable. We don't want them randomly assigning points here,there and everywhere.
It's possible to make a joke about death without actualy wishing death on the but of the joke.
You have to rely on the reader's sense of humor to pick up on this.
Yea! Yea! pretty soon we'll be able to have a "The Music of Geeks in Space". Complete with "My Laptop is Booting" "Dr. Zeus" and many more timeless classics!
I've thought of doing this with something more pain-full. Say...the Smurfs theme.
Forget the article did you even finish reading the summary? The news here is the discovery and analysis of the Dino-heart. Not the warm blooded theory.