A method for inducing cats to exercise consists of directing a beam of invisible light produced by a hand-held laser apparatus onto the floor or wall or other opaque surface in the vicinity of the cat, then moving the laser so as to cause the bright pattern of light to move in an irregular way fascinating to cats, and to any other animal with a chase instinct.
The most extreme posters have been found to live in caustic environments such as "Slashdot". They thrive in flames, insults, gross-out posts, and even first posts. They are known in the scientific world as "posterus slashdotterus". They are a dangerous species and should be handled with care. If you meet on, please call your local police authority immediately.
Same here, and it has worked exceptionally well. The key is that you should teach your children that they can do what they want, so long as they don't step on other people's toes (obvious reason being that it will cause them trouble in society) and don't do it in excess (because in general that will cause them problems) - and so long as they understand what they're doing. And until they are educated enough to understand all this by themselves, it's your job simply to explain to them all this stuff that they don't understand, not so that they can follow your choices, but so that they can themselves make the right choice.
Absolutely. Given how central the internet has become to many people's social lives, you may well find that they are exchanging messages with their sweetheart(s) and you have absolutely no business (as a parent or otherwise) being even aware of the specific existence of these messages, unless your kids want you to.
And if you're really worried about them finding bad stuff on the internet, why don't you take the slightly longer and harder route of actually educating your kids so they know why it is you would rather they didn't browse certain types of site, and let them browse them to get out the initial curiosity, and then you'll find that they won't bother because they're only interested in 'evil sites' because they're forbidden and they don't know enough about them. Forbidden + mysterious = surefire failure at what you're trying to do.
Hah, so they're not even showing that. Bastards. They shouldn't be allowed to mutilate Tolkien's story like that. ESPECIALLY with such nice visuals! He must be spinning in his grave.
Get your head out of your ass. Corporations do what is good for them. I don't like Microsoft one bit, but tagging everything they do as "evil" or "in the bad" and being surprised because they do one thing which benefits everyone else smacks of religious fanaticism, usually accompanied with hefty doses of stupidity.
Maybe I lack a sense of humour, but isn't that quote pretty sensible rather than 'hilarious'? Sure, they're not actually giving a lot of people what they want, but the quote itself is not at fault, is it?
The main problem would more likely be what if a cold current of air changes the refractivity of some part of the atmosphere just a little bit so that the beam goes just.1 of a degree off and cooks up a residential neighbourhood instead of providing it with electricity...
Before you answer that microwaves don't get refracted that much by air, please recall the scale of volume we're talking about, as well as the fact that the beam also has to go through the upper atomsphere which, full of ions, probably does scatter microwaves.
I've been told that the extended versions do a lot to fix those problems (I'm a tolkien fan too, and a stickler for details and keeping to the original plot as much as possible). Can anyone confirm or infirm that so that I know if the extended version will actually be worth buying in a couple of years when it comes out?
English is a highly flexible language. Almost any word can be taken and reshaped and made into a different form of the same word (noun, verb, adverb, adjective..). Even if it's not listed in the dictionary (which, in this case, it actually is), it is not incorrect.
From the article: According to Stephen Kline, a professor of social psychology at Simon Fraser University quoted in a Reuters story on the conference, 15% of those he surveyed who play Everquest, an online role-playing game operated by Sony, describe themselves as "addicted." You could probably get the same result from anyone who's played Atari's Civilization III or Microsoft's Age of Mythology or Electronic Arts' The Sims, all complex games with highly involved plots.
Bullshit. Those games are nowhere near as addictive as EQ. I haven't seen anyone become a social recluse for a year because of Civ3. Have you?
Sounds like this guy had a rightful bone to pick with this "everything is addictive" trend, but he picked just the wrong topic. Computer games are most definitely addictive, especially where social interactions are involved (eg MUDs, graphical MUDs, etc).
It may be funny in some contexts, but NOT in the context of a thread about some new solar power cells. It simply made no sense in that context. Not only that, but it's a very well-worn joke. Certainly most people will have heard the expression before. Why would a solar-powered flashlight become achievable because of cheap power cells? If I had said "affordable" possibly someone with a bad sense of humour could have found it funny, but with "achievable", wtf?
Next in my experimentation I will post something which actually does not make any sense at all, not even grammatical, but looks like a joke. I bet it'll be modded up funny, too.
How much free time does a real adult have to whip out a gameboy? And boy, doesn't THAT look professional!
So, I'm curious, what exactly do you think the reason is why Nintendo came out with the Game Boy Advance SP, with its more elegant, office widget style look? For the kids? Hmm... Don't think so.
The fact is there's a whole generation of people who grew up with Gameboys, who are now working, some of them in pretty good cushy jobs, possibly commuting, eg on the tube in London or in other large towns, and who want something cool to mess with while they're sitting on their ass waiting for the train to arrive at work. Some of them read books, but a lot of them want to be doing something else. These slick portable consoles are designed precisely for that market.
Yup. I was about to post something like this but then you did...
Would be a good idea for Sun to follow actually. Great naming scheme, especially given how many flares there have been recently. Easy marketting line: "Sun Flare X35 - the only Sun Flare on Earth!"
Will get them a bit of bad will if a really strong sun flare does end up wasting half the electronics in the world though...
And the unbelievably fuzzy sense of humour of slashdot moderators strikes again. It's weird how all you need to post to get modded +5 funny is something that *looks* like a joke. It doesn't actually have to be a joke or be funny in any way, so long as it has the right general shape or form and the appropriate keywords, it will be modded +5 funny.
I actually tested this at one point. Here's the post I made. Thoroughly unfunny, no matter how twisted your sense of humour, but kind of looks like a joke. And of course it got modded +5 funny. Do slashdot mods mod it up out of fear for their own intelligence? Thinking maybe they're just not getting the joke but it's actually really funny because it looks like a joke?
Who knows. I'd be interested in finding out. Any thoughts anyone?
With the complete H2G2 read by Douglas Adams himself available, why bother listening to a BBC version? He reads it very well indeed, has a good voice, and for obvious reasons cares about the story enough to render it in a good and entertaining way.
I work for a large IT consultancy and we have a number of high-profile projects in the.NET stream. So yes, there is a market for it currently. In the future... who knows. But.NET is the sort of thing M$ is not going to let go off easily. They'll put a lot of money behind it, in marketting, development, etc. So in practice, even if it was a really crappy product, all that money behind it would make it a reality. I don't like.NET, but I would bank on it surviving for quite a few years.
Slashdot Mirror
A method for inducing cats to exercise consists of directing a beam of invisible light produced by a hand-held laser apparatus onto the floor or wall or other opaque surface in the vicinity of the cat, then moving the laser so as to cause the bright pattern of light to move in an irregular way fascinating to cats, and to any other animal with a chase instinct.
Where will the madness stop??????
Daniel
The most extreme posters have been found to live in caustic environments such as "Slashdot". They thrive in flames, insults, gross-out posts, and even first posts. They are known in the scientific world as "posterus slashdotterus". They are a dangerous species and should be handled with care. If you meet on, please call your local police authority immediately.
Daniel
Hmmm... I used to play this..... but I've got a girlfriend now... no time anymore.... barely got 4 hours of sleep last night.... ;-)
Daniel
Same here, and it has worked exceptionally well. The key is that you should teach your children that they can do what they want, so long as they don't step on other people's toes (obvious reason being that it will cause them trouble in society) and don't do it in excess (because in general that will cause them problems) - and so long as they understand what they're doing. And until they are educated enough to understand all this by themselves, it's your job simply to explain to them all this stuff that they don't understand, not so that they can follow your choices, but so that they can themselves make the right choice.
Daniel
Absolutely. Given how central the internet has become to many people's social lives, you may well find that they are exchanging messages with their sweetheart(s) and you have absolutely no business (as a parent or otherwise) being even aware of the specific existence of these messages, unless your kids want you to.
And if you're really worried about them finding bad stuff on the internet, why don't you take the slightly longer and harder route of actually educating your kids so they know why it is you would rather they didn't browse certain types of site, and let them browse them to get out the initial curiosity, and then you'll find that they won't bother because they're only interested in 'evil sites' because they're forbidden and they don't know enough about them. Forbidden + mysterious = surefire failure at what you're trying to do.
Daniel
There go my ice cubes...
Daniel
Hah, so they're not even showing that. Bastards. They shouldn't be allowed to mutilate Tolkien's story like that. ESPECIALLY with such nice visuals! He must be spinning in his grave.
Daniel
Get your head out of your ass. Corporations do what is good for them. I don't like Microsoft one bit, but tagging everything they do as "evil" or "in the bad" and being surprised because they do one thing which benefits everyone else smacks of religious fanaticism, usually accompanied with hefty doses of stupidity.
Daniel
Maybe I lack a sense of humour, but isn't that quote pretty sensible rather than 'hilarious'? Sure, they're not actually giving a lot of people what they want, but the quote itself is not at fault, is it?
Daniel
Nah, he wouldn't need to. All the passengers would commit suicide as soon as he finished making the first in-flight announcement.
Daniel
Depends how far up the refraction point is. If it's far enough into the ionosphere and the like, yo'd need a dish the size of a small country...
Daniel
The main problem would more likely be what if a cold current of air changes the refractivity of some part of the atmosphere just a little bit so that the beam goes just .1 of a degree off and cooks up a residential neighbourhood instead of providing it with electricity...
Before you answer that microwaves don't get refracted that much by air, please recall the scale of volume we're talking about, as well as the fact that the beam also has to go through the upper atomsphere which, full of ions, probably does scatter microwaves.
Daniel
I've been told that the extended versions do a lot to fix those problems (I'm a tolkien fan too, and a stickler for details and keeping to the original plot as much as possible). Can anyone confirm or infirm that so that I know if the extended version will actually be worth buying in a couple of years when it comes out?
Daniel
English is a highly flexible language. Almost any word can be taken and reshaped and made into a different form of the same word (noun, verb, adverb, adjective..). Even if it's not listed in the dictionary (which, in this case, it actually is), it is not incorrect.
Daniel
From the article:
According to Stephen Kline, a professor of social psychology at Simon Fraser University quoted in a Reuters story on the conference, 15% of those he surveyed who play Everquest, an online role-playing game operated by Sony, describe themselves as "addicted." You could probably get the same result from anyone who's played Atari's Civilization III or Microsoft's Age of Mythology or Electronic Arts' The Sims, all complex games with highly involved plots.
Bullshit. Those games are nowhere near as addictive as EQ. I haven't seen anyone become a social recluse for a year because of Civ3. Have you?
Sounds like this guy had a rightful bone to pick with this "everything is addictive" trend, but he picked just the wrong topic. Computer games are most definitely addictive, especially where social interactions are involved (eg MUDs, graphical MUDs, etc).
Daniel
It may be funny in some contexts, but NOT in the context of a thread about some new solar power cells. It simply made no sense in that context. Not only that, but it's a very well-worn joke. Certainly most people will have heard the expression before. Why would a solar-powered flashlight become achievable because of cheap power cells? If I had said "affordable" possibly someone with a bad sense of humour could have found it funny, but with "achievable", wtf?
Next in my experimentation I will post something which actually does not make any sense at all, not even grammatical, but looks like a joke. I bet it'll be modded up funny, too.
Daniel
I think there's a very clear winner hear for the digital beauty pageant competition. I mean, check out that smile!!!.
Daniel
How much free time does a real adult have to whip out a gameboy? And boy, doesn't THAT look professional!
So, I'm curious, what exactly do you think the reason is why Nintendo came out with the Game Boy Advance SP, with its more elegant, office widget style look? For the kids? Hmm... Don't think so.
The fact is there's a whole generation of people who grew up with Gameboys, who are now working, some of them in pretty good cushy jobs, possibly commuting, eg on the tube in London or in other large towns, and who want something cool to mess with while they're sitting on their ass waiting for the train to arrive at work. Some of them read books, but a lot of them want to be doing something else. These slick portable consoles are designed precisely for that market.
Daniel
Yup. I was about to post something like this but then you did...
Would be a good idea for Sun to follow actually. Great naming scheme, especially given how many flares there have been recently. Easy marketting line: "Sun Flare X35 - the only Sun Flare on Earth!"
Will get them a bit of bad will if a really strong sun flare does end up wasting half the electronics in the world though...
Daniel
Sounds more like increasing homeland insecurity to me. Which seems to be pretty much in line with what Bush has been up to so far.
Daniel
Bah, who's the evil mod with a twisted sense of humour who modded my post +1 funny? Come out and fight fair!! :-P
Daniel
And the unbelievably fuzzy sense of humour of slashdot moderators strikes again. It's weird how all you need to post to get modded +5 funny is something that *looks* like a joke. It doesn't actually have to be a joke or be funny in any way, so long as it has the right general shape or form and the appropriate keywords, it will be modded +5 funny.
I actually tested this at one point. Here's the post I made. Thoroughly unfunny, no matter how twisted your sense of humour, but kind of looks like a joke. And of course it got modded +5 funny. Do slashdot mods mod it up out of fear for their own intelligence? Thinking maybe they're just not getting the joke but it's actually really funny because it looks like a joke?
Who knows. I'd be interested in finding out. Any thoughts anyone?
Daniel
With the complete H2G2 read by Douglas Adams himself available, why bother listening to a BBC version? He reads it very well indeed, has a good voice, and for obvious reasons cares about the story enough to render it in a good and entertaining way.
mod -1, redundant - for the bbc version!
Daniel
...that's how women communicate? That would explain all the misunderstandings, and why they'd get offended if you let out a big one.
Must be an insult or something...
Daniel
I work for a large IT consultancy and we have a number of high-profile projects in the .NET stream. So yes, there is a market for it currently. In the future... who knows. But .NET is the sort of thing M$ is not going to let go off easily. They'll put a lot of money behind it, in marketting, development, etc. So in practice, even if it was a really crappy product, all that money behind it would make it a reality. I don't like .NET, but I would bank on it surviving for quite a few years.
Daniel