Often people can communicate with audio-phyical actions when the language divide is too great to bridge.
In this case, I suggest clenching your teeth and emitting a high pitch "SSShhhhhhhh" while lunging for the penis of the next nearest male. Although the exact meaning might be lost in translation, it'll provoke alarm, which should be your desired goal anyway.
The top 1% of citizens also control roughly 75% of industrial and academic ingenuity. It's not that the middle and lower classes are being abused and denied their just due, they're what one might (correctly) call productive under achievers. Their output is worth less, so they're rewarded less.
I'm midway through Atlas Shrugged right now. My gut reaction is that fiber optic cable = rail. The squeeling for open competition could come straight from the looters' mouths. Can someone tell me how the Baby Bells profiting from their own cable is wrong? Public interest be damned; they laid it, they can do what they want with it.
Since numerous people above have pointed out this is a repeat, everyone should browse the older article and repost all the comments that were modded up to +5, and reap the benefits when that karma comes rollin' in!;)
Nah, too much work. I'll just copy and paste from the current thread. Slashdot moderators won't know the difference.
1) The parent misses the point. I applaud the spirit of achievement for any nation making it to space. Setting sights on the moon is only incrases the laudability.
However, the conservative militant FUD tied to NMD enrages me. NMD is a brain dead idea, that as Trent Lott put it, is the most expensive solution to the least likely scenario. 9/11 tells me that hostilities towards the US aren't likely to be enacted in a grand war that would inevitably result from launching missiles at the US. Rather confrontation will come with guerilla terrorist acts. No nation in the world has the rescources to win a 1 on 1 war with the US and they recognize this.
2)NMD doesn't extend from a defense necessity. Bush would be touting NMD as a panacea for our purported defensive ills no matter the situtation. The pro-militant agressive rhetoric scored points with special interest groups (read: military, christians preparing for armegeddeon, et al) and he needs to please them with a major increase in the defense budget. Should NMD come in under budget by half, another half baked defensive spending plan would come up.
>I did some calculations a while back, and itseems quite possible for a laser of MIRACL's >power to damage and destroy an ICBM (sorry, I'm too tired to dig up a link to my old post where >I do the calcs).
That's allright, I have no doubt you proved this in the margins of an old notebook, just waiting to be found or rediscovered around here somewhere.
A few weeks ago I paid for two of your Eternal Life Rings. Worried about their strength, I decided to conduct a very scientific study of their effects on animals. Having only two pets, a cat named Lulu and a bird named Bubba, I used them as my test subjects. As the ring would not fit around Lulu's paw, I tried to place it around her tail. It would not fit, so I used antifreeze to facilitate my efforts. It slid on quite nicely. I also searched for a spot on Bubba to put the ring, and found no other place besides his beak.
Regretably, the ring made Lulu horribly sick. She threw up for a good 10 hours before finally passing away. Bubba fared a little better, he just gradually shriveled up and died a week later. I greatly encourage you to evaluate the strength of your rings, as I believe them to work too well for any animals.
You will be foreced to accept my invention. Same with souls. And I am being honest. I just think that most of the people are very close minded. Antichrist is a person who disbelieve the bible prophecy. They are "New Yorkans".
Now I'm convinced that he is a genius. Obviously, he was persuing 'eternal life rings' when I was learning basic grammar and spelling.
The entire Tibet is ruled by a bunch of religious idiots.
I installed the sniffer for five minutesand this is what it dumped out
*START LOG* *SCANMAN 1.0*
http://www.yahoo.ocm\nNOFUCKYOUDIPSHIT\n\n\n\n\n \n http://www.yahoo.com/\npersian kitty chatroom\na/s/l?\nYes, I am on AOL, how did you know?\nhey, i'm on company time paying to talk to you sexy ladies\n\nWhy yes I do have a large penis.\nWell, if you say please\n\nwith a cherry\nOH SHIT BOSS, GOTTA GO\nhttp://www.microsoft.com/ie/\nAS#@$@ASDFyoupie ceofshitworknow!\n\n\n\n\nhttp://www.netscape.com
"The power problems in California didn't suddenly begin in January when Bush took office - they've been brewing for years. Never heard of Gore doing anything about it, did you?"
Oh thats right, Gore was _planning_ on losing the election so he decided to screw the country over. Can't argue with that logic.
The past month on Slashdot, a disportionate number of posts have been marked +5 Interesting. In the past, +5 Interesting has been reserved for especially well written and clued in posts. Slashdot needs to change either the number of people receiving moderation points or increase the maximum a post can be rated to 10. If this were to take effect, I could simply read the 5-6 best written or insightful comments instead of the posts people feel they have to waste their mod points on.
Actually, they are leveraging their near monopoly on browsers into a IM monopoly. There is no way to unbundle the Microsoft Messanger from Internet Explorer 6 Beta. Why, when a person is too lazy to download a browser when one is prebundled with the OS, would someone download ICQ or AOL IM when the Microsoft Instant Messanger is in their browser. The installed base of browsers will also give them a huge pool of persons automatically signed up for their service.
Buy "Hitler Bad, Vandals Good", its their best work, great pop-punk music mixed with hilarious lyrics:) ex: Song F'ed up girl "I'm well aware that you are chemically imbalanced, but I'm the kind of guy that likes a challenge" and the song My Girlfriends Dead which is really catchy and is about how his girlfriend broke up with him, and since he doesn't want to talk about her to people, he tells them shes dead.:)
Also, take a look at The Ataris and MxPx both of which are on the same non-major record label.
ah.. well just so you know, i'm 17 now, and I think I was in the same position your children are in when I was 11... for me the progression was something along the lines of
1) creating.bat files in dos (self-taught) 2) qbasic (Running Microsoft QBasic, by the Microsoft Press) It helped me out a lot. 3) HTML 3.0 & Javascript (not actually programming, but I learned to design and work to the goal instead of just sitting and writing code) 4) C (Teach yourself C Programming in 21 Days, and the The C Programming Language by K&R)
and ive moved on to learn perl... hey, i'm not a programming god yet, but I still program because I am interested in it and enjoy it..
During the heat of the space race in the 1960's, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration decided it needed a ball point pen to write in the zero gravity confines of its space capsules. After considerable research and development, the Astronaut Pen was developed at a cost of about $1 million U.S. The pen worked and also enjoyed some modest success as a novelty item back here on Earth. The Soviet Union, faced with the same problem, used a pencil.
I ran starcraft under wine with a 266 a while back. It ran slightly slower but still useable. Once every hour or so it would eat all my memory and crash.
Also, you can't simply fix wine to support the multiplayer, the only way to play on battle.net would be to provide the full winsock library on top of linux. The last time I read anything on it, wine hadn't even started implementing winsock. So multiplayer would be a long way off.
[ot] I need a company that would host my domain on a unix box with a useable c++ compiler, about 20 megs, for under $20 a month.. i'm tired of looking at all the hosting companies, its all the same generic deals and when I sign up, something is always wrong with their compiler. any help?
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If techies compose a fan base which only bootlegs music, will alienating them in a public venue help or hinder the bottom line?
It wasn't too long ago that Gates & Co struck out against unlicensed Microsoft Basic users and barely survived the community backlash.
I've never thought written tests were a fair way to measure someone's knowledge of coding
And what other standard of performance judgment would you advocate? I've seen the Slash source code; you're better off with the test.
Often people can communicate with audio-phyical actions when the language divide is too great to bridge.
In this case, I suggest clenching your teeth and emitting a high pitch "SSShhhhhhhh" while lunging for the penis of the next nearest male. Although the exact meaning might be lost in translation, it'll provoke alarm, which should be your desired goal anyway.
The top 1% of citizens also control roughly 75% of industrial and academic ingenuity. It's not that the middle and lower classes are being abused and denied their just due, they're what one might (correctly) call productive under achievers. Their output is worth less, so they're rewarded less.
I'm midway through Atlas Shrugged right now. My gut reaction is that fiber optic cable = rail. The squeeling for open competition could come straight from the looters' mouths. Can someone tell me how the Baby Bells profiting from their own cable is wrong? Public interest be damned; they laid it, they can do what they want with it.
Since numerous people above have pointed out this is a repeat, everyone should browse the older article and repost all the comments that were modded up to +5, and reap the benefits when that karma comes rollin' in! ;)
Nah, too much work. I'll just copy and paste from the current thread. Slashdot moderators won't know the difference.
> I guess it depends on how happy you are with
> your last Microsoft purchase versus your last
> use of software downloaded for free.
Microsoft vs the last software I downloaded for free?
Don't be silly. Thanks to DrinkorDie they're one in the same.
Exactly.
1) The parent misses the point. I applaud the spirit of achievement for any nation making it to space. Setting sights on the moon is only incrases the laudability.
However, the conservative militant FUD tied to NMD enrages me. NMD is a brain dead idea, that as Trent Lott put it, is the most expensive solution to the least likely scenario. 9/11 tells me that hostilities towards the US aren't likely to be enacted in a grand war that would inevitably result from launching missiles at the US. Rather confrontation will come with guerilla terrorist acts. No nation in the world has the rescources to win a 1 on 1 war with the US and they recognize this.
2)NMD doesn't extend from a defense necessity. Bush would be touting NMD as a panacea for our purported defensive ills no matter the situtation. The pro-militant agressive rhetoric scored points with special interest groups (read: military, christians preparing for armegeddeon, et al) and he needs to please them with a major increase in the defense budget. Should NMD come in under budget by half, another half baked defensive spending plan would come up.
+5 Interesting
I guess the moderation system hasn't been reworked in 2.2.
>I did some calculations a while back, and itseems quite possible for a laser of MIRACL's
>power to damage and destroy an ICBM (sorry, I'm too tired to dig up a link to my old post where
>I do the calcs).
That's allright, I have no doubt you proved this in the margins of an old notebook, just waiting to be found or rediscovered around here somewhere.
--Ryan
is to have every Seinfeld episode on DVD. Is something like this allready on the market?
--Ryan
A few weeks ago I paid for two of your Eternal Life Rings. Worried about their strength, I decided to conduct a very scientific study of their effects on animals. Having only two pets, a cat named Lulu and a bird named Bubba, I used them as my test subjects. As the ring would not fit around Lulu's paw, I tried to place it around her tail. It would not fit, so I used antifreeze to facilitate my efforts. It slid on quite nicely. I also searched for a spot on Bubba to put the ring, and found no other place besides his beak.
Regretably, the ring made Lulu horribly sick. She threw up for a good 10 hours before finally passing away. Bubba fared a little better, he just gradually shriveled up and died a week later. I greatly encourage you to evaluate the strength of your rings, as I believe them to work too well for any animals.
Sincerely,
Ryan Walsh
--Ryan
You will be foreced to accept my invention.
Same with souls.
And I am being honest.
I just think that most of the people are very close minded.
Antichrist is a person who disbelieve the bible prophecy.
They are "New Yorkans".
Now I'm convinced that he is a genius. Obviously, he was persuing 'eternal life rings' when I was learning basic grammar and spelling.
The entire Tibet is ruled by a bunch of religious idiots.
Strikes me as rather ironic.
--Ryan
I installed the sniffer for five minutesand this is what it dumped out
n \n http://www.yahoo.com/\npersian kitty chatroom\na/s/l?\nYes, I am on AOL, how did you know?\nhey, i'm on company time paying to talk to you sexy ladies\n\nWhy yes I do have a large penis.\nWell, if you say please\n\nwith a cherry\nOH SHIT BOSS, GOTTA GO\nhttp://www.microsoft.com/ie/\nAS#@$@ASDFyoupie ceofshitworknow!\n\n\n\n\nhttp://www.netscape.com
*START LOG* *SCANMAN 1.0*
http://www.yahoo.ocm\nNOFUCKYOUDIPSHIT\n\n\n\n\
*END LOG*
--Ryan
"The power problems in California didn't suddenly begin in January when Bush took office - they've been brewing for years. Never heard of Gore doing anything about it, did you?"
Oh thats right, Gore was _planning_ on losing the election so he decided to screw the country over. Can't argue with that logic.
--Ryan
The past month on Slashdot, a disportionate number of posts have been marked +5 Interesting. In the past, +5 Interesting has been reserved for especially well written and clued in posts. Slashdot needs to change either the number of people receiving moderation points or increase the maximum a post can be rated to 10. If this were to take effect, I could simply read the 5-6 best written or insightful comments instead of the posts people feel they have to waste their mod points on.
(just my drunken rambling)
--Ryan
Actually, they are leveraging their near monopoly on browsers into a IM monopoly. There is no way to unbundle the Microsoft Messanger from Internet Explorer 6 Beta. Why, when a person is too lazy to download a browser when one is prebundled with the OS, would someone download ICQ or AOL IM when the Microsoft Instant Messanger is in their browser. The installed base of browsers will also give them a huge pool of persons automatically signed up for their service.
--Ryan
Themoscowtimes.com doesn't work for me. However this should be the same article.
--Ryan
exactly what everyone was doing with their beowulf clusters....
*groan* yeah i know
--Ryan
Bad analogy. Everyone is voting to decide your fate.
1) You die of a painful heart attack as you walk in on your wife in bed with Rush Limbaugh.
2) You die in your sleep.
3) You live in paradise.
The only real options are #1 and #2 because thats how everyone else is voting. If you take the high ground, your screwed into a painful death.
--Ryan
You might want to check out The Vandals.
:) :)
Buy "Hitler Bad, Vandals Good", its their best work, great pop-punk music mixed with hilarious lyrics
ex: Song F'ed up girl "I'm well aware that you are chemically imbalanced, but I'm the kind of guy that likes a challenge" and the song My Girlfriends Dead which is really catchy and is about how his girlfriend broke up with him, and since he doesn't want to talk about her to people, he tells them shes dead.
Also, take a look at The Ataris and MxPx both of which are on the same non-major record label.
--Ryan
ah.. well just so you know, i'm 17 now, and I think I was in the same position your children are in when I was 11... for me the progression was something along the lines of
.bat files in dos (self-taught)
1) creating
2) qbasic (Running Microsoft QBasic, by the Microsoft Press) It helped me out a lot.
3) HTML 3.0 & Javascript (not actually programming, but I learned to design and work to the goal instead of just sitting and writing code)
4) C (Teach yourself C Programming in 21 Days, and the The C Programming Language by K&R)
and ive moved on to learn perl... hey, i'm not a programming god yet, but I still program because I am interested in it and enjoy it..
--Ryan
got this is my box a couple days ago...
During the heat of the space race in the 1960's, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration decided it needed a ball point pen to write in the zero gravity confines of its space capsules. After considerable research and development, the Astronaut Pen was developed at a cost of about $1 million U.S. The pen worked and also enjoyed some modest success as a novelty item back here on Earth. The Soviet Union, faced with the same problem, used a pencil.
--Ryan
I ran starcraft under wine with a 266 a while back. It ran slightly slower but still useable. Once every hour or so it would eat all my memory and crash.
Also, you can't simply fix wine to support the multiplayer, the only way to play on battle.net would be to provide the full winsock library on top of linux. The last time I read anything on it, wine hadn't even started implementing winsock. So multiplayer would be a long way off.
[ot] I need a company that would host my domain on a unix box with a useable c++ compiler, about 20 megs, for under $20 a month.. i'm tired of looking at all the hosting companies, its all the same generic deals and when I sign up, something is always wrong with their compiler. any help?
--Ryan
this combined with the crusoe would last forever
:P
(20hr/1.5hr) * ( 8hr / 1.5hr) = 71.1
(Fuel Cell/Hemos' Vaio) * (Crusoe/Hemos' Vaio) = approx 71 hours of continous use
--Ryan