...the reason you stand for a meeting is to keep it short by making it physically uncomfortable for the participants. Standing is actually doing exactly what you want: reducing meeting time.
Then why not reduce meeting time further, by making it more physically uncomfortable? Set fire to anyone who shows up.
I ask because I use a keyboard remapper written in C that "hooks" the Windows input, so it maps things like J to , and does so for every program (even command-line based programs, like the Win10 Linux terminal).
It's been my limited experience with headphone purchasing that there are only two kinds: the cheap-ass ones (up to $50), then there's a huge gap and you have the high-end artisanal $3000 ones designed by Taoist monks on rice paper with endangered squid ink, made with alluvial gold connectors and endorsed by the latest rapper who hasn't yet been shot by any of the other rappers.
Anyway, with all their data mining, Google couldn't tell that people would be outraged at the original set price? Did they even think to ask anyone, or did they run around the boardroom table and get the opinions of a bunch of people who earn more money in a week than most of us see in a year?
How does it deal with five o'clock shadows, or faces that need to be shaved more often than others? Change your beard style? Makeup? You point your apple device at someone else and they think you're creep-shooting and they punch you in the face? Does the software compensate for swollen lips and black eyes?
It IS kind of a cult, but in the same way trotskyites or Ayn rand followers are a cult. Nutty as shit, but not ACTUALLY religious, and unlike the trots and randoids, pretty openly have fun with it all.
It is kind of NOT A CULT because you are free to leave any time you want, Reverend Stang does not encourage the faithful to cut themselves off from their friends and family and give ALL of their money to him, and he does not encourage us to take up arms against an imaginary threat from the outside world and constantly remind us how lucky we are to have him to give us the sole truth and the only truth while he fucks all the women followers.
Mainly he keeps us up to date on changes in postage fees.
There exists a non-zero chance the reason we don't see the galaxy teeming with extraterrestrial life is that an advanced civilization simply comes along and destroys all other civilizations once they make themselves known.
And that advanced civilization could be US, if we work at it.
No. Not enough. Nowhere near enough. That's like setting out to contact the Asgard from SG-1 and ending up talking to the Wunch from "Accelerando".
Incidentally, I've seen partial video of the first attempt to get this device going, and I think one of the components was a potato, so I think there's a good chance this will work.
I suggest piping in a few tracks by SPK, in particular "Emanation Machine R.Gie 1916", the first track from their 1981 release "Information Overload Unit".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9b89PFYZ5g
When my wife first heard it, she said it was like having your head stuck inside a running vacuum cleaner. Follow it up with some Throbbing Gristle, perhaps.
Then they need to promote plastic the way that cars have been promoted. Plastic is sexy! Plastic is virile! If you wear all-plastic clothes and live in an all-plastic house, eating plastic food, girls (most likely plastic girls) will want to sleep with you!
"Plastic... plastic gets me hot!" - Professor T.J.Teru, "Ruby"
... With electric vehicles and bans of fossil fuels appearing, panic and desperation will create all sorts of ideas. There is an ugliness hidden in the background of all this. When they don't want that oil any more, they will...
... do something else with it, like, oh, I don't know.. make plastic, perhaps.
However on top of block chain it has a "chain" of buzwords. Block chain, AI, secure, encryption, XXX, virtualization, drone. and our marketing is already searching for the coolest other buzzwords we can add.
Holographic display 3D-printed nanotech AI cold fusion powered?
Think a bit further than that. If Amazon could equip the Kivas with controls via tcp/ip, gamers could direct them from home, or their campers, or via smartphone from your cosy cardboard box next to the dumpster in the alley behind Safeways.
Slashdot Mirror
...the reason you stand for a meeting is to keep it short by making it physically uncomfortable for the participants. Standing is actually doing exactly what you want: reducing meeting time.
Then why not reduce meeting time further, by making it more physically uncomfortable? Set fire to anyone who shows up.
I ask because I use a keyboard remapper written in C that "hooks" the Windows input, so it maps things like J to , and does so for every program (even command-line based programs, like the Win10 Linux terminal).
It's been my limited experience with headphone purchasing that there are only two kinds: the cheap-ass ones (up to $50), then there's a huge gap and you have the high-end artisanal $3000 ones designed by Taoist monks on rice paper with endangered squid ink, made with alluvial gold connectors and endorsed by the latest rapper who hasn't yet been shot by any of the other rappers.
Anyway, with all their data mining, Google couldn't tell that people would be outraged at the original set price? Did they even think to ask anyone, or did they run around the boardroom table and get the opinions of a bunch of people who earn more money in a week than most of us see in a year?
My problem is that I already made the "wossamotta U" joke in the other thread.
Do the editors at slashdot communicate with each other at all? Do they check the recent articles to see if the story has already been done?
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/17/10/13/1915259/woz-wants-to-retrain-you-for-a-career-in-tech
- to name it Wossamotta U - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"Our praise for you will never cease. / All hail magenta and cerise."
My guess is it's a promotional stunt for the film "Iron Sky 2: The Coming Age", that got out of hand.
How does it deal with five o'clock shadows, or faces that need to be shaved more often than others? Change your beard style? Makeup? You point your apple device at someone else and they think you're creep-shooting and they punch you in the face? Does the software compensate for swollen lips and black eyes?
It IS kind of a cult, but in the same way trotskyites or Ayn rand followers are a cult. Nutty as shit, but not ACTUALLY religious, and unlike the trots and randoids, pretty openly have fun with it all.
It is kind of NOT A CULT because you are free to leave any time you want, Reverend Stang does not encourage the faithful to cut themselves off from their friends and family and give ALL of their money to him, and he does not encourage us to take up arms against an imaginary threat from the outside world and constantly remind us how lucky we are to have him to give us the sole truth and the only truth while he fucks all the women followers.
Mainly he keeps us up to date on changes in postage fees.
The subgenious thing was never that funny. It was always too unfocused in concept and just wordy. Parodies are not automatically funny.
Yeah, how's that Discordianism working out for you? Fnord! Don't eat hotdog buns on Friday, lol! Who's the target for this year's jape?
There exists a non-zero chance the reason we don't see the galaxy teeming with extraterrestrial life is that an advanced civilization simply comes along and destroys all other civilizations once they make themselves known.
And that advanced civilization could be US, if we work at it.
How's that for a goal in life?
Trump tweets aren't enough for you?
No. Not enough. Nowhere near enough. That's like setting out to contact the Asgard from SG-1 and ending up talking to the Wunch from "Accelerando".
Incidentally, I've seen partial video of the first attempt to get this device going, and I think one of the components was a potato, so I think there's a good chance this will work.
Need to make a horror movie starring a swarm of...butterflies.
At the start of Bruce Sterling's novel "Schismatrix", there's an assassination via a swarm of genetically modified moths.
What the hell is up with people forgetting verbs lately? Is there some aspect to phone posting that causes people to forget them?
I suggest piping in a few tracks by SPK, in particular "Emanation Machine R.Gie 1916", the first track from their 1981 release "Information Overload Unit".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9b89PFYZ5g
When my wife first heard it, she said it was like having your head stuck inside a running vacuum cleaner. Follow it up with some Throbbing Gristle, perhaps.
Then they need to promote plastic the way that cars have been promoted. Plastic is sexy! Plastic is virile! If you wear all-plastic clothes and live in an all-plastic house, eating plastic food, girls (most likely plastic girls) will want to sleep with you!
"Plastic... plastic gets me hot!" - Professor T.J.Teru, "Ruby"
It's a giant wealthy tourist trap.
Indeed. Some of the more cynical Fremen say that Muad'dib only wants the tourists for their water.
... With electric vehicles and bans of fossil fuels appearing, panic and desperation will create all sorts of ideas. There is an ugliness hidden in the background of all this. When they don't want that oil any more, they will...
... do something else with it, like, oh, I don't know.. make plastic , perhaps.
And when the money runs out, we'll have authentic Ancient Martian Ruins.
However on top of block chain it has a "chain" of buzwords. Block chain, AI, secure, encryption, XXX, virtualization, drone. and our marketing is already searching for the coolest other buzzwords we can add.
Holographic display 3D-printed nanotech AI cold fusion powered?
It wasn't an "outage", it was an "unscheduled hiatus".
280 is clearly too much. Users might be confused.
I say reduce it to 80 characters. If it was good enough for fidonet taglines -
Think a bit further than that. If Amazon could equip the Kivas with controls via tcp/ip, gamers could direct them from home, or their campers, or via smartphone from your cosy cardboard box next to the dumpster in the alley behind Safeways.
It worked for nomadic people.
Which mega-corporation gave them seasonal work? And if you reply "mother nature", I will be compelled to regard you as a twonk.
Amusing also after all the comments about 1984, how closely this fits to part of the story of Brazil. Shame they don't sell air conditioning.
Shame there isn't an Archibald Tuttle who would rappel in, fix your phone, give you a jaunty wink and then rappel away again.