Two words separated by a dot -- pets.com. Facebook doesn't generate enough revenue to support itd present stock price, and some advertisers are pulling out because the ads aren't effective.
Star Wars vs Star Trek? Vi Vs Emacs? Less filling vs tastes great?
I kind of like Sisco, myself. Stupid router company spelled his name wrong! Ever see Spencer for Hire? Brooks is a damned good actor, Hawk was the complete opposite of Sisko (Hawk was a pimp/gangster).
Sisko has Kirk's badassness, Picard's poise and unruffability, and he has the baddest star ship in the Star Trek universe. He could take Kirk and Picard at the same time in a fistfight OR a space battle!
Janeaway? How the hell did she ever make Captain?
Back down to Earth, Tesla was the 18th century Linus and Edison was the 18th century Jobs.
It reminds me that I'm not Australian and have no fucking clue what ABC is. Australian Bit Coins? Angry Boss Coming? Another Bloody Chump? Australian Bureau of Comfusion?
It wouldn't hurt to spell out the acronym once, unless you're talking about sometheng every nerd in the world would recognize.
Insightful? Don't you just love it when some goofball logs in as AC with an ignorant luddite remark, then logs in and mods himelf up, then logs in under his sock puppet and "hey! I Gots me some mod points on this sucker, too!"
I guess most people still haven't figured out how to TYPE
Typing is only useful when you need to write. I was comfortable with a command line twenty years or so ago, but the mouse makes far more sense for anything except communication or documentation.
Good luck using PhotoShop (or damned near any Windows program) by just typing. Games are far less fun with a keyboard than with a mouse or joystick, and gestures could even let you get a little excersize while playing.
If the resolution on this thing is good enough, you could fingerpaint with it.
Ever tried typing on a tablet? I have a computer plugged into my TV, it would be great to be able to contol it without the wireless mouse. The wireless keyboard usually sits on a shelf (right now its batteries are dead).
Give it three seconds thought and you can come up with a lot more uses. Gees, first dumb people posting and now dumb people moderating.
No, mind-altering drugs should be legal because there should be no law against harming yourself. Marijuana should be legal because there's no reason whatever (besides right-wing lies) why it should be illegal. And yes, it does help creativity. Often some of my best stories come from a pot haze. Unfortunately half the time I forget what I was going to write before I get it written down.
As to the study, once again science has proven that which most of us have noticed. But proving it scientifically is a GOOD thing. Without testing one can never be sure.
They used to call them "coffee breaks" back when it was acceptable to smoke damned near everywhere. When I was in college you could smoke in class! But folks still got breaks at work.
I had one job where they were afraid of ruining IT equipment by getting stuff spilled on it, so you could smoke at your desk but not drink coffee. Now it's the other way around.
According to the link in your sig, the government is shrinking. Wonder were that extra $1.5 trillion is going.
We're in a recession, so tax reciepts would be down, food stamp costs would be up, older folks getting laid off are collecting Social Security when they'd rather be working (the fools!) and we're paying interest on what we already borrowed.
Did they even have coffee in Israel back then? I could be mistaken but I thought it was native to South America. He was known do be a winebibber and a glutton [citation: Matthew 11:19]. Seeing as how he was executed, I doubt coffee would have helped much.
BTW, having the death penalty seems to be something good you can say about Texas, IMHO.
I can't agree. First, we got rid of the death penalty in Illinois because the Innocence Project proved that half the inmates on death row were innocent.
Second, if someone killed one of my daughters, I would NOT want him put painlessly put to sleep like a beloved pet. We're all under a death penalty, and most of us will die in horrible ways -- strokes, heart attacks, cancer, alzheimers, auto accident. Few die peacefully in their sleep. I'd rather they rot in prison until they die the same horrible death I will.
The same reason you should have a basic understanding of how your vehicle works and be able to at least change the oil and spark plugs when need be.
I have a basic understanding of how my car works, and use to maintain my own cars all the time. Hell, I've changed clutches. When I had that damned Mustang I spent more time under the hood than behind the wheel (Fix Or Repai Daily). Now? It took a trained mechanic 45 minutes to change my battery, since he had to remove the wheel, fender, and wheel well to get to it. It would have taken me all day, it was money well spent. 25 years ago I would have spent five minutes and a crescent wrench to do it. I'd rather have paid a mechanic to spend 15 minutes changing the water pump on my old '74 LeMans rather than two hours in the hot sun, but I couldn't afford mechanics back then.
Plus, if I had changed the battery by myself, who knows what I might have screwed up? It's the same with computers. I'm fine working on my own computers rather than getting a half-assed job for way too much much money at the Geek Squad, but Joe Normal may know the basics of his computer, but do you really think he needs to know how to fdisk and reinstall an OS, or swap out a hard drive?
There's no reason to know how to change your oil, just that you need to know when and why.
Neurosurgeons make shitloads of money. He'd be a fool to spend five times as long as it takes you while risking making a n00b mistake. Retarded? Sorry, son, you're the confused one here.
But, just for shits 'n giggles, let's just say they do, and fracking is dangerous. OK. We still need energy. Or would you prefer to take measures like forgoing heat in the winter and/or closing things like hospitals one week a month, and/or stopping police patrols 2 or 3 days a week?
I'd like to see fools stop wasting energy. I'd like to see them stop racing to the red light so they can sit there at zero miles per gallon. I'd like to see them stop bitching about the half second it takes a cheap CFL to light (you kids would have hated it in my grandparents' day when they used kerosine lanterns) and what damned color the light is. Outside the color of the light changes from sunrise to sunset and I don't hear any complaints about that. I'd like to see fewer gas-wasting stop lights and stop signs (they're especially bad about that here in Springdield). I'd like to never again see a car outside a store running with nobody in it. Or a cop just sitting there with his cruiser idling when it's seventy degrees and the car's in the shade. I'd like to see people shut the damned TV off if they're not in front of it. And a thousand other things.
Most of you people probably waste as much energy as you actually use.
Extreme overdose can result in death.[48][49] The median lethal dose (LD50) given orally, is 192 milligrams per kilogram in rats. The LD50 of caffeine in humans is dependent on individual sensitivity, but is estimated to be about 150 to 200 milligrams per kilogram of body mass or roughly 80 to 100 cups of coffee for an average adult.
30 cups is three pots of coffee. You'd have a damned hard time ingestin that much, but you could perhaps OD on those energy drinks or caffiene pills.
By "average" they usually mean "mean" but in this case they may mean "median". When you count all the people who use their computers for nothing but email or maybe facebook, 2-4 is probably about the median. The actuall mean is probably closer to what you guess..
much like US viewers of a map of Europe see "Germany" rather than the locally-preferred "Deutschland".
I never could understand why we say "Germany" and the Germans say "Deutschland". Or why Burma is now Myanmar, or Siam now Thailand, or Persia now Iran? Does anybody have an answer to that?
I think he was pointing to your illiterate looking "drop's". Why did you do that? Finger slip off the "p" and hit the ' by mistake? That would be my guess. If you'd said "door's" I'd have thought you an idiot since the r ans s are nowhere near each other, but I suspect it's just a typo.
I'm sure you've seen the regular debates around here regarding the definition of 'hacker,' fought between those who wish to stay true to the old meaning and those who wish to accept the corrupt but more-popular meaning to avoid confusion.
Yeah, good luck avoiding confusing a layperson. I thought it was hilarious this morning watching the looks on reporters' faces when they saw "HACK!" graffittied on a wall at Facebook HQ with Zuckenberg smiling, an their confusion at the "hackathon" they pulled last night.
That analogy would only make sense if you had free long distance before a certain cap, or if you paid 100% of your internet bill by the byte. Unfortunately, it's apples and oranges you're comparing.
You jest, but I still haven't seen the last season of Voyager. The station that carried it changed networks right before the last season, and it wasn't available here at all. I've looked for it on the shelves of stores, but never saw anything past season 2.
I am a 'borg, for real. I know other cyborgs IRL. Resistance is futile? When you need a cybernetic implant you'll not resist, you'll pay good money for it.
Good attempt at humor, but "we are really thirsty" ruined the joke. Coffee doesn't quench your thirst. You should have said "we are really tired".
It's a pity this guy has no account, because I was going to post the exact same thing. Screw it, my karma's excellent. AC said "We all have the same risk of death, 100%. It's the when that coffee affects".
Ok, so as not to waste a bunch of people's time reading a redundant comment, when I saw this story my thought was "oh shit!" When my grandmother was 95 she said "I don't know why anybody wants to live to be a hundred, it ain't no fun bein' old." I can't quit drinking coffee because my brain doesn't work as well without it.
I'm afraid I may be biting a troll, but just in case the AC is just stupid and not trolling,
Wait. The 'system' allowed him to earn that money? You mean the 'government', right?
I'm pretty sure if he meant "the government" that's what he would have said. "The system" is more than just the government, it's government, industry, people, infrastructure, the god damned system.
You mean the 'government', right? They don't do shit to help people earn money.
There's no employment office in your town? You don't have minimum wage laws? You have no roads? You have no public schools? All of these are government trying to help you earn money.
Why else would they be after him and threatening to end people's citizenship because of this?
This is why I suspect the AC isn't trolling, he can barely read. It's sad government won't spend more on education, but maybe he's just learning-disabled. Poor paranoid schitzophrenic fool... it looks like a moderator is as dumb as... WAIT A GODDAMNED MINUTE, he IS a fucking moderator and logged off to post without undoing his mods and then logged back in to moderate HIS OWN POST.
No wonder there are so many brain-dead moderations in this thread!
Whoever moderated the parent "offtopic" should NVER get mod points. You don't mod someone down because you don't like what they say. I'd have modded him "insightful."
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Two words separated by a dot -- pets.com. Facebook doesn't generate enough revenue to support itd present stock price, and some advertisers are pulling out because the ads aren't effective.
Star Wars vs Star Trek? Vi Vs Emacs? Less filling vs tastes great?
I kind of like Sisco, myself. Stupid router company spelled his name wrong! Ever see Spencer for Hire? Brooks is a damned good actor, Hawk was the complete opposite of Sisko (Hawk was a pimp/gangster).
Sisko has Kirk's badassness, Picard's poise and unruffability, and he has the baddest star ship in the Star Trek universe. He could take Kirk and Picard at the same time in a fistfight OR a space battle!
Janeaway? How the hell did she ever make Captain?
Back down to Earth, Tesla was the 18th century Linus and Edison was the 18th century Jobs.
It reminds me that I'm not Australian and have no fucking clue what ABC is. Australian Bit Coins? Angry Boss Coming? Another Bloody Chump? Australian Bureau of Comfusion?
It wouldn't hurt to spell out the acronym once, unless you're talking about sometheng every nerd in the world would recognize.
Insightful? Don't you just love it when some goofball logs in as AC with an ignorant luddite remark, then logs in and mods himelf up, then logs in under his sock puppet and "hey! I Gots me some mod points on this sucker, too!"
I guess most people still haven't figured out how to TYPE
Typing is only useful when you need to write. I was comfortable with a command line twenty years or so ago, but the mouse makes far more sense for anything except communication or documentation.
Good luck using PhotoShop (or damned near any Windows program) by just typing. Games are far less fun with a keyboard than with a mouse or joystick, and gestures could even let you get a little excersize while playing.
If the resolution on this thing is good enough, you could fingerpaint with it.
Ever tried typing on a tablet? I have a computer plugged into my TV, it would be great to be able to contol it without the wireless mouse. The wireless keyboard usually sits on a shelf (right now its batteries are dead).
Give it three seconds thought and you can come up with a lot more uses. Gees, first dumb people posting and now dumb people moderating.
And this is why mild drugs should be legal.
No, mind-altering drugs should be legal because there should be no law against harming yourself. Marijuana should be legal because there's no reason whatever (besides right-wing lies) why it should be illegal. And yes, it does help creativity. Often some of my best stories come from a pot haze. Unfortunately half the time I forget what I was going to write before I get it written down.
As to the study, once again science has proven that which most of us have noticed. But proving it scientifically is a GOOD thing. Without testing one can never be sure.
They used to call them "coffee breaks" back when it was acceptable to smoke damned near everywhere. When I was in college you could smoke in class! But folks still got breaks at work.
I had one job where they were afraid of ruining IT equipment by getting stuff spilled on it, so you could smoke at your desk but not drink coffee. Now it's the other way around.
According to the link in your sig, the government is shrinking. Wonder were that extra $1.5 trillion is going.
We're in a recession, so tax reciepts would be down, food stamp costs would be up, older folks getting laid off are collecting Social Security when they'd rather be working (the fools!) and we're paying interest on what we already borrowed.
Did they even have coffee in Israel back then? I could be mistaken but I thought it was native to South America. He was known do be a winebibber and a glutton [citation: Matthew 11:19]. Seeing as how he was executed, I doubt coffee would have helped much.
BTW, having the death penalty seems to be something good you can say about Texas, IMHO.
I can't agree. First, we got rid of the death penalty in Illinois because the Innocence Project proved that half the inmates on death row were innocent.
Second, if someone killed one of my daughters, I would NOT want him put painlessly put to sleep like a beloved pet. We're all under a death penalty, and most of us will die in horrible ways -- strokes, heart attacks, cancer, alzheimers, auto accident. Few die peacefully in their sleep. I'd rather they rot in prison until they die the same horrible death I will.
The same reason you should have a basic understanding of how your vehicle works and be able to at least change the oil and spark plugs when need be.
I have a basic understanding of how my car works, and use to maintain my own cars all the time. Hell, I've changed clutches. When I had that damned Mustang I spent more time under the hood than behind the wheel (Fix Or Repai Daily). Now? It took a trained mechanic 45 minutes to change my battery, since he had to remove the wheel, fender, and wheel well to get to it. It would have taken me all day, it was money well spent. 25 years ago I would have spent five minutes and a crescent wrench to do it. I'd rather have paid a mechanic to spend 15 minutes changing the water pump on my old '74 LeMans rather than two hours in the hot sun, but I couldn't afford mechanics back then.
Plus, if I had changed the battery by myself, who knows what I might have screwed up? It's the same with computers. I'm fine working on my own computers rather than getting a half-assed job for way too much much money at the Geek Squad, but Joe Normal may know the basics of his computer, but do you really think he needs to know how to fdisk and reinstall an OS, or swap out a hard drive?
There's no reason to know how to change your oil, just that you need to know when and why.
Neurosurgeons make shitloads of money. He'd be a fool to spend five times as long as it takes you while risking making a n00b mistake. Retarded? Sorry, son, you're the confused one here.
But, just for shits 'n giggles, let's just say they do, and fracking is dangerous. OK. We still need energy. Or would you prefer to take measures like forgoing heat in the winter and/or closing things like hospitals one week a month, and/or stopping police patrols 2 or 3 days a week?
I'd like to see fools stop wasting energy. I'd like to see them stop racing to the red light so they can sit there at zero miles per gallon. I'd like to see them stop bitching about the half second it takes a cheap CFL to light (you kids would have hated it in my grandparents' day when they used kerosine lanterns) and what damned color the light is. Outside the color of the light changes from sunrise to sunset and I don't hear any complaints about that. I'd like to see fewer gas-wasting stop lights and stop signs (they're especially bad about that here in Springdield). I'd like to never again see a car outside a store running with nobody in it. Or a cop just sitting there with his cruiser idling when it's seventy degrees and the car's in the shade. I'd like to see people shut the damned TV off if they're not in front of it. And a thousand other things.
Most of you people probably waste as much energy as you actually use.
From your link:
By "average" they usually mean "mean" but in this case they may mean "median". When you count all the people who use their computers for nothing but email or maybe facebook, 2-4 is probably about the median. The actuall mean is probably closer to what you guess..
This is nothing more than some twisting to make it "nerdy" article.
You don't consider biochemists to be nerds? Not geeky maybe but definitely nerdy.
much like US viewers of a map of Europe see "Germany" rather than the locally-preferred "Deutschland".
I never could understand why we say "Germany" and the Germans say "Deutschland". Or why Burma is now Myanmar, or Siam now Thailand, or Persia now Iran? Does anybody have an answer to that?
I think he was pointing to your illiterate looking "drop's". Why did you do that? Finger slip off the "p" and hit the ' by mistake? That would be my guess. If you'd said "door's" I'd have thought you an idiot since the r ans s are nowhere near each other, but I suspect it's just a typo.
I mean, really.... Grey hair, Fred Thompson look alike... They don't exist in IT.
I see you've never been inside the building I work in.
I'm sure you've seen the regular debates around here regarding the definition of 'hacker,' fought between those who wish to stay true to the old meaning and those who wish to accept the corrupt but more-popular meaning to avoid confusion.
Yeah, good luck avoiding confusing a layperson. I thought it was hilarious this morning watching the looks on reporters' faces when they saw "HACK!" graffittied on a wall at Facebook HQ with Zuckenberg smiling, an their confusion at the "hackathon" they pulled last night.
That analogy would only make sense if you had free long distance before a certain cap, or if you paid 100% of your internet bill by the byte. Unfortunately, it's apples and oranges you're comparing.
Any of my fellow old timers here remember Mandrake 7.0's infamous "Move Your Mouse Wheel!" thing during installation???
No, and I first installed Mandrake in 2002. Maybe my mouse didn't have a wheel back then and the install software "knew" it and acted accordingly.
You jest, but I still haven't seen the last season of Voyager. The station that carried it changed networks right before the last season, and it wasn't available here at all. I've looked for it on the shelves of stores, but never saw anything past season 2.
I'm going to HAVE to pirate it to see it.
I am a 'borg, for real. I know other cyborgs IRL. Resistance is futile? When you need a cybernetic implant you'll not resist, you'll pay good money for it.
Good attempt at humor, but "we are really thirsty" ruined the joke. Coffee doesn't quench your thirst. You should have said "we are really tired".
It's a pity this guy has no account, because I was going to post the exact same thing. Screw it, my karma's excellent. AC said "We all have the same risk of death, 100%. It's the when that coffee affects".
Ok, so as not to waste a bunch of people's time reading a redundant comment, when I saw this story my thought was "oh shit!" When my grandmother was 95 she said "I don't know why anybody wants to live to be a hundred, it ain't no fun bein' old." I can't quit drinking coffee because my brain doesn't work as well without it.
Maybe I should start smoking...
I'm afraid I may be biting a troll, but just in case the AC is just stupid and not trolling,
Wait. The 'system' allowed him to earn that money? You mean the 'government', right?
I'm pretty sure if he meant "the government" that's what he would have said. "The system" is more than just the government, it's government, industry, people, infrastructure, the god damned system.
You mean the 'government', right? They don't do shit to help people earn money.
There's no employment office in your town? You don't have minimum wage laws? You have no roads? You have no public schools? All of these are government trying to help you earn money.
Why else would they be after him and threatening to end people's citizenship because of this?
This is why I suspect the AC isn't trolling, he can barely read. It's sad government won't spend more on education, but maybe he's just learning-disabled. Poor paranoid schitzophrenic fool... it looks like a moderator is as dumb as... WAIT A GODDAMNED MINUTE, he IS a fucking moderator and logged off to post without undoing his mods and then logged back in to moderate HIS OWN POST.
No wonder there are so many brain-dead moderations in this thread!
That's not a solution if you're running Linux.
Whoever moderated the parent "offtopic" should NVER get mod points. You don't mod someone down because you don't like what they say. I'd have modded him "insightful."