Recipes, restaurant reviews, articles on culinary issues, and dieting aren't news, period, let alone news for nerds. They're articles of interest for certain select groups.
There was an enormous discussion on Slashdot on the day of the 9/11 attacks and that was hardly "News for Nerds"
Yes it was. Bob Waring, author of a popular strategy guide book about DOOM, had his "Sgt. Hulka's Boot Camp" hosted on servers at the WTC. His site was down for a week or two, and I imagine a lot of other sites were as well. If that's not news for nerds what is?
Not only that, the fact that they DoSed every damned newspaper in the country by flying airplanes into buildings and having everyone in the world go online to find news made it news for nerds too.
That said, I agree with an earlier poster who said that this is a news forum where nerds gather to discuss stuff that matters, from our perspective. No fucking way would I join a discussion about this on Yahoo News with their normtard muggles posts. Some of the wannabe nerds here are bad enough.
You go to most restaurants in the US and they serve up way more food than you would/should want to consume.
Two words: "doggie bag." I almost never leave a restaraunt empty handed, always leave with a go-box with enough leftovers for another full meal.
just look at what has happened to the "standard" soda size
Yeah, they used to have large, medium, and small. Now they have large, medium, and humungous. When I was a kid a small coke at McDonalds was 8 oz, medium 12 oz, large 16 oz. Now the "small" is 16 oz. They used to have 9 oz cokes in machines, now the smallest is 12 oz and the norm is a litre (that's tiny bit more than a quart).
So when I go to a restaraunt, I don't even buy soda, the 12 oz beer bottle is still standard.
Do the youth in Russia protesting understand exactly how free they are compared with the American's slandering them? Consider the facts.
Sorry, but the opinion of the uneducated is of no interest whatever to me. Your "journalist" should learn when, and more importantly when NOT, to use simple punctuation and I'll read his tripe. But what an aliterate says is of no value to me. I'm surprised you'd quote such a rag.
If it was meant as a possessive it should have read "compared with the Americans' slandering of them."
Six Corporations control the American press
Wrong. They do have undue influence, but I just linked to a newspaper (yes, they print paper editions as well) that is not connected to any of them.
Freedom of the press has always been for those with the money to buy a press -- which today, is almost anyone, since the 21st century printing press is a laser printer and the internet.
the American president recently authorized the assassination of an American citizen who was known for recording tapes and CDs denouncing America's policies as immoral, and oppressive.
Link? Oh, there are none. Funny, that.
Frequently in the last several decades children have had to rely on parents taking schools to court to avail themselves of the right to pray; Churches and Mosques are frequently having to show up in court to preserve their rights to call people to prayer, ring bells, or even maintain a cross that happens to be visible from a public highway.
And again, no link. Your Russian newspaper is full of shit. We have Christian churches, Jewish Synagogues, Islamic Mosques, and even a Bhuddist temple in this small city of 110k. Oh yeah, lots of atheists and agnostics as well.
American's Pay Almost 50% of their income in Taxes
There's that misused apostrophe again. Tell that stupid illiterate blogger to go back to the 6th grade. Hell, you'd have done better to link to this. At least I'm literate. Your Ruskie blog reads like it was written by a fourth grader.
You mean not news for only nerds. This is news for anybody and decidedly "stuff that matters." Had Martin been white and Zimmerman been black (Hispanic is not a race, there are Latinos of all races) he would have been in jail that night and might not have even survived the trip to the police station. Instead we get this.
They're obviously misandrists. If it was a men-only scholarship the feminists would be burning the place down.
Do these yokels realize that the world's first high level language was written my a woman named Grace Hopper, and the world's first programmer was a woman named Ada Lovelace?
What a shame. My car's only 4 years newer than XP and it still runs fine. So does my TV, even though I had to get a digital tuner for it.
So you have millions of computers that will be unuseable because the OS manufacturer refuses to suport it. Meanwhile, my car needs new struts -- still available and will be for decades. Hell, if it were a '64 Ford I could still get parts and have it serviced.
Good thing we have Linux so those old boxes don't wind up in landfills prematurely.
Oh, come on, mods, that was funny! Sheesh, some people have no sense of humor. I always thought Deutschland was a hilarious name for a country. Probably not back in WWII though...
As to this ruling, I think the judge, plaintiffs, and defendants are the douches here.
And the moderators are the wooshes. Or is that wooshies?
From what I've read (which was a LONG time ago so further discoveries and theories may have developed), Earth had little or no oxygen when life developed, and the oxygen would have been a poisonous byproduct, like methane is to today's life.
So life itself would have changed the environment, of course along with other such variables as volcanos, continental drifting, and meteors.
I don't like the "thin client" at all. "Thin clients" used to be called "terminals". We moved away from terminals to PCs for very good reasons, such as if the network or server goes down you can still get work done. You're not beholden to the server's rules.
Lots of IT people like thin clients because it means job security and control of users.
I'll stick with Linux and my own network. The internet and networks in general are for sharing data, nothing more.
The thing that gives the US the best health care is the fact that patients generally get treatment when needed, as needed.
Only if you can afford insurance, and one in six cannot. When one in six people can't be treated until they're on death's door, the system is seriously flawed.
I believe you'll find a huge positive correlation between infant deaths and lack of insurance.
once you accept it as a necessary evil it isn't that hard to work around.
But I refuse to accept it. It's evil, unnecessary, and I don't under any circumstances accept it. In fact, in my case, astroturfing your cause or product is likely to make me hate your product. If you have to use deception to sell your wares, how good can they be?
A hospital that received a sick patent in an ER is required to treat that patient, insurance or not.
So what happens is someone has a bellyache for six months and doesn't go to the doctor because she has no insurance, and goes to the ER when the pain is unberable, only to find that she has a no longer treatable cancer on her gall bladder bigger than the organ itself. This happened to my late friend Linda, who our health care system killed.
Or the guy goes to the hospital for a burst appendix and winds up with his credit ruined and in debt and poverty despite having what would be a good job if insurance were provided and vows never to make that mistake again, and dies from a coronary that could have been prevented had he been treated earlier. That happened to my friend Jim.
In the US, if you have insurance, which the vast majority of the US population actually does have
See those people working in restaraunts? None of them have health insurance. Workers at a small business? None of them have health insurance. Those on unemployment? None of them have health insurance. Mentally ill homeless people? No health insurance.
In fact, actually, few people I know personally DO have it. You're going to have to come up with a citation for me to not call bullshit.
You repeat "we get better care", prove it. By what metric?
The US has, by a very significant margin, the best health care system in the world.
By what metric? We have far from the best child mortality rate, far from the best infant mortality rate, far from the best longevity. How can you possibly say we're the best when the only thing our health care is #1 in is cost?
People here in Springfield, IL are shocked. We have the Simpsons' Springfield rivals with the same name as a town right down the highway, we had a dead ringer for Mr Burns running the power company (retired last year), a dead ringer for Mayor Quimby (committed suicide last year), a dead ringer for the TV news announcer at local station WICS (retired 2 years ago).
We have Ward 2 alderman Gail Simpson.
And the town is full of cartoon characters, especially if you drink and take Paxil.
People don't forget stupid marketing mistakes like insisting on reporting the Peak Power Level a Sony amplifier can handle instead of the Continuous Power Level ratings used by high-end amplifier manufacturers.
Indeed, only reporting only peak power is close enough to fraud for me. However, I want BOTH numbers when buying an amplifier. Plugging a 100 watt speaker into an 80 watt RMS amp will blow your speakers if it produces 120 watts peak. Displaying peak power is only to save you from blowing your speakers. But displaying ONLY peak is next to criminal.
But one has to love the irony at all those here that hate Sony for being douches who then have to support MSFT which they can't stand either.
There's no irony, at least in my case. I don't like Microsoft products. I don't like the way they're designed, I don't like their lack of useability, I don't like the "MS way or the highway" feeling I get when I use them.
But Microsoft never (at least to my knowledge) deliberately infected my computer with a trojan like Sony did.
Once bitten, twice shy. Microsoft makes (imo) bad software, Sony is just EVIL.
Did you bother reading a word of what was written, or did you just knee-jerk reply without doing so? Considering that yours was the first post, my guess is you thought you knew what you were talking about but don't.
tl;dr version of TFA: They're making progress, and spelled out what progress has been made and what progress still needs to be made.
Their argument would be stupid. At the time, the only CD player we had in the apartment was the PC, and Sony had to know that it's how many people are. Also that I paid fo rthe damned CD (or rather my daughter did; she bought it at the store she worked in) and had every right to rip it to MP3 so she could listen to it on her iPod.
I'd have been even more pissed if I'd been using the machine to record and burn my own compositions, as many do. That god damned trojan disabled my CD burner (necessary for any musician who wants to give away CDs of their work), P2P software (How am I going to upload Linux distros without BitTorrent? How is an indie to popularize his or her work?) and disabled every single tool an indie musician would need.
There was absolutely NOTHING illegal on my computer. You know what happens when you assume, right?
Sony's war isn't with Pirates, it's a war against their independant competetion. DoJ should go after them for anticompetetive behavior.
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Recipes, restaurant reviews, articles on culinary issues, and dieting aren't news, period, let alone news for nerds. They're articles of interest for certain select groups.
Racism affects everyone. Even nerds.
They have half-dozen cartons where I live, too. But I usually get the 18 egg cartons, eggs last a long time in the fridge.
There was an enormous discussion on Slashdot on the day of the 9/11 attacks and that was hardly "News for Nerds"
Yes it was. Bob Waring, author of a popular strategy guide book about DOOM, had his "Sgt. Hulka's Boot Camp" hosted on servers at the WTC. His site was down for a week or two, and I imagine a lot of other sites were as well. If that's not news for nerds what is?
Not only that, the fact that they DoSed every damned newspaper in the country by flying airplanes into buildings and having everyone in the world go online to find news made it news for nerds too.
That said, I agree with an earlier poster who said that this is a news forum where nerds gather to discuss stuff that matters, from our perspective. No fucking way would I join a discussion about this on Yahoo News with their normtard muggles posts. Some of the wannabe nerds here are bad enough.
The m and the n are right next to each other on the keyboard, moron.
You go to most restaurants in the US and they serve up way more food than you would/should want to consume.
Two words: "doggie bag." I almost never leave a restaraunt empty handed, always leave with a go-box with enough leftovers for another full meal.
just look at what has happened to the "standard" soda size
Yeah, they used to have large, medium, and small. Now they have large, medium, and humungous. When I was a kid a small coke at McDonalds was 8 oz, medium 12 oz, large 16 oz. Now the "small" is 16 oz. They used to have 9 oz cokes in machines, now the smallest is 12 oz and the norm is a litre (that's tiny bit more than a quart).
So when I go to a restaraunt, I don't even buy soda, the 12 oz beer bottle is still standard.
Do the youth in Russia protesting understand exactly how free they are compared with the American's slandering them? Consider the facts.
Sorry, but the opinion of the uneducated is of no interest whatever to me. Your "journalist" should learn when, and more importantly when NOT, to use simple punctuation and I'll read his tripe. But what an aliterate says is of no value to me. I'm surprised you'd quote such a rag.
If it was meant as a possessive it should have read "compared with the Americans' slandering of them."
Six Corporations control the American press
Wrong. They do have undue influence, but I just linked to a newspaper (yes, they print paper editions as well) that is not connected to any of them.
Freedom of the press has always been for those with the money to buy a press -- which today, is almost anyone, since the 21st century printing press is a laser printer and the internet.
the American president recently authorized the assassination of an American citizen who was known for recording tapes and CDs denouncing America's policies as immoral, and oppressive.
Link? Oh, there are none. Funny, that.
Frequently in the last several decades children have had to rely on parents taking schools to court to avail themselves of the right to pray; Churches and Mosques are frequently having to show up in court to preserve their rights to call people to prayer, ring bells, or even maintain a cross that happens to be visible from a public highway.
And again, no link. Your Russian newspaper is full of shit. We have Christian churches, Jewish Synagogues, Islamic Mosques, and even a Bhuddist temple in this small city of 110k. Oh yeah, lots of atheists and agnostics as well.
American's Pay Almost 50% of their income in Taxes
There's that misused apostrophe again. Tell that stupid illiterate blogger to go back to the 6th grade. Hell, you'd have done better to link to this. At least I'm literate. Your Ruskie blog reads like it was written by a fourth grader.
You mean not news for only nerds. This is news for anybody and decidedly "stuff that matters." Had Martin been white and Zimmerman been black (Hispanic is not a race, there are Latinos of all races) he would have been in jail that night and might not have even survived the trip to the police station. Instead we get this.
Racism affects everyone, including us nerds.
They're obviously misandrists. If it was a men-only scholarship the feminists would be burning the place down.
Do these yokels realize that the world's first high level language was written my a woman named Grace Hopper, and the world's first programmer was a woman named Ada Lovelace?
This is just wrong. It should be illegal.
When the Raspberry Pi comes out we can have a pen test in a teacup.
The preacher said "Repentest!" so his IT guy ran the test again.
(These jokes are like Metro -- not much good but brand new)
Second City TV. YouTube, Wikipedia. Taken farther by South Park.
What a shame. My car's only 4 years newer than XP and it still runs fine. So does my TV, even though I had to get a digital tuner for it.
So you have millions of computers that will be unuseable because the OS manufacturer refuses to suport it. Meanwhile, my car needs new struts -- still available and will be for decades. Hell, if it were a '64 Ford I could still get parts and have it serviced.
Good thing we have Linux so those old boxes don't wind up in landfills prematurely.
Oh, come on, mods, that was funny! Sheesh, some people have no sense of humor. I always thought Deutschland was a hilarious name for a country. Probably not back in WWII though...
As to this ruling, I think the judge, plaintiffs, and defendants are the douches here.
And the moderators are the wooshes. Or is that wooshies?
From what I've read (which was a LONG time ago so further discoveries and theories may have developed), Earth had little or no oxygen when life developed, and the oxygen would have been a poisonous byproduct, like methane is to today's life.
So life itself would have changed the environment, of course along with other such variables as volcanos, continental drifting, and meteors.
I don't like the "thin client" at all. "Thin clients" used to be called "terminals". We moved away from terminals to PCs for very good reasons, such as if the network or server goes down you can still get work done. You're not beholden to the server's rules.
Lots of IT people like thin clients because it means job security and control of users.
I'll stick with Linux and my own network. The internet and networks in general are for sharing data, nothing more.
The thing that gives the US the best health care is the fact that patients generally get treatment when needed, as needed.
Only if you can afford insurance, and one in six cannot. When one in six people can't be treated until they're on death's door, the system is seriously flawed.
I believe you'll find a huge positive correlation between infant deaths and lack of insurance.
once you accept it as a necessary evil it isn't that hard to work around.
But I refuse to accept it. It's evil, unnecessary, and I don't under any circumstances accept it. In fact, in my case, astroturfing your cause or product is likely to make me hate your product. If you have to use deception to sell your wares, how good can they be?
Sorry for the double reply, but
A hospital that received a sick patent in an ER is required to treat that patient, insurance or not.
So what happens is someone has a bellyache for six months and doesn't go to the doctor because she has no insurance, and goes to the ER when the pain is unberable, only to find that she has a no longer treatable cancer on her gall bladder bigger than the organ itself. This happened to my late friend Linda, who our health care system killed.
Or the guy goes to the hospital for a burst appendix and winds up with his credit ruined and in debt and poverty despite having what would be a good job if insurance were provided and vows never to make that mistake again, and dies from a coronary that could have been prevented had he been treated earlier. That happened to my friend Jim.
In the US, if you have insurance, which the vast majority of the US population actually does have
See those people working in restaraunts? None of them have health insurance. Workers at a small business? None of them have health insurance. Those on unemployment? None of them have health insurance. Mentally ill homeless people? No health insurance.
In fact, actually, few people I know personally DO have it. You're going to have to come up with a citation for me to not call bullshit.
You repeat "we get better care", prove it. By what metric?
The US has, by a very significant margin, the best health care system in the world.
By what metric? We have far from the best child mortality rate, far from the best infant mortality rate, far from the best longevity. How can you possibly say we're the best when the only thing our health care is #1 in is cost?
People here in Springfield, IL are shocked. We have the Simpsons' Springfield rivals with the same name as a town right down the highway, we had a dead ringer for Mr Burns running the power company (retired last year), a dead ringer for Mayor Quimby (committed suicide last year), a dead ringer for the TV news announcer at local station WICS (retired 2 years ago).
We have Ward 2 alderman Gail Simpson.
And the town is full of cartoon characters, especially if you drink and take Paxil.
No. Shilling is worse than trolling in my mind. If you must hype your product, at least be honest enough to let people know you're an employee.
People don't forget stupid marketing mistakes like insisting on reporting the Peak Power Level a Sony amplifier can handle instead of the Continuous Power Level ratings used by high-end amplifier manufacturers.
Indeed, only reporting only peak power is close enough to fraud for me. However, I want BOTH numbers when buying an amplifier. Plugging a 100 watt speaker into an 80 watt RMS amp will blow your speakers if it produces 120 watts peak. Displaying peak power is only to save you from blowing your speakers. But displaying ONLY peak is next to criminal.
But one has to love the irony at all those here that hate Sony for being douches who then have to support MSFT which they can't stand either.
There's no irony, at least in my case. I don't like Microsoft products. I don't like the way they're designed, I don't like their lack of useability, I don't like the "MS way or the highway" feeling I get when I use them.
But Microsoft never (at least to my knowledge) deliberately infected my computer with a trojan like Sony did.
Once bitten, twice shy. Microsoft makes (imo) bad software, Sony is just EVIL.
Did you bother reading a word of what was written, or did you just knee-jerk reply without doing so? Considering that yours was the first post, my guess is you thought you knew what you were talking about but don't.
tl;dr version of TFA: They're making progress, and spelled out what progress has been made and what progress still needs to be made.
Their argument would be stupid. At the time, the only CD player we had in the apartment was the PC, and Sony had to know that it's how many people are. Also that I paid fo rthe damned CD (or rather my daughter did; she bought it at the store she worked in) and had every right to rip it to MP3 so she could listen to it on her iPod.
I'd have been even more pissed if I'd been using the machine to record and burn my own compositions, as many do. That god damned trojan disabled my CD burner (necessary for any musician who wants to give away CDs of their work), P2P software (How am I going to upload Linux distros without BitTorrent? How is an indie to popularize his or her work?) and disabled every single tool an indie musician would need.
There was absolutely NOTHING illegal on my computer. You know what happens when you assume, right?
Sony's war isn't with Pirates, it's a war against their independant competetion. DoJ should go after them for anticompetetive behavior.
I believe the recommended word is "terminate".
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