(For example, my vision, while corrected to normal levels through the technology of lenses, would have made my chances of reproduction several hundred years ago even lower than they are now.) I dunno, maybe you would have had lower standards, since you couldn't tell who's ugly as easily?
Now if only someone would trademark "in Soviet Russia" and "I for one....overlords" jokes, and possibly IANAL, too (and enforce the trademarks), then/.'s quality will improve significantly!
Actually, here in Ottawa (coincidence that the other repliers are also here!), municipal staff report that we will be seeing a lot more freezing rain in the future, which costs a hell of a lot more to deal with in terms of salt and road-clearing vehicles than snow. Taxpayer panda is sad.
If there were a village of people starving, and I could either give them democracy and let them continue to starve to death, or give them rice and let them live under a brutal dictator, I'd choose the rice, too.
The same goes for a herd of cows, except instead of rice, I'd feed them Dvorak's Straw Man.
Then again, they're hungry. I'd feed Dvorak to them, too. Poor cows.
I haven't a clue how this got modded +4 insightful.
Notwithstanding the fact that they already do count them in packs of 5 or 10 (as mentioned previously by commenters who work in the field), and that recycling anything that was in an O.R. is unsanitary and taboo (even batteries are replaced on devices after a single operation)...
How in the world are you going to count sponges by weight? A blood, used sponge will weigh much more than the unused one that went in.
"I'm sorry, Mrs. Smith. We ended your husband's operation early when the system reported 100,000 extra sponges. I'm afraid the system wouldn't let us continue."
"Oh my god. Do you call yourself a surgeon!?"
"Well, no, Mrs. Smith, I'm the IT trainee assigned to the OR. But - I AM a certified Microsoft System Engineer." Given the last line, I just had to fix that.
At the end of the day, politicians are the ones who make laws about these things, and I doubt there are many politicians who are trained in medicine, law, and economics. Even if they are, their decisions will still be influenced by what the public perceives as being a good idea, and not necessarily what is the best idea.
If these people can make laws in these fields, I don't see what the harm is for people on/. to merely discuss it.
The "you" in my comment was the general "you" not you, the PP. I didn't catch the dual meaning of the way I put it. Sorry about that.
Let me try to put it in a less ambiguous way: people who write (papers, etc.) about Wikipedia would be likely to have specific references that they would need to make about certain Wikipedia articles, and thus the "cite this article" function would be useful to them.
Mind you, this is a very narrow demographic that hardly warrants such a feature, as I do agree with your point.
So, it's not a proper resource, and it probably will hurt you if you use them, but here are handy pre-packaged citations for you to cut and paste into your paper. If you are writing about Wikipedia, I'm sure it would be useful to cite some examples from articles in it.
Is copyright reform a matter of confidence, though?
If not, it can be defeated without triggering an election.
(Also, as someone mentioned further up, the opposition can make changes or otherwise squash it at the committee stage, so that it wouldn't get to a vote in the House. Not that they necessarily will, but here's hoping...)
No doubt being in America they're going to try and call it Doglas Adams or some other such vowel-mangling. At least they'll be able to fit it onto the sign, which is more than could be said of the Welsh attempt to rename a street after him!
Ten influential bloggers met with Bill on Tuesday and asked Gates questions about why they are no longer receiving information on IE. So... ten bloggers got together with a former president to accuse the current Secretary of Defense of censoring information on a New York improv troupe?
Sure, this news is relevant to nerds, but wouldn't it fit better in YRO?
I don't know if I'd be able to distinguish its playing from a seven-year-old's recital if I had to judge by ear alone. The recording of the seven-year-old's recital has the kid's grandmother in the background saying "isn't that sweet?", and the kid's father grumbling that he got dragged to this thing when he could be watching the game.
Then don't hold your breath; the Sun blog post linked in TFA says that this is a "multi-year award program" with "a substantial prize purse".
Presumably, this means that you're only eligible once you've already done it, and even though you've done it, there's no guarantee you'll receive any compensation for it.
(Not to denigrate Sun's efforts here--this is still much better than the status quo, where an independent developer is pretty much guaranteed to receive nothing for any work on this software.)
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I highly doubt either will get Slashdotted.
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Evidently, they're some company that thinks that 640x480 isn't nearly enough for anyone.
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Sure, he's got all those fancy clocks in his "Time Lab", but they only go forward!
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Now if only someone would trademark "in Soviet Russia" and "I for one....overlords" jokes, and possibly IANAL, too (and enforce the trademarks), then /.'s quality will improve significantly!
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A "Free MSO for everyone always" policy is in order, perhaps?
http://www.terrorisland.net/strips/234.html
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Mod parent up; it's a reference to Rick Mercer's "Talking to Americans"!
Actually, here in Ottawa (coincidence that the other repliers are also here!), municipal staff report that we will be seeing a lot more freezing rain in the future, which costs a hell of a lot more to deal with in terms of salt and road-clearing vehicles than snow. Taxpayer panda is sad.
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The primary stated purpose of surveillance cameras is to deter crime.
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If there were a village of people starving, and I could either give them democracy and let them continue to starve to death, or give them rice and let them live under a brutal dictator, I'd choose the rice, too.
The same goes for a herd of cows, except instead of rice, I'd feed them Dvorak's Straw Man.
Then again, they're hungry. I'd feed Dvorak to them, too. Poor cows.
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I haven't a clue how this got modded +4 insightful.
Notwithstanding the fact that they already do count them in packs of 5 or 10 (as mentioned previously by commenters who work in the field), and that recycling anything that was in an O.R. is unsanitary and taboo (even batteries are replaced on devices after a single operation)...
How in the world are you going to count sponges by weight? A blood, used sponge will weigh much more than the unused one that went in.
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"Oh my god. Do you call yourself a surgeon!?"
"Well, no, Mrs. Smith, I'm the IT trainee assigned to the OR. But - I AM a certified Microsoft System Engineer." Given the last line, I just had to fix that.
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At the end of the day, politicians are the ones who make laws about these things, and I doubt there are many politicians who are trained in medicine, law, and economics. Even if they are, their decisions will still be influenced by what the public perceives as being a good idea, and not necessarily what is the best idea.
/. to merely discuss it.
If these people can make laws in these fields, I don't see what the harm is for people on
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The "you" in my comment was the general "you" not you, the PP. I didn't catch the dual meaning of the way I put it. Sorry about that.
Let me try to put it in a less ambiguous way: people who write (papers, etc.) about Wikipedia would be likely to have specific references that they would need to make about certain Wikipedia articles, and thus the "cite this article" function would be useful to them.
Mind you, this is a very narrow demographic that hardly warrants such a feature, as I do agree with your point.
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Is copyright reform a matter of confidence, though?
If not, it can be defeated without triggering an election.
(Also, as someone mentioned further up, the opposition can make changes or otherwise squash it at the committee stage, so that it wouldn't get to a vote in the House. Not that they necessarily will, but here's hoping...)
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Sure, this news is relevant to nerds, but wouldn't it fit better in YRO?
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OpenOffice.org is called OpenOffice.org and not simply OpenOffice is because OpenOffice is already trademarked by somebody else.
Thus, none of OOo's trademarks are being even remotely infringed by this.
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Then don't hold your breath; the Sun blog post linked in TFA says that this is a "multi-year award program" with "a substantial prize purse".
Presumably, this means that you're only eligible once you've already done it, and even though you've done it, there's no guarantee you'll receive any compensation for it.
(Not to denigrate Sun's efforts here--this is still much better than the status quo, where an independent developer is pretty much guaranteed to receive nothing for any work on this software.)
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A self-motivational phrase whose initials double as a secure password? That's a great idea!
Here, let me try one:
People Always Say Something's Wrong Or Really Depressing.
Awesome! I'll use it on all my accounts!
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The same can be said of Internet Explorer/Microsoft with regard to the html standard.
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