To stopthesebunchacreeps from making a pretty dollar. This one in particular cracked me up:
Our small, family business produces ceramic dielectric resonators which are individually made, by hand, with love and intention to absorb harmful emanations and rebroadcast the energy in neutral to beneficial ranges.
Charmion McKusick, Biomagnetic Research
(Good thing they rebroadcast bad waves into good waves, or they'd be violating some law)
But then again, people will believe what they will
I call it "Apple click whoring". iPods cause hearing loss, iPhone this or that. Anything to get pageviews, and substituting i* for any type of device fits the bill just fine.
It's not like "iPad" is a genericized trademark yet, is it?
Am I the only one who wants to slap the camera man in the back of his head? It's hard enough to understand the demo without him changing angles like a kid peeking at a new toy.
I know we get dozens of stories every week that deserve filing in idle.slashdot.org because of their relative irrelevance as "news for nerds". Now, this is about one FOSS developer who actually receives some official recognition for his efforts. It has an impact (even if minor) on the prestige of FOSS including this Linux-thing and these Open-somethings. In his own words:
By awarding this Cross of Merit, the Federal Republic of Germany recognises the importance of both Free Software and Open Standards.
As for what the chap did, he summarized for us the reason given in the mention:
According to the rationale, the Cross of Merit was awarded for my work for Free Software and Open Standards, starting from my being speaker of the GNU Project, including my very first speech, my work on the Brave GNU World, over driving the creation of Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), to the work done around the Open Document Format (ODF) and the work for Open Standards in general with a variety of hats.
Sigh. Even if he's 16, if you're writing a piece on tech mistakes you oughta suspect that they couldn't possibly have used an "Internet Bulletin Board Site" in 1986, so maybe you got the acronym wrong.
The virus is thought to have been developed in 1986 by two brothers in Pakistan named Basit and Amjad Farooq Alvi, who were looking to protect some medical software they had written from disc copying. They had found some suitable code on an internet bulletin board site and adapted it so that if someone used the software then the malware would be installed.
I'm guessing "Iain Thomson" is not a day over 25, not very versed on the history of the Internet, and too busy to look up the meaning of "BBS". Am I right?
No. According to the BBC style guide, if an acronym is commonly spoken as a word, e.g. LASER, NASA, RADAR, then it is spelt as a normal word; laser, Nasa, radar. However, if the acronym is spoken as a acronym, as a sequence of letters, then it is spelt using all capitals, e.g. BBC, CNN, NSA.
How hard is it to actually operate an obsolete system with something vaguely like the original parts?
You don't - either recycle it or set up a time capsule for it. I'm sure you have better things to do with your time on Earth.
Technology falls behind - get used to it. What if I want to keep writing my letters in a mechanic typewriter? What if I miss New Coke? Unless I can afford my own metalworking shop / chemical plant / brewery AND have the time to spare, I'll have to roll with the times. As for nostalgia, you may well have an objective appraisal of the newer stuff. It's not like Doom beats the snot out of Halo;)
Then again, how many Western factory workers do you know who make enough money to support their pensionless parents?
True, but I've said nothing about the plight of workers elsewhere. What I was trying to show is that while the statement may very well be true, it's a bit stereotypical. That and the fishiness of the rest of the piece makes me wonder if the Daily Mail got this pic cooked the facts a bit to sell more papers/adviews.
That would explain why *all* but 2 or 3 of them are "slumped" at the same time, which struck me as odd the second I saw the pic. But then again, people will choose what to see in *anything*.
in appalling conditions and 86f [30C] heat
Really? I know that matches many sweatshops in Asia and Central America, but this doesn't look like that. No visible sweat, no hair sticking to their necks (asian hair is mostly silky), reasonable ceiling height, fluorescent lighting. It rather looks like Daily Mail pasted a stereotypical description to go with the pic.
'This is not nearly enough to support a family. My parents are farmers without jobs. They also do not have pensions.
'I also need to worry about getting married, which requires a lot of money. Therefore'This is not nearly enough to support a family. My parents are farmers without jobs. They also do not have pensions.,
I stil
l push myself to continue working in spite of my exhaustion.
Now this is typical and very believeable of chinese 'shops. Again, actual statement or made up?
Part of "fun" is uncertainty, a sense of challenge and the subsequent realization when you succeed, when there is no threat to more basic needs. Such feelings would be lessened if solving the problem was a sure thing (or if on the other extreme it looks unlikely to solve, but that's off the topic), and that's why we pick games/levels according to our skill.
Indeed, to me Minesweeper quickly becomes boring, since most of the clicking obeys pretty simple rules ("2-3-2 along an edge - that's clear-3mines-clear"); then at the end it often becomes undecidable and it's eeny-meeny-clicky-boom.
Stumped scientists first attributed the shape to a huge, stormlike vortex along one of the hexagon’s sides, which Voyager also spotted during its journey. Astronomers believed this gyre was altering the jet stream’s course, much in the same way a large rock would change a nearby river’s path. But when the Cassini mission returned to Saturn and photographed Saturn's north pole in 2006, the vortex was gone, yet the hexagon was still there.
The PP is correct - it was also recreated in 2006 with only a spinning bottom. What was disproved is that the hexagon was shaped by an *offset* vortex. And it was featured in/. too, IKEA jokes included:) Quoth ye olde article:
Tomas Bohr and colleagues made plexiglass buckets, 13 and 20 centimetres across, with metal bottoms that could be rotated at high speed by a motor. [...]
Swinney, meanwhile, thinks that the process is unlikely to apply to large-scale flows such as that on Saturn, but might be relevant to smaller-scale phenomena such as tornadoes.
Then again, experiments must be repeated for validation, additional data and other improvements (including prettier videos!)
Nowadays nobody expect sexist jokes to actually represent anyone's views, just like those about an ethnicity or profession. All of these stereotype-based jokes are based on an inaccurate depiction taken from a notorious subset (immigrants, ambulance-chasing lawyers) or outdated data (once-real gender gap). A real slight has to be *believable*, and to be offended by something that outlandish is just being overly defensive.
I wonder if in this case it's appropriate to say... WHOOSH
I still remember the OMGPONIES edition (2007?), when the theme was changed to pink and a few insightful jokes were posted. (Anyone knows how I can find those stories? I can't and I'd really really like to bookmark them)
More often than not, non-slapstick humor stems from insight, even if shallow. The Onion relies solidly on this effect and it may get old; I noticed their style before hovering my pointing-thingy over the fine link.
Now, this is a deserved slap in the face to the romantic visions we're in love with. Every year we dismburse large sums in movie theaters to see renditions of David-vs-Goliath, rags-to-riches, where the underdog wins through skill, perseverance or just being the good guy. Wake up and smell the (occassional) fail!
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Our small, family business produces ceramic dielectric resonators which are individually made, by hand, with love and intention to absorb harmful emanations and rebroadcast the energy in neutral to beneficial ranges.
Charmion McKusick, Biomagnetic Research
(Good thing they rebroadcast bad waves into good waves, or they'd be violating some law)
But then again, people will believe what they will
I was hoping that all those tools using blue tooth headsets were going to get prostate cancer as punishment.
Hmm... they would have to wear their headsets on the wrong head for that ;)
I call it "Apple click whoring". iPods cause hearing loss, iPhone this or that. Anything to get pageviews, and substituting i* for any type of device fits the bill just fine.
It's not like "iPad" is a genericized trademark yet, is it?
Torrent's up (OGV, 1080/720/480p)
(Dunno if it's such a good idea to seed from my little lappie at home, though)
Am I the only one who wants to slap the camera man in the back of his head? It's hard enough to understand the demo without him changing angles like a kid peeking at a new toy.
You may want to experiment with this video before you start.
*runs*
As a helpful AC noted, s/digress/beg to differ/. I'll crawl back under my rock and stay there for the day.
I know we get dozens of stories every week that deserve filing in idle.slashdot.org because of their relative irrelevance as "news for nerds". Now, this is about one FOSS developer who actually receives some official recognition for his efforts. It has an impact (even if minor) on the prestige of FOSS including this Linux-thing and these Open-somethings. In his own words:
By awarding this Cross of Merit, the Federal Republic of Germany recognises the importance of both Free Software and Open Standards.
As for what the chap did, he summarized for us the reason given in the mention:
According to the rationale, the Cross of Merit was awarded for my work for Free Software and Open Standards, starting from my being speaker of the GNU Project, including my very first speech, my work on the Brave GNU World, over driving the creation of Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), to the work done around the Open Document Format (ODF) and the work for Open Standards in general with a variety of hats.
So, all things considered, attaboy!
I knew Google is keen to expand into new markets, but Oracle?
Sigh. Even if he's 16, if you're writing a piece on tech mistakes you oughta suspect that they couldn't possibly have used an "Internet Bulletin Board Site" in 1986, so maybe you got the acronym wrong.
The virus is thought to have been developed in 1986 by two brothers in Pakistan named Basit and Amjad Farooq Alvi, who were looking to protect some medical software they had written from disc copying. They had found some suitable code on an internet bulletin board site and adapted it so that if someone used the software then the malware would be installed.
I'm guessing "Iain Thomson" is not a day over 25, not very versed on the history of the Internet, and too busy to look up the meaning of "BBS". Am I right?
No. According to the BBC style guide, if an acronym is commonly spoken as a word, e.g. LASER, NASA, RADAR, then it is spelt as a normal word; laser, Nasa, radar. However, if the acronym is spoken as a acronym, as a sequence of letters, then it is spelt using all capitals, e.g. BBC, CNN, NSA.
So, is it Mr. Mxyzptlk or Mr. MXYZPTLK?
Sorry, couldn't help it. ;)
How hard is it to actually operate an obsolete system with something vaguely like the original parts?
You don't - either recycle it or set up a time capsule for it. I'm sure you have better things to do with your time on Earth.
Technology falls behind - get used to it. What if I want to keep writing my letters in a mechanic typewriter? What if I miss New Coke? Unless I can afford my own metalworking shop / chemical plant / brewery AND have the time to spare, I'll have to roll with the times. As for nostalgia, you may well have an objective appraisal of the newer stuff. It's not like Doom beats the snot out of Halo ;)
Then again, how many Western factory workers do you know who make enough money to support their pensionless parents?
True, but I've said nothing about the plight of workers elsewhere. What I was trying to show is that while the statement may very well be true, it's a bit stereotypical. That and the fishiness of the rest of the piece makes me wonder if the Daily Mail got this pic cooked the facts a bit to sell more papers/adviews.
in appalling conditions and 86f [30C] heat
Really? I know that matches many sweatshops in Asia and Central America, but this doesn't look like that. No visible sweat, no hair sticking to their necks (asian hair is mostly silky), reasonable ceiling height, fluorescent lighting. It rather looks like Daily Mail pasted a stereotypical description to go with the pic.
'This is not nearly enough to support a family. My parents are farmers without jobs. They also do not have pensions. 'I also need to worry about getting married, which requires a lot of money. Therefore'This is not nearly enough to support a family. My parents are farmers without jobs. They also do not have pensions., I stil l push myself to continue working in spite of my exhaustion.
Now this is typical and very believeable of chinese 'shops. Again, actual statement or made up?
Aaand, you can code it a BIG ASS countdown display!
looks up the Apple Store
Uhm...
Oxygen and hydrogen? Nothing a lit match can't fix. A bit of global warming ensues, but hey...
Part of "fun" is uncertainty, a sense of challenge and the subsequent realization when you succeed, when there is no threat to more basic needs. Such feelings would be lessened if solving the problem was a sure thing (or if on the other extreme it looks unlikely to solve, but that's off the topic), and that's why we pick games/levels according to our skill.
Indeed, to me Minesweeper quickly becomes boring, since most of the clicking obeys pretty simple rules ("2-3-2 along an edge - that's clear-3mines-clear"); then at the end it often becomes undecidable and it's eeny-meeny-clicky-boom.
Stumped scientists first attributed the shape to a huge, stormlike vortex along one of the hexagon’s sides, which Voyager also spotted during its journey. Astronomers believed this gyre was altering the jet stream’s course, much in the same way a large rock would change a nearby river’s path. But when the Cassini mission returned to Saturn and photographed Saturn's north pole in 2006, the vortex was gone, yet the hexagon was still there.
The PP is correct - it was also recreated in 2006 with only a spinning bottom. What was disproved is that the hexagon was shaped by an *offset* vortex. And it was featured in /. too, IKEA jokes included :) Quoth ye olde article:
Tomas Bohr and colleagues made plexiglass buckets, 13 and 20 centimetres across, with metal bottoms that could be rotated at high speed by a motor. [...] Swinney, meanwhile, thinks that the process is unlikely to apply to large-scale flows such as that on Saturn, but might be relevant to smaller-scale phenomena such as tornadoes.
Then again, experiments must be repeated for validation, additional data and other improvements (including prettier videos!)
Huh? When did the overlord meme go back in style?
Nowadays nobody expect sexist jokes to actually represent anyone's views, just like those about an ethnicity or profession. All of these stereotype-based jokes are based on an inaccurate depiction taken from a notorious subset (immigrants, ambulance-chasing lawyers) or outdated data (once-real gender gap). A real slight has to be *believable*, and to be offended by something that outlandish is just being overly defensive.
I wonder if in this case it's appropriate to say... WHOOSH
That's not a typo - that's a Freudian slip
I don't mind silliness, but please do it smartly.
I still remember the OMGPONIES edition (2007?), when the theme was changed to pink and a few insightful jokes were posted. (Anyone knows how I can find those stories? I can't and I'd really really like to bookmark them)
More often than not, non-slapstick humor stems from insight, even if shallow. The Onion relies solidly on this effect and it may get old; I noticed their style before hovering my pointing-thingy over the fine link.
Now, this is a deserved slap in the face to the romantic visions we're in love with. Every year we dismburse large sums in movie theaters to see renditions of David-vs-Goliath, rags-to-riches, where the underdog wins through skill, perseverance or just being the good guy. Wake up and smell the (occassional) fail!
" If you can't fix it - give it more features! "