Mike Raiford escreveu:
>> 1. What's RSS?

I think his Lynx web browser doesn't support it. ;)

> That tears it! Your geek license is officially revoked. :P

It was revoked long ago when he showed he didn't know who Stallman or 
Jobs was, nor Valve software. ;)

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nemesis wrote:
> Mike Raiford escreveu:
>>> 1. What's RSS?
> 
> I think his Lynx web browser doesn't support it. ;)

I'm fairly sure Firefox *supports* it, but I still don't know what it 
*is*. :-P

>> That tears it! Your geek license is officially revoked. :P
> 
> It was revoked long ago when he showed he didn't know who Stallman or 
> Jobs was, nor Valve software. ;)

Are you kidding? *All* of the games I play are from Valve! :-P

It was... actually no, I don't remember which developer it was, but the 
guys behind WoW or some other huge-name game like that.

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andrel wrote:
> I think roughly speaking a BSc qualifies you to get a MSc and that will 
> be enough to get a PhD position. At least in the Netherlands I think a 
> BSc is not enough to become a PhD student.

Sounds about right.

My sister has an MSc in Chemistry. And now she's an accountant...?

>>> Or if you start at the other end: for some likely kind of applicant 
>>> to fill one position we will have an almost Andy shaped hole left.
>>
>> If this doesn't make it into Invisible Me, I'll be amazed. ;-)
> 
> I think Gilles run out of inspiration we are still at #95 :(
> pity, some were very good.

...if rather unflattering, yes. :-}

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Darren New wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> Unfortunately for me, these things happen, like, once every few 
>> months. The rest of my life I heardly *speak* to another living human 
>> being. (Posting stuff on the Internet isn't the same.)
> 
> This is not that unusual, unless you're saying you don't even talk to 
> (say) people at work or in your house.

Basically... yes.

I work in my office, which is a little 6' x 6' cube. Nobody ever comes 
in. (Unless something is broken anyway.) I have *tried* to get to know 
the folks there, but they basically don't like me for whatever reason. 
I'm not sure if it's because I'm not female or because I'm 10 years 
younger or what...

As for the people in my house... damnit, nobody *wants* to talk to my 
mum! o_O

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Darren New wrote:
> You insist on living in a place where there aren't enough people to find 
> good friends, for one thing.

Wuh?

> You can't be friends with everyone.

This I can handle.

> Thus, you need a wide selection of 
> acquaintances to choose friends from.

This is where I fail.

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Orchid XP v8 escreveu:
> nemesis wrote:
>> Mike Raiford escreveu:
>>>> 1. What's RSS?
>>
>> I think his Lynx web browser doesn't support it. ;)
> 
> I'm fairly sure Firefox *supports* it, but I still don't know what it 
> *is*. :-P

Firefox calls it Live Bookmarks.  Whenever you see in a website some 
link with a cool little orange icon (courtesy of Mozilla and adopted by 
Microsoft) named "RSS feed", you can "subscribe" to it and have all new 
article and blog entries fed automatically to your browser.  It's kinda 
like NNTP for the web, except it's a one way communication link.

>> It was revoked long ago when he showed he didn't know who Stallman or 
>> Jobs was, nor Valve software. ;)
> 
> Are you kidding? *All* of the games I play are from Valve! :-P
> 
> It was... actually no, I don't remember which developer it was, but the 
> guys behind WoW or some other huge-name game like that.

Ah, yes, Blizzard.

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nemesis wrote:
> It's kinda like NNTP for the web, except it's a one way communication link.

Not really. You're just polling a special web page with summaries of 
what's on other web pages. Not really like NNTP at all. Just periodic 
checks of whether a page has changed.

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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Invisible wrote:
> Heh. If there's one thing I've learned, it has to be this: Nobody gives
> a **** about Haskell. Seriously. Nobody cares.

I was reading about it yesterday (a tutorial). Didn't get too far. Just
because I couldn't be bothered, and it didn't look too interesting; not
because I didn't get it.

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Mike Raiford wrote:
>> 2. What actually *is* Slashdot? I keep hearing about it, but I'm still
>> unclear on what it's supposed to "be".
> 
> That tears it! Your geek license is officially revoked. :P

	Frankly, I don't blame him. It took me quite a while to figure out how
to *use* it.

	Not that it's hard to use. It's just hard to tell what the purpose of
the site is.

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Invisible wrote:
> Two questions:
> 
> 1. What's RSS?

	It's that technology that's insanely simple to use, and one that makes
me wonder why many/most people (including tech-savvy ones) don't use it.

	If you ever go to any Web site with regularity to see if there are
updates, then you'll likely benefit from Atom/RSS feeds. Just go to
those web sites, subscribe to their feeds (Google Reader, RSSOwl, or
whatever other software you want to use - Firefox sucks for this). Then
just simply check Google Reader periodically, rather than checking 10+
different sites for updated content.

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