This was on the History Channel, "Band Of Brothers", etc.
The latest generation needs their chance to learn it, just as my generation did.
This needs to be modded to 5.
Just because some guy on Slashdot has heard of this doesn't mean that it doesn't need repeated.
It reminds me of people who get pissed off at Thanksgiving when the media gives out advice on how to cook Turkey so that we don't get sick. There's always some asshat that might have heard it for the first time a couple years ago, and is angry that everyone didn't hear it when they did.
I always thought it was intersection, not union. Perhaps I should submit a story about Roman manipular tactics during the late republican period?
Man did that sarcastic remark backfire. I am in fact both a computer nerd and a history nerd, happy to read classics like Bjarne Stroustrup's "The C++ Programming Language" and Titus Livius' "The History of Rome". Well, the 2,000 pages of Livy's work that has been discovered. So feel free, submit your work.
Perhaps you should include reading comprehension & logic in your awesomely broad range of studies, because nothing that you say invalidates my point that it isn't news.
Good thing we have the stuff that matters category too.
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Perhaps you should include reading comprehension & logic in your awesomely broad range of studies, because nothing that you say invalidates my point that it isn't news.
Sorry, the reading comprehension and logic fails are entirely yours. That "stuff that matters" comment I made earlier. Guess where it comes from? Slashdot's self description: "Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters". Slashdot is widely characterized as a "science and technology" site. You are wrong that posts need to be news and you are wrong that its an intersection not a union.
As I mentioned elsewhere, its useful to point out to impressionable youth that the concept of "hacking" does not solely a
In the realm of scientific observation, luck is granted only to those who are
prepared.
- Louis Pasteur
News for history nerds... (Score:5, Funny)
Stuff that mattered 70 years ago, and is mildly interesting today :)
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Mind you, I find military history fascinating - I'm just surprised this is on /.
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This was on the History Channel, "Band Of Brothers", etc.
The latest generation needs their chance to learn it, just as my generation did.
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This was on the History Channel, "Band Of Brothers", etc.
The latest generation needs their chance to learn it, just as my generation did.
This needs to be modded to 5.
Just because some guy on Slashdot has heard of this doesn't mean that it doesn't need repeated.
It reminds me of people who get pissed off at Thanksgiving when the media gives out advice on how to cook Turkey so that we don't get sick. There's always some asshat that might have heard it for the first time a couple years ago, and is angry that everyone didn't hear it when they did.
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Sure. But it's not really news, is it?
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Sure. But it's not really news, is it?
Good thing we have the stuff that matters category too.
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I always thought it was intersection, not union.
Perhaps I should submit a story about Roman manipular tactics during the late republican period?
Both a computer and history nerd ... (Score:2)
I always thought it was intersection, not union. Perhaps I should submit a story about Roman manipular tactics during the late republican period?
Man did that sarcastic remark backfire. I am in fact both a computer nerd and a history nerd, happy to read classics like Bjarne Stroustrup's "The C++ Programming Language" and Titus Livius' "The History of Rome". Well, the 2,000 pages of Livy's work that has been discovered. So feel free, submit your work.
Re:Both a computer and history twat ... (Score:2)
Perhaps you should include reading comprehension & logic in your awesomely broad range of studies, because nothing that you say invalidates my point that it isn't news.
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Sure. But it's not really news, is it?
Good thing we have the stuff that matters category too.
Perhaps you should include reading comprehension & logic in your awesomely broad range of studies, because nothing that you say invalidates my point that it isn't news.
Sorry, the reading comprehension and logic fails are entirely yours. That "stuff that matters" comment I made earlier. Guess where it comes from? Slashdot's self description: "Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters". Slashdot is widely characterized as a "science and technology" site. You are wrong that posts need to be news and you are wrong that its an intersection not a union.
As I mentioned elsewhere, its useful to point out to impressionable youth that the concept of "hacking" does not solely a