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Very long, thin garrisons.

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If you get a bad room it's a hell of a walk to the toilet.

I learned BASIC on an Orange Toaster

I wanted to play games so I had to type them in from Creative Computing magazine and various other magazines and books and of course they didn't always work because there were subtle differences in various versions of BASIC.

I eventually got my hands on an Apple ][ Plus on which I expanded my knowledge of BASIC and learned 6502 assembly language. The first programming class I ever had was in Fortran.

Like most of the good programming courses I've taken though it was not a class to teach a specific language, it was meant to be an introduction to programming and Fortran just happened to be the language we used. And that's the only time I've ever used Fortran.

The problem isn't methodology. It's people.

Obligatory Dilbert. However, that still doesn't make Waterfall viable. ;)

Not "The Game", but rather the WW III soldiers depicted in TNG.

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And if everything fails, there's always one last resort.

Agreed.

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After enough time in jail the hard disk may be corrupt and the mind of the jailed may be corrupted to the level best described in this picture:
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But this makes as much sense as welding a Chevy to the back of a Honda and pretending you've achieved something worthwhile.

Reminds me of these:

Bus on a bus
Early camper truck?

I used to think typography didn't matter. Then I saw this:

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They worked closely with the legendary MECC to help create those early educational titles of legend all kids of the 80s remember (some fondly)

Apple, now, doesn't do any of that stuff. Why? Who knows.

This is actually a piece of history I know! The lead organizer for Apple, know only as Stephanie died on the job. She was found at her keyboard and while they aren't certain, their best guess was that it was dysentery. Someone even posted a picture of her tombstone. ;)

I can't wait to try and maintain code generated by pasting together random code snippets. And people thought old COBOL mainframe code was expensive to keep going, well hold on to your hats.

Just have the AI do a full blown rewrite.

Rewrite? Hell, if it's so intelligent have the AI clone itself and then perform the actual task to start with.

The Only Problem. That, or the clones making their own clones.

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I just had to.

The first company to give me an A.I. in A.R. in the shape of bunny-girl cassette girl wins.

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Have you seen their train system? They have a much higher passenger to vehicle ratio.

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OK. People that get scraped off before they reach their detestation don't count!

Have you seen their train system? They have a much higher passenger to vehicle ratio.

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The day after his party killed the one federal agency tasked with ensuring voting machine security.

Your attempt to change the subject of course means that you recognize my analysis as sound; thanks for confirming that.

As for the Election Assistance Commission, I suggest we discuss that some other time; perhaps someone will post an article on Slashdot that will give you a chance to read up on the facts, as opposed to just repeating talking points of your ideological masters.

Monsters and the monsters that defend them.

Oh, don't flatter yourself. You're no "monster". Like most of the footsoldiers for totalitarianism that I have had the misfortune to encounter, I expect that you're kind of a wimp and a dweeb.

If this produces the inevitable result

Turns out common sense isn't especially common.

Common Sense

Indeed.

Jack O'Neil isn't too old:
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let's face it, this http://rebellioustimes.com/wp-... was the only reason Carry Fisher became a legend.

yeah, yeah, yeah...

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In Meiji era Japan, it was seen as attractive for women to paint their teeth black. Do you find that hot?

Yeah, actually, although it is might be an acquired taste. The whole color-scheme of the face probably needs to change.

I agree with your point though, what is thought of as attractive can change dramatically even within a few years.

The democrats love the Saudi's as they donate millions every year to them especially to the Clinton foundation.

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Make sure you know where your mustard is, citizen! Fight the power!

MeowMeowBeenz

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Well, basically, yes. We are the wealthiest people that have ever lived, in the sense of "a people": our society is a hell of a lot wealthier than the pharaohcies of ancient Egypt, and so our lowest-class citizens are better off than their lowest- and even middle-class citizens. Our poor may be poorer than most people in the world, but they're on-par with the poor of wealthy countries, and above the poor of undeveloped nations or of the wealthy nations of the past. Our every-day citizens--the lower-middle to upper-middle classes--carry around wonders the prior generation wouldn't hardly understand, and which at some point were utterly unaffordable even once they'd become technically-possible (like $4,000 cell phones in the 80s--$9,000 in today's dollars).

It's not that we squander what we have; it's that it's absolutely-retarded to work 2,000 hours in a year to produce and then not get paid for it. If we all took to a plan of working for 10 years, living as paupers, and then retiring, society would collapse trying to support us with no productive capacity due to a sharply-diminished labor force; a few of us can get away with it, so long as the rest work themselves to retirement at the end of a long life and provide us the material support our stockpiled money can buy. Even so, we'd live like poor people our whole lives, just to avoid working.

Instead, we work, we get money, and we buy things with that money, paying someone else to work to make and import and ship and sell that crap to us. That person uses the portion of price (and thus revenue) representing his working hours to barter his time in the same manner. As I've said: wage inequality means my time has a higher buying power than yours--my $20/hr means 1 hour of my time buys 2 hours of your $10/hr time. For me to buy what you're selling, somebody has to work those 2 hours--that would be you. The difference in power isn't a matter of any sort of value; it's only a social matter: your labor is easily-replaced and the going rate is lower, so you have a weak negotiating position and no force behind demanding higher pay, so you get to work just as hard and be half as rich.

Rich or poor, you maximize your wealth by working, getting paid, and buying. Money isn't worth anything; you buy things with it to exchange your work for something you can enjoy. As we increase productivity, I would quite like to restrict population growth (and economic growth) by cutting back labor hours, thus reducing what we can buy (you didn't work as much, so you didn't get paid as much--no matter the dollar value, it still represents 32 hours instead of 40) and thus the jobs needed. Increased productivity means we wind up producing the same with fewer labor hours, instead of more with the same labor hours; so we all work 3.5 or 4 days per week, instead of 5. Even then, you'd work your 28 or 32 hours, spend all your money, and come out complaining you're broke.

If you think that sounds strange, "Wi-ki-pedia" has an article you might find interesting. People used to demand six days per week, ten hours per day, 60 hours, as relief from excessive working hours and harsh working conditions. All that labor for such meager lives. A 28-hour week could turn America's labor force into its leisure force, if we can muster the economic efficiency to not become ridiculously-poor along the way.

I wonder what people will say if my Universal Social Security actually goes into effect. It cuts welfare out of the general income taxes (a progressive tax), and then levies a 17% flat tax on business and personal income to fund a flat benefit. That means all productivity gets taxed: a 50% productivity gain over 10 years hands back 17% of 50% to everyone, and the biggest impact is the poorest of poor become a full 50% richer. Do you think they'd still claim all the new wealth goes to the top 1%? I bet they would.

If we have to have a sad turd emoji, it should look something like this.

shout "oh look a squirrel!" and completely ignore the argument being offered

Let's remember, the "argument being offered" is this:

"white women are just better looking than nonwhite women"

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Exhibit D:

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Now which ones wouldja?

... named Alice, Bob and Eve ...

Alice wishes they were named Bob & Ted & Alice.

C'mon, Hillary's not a businessperson...

Do you have a citation or link or source to your quote by the Ecuadorian ambassador?

Yes.

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Not to disparage your advice but nothing is ever that simple. That advice doesn't always help.

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Squirrel: But Why didn't you save some money for the future, when times were good?
VoBF: I did.

Not sure if he's thinking of ELO, Boston had a lot of UFOs on their album covers, too.

Not as much as Yes' [alien landscapes*, UFO songs]. Even The Carpenters made a UFO song. Those were the days.

(*) Appropriated by the producers of Avatar without credits for Roger Dean. But I digress.

And let's not forget Klaatu. They had UFO/Alien-themed songs across at tleast two of their hard-to-find albums.

"Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" and "Anus from Uranus" (a HILARIOUS song, with lyrics that were recorded BACKWARDS with words phonetically-chose to sound like the words they wanted when played FORWARD). WAY cool!

Not sure if he's thinking of ELO, Boston had a lot of UFOs on their album covers, too.

Not as much as Yes' [alien landscapes*, UFO songs]. Even The Carpenters made a UFO song. Those were the days.

(*) Appropriated by the producers of Avatar without credits for Roger Dean. But I digress.

Not sure if he's thinking of ELO, Boston had a lot of UFOs on their album covers, too.

But surely this dude should already know the real truth.
Because teh intarwebs tell me that that the Space People communicate to the great unwashed through the medium of Rock n Roll. David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix and dozens of other examples have met the Space Brothers.

The real reason? Simple: people are lazy as shit. If you give them a chance to slack off, they will. And that's far more likely at home than at work where a pointy-haired boss can tell you something else that needs doing.

All the rest is just hand-wavy bullshit. And it's right. I personally think "working from home" is *never* as efficient as a dedicated, isolated workspace. If you do it, it should be a level of trust you EARN from a company, certainly not start with. Plus, I think if you work from home you should get paid less, because working from home is so desirable and convenient.

And I personally have the full choice of working from home, or at my office; I've worked for the firm for 23 years, they couldn't care less. But generally, I work from the office.

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Steve Jobs didn't do anything but steal from others.

He was a great coordinator of ideas and technology. He sensed the right time the market and matching tech capability was ready for something.

He brought out the first practical GUI computer (Xerox Star was clunky), helped start the 3D animation craze (Toy Story) when everyone else was spooked by the financial failure of Tron, simplified music players, looked at the physical keyboard of the then popular Blackberry, and said, "Fuck the physical keyboard, it's a dinosaur!" (paraphrased).

And he also had a nose for cool designs, like the "Daisy" iMac.

Stupid is as stupid does. Someone should make a meme pointing out how stupid Indonesia is.

Something like this, this or this

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A downvote is NOT I disagree.

Horse:
Many Muslims (like some Christian sects) consider pictorial representations of the human figure as violating the prohibition on graven images. As with those iconoclastic Christian sects that prohibition is most strictly observed when it comes to religious figures, possibly because of the quasi-worship of Christian saints Muslims witnessed among German knights in the Holy Land, which must have struck them (as it would later Protestants) as a kind of polytheism.

That's why when you look at the massive, elaborately decorated mosques you won't see a single human or animal figure. Instead you'll see elaborate geometrical figures and highly stylized calligraphy, which are the main visual form of Sunni artistic expression. To find any sort of art depicting people one must look to Shia dominated areas, such as Persia (Iran), which boasts many fine examples.

The universe is large, little man, and full of endless wonders; the time you have to fill your mind with those wonders is short.

Farside

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Had to re-post because /. is apparently retarded in the way it posts hyperlinks that contain no text. :-(

Need I say more?

They didn't set out to make a partial upper deck. The original plan was to make it a full double-decker like Airbus eventually did with the A380. But given their deadline, they didn't think they could solve the problem of adding (safe) evacuation slides for passengers on the upper deck in time, so they settled for a traditional single-decker (which they already had experience designing, just needed to scale everything up to make it wider). The short blister on top for the cockpit was added to allow the cargo variant to have a swing nose so you could load cargo through the front, instead of through the side. So it's not really "copying" someone else's design when there's only one practical solution (the impractical one being putting the cockpit in the swing-away nose and designing all sorts of latches for the mechanical linkages between the cockpit controls to the plane's control surfaces).

This is why the upper deck on the early 747-100 is a lot shorter than in later variants like the 747-400. The few upper-deck seats on the 747-100 were an afterthought, added more for novelty than for increased passenger capacity. The lower deck on the 747 already carried nearly 3x as many passengers as any other plane operating at the time. Boeing tried for decades to sell the idea of a full double-deck 747 to the airlines, but not enough of them would commit to them. So Boeing never bothered making it. When Airbus announced their plans for the A380, Boeing tried again to pitch a full double-deck 747, and again not enough airlines said they wanted it. That's why they didn't try to compete with Airbus on the A380.

Production of the A380 will probably soon cease, and its sales have just barely recouped its design costs. The 4-engine airliners like the 747, A340, and A380 are being eaten alive in the market by twin-engine airliners like the 777, 787, and A350 (2 engines are more efficient than 4). The disparity between A380 orders and deliveries is mostly due to airlines which placed orders but have asked to delay delivery or have refused receipt as they consider cancelling. Airbus needs to produce about 20-25 a year for the production facilities alone (i.e. excluding design costs) to operate without losing money. And right now they're scheduled to drop to 12 deliveries/year in 2018, so they'll probably wind up losing money on the A380 overall (the remaining 100 or so orders will probably be delivered at a loss, if they're not canceled outright). So it would appear Boeing's market analysis was correct that there wasn't enough market demand for a full double-deck airliner. It's a good thing the EU government guaranteed the loans Airbus took out to design the plane or this might've bankrupted the company. Competition between Airbus and Boeing is what keeps technology progressing and prices low.

Don't laugh, I've encountered conspiratorial trolls who probably think he's reptilian. Annoying bast#rds.

The news makes we want to play a really small violin.

They should have Juno transmit "YEEEEEHAAAAA!!!!" during closest approach.