You do realize that there is no actual food in Cheetos nor Mountain Dew, so your only option is to merge with them. If you actually tried to consume them, your small intestine would leap out and throttle your brain in an desperate attempt to save humanity.
Thing I don't get is why every car today is still running on oil based fuels.
30 years ago, the LA times truck that pulled up each week to offload the "Calendar" sections we put in the Sunday papers. On the back, it had a sign which said "this truck is running on clean natural gas". I thought, "cool, no more smog!" If they are already using on LA times trucks, it can't too long before some cars have it too. No more Arab oil embargoes, etc.
In about 2004 or 2005, the Washington area metro converted its entire fleet of buses to natural gas in about a year. I work near a major Metro station and could see the first few buses and was excited. Within a year, it was rare to see an old diesel bus. No more smelly diesel fumes!. If an agency as incompetent as Washington Metro can convert its entire bus fleet in a year, how hard can it be?
We have been able to do this easily for at least 30 years. Apparently to convert a regular gas engine to natural gas requires only a few modifications, to the gas tank (obviousely), fuel lines and injectors. As anyone who has been to a Home Depot or most grocery stores knows, the distribution system is also already in place.
Imagine the marketplace if we had 3 different fuel systems for transporation: Oil, Natural Gas, and Electricity. Then as a bad computer analogy, imagine if Windows, Linux, and OS/X each had about a 33% market share.
I got something about 10 years ago which did a similar trick with the.EXE hooks. To get around it, I renamed regedit.exe to regedit.com and then nuked it from orbit. They probably know about the.com trick these days, in which case your friend is a live CD or BartPE.
It starts with the typical Mac/PC ad. Just as the argument starts to get annoying to the viewer, a penguin comes in and starts pecking the other 2 off the screen. "Linux: The OTHER PC"
Another option is any one of those really annoying Microsoft ads. Just as the guy starts raving about how he can line up 2 Windows, the penguin mentions his PC was added to a bot net during the commercial before pecking him off the screen. "Linux: The OTHER PC"
Or maybe you could have a "Project: Sahara", where everyone is raving about the new version of Windows, how fast and secure it is, and many applications it has, when it is revealed they are running Ubuntu.
There is this Game I played once, where I attended a party. In England, London, Islington... oh... THAT party... This party was really pretty average except for the occasional alien, as long as you never spoke to the hostess. If you spoke to her, you would literally be board to death.
And a nearly exact same function is available in an automatic- it is called PUT THE TRANSMISSION IN NEUTRAL!!
While technically true, it really isn't. With a manual, you disengage the transmission every time you shift gears or come to a stop. Using the clutch is literally as instinctive as using the brake. In an automatic, you put it in drive and leave it there. Putting the transmission in Neutral is not part of standard driving. In an emergency situation, it will probably require taking your eyes of the road to perform a function that you rarely, if ever, do. Where as, the guy with the stick pushed the clutch in with the brakes without thinking about it as soon as the engine started to runaway. He may have a blown motor but wasn't in an accident. As far as the other options go, turning the ignition off isn't good either, as it can lock the steering and/or remove the power steering/brake assist. Once again, turning off the ignition is not instinctive during an emergency situation. As far as brakes go, Consumer Reports ran some tests and they concluded that brakes could stop the car if it was not going very fast, but really wouldn't if it was was going faster.
About 2 years ago, I had a government project to migrate a 6 node Oracle database running Red Hat on current x64 hardware to a single Sun SPARC. After doing the migration, I figured out why: The single SPARC utterly annihilated the X64 cluster in performance.
More recently, look at the Oracle 11g release schedule:
Aug-2009: Linux (all hardware architectures)
Nov-2009: Sun SPARC
Dec-2009: HP-UX, AIX, etc
Windows (not yet released)
I also had another recent project which involved migrating single instances to RAC clusters on new Sun SPARC hardware. Lots of people are still using Sun SPARC and are buying new machines. Given that SPARC gives Oracle an enterprise grade platform in addition to the commodity x64 platform they already have, I don't think they will be getting rid of it anytime soon.
Yes, I'm being pedantic, but the "enter" key can be a trusted ally and an aid to communication. Use it wisely.
Actually, this being slashdot, the "enter" key is not your friend. You have to use HTML tags such as <P> and <BR>. And be careful with formatted text, as you might trigger the dreaded lameness filter.:)
About 20 years ago, I bought a $150 car stereo and they gave me the usual warranty pitch. It wasn't until they mentioned it also covered theft that I signed up for it. Wouldn't you know, it was ripped off the day after I installed it? It could have been an inside job, but it seems like a lot of effort for a $150 stereo. Than again, I got the extra insurance for a car rental in FL and someone stole the hubcaps, so maybe there is a reason why the drone always wants to sell you the extra insurance!
I think there should be a Linux ad in which the PC and Mac guys are arguing and tux comes out, Energizer bunny style, pecking the other two off the screen. Something along the lines of "it keeps going and going and going" or "Linux: the Other PC".
This would work great for those really annoying Windows 7 ads too...
Just get the gnome-terminal or konsole icon file from your favorite Linux distro. Save it as a.ico (Windows can't handle.xpm or.png icons) and use that. Bake it into your install files so it is easy to set up and you are golden.
My first Linux install (Red Hat 8) was about a year later (late 2002), but was by far the easiest install I had ever done at the time. I was on the Internet with all of the major apps installed in under 1 hour. The hardest part was changing the 6 CDs all of the apps came on.
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That reminds me of the Cone of Silence
You do realize that there is no actual food in Cheetos nor Mountain Dew, so your only option is to merge with them. If you actually tried to consume them, your small intestine would leap out and throttle your brain in an desperate attempt to save humanity.
I think it will be "get off my LAN"
Windows:
/s /q C:\*
/
#!C:/Windows/System32/cmd.exe
rd
Linux
#!/bin/sh
rm -rf
Hey! That is my slashdot password! How did you get it?
Thing I don't get is why every car today is still running on oil based fuels.
30 years ago, the LA times truck that pulled up each week to offload the "Calendar" sections we put in the Sunday papers. On the back, it had a sign which said "this truck is running on clean natural gas". I thought, "cool, no more smog!" If they are already using on LA times trucks, it can't too long before some cars have it too. No more Arab oil embargoes, etc.
In about 2004 or 2005, the Washington area metro converted its entire fleet of buses to natural gas in about a year. I work near a major Metro station and could see the first few buses and was excited. Within a year, it was rare to see an old diesel bus. No more smelly diesel fumes!. If an agency as incompetent as Washington Metro can convert its entire bus fleet in a year, how hard can it be?
We have been able to do this easily for at least 30 years. Apparently to convert a regular gas engine to natural gas requires only a few modifications, to the gas tank (obviousely), fuel lines and injectors. As anyone who has been to a Home Depot or most grocery stores knows, the distribution system is also already in place.
Imagine the marketplace if we had 3 different fuel systems for transporation: Oil, Natural Gas, and Electricity. Then as a bad computer analogy, imagine if Windows, Linux, and OS/X each had about a 33% market share.
I got something about 10 years ago which did a similar trick with the .EXE hooks. To get around it, I renamed regedit.exe to regedit.com and then nuked it from orbit. They probably know about the .com trick these days, in which case your friend is a live CD or BartPE.
Didn't you know that 87% of all statistics are completely made up?
I already have.. The nice thing is, I have the key to take the quarters out afterwards!
I thought Duke Nukem Forever was supposed to be released for Linux this year... I and I hate talking to my banks computer...
Where is my +1 Scary mod?
It starts with the typical Mac/PC ad. Just as the argument starts to get annoying to the viewer, a penguin comes in and starts pecking the other 2 off the screen. "Linux: The OTHER PC"
Another option is any one of those really annoying Microsoft ads. Just as the guy starts raving about how he can line up 2 Windows, the penguin mentions his PC was added to a bot net during the commercial before pecking him off the screen. "Linux: The OTHER PC"
Or maybe you could have a "Project: Sahara", where everyone is raving about the new version of Windows, how fast and secure it is, and many applications it has, when it is revealed they are running Ubuntu.
There is this Game I played once, where I attended a party. In England, London, Islington... oh... THAT party... This party was really pretty average except for the occasional alien, as long as you never spoke to the hostess. If you spoke to her, you would literally be board to death.
**** YOU HAVE DIED **** Press ENTER to restart.
Not parents bike, but you might want to check out a few of these. An electric version of the Vigilante Chopper would be more my style.
While technically true, it really isn't. With a manual, you disengage the transmission every time you shift gears or come to a stop. Using the clutch is literally as instinctive as using the brake. In an automatic, you put it in drive and leave it there. Putting the transmission in Neutral is not part of standard driving. In an emergency situation, it will probably require taking your eyes of the road to perform a function that you rarely, if ever, do. Where as, the guy with the stick pushed the clutch in with the brakes without thinking about it as soon as the engine started to runaway. He may have a blown motor but wasn't in an accident. As far as the other options go, turning the ignition off isn't good either, as it can lock the steering and/or remove the power steering/brake assist. Once again, turning off the ignition is not instinctive during an emergency situation. As far as brakes go, Consumer Reports ran some tests and they concluded that brakes could stop the car if it was not going very fast, but really wouldn't if it was was going faster.
About 2 years ago, I had a government project to migrate a 6 node Oracle database running Red Hat on current x64 hardware to a single Sun SPARC. After doing the migration, I figured out why: The single SPARC utterly annihilated the X64 cluster in performance.
More recently, look at the Oracle 11g release schedule:
I also had another recent project which involved migrating single instances to RAC clusters on new Sun SPARC hardware. Lots of people are still using Sun SPARC and are buying new machines. Given that SPARC gives Oracle an enterprise grade platform in addition to the commodity x64 platform they already have, I don't think they will be getting rid of it anytime soon.
Yes, I'm being pedantic, but the "enter" key can be a trusted ally and an aid to communication. Use it wisely.
Actually, this being slashdot, the "enter" key is not your friend. You have to use HTML tags such as <P> and <BR>. And be careful with formatted text, as you might trigger the dreaded lameness filter. :)
I thought it was 1...2...3...4...5...
They still have a desktop OS? I haven't seen Xenix in years. Oh wait, they bought SUSE, didn't they?
About 20 years ago, I bought a $150 car stereo and they gave me the usual warranty pitch. It wasn't until they mentioned it also covered theft that I signed up for it. Wouldn't you know, it was ripped off the day after I installed it? It could have been an inside job, but it seems like a lot of effort for a $150 stereo. Than again, I got the extra insurance for a car rental in FL and someone stole the hubcaps, so maybe there is a reason why the drone always wants to sell you the extra insurance!
I think there should be a Linux ad in which the PC and Mac guys are arguing and tux comes out, Energizer bunny style, pecking the other two off the screen. Something along the lines of "it keeps going and going and going" or "Linux: the Other PC".
This would work great for those really annoying Windows 7 ads too...
Hey! That is what I am runnin [NO CARRIER]
Just get the gnome-terminal or konsole icon file from your favorite Linux distro. Save it as a .ico (Windows can't handle .xpm or .png icons) and use that. Bake it into your install files so it is easy to set up and you are golden.
Please turn in your geek card immediately.
My first Linux install (Red Hat 8) was about a year later (late 2002), but was by far the easiest install I had ever done at the time. I was on the Internet with all of the major apps installed in under 1 hour. The hardest part was changing the 6 CDs all of the apps came on.