those words should be a recursive loop, endlessly rolling through the entire waste of existence. They are a self-fulfilling prophecy. again and again and again and again and again.
Quoting from the article linked to in the summary:
"The CenturyLink-owned cable — actually, a set of cables bundled together in a black jacket a few inches in diameter — was buried several feet under the rocky soil in a dry wash, about a quarter-mile from the nearest houses and a couple of miles from an outlet mall."
So "several feet under the rocky soil"... that sounds like it'd be a pain to access, unless the dry wash is just rocks and sand.
agreed:) +1 to you. i was going to mention 2001 as well. But they (and the ST ones) look more like a Toshiba Excite or Sony S1 than an iPad.
(NO ONE IN THE FUTRUE USES WHITE PLASTIC, execpt for Storm Troopers and the imperial guard, then it is for cloths not gadgets. Everyone knows Space is dirty hehehe)
That was "A Long Time Ago"...so NOT in the future/'futrue'.
Limited hardware capability (which meant you had to use every CPU cycle and bit (an on/off state, a computer bit) of RAM optimally) meant that those coding had to be very skilled at telling the computer what to do. Nowadays, bloated and unoptimized code can do the same things faster on modern hardware, but it'd be many times faster yet, have fewer bugs, and be more secure if all programmers were as skilled and creative using modern hardware as those who are currently known as graybeards, who know the importance of using resources and time (processor cycles) skillfully. Some of them probably are, but others probably aren't.
Because then the freezing and boiling point of water wouldn't be 0 and 100 degrees, respectively. They'd be 273.15 and 373.15 degrees, respectively.
Maybe if we had 10.15 fingers (that includes thumbs, natürlich) and 10.15 toes and 2.15 arms and 2.15 legs that would make perfect sense to us. However, that's not the case for most of the people I know.:)
This isn't as much of a problem now as it was 20 years ago, but for fast typists, WP5.1x for DOS was the easiest and fastest by far. Other software rendered the text too slowly, couldn't keep up, etc. When a person's paycheck was dependent upon the person's line count and turnover time (e.g. in professions such as transcription), speed was essential.
Hybrids are all the rage. But they really aren't that green.
I'll take that idea and run with it. The hybrids will get you to second base, even if they're long in the tooth or strike out once in a while while being raked over the coals. After all, you're not out scout until after the third strike, after which touching base is no longer feasible. Dry as a dead dingo's donger and cold as a witch's tit, the "green" hybrids seem a little blue, no matter how far out or groovy they seem, know what I mean?
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Precisely my thought: "What's a poplar app? It relates to trees, right?
#OCTOTHORPE
How can so many people be so retarded?
those words should be a recursive loop, endlessly rolling through the entire waste of existence. They are a self-fulfilling prophecy. again and again and again and again and again.
Not among the dwarven folk!
Ack! Not the hanging chads debacle again!
Quoting from the article linked to in the summary:
"The CenturyLink-owned cable — actually, a set of cables bundled together in a black jacket a few inches in diameter — was buried several feet under the rocky soil in a dry wash, about a quarter-mile from the nearest houses and a couple of miles from an outlet mall."
So "several feet under the rocky soil" ... that sounds like it'd be a pain to access, unless the dry wash is just rocks and sand.
I grew up 4 hours away from the nearest city.
That depends on how fast you're moving toward the nearest city, of course. Flying? Driving? Walking? :)
Fourth try? That's a remarkably efficient track record. Thomas Alva Edison took around a thousand more tries to get inventions working. ;-)
"My parents call me Alvie. You can call me DC all the way."
Whoa... I didn't know that. Thanks for the heads up.
My first reaction to the news was, "Frungy!"
I hope the developers can keep it that way.
it sucks not having a 60 second edit window here on slashdot...
Maybe so, but that's why /. mandates "Preview" before "Submit". :-)
I own several kindles and I never connect to the web.
Several kindles? That's called kindling. ;-) I'll look you up the next time I need to start a fire.
English: "Thick air"
German: "dicke Luft"
Last time I checked, DuckDuckGo's servers were in Panama...
12 is a convenient real world "base" because it is evenly divisible a large number of ways (2,3,4,and 6).
If you're referring to all positive integers by which 12 is divisible, you can't forget 1. :)
They just derive off into the sin set.
Wouldn't they derive more SILICONE than SILICON in that set? (It's really more like the empty set than anything else....)
agreed :)
+1 to you. i was going to mention 2001 as well. But they (and the ST ones) look more like a Toshiba Excite or Sony S1 than an iPad.
(NO ONE IN THE FUTRUE USES WHITE PLASTIC, execpt for Storm Troopers and the imperial guard, then it is for cloths not gadgets. Everyone knows Space is dirty hehehe)
That was "A Long Time Ago" ...so NOT in the future/'futrue'.
But a withered desktop age with Linux.
That is what I was imagining, but I couldn't find the words to express that as well as you did.
Limited hardware capability (which meant you had to use every CPU cycle and bit (an on/off state, a computer bit) of RAM optimally) meant that those coding had to be very skilled at telling the computer what to do. Nowadays, bloated and unoptimized code can do the same things faster on modern hardware, but it'd be many times faster yet, have fewer bugs, and be more secure if all programmers were as skilled and creative using modern hardware as those who are currently known as graybeards, who know the importance of using resources and time (processor cycles) skillfully. Some of them probably are, but others probably aren't.
Why not go all the way and change to Kelvin
Because then the freezing and boiling point of water wouldn't be 0 and 100 degrees, respectively. They'd be 273.15 and 373.15 degrees, respectively.
Maybe if we had 10.15 fingers (that includes thumbs, natürlich) and 10.15 toes and 2.15 arms and 2.15 legs that would make perfect sense to us. However, that's not the case for most of the people I know. :)
I hope they have an army of bots ready to revert vandalism as soon as the data becomes publically-accessible!
A "veritable battery" ...now that is exciting.
That's what the pattern buffer is for.
This isn't as much of a problem now as it was 20 years ago, but for fast typists, WP5.1x for DOS was the easiest and fastest by far. Other software rendered the text too slowly, couldn't keep up, etc. When a person's paycheck was dependent upon the person's line count and turnover time (e.g. in professions such as transcription), speed was essential.
Hybrids are all the rage. But they really aren't that green.
I'll take that idea and run with it. The hybrids will get you to second base, even if they're long in the tooth or strike out once in a while while being raked over the coals. After all, you're not out scout until after the third strike, after which touching base is no longer feasible. Dry as a dead dingo's donger and cold as a witch's tit, the "green" hybrids seem a little blue, no matter how far out or groovy they seem, know what I mean?