Man, Wing Commander 3 was great... They had Mark Hamill and Malcolm McDowell, big Kilrathi puppet suits, and real 3-D models for the ships!
Still, I think the original Drakhri was one of the coolest ships they ever came up with... Dralthi IV didn't really measure up to the Drakhri and the original Dralthi...
I would love to see someone develop an OS that followed a similar philosophy of using as little RAM as possible.
PalmOS is the best contemporary example I can think of. When it was initially developed (between 1996-2000) hardware limitations meant that it was difficult to make a significantly more powerful hardware device with the same form factor as the Palm Pilot. (Windows CE devices were significantly more powerful - but also quite a bit bigger and generally with shorter practical battery life in those days) - hence, a whole OS built around running on 16MHz processors and no more than a few MB of storage (all RAM - comprising installed apps, application data, and dynamic allocations), very simple UI, etc.
Of course, in the portable arena, things have changed a lot - hardware's gotten a lot more powerful, to the point where Windows is actually better fitted to the hardware than Palm OS is. And on desktops - you have to bear in mind that when you're hosting terabytes of filesystem data and managing gigabytes of RAM, it's more useful to have the OS use more of that available storage to manage things more effectively, rather than minimize resource usage when the resources are decidedly not in short supply...
300 baud? Yeah, sure... I had one of those before I upgraded to 1200, and later, 2400 baud... 300 was slow enough to have clear difficulty keeping up with a user's typing...
I'm normally all for newer better systems, but I have to agree... CVS > SVN because of branching/tagging.
So, wait... You're running CVS and directing its stdout to a new file "SVN" in the current directory?
Or are you saying CVS is a higher-valued number than SVN? Couldn't you simplify that and say C > N? I suppose that's only safe if you assume S and V are non-negative and that complex numbers and matrices don't figure into this...
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"Optimus Tactus"... What a wonderful name for something that has absolutely zero tactile response...
I would have loved something like that back when I was a kid watching "Star Trek: The Next Generation", wishing I could be Wesley Crusher and hang out with all those cool Trek people doing all those cool Trek things... But there's really something to be said for having a proper physical switch...
You say this as a joke, but my girlfriends ACLS instructor (she's a nurse) pointed out that you can, indeed, use Queen's "Another one bites the dust". The bpm is nearly identical.
They're the ones that look like potted plants - but when you get close enough the flower launches off the pot and homes in on you with its rockets... And meanwhile the pot sprouts another plant. You can shoot down all the flowers you want, but to stop 'em you've got to kill the pot...
Your mom has sampled all varieties, and has upheld the result of this study - saying nerd sperm really is best in terms of flavor, texture, temperature, and its aesthetic qualities when sprayed on her face and chest.
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Man, Wing Commander 3 was great... They had Mark Hamill and Malcolm McDowell, big Kilrathi puppet suits, and real 3-D models for the ships!
Still, I think the original Drakhri was one of the coolest ships they ever came up with... Dralthi IV didn't really measure up to the Drakhri and the original Dralthi...
I would love to see someone develop an OS that followed a similar philosophy of using as little RAM as possible.
PalmOS is the best contemporary example I can think of. When it was initially developed (between 1996-2000) hardware limitations meant that it was difficult to make a significantly more powerful hardware device with the same form factor as the Palm Pilot. (Windows CE devices were significantly more powerful - but also quite a bit bigger and generally with shorter practical battery life in those days) - hence, a whole OS built around running on 16MHz processors and no more than a few MB of storage (all RAM - comprising installed apps, application data, and dynamic allocations), very simple UI, etc.
Of course, in the portable arena, things have changed a lot - hardware's gotten a lot more powerful, to the point where Windows is actually better fitted to the hardware than Palm OS is. And on desktops - you have to bear in mind that when you're hosting terabytes of filesystem data and managing gigabytes of RAM, it's more useful to have the OS use more of that available storage to manage things more effectively, rather than minimize resource usage when the resources are decidedly not in short supply...
How many times does this have to be said.
RAID is not a backup.
Yeah... How many times does it have to be said? I mean, seriously, it seems everybody else who commented here said the same thing...
Wow. 0.3 k modems. That sounds so sloooooow.
300 baud? Yeah, sure... I had one of those before I upgraded to 1200, and later, 2400 baud... 300 was slow enough to have clear difficulty keeping up with a user's typing...
I'm normally all for newer better systems, but I have to agree... CVS > SVN because of branching/tagging.
So, wait... You're running CVS and directing its stdout to a new file "SVN" in the current directory?
Or are you saying CVS is a higher-valued number than SVN? Couldn't you simplify that and say C > N? I suppose that's only safe if you assume S and V are non-negative and that complex numbers and matrices don't figure into this...
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If they want my genetic sequence, I offer them one simple solution:
Send me women. They'll probably have to send me more than one in order to make sure they get the whole thing...
Chief, don't you think we should use the Cone of Silence?
Perhaps something like The Optimus Tactus would be ideal?
"Optimus Tactus"... What a wonderful name for something that has absolutely zero tactile response...
I would have loved something like that back when I was a kid watching "Star Trek: The Next Generation", wishing I could be Wesley Crusher and hang out with all those cool Trek people doing all those cool Trek things... But there's really something to be said for having a proper physical switch...
"Those Stupid Asshats". You may update your story tags accordingly...
You say this as a joke, but my girlfriends ACLS instructor (she's a nurse) pointed out that you can, indeed, use Queen's "Another one bites the dust". The bpm is nearly identical.
Ironic.
"Ironic" is kinda slow for CPR... Don'cha think?
They're the ones that look like potted plants - but when you get close enough the flower launches off the pot and homes in on you with its rockets... And meanwhile the pot sprouts another plant. You can shoot down all the flowers you want, but to stop 'em you've got to kill the pot...
It was on the Hornet Man stage, I think...
Why are we wasting our time on rodents when the Shredder is still out there?
I suspect the cybernetic hand of Baxter Stockman is somehow behind this...
Black Hole Sun... Won't you come... and wash away the rain?
Don't worry no one wants to listen in on any of the /. crowd's cyber...
A/S/L?
Myspace: Oh, by the way, are you a pervert?
Pervert: Yes.
Pervert: Wait! I meant no! No!
Myspace: Sorry.
Pervert: GOD-DAMNIT!
Well, Youtube's search feature is like a car, and Google's search feature is like some other, different kind of car...
I always wanted to see what would happen if Gary Numan got into the Car Analogy routine...
in cars...
Your mom has sampled all varieties, and has upheld the result of this study - saying nerd sperm really is best in terms of flavor, texture, temperature, and its aesthetic qualities when sprayed on her face and chest.
If our criterai for AI will be so low, here's your AI: http://www.interviewpalin.com/.
The political side of this site aside, the answers are just prewritten answers (by a human) mixed together randomly as a Markov chain.
Does it sound convincingly? Well, at least as convincingly as some interviews a certain VP made recently.
Please... VP candidate.. She's not been elected VP... And with any luck, she won't be, and she can just go back to Alaska.
Despite massive glitches, the Sarah Palin unit has already convinced around 30% of the population that it's human. I think it's the winking module.
I still think it was a mistake to have armed it.
Those are much better numbers than they were getting with the Al Gore unit...
<loud>WHAT?</loud>
SOMETHING ABOUT PUTTING CLOUD SNEAKERS INSIDE YOUR BEER I THINK!
Anti-American rants are insightful, now?
Well, in this case... yeah.
This is exactly why I have given up on the Chevy Volt. If you havnt seen it, take a look at the concept version versus the production model.
Yuck and also yuck. Throw the new Camaro in there and you have a hat trick of ugly.
I've been pair programming for a while now and I whole heartedly agree that it does work very well.
It could be boring if you were always the observer, but the idea is that you mix it up a bit. You don't spend a long time as observer in one stretch.
Does that mean you have to keep taking your brain out of your head and putting it back in??
I bet you buy your LEGO preassembled too.
I actually pay a LCSE(Lego Certified Systems Engineer) $150 per hour to assemble mine for me, its the only way to be sure.
Who, Zack? I think I know him... Lego maniac, right? When did he get certified?