So an engineer decided to sit there and not touch anything. He told the operator to go away, as if he was't there. Which he did, turning the lights out and leaving our hero in the dark - except for the glow of the high-speed tape reader, which shines a strong light through the holes in the punched tape onto photocells. And as he watches, a moth appears and flies through the pool of light, confusing the tape reader and aborting the job.
And then he taped the moth into the computer log book, and scribbled: "Second actual case of computer bug being found".
What the fuck is wrong with the moderators today? Jesus christ! This is what I posted:
Tiny pr0n!!!!
And this is the totally phuked-up/brain-dead moderation I got:
Moderation Totals: Offtopic=2, Flamebait=1, Troll=1, Funny=2, Overrated=1, Total=7. Off-topix? okay; Flamebait? Troll? what the fuck???; Funny? okay; Overrated? maybe.
(Interesting side note: CO asphyxiates you by binding very tightly to the iron in hemoglobin in your blood, much more tightly than oxygen can. IIRC, however, CO will preferentially bind to copper over Fe.)
So this is why octopuses (octopii???) are very sensitive to outboard-engine exhaust: their blood doesn't have hemoglobine, but the copper-based equivalent.
CLAIMS: liberation of the economic sphere by the appropriage use of bludgeoning and cranium-shattering implements applied to the external surfaces of the body of mister Lockwood, until biological functions cease consecutively to mechanical lesions that prevent the nervous tissues from being innervated properly by nourishment and oxygen hemoglobin-based transfer fluid.
i've made so much money in billable hours on boxes that just needed windows updates and a disk defrag that i can't even count.. i usually charge $50 for this service
Lemme guess. For that cheap price, you don't do a full backup of the disk drive you defrag, do you?
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I remember when tty's were connected over the RS 232 serial port at less than 9600 baud.
On slow connections you could read text given to you by cat and not actually need more or less.
Some 20 years ago, our sub-department used to have HP2647 terminals, with a dial to select the baud rate on the keyboard itself. The neat trick was to rig the RS-232c interfaces on the computer to use external clocking, and voilà, you could slow down the output speed by durning the baud rate dial...
The higher-ups of the department just could not fathom why we were not using the "fancy", "new" and "improved" HP2624 terminals: you had to go inside a menu to select the baud rate...
doesn't give a cash bonus but they give you the week of Christmas off. In many respects, that's even better than cash since we get to spend more time with family.
Although not referring specifically to the Mallinson case, he added it may be necessary to "weed out" employees who did not live up to Microsoft's code of behaviour.
So, to keep your job at the Borg, you have to lie, cheat, bully and steal technology...
The final version of JetTrain will have a flywheel system to augment the
generational capacity of the gas turgine engine. That means the gas turbine
can be smaller, which means lower noise and additional fuel savings.
Aside from the fact that the flywheel could allow the turbine to idle without
fuel (how about train hotel power?) far more efficiently than batteries would
allow a quick restart, it merely adds weight and complexity to the system for
dubious returns.
The problem with stringing up overhead cantenary wiring is that if you're
too far away from the electric power source its gets exorbitantly expensively
to power up and maintain; that was one reason why the Milwaukee Road railroad
abandoned their electric locomotives over the Rockies in 1974.
The CRI&P electric plant was pretty much obsolete by the time it was dropped;
it was virtually unchanged for more than 50 years.And the CRI&P was in a
poor financial condition (as were many US roads then), and it certainly could
not face the high capital costs needed to replace it's electrical plant. Not
to mention that newer diesels were much cheaper to operate and did not justify
the upkeep of the catenary.
CN had a similar electrification that lasted until 1995, and at the end, it
was pretty much a nightmare to maintain...
In Europe and Japan, because of the higher population density it's much
easier to hook up overhead cantenary wiring to the local electric grid.
Not really. Much of Europe's electrification is done with 16 2/3 hz electrical
power, so the railroads have to have their own generating and distribution facilities;
they just can't hook-up to the commercial power grid.
I can just see a large fraction of the cost of the California HSR system
is the cost of installing, maintaining and getting power for the overhead
cantenary wiring. Besides, they're not exactly beautiful in design, and that
will guarantee the NIMBY crowd will oppose such installations in scenic areas.
Modern high-voltage catenary is pretty well unobtrusive; high-voltage allows
conductors, feeders and suspension wires to be much smaller than with comparable
power DC catenary. But again, whatever you do, you will find NIMBIes bitching
about...
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I'd like to see a beowulf cluster of those.
No, they're cephalopods.
Off-topix? okay; Flamebait? Troll? what the fuck???; Funny? okay; Overrated? maybe.
Check the original post and see for yourself.
Tiny pr0n!!!!
Of course, it is obviously the RIAA that rats the independants to punish them for not passing through them...
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Was it Jules-Verne???
The higher-ups of the department just could not fathom why we were not using the "fancy", "new" and "improved" HP2624 terminals: you had to go inside a menu to select the baud rate...
The best way to force a redesign is to throw a monkey wrench in the works.
There are plenty of people who, by the way they act (and look), definitely got pig genes!!!!
... I get so much spam in Korean!!!!
Pr0n-on-the-go!!!
Aside from the fact that the flywheel could allow the turbine to idle without fuel (how about train hotel power?) far more efficiently than batteries would allow a quick restart, it merely adds weight and complexity to the system for dubious returns.
The CRI&P electric plant was pretty much obsolete by the time it was dropped; it was virtually unchanged for more than 50 years.And the CRI&P was in a poor financial condition (as were many US roads then), and it certainly could not face the high capital costs needed to replace it's electrical plant. Not to mention that newer diesels were much cheaper to operate and did not justify the upkeep of the catenary.
CN had a similar electrification that lasted until 1995, and at the end, it was pretty much a nightmare to maintain...
Not really. Much of Europe's electrification is done with 16 2/3 hz electrical power, so the railroads have to have their own generating and distribution facilities; they just can't hook-up to the commercial power grid.
Modern high-voltage catenary is pretty well unobtrusive; high-voltage allows conductors, feeders and suspension wires to be much smaller than with comparable power DC catenary. But again, whatever you do, you will find NIMBIes bitching about...