Geeks secretly want to become ROBOTS - so we can crush people in our mighty iron fists. The Japansese also want to becoe ROBOTS - so they can impale beautifull women with their GIANT ROBOT COCKS. * So by admiring the Japanse and their arts, we become more like the ROBOTS we want to become.
All this was explained to you when you got your GEEK membership card, next time please pay attention. We woulden't have to explain Amigas to you again.
* Some Japanses want to become SQUID, so they can impale beautifull women with their GINENT SQUID PENISES, while holding them down with their GIENT SQUID TENTECLES.
Achieve 100% Accurecy
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Accurate OCR?
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· Score: 5, Funny
Most OCR systems can only give you 98% accurcy, but we've foung that by running the output through cmdr_taco's spelling and gramer checker, that the accurcy is bumped up to 100%.
The chances of anthing dreadfull happening to your toys due to employee bungeling is so remote as to be laughable. Especially considering the very real possiblinty of having your expensive toys stolen by a somebody who isen't an emoloyee. Worry about that.
Now to protect yourself from theft: Disguise. Buy a shitty looking backpack and use it to store your electronic goodies. Inside my backpack is a digital camera, Iridium phone, cell phone, laptop, noise canceling head-phones, Psion, MP3 player and possibly a GameBoy. A fine catch for any theif - and yet I draw hardly a glance. The stupid executive type with his six year old trackball Toshiba in a old "leatherette" Compaq case is just begging for a stealin'.
If you're really paranoid - grab a Thinkpad with a quick-removable hard-drive and carry the drive in your pocket. Data is far more valuable the money. My output during my travels is small enough to fit on a 128MB SmartMedia card that slips into my wallet.
Oh, bring a pack of cards. You woulden't want to smash your laptop during turbulance by playing solitare on it and letting if fall to the ground when then plane jumps up 3 feet and you forgot to buckle your seatbelt.
How can I be condecending and arrogent when everybody else is using the same operating system as I am? How can I put on airs of self-ritous opression when people are actually supporting my OS?
Oh well, off to OpenBSD, or if that too poplar, I'll have to ger an Amiga. Sigh.
It's got twice the goat but none of the se.cx that we all crave...Leave it to the Germans to mix doule-mint twin farm animals, bad puns, and frankenstien electronics with Unix.
I don't think Microsoft would want to open -that- can of worms. I bet, somewhere, on some Amiga or Atari, someone made "collrfully-puffy" icons - and can prove it. Someone out there had to have made XP-like icons long before XP came about.
Honda use to only make motorcycles. They decided to make cars one day, and low and behold - Honda made a car just like Ford! It had four wheels, engine up front with a stearing wheel in the same place. Hell, even the controlls were roughly in the same place.
The point being, asiide from me being a sarcastic twit, is that people are getting use to XP and it's 'tarded telletubies interface. They, as all smart developers, are giving people (the consumers) what they want.
And, to me, it looks like the "XP Team" copied Gnome - Gnome had rounded-large-colorfull icons well before XP did.
Preficae that with mass-produced, and wer're in agreement. Thare are a lot of micro-brewerys here in the states that produce excelent beer. Small breweries are going extinct in most part of the world - but where I live, in the North-West US, I can walk to two different mom and pop breweries.
We're actually becoming beer snobs 'round here - you know it's bad when you start to think of Guiness in the same vein as Budweiser* - Mass produced crap to get people drunk.
*real "Ceske Budejovice" is quite good - the American bastardisation is piss-water.
Microsoft doesn't charge for updates, patches, and service packs.
Funny that, I thought I paid Microsoft $135 for Windows 98. Perhaps I'm just imaging it. Oh well, I look forward to receiving the free versions of Windows that you seem to think are out there.
Oh wait. Then I realise that your just full of BS. Hell, even Office 2000 SP2 disables installations of Office 2000 that are useing known "pirated" instalation keys. So much for "free."
Jesus, I just drank half a bottle of wine, fucked my girfriend, fired up the Thinkpad and noticed your BS, and I still make more sense than you.
If you are engaged in an activity that could kill you or others, you don't need to be destracted by anthing - mucic, conversation, cell-phones, naked people.
Activities such as:
Rock climbing, Autoroutes/Autobahn/Montanna, Posing on Slashot, DOD Programming deserve your full attention.
It actually galls me to think that's it's an accepted practice to have blareing music in an operating theatre. If I'm paying $2000 an hour for somebody to cut into my heart, then they better pay attention to their scalpel and not to Britney Spear's latest tean-bop.
if customer.bandwith_usage > SOME_PIDDELING_SMALL_AMOUNT then
customer.throttle_down_bandwith(TDD);
customer.add_random_crap_to_bill("$"+random(50));
customer.disconnect(EVERY_HOUR);
end if
</language>
Third-Moon a Disturbing Libertarian Myth!
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Is This Moon Three?
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· Score: 4, Funny
We all have grown up with the notion that there are three earth-orbiting natural satlites, but did you know that there is no mention of the third satelite in any media before 2002!
It's true!
See, it's all a plot of the Libertarians - they have been secretly construcing this "third moon" in order to live there and to not pay any of their taxes - taxes that you and I need in order to buy delicious governemnt cheese!
Being cheap bastards, this new moon is nesesairly small - but if you look at it with a high-power "telescope", then you'll realise that this "moon" has been meticulously constructed to look like Montanna!
Complete with Moon-Sheep!
I urge you, the right minded American, to rise up and take a stand! No third moon, unless taxes are to be paid on it.
We don't have enough time to "maintain" or older code, and at the same time creat the next must-have version of our software. Our lame solution: Our customers get perpetual upgrades for free. As there is only one code base to be work on - it frees up time and resources.
I'm sure were losing money, and that were bone-headed. But, the payoff in simplicity is worth it - to us. YMMV.
What is this gopher you are talking about? Is that like a new plugin for my IE internet browser? Can I download MP3s on it since my Napster connection has been down lately?
It's kinda like the Lnyx Wide Web - it's more efficient. Type in ' lynx microsoft.com' and you'll see what I meen. It's the same old Microsoft.com but with 50% less anti-trust. 'lynx slashdot.com' even has less speloing errors!
Food for thought - I watched *too* much tv. 6 hours a day.
I threw the bugger our and took up reading crappy scifi and posting on Slashdot. Same 6 hours wasted.
I've substitued one entertainment for another - and truth be told, I'm not more productive for it. However, I highly recomend to others that they make the switch:
After the switch, I've notices several good chainges in myself: For some reason I don't consume as much goods, I'm less prone to inappropriate emotional outbreaks, and my vocabulary has improved. My spalling has remains attrocious as ever...
One thing that I won't do, is be a snob about it. I've only substitued one vice for another - I diden't acieve enlightenment or anything.
The adds work. We don't really know how, but the they do, as evidenced by finincial sucess that the companie reap by their effectivness.
One theory is such:
The goal of repetitive TV advertising is not to get your to get off your cush chair, run out, and immeidiatly purchase the product - it's to just get know and consider the advertised product the next time you purchase, and to forget that other viable products exist.
Here's an exapmle of how this works, answer the following question:
What's your favorite refreshing drink?
You probably answered Coke or Pepsi. 95% of the people will answere with one of these two - even though that are litterally tens of other choices: RC, Shasta, Jolt, STORE-BRAND$ etc.. in the cola catagory alone, let alone plain water or real lemonade.
Kate doesen't offer anyhthing to advanced users - people who are use to Vi or Emacs, but, and it's a big but, it is wonderfull for people just getting used to programming on a Unix box that are coming from a Windows world. Kate is really just an avanced Notepad - it's not terribly productive, just easy to learn.
Kate has been a god send 'round here - Programmers who are just starting out the *NIX way need a editor that behaves kinda-like Windows notepad or other Windows IDE editors, but has cool features, and Kate fits the bill. The code folding works well and the whole package is just a joy to use.
Eventually they all should move to Emacs or VI for better productivity, but for the small, insignificant, time it takes to learn Kate, it's suprisingly productive.
Perhaps Kate will evolve to add the features of Emace, but I hope those features are 'hidden' and don't destroy the easy to learn interface of the curent Kate.
Bit-o-somthing: All out instances of Kate run on one BSD box and are viewed on Windows destops via VNC. It's the same soluton that we use for our clients that want to keep their Windows but use out *NIX apps that we make for them. It makes us both happy; they get to keep Windows Solitare and viruses, and out app is safly running on a real operating system.
I have a theory that the human mind needs> 4 hours of diversion every day in-order to maintain sanity. I've tried not to be a hoity-toity bastard just because I choose not to have a TV - realising that I use books, as an escape, in the same way thet others use TV. Hell - 300 years ago, people viewed books in about the same light as some of us view TV - as a mindless diversion.
I'm sure, 100 years from now some turtlenecked twit will preach to others:"Oh... you have a holo-cave... we don't have that at our place..we have wholseome television."
Don't forget the ultimate solution to a lot of life's problems: avoidance.
So in this particular case, sell your TV and get rid of your expensive TV susbscription. With the new found room, get yourself a book-shelf and go to your local library and get some books. With your new found money, save up for a year and go on vacation. Here in the states, a year's worth of satelite TV subscription savings will buy a week long road trip.
Reading books and going on vacation are a lot more interesting than watching a lot of TV. But maby that's just me - perhaps TV really is that good now days. I just don't care to find out, as TV had become sort of an adiction for me, and inorder to cure myself of it, I quit.
Slashdot Mirror
for (x=1;x>=1,000,000;x++){
print "DEVELOPERS";
}
Hey! This is Microsoft we're talking about:
10 PRINT "DEVELOPERS"
20 GOTO 10
and for the L33t Microsoft developer:
10 ? "DEVELOPERS":RUN
[clippy]
Hey, It looks like your trying to be sarcastic
Specific rescue tools are provided in
Good God!
Yuk!
What's the connection?
We'll it goes like this...
Geeks secretly want to become ROBOTS - so we can crush people in our mighty iron fists. The Japansese also want to becoe ROBOTS - so they can impale beautifull women with their GIANT ROBOT COCKS. *
So by admiring the Japanse and their arts, we become more like the ROBOTS we want to become.
All this was explained to you when you got your GEEK membership card, next time please pay attention. We woulden't have to explain Amigas to you again.
* Some Japanses want to become SQUID, so they can impale beautifull women with their GINENT SQUID PENISES, while holding them down with their GIENT SQUID TENTECLES.
Most OCR systems can only give you 98% accurcy, but we've foung that by running the output through cmdr_taco's spelling and gramer checker, that the accurcy is bumped up to 100%.
Just like this post!
The chances of anthing dreadfull happening to your toys due to employee bungeling is so remote as to be laughable. Especially considering the very real possiblinty of having your expensive toys stolen by a somebody who isen't an emoloyee. Worry about that.
Now to protect yourself from theft: Disguise. Buy a shitty looking backpack and use it to store your electronic goodies. Inside my backpack is a digital camera, Iridium phone, cell phone, laptop, noise canceling head-phones, Psion, MP3 player and possibly a GameBoy. A fine catch for any theif - and yet I draw hardly a glance. The stupid executive type with his six year old trackball Toshiba in a old "leatherette" Compaq case is just begging for a stealin'.
If you're really paranoid - grab a Thinkpad with a quick-removable hard-drive and carry the drive in your pocket. Data is far more valuable the money. My output during my travels is small enough to fit on a 128MB SmartMedia card that slips into my wallet.
Oh, bring a pack of cards. You woulden't want to smash your laptop during turbulance by playing solitare on it and letting if fall to the ground when then plane jumps up 3 feet and you forgot to buckle your seatbelt.
When my '72 Bonneville hits one of these things at 15 MPH.
Just consider the smaller car as your own personal car-sized air bag. Helps you deaccelerate smoothly and without any damage. (to you)
Good greif, FreeBSD is going mainstram. Yuk!
How can I be condecending and arrogent when everybody else is using the same operating system as I am? How can I put on airs of self-ritous opression when people are actually supporting my OS?
Oh well, off to OpenBSD, or if that too poplar, I'll have to ger an Amiga. Sigh.
Jesus! That web page is sick!
..Leave it to the Germans to mix doule-mint twin farm animals, bad puns, and frankenstien electronics with Unix.
It's got twice the goat but none of the se.cx that we all crave.
I don't think Microsoft would want to open -that- can of worms. I bet, somewhere, on some Amiga or Atari, someone made "collrfully-puffy" icons - and can prove it. Someone out there had to have made XP-like icons long before XP came about.
Honda use to only make motorcycles. They decided to make cars one day, and low and behold - Honda made a car just like Ford! It had four wheels, engine up front with a stearing wheel in the same place. Hell, even the controlls were roughly in the same place.
The point being, asiide from me being a sarcastic twit, is that people are getting use to XP and it's 'tarded telletubies interface. They, as all smart developers, are giving people (the consumers) what they want.
And, to me, it looks like the "XP Team" copied Gnome - Gnome had rounded-large-colorfull icons well before XP did.
But only if it isn't American beer.
Preficae that with mass-produced, and wer're in agreement. Thare are a lot of micro-brewerys here in the states that produce excelent beer. Small breweries are going extinct in most part of the world - but where I live, in the North-West US, I can walk to two different mom and pop breweries.
We're actually becoming beer snobs 'round here - you know it's bad when you start to think of Guiness in the same vein as Budweiser* - Mass produced crap to get people drunk.
*real "Ceske Budejovice" is quite good - the American bastardisation is piss-water.
Actuall I *like* imperial measurments for every-day things!
Saying my "my large penis is 150mm long" doesen't have the same ring as "my giant 12 inch cock"
Saying you were in a "10K race" sounds suspiciusouly like a Special Olympic race, but "a 5 mile run" - now that's some distance.
and "I'd like 300 millleters" is just gay. "Gi'me a Pint!"
Microsoft doesn't charge for updates, patches, and service packs.
Funny that, I thought I paid Microsoft $135 for Windows 98. Perhaps I'm just imaging it. Oh well, I look forward to receiving the free versions of Windows that you seem to think are out there.
Oh wait. Then I realise that your just full of BS. Hell, even Office 2000 SP2 disables installations of Office 2000 that are useing known "pirated" instalation keys. So much for "free."
Jesus, I just drank half a bottle of wine, fucked my girfriend, fired up the Thinkpad and noticed your BS, and I still make more sense than you.
This is so god-damn true...
If you are engaged in an activity that could kill you or others, you don't need to be destracted by anthing - mucic, conversation, cell-phones, naked people.
Activities such as:
Rock climbing, Autoroutes/Autobahn/Montanna, Posing on Slashot, DOD Programming deserve your full attention.
It actually galls me to think that's it's an accepted practice to have blareing music in an operating theatre. If I'm paying $2000 an hour for somebody to cut into my heart, then they better pay attention to their scalpel and not to Britney Spear's latest tean-bop.
if customer.bandwith_usage > SOME_PIDDELING_SMALL_AMOUNT then
customer.throttle_down_bandwith(TDD);
customer.add_random_crap_to_bill("$"+random(50));
customer.disconnect(EVERY_HOUR);
end if
</language>
We all have grown up with the notion that there are three earth-orbiting natural satlites, but did you know that there is no mention of the third satelite in any media before 2002!
It's true!
See, it's all a plot of the Libertarians - they have been secretly construcing this "third moon" in order to live there and to not pay any of their taxes - taxes that you and I need in order to buy delicious governemnt cheese!
Being cheap bastards, this new moon is nesesairly small - but if you look at it with a high-power "telescope", then you'll realise that this "moon" has been meticulously constructed to look like Montanna!
Complete with Moon-Sheep!
I urge you, the right minded American, to rise up and take a stand! No third moon, unless taxes are to be paid on it.
We don't have enough time to "maintain" or older code, and at the same time creat the next must-have version of our software. Our lame solution: Our customers get perpetual upgrades for free. As there is only one code base to be work on - it frees up time and resources.
I'm sure were losing money, and that were bone-headed. But, the payoff in simplicity is worth it - to us. YMMV.
You!
Slashdot isn't safe for work.
Stop. You! In the cubacle - stop reading. You're being logged and will be delt with. Soon.
-Your Loving Managment
What is this gopher you are talking about? Is that like a new plugin for my IE internet browser? Can I download MP3s on it since my Napster connection has been down lately?
It's kinda like the Lnyx Wide Web - it's more efficient. Type in ' lynx microsoft.com' and you'll see what I meen. It's the same old Microsoft.com but with 50% less anti-trust. 'lynx slashdot.com' even has less speloing errors!
Food for thought - I watched *too* much tv. 6 hours a day.
I threw the bugger our and took up reading crappy scifi and posting on Slashdot. Same 6 hours wasted.
I've substitued one entertainment for another - and truth be told, I'm not more productive for it. However, I highly recomend to others that they make the switch:
After the switch, I've notices several good chainges in myself:
For some reason I don't consume as much goods, I'm less prone to inappropriate emotional outbreaks, and my vocabulary has improved. My spalling has remains attrocious as ever...
One thing that I won't do, is be a snob about it. I've only substitued one vice for another - I diden't acieve enlightenment or anything.
The adds work. We don't really know how, but the they do, as evidenced by finincial sucess that the companie reap by their effectivness.
One theory is such:
The goal of repetitive TV advertising is not to get your to get off your cush chair, run out, and immeidiatly purchase the product - it's to just get know and consider the advertised product the next time you purchase, and to forget that other viable products exist.
Here's an exapmle of how this works, answer the following question:
What's your favorite refreshing drink?
You probably answered Coke or Pepsi. 95% of the people will answere with one of these two - even though that are litterally tens of other choices: RC, Shasta, Jolt, STORE-BRAND$ etc.. in the cola catagory alone, let alone plain water or real lemonade.
Sorry for the delay in responding..
Kate doesen't offer anyhthing to advanced users - people who are use to Vi or Emacs, but, and it's a big but, it is wonderfull for people just getting used to programming on a Unix box that are coming from a Windows world. Kate is really just an avanced Notepad - it's not terribly productive, just easy to learn.
Kate has been a god send 'round here - Programmers who are just starting out the *NIX way need a editor that behaves kinda-like Windows notepad or other Windows IDE editors, but has cool features, and Kate fits the bill. The code folding works well and the whole package is just a joy to use.
Eventually they all should move to Emacs or VI for better productivity, but for the small, insignificant, time it takes to learn Kate, it's suprisingly productive.
Perhaps Kate will evolve to add the features of Emace, but I hope those features are 'hidden' and don't destroy the easy to learn interface of the curent Kate.
Bit-o-somthing: All out instances of Kate run on one BSD box and are viewed on Windows destops via VNC. It's the same soluton that we use for our clients that want to keep their Windows but use out *NIX apps that we make for them. It makes us both happy; they get to keep Windows Solitare and viruses, and out app is safly running on a real operating system.
I have a theory that the human mind needs> 4 hours of diversion every day in-order to maintain sanity. I've tried not to be a hoity-toity bastard just because I choose not to have a TV - realising that I use books, as an escape, in the same way thet others use TV. Hell - 300 years ago, people viewed books in about the same light as some of us view TV - as a mindless diversion.
I'm sure, 100 years from now some turtlenecked twit will preach to others:"Oh... you have a holo-cave... we don't have that at our place..we have wholseome television."
Don't forget the ultimate solution to a lot of life's problems: avoidance.
So in this particular case, sell your TV and get rid of your expensive TV susbscription. With the new found room, get yourself a book-shelf and go to your local library and get some books. With your new found money, save up for a year and go on vacation. Here in the states, a year's worth of satelite TV subscription savings will buy a week long road trip.
Reading books and going on vacation are a lot more interesting than watching a lot of TV. But maby that's just me - perhaps TV really is that good now days. I just don't care to find out, as TV had become sort of an adiction for me, and inorder to cure myself of it, I quit.