C may lose a little ground now and then but don't expect it to go away anytime soon. C is a cross-platform macro-assembler and a cross-platform macro-assembler is such an astoundingly useful thing that C has managed to be widely used since the reign of Henry III. Expecting C to die is like expecting Microsoft to open-source Windows.
In fact, along with ViceGrips and duct tape, C is one of the Three Most Useful Things In The Universe. (BTW, I didn't make that up. It's in The Book)
I will never vote for a candidate that robocalls me, period.
That was my policy too. And then they all started robocalling me! Republicans, Democrats, Ralph Fscking Nader, the Fscking Green party robocalled me! I didn't even know there was a Green Party outside of Europe!! Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot. And it was fscking *February*! FEBRUARY!!
First of all, reading TFA is like porno for technerds: "The Magneto Hydrodynamic Explosive Munition (MAHEM)"... "compressed magnetic flux generator (CMFG)-driven magneto hydrodynamically formed metal jets and self-forging penetrators (SFP)". I'm getting wood.
Ah but then reality intrudes and again I have to wonder what Ftard has his stars riding on this turkey.
Oh YES! My Z150 r0Qd! Mine had a off-brand "hard card" which, for all you punks who were born in the Clinton administration, was a unbranded Seagate MFM hard drive mounted on an IDE expansion card. I forget why.
Oh, and it was 30 megs!! Awesome! Actually, it was a 20 meg drive but there was some trick they did with the old MFM drives to make 20 meg drives hold 30 megs. I forget what it was.
That machine was mondo kewel. Had CGA graphics too! I forget what happened to it.
Let me tell you some more about the old days.
Where are you going?
Get back here!
The most efficient speed will ALWAYS be the bottom speed of your top gear.
The actual research into MPG performance carried out by US government agencies with acronymic names and only vaguely remembered by old men such as myself and widely available in many interesting forms on many interesting interwebs found that the best gas mileage was achieved by driving a constant 30MPH. Not 20 or 25 or 32, gas mileage peaked at 30MPH.
Mileage then slowly decreased as speed increased until 60MPH was hit whereupon the mileage plummeted and kept plummeting the faster you went. Therein being the justification for the national 55MPH speed limit of 1972.
This result was independent of rear-axle gear ratios, transmission type or engine size. Bigger engines with lower gear ratios got worse mileage than smaller engines with higher ratios, but the mileage pattern was constant across the board; highest gas mileage was achieved at 30MPH.
I have no idea if this result which was for carbureted engines with mechanical ignition systems still applies to electronically fuel injected computer controlled modern wussmobiles and get off my lawn you punks.
According to TFA this is for "Office Home" and "Office Student". Doesn't sound like it's aimed at businesses to me.
I agree that a subscription model for businesses would make some sort of sense but this is aimed at "consumers".
The lights are on but nobody's home.
That's because everybody's gone soft. Hell, I grew up in Columbus and I walked to school in a foot of snow! We didn't shut down the city in '78 when the coal froze, by golly. These wussy little punks today shut down everything if a couple of inches... I don't care if it's time for my medicine, I'm lecturing the punks. In my day... no, I don't want to go back to my room. No, I've got my walker. Sigh. Punk.
Announcement Type: Announcement of the availability of federal funds to fund the establishment of Trial Cooperative Standards Lunar Implementations.
I will plant corpse flowers (titan arum) on the moon and populate the lifeless orb with Mongolian Death Worms. I will then rename the "moon" to "Kadath" and build my castle there.
The distro installs after about 7-8 clicks and 30 minutes. From my experience, everything has been plug and play. ...and... But the cool thing about Linux is it's free, so if something doesn't work, you can just try something else.
Like when I put gigabit NICs in my old PCs to cluster them and downloaded Mandriva Linux to run on them and... and... Mandriva didn't recognize my NICs automatically. Imagine! The nerve!
So did I spend my time searching for NIC drivers that Mandriva would work with? Nope. I spent the couple-o-minutes it took to download a Fedora 7 install CD & burn it. I figured I would just download Linuxii until I found one that would recognize the NICs automatically. Sure enough, it was plug-and-play with Fedora. No fuss, no muss, no frustating web searching, no increase in blood pressure, no kicking the dog or cursing at the wife. If Fedora hadn't worked right off the bat I would have tried Ubuntu next.
The whole Linux vs. Windows installation and maintenance experience has completely changed in just the last 3-5 years. It's now Linux that is the easy to install and configure OS. It's really been a rather amazing turnabout when you think about it.
And what matters to me is not the underlying OS, it's how frustrated and angry the underlying OS makes me and how often. In 2003 Windows2000 was the clear winner. In 2008 Linux wins hands down.
There aren't that many people who leave the world a poorer place by their passing. Fortunately, Dr. Wheeler, you proved to me that the past is not fixed. I'm going to change it.
Because that was your only chance. NASA is pulling the original film in order to re-master it digitally and enhance the effects and will be re-releasing it to theaters just before Christmas.
A spokesperson for NASA said "We have much better CGI now than we did in March and we feel that the original film, while a classic, does not fully express the breadth and extent of the whole solar experience for our audience."
Initial plans call for multiple DVD releases to coincide with the theatrical release of the film, with pricing expected to be $19.99
for the DVD, $49.99 for the Collector's Edition Boxed Director's Set and $299.99 for BluRay.
The problem is that a bunch of "temporary workers" can't figure out the user interface on those Harris thingys. Well, they should be using Mac Airs... or Apple AirBooks...or whatever the hell they're called. Anybody can use an Apple, they're so intuitive! And cheap! Don't forget the cost savings!
Those of you yammering about how much better paper ballots are must be too young to remember the election in Miami, FL where they found 6 ballot boxes filled with votes dumped in some random warehouse by someone.
Ha! I laughed and laughed. Stupid southerners. Things like that don't happen here in Ohio. Ha Ha.
Yes, Ohio. Well, Franklin County, if you must know.
Ya know, just a few years ago it was such a pain in the tukas to deal with Linux upgrades... dependency hell... "why can't Linux installs just *work* like my Windows installs do?". That wasn't that long ago, ya know.
Now it's just the opposite. Installing Microsoft stuff is such a royal pain in the bazonga compared to Linux that I just stopped dealing with it. I'm sick of worrying about what "patches" and "service packs" I've applied and which I haven't, what impossible-to-remember-URL I'm supposed to go to for the patches, whether this service pack breaks this while it fixes that... forget it!
If shards of metal flying around is the best way to destroy people, then how come both Star Trek and Star Wars use laser-type thingies? Yeah...didn't think you'd have an answer for that one.
Oh yeah? Oh yeah?
Well... um...
Well, we'll see how your laser-type thingies work when the replicators show up! Ha! Not so clever now, are you, Mr. Smarty?
Slashdot Mirror
ATMs found to be more secure than electronic voting machines = not news
Electronic voting machines found to be more secure than ATMs = news
See?
C may lose a little ground now and then but don't expect it to go away anytime soon. C is a cross-platform macro-assembler and a cross-platform macro-assembler is such an astoundingly useful thing that C has managed to be widely used since the reign of Henry III. Expecting C to die is like expecting Microsoft to open-source Windows.
In fact, along with ViceGrips and duct tape, C is one of the Three Most Useful Things In The Universe. (BTW, I didn't make that up. It's in The Book)
Four letters.
MRSA
I suspect I'll be flamed...
Mmmm, could be, rabbit, could be.
I will never vote for a candidate that robocalls me, period.
That was my policy too. And then they all started robocalling me! Republicans, Democrats, Ralph Fscking Nader, the Fscking Green party robocalled me! I didn't even know there was a Green Party outside of Europe!! Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot. And it was fscking *February*! FEBRUARY!!
So now what? Vote for Ron Howard?
"open source creates a license so that nobody can ever improve the software" according to Bill Gates. Therefore this is not an improvement. QED.
First of all, reading TFA is like porno for technerds: "The Magneto Hydrodynamic Explosive Munition (MAHEM)" ... "compressed magnetic flux generator (CMFG)-driven magneto hydrodynamically formed metal jets and self-forging penetrators (SFP)". I'm getting wood.
Ah but then reality intrudes and again I have to wonder what Ftard has his stars riding on this turkey.
Zenith Z150 ...
Oh YES! My Z150 r0Qd! Mine had a off-brand "hard card" which, for all you punks who were born in the Clinton administration, was a unbranded Seagate MFM hard drive mounted on an IDE expansion card. I forget why.
Oh, and it was 30 megs!! Awesome! Actually, it was a 20 meg drive but there was some trick they did with the old MFM drives to make 20 meg drives hold 30 megs. I forget what it was.
That machine was mondo kewel. Had CGA graphics too! I forget what happened to it.
Let me tell you some more about the old days.
Where are you going?
Get back here!
The most efficient speed will ALWAYS be the bottom speed of your top gear.
The actual research into MPG performance carried out by US government agencies with acronymic names and only vaguely remembered by old men such as myself and widely available in many interesting forms on many interesting interwebs found that the best gas mileage was achieved by driving a constant 30MPH. Not 20 or 25 or 32, gas mileage peaked at 30MPH.
Mileage then slowly decreased as speed increased until 60MPH was hit whereupon the mileage plummeted and kept plummeting the faster you went. Therein being the justification for the national 55MPH speed limit of 1972.
This result was independent of rear-axle gear ratios, transmission type or engine size. Bigger engines with lower gear ratios got worse mileage than smaller engines with higher ratios, but the mileage pattern was constant across the board; highest gas mileage was achieved at 30MPH.
I have no idea if this result which was for carbureted engines with mechanical ignition systems still applies to electronically fuel injected computer controlled modern wussmobiles and get off my lawn you punks.
According to TFA this is for "Office Home" and "Office Student". Doesn't sound like it's aimed at businesses to me.
I agree that a subscription model for businesses would make some sort of sense but this is aimed at "consumers".
The lights are on but nobody's home.
That's because everybody's gone soft. Hell, I grew up in Columbus and I walked to school in a foot of snow! We didn't shut down the city in '78 when the coal froze, by golly. These wussy little punks today shut down everything if a couple of inches ... I don't care if it's time for my medicine, I'm lecturing the punks. In my day ... no, I don't want to go back to my room. No, I've got my walker. Sigh.
Punk.
Microsoft didn't used to be so out of touch with its customers. What happened to these guys? Just when you think they can't get any stupider ...
Agency: Health And Human Services
Announcement Type: Announcement of the availability of federal funds to fund the establishment of Trial Cooperative Standards Lunar Implementations.
I will plant corpse flowers (titan arum) on the moon and populate the lifeless orb with Mongolian Death Worms. I will then rename the "moon" to "Kadath" and build my castle there.
Proposal submission deadline: COB 06/15/2008.
The distro installs after about 7-8 clicks and 30 minutes. From my experience, everything has been plug and play.
...and...
... and ... Mandriva didn't recognize my NICs automatically. Imagine! The nerve!
But the cool thing about Linux is it's free, so if something doesn't work, you can just try something else.
Like when I put gigabit NICs in my old PCs to cluster them and downloaded Mandriva Linux to run on them and
So did I spend my time searching for NIC drivers that Mandriva would work with? Nope. I spent the couple-o-minutes it took to download a Fedora 7 install CD & burn it. I figured I would just download Linuxii until I found one that would recognize the NICs automatically. Sure enough, it was plug-and-play with Fedora. No fuss, no muss, no frustating web searching, no increase in blood pressure, no kicking the dog or cursing at the wife. If Fedora hadn't worked right off the bat I would have tried Ubuntu next.
The whole Linux vs. Windows installation and maintenance experience has completely changed in just the last 3-5 years. It's now Linux that is the easy to install and configure OS. It's really been a rather amazing turnabout when you think about it.
And what matters to me is not the underlying OS, it's how frustrated and angry the underlying OS makes me and how often. In 2003 Windows2000 was the clear winner. In 2008 Linux wins hands down.
And I cranked it and cranked it and it started to give me all the answers I require...
...
And then the air-raid sirens came out of the giant stone Steve Ballmer head and I had to report to Redmond
Brrrrrrr. Don't read Slashdot while eating Chips Ahoy with scotch before bedtime. Brrrrrrr.
There aren't that many people who leave the world a poorer place by their passing. Fortunately, Dr. Wheeler, you proved to me that the past is not fixed. I'm going to change it.
Hold on. This may take me a bit.
If I had any mod points, you would get +1 insightful.
I do have this +3 Helm Of Indifference available at a nice price.
Just what I wanted, an operating system with no devices and no users!
You mean NeXt? That was just a dress rehearsal.
I said give the tea to Jackson Roykirk! Jackson Roykirk you half-brained silicon tard-bucket!
Ster-il-ize
Ster-il-ize
Because that was your only chance. NASA is pulling the original film in order to re-master it digitally and enhance the effects and will be re-releasing it to theaters just before Christmas.
A spokesperson for NASA said "We have much better CGI now than we did in March and we feel that the original film, while a classic, does not fully express the breadth and extent of the whole solar experience for our audience."
Initial plans call for multiple DVD releases to coincide with the theatrical release of the film, with pricing expected to be $19.99 for the DVD, $49.99 for the Collector's Edition Boxed Director's Set and $299.99 for BluRay.
Bigger Bang? Windows! You're talkin' about Windows!
The problem is that a bunch of "temporary workers" can't figure out the user interface on those Harris thingys. Well, they should be using Mac Airs ... or Apple AirBooks ...or whatever the hell they're called. Anybody can use an Apple, they're so intuitive! And cheap! Don't forget the cost savings!
And again I have to wonder why I'm not in charge.
Nothing of interest ever happens in Austria. Ha! I'll bet you never saw the Sydney Opera House or took the bridge to New Zealand!
Besides. Paul Hogan is from Austria. Paul Hogan RULZ!
And their beer is the best. I *love* Heineken.
U R A Tard.
Those of you yammering about how much better paper ballots are must be too young to remember the election in Miami, FL where they found 6 ballot boxes filled with votes dumped in some random warehouse by someone.
Ha! I laughed and laughed. Stupid southerners. Things like that don't happen here in Ohio. Ha Ha.
Yes, Ohio. Well, Franklin County, if you must know.
Read the article? No. Should I?
Ya know, just a few years ago it was such a pain in the tukas to deal with Linux upgrades ... dependency hell ... "why can't Linux installs just *work* like my Windows installs do?". That wasn't that long ago, ya know.
... forget it!
Now it's just the opposite. Installing Microsoft stuff is such a royal pain in the bazonga compared to Linux that I just stopped dealing with it. I'm sick of worrying about what "patches" and "service packs" I've applied and which I haven't, what impossible-to-remember-URL I'm supposed to go to for the patches, whether this service pack breaks this while it fixes that
If shards of metal flying around is the best way to destroy people, then how come both Star Trek and Star Wars use laser-type thingies? Yeah...didn't think you'd have an answer for that one.
... um ...
Oh yeah? Oh yeah?
Well
Well, we'll see how your laser-type thingies work when the replicators show up! Ha! Not so clever now, are you, Mr. Smarty?