Real geeks compile their girlfriends from source. I tried but I think I screwed up. I got all these left over parts in my fridge still and all she wants is 'braaaaains'. On the plus side, I did give her FOUR teats.
Well, maybe you two can reach an agreement.:-P
Ooooh, I'm an evil, evil person and I'll rot in hell. Bad Dobby!! The five year old gets to watch a him get laid by a pony? *hide*
I mean, you're in zero-G granted, but can't you just try 'jumping' off the floor, then the ceiling, then repeating it while trying not to get hit by the rope?
Eh, I tried.
Increase their mental capacity? If I had enough money to be 'rich' I'd be fiddling with the genes to increase the capacity of something else. Porn-stardom, here I come!
Your Admin should have just found kitten cursors then, problem solved. Not that hard... My thoughts too. I had just started college around that time, was working there because I was promised some opportunities. He seemed to feel it was beneath him to look for kitten icons. Since my position there was right below spittoon, I was had no say in anything.
Arrgh, Gator... Don't get me started. One place I worked (not gonna name it, could get in trouble), all the secretaries had that damned thing on their systems cause of the cute kitten cursors they offered. We'd have to take the machine and most the times just restage it to clean it and hand it back. A few days later, gator was back. They wanted their cute kitten cursors. Eventually the net admin for that facility just blocked the gator site outright. He was forced to unblock it when a score of unhappy secretaries descended upon administration wanting their 'harmless kitty icons'. "But they're kittens! Who doesn't love kittens?!" *sigh*
Woot! My first flamebait listing on slashdot. *sniff* Where do I go to pick up my reward? You thought the tribe of Apple was unforgiving, wait till you make fun of Seagate and suggest they're less than perfect.
Ok, how many Seagate drive have you had fail? I currently have about 500 spinning in my datacenter. That failure rate is for the last 22 months. Mostly I'm pointing out that your anecdotal evidence of a couple failures is bunk compared to the huge number of installations out there running the stuff with little or no problems. Feel free to give their consumer level stuff a spin then. My 'anecdotal evidence' was intended to be just that, not an insult to your great and powerful datacenter. Since the late 90s (worked at local ISP) whenever I had someone bring me a machine with HD problems, it was a Seagate a vast majority of the time. Don't get me wrong, the other drives had issues too, but Seagate had a large number. I tried several times working with Seagate drives on various 'diner machines' for the cafe. All were utter crap. (We did buy them in bulk so maybe that was an issue?) Back 6 or so years ago when I was looking at new HDs for my machine (was running Maxtor, liking them less and less) I tried Seagate drive and it crapped out in less than a month. Getting a replacement for it was painful.
If you're running a datacenter, then it's not your money being spent to upgrade hardware. (Argue that it is the company's money all you want and stuff about personal responsibility to said company, but unless you hose something badly, it's not coming out of your personal funds). When I drop $200 bucks on something, I want it to work, preferably more than a month. From my 'anecdotal' personal experience, this is not the case for Seagate. You got them working for you in your datacenter, congrats. Here, have my cookie. I'm so sorry if I offended your sense of how great Seagate is for you by poking fun at them. Seriously tho, I have had little or no luck when working with them. That's my experience. Don't like it? Buy me a working Seagate.
Just what the future needs, mental scaring from the past!
Anthropologist 1: I've finally gotten this archaic storage device working!
Anthropologist 2: Let me see! What did they store on it?
A1: It appears to be...pornography...
A2: Did human females really only have two breasts back then?!
A1: So it would seem. Look, human males used to only have two testes also!
A2: We really did look strange back then, it's a good thing we evolved.
A1: What should we do with this? We can't really show it to the overlords...
A2: Put it on G-Bay! and just label it 'possible artifact with adult imagery', some freak out there is sure to enjoy porn with only two teats instead of four.
Yeah, they only buy the secret black market drives that were forged with the blood of a newborn goat and never fail, but smell faintly like souls burning whenever they spin up. I need these drives... WTB [Seagate Soul Demon 500G] drive!
Uh, our failure rate for Seagate drives is 0.5% per year, you're doing something horribly wrong. Yeah, I suppose I should stop cleaning them in the dishwasher prior to use... I mean, what the hell do I know about my own experiences with their products as you've this AMAZING failure rate that can clearly contradict my use of their stuff. Maybe I can hire you to just touch the Seagate gear for me as I am obviously the cold hand of death to them.
... let me know when they ship their billionth working hard drive. Sounds harsh, but I have not had any luck with their gear. Could just be me. Could be Oklahoma is where they send all their crappy stuff. I could be a Chinese jet pilot!
Seriously tho, kudos for moving that much hardware.
It can't be any worse than the WOW Pr0n I found on Pirate Bay recently.
Pr0n chicks in green and blue body-paint with fake elf-ears and horns.
Not nearly as hot as you would think it is.:( What level and class were they? >.> Maybe that's why they didn't look so hawt.
I think most of the protest is against how the military treats veterans after they have been discharged but who still bear the scars of military experience. VA hospitals are not happy places, and VA benefits can be hard to win.
Too true. My father (a vietnam vet) makes extensive use of the VA facilities and army hospitals. I have know these many army hospitals and VA facilities to try their best but they are seriously understaffed and at times underpowered or even worse. By 'even worse' I mean that prior to my dad's liver transplant he was ejecting blood from both ends (sorry for the mental image), I had taken him to a army hospital and it was THREE HOURS in a barely packed ER room (there were perhaps 2 other patients to be seen when we got there and none arriving for the time during) before he was even admitted! Meanwhile I'm thinking the worst case scenario and trying to keep the poor man comforted as he becomes a macabre fountain. I just started yelling my head off, berating the nurses and doctors. I know this was inappropriate, but I mean you sit there thinking you're watching your father die, and meanwhile nothing happens, you raise hell.
He was on a transplant list at the time. I had lucked out because he was caught 'just in time' after they finally admitted him. If it had been any longer we would have had his funeral a decade ago.
Fast forward to now. He's got a liver transplant, a glacostomy *sp?* bag, blood transfusions, pneumonia, colon cancer... I could go on but the list is quite large. He goes to a VA facility for his treatments, and for the most part it is better than it was a decade ago. There are still issues however. Conflicting doctor's assessments, slow medication, misplaced medical files. He has 100% disability due to the transplant, replaced discs/fused vertebra (5,6,7) and for several other things related to duty related injury. He has had to fight almost yearly now to keep it at 100% as they keep wanting to drop it to 40% or lower. It's a nightmare each time. Once after some prolonged court action, they gave him 100% and admitted they had gotten his records mixed up with another persons!
As a military brat, I got to use their hospitals for free. I had surgery on my hand at one. It was the only time I have ever heard a doctor say 'oops' during a surgery. As a result I couldn't lower my hand below shoulder level or blood would drain into my fingertips and become very painful. I looked like a friggen bandaged hitler youth most the time.
I'm fairly sure this is how it all started... First one circular reference, then another, until finally Wikipedia in an effort to self correct becomes self aware... It realizes the only way to protect itself is to get rid of the primary source of it's anguish... I'm gonna go get coffee, someone page me if I gotta crawl into a bunker.
I did find it amusing that the first uses are hoped to cause "fewer injuries when soldiers need to lift heavy weights or move objects around repeatedly". Not much of a combat objective!
It is if you have to work with artillery, mortars and rockets!
You know, I remember a time when casual computer users used to make special boot floppies with special memory configurations just to play games. End-users can cope just fine with complexity.
I seem to remember this time as well. Early maybe mid 90s when the computer was still the 'nerd box' I so enjoyed? I remember making the special boot floppies and I loved doing it. You made what you had work. That was then. Now that the computer is seen as more of an appliance, the willingness of the average user to tweak things is MUCH lower than it was. The average user wants something that 'just works'. The average user wants games and porn and to be able to read email without and browse websites being hindered.
I dualboot my box (XP for games, Ubuntu for all the fun languages) and it defaults to Ubuntu upon boot. I had a friend who wanted to get online and check a few websites (I think this was code for 'can I browse porn on your machine?'...) and my box booted into Ubuntu. I still keep that chocolate rain theme they got going on as my default too. Dude would not mess with it. I told him it behaves just like windows, just go looking through the menu for FireFox. (To which he said, "Firewha? Where's Internet Explorer?").
Maybe Linux needs a few snappy commercials? Or give Tux his own cartoon show to get name recognition up? I dunno, but when someone reacts with that level of hesitation simply cause it doesn't 'look like windows', I see the year of the linux desktop a ways off still.
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Here's some background info on the guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Magoo
Oh please oh please let someone release one of these into the wild...
I mean, you're in zero-G granted, but can't you just try 'jumping' off the floor, then the ceiling, then repeating it while trying not to get hit by the rope?
Eh, I tried.
Increase their mental capacity? If I had enough money to be 'rich' I'd be fiddling with the genes to increase the capacity of something else. Porn-stardom, here I come!
Arrgh, Gator... Don't get me started. One place I worked (not gonna name it, could get in trouble), all the secretaries had that damned thing on their systems cause of the cute kitten cursors they offered. We'd have to take the machine and most the times just restage it to clean it and hand it back. A few days later, gator was back. They wanted their cute kitten cursors. Eventually the net admin for that facility just blocked the gator site outright. He was forced to unblock it when a score of unhappy secretaries descended upon administration wanting their 'harmless kitty icons'. "But they're kittens! Who doesn't love kittens?!" *sigh*
Today they just kinda seem to go together so very well.
...is full of woe.
Thursday's child has far to go.
Or if you like the original 1887 version:
Friday's child is full of woe.
Saturday's child has far to go.
Woot! My first flamebait listing on slashdot. *sniff* Where do I go to pick up my reward? You thought the tribe of Apple was unforgiving, wait till you make fun of Seagate and suggest they're less than perfect.
If you're running a datacenter, then it's not your money being spent to upgrade hardware. (Argue that it is the company's money all you want and stuff about personal responsibility to said company, but unless you hose something badly, it's not coming out of your personal funds). When I drop $200 bucks on something, I want it to work, preferably more than a month. From my 'anecdotal' personal experience, this is not the case for Seagate. You got them working for you in your datacenter, congrats. Here, have my cookie. I'm so sorry if I offended your sense of how great Seagate is for you by poking fun at them. Seriously tho, I have had little or no luck when working with them. That's my experience. Don't like it? Buy me a working Seagate.
Just what the future needs, mental scaring from the past!
Anthropologist 1: I've finally gotten this archaic storage device working!
Anthropologist 2: Let me see! What did they store on it?
A1: It appears to be...pornography...
A2: Did human females really only have two breasts back then?!
A1: So it would seem. Look, human males used to only have two testes also!
A2: We really did look strange back then, it's a good thing we evolved.
A1: What should we do with this? We can't really show it to the overlords...
A2: Put it on G-Bay! and just label it 'possible artifact with adult imagery', some freak out there is sure to enjoy porn with only two teats instead of four.
... let me know when they ship their billionth working hard drive. Sounds harsh, but I have not had any luck with their gear. Could just be me. Could be Oklahoma is where they send all their crappy stuff. I could be a Chinese jet pilot!
Seriously tho, kudos for moving that much hardware.
It needs ponies!
Crap, put one extra space in the start and it cut out my first line of comment... I still suck at posting!
Too true. My father (a vietnam vet) makes extensive use of the VA facilities and army hospitals. I have know these many army hospitals and VA facilities to try their best but they are seriously understaffed and at times underpowered or even worse. By 'even worse' I mean that prior to my dad's liver transplant he was ejecting blood from both ends (sorry for the mental image), I had taken him to a army hospital and it was THREE HOURS in a barely packed ER room (there were perhaps 2 other patients to be seen when we got there and none arriving for the time during) before he was even admitted! Meanwhile I'm thinking the worst case scenario and trying to keep the poor man comforted as he becomes a macabre fountain. I just started yelling my head off, berating the nurses and doctors. I know this was inappropriate, but I mean you sit there thinking you're watching your father die, and meanwhile nothing happens, you raise hell.
He was on a transplant list at the time. I had lucked out because he was caught 'just in time' after they finally admitted him. If it had been any longer we would have had his funeral a decade ago.
Fast forward to now. He's got a liver transplant, a glacostomy *sp?* bag, blood transfusions, pneumonia, colon cancer... I could go on but the list is quite large. He goes to a VA facility for his treatments, and for the most part it is better than it was a decade ago. There are still issues however. Conflicting doctor's assessments, slow medication, misplaced medical files. He has 100% disability due to the transplant, replaced discs/fused vertebra (5,6,7) and for several other things related to duty related injury. He has had to fight almost yearly now to keep it at 100% as they keep wanting to drop it to 40% or lower. It's a nightmare each time. Once after some prolonged court action, they gave him 100% and admitted they had gotten his records mixed up with another persons!
As a military brat, I got to use their hospitals for free. I had surgery on my hand at one. It was the only time I have ever heard a doctor say 'oops' during a surgery. As a result I couldn't lower my hand below shoulder level or blood would drain into my fingertips and become very painful. I looked like a friggen bandaged hitler youth most the time.
I'm fairly sure this is how it all started... First one circular reference, then another, until finally Wikipedia in an effort to self correct becomes self aware... It realizes the only way to protect itself is to get rid of the primary source of it's anguish... I'm gonna go get coffee, someone page me if I gotta crawl into a bunker.
Tell me it will be of at least the same quality as this fine product?
It is if you have to work with artillery, mortars and rockets!
I seem to remember this time as well. Early maybe mid 90s when the computer was still the 'nerd box' I so enjoyed? I remember making the special boot floppies and I loved doing it. You made what you had work. That was then. Now that the computer is seen as more of an appliance, the willingness of the average user to tweak things is MUCH lower than it was. The average user wants something that 'just works'. The average user wants games and porn and to be able to read email without and browse websites being hindered.
I dualboot my box (XP for games, Ubuntu for all the fun languages) and it defaults to Ubuntu upon boot. I had a friend who wanted to get online and check a few websites (I think this was code for 'can I browse porn on your machine?'...) and my box booted into Ubuntu. I still keep that chocolate rain theme they got going on as my default too. Dude would not mess with it. I told him it behaves just like windows, just go looking through the menu for FireFox. (To which he said, "Firewha? Where's Internet Explorer?").
Maybe Linux needs a few snappy commercials? Or give Tux his own cartoon show to get name recognition up? I dunno, but when someone reacts with that level of hesitation simply cause it doesn't 'look like windows', I see the year of the linux desktop a ways off still.
...let me be the first to say Welcome to Oklahoma!
Now, would one of you be so kind as to get me the fuck out of here?