You know what it reminds me of? I think it was in one of the Rick Cook Wizardry novels where they tried to converge the shape of a dimensional key by successive approximation. That being a magical universe, as it started to approach the solution, it caused everything around it to go weird (think of Salvador Dali) and they had to abort it.
Literally 40 years old, as in mothballed in a warehouse for that long. When they run out of engines (or get cut off because the Russkies get pissy), they have to find another engine. SpaceX avoided that problem by making their own engines.
Except right now it looks like SpaceX may have to push the next Dragon launch back because they're switching completely to the new Merlin 1D engines, which get their first launch in the next couple of weeks. So they've temporarily caused their own engine supply problems, ha ha.
Seriously? You expect me to list every half decent or better band of two decades in a quick reply post? And if I don't list someone, I'm insulting them somehow? Get a grip. This is a Slashdot post, not a scholarly research essay.
I'll agree with Miley Cyrus, but there are many others that are more deserving than the rest of your list, like:
Kim Kardashian
Justin Beiber
Paris Hilton
Piers Morgan
Rachel Maddow
etc.
FWIW, TFA may have had problems learning the code because his learning remote was too modern and was attempting to decode a known frame format, and the alarm remote was just a cheap stupid transistor thingy, even cheaper than the Quantum piece of shit. The learning remote from the '80s just watched the blinkenlights and copied them directly.
Definitely not new. Back in the '90s, my mom was looking into (as in she had some samples and had me look at them) selling crap personal security devices by some company called "Quantum" (hooray multi-level marketing) built around a really loud noisemaker, such as a "grenade pin" alarm in case of a purse snatcher.
One was a "car alarm" which was basically a sonar motion detector that you put up on your dashboard when leaving the car. The idea was that you had an IR remote to control it, and could enable and disable it through the window. The only problem was that it only used one code to talk to the unit, selectable from a total of 16. Learning remotes are NOT new (we had one in the early '80s!), and all you would have to do is learn all 16 codes into one remote and try them all. (What, you actually thought they'd take the time to make it go off if it saw one of the other 15 codes?) Assuming, of course, that you could actually find someone using this POS as an alarm, and assuming you wouldn't just stomp it into the ground when it went off.
The '80s, back when MTV still played videos, is full of good stuff. Genesis, The Police, Talking Heads, etc. I've been building up an iTunes playlist that I call "80s radio" (because it includes some late '70s stuff that was still getting play), which is partly from my CDs bought back in the day, and the rest from CDs found at thrift stores. (all are rips from actual CDs)
But I'll agree about music (in the US market) since the '90s being pretty dire. Yes, there were a few good groups like Nirvana, but also it was the dawn of shovelware rap music. (though I have enjoyed stuff from Eminem and Run DMC)
When my boss called Dell about the eight we had that were dropping keypresses, they said that our employees that had trouble were incompetent and did not know how to use a keyboard. He is a Dell fanboy so he fired a couple people.
It is now official. Netcraft has confirmed: GCC is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered GCC community when IDC confirmed that GCC market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that GCC has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. GCC is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be the Amazing Kreskin to predict GCC's future. The hand writing is on the wall: GCC faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for GCC because GCC is dying. Things are looking very bad for GCC. As many of us are already aware, GCC continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
GCC is most endangered of all in FreeBSD, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: GCC is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of GCC. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the GCC market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that GCC has steadily declined in market share. GCC is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If GCC is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. GCC continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, GCC is dead.
My old Sony Wega died like four years ago. All one-hundred seventy-five pounds of it.
I was so happy to replace it with something that wasn't a boat anchor, and took a real computer input without overscan. I had to tweak that Wega in the service menu to get a proper 480p without overscan, then I had to do it all over again when I rearranged the room and turned the set 90 degrees, thanks to the planetary magnetic field. My new set does 1080, but I have Windows XP set to 720 because I couldn't read the icon names from the sofa.
GP is either an idiot or actually expects China to lease areas adjacent to Taiwan, wait for the lease to expire, then when the lease expires, it becomes too complicated to return the leased area separately from Taiwan. (And wow, the HK situation was not as simple I thought it was. I thought HK was under the 99 year lease.)
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You know what it reminds me of? I think it was in one of the Rick Cook Wizardry novels where they tried to converge the shape of a dimensional key by successive approximation. That being a magical universe, as it started to approach the solution, it caused everything around it to go weird (think of Salvador Dali) and they had to abort it.
Holy crap, how did you post that without the lameness filter getting you? OH NO, THE TIME CUBE IS REAL!
He just had the wrong shape, that's all.
If the Brits are still using miles per hour for speed and stone for weight, what hope does the US have to go metric?
Literally 40 years old, as in mothballed in a warehouse for that long. When they run out of engines (or get cut off because the Russkies get pissy), they have to find another engine. SpaceX avoided that problem by making their own engines.
Except right now it looks like SpaceX may have to push the next Dragon launch back because they're switching completely to the new Merlin 1D engines, which get their first launch in the next couple of weeks. So they've temporarily caused their own engine supply problems, ha ha.
You mean Bush didn't just get a good tan?
W + JC + RMN = BO
Or at least now you HOPE that you can.
Seriously? You expect me to list every half decent or better band of two decades in a quick reply post? And if I don't list someone, I'm insulting them somehow? Get a grip. This is a Slashdot post, not a scholarly research essay.
I'll agree with Miley Cyrus, but there are many others that are more deserving than the rest of your list, like:
Kim Kardashian
Justin Beiber
Paris Hilton
Piers Morgan
Rachel Maddow
etc.
Isn't that when Ray Romano starts to follow the Three Laws of Robotics?
SyFy
Pronounced "shitty".
Just wait until he tries to pronounce Natchitoches!
Death, Taxes, NSA Spying, and a fanatical devotion to the pope! Oh, now that's four things. Among the things you can always relay on are...
FWIW, TFA may have had problems learning the code because his learning remote was too modern and was attempting to decode a known frame format, and the alarm remote was just a cheap stupid transistor thingy, even cheaper than the Quantum piece of shit. The learning remote from the '80s just watched the blinkenlights and copied them directly.
Definitely not new. Back in the '90s, my mom was looking into (as in she had some samples and had me look at them) selling crap personal security devices by some company called "Quantum" (hooray multi-level marketing) built around a really loud noisemaker, such as a "grenade pin" alarm in case of a purse snatcher.
One was a "car alarm" which was basically a sonar motion detector that you put up on your dashboard when leaving the car. The idea was that you had an IR remote to control it, and could enable and disable it through the window. The only problem was that it only used one code to talk to the unit, selectable from a total of 16. Learning remotes are NOT new (we had one in the early '80s!), and all you would have to do is learn all 16 codes into one remote and try them all. (What, you actually thought they'd take the time to make it go off if it saw one of the other 15 codes?) Assuming, of course, that you could actually find someone using this POS as an alarm, and assuming you wouldn't just stomp it into the ground when it went off.
Maybe he told them he was going to use it to find their missing maple syrup.
The difference is that Keith Richards is still alive.
The '80s, back when MTV still played videos, is full of good stuff. Genesis, The Police, Talking Heads, etc. I've been building up an iTunes playlist that I call "80s radio" (because it includes some late '70s stuff that was still getting play), which is partly from my CDs bought back in the day, and the rest from CDs found at thrift stores. (all are rips from actual CDs)
But I'll agree about music (in the US market) since the '90s being pretty dire. Yes, there were a few good groups like Nirvana, but also it was the dawn of shovelware rap music. (though I have enjoyed stuff from Eminem and Run DMC)
Or with a delay or denial of a medical procedure so that they do suffer.
When my boss called Dell about the eight we had that were dropping keypresses, they said that our employees that had trouble were incompetent and did not know how to use a keyboard. He is a Dell fanboy so he fired a couple people.
Does your boss's name happen to be JIM?
You don't need to be the Amazing Kreskin to predict GCC's future. The hand writing is on the wall: GCC faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for GCC because GCC is dying. Things are looking very bad for GCC. As many of us are already aware, GCC continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
GCC is most endangered of all in FreeBSD, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: GCC is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of GCC. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the GCC market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that GCC has steadily declined in market share. GCC is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If GCC is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. GCC continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, GCC is dead.
Take out the date and I'd be a lot happier.
My old Sony Wega died like four years ago. All one-hundred seventy-five pounds of it.
I was so happy to replace it with something that wasn't a boat anchor, and took a real computer input without overscan. I had to tweak that Wega in the service menu to get a proper 480p without overscan, then I had to do it all over again when I rearranged the room and turned the set 90 degrees, thanks to the planetary magnetic field. My new set does 1080, but I have Windows XP set to 720 because I couldn't read the icon names from the sofa.
Jim Jones used grape Flavor-Aid.
How did they get Hong Kong?
Wasn't it an all-out land invasion in which thousands died? Oh wait.
GP is either an idiot or actually expects China to lease areas adjacent to Taiwan, wait for the lease to expire, then when the lease expires, it becomes too complicated to return the leased area separately from Taiwan. (And wow, the HK situation was not as simple I thought it was. I thought HK was under the 99 year lease.)