Just to be able to pose for a famous painting, from a lo-angle perspective, with the flag waving in the background against a bright blue sky, and each pirate facing in a different direction, chins up brimming with the confidence that this piece of land is now truly theirs, is always the first official act of the governing body of any new sovereign nation, smoldering ruin or not.
The crew of the Nostromo was put in hibernate while the computer was being booted on. A couple of million light years later, the computer still needed something similar to Wake-on-LAN before it started to do SOMETHING.
picking up on the word "zero-day" and making it sound more dramatic than it really is
Quoting Jack Handey: I think there should be something in science called the "reindeer effect." I don't know what it would be, but I think it'd be good to hear someone say, "Gentlemen, what we have here is a terrifying example of the reindeer effect."
The so-called "Raid backup server" (nothing but a busy-looking metal case) actually contained his bottle of 15-year old scotch. He ran in to save it, then on his way out, he remembered the REAL Raid in the desk drawer, and took that out as well.
I could seamlessly integrate a lot of important business applications
bzzzzzzzzzt You know that any mention of 'seamless' automatically jinxes the project and dooms it to failure, causing the next mention of it in the next damage-recovery meeting to be like this
it seemed less problematic during our QA testing...
I believe he was using a layer of asbestos tiling to protect himself from any harmful effects. His friend Bob down in the basement was the one that reported the results, and was absolutely beaming with excitement
From the impressive slideshow a) That spam trojans are out there and running rampant on infected machines b) That a country named 'Unknown' is second only to the US when it comes to the Top 20 spam locales c) that there haven't been a lot of respondents to the penis-enlargement emails, hence the widespread marketing campaign
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I think it's worth it.
Just to be able to pose for a famous painting, from a lo-angle perspective, with the flag waving in the background against a bright blue sky, and each pirate facing in a different direction, chins up brimming with the confidence that this piece of land is now truly theirs, is always the first official act of the governing body of any new sovereign nation, smoldering ruin or not.
Do it for us, guys. Us.
...switch the knob the other way, to least Earth-like?
but the other occupant of my living room would tell you that this fact makes this game an upgrade
/. cred around here.
Jeez Malda, it's us, fer Chrissake. You're an editor already! You're allowed to say the G word (girlfriend) without losing
Wouldn't mind showing up at those conferences with a Ferrari. Might be able to pick up chix.
Oh, wait...
checking mile after mile of cable while crawling his way in the tubes.
You missed the more important part. Does he even *know* that he was volunteered for this task? Or he was simply not at that meeting?
Oddly enough, today's post was brought to you by the captchka 'drills'. Those sentinels!
102.67fps
/., hello?
At first, I thought, my god, what a fast graphics card! Until I found out it was feet per second.
What? This is
But these are poachers. So it's irony, not entrapment.
Did you even see the low UID of the poster you're replying to? You even *read* his post doing that flyover, sojer! Turn in your /. card, now!
Try to dance the limbo under that UID! Seriously.
That's quite an expensive warm-fuzzy you've got there ($1775, in fact). I just use my socks. Well, after they're washed, of course.
Mars responds.
My favorite part was doing the Dallas bit from Alien and saying the classic line, Kill me....
And here I am now a healthy adult. With issues, but that's beside the point.
The crew of the Nostromo was put in hibernate while the computer was being booted on. A couple of million light years later, the computer still needed something similar to Wake-on-LAN before it started to do SOMETHING.
I have checked out those programs that you mentioned. None of them have dinosaurs.
picking up on the word "zero-day" and making it sound more dramatic than it really is
Quoting Jack Handey:
I think there should be something in science called the "reindeer effect." I don't know what it would be, but I think it'd be good to hear someone say, "Gentlemen, what we have here is a terrifying example of the reindeer effect."
Well, he *was* hot as he escaped from the smoke-filled room...
*ducks
The so-called "Raid backup server" (nothing but a busy-looking metal case) actually contained his bottle of 15-year old scotch. He ran in to save it, then on his way out, he remembered the REAL Raid in the desk drawer, and took that out as well.
The details are sketchy, but you get the idea.
Damm this is what it feels like in the Realm of The Low UIDs :) All they ever discuss is emoticons!
And their coffee tastes different too, Must be Dark Roast! The ones handpicked by noobian slaves!
I always go like they do in the movies, as if somebody pushed you from behind. More fun that way, you get to say a line when you get back up.
I could seamlessly integrate a lot of important business applications
bzzzzzzzzzt You know that any mention of 'seamless' automatically jinxes the project and dooms it to failure, causing the next mention of it in the next damage-recovery meeting to be like this
it seemed less problematic during our QA testing...
I believe he was using a layer of asbestos tiling to protect himself from any harmful effects. His friend Bob down in the basement was the one that reported the results, and was absolutely beaming with excitement
Is actually reading the wikipedia too much to ask?
You're new here, aren't you?
For this crowd, reading TFA is pushing it
beware of Geeks bearing gifts?
*ducks
They already do.
From the impressive slideshow
a) That spam trojans are out there and running rampant on infected machines
b) That a country named 'Unknown' is second only to the US when it comes to the Top 20 spam locales
c) that there haven't been a lot of respondents to the penis-enlargement emails, hence the widespread marketing campaign
This is obviously some new definition of the word free with which I have been previously unfamiliar.