Or, you could explain to him about the current situation with helium and then explain to his mother why you invested all his college tuition into Helium futures.
I remember the first time my parents got a car with automatic windows... confused the heck out of me for weeks when I would reach for the crank and it wasn't there! Sadly, my children will probably never get to experience the same pleasure.
Yeah, but they didn't make enough fragrances for every situation (I.E.)
Kobayashi Maru: because there's no such thing as a no-win situation
Ferengi funk: smells almost as good as the Latinum you bought it with
or better yet (and this one just speaks for itself:
Khan
Ironically, I once bought a copy of a book I'd read previously on Project Gutenberg, Only to find that the "illustrations" in the book were EXACT COPIES of the crappy ASCII ART presented in the Project Gutenberg version. Talk about a waste of $10.
Wait... Here's an idea: we hijack the botnets and Make them download pirated songs, thus, the RIAA becomes overloaded with work, the ISPs decide it's not worth it, but not until after large chunks of the botnets get kicked off by their ISPs for infringement. It's like killing 3 birds with one stone!
Yeah... I've done that, Ubuntu's Upgrade system is not failproof.
The simplest way is to just mount your home directory on a separate partition, and then just reinstall any time you do a major update (I tend to skip every other release, just cuz I'm too lazy to do an upgrade every 6 months)
But, that being said, you can change the notification system so that a senior citizen would not ever have to mess with that. Even outdated Ubuntu is more user-friendly than XP for a non-proficient user in my mind.
Simply point out the fact that this post has made it to the/. front page. That alone should give you sufficient geek cred that they will respect your judgments and understand that you are trying to to what's best for the project, from both sides (Development AND Business).
Actually, that would make it worse. The sun is the source of solar winds, so our closer proximity means that the particle density of solar winds are greater where we are than at mars. The sun's flares do not "cook" and neutralize the solar wind, but instead, solar flares and Coronal Mass Ejections add even more highly energetic and heavier particles into the solar wind, causing greater hazards to earth (particularly to communications satellites, electrical grids, and astronauts). For more information, check wikipedia next time.
Hear hear!
I get a hearty chuckle out of the disagree mail every week. Maybe others should just consider this the "Sunday funnies" (even the NYTimes has those) of this landmark.
For me, I always love to strip it down, sometimes you can find some really neat stuff that are great for DIY projects. I just take it out to the shed, rip it apart, take a blowtorch to the back of the PCBs and knock all the component parts off. It's not the best if you're looking for specific items, but for general Caps/Resistors/Battery Holders/IC Sockets/Pin Headers/etc. It's great! Sometimes if you're lucky you'll run across something really neat (Nixie Tubes, Big LCD Screens, Laser Diodes, etc, old uCs, EEPROMs). It's a lot of work, but when you compare the cost of a D-Sub Parallel connector ($3.29 at Radioshack) with FREE off an old computer, it can really save you on the odds and ends to make your projects nice.
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Or, you could explain to him about the current situation with helium and then explain to his mother why you invested all his college tuition into Helium futures.
or the FCC, FAA, USPTO... etc. etc. -leave it to the government to take all the fun out of science.
when was that? I took their OS course in 2003 and the coding assignments was almost entirely linux based.
Only if it joins with The Creator.
On the downside... everyone I've met from Digipen was crazy. I used to play Capture the flag (in real life) with some of them.
Or perfect your bowhunting skills, I hear pigeon tastes like a milder form of duck!
the way to candy mountain!
or just make their own LiveCD with an automated installer... not that hard to do really... Way easier than in windows anyhow.
Awesome... that's the benefit, pure, unadulterated awesome.
I remember the first time my parents got a car with automatic windows... confused the heck out of me for weeks when I would reach for the crank and it wasn't there! Sadly, my children will probably never get to experience the same pleasure.
Or maybe those who are Pious (using the common (correct or not) definition: have lived a "good" life) Have more to live for?
I felt a great disturbance in the 'Nets, it's as if a million voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced...
...DDoS???
Kind of like the Brewster sisters in "Arsenic and Old Lace"...
Only more evil
Yeah, but they didn't make enough fragrances for every situation (I.E.) Kobayashi Maru: because there's no such thing as a no-win situation Ferengi funk: smells almost as good as the Latinum you bought it with or better yet (and this one just speaks for itself: Khan
Ironically, I once bought a copy of a book I'd read previously on Project Gutenberg, Only to find that the "illustrations" in the book were EXACT COPIES of the crappy ASCII ART presented in the Project Gutenberg version. Talk about a waste of $10.
It's necessary to root them out so they can be given proper guidance.
It seems like this would work better in step 2, root console access to their heads would be a great help in the deprogramming process.
Wait... Here's an idea: we hijack the botnets and Make them download pirated songs, thus, the RIAA becomes overloaded with work, the ISPs decide it's not worth it, but not until after large chunks of the botnets get kicked off by their ISPs for infringement. It's like killing 3 birds with one stone!
Heh... That was totally my first reaction too, It looks exactly like an RUS.
Yeah... I've done that, Ubuntu's Upgrade system is not failproof. The simplest way is to just mount your home directory on a separate partition, and then just reinstall any time you do a major update (I tend to skip every other release, just cuz I'm too lazy to do an upgrade every 6 months) But, that being said, you can change the notification system so that a senior citizen would not ever have to mess with that. Even outdated Ubuntu is more user-friendly than XP for a non-proficient user in my mind.
Simply point out the fact that this post has made it to the /. front page. That alone should give you sufficient geek cred that they will respect your judgments and understand that you are trying to to what's best for the project, from both sides (Development AND Business).
Actually, that would make it worse. The sun is the source of solar winds, so our closer proximity means that the particle density of solar winds are greater where we are than at mars. The sun's flares do not "cook" and neutralize the solar wind, but instead, solar flares and Coronal Mass Ejections add even more highly energetic and heavier particles into the solar wind, causing greater hazards to earth (particularly to communications satellites, electrical grids, and astronauts). For more information, check wikipedia next time.
Heh, God would probably prefer the command line: dnack -t mammoth -ay
Hear hear! I get a hearty chuckle out of the disagree mail every week. Maybe others should just consider this the "Sunday funnies" (even the NYTimes has those) of this landmark.
For me, I always love to strip it down, sometimes you can find some really neat stuff that are great for DIY projects. I just take it out to the shed, rip it apart, take a blowtorch to the back of the PCBs and knock all the component parts off. It's not the best if you're looking for specific items, but for general Caps/Resistors/Battery Holders/IC Sockets/Pin Headers/etc. It's great! Sometimes if you're lucky you'll run across something really neat (Nixie Tubes, Big LCD Screens, Laser Diodes, etc, old uCs, EEPROMs). It's a lot of work, but when you compare the cost of a D-Sub Parallel connector ($3.29 at Radioshack) with FREE off an old computer, it can really save you on the odds and ends to make your projects nice.