I'm with you on this: I think all the Star Wars films are stupid. To read this corny postmodernist take (calling all six movies "a text"? Give me a break!) with all it's pretentious prose about how the plot is actually some kind of commentary on the mechanics of plot is just dressing a pig up a prom dress: no matter how hard you try, all you have is a pig in a prom dress. When I was younger I mildly liked the first 3 movies, but now regard all 6 movies as mindless claptrap.
And as long as I'm setting up myself to be pelted by rotten vegetables, I think the Lord Of The Rings trilogy is a bunch of pretentious garbage, both the books and the movies.
... and find out that it able to survive better than any life on earth because it has evolved in a much harsher environment. Then let it escape from the lab, like the killer bees did, and destroy all other life.
Technical support as determined that this is a problem in the current version of the product. The next version of the product will have a fan that drops down from the bottom of the laptop and cools the affected area.
Until the next version is released, please use this workaround: open your zipper and let it all hang out. With the laptop covering your groin nobody will notice. Thanks for contacting customer support!
Not so fast! There may not be a sequence point there but the standard explicity says the left operand of the logical OR operator is evaluated first and only if the result is zero is the right operand evaluated.
The logical AND operator is similar. If the left hand expression is false, the right hand expression is never evaulated.
Most operators aren't like these two; instead the order of evaluation is not specified. The logical AND and OR operators are unique in this respect.
I'm a Slashdot reader and I hate info with a passion. In Linux I long for what I used to have with SCO OpenServer. I never saw any partial or missing man pages like I seem to keep finding with Linux. With SCO OpenServer $200 you could get a very complete shelf of manuals which included the man pages. If you didn't want to pay that, everything in the books was available from a browser as part of the base OS cost, including a search engine. Installing new software packages caused new man pages to be installed were automatically added to the HTML system. Finally this whole process was documentated COMPLETELY, along with directions on to add your own man pages and HTML equivalents. Finally there was a complete bug documentation system so you could tell if the problem you were having had been found and fixed.
Just think of all the fun you could have...
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with a small RF transmitter that transmits all the item IDs. The alarm would go off in the store. and they'd think everything in the whole store had just been stolen. FUN FUN FUN!
I thought having Yoda bop around the screen was the silliest thing in the whole movie. I actaully laughed when that little green rat hobbled up on a cane and then suddenly transformas into a tribble with a light sabre. This is the closest George Lucas has ever come to admitting Star Wars is really a comedy.
Did anyone notice this near the end of the article: "We see everything from floppy disks to small tapes to the old-style 24-inch reel tapes you see in the movies..." I used to work with those tapes and they definitely were not 24 inches in diameter! More like 24 millimeters. A tape 24 inches across would be the size of a large pizza.
This website has an excellent information on SpyWare. It tells what SpyWare is, gives examples of SpyWare they've found so far and how to remove it manually. If you don't want to remove it manually there are linkts to commercial software to remove it.
I used this website to kill several SpyWare programs on my Windows machine at work. So far they don't mention any SpyWare software for Linux.
I used to buy a lot of books from you. If you check your records, you'll find just how much money I used to spend at your site and it was not an insignifigant amount. I liked the idea of an online bookstore and considered it a privilige to buy from you because you represented the new and innovative idea of buying off the web.
Your 1 click lawsuit exposed you as just another greedy business. I quit buying from your website and started telling all my friends not to buy from you because of your idiotic lawsuit. I also started telling all my friends not to buy from Amazon because of this lawsuit. Your settlement isn't going to settle my own beef against you. And I'll still give nasty replies every time you send me an e-mail trying to get me back.
And besides, there's no reason to go back. After all is said and done, I realized you did me a favor. I now buy all my books from your competitor. Now I have a Reader's Advantage card that not only gives me a discount at all B&N stores and website. Even better, this card gives me discounts at all B&N's affiliated bookstores such as B. Dalton and Scribners. To add icing to the cake I have a B&N credit card that gives me credits for B&N books every time use it. Why go back to Amazon?
I am glad you haven't gone out of business though. I like your website's organization better than B&N's. And I use it regularly to look up book information. Then I go over to the B&N website and make my purchases there.
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Amen, brother! Doing development without source control is a sure sign of insanity.
No source control for the Linux kernel? What the hell is going on here? C'mon, Linus, get a clue: source control is FOR YOUR BENEFIT. I've used SCCS, a little bit of RCS, and now I'm using ClearCase and can't imagine doing development without source control. The very idea just horrifies me and I simply can't imagine you're not using it! ARRRGGGGHHH!
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...to witness the infringement lawsuits over this patent.
Too late! Now you have to pay Boris royalties before you can fart off to the cosmos.
Hey! Quit making fun of my Belgian Chocolate motherboard!
Yes, I found that statement hilarious and I can't figure out why more people didn't pick up on it. Since when is copying considered innovation?
I'm with you on this: I think all the Star Wars films are stupid. To read this corny postmodernist take (calling all six movies "a text"? Give me a break!) with all it's pretentious prose about how the plot is actually some kind of commentary on the mechanics of plot is just dressing a pig up a prom dress: no matter how hard you try, all you have is a pig in a prom dress. When I was younger I mildly liked the first 3 movies, but now regard all 6 movies as mindless claptrap. And as long as I'm setting up myself to be pelted by rotten vegetables, I think the Lord Of The Rings trilogy is a bunch of pretentious garbage, both the books and the movies.
So finally when the system crashes we can say it went down the tubes and really mean it!
the biggest black hole in the universe was the United States national debt.
...but assholes persist forever!
towers out of this, then the airplanes would have just bounced off, right? Boingy boingy, but no fallee!
The end of the world is at hand!
Make your peace with whatever god you worship!
Until the next version is released, please use this workaround: open your zipper and let it all hang out. With the laptop covering your groin nobody will notice. Thanks for contacting customer support!
Nyah, gimme a free Danish at a porn company.
This will only work until someone points out that a solar flare is a big bunch of hot gas coming from a hole.
Not so fast! There may not be a sequence point there but the standard explicity says the left operand of the logical OR operator is evaluated first and only if the result is zero is the right operand evaluated. The logical AND operator is similar. If the left hand expression is false, the right hand expression is never evaulated. Most operators aren't like these two; instead the order of evaluation is not specified. The logical AND and OR operators are unique in this respect.
I'm a Slashdot reader and I hate info with a passion. In Linux I long for what I used to have with SCO OpenServer. I never saw any partial or missing man pages like I seem to keep finding with Linux. With SCO OpenServer $200 you could get a very complete shelf of manuals which included the man pages. If you didn't want to pay that, everything in the books was available from a browser as part of the base OS cost, including a search engine. Installing new software packages caused new man pages to be installed were automatically added to the HTML system. Finally this whole process was documentated COMPLETELY, along with directions on to add your own man pages and HTML equivalents. Finally there was a complete bug documentation system so you could tell if the problem you were having had been found and fixed.
with a small RF transmitter that transmits all the item IDs. The alarm would go off in the store. and they'd think everything in the whole store had just been stolen. FUN FUN FUN!
I just can't believe it. I feel dazed and stunned. My life has lost it's meaning. Once again my hopes for the human race have been ruined.
I nominate Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson because they both have very extensive experience in fabrication.
I thought having Yoda bop around the screen was the silliest thing in the whole movie. I actaully laughed when that little green rat hobbled up on a cane and then suddenly transformas into a tribble with a light sabre. This is the closest George Lucas has ever come to admitting Star Wars is really a comedy.
...plug the RIAA's anal hole!
Did anyone notice this near the end of the article: "We see everything from floppy disks to small tapes to the old-style 24-inch reel tapes you see in the movies..." I used to work with those tapes and they definitely were not 24 inches in diameter! More like 24 millimeters. A tape 24 inches across would be the size of a large pizza.
I used this website to kill several SpyWare programs on my Windows machine at work. So far they don't mention any SpyWare software for Linux.
I used to buy a lot of books from you. If you check your records, you'll find just how much money I used to spend at your site and it was not an insignifigant amount. I liked the idea of an online bookstore and considered it a privilige to buy from you because you represented the new and innovative idea of buying off the web.
Your 1 click lawsuit exposed you as just another greedy business. I quit buying from your website and started telling all my friends not to buy from you because of your idiotic lawsuit. I also started telling all my friends not to buy from Amazon because of this lawsuit. Your settlement isn't going to settle my own beef against you. And I'll still give nasty replies every time you send me an e-mail trying to get me back.
And besides, there's no reason to go back. After all is said and done, I realized you did me a favor. I now buy all my books from your competitor. Now I have a Reader's Advantage card that not only gives me a discount at all B&N stores and website. Even better, this card gives me discounts at all B&N's affiliated bookstores such as B. Dalton and Scribners. To add icing to the cake I have a B&N credit card that gives me credits for B&N books every time use it. Why go back to Amazon?
I am glad you haven't gone out of business though. I like your website's organization better than B&N's. And I use it regularly to look up book information. Then I go over to the B&N website and make my purchases there.
Amen, brother! Doing development without source control is a sure sign of insanity.
No source control for the Linux kernel? What the hell is going on here? C'mon, Linus, get a clue: source control is FOR YOUR BENEFIT. I've used SCCS, a little bit of RCS, and now I'm using ClearCase and can't imagine doing development without source control. The very idea just horrifies me and I simply can't imagine you're not using it! ARRRGGGGHHH!