died, retired, along with their known OSs, or became managers.
and, in their place, enters a bunch of MSCE-types.
that can't be avoided, as the IT thing grows widespread, the average IQ of the involved with it drops drastically... The smart-to-dumb ratio of the general population is pretty low.
well, I see some bashing coming, but what the hell.
this is precisely why I choose gentoo some years ago and never looked back. There is no such thing as a gentoo 'release', and the upgrade process is incremental. As long as you don't leave your system too long without catching up with the latest and greatest, it works like a charm.
You have to change your profile (easy) and gcc (kinda boring) once in a while, but thats about it.
I could have nothing against RH, but some PHB-type fucks insist to have that crap as a 'standard', so I sometimes have to enjoy the joys of EXT3fs and all that crap. Well, it could be worse, it could be windows server.
So, I hope they die horribly so we can use saner things, like gentoo or slack.
dude, our ethanol production would have to grow tenfold or more to even matter to the US... we used to have like 100% of our cars powered by ethanol in the 1980s (and then things got fucked up, unfortunately), but our car fleet is ridiculously small when compared to the US's fleet. We are 3rd world, ya know...
yep, they started making cars powered by ethanol here in the late 70s. By the mid-80s, virtually all cars produced (like 95%) were ethanol powered. Then, the motherfuckers in charge of the ethanol production started to get all greedy, and prices skyrocketed (think side-by-side with gasoline, but ethanol has only 70% of the energy density of gas...). Pretty fucked up shit. Then the production of ethanol-powered cars dropped to virtually none... Everybody back to gasoline. This country is a joke.
Then, after like a decade 'on the fridge', with ethanol costing like 25% of the gasoline price, auto makers developed 'flexfuel' cars, which can run either on ethanol or gas, or at any mixture of both... hacking 'new' fuel injection systems to do that. Then, after some years of this technology available, the ethanol prices started to rise again, and are closing up on gasoline prices, rendering flexfuel cars useless (they do not have high compression rates like the ethanol-only cars, to avoid misfiring when running on gas, so they are not very efficient when running on ethanol). Those motherfuckers never learn.
whatever this 'windows vista' is... but linux has EFI suppor for quite a while, and (ooh) used to boot and run just fine on powerpc-based macintosh... so I expect little trouble booting on this new macs.
hehe that 'carpool' thing you guys got there is cool... here I have to resort to a motorcycle to get rid of the 'fat bastards and fat bitches' and their cars in front of me... but motorcycles sucks when it rains.
oh my, down here, while CNG is perfectly legal and even encouraged, LPG is strictly prohibited on vehicles... but in the old days we used to run cars on LPG, using gas-barrels designed for home (kitchen) use onboard the cars... LOL, the explosions were awesome... now it's got a bad name and is totally outlawed.
but in the end LPG is a lot better than CNG in the 'energy density' department
or, you may build them here, in the third world. we would love to have all that pollution down here, along with the nuclear waste and other goods. yay!
duh, your car runs ONLY on CNG? weird. all CNG vehicles around here are capable of running on gasoline too, or else they would not be very useful. (here == brazil)
if you hook a single valve as an amplifier and hook a single transistor as an amplifier, the distortion in the transistor one is a shitload more than the tube one. The tube amp is almost usable (ie, you can recognize the signal and such), while the transistor one usually produces a mess of sound.
Of course, when things like NFB (negatve feedback) comes into play, the transitor amps can sound pretty good too. And the tubes can play the NFB game also.
So, the grandparent is utterly correct. Tubes are much more linear devices than transeeestors... just check the datasheets...
well I don't care much about cells in movie theaters and such, simply because I don't go to the movies anymore:). Cells, kids yelling, people talking, crowded theaters, that eventually got to me and I just quit and watch DVDs at home now... But uncle-fuckers driving and talking on the phone annoy the hell out of me... I can tell if a sucker is on the phone even without getting on his side, olny by the way he drives, crosses lanes, totally fucking distracted... argh.
you know what's funny? every time I am in the traffic, when I see a moron driving and talking in the cell phone, I stand at their side honking the uber-compressed-aid-boat-horn that I had installed... thats much better than signal jamming:)
oh, by the way, if you ever go into the wilderness, please DO carry a decent gun and enough ammo to defend yourself against that kind of stuff... even if you are a convict tree-hugger, at least carry an airgun and enough tranquilizer darts, and know what you are doing... being dismembered by a bunch of wild pigs is not funny!
tee-hee... only one measily pig? thats nothing... some dudes I know had to climb a tree to escape from a bunch of wild pigs (like 20 pigs), and they had to stay up there a loooong time because they did not have enough ammo to kill all the friggin pigs... those wild pigs are totally dumb and pretty furious... I should have stated that 'half-smart' wild animals fear men, it would be more accurate. and 'half-smart' surely excludes wild pigs (especially in large numbers!):)
OTOH, you said your friends were carrying a shotgun... that was pretty dumb... shotguns are for killing birds and rabbits... if you go into the wilderness without a rifle at least carry a decent revolver, like a.44 magnum or even a.357... those dudes I mentioned had shitty shotguns and a.38cal revolver with little ammo.
Eeeehe, either the inhabitants of the polar regions do not usually carry guns, or the polar bears are pretty dumb. But you are right, bears are pretty dangerous, much more than lions and whatnot.
not exactly. as everyone that hunted once in their life knows, wild animals run like hell at the sight of humans, no matter how 'dangerous' the animals are, like tigers, lions and whatnot... it is not wise to attack/stay near the humans, and the beasts seem to know that.
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you sir understand us very well... kudos!
so if your console breaks you also lose all your games? sweet!
nah, it's not that bad and seems to work well for a lot of people ;-)
good to know. OTOH, here in the south the chainsaws are always busy. cheers
no need for satellite data from back then, just assume it was mostly green.
died, retired, along with their known OSs, or became managers.
and, in their place, enters a bunch of MSCE-types.
that can't be avoided, as the IT thing grows widespread, the average IQ of the involved with it drops drastically... The smart-to-dumb ratio of the general population is pretty low.
well, I see some bashing coming, but what the hell.
this is precisely why I choose gentoo some years ago and never looked back. There is no such thing as a gentoo 'release', and the upgrade process is incremental. As long as you don't leave your system too long without catching up with the latest and greatest, it works like a charm.
You have to change your profile (easy) and gcc (kinda boring) once in a while, but thats about it.
Yeah, but one can hope.
I could have nothing against RH, but some PHB-type fucks insist to have that crap as a 'standard', so I sometimes have to enjoy the joys of EXT3fs and all that crap. Well, it could be worse, it could be windows server.
So, I hope they die horribly so we can use saner things, like gentoo or slack.
cheers
dude, our ethanol production would have to grow tenfold or more to even matter to the US... we used to have like 100% of our cars powered by ethanol in the 1980s (and then things got fucked up, unfortunately), but our car fleet is ridiculously small when compared to the US's fleet. We are 3rd world, ya know...
cheers
yep, they started making cars powered by ethanol here in the late 70s. By the mid-80s, virtually all cars produced (like 95%) were ethanol powered. Then, the motherfuckers in charge of the ethanol production started to get all greedy, and prices skyrocketed (think side-by-side with gasoline, but ethanol has only 70% of the energy density of gas...). Pretty fucked up shit. Then the production of ethanol-powered cars dropped to virtually none... Everybody back to gasoline. This country is a joke.
Then, after like a decade 'on the fridge', with ethanol costing like 25% of the gasoline price, auto makers developed 'flexfuel' cars, which can run either on ethanol or gas, or at any mixture of both... hacking 'new' fuel injection systems to do that. Then, after some years of this technology available, the ethanol prices started to rise again, and are closing up on gasoline prices, rendering flexfuel cars useless (they do not have high compression rates like the ethanol-only cars, to avoid misfiring when running on gas, so they are not very efficient when running on ethanol). Those motherfuckers never learn.
cheers
whatever this 'windows vista' is... but linux has EFI suppor for quite a while, and (ooh) used to boot and run just fine on powerpc-based macintosh... so I expect little trouble booting on this new macs.
linux is not braindead like windoze.
cheers
and while we're at it, also a completely wrong 'estimated time remaining' like in the early NT4 days... hmmm... features...
hehe that 'carpool' thing you guys got there is cool... here I have to resort to a motorcycle to get rid of the 'fat bastards and fat bitches' and their cars in front of me... but motorcycles sucks when it rains.
oh my, down here, while CNG is perfectly legal and even encouraged, LPG is strictly prohibited on vehicles... but in the old days we used to run cars on LPG, using gas-barrels designed for home (kitchen) use onboard the cars... LOL, the explosions were awesome... now it's got a bad name and is totally outlawed.
but in the end LPG is a lot better than CNG in the 'energy density' department
or, you may build them here, in the third world. we would love to have all that pollution down here, along with the nuclear waste and other goods. yay!
duh, your car runs ONLY on CNG? weird. all CNG vehicles around here are capable of running on gasoline too, or else they would not be very useful. (here == brazil)
simpson's quote, yada yada...
"Hi I am an electric car. I don not go very far and not very fast. And if you drive me, people will think you are gay"
duh. read. parent.
if you hook a single valve as an amplifier and hook a single transistor as an amplifier, the distortion in the transistor one is a shitload more than the tube one. The tube amp is almost usable (ie, you can recognize the signal and such), while the transistor one usually produces a mess of sound.
Of course, when things like NFB (negatve feedback) comes into play, the transitor amps can sound pretty good too. And the tubes can play the NFB game also.
So, the grandparent is utterly correct. Tubes are much more linear devices than transeeestors... just check the datasheets...
cheers
well I don't care much about cells in movie theaters and such, simply because I don't go to the movies anymore :). Cells, kids yelling, people talking, crowded theaters, that eventually got to me and I just quit and watch DVDs at home now...
But uncle-fuckers driving and talking on the phone annoy the hell out of me... I can tell if a sucker is on the phone even without getting on his side, olny by the way he drives, crosses lanes, totally fucking distracted... argh.
you know what's funny? every time I am in the traffic, when I see a moron driving and talking in the cell phone, I stand at their side honking the uber-compressed-aid-boat-horn that I had installed... thats much better than signal jamming :)
cheers
just wait and see...
oh, by the way, if you ever go into the wilderness, please DO carry a decent gun and enough ammo to defend yourself against that kind of stuff... even if you are a convict tree-hugger, at least carry an airgun and enough tranquilizer darts, and know what you are doing... being dismembered by a bunch of wild pigs is not funny!
cheers
tee-hee... only one measily pig? thats nothing... some dudes I know had to climb a tree to escape from a bunch of wild pigs (like 20 pigs), and they had to stay up there a loooong time because they did not have enough ammo to kill all the friggin pigs... :)
.44 magnum or even a .357... those dudes I mentioned had shitty shotguns and a .38cal revolver with little ammo.
those wild pigs are totally dumb and pretty furious... I should have stated that 'half-smart' wild animals fear men, it would be more accurate. and 'half-smart' surely excludes wild pigs (especially in large numbers!)
OTOH, you said your friends were carrying a shotgun... that was pretty dumb... shotguns are for killing birds and rabbits... if you go into the wilderness without a rifle at least carry a decent revolver, like a
Eeeehe, either the inhabitants of the polar regions do not usually carry guns, or the polar bears are pretty dumb. But you are right, bears are pretty dangerous, much more than lions and whatnot.
not exactly.
as everyone that hunted once in their life knows, wild animals run like hell at the sight of humans, no matter how 'dangerous' the animals are, like tigers, lions and whatnot... it is not wise to attack/stay near the humans, and the beasts seem to know that.
cheers