I'm just waiting for Sotomayor's Paris Hilton style homemade porn video to be released.
But for the love of God, why? She's not what you'd call "traditionally attractive." That really doesn't matter a damn for a prospective Justice, but it sure does affect what porn I watch.
This is kinda cool. Not so much that it was an iPhone, but that it was a handheld device. How much longer until these phones replace a laptop for most of our day-to-day computing?
Much of the appeal of a laptop is the screen real estate. You can use your iPhone as a laptop, and you can can use your laptop as a phone, but seriously. Use the proper tool for the proper job.
Is it really that necessary to appoint a czar fro EVERY issue? I'm waiting for the Toilet Paper Czar, who will coordinate government efforts to regulate both the orientation of the roll in the holder as well as the direction of wipe.
Damn skippy you're awaiting a TP czar. Hanging-end in front, bottom to top all the way!
(Except when it's particularly messy and you need to mop up. Then top to bottom is acceptable with written permission from your physician.)
Why do I suspect that this "czar" will spend about 10% of his time dealing with security issues and 90% of his time finding ways to help big media companies protect their IP from evil pirates, teenagers, and Youtube?
Because you're a far seeing paradigm of statistical insight?
While I too wish he'd eat his own ass, every attempt I've made so far to configure ubuntu 8.10 to use a static IP rather than a DHCP IP has resulted in failure.
I wondered if I was the only person having that problem. I eventually gave up and just punched my IP address in manually each time I rebooted. If it's any consolation, 9.04 is working just dandy.
I have a DFI motherboard with dual NICs, and I use a 192.168.2.0 network address. Hope that helps.
... You know, like some dude with spiky hair who describes himself as a 'hacker' would be typing furiously on a keyboard, and then suddenly yell, "Oh no! We're in too many firewalls and cyberspace is almost full! All of our computers are going to crash if I don't do something quick!"
I first tried Linux last year. I was in the US Air Force doing my 4-months in Iraq, and had just inadvertently destroyed my USB drive. The cable plug inside the drive housing had snapped clean off, I wasn't skilled (l33t, perhaps?) enough to re-solder it, and to my chagrin the Crazy Glue gambit met with limited success.
When I took the USB drive apart however, the 2.5 inch drive itself was fine. Thought I,
1: Cool, A 2.5 inch PATA. This drive will fit inside my laptop.
2: The dudes over in the IT shop have a Drake version of Kubuntu floating around on CD. They'd probably let me borrow it.
3:...
4: No profit whatsoever. I hated that crap. I could not figure out how to give myself root in X. Instead of prompting for [Password:], the X interface in Drake took great delight in the [You do not have permission to access this drive. Ha ha, you're screwed!] Learning to even use the interface was a task in itself, I JUST WANTED TO LOOK AT PICTURES OF WOMEN ON MY COMPUTER! I kept at it though, because learning new things is fun, and switched over to Ubuntu once I got back to the US of A.
And then dual-booted on my home machine.
And then began installing it old computers around the house.
And most recently, installed it on the toaster... seriously, though. I found that once I got past the learning curve, it was mostly easy to work with. Objectively, I can't even say the learning curve was worse than the Windows 95 curve was.
... If you go by the number of games that can't *be* completed...
Oh, good. So you remember Ghosts 'n' Goblins for the NES. Tell me, did anybody on/. ever manage to beat that damnably hard game? Not just make it through (an achievement unto itself) but get the Cross in the 5th level so that YOU DIDN'T GET KICKED BACK TO THE BEGINNING WHEN YOU FINALLY BEAT IT?
This was, unsurprisingly, the moment I stopped trying to beat the game in a figurative sense and began to seriously consider beating it in a literal sense. Like, with a hammer.
I eventually completed the game with an emulator, but that's not the same thing at all.
I did both. I sincerely wish I hadn't.
Experience is a bitch.
Your remorse suggests you learned from the experience, and 300 pounds (500 dollars?) isn't that expensive a lesson, depending on what you brought away from it.
Is there any other part of a 20-year-old computer that you could still use for day-to-day tasks? A Model M lets you feel old-school without actually having to live in the bad old days of floppy disks and 300 baud modems.
I own a 5 1/4 inch floppy drive, you insensitive clod! (It's in my main computer, right under the DVD burner. I'm sure one day they'll make a comeback. Maybe when files are less than 720K again.)
In fact, somebody's selling one on eBay right now.
TFA is confusing "quirky" with "asshole." I love working with quirky people -- people who look at the world in entirely different ways, people who solve problems in a different manner, and people whose idiosyncrasies make them genuinely fun to be around.
I can't say that I enjoy working with assholes, though. It doesn't matter how good your code is or how quickly you put it together, I can find somebody almost as good who's a lot less of a pain to work with. The extra little bit of efficiency isn't worth the metric cockton of assholery.
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To be fair, I did click the link, but it sure is portrayed in a hilarious way.
In his interpretation, "unreasonable searches" do not exist. Every search has a reason and the 4th amendment is therefore null and void.
Do we mod this funny? Because although I see the humor, I find it far more worrying than humorous.
This makes my soul cry a little bit. My thoughts and prayers go out to the Aus gamers out there. Also makes me glad that America is'nt doing this yet.
And that's how we edit comments here at /.
I'm just waiting for Sotomayor's Paris Hilton style homemade porn video to be released.
But for the love of God, why? She's not what you'd call "traditionally attractive." That really doesn't matter a damn for a prospective Justice, but it sure does affect what porn I watch.
This is kinda cool. Not so much that it was an iPhone, but that it was a handheld device. How much longer until these phones replace a laptop for most of our day-to-day computing?
Much of the appeal of a laptop is the screen real estate. You can use your iPhone as a laptop, and you can can use your laptop as a phone, but seriously. Use the proper tool for the proper job.
Is it really that necessary to appoint a czar fro EVERY issue? I'm waiting for the Toilet Paper Czar, who will coordinate government efforts to regulate both the orientation of the roll in the holder as well as the direction of wipe.
Damn skippy you're awaiting a TP czar. Hanging-end in front, bottom to top all the way!
(Except when it's particularly messy and you need to mop up. Then top to bottom is acceptable with written permission from your physician.)
Why do I suspect that this "czar" will spend about 10% of his time dealing with security issues and 90% of his time finding ways to help big media companies protect their IP from evil pirates, teenagers, and Youtube?
Because you're a far seeing paradigm of statistical insight?
These kind of predictions always remind me of Bill Gates asserting that "640 K should be enough for anybody."
I doubt Bill Gates ever said that. He's claimed the contrary on several occasions...
Be that as it may, it's still fun to claim otherwise.
Obligatory (but not irrelevant) xkcd:
http://xkcd.com/488/
They don't need to see my credentials. These aren't the droids they're looking for.
Move along.
It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality'...
Should... should we mark this as funny?
While I too wish he'd eat his own ass, every attempt I've made so far to configure ubuntu 8.10 to use a static IP rather than a DHCP IP has resulted in failure.
I wondered if I was the only person having that problem. I eventually gave up and just punched my IP address in manually each time I rebooted. If it's any consolation, 9.04 is working just dandy.
I have a DFI motherboard with dual NICs, and I use a 192.168.2.0 network address. Hope that helps.
... You know, like some dude with spiky hair who describes himself as a 'hacker' would be typing furiously on a keyboard, and then suddenly yell, "Oh no! We're in too many firewalls and cyberspace is almost full! All of our computers are going to crash if I don't do something quick!"
Citation needed.
If this is the flavor of stupid being put out by respect think tanks I would hate to see what the less respected tanks are churning out.
How about a think tank spearheading the effort to teach creationism in public schools? http://www.discovery.org/
I first tried Linux last year. I was in the US Air Force doing my 4-months in Iraq, and had just inadvertently destroyed my USB drive. The cable plug inside the drive housing had snapped clean off, I wasn't skilled (l33t, perhaps?) enough to re-solder it, and to my chagrin the Crazy Glue gambit met with limited success.
When I took the USB drive apart however, the 2.5 inch drive itself was fine. Thought I,
1: Cool, A 2.5 inch PATA. This drive will fit inside my laptop.
2: The dudes over in the IT shop have a Drake version of Kubuntu floating around on CD. They'd probably let me borrow it.
3: ...
4: No profit whatsoever. I hated that crap. I could not figure out how to give myself root in X. Instead of prompting for [Password:], the X interface in Drake took great delight in the [You do not have permission to access this drive. Ha ha, you're screwed!] Learning to even use the interface was a task in itself, I JUST WANTED TO LOOK AT PICTURES OF WOMEN ON MY COMPUTER! I kept at it though, because learning new things is fun, and switched over to Ubuntu once I got back to the US of A.
And then dual-booted on my home machine.
And then began installing it old computers around the house.
And most recently, installed it on the toaster... seriously, though. I found that once I got past the learning curve, it was mostly easy to work with. Objectively, I can't even say the learning curve was worse than the Windows 95 curve was.
The article is missing the tag: andnothingofvaluewaslost
kthxbye
... If you go by the number of games that can't *be* completed...
Oh, good. So you remember Ghosts 'n' Goblins for the NES. Tell me, did anybody on /. ever manage to beat that damnably hard game? Not just make it through (an achievement unto itself) but get the Cross in the 5th level so that YOU DIDN'T GET KICKED BACK TO THE BEGINNING WHEN YOU FINALLY BEAT IT?
This was, unsurprisingly, the moment I stopped trying to beat the game in a figurative sense and began to seriously consider beating it in a literal sense. Like, with a hammer.
I eventually completed the game with an emulator, but that's not the same thing at all.
... but why is the parent modded Funny?
I did both. I sincerely wish I hadn't. Experience is a bitch.
Your remorse suggests you learned from the experience, and 300 pounds (500 dollars?) isn't that expensive a lesson, depending on what you brought away from it.
Experience is awesome.
Unless Brazil has laws against doing that, it's legal in Brazil. Doesn't matter what the US military thinks.
I honestly can't remember a time when the US government ever thought that way.
...I wonder, was it due to limitations in the timing granularity of the devices used, or just a bad MIDI file?
Your suggestion that there are good MIDI files confuses and angers me.
Don't forget the Linux games!
- Why Isn't My Wireless Working? (Fun for the whole family!)
- Write Your Own Driver
- rm -rf ~/* roulette
- The Uptime Game (See how long your server's up! Prizes for +100 day or 6 sigma uptimes!)
- Condescension (Make Windows users feel so bad about their OS they switch to *nix. Bonus points for Gentoo.)
Anyway, Linux has tons of games for the creative and inquiring mind.
Oh, wait, that was pre-school english, my bad. -Taylor
You seem to be a chap in need of this: http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
And, of course, the obligatory xkcd reference. http://xkcd.com/547/
Happy language learning. :)
Is there any other part of a 20-year-old computer that you could still use for day-to-day tasks? A Model M lets you feel old-school without actually having to live in the bad old days of floppy disks and 300 baud modems.
I own a 5 1/4 inch floppy drive, you insensitive clod! (It's in my main computer, right under the DVD burner. I'm sure one day they'll make a comeback. Maybe when files are less than 720K again.)
In fact, somebody's selling one on eBay right now.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Epson-SD-800-Dual-Floppy-5.25-Combo-Drive-SD-880-010_W0QQitemZ360139562743QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxZ20090317?IMSfp=TL090317209002r38176
TFA is confusing "quirky" with "asshole." I love working with quirky people -- people who look at the world in entirely different ways, people who solve problems in a different manner, and people whose idiosyncrasies make them genuinely fun to be around.
I can't say that I enjoy working with assholes, though. It doesn't matter how good your code is or how quickly you put it together, I can find somebody almost as good who's a lot less of a pain to work with. The extra little bit of efficiency isn't worth the metric cockton of assholery.