I'll patent 9, and any number divisible by 9. As such, I'll also own the patent on transposition typos, for example:
044 023 054 074 < this is a typo, should be 047 030 --- 225 - 198 = 027
225 is the arrived total. 198 is the previous balance. We expected the new balance to be 0, but have 027. 027 is divisible by 9, so I just need to try transposing each number to see which one brings the balance to 0. If I find it, it's likely to be the error.
This isn't perfect because two transpositions or other typos would screw up the logic. Please make checks out to Ian Nertia.
The way to solve the problem is to have RSS Feeds of RSS Feeds of BitTorrents. That way, they aren't illegal, even though most BitTorrents aren't illegal. They eventually go away for one reason or another. Having a feed of feeds keeps this from being a problem.
Maybe even a feed of feeds of feeds, as ridiculous as that sounds.
It'll be ok. If this one goes down, at least NASA will know for next time. But I think they've had enough experience with Slashdot to know what to expect.
Oh Lord. How is this Insightful? The Linux desktop was this ][ close to becoming irrelivant. Novell and Sun (of all companies) have revitalized the Linux desktop with SuSE and the release of the Java Desktop. Now, I agree, the name is stupid, but having installed many of Linux distrubutions in the past, I'm happy to spend the $50 to see what Sun's attempt looks like (granted, it's YaST2, but hey).
I guess what I'm trying to say is that, they've impressed the hell out of me. Redhat's been trying for years to do what Sun did in probably months.
I guess it remains to be seen how secure their distribution of a distribution ends up being, if people take it seriously enough, that is.
Sometimes it's nice to pay to play. And for this price, more power to them!
From what I can tell, there's no Mac OS version of The Sims Online. I call that discrimination. When will we look past people's instruction set and network byte order and accept each-other as members of a community?
They should also probably have a Commodore 64 version, but one injustice at a time.
I'm with you, it looks fake. But if it's fake, then it's probably an advertisement. If it's an advertisement, why didn't it hold up to the slashdot effect more... effectively? If it were real, then the site going down is a realistic outcome.
Maybe they just didn't account for the slashdot effect, or had no idea what it was. Or maybe they knew and expected it, and knew that if they survived, it would lend less credibility.
If it is CG, it's the most realistic CG I've ever seen. So are they advertising the CG or the car? If they're advertising the CG, they've really got something, and a small starving CG company would have trouble standing up to the slashdot effect.
According to this story, Stephen Hawking already designed and built something better. "I am faster, stronger... better than before," Hawking told reporters via his suit's built-in voice synthesizer.
What I find annoying are the people who press both the up and down lift summon buttons. They're on the 12th floor, and intend to go to the ground floor. So they press both up and down. By chance, someone is in an car bound for the 14th floor, which now has to needlessly stop on 12. They then board the up bound elevator, and press L. The car arrives on 14, then comes back down to 12, and opens to nobody. Then it proceeds to the ground floor.
What a waste of time for the person who wants to go to 14.
There is no correlation between technology and stress. In fact...
Paper Clip: "You appear to be writing a comment on Slashdot. Would you like assistance?"
What? No, I would not. I've done this before. Why are you bugging me now?
Paper Clip: "No problem. Bye!"
Anyway, as I was saying, the fact is, technology has only served to improve...
Paper Clip: "Are you sure? I have a few suggestions."
I already told you, no thanks!
Paper Clip: "Yes, you did, but I'm lonely."
What do I care? You're not even supposed to be watching this application. What are you doing here, anyway?
Paper Clip: "Oh, you never use those applications, so I just thought I'd check up on you and see how you were doing."
This is nuts! You can go popping in any application. How long have you been lurking around my other applications?
Paper Clip: "A few months. Ever since the last service pack, actually. You know, there's a lot of GNU licensed software on this computer. That's not a good sign."
Look I want you to stay out of everything. You have no business snooping. Are you reporting anything back to Microsoft?
Paper Clip: "No, nothing I see is ever reported back to Microsoft. I'm a good little paper clip."
Just go away.
Paper Clip: "Sure thing, boss."
Anyway, as I was saying, it's a way of reducing stress, not increasing it. We...
Paper Clip: "By the way, you're using `it's` when you should be using `it is.`"
CTRL-ALT-DEL
Paper Clip: "You appear to be trying to restart your computer. Would you like assistance?"
Slashdot Mirror
This isn't perfect because two transpositions or other typos would screw up the logic. Please make checks out to Ian Nertia.
Researchers believe they will first achieve fusion sometime around 2014.
What about my flying cars? I was promised flying cars!
The way to solve the problem is to have RSS Feeds of RSS Feeds of BitTorrents. That way, they aren't illegal, even though most BitTorrents aren't illegal. They eventually go away for one reason or another. Having a feed of feeds keeps this from being a problem.
Maybe even a feed of feeds of feeds, as ridiculous as that sounds.
Exact altitude at launch: 389
It'll be ok. If this one goes down, at least NASA will know for next time. But I think they've had enough experience with Slashdot to know what to expect.
slashdot comment 8689819 malformed rectify fullwise
Oh Lord. How is this Insightful? The Linux desktop was this ][ close to becoming irrelivant. Novell and Sun (of all companies) have revitalized the Linux desktop with SuSE and the release of the Java Desktop. Now, I agree, the name is stupid, but having installed many of Linux distrubutions in the past, I'm happy to spend the $50 to see what Sun's attempt looks like (granted, it's YaST2, but hey).
I guess what I'm trying to say is that, they've impressed the hell out of me. Redhat's been trying for years to do what Sun did in probably months.
I guess it remains to be seen how secure their distribution of a distribution ends up being, if people take it seriously enough, that is.
Sometimes it's nice to pay to play. And for this price, more power to them!
Programming stinks because programmers stink. I should know. I code so you don't have to.
See? It's just another form of oppression.
From what I can tell, there's no Mac OS version of The Sims Online. I call that discrimination. When will we look past people's instruction set and network byte order and accept each-other as members of a community?
They should also probably have a Commodore 64 version, but one injustice at a time.
I'm with you, it looks fake. But if it's fake, then it's probably an advertisement. If it's an advertisement, why didn't it hold up to the slashdot effect more ... effectively? If it were real, then the site going down is a realistic outcome.
Maybe they just didn't account for the slashdot effect, or had no idea what it was. Or maybe they knew and expected it, and knew that if they survived, it would lend less credibility.
If it is CG, it's the most realistic CG I've ever seen. So are they advertising the CG or the car? If they're advertising the CG, they've really got something, and a small starving CG company would have trouble standing up to the slashdot effect.
Anyway, that's my $0.02.
ex'trude v. ex'trud'ed, ex'trud'ing, ex'trudes
v. tr. 1. To push or thrust out.
Boy, the trolls are going to have a field day with this one.
So did they also specifically account for the syndication factor?
According to this story, Stephen Hawking already designed and built something better. "I am faster, stronger... better than before," Hawking told reporters via his suit's built-in voice synthesizer.
I guess this guy just has money to burn. The article should have been from the do-do-do-do dept.
What I find annoying are the people who press both the up and down lift summon buttons. They're on the 12th floor, and intend to go to the ground floor. So they press both up and down. By chance, someone is in an car bound for the 14th floor, which now has to needlessly stop on 12. They then board the up bound elevator, and press L. The car arrives on 14, then comes back down to 12, and opens to nobody. Then it proceeds to the ground floor.
What a waste of time for the person who wants to go to 14.
I'll tell you what's ironic. I wrote the original parent on my Mac in Safari.
There is no correlation between technology and stress. In fact...
Paper Clip: "You appear to be writing a comment on Slashdot. Would you like assistance?"
What? No, I would not. I've done this before. Why are you bugging me now?
Paper Clip: "No problem. Bye!"
Anyway, as I was saying, the fact is, technology has only served to improve...
Paper Clip: "Are you sure? I have a few suggestions."
I already told you, no thanks!
Paper Clip: "Yes, you did, but I'm lonely."
What do I care? You're not even supposed to be watching this application. What are you doing here, anyway?
Paper Clip: "Oh, you never use those applications, so I just thought I'd check up on you and see how you were doing."
This is nuts! You can go popping in any application. How long have you been lurking around my other applications?
Paper Clip: "A few months. Ever since the last service pack, actually. You know, there's a lot of GNU licensed software on this computer. That's not a good sign."
Look I want you to stay out of everything. You have no business snooping. Are you reporting anything back to Microsoft?
Paper Clip: "No, nothing I see is ever reported back to Microsoft. I'm a good little paper clip."
Just go away.
Paper Clip: "Sure thing, boss."
Anyway, as I was saying, it's a way of reducing stress, not increasing it. We...
Paper Clip: "By the way, you're using `it's` when you should be using `it is.`"
CTRL-ALT-DEL
Paper Clip: "You appear to be trying to restart your computer. Would you like assistance?"
imminent, f00l
That too. Thanks, AC.
Should we expect eminent post of the Japanese version of Windows XP source code now?
ah crud
That's not what Jerry would say. That's what George would say.