Normal behavior for a skydiver is to fall out of a plane, accellerate up to terminal velocity, maintain that speed for a while, then open your parachute, which slows you down to a lower terminal velocity, then hit the ground and (hopefully) stop.
Trust me. Once you hit the ground you will definitely stop.
Re:Am I the only geek who HATES Nethack?
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You can drop _all_ you belongings and squeeze you naked '@' past the boulder. most of the time anyway.
Same errors as always. (slightly off topic)
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Rant level: high.
Why, oh why, must every non-technical magazine make these 3 stupid things every time there is a linux article?
stupid thing 1: Every linux article seems to mention that only X% of the _sold_ servers are running linux.
And non-internet servers? What about intranet servers. file servers and so on? What about all those servers that the admin has bought a $5 magazine with a linux CD and installed linux on?
stupid thing 2: Linux users spent only $80 million on the software, less than one percent of the amount spent on all operating systems for all computers.
yes, what is so suprising with this? even if you buy a boxed version with support it's still a lot cheaper then windows. Why can't a single article mention this?
stupid thing 3: Linux sales are expected to grow...
yes... that's good. But what about _actual_ usage? Don't forget all those computer that uses a downloaded or magazine bundled copy.
I all basicly boils down to one thing. There is no way to really know how many computers/servers are running linux. So stop compare it with how many windows/other servers there are.
I don't really mind the banners. The only banners i click on is the once on slashdot. Most of them are of some interest to me. I never klick on other sites banners, simply beacuse i don't care about what they advertice.
I don't know how much money slashdot makes on every klick, but i guess they make a dollar or two due to my klicking every year.
(However the 'geo-targeting' thing thinks i live in spain 3/10 times when i live in australia...)
nowdays however a lot of the banners are from OSDN, and i can't really see how OSDN can make money on adverticing on their own sites. If there isn't any ad-buyers, wouldn't it be better to lower the cost of advertising and have more companies advertise on slashdot?
just my two cents...
Would you like some salad with that?
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"The spacecraft includes both a re-entry and an orbital module."
How... how kind of them...
No they don't!
... bother to look for them?
Well.... we Halfed the Life of that server too
/me logs of and runns away
13. The method of claim 12, wherein the new entry comprises the location of the location of the failure. ... huh?
errmmmm
that's handy for all thoose computers placed in the 4th dimention!
So NASA can call thier project 'Phoenix' but Mozilla can NOT?
Didn't you hear? They have renamed it to "Firebird"!
Normal behavior for a skydiver is to fall out of a plane, accellerate up to terminal velocity, maintain that speed for a while, then open your parachute, which slows you down to a lower terminal velocity, then hit the ground and (hopefully) stop.
Trust me. Once you hit the ground you will definitely stop.
You can drop _all_ you belongings and squeeze you naked '@' past the boulder.
most of the time anyway.
Do what i used to do:
save the game and copied the save file to a safe place.
When i died i simply moved the copy back.
cheating? sure.
but it makes it easier for us beginners.
so a beawolf cluster of these will be what?
an anorchestra?
And with spellchecking it looks like this:
So a beawolf cluster of these will be what?
An orchestra?
so a beawolf cluster of these will be what?
an anorchestra?
burn karma, burn!
i was going to register blackop.mil but it was already taken...
Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14am.
Self Cleaning Geeks!
Was it just me that expected to see a red laptop?
Rant level: high.
Why, oh why, must every non-technical magazine make these 3 stupid things every time there is a linux article?
stupid thing 1: Every linux article seems to mention that only X% of the _sold_ servers are running linux.
And non-internet servers? What about intranet servers. file servers and so on?
What about all those servers that the admin has bought a $5 magazine with a linux CD and installed linux on?
stupid thing 2: Linux users spent only $80 million on the software, less than one percent of the amount spent on all operating systems for all computers.
yes, what is so suprising with this? even if you buy a boxed version with support it's still a lot cheaper then windows.
Why can't a single article mention this?
stupid thing 3: Linux sales are expected to grow...
yes... that's good. But what about _actual_ usage?
Don't forget all those computer that uses a downloaded or magazine bundled copy.
I all basicly boils down to one thing.
There is no way to really know how many computers/servers are running linux.
So stop compare it with how many windows/other servers there are.
and set up all the props from our 'Historic Moon Landing'!
Don't you know? They bought the whole kit on ebay.
Backdrops, space suits and even the flag holder.
This final media thrust could even help researchers identify fake signs in the future.
Yes... I hate when those rebellious alien teenagers make fake crop circles...
...the firmware (totally legal) you will have...
I have a small sticky label over one of my screws on my CDRW drive that says "Do not remove". Doing so will be against the DMCA(?)
Damn it! (yeah so what: mod me down for being offtopic)
Can You Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of These?
A fox trot strip on the subject...
I don't really mind the banners.
The only banners i click on is the once on slashdot.
Most of them are of some interest to me.
I never klick on other sites banners, simply beacuse i don't care about what they advertice.
I don't know how much money slashdot makes on every klick, but i guess they make a dollar or two due to my klicking every year.
(However the 'geo-targeting' thing thinks i live in spain 3/10 times when i live in australia...)
nowdays however a lot of the banners are from OSDN, and i can't really see how OSDN can make money on adverticing on their own sites.
If there isn't any ad-buyers, wouldn't it be better to lower the cost of advertising and have more companies advertise on slashdot?
just my two cents...
Spam belongs in a can!
I think this is how the borg was created...
>Linux is one of the most important operating systems, at least as important as UNIX and MSDOS.
It is good to see that they know what they are talking about... *sigh*