I hate to do this (um, no I don't. I live for this shit) but he/she/it/shellscript probably meant 'complete' as a verb. He/it/she/whatever might have used a comma before 'people', add a "your" and a bang to make it clearer, but it isn't wrong.
"Complete your sentences, people!"
Or, maybe 'sentences' is the verb in which case one is left wondering what the sentence might be. 10-15 years of hard labor, maybe?
"Judge Complete sentences people to life imprisonment for being grammar nazis."
At that time, they will have accrued enough cash and guts to build a hotel in orbit. They'll advertise the scenic view, but hint at the zero-G beds. When that wears off, there's the moon. By the time we get to Mars, we'll probably have the technology to get there fast enough and then the solar system's in our back yard. But not Europa. We'll attempt no landings there.
cars kill about the same number of people every year as a jumbo jet going down with all hands
I can't seem to figure out which planet you're from, but if your homepage URL is any clue, the British cars kill just under 3,000 people every year. In case you're a yank, that figure goes up to a bit over 40,000. I'd like to see this super-duper-hyper jumbo jet of yours.
I admit to the first error (and note that the numbers are rising fairly quickly) but for the second I like to think that hard-core gamers tweak their systems for every FPS they can get out of them and if they still prefer OpenGL over Direct3D that sort of puts a rusty old nail through Microsoft's arguments that Direct(whatever) is the best thing since pre-buttered bread.
And to be perfectly honest, I never expected the submission to get accepted so I didn't spend too much time fact-checking and so on.
I thought about that, but this survey seems to count what Steam users are running now, not five years ago. The reason I submitted the story in the first place was that Steam popped up and asked me those questions for the first time earlier today. Granted I don't know when they started the survey, but AFAICR Steam didn't exist when HL1 was released...
Other interesting bits of info is of course the AMD/Intel and ATI/Nvidia stalemates.
It's amazing the level of clueness (it's a word, I tell you!) they seem to possess over at Gartner. No, really. If you don't read the article, at least read this bit:
Gartner has identified IT security technologies enterprises will need over the next five years - and other technologies most companies probably won't need. On the enterprise shopping list is host-based intrusion prevention, identity management, 802.1X authentication and gateway spam and AV scanning. Security technologies Gartner reckons most companies can safely do without include personal digital signatures, biometrics, enterprise digital rights management and 500-page security policies.
Their stab at Microsoft is par for the course, but this is just beautiful.:-)
I wouldn't recommend an air-air heat pump as the sole heat source anywhere, especially since it doesn't just fail suddently, the net heat output gradually decreases until it's nil at -20C. We regularly get -30C where I live (the record from my pimply-faced youth, complete with frostbite and all, is -48C IIRC) and I'm going to order one of these babies before winter. We have electric heaters and a fireplace, the heat pump is just going to do wonders for our energy use and indoor air quality (it de-ionizes and de-humidifies the air too) all those weeks before the real cold sets in, but after we turn the heaters on (which is just a week or so away).
One of the most celebrated accidents took place over Palomares, Spain, in January 1966 when a U.S. B-52 collided with a KC-135 tanker during midair refueling and released all four of its hydrogen bombs in the ensuing explosion. Seven of the 11 crewmen aboard both planes were killed.
While on a bike holiday in southern France, I stopped for a burger at one of the small huts on the beach. I wondered why the guy was so careful about picking out the best lettuce and arranged the buns just so until he took out his camera and snapped a few pictures of the burger before handing it to me, the perplexed tourist. Apparently, he was in the process of making a new menu but was too cheap to make all the kinds of burgers just for the pictures, so he had to wait for someone to order every kind. It was a very good burger too, but parts of it blew off and was consumed by his small dog. All in all, a very surreal experience.
How could software patents work sanely, so that this important distinction is relevant?
Not sure they can, for the same reason you give. You can't patent (or copyright) algorithms. And copyrighting them is iffy, too.
Sidenote: In Sweden, this was solved by bunching programs with art, if they had a certain level of complexity/beauty/whatever. helloworld.c would not be protected by copyright here, nor is large parts of accounting programs (obvious algorithms, non-copyrightable), just the "original" parts of them like the GUI and look-and-feel.
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Bonus points for recognizing the reference. Not valid in the Nevada desert or where prohibited by law.
"Complete your sentences, people!"
Or, maybe 'sentences' is the verb in which case one is left wondering what the sentence might be. 10-15 years of hard labor, maybe?
"Judge Complete sentences people to life imprisonment for being grammar nazis."
Works for me.
At that time, they will have accrued enough cash and guts to build a hotel in orbit. They'll advertise the scenic view, but hint at the zero-G beds. When that wears off, there's the moon. By the time we get to Mars, we'll probably have the technology to get there fast enough and then the solar system's in our back yard. But not Europa. We'll attempt no landings there.
I can't seem to figure out which planet you're from, but if your homepage URL is any clue, the British cars kill just under 3,000 people every year. In case you're a yank, that figure goes up to a bit over 40,000. I'd like to see this super-duper-hyper jumbo jet of yours.
Well, I should have used the 'Preview' button!
He invented a new way of doing business.P I was going to say "Bill Gates did too", but then I remembered Al Capone...
I believe all TCP/IP-cabable Windoxes (yes, I just made that word up) have a simple command-line FTP client.
"Apprently" you did. :-)
Ah, that's probably where I got it from, then. But it's coming up on 400,000 samples so in a week or so their writeup will be correct. :-)
But it's OK to use it as a pinball game console? :-)
Jokes aside, it's quite practical to have a fully functional browser even on a server, it's just too bad Windows Update doesn't work with any.
And to be perfectly honest, I never expected the submission to get accepted so I didn't spend too much time fact-checking and so on.
Hey, waitaminute...
I promise, I didn't do it on purpose to get a job as a Slashdot editor. Honest.
Other interesting bits of info is of course the AMD/Intel and ATI/Nvidia stalemates.
That's in their FAQ.
Their stab at Microsoft is par for the course, but this is just beautiful. :-)
No, it's an awesome improvement over it. ;-)
Yes, they do. :-)
Bah, that was easy. I still have the original movie poster up in my old room back home. :-)
Which one, "pencil" or "joshua"? Or maybe you're referring to the launch codes? :-)
Goodot. Gnews for Geeks. Other random stuff that begins with a G.
I wouldn't recommend an air-air heat pump as the sole heat source anywhere, especially since it doesn't just fail suddently, the net heat output gradually decreases until it's nil at -20C. We regularly get -30C where I live (the record from my pimply-faced youth, complete with frostbite and all, is -48C IIRC) and I'm going to order one of these babies before winter. We have electric heaters and a fireplace, the heat pump is just going to do wonders for our energy use and indoor air quality (it de-ionizes and de-humidifies the air too) all those weeks before the real cold sets in, but after we turn the heaters on (which is just a week or so away).
Hooray!
It's always warm underground. Besides, heat pumps work off a heat difference. Air-air heat pumps work down to around -20C.
While on a bike holiday in southern France, I stopped for a burger at one of the small huts on the beach. I wondered why the guy was so careful about picking out the best lettuce and arranged the buns just so until he took out his camera and snapped a few pictures of the burger before handing it to me, the perplexed tourist. Apparently, he was in the process of making a new menu but was too cheap to make all the kinds of burgers just for the pictures, so he had to wait for someone to order every kind. It was a very good burger too, but parts of it blew off and was consumed by his small dog. All in all, a very surreal experience.
Yeah, I got to agree to that. :-)
How could software patents work sanely, so that this important distinction is relevant?
Not sure they can, for the same reason you give. You can't patent (or copyright) algorithms. And copyrighting them is iffy, too.
Sidenote: In Sweden, this was solved by bunching programs with art, if they had a certain level of complexity/beauty/whatever. helloworld.c would not be protected by copyright here, nor is large parts of accounting programs (obvious algorithms, non-copyrightable), just the "original" parts of them like the GUI and look-and-feel.