Well, in MY part of Sweden, regular screwdrivers are the - kind and called "skruvmejsel". Both the Philips and Pozidrive variants of the + are (quite erroneously, as Bosse Bildoktorn demonstrated in the last show,) called "stjarnmejsel".
I dunno about you, but I'd rather look at goatse for the REST OF ETERNITY, than see ONE MORE Windoze Server 2003 ad
I'm not sure, the REST OF ETERNITY is a fairly long period of time... If I could get a few billion years off for good behaviour, I'd think about it.
Oh, and would the Win Server 03 ad feature the goatse guy, Bill or Steve, or a combination of the three? That would most definitely be a factor in my decision.
Just a quick correction to the article: The Guinness World Book of Records distance for a wi-fi link is 310 kilometers, and was set by the Swedish company Alvarion.
Alvarion is not Swedish (in fact, it's basically BreezeCom in new clothing), but the record was set with the help of SSC, the Swedish Space Corporation. Slashdot story link here.
I just can't wait for the society to start hating rich white Texas oil barons. Let's see some racial profiling on their big-ass pink Cadillacs with longhorn skulls on the grills.:-)
-G'day, officer, I was jest gonna...
-Get out of the car, right now, you fat oily bastard! Spread'em!
-But...
-You heard me! You no-good robber barons think you can just waltz in here and take over, don't you? With your little monopolies, big inheritances and bigger cars, but I guess y'all just have really small penises, ain't that right, George?
-Please officer, don't hurt me, I can make it worth your while, my dad's rich!
-You make me puke! Let's see how far up your ass we can stick this here longhorn, eh? We're in the middle of the fucking desert, there's noone around with a camcorder to record your posterior for posterity, we could just leave you out here for the coyotes to find, how's about that, Mr rich daddy junior?
-Bwaaaah! Daddy!
Too bad the USE flags doesn't work like you imply - they only modify the way ebuilds with support for that specific flag get built, not the way emerge runs.
Dear Matthew,
Fuck you and the source you rode in on,
Attached is the letter I discussed with you during our July 31, 2003
telephone conversation.
I am attaching a letter for your review.
Instead of actually sending the letter, I thought it was best to telephone you and speak in person
We didn't have enough in the petty cash drawer to buy a stamp, but I got this really good deal on long-distance calls, so...
to see if we could resolve the issues between our companies short of litigation.
PLEASE DON'T HURT US!
We left the conversation with a preliminary agreement to meet and continue our discussions further.
You're buying this round, I'm broke.
To my surprise, I just discovered that your company filed legal action
against The SCO Group earlier today.
Et tu, Matthew?
You, of course, mentioned nothing
of this during our telephone conversation.
You're a sneaky bastard and I'm proud of you, son.
I am disappointed that you
were not more forthcoming about your intentions.
*sniffle*
I am also disappointed
that you have chosen litigation rather than good faith discussions with
SCO about the problems inherent in Linux.
You talking to me?
Of course, we will prepare our legal response as required by your
complaint. /me is opening a can of legal whupass. Oops, it's way past the expiry date...
Be advised that our response will likely include
counterclaims for copyright infringement and conspiracy.
We're gonna get medeival on your ass.
I must say that your decision to file legal action does not seem
conducive to the long-term survivability of Linux.
insert boilerplate_empty_threat.c
Yours truly
Fuck off
Darl C. McBride
Darl "My sandbox was full of cement" McBribe
President & CEO
Chief Entertainment Officer, The Up the Creek Correctional Facility LLC
And it's true that no one ever got fired for buying Microsoft.
Before that saying was even a tiny rumble in Steve Ballmer's gut, we used to say "No one has ever gotten fired for buying IBM". Pitching Big Blue against the Runner-up from Redmond seems a little like a lopsided battle to me.
Don't raise windows unless the user clicks on the title bar
Hoo-boy. This is one of the things I still miss from the Amiga. The Amiga Workbench had a lot of clever little things like that going on that I took for granted back then, but miss now. In addition to the no-raise feature, the windows also had a back/front gadget next to the max/min gadget. They had the Window Close button in the top left corner and wider resize areas. It had proportional scroll gadgets long before Windows had them. And with Snap, I had copy/paste on mouse midbutton+leftbutton and midbutton+rightbutton, respectively. So easy, it was almost embarassing.
I would actually go so far as to recommend the KDE developers to find and read the Amiga User Interface Style Guide and keep re-reading it until they grok it. It's a good read.
what would have kept someone from strapping their glass desktop cover to their back and jumping outta the window?
Oh, the realization that the total lack of aerodynamic control inherent in all regular desktop glass cover designs would mean that not only would someone end up on the sidwalk as a large wet spot, but a large wet spot with a lot of broken glass in it would be my guess.
Yeah, but then you have specific needs to use it for which is different from how most other people use it.
It's a little like the web - some people use it when they need it, to find information. Many use it to surf aimlessly, killing time.
There's also a difference between watching that PBS special on sperm whale mating you've been yearning for and zapping between the US Masters, Friends, Survivor and Robot Wars.
However, the main difference between those other distractions and irc is that most of us have some real (or at least a percieved) use for the web and TV but very few of us have a real use for irc. It isn't your use of irc that's different from the rest of us, it's your needs. That makes it difficult for others to adopt your style of usage.
Because it's the cheapest one to replicate? You just run some tap water over a can of Real Beer(TM) and drink the resulting fluid. Make sure the can is clean first and remember to not open it, that will ruin the unique Bud flavor.
- Don't sit on irc , its the ultimate productivity killer and distraction bar none
Definitely agree. I used to be an ircaholic back when I was in school (I watched the first Gulf War on irc, suck on that, youngsters!) - ran from classes to the computer rooms and all. Now I flatly refuse all of them - irc, AIM, Messenger, the lot. Begone, foul creatures, robbing me of my time! Time, much better spent playing BattleField 1942.;-)
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Yes?
Well, he's a bit of a cargeek, isn't he? ;-)
Well, in MY part of Sweden, regular screwdrivers are the - kind and called "skruvmejsel". Both the Philips and Pozidrive variants of the + are (quite erroneously, as Bosse Bildoktorn demonstrated in the last show,) called "stjarnmejsel".
Um, a really small and thin regular screwdriver would probably have worked a lot better than the Philips...
Nope, sorry - can't let you do that. Think about the poor lizard.
Wow. Imagine a Beow*smack*
Thanks, I needed that.
I'm not sure, the REST OF ETERNITY is a fairly long period of time... If I could get a few billion years off for good behaviour, I'd think about it.
Oh, and would the Win Server 03 ad feature the goatse guy, Bill or Steve, or a combination of the three? That would most definitely be a factor in my decision.
Hey, I think I saw you in Men in Black II. You have like 16 arms and smoke a lot, right?
Not even if you sneak up on her, real quiet like, and just taps her shoulder when she's not looking?
Alvarion is not Swedish (in fact, it's basically BreezeCom in new clothing), but the record was set with the help of SSC, the Swedish Space Corporation. Slashdot story link here.
-G'day, officer, I was jest gonna...
-Get out of the car, right now, you fat oily bastard! Spread'em!
-But...
-You heard me! You no-good robber barons think you can just waltz in here and take over, don't you? With your little monopolies, big inheritances and bigger cars, but I guess y'all just have really small penises, ain't that right, George?
-Please officer, don't hurt me, I can make it worth your while, my dad's rich!
-You make me puke! Let's see how far up your ass we can stick this here longhorn, eh? We're in the middle of the fucking desert, there's noone around with a camcorder to record your posterior for posterity, we could just leave you out here for the coyotes to find, how's about that, Mr rich daddy junior?
-Bwaaaah! Daddy!
Too bad the USE flags doesn't work like you imply - they only modify the way ebuilds with support for that specific flag get built, not the way emerge runs.
Perhaps he looked at Distrowatch?
Legal fund to put Darl's ass in jail: $1,000,000
Sending Darl an extra slippery soap: Priceless.
Fuck you and the source you rode in on,
Attached is the letter I discussed with you during our July 31, 2003 telephone conversation.
I am attaching a letter for your review.
Instead of actually sending the letter, I thought it was best to telephone you and speak in person
We didn't have enough in the petty cash drawer to buy a stamp, but I got this really good deal on long-distance calls, so...
to see if we could resolve the issues between our companies short of litigation.
PLEASE DON'T HURT US!
We left the conversation with a preliminary agreement to meet and continue our discussions further.
You're buying this round, I'm broke.
To my surprise, I just discovered that your company filed legal action against The SCO Group earlier today.
Et tu, Matthew?
You, of course, mentioned nothing of this during our telephone conversation.
You're a sneaky bastard and I'm proud of you, son.
I am disappointed that you were not more forthcoming about your intentions.
*sniffle*
I am also disappointed that you have chosen litigation rather than good faith discussions with SCO about the problems inherent in Linux.
You talking to me?
Of course, we will prepare our legal response as required by your complaint.
/me is opening a can of legal whupass. Oops, it's way past the expiry date...
Be advised that our response will likely include counterclaims for copyright infringement and conspiracy.
We're gonna get medeival on your ass.
I must say that your decision to file legal action does not seem conducive to the long-term survivability of Linux.
insert boilerplate_empty_threat.c
Yours truly
Fuck off
Darl C. McBride
Darl "My sandbox was full of cement" McBribe
President & CEO
Chief Entertainment Officer, The Up the Creek Correctional Facility LLC
Before that saying was even a tiny rumble in Steve Ballmer's gut, we used to say "No one has ever gotten fired for buying IBM". Pitching Big Blue against the Runner-up from Redmond seems a little like a lopsided battle to me.
Hoo-boy. This is one of the things I still miss from the Amiga. The Amiga Workbench had a lot of clever little things like that going on that I took for granted back then, but miss now. In addition to the no-raise feature, the windows also had a back/front gadget next to the max/min gadget. They had the Window Close button in the top left corner and wider resize areas. It had proportional scroll gadgets long before Windows had them. And with Snap, I had copy/paste on mouse midbutton+leftbutton and midbutton+rightbutton, respectively. So easy, it was almost embarassing.
I would actually go so far as to recommend the KDE developers to find and read the Amiga User Interface Style Guide and keep re-reading it until they grok it. It's a good read.
So what's the point?
(I threw away mod points to post this inane comment, but I just HAD to. Go figure.)
Oh, the realization that the total lack of aerodynamic control inherent in all regular desktop glass cover designs would mean that not only would someone end up on the sidwalk as a large wet spot, but a large wet spot with a lot of broken glass in it would be my guess.
"Wearing a Tie", eh? So that's what you young ones call it nowadays.
I just hope they won't ask the audience of Who wants to be a millionaire anything, that's just wasting a lifeline.
Yeah, but then you have specific needs to use it for which is different from how most other people use it.
It's a little like the web - some people use it when they need it, to find information. Many use it to surf aimlessly, killing time.
There's also a difference between watching that PBS special on sperm whale mating you've been yearning for and zapping between the US Masters, Friends, Survivor and Robot Wars.
However, the main difference between those other distractions and irc is that most of us have some real (or at least a percieved) use for the web and TV but very few of us have a real use for irc. It isn't your use of irc that's different from the rest of us, it's your needs. That makes it difficult for others to adopt your style of usage.
Because it's the cheapest one to replicate? You just run some tap water over a can of Real Beer(TM) and drink the resulting fluid. Make sure the can is clean first and remember to not open it, that will ruin the unique Bud flavor.
Definitely agree. I used to be an ircaholic back when I was in school (I watched the first Gulf War on irc, suck on that, youngsters!) - ran from classes to the computer rooms and all. Now I flatly refuse all of them - irc, AIM, Messenger, the lot. Begone, foul creatures, robbing me of my time! Time, much better spent playing BattleField 1942. ;-)