While in class I once programmed an industrial robot (just an arm with a grip, really) to yank its own power cord. Robot suicide! But, I guess it doesn't count (!) since I didn't have a cheesy clock running backwards on the Net (Anyway, this was before Tim Berners-Lee had his vision and where's my cane, you young whelps!?).
So, those people you're talking to aren't people, they are simple waveforms in the air?
And of course, I didn't just respond to a post from a person, just to a bunch of electrons (well, deep down, we're all just clouds of atoms and electrons anyway)?
I cannot imagine I am the only human on Earth to reason this way.
What, you're HUMAN? That would explain the biohazard sticker on your fridge, you inferiour member of a squeamish species! (Say THAT out loud quickly ten times!);-)
And you're telling us that not once, NOT ONCE, in 72 years sitting in plain view in a University milling with students of all sizes, shapes, colours and states of mental health, not once, did first-year students open the glass cabinet and replace the pitch with feces? Not ONCE? Not even a little bit? Pull the other one, mate.
Oh wait, this isn't in the US, is it? Nevermind...
Read the article: "Fortunately you can also see students of the University of Queensland milling around outside the cabinet, so it is more exciting than watching grass grow!"
That would put it right up there on the Entertainment Index together with old Soviet tractor parades, Equal Opportunity Beauty Pageants For The Habitually Ugly and soccer.
Well, from that very link one can glean: 'There is no clear answer to the question "Is glass solid or liquid?".'. Of course, that does not absolutely preclude the possible truth of michael's assertion, but it does make it seem a little ambigous. Oh, the semantics!
If I could get a '+1 Funny' off of eBay and give to you, I'd do it in a heartbeat.:-D
I expect smaller mom and pop wireless ISPs will lead the big players to the fount of wisdom by example, and the ones that drink from it will prosper. This is just like the first ISP boom all over again - a lot of smaller actors get on stage and fight it out and then the big ones eat the surviving small ones with viable business models, paying customers and cool buzzwords.
No, that is psychologically impossible. Would fry your brain instantly.
Runner-up would probably be having a PCMCIA (PCCard for those people who can't memorize computer industry acronyms) slot with not enough mechanical support so when you try to put something bigger than a NIC on it (like a 3.5" harddrive with casing) the pins would bend and break. This was a major problem on the Amiga 600 and 1200.
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I've been through cognitive documentation therapy myself, that's why I can set my nanoprobes to compress my output this much. You should see the cute little pellets I excrete in the toilet!
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You need to take speed-reading classes. But as a personal favour, here's the Reader's Digest version of the story:
Boy meets boy. Boys code code. Boy dies (supposedly) of AIDS. Boy gets depressed and gets cognitive documentation therapy. Boy comes back from the dead (mostly). Boy was cyB0rged by the Feds but ran away. Boys code body functions. Feds catch boys and 0wnz them. Boy turns Fed. Boy gets out and goes to Africa to spread some rad warez. The End.
In university, we got an old huge VAX which we had to run with open windows, but after a while they told us to stop. Not because of the immense power drain, but because the palm trees were starting to push out the birch, fur and pine trees in the local forests and they were concerned that tigers were next. This was in northern Sweden, BTW. You Americans can probably relate to Minnesota, if it helps.
Paragraph 6 section D says she doesn't ask me to vacuum or do the laundry.
But if the floor isn't spotless and the clothes clean and dry when she gets home from work, there's hell to pay. Obviously, I need to work more on my telepathic skillz. I've got the telepathetic bit down pat, though.;-)
You can turn off any auto-assisting feature you don't like, and you can always undo any automatically applied formatting. ALWAYS.
OK, so I'm in Word with a 250+ page technical manual with lots of screendumps. I have told Word to keep the captions with the pictures and the headlines with the body text. Now, if I do a print of this document, Word 'helpfully' reflows the entire document so I have to go back and manually reset a lot of the suddenly broken bonds between captions/pictures and body text/headlines. Undo does not help a bit and I have not found the "Don't fuck up my document, you stupid bastard posing as a usable program!" option, can you please tell me where it is? Maybe you could walk across the corridor and ask someone else on the Word devteam?
Oh, and the index is simply broken. I have almost work out the F9 key trying to make it update properly.
This tale is true. It happened to me when I was put in charge of the admin- and user guide for TFS Gateway at TenFour. I wound up switching to Pagemaker. The conversion was long and painful, but it was worth it for the bliss afterwards.
Although the maximum reading speed of the drive is 48x, it will be factory set at 40x and includes a SpeedRead function that enables users to select the higher speed.
Patrick Peeters explains: "The reason we use this unique approach is to provide flexibility to customers: for the vast majority 40x is the ideal mix of speed/quality, but there are a small number that will require 48x. However, the increase in speed from 40x to 48x can increase the noise for any drive in the market. In extreme circumstances using high-speed reading, where the CD is severely scratched, it can explode in any drive and even cause injuries to the user. We have redesigned the PlexWriter 48/24/48A drive to strengthen the front bezel to prevent any injuries. To our knowledge, we are the only manufacturer in the market to have implemented this safety feature."
what the holy heck is your excuse for not having your OWN little baggy of screws?
Maybe Dell screws are special. Like, their heads are made out of chocolate and shaped like small copies of Madonna? Compaq was really big on combined Torx and regular flat heads for the longest time. Besides, laptop screws are so small that if you drop them on the floor, the dust-mites inhale them.
Um, you do realize that that page also links to a page with your real (looks real, anyway) e-mail address, as well as the addresses of your wife and children? (Blues Brothers: How much for the wife?)
And, I don't think I'd like to drive around on my bike with a very large capacitor strapped to my back.;-)
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While in class I once programmed an industrial robot (just an arm with a grip, really) to yank its own power cord. Robot suicide! But, I guess it doesn't count (!) since I didn't have a cheesy clock running backwards on the Net (Anyway, this was before Tim Berners-Lee had his vision and where's my cane, you young whelps!?).
Sure makes me wish Quake looked this good the first time around
And of course, I didn't just respond to a post from a person, just to a bunch of electrons (well, deep down, we're all just clouds of atoms and electrons anyway)?
What, you're HUMAN? That would explain the biohazard sticker on your fridge, you inferiour member of a squeamish species! (Say THAT out loud quickly ten times!) ;-)
Oh wait, this isn't in the US, is it? Nevermind...
That would put it right up there on the Entertainment Index together with old Soviet tractor parades, Equal Opportunity Beauty Pageants For The Habitually Ugly and soccer.
Well, from that very link one can glean: 'There is no clear answer to the question "Is glass solid or liquid?".'. Of course, that does not absolutely preclude the possible truth of michael's assertion, but it does make it seem a little ambigous. Oh, the semantics!
I expect smaller mom and pop wireless ISPs will lead the big players to the fount of wisdom by example, and the ones that drink from it will prosper. This is just like the first ISP boom all over again - a lot of smaller actors get on stage and fight it out and then the big ones eat the surviving small ones with viable business models, paying customers and cool buzzwords.
Runner-up would probably be having a PCMCIA (PCCard for those people who can't memorize computer industry acronyms) slot with not enough mechanical support so when you try to put something bigger than a NIC on it (like a 3.5" harddrive with casing) the pins would bend and break. This was a major problem on the Amiga 600 and 1200.
Timothy beat you to it, Taco-man!
Happily mixing metaphors with an industrial grade Cuisinart since last millenium
Boy meets boy. Boys code code. Boy dies (supposedly) of AIDS. Boy gets depressed and gets cognitive documentation therapy. Boy comes back from the dead (mostly). Boy was cyB0rged by the Feds but ran away. Boys code body functions. Feds catch boys and 0wnz them. Boy turns Fed. Boy gets out and goes to Africa to spread some rad warez. The End.
In university, we got an old huge VAX which we had to run with open windows, but after a while they told us to stop. Not because of the immense power drain, but because the palm trees were starting to push out the birch, fur and pine trees in the local forests and they were concerned that tigers were next. This was in northern Sweden, BTW. You Americans can probably relate to Minnesota, if it helps.
But if the floor isn't spotless and the clothes clean and dry when she gets home from work, there's hell to pay. Obviously, I need to work more on my telepathic skillz. I've got the telepathetic bit down pat, though. ;-)
OK, so I'm in Word with a 250+ page technical manual with lots of screendumps. I have told Word to keep the captions with the pictures and the headlines with the body text. Now, if I do a print of this document, Word 'helpfully' reflows the entire document so I have to go back and manually reset a lot of the suddenly broken bonds between captions/pictures and body text/headlines. Undo does not help a bit and I have not found the "Don't fuck up my document, you stupid bastard posing as a usable program!" option, can you please tell me where it is? Maybe you could walk across the corridor and ask someone else on the Word devteam?
Oh, and the index is simply broken. I have almost work out the F9 key trying to make it update properly.
This tale is true. It happened to me when I was put in charge of the admin- and user guide for TFS Gateway at TenFour. I wound up switching to Pagemaker. The conversion was long and painful, but it was worth it for the bliss afterwards.
That looks like Latin to me.
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This memo is filed as draft-josefsson-pppext-eap-tls-eap-02.txt, and expires August 22, 2002.
BTW Simon, have you found any more year-old milk cartons in your fridge lately? :-)
- Although the maximum reading speed of the drive is 48x, it will be factory set at 40x and includes a SpeedRead function that enables users to select the higher speed.
Oh, the burnmanity!Patrick Peeters explains: "The reason we use this unique approach is to provide flexibility to customers: for the vast majority 40x is the ideal mix of speed/quality, but there are a small number that will require 48x. However, the increase in speed from 40x to 48x can increase the noise for any drive in the market. In extreme circumstances using high-speed reading, where the CD is severely scratched, it can explode in any drive and even cause injuries to the user. We have redesigned the PlexWriter 48/24/48A drive to strengthen the front bezel to prevent any injuries. To our knowledge, we are the only manufacturer in the market to have implemented this safety feature."
Well, maybe it is now. :-)
In slightly related news, NASA has lost contact with Contour, the Comet Nucleus Tour probe.
Maybe Dell screws are special. Like, their heads are made out of chocolate and shaped like small copies of Madonna? Compaq was really big on combined Torx and regular flat heads for the longest time. Besides, laptop screws are so small that if you drop them on the floor, the dust-mites inhale them.
Mmm, chocolate...
And if you squint a bit, that G4 looks kinda like a cellphone! :-)
But very few people here knows what it's like to get laid...
And, I don't think I'd like to drive around on my bike with a very large capacitor strapped to my back. ;-)
On a side note, the phrase "out from the bottom" is oddly appropriate for this discussion, not to mention "over the top".