...the super collider in Texas that was shut down start back up again rather than shoot humans into space.
I am really tired of seeing 'astronauts' throw M&Ms across at each other in free fall. And I've also seen enough somersaults, thank you very much. I'd like some real science now, please. How about, I don't know, investigate alternative, clean energy sources? Oh, that's right, National _Aeronautics_ and _Space_ Administration... Hmm, let's change it to National Advanced Sciences Administration (at least you don't have to change the stationary...) and do something useful with the money other than fund the world's most expensive crematorium.
One of the reasons IE is very used is exactly because many webpages can't be viewed by any other browser.
Another would be that it's embedded in the Windows O/S.
You know, I really don't have many problems viewing webpages in Firefox. The problem I have is developing a site that is standards compliant (CSS for example) and that would work for ANY browser. IE breaks that compliance more often than not...
Maybe they'll starting working on standards compliance.
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fungible
Function: adjective Etymology: New Latin fungibilis, from Latin fungi to perform -- more at FUNCTION 1 : being of such a nature that one part or quantity may be replaced by another equal part or quantity in the satisfaction of an obligation 2 : INTERCHANGEABLE
Their suppot staff were highly trained degreed EEs who actually knew how the comuters worked down to the circuit level
I worked with SGIs from during the '88 - '92 timeframe. At that time, when you called with a problem, you didn't talk to the front-line page-turner monkey like you get now (you know, the guy looking in the same manual we have and saying 'Did you try x?' or 'Did you try y?'). We would actually talk to someone who could solve your problem. I can remember one time we had a problem with 'memmap' and actually talked to 3 people: the guy wrote the memmap function, the guy that wrote the memory device driver, and one other that, IIRC, wrote the semaphore functions.
Talked to all three. At once. Together.
We had a patch the next morning. Two or three weeks later, we got the official distribution.
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Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology...
[with apologies to Mr. Clarke]
Sir, you are inspirational. I have about 15 old pc's in my basement that I am going to fix up and give away. Thank you.
What is best in life?
Apple Store Experience - Best Buy = Windows Guru?
...the super collider in Texas that was shut down start back up again rather than shoot humans into space.
I am really tired of seeing 'astronauts' throw M&Ms across at each other in free fall. And I've also seen enough somersaults, thank you very much. I'd like some real science now, please. How about, I don't know, investigate alternative, clean energy sources? Oh, that's right, National _Aeronautics_ and _Space_ Administration... Hmm, let's change it to National Advanced Sciences Administration (at least you don't have to change the stationary...) and do something useful with the money other than fund the world's most expensive crematorium.
Forests now cause global warming? Next they'll say that volcanoes cause global cooli... Uh, nevermind...
"Fuck the fucking fuckers!"
I think I'll just listen to AM sports talk radio stations from now on...
Brian: "You're all individuals!"
Crowd: "We're all individuals!"
Dissenter: "I'm not."
Crowd: "Shhhhh!"
Where's Anakin when you need him?
This just in: SpongeBob is celebrating quietly with Tinky Winky at his home in Bikini Bottom.
Another would be that it's embedded in the Windows O/S.
You know, I really don't have many problems viewing webpages in Firefox. The problem I have is developing a site that is standards compliant (CSS for example) and that would work for ANY browser. IE breaks that compliance more often than not...
Maybe they'll starting working on standards compliance.
fungible
Function: adjective
Etymology: New Latin fungibilis, from Latin fungi to perform -- more at FUNCTION
1 : being of such a nature that one part or quantity may be replaced by another equal part or quantity in the satisfaction of an obligation
2 : INTERCHANGEABLE
Huh. How did they get a picture of my son, Damien? Weird...
Just wait. The dupe will be late too...
Now fixed.
If I can get broadband out of it, I welcome our new monopolistic telephony overlords...
Heck, with a little more effort, we could recreate the whole Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual! Oooo. I want a tarrasque as a guard dog...
Now we can look forward to never updating our systems simply because it will take 3 days to download the patch.
That's what we need: A portable JPEG!
... ad infinitum, ad nauseum
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<imagelanguage="jpeg|jpg" xmlns="http:jpeg.org./xms/1.0/">
<imagesize horizontal="1024" vertical="768">
<imagedescription="whatever">
<imageproperties numchannels="4" channelorder="R|G|B|A" bitsperchannel="8" compression="30">
<pixel>11010001001001001001101010001110<pixel>
<pixel>11010001001001001001101010001110<pixel>
<pixel>11010001001001001001101010001110<pixel>
<pixel>11010001001010010101010000001110<pixel>
<pixel>11010001001001001001101010001110<pixel>
<pixel>11010001001001001001101010001110<pixel>
<pixel>11010001001001001001101010001110<pixel>
Oh, yes! XML would be much better!
Mod parent: "My hero +1" :)
Hello? It's PC Magazine...
The parent brings up a great point about SGI:
Their suppot staff were highly trained degreed EEs who actually knew how the comuters worked down to the circuit level
I worked with SGIs from during the '88 - '92 timeframe. At that time, when you called with a problem, you didn't talk to the front-line page-turner monkey like you get now (you know, the guy looking in the same manual we have and saying 'Did you try x?' or 'Did you try y?'). We would actually talk to someone who could solve your problem. I can remember one time we had a problem with 'memmap' and actually talked to 3 people: the guy wrote the memmap function, the guy that wrote the memory device driver, and one other that, IIRC, wrote the semaphore functions.
Talked to all three. At once. Together.
We had a patch the next morning. Two or three weeks later, we got the official distribution.
SGI. How I miss thee...
Actually, I'm in the midst of building Christmas presents for the in-laws, and I was thinking "Dewalt vs. Porter Cable"
What's this game like on dialup?