it's = "it is"; its = possessive. E.g., it's flapping its wings.
I can appreciate that when we wrote with feather quills, bottles of ink, and blotting paper -- a rather laborious process -- any reason for putting less ink on the page was a good one.
You might hear yourself saying "they're", "it's", and "we're" when you are saying "they are","it is", and "we are"; but spoken language != written language.
We are well beyond the need to save ink. When you write, just write "they are", "it is", and "we are" and save the apostrophes for things like "it is Bill's cat." Especially if you can't ever seem to get it right.
Yes, it's off topic. No, it's not a flame. Just a non sequitur response prompted by his sig. Mod me down if you must.
Presuming that I live that long, in 2038 I'll be 78. I hope I won't need to work by then and will be spending all my time riding snow board in the winter and my mountain bike in the summer.
I used to think that there would still be 32-bit computers in use by 2038, and I'm sure there will be many; but I predict they'll be vastly in the minority.
Eventually people do tend to get promoted beyond programming positions.
I think the real reason is simple. People older than me (almost 40) are likely to be mainframe programmers.
Well, I'm a good bit older than you and I have never programmed mainframes.
I like writing, so I have passed on becoming a PHB, but many of my friends and peers have gone on to be PHBs, Architects, CTOs, started their own companies, or changed careers.
I've written software for Apple ][s, DOS, Unix/Linux, OS/2, Windows, but mainly Unix/Linux for the last 20+ years.
Some people (in this country) who don't have gas company pipes in their street use propane -- they have a big "bottle" and a truck comes to fill it up periodically. I can't say I've ever seen anyone use butane instead of propane, but I suppose anything is possible.
The only time I use propane or butane to cook on is when I go camping.
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it's = "it is"; its = possessive. E.g., it's flapping its wings.
I can appreciate that when we wrote with feather quills, bottles of ink, and blotting paper -- a rather laborious process -- any reason for putting less ink on the page was a good one.
You might hear yourself saying "they're", "it's", and "we're" when you are saying "they are","it is", and "we are"; but spoken language != written language.
We are well beyond the need to save ink. When you write, just write "they are", "it is", and "we are" and save the apostrophes for things like "it is Bill's cat." Especially if you can't ever seem to get it right.
Yes, it's off topic. No, it's not a flame. Just a non sequitur response prompted by his sig. Mod me down if you must.
And if they keep failing to deliver my dead tree version the price will be zero.
I know it's popular to hate on Google lately...
Once upon a time it was IBM and the Bell System that everyone hated.
Then it was Microsoft.
Now it's Google and perhaps soon Apple too, if not already.
Twenty years from now it'll be someone or something you haven't even heard of yet.
No, but you could easily have said less: 10^100.
That's not scientific notation though -- I give it a failing grade.
Or, to your extreme, 1x1x1x1x1x1x1x1x1x10^100.
That's your extreme, not mine.
I hope the coax isn't stapled to the studs inside the wall. Or that the coax doesn't make one or more 90 degree turns through the framing somewhere.
If so, then I'd just put 802.11n cards in everything and one or more APs in the attic.
If you use [an] Airport Extreme[s] for your AP[s] you can plug USB drives in and use them for your timemachine backups instead of a Linux box.
I'm guessing it would be the same thing he does every night ... fuck Demi Moore.
Ewww
Did she have a facelift? Her pic on IMDB looks like she's a space alien from Roswell.
Oh wait....
Need I say more?
FYI, those Y2K jobs weren't only in COBOL.
Presuming that I live that long, in 2038 I'll be 78. I hope I won't need to work by then and will be spending all my time riding snow board in the winter and my mountain bike in the summer.
I used to think that there would still be 32-bit computers in use by 2038, and I'm sure there will be many; but I predict they'll be vastly in the minority.
Eventually people do tend to get promoted beyond programming positions.
I think the real reason is simple. People older than me (almost 40) are likely to be mainframe programmers.
Well, I'm a good bit older than you and I have never programmed mainframes.
I like writing, so I have passed on becoming a PHB, but many of my friends and peers have gone on to be PHBs, Architects, CTOs, started their own companies, or changed careers.
I've written software for Apple ][s, DOS, Unix/Linux, OS/2, Windows, but mainly Unix/Linux for the last 20+ years.
s/gold/golf/
I suppose a round of gold is completely out of the question too.
Terrible quote.
I'm 50 -- I'm not afraid of technology.
I'm sensitive about privacy and and how information about me is used, but I'm not afraid of it.
If you ignore the products that they market to businesses, then it probably does look like they don't market to businesses.
Okay, so there were/are at least four.
How would you like to be martyred today?
Pick a St. Valentine, any St. Valentine.
There were at least three.
So a new vacuum cleaner is probably not a good idea either.
Brilliant.
I bet you printed that page just to fax it to them too.
They have some kind of automated fax-to-OCR conversion and the OCR doesn't work well on upside-down docs.
Dibs on the patent for adding a converter that rotates the image and retries when the OCR fails.
Better headlines? What do you think this is, The Register?
Although I did think that the headline "Microsoft is looking into windows...." was not bad for /.
for sharks with frikken lasers.
At $5000 per pound maybe. How about at $250 per pound?
http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/01/16/0015238/A-Space-Cannon-That-Might-Actually-Work?from=rss
We know we can collect/generate electricity from the Sun -- PV or steam driven turbine.
And we know we can transmit it (electricity) across long distances using microwave and/or infrared.
Isn't this just adding "from space" to the equation?
Not unlike adding "with a computer" or "over the internet" to a patent?
The gas I cook on is natural gas, i.e. methane.
Some people (in this country) who don't have gas company pipes in their street use propane -- they have a big "bottle" and a truck comes to fill it up periodically. I can't say I've ever seen anyone use butane instead of propane, but I suppose anything is possible.
The only time I use propane or butane to cook on is when I go camping.
I'd settle for fixing the telomeres after cell division.
This is Open Source.
It's up to you to fix it and send the fix to X.Org.