Spoiler alert: the apocalypse was caused by alien intelligence that took over TV and turned everyone watching into brain dead zombies. The only ones that survived were those douches who go around telling everyone about how nice it is to not own a TV.
What about those who don't need a TV because they're just better people? OTOH, do the zombie signals work over torrented shows?
I recently got a Lemote Loongson 3A laptop, it has a free "BIOS", actually PMON. The sleek aluminium look and 4 cores of relatively obscure architecture are just a nice bonus;)
It'd be cheaper for them to hire a wannabe actor to sit in my seat from 9-5
I think some Asian companies actually do this. I've forgotten where the article was, but the point was that people are hired simply for good looks, manners and English for international business meetings.
When I was a wee lad, some of the guys (you know) would lay a cartridge on a rock, and hit it with another rock to get a nice blast. Must have been lucky not to get hurt, because the bullet must have gone somewhere. Some of them went on to study physics and engineering, and may have thought about the pressure in the barrel, how it makes a difference to the final speed of the bullet.
(BTW: protip, dear tourist: if you are in the Netherlands and the pavement under your feet has a reddish-brown color, you are probably standing on a cycle path. Get off unless you enjoy non-helmet wearing cyclists swearing at you.)
I guess that explains the color of the pavement.
(Or maybe there was a hidden subtext about psychopaths (often misspelled as "cyclepaths") who enjoy cyclists.)
Seconded -- if you don't like Bitcoin, don't use it. Then after a few years, you can come back and either tell us "I told you so!" or enjoy a much more stable and user-friendly currency. Either case should be a win for you.
Also, you are free to start your own digital currency project and see how far that gets. You can even fork Bitcoin, it's free software after all.
Did you miss the part about "if you ran Linux"? Those who use open source are not limited to x86.
I know there is closed x86 software for Linux, but the idea of "software that's available for Linux on ARM" shows a poor understanding of open source. I run Gentoo on x86-64, PPC and ARM (and soon MIPS64), and it's generally the same distro and same software once you get past the bootloader. Of course there are hardware-specific issues, but that's more to do with different video cards etc. than the CPU architecture.
(Endianness is sometimes a problem, because some programmers assume everything is little-endian, while Apple PPC machines generally run in big-endian mode. Come on, it's the year 2102 [sic] already!)
Red Hat 6.0 (1999)
Mandrake (2000 or 2001)
Gentoo (2003)
However, in some ways I feel that software like the window manager and "word processors" reflect a deeper direction. In roughly the same timeframe, I've gone with Gnome -> Enlightenment -> Fluxbox and LyX -> LaTeX/emacs. Towards simplicity and focus, but I feel I've reached the point I like, and I have no urge to get into tiling WMs or such.
Wait, was there an actual technically relevant question, or is this just an excuse to reminisce? I think the great thing about Linux is that you could start with a toy like Gnome, but it allows you to dig deeper into the OS. Open a gnome-terminal and there you have a programming environment in the form of bash, no need to install specialist tools like you'd have to in Windows.
Its also weird as a lifestyle thing where in a big enough house you burn out a couple old fashioned bulbs every month, so you keep a stockpile and buy them at the food store as a regular purchase. Once you go LED they burn out so rarely that 1) Its a noteworthy event 2) you don't keep a stock on hand of replacements (well, you could I guess, but just like I don't keep spare major appliances around... Although a RAID array of clothes washers would help when a backlog accumulates)
LED bulbs are still undergoing rapid development, and they last for ages. So by the time one burns out, there's probably a Mr. Fusion version available, and nobody wants the stockpiled one.
(I'm still on CFLs because they refuse to burn out; one came with a 10-year warranty, and now after 9 years, it sometimes flickers a little before fully turning on.)
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Spoiler alert: the apocalypse was caused by alien intelligence that took over TV and turned everyone watching into brain dead zombies. The only ones that survived were those douches who go around telling everyone about how nice it is to not own a TV.
What about those who don't need a TV because they're just better people? OTOH, do the zombie signals work over torrented shows?
I recently got a Lemote Loongson 3A laptop, it has a free "BIOS", actually PMON. The sleek aluminium look and 4 cores of relatively obscure architecture are just a nice bonus ;)
Can you 'want' a person? Of course, not that I would in real life...
If you used Linux, you'd know how to make anchor tags!
It'd be cheaper for them to hire a wannabe actor to sit in my seat from 9-5
I think some Asian companies actually do this. I've forgotten where the article was, but the point was that people are hired simply for good looks, manners and English for international business meetings.
But the director of Splice is the guy behind Cube, which is why I still have hope for him.
And that's why it's called Rudolf the Redshift Reindeer.
No, but only because of Betteridge.
What a geek. A person like you will never be multiplicative.
The question can no longer be answered, because by that reference, God wins this discussion.
When I was a wee lad, some of the guys (you know) would lay a cartridge on a rock, and hit it with another rock to get a nice blast. Must have been lucky not to get hurt, because the bullet must have gone somewhere. Some of them went on to study physics and engineering, and may have thought about the pressure in the barrel, how it makes a difference to the final speed of the bullet.
(BTW: protip, dear tourist: if you are in the Netherlands and the pavement under your feet has a reddish-brown color, you are probably standing on a cycle path. Get off unless you enjoy non-helmet wearing cyclists swearing at you.)
I guess that explains the color of the pavement.
(Or maybe there was a hidden subtext about psychopaths (often misspelled as "cyclepaths") who enjoy cyclists.)
Wenn ist das Nunstuck git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!
I was about to reply with "Bitcoin stole my candy! Waaaaaaah!" but I guess you beat me to it.
Seconded -- if you don't like Bitcoin, don't use it. Then after a few years, you can come back and either tell us "I told you so!" or enjoy a much more stable and user-friendly currency. Either case should be a win for you.
Also, you are free to start your own digital currency project and see how far that gets. You can even fork Bitcoin, it's free software after all.
Did you miss the part about "if you ran Linux"? Those who use open source are not limited to x86.
I know there is closed x86 software for Linux, but the idea of "software that's available for Linux on ARM" shows a poor understanding of open source. I run Gentoo on x86-64, PPC and ARM (and soon MIPS64), and it's generally the same distro and same software once you get past the bootloader. Of course there are hardware-specific issues, but that's more to do with different video cards etc. than the CPU architecture.
(Endianness is sometimes a problem, because some programmers assume everything is little-endian, while Apple PPC machines generally run in big-endian mode. Come on, it's the year 2102 [sic] already!)
Whooosh!
Ah, the sound of a drone flying over your head.
Sometimes he felt the need to take it out and hide from the real world. Always in his pocket, the temptation grew stronger and stronger.
I admit, I have one of those too, and it's spelled almost like "bilbo".
Red Hat 6.0 (1999)
Mandrake (2000 or 2001)
Gentoo (2003)
However, in some ways I feel that software like the window manager and "word processors" reflect a deeper direction. In roughly the same timeframe, I've gone with Gnome -> Enlightenment -> Fluxbox and LyX -> LaTeX/emacs. Towards simplicity and focus, but I feel I've reached the point I like, and I have no urge to get into tiling WMs or such.
Wait, was there an actual technically relevant question, or is this just an excuse to reminisce? I think the great thing about Linux is that you could start with a toy like Gnome, but it allows you to dig deeper into the OS. Open a gnome-terminal and there you have a programming environment in the form of bash, no need to install specialist tools like you'd have to in Windows.
Its also weird as a lifestyle thing where in a big enough house you burn out a couple old fashioned bulbs every month, so you keep a stockpile and buy them at the food store as a regular purchase. Once you go LED they burn out so rarely that 1) Its a noteworthy event 2) you don't keep a stock on hand of replacements (well, you could I guess, but just like I don't keep spare major appliances around ... Although a RAID array of clothes washers would help when a backlog accumulates)
LED bulbs are still undergoing rapid development, and they last for ages. So by the time one burns out, there's probably a Mr. Fusion version available, and nobody wants the stockpiled one.
(I'm still on CFLs because they refuse to burn out; one came with a 10-year warranty, and now after 9 years, it sometimes flickers a little before fully turning on.)
Thanks to taxes, smokers pay for the extra healthcare they eventually need, at least in pinko communist countries like Finland.
No?
Man, all these years I've wondered what the big boys mean by "compiling the kernel". Thank you sir!
So in other words, Toyota is reluctant to switch to these motors.
So that's why it's called GreaseMonkey. Such a nice mental image.