This is the second story in a row that has refered to Halloween as though it was still in the future
Hey guys, pay attention to your calendar, Halloween was yesterday! This would have been a good story to post yesterday, and or maybe 11 months from now, but isn't it kind of fscking pointless today?
> Any one want to take bets on how long it will > take Jon to write a horrifically long article > based on the similiarity of geek and mutant > persecution?
All he needs to do is take the salon article and %s/gay/geek/g
I was replying to the guy who was swapping hard drives rather than just duel booting.
Of course you shouldn't have to reboot your fucking computer every time I want to play Diablo and then reboot it again to read your email!!! Or whatever.
When I was in school my experience was that math classes had a pretty even gender makeup, but computer science was was totally dominated by males. I think that it is still far more societally acceptable for a girl to grow up to be a math teacher than to grow up to be a computer programmer or an academic...
It makes sense to use a passage from the Bible (Genesis makes sense for symbolic reasons). This particular text has already survived 3000 or so years, and is unquestionably the most widely distributed work in existance. It is much easier to decypher a code when you already have the plaintext..
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Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.
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- F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Quote of the day on google.com/ig, juxtaposed with this
(Re: Debian CDs).
This is the second story in a row that has refered to Halloween as though it was still in the future
Hey guys, pay attention to your calendar, Halloween was yesterday! This would have been a good story to post yesterday, and or maybe 11 months from now, but isn't it kind of fscking pointless today?
> Any one want to take bets on how long it will
> take Jon to write a horrifically long article
> based on the similiarity of geek and mutant
> persecution?
All he needs to do is take the salon article and %s/gay/geek/g
I was replying to the guy who was swapping hard drives rather than just duel booting.
Of course you shouldn't have to reboot your fucking computer every time I want to play Diablo and then reboot it again to read your email!!! Or whatever.
You *have* heard of LILO, right?
When I was in school my experience was that math classes had a pretty even gender makeup, but computer science was was totally dominated by males. I think that it is still far more societally acceptable for a girl to grow up to be a math teacher than to grow up to be a computer programmer or an academic...
It makes sense to use a passage from the Bible (Genesis makes sense for symbolic reasons). This particular text has already survived 3000 or so years, and is unquestionably the most widely distributed work in existance.
It is much easier to decypher a code when you already have the plaintext..