Yeah... BASIC: I have SIMH running an HP2000F emulation and guess what? You programmed those machines in BASIC sonny. I also program occasionally in COBOL...wanna make fun of me some more? I also program in BrainFuck...can I be cool now?
I play around making random C, Perl, and even BASIC programs on my Netbook I'm pretty sure Apple is NEVER going to allow a Turing-complete programming language on the iPad.
And a range of 620 miles? Isn't that about the distance between Iran and Israel? How sweet of them.
(This "coincidence" is the surest sign to me that it doesn't have nearly the claimed range.)
"620 miles" is just the converted value from "1000 kilometers" which is a nice round approximate number. No coincidence is required. Just a lack of understanding of significant digits
Well, I let that darn Schrödinger guy cat-sit while I'm on vacation and everytime I call him, he refuses to tell me if "mittens" is dead or alive. And when I call Heisenberg, all he says is that my cat is really fat, not if it's moving. Hopefully this new discovery will help all of us pet owners who let their neighborhood physicists cat-sit.
As I'm hit and fall into the pit of lava, the safety overrides fail and suddenly, yeah, my peripherals are trying their best to get me up to a thousand degrees C. THIS is why I continue to play Nethack.
I always used the tilde to indicate "moustache" or "backwards 'S' taking a nap" since those two concepts rarely entered my on-line conversations, I rarely used the tilde. But, hey! yeah... I could use the tilde to indicate sarcasm! What a ~great~ idea!
"The COO has come to you, because no one else is available. The CEO is flipping out. There's a server on the network running some common variety of Linux. Transfer rates from it to any other machine are very slow, regardless of the protocol. i.e., http, ftp, rsync, samba are all slow. What do you do?"
OH GOD OH GOD... what wall jack is that server plugged into...what? Not labelled? CRAP! OK, I'll just PING it and look it up in the switch arp table and cross reference the MAC and the switch port... OH NO...THE RDP client on my Blackberry just crashed and I'm in the middle of the highway during rush hour... CRAP. OK, OK...calm down...make up something... OK, um tell the CEO that the server is under service lockdown and frozen due to the upcoming board meeting and potential buyout... yeah...that'll give me a couple of days leeway... whew! Then, since I'm in the network group, I can just blame it on the server group since they never patch their servers anyway... that E1000 driver never did work properly on Linux, yeah yeah that's what I'll do...
If someone comes up to me and wants me to sign a petition FOR Proposition 123456, and I don't sign. Does that mean I'm against it or just that I didn't want to sign? Maybe they should require all petitioners to require a "yes I agree" or "no I don't agree" checkbox on any petition
I'm not submitting my secret perpetual motion machine to any bunch of "boffins" with pre-conceived notions. my invention uses magnets... and..and... mirrors.. both are firmly scientific.
(yeah, yeah, I know...never trust anything on Wikipedia... but it's still a good reference starting point) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor
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That's nice, but XP is also "kinda good". It'll die when it can't run a supported version of Office anymore.
+1 Informative... If I hadn't already replied on this story already...sorry I can't give you mod points. It's not the OS that matters, but the applications that matter... good point as an aside: I have an old Windows 98 box in my basement running Office 98... I find it useful
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Apparently you are none of them, just Funny. Sorry.
yeah...that's a mod I was not expecting since my post was serious... change XP to OS X...what's funny about that?
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Just to get the ball started... yes, I agree... it is time to dump Windows XP and change to OS X or one of the BSDs or heck, even one of the mature Linux distributions like Ubuntu. Moderators: start your engines... am I Flamebait, or am I Insightful? Informative or Offtopic?
From 640% to 0% YoY growth in 9 months? Doesn't get much more "destroyed" than that.
Measuring my increase in height over the decades: 1960s: 400% increase 1970s: 50% increase 1980s: 0% increase
My gawd! Something horrible must have happened to me in the 1980s to completely DESTROY my increase in height after previous decades average of +200%. Maybe I fell off a cliff or something.
As a network analyst, I care more about the IP laws as defined by http://www.ietf.org/rfc.html (TCP/IP in case anyone missed the joke) Wouldn't it be great if real life laws were codified by RFCs?
Not really nuclear accidents. Nuke Weapons have a ridiculous amount of safeguards and settings needed to happen to actually go off. So it is impossible for a true nuclear weapon accidents. Maybe call em' accidents that involved nuclear weapons. any other phrase is alarmism
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Javascript is Turning-complete.
Yeah, I thought of that about a minute after I hit "Submit"
oh well
Yeah... BASIC: I have SIMH running an HP2000F emulation and guess what? You programmed those machines in BASIC sonny.
I also program occasionally in COBOL...wanna make fun of me some more?
I also program in BrainFuck...can I be cool now?
I play around making random C, Perl, and even BASIC programs on my Netbook
I'm pretty sure Apple is NEVER going to allow a Turing-complete programming language on the iPad.
And a range of 620 miles? Isn't that about the distance between Iran and Israel? How sweet of them.
(This "coincidence" is the surest sign to me that it doesn't have nearly the claimed range.)
"620 miles" is just the converted value from "1000 kilometers" which is a nice round approximate number. No coincidence is required. Just a lack of understanding of significant digits
I store them in first posts.
Thanks for reminding me. 16 8483 917 8.321 9118387126 and 42
Well, I let that darn Schrödinger guy cat-sit while I'm on vacation and everytime I call him, he refuses to tell me if "mittens" is dead or alive. And when I call Heisenberg, all he says is that my cat is really fat, not if it's moving. Hopefully this new discovery will help all of us pet owners who let their neighborhood physicists cat-sit.
As I'm hit and fall into the pit of lava, the safety overrides fail and suddenly, yeah, my peripherals are trying their best to get me up to a thousand degrees C.
THIS is why I continue to play Nethack.
I always used the tilde to indicate "moustache" or "backwards 'S' taking a nap"
since those two concepts rarely entered my on-line conversations, I rarely used the tilde.
But, hey! yeah... I could use the tilde to indicate sarcasm! What a ~great~ idea!
"The COO has come to you, because no one else is available. The CEO is flipping out. There's a server on the network running some common variety of Linux. Transfer rates from it to any other machine are very slow, regardless of the protocol. i.e., http, ftp, rsync, samba are all slow. What do you do?"
OH GOD OH GOD... what wall jack is that server plugged into...what? Not labelled? CRAP! OK, I'll just PING it and look it up in the switch arp table and cross reference the MAC and the switch port... OH NO...THE RDP client on my Blackberry just crashed and I'm in the middle of the highway during rush hour... CRAP. OK, OK...calm down...make up something... OK, um tell the CEO that the server is under service lockdown and frozen due to the upcoming board meeting and potential buyout... yeah...that'll give me a couple of days leeway... whew!
Then, since I'm in the network group, I can just blame it on the server group since they never patch their servers anyway... that E1000 driver never did work properly on Linux, yeah yeah that's what I'll do...
When I get money, I always use the ":-)" set of characters. Why can't we use emoticons for currency symbols?
If someone comes up to me and wants me to sign a petition FOR Proposition 123456, and I don't sign. Does that mean I'm against it or just that I didn't want to sign?
Maybe they should require all petitioners to require a "yes I agree" or "no I don't agree" checkbox on any petition
I'm not submitting my secret perpetual motion machine to any bunch of "boffins" with pre-conceived notions. my invention uses magnets... and ..and ... mirrors.. both are firmly scientific.
I stand corrected...thanks. If Slashdot would allow me to move my +5 Informative from my post to yours, I would.
(yeah, yeah, I know...never trust anything on Wikipedia... but it's still a good reference starting point)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor
That's nice, but XP is also "kinda good". It'll die when it can't run a supported version of Office anymore.
+1 Informative ... If I hadn't already replied on this story already...sorry I can't give you mod points. It's not the OS that matters, but the applications that matter... good point
as an aside: I have an old Windows 98 box in my basement running Office 98... I find it useful
Apparently you are none of them, just Funny. Sorry.
yeah...that's a mod I was not expecting since my post was serious... change XP to OS X ...what's funny about that?
Just to get the ball started... yes, I agree... it is time to dump Windows XP and change to OS X or one of the BSDs or heck, even one of the mature Linux distributions like Ubuntu.
Moderators: start your engines... am I Flamebait, or am I Insightful? Informative or Offtopic?
that goes without saying. everyone loves hypnotoad.
Then why did you say it. NON-BELIEVER!
From 640% to 0% YoY growth in 9 months? Doesn't get much more "destroyed" than that.
Measuring my increase in height over the decades:
1960s: 400% increase
1970s: 50% increase
1980s: 0% increase
My gawd! Something horrible must have happened to me in the 1980s to completely DESTROY my increase in height after previous decades average of +200%. Maybe I fell off a cliff or something.
Geesh... "destroyed"? "fell off a cliff"?
no bias in this article
I gave up TV in 2003. Just use BBC iPlayer for the Doctor Who episodes now. Everything else is a combination of iTunes rentals, torrents and podcasts.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-constantly-mentioning-he-doesnt-own-a-tel,429/
As a network analyst, I care more about the IP laws as defined by http://www.ietf.org/rfc.html
(TCP/IP in case anyone missed the joke)
Wouldn't it be great if real life laws were codified by RFCs?
Dupe? http://science.slashdot.org/story/07/04/26/1626245/Possible-Clue-On-Saturns-Hexagon?art_pos=3
Not really nuclear accidents. Nuke Weapons have a ridiculous amount of safeguards and settings needed to happen to actually go off. So it is impossible for a true nuclear weapon accidents. Maybe call em' accidents that involved nuclear weapons. any other phrase is alarmism
Yeah, British nukes were protected with "Bike Locks"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/7097101.stm
ahh yes, the "Devil Particle"
although wouldn't the existence of a Devil Particle prove the existence of the God Particle?