I have a semi-colon, you insensitive clod! (Well, after the most recent surgery, you could say external-colon, but there's no such grammatical mark so it would humor-fail.) Silver lining, cleaning my colon is simple!
Yeah, and a decade ago the FCC "passed legislation" that required the cell phone providers to collect this info. And now the government is inquiring into this practice? Talk about fucking inefficiency!
if you look at google, facebook, linkedin, etc, it is we - the users - who make them rich.
I think 50%, gross, of the IPO should be given to charity, with charitys chosen by the users.
Yeah, and I vote all your money into my wallet. Neither are likely.
Exactly. My former coworker might still have a job, if not for that... (Well, also his stupidity in thinking that "his work server" was really "his machine".)
USB flash drives still don't work in Linux? Or have they just been removed from the GUI in gnome 3?
exFAT-formatted USB devices do not work in my Ubuntu installation. (Also, my Ubuntu installation has stopped talking to my WHS machines, where I store my media, so I'm stuck with watching movies and listening to music on my Windows box. Really annoying, bit-rot.)
There is a fundamental conflict between making software do what it should and making software not do what it shouldn't - MS leans heavily towards the former.
Microsoft also pursues a similar option: "making software not do what it should"; witness the broken lower-cost versions. Reaching back to NT 4, the only difference between "server" and "workstation" versions was a single Registry entry. They've "learned" since then (to differentiate the market, need many more changes), but the fact still remains that they're selling crippled products only in order to entice users to pay more for uncrippled products.
It *is* a hassle of keeping track of those five remotes for your TV, sound system, DVD, VCR and HTPC... If you've ever been part of a family, chances are you have to spend ten minutes looking for that dang DVD remote since some family member has put it in the most improbable place possible.
We have a very low-tech solution: we bought a basket. All remotes live in the basket, the basket gets passed around. Done.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say about my signature. To clarify my position: science can explain what happens in one's brain when one experiences religion. Religious beliefs, on the other hand, tend not to lead to E=MC2 [1]; they're an approximation of logic just like emotions are. Emotions help us to survive, whereas religion helps others to control us (versus spirituality, which is something personal). I'm already something great, and tend not to follow the mainstream (although I still breathe oxygen!).
[1] -- In fact, they generally lead to "infidel must die!"
And kudos to the Army for sponsoring this. It's the least they could do to support their sons and daughters who give life and, in many cases, limb for their country.
Actually, if you look at the history of medicine (especially emergency medicine) it owes a lot to the military. Many civilians are alive today because of the R&D investments made by military forces around the world.
I wonder, though, if we hadn't been spending so many of our resources on breaking windows in other countries, how much more science and medical technology we could have potentially developed by today.
But what if you replace the brain neuron by neuron, without a break in conciousness?
Exactly! Eat the nano-pill, and the nanobots cruise to your brain, and start replacing it in-place with a billion-times-faster device. As you look up at the ceiling fan, it will start slowing until it comes to almost a stop; you're thinking that much faster. The hitch is that communicating with those who have not taken the pill become excruciatingly slow, like one word every year, from your perception. "The digital divide" indeed!
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Perhaps he was dictating?
when a hydroelectric damn collapses [...]
Spelling does not need correction.
Actually, yes.
I have a semi-colon, you insensitive clod! (Well, after the most recent surgery, you could say external-colon, but there's no such grammatical mark so it would humor-fail.) Silver lining, cleaning my colon is simple!
Chiropractic adjustments for newborn babies is barbarous!
Beats cutting something off them, though.
Thanks for pointing out how right the parent was :)
Nice trolling there buddy.
Exactly; the "Vaccines kill." signature is a little, y'know, 90s?
Yeah, and a decade ago the FCC "passed legislation" that required the cell phone providers to collect this info. And now the government is inquiring into this practice? Talk about fucking inefficiency!
if you look at google, facebook, linkedin, etc, it is we - the users - who make them rich. I think 50%, gross, of the IPO should be given to charity, with charitys chosen by the users.
Yeah, and I vote all your money into my wallet. Neither are likely.
Exactly. My former coworker might still have a job, if not for that... (Well, also his stupidity in thinking that "his work server" was really "his machine".)
Gotcha.
Yeah that can backfire; those people are probably similarly inclined to tell lies about you.
Reminds me of an old bit on WBCN (Boston): "Practice safe sex... Practice, practice, practice!"
I'm not going until they can get some women on Mars too.
Exactly; I remember back in the 80s Peter Wolf informing us all of this need.
Simpsons and Bugs Bunny in the same "quote". Nice.
USB flash drives still don't work in Linux? Or have they just been removed from the GUI in gnome 3?
exFAT-formatted USB devices do not work in my Ubuntu installation. (Also, my Ubuntu installation has stopped talking to my WHS machines, where I store my media, so I'm stuck with watching movies and listening to music on my Windows box. Really annoying, bit-rot.)
So you sabotaged your employer with a logic bomb to promote Firefox
To call "standards-compliant app" a logic bomb is to not understand what a logic bomb is.
Exactly! As an example, your sig contains a logic bomb.
There is a fundamental conflict between making software do what it should and making software not do what it shouldn't - MS leans heavily towards the former.
Microsoft also pursues a similar option: "making software not do what it should"; witness the broken lower-cost versions. Reaching back to NT 4, the only difference between "server" and "workstation" versions was a single Registry entry. They've "learned" since then (to differentiate the market, need many more changes), but the fact still remains that they're selling crippled products only in order to entice users to pay more for uncrippled products.
It *is* a hassle of keeping track of those five remotes for your TV, sound system, DVD, VCR and HTPC... If you've ever been part of a family, chances are you have to spend ten minutes looking for that dang DVD remote since some family member has put it in the most improbable place possible.
We have a very low-tech solution: we bought a basket. All remotes live in the basket, the basket gets passed around. Done.
The Satan Particle.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say about my signature. To clarify my position: science can explain what happens in one's brain when one experiences religion. Religious beliefs, on the other hand, tend not to lead to E=MC2 [1]; they're an approximation of logic just like emotions are. Emotions help us to survive, whereas religion helps others to control us (versus spirituality, which is something personal). I'm already something great, and tend not to follow the mainstream (although I still breathe oxygen!).
[1] -- In fact, they generally lead to "infidel must die!"
I agree that we do not have the other world to compare it to, and that I am speculating.
Okay, then I wear contacts.
And kudos to the Army for sponsoring this. It's the least they could do to support their sons and daughters who give life and, in many cases, limb for their country.
Actually, if you look at the history of medicine (especially emergency medicine) it owes a lot to the military. Many civilians are alive today because of the R&D investments made by military forces around the world.
I wonder, though, if we hadn't been spending so many of our resources on breaking windows in other countries, how much more science and medical technology we could have potentially developed by today.
But what if you replace the brain neuron by neuron, without a break in conciousness?
Exactly! Eat the nano-pill, and the nanobots cruise to your brain, and start replacing it in-place with a billion-times-faster device. As you look up at the ceiling fan, it will start slowing until it comes to almost a stop; you're thinking that much faster. The hitch is that communicating with those who have not taken the pill become excruciatingly slow, like one word every year, from your perception. "The digital divide" indeed!
Already a cyborg: I wear glasses.