Actually, bear baiting is a federal crime in the United States, punishable by jail and up to a 5,000 dollar fine. (I was out in New Mexico bear country this summer)
Now, I'm not too sure exactly how far "baiting" a bear extends to, but I'm sure "poking" (wink wink, nudge nudge) falls into this category.
Well, I would say something about slightly overweight penguins, but....
(to quote Linus)
"Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen a angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.
-- Linus Torvalds"
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The battery displayed in the press release has a rating of 30mAH printed on its side instead of 9. Sorry, but I'm too lazy to do the calculations for the LED:) - - - - - - - - -
Just imagine;you can reply to "Damn, I need another laptop battery; anyone have one?" with "Oh yeah, sure, I've got one right in my pocket" and actually be serious!!! - - - - - - - - -
Screw NATO, my man; go straight to the UN security council. I have a resolution drafted up, right here, yes....
The United Nations security council,
Recognizing that locust's contolling hude tanks and taking over the world constitutes a grave threat to humanity,
Noting that a locus is hugely different from a locust,
Taking into account the need for a UN police action to battle the evil locusts,
Proposes the creation of a subcommittee UNIDEVDL (United Nations Initiative for the Destruction of Evil Vehicle Driving Locusts) to combat this danger;
Commissions the "superpowers" mentioned below to muster all military strength (including but not limited to ground forces, aeronautical strike teams, thermonclear weaponry and bug spray) to form a UN "policing action" against these evil bugs:
1.United States,
2.China,
3.Russia (well, they're not really too powerful anymore, but hell, why not?);
Requires all members of this "policing action" to watch "Starship Troopers", translated into the vernacular of said members;
Prays for Humanity against this terrible crisis.
HA! I knew all that time in Model UN would pay off some day! Now I'm off to save the world!
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But the fact of the matter is, he even gives credit to the linux.com layout, as shown here. All of you are talking about how he gave no credit, yet there is blatant proof that he does. Now, the real question is whether that is enough credit to give in return for "yoinking" an entire website design. - - - - - - - - -
Hi, this is Pete Tong, comin at ya live with tonight's Radio1 Essential Mix. Tonight, we're following DJ CowboyNeal out west, at the Usual in San Jose. I bet you haven't been there, but he has and here it comes...(cue music)
{If you have no idea what I'm talking about, go on gnapster and download (at least the beginning of) Paul Oakenfold Essential Mix Live in China; it'll all make sense to you} - - - - - - - - -
I agree completely that the size of the boxes should be reduced. I really hate walking out of a store wondering if there is actually anything in the huge box I recieved, or if the contents had already been stolen, removed, or subjected to some such action.
Of course, most manufacturers are unwilling to give up the appeal that a large flashy box gives. Still, it seems to me that the situation could all be resolved very easily. Consider DVDs. DVDs come in a compact case, a little larger than a cd, and with room for a small bit of documentation. They don't seem to have any real problem selling. Just think of all the materials that could be saved if manufacturers were to switch to some kind of DVD-like compact format. Oh well, just my 2 cents even if no real change is likely. - - - - - - - - -
15 - 30 minutes to get back up and running when Windows gets wrecked. This makes life so much easier for consumers and for technicians.
I don't know about you, but back in the days that I actually did use Windows, it took me that time or less to get it back on without the recovery disk. It's really not as hard as you're making it out to be. In fact, you don't even need the Boot Disk at all. Just head into your BIOS settings and tell it to boot from the CD. That certainly worked well enough for me. The fact that it took "trained" technicians more than 30 minutes to reinstall Windows - What is the world coming to?
(Since this is slashdot, I also have to ask, why are you installing Windows on a computer you slaved hard at building??? You should now enough to run Linux (or *BSD)).
There is a good reason to throw Windows on your machine: Games. I'm sorry everybody, but once in a while theres a game that you just can't miss, and unfortunately, it's only for Windows. Just because you have built your own computer doesn't mean that you're not going to want to play games other than UT, Quake 3, or Railroad Tycoon. Not being able to freshly install with the OEM cd is a huge hindrance. I don't want to have to head out and buy a 90$ piece of crap when I'll only use it once a month. - - - - - - - - -
Oh, by the way, the correct address to access the MS world domination wallpaper is here. It includes the aforementioned picture and a bunch of other funny M$ stuff. - - - - - - - - -
I think, in addition to all the great points mentioned above, Microsoft feels that it has a better chance of using it's World Domination powers to successfully influence the government in their favor at a lower level, rather than having to contend with the mighty Supreme Court. - - - - - - - - -
Umm, I don't know how much you checked your sources, but have you ever heard of a game called Tomb Raider? Despite all of the flak the series has picked up, Tomb Raider still had amazingly detailed 3d graphics for the time. Much more so than FF7. On the playstation. Tomb Raider was released in 1996. FF7 was released in 1997. Seing as how we are talking about 3d graphics (not the beautiful 2d backgrounds of FF7) and the models which were used the most in-game (not the combat models-I didn't fight during the entire duration of the 80+ hrs which I played-and besides, I would've been happy in a combat with the low polygon guys...now back to my sentence which I started a really long time ago...)I would say that there were many things around even on the PC's and Playstations that compared to the level of FF7's graphics. - - - - - - - - -
I agree with this completely. A game doesn't necessarily need a huge number of polygons to be good, and let's face it; consoles sell based on the games they offer.
For example, I ended up buying a playstation mainly for FF7. As anyone can attest to, the 3d models in the game were not pretty. In fact, they were so low polygon as to be comical. Despite all this, I found FF7 to br a severely addicting game (as is usually the case with games released by Square) maily due to storyline and great gameplay. Games are not based on polygons. In fact, they aren't even based on graphics. I can still get entertainment out of a good solid MUD or text-adventure. As long as the gameplay itself is addicting/entertaining, graphics are merely a tool to better convey the game world to the user.
Graphics are nice, and visually amazing at points, but who really loves a game with no gameplay (Myst anyone?). Just because one console has more graphical processing power than the other doesn't mean that the console and its games in their entirety are better. It truly is the gameplay quality of the released games that raise one platform above the other. - - - - - - - - -
Yes, but I thought that at a certain point, it would be faster to do a quick bubble sort on 2 to 3 items rather than running throught the entire qsort algorithm over and over until the partitions were one a peice. Oh well, I guess I didnt imply that in the original message. - - - - - - - - -
I don't know why the Quick Sort is on the list; c'mon people, everyone knows that the Bubble Sort rocks the Quicksort.
If I'm not mistaken, at it's basest level after dividing the array through its use of pivots until it comes down to the lowest amount possible, doesn't the Qsort actually use a form of the Bubble Sort? This would then mean that the Bubble Sort, being the grandaddy of all great sorting algorithms, deserves to be on the list... - - - - - - - - -
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All this for ASCI!?!
Aw crap...that means I'll have to go pull out my conversion charts. What the hell was the number for a smiley face again?!
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Actually, bear baiting is a federal crime in the United States, punishable by jail and up to a 5,000 dollar fine. (I was out in New Mexico bear country this summer)
Now, I'm not too sure exactly how far "baiting" a bear extends to, but I'm sure "poking" (wink wink, nudge nudge) falls into this category.
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Another connection to the Sims and Supernatural Forces can be found here ; ; .....
(Aw, hell...I couldn't resist. It's just such a damn funny story.)
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This is probably scary enough to guard your house without being fully operational.
Look at the size of those things...(and you wonder where Lego gets its ideas)
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(to quote Linus)
(not like anyone's ever head that one before
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Robin Hood: Men in Tights was made after Spaceballs, if I'm not mistaken. That was pretty damn funny too.
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The battery displayed in the press release has a rating of 30mAH printed on its side instead of 9. :)
Sorry, but I'm too lazy to do the calculations for the LED
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Great! Credit card thin size, hmmm......
Just imagine;you can reply to "Damn, I need another laptop battery; anyone have one?" with "Oh yeah, sure, I've got one right in my pocket" and actually be serious!!!
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The United Nations security council,
Recognizing that locust's contolling hude tanks and taking over the world constitutes a grave threat to humanity,
Noting that a locus is hugely different from a locust,
Taking into account the need for a UN police action to battle the evil locusts,
Proposes the creation of a subcommittee UNIDEVDL (United Nations Initiative for the Destruction of Evil Vehicle Driving Locusts) to combat this danger;
Commissions the "superpowers" mentioned below to muster all military strength (including but not limited to ground forces, aeronautical strike teams, thermonclear weaponry and bug spray) to form a UN "policing action" against these evil bugs:
1.United States,
2.China,
3.Russia (well, they're not really too powerful anymore, but hell, why not?);
Requires all members of this "policing action" to watch "Starship Troopers", translated into the vernacular of said members;
Prays for Humanity against this terrible crisis.
HA! I knew all that time in Model UN would pay off some day! Now I'm off to save the world!
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But the fact of the matter is, he even gives credit to the linux.com layout, as shown here. All of you are talking about how he gave no credit, yet there is blatant proof that he does. Now, the real question is whether that is enough credit to give in return for "yoinking" an entire website design.
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Except on the exact same page, where he credits Linux.com's cool layout. Yes, it's right there on the page.
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Hi, this is Pete Tong, comin at ya live with tonight's Radio1 Essential Mix. Tonight, we're following DJ CowboyNeal out west, at the Usual in San Jose. I bet you haven't been there, but he has and here it comes...(cue music)
{If you have no idea what I'm talking about, go on gnapster and download (at least the beginning of) Paul Oakenfold Essential Mix Live in China; it'll all make sense to you}
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I agree completely that the size of the boxes should be reduced. I really hate walking out of a store wondering if there is actually anything in the huge box I recieved, or if the contents had already been stolen, removed, or subjected to some such action.
Of course, most manufacturers are unwilling to give up the appeal that a large flashy box gives. Still, it seems to me that the situation could all be resolved very easily. Consider DVDs. DVDs come in a compact case, a little larger than a cd, and with room for a small bit of documentation. They don't seem to have any real problem selling. Just think of all the materials that could be saved if manufacturers were to switch to some kind of DVD-like compact format. Oh well, just my 2 cents even if no real change is likely.
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15 - 30 minutes to get back up and running when Windows gets wrecked. This makes life so much easier for consumers and for technicians.
I don't know about you, but back in the days that I actually did use Windows, it took me that time or less to get it back on without the recovery disk. It's really not as hard as you're making it out to be. In fact, you don't even need the Boot Disk at all. Just head into your BIOS settings and tell it to boot from the CD. That certainly worked well enough for me. The fact that it took "trained" technicians more than 30 minutes to reinstall Windows - What is the world coming to?
(Since this is slashdot, I also have to ask, why are you installing Windows on a computer you slaved hard at building??? You should now enough to run Linux (or *BSD)).
There is a good reason to throw Windows on your machine: Games. I'm sorry everybody, but once in a while theres a game that you just can't miss, and unfortunately, it's only for Windows. Just because you have built your own computer doesn't mean that you're not going to want to play games other than UT, Quake 3, or Railroad Tycoon. Not being able to freshly install with the OEM cd is a huge hindrance. I don't want to have to head out and buy a 90$ piece of crap when I'll only use it once a month.
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Oh, by the way, the correct address to access the MS world domination wallpaper is here. It includes the aforementioned picture and a bunch of other funny M$ stuff.
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I think, in addition to all the great points mentioned above, Microsoft feels that it has a better chance of using it's World Domination powers to successfully influence the government in their favor at a lower level, rather than having to contend with the mighty Supreme Court.
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Umm, I don't know how much you checked your sources, but have you ever heard of a game called Tomb Raider? Despite all of the flak the series has picked up, Tomb Raider still had amazingly detailed 3d graphics for the time. Much more so than FF7. On the playstation. Tomb Raider was released in 1996. FF7 was released in 1997. Seing as how we are talking about 3d graphics (not the beautiful 2d backgrounds of FF7) and the models which were used the most in-game (not the combat models-I didn't fight during the entire duration of the 80+ hrs which I played-and besides, I would've been happy in a combat with the low polygon guys...now back to my sentence which I started a really long time ago...)I would say that there were many things around even on the PC's and Playstations that compared to the level of FF7's graphics.
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I agree with this completely. A game doesn't necessarily need a huge number of polygons to be good, and let's face it; consoles sell based on the games they offer.
For example, I ended up buying a playstation mainly for FF7. As anyone can attest to, the 3d models in the game were not pretty. In fact, they were so low polygon as to be comical. Despite all this, I found FF7 to br a severely addicting game (as is usually the case with games released by Square) maily due to storyline and great gameplay. Games are not based on polygons. In fact, they aren't even based on graphics. I can still get entertainment out of a good solid MUD or text-adventure. As long as the gameplay itself is addicting/entertaining, graphics are merely a tool to better convey the game world to the user.
Graphics are nice, and visually amazing at points, but who really loves a game with no gameplay (Myst anyone?). Just because one console has more graphical processing power than the other doesn't mean that the console and its games in their entirety are better. It truly is the gameplay quality of the released games that raise one platform above the other.
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Yes, but I thought that at a certain point, it would be faster to do a quick bubble sort on 2 to 3 items rather than running throught the entire qsort algorithm over and over until the partitions were one a peice. Oh well, I guess I didnt imply that in the original message.
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I don't know why the Quick Sort is on the list; c'mon people, everyone knows that the Bubble Sort rocks the Quicksort.
If I'm not mistaken, at it's basest level after dividing the array through its use of pivots until it comes down to the lowest amount possible, doesn't the Qsort actually use a form of the Bubble Sort? This would then mean that the Bubble Sort, being the grandaddy of all great sorting algorithms, deserves to be on the list...
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