I lived in Christchurch from the early 90's through to the end of the year of earthquakes (2011). Munted was a term that was used at least as far back as the early 90's. And Christchurch got 'munted' 4 times with earthquakes - there were four quakes big enough to topple brick structures, liquify the ground, open up car-swallowing holes, and cover our road with silt. The last was on 23 Dec 2011 - I have a photo of my 11 year old son standing in a hole in the road with the road level at his shoulder. We left 2 days later because I couldn't find any work as a software dev. there. I don't recall hearing "munted" with an expletive prefix often, but the people I hung around with weren't big expletive users.
And next week, we'll develop armour consisting of thousands of small corner reflectors. What do think will happen when a big grunty laser beam hits a panel of corner-reflectors?
Of course, you'd need pretty good mirrors for a 100kw laser.
If your bank requires IE, maybe you should consider a new bank? I mean that may seem drastic, but if they are
uncapable of supporting the system your business wants to use, I'm sure another bank would be happy to hold on
to your money.
My bank (BNZ - Bank of New Zealand - yes. I live in NZ) have internet banking software written in Java (an applet) that only works with IE and Netscape on Windows. Now, Java is supposed to be platform independent - there can't have been much stopping the Java banking applet from working under Linux. And there wasn't. I tried to tell them about it but they didn't care. I decompiled their applet, fixed it for them, and told them (and others) about the fix.
Do not trust a neighbour put no confidence in a friend. Even with her who lies in your embrace be careful of your words. For a son dishonours his father, a daughter rises up against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law--- a man's enemies are the members of his own household.
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I lived in Christchurch from the early 90's through to the end of the year of earthquakes (2011). Munted was a term that was used at least as far back as the early 90's. And Christchurch got 'munted' 4 times with earthquakes - there were four quakes big enough to topple brick structures, liquify the ground, open up car-swallowing holes, and cover our road with silt. The last was on 23 Dec 2011 - I have a photo of my 11 year old son standing in a hole in the road with the road level at his shoulder. We left 2 days later because I couldn't find any work as a software dev. there. I don't recall hearing "munted" with an expletive prefix often, but the people I hung around with weren't big expletive users.
And next week, we'll develop armour consisting of thousands of small corner reflectors. What do think will happen when a big grunty laser beam hits a panel of corner-reflectors?
Of course, you'd need pretty good mirrors for a 100kw laser.
Cheers,
cdc
The c64 programmers reference guide (I still
have a dead-tree copy!) does indeed say
"ALWAYS SET THIS BIT TO 0!"
See an online edition for an interesting read.
not only is Bill Gates a philanthropist, he's the greatest philanthropist ever
Surely the measure of a philanthropist should be the personal cost of his/her giving rather than the actual amount given.
Someone who gives 10% of his wealth should not be called the greatest philanthropist ever, no matter how big that 10% is.
My bank (BNZ - Bank of New Zealand - yes. I live in NZ) have internet banking software written in Java (an applet) that only works with IE and Netscape on Windows. Now, Java is supposed to be platform independent - there can't have been much stopping the Java banking applet from working under Linux. And there wasn't. I tried to tell them about it but they didn't care. I decompiled their applet, fixed it for them, and told them (and others) about the fix.
They still didn't care.
Do not trust a neighbour
put no confidence in a friend.
Even with her who lies in your embrace
be careful of your words.
For a son dishonours his father,
a daughter rises up against her mother,
a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law---
a man's enemies are the members of his own household.
Micah 7:5-6