There is the small issue of licensing. It's one thing to d/l all those ROM images off the net for your private grins, but another to burn them into a device and sell it.
But hey, you have my personal permission (not that it has any legal standing) to play all the Wall Ball you want.
For starters, that was a cut'n'paste from the FSF page, not my improvisation. Secondly, you stand in front of mirror and say "gnu" that way and see whether or not you end up pronouncing it as a single syllable -- or better yet, ask someone to listen to you say it and ask them how many syllables they hear.
"Number of syllables" is not the same as "number of consonants separated by vowels", as anybody who's labored to pronounce Polish words could tell you. Some consonants play well with others, in combinations like "tr" and "sl". Others don't, like "db" and "gn".
But hey, just watch "Sesame Street" for a while. Sooner or later Gary Gnu will be on. Listen as he introduces himself, and count the syllables.
Network prefs are exactly where they should be in which version of Windows? ("If it's 'WordPerfect', how come it's version 10?") Don't get me wrong, Windows pays my bills, but they gotta' stop moving shit around each time. ("Oh, and by the way, this year the brake's on the right and the accelerator's on the left. But, now that the radio's in the back seat and we've replaced the spare tire with a can of Fix-A-Flat, there's much more room in the new DashTrunk")
My first thought was that it was a shot at Java and country music, but that would be "Java:code::country:music". Then I thought, well, maybe the reference to "country" is really to "country music", indicating that Java is a superset of code just as music is a superset of country music. Or maybe Java is patriotic...
It might be hard to heat a glove to plasma, but in the case of M. Jackson, I think we should try.:)
Yeah, I figured it was a typo, but "glove" was more fun.
I ride the DC metro a couple of days a week, including today as it happens, and change trains at Gallery Place. I'll look around this time, instead of wandering about in my normal fog.
You know what just occurred to me...when you were testing them, was there a smell to them? I recall that there's a faint scent of, well, I was thinking gunpowder, but perhaps it's related. I don't recall it in either of the other two stations I frequent.
If not performed prior to this point, 1/4-20 threaded rod should be inserted into each SnapStick corner and screwed into the power base SnapMounts. The SnapStick assembly should be tightened at the top by use of a SnapWrench applied to each of the top SnapNuts. The end plate is bolted to the 6/32 nut end of the SnapNut.
Oh, I'm not missing it all. I was just pointing out to the parent poster that ~metric doesn't mean arbitrary sizes available at whim, that we here in the States have standard sizes as well, logical or otherwise. Yes, the ISO sizes do make a great deal of sense.
I knew they were close, yes. Seems like the chief reason the cops like nine's, as opposed to say a.45, is that they can cram all those smaller rounds into the thing.
I wouldn't lean too hard on the egalitarian aspect of things, though, not unless you know a good source of 9 x 11-1/2" typing paper, 1-1/2 x 5" lumber, or even double-wide TP. We have standards too, but they tend to be mandated by industry for their convenience rather than by government.
That decimal currency thing seems to have caught on nicely, though.
Well, I spent four years writing code in a language that said, not
a = b
but rather
b -> a
I don't know. I usually say, "Put the suitcase in the car", rather than "Put the car around the suitcase", so perhaps "source destination" makes more sense to me. Somehow file copies and moves always seem sort of concrete to me, rather than algebraic.
And really, any arithmetic text will tell you that "=" is a statement, not an instruction, in spite of FORTRAN, BASIC, and C. When e=mc^2, there's no movement involved -- it just does. I blame Grace Hopper.
And PIP always sounded so cheery, too -- "Yeah, pip it over here, will you?". "Copy" is dull, by comparison, and "cp" isn't even pronounceable. Plus pip had that whole reverse-syntax thing going for it.
For years I kept pip.bat files on DOS systems that just did "copy %2 %1" so I could keep pipping.
It was Dressed to Kill, I think, and see, I'm one of those people who's more concerned with how the album sounds than with how it looks, and while I grant you that nobody puts on pyro like Kiss, at the end of the day they still sound like, well, Kiss.
Who says bands get paid from the retail sales? Put it this way -- if I go to Walmart and write a bad check for the latest whatever, do you think they take back the royalties?
My conduct was smarmy, no question -- it was a debt that I owed and never paid -- but it's Columbia House that has a grievance with me, not Kiss.
I had to confess to my daughter recently that well, yes, her Dad had once owned a Kiss record. My only defense was that it came with a record club deal, and I never paid for it.:)
Not terribly new -- we called it "piracy" back when we copied LP's to tape, before half of Slashdot was born. The term trickled up from the masses, not down from the record companies and software houses, because we liked the image - it made us sound all underground and outlaw and radical, instead of just too cheap to buy the album ("Eight bucks for a Kiss album? Fuck that, man!")
Trousers aside, are you suggesting some sort of Dick Tracy / bionic arm affair? I can't see it, myself. I wear jackets when I'm outside, short sleeves inside, and a watch.
It does sound familiar, though. 2001, maybe? I can picture guys typing on their arms...
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Ten K!? Son, back in the day we worked in 4K (and the poor sods at Atari did the early games in 2K). The 128 bytes of RAM made things interesting too.
But hey, you have my personal permission (not that it has any legal standing) to play all the Wall Ball you want.
"Number of syllables" is not the same as "number of consonants separated by vowels", as anybody who's labored to pronounce Polish words could tell you. Some consonants play well with others, in combinations like "tr" and "sl". Others don't, like "db" and "gn".
But hey, just watch "Sesame Street" for a while. Sooner or later Gary Gnu will be on. Listen as he introduces himself, and count the syllables.
Network prefs are exactly where they should be in which version of Windows? ("If it's 'WordPerfect', how come it's version 10?") Don't get me wrong, Windows pays my bills, but they gotta' stop moving shit around each time. ("Oh, and by the way, this year the brake's on the right and the accelerator's on the left. But, now that the radio's in the back seat and we've replaced the spare tire with a can of Fix-A-Flat, there's much more room in the new DashTrunk")
The aroma of cordite? Hell, I commute here from Baltimore, the City That Reloads.
So, "GNU"'s also not "gnu", in spite of the hairy ox on the FSF homepage.
My first thought was that it was a shot at Java and country music, but that would be "Java:code::country:music". Then I thought, well, maybe the reference to "country" is really to "country music", indicating that Java is a superset of code just as music is a superset of country music. Or maybe Java is patriotic...
I give up. Not 'nuff said, apparently.
Yeah, I figured it was a typo, but "glove" was more fun.
I ride the DC metro a couple of days a week, including today as it happens, and change trains at Gallery Place. I'll look around this time, instead of wandering about in my normal fog.
You know what just occurred to me...when you were testing them, was there a smell to them? I recall that there's a faint scent of, well, I was thinking gunpowder, but perhaps it's related. I don't recall it in either of the other two stations I frequent.
Sounds like an expensive system. Is that why Michael Jackson only had the one?
My God, you asked this question and got answers, and not one reference to masturbation. Is our little Slashdot growing up?
Oh, I'm not missing it all. I was just pointing out to the parent poster that ~metric doesn't mean arbitrary sizes available at whim, that we here in the States have standard sizes as well, logical or otherwise. Yes, the ISO sizes do make a great deal of sense.
Look, I know it's not Thanksgiving, but I think the least you can do is post the whole Massacre. This is just teasing. What would Alice say?
I wouldn't lean too hard on the egalitarian aspect of things, though, not unless you know a good source of 9 x 11-1/2" typing paper, 1-1/2 x 5" lumber, or even double-wide TP. We have standards too, but they tend to be mandated by industry for their convenience rather than by government.
That decimal currency thing seems to have caught on nicely, though.
Klez, IIRC, incorporates an SMTP server of its own, so no, monitoring their client won't help.
Carry on.
I don't know. I usually say, "Put the suitcase in the car", rather than "Put the car around the suitcase", so perhaps "source destination" makes more sense to me. Somehow file copies and moves always seem sort of concrete to me, rather than algebraic.
And really, any arithmetic text will tell you that "=" is a statement, not an instruction, in spite of FORTRAN, BASIC, and C. When e=mc^2, there's no movement involved -- it just does. I blame Grace Hopper.
For years I kept pip.bat files on DOS systems that just did "copy %2 %1" so I could keep pipping.
It was Dressed to Kill, I think, and see, I'm one of those people who's more concerned with how the album sounds than with how it looks, and while I grant you that nobody puts on pyro like Kiss, at the end of the day they still sound like, well, Kiss.
My conduct was smarmy, no question -- it was a debt that I owed and never paid -- but it's Columbia House that has a grievance with me, not Kiss.
I had to confess to my daughter recently that well, yes, her Dad had once owned a Kiss record. My only defense was that it came with a record club deal, and I never paid for it. :)
Not terribly new -- we called it "piracy" back when we copied LP's to tape, before half of Slashdot was born. The term trickled up from the masses, not down from the record companies and software houses, because we liked the image - it made us sound all underground and outlaw and radical, instead of just too cheap to buy the album ("Eight bucks for a Kiss album? Fuck that, man!")
...the story made me hungry. Guess I'm doomed :)
Trousers aside, are you suggesting some sort of Dick Tracy / bionic arm affair? I can't see it, myself. I wear jackets when I'm outside, short sleeves inside, and a watch.
It does sound familiar, though. 2001, maybe? I can picture guys typing on their arms...