Um, Richard III died in 1495 while Shakespeare was writing plays (like, you know, "Richard III") around 1592 - a hundred years later.
So how was Richard's burial going to be affected by a play that hadn't yet been written, and which wasn't going to be written for another 100 years?
Do you think the early Tudors might have thought, with a little effort: "Oh look! Some playwright will write about this dead king in a hundred years, and the dead king and the playwright will still be famous in 500 years time, so we had better bury this dead king properly."
"On March 17, 2013, an object about the size of a small boulder hit the lunar surface in Mare Imbrium," says Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office.
"size of a small boulder"? This has to be one of the most useless size descriptions possible (I suppose they could have said "the size of a random rock"). Given that they later indicate
That all depends. Was it a metric boulder (usually measured in liths, like microlith - very small boulder - or megalith - huge rectangular boulder that causes evolutionary changes) or was it an imperial boulder?
The 40 kg meteoroid measuring 0.3 to 0.4 meters wide
it's not as if they shouldn't have been able to come up with a more descriptive metaphor.
Of course, the first people they will come for are the "anti-social" ones that refuse to have a Facebook account. Clearly that lot have something to hide.
Yes, I do agree...hearing this fucking joke 640,000 times ought to be enough for everybody...
Look at the bright side: no longer will you read this discussion with tensed shoulders dreading the sudden appearance of the 640KB joke. It has passed by, you survived, and now you can read on without fear.
if a ragtag band of rebels wants to overthrow a tyrannical regime by force they pretty much have to have the support of another tyrannical regime that hates the first one and wants to use the rebels as a proxy war. But that doesn't make for a nice Hollywood movie.
So the ragtag band of rebels finds a planet filled with cute little walking talking teddy bears called eWoks (isn't that a cooking device?), who overthrow the most technically sophisticated regime in the universe (complete with black magic and a mad emperor) by using hokum, cute teddy bear weapons. It is kind of like Neanderthals versus the US Army... and the rock and spear toting Neanderthals win.
Yes, portable hard drives are almost exactly like cloud storage. Except for the reliability. And the convenience. And ease of sharing. And accessibility. But besides that, it's exactly the same.
In what universe is the cloud more reliable than a local drive? I can sit in a train in the underground and use my 1TB portable drive with confidence. I cannot get internet access there for love or money. This is a real use case for me. Internet access is only reliable at work and to a *lesser* extent (less in speed and uptime) at home. I cannot even get a 3G signal inside my house, only slowish ADSL2+ (I live more than three miles from my nearest telephone exchange). The cloud is not at all reliable outside those two locations. My portable drive is reliable everywhere, and it is never congested with other users sharing inadequate bandwidth.
The cloud is my biggest reason for not buying a ChromeBook. Gaaah!
When submitting statistical jobs on a mainframe, which would take much longer in real time than in CPU time, I used to read examples in the statistics programming manual. I would see interesting functions to try out, and then I had to buy a stats text book so that I could understand what the functions were doing in more detail and how to interpret them. Gradually I taught myself lots of stats AND I was able to try out new functions and apply them to my work.
loosely typed language without declaration requirements for methods/variables makes it such a huge pain in the ass to debug/understand/update source that I want to have nothing to do with it.
Then don't have anything to do with it.
No one is forcing you to write in Javascript.
C and Vala will work with Gnome. Any language with Gnome binding will work. But your average noob who needs an equivalent to Visual basic can use Javascript.
Why are you complaining? Because someone out there might be using a language you disapprove of?
You'd be amazed. I was at a company where we paid 90% of what we would have paid for Microsoft licenses for Linux "support". It turns out that we NEVER called Microsoft or Linux anyway, so why bother spending hundreds of thousands on support anyway?
Um, how exactly do you call "Linux"? There is no "Linux Corp" selling Linux in the way that Microsoft Corp sells Microsoft products.
Would you have called Linus Torvalds at home or something?
With Linux, you can get your support from many different sources. If you paid 90% of the cost of Microsoft support, that is because you chose a particular support company that charged that much. "Linux" wasn't charging you anything for support. You paid a third party.
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Mentor a kid who is interested in programming.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Surely the price of freedom is a lot cheaper than that: it cannot be more than lifelong vigilance.
What? Are you going to keep vigilant about freedom after you die? Forever and ever?
In any case, most people stopped being vigilant long ago.
Perhaps the real price of freedom is occasional wake-up calls.
Smells fishy to me.
...must hold my tongue...must not make sushi joke...
Um, Richard III died in 1495 while Shakespeare was writing plays (like, you know, "Richard III") around 1592 - a hundred years later.
So how was Richard's burial going to be affected by a play that hadn't yet been written, and which wasn't going to be written for another 100 years?
Do you think the early Tudors might have thought, with a little effort: "Oh look! Some playwright will write about this dead king in a hundred years, and the dead king and the playwright will still be famous in 500 years time, so we had better bury this dead king properly."
"On March 17, 2013, an object about the size of a small boulder hit the lunar surface in Mare Imbrium," says Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office.
"size of a small boulder"? This has to be one of the most useless size descriptions possible (I suppose they could have said "the size of a random rock"). Given that they later indicate
That all depends. Was it a metric boulder (usually measured in liths, like microlith - very small boulder - or megalith - huge rectangular boulder that causes evolutionary changes) or was it an imperial boulder?
The 40 kg meteoroid measuring 0.3 to 0.4 meters wide
it's not as if they shouldn't have been able to come up with a more descriptive metaphor.
Ah, 40 kg - it was a metric boulder.
If you can't grow a market, just buy one.
Trouble is, buying a declining market isn't going to help you if you cannot grow your own.
You are just left with two losing products instead of one.
Um, so why wasn't the post modded as "funny" rather than "informative"?????
In Norwegian, the word for mother is "vinglefitte". It goes to show that not all languages follow this pattern.
So why do online dictionaries say that the Norwegian word for mother is "mor" - e.g. http://www.norwegianword.com/1/mother
The horse will mow AND fertilize your lawn!
And water it.
Just give preference to people who drink plain black coffee.
Then I would have a better chance of qualifying for space travel.
Of course, the first people they will come for are the "anti-social" ones that refuse to have a Facebook account. Clearly that lot have something to hide.
(looks at calendar) It's halfway through 2 April here.
We're WAY over the April Fool's thing.
In fact you will need to get your packets arriving before they are sent if you want April Fool's jokes to arrive here on time.
Actually, I've heard that nearly all open source sells in Australia for double what I pay for it in the US. It's everywhere, it tell you.
Except for Samba. It was developed in Australia so we get it for half price.
Ridiculous headline title.
And a great example of Betteridge's law of headlines.
I am waiting for a newspaper to publish an article with the headline "Is Betteridge's Law Ever Right?"
Imagine the future - trying to read 21st century data storage.
Can you imagine trying to read beta videos, cassette tapes, Zip drives, etc even now - let alone in 100 years?
They will be using totally different data storage technology - imagine trying to watch a VCR in a house that only has Blu-ray?
640K ought to be enough for everybody!
Yes, I do agree...hearing this fucking joke 640,000 times ought to be enough for everybody...
Look at the bright side: no longer will you read this discussion with tensed shoulders dreading the sudden appearance of the 640KB joke. It has passed by, you survived, and now you can read on without fear.
if a ragtag band of rebels wants to overthrow a tyrannical regime by force they pretty much have to have the support of another tyrannical regime that hates the first one and wants to use the rebels as a proxy war. But that doesn't make for a nice Hollywood movie.
So the ragtag band of rebels finds a planet filled with cute little walking talking teddy bears called eWoks (isn't that a cooking device?), who overthrow the most technically sophisticated regime in the universe (complete with black magic and a mad emperor) by using hokum, cute teddy bear weapons. It is kind of like Neanderthals versus the US Army ... and the rock and spear toting Neanderthals win.
That's how Hollywood rebels win.
Here, 1 TB of always-available, portable storage for $99.99, perhaps less if you shop around for a discount.
Yes, portable hard drives are almost exactly like cloud storage. Except for the reliability. And the convenience. And ease of sharing. And accessibility. But besides that, it's exactly the same.
In what universe is the cloud more reliable than a local drive? I can sit in a train in the underground and use my 1TB portable drive with confidence. I cannot get internet access there for love or money. This is a real use case for me. Internet access is only reliable at work and to a *lesser* extent (less in speed and uptime) at home. I cannot even get a 3G signal inside my house, only slowish ADSL2+ (I live more than three miles from my nearest telephone exchange). The cloud is not at all reliable outside those two locations. My portable drive is reliable everywhere, and it is never congested with other users sharing inadequate bandwidth.
The cloud is my biggest reason for not buying a ChromeBook. Gaaah!
Or possibly the birth of Sheldon and Amy's alien love-child.
That would be Sheldon's genetically engineered clone of Leonard Nimoy.
When submitting statistical jobs on a mainframe, which would take much longer in real time than in CPU time, I used to read examples in the statistics programming manual. I would see interesting functions to try out, and then I had to buy a stats text book so that I could understand what the functions were doing in more detail and how to interpret them. Gradually I taught myself lots of stats AND I was able to try out new functions and apply them to my work.
You can work out where you are (% completed) or how fast you are going (rate at which the progress bar is growing), but not both at the same time.
It's simple quantum mechanics.
I pirated Open Office just on principle.
Well, I paid full price!
loosely typed language without declaration requirements for methods/variables makes it such a huge pain in the ass to debug/understand/update source that I want to have nothing to do with it.
Then don't have anything to do with it.
No one is forcing you to write in Javascript.
C and Vala will work with Gnome. Any language with Gnome binding will work. But your average noob who needs an equivalent to Visual basic can use Javascript.
Why are you complaining? Because someone out there might be using a language you disapprove of?
(Sadly even NASA use the inane "football field" measure, but goes on to say "It measures some 50 meters wide".)
Well, at least they told us it was a metric football field, and not one of those non-metric football fields measured in yards.
You'd be amazed. I was at a company where we paid 90% of what we would have paid for Microsoft licenses for Linux "support". It turns out that we NEVER called Microsoft or Linux anyway, so why bother spending hundreds of thousands on support anyway?
Um, how exactly do you call "Linux"? There is no "Linux Corp" selling Linux in the way that Microsoft Corp sells Microsoft products.
Would you have called Linus Torvalds at home or something?
With Linux, you can get your support from many different sources. If you paid 90% of the cost of Microsoft support, that is because you chose a particular support company that charged that much. "Linux" wasn't charging you anything for support. You paid a third party.