He's only a representative of Open Source. So, he's open enough to sort of show people what Open Source is all about without actually being able to get in to the real nitty gritty details. In other words, his skin is transparent, but you're not actually allowed to open him up.
Not to mention that it should probably be titled "It's been a spotless month, from the part of the sun that we can actually see - I mean, who knows what's happening on the other side?"
So what you're saying is the article should really say "The Sun, after centuries of being mercilessly mocked by Earthlings for its persistent spotting problems, has decided to turn around and show the Earth its backside from now on."
They never went that far as far as I know, but they did use to at least make some attempt to make sure your domain was in the proper TLD. Obviously commercial enterprises were not allowed to set up.org addresses, for example. These days, it's entirely profit driven, so there's no longer any incentive to even attempt to enforce the original purpose of the TLDs.
Fertility idols from multiple ancient cultures have gigantic penises. This would seem to suggest that the preoccupation with size may be as old as humanity itself.
I use Quicken to take care of my finances. Every day, I enter in every check or debit transaction I made that day. Then, I download transactions from my bank online, usually every morning. If there's a transaction that doesn't match up to something I've already entered, I can see it immediately. This allows me to not only easily spot fraudulent transactions, but also allows me to keep an eye on how much money I really have available, regardless of what the bank says.
Now granted, I only have a couple of accounts and I'm not writing thousands of checks a month, but it seems like this method is easily doable for most people. It's a lot easier to spot fraud if you have a good handle on what's supposed to be there and what isn't.
Also, I'm not really shilling for Quicken or anything...there are plenty of other products that will allow you to manage your money in basically the same way, including the online update component (which is the big key for me).
Did the city manager get fired because every time anyone tried to talk to him about city management, he would say, "There is no city manager, only Zoul"?
I think suspending manned space flight for that long would be a disaster. At some point, if we have no space flights going on, the new shuttle replacement becomes "restarting manned space flight" rather than "continuing our manned presence in space". Congress will be a lot more likely to simply cut the program entirely if it's seen as starting an entirely new program rather than an evolution of our existing, and continuing, efforts.
I don't see any reference to "tiers" in that link. At any rate, I was joking. For future reference, unless a post of mine is indescribably brilliant, you should probably just assume it is supposed to have a winking smiley thing after it. Since nothing I write ever approaches brilliant, you can probably assume everything I write is intended as humor, even if it's painfully unfunny.
That will take far too long, and is far from certain. The correct solution is to obtain a Canadian passport and learn to say "eh" after every sentence.
Perkins was until recently the head of comedy for BBC TV. Earlier in his career he produced the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio series, and was a writer, director, and producer of many comedy shows including Spitting Image, The Fast Show, and several others. He also invented the game of Mornington Crescent.
The key word is "reasonable". There could be some doubt based on the remote possibility that aliens from the planet Zorg abducted his wife and fucked up his car to frame him, but you could hardly call that doubt "reasonable".
I don't think reasonable doubt enters into it in this case. Clearly, if he can lead you to the body, he probably had something to do with the murder. The reason he got a reduced sentence is for cooperating with authorities after the fact to produce the body, thus giving her relatives some measure of closure. Plus, the agreement to not seek appeals will end up saving the legal system (and thus taxpayers) some money.
Whether or not cooperating after you've already been found guilty is worthy of a reduced sentence is open for debate, but the idea that reasonable doubt as to his guilt somehow plays into the sentence is not really accurate at this juncture.
Clearly if it's going to be 50% faster in a mere 492 years, our best bet is to wait until then to transcribe them rather than wasting our precious time now.
There's really no reason you need to keep your server room that cold, and you're probably wasting a lot of electricity doing so. You could set that thermostat at least 10 degrees higher and still be fine.
If the room is that hot with only one server in play, the room is probably the garage of a house, in which case he just needs to follow this simple procedure:
1.) Get a large cardboard box. Poke holes in the top for ventilating hot air out. 2.) Cut a big hole in the side of the box. 3.) Wrap box with insulation. 4.) Put computer in box. 5.) Knock big hole in wall between garage and main house with a sledgehammer. 6.) Place the box with the hole in its side flush against the hole in the wall. 7.) Place box fan in the house, situated to blow air into the hole.
And Voila, cheap cooling. Alternatively, you could put the server in the main house, but seriously, that's just a cheap hack of a solution.
Also, he should ask for his pay in cash in the future, because the company clearly has no operating capital and will probably be bouncing checks very soon.
Well sure, but the Wii Wheel isn't really the kind of wheel you'd expect someone to use if they were seriously into racing simulations. It's not terribly realistic, since it's not attached to anything and has no ability to do any sort of real force feedback. I like it fine for things like Mario Kart and Speed Racer, but I'm not a serious racing simulation fan. If I were, I'd expect I'd want something with a base that offered an experience closer to a real steering wheel with resistance and vibration and all that sort of thing.
This is totally true. I once played Counter Strike for, like, 8 hours straight while high on weed. Afterward, I smoked a few more bowls and decided I was going to play some Counter Strike in real life, because, like, what's the difference, you know? So I got myself a machine gun and was all ready to go out and mow some people down but then I thought, man, this gun would make a totally wicked bong. So I spent the next 3 weeks building a bong out of my M-16, and man, that shit is fuckin' crazy, dude! No shit!
I don't remember ever posting to Slashdot stoned, but I have often taken several hits off a nice gravity bong and woke up the next morning to find my Slashdot post count has jumped by 100 and my keyboard is stained with Cheeto dust, so it probably does happen.
The Chinese government now is arguably less oppressive than it was under Mao, and the Chinese people are experiencing greater economic growth than they have for decades. Why on Earth would they want to start a revolution now? Compared to the way it was, China is a utopia these days.
I can only assume the Microsoft example is meant to serve as an illustration as to why you shouldn't entrust your QA to whatever random employees you can convince to run your software in exchange for lame prizes.
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He's only a representative of Open Source. So, he's open enough to sort of show people what Open Source is all about without actually being able to get in to the real nitty gritty details. In other words, his skin is transparent, but you're not actually allowed to open him up.
Not to mention that it should probably be titled "It's been a spotless month, from the part of the sun that we can actually see - I mean, who knows what's happening on the other side?"
So what you're saying is the article should really say "The Sun, after centuries of being mercilessly mocked by Earthlings for its persistent spotting problems, has decided to turn around and show the Earth its backside from now on."
They never went that far as far as I know, but they did use to at least make some attempt to make sure your domain was in the proper TLD. Obviously commercial enterprises were not allowed to set up .org addresses, for example. These days, it's entirely profit driven, so there's no longer any incentive to even attempt to enforce the original purpose of the TLDs.
Fertility idols from multiple ancient cultures have gigantic penises. This would seem to suggest that the preoccupation with size may be as old as humanity itself.
I use Quicken to take care of my finances. Every day, I enter in every check or debit transaction I made that day. Then, I download transactions from my bank online, usually every morning. If there's a transaction that doesn't match up to something I've already entered, I can see it immediately. This allows me to not only easily spot fraudulent transactions, but also allows me to keep an eye on how much money I really have available, regardless of what the bank says.
Now granted, I only have a couple of accounts and I'm not writing thousands of checks a month, but it seems like this method is easily doable for most people. It's a lot easier to spot fraud if you have a good handle on what's supposed to be there and what isn't.
Also, I'm not really shilling for Quicken or anything...there are plenty of other products that will allow you to manage your money in basically the same way, including the online update component (which is the big key for me).
Did the city manager get fired because every time anyone tried to talk to him about city management, he would say, "There is no city manager, only Zoul"?
I'm so sorry.
I think suspending manned space flight for that long would be a disaster. At some point, if we have no space flights going on, the new shuttle replacement becomes "restarting manned space flight" rather than "continuing our manned presence in space". Congress will be a lot more likely to simply cut the program entirely if it's seen as starting an entirely new program rather than an evolution of our existing, and continuing, efforts.
I don't see any reference to "tiers" in that link. At any rate, I was joking. For future reference, unless a post of mine is indescribably brilliant, you should probably just assume it is supposed to have a winking smiley thing after it. Since nothing I write ever approaches brilliant, you can probably assume everything I write is intended as humor, even if it's painfully unfunny.
That will take far too long, and is far from certain. The correct solution is to obtain a Canadian passport and learn to say "eh" after every sentence.
First tier is the Ivy League.
Second tier is most public universities and "lesser" private universities.
Third tier is National American University, ITT Tech, and DeVry.
Perkins was until recently the head of comedy for BBC TV. Earlier in his career he produced the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio series, and was a writer, director, and producer of many comedy shows including Spitting Image, The Fast Show, and several others. He also invented the game of Mornington Crescent.
HTH, HAND.
Mentot the MintTaker
World's lamest supervillain?
The key word is "reasonable". There could be some doubt based on the remote possibility that aliens from the planet Zorg abducted his wife and fucked up his car to frame him, but you could hardly call that doubt "reasonable".
I don't think reasonable doubt enters into it in this case. Clearly, if he can lead you to the body, he probably had something to do with the murder. The reason he got a reduced sentence is for cooperating with authorities after the fact to produce the body, thus giving her relatives some measure of closure. Plus, the agreement to not seek appeals will end up saving the legal system (and thus taxpayers) some money.
Whether or not cooperating after you've already been found guilty is worthy of a reduced sentence is open for debate, but the idea that reasonable doubt as to his guilt somehow plays into the sentence is not really accurate at this juncture.
Clearly if it's going to be 50% faster in a mere 492 years, our best bet is to wait until then to transcribe them rather than wasting our precious time now.
There's really no reason you need to keep your server room that cold, and you're probably wasting a lot of electricity doing so. You could set that thermostat at least 10 degrees higher and still be fine.
If the room is that hot with only one server in play, the room is probably the garage of a house, in which case he just needs to follow this simple procedure:
1.) Get a large cardboard box. Poke holes in the top for ventilating hot air out.
2.) Cut a big hole in the side of the box.
3.) Wrap box with insulation.
4.) Put computer in box.
5.) Knock big hole in wall between garage and main house with a sledgehammer.
6.) Place the box with the hole in its side flush against the hole in the wall.
7.) Place box fan in the house, situated to blow air into the hole.
And Voila, cheap cooling. Alternatively, you could put the server in the main house, but seriously, that's just a cheap hack of a solution.
Also, he should ask for his pay in cash in the future, because the company clearly has no operating capital and will probably be bouncing checks very soon.
Well sure, but the Wii Wheel isn't really the kind of wheel you'd expect someone to use if they were seriously into racing simulations. It's not terribly realistic, since it's not attached to anything and has no ability to do any sort of real force feedback. I like it fine for things like Mario Kart and Speed Racer, but I'm not a serious racing simulation fan. If I were, I'd expect I'd want something with a base that offered an experience closer to a real steering wheel with resistance and vibration and all that sort of thing.
Using the DNA samples from Area 51 that we obtained from the Martians that crash landed in Roswell, of course. Duh.
Maybe your ISP hasn't updated its routers yet...
Clearly you're very upset about this. You know what would calm you down? Weed.
This is totally true. I once played Counter Strike for, like, 8 hours straight while high on weed. Afterward, I smoked a few more bowls and decided I was going to play some Counter Strike in real life, because, like, what's the difference, you know? So I got myself a machine gun and was all ready to go out and mow some people down but then I thought, man, this gun would make a totally wicked bong. So I spent the next 3 weeks building a bong out of my M-16, and man, that shit is fuckin' crazy, dude! No shit!
I don't remember ever posting to Slashdot stoned, but I have often taken several hits off a nice gravity bong and woke up the next morning to find my Slashdot post count has jumped by 100 and my keyboard is stained with Cheeto dust, so it probably does happen.
The Chinese government now is arguably less oppressive than it was under Mao, and the Chinese people are experiencing greater economic growth than they have for decades. Why on Earth would they want to start a revolution now? Compared to the way it was, China is a utopia these days.
I can only assume the Microsoft example is meant to serve as an illustration as to why you shouldn't entrust your QA to whatever random employees you can convince to run your software in exchange for lame prizes.