Unfortunately, they spent so much money building such an enormous and impressive data center that they have nothing left for servers. Therefore, the IT needs for the Olympic games will be served by a single Pentium II PC on the 8th floor. They are expected to have uptime rivaling that of such giants as Amazon.com.
Tell me about it. It's pathetic how easy math exams are these days. I mean, I really struggled in math in the second grade, and I was lucky to get average grades. Imagine my surprise when I decided to take my son's 2nd grade math test, and I got an almost perfect score! It was so easy! Clearly these kids are being spoiled by lower expectations.
Probably some of them that have sufficient savings to weather a long period of unemployment, but I think people like that (even though 90% of Slashdotters claim to be in that position) are in the minority. Many more will likely make finding a job their full time job, through interviewing, networking, and looking for short-term contract work to fill the gap in earnings.
Either that or they'll make posting to Slashdot their full-time job and just collect unemployment checks, but unemployment benefits won't carry you for long unless you really enjoy the taste of ramen noodles.
Now how about they do something useful like killing the HIV? It killed my mom, my dad, my uncle, my brother, my great great aunt, my PlayStation, and my dog. I think maybe you should get yourself tested. And by the way, that's not really the way you're supposed to "play" with your PlayStation. Or your mom, dad, uncle, brother, great great aunt, and dog for that matter.
Not only that, but TFA says that in the future, they may even be able to get human cells to produce energy through photosynthesis. So instead of eating right and exercising, we could all just drag our fat pasty asses outside and...you know, maybe that isn't such a great idea after all.
Seems silly to spend all that time and money trying to get the FCC to change its regulations when this situation seems tailor made for a good RFC 1149 implementation. Latency is still an issue with such a setup, but bandwidth can be virtually unlimited if you have the resources.
I've often many people tell me that they learned they no longer had a job when their sessions were terminated in the middle of the work day. Yah, I had a similar thing happen to me. Middle of the day, suddenly my whole connection goes down and I can't re-establish it. I get really pissed off because I had just spent the last 3 months working 80 hour weeks getting my manager's stupid pet project out the door on time, just to have it cancelled at the last minute. I storm in to my manager's office and tear into him about "how dare you lay me off" and "this company will die without me" and "your mother sucks so-and-so in etc," and on and on.
He tries to interrupt me with some lame explanation, but I'm having none of it. I pick up his stupid little "certificate of excellence" award he got at the last quarterly meeting and throw it against the wall, shattering it to pieces. He tries to call security, but I rip the phone out of his hand and continue to hurl abuse that would make the paint peel if he didn't keep the office at 60 goddamn degrees all the time, rendering it permanently encased in ice.
Finally, some of my fellow co-workers come in and ask what's going on. I tell them I've been laid off, and so they start in on the boss too. How could you do this to our best employee, who do you think you are, etc. By this time, my boss is in a corner in the fetal position weeping softly. My two co-workers quit on the spot in solidarity, and throw their laptops at my boss, who is knocked unconcious by one of them, while the other smashes into his new 24" wide-screen HD monitor.
At last, my co-workers head off to the bar to continue the rant about the injustice of it all, while I go back to my desk to put my "wall o' tech books" in a box. While, I'm there, I happen to notice the back of my computer. Turns out I had knocked the Ethernet cable out with my foot.
Oops.
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Nah, they'll just find some other scam like bootlegging Beanie Babies.
If you're really hardcore, there's instructions on the NASA TV site for how to receive the digital satellite broadcast. I can give you the instructions:
Step 1: Get DirecTV Step 2: That is all.
I know that's not what you meant, just thought I'd point out that NASA TV is on DirecTV, that's where I saw the Deep Impact comet impact happen. It was truly thrilling seeing it all unfold in real time.
Have you considered the myriad career opportunities available to you in the exciting and fast-paced field of quick food preparation and service? That way you can take full advantage of the computational aspect (cash registers) and the biological aspect (more so in some places than others) of your chosen field of study.
A good manager will wish you luck in your future endeavors. A bad manager will offer to match the salary and then work to get rid of you as soon as possible.
Your team (meaning your manager's team) gets credit for the work you do. You get credit for it later by way of a good performance review and, hopefully, a raise and/or bonus.
Your manager knows who did the work, and if he's any kind of a decent manager, he'll reward you for it, although the reward may not be readily apparent immediately. Perhaps when your manager moves up (partially because you made him look good), he'll remember that you're a dependable employee who produces quality work, and he'll bring you up with him, or put in a good word for you to take over the department he's vacating. Hell, maybe the guy quits to go somewhere else and ends up taking you with him.
If you are a good and dependable worker, and especially if you show you are more concerned with making the company better than you are with your own short-term gain, then you will go far. If you show yourself to be the kind of guy who constantly whines about not getting enough credit, you'll be kept down and eventually forced out. Don't be that guy.
Please do not speak ill of Google Bar. Google does no harm to anyone, and all of its software is useful and error-free. Speaking negatively of Google is unwise. Remember, they know where you live.
That's not true, I painted my Wii green so I could get in on this whole "green" trend. I found just the right paint, too. It's whale-oil based paint with some dolphin fin ground in for strength. I found this great paintbrush made with spotted owl feathers to apply the paint, and as a bonus I made a little cozy for my wiimote from giant panda fur.
I'm going to send some pictures of my new setup to Greenpeace, I hope they'll feature them on their website.
I think you have that exactly backwards. The software won't be "AMD GAME!" branded, the hardware will be. It's basically a certification program similar to Microsoft's "Windows XP/Vista Certified" stickers on computers and components. AMD will test various components (certain video cards, etc.) to make sure they work as intended with the "latest games" (not sure which games they'll test).
So, if you buy hardware components that are "AMD GAME! Ready", you can be reasonably confident that you can play the most popular games on them. Personally, I think it's a pretty good idea, as if the label takes off, AMD can charge hardware manufacturers a premium to get the certification. And, of course, AMD's own offerings will be AMD GAME! certified before anyone else's.
It doesn't even sound like a distro yet. It sounds like someone got their ego dented and posted a list of things they would want to change about Gentoo, but hasn't gotten much beyond the "writing a list" stage.
I predict this distro will quietly die as the developers get sick of reinventing the wheel. At best, it will be a very small niche distro.
I agree. Plus, when we run out of oil, we can burn them for heat, and they'll burn far longer than skinny people. Plus, when we have to resort to cannibalism, they'll taste better than their skinny and athletic counterparts, who will be tough and gamy. And, they will be far easier to hunt, as they will move slowly and tire quickly.
In conclusion, we should not be trying to eliminate obesity. Rather, we should establish "fat farms" where we can increase their numbers for our future needs.
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Unfortunately, they spent so much money building such an enormous and impressive data center that they have nothing left for servers. Therefore, the IT needs for the Olympic games will be served by a single Pentium II PC on the 8th floor. They are expected to have uptime rivaling that of such giants as Amazon.com.
Tell me about it. It's pathetic how easy math exams are these days. I mean, I really struggled in math in the second grade, and I was lucky to get average grades. Imagine my surprise when I decided to take my son's 2nd grade math test, and I got an almost perfect score! It was so easy! Clearly these kids are being spoiled by lower expectations.
I think it's cute how you still think any of the TLDs are still used for their originally intended purposes.
Probably some of them that have sufficient savings to weather a long period of unemployment, but I think people like that (even though 90% of Slashdotters claim to be in that position) are in the minority. Many more will likely make finding a job their full time job, through interviewing, networking, and looking for short-term contract work to fill the gap in earnings.
Either that or they'll make posting to Slashdot their full-time job and just collect unemployment checks, but unemployment benefits won't carry you for long unless you really enjoy the taste of ramen noodles.
Yes. I have actually kicked an ethernet cable out of the back of a computer before. Other than that, no.
Not only that, but TFA says that in the future, they may even be able to get human cells to produce energy through photosynthesis. So instead of eating right and exercising, we could all just drag our fat pasty asses outside and...you know, maybe that isn't such a great idea after all.
Oh sure, it doesn't sound that impressive until you realize the entire craft was covered in a 2-foot layer of solder.
Seems silly to spend all that time and money trying to get the FCC to change its regulations when this situation seems tailor made for a good RFC 1149 implementation. Latency is still an issue with such a setup, but bandwidth can be virtually unlimited if you have the resources.
He tries to interrupt me with some lame explanation, but I'm having none of it. I pick up his stupid little "certificate of excellence" award he got at the last quarterly meeting and throw it against the wall, shattering it to pieces. He tries to call security, but I rip the phone out of his hand and continue to hurl abuse that would make the paint peel if he didn't keep the office at 60 goddamn degrees all the time, rendering it permanently encased in ice.
Finally, some of my fellow co-workers come in and ask what's going on. I tell them I've been laid off, and so they start in on the boss too. How could you do this to our best employee, who do you think you are, etc. By this time, my boss is in a corner in the fetal position weeping softly. My two co-workers quit on the spot in solidarity, and throw their laptops at my boss, who is knocked unconcious by one of them, while the other smashes into his new 24" wide-screen HD monitor.
At last, my co-workers head off to the bar to continue the rant about the injustice of it all, while I go back to my desk to put my "wall o' tech books" in a box. While, I'm there, I happen to notice the back of my computer. Turns out I had knocked the Ethernet cable out with my foot.
Oops.
Nah, they'll just find some other scam like bootlegging Beanie Babies.
Step 1: Get DirecTV
Step 2: That is all.
I know that's not what you meant, just thought I'd point out that NASA TV is on DirecTV, that's where I saw the Deep Impact comet impact happen. It was truly thrilling seeing it all unfold in real time.
Maybe they decided to give the guitar a try, and then stopped because it turned out their guitar teacher was an asshole.
I can see how your Real Doll would get bugs, but I don't understand how it would get moody.
Have you considered the myriad career opportunities available to you in the exciting and fast-paced field of quick food preparation and service? That way you can take full advantage of the computational aspect (cash registers) and the biological aspect (more so in some places than others) of your chosen field of study.
Clearly the only way to settle this is to kick ScuttleMonkey's ass for writing a poor summary.
A good manager will wish you luck in your future endeavors. A bad manager will offer to match the salary and then work to get rid of you as soon as possible.
Your team (meaning your manager's team) gets credit for the work you do. You get credit for it later by way of a good performance review and, hopefully, a raise and/or bonus.
Your manager knows who did the work, and if he's any kind of a decent manager, he'll reward you for it, although the reward may not be readily apparent immediately. Perhaps when your manager moves up (partially because you made him look good), he'll remember that you're a dependable employee who produces quality work, and he'll bring you up with him, or put in a good word for you to take over the department he's vacating. Hell, maybe the guy quits to go somewhere else and ends up taking you with him.
If you are a good and dependable worker, and especially if you show you are more concerned with making the company better than you are with your own short-term gain, then you will go far. If you show yourself to be the kind of guy who constantly whines about not getting enough credit, you'll be kept down and eventually forced out. Don't be that guy.
Well obviously you'd put an RFID chip on the scanner as well. Christ, do I have to think of everything around here?
Please do not speak ill of Google Bar. Google does no harm to anyone, and all of its software is useful and error-free. Speaking negatively of Google is unwise. Remember, they know where you live.
That's not true, I painted my Wii green so I could get in on this whole "green" trend. I found just the right paint, too. It's whale-oil based paint with some dolphin fin ground in for strength. I found this great paintbrush made with spotted owl feathers to apply the paint, and as a bonus I made a little cozy for my wiimote from giant panda fur.
I'm going to send some pictures of my new setup to Greenpeace, I hope they'll feature them on their website.
I think you have that exactly backwards. The software won't be "AMD GAME!" branded, the hardware will be. It's basically a certification program similar to Microsoft's "Windows XP/Vista Certified" stickers on computers and components. AMD will test various components (certain video cards, etc.) to make sure they work as intended with the "latest games" (not sure which games they'll test).
So, if you buy hardware components that are "AMD GAME! Ready", you can be reasonably confident that you can play the most popular games on them. Personally, I think it's a pretty good idea, as if the label takes off, AMD can charge hardware manufacturers a premium to get the certification. And, of course, AMD's own offerings will be AMD GAME! certified before anyone else's.
It doesn't even sound like a distro yet. It sounds like someone got their ego dented and posted a list of things they would want to change about Gentoo, but hasn't gotten much beyond the "writing a list" stage.
I predict this distro will quietly die as the developers get sick of reinventing the wheel. At best, it will be a very small niche distro.
I agree. Plus, when we run out of oil, we can burn them for heat, and they'll burn far longer than skinny people. Plus, when we have to resort to cannibalism, they'll taste better than their skinny and athletic counterparts, who will be tough and gamy. And, they will be far easier to hunt, as they will move slowly and tire quickly.
In conclusion, we should not be trying to eliminate obesity. Rather, we should establish "fat farms" where we can increase their numbers for our future needs.
Forget it, he's rolling.