I've heard things about programmers using.NET having to register their project through Microsoft. I hope that isn't true, and if it is, I'd be flabbergasted. Either way, I'm sticking with Visual C++ 6.0 unless Microsoft promises not to meddle with my projects in any way.
Re:The Challenger, a preventable disaster.
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...Mission control knew something was wrong.678 seconds after main engine ignition.
.678 seconds after ignition? Oh great, you know that solid-fuel rockets can't be shutdown after ignition. Therefore, the only way to abort would have been launch escape. And they waited over 70 seconds, and by then, KA-BLOOIE!
Perhaps they were hoping to have Challenger jettison itself from the flying bomb, and then glide to the runway. However, I think that then and there, they should've gone for the escape hatch/pod (I know that the standard STS [except for the Enterprise, of course] has one).
Oh, go cry a river along with Drew Carey; I'm rooting for the Ravens.
The Challenger, a preventable disaster.
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This disaster could've been prevented by preheating the rubber gaskets on the solid rocket boosters. But nooo, the NASA techs wanted to get Challenger off the ground ASAP, so they rushed it onto the Crawler for pad 39A. Seventy-something seconds into the launch, the gaskets expanded due to heat, and all hell broke loose in the sky. Seven astronauts, all of which could have been alive today, were maimed on that fateful day. And all because of a slapdash attitude in the hangar.
...two-thirds of the drug companies costs are in marketing and administration...
Therefore, if Pfizer stopped paying those ad agencies to make those Viagra ads, then they could concentrate on curing diseases other than vanity and lust.
Basically, my sig reminds software developers to keep their objectives in mind, and it admonishes them for their "Hey, let's squeeze THIS into the code!" tangents during the coding process.
They're implying that EverQuest is more addictive than a class a drug. That and you wouldn't have to have Sony charging your credit card every month (personally, I can't even stand having Sony charge me 8.50 to see a movie!).
From the August 2000 issue of PC Gamer, in the Scoop! article on Anarchy Online, page 27:
"Some of us have considered replacing EverQuest in our lives with a debilitating heroin habit; not because we advocate illegal drug use, but we think heroin is less addictive and we don't have to see our habit reflected on every month's credit card statement."
Actually, this specific one (68MU111B.EXE) is a self-extracting ARJ file. I'm sort of familiar with ARJ (hell, that's what I used to get DOOM2: 5 spanned arj files on five floppies), however, the ARJ program itself was DOS. I don't know if you'd have any luck with this specific one, and for this and other reasons, may your respective deity help you if you own a VIA chipset with integrated sound.
However, you do have a nice WaveLAN card for your PowerBook, right? Sorry to be so harsh, but most of Apple's accessories are incredibly difficult to service. Just look at the first two generations of the iMac; their SODIMM RAM was so incredibly hard to access; you had to take everything apart. With the series of the iMac with the silver-domed speakers, all you have to do is unlock a panel on the underside to get to the standard PC100 DIMMs. Apple finally learned how to stick to industry standards, unlike all their products before they went colorful (the beige era).
No, I'm the human being residing at about 42 17'N and 071 22"W, sitting in a futon chair in front of my Pentium III 500 with 320MB of RAM running Windows 2000.
Did I mention that Microsoft Visual C++ Professional has added a multi-stage undo buffer to Internet Explorer? That's gotta be the handiest feature.
but why not do a Slashdot-style interview with CmdrTaco, Hemos, CowboyNeal,
Because Taco and CowboyNeal are in Holland, Michigan, and Hemos is in Boston. If Wentworth decided to ditch NT4 and install BSD or Linux on their web/file servers, then I'd have Hemos at the dedication ceremony.
Ever tried to download a driver set for a piece of hardware, only to find that the package is many megabytes large, and contains drivers for every OS known to man? Well, I'm sick of it too. Just recently, I had to download a sound driver for the VIA Southbridge, and the driver package (68MU111B.EXE) was 8.91MB (yes, almost 9MB, that's no lie). That self-extracting package contained drivers for Win9x, Win98 Second Edition, Windows ME, Windows NT 3.51, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, OS2, DOS, and Linux (Caldera 2.2 and RedHat 6.x, specifically). If those drivers had been packaged separately, the drivers themselves would be 240 KB, 84 KB, 79.2 KB, 164 KB, 6.32 MB, 79.2 KB, 240 KB, 415 KB, and 139 KB; respectively. The largest sized driver set in that package is the NT4 driver set, weighing in at over 6 megabytes (most of that size being the separate setup program). If VIA had split up the drivers by OS and used a less user-friendly strategy (ditching the setup program in favor of.INF files), then I would only have to download 79.2 KB.
This is one of the reasons why I hate VIA: because they do everything so bass-ackwards.
No, that's just a disturbing way to state my agreement with the idea of having an independent group responsible for the creation and release of official Linux kernels.
Slashdot Mirror
...considering how an FTP session with an average server seems to "crawl" along. If it isn't on ftp.cdrom.com, then it's probably slow.
I've heard things about programmers using .NET having to register their project through Microsoft. I hope that isn't true, and if it is, I'd be flabbergasted. Either way, I'm sticking with Visual C++ 6.0 unless Microsoft promises not to meddle with my projects in any way.
Perhaps they were hoping to have Challenger jettison itself from the flying bomb, and then glide to the runway. However, I think that then and there, they should've gone for the escape hatch/pod (I know that the standard STS [except for the Enterprise, of course] has one).
This browser wouldn't "voom" if I put 4,000 volts through it. Don't believe me? Read this..
hey, I'm partially right! It was the gaskets, I tell you!
Oh, go cry a river along with Drew Carey; I'm rooting for the Ravens.
This disaster could've been prevented by preheating the rubber gaskets on the solid rocket boosters. But nooo, the NASA techs wanted to get Challenger off the ground ASAP, so they rushed it onto the Crawler for pad 39A. Seventy-something seconds into the launch, the gaskets expanded due to heat, and all hell broke loose in the sky. Seven astronauts, all of which could have been alive today, were maimed on that fateful day. And all because of a slapdash attitude in the hangar.
Therefore, if Pfizer stopped paying those ad agencies to make those Viagra ads, then they could concentrate on curing diseases other than vanity and lust.
Basically, my sig reminds software developers to keep their objectives in mind, and it admonishes them for their "Hey, let's squeeze THIS into the code!" tangents during the coding process.
Oh wait a minute, those probably came from a disgruntled worker's AK47.
Consider it my revenge on Jeff Goldblum for his contract with Apple.
I can just imagine CmdrTaco hopping on to reply to this one. UID #1, heh.
They're implying that EverQuest is more addictive than a class a drug. That and you wouldn't have to have Sony charging your credit card every month (personally, I can't even stand having Sony charge me 8.50 to see a movie!).
Whoa! That's an awfully high UID. Did you start that account recently?
"Some of us have considered replacing EverQuest in our lives with a debilitating heroin habit; not because we advocate illegal drug use, but we think heroin is less addictive and we don't have to see our habit reflected on every month's credit card statement."
Actually, this specific one (68MU111B.EXE) is a self-extracting ARJ file. I'm sort of familiar with ARJ (hell, that's what I used to get DOOM2: 5 spanned arj files on five floppies), however, the ARJ program itself was DOS. I don't know if you'd have any luck with this specific one, and for this and other reasons, may your respective deity help you if you own a VIA chipset with integrated sound.
However, you do have a nice WaveLAN card for your PowerBook, right? Sorry to be so harsh, but most of Apple's accessories are incredibly difficult to service. Just look at the first two generations of the iMac; their SODIMM RAM was so incredibly hard to access; you had to take everything apart. With the series of the iMac with the silver-domed speakers, all you have to do is unlock a panel on the underside to get to the standard PC100 DIMMs. Apple finally learned how to stick to industry standards, unlike all their products before they went colorful (the beige era).
Did I mention that Microsoft Visual C++ Professional has added a multi-stage undo buffer to Internet Explorer? That's gotta be the handiest feature.
Because Taco and CowboyNeal are in Holland, Michigan, and Hemos is in Boston. If Wentworth decided to ditch NT4 and install BSD or Linux on their web/file servers, then I'd have Hemos at the dedication ceremony.
"Cisco Systems. We're the cisco in San Francisco."
You, sir, are an insult to Clyde Tombaugh, the founder of the planet Pluto.
This is one of the reasons why I hate VIA: because they do everything so bass-ackwards.
No, that's just a disturbing way to state my agreement with the idea of having an independent group responsible for the creation and release of official Linux kernels.
It tolls for thee.
(Don't worry, I don't own any firearms, and I wouldn't want to do such a thing.)