So, my laptop is dual-boot Ubuntu & Windows XP. I pretty much never boot XP anymore.
At one point, I installed Wine and was using it to run some stuff from the Windows partition. Then I got bored with that and stopped using. Didn't uninstall Wine. Because hey, I might want it again some day.
So, I'm also a big Progressquest player. (Level 54 bastard lunatic eelman) One day, I notice they've finally got a package for progressquest for Ubuntu, which I promptly install and run. Later on, after weeks of running progressquest "under ubuntu", I start noticing some strange behavior when visiting some strange sites, (yea, probably pr0n). WTF?!
The rest of the story -- one of the dependencies of the Progress Quest package Wine. (Ok, so that wasn't the source of the problem, Wine was. That just led me to investigate WTF was going on).
Yeah, we had a real problem when building tunnels for our gravity train. If you're not careful, you'll intersect one of the ancient tunnels, and then the reptoids get out.
why not just have the great google automagically OCR any images it finds in PDFs and generate a vision-impaired-friendly version of the PDF?
It then can append a footer to each page stating "the creator of this PDF is a google-certified nimrod".
(I've always found it a bit galling that some paper catalog companies I've dealt with thought it reasonable to create a web presence by posting PDFs with scans of each page their physical catalog. Good luck searching through that!)
Greetings, my friend. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future. You are interested in the unknown... the mysterious. The unexplainable. That is why you are here. And now, for the first time, we are bringing to you, the full story of what happened on that fateful day. We are bringing you all the evidence, based only on the secret testimony, of the miserable souls, who survived this terrifying ordeal. The incidents, the places. My friend, we cannot keep this a secret any longer. Let us punish the guilty. Let us reward the innocent. My friend, can your heart stand the shocking facts of grave robbers from outer space?
Slashdot Mirror
"computationally speaking, a C64 is a poor choice for 3D rendering, for all intensive purposes"
- several dozen points, post should have been in the form of :
First Post from a satellite pho#%#(^^NO CONNECTION
maybe this is just some smartacre pointing out the futility of their attack on Amazon.
Long story short: it starts in the corporate boardroom, and ends in a room full of senators on a pile of hookers and blow.
I'd really like to see that version on Schoolhouse Rock!
Here's a cool story for ya, bro:
So, my laptop is dual-boot Ubuntu & Windows XP. I pretty much never boot XP anymore.
At one point, I installed Wine and was using it to run some stuff from the Windows partition. Then I got bored with that and stopped using. Didn't uninstall Wine. Because hey, I might want it again some day.
So, I'm also a big Progressquest player. (Level 54 bastard lunatic eelman) One day, I notice they've finally got a package for progressquest for Ubuntu, which I promptly install and run.
Later on, after weeks of running progressquest "under ubuntu", I start noticing some strange behavior when visiting some strange sites, (yea, probably pr0n). WTF?!
The rest of the story -- one of the dependencies of the Progress Quest package Wine.
(Ok, so that wasn't the source of the problem, Wine was. That just led me to investigate WTF was going on).
No PayPal is evil because they stole aid for victims of hurricane Katrina contributed by Something Awful members.
a fixed price of $2.5B for development and building the initial flight hardware
I'm sure Paul Allen can scrape that much together. If he's not overly invested in Virgin Galactic.
Apparently, even the Treasury Department can't print convincing 100 dollar bills now.
That's right, sit there and let the cognitive dissonance from the implications of that one seep in.
Archimedes Deathray?!
goldurn'd boob-tube never gets it right when dealing with the inter-tubes.
It's Archimedes Plutonium , you dolts!
Somebody should build a anti-personnel computer.
It could punch people in the face.
Bull was working on a material project, not (partially) promoting an ideology.
If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to hide.
Hey Vatican, what part of Thou Shalt Not Steal did you misunderstand?!
But your body is already doing it when it replaces dead cells with newly created cells
"I seem to be a verb."
Yeah, we had a real problem when building tunnels for our gravity train. If you're not careful, you'll intersect one of the ancient tunnels, and then the reptoids get out.
8. Cities like New Orleans, Houston, most of Florida, and keeping the underground tubes free of water.
or, more importantly, alligators
our right to be weird
That's not a right, it's a duty .
no, that would make the chocolate taste more bitter than poison
"new from Microsoft --
the twelve days of Clippymas!"
I think he meant to say "post turtle"
why not just have the great google automagically OCR any images it finds in PDFs and generate a vision-impaired-friendly version of the PDF?
It then can append a footer to each page stating "the creator of this PDF is a google-certified nimrod".
(I've always found it a bit galling that some paper catalog companies I've dealt with thought it reasonable to create a web presence by posting PDFs with scans of each page their physical catalog. Good luck searching through that!)
Apple hates fun.
That's because GNU/fun is FOSS.
Apple prefers iFun(tm), which is under the BSD license.
Greetings, my friend. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future. You are interested in the unknown... the mysterious. The unexplainable. That is why you are here. And now, for the first time, we are bringing to you, the full story of what happened on that fateful day. We are bringing you all the evidence, based only on the secret testimony, of the miserable souls, who survived this terrifying ordeal. The incidents, the places. My friend, we cannot keep this a secret any longer. Let us punish the guilty. Let us reward the innocent. My friend, can your heart stand the shocking facts of grave robbers from outer space?
-- Criswell
oh, wait, you said Kurzweil...
"I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that...
there is no win in adobe reader."
No.
Connery's greatest role was, is, and always will be Zed .
That Bond role will be merely a footnote to his true greatness.