There is no danger of these 18 ton robotic war machines going berserk and killing everyone around them. None at all. Really. You should all feel secure in the knowledge that they were programmed by the lowest bidder.
Think of it as evolution in action. People who insist on using IE will end up penniless (from stolen credit card data) or in jail (from being an accessory to whatever computer-related crime is committed using their machine). Of course, the rest of us will be penniless (from all paying jobs being outsourced) and in jail (for thought crime) anyway...
You need "a couple of CDs" where "a couple" means "ten to twelve".
Potato came on 3, woody came on 5 (IIRC). Sarge adds openoffice.org and a bunch of smaller stuff.
By the way, when I was a lad, we used to fit a full Debian distribution onto on side of an old Bee Gees cassette. And we didn't have modems, so we would have to use Morse code drivers to encode all of our network traffic! Of course, this was before Marconi, so we would then chisel the morse-encoded data into big stone slabs, throw them into the ocean, and wait for continental drift to take them to their destination!
I once worked in a plastics factory. The job involved endlessly pulling plastic doodads out of huge injection-molding machines. The worst part of it was the sheer number of co-workers who had lost fingers on the job.
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After all, Jim Henson did similar experiments with pigs 20 years ago.
Any marketroid worth his salt would be able to easily make a set of slides that "prove" that going back to the moon will result in higher stock prices, bigger margins, lower TCO, and free moon-babes for all major investors.
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There is no danger of these 18 ton robotic war machines going berserk and killing everyone around them. None at all. Really. You should all feel secure in the knowledge that they were programmed by the lowest bidder.
Notice to the design team:
Do not add unnecessary features, or we will send Gene Simmons to live in your cubicles for a year.
-The Management
I used to think that Perl's syntax was easy to understand, until I actually saw some Perl code.
Think of it as evolution in action. People who insist on using IE will end up penniless (from stolen credit card data) or in jail (from being an accessory to whatever computer-related crime is committed using their machine). Of course, the rest of us will be penniless (from all paying jobs being outsourced) and in jail (for thought crime) anyway...
You need "a couple of CDs" where "a couple" means "ten to twelve".
Potato came on 3, woody came on 5 (IIRC). Sarge adds openoffice.org and a bunch of smaller stuff.
By the way, when I was a lad, we used to fit a full Debian distribution onto on side of an old Bee Gees cassette. And we didn't have modems, so we would have to use Morse code drivers to encode all of our network traffic! Of course, this was before Marconi, so we would then chisel the morse-encoded data into big stone slabs, throw them into the ocean, and wait for continental drift to take them to their destination!
AND WE LIKED IT!!!
Yes, C++ is easy to program once you know the syntax. Unfortunately, even Bjarne only knows about 60% of the syntax.
SCO claims that Linus' brain was stolen from their top-secret brain storage facility in a broom closet in their headquarters.
Linus disputes this claim, and points out that the broom closet is where the brains of SCO investors are kept, and that he doesn't own any shares.
If the format is open and free, then it has a good chance of becoming widespread. Otherwise, no.
Thanks for asking.
They're building a device that will revolutionize personal transportation by letting you ride around major cities standing on a lawnmower!
Or was that the LAST mysterious project?
Finally, a headline that doesn't make me want to find a rock to hide under.
No, I didn't RTFA, but if these things are thin enough to let me type, while wearing them, then I'm buying a pair as a present for my wife.
I'll never have to hear, "AAAAAAUUUUGHHH!!!! COLD HANDS!!!!!" again.
Even better, pretty soon, Darl will be ranting about the billions of lines of Linux code in Unixware!
I once worked in a plastics factory. The job involved endlessly pulling plastic doodads out of huge injection-molding machines. The worst part of it was the sheer number of co-workers who had lost fingers on the job.
After all, Jim Henson did similar experiments with pigs 20 years ago.
And leave a severed horse head in the CEO's bed.
I thought that Chewbacca played a key role in the OJ case.
No, beer is one of the fundamental building blocks of the universe, like gravity and duct tape.
Discuss.
And, as we all know, everyone in the world is 100% heterosexual. Especially people who apply for jobs with titles like "Male Strip Searcher".
Any marketroid worth his salt would be able to easily make a set of slides that "prove" that going back to the moon will result in higher stock prices, bigger margins, lower TCO, and free moon-babes for all major investors.
Don't believe it? Subscribe to one of the trade rags and read the ads.
Stored procedures in your filesystem? Um. Yeah, I trust Microsoft to make this secure and reliable.
I do.
Really.
OK, I'm lying.
It's nice to see that Microsoft is planning to support a whole new class of viruses.
Um, he returned.
Therefore, he's sentenced to death.
Intertrust: We put the "Arr!" in Barratry.
That is all.
Specifically, an ugly 2D icon that makes Mac users howl with laughter.