Well - to hell with the children, it's actually the people who pretend to protect the children by banning such books as H. C. Andersen's The Little Mermaid, because there's a [cry of horror] mermaid with a bare chest on the front page, that I'm afraid of.
What about dotOS? It's pronounced dotUS, and gives the nice "WE" feeling.
dotTIE (dottie)?
dotFREE?
kommaOS (why stick with the dot?)?
kommaERE?
kommaRAT (okay, maybe not)?
goFREE?
goFER?
goAT?
Maybe I shouldn't be posting, when I've been working 17 hours straight.
No methane (CH4) would result from this. And unless I'm mistaken, methane is oderless. What you "smell" in methane is usually a sulfurous compound bound to a CH3- molecule.
Granted, I haven't studied chemestry in more than three years, but regarding the methane not smelling, my dictionary agrees with me:
"An odorless, colorless, flammable gas, CH4, the major constituent of natural gas, that is used as a fuel and is an important source of hydrogen and a wide variety of organic compounds."
Since many airplay charts are based on what DJ's play, and the DJ's finally figures out, that we don't like plagerized cloned music, maybe the record companies will stop producing it...
wait... it's comming to me... no they won't - they'll just increase advertising for it, and blame fileswapping for falling sales.
Think about it - hackers everywhere using their 1337 5||115 to make sure he gets exposure in the media, and making sure that the lobbyists don't deposit their money in the pockets of the other candidates. Maybe they could divert the money to the UN, Red Cross, Amnesty International, EFF or some such place.
Would be cool. Instead of nuking an enemy, we hack every single international agreement on borders. No more country.
Not bad. Of course, using Open Office would have been better (and probably cheaper), but it's somewhat to be expected, that they'd use MS Office programs.
Teaching it not to leave the lid up on the toilet, not to stand up peeing (it leaves a horrible mess of water and oil), taking out the garbage, to cuddle afterwards and how to partake in a meaningfull talk about feelings.
Hmm... if he can't be fired by the university, can't he be knocked unconsious, and fired out of a canon into a near-by river? Would make a nice little physics experiment as well.
You need:
2 pounds of C4
2 detonators
100 yards of wire
1 battery
1 electrical switch
1 steel tube, aprox 30' long, 3' diameter
1 blackjack
1 sleaseback professor
1 pick-up truck
1 nearby river
10+ students willing to keep a secret.
Well... let's hear you pronounce "Rødgrød med fløde". When you can do that, and construct a meaningfull correct two line sentence in danish - then we can talk:-)
Until then, please settle with correcting my spelling and gramatical errors, and drop the snide remarks. They only costs karma (as will this post:-) )
"Shouldn't laws defend the decency of humanity, and provide justice regardless of financial motive?"
What? You're not satisfied with financial motives? What are you - a commie?
Kidding aside, I find it appawling, that the federal district court in Illinois refused to let her sue. I also find it appawling, that the professor hasn't been fired for gross negligence and cunduct unbecomming.
"The first time I had the pleasure of seeing Halo was a few years back at E3, when then independent game developer Bungie Software [...] had the game chugging along nicely on a Pentium 2 powered 300Mhz PC equipped with a TNT2 graphics accelerator projected to a big movie screen."
1) It was quite a few years back.
2) It's an XBox ONLY title - who the hell needs it to run on a sluggish 300 MHz PII with a TNT2, when you have a 733 MHz PIII with a souped up Geforce3 as the ONLY platform? That's like wanting a Ferrai F40 to run with a moped-engine.
Please make sure you turn on your brain before posting.
I'd even be willing to put someone else up as a personal slave for Bill Gates, if he'd get them to release it for the PC.
If that fails, I'll probably buy the XBox for this game alone. Hopefully someone will figure out how to hack the XBox to allow the REAL controllers - mouse + keyboard to be used. Then I'll have a Halo'va time fragging me some alien meat.
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I even heard someone who managed to run a prerelease of WinXP on his HP-80 Calculator.
By definition (you know, something raised to be a fact) Australia is a continent. By some weird coinsident, the country covering the entire mainland of this continent happens to have the same name.
If a person happens to be called, say Washington, does that mean, that if he moves to England, that the city and state moves as well?
If you could present individual research, showing that my research (which indeed 99.9999% of the established scientific community supports) is false, then by all means do so. Like I said in a previous post, I'm quite sure that the likes of Encyclopaedia Brittanica and National Geographics would love to hear your reasoning.
But to elaborate on just why Australia is in fact not an island, here's my guess (an educated guess at best):
The crust of the earth is made up by several tectonic plates, seven of which are so called major continental plates, since they have large protruding landmasses on them. The largest body on each of these continental plates has the pleasure of laying name to the continenetal plate. Since the country of Australia happens to cover the entire main body of it's continental plate, this continental plate is conviniently called Australia. Since an island by definition cannot be the mainland of a continent, this excludes Australia from the running as the largest island of the world. If this definition of an island did not exist, the largest island wouldn't even be Australia (as it is the smallest of the continents) but Asia, which is the largest continent. Not only is Asia the largest continent, but it is also joined at the hip with the second largest continent, Africa, but also with Europe, giving this "island" a combined landmass of 84,994,050 km^2 - an impressive 62.5% of the entire landmass of the earth, 135,916,252.5 km^2. How's that for a big-assed island? But it's not an island, because a continent is defined as something else than an island, and guess what - Australia fits the definition of a continent. But hey - I'm probably wrong, and you can probably prove this by some other mean than useless rhetoric like, say your own small piece of recearch. But let me guess - it's too hard to find any evidence that Australia isn't a continent, since there are seven continents, and Australia just keeps being listed as one. Go figure.
It's better to keep your mouth closed and be thought an idiot, than to open it and prove it to be true.
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remember getting a visit from a local Microsoft sales guy, because I'd managed to get Windows 3.1 (maybe it was 3.0 - not sure) to run on the schools 286's. Just to add insult to injury, I'd also had to run doublespace on the harddrive to have enough room for apps... slow as hell, but it ran... well crawled.
There are seven continents:
Africa
Antarctica
Asia
Australia (sometimes called Oceania)
Europe
North America
South America
From Atomica.com:
Australia
"Australia, smallest continent, c.2,400 mi (3,860 km) east to west and c.2,000 mi (3,220 km) north to south, only continent occupied by a single nation, the Commonwealth of Australia (1995 est. pop. 18,322,000), 2,967,877 sq mi (7,686,810 sq km). Subdivisions of the nation include the offshore island state of Tasmania; the five mainland states of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, and Western Australia; and the Northern Territory, Australian Capital Territory (containing Canberra, the federal capital), and Jervis Bay Territory (until 1988 part of the capital territory). External territories include Christmas Island, the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, the Coral Sea Islands, Norfolk Island, Heard and McDonald islands, and the Australian Antarctic Territory."
Oceania:
"The islands of the southern, western, and central Pacific Ocean, including Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. The term is sometimes extended to encompass Australia, New Zealand, and the Malay Archipelago."
You could also look up continents in your own favorite encyclopaedia. Here's what Atomica had to say:
"The large parts of the surface of the earth that rise above sea level. The seven major continents are Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America."
Of course, this IS an online encyclopaedia, so it has to wrong, but feel free to check with any three somewhat new (younger than 1980) encyclopaedia, and you will probably find, that the above holds true.
So, if you find it odd, that New Zealand isn't part of a continent, it's because it's not located on the Australian continent but probably on some minor continent.
And before I forget:
Greenland:
"An island of Denmark in the northern Atlantic Ocean off northeast Canada. It is the largest island in the world and lies mostly within the Arctic Circle. Inhabited by Inuit peoples as early as 3000 B.C., it was discovered by the Norwegian navigator Eric the Red in the tenth century A.D., became a Danish colony in 1815, and was granted home rule in 1979."
Also 'island':
"island, relatively small (compared to a continent) body of land completely surrounded by water. The largest, in descending order, are Greenland, New Guinea, Borneo, Madagascar, Baffin Island, Sumatra, Honshu, and Great Britain. Islands are either continental, caused by partial submergence of coastal highlands or by the sea breaking through an isthmus or peninsula, or oceanic, originating from the ascension of the ocean floor above water through volcanic activity or other earth movements. Tropical oceanic islands sustained above sea level by coral growth are called atolls (see coral reefs)."
Repeat after me:
"I will double check my facts, so I don't make a fool out of myself."
Now of course, you did get your facts from a commercial and as we all know, those are never wrong. I'll make sure that Encyclopaedia Brittanica and National Geographics are made aware of the fact, that Australia is an island and not a continent.
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Actually it will be running OpenBSD to prevent unwanted hackers/crackers to take control of the spaceship.
The onboard workstations will be FreeBSD to provide a stable working environment, where you can't just plug in Quake 3.
The onboard servers will be running Solaris.
All software will be Open Source, eg the Office suite will be Open Office, and the email and calendar will be Ximian Evolution.
And if you need to know - yes, I'm just making this up as I go.
dotORGY sounds cool. But what about the children?
Well - to hell with the children, it's actually the people who pretend to protect the children by banning such books as H. C. Andersen's The Little Mermaid, because there's a [cry of horror] mermaid with a bare chest on the front page, that I'm afraid of.
What about dotOS? It's pronounced dotUS, and gives the nice "WE" feeling.
dotTIE (dottie)?
dotFREE?
kommaOS (why stick with the dot?)?
kommaERE?
kommaRAT (okay, maybe not)?
goFREE?
goFER?
goAT?
Maybe I shouldn't be posting, when I've been working 17 hours straight.
In a clean combustion the process looks like this
2*CH3OH + 3*O2 => 2*CO2 + 4*H2O
No methane (CH4) would result from this. And unless I'm mistaken, methane is oderless. What you "smell" in methane is usually a sulfurous compound bound to a CH3- molecule.
Granted, I haven't studied chemestry in more than three years, but regarding the methane not smelling, my dictionary agrees with me:
"An odorless, colorless, flammable gas, CH4, the major constituent of natural gas, that is used as a fuel and is an important source of hydrogen and a wide variety of organic compounds."
Since many airplay charts are based on what DJ's play, and the DJ's finally figures out, that we don't like plagerized cloned music, maybe the record companies will stop producing it ...
... it's comming to me ... no they won't - they'll just increase advertising for it, and blame fileswapping for falling sales.
wait
I've heard it used a lot of times, of course with varies themes, but this one is actually guite good.
Think about it - hackers everywhere using their 1337 5||115 to make sure he gets exposure in the media, and making sure that the lobbyists don't deposit their money in the pockets of the other candidates. Maybe they could divert the money to the UN, Red Cross, Amnesty International, EFF or some such place.
Would be cool. Instead of nuking an enemy, we hack every single international agreement on borders. No more country.
1) Maintain Linux's kernel
2) Date Daisy Fuentes (or any one person of your choice)
3) Get to play around with a bat and various people from Microsoft
Not bad. Of course, using Open Office would have been better (and probably cheaper), but it's somewhat to be expected, that they'd use MS Office programs.
Honda coorporation: The first ones against the wall when the revolution comes.
Does that mean, that this post was wrong in stating that MS did part of the backup system?
Hmm ... I wonder if MS got away with putting a clause in the contract, stating that they have no responsibility for any kind of software malfunction.
You've obviously never heard of my mother.
ROFL!
I'd settle for a 40-minute start from my wife. Hell, I'd settle for a wife or a girlfriend. Sigh.
Teaching it not to leave the lid up on the toilet, not to stand up peeing (it leaves a horrible mess of water and oil), taking out the garbage, to cuddle afterwards and how to partake in a meaningfull talk about feelings.
Hmm ... if he can't be fired by the university, can't he be knocked unconsious, and fired out of a canon into a near-by river? Would make a nice little physics experiment as well.
You need:
2 pounds of C4
2 detonators
100 yards of wire
1 battery
1 electrical switch
1 steel tube, aprox 30' long, 3' diameter
1 blackjack
1 sleaseback professor
1 pick-up truck
1 nearby river
10+ students willing to keep a secret.
Well ... let's hear you pronounce "Rødgrød med fløde". When you can do that, and construct a meaningfull correct two line sentence in danish - then we can talk :-)
:-) )
Until then, please settle with correcting my spelling and gramatical errors, and drop the snide remarks. They only costs karma (as will this post
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The act, fact, or condition of holding something in one's possession, as real estate or an office; occupation.
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A period during which something is held.
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The status of holding one's position on a permanent basis without periodic contract renewals: a teacher granted tenure on a faculty.
So - that means he can't be fired"Shouldn't laws defend the decency of humanity, and provide justice regardless of financial motive?"
What? You're not satisfied with financial motives? What are you - a commie?
Kidding aside, I find it appawling, that the federal district court in Illinois refused to let her sue. I also find it appawling, that the professor hasn't been fired for gross negligence and cunduct unbecomming.
Now - can I have my patented one-handed-surfing back please?
Do everyone a favor, and post quotes IN context:
"The first time I had the pleasure of seeing Halo was a few years back at E3, when then independent game developer Bungie Software [...] had the game chugging along nicely on a Pentium 2 powered 300Mhz PC equipped with a TNT2 graphics accelerator projected to a big movie screen."
1) It was quite a few years back.
2) It's an XBox ONLY title - who the hell needs it to run on a sluggish 300 MHz PII with a TNT2, when you have a 733 MHz PIII with a souped up Geforce3 as the ONLY platform? That's like wanting a Ferrai F40 to run with a moped-engine.
Please make sure you turn on your brain before posting.
I'd even be willing to put someone else up as a personal slave for Bill Gates, if he'd get them to release it for the PC.
If that fails, I'll probably buy the XBox for this game alone. Hopefully someone will figure out how to hack the XBox to allow the REAL controllers - mouse + keyboard to be used. Then I'll have a Halo'va time fragging me some alien meat.
I even heard someone who managed to run a prerelease of WinXP on his HP-80 Calculator.
And you obviously don't get it.
By definition (you know, something raised to be a fact) Australia is a continent. By some weird coinsident, the country covering the entire mainland of this continent happens to have the same name.
If a person happens to be called, say Washington, does that mean, that if he moves to England, that the city and state moves as well?
If you could present individual research, showing that my research (which indeed 99.9999% of the established scientific community supports) is false, then by all means do so. Like I said in a previous post, I'm quite sure that the likes of Encyclopaedia Brittanica and National Geographics would love to hear your reasoning.
But to elaborate on just why Australia is in fact not an island, here's my guess (an educated guess at best):
The crust of the earth is made up by several tectonic plates, seven of which are so called major continental plates, since they have large protruding landmasses on them. The largest body on each of these continental plates has the pleasure of laying name to the continenetal plate. Since the country of Australia happens to cover the entire main body of it's continental plate, this continental plate is conviniently called Australia. Since an island by definition cannot be the mainland of a continent, this excludes Australia from the running as the largest island of the world. If this definition of an island did not exist, the largest island wouldn't even be Australia (as it is the smallest of the continents) but Asia, which is the largest continent. Not only is Asia the largest continent, but it is also joined at the hip with the second largest continent, Africa, but also with Europe, giving this "island" a combined landmass of 84,994,050 km^2 - an impressive 62.5% of the entire landmass of the earth, 135,916,252.5 km^2. How's that for a big-assed island? But it's not an island, because a continent is defined as something else than an island, and guess what - Australia fits the definition of a continent. But hey - I'm probably wrong, and you can probably prove this by some other mean than useless rhetoric like, say your own small piece of recearch. But let me guess - it's too hard to find any evidence that Australia isn't a continent, since there are seven continents, and Australia just keeps being listed as one. Go figure.
It's better to keep your mouth closed and be thought an idiot, than to open it and prove it to be true.
remember getting a visit from a local Microsoft sales guy, because I'd managed to get Windows 3.1 (maybe it was 3.0 - not sure) to run on the schools 286's. Just to add insult to injury, I'd also had to run doublespace on the harddrive to have enough room for apps ... slow as hell, but it ran ... well crawled.
There are seven continents:
Africa
Antarctica
Asia
Australia (sometimes called Oceania)
Europe
North America
South America
From Atomica.com:
Australia
"Australia, smallest continent, c.2,400 mi (3,860 km) east to west and c.2,000 mi (3,220 km) north to south, only continent occupied by a single nation, the Commonwealth of Australia (1995 est. pop. 18,322,000), 2,967,877 sq mi (7,686,810 sq km). Subdivisions of the nation include the offshore island state of Tasmania; the five mainland states of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, and Western Australia; and the Northern Territory, Australian Capital Territory (containing Canberra, the federal capital), and Jervis Bay Territory (until 1988 part of the capital territory). External territories include Christmas Island, the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, the Coral Sea Islands, Norfolk Island, Heard and McDonald islands, and the Australian Antarctic Territory."
Oceania:
"The islands of the southern, western, and central Pacific Ocean, including Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. The term is sometimes extended to encompass Australia, New Zealand, and the Malay Archipelago."
You could also look up continents in your own favorite encyclopaedia. Here's what Atomica had to say:
"The large parts of the surface of the earth that rise above sea level. The seven major continents are Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America."
Of course, this IS an online encyclopaedia, so it has to wrong, but feel free to check with any three somewhat new (younger than 1980) encyclopaedia, and you will probably find, that the above holds true.
So, if you find it odd, that New Zealand isn't part of a continent, it's because it's not located on the Australian continent but probably on some minor continent.
And before I forget:
Greenland:
"An island of Denmark in the northern Atlantic Ocean off northeast Canada. It is the largest island in the world and lies mostly within the Arctic Circle. Inhabited by Inuit peoples as early as 3000 B.C., it was discovered by the Norwegian navigator Eric the Red in the tenth century A.D., became a Danish colony in 1815, and was granted home rule in 1979."
Also 'island':
"island, relatively small (compared to a continent) body of land completely surrounded by water. The largest, in descending order, are Greenland, New Guinea, Borneo, Madagascar, Baffin Island, Sumatra, Honshu, and Great Britain. Islands are either continental, caused by partial submergence of coastal highlands or by the sea breaking through an isthmus or peninsula, or oceanic, originating from the ascension of the ocean floor above water through volcanic activity or other earth movements. Tropical oceanic islands sustained above sea level by coral growth are called atolls (see coral reefs)."
Repeat after me:
"I will double check my facts, so I don't make a fool out of myself."
Now of course, you did get your facts from a commercial and as we all know, those are never wrong. I'll make sure that Encyclopaedia Brittanica and National Geographics are made aware of the fact, that Australia is an island and not a continent.