Thank you for mentioning this work. For wholly unrelated reasons, I was trying to remember both the author and book title about two days ago to no avail.
There's nothing to worry about at the moment. Wait to start worrying until we have more details next year......Wait, you meant to reply to the asteroid story, right?
Interesting point about Commodore. I'm an analyst now in part because my first few computers booted into a BASIC interpreter shell and came with instructions on writing code. Partly from curiosity, and partly from no money to buy software, I wanted to see what the computer could do on its own. I found, for example, that it can ask for your name, say "poop YOURNAME " 5,000 times in different colors, and make a fart noise at the end.
I always wondered where iOS app developers got their starts.
I like dvdbackup to rip the contents of the DVD, then I just concatenate the VOBs together manually with cat and pass them through ffmpeg to compress them;
for BLAH in 1 2; do ffmpeg -i [VOB FILE] -f avi -vcodec mpeg4 -pass $BLAH -sameq -aspect [ASPECT RATIO] -g 300 -bf 2 -acodec ac3 -sameq [AVI FILE] -map 0:0 -map 0:2; done
I think you may have missed the part where he said "Canadian." We protest politely, or we start lighting up car bombs and assassinating people. We don't really have an in-between state like you Americans.
I suggest you go with the polite protest, but with a slight modification: Instead of saying "pretty please, could you listen to us" switch it to "please, could you listen to us?" Just a thought.
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Home brewing, esp. yeast culture propagation.
Never heard of this Clarke guy. I'm gonna check him out. Good call on the forgotten novels.
Also "Friday". Full of interesting ideas and just plain fun.
Besides asking one of the most important philosophical questions of our time: "How you gonna get fired on your day off?"
Because Larry Niven is forgotten?
Hey, have you heard of the Arthur Clarke fellow? He's supposed to be good.
Thank you for mentioning this work. For wholly unrelated reasons, I was trying to remember both the author and book title about two days ago to no avail.
In a nutshell Android is a Linux based kernel w/ some power saving improvements
So, Android is Linux, then. Gotcha, glad that's clear. Nobody cares about your favorite userland libraries.
RMS gets pretty worked up about it.
Oh shit. There goes the planet.
There's nothing to worry about at the moment. Wait to start worrying until we have more details next year... ...Wait, you meant to reply to the asteroid story, right?
Or possibly Spaceballs.
TL;DR: why won't these damned kids come onto my lawn so that I can yell at them to get off of it?
10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
20 GOTO 10
Second line, and you've already ruined yourself for programming for life.
Interesting point about Commodore. I'm an analyst now in part because my first few computers booted into a BASIC interpreter shell and came with instructions on writing code. Partly from curiosity, and partly from no money to buy software, I wanted to see what the computer could do on its own. I found, for example, that it can ask for your name, say "poop YOURNAME " 5,000 times in different colors, and make a fart noise at the end.
I always wondered where iOS app developers got their starts.
I disagree, so instead of modding down I'll reply :-)
Noob.
You mean it's not March 5, 1992 for the 7306th day in a row!
Don't worry, sooner or later you'll get to fuck Andie MacDowell
I feel even older - I don't remember it.
They say memory is the 2nd thing to go.
Well, at least in my area we have two high-speed providers competing for my business: Cox, and Verizon FiOS.
Does Verizon require having a landline telephone? Do people without a landline have the same choice?
I haven't had one since 2002.
Not for FIOS. At least in my area.
It died. Quickly. Which was nice because when they finally killed it you could get pretty nice DVD players on the cheap.
I like dvdbackup to rip the contents of the DVD, then I just concatenate the VOBs together manually with cat and pass them through ffmpeg to compress them;
for BLAH in 1 2; do ffmpeg -i [VOB FILE] -f avi -vcodec mpeg4 -pass $BLAH -sameq -aspect [ASPECT RATIO] -g 300 -bf 2 -acodec ac3 -sameq [AVI FILE] -map 0:0 -map 0:2; done
Linux: so easy a neckbeard can do it.
Put them in a blender first. The increased surface area should speed the freezing process, making it more likely to be successful.
Amen brother. Let's get on the A ship and use the Earth as the B.
I'll be laughing when you die from dirty telephone handsets.
Comrade Cosmonaut been in space for over 50 years!
Is the pod Laika was in still in orbit?
The CIA factbook is just never going to change Canada's entry from 'harmless' to 'mostly harmless', are they?
So tell me, how does Sergey's sphincter taste?
Loudly. Unpleasantly. Constantly.
I think you may have missed the part where he said "Canadian." We protest politely, or we start lighting up car bombs and assassinating people. We don't really have an in-between state like you Americans.
I suggest you go with the polite protest, but with a slight modification: Instead of saying "pretty please, could you listen to us" switch it to "please, could you listen to us?" Just a thought.
Your data is irrelevant.
And the luddites score another convert.
You collect "historically-significant" Linux distro ISOs?
I prefer to kiss girls, but whatever floats your boat.
Then perhaps the other 61% need to protest. Loudly. Unpleasantly. Constantly.