I am unemployed but doing contracting and I feel lucky if I have enough work to pay my mortgage, so consider yourself lucky that you have the luxury of wondering about whether you can convince them to go open-source...
"Wow. High Karma & First Post and yet tonight you'll still be a virgin. oh well. use that free time to recompile the kernel on your dirty hippie OS"
Well, I'm not a virgin, but it's been over 12 years since I last had sex, if you want to laugh at that instead. Plus, I was posting from XP, and I can't stand RMS.
"Private Industry should be allowed into space...imagine if the computer industry had worked on space travel---we'd already been to Mars and our space ship wouldn't be as old as my grandfather =)"
Yeah, and all the signposts would be like:
"Venus 200,000m.
Have you got a HOTMAIL ACCOUNT yet?
Presented by Microsoft."
"Weren't there shredding trucks involved with this somehow?"
I tried to shred trucks once; The tyres went ok, even if bits of rubber came flying out of the shredder like a wood chipper, but the chassis just jammed the whole thing up.
I suggest melting trucks instead of shredding them.
graspee
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That's why I do it only in the comfort and privacy of my home, because I don't want to make people cringe.
Bad English on/. makes me cringe, but I'm gradually mellowing out.
Put Cd in drive. Run Sad Old Easy CD Creator that came free with your cd burner, select "copy cd", select source and destination cd drive, click copy and follow on-screen prompts about changing cds over.
Just remember to search for a crack on the web too!
Wouldn't it be more productive if they divided the number of pages by the number of entrants to this sad "scanathon" and saw who finished first ? That way no work would be duplicated.
If you're going to rip off books, at least be efficient!
"Introduction to the Theory of Infinite-Dimensional Dissipative Systems"
...Where can I find more esoteric stuff ?
;)
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I know what you mean- the number of times I have used circumlocutions instead of outright naming something when talking to someone about Linux for the first time is huge.
I have found the solution though- I now say things like:
"The latest release of NOME, or GUH-NOME as those fascist GUH-NU bastards would have us say..."
graspee
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But do you really want to listen to the thoughts and opinions of a man who won't come to speak unless you change your name ?
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Actually, if it were an F1 racing team I think "GNU/Linux" might be appropriate, but as it's just an operating system which, along with lots of others, I run, I call it "Linux".
(What's more, in the secrecy and privacy of my own home, I pronounce it "L-eye-nux"! Bwahahahahah!)
But how do you get the binary code into the computer ? Whether you use an disk editor or a file editor there will be another, pre-compiled program you have to use....
"however I constantly see kids hitting other kids in some strange style they've seen in a movie"
As a fat smelly kid I have been bullied time and time again by the older kids. They usually leap 10 feet into the air and freeze. I stand there while everyone watching seems to spin around us, then the older kid kicks me.
One of these days I'm going to try walking away while the other kid's frozen in mid-air...
I worked out the yen to ukpounds and it came to about 750 ukp, which is at least half, if not one third the price it would be if it were available in the uk...
I missed buying one of these in Tokyo when I went last week as I didn't have enough money with me. It hurt. I have vowed to return...
I just hope I get away with taking an empty laptop bag with me and claiming I took it with me if I get my bags inspected on the way back; Putting English ver. of XP on it while out there would help my argument.
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I am unemployed but doing contracting and I feel lucky if I have enough work to pay my mortgage, so consider yourself lucky that you have the luxury of wondering about whether you can convince them to go open-source...
graspee
"Wow. High Karma & First Post and yet tonight you'll still be a virgin. oh well. use that free time to recompile the kernel on your dirty hippie OS"
Well, I'm not a virgin, but it's been over 12 years since I last had sex, if you want to laugh at that instead. Plus, I was posting from XP, and I can't stand RMS.
graspee
"Private Industry should be allowed into space...imagine if the computer industry had worked on space travel---we'd already been to Mars and our space ship wouldn't be as old as my grandfather =)"
Yeah, and all the signposts would be like:
"Venus 200,000m.
Have you got a HOTMAIL ACCOUNT yet?
Presented by Microsoft."
graspee
id software just get their hands into everything don't they? What next- doom 2000 in space?
(And, by the way, FIRST POST from a logged-in high karma user where the post is on-topic!)
My doctor told me to avoid .au files as they give me flashbacks of jpgs opening in separate windows instead of inline.
graspee
Please check this out- not a troll- I am posting as my main account so people will see it.
4 20 4&mode=flat
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/09/235
It appears to be a copy of the story with (my) one AC first post on it!
graspee
Thanks! I now have a new .sig!
graspee
RMS/emacs joke resisted. Please moderate me +1 restraint.
graspee
Maybe he wrote it up for posterity...
graspee
"Weren't there shredding trucks involved with this somehow?"
I tried to shred trucks once; The tyres went ok, even if bits of rubber came flying out of the shredder like a wood chipper, but the chassis just jammed the whole thing up.
I suggest melting trucks instead of shredding them.
graspee
That's why I do it only in the comfort and privacy of my home, because I don't want to make people cringe.
/. makes me cringe, but I'm gradually mellowing out.
Bad English on
Hey, let there be more love!
graspee
Put Cd in drive. Run Sad Old Easy CD Creator that came free with your cd burner, select "copy cd", select source and destination cd drive, click copy and follow on-screen prompts about changing cds over.
Just remember to search for a crack on the web too!
graspee
Wouldn't it be more productive if they divided the number of pages by the number of entrants to this sad "scanathon" and saw who finished first ? That way no work would be duplicated.
If you're going to rip off books, at least be efficient!
graspee
Tuh- such common everyday stuff as:
"Introduction to the Theory of Infinite-Dimensional Dissipative Systems"
...Where can I find more esoteric stuff ?
;)
graspee
I know what you mean- the number of times I have used circumlocutions instead of outright naming something when talking to someone about Linux for the first time is huge.
I have found the solution though- I now say things like:
"The latest release of NOME, or GUH-NOME as those fascist GUH-NU bastards would have us say..."
graspee
But do you really want to listen to the thoughts and opinions of a man who won't come to speak unless you change your name ?
graspee
And your grammar skills, apparantly.
graspee
Actually, if it were an F1 racing team I think "GNU/Linux" might be appropriate, but as it's just an operating system which, along with lots of others, I run, I call it "Linux".
(What's more, in the secrecy and privacy of my own home, I pronounce it "L-eye-nux"! Bwahahahahah!)
graspee
But how do you get the binary code into the computer ? Whether you use an disk editor or a file editor there will be another, pre-compiled program you have to use....
graspee
Yeah, people forget that in Rambo (The first film) he was actually fighting the police.
graspee
"however I constantly see kids hitting other kids in some strange style they've seen in a movie"
As a fat smelly kid I have been bullied time and time again by the older kids. They usually leap 10 feet into the air and freeze. I stand there while everyone watching seems to spin around us, then the older kid kicks me.
One of these days I'm going to try walking away while the other kid's frozen in mid-air...
graspee
Haha! Hilarious! Can you make me a sign for my pub? I can put it next to "You don't have to be mad to work here- but it helps".
graspee
"you can now buy Deep Throat from Amazon"
erm- cut to fuck, as the saying has it....
Just check the customer reviews.
graspee
I have seen it for sale in shops in Tokyo- hope that answers your question.
graspee
I worked out the yen to ukpounds and it came to about 750 ukp, which is at least half, if not one third the price it would be if it were available in the uk...
I missed buying one of these in Tokyo when I went last week as I didn't have enough money with me. It hurt. I have vowed to return...
I just hope I get away with taking an empty laptop bag with me and claiming I took it with me if I get my bags inspected on the way back; Putting English ver. of XP on it while out there would help my argument.
graspee