> Are people really running around trailing all of the code from all of the gigs they've had and just randomly incorporating it into other things? > > That just seems rather disconcerting to me.
You say that as if "XTreme Telephone Company Account Balance Inquiry" for the X-Box was a bad idea.
My subconscious desire to get out of the computer field as a career must be surfacing--I read this as "reindeer farm". Then reality set back in and I almost made a lame "LapLANder" joke before tasering myself.
> You might get to know the person, and like the person so that you would want to meet the person.
Exactly. In fact, I met my wife on a local BBS--we started dating after meeting in person at several get-togethers. We've been married for over seven years now.
(Of course, we still get on IRC on separate computers in separate rooms, but we prefer to think of that as a charming quirk.)
Heh. One of my favorites was the one where they were on the moon and there's a farmer who warns Fry that it gets really cold when the sun goes down. I'm paraphrasing here:
> What does it take to get straight answers from these people?
Persistence, mainly. I had to call Comcast four times, replace my cable modem, and get a technician out three times before my intermittent connection drops were fixed. The third guy actually had his head out of his ass and fixed me right up.
(Turns out that a squirrel had chewed through the cable coming into my building, and the loss of insulation was causing the signal strength to drop to the point where the modem would lose its connection.)
> Because educated users make less work for me than ignorant ones.
I got a bad performance review at one of my jobs about ten years ago. I was the one and only IT guy, and I got dinged for "not educating the end users" when I went to fix their problems.
Most of the users couldn't have cared less--they just wanted to get back to typing their memos or what have you. The rest of them were the kind of people who hold the mouse up to the screen and try to move the cursor that way.
Slashdot Mirror
"The walls have melted, and my lab assistant Charles has turned into a a lemur that resembles the late Kaiser Wilhelm.
However, the flying mice assure me that this is perfectly normal."
> did we really really save that much money when we used 2 digit dates verses 4 digits
Considering that a lot of Y2K-vulnerable applications were written in a time when tiny amounts of storage sold for thousands of dollars, I'd say yes.
> Are people really running around trailing all of the code from all of the gigs they've had and just randomly incorporating it into other things?
>
> That just seems rather disconcerting to me.
You say that as if "XTreme Telephone Company Account Balance Inquiry" for the X-Box was a bad idea.
> What concept needed to be proved?
That thousands of people saying "Ogg Theora" all at once sounds like a cat the size of Montana hacking up a hairball.
> It is amazing that a species that can't pick itself up from a fall could survive past a single generation.
Oh, I don't know...we seem to have done all right.
> He's such a vain beast.
Obviously he's a Mesozoicsexual.
> I wonder what kind of G's the pilot will experience?
With any luck, not these.
> Launches a piloted, privately-funded spaceship, capable of carrying 3 people to 100 kilometers
Hell, I've got a vehicle that can do that now.
It just does it horizontally over paved surfaces. Details.
> SCO actually produces a product?
Well, billable lawyer hours are kind of a virtual product...
My subconscious desire to get out of the computer field as a career must be surfacing--I read this as "reindeer farm". Then reality set back in and I almost made a lame "LapLANder" joke before tasering myself.
You're not stupid, you're not expendable, and you're not going to that site.
> I'm far more eager to see faster rather than larger.
You sound like my ex-girlfriend.
> You might get to know the person, and like the person so that you would want to meet the person.
Exactly. In fact, I met my wife on a local BBS--we started dating after meeting in person at several get-togethers. We've been married for over seven years now.
(Of course, we still get on IRC on separate computers in separate rooms, but we prefer to think of that as a charming quirk.)
> Jurors: "We find the defendant, Kobe Bryant, GLTY ON L CHRGS. LOL!!1! WTF?"
Judge: "Kobe Bryant, this court has found you guilty and sentences you to be OMG PWNx0R3D!"
> Are Linux Today's readers too stupid to think for themselves?
I'm not really sure...what do you think?
> Name another common mechanical device that has nearly tripled in speed in that period.
My car--once I got done punching all the speed holes in the hood, that is. </Simpsons>
> Microsoft Air-traffic Control Software? Shudder...
It looks like you're trying to direct a pilot to land a plane. Would you like to:
- Have the pilot land at Cirque du Soleil and tell him it's Denver International Airport?
- Redirect the plane to Chicago, but send the luggage on to Orlando?
- Adjust the ground level to send the plane and all aboard to fiery doom like that scene in Die Hard 2?
Heh. One of my favorites was the one where they were on the moon and there's a farmer who warns Fry that it gets really cold when the sun goes down. I'm paraphrasing here:
"It gets down to 200 degrees below zero."
"Celsius or Fahrenheit?"
"First one, then t'other."
> I don't mess around with black holes.
Maybe that's why you're still single.
I mean, something's going to inevitably crush my soul sooner or later. It might as well be something that I can make money doing.
Millennium!
Doot-DOO-doo-doo-doo!
Millennium!
Doot-doo-doo-doo!
(Etc., etc.)
> Now we know where they got their inspiration for Pokemon...
"I'm really hoping to get my Jesusaur enough experience to evolve into Saviortron."
Also:
"Abihu, I choose you!"
I for one welcome our new cartographer overlords.
> What does it take to get straight answers from these people?
Persistence, mainly. I had to call Comcast four times, replace my cable modem, and get a technician out three times before my intermittent connection drops were fixed. The third guy actually had his head out of his ass and fixed me right up.
(Turns out that a squirrel had chewed through the cable coming into my building, and the loss of insulation was causing the signal strength to drop to the point where the modem would lose its connection.)
> Because educated users make less work for me than ignorant ones.
I got a bad performance review at one of my jobs about ten years ago. I was the one and only IT guy, and I got dinged for "not educating the end users" when I went to fix their problems.
Most of the users couldn't have cared less--they just wanted to get back to typing their memos or what have you. The rest of them were the kind of people who hold the mouse up to the screen and try to move the cursor that way.
I quit a month later. =P