> In the anime, I remember the bugs came down to Buenos Aires personally - but I can't remember how it went down in the book.
In the book, I don't think the actual destruction mechanism was mentioned - just that Buenos Aires was 'smeared', I believe that was the word. It was the event that caused Johnny's father to join the military.
I feel about the same way about Myface/Spacebook:-). I do have an account with one of them, I forget which, because a friend invited me to take a look at some pictures she had posted and I couldn't see them without an account.
I have used Classmates to get in touch with a couple of people I lost track of 20+ years ago. I don't think I ever gave any money to the site. I do occasionally get the email that "Someone has looked at your profile!!!1111", but I ignore it for the most part. If someone had sent me a message through the site, the email would say so, and I'd be interested in seeing it.
In "The Star Kings" and "Return to the Stars" by Edmond Hamilton, there was a superweapon capable of destroying space itself. I can't for the life of me remember the name of the weapon, though, and the Google does nothing.
I seem to recall from somewhere that Kirk was the youngest starship (by which I think they meant large capital ship) captain in Starfleet, at 34. I'm not sure this is canon.
At one point on screen, Kirk asked Chekhov's age and was told '22, sir'.
I don't go to regular theaters at all anymore for exactly that reason. It's been 5 or 6 years for me.
I haven't been to Chunky's in a while either, but they're acceptable to me because there was only a silent slideshow of ads prior to the movie trailers being shown. I could read if alone, or talk to friends if not, during that.
As to the general problem. Perhaps the only way I think is to change Emacs so it silently inserts spaces as you move character by character past the end of a line removing them as you move back. This could be nasty though as it could insert spaces without you being aware of them. Of course there's probably a lisp add-on to do this!
Although Emacs was my first love, one of the things Brief had which won my heart was the concept of 'virtual whitespace' (I believe that was the name of the feature). Basically you could move your cursor anywhere, but unless you actually typed something, it wouldn't actually add anything to the file. This was great for rectangular cutting and pasting.
I used to use emacs on a Vax 11/750, which was max'd out at 6 or 7 megabytes of RAM. It wasn't quite as bad as the joke acronym, but emacs did use a big chunk.
The problem was, there was some key combination I was hitting on accident (probably since I am used to nano keybindings) that was causing me to delete large chunks of my document (usually everything above my current view). I didn't realize it, then I would save and have to restore the file from backup. This happened several times. I think it was happening as I was saving, but could never trace back my error.
My guess would be that you were pressing ctrl-w, "kill-region", which removes everything between your cursor and the 'mark', and places it in the kill buffer. As with ctrl-k, pressing ctrl-y will 'yank' it out and insert it (insert juvenile jokes here:-)).
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Unless you really believe that Python will someday include a filesystem based on sqlite, it's your head over which the joke has arced gracefully. :-)
You missed a perfectly good opportunity for a Beowulf Cluster joke. It looks like you're new here, so we'll let it pass, this time.
No, no, you're thinking of IIS.
The MCP would have owned both of them if it hadn't been for that meddling TRON.
Sorry, I'm sure the games will be full of Digitally Rendered Mammaries.
I like WingIDE. Works well under OS X, and seemed ok in Windows the one time tried it.
At least you're not completely emotionally invested in this thing. Seriously, when it 'dies', somebody is going to need some serious counseling.
Cake and grief counseling will be available at the conclusion of the test.
> In the anime, I remember the bugs came down to Buenos Aires personally - but I can't remember how it went down in the book.
In the book, I don't think the actual destruction mechanism was mentioned - just that Buenos Aires was 'smeared', I believe that was the word. It was the event that caused Johnny's father to join the military.
I always assumed it was a nuclear weapon.
God is dead.
-Niet~*&%a~~NO CARRIER
I feel about the same way about Myface/Spacebook :-). I do have an account with one of them, I forget which, because a friend invited me to take a look at some pictures she had posted and I couldn't see them without an account.
I have used Classmates to get in touch with a couple of people I lost track of 20+ years ago. I don't think I ever gave any money to the site. I do occasionally get the email that "Someone has looked at your profile!!!1111", but I ignore it for the most part. If someone had sent me a message through the site, the email would say so, and I'd be interested in seeing it.
In "The Star Kings" and "Return to the Stars" by Edmond Hamilton, there was a superweapon capable of destroying space itself. I can't for the life of me remember the name of the weapon, though, and the Google does nothing.
Oops, I mixed up the "Under Siege" movies with the "Hard to Kill" movies, both starring Steven Seagal.
> PHBs are notoriously hard to kill.
Only if you're working for the ship's cook.
I seem to recall from somewhere that Kirk was the youngest starship (by which I think they meant large capital ship) captain in Starfleet, at 34. I'm not sure this is canon.
At one point on screen, Kirk asked Chekhov's age and was told '22, sir'.
While you're at home from Wizard School?
I don't go to regular theaters at all anymore for exactly that reason. It's been 5 or 6 years for me.
I haven't been to Chunky's in a while either, but they're acceptable to me because there was only a silent slideshow of ads prior to the movie trailers being shown. I could read if alone, or talk to friends if not, during that.
Thanks, that's good to know!
As to the general problem. Perhaps the only way I think is to change Emacs so it silently inserts spaces as you move character by character past the end of a line removing them as you move back. This could be nasty though as it could insert spaces without you being aware of them. Of course there's probably a lisp add-on to do this!
Although Emacs was my first love, one of the things Brief had which won my heart was the concept of 'virtual whitespace' (I believe that was the name of the feature). Basically you could move your cursor anywhere, but unless you actually typed something, it wouldn't actually add anything to the file. This was great for rectangular cutting and pasting.
> Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping
I used to use emacs on a Vax 11/750, which was max'd out at 6 or 7 megabytes of RAM. It wasn't quite as bad as the joke acronym, but emacs did use a big chunk.
Others I recall:
Eventually malloc()s All Computer Storage
Escape Meta Alt Control Shift
(global-set-key 'f7 'call-last-kbd-macro)
I agree, that's an extremely useful one. The default is very awkward.
The problem was, there was some key combination I was hitting on accident (probably since I am used to nano keybindings) that was causing me to delete large chunks of my document (usually everything above my current view). I didn't realize it, then I would save and have to restore the file from backup. This happened several times. I think it was happening as I was saving, but could never trace back my error.
My guess would be that you were pressing ctrl-w, "kill-region", which removes everything between your cursor and the 'mark', and places it in the kill buffer. As with ctrl-k, pressing ctrl-y will 'yank' it out and insert it (insert juvenile jokes here :-)).
And you also had the the Orange Wall. I still have a couple of boxes of VMS manuals I can't bring myself to get rid of.
Mod parent UP!
But seriously, I sometimes do the same thing when I moderate. If the comment includes additional text I'll moderate based on that, though.
If you want to run telnetd on a port less than 1024, anyway...
These are the things that sit-coms are made of :-).