If there's any justice in this world, people trying to steal copper cables, pipes, etc will end up electrocuting themselves sooner or later when they hit a live power main.
I don't know why they'd need to change anything - "Cable thief kills the internet" is just as funny without generating some pseudo debate about her actual motives and legal classification.
"In ex-Soviet Georgia, Internet kills cable thief!"
My first thought upon reading the phrase "Android fragmentation" was of Chewbacca carrying a sack full o' protocol droid parts. I'm glad I'm not the only one.:-)
At a guess, the Windows one was created with py2exe or something similar and includes the Python interpreter and libraries. The Ubuntu one is probably just some compiled python code.
Honest question: what is the big deal with Ringworld? I finally read it a couple of years ago expecting some story masterpiece, but it ended up being a run of the mill 'people discover big dumb object and barely escape with their lives' story.
You may have read it a couple of years ago, but it was published in 1970, over 40 years ago. It wasn't run-of-the-mill then, and wasn't when I first read it in 1979 or so.
Now Consider Phlebas, that I would like to see on the big screen...
I can't answer why it is "news", but I can answer why it is on Slashdot. Over the past couple of years, Slashdot has increasingly posted stories that have flamebait as their primary feature and where it isn't intrinsic to the story, it is often editorialised to add a little prompting to get us all arguing.
It's all starting to make sense, now. The entity calling itself "CmdrTaco" is one of those energy beings from the Start Trek "Day of the Dove" episode, feeding on the strife it creates.
By a coincidence, before I heard about Ken Olsen's passing, I re-read "vmsbook.pdf" yesterday, which is a very cheery and optimistic history of VAXes and VMS up until 1997. Very sad that Compaq took them over the following year. Here is a link to the PDF.
My high school received a Rainbow the year after I graduated. I recall going in to look at it or help set it up. I believe it had a Pascal compiler, though I might be misremembering that.
But nobody who didn't really need it had a shelf-full of Vax book.
I still have a couple boxes of orange VMS manuals in binders, from when I did a VMS version upgrade for the robotics lab where I worked. Rather than toss the obsolete manuals, I brought them home... 24 years ago. And the last time I touched or logged in to a VMS system was probably 22 years ago.
And what if there's a collision, or an accident, and the steam reservoir breaks open? Dangerous dihydrogen monoxide could make its way into the water table!
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I've said "Be the code... Be the code..." while programming. (I'm 90% sure "Be the ball" was from Caddyshack)
Have the Tripods arrived already?
I remember that the manual that came with the ][+, anyway, had a fold-out schematic, which I thought was neat.
If there's any justice in this world, people trying to steal copper cables, pipes, etc will end up electrocuting themselves sooner or later when they hit a live power main.
I don't know why they'd need to change anything - "Cable thief kills the internet" is just as funny without generating some pseudo debate about her actual motives and legal classification.
"In ex-Soviet Georgia, Internet kills cable thief!"
Just when I thought Disney, Kitsis and Horowitz couldn't COMPLETELY 0xFFFF up "TRON" anymore. Pricks.
This comment, combined with your username, made me laugh this morning. :-)
My first thought upon reading the phrase "Android fragmentation" was of Chewbacca carrying a sack full o' protocol droid parts. I'm glad I'm not the only one. :-)
I believe Slashdot itself lost a bunch of stories and posts from around 1998 or so, didn't it?
At a guess, the Windows one was created with py2exe or something similar and includes the Python interpreter and libraries. The Ubuntu one is probably just some compiled python code.
Stop the ferrous wheel; I want to get off.
"... but pity stayed his hand. "It's a pity I've run out of bullets", thought Dildo..."
Honest question: what is the big deal with Ringworld? I finally read it a couple of years ago expecting some story masterpiece, but it ended up being a run of the mill 'people discover big dumb object and barely escape with their lives' story.
You may have read it a couple of years ago, but it was published in 1970, over 40 years ago. It wasn't run-of-the-mill then, and wasn't when I first read it in 1979 or so.
Now Consider Phlebas, that I would like to see on the big screen...
Same here!
Where are my compensation bitches?
Fixed that for you.
Just joking; I liked your post. :-)
Neither. You're yelling at the programmers.
That's what I do. I have heaped a lot of abuse on Microsoft employees over the last 23 or so years...
Unfortunately, proxy bonuses to AC don't stack, so you'd only get the benefit of the highest one.
I heard she shacked up with some crazed freak who called himself "Mork".
It's just s show. You should really just relax.
The Russians certainly believe in over-engineering their space suits.
I can't answer why it is "news", but I can answer why it is on Slashdot. Over the past couple of years, Slashdot has increasingly posted stories that have flamebait as their primary feature and where it isn't intrinsic to the story, it is often editorialised to add a little prompting to get us all arguing.
It's all starting to make sense, now. The entity calling itself "CmdrTaco" is one of those energy beings from the Start Trek "Day of the Dove" episode, feeding on the strife it creates.
Needs more "XXXTREME".
We're still wondering what you used to read your father's copies of :-).
What the heck? My link got messed up. It should be to:
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/20th/vmsbook.pdf
Link
Oops, looks like the http:/// got left off in my original post. Sorry.
By a coincidence, before I heard about Ken Olsen's passing, I re-read "vmsbook.pdf" yesterday, which is a very cheery and optimistic history of VAXes and VMS up until 1997. Very sad that Compaq took them over the following year.
Here is a link to the PDF.
My high school received a Rainbow the year after I graduated. I recall going in to look at it or help set it up. I believe it had a Pascal compiler, though I might be misremembering that.
But nobody who didn't really need it had a shelf-full of Vax book.
I still have a couple boxes of orange VMS manuals in binders, from when I did a VMS version upgrade for the robotics lab where I worked. Rather than toss the obsolete manuals, I brought them home... 24 years ago. And the last time I touched or logged in to a VMS system was probably 22 years ago.
And what if there's a collision, or an accident, and the steam reservoir breaks open? Dangerous dihydrogen monoxide could make its way into the water table!