I mean most male computer (L)users probably don't have readily accessible female parts to play with (i.e. no SO) so why not grow some of their own? Then they'd have breasts to play with all the time.
In fact you could probably swing it by a PHB as a necessary purchase to reduce RSI (type a little, fondle a little, repeat:)
More like a coke employee putting a picture on his blog, taken whilst at work, of him drinking Pepsi together with some words to the effect that "I was drinking pepsi whilst working in the secret coke flavour dept as usual".
i.e. he was doing something he'd [probably] signed a contract against doing when he started working there.
It's very simple. Don't blog about work and if you have to, don't blog the specifics.
I hate to break it to you but that Star Trek stuff is just a TV series. Santa is more real. You are more likely to find a decent, upstanding, honest politician handing out generous donations to the needy whilst generally being nice to mankind and all other animals than you are to find the Enterprise rushing around space.
For a start the US and the Rest of the World (TM) have to get along. All diesase has to cease. Microsoft has to disappear off to the Delta quadrant so they can come back as the Borg (well ok, that's kinda possible). I mean it's not as if Klingon is even a language.......??? (erm)
Yes, I know it's set in the future before you get all clever and causality-related at me:)
The pixels are THIIIIS BIIIG (holds hands wide apart)
Troc
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Farewell To The Concorde
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The TU-144 was a direct copy of the Concorde, made from stolen plans of the UK/FR aeroplane. Unfortunately (for the Russians) the plans they stole had been "doctored" by the British to not work - hence the crash. That's why they had to add canards to the Tupolev.
Yeah but they are all much better than Apple's iApps - they all start with a K which is, as we all know, much better than an i. It's upper case AND further down the alphabet.
wait wait, I am confused. Are these books intended for entertainment purposes "ooh, this bit is funny to read, look at the shiny thing........." or are they useful for the legal assassination of people as long as it's entertaining "ooh, that was fun, lets kill another........"
Whilst that does make sense (and I feel a little stupid for not thinking of that..!) what's to stop an unscrupulous taxi driver from looking whilst the blind person does their thing?
I once kept a UK tele-marketer on the phone for 10 minutes whilst I "counted the windows in our house" (i.e. made a nice cup of tea) I eventually went back to the phone and said "Sorry I took so long but someone rang the doorbell and tried to sell me double-glazing. I mean I already have double-glazing and everything...., so, what did you want again?"
The other one was inviting the Jehovah Witnesses in - because I was too busy to shoo them away - whilst I was bottling vast amounts of home made wine. They didn't come back for 10 years:)
Yeah, That dammed Ariane 4 rocket was only the most successful, accurate, reliable launcher ever.
Nasty horrid Europeans.
Sure Ariane 5 has had some teething troubles but don't mock the Europeans, they are the ones who made space commercial. Ariane is much more reliable than the Delta or Atlas Centaur launchers the US uses and whilst the shuttle is quite reliable, it's a ridiculously expensive way to put a commercial satellite in space.
I suspect that showing pictures of Keith Richards to young, impressionable children counts as child abuse in most civilised countries:)
I am a world weary, hardened, seen-it-all, experienced adult and they disturb me! (ooh, the nightmares etc etc)
I wonder if showing pictures of Keith Richards to himself would be some kind of self-abuse.
Troc
PS It's kind of on topic - it has kids in it, and weird looking musicians who could be starving. Well maybe a little hungry. Look, I'm sure that sometimes he goes for hours without eating stuff.
True, I guess I was being a little sexist but usually it's the mothers that have the inappropriate 4x4 and the fathers that have the inappropriate company car or BMW 3 series (at least in Surrey it appears that every house comes with one 4x4 and one 3 series, you just choose the colours to match your front door:)
It's partly peer pressure (ooh, next door have a RAV 4, we NEED a Freelander, the high seats make me feel safer) and partly crap public transport I guess.
I live in holland now and since we arrived, we got rid of one car and the other one is only used for long trips and stuff. The public transport gets us most places quickly (but not as well as it used to) and I can cycle/rollerblade/walk/tram/train/bus/canoe (or drive I guess) to work depending on the weather and how long it takes me to get up. Fastest is bike and slowest is walking.
Troc
Ps No I have not actually canoed to work but I could do. I have ice-skated to work.
I'll go with that one. Hopefully the new hybrid cars will help there. Even in the 'states, hybrids should do well - you guys can still buy an SUV with all the power and erm, SUVness that you think you require (or have been conned into requiring through advertising and peer pressure like all those dammed women in the UK with huge 4x4 and one kid to drive the 100m to school) but with double the fuel efficiency.
It looks like the first models will be out next year. The general idea is either to have electric motors to all wheels and an IC engine to "top up" the electrics when necessary or (and this seems the most sensible and common idea) to have electrics driving 2 of the wheels and an IC for the others. This allows for lots of clever 4 wheel drive stuff, on braking you get energy back into the car etc etc
Terms such as "inventive step" and "technical contribution" are actually very well defined in public EPO (european patent office) documents such as their "guidelines" and their case law and are, as such, not open to interpretation problems.
Yes, they are boring legal documents (in three languages though, whoohoo) and as such not the most exciting read, but they do define what the EPO means by their various terms and are used by all parties, including interested third parties (who are welcome to comment or oppose the patent at any time from initial publication of the application to after final grant) during the process.
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Nope, seems like a good idea....
:)
I mean most male computer (L)users probably don't have readily accessible female parts to play with (i.e. no SO) so why not grow some of their own? Then they'd have breasts to play with all the time.
In fact you could probably swing it by a PHB as a necessary purchase to reduce RSI (type a little, fondle a little, repeat
Hohum
troc
More like a coke employee putting a picture on his blog, taken whilst at work, of him drinking Pepsi together with some words to the effect that "I was drinking pepsi whilst working in the secret coke flavour dept as usual".
i.e. he was doing something he'd [probably] signed a contract against doing when he started working there.
It's very simple. Don't blog about work and if you have to, don't blog the specifics.
Troc
The real one?
:)
I hate to break it to you but that Star Trek stuff is just a TV series. Santa is more real. You are more likely to find a decent, upstanding, honest politician handing out generous donations to the needy whilst generally being nice to mankind and all other animals than you are to find the Enterprise rushing around space.
For a start the US and the Rest of the World (TM) have to get along. All diesase has to cease. Microsoft has to disappear off to the Delta quadrant so they can come back as the Borg (well ok, that's kinda possible). I mean it's not as if Klingon is even a language.......??? (erm)
Yes, I know it's set in the future before you get all clever and causality-related at me
The pixels are THIIIIS BIIIG (holds hands wide apart)
Troc
The TU-144 was a direct copy of the Concorde, made from stolen plans of the UK/FR aeroplane. Unfortunately (for the Russians) the plans they stole had been "doctored" by the British to not work - hence the crash. That's why they had to add canards to the Tupolev.
Troc
You can always partition your drives and then RAID the partitions, oh........ wait a minute........
erm
That would be RAIP a redundant array of illogical partitions.
Troc.
Yeah but they are all much better than Apple's iApps - they all start with a K which is, as we all know, much better than an i. It's upper case AND further down the alphabet.
:)
Not as good as zsh though or Zmodem.
Troc
wait wait, I am confused. Are these books intended for entertainment purposes "ooh, this bit is funny to read, look at the shiny thing........." or are they useful for the legal assassination of people as long as it's entertaining "ooh, that was fun, lets kill another........"
:)
sorry, it's Friday
Troc
Whilst that does make sense (and I feel a little stupid for not thinking of that..!) what's to stop an unscrupulous taxi driver from looking whilst the blind person does their thing?
:)
I liked the idea of blind people driving
Troc
Heh, the US is the only place I have seen a drive-through ATM (cashpoint) which had braille on the digits for all those, erm, blind drivers.
Troc
Am I the only one that found that one of the funniest things I've read here for a while? Or is it just my sick sense of humour?
Naah, it'll just light up a flag at Verisign's HQ so they can rush off and squat on speakerbracelets.com and motorcyclecandles.net :)
Troc
I once kept a UK tele-marketer on the phone for 10 minutes whilst I "counted the windows in our house" (i.e. made a nice cup of tea) I eventually went back to the phone and said "Sorry I took so long but someone rang the doorbell and tried to sell me double-glazing. I mean I already have double-glazing and everything...., so, what did you want again?"
:)
The other one was inviting the Jehovah Witnesses in - because I was too busy to shoo them away - whilst I was bottling vast amounts of home made wine. They didn't come back for 10 years
Troc
yes, where is the subject. :)
Troc
Yeah, That dammed Ariane 4 rocket was only the most successful, accurate, reliable launcher ever.
Nasty horrid Europeans.
Sure Ariane 5 has had some teething troubles but don't mock the Europeans, they are the ones who made space commercial. Ariane is much more reliable than the Delta or Atlas Centaur launchers the US uses and whilst the shuttle is quite reliable, it's a ridiculously expensive way to put a commercial satellite in space.
The interface is essentially a web browser. It uses the Webcore from Safari to render the pages.
Troc
I suspect that showing pictures of Keith Richards to young, impressionable children counts as child abuse in most civilised countries :)
I am a world weary, hardened, seen-it-all, experienced adult and they disturb me! (ooh, the nightmares etc etc)
I wonder if showing pictures of Keith Richards to himself would be some kind of self-abuse.
Troc
PS It's kind of on topic - it has kids in it, and weird looking musicians who could be starving. Well maybe a little hungry. Look, I'm sure that sometimes he goes for hours without eating stuff.
as long as there's room for the lawyers.
troc
ooh a score of 1 was overrated? some people have no sense of humour. I should have used my karma bonus then they'd have assumed it was a good post!
*smirk*
troc
That was the guy's problem, he should have tried to buy her with cash :)
Sorry.
troc.
Cambridge is in the South East of the UK. Not the South West.
So I guess the SME was a different one.
So no beef. Completely cow-less and without bovine.
troc
Hmm, assuming you understood it and the person who modded you understood it, and knowing that I understood it, does that mean nobody else will?
cool. I guess if he gets modded up anymore, then someone is telling porkies.
Troc
PS For the cockney-impaired: "porkies" from "porky pies" from "pork pies" i.e. lies.
PPS A pork pie is a piece of fatty pink meat and some seasoning, wrapped in some jelly-like fat and some gray chewy pastry. Yes, it is edible. Just.
True, I guess I was being a little sexist but usually it's the mothers that have the inappropriate 4x4 and the fathers that have the inappropriate company car or BMW 3 series (at least in Surrey it appears that every house comes with one 4x4 and one 3 series, you just choose the colours to match your front door :)
It's partly peer pressure (ooh, next door have a RAV 4, we NEED a Freelander, the high seats make me feel safer) and partly crap public transport I guess.
I live in holland now and since we arrived, we got rid of one car and the other one is only used for long trips and stuff. The public transport gets us most places quickly (but not as well as it used to) and I can cycle/rollerblade/walk/tram/train/bus/canoe (or drive I guess) to work depending on the weather and how long it takes me to get up. Fastest is bike and slowest is walking.
Troc
Ps No I have not actually canoed to work but I could do. I have ice-skated to work.
I'll go with that one. Hopefully the new hybrid cars will help there. Even in the 'states, hybrids should do well - you guys can still buy an SUV with all the power and erm, SUVness that you think you require (or have been conned into requiring through advertising and peer pressure like all those dammed women in the UK with huge 4x4 and one kid to drive the 100m to school) but with double the fuel efficiency.
It looks like the first models will be out next year. The general idea is either to have electric motors to all wheels and an IC engine to "top up" the electrics when necessary or (and this seems the most sensible and common idea) to have electrics driving 2 of the wheels and an IC for the others. This allows for lots of clever 4 wheel drive stuff, on braking you get energy back into the car etc etc
troc
Terms such as "inventive step" and "technical contribution" are actually very well defined in public EPO (european patent office) documents such as their "guidelines" and their case law and are, as such, not open to interpretation problems.
Yes, they are boring legal documents (in three languages though, whoohoo) and as such not the most exciting read, but they do define what the EPO means by their various terms and are used by all parties, including interested third parties (who are welcome to comment or oppose the patent at any time from initial publication of the application to after final grant) during the process.
Troc