No, it's not. I can't find a link right now, but I already had this argument on slashdot. Two thirds of the sources found spelled it "Shuvs and Zools", one third spelled it "Shubs and Zuuls".
>> Oh, yeah. I can just see the original thinkers at Hollywood, Inc. making a movie about these. > Hey! We could call it "I Robot"! Man, I can hear Asimov rolling around in his coffin...
Wow, the way you connected the dots there is just scary insightful.
> Is he drinking coffee or is he getting off looking at child porn?
That all depends... is he drinking the coffee in quick little sips over and over again, drinking faster and faster until he appears to spill some coffee and reach for some napkins to clean it up?
> I can remember, as a young lad, cowering behind the sofa on a saturday afternoon.
You should have cowered up on top of the sofa instead of behind it, where those stupid tin cans couldn't have reached you. Or stood on a step ladder. Or gone upstairs.
> On a _real_ farm they do castration, artificial insemination, tail removal (pigs), beak cutting (chickens), and [...] pack all the animals into small crates [...]. To counter the infections caused by all these, heavy amounts of antibiotics are used [...]
I have pierced genitalia, my parents used a fertility clinic to conceive me, and I am typing this from a tiny cubicle in a sea of identical cubicles. Oh, and I'm on Amoxicillin right now for a virus, which is stupid because antibiotics don't do anything against viruses.
So what was the horrible thing you were going to tell us about real farms?
In another update, AEI was asked to produce the stolen code, and claims it is being held in a database that will crash and become corrupted if they make a copy of the data for anyone to read.
> Does it get into all the icky details of raising livestock that would be inappropriate to describe in detail on slashdot?
I've read descriptions of people having sex with livestock here on Slashdot. So I am wondering what sick detail you could possibly be talking about that is worse than that. I thought I had a sick imagination, but congratulations dtfinch, you've stumped me.
What this REALLY means is that they have already suffered a "major loss of data" but never made any backups and have been trying to hide the fact that the database has been GONE for weeks, months, or even years under grade school-level excuses.
The court has just declared that customers may also take their postal addresses with them when they move. So now if your customers, friends, and relatives have come to know your address as "1010 Elwood Drive" and you move across town or to a new city, you can bring the address with you to avoid confusion! Isn't that great!?
Soon each building, or even each office or apartment within a building will have it's own completely unique address without regard to where it is physically located.
We should make judges and lawyers in charge of more things so we can get great conveniences like this in all our life!
I program in C#, VB, and SQL for desktop apps and for web sites. Am I supposed to download 4 separate 50MB apps and use each Visual Studio separately depending on which language I am working in at the moment?
> I am a CS student at a small Liberal Arts college
When I read this my mind immediately expected it to be followed by something like:
"I am a CS student at a small Liberal Arts college. I've never been lucky with girls and nothing like this has ever happened to me before. One night I was up late in the laundry room and this beautiful girl walked in..."
>> this project isn't exactly e-postage... it's more like E-e-postage... you pay in computational cycles, not dollars > now I have to pay some amount that, even a fraction of a penny, would amount to almost a month of hosting charges
Did you even bother to read the post you are replying to?!
> evolution was not a beauty contest. ("Chicks dig muscular guys! I want to be muscular too!") It was about tuning an animal to be able to at least survive its environment
Hence the dazzling fan of the peacock, which the peacock uses to beat it's prey to death in a frightening, yet fashionable, display of evolutionary fitness.
There are many examples of evolution in weird directions for better sexual selection. For example song birds, fireflies, and Bill Clinton's exaggerated male chin.
There is no doubt that ECCO is still by far the most powerful and easy to use personal information manager. It's years old, but still nothing has come close. You can download it for free from NetManage now that it's orphan-ware at ftp.netmanage.com, also the full original distribution CD and documentation are available. If you Google for ECCO you will find an active community and nothing but praise for this great piece of software.
Coming up soon there is an Open Source project called Chandler led by Mitch Kapor that promises to be very good. It will have some of the ideas of Agenda and ECCO but updated for today's tech (all written in Python). A lot of eyes are on it...
> they're releasing "Kill Bill 2" onto the venerable Flipbook(TM) format.
They have already released "Kill Bill 1" in a promotional partnership with Heinz. Purchase any bottle of Heinz Ketchup and you will find a virtual-reality version of "Kill Bill 1" embedded in the center of the bottle. To view it, just open the bottle of Ketchup and squeeze VERY hard while flailing your arms around the room. Now look around and enjoy.
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Don't overlook "The Cat In The Hat".
What a deceptively simple parable about the Id, the Ego, and the SuperEgo.
I'm only half-kidding.
> I'd replace the dead HD for about $15
Reading, not your strong point.
From the article:
"I won't have to buy a hard drive which at the best deal I can find is about $130 US"
> For your sig: it's Shubs and Zuul's. Just FYI.
No, it's not.
I can't find a link right now, but I already had this argument on slashdot. Two thirds of the sources found spelled it "Shuvs and Zools", one third spelled it "Shubs and Zuuls".
>> Oh, yeah. I can just see the original thinkers at Hollywood, Inc. making a movie about these.
> Hey! We could call it "I Robot"! Man, I can hear Asimov rolling around in his coffin...
Wow, the way you connected the dots there is just scary insightful.
> aside from the state-of-the-art-but-still-weak lip synch job, it matched the Matrix look pretty well
No, I'd say BECAUSE of the weak lip synch it matched the Matrix look pretty well.
> Is he drinking coffee or is he getting off looking at child porn?
That all depends... is he drinking the coffee in quick little sips over and over again, drinking faster and faster until he appears to spill some coffee and reach for some napkins to clean it up?
Then he's just drinking coffee.
> I can remember, as a young lad, cowering behind the sofa on a saturday afternoon.
You should have cowered up on top of the sofa instead of behind it, where those stupid tin cans couldn't have reached you. Or stood on a step ladder. Or gone upstairs.
> On a _real_ farm they do castration, artificial insemination, tail removal (pigs), beak cutting (chickens), and [...] pack all the animals into small crates [...]. To counter the infections caused by all these, heavy amounts of antibiotics are used [...]
I have pierced genitalia, my parents used a fertility clinic to conceive me, and I am typing this from a tiny cubicle in a sea of identical cubicles. Oh, and I'm on Amoxicillin right now for a virus, which is stupid because antibiotics don't do anything against viruses.
So what was the horrible thing you were going to tell us about real farms?
In another update, AEI was asked to produce the stolen code, and claims it is being held in a database that will crash and become corrupted if they make a copy of the data for anyone to read.
> In extreme cases we have even reverted to using a telephone handset...
Good God! That must have been an extreme case to warrant actually speaking to another human being!
Let's hope it doesn't happen again.
> Does it get into all the icky details of raising livestock that would be inappropriate to describe in detail on slashdot?
I've read descriptions of people having sex with livestock here on Slashdot. So I am wondering what sick detail you could possibly be talking about that is worse than that. I thought I had a sick imagination, but congratulations dtfinch, you've stumped me.
What this REALLY means is that they have already suffered a "major loss of data" but never made any backups and have been trying to hide the fact that the database has been GONE for weeks, months, or even years under grade school-level excuses.
This Just In:
The court has just declared that customers may also take their postal addresses with them when they move.
So now if your customers, friends, and relatives have come to know your address as "1010 Elwood Drive" and you move across town or to a new city, you can bring the address with you to avoid confusion! Isn't that great!?
Soon each building, or even each office or apartment within a building will have it's own completely unique address without regard to where it is physically located.
We should make judges and lawyers in charge of more things so we can get great conveniences like this in all our life!
I program in C#, VB, and SQL for desktop apps and for web sites. Am I supposed to download 4 separate 50MB apps and use each Visual Studio separately depending on which language I am working in at the moment?
Isn't there one consolidated Visual Studio?
> I am a CS student at a small Liberal Arts college
When I read this my mind immediately expected it to be followed by something like:
"I am a CS student at a small Liberal Arts college. I've never been lucky with girls and nothing like this has ever happened to me before. One night I was up late in the laundry room and this beautiful girl walked in..."
>> this project isn't exactly e-postage... it's more like E-e-postage... you pay in computational cycles, not dollars
> now I have to pay some amount that, even a fraction of a penny, would amount to almost a month of hosting charges
Did you even bother to read the post you are replying to?!
> evolution was not a beauty contest. ("Chicks dig muscular guys! I want to be muscular too!") It was about tuning an animal to be able to at least survive its environment
Hence the dazzling fan of the peacock, which the peacock uses to beat it's prey to death in a frightening, yet fashionable, display of evolutionary fitness.
There are many examples of evolution in weird directions for better sexual selection. For example song birds, fireflies, and Bill Clinton's exaggerated male chin.
I predict that Sun will be dead by the end of 2005!
Hear me now! Marvel at me later!
I predict that Microsoft will be dead by the end of 2005!
Hear me now! Marvel at me later!
I predict that Apple will be dead by the end of 2005!
Hear me now! Marvel at me later!
> Allowing the public to buy hydrogen in normal retail outlets seems like a real bad idea
And allowing the public to buy gasoline in normal retail outlets is a better idea?
There is no doubt that ECCO is still by far the most powerful and easy to use personal information manager. It's years old, but still nothing has come close. You can download it for free from NetManage now that it's orphan-ware at ftp.netmanage.com, also the full original distribution CD and documentation are available. If you Google for ECCO you will find an active community and nothing but praise for this great piece of software.
Coming up soon there is an Open Source project called Chandler led by Mitch Kapor that promises to be very good. It will have some of the ideas of Agenda and ECCO but updated for today's tech (all written in Python). A lot of eyes are on it...
> Yay for me! You people have more spare time than I do 8^)
> and yes Yay is a real word. (link to reference to Yay being a real word, deleted)
HAHAHA Way to contradict yourself!
No, THIS is a degrading DVD...
> they're releasing "Kill Bill 2" onto the venerable Flipbook(TM) format.
They have already released "Kill Bill 1" in a promotional partnership with Heinz. Purchase any bottle of Heinz Ketchup and you will find a virtual-reality version of "Kill Bill 1" embedded in the center of the bottle. To view it, just open the bottle of Ketchup and squeeze VERY hard while flailing your arms around the room. Now look around and enjoy.