"By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing... kill yourself. No, no, no it's just a little thought. I'm just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day, they'll take root - I don't know. You try, you do what you can. Kill yourself. Seriously though, if you are, do. Aaah, no really, there's no rationalisation for what you do and you are Satan's little helpers, Okay - kill yourself - seriously. You are the ruiner of all things good, seriously. No this is not a joke, you're going, "there's going to be a joke coming," there's no fucking joke coming. You are Satan's spawn filling the world with bile and garbage."
Actually its more like a nice ICBM that also happens to make a not-very-nice launch vehicle. With an ICBM, you don't really care about re-usability. Just get it up, over and down onto your enemy with as much explosive payload as possible. With a launch vehicle you want to get up, up, and more up, then maybe down and up again, many times. Saturn V was the logical extension of the German V-2 rocket programme, but as a launch vehicle it was an expensive means to the end of getting to the moon before the Russians.
That doesn't stop me worshipping it:) I had a model Saturn V when I was a kid in about 1970, and if I still had it now and some government agent decides its a military component and wants to take it away from me, well, over my dead body. I'd feel the same way if I was working for NASA and they started tearing down my vintage 1960's Apollo posters.
I suspect Apple wanted the iPhone's ringtone to act like an advert for the iPhone, so that when it goes off in Joe Fanboy's pocket everyone in the room will know he's got an iPhone. Of course, he would have told everyone and waved it under their noses shortly after walking into the room, so it seems slightly unneccesary...
Anyway, you can change the ringtone. You have total freedom to change it to ANY ringtone (as long as its one of the 25 included on the iPhone).
There seem to be hacks for making a custom ringtone out there as well.
The media will just have to do something like they did during the Michael Jackson trial - get a bunch of political lookalikes, build a parliament set, and then re-enact the day's proceedings. And then they can start having real fun with the politicians...
Or build a CGI parliament. Then they could release a FPS version of the parliament and you could run round and blast your MPs to death with a BFG.
I wonder if the physics department here will be expecting me to finish mine, 17 years after the funding ran out and now several years after the detector shut down... Now, maybe if they have my data on backup tapes and there's a spare Vax 11/750 going...
Can someone tell me who arranges purchasing for these sorts of contracts? Because they can have every unnecessary blue LED off all my tech kit from the last few years - that should be enough for the Mexican border...
We have an openMosix cluster of ten nodes. Our users can log into any one of them, start a long-running job, and the cluster does its job of balancing and migrating jobs to the best node.
'fork-and-forget' in this context means our forking users forget which node they started the job on...
With a gas-pressurized suit, you put it on at atmospheric pressure and pump it up as you go outside. These squeezy suits are surely going to *hurt* if you wear them in a normal atmospheric pressure environment, and I dont see a way of ramping up the squeeze factor. Oh well, maybe they've got that in there somewhere, I just dont see it.
Does your HR department keep these Excel spreadsheets on a shared network drive too?
I've been trying to get our department to sort out some kind of department information system to keep track of which offices staff are in, phone numbers, emails, statuses, who supervises who and all that, but no, we will continue to use a DASS[1] system because that's what the admin people are used to. Every so often they print out the staff list spreadsheet and stick it in every pigeonhole. In three days time its out of date - someone has moved office or a new person has started. I really want to build something with a framework like Django but I don't have the time and I suspect the Head of Dept won't sanction spending techie time on this when we spend all our time firefighting user problems... Okay, rant over. I'll see if any of the other solutions in this thread are usable straight off...
Well that's as maybe, but its the ultimate review for *that* particular iPhone!
1913 Webster definition of ultimate is rather apropos:
3. Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further
division or separation; constituent; elemental; as, an
ultimate particle; an ultimate constituent of matter.
[1913 Webster]
But how much of the spam these bogus accounts are sending out is going to other bogus accounts? Eventually hotmail will eat itself... We can only hope.
He'll just go and blow the money on another attempt to film Don Quixote. Have you seen the documentary about his attempt to make that? Hilarious, especially the epic 'flight-cased cine cameras moving downhill rapidly in desert floodwater' scene. Poignant.
That's Brazil the Terry Gilliam movie, not the South American country. Thought I'd clear that up before Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva decides to invade Slashdistan for badmouthing.
Dell Latitude D630 is the worst culprit. The techie has got it working on the other ones but without accelerated 3d graphics. On the D630 if the system tries to do 3d graphics, then it locks up (not sure if its just X locking up or the whole thing).
Slashdot Mirror
I'm with Bill Hicks on this:
"By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing... kill yourself. No, no, no it's just a little thought. I'm just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day, they'll take root - I don't know. You try, you do what you can. Kill yourself. Seriously though, if you are, do. Aaah, no really, there's no rationalisation for what you do and you are Satan's little helpers, Okay - kill yourself - seriously. You are the ruiner of all things good, seriously. No this is not a joke, you're going, "there's going to be a joke coming," there's no fucking joke coming. You are Satan's spawn filling the world with bile and garbage."
Don't mod this Funny - there's no joke coming. Really. http://sazmatazz.users.btopenworld.com/ for the moreness.
What's it written in? Double Visional Basic? Lishp?
Brainf**k maybe...
Didn't you guys read the article? This should be in tags...
You have no chance to survive make your <time datetime="2007-04-23T17:35:00-05:00">time</time>
Perhaps HTML5 is designed for the AYB retro nostalgia happening any day now...
More things for IE to not support properly.
So when four galaxies collide, they make a huge super-galaxy...
Now is that how they make those monster trucks?
http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/
Seems to have the same goals - but does it have the same issues?
But you are fusing genetically when you decide to have kids. Has that been explained to you? :)
I guess nowadays couples have more digital information on their hard drives than in their DNA (3 billion base-pairs)...
Actually its more like a nice ICBM that also happens to make a not-very-nice launch vehicle. With an ICBM, you don't really care about re-usability. Just get it up, over and down onto your enemy with as much explosive payload as possible. With a launch vehicle you want to get up, up, and more up, then maybe down and up again, many times. Saturn V was the logical extension of the German V-2 rocket programme, but as a launch vehicle it was an expensive means to the end of getting to the moon before the Russians.
:) I had a model Saturn V when I was a kid in about 1970, and if I still had it now and some government agent decides its a military component and wants to take it away from me, well, over my dead body. I'd feel the same way if I was working for NASA and they started tearing down my vintage 1960's Apollo posters.
That doesn't stop me worshipping it
I suspect Apple wanted the iPhone's ringtone to act like an advert for the iPhone, so that when it goes off in Joe Fanboy's pocket everyone in the room will know he's got an iPhone. Of course, he would have told everyone and waved it under their noses shortly after walking into the room, so it seems slightly unneccesary...
Anyway, you can change the ringtone. You have total freedom to change it to ANY ringtone (as long as its one of the 25 included on the iPhone).
There seem to be hacks for making a custom ringtone out there as well.
The media will just have to do something like they did during the Michael Jackson trial - get a bunch of political lookalikes, build a parliament set, and then re-enact the day's proceedings. And then they can start having real fun with the politicians...
Or build a CGI parliament. Then they could release a FPS version of the parliament and you could run round and blast your MPs to death with a BFG.
I bet the master tapes of Bohemian Rhapsody are in better condition...
I wonder if the physics department here will be expecting me to finish mine, 17 years after the funding ran out and now several years after the detector shut down... Now, maybe if they have my data on backup tapes and there's a spare Vax 11/750 going...
Can someone tell me who arranges purchasing for these sorts of contracts? Because they can have every unnecessary blue LED off all my tech kit from the last few years - that should be enough for the Mexican border...
The campaign group doesn't say if the 12 people who pulled out because of illness were exposed to radiation or 'placebo'.
I'm guessing they got huge doses of placebo.
You have been iPwned!
We have an openMosix cluster of ten nodes. Our users can log into any one of them, start a long-running job, and the cluster does its job of balancing and migrating jobs to the best node.
'fork-and-forget' in this context means our forking users forget which node they started the job on...
If your CMS/wiki/document repository supports DAV then you dont need a plug-in, you do it at the OS level and any application can do it.
With a gas-pressurized suit, you put it on at atmospheric pressure and pump it up as you go outside. These squeezy suits are surely going to *hurt* if you wear them in a normal atmospheric pressure environment, and I dont see a way of ramping up the squeeze factor. Oh well, maybe they've got that in there somewhere, I just dont see it.
Does your HR department keep these Excel spreadsheets on a shared network drive too?
I've been trying to get our department to sort out some kind of department information system to keep track of which offices staff are in, phone numbers, emails, statuses, who supervises who and all that, but no, we will continue to use a DASS[1] system because that's what the admin people are used to. Every so often they print out the staff list spreadsheet and stick it in every pigeonhole. In three days time its out of date - someone has moved office or a new person has started. I really want to build something with a framework like Django but I don't have the time and I suspect the Head of Dept won't sanction spending techie time on this when we spend all our time firefighting user problems... Okay, rant over. I'll see if any of the other solutions in this thread are usable straight off...
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[1] Diverse Assortment of Shared Spreadsheets
Well that's as maybe, but its the ultimate review for *that* particular iPhone!
1913 Webster definition of ultimate is rather apropos:
3. Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further
division or separation; constituent; elemental; as, an
ultimate particle; an ultimate constituent of matter.
[1913 Webster]
Hey! That's the first time I've been sent to a goatse image from slashdot for a long long time! Ah, the memories.
Don't scroll down too far on that page if you are of a sensitive nature.
But how much of the spam these bogus accounts are sending out is going to other bogus accounts? Eventually hotmail will eat itself... We can only hope.
He'll just go and blow the money on another attempt to film Don Quixote. Have you seen the documentary about his attempt to make that? Hilarious, especially the epic 'flight-cased cine cameras moving downhill rapidly in desert floodwater' scene. Poignant.
That's Brazil the Terry Gilliam movie, not the South American country. Thought I'd clear that up before Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva decides to invade Slashdistan for badmouthing.
Dell Latitude D630 is the worst culprit. The techie has got it working on the other ones but without accelerated 3d graphics. On the D630 if the system tries to do 3d graphics, then it locks up (not sure if its just X locking up or the whole thing).
Ho hum