Doesn't ACME have a patent on portable holes? I think these guys may want to check with their lawyers...
I shouldn't worry. All ACME's lawyers have been tied up for years in a class-action lawsuit that's been brought by the Coyote Association, for knowingly selling dangerously substandard equipment.
But this is a fuzzy dot!Can't we just wait a few months untill it's there.
Then it'll be a fuzzy disc. It's Titan, proud possessor of the solar system's second smoggiest shroud. You're not going to see any detail through that lot.
I have seen the first one, but not the sequel "Battle Royale 2"
Don't bother with the sequel. It's unutterable crap, skipping character development and human interest in favour of bloodshed. And since it's playing to an audience that saw Battle Royale and then came back for more, it decides that the mass slaughter of children isn't going to shock anyone - so instead we have the celebration of international terrorism. How imaginative.
"By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself. Thank you, thank you. 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 yourselves. Seriously though, if you are, do. No really, there's no rationalisation for what you do, and you are Satan's little helpers, OK? Kill yourselves, seriously. You're the ruiner of all things good. Seriously, no, this is not a joke. "There's gonna be a joke coming..." There's no fucking joke coming, you are Satan's spawn, filling the world with bile and garbage, you are fucked and you are fucking us, kill yourselves, it's the only way to save your fucking soul. Kill yourself, kill yourself, kill yourself now. Now, back to the show.
Not eveyone comes from a Judeo-Christian background
But you read the Beano, right? So you should know that Jonah was a sailor who, every week, would get a job on a ship and contrive by misadventure to sink it by the end of the strip.
I mean, come on - this level of ignorance of our cultural heritage is astounding, whether you're a believer or not.
But if the Roomba is a girl, then Asimo is definitely a boy.
Is it just the name? 'a' is typically a feminine ending, at least in Western culture, while 'o' is masculine. Is that what people are picking up on here?
seems about right to me. why would microsoft care?
Mindshare. Even a pirated copy of Windows strengthens their monopoly.
Suppose everyone running a pirate Windows suddenly saw the error of their ways and installed some Linux variant, or bought a Mac... Microsoft would be apoplectic. Far better for them that these people stay with Windows, even without paying.
So they take the "435 lines" out, or better yet, make them their own library making it no longer entertwined, and no longer have to worry about it.
Once they do that, they can still sell SuSE, with all its GPL'd and proprietrary packages legally. Then they start sueing other distributors, who can't do the same thing.
Then all the other distributors take the unencumbered kernel from SuSE, which they can do because as you say it's GPL, and use that. Problem solved.
In.uk we say absolutely anything. "June 5th" is just fine, though it would more normally be "June the 5th". You'll also hear "the 5th of June" and this will also be fine.
In writing dates, though, it's definitely dd/mm/yy.
You think the British government has an office of lawyers and media directors dedicated to filtering anything unfavourable from the BBC?
No, just Lord Hutton.
You need to actually watch some of it - the goverment's representatives are often given something of a beating when they're being interviewed.
But I never did find out if Michael Howard threatened to overrule him.
Backup, backup, backup. Done the backup yet? Good. Now replace it on warranty.
Over a year old, alas. Probably the same model as the one you've got, as well - the 80 gig job. I'll probably get a nice new disk - couple of hundred gig - for the serious stuff, and use the rattly one for all those games on the other side of the dual boot, the ones I can just reinstall anyway should the worst happen:-)
I recently bought an ASUS DVD-ROM, the DVD-E616 which is very, very quiet, even at full speed.
I wonder if that's the cause? When I built my computer in early 2003, I bought a cheap Sony DVD drive and CD burner. The CD burner sounds like it's about to try to take off, but the DVD drive is damn near silent. Perhaps they worked harder on quieting the DVD drive because they knew people would be trying to use it to watch films?
I also got a Seagate Barracuda hard disk - dead quiet for a while, but lately it's been making awful rattling noises like something from 1994. It's screwed in tightly, which makes me worry something's horribly wrong, but SMART reports nothing looks like it's dying... any suggestions, o wise/.?
51 degrees 30 minutes north, and dead on the meridian. You'd never believe what job Nyalarhotep's managed to get himself. Enough to say that he's reached the very high$@CC~=NO CARRIER
Look at it this way: You personally will never, ever visit Alpha Centauri. It's just not going to happen. Neither will anyone you know, nor most likely will anything launched in your lifetime.
Your great-great-great-great-grandson might someday visit Alpha Centauri. Great. Or, alternatively, the great-great-great-grandson of the robot I program today might someday visit Alpha Centauri. Now, why does the idea of your DNA-based descendant visiting Alpha Centauri give you such a warm feeling, while the idea of my silicon-based descendant visiting Alpha Centauri doesn't?
Given that I personally will never live to see the day either way, I don't mind if our human or transhuman successors visit the stars, or if our robot successors visit the stars. They're just as much our children and our legacy to the universe either way.
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If you are innocent, you have nothing to fear, citizen.
Wow! I almost managed to type that with a straight face.
You've never met one of these? They're the ones who are scared of computers, ones who need their hands holding to be able to cope.
I shouldn't worry. All ACME's lawyers have been tied up for years in a class-action lawsuit that's been brought by the Coyote Association, for knowingly selling dangerously substandard equipment.
Certainly not. Heath Robinson already owns the patents on such devices.
Then it'll be a fuzzy disc. It's Titan, proud possessor of the solar system's second smoggiest shroud. You're not going to see any detail through that lot.
Don't bother with the sequel. It's unutterable crap, skipping character development and human interest in favour of bloodshed. And since it's playing to an audience that saw Battle Royale and then came back for more, it decides that the mass slaughter of children isn't going to shock anyone - so instead we have the celebration of international terrorism. How imaginative.
-- Bill Hicks
But you read the Beano, right? So you should know that Jonah was a sailor who, every week, would get a job on a ship and contrive by misadventure to sink it by the end of the strip.
I mean, come on - this level of ignorance of our cultural heritage is astounding, whether you're a believer or not.
No, no... that was in English, when they finally nailed the bloody thing after it had sunk half the Royal Navy.
Is it just the name? 'a' is typically a feminine ending, at least in Western culture, while 'o' is masculine. Is that what people are picking up on here?
That's funny, though. The interior kind of smells of blood. And everyone's really secretive about how they actually built these things.
And I'm sure it shouldn't have gone off on its own like that that one time.
Those two times.
OK, those three times. And that one ended up messy. And hang on... that's just armour plating! It's not a robot at all! What's going on here?
OH MY GOD IT'S MY MOTHER! AAAAAGGGGGHHHHHH! AAAAASUKAAAAAA!
Mindshare. Even a pirated copy of Windows strengthens their monopoly.
Suppose everyone running a pirate Windows suddenly saw the error of their ways and installed some Linux variant, or bought a Mac... Microsoft would be apoplectic. Far better for them that these people stay with Windows, even without paying.
Orwellian in the sense that TW shareholders are now washing dishes in a Paris hotel to make ends meet.
Once they do that, they can still sell SuSE, with all its GPL'd and proprietrary packages legally. Then they start sueing other distributors, who can't do the same thing.
Then all the other distributors take the unencumbered kernel from SuSE, which they can do because as you say it's GPL, and use that. Problem solved.
Ah, but now, Netcraft have confirmed it!
In writing dates, though, it's definitely dd/mm/yy.
No, just Lord Hutton. You need to actually watch some of it - the goverment's representatives are often given something of a beating when they're being interviewed.
But I never did find out if Michael Howard threatened to overrule him.
Over a year old, alas. Probably the same model as the one you've got, as well - the 80 gig job. I'll probably get a nice new disk - couple of hundred gig - for the serious stuff, and use the rattly one for all those games on the other side of the dual boot, the ones I can just reinstall anyway should the worst happen :-)
Now, for your penance, go and get drunk on Guinness and sing something abusive about the English.
I wonder if that's the cause? When I built my computer in early 2003, I bought a cheap Sony DVD drive and CD burner. The CD burner sounds like it's about to try to take off, but the DVD drive is damn near silent. Perhaps they worked harder on quieting the DVD drive because they knew people would be trying to use it to watch films?
I also got a Seagate Barracuda hard disk - dead quiet for a while, but lately it's been making awful rattling noises like something from 1994. It's screwed in tightly, which makes me worry something's horribly wrong, but SMART reports nothing looks like it's dying... any suggestions, o wise /.?
51 degrees 30 minutes north, and dead on the meridian. You'd never believe what job Nyalarhotep's managed to get himself. Enough to say that he's reached the very high$@CC~=NO CARRIER
Wait.
Up and running in 6 months? I mean, I know this is Gentoo we're talking about, but this seems excessive. What are they using, a 386SX?
Supposed to be? Are you suggesting that evolution has some kind of plan?
Your great-great-great-great-grandson might someday visit Alpha Centauri. Great. Or, alternatively, the great-great-great-grandson of the robot I program today might someday visit Alpha Centauri. Now, why does the idea of your DNA-based descendant visiting Alpha Centauri give you such a warm feeling, while the idea of my silicon-based descendant visiting Alpha Centauri doesn't?
Given that I personally will never live to see the day either way, I don't mind if our human or transhuman successors visit the stars, or if our robot successors visit the stars. They're just as much our children and our legacy to the universe either way.