> It was pretty simple to figure out what tube > was blown and head down to the hardware store > for a replacement, however.
Not really easy to see which were blown. At age 37, I distinctly remember as a young child Daddy pulling out a half a dozen and we headed down to the hardware store and tested them in the tester.
Ahhh, those were the good old days, when the Playboys you found in the field, more or less current, sported women with bouffants both above and below.
hahaha Christ, I kill me!
I wanna quit programming (and now, program management) and turn to my real love and be a professional writer...
Without knowing more about the story, "here here!" to the Pakistani transcriber who, in the face of being ripped off, tried to get his money back.
On the other hand, if I were one of the patients, I'd be pretty pissed off. I dealt with medical records on a brief project twelve years ago (including manually altering the width of a blob notes field.) Such information could be very embarassing. There are some seriously fucked up people out there.
> [Yous mad at] Microsoft are ok being permenant > beta testers for OSS
Exactly. As opposed to Linux, which is more reminiscent of Henry Ford in the late 1800's driving a car at 40 miles an hour with an engineer hanging off the side to fix it if it broke down.
Given that the earth's age as estimated has ranged from 12.5 to 17 billion years over the past 30 years that I've been paying attention, I assumed the universe was about that size, maybe 2 or 3x that. How could it be larger if light couldn't even have gotten to the edge?
So I'm rather relieved to see it's that huge. I wonder how they can estimate that, though, given that they could, at most, see only what, 12.5 billion light years worth?
The whiniest, though, was Mel. Her screams could shatter titanium. One time she was in some kind of force field bubble, and her screaming actually cracked my skull.
> "And don't try to pretend that anyone under 40 > recognizes Carlin as anything but the Seven > Words You Can't Say On TV Guy"
Not even that. He's that guy who gave the trucker head in exchange for a ride in that Jay and Silent Bob from Clerks lame movie, thus ripping off a scene from Big Trouble by Dave Barry.
And the only reason I know that about that movie is that I watched the ad on TV, of course. From 7 words you can't say to sucking cock on prime time TV. Quite a change in our country in the last 40 years, eh?
Either that or many of the things that make for a good OS run by tens of millions would lead too a hundred thousand tech support calls for a day were Linux or Unix scaled up.
Each little stumbling block that is beneath the notice of a Linux user translates to thousands of tech calls out in the real world.
People hate to have to learn to jiggle the door handle to get the key to work. They hate to have to hit the TV on the top left side, just and so.
In spite of popular opinion, these OS's have [b]not[/b] been put thru the wringer...
Actually, Ranma gets trapped permanently as a girl. After having uncomfortable lesbian sex with his girlfriend (Ranma never learned good kootch hygiene) some fundamentalists throw him in jail for being an affront to God.
It's not a robot, folks. It's a fancy remote-controlled unit. A voice recognition system (if that) causing it to use canned responses to catch words and phrases (if that, and not sent to it by a live human...)
The only really neat thing are the semi-polished mechanics allowing it to clumsily walk down stairs like a 90 year old lady.
My point is that "given all else equal", choose the person with more extra curricular activities, sure.
The problem is that it isn't "all else equal". It's a sh*tload of extra stuff making up deficiencies in the difference against purely academic things.
Well, it takes him 6.2 seconds to run the 40 yard dash, but he's in the student council and band and Jr. Democrats and won an award for fancy cake icing design, so let's put him on the 100 meter dash squad, but this other guy who runs it in 4.1 can go hang because he doesn't have any extra curricular activities.
If that attitude is disasterous on a sports team (or in a business) then why is it OK for university admissions?
He must have been loaded up on extra curricular activities.
I was shocked with all this U-Mich nonsense to see how little good test scores and grades counted when compared against the thousand and one extra credit points you can get.
Had I known this, I would have lied out my ass, joined math club, chess, etc. instead of just football.
How the hell are you to know that a lot more than just academics makes a huge fucking difference in something it should make no difference in?
So you're saying the grotesque inflation rates of colleges the past five years or more are due to a collapse in private grants and state income, and they're trying to make up the difference?
> Card counting is a legitimate form of playing blackjack.
And they may still legitimately throw you out for doing it. They give the lame excuse to the judge, that it's a game of chance, and you're removing that by counting cards, blah blah blah.
It only gives a fraction of a percent advantage to the player, so you have to be prepared to be in it for the long run.
Let's all review the tape of one of Saddam's "Inaugurations", shall we? The one with Uday and Qusay plunging steak knives into people's skulls and making them walk around until they die?
Just like the good old Roman Coliseum. Great fun with political prisoners!
> Well, then I'd rather have another large > government infrastructure (whee, fiber optics > to your door!
Actually, the private infrastructure in the US has provided this. The reason you don't have fiber optic the last hundred yards to your door is because of the government!!!!!!!!!!
You didn't think the cable companies went through the trouble to lay fiber optic lines everywhere just so they could convert it to a coaxial cable to drop to your home from the pole so you would have to use an inferior cable modem, did you?
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> It was pretty simple to figure out what tube
> was blown and head down to the hardware store
> for a replacement, however.
Not really easy to see which were blown. At age 37, I distinctly remember as a young child Daddy pulling out a half a dozen and we headed down to the hardware store and tested them in the tester.
Ahhh, those were the good old days, when the Playboys you found in the field, more or less current, sported women with bouffants both above and below.
hahaha Christ, I kill me!
I wanna quit programming (and now, program management) and turn to my real love and be a professional writer...
Without knowing more about the story, "here here!" to the Pakistani transcriber who, in the face of being ripped off, tried to get his money back.
On the other hand, if I were one of the patients, I'd be pretty pissed off. I dealt with medical records on a brief project twelve years ago (including manually altering the width of a blob notes field.) Such information could be very embarassing. There are some seriously fucked up people out there.
> a printer which uses a laser and can cut/write
> on everything from paper to wood to stone.
I'm'sa gettin' me wife's name put on my schwinkie!
> [Yous mad at] Microsoft are ok being permenant
> beta testers for OSS
Exactly. As opposed to Linux, which is more reminiscent of Henry Ford in the late 1800's driving a car at 40 miles an hour with an engineer hanging off the side to fix it if it broke down.
> You misspelled 'Clippy.'
I knew I saved that machine gun for a reason!
OMFFFFFG!!!
How can you forget BOB?
How about Uru, the material Thor's hammer is made from?
And there's Cap's shield. No one knows what that is made of. It's those mysterious meteorites, you know...
Given that the earth's age as estimated has ranged from 12.5 to 17 billion years over the past 30 years that I've been paying attention, I assumed the universe was about that size, maybe 2 or 3x that. How could it be larger if light couldn't even have gotten to the edge?
So I'm rather relieved to see it's that huge. I wonder how they can estimate that, though, given that they could, at most, see only what, 12.5 billion light years worth?
I'm an unrepentent Peri-ite. She was the best!
The whiniest, though, was Mel. Her screams could shatter titanium. One time she was in some kind of force field bubble, and her screaming actually cracked my skull.
> "And don't try to pretend that anyone under 40
> recognizes Carlin as anything but the Seven
> Words You Can't Say On TV Guy"
Not even that. He's that guy who gave the trucker head in exchange for a ride in that Jay and Silent Bob from Clerks lame movie, thus ripping off a scene from Big Trouble by Dave Barry.
And the only reason I know that about that movie is that I watched the ad on TV, of course. From 7 words you can't say to sucking cock on prime time TV. Quite a change in our country in the last 40 years, eh?
Either that or many of the things that make for a good OS run by tens of millions would lead too a hundred thousand tech support calls for a day were Linux or Unix scaled up.
Each little stumbling block that is beneath the notice of a Linux user translates to thousands of tech calls out in the real world.
People hate to have to learn to jiggle the door handle to get the key to work. They hate to have to hit the TV on the top left side, just and so.
In spite of popular opinion, these OS's have [b]not[/b] been put thru the wringer...
In my day, we didn't have computers, modems, or even terminals. We used pen and paper to play our dungeon games. And we liked it!
Actually, we loved it. A lot is gained but a lot is lost in a graphical 3D world.
Actually, Ranma gets trapped permanently as a girl. After having uncomfortable lesbian sex with his girlfriend (Ranma never learned good kootch hygiene) some fundamentalists throw him in jail for being an affront to God.
It's not a robot, folks. It's a fancy remote-controlled unit. A voice recognition system (if that) causing it to use canned responses to catch words and phrases (if that, and not sent to it by a live human...)
The only really neat thing are the semi-polished mechanics allowing it to clumsily walk down stairs like a 90 year old lady.
> . Yes, John Dvorak like the rest of the idiots
> at pcmag.com is pro SCO. Don't be fooled by
> clowns like Dvorak. These guys are on the
> take.
Yes because SCO has tons more money than, say, IBM.
Well, if Value = Ranking / Cost, then those mail-order sheepskin pulp houses should be ranked #1.
My point is that "given all else equal", choose the person with more extra curricular activities, sure.
The problem is that it isn't "all else equal". It's a sh*tload of extra stuff making up deficiencies in the difference against purely academic things.
Well, it takes him 6.2 seconds to run the 40 yard dash, but he's in the student council and band and Jr. Democrats and won an award for fancy cake icing design, so let's put him on the 100 meter dash squad, but this other guy who runs it in 4.1 can go hang because he doesn't have any extra curricular activities.
If that attitude is disasterous on a sports team (or in a business) then why is it OK for university admissions?
He must have been loaded up on extra curricular activities.
I was shocked with all this U-Mich nonsense to see how little good test scores and grades counted when compared against the thousand and one extra credit points you can get.
Had I known this, I would have lied out my ass, joined math club, chess, etc. instead of just football.
How the hell are you to know that a lot more than just academics makes a huge fucking difference in something it should make no difference in?
So you're saying the grotesque inflation rates of colleges the past five years or more are due to a collapse in private grants and state income, and they're trying to make up the difference?
UC-Berkley? I graduated from U-Mich and I have bigger chunks of programmer in my crap.
> Card counting is a legitimate form of playing blackjack.
And they may still legitimately throw you out for doing it. They give the lame excuse to the judge, that it's a game of chance, and you're removing that by counting cards, blah blah blah.
It only gives a fraction of a percent advantage to the player, so you have to be prepared to be in it for the long run.
> Although I suppose this theory is wrong somewhere.
Yes, there are (say) 40 numbers on the wheel. But if you bet 1 chip on 1 number and win, you only win, say, 30 chips.
Red/Black, even/odd, etc. are just similar variations.
Thus you'll always lose out money in the long run. Indeed, even in the short run you'll lose out more likely than not.
I hope you can get it working again. And this time, move the porn to a more stable computer immediately!
Let's all review the tape of one of Saddam's "Inaugurations", shall we? The one with Uday and Qusay plunging steak knives into people's skulls and making them walk around until they die?
Just like the good old Roman Coliseum. Great fun with political prisoners!
> Well, then I'd rather have another large
> government infrastructure (whee, fiber optics
> to your door!
Actually, the private infrastructure in the US has provided this. The reason you don't have fiber optic the last hundred yards to your door is because of the government!!!!!!!!!!
You didn't think the cable companies went through the trouble to lay fiber optic lines everywhere just so they could convert it to a coaxial cable to drop to your home from the pole so you would have to use an inferior cable modem, did you?