The person who got cooking duty said "alright, I'll cook, but if there are any complaints from anyone, that person will be in charge of cooking from then on.
The version I heard was "Moose turd pie" by Utah Philips. Here is a link to the MP3.
I heard it live (yes LIVE!) on the Dr. Demeto show when he was doing it on KSAN ("Jive 95") in San Francisco on Sunday nites...
1. Inhabitants don't look like Texans... [check!] 2. Plenty of oil... [check!] 3. Public opinion can be misrepresented... [check!] 4. Flat, sandy country with no place for the defenders to hide... [nope.]
Maybe he downloaded it onto an old hard drive that was failing and then promptly threw it into the trash?:-)
That's an excellent point! It must be part of his disk wiping procedure. I guess it now goes something like, "zeros, alternating, ones, alternating, Gigli..."
So there is essentially no way to get into the Fedex programming core without spending a year delivering packages.
Well that probably means that their programmers will start out having some pretty good clues about how the company works and they will be more understanding about their coworkers needs.
Hell, even McD's needs engineers. Who do you think writes the software to calculate "hamburger+softdrink=happymeal"?
Uh, Parr Business Systems perhaps? (If there are any Parr guys, does the sequence go "happy meal, coupon, pay with gift certificate, and also buy a gift certificate on the same order?:-)
Move to the Free State.... Their goal is to create a Free State out of New Hampshire,...
That does look very interesting, and the people do seem to be sincere about everything. Before reading their information, I just assumed that New Hampshire was just as bad as any other New England state. It was surprising to see that they appear to be a tiny oasis in the middle of a liberal swampland.
For me, the main concern with their choice of New Hampshire is not with how things are today, but some years down the road if (when?) the state is overrun with refugees from Massachusetts that bring their city disease with them ("Massholes"). I read that they get about twenty thousand immigrants every year to their 1.2 million current population. If this increases, will the hypothetical twenty thousand freedom lovers be able to counter the influence of a flood of Massholes?
I am not just speculating here, I have already witnessed this exact same scenario play out between California and Nevada. It sure is a sad day when a lover of freedom starts wondering if democracy is a good idea or not.:-(
The universe is constantly running even higher-energy experiments in our atmosphere all the time - we just haven't placed our detectors in the right place!
Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department,' says Werner von Braun.".
"But I think our attitude should be one of gratitude, Like the widows and cripples in Old London Town who owe their large pensions to Werner Von Braun."
I guess you can make any point you wish by quoting Tom Lehrer songs:-)
Heh. I hope you meant "mpg+" rather than "mph+";-)
Yep:-) I don't mean to badmouth these hybrid cars with better milage, but I don't think they have the right to make such a big deal out of a relatively modest achievement, especially considering the higher price. I think Saturn made a stupid decision about dropping the SL/SL1/SL2 models and replacing them with the higher priced, less efficient ION.
31.5 isn't better than what one of the guys at work gets in his escort.
For what it's worth, I have two Saturn SL cars, and they both average between 42 and 44 miles per gallon. One is a 1997 model, the other 2002. Aside from three or four times when someone else filled up the tank and forgot, I can account for every single gallon of fuel and every mile over the last seven (and two) years. Oh, and I bought both of them brand new from the dealer for $12K and $10K.
These cars are not hot rods, but they have plenty of power to climb hills at 65mph and I am almost always a bit quicker than the other cars.
So using my own experience as a benchmark, I can see that these 50mph+ cars may have a claim for better efficiency, but they are also a lot more expensive than mine.
100K or so a year for fixing fiber optic cables... I'm definently in the wrong field. Of course, those technicians have to be very precise or else you get refraction in the wire.
I imagine fiber repair guys earn their pay, especially when it's out in some muddy hole and they have a couple hundred strands to fuse together while everyone is breathing down their necks.
Just wondering out loud... It would be really cute if some of the fiber repair guys worked for the NSA. "Of course there's a blip in the TDR, that's where we repaired it." "Okay, nevermind."
Perhaps Warren Buffet? I have read many of his letters to stockholders, and he seems like a pretty straight shooter.
Here is the latest , unfortunately in PDF format. I'll cut out a few quotes, though.
If we fail, we will have no excuses. Charlie and I operate in an ideal environment. To begin with, we are supported by an incredible group of men and women who run our operating units.
Overall, we are certain Berkshire s performance in the future will fall far short of what it has been in the past. Nonetheless, Charlie and I remain hopeful that we can deliver results that are modestly above average. That s what we re being paid for.
Granted, this fellow is incredibly wealthy, and perhaps he deliberately slants his writings with a false tone of modesty to avoid showing off his ego. Or maybe a cigar is just a cigar and he really is a regular guy inside...
...but i serisouly have no clue how that could remain profitable,...
And in unrelated news, Google has won a multi-billion dollar contract with NSA for its cooperation in setting up and maintaining an "information storage and retrieval facility" dedicated to national security and total information awareness purposes...
My hunch says anyone who has small kids and doesn't want them to destroy a $40-$80 CD would be a likely candidate for such a mod chip and backup copies.
Your hunch is 100% correct. I know this is a fact because I am one of these people. I have a young daughter, and she is ONLY allowed to use the CD backups of our Playstation games. She tries to be careful (I think), but sure enough they get damaged or lost. Fortunately, it is pretty easy to burn a fresh copy from the master CD.
For those people who think everyone with a modchip is a pirate, "GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS." For each and every one of my CD backups, I have the original CD on a shelf in my computer room. I bought EACH AND EVERY ONE of them. So if you want to use a broad paintbrush, either mention that there are legitimate users or (better yet) just shut the hell up.
'But how many mod chip users are interested in making honest backups? You could probably fit them all into the trunk of a Cadillac,...
Well that's nice. Let's compare modchips to organized crime, complete with the bloody body in the trunk reference. Why not just go all the way and draw the comparison with Nazis and death camps? Sickening...
BTW, I agree with everything in the parent post. Well said.
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I would like to be able to develop tools under Linux that my co-workers could then use on Windows - I can't, unless I shell out tons of money (more than the win, anyways I don't have that kind of budget).
You might be pleasantly surprised to hear that you can have a nice Unix-like shell and GCC toolchain for Win32, free of course. Have a look at MinGW and MSYS for more info. Yes, you can even develop Win32 graphic apps with this too (but you may need to browse the MS developers pages for info occasionally).
Now, admittedly this does not give you window and graphic compatibility with QT or Xfree86, but it does give you a free Win32 development environment. Have a look sometime:-)
Being able to answer the "Can I speak with your last recent supervisor there?" question with the "Sure, if you can manage to track him down because the only thing I know is that he's no longer with that company either."
And for extra points, you can follow up with something like, "And if you find him, please remind him to return my spare copy of Unix Network Programming." Or whatever your favorite technical bible is:-)
I doubt it's true. That bastard Jobs still owes me $5 from high school. Dude, Lemonade Stand was just a game. A game:-) (Even if you did discover that you could raise the price to $1 million on a hot day and still sell one...)
I could make a 6502 address more than 4G of memory. Of course, it would spend all of its time paging in paging tables to figure out what to page in, but it could be done.
However, writing 6502 code to access that memory would be a nightmare.
It's funny that you should pick the 6502 for your example. If I remember correctly, all memory references in the 6502 have to use pointers in "zero page", as either [ptr+x] or [ptr]+y addressing. With a little hardware support, it might be straightforward to implement a useful VM by latching the zero page reference as an index into some context specific translation lookaside table.:-)
The "tainted" message just means that the module does not claim to be GPL. As a practical matter, you can just ignore the "tainted" message. If you are concerned about whether modules are GPL or not, then you may find the message useful.
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The person who got cooking duty said "alright, I'll cook, but if there are any complaints from anyone, that person will be in charge of cooking from then on.
The version I heard was "Moose turd pie" by Utah Philips. Here is a link to the MP3.
I heard it live (yes LIVE!) on the Dr. Demeto show when he was doing it on KSAN ("Jive 95") in San Francisco on Sunday nites...
So when does Bush plan on invading Nigeria?
Well, let's see...
1. Inhabitants don't look like Texans... [check!]
2. Plenty of oil... [check!]
3. Public opinion can be misrepresented... [check!]
4. Flat, sandy country with no place for the defenders to hide... [nope.]
Uh, Daaaadeeee, heeeeeelp!
Maybe he downloaded it onto an old hard drive that was failing and then promptly threw it into the trash? :-)
That's an excellent point! It must be part of his disk wiping procedure. I guess it now goes something like, "zeros, alternating, ones, alternating, Gigli..."
So there is essentially no way to get into the Fedex programming core without spending a year delivering packages.
:-)
Well that probably means that their programmers will start out having some pretty good clues about how the company works and they will be more understanding about their coworkers needs.
Hell, even McD's needs engineers. Who do you think writes the software to calculate "hamburger+softdrink=happymeal"?
Uh, Parr Business Systems perhaps? (If there are any Parr guys, does the sequence go "happy meal, coupon, pay with gift certificate, and also buy a gift certificate on the same order?
Move to the Free State. ... Their goal is to create a Free State out of New Hampshire, ...
:-(
:-)
That does look very interesting, and the people do seem to be sincere about everything. Before reading their information, I just assumed that New Hampshire was just as bad as any other New England state. It was surprising to see that they appear to be a tiny oasis in the middle of a liberal swampland.
For me, the main concern with their choice of New Hampshire is not with how things are today, but some years down the road if (when?) the state is overrun with refugees from Massachusetts that bring their city disease with them ("Massholes"). I read that they get about twenty thousand immigrants every year to their 1.2 million current population. If this increases, will the hypothetical twenty thousand freedom lovers be able to counter the influence of a flood of Massholes?
I am not just speculating here, I have already witnessed this exact same scenario play out between California and Nevada. It sure is a sad day when a lover of freedom starts wondering if democracy is a good idea or not.
Wyoming, anyone?
The universe is constantly running even higher-energy experiments in our atmosphere all the time - we just haven't placed our detectors in the right place!
:-)
No fair! That would be changing the outcome!
(Full credits to Futurama...)
It doesn't have to be *good* to do that. It only has to have "Star Wars" in the title.
In four words:
Star Wars Holiday Special
Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
:-)
That's not my department,' says Werner von Braun.".
"But I think our attitude
should be one of gratitude,
Like the widows and cripples in Old London Town
who owe their large pensions to Werner Von Braun."
I guess you can make any point you wish by quoting Tom Lehrer songs
there's no way your car *averages* 44mpg. maybe when you're cruising on the freeways... but average, including idling and stop+go driving? come on...
Sigh. Here are my records for (about) the last 90 days. The miles are from the odometer and the gallons are to the nearest tenth.
Date odom miles gallons
03-11-2004 025151 436 10.1
03-24-2004 025611 460 10.1
04-08-2004 026038 427 10.1
04-23-2004 026518 480 10.7
05-08-2004 026994 476 10.5
I trust that you can do the arithmetic...
Heh. I hope you meant "mpg+" rather than "mph+" ;-)
:-) I don't mean to badmouth these hybrid cars with better milage, but I don't think they have the right to make such a big deal out of a relatively modest achievement, especially considering the higher price. I think Saturn made a stupid decision about dropping the SL/SL1/SL2 models and replacing them with the higher priced, less efficient ION.
Yep
31.5 isn't better than what one of the guys at work gets in his escort.
For what it's worth, I have two Saturn SL cars, and they both average between 42 and 44 miles per gallon. One is a 1997 model, the other 2002. Aside from three or four times when someone else filled up the tank and forgot, I can account for every single gallon of fuel and every mile over the last seven (and two) years. Oh, and I bought both of them brand new from the dealer for $12K and $10K.
These cars are not hot rods, but they have plenty of power to climb hills at 65mph and I am almost always a bit quicker than the other cars.
So using my own experience as a benchmark, I can see that these 50mph+ cars may have a claim for better efficiency, but they are also a lot more expensive than mine.
100K or so a year for fixing fiber optic cables... I'm definently in the wrong field. Of course, those technicians have to be very precise or else you get refraction in the wire.
I imagine fiber repair guys earn their pay, especially when it's out in some muddy hole and they have a couple hundred strands to fuse together while everyone is breathing down their necks.
Just wondering out loud... It would be really cute if some of the fiber repair guys worked for the NSA. "Of course there's a blip in the TDR, that's where we repaired it." "Okay, nevermind."
Can you name one CEO that's not an arrogant SOB?
Perhaps Warren Buffet? I have read many of his letters to stockholders, and he seems like a pretty straight shooter.
Here is the latest , unfortunately in PDF format. I'll cut out a few quotes, though.
If we fail, we will have no excuses. Charlie and I operate in an ideal environment. To begin with, we are supported by an incredible group of men and women who run our operating units.
Overall, we are certain Berkshire s performance in the future will fall far short of what it has been in the past. Nonetheless, Charlie and I remain hopeful that we can deliver results that are modestly above average. That s what we re being paid for.
Granted, this fellow is incredibly wealthy, and perhaps he deliberately slants his writings with a false tone of modesty to avoid showing off his ego. Or maybe a cigar is just a cigar and he really is a regular guy inside...
[Not only that] but he has naked pictures of my wife too! He's a dead man!
You provide pictures of your naked wife to dead people? Man, that's really twisted...
How many Americans do you think could tell you the difference between one candidates political standpoints and the next?
Two. Everyone else is getting a sack of lies.
...but i serisouly have no clue how that could remain profitable,...
And in unrelated news, Google has won a multi-billion dollar contract with NSA for its cooperation in setting up and maintaining an "information storage and retrieval facility" dedicated to national security and total information awareness purposes...
My hunch says anyone who has small kids and doesn't want them to destroy a $40-$80 CD would be a likely candidate for such a mod chip and backup copies.
...
Your hunch is 100% correct. I know this is a fact because I am one of these people. I have a young daughter, and she is ONLY allowed to use the CD backups of our Playstation games. She tries to be careful (I think), but sure enough they get damaged or lost. Fortunately, it is pretty easy to burn a fresh copy from the master CD.
For those people who think everyone with a modchip is a pirate, "GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS." For each and every one of my CD backups, I have the original CD on a shelf in my computer room. I bought EACH AND EVERY ONE of them. So if you want to use a broad paintbrush, either mention that there are legitimate users or (better yet) just shut the hell up.
'But how many mod chip users are interested in making honest backups? You could probably fit them all into the trunk of a Cadillac,
Well that's nice. Let's compare modchips to organized crime, complete with the bloody body in the trunk reference. Why not just go all the way and draw the comparison with Nazis and death camps? Sickening...
BTW, I agree with everything in the parent post. Well said.
Apparently there is no "+1 Kwisatch Haderach"...
I would like to be able to develop tools under Linux that my co-workers could then use on Windows - I can't, unless I shell out tons of money (more than the win, anyways I don't have that kind of budget).
:-)
You might be pleasantly surprised to hear that you can have a nice Unix-like shell and GCC toolchain for Win32, free of course. Have a look at MinGW and MSYS for more info. Yes, you can even develop Win32 graphic apps with this too (but you may need to browse the MS developers pages for info occasionally).
Now, admittedly this does not give you window and graphic compatibility with QT or Xfree86, but it does give you a free Win32 development environment. Have a look sometime
Yes, but your DVD-R drive has no hope of creating a double-layered DVD like the kind Hollywood makes
:-)
That's true, but DVD Shrink does an excellent job of compressing the content down so it will fit on an ordinary DVD-R. Or so I have heard
Being able to answer the "Can I speak with your last recent supervisor there?" question with the "Sure, if you can manage to track him down because the only thing I know is that he's no longer with that company either."
:-)
And for extra points, you can follow up with something like, "And if you find him, please remind him to return my spare copy of Unix Network Programming." Or whatever your favorite technical bible is
You played Lemonade Stand in high school?
:-)
:-)
Actually, yes
Don't you know all the cool kids were playing Oregon Trail.
D'oh! At my school, the hot game was Three Mile Island. We never got the good games!
I doubt it's true. That bastard Jobs still owes me $5 from high school. :-) (Even if you did discover that you could raise the price to $1 million on a hot day and still sell one...)
Dude, Lemonade Stand was just a game. A game
I could make a 6502 address more than 4G of memory. Of course, it would spend all of its time paging in paging tables to figure out what to page in, but it could be done.
:-)
However, writing 6502 code to access that memory would be a nightmare.
It's funny that you should pick the 6502 for your example. If I remember correctly, all memory references in the 6502 have to use pointers in "zero page", as either [ptr+x] or [ptr]+y addressing. With a little hardware support, it might be straightforward to implement a useful VM by latching the zero page reference as an index into some context specific translation lookaside table.
The "tainted" message just means that the module does not claim to be GPL. As a practical matter, you can just ignore the "tainted" message. If you are concerned about whether modules are GPL or not, then you may find the message useful.