At it again? At what again? That sorta makes it sound like a girls gone wild video or something. Kernel Dev's Gone Wild volume 3, where Ingo and Linus bare their breasts for beads at a Linux user conference in Tampa Bay - no, that's just too strange...
Oh, one more thing:
Hello, my name is Ingo Molnar. You killed my father: prepare to die.
He's talking sales. He's wrong though. The most popular computer game in the world is Solitaire, or maybe Minesweeper. I can't prove it, but it makes sense.
All you proved is that the most popular online game is Counter-Strike, but I bet there are more than 120k players in Everquest... something like 400k players last time I checked, though I doubt they are all playing at once.
Why the Deer Hunter bashing? Sure, the first titles sucked, but if you're into hunting, it's a good series to play. I mean, The Christian Computer Game Reviews website gave Deer Hunter 5 a B+.
(Ok, maybe I'm playing that for laughs, but it's seriously a decent hunting simulation series if you're into that sort of thing:)
Personally, I think the whole making fun of deer hunter pastime of many hardcore gamers just stinks of leetness. Heaven forbid ordinary people enjoy PC games too, just because they completely define your existence, right?
Certain processes are vital to the computer's operation and should not be killed. For example, after I took the screenshot of myself being attacked by csh, csh was shot by friendly fire from behind, possibly by tcsh or xv, and my session was abruptly terminated.
That's just too funny... I'm busting a gut here. Thanks, I was in a horrible mood but now I feel better. Hehe.
Reminds me of my first foray into electrical engineering at the tender age of 5. I got a truck for Christmas and I decided that I wanted it to be an electric one (ie/ run by itself). Somehow I managed to find some wire, wrap it around the axle, and stick the wires into a wall socket.
Luckily my Mom caught me as I plugged in the wires and quickly pulled me away (though the fuse blew so I probably would have been ok anyhow).
(In case you're wondering, yes, I was the type of kid to lick 9v batteries as a child. Surprisingly I still had enough brain cells to get honours in college 15 years later though:)
Incidently, the same man managed to toast a pc I gave him for Christmas (I give away my old hardware to my family).
It was a mini-atx style pc that I put together during college. Once I finished college and got a job, I built a new PC and gave that one to him and my younger brothers.
About 1 year later he was in town so I went to meet him for coffee. He had the tower with him and told me it just quit working one day and asked if I would look at it.
I took it home, opened it up, and saw that the entire motherboard and everything in it was caked in thick yellow soot. He had been smoking while using it for over a year, all that smoke being sucked into the power supply must have slowly made it overheat.
After I cleaned it out (took 3 cans of Dust-Off!), I found that the power supply and the motherboard were dead.
(Note that my frivolous use of canned air may have contributed to the death of the mobo - static electricity and all that:)
This also reminds me of this story:
The following story is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent.
A computer repairman was one day called to a grade school to repair their no longer working computer. When he opened up the processor, he found a thick coating of white dust covering every component within, i.e. backplane, mother board and all other PC boards, housing walls, etc. He had never seen any coating like this in any other computer. The repair of the processor involved simply blowing out the dust.
A few days later he was on another service call within the school for another computer. Walking by the room that contained the unit he had previously fixed, he decided to peek into the room to see how it was doing. What he saw explained the white dust. He saw several boys beating the chalk board erasers next to the fan in the unit, and watching the unit suck the dust inside.
Why not throw in "the sun was in my eyes" and "my shoes were too tight" while he's at it?
Because he walked barefoot around his roman baths all day, surrounded by beautiful women who kept the sun out of his eyes with large palm leaves, all thanks to that sweet, sweet venture capital.
What I am trying to say here is I personally think you're being to hard on the guy. Tony is a good boy and his heart is in the right place, ok?
Seriously, don't a shitload of magazines go under every year - I wouldn't be surprised considering how many there seem to be these days and the repetitiveness of the topics they seem to cover is amazing. I mean, how many magazines about making Christmas decorations do I need, and why do they sell the bloody things every three months?
I was going to make a joke about reading Loren Greene as Lorne Green, but it turns out that Loren Greene is a typo and my favourite wilderness show host also acted in Battlestar Galactica. How ironic, in an Alanis sort of way.
I never actually made the connection between Bonanza and New Wilderness either, and it turns out he was also known as "The Voice of Doom" from his CBC radio days.
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I had never heard of this (and I lived in rural Alberta for much of my life) so I hunted around and found this. Just thought I would share it.
Here is a less amusing but more informative site about it as well.
Farming is dangerous work. Between the War Amps commercials ("I lost my arms playing around a thresher!") and the possibility of falling into a grain silo and drowning, it's dangerous enough without adding the whole "exploding silo's" to the mix.
It's hard, easy to go bankrupt, and dangerous. I have nothing but respect for the people that take on that profession.
Forget emacs, what about NetHack? I'll be able to tell people that the graphics are anti-aliased now. I might trick someone into picking up a new addiction.
Incidently, has anyone rolled Nethack into Emacs yet? I'm a vi user myself, but I hear emacs is quite, uhm, complete =)
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Every other nick I tried was taken. I was surprised that this one wasn't. Course, I was too "clever" for my own good - much like trying to explain the slashdot url to someone (verbally), it's a pain to say out loud.
Well, I was joking, but I do have a notebook. However, I sure as shit ain't going to bring it out on the train where I would most likely drop it.
No, dropping a printout is a hell of a lot less expensive.
In seriousness, I wonder what's more expensive - running a tablet PC all the time, or generating printouts. How about a whole office full of people. Assuming that the tablet pcs double as their working pcs, I could see a potential cost savings there. Tablet PCs are a great idea, but their just too expensive right now.
Even when they get cheaper I won't pull it out on the train though. Murphy will work me over if I do, I just know it.
Slashdot Mirror
Astro: Rey Reorge! There's a rew search rengine ralled Roogle!
George: Everyone already knows about Google, Astro.
Astro: Not Roogle, ROOGLE!
George: Shut up you stupid mutt.
One word: trebuchet.
I'm sorry, but that is the worst spelling ever. I mean, yeah, it's slashdot, half of us are engineers that have problems with velcro, but still.
Concreet? Mabey? Graduadually?!?!
Please tell me you have some kind of dyslexic type disorder - I know high school drop-outs with better spelling skills than what you are exhibiting.
I had a lean-to. I accidently torched it one day though.
Oh, and I used to keep a tent setup in my backyard in case I stumbled home drunk at 3 am and I didn't want my parents to catch me. Does that count?
it's not holding the cell that's the problem, it's the distraction of talking to someone.
Same thing if someone is in the car, actually, but I guess two sets of eyes make up for the distraction.
No need to be sarcastic. Just wave your hand over your head and make a wooshing sound and someone will explain it to you...
Who me? No, I don't know what the hell is going on either.
*woosh* *woosh*
At it again? At what again? That sorta makes it sound like a girls gone wild video or something. Kernel Dev's Gone Wild volume 3, where Ingo and Linus bare their breasts for beads at a Linux user conference in Tampa Bay - no, that's just too strange...
Oh, one more thing:
Hello, my name is Ingo Molnar. You killed my father: prepare to die.
He's talking sales. He's wrong though. The most popular computer game in the world is Solitaire, or maybe Minesweeper. I can't prove it, but it makes sense.
All you proved is that the most popular online game is Counter-Strike, but I bet there are more than 120k players in Everquest... something like 400k players last time I checked, though I doubt they are all playing at once.
Oh yeah, the games have multiplayer too, since part 3 i believe... not certain though, IANADHP
Why the Deer Hunter bashing? Sure, the first titles sucked, but if you're into hunting, it's a good series to play. I mean, The Christian Computer Game Reviews website gave Deer Hunter 5 a B+.
:)
(Ok, maybe I'm playing that for laughs, but it's seriously a decent hunting simulation series if you're into that sort of thing
Personally, I think the whole making fun of deer hunter pastime of many hardcore gamers just stinks of leetness. Heaven forbid ordinary people enjoy PC games too, just because they completely define your existence, right?
That said, Metroid Prime rocks nads, hoo-yah!
No, you win $25,000 Banana Bucks (tm)
*cough*actualcashvalueonetenthofonecent*cough*
That's just too funny... I'm busting a gut here. Thanks, I was in a horrible mood but now I feel better. Hehe.
Yes, but the reason I respect them is because of them, I get to eat :)
and the Karma continues to burn (luckily i got a bunch of +5's to offset all this tomfoolery).
Will he get 6th post this time? Does anybody care?
Maybe I can work something on-topic into this... nope, no time, just have to run with this.
It ain't the volts that kill you, it's the amps.
:)
Reminds me of my first foray into electrical engineering at the tender age of 5. I got a truck for Christmas and I decided that I wanted it to be an electric one (ie/ run by itself). Somehow I managed to find some wire, wrap it around the axle, and stick the wires into a wall socket.
Luckily my Mom caught me as I plugged in the wires and quickly pulled me away (though the fuse blew so I probably would have been ok anyhow).
(In case you're wondering, yes, I was the type of kid to lick 9v batteries as a child. Surprisingly I still had enough brain cells to get honours in college 15 years later though
It was a mini-atx style pc that I put together during college. Once I finished college and got a job, I built a new PC and gave that one to him and my younger brothers.
About 1 year later he was in town so I went to meet him for coffee. He had the tower with him and told me it just quit working one day and asked if I would look at it.
I took it home, opened it up, and saw that the entire motherboard and everything in it was caked in thick yellow soot. He had been smoking while using it for over a year, all that smoke being sucked into the power supply must have slowly made it overheat.
After I cleaned it out (took 3 cans of Dust-Off!), I found that the power supply and the motherboard were dead.
(Note that my frivolous use of canned air may have contributed to the death of the mobo - static electricity and all that
This also reminds me of this story:
Found here.
Well, when I was around 12 years old, my Nintendo quit working.
My Dad decided to fix it.
My Dad is a truck driver.
Needless to say, I got a Super Nintendo that Christmas.
Please let me get sixth post. If I get sixth post, I swear I will go outside for once.
Mustn't rush. Must be patient.
Go!
Because he walked barefoot around his roman baths all day, surrounded by beautiful women who kept the sun out of his eyes with large palm leaves, all thanks to that sweet, sweet venture capital.
What I am trying to say here is I personally think you're being to hard on the guy. Tony is a good boy and his heart is in the right place, ok?
Seriously, don't a shitload of magazines go under every year - I wouldn't be surprised considering how many there seem to be these days and the repetitiveness of the topics they seem to cover is amazing. I mean, how many magazines about making Christmas decorations do I need, and why do they sell the bloody things every three months?
I was going to make a joke about reading Loren Greene as Lorne Green, but it turns out that Loren Greene is a typo and my favourite wilderness show host also acted in Battlestar Galactica. How ironic, in an Alanis sort of way.
I never actually made the connection between Bonanza and New Wilderness either, and it turns out he was also known as "The Voice of Doom" from his CBC radio days.
I had never heard of this (and I lived in rural Alberta for much of my life) so I hunted around and found this. Just thought I would share it.
Here is a less amusing but more informative site about it as well.
Farming is dangerous work. Between the War Amps commercials ("I lost my arms playing around a thresher!") and the possibility of falling into a grain silo and drowning, it's dangerous enough without adding the whole "exploding silo's" to the mix.
It's hard, easy to go bankrupt, and dangerous. I have nothing but respect for the people that take on that profession.
Forget emacs, what about NetHack? I'll be able to tell people that the graphics are anti-aliased now. I might trick someone into picking up a new addiction.
Incidently, has anyone rolled Nethack into Emacs yet? I'm a vi user myself, but I hear emacs is quite, uhm, complete =)
Every other nick I tried was taken. I was surprised that this one wasn't. Course, I was too "clever" for my own good - much like trying to explain the slashdot url to someone (verbally), it's a pain to say out loud.
Well, I was joking, but I do have a notebook. However, I sure as shit ain't going to bring it out on the train where I would most likely drop it.
No, dropping a printout is a hell of a lot less expensive.
In seriousness, I wonder what's more expensive - running a tablet PC all the time, or generating printouts. How about a whole office full of people. Assuming that the tablet pcs double as their working pcs, I could see a potential cost savings there. Tablet PCs are a great idea, but their just too expensive right now.
Even when they get cheaper I won't pull it out on the train though. Murphy will work me over if I do, I just know it.
Because my monitor is too heavy to bring on the train. And there's no plugs.
I guess I could tape a printout to the monitor, and put the monitor on a cart of some kind... Oh wait, we don't want to print.
I guess I could read the pdf and commit it to memory. D'oh, but another person can't read my mind (at least since I lined my toque with tinfoil).
Well, I'm out of ideas...