Nobody's forcing you to use it. Don't switch, just sit back and relax while the rest of the world disconnects itself from you. I think this is what the Pentagon is trying to avoid.
I remember an X-Files expisode, where people actually said bleep and bleeping instead of shit and fucking and the other words (I think it was because Scully was telling the story to someone else). It was quite funny.
I think the censorship is to keep kids from learning these words. Which is pointless, as at least I learned most of my *censored* vocabulary from other kids in preschool.
Are there any non-immigrants in America? I would try to count no-immigrants, but the rest of them all live in Indian reservations.
Well, the Indians didn't exactly grow out of the ground, either - they probably arrived in America via Siberia and Alaska about 10000 years ago. But in this case, Europeans are immigrants in Europe, too, etc. The more correct definition is, that an immigrant is anyone living in a country where he wasn't born. A Mexican who has left Mexico for USA is an immigrant, but her child born in the US is not (and can automatically gain US citizenship, I think).
Each year, thousands and thousands of floppies get thrown away, as their owners switch to CD-R's and memorysticks. Most of them sadly end up in garbage dumps and incenerators, never to be seen again. We at the Floppy Disk Rescue Center care. Every day, we provide a new home and, quite often, a new life as a toy or a scinece project, for tens and hundreds of old floppies. This may be just a tiny drop of water in the sea, but with your help, we can make a difference. For more information about the locations of our Centers, just call 1-800-FLOP.
First, Microsoft sells their Corel stocks. Then, a Microsoft executive sells some of his stock in the Company. Am I the only one who sees a pattern here? They must be in trouble...
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How are you Gentlemen! All your brain are belong to us!
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made it clear that the abrogation of treaty constraints in the use of radar and tracking devices was not just for the benefit of fielding a missile-defense system, but to build better unilateral networks to manage the planet from space.
For millions and billions of years, the planet has managet itself just fine. I don't see any reason why it should all of a sudden need the help of some (parasitic?) humans, especially Donald Rumsfeld...
Excuse me for being ignorant, but how exactly are satellites that improve the accuracy of GPS over Europe useful for spying? Where would lie the threat to US?
In my experience, caffeine can have a really drastic effect on my mood. A 0.5 l bottle of Coke or Pepsi can make go hyperactive like a Duracell bunny - and then drop to "existentialist" state (why do I bother etc) when the effect wears off. That's why I stick to drinking green tea - it keeps me running and functional, but doesn't cause any bad mood changes (usually tends to have a slight anti-depressant effect).
Did you know that Sigmund Freud actually recommended cocaine to a friend of his as a way to cure morphine addiction? Freud himself used cocaine as an antidepressant. Surprisingly, he didn't get addicted to it - unlike that friend of his...
...and an artificial intelligence that was last seen wreaking havok in Latvia.
Your information is outdated. In the hottest AI-hunt ever seen by man (or woman, or, surprisingly, by cat), it managed to escape the Latvian police and flee to Finland using a speedboat (made a stop to refuel in Estonia). Operating under the name Linus Torvalds, it is now trying to dominate the world.
Also consider replacing the typical "Fight!" in the beginning of combat with "First post!". And the last player to be turned into a charring corpse should be renamed Trinity (in memory of Matrix Reloaded spoiler trolls).
Little Grey Box: Click here to bring down the network!
User: *Confused - but decides that this MUST be important* Click!
User: Hmmm... Nothing? I think it fixed it, then.
*Camera flies through the building, to a little dark cell in the basement
Someone: AAAAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!
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God bless this site, but for Bob's sake it's nothing but a bunch of 18 year old (physically or otherwise) boys spouting off on the legal issues of IP and occasionally even more weighty topics.
I think the reason why this is so, is that it's so easy to talk about these things - just repeat whatever someone else has already said a thousand times before, instant karma pouring in moments after. It's not so easy to say something meaningful about twin primes and latest additions to Java and other topics not covered in every second Slashdot article
hypothesise all you want, it doesn't change the fact that A is A
Well, technically, the A on left of your 'is' is different from the A on the right of your 'is', as 1) its location on my monitor is different 2) the time you typed them was different. You can call me a nitpick now.
...it is incomprehensible to me (though admitedly I may be of a lesser mind that those running the simulation) why greater beings would waste CPU time on mere humans.
Well, if there's no better explanation to this, you can always assume that the human race has been chosen for a very important role (typical sci-fi plot - a member of an outcast race saves the universe), and start a religion based on this assumption...
I was still dizzy in the morning when I posted, so what I posted wasn't exactly what I meant. What I was thinking was, what if there were two branches of Java - one the blessed (catholic) Sun release, the other a reformed back-to-the-roots-where-all-was-simple-and-no-bloa t variant; both of them compliant to a standard (the weakest link in the chain, I guess), so that 'reformed' code would compile with a 'catholic' compiler (and run on a catholic VM). The "use an older version" argument doesn't apply, as the older versions of Java are quite light in weight, too, but they have many things that are deprecated or gone in newer versions.
What I also had in mind was an analogy from history: Catholic Christianity was a spin-off of Judaism, supposed to be a cleaner version. All the Protestant churches sprung from the idea of cleaning up the Catholic church. The same scheme applied to modern world could be C++ -> Java -> ?. Plus the religious wars...
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They should call it nucular, then the environmentalists won't have a clue.
Nobody's forcing you to use it. Don't switch, just sit back and relax while the rest of the world disconnects itself from you. I think this is what the Pentagon is trying to avoid.
I think the censorship is to keep kids from learning these words. Which is pointless, as at least I learned most of my *censored* vocabulary from other kids in preschool.
Whoever made the decision to hire them was drugged or something, as the girls certainly are not doing well at their job...
#include ... /* there is 74 more include lines here */
/* yep, this is my only line */
#include
main(int argc, char** argv) {
run();
}
Well, the Indians didn't exactly grow out of the ground, either - they probably arrived in America via Siberia and Alaska about 10000 years ago. But in this case, Europeans are immigrants in Europe, too, etc. The more correct definition is, that an immigrant is anyone living in a country where he wasn't born. A Mexican who has left Mexico for USA is an immigrant, but her child born in the US is not (and can automatically gain US citizenship, I think).
Each year, thousands and thousands of floppies get thrown away, as their owners switch to CD-R's and memorysticks. Most of them sadly end up in garbage dumps and incenerators, never to be seen again. We at the Floppy Disk Rescue Center care. Every day, we provide a new home and, quite often, a new life as a toy or a scinece project, for tens and hundreds of old floppies. This may be just a tiny drop of water in the sea, but with your help, we can make a difference. For more information about the locations of our Centers, just call 1-800-FLOP.
First, Microsoft sells their Corel stocks. Then, a Microsoft executive sells some of his stock in the Company. Am I the only one who sees a pattern here? They must be in trouble...
How are you Gentlemen! All your brain are belong to us!
"Here there be dragons."
For millions and billions of years, the planet has managet itself just fine. I don't see any reason why it should all of a sudden need the help of some (parasitic?) humans, especially Donald Rumsfeld...
Excuse me for being ignorant, but how exactly are satellites that improve the accuracy of GPS over Europe useful for spying? Where would lie the threat to US?
In my experience, caffeine can have a really drastic effect on my mood. A 0.5 l bottle of Coke or Pepsi can make go hyperactive like a Duracell bunny - and then drop to "existentialist" state (why do I bother etc) when the effect wears off. That's why I stick to drinking green tea - it keeps me running and functional, but doesn't cause any bad mood changes (usually tends to have a slight anti-depressant effect).
Did you know that Sigmund Freud actually recommended cocaine to a friend of his as a way to cure morphine addiction? Freud himself used cocaine as an antidepressant. Surprisingly, he didn't get addicted to it - unlike that friend of his...
Your information is outdated. In the hottest AI-hunt ever seen by man (or woman, or, surprisingly, by cat), it managed to escape the Latvian police and flee to Finland using a speedboat (made a stop to refuel in Estonia). Operating under the name Linus Torvalds, it is now trying to dominate the world.
"Breakfast of champions" by Kurt Vonnegut. A character called Kilgore Trout writes a sci-fi story where aliens communicate by tap-dancing and farting.
Also consider replacing the typical "Fight!" in the beginning of combat with "First post!". And the last player to be turned into a charring corpse should be renamed Trinity (in memory of Matrix Reloaded spoiler trolls).
Little Grey Box: Click here to bring down the network!
User: *Confused - but decides that this MUST be important* Click!
User: Hmmm... Nothing? I think it fixed it, then.
*Camera flies through the building, to a little dark cell in the basement
Someone: AAAAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!
I think the reason why this is so, is that it's so easy to talk about these things - just repeat whatever someone else has already said a thousand times before, instant karma pouring in moments after. It's not so easy to say something meaningful about twin primes and latest additions to Java and other topics not covered in every second Slashdot article
{a11;a12;...;a1n-1;a1n}
{...}
{...}
{a21;a22;...;a2n-1;a2n}
{al1;al2;...;alo-1;1;alo+1;...;aln-1;aln}
{am1;am2;...;amn-1;amn}
Well, technically, the A on left of your 'is' is different from the A on the right of your 'is', as 1) its location on my monitor is different 2) the time you typed them was different. You can call me a nitpick now.
Well, if there's no better explanation to this, you can always assume that the human race has been chosen for a very important role (typical sci-fi plot - a member of an outcast race saves the universe), and start a religion based on this assumption...
As I have gathered from many posts on Slashdot (some of them in a thread a bit higher up), there is a version of IE for Mac.
But then again, should I trust everything people post in online forums?
Further improvements to IE will require enhancements to the underlying OS.
Emacs is said to be the text editor that pretends to be an OS, but the new IE will be the first browser that is an OS...
I was still dizzy in the morning when I posted, so what I posted wasn't exactly what I meant. What I was thinking was, what if there were two branches of Java - one the blessed (catholic) Sun release, the other a reformed back-to-the-roots-where-all-was-simple-and-no-bloa t variant; both of them compliant to a standard (the weakest link in the chain, I guess), so that 'reformed' code would compile with a 'catholic' compiler (and run on a catholic VM). The "use an older version" argument doesn't apply, as the older versions of Java are quite light in weight, too, but they have many things that are deprecated or gone in newer versions.
What I also had in mind was an analogy from history: Catholic Christianity was a spin-off of Judaism, supposed to be a cleaner version. All the Protestant churches sprung from the idea of cleaning up the Catholic church. The same scheme applied to modern world could be C++ -> Java -> ?. Plus the religious wars...
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