But you can get more bowling balls in the back of, say, a Hercules. I have this vision now of a Herkybird doing that insane shove-the-food-parcels-out-the-back manoeuvre - only with bowling balls. That's a whole lotta bowling balls.
Science be damned, this is fun. Anyone sponsor me for a C-130 type rating? Anyone?
We have flexi-time here, and it works reasonably well (except for the damned "core hours" idea) - work insane hours one week to get something out the door on time, then take a few days off later when it's quiet so I'm not climbing the walls getting paid to do nothing. Everybody wins.
I like flex. With a bit of sense from management and employees, I think it nicely avoids the problems of the "traditional 8-hour work day".
Stupid thing is, I'm as good as locked in for the whole day thanks to the "core hours" rule, can't do anything (waiting days for a test server now), and then feel *guilty* about *surfing*...
I remember buiding that kit! I played "Challenger" with it.;)
It always appealed to my twisted sense of humour that to build the alternative model meant breaking the shuttle into lots of little pieces and turning it into a submarine...
I love this game. Just wish the phone would put up more of a fight... It doesn't seem to be aware of its own rule that prevents me from putting my ships right next to each other - having sunk one, it then goes right around it looking for another.
The only way to make it interesting is to put all the boats 1 square apart so it doesn't waste as many shots. Even then, it's a case of beating it by 2 boats rather than 3.
Nobody here to play against, and I can beat the phone every time - GPRS gaming would rock.
Well, Buenos Aires anyway, the network doesn't cover anywhere else. Here on holiday, reading/. God, that's sad.
Every single SMS I've sent from here, to the UK and to Russia, has been delivered. The only SMSs that I've received are from my network operator in the UK (Orange). Not even "people on Orange in the UK" - only from Orange themselves.
Clearly the network can deliver SMS from the UK to Argentina - I think I'll have words with Orange when I get back to.uk (and I'm not paying GBP1.30 a minute roaming charges...)
Thanks to my brother, I *ahem* had access to Episode 1 on VCD about a month before it came out.
There were three girls on my entire engineering course at the time. One of them was a Star Wars fan, not to mention gorgeous. I happened to mention that I had this VCD, and that night found us lying on my bed in my darkened room staring at a 14" monitor. (I said monitor).
Can't believe I actually watched that movie, but it was worth it. Unfortunately I was too stupid to take advantage of the situation. Wonder if she's into LOTR? =)
The only thing they're not clear on is the fact that there are two drives in the case
but then this happens:
...but that only seems logical.
Jesus, now I'm even more confused. Are we talking about two logical or two physical drives here?
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And there's all sorts of alarming options -- LED's on the card, LED's on a front panel bezel, audible screech, Form C contacts for you industry types...
Personally I find sporadic backups to unlabelled 3.5" floppies with the slidy bits missing to be a more alarming option.
Then again, it did save my ass once. Cost a hell of a lot less than any damned RAID controller, too.
...the soiled nappy of the bastard spawn of Satan.
Sure, the custom tags make your JSPs look sweet. But what a mess underneath. I think it was something like five or six hops from one file to the next for every request, coming back to the main struts-config.xml file at least twice. That file quickly becomes unmanageable in anything other than the Greatest XML Editor Ever (i.e., not JBuilder!), and I spent around half of my time scrolling through thousands of lines of near-identical XML looking for the bit I had to change.
There might come a point at which all this unnecessary complexity actually starts to make life easier - but it'd have to be one huge project.
I've decided that from now on I'm going to submit every story at least three times. I figure that if something that hasn't been on the front page is in the system 3 times, it has 3 times as much chance of making it onto the front page as a dupe. Since we all know when articles have been posted before, and the editors don't, maybe we should all submit everything at least three times. It's a very crude way of reducing the dupes, but it can't be worse than what we have now.
Of course, then three editors all approve the story at once and we get three consecutive dupes on the front page...
Hopefully if the eds' workload tripled someone would get off their ass and sort this dupe thing out.
But unless and until similar schemes are implemented, either world-wide or on a country-by-country basis, and linked together, I can only see this making US kids even less likely to realise that there is actually a world beyond the border.
I can see the logic behind preventing access to sites outside the domain, even kid-friendly ones (after all, once you're out, who knows where you'll end up?), but I do feel that these kids will be missing out on all sorts of fascinating and - dare I say it? - educational content beyond their shores. (And no, I don't mean pr0n....)
Apparently spell[check]ing is not something that the poster has succeeded at.
I don't think it's fair to blame the submitter when spelling or grammatical errors make it onto the front page of/.. That's slash, dot, full stop:) Aren't editors there to prevent this?
Then again, if editors are cranioplegic enough to accept multiple story submissions on the same subject, often within days, I suppose it would be too much to ask that they actually proofread submissions before posting them!
(Editors: Don't just jump on me and moderate me into oblivion. If you don't like it, defend yourselves!)
I caught seven typos in this post. I know I've missed at least one!
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But you can get more bowling balls in the back of, say, a Hercules. I have this vision now of a Herkybird doing that insane shove-the-food-parcels-out-the-back manoeuvre - only with bowling balls. That's a whole lotta bowling balls.
Science be damned, this is fun. Anyone sponsor me for a C-130 type rating? Anyone?
We have flexi-time here, and it works reasonably well (except for the damned "core hours" idea) - work insane hours one week to get something out the door on time, then take a few days off later when it's quiet so I'm not climbing the walls getting paid to do nothing. Everybody wins.
I like flex. With a bit of sense from management and employees, I think it nicely avoids the problems of the "traditional 8-hour work day".
Stupid thing is, I'm as good as locked in for the whole day thanks to the "core hours" rule, can't do anything (waiting days for a test server now), and then feel *guilty* about *surfing*...
I saw "Animatrix" and thought "female animator". Bad hormones! *smack*
I remember buiding that kit! I played "Challenger" with it. ;)
It always appealed to my twisted sense of humour that to build the alternative model meant breaking the shuttle into lots of little pieces and turning it into a submarine...
I love this game. Just wish the phone would put up more of a fight... It doesn't seem to be aware of its own rule that prevents me from putting my ships right next to each other - having sunk one, it then goes right around it looking for another.
The only way to make it interesting is to put all the boats 1 square apart so it doesn't waste as many shots. Even then, it's a case of beating it by 2 boats rather than 3.
Nobody here to play against, and I can beat the phone every time - GPRS gaming would rock.
the text in each is quite varied; e.g. longer xxx
The text in each of my spams seems to have more XXX...
That you've resorted to trolling a pest-control web site?
Poor troll. Somebody told him about this "pest c*nt troll web site" and he thought he'd fit right in. A bit harsh to sue him, don't you think?
Amen, brother. Enough's enough.
When I see someone engaging in gratuitous MS-bashing I think, "What a penis!" Don't envy them though. :)
Well, Buenos Aires anyway, the network doesn't cover anywhere else. Here on holiday, reading /. God, that's sad.
Every single SMS I've sent from here, to the UK and to Russia, has been delivered. The only SMSs that I've received are from my network operator in the UK (Orange). Not even "people on Orange in the UK" - only from Orange themselves.
Clearly the network can deliver SMS from the UK to Argentina - I think I'll have words with Orange when I get back to .uk (and I'm not paying GBP1.30 a minute roaming charges...)
These IN SOVIET RUSSIA messages are taxing my patience...
Most, if not all, of 'em are shorter than 160 characters. Small enough to send you by SMS...
What's your mobile number, dude?
When you go around a tight turn, you're glued to your seat. When you go upside down, you're glued to your seat.
When the ride's really scary, and you've been eating glue, you're glued to your seat....
How about doing some small amount of research next time before publishing the article.
Awww, c'mon... don't be so hard on 'em. At least they only published it once... so far...
a mouse pad that uses your hand as the mouse
That would be a "trackball" then?I dunno about the rest of you, but the little voice in my head screams "highly delusional".
You mean you've only got one?!
Monitor lizard? Pfeh. I want a monitor like this one. It "has a discharge rate of 4,500 litres per minute with a range of 75 metres."
Thanks to my brother, I *ahem* had access to Episode 1 on VCD about a month before it came out.
There were three girls on my entire engineering course at the time. One of them was a Star Wars fan, not to mention gorgeous. I happened to mention that I had this VCD, and that night found us lying on my bed in my darkened room staring at a 14" monitor. (I said monitor).
Can't believe I actually watched that movie, but it was worth it. Unfortunately I was too stupid to take advantage of the situation. Wonder if she's into LOTR? =)
Read the headline too quickly again. I thought someone had found a way to get AI out of a ZX Spectrum. It's coffee time.
This is bad enough:
The only thing they're not clear on is the fact that there are two drives in the case
but then this happens:
Jesus, now I'm even more confused. Are we talking about two logical or two physical drives here?
And there's all sorts of alarming options -- LED's on the card, LED's on a front panel bezel, audible screech, Form C contacts for you industry types ...
Personally I find sporadic backups to unlabelled 3.5" floppies with the slidy bits missing to be a more alarming option.
Then again, it did save my ass once. Cost a hell of a lot less than any damned RAID controller, too.
...the soiled nappy of the bastard spawn of Satan.
Sure, the custom tags make your JSPs look sweet. But what a mess underneath. I think it was something like five or six hops from one file to the next for every request, coming back to the main struts-config.xml file at least twice. That file quickly becomes unmanageable in anything other than the Greatest XML Editor Ever (i.e., not JBuilder!), and I spent around half of my time scrolling through thousands of lines of near-identical XML looking for the bit I had to change.
There might come a point at which all this unnecessary complexity actually starts to make life easier - but it'd have to be one huge project.
Saw it, tried it, hated it, ran away.
Meanwhile, this gets rejected.
I've decided that from now on I'm going to submit every story at least three times. I figure that if something that hasn't been on the front page is in the system 3 times, it has 3 times as much chance of making it onto the front page as a dupe. Since we all know when articles have been posted before, and the editors don't, maybe we should all submit everything at least three times. It's a very crude way of reducing the dupes, but it can't be worse than what we have now.
Of course, then three editors all approve the story at once and we get three consecutive dupes on the front page...
Hopefully if the eds' workload tripled someone would get off their ass and sort this dupe thing out.
Run Windows! [...] Maybe it would slow down the spreading of viruses too?
You really haven't been paying attention, have you?! :))
Unless Viagrea is a new wonder drug?
Given what it rhymes with (with the stress on the "e"), could it be an especially potent laxative?
In principle, I think this is a great idea.
But unless and until similar schemes are implemented, either world-wide or on a country-by-country basis, and linked together, I can only see this making US kids even less likely to realise that there is actually a world beyond the border.
I can see the logic behind preventing access to sites outside the domain, even kid-friendly ones (after all, once you're out, who knows where you'll end up?), but I do feel that these kids will be missing out on all sorts of fascinating and - dare I say it? - educational content beyond their shores. (And no, I don't mean pr0n....)
Apparently spell[check]ing is not something that the poster has succeeded at.
I don't think it's fair to blame the submitter when spelling or grammatical errors make it onto the front page of /.. That's slash, dot, full stop :) Aren't editors there to prevent this?
Then again, if editors are cranioplegic enough to accept multiple story submissions on the same subject, often within days, I suppose it would be too much to ask that they actually proofread submissions before posting them!
(Editors: Don't just jump on me and moderate me into oblivion. If you don't like it, defend yourselves!)
I caught seven typos in this post. I know I've missed at least one!