See, if they gave cash they would spend $40 x the_number_of_households
With coupons they spend a fraction of it, since a lot of people lose them or simply do not go through the trouble of using them.
It's a "dirty little secret", according to him, that a lot of F/OSS runs on more Window machines than Linux machines.
There are currently much more Windows machines than Linux machines. Considering the popularity of, for example, Firefox, then it's more than obvious.
It's a "dirty little secret", according to him, that a lot of F/OSS projects are abandoned playthings.
Sure, because anyone can start a project. The thing with software development is that it looks so easy. Until you start, that is. In a corporation you have to go through enough people who can tell you if a project is feaseble or not, before you get to start, let alone publish anything about it. In OSS starting and publishing about it, is something that happens simultanious in most projects.
It's a "dirty little secret", according to him, that the testing effort that goes into those abandoned playthings doesn't match what goes into Microsoft Windows.
Let hope that testing a few-thousand-line program doesn't match the effort of testing a multi-million-line OS. It's the same as remarking that the effort in building a kite doesn't come near the effort of building a space shuttle. I think anyone knows that the anwser is "Well duuuuh!".
I have a near photographic memory for every useless trivial fact I come across. But when it comes to actual usefull stuff like math, or anything I'd need for an exam, then I've to do real trouble to actually get it to stick. Sometime I think my brain hates me or something.
You draw a pentagram on the floor and place lit candles at each of the corners, then I'll dig up the old spell book. We should have this covered slightly after the first full moon.
The singularity is still a far way off, it's not like, hold on I got an email, we can't keep up with, just a second got to answer the phone, the information provided, damn a sms, to us or something. We still can, just a minute got to answer my cellphone, easily keep up with, shit an instant message popped up, our daily communications, isn't it?
Makes me wonder what the critical mass is of junkware. One of these releases is either going supercritical and vaporize the MS HQ or collapse on itself and suck the whole planet in.
Exactly. My company is developing a new storage medium based on penistechnology. If you don't have enough space, just play with it and it gets bigger. We're close to commercial release, just one more critical bug to iron out: it tends to burst out data if you try to enlarge it for too long.
The cameras will work perfectly. Evil terrorists will drive their cars filled with explosives, American flags, apple pies and puppies up to their intended target. There they'll spot the Anti-Terrorism-Camera (c), curse and then drive home again to cry. My Power Point Presentation proves my point. As you can see, these marvelouse cameras will reduce terrorist attacks on American soil by 100% within the first week of deployment. Just look at this chart: We placed 20 of these cameras in various American villages and not a single village was the target of a terrorist attack.
As for pricings: We offer these devices at a mere 12000 dollar a piece. On the sheet in front of you, you can fill in how many millions you want to buy. For each camera sold we donate a 1000 dollar to your "charity", *wink* *wink*.
Ah! I've got the DIY Oxygen gas molecule kit. Very tough to build. I keep losing those damn electrons and once those Quarks get stuck together they're nearly impossible to get loose again. Not to mention how trick the neutrons are. If you add one too little or one too much the whole thing splits in two.
Don't blame random things. Lets do this scientificly. What has always been around 100% of all acts of violence? After a long task of eliminating stuff I've come to a single thing that was always around any war, murder or assault: air.
So rather than banning random, innocent stuff like drugs, alcohol, greed, weapons and power, we should be banning the unmistakenly cause of all evil that is air. As soon as all forms or air is gone from the planet we'll be able to live in constant uninterrupter peace.
Dude, it's called an "euphemism", we wanted them to go out and put random large, sharp and heavy objects up their asses. But you can't write that on a public forum where there may be children reading.
Squid? So you throtle back you download speed to "slow as a snail"?
(In belgium they made it mandatory to drive less than 30Km/h in the neighbourhood of schools. They use a squid as a marketing maskot or something to pull attention to this. Not that anyone actually obeys this speed limit.)
(Yes I know, having to explain a joke reduces its funnyness.)
I can't afford to spend a afternoon sobbbing, so I solved this differently. Everyone wears a mandatory collar with half a kg of semtex with the detonator linked wirelessly with our DNS server. Each time someone tries to look up an URL containing the word Myspace, a random collar gets detonated. The thread of having to clean the blood from the floor, walls, ceiling and anything else in the office is a real good deterent.
Slashdot Mirror
Lightweight as in: you only need a light crane to move it.
See, if they gave cash they would spend $40 x the_number_of_households
With coupons they spend a fraction of it, since a lot of people lose them or simply do not go through the trouble of using them.
Yes, but during Gladiator matches the public wasn't harmed. Which can't be said from shows like American Idol.
Don't worry, not matter what social problem those darn terrorists cause, that nice fellow Jack Bauer will solve right after supper.
*Looks at stack of Anti-freeze and salt*
And as soon as that game is released I'll have something else to trade for superpowers than my soul.
I have a near photographic memory for every useless trivial fact I come across. But when it comes to actual usefull stuff like math, or anything I'd need for an exam, then I've to do real trouble to actually get it to stick. Sometime I think my brain hates me or something.
The boxes of liberty: Soap, balot, jury, ammo
Did anyone opened the thirth one already?
Enslave a world of microbiological life? What are you? An evil mastermind with low self esteem?
no, you are wrong. Cancer is caused being born at the wrong time. This page proves my point.
Hopefull they don't mix metric with atomic mass units.
You draw a pentagram on the floor and place lit candles at each of the corners, then I'll dig up the old spell book. We should have this covered slightly after the first full moon.
The singularity is still a far way off, it's not like, hold on I got an email, we can't keep up with, just a second got to answer the phone, the information provided, damn a sms, to us or something. We still can, just a minute got to answer my cellphone, easily keep up with, shit an instant message popped up, our daily communications, isn't it?
Makes me wonder what the critical mass is of junkware. One of these releases is either going supercritical and vaporize the MS HQ or collapse on itself and suck the whole planet in.
Exactly. My company is developing a new storage medium based on penistechnology. If you don't have enough space, just play with it and it gets bigger. We're close to commercial release, just one more critical bug to iron out: it tends to burst out data if you try to enlarge it for too long.
The cameras will work perfectly. Evil terrorists will drive their cars filled with explosives, American flags, apple pies and puppies up to their intended target. There they'll spot the Anti-Terrorism-Camera (c), curse and then drive home again to cry. My Power Point Presentation proves my point. As you can see, these marvelouse cameras will reduce terrorist attacks on American soil by 100% within the first week of deployment. Just look at this chart: We placed 20 of these cameras in various American villages and not a single village was the target of a terrorist attack.
As for pricings: We offer these devices at a mere 12000 dollar a piece. On the sheet in front of you, you can fill in how many millions you want to buy. For each camera sold we donate a 1000 dollar to your "charity", *wink* *wink*.
I second that. The Art Of Electronics is the best book on electronics I got my hands on.
Ah! I've got the DIY Oxygen gas molecule kit. Very tough to build. I keep losing those damn electrons and once those Quarks get stuck together they're nearly impossible to get loose again. Not to mention how trick the neutrons are. If you add one too little or one too much the whole thing splits in two.
Don't blame random things. Lets do this scientificly. What has always been around 100% of all acts of violence? After a long task of eliminating stuff I've come to a single thing that was always around any war, murder or assault: air.
So rather than banning random, innocent stuff like drugs, alcohol, greed, weapons and power, we should be banning the unmistakenly cause of all evil that is air. As soon as all forms or air is gone from the planet we'll be able to live in constant uninterrupter peace.
Dude, it's called an "euphemism", we wanted them to go out and put random large, sharp and heavy objects up their asses. But you can't write that on a public forum where there may be children reading.
Squid? So you throtle back you download speed to "slow as a snail"?
(In belgium they made it mandatory to drive less than 30Km/h in the neighbourhood of schools. They use a squid as a marketing maskot or something to pull attention to this. Not that anyone actually obeys this speed limit.)
(Yes I know, having to explain a joke reduces its funnyness.)
I can't afford to spend a afternoon sobbbing, so I solved this differently. Everyone wears a mandatory collar with half a kg of semtex with the detonator linked wirelessly with our DNS server. Each time someone tries to look up an URL containing the word Myspace, a random collar gets detonated. The thread of having to clean the blood from the floor, walls, ceiling and anything else in the office is a real good deterent.
Or a flock of them flying straight in the jet engines of your enemies fighters.