I have regularly conducted experiments in my own kitchen where I splice animal parts with plant species - that's
lamb baked with rosemary and served with mint sauce to you.
Yup - I was once called to look at a 'wierd problem' where someone had typed and saved a long document and it had disappeared.
Turned out the customer was typing up a contract and was trying to call it con.doc (CON is a DOS reserved file name too) - the WP application was reporting 'file exists - do you want to overwrite it' to which the user was happily saying 'yes' all day. The next day when they went to load it and carry on though...
(..ok you're reading this now - bear with me...but if you've not seen Lilo and Stitch then move on now!)
RE: "Author of Linux Patent Study Contradicts Ballmer"
Remember the scene where Nani quits her job at the restaurant and tells Lilo that "The manager's a vampire and he wanted me to join his legion of the undead.", to which Lilo mumbles a confirmation under her breath "I knew it!".
Well, I had a 'Lilo moment' when I saw this headline!
I sincerely hope the 'next thing' will include all or some of the following: "getting a life, reading a book, going out with your family, visiting a museum, helping out at your local school, church, mosque etc., calling an old friend on the phone, visitng a park, planting a tree, volunteering for charity work, baking some cakes for the local old folks home etc.".
If even a fraction of the time spent blogging was put to some sensible use the whole community would benefit.
In other news, apparently every time the invention didn't work as intended, DaVinci would hide it behind a blue canvas screen so that onlookers couldn't see him working on the mechanics - hence the term "Blue Screen of DaVinci" (BSoD) came in to common use during that era for any mechanical device failure.
In later years, a manufacturer of popular computer operating systems adapted this 'blue screen' imagery for their own use and programmed their applications to displaye a blue screen on a regular basis in honour of the famous inventor and his work on early 'computing' devices.
"I remember a story I heard of an old stack of 20" platters which used to walk across the room when under heavy load, and unplug themselves!"
This happened where I used to work in the mid 1980s - a 256MB 12" stack on our VAX 11/750 was being confidence tested by a DEC engineer, but he'd forgotten to wind the feet of the unit down onto the floor - the unit started to shoot forward from between the other rows of system units, like a 100m sprinter making a false start, and the two of us dived across the room and grabbed a side each as the unit reached the end of its power and data cables!
No. 3 is very applicable in the UK where phones are heavily subsidised by call costs and it's often cheaper to upgrade your phone than buy a new li-ion battery when the one in your current phone stops holding a decent charge - for example, I manage 14 phones on contract with Orange - one of my users asked about upgrades and wondered if there was a remote chance of a PDA phone (the Orange SPV M1000) - I checked with our Orange account manager and the upgrade cost for this user is £25. Three other upgrades processed at the same time were 'free of charge'. Yep - phones are 'disposable' at the end of their 12 month contract period - in the Uk at least.
"A method of attempted or actual revenue generation based on claiming damages for patent infringement from other parties, based on the ownership (or acting on behalf of the owner) of patents pertaining to actions or concepts that any sane person would consider blindigly obvious and not worthy of being covered by a patent."
Know the feeling - I had a VHS copy of Star Trek First Contact that I made when it was on TV several years ago. I fancied viewing the film on my laptop on a long journey so I downloaded it - quick as a flash I got an email from my ISP forwarding a takedown notice from the studios!
Fair enough I suppose as what I did was technically illegal, but it didn't exactly amount to any financial loss to the studio - and, no I probably wouldn't have considered buying a copy on DVD (I presume it's out on DVD!?).
Trouble is that there's no way to separate the 'innocent' (OK, OK, don't debate that one!) infringers from those who download, duplicate and sell for profit.
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In the UK and happily running 2 x Whitebox and 1 x RH9 servers sans licences!
OK, OK, OK - but do they run Linux?
Sorry, meant to put fsck
...And so we add to 'RTFA' the new acronym 'LTFG' = Learn To Farkin' Google
...where the bullet misses its target and curves back round to origin.
Don't miss guys - and watch out for Hubble!
Sheep with other animal (human parts) is nothing.
I have regularly conducted experiments in my own kitchen where I splice animal parts with plant species - that's lamb baked with rosemary and served with mint sauce to you.
Yup - I was once called to look at a 'wierd problem' where someone had typed and saved a long document and it had disappeared.
Turned out the customer was typing up a contract and was trying to call it con.doc (CON is a DOS reserved file name too) - the WP application was reporting 'file exists - do you want to overwrite it' to which the user was happily saying 'yes' all day. The next day when they went to load it and carry on though...
(..ok you're reading this now - bear with me...but if you've not seen Lilo and Stitch then move on now!)
RE: "Author of Linux Patent Study Contradicts Ballmer"
Remember the scene where Nani quits her job at the restaurant and tells Lilo that "The manager's a vampire and he wanted me to join his legion of the undead.", to which Lilo mumbles a confirmation under her breath "I knew it!".
Well, I had a 'Lilo moment' when I saw this headline!
Welcome to Slashdot, now being used as an alternative for official software support sites and usenet newsgroups.
What model is it? I have a McMichael 372 (1937) in the attic amongst some other old valve stuff.
At the other extreme I have noticed that microwave ovens do little for the data integrity of CD-ROMs and other forms of optical storage.
This and other Public Service Announcements regarding microwave ovens can be found HERE
Someone burn them a copy of Audacity and send them the CD...
But was that going to be pronounced 'free-ax' or 'freaks'?
We don't need no stinkin' article - you insensitive clod.
I was with you all the way up to the last clause!
I sincerely hope the 'next thing' will include all or some of the following: "getting a life, reading a book, going out with your family, visiting a museum, helping out at your local school, church, mosque etc., calling an old friend on the phone, visitng a park, planting a tree, volunteering for charity work, baking some cakes for the local old folks home etc.".
If even a fraction of the time spent blogging was put to some sensible use the whole community would benefit.
Hey - has anyone thought of asking the bees whether the light stays on?
In other news, apparently every time the invention didn't work as intended, DaVinci would hide it behind a blue canvas screen so that onlookers couldn't see him working on the mechanics - hence the term "Blue Screen of DaVinci" (BSoD) came in to common use during that era for any mechanical device failure.
In later years, a manufacturer of popular computer operating systems adapted this 'blue screen' imagery for their own use and programmed their applications to displaye a blue screen on a regular basis in honour of the famous inventor and his work on early 'computing' devices.
Two major flaws in theory:
1) AC electricity hadn't been discovered then.
2) The refrigerator wasn't invented until the 1800s.
"CHEP UNFRUN YBGJBSB EG URKOB K"
I've just run a BASIC program to run that phrase through ROT13 10,000 times and every one was garbage - I think that message is bogus.
Hubble shot down in friendly fire incident.
"I remember a story I heard of an old stack of 20" platters which used to walk across the room when under heavy load, and unplug themselves!"
This happened where I used to work in the mid 1980s - a 256MB 12" stack on our VAX 11/750 was being confidence tested by a DEC engineer, but he'd forgotten to wind the feet of the unit down onto the floor - the unit started to shoot forward from between the other rows of system units, like a 100m sprinter making a false start, and the two of us dived across the room and grabbed a side each as the unit reached the end of its power and data cables!
No. 3 is very applicable in the UK where phones are heavily subsidised by call costs and it's often cheaper to upgrade your phone than buy a new li-ion battery when the one in your current phone stops holding a decent charge - for example, I manage 14 phones on contract with Orange - one of my users asked about upgrades and wondered if there was a remote chance of a PDA phone (the Orange SPV M1000) - I checked with our Orange account manager and the upgrade cost for this user is £25. Three other upgrades processed at the same time were 'free of charge'. Yep - phones are 'disposable' at the end of their 12 month contract period - in the Uk at least.
Ref MY new patent #0987612345:
"A method of attempted or actual revenue generation based on claiming damages for patent infringement from other parties, based on the ownership (or acting on behalf of the owner) of patents pertaining to actions or concepts that any sane person would consider blindigly obvious and not worthy of being covered by a patent."
These guys owe me aplenty!
Know the feeling - I had a VHS copy of Star Trek First Contact that I made when it was on TV several years ago. I fancied viewing the film on my laptop on a long journey so I downloaded it - quick as a flash I got an email from my ISP forwarding a takedown notice from the studios!
Fair enough I suppose as what I did was technically illegal, but it didn't exactly amount to any financial loss to the studio - and, no I probably wouldn't have considered buying a copy on DVD (I presume it's out on DVD!?).
Trouble is that there's no way to separate the 'innocent' (OK, OK, don't debate that one!) infringers from those who download, duplicate and sell for profit.
"...the smoke that is produced is odorless (smells like burnt paper)..."
I suppose the smoke is invisible (like white cloudy stuff) too?!!