I think it would take more than that. But, then his speeches would sound like:
"I was introducing some new anti-terrorism law to Congress and it was like 'No no no!' And then, like, half my law was gone. They devoured my law. It was a really good law. Then I had to lobby and negotiate about it again and I had to do it fast, and it wasn't as good. It was kind of a... bummer."
SCO is pronounced as one syllable, "sko", with a long "o"....which is the word "shoe" in Scandinavian. So you have a firm which is: called "sko"; trading as SCOX - anagram SOCX; doesn't have a clue what IP is; and wishes to destroy Linux. Conclusion: Now I know where Al Bundy is working.
BTW: He and Steve Ballmer would look a great team.
"Here's to our wives and girlfriends...may they never meet!" --Groucho Marx
Wow! You're really immersed in the MMORPG! To fall in love and marry an avatar is a bit extreme, I think. Reminds me of that guy who married his guitar. I don't want to know what his sex life is like. But that brings up a hitch: Wouldn't it be slave trade to sell that avatar - marriage material - on eBay?
PLAYER 2: It devoured my avatar. It was a really good avatar. Then I had to play it all again to get the skills back and I had to do it fast, and it wasn't as good. It was kind of a...bummer.
Copyrights and patents are protection against strangers. Contracts are what you use against parties you have relationships with. From a legal standpoint, contracts end up being far stronger than anything you could do with copyrights. In other words, all of us that never had the misfortune of dealing with SCO can Linux ourself half to death.
Or in other words, they haven't a clue what Copyrights, Patents, Trademarks and Trade Secrets are. I would suggest this book. Or perhaps they could check this out.
Let's hope the switch from Solaris to Linux doesn't give the Sun any problems in the transition phase. I'll call this Linux project a success if solar flare activity doesn't increase, and uptime isn't affected. The Linux-bashing trolls are allready saying that the Sun will be having uptime problems within the end of the week. I think they are just jelaous.
The Amiga measures time in seconds. As it turns out, the number of seconds to accumulate until 19 January, 2046, 03:14:07 will form the largest value a signed 32 bit integer number can hold. This is not a problem for the time keeping module (timer.device). However, application software and other operating system components which treat the number of seconds as a signed quantity will get into trouble one second later: the number of seconds will rise to 2,147,483,648 which in two's complement format represents the negative number -2,147,483,648. [...] Amiga computers equipped with battery backed up real time clock hardware use one of two different hardware designs: either the Oki MSM6242RS (A500, A2000) or the Ricoh RP5C01 (A3000, A1200, A4000) chip. As is common with clock chips of that type, the year counter is implemented as a two digit BCD number. Once it reaches the year 99, the counter will roll over and start again at 00.[...] While the system clock will keep ticking beyond 31 December, 2077 [1 January 2078] a system reset will set the clock back to 1 January, 1978. [...] An unsigned 32 bit integer can hold a maximum value of 4,294,967,295. When the Amiga has accumulated that many seconds, it will be 7 February, 2114, 06:28:15. One second later the seconds counter will roll over and restart at 0. In other words, on 7 February, 2114, 06:28:16 the Amiga will believe that it is midnight on 1 January, 1978.
I'm curious about wether or not the C/C++ time() funcion will mess up things for me in AD2038.
They're pretty much the only people left in the world who make battle-quality chain mail, scale mail, and plate mail in the medieval style.
Hm, I wonder how medieval style chain mail would look like?
"Hear ye! Hear ye! This chain letter was started by our saviour Jesus Christ the day he died for our sins. And you will be forever damned if you don't follow it's instructions, as it is the words of the Good Lord.
You will all get rich because of your faithful devotion. You will earn one thousand shilling in just one year. Send one shilling to each of the people on the list. Then strike the name at the top of this list and your own name to the bottom of it. Then send copies of this letter to dozen of your friends and relatives, as Jesus had a dozen apostles. If you cannot aford the parchment, or at least a herald, you will just have to go read this message to them yourself. If you cannot read, just learn this letter by heart. You must do this within half a dozen moons, and keep the holy chain running, unless you want yourself and your house to be forever damned."
And yes, I do know that we are really talking about body armor.
I'll just add that what is most important to me is a good story. I love effects as well, but without a good, funny, sad or crazy story, it's just another FX project or bad fanfilm. I was thought the Matrix pretty good, allthough I wasn't "blown away". It was good science fiction - with invented technology - not just Skiffy or space opera.
Some of my fellow MCSc students saw this film in he 0:02 AM screening last night. They were impressed. So I'm watching it soon. After my exams I think. I hope I get to find out why the AIs keep the humans around. Is it because the fusion reactors are unreliable and they need us as an un-interruptable power supply? Is it because they get some kind of satisfaction from using us "like" we used them? When I watched the first of those Matrix shorts, I thought "Ha! Robots are not people!". Am I a bigot?
The logical end to this technofear-fest is that humans and robots (silicates?) make peace. Ho hum.
Three problems with my post (well, excluding any grammatical issues, that is).
The reference is in "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" wich is strictly speaking not "The Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy", but can be found with it in "The Ultimate Hitchiker's Guide".
The full title of Dr. Dan Streetmentioner's book is "Time Travelers' Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations", but I would expect the "Time Travelers' Handbook of" part to be set in a smaller font; so whatever.
The link to the sarch engine didn't work. I know I pasted it in correctly and I also seem to remember testing it in the preview. Oh, well.:-/
"I know we're supposed to concentrate on the content, and not the form of comments."
I know. I did start my answer with "You're right." I just included the bit about lists because the "final comma" rule is news to me. Sorry for not making that more clear, like by using a "BR" and writing "And by the way".
My bad. Even so, my "Duh!" comment was supposed to be funny, not sarcastic. I wish I could say that I introduced language errors just to be funny. The truth is that I wanted to be quicker than the ten other people who got the same idea.
Drop the comma after "content". You're right. If I had read it through properly I would have caught it. I now found at that lists should have a comma before the "and" at the end. I learned differently.
Add a comma after "However". That was a stupid typo. When I exchanged the "but" for "however", the sentence became wrong. "But" was fine in the first place.
Finally, putting the punctuation inside the quotes on a quoted word is technically correct I suppose, but as a programmer it really hurts my eyes. Puctuation? Do you mean capitalization? Or are you referring to the comma after "1001 Tense Formations"?/"1001 Tense Formations?"
It might have something to do with my new signature: Real men First Post only in the FPHoE.
Moderators might think I'm a troll because of it. It is really a whimsical, but obviously futile, attempt to stop people from posting first posts in story comments. I was inspired by the user-moderated story queue.
Thank you for the ideas. The original post was an excellent, subtle joke. Unfortunately, I didn't consider people who weren't "in" on the HGttG. I feel sorry for Rick.C (626083), who replied in good faith ? well sort of ? and was moderated down. I'll maybe moderate him up sometime to make amends.
You knew it was a joke, right? This being slashdot, I had almost expected people to either have read "the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy", or to search for "1001 Tense Formations" on the Internet. Next time I try to make a joke with an obscure reference to literature, I will provide the hyperlinks and fill it with emoticons.:-/:-(:-)
I acknowledge the misspelled "off". Could somebody please point out the punctuation errors and the hyphenation error? (I mean, there must be some teachers of English or high school valedictorians around here.)
Second attempt:
I know we're supposed to concentrate on the content, and not the form of comments. However you pulled off the rare feat of making 3 simple grammatical errors in that sentence. I suggest you order the book "1001 Tense Formations", by Dr. Dan Streetmentioner, from your favorite Internet bookstore and refresh your grammar. Next time "Read It Before You Post" as the slashdot FAQ states.
This, of course, causes its normal downhill motion under gravity to occur retrotemporally, giving the fluid the appearance of syntemporal uphill motion.
I know we're supposed to concentrate on the content, and not the form of comments. But you pulled of the rare feat of making 3 simple grammatical errors in that sentence. I suggest you order the book "1001 Tense Formations", by Dr. Dan Streetmentioner, from your favourite Internet book store, and re-fresh your grammar. Next time Read It Before You Post.
imagine, when boards are self contained on one microchip, the name will be the "ultra gigaplexor 90000000 duplex teranaxor"
Perhaps they need somebody to end the madness? (One of) the first electronic computers was called ENIAC. Then came the UNIVAC and the ILLIAC, etc. So somebody called their computer MANIAC, and ended that tradition. I like to think of Windows 98 as being derived from the MANIAC, while Windows XP is made BY maniacs.
Serioulsy though, I think microcontrollers is a kind of fusion of CPU/RAM/ROM other circuits, and they usually have shorter names than desktop CPUs have, IIRC.
Posted by Hemos on 15:00 19 May 2003 from the like-ma-no-extra-wires dept.
Must mean that ma is high strung enough as it is, what with the dot com crash, 9/11 and everything. Or that we like "ma" with no extra wires, i.e. nekkid.
"How do I look pop?" "Perf'ek, ma!"
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I think it would take more than that. But, then his speeches would sound like:
"I was introducing some new anti-terrorism law to Congress and it was like 'No no no!'
And then, like, half my law was gone.
They devoured my law. It was a really good law. Then I had to lobby and negotiate about it again and I had to do it fast, and it wasn't as good.
It was kind of a
bummer."
SCO is pronounced as one syllable, "sko", with a long "o". ...which is the word "shoe" in Scandinavian.
So you have a firm which is:
called "sko";
trading as SCOX - anagram SOCX;
doesn't have a clue what IP is;
and wishes to destroy Linux.
Conclusion:
Now I know where Al Bundy is working.
BTW: He and Steve Ballmer would look a great team.
Some of us have girlfriends and wives.
There's (at least) two ways to read that:
--Groucho Marx
But that brings up a hitch: Wouldn't it be slave trade to sell that avatar - marriage material - on eBay?
PLAYER 2: It devoured my avatar. It was a really good avatar. Then I had to play it all again to get the skills back and I had to do it fast, and it wasn't as good. It was kind of a ...bummer.
Bookmark this baby, and watch them fall back down.
Hopefully.
Copyrights and patents are protection against strangers. Contracts are what you use against parties you have relationships with. From a legal standpoint, contracts end up being far stronger than anything you could do with copyrights.
In other words, all of us that never had the misfortune of dealing with SCO can Linux ourself half to death.
Or in other words, they haven't a clue what Copyrights, Patents, Trademarks and Trade Secrets are.
I would suggest this book.
Or perhaps they could check this out.
It will have to start with a global apology.
They are form the U.S, right? Sue the bastards!
Their only hope now is to be bought by Microsoft. Then all charges will be dropped, because Microsoft brings in so much export revenue. Bah.
Let's hope the switch from Solaris to Linux doesn't give the Sun any problems in the transition phase.
I'll call this Linux project a success if solar flare activity doesn't increase, and uptime isn't affected.
The Linux-bashing trolls are allready saying that the Sun will be having uptime problems within the end of the week. I think they are just jelaous.
Here's an script for just that purpose:
[simple, but working, encryption/decryption script]
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So, since I can't be bothered to start a sourceforge project, I guess we'll just have to forget it.
Quoting from here.
I'm curious about wether or not the C/C++ time() funcion will mess up things for me in AD2038.
Hm, I wonder how medieval style chain mail would look like?
And yes, I do know that we are really talking about body armor.
Last Post!
(Let's see if I get away with that.)
I'll just add that what is most important to me is a good story. I love effects as well, but without a good, funny, sad or crazy story, it's just another FX project or bad fanfilm.
I was thought the Matrix pretty good, allthough I wasn't "blown away". It was good science fiction - with invented technology - not just Skiffy or space opera.
Some of my fellow MCSc students saw this film in he 0:02 AM screening last night. They were impressed. So I'm watching it soon. After my exams I think.
I hope I get to find out why the AIs keep the humans around.
Is it because the fusion reactors are unreliable and they need us as an un-interruptable power supply?
Is it because they get some kind of satisfaction from using us "like" we used them?
When I watched the first of those Matrix shorts, I thought "Ha! Robots are not people!". Am I a bigot?
The logical end to this technofear-fest is that humans and robots (silicates?) make peace. Ho hum.
this sentence is not a list:
"I know we're supposed to concentrate on the content, and not the form of comments."
I know. I did start my answer with "You're right."
I just included the bit about lists because the "final comma" rule is news to me. Sorry for not making that more clear, like by using a "BR" and writing "And by the way".
Yes, you're right.
Quotation Marks.
My bad. Even so, my "Duh!" comment was supposed to be funny, not sarcastic.
I wish I could say that I introduced language errors just to be funny. The truth is that I wanted to be quicker than the ten other people who got the same idea.
Drop the comma after "content".
You're right. If I had read it through properly I would have caught it. I now found at that lists should have a comma before the "and" at the end. I learned differently.
Add a comma after "However".
That was a stupid typo. When I exchanged the "but" for "however", the sentence became wrong. "But" was fine in the first place.
Finally, putting the punctuation inside the quotes on a quoted word is technically correct I suppose, but as a programmer it really hurts my eyes.
Puctuation? Do you mean capitalization?
Or are you referring to the comma after "1001 Tense Formations"?/"1001 Tense Formations?"
Um, wouldn't that just be "BR"?
Yes, it would. If he remembers to write "HTML Formatted" instead of "Plain Old Text" which inserts line breaks for you.That was a "BR".
The "P" tag typically inserts blank lines above and below.
Like in the previous paragraph.It might have something to do with my new signature:
Real men First Post only in the FPHoE.
Moderators might think I'm a troll because of it. It is really a whimsical, but obviously futile, attempt to stop people from posting first posts in story comments.
I was inspired by the user-moderated story queue.
Thank you for the ideas.
The original post was an excellent, subtle joke.
Unfortunately, I didn't consider people who weren't "in" on the HGttG.
I feel sorry for Rick.C (626083), who replied in good faith ? well sort of ? and was moderated down. I'll maybe moderate him up sometime to make amends.
I acknowledge the misspelled "off".
Could somebody please point out the punctuation errors and the hyphenation error? (I mean, there must be some teachers of English or high school valedictorians around here.)
Second attempt:
This, of course, causes its normal downhill motion under gravity to occur retrotemporally, giving the fluid the appearance of syntemporal uphill motion.
I know we're supposed to concentrate on the content, and not the form of comments. But you pulled of the rare feat of making 3 simple grammatical errors in that sentence. I suggest you order the book "1001 Tense Formations", by Dr. Dan Streetmentioner, from your favourite Internet book store, and re-fresh your grammar. Next time Read It Before You Post.
You're lucky you were able to fit that much on your arms. My wrists have allready been filled up with this.
No, not really.
imagine, when boards are self contained on one microchip, the name will be the "ultra gigaplexor 90000000 duplex teranaxor"
Perhaps they need somebody to end the madness? (One of) the first electronic computers was called ENIAC. Then came the UNIVAC and the ILLIAC, etc. So somebody called their computer MANIAC, and ended that tradition.
I like to think of Windows 98 as being derived from the MANIAC, while Windows XP is made BY maniacs.
Serioulsy though, I think microcontrollers is a kind of fusion of CPU/RAM/ROM other circuits, and they usually have shorter names than desktop CPUs have, IIRC.
What is your experience with VIA motherboards?
What about the VIA 82C686B Southbridge? (Any AmigaOne owners?)
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Posted by Hemos on 15:00 19 May 2003
from the like-ma-no-extra-wires dept.
Must mean that ma is high strung enough as it is, what with the dot com crash, 9/11 and everything.
Or that we like "ma" with no extra wires, i.e. nekkid.
"How do I look pop?"
"Perf'ek, ma!"
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I wouldn't have cared to post anything if it wasn't for M1 on parent. The FAQ says "Karma is not your dick size." Huh? Right now I have "Karma: Excellent", so I guess the FAQ needs updating.
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