What about launch bases on the moon? Escaping the moon's gravity to get to other locations has gotta be way cheaper than escaping earth's gravity. A network of these on the moon, maybe on one of mars's moons or mars iteself. I know, supplies need to come from somewhere, but shipping water from mars's icecaps to the moon might be cheaper than shipping water from earth to them moon. Yeah, I'm talking out my ass, but it sounds good to me.
Yeah, it's like people people who go antique hunting for old furniture. Sure, the worksmanship is incredible, but I like my things to be NEW and SHINY, thank you. None of that old wine, waitor, bring me some nice new stuff!
From what I understand, when it was pronounced, it was said epithetically, (phonetically) "Yo-hay-va-hay," roughly translating to "I am that I am."
It should also be noted that I don't know what I'm talking about and that this is just a vague recollection from an undergrad mythology class I took a while back.
Get over yourself. Quickly. Your account was created for the sole purpose of pointing out people's bullshit.
Pot, meet kettle.
Was I posting crap in response to crap? Yeah, probably. Fanboy-ing? Possibly, but I don't think so. It takes more energy to point out people pointing out people's bitching than to make a useful observation once in a while. Now, run along and hide another troll in an informative post. Attaboy.
timothy takes it well. "As several readers have pointed out" is in the update. What he wanted to say was, "as several barking assholes have bitched, moaned, and puled about (rather than noticing that someone else already said it and leaving well enough alone)..."
Yeah, mod me down for my superglue-to-buttcheeks maneuver if you will, but I'm right. Christ, people fuck up sometimes, no reason to reason to fill the thread with, "Dur, the link's right there, dur the link's right there!"
Thirty spokes share the wheel's hub,
But it is the center hole that makes is useful.
Shape clay into a vessel, it is the space within that makes it useful.
Cut doors and windows for a house, it is the emptiness that makes them useful.
Therefore, profit comes from what is there,
usefulness from what is not there.
While that article is absolutely right, please do the community a favor: never, ever, post a link to that goofy-ass Sammy Hagar wannabe again. Thank you.
Hm, I've only been hit once or twice screwing in a lightbulb (please don't ask how we got in there), and you're right, it was more of an uncomfortable throb than pain.
But here's a surprisingly nasty one: I was rebuilding an old volkswagen motor, and hit the distributor wire with a wrench I was holding, which subsequently shot my arm across the engine compartment and my hand into the path of the drivebelt. No serious injuries (just blood) but not something I'd want to repeat.
Heh, reminds me of a story. I used to work at Home Depot, and one of the regular electrical customers said that, in whack-job wirings like you have, he would be able to tell the difference between 110v and 220v by grabbing it the wire. If it hurt more, it was 220. If it hurt less, it was 110. He quit coming in one year, and I always wondered what happened to him...
I think the current lingo (from what little I dig from a couple Stephen Hawking books) is that if there is more than one universe, then it can'tbe a universe, it has to be a multiverse.
Please, can someone at Microsoft turn all that crap off by default?
Dir sir or madam,
We here at Microsoft value your, our users', opinions and make every effort to ensure a pleasant and productive product, with lots of long lovely alliteration.
Although you may feel that you would like to turn off such helpful features as Autoformat, Autospell, and AutoCorrect, our marketing shows that the average user feels "inadequate" when faced with a blank computer screen and we are quite sure that if you leave these features in their default "On" mode, you will quickly become acclimated and may even find yourself wondering how you got along without them!
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Kinda reminds me of Marvin, or even better, whatever Prefect called his little security robot buddy (can't remember right now, Zippy?). Gawd, the elevators... "Are you sure you'd you like to go up? Down is very nice, also." "Yes, up." "Or down."
All I need now is my computer to start second-guessing my spelling and grammar... oh, wait, Office already does that....
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Agreed. I kept expecting to see "UI by Fisher Price" somewhere at the bottom.
What about launch bases on the moon? Escaping the moon's gravity to get to other locations has gotta be way cheaper than escaping earth's gravity. A network of these on the moon, maybe on one of mars's moons or mars iteself. I know, supplies need to come from somewhere, but shipping water from mars's icecaps to the moon might be cheaper than shipping water from earth to them moon. Yeah, I'm talking out my ass, but it sounds good to me.
they discovered that 30 square inch hole and the plant was shut down anyways...
Yeah, it's like people people who go antique hunting for old furniture. Sure, the worksmanship is incredible, but I like my things to be NEW and SHINY, thank you. None of that old wine, waitor, bring me some nice new stuff!
I usually say SCO, as in SCOTUM
From what I understand, when it was pronounced, it was said epithetically, (phonetically) "Yo-hay-va-hay," roughly translating to "I am that I am."
It should also be noted that I don't know what I'm talking about and that this is just a vague recollection from an undergrad mythology class I took a while back.
I am shocked, shocked, that there are bridge-guarding trolls on slashdot.
*walks away shaking head and muttering*
Get over yourself. Quickly. Your account was created for the sole purpose of pointing out people's bullshit.
Pot, meet kettle.
Was I posting crap in response to crap? Yeah, probably. Fanboy-ing? Possibly, but I don't think so. It takes more energy to point out people pointing out people's bitching than to make a useful observation once in a while. Now, run along and hide another troll in an informative post. Attaboy.
Sweet! The old "turn the tables" routine! I liiiiike it.
timothy takes it well. "As several readers have pointed out" is in the update. What he wanted to say was, "as several barking assholes have bitched, moaned, and puled about (rather than noticing that someone else already said it and leaving well enough alone)..."
Yeah, mod me down for my superglue-to-buttcheeks maneuver if you will, but I'm right. Christ, people fuck up sometimes, no reason to reason to fill the thread with, "Dur, the link's right there, dur the link's right there!"
Thirty spokes share the wheel's hub,
But it is the center hole that makes is useful.
Shape clay into a vessel, it is the space within that makes it useful.
Cut doors and windows for a house, it is the emptiness that makes them useful.
Therefore, profit comes from what is there,
usefulness from what is not there.
~Lau Tsu, Tao te Ching
While that article is absolutely right, please do the community a favor: never, ever, post a link to that goofy-ass Sammy Hagar wannabe again. Thank you.
Hm, I've only been hit once or twice screwing in a lightbulb (please don't ask how we got in there), and you're right, it was more of an uncomfortable throb than pain.
But here's a surprisingly nasty one: I was rebuilding an old volkswagen motor, and hit the distributor wire with a wrench I was holding, which subsequently shot my arm across the engine compartment and my hand into the path of the drivebelt. No serious injuries (just blood) but not something I'd want to repeat.
Heh, reminds me of a story. I used to work at Home Depot, and one of the regular electrical customers said that, in whack-job wirings like you have, he would be able to tell the difference between 110v and 220v by grabbing it the wire. If it hurt more, it was 220. If it hurt less, it was 110. He quit coming in one year, and I always wondered what happened to him...
- Microsoft, #15
- Intel, #28
- Cisco, #38
- Dell, #50
- Hewlett-Packard, #109
- Texas Instruments, #200
- Sun Microsystems, #213
- wait for it...
- OH! There they are, Apple, #381!
Numbers speak it all, my man.Naughts and crosses? I though you played tic tac to with xes and os. Man, I've been playing wrong all these years.
Personally, I think we should just stick with "The Whole Sort of General Mish Mash."
Hey, you found my acid! Give it back!
I think the current lingo (from what little I dig from a couple Stephen Hawking books) is that if there is more than one universe, then it can'tbe a universe, it has to be a multiverse.
So, my money's on multiverse.
These are cool
Agreed. I can spend hours tooling around nasa.gov, et. al., clicking on the pretty pictures. If there were double the amount, that'd be sweet.
I miss Night Court. Now it's only like, Lifetime at 2 AM. Oh, well.
Two condoms were walking past a gaybar, one looked at the other and said, "wanna go in and get shitfaced?"
We here at Microsoft value your, our users', opinions and make every effort to ensure a pleasant and productive product, with lots of long lovely alliteration.
Although you may feel that you would like to turn off such helpful features as Autoformat, Autospell, and AutoCorrect, our marketing shows that the average user feels "inadequate" when faced with a blank computer screen and we are quite sure that if you leave these features in their default "On" mode, you will quickly become acclimated and may even find yourself wondering how you got along without them!
If you are sure that you would like to turn these features off, I would like to offer you 1000 hours of MSN, the internet-an-more-service that is at the forefront of modern technology, to be used in the next 30 days. MSN has been activated in your name, and your primary checking account has been billed in advance for your next month's service.
Thanks you for choosing Miscrosoft!
Kinda reminds me of Marvin, or even better, whatever Prefect called his little security robot buddy (can't remember right now, Zippy?). Gawd, the elevators... "Are you sure you'd you like to go up? Down is very nice, also." "Yes, up." "Or down."
All I need now is my computer to start second-guessing my spelling and grammar... oh, wait, Office already does that....