I thought that in the future Soylent Green (tm) is people.
What happened to cryogenics? Having my head kept in a bucket of liquid Nitrogen is good enough for me. Keep your new fangled bieng blasted into space by rockets fad.:)
carefully crafted moment in a movie has been shattered
There you are 40 minutes into the gun battle explosion bloodfest. Suddenly the hero stops to say "Uzi *RING RING*imeter". Changes weapon and resumes random blood spatter carnage 600 full metal jacket rounds/second. Car explodes for no apparent reason.
But NO it's to late you've lost the *whole* thread of the movie because of some asshole with a cell phone. Now i'll *never* know what he did with that Uzi. My whole life is ruined *sob*.
Sorry I got a bit carried away there:)
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Jerome K Jerome describes this problem in the classic Three Men in a Boat . After reading a patent Liver Pill circular, J consults his medical encyclopedia. He finds he has every disease in the book with the exeption of Housemaids Knee.
His doctors cure is as follows:
1 lb beefsteak, with 1 pt bitter beer
every 6 hours.
1 ten mile walk every morning. 1 bed at 11 sharp every night. And don't stuff up your head with things you don't understand.
You can get the book free from Project Gutenberg. It's well worth it.:)
Wow. Current situation in the UK (where the mobile market is pretty saturated) is pay as you go phones average about 30p / min on calls and 5p / SMS. I tend to use these. Contracts where you pay monthly vary. In fact some people only ever pay the monthly rate and get by on the freebies that the local telcos offer so they pay nothing for SMS or outgoing calls. In *all* cases (unless the user specificly accepts a reverse charge call) you pay nothing to recieve calls.
Also at the moment there is a slow but steady uptake of the new generation phones. Hardware prices have dramatically increased on prepay deals. But contracts still offer free hardware for all but the most up to date phone.
Oh and take the 'idiot' reference tongue in cheek. I suppose you have to take what your telecos offer. Even if the deal sucks.:)
Since everybody on/. knows the IT department in any major corporation is ranked somewhere below the janitorial staff and the guy who puts fresh bottles in the water dispensers.
It may say top and executive on your buisiness card bub, but face it you're well down the pecking order and you know it.
Top executives spend their days playing golf not running round takin phone calls like a lame gofer.
The USA seems to be about 15-20 years behind the rest of the world in the assimilation of cell phone technology into their culture. Ironic really when you consider the first cell phone networks in the world were set up in America (Chicago I think).
All of the issues you've mentioned have long been laid to rest in cultures where cell phones are more widely in use.
In a few years time you'll wonder what all the fuss was about.:)
Looks like the USA has finally reached the 'I'm on the bus' stage in cell phone use. The irony is that in a country that is so hot on 'freedom of speech' that this kind of censorship is taking place. Here in the UK where pretty much *everybody* owns a cell phone and has done for years these issues are pretty much old hat. The cell phone has just been assimilated into the culture, nobody even notices them any more.
Presumably the security concept of tagging copies and recording who they issue them to hasn't occured to Microsoft. Their human resource department must go to extremes to employ morons.:)
The emphasis still seems to be on adding yet *more* features and bloat to GNOME. At what point are they going to stop doing this and finally declare the desktop *feature* complete?
IMHO, GNOME is eminently useable and has sufficent features already. Stability should be given greater emphasis.
How is this any different to the 'blurb' normaly printed on book jackets by the publishers?
In this case the authors are writing their own BS hype online instead of bribing someone else to do it for them. Its just a fairly typical cheesy marketing ploy.
The best way to judge a book is to check it out for yourself in a bookstore. If you're hooked in the first few paragraphs its probably going to be a good read.
I thought it was asking for code as actually Haiku
If they did that how would the judges be able to *read* and *make sense* of the entries? Face it perl code just looks like a bunch of random punctuation.;)
Do Martians have PeN-1-5's ? Do they need them enlarging?
I can't wait for my first interplanetary spam:)
They could run into bandwidth problems if things go wrong. When the Galileo probes' hi gain antenna failed to deploy they could only manage 10 bits/sec. I for one won't wait a week for one of my pr0n images to download.
IMHO *ALL* GUI/WIMP Desktops are bloated piles of resource hogging garbage. The command line is king. AND... ed is the *only* application you will *ever* need.
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I thought that in the future Soylent Green (tm) is people.
:)
What happened to cryogenics? Having my head kept in a bucket of
liquid Nitrogen is good enough for me. Keep your new fangled bieng
blasted into space by rockets fad.
carefully crafted moment in a movie has been shattered
:)
There you are 40 minutes into the gun battle explosion bloodfest.
Suddenly the hero stops to say "Uzi *RING RING*imeter".
Changes weapon and resumes random blood spatter carnage 600 full
metal jacket rounds/second. Car explodes for no apparent reason.
But NO it's to late you've lost the *whole* thread of the movie
because of some asshole with a cell phone. Now i'll *never* know
what he did with that Uzi. My whole life is ruined *sob*.
Sorry I got a bit carried away there
Jerome K Jerome describes this problem in the classic Three Men in a Boat . After reading a patent Liver Pill circular, J consults his medical encyclopedia. He finds he has every disease in the book with the exeption of Housemaids Knee.
:)
His doctors cure is as follows:
1 lb beefsteak, with
1 pt bitter beer
every 6 hours.
1 ten mile walk every morning.
1 bed at 11 sharp every night.
And don't stuff up your head with things you don't understand.
You can get the book free from Project Gutenberg.
It's well worth it.
Wow.
:)
Current situation in the UK (where the mobile market is
pretty saturated) is pay as you go phones average about
30p / min on calls and 5p / SMS. I tend to use these.
Contracts where you pay monthly vary. In fact some people
only ever pay the monthly rate and get by on the freebies
that the local telcos offer so they pay nothing for SMS
or outgoing calls. In *all* cases (unless the user specificly
accepts a reverse charge call) you pay nothing to recieve calls.
Also at the moment there is a slow but steady uptake of
the new generation phones. Hardware prices have dramatically
increased on prepay deals. But contracts still offer free
hardware for all but the most up to date phone.
Oh and take the 'idiot' reference tongue in cheek. I suppose you
have to take what your telecos offer. Even if the deal sucks.
ps
;)
BTW. Nice troll
I call bullshit on Mr *top* IT executive.
/. knows the IT department in any
:)
Since everybody on
major corporation is ranked somewhere below the
janitorial staff and the guy who puts fresh bottles in
the water dispensers.
It may say top and executive on your buisiness card bub,
but face it you're well down the pecking order and you
know it.
Top executives spend their days playing golf not running
round takin phone calls like a lame gofer.
Take a reality tablet sherlock.
The USA seems to be about 15-20 years behind the rest of the world
:)
in the assimilation of cell phone technology into their culture.
Ironic really when you consider the first cell phone networks in
the world were set up in America (Chicago I think).
All of the issues you've mentioned have long been laid to rest in
cultures where cell phones are more widely in use.
In a few years time you'll wonder what all the fuss was about.
Looks like the USA has finally reached the 'I'm on the bus'
stage in cell phone use. The irony is that in a country that
is so hot on 'freedom of speech' that this kind of censorship
is taking place. Here in the UK where pretty much *everybody*
owns a cell phone and has done for years these issues are
pretty much old hat. The cell phone has just been assimilated
into the culture, nobody even notices them any more.
What idiot would want a phone where you have to
pay to recieve *incomming* calls? Is this for real?
What a bizzare concept. Do you mean line rental?
Presumably the security concept of tagging copies and recording :)
who they issue them to hasn't occured to Microsoft. Their human
resource department must go to extremes to employ morons.
he means the ... BSODprints. :D
I feel that Microsoft may yet get some "marketing points"
:)
More importantly -
They might even get some bug/security fixes.
Now that their codes gone 'OS'.
The emphasis still seems to be on adding yet *more* features
and bloat to GNOME. At what point are they going to stop doing
this and finally declare the desktop *feature* complete?
IMHO, GNOME is eminently useable and has sufficent features already.
Stability should be given greater emphasis.
sed s/perl/spam/g [that haiku]
:)
an improvement i think you'll find.
Yeah thats what I thought as well.
The litigous parasites have already had a try (and failed)
for hypertext, so presumably CSS was next on the list.
Wonder if they'll ever get round to ASCII?
The only way to get rid of parasites AFAIK.
1 Host dies and no more hosts left to infect.
2 Kill them outright. (deny them food)
How is this any different to the 'blurb' normaly printed
on book jackets by the publishers?
In this case the authors are writing their own BS hype
online instead of bribing someone else to do it for them.
Its just a fairly typical cheesy marketing ploy.
The best way to judge a book is to check it out for yourself
in a bookstore. If you're hooked in the first few paragraphs
its probably going to be a good read.
Reviews, best to treat em with a bucket of salt.
Name: Steve Joiner
Haiku:
I write code in Perl,
Noone else understands it.
Job security!
Dear Steve
Your job has been outsourced to Indian programmers.
We can actually understand their clear concise code.
Have your desk clear by Monday.
Yours faithfully
Human Resources
Name: Roberto Nozaki
Haiku:
Need no C, no VB
'cause my precious PERL
I have with me
Can you not see
without good old c
up shit creek you would be
1...2...3...
... or even Ruby. It is after all Japanese. :)
Frank Zappa did this years ago.
I thought it was asking for code as actually Haiku
;)
If they did that how would the judges be able to *read*
and *make sense* of the entries? Face it perl code just
looks like a bunch of random punctuation.
Or was that the Magellan probe with the dodgy antenna. Anyhow it was a low datarate.
Do Martians have PeN-1-5's ? Do they need them enlarging?
:)
I can't wait for my first interplanetary spam
They could run into bandwidth problems if things go wrong.
When the Galileo probes' hi gain antenna failed to deploy
they could only manage 10 bits/sec. I for one won't wait a
week for one of my pr0n images to download.
I'm bored I think I'll start a flamewar.
...
IMHO *ALL* GUI/WIMP Desktops are bloated piles of
resource hogging garbage. The command line is king.
AND
ed is the *only* application you will *ever* need.