You'll have to tell that to, oh, most everyone in computing here at the national lab. I'm sure all the Ph.D's will be pleased to hear how non-professional they are, with their Linux desktops and Linux supercomputers.
Well god knows he doesn't want the machine to play games, and nobody does CAD on Mac because engineers are usually more intelligent than that... so no, I guess I can't see any reason to have a good video card in a Mac.
It's a smear campaign along the same lines of the "series of tubes" debacle. Not technically inaccurate--Al Gore did a lot to get stuff going, and the Internet *can* be imagined as a bunch of pipes or tubes--but people love to jump on it. You don't bitch about the "series of tubes" thing because a *Republican* said that.
They're both Internet jokes... or should I say "jokes on the internets", to parrot another not-incredibly-inaccurate but frequently repeated quote. Al Gore is a pompous douchebag a lot of the time, so it's especially funny to imagine him taking credit for inventing the Internet, even if that wasn't what he was aiming for (I hope).
LCD monitors still don't match up to a decent Trinitron. The only thing that comes close, in my opinion, is the massive old Samsung SyncMaster 240T that I've been using at work. It's 24" widescreen, does 1920x1200, and has a power brick that is actually pretty close to brick size. It's a tank. It would have been something like $5,000 back when it was new... and I salvaged two of them from the re-app pile.
Good God man, the prices for Unix licenses would be EXTORTIONATE! I have to pay for a large Starbucks coffee before I can get a Unix license? Jesus, I'll be broke soon.
How many people ever used ReiserFS? By all reports (from the few people I've ever known who actually used it) it was a pretty risky move. When ReiserFS screwed your filesystem (as happened to these guys at some point), there weren't really any good tools to try and fix it... and if you emailed Reiser or a mailing list, he'd be a total ass because you DARE mention that his filesystem screwed your data. So yeah, I guess if writing a filesystem that nobody uses and being a dick count as being a good programmer and an important member of the community, you're right.
Perl is so Web 1.0, though! Remember back in the day when all the Slashdot posters loved to talk about their awesome Perl skills? Kids these days use AJAX and such... back in my day we wrote web applications in COBOL and we were glad to have it!.
Yes, over the past decade or so I've gone from 640x480 on a 15" screen to 800x600 on a different 15" screen to 1280x1024 on a 17" screen; now I use a 19" CRT at 1600x1200 and a 24" LCD at 1920x1400 and there STILL ISN'T ENOUGH SPACE. I guess I have an ever-growing need for higher resolutions and more screen space.
Speaking as an American, as long as dumbasses think they're special because some of their ancestors came from Ireland 8 generations ago before proceeding to mix with every other background in the US, we're going to hear a lot more "I'm Irish" or worse "I'm 1/16 Cherokee, 1/2 Irish, 2/7 Italian..." crap.
Congratulations, you've discovered the lost philosophy of EXTINCTIONISM!
Practised widely following the invention of the atomic bomb and in lesser amounts throughout recorded history, this doctrine states that all humanity will utterly perish in a few short years due to X, where X is anything new.
It does give you cynic points, which are really important when trying to score with that Lit major chick at the Art House party, so that's a bonus.
Yes, thank you! That's probably the one. So smoking drops the average age from 84 to 77, a mere 7 years at the *end* of your life, and obesity is even less, a mere 4 years. I only smoke occasionally (cigars and pipes) and I don't worry about eating healthy food; if eating only green vegetables and refraining from smoking meant that I could spend an extra 7 years at age 24, hell, I'd do it, but I think I'll take enjoying myself now over an extra couple years of pissing myself and forgetting my name in the distant future.
Socialized health care denies or delays treatment if you smoke, are obese, forgot the cover on your TPS report. Do you really think that such a system wouldn't do the same thing given information on your likely future ailments? The difference between that and privatized health care is that at least with a private system the only barrier is money. In the socialized system, you've got no chance at all of not being screwed because of your genes.
I for one look forward to microscopic swarms of robots that feed on excess fat and repair any disease or illness. Not holding my breath though; in the meantime, I'll just pay for health care.
Over the course of a lifetime, the health costs for a smoker are lower. I don't remember what the source was or I'd cite it, sorry. Apparently dying of lung cancer at 70 is less expensive than slowly deteriorating in all ways from age, oh, 60 to 90.
FORTRAN is fast as hell and lots of scientists know it already, so yeah, it's still got a lot of use over here in scientific computing. Software packages like LINPACK have been tweaked for decades to get really high performance. The thing is, people in scientific computing are less likely to sit around blogging and posting on/. (I'm an exception, it seems) so their languages (FORTRAN and C, maybe some C++) don't get as much coverage as stuff like Ruby on Rails where you get 5 million postings on Digg every day from some web-tard who just figured out how to make his blog even more disgusting.
Every new OS effort improves the quality of all the others. You think Linux was developed in a vacuum? It's pulled in stuff from many different Unixes, Windows, Mac OS, and Plan 9 over the years.
Ooh, we just got one of those in the machine room. If it performs OK during the 60 day trial, I guess they're gonna buy a whole bunch of fully-loaded units.
It's a sexy, if heavy, machine.
If by "takes virtually none of your time" you mean "requires you to individually choose which albums and songs to include out of your entire music collection", then you're right.
I was moderately selective while filling my old Creative Zen player, but it's got a 30 gig hard drive and I only have about 18 gigs of music, so I *could* put the entire thing in there. I didn't because I have a lot of songs that I'll listen to occasionally to scratch an itch, but I don't want them popping up on shuffle mode.
Your argument is like renting a 5' by 10' apartment on the reasoning that you can just store everything you're not using in a storage unit, then haul it in when you need it. When you finish watching TV, just carry the whole TV and stand out and bring in your bookshelf so you can do some reading.
Wouldn't a literal photon torpedo simply be a nuclear weapon designed to emit extremely high amounts of light and heat, i.e. photons? If being sunburned to death is your idea of a humane weapon then go for it:)
The oceans are full of seaweed and algae, the cities are full of yard waste. Farms make plant waste, although a lot of that gets fed to farm animals (straw, corn cannery waste, etc.).
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You'll have to tell that to, oh, most everyone in computing here at the national lab. I'm sure all the Ph.D's will be pleased to hear how non-professional they are, with their Linux desktops and Linux supercomputers.
Well god knows he doesn't want the machine to play games, and nobody does CAD on Mac because engineers are usually more intelligent than that... so no, I guess I can't see any reason to have a good video card in a Mac.
So what does that say about Free Software's ability to meet people's needs?
I've just invented the memristor!
Another grand name from the creator of the finglonger.
It's a smear campaign along the same lines of the "series of tubes" debacle. Not technically inaccurate--Al Gore did a lot to get stuff going, and the Internet *can* be imagined as a bunch of pipes or tubes--but people love to jump on it. You don't bitch about the "series of tubes" thing because a *Republican* said that.
They're both Internet jokes... or should I say "jokes on the internets", to parrot another not-incredibly-inaccurate but frequently repeated quote. Al Gore is a pompous douchebag a lot of the time, so it's especially funny to imagine him taking credit for inventing the Internet, even if that wasn't what he was aiming for (I hope).
I've been saying that all along, but they said I was mad! Mad! I'll show them, with my genetically enhanced race of 5-assed webmonkeys
LCD monitors still don't match up to a decent Trinitron. The only thing that comes close, in my opinion, is the massive old Samsung SyncMaster 240T that I've been using at work. It's 24" widescreen, does 1920x1200, and has a power brick that is actually pretty close to brick size. It's a tank. It would have been something like $5,000 back when it was new... and I salvaged two of them from the re-app pile.
Good God man, the prices for Unix licenses would be EXTORTIONATE! I have to pay for a large Starbucks coffee before I can get a Unix license? Jesus, I'll be broke soon.
How many people ever used ReiserFS? By all reports (from the few people I've ever known who actually used it) it was a pretty risky move. When ReiserFS screwed your filesystem (as happened to these guys at some point), there weren't really any good tools to try and fix it... and if you emailed Reiser or a mailing list, he'd be a total ass because you DARE mention that his filesystem screwed your data. So yeah, I guess if writing a filesystem that nobody uses and being a dick count as being a good programmer and an important member of the community, you're right.
Perl is so Web 1.0, though! Remember back in the day when all the Slashdot posters loved to talk about their awesome Perl skills? Kids these days use AJAX and such... back in my day we wrote web applications in COBOL and we were glad to have it!.
Yes, over the past decade or so I've gone from 640x480 on a 15" screen to 800x600 on a different 15" screen to 1280x1024 on a 17" screen; now I use a 19" CRT at 1600x1200 and a 24" LCD at 1920x1400 and there STILL ISN'T ENOUGH SPACE. I guess I have an ever-growing need for higher resolutions and more screen space.
Speaking as an American, as long as dumbasses think they're special because some of their ancestors came from Ireland 8 generations ago before proceeding to mix with every other background in the US, we're going to hear a lot more "I'm Irish" or worse "I'm 1/16 Cherokee, 1/2 Irish, 2/7 Italian..." crap.
Congratulations, you've discovered the lost philosophy of EXTINCTIONISM!
Practised widely following the invention of the atomic bomb and in lesser amounts throughout recorded history, this doctrine states that all humanity will utterly perish in a few short years due to X, where X is anything new.
It does give you cynic points, which are really important when trying to score with that Lit major chick at the Art House party, so that's a bonus.
Yes, thank you! That's probably the one. So smoking drops the average age from 84 to 77, a mere 7 years at the *end* of your life, and obesity is even less, a mere 4 years. I only smoke occasionally (cigars and pipes) and I don't worry about eating healthy food; if eating only green vegetables and refraining from smoking meant that I could spend an extra 7 years at age 24, hell, I'd do it, but I think I'll take enjoying myself now over an extra couple years of pissing myself and forgetting my name in the distant future.
Socialized health care denies or delays treatment if you smoke, are obese, forgot the cover on your TPS report. Do you really think that such a system wouldn't do the same thing given information on your likely future ailments? The difference between that and privatized health care is that at least with a private system the only barrier is money. In the socialized system, you've got no chance at all of not being screwed because of your genes.
I for one look forward to microscopic swarms of robots that feed on excess fat and repair any disease or illness. Not holding my breath though; in the meantime, I'll just pay for health care.
Over the course of a lifetime, the health costs for a smoker are lower. I don't remember what the source was or I'd cite it, sorry. Apparently dying of lung cancer at 70 is less expensive than slowly deteriorating in all ways from age, oh, 60 to 90.
FORTRAN is fast as hell and lots of scientists know it already, so yeah, it's still got a lot of use over here in scientific computing. Software packages like LINPACK have been tweaked for decades to get really high performance. The thing is, people in scientific computing are less likely to sit around blogging and posting on /. (I'm an exception, it seems) so their languages (FORTRAN and C, maybe some C++) don't get as much coverage as stuff like Ruby on Rails where you get 5 million postings on Digg every day from some web-tard who just figured out how to make his blog even more disgusting.
Every new OS effort improves the quality of all the others. You think Linux was developed in a vacuum? It's pulled in stuff from many different Unixes, Windows, Mac OS, and Plan 9 over the years.
Ooh, we just got one of those in the machine room. If it performs OK during the 60 day trial, I guess they're gonna buy a whole bunch of fully-loaded units.
It's a sexy, if heavy, machine.
If by "takes virtually none of your time" you mean "requires you to individually choose which albums and songs to include out of your entire music collection", then you're right.
I was moderately selective while filling my old Creative Zen player, but it's got a 30 gig hard drive and I only have about 18 gigs of music, so I *could* put the entire thing in there. I didn't because I have a lot of songs that I'll listen to occasionally to scratch an itch, but I don't want them popping up on shuffle mode.
Your argument is like renting a 5' by 10' apartment on the reasoning that you can just store everything you're not using in a storage unit, then haul it in when you need it. When you finish watching TV, just carry the whole TV and stand out and bring in your bookshelf so you can do some reading.
Damn kids and your Apple hardware. In my day, an 80 column card was one of these
Well, assuming telekinesis obeys the inverse square law, it would be much easier to control the remote beside you than the TV across the room.
Wouldn't a literal photon torpedo simply be a nuclear weapon designed to emit extremely high amounts of light and heat, i.e. photons? If being sunburned to death is your idea of a humane weapon then go for it :)
The oceans are full of seaweed and algae, the cities are full of yard waste. Farms make plant waste, although a lot of that gets fed to farm animals (straw, corn cannery waste, etc.).