I failed Calc twice in college, and gave up on it. I love Math, mostly because I know what I can use it for (Geometry, Algebra, Trig, etc).
I could never figure out why Calculus would ever be of any use to me. Do any fellow Slashdotters have any examples of when Calculus came in handy in a real-life situation? (Rocket Scientists and Astrophysicists need not reply)
A little bird told me John Ashcroft was beta-testing it... gave him gallstones and Pancreatis. Think I'll wait for the version that won't give me cancer. (Remember brain-cancer causing cellphones?)
I doubt they understood it (nightshade vs. mandrake root), and I don't really care. My karma is in the toilet, and that makes sense anyhow, because in Ultima V & VI I had some of the worst karma possible in the game.
Nice to see a fellow Brittanian though.
Don't wait for my next reply, my terrible karma allows for only 2 posts per day.
One person's -1 Troll is another person's +5 Funny.:)
I am sure that everytime you write code, you have never looked at other source, or possibly even used that source, to do something that has already been done?
It's called object oriented, or inheritance, or a hundred other names. What I'm basically saying is they developed their software under UNIX, and almost certainly used SCO Unix V code in it.. then they ported to LINUX. You think they spent the time and money to go through 200 million lines of code when they ported to LINUX to be sure none of it was SCO's?
I used to work for Autozone, and I can tell you that they used to run UNIX for all of their parts lookup terminals, and they switched to LINUX. And I can almost guarantee you that code that they wrote in-house (under UNIX, that probably used some of SCO's code) was copied over to the LINUX operating system. SCO picked the right people to pick on. (former UNIX customer, did a lot of development work in-house, and then switched to LINUX). So beware if your company fits that mold...
And I'm torn, because I hate SCO for this lawsuit stuff, but being a former (and still disgruntled, after 5 years) employee of AutoZone, I'm not sure who I want to lose. Is it possible for them both to be financially hurt in this lawsuit?
You do NOT want to work for Autozone. Been there, done that. Unless you like wearing red, like doing a company 'cheer', and think rednecks are fun to work for.
I thought all we had to do to terraform Mars is put a bunch of high-pollution factories on the surface, to generate greenhouse gases, so that the atmosphere will build up.
Hurray for pollution! We'll have Earth day to clean up our planet, and a new Mars day to ship off C02, trash, chemicals, and smog to Mars to help build a new planet! Yaaaaay!
Yes, floats off into space, or turns into ice. There is very little atmosphere, so there is some speculation that the water is in liquid form under the Mars surface somewhere, and it eventually gets pushed up to the surface where it instantly evaporates into water vapor. The thin atmosphere sends this water vapor off into space, or it eventually collects at the two polar ice caps.
The biggest piece of crap I have ever played. It just plain sucked, I'm sorry. I hated that game. That and Missile Command. Asteroids and Space Invaders ruled compared to those games.
I even had Pong, and I think that was better then Defender.
Currently FFX-2 and Ratchet & Clank : Going Commando are my two favorite games.
Luxury...
There were 126 of us living in a shoebox in the middle of the road. We'd have to get out of the box, 5 o'clock in the morning, and lick road clean with tongue...
and you tell the young people that today.. and they won't believe you...
Another decade or two and the majority of the country (if not the world) will be wireless-capable.
Think of wireless repeaters in all public buildings, all major stores, gas stations, even in cars.
Then they install the RFID tags in your skull while you sleep, and even the tin-foil hats won't save you from Big Brother.
They'll find you. They'll get you. They know where you live, they know when you sleep.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
Obviously the people that are truly running the show and know the answer to the meaning of life have 13 fingers, and use a base 13 numbering/math system.
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I failed Calc twice in college, and gave up on it. I love Math, mostly because I know what I can use it for (Geometry, Algebra, Trig, etc).
I could never figure out why Calculus would ever be of any use to me. Do any fellow Slashdotters have any examples of when Calculus came in handy in a real-life situation? (Rocket Scientists and Astrophysicists need not reply)
Another device to help track us poor lemmings.
A little bird told me John Ashcroft was beta-testing it... gave him gallstones and Pancreatis. Think I'll wait for the version that won't give me cancer. (Remember brain-cancer causing cellphones?)
I doubt they understood it (nightshade vs. mandrake root), and I don't really care. My karma is in the toilet, and that makes sense anyhow, because in Ultima V & VI I had some of the worst karma possible in the game.
:)
Nice to see a fellow Brittanian though.
Don't wait for my next reply, my terrible karma allows for only 2 posts per day.
One person's -1 Troll is another person's +5 Funny.
I still prefer Nightshade to Mandrake Root.
I am sure that everytime you write code, you have never looked at other source, or possibly even used that source, to do something that has already been done?
It's called object oriented, or inheritance, or a hundred other names. What I'm basically saying is they developed their software under UNIX, and almost certainly used SCO Unix V code in it.. then they ported to LINUX. You think they spent the time and money to go through 200 million lines of code when they ported to LINUX to be sure none of it was SCO's?
This should be a fun ride...
I used to work for Autozone, and I can tell you that they used to run UNIX for all of their parts lookup terminals, and they switched to LINUX. And I can almost guarantee you that code that they wrote in-house (under UNIX, that probably used some of SCO's code) was copied over to the LINUX operating system. SCO picked the right people to pick on. (former UNIX customer, did a lot of development work in-house, and then switched to LINUX). So beware if your company fits that mold...
And I'm torn, because I hate SCO for this lawsuit stuff, but being a former (and still disgruntled, after 5 years) employee of AutoZone, I'm not sure who I want to lose. Is it possible for them both to be financially hurt in this lawsuit?
You do NOT want to work for Autozone. Been there, done that. Unless you like wearing red, like doing a company 'cheer', and think rednecks are fun to work for.
... *augh*
Give me an 'A'! Give me a 'U'!
I was going to reply in kind to that door left wide open but my Karma is terrible as it is already.
This post is probably not going to help that either.
I thought all we had to do to terraform Mars is put a bunch of high-pollution factories on the surface, to generate greenhouse gases, so that the atmosphere will build up.
Hurray for pollution! We'll have Earth day to clean up our planet, and a new Mars day to ship off C02, trash, chemicals, and smog to Mars to help build a new planet! Yaaaaay!
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/newsroom/pressrelea ses/20040302a.html
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Yes, floats off into space, or turns into ice. There is very little atmosphere, so there is some speculation that the water is in liquid form under the Mars surface somewhere, and it eventually gets pushed up to the surface where it instantly evaporates into water vapor. The thin atmosphere sends this water vapor off into space, or it eventually collects at the two polar ice caps.
The biggest piece of crap I have ever played. It just plain sucked, I'm sorry. I hated that game. That and Missile Command. Asteroids and Space Invaders ruled compared to those games.
I even had Pong, and I think that was better then Defender.
Currently FFX-2 and Ratchet & Clank : Going Commando are my two favorite games.
Luxury... There were 126 of us living in a shoebox in the middle of the road. We'd have to get out of the box, 5 o'clock in the morning, and lick road clean with tongue... and you tell the young people that today.. and they won't believe you...
The Bugblatter Beast of Traal destroyed both of our Mars Rovers because we did not equip them with towels to wrap around their video cameras.
Ok, so does this mean in a few years all of the people working in the USA as Linux developers/administrators will all be outsourced to China?
I think it's time to get my forklift driving license back.
Another decade or two and the majority of the country (if not the world) will be wireless-capable. Think of wireless repeaters in all public buildings, all major stores, gas stations, even in cars. Then they install the RFID tags in your skull while you sleep, and even the tin-foil hats won't save you from Big Brother. They'll find you. They'll get you. They know where you live, they know when you sleep. Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
So Happy Together.... I can't see me loving nobody but you...
Obviously the people that are truly running the show and know the answer to the meaning of life have 13 fingers, and use a base 13 numbering/math system.
6 X 9 = 42 in base 13.
Email is portable when changing ISP's.. it's called Yahoo. or Hotmail.