Might be a bit off topic, but reminds me of a true story. A lady had just bought one of these new fandangle optical thingees (this was when they first came out) with her new PC and complained when she got home and discovered it wasn't working.
Upon calling back to the people she got the PC from (who told me this story) she checked all cables, power etc and confirmed that the little red light was going. Getting frustrated, the tech told her to bring the mouse in and he would check it out - she did and there was nothing wrong with it. She got home and still nothing.
Anyway the tech ended up going on-site to see what the problem was do discover that her PC was on a glass-top table and that the mouse was working perfectly... in sending the light straight through the glass-top table making it seem as though it was in mid-air still.
Well today as a young whipper-snapper I have enough time to tan the hides of 6 oxen just to get to a start menu from where I then have to hunt for the prompt.
Someone tried to do this with the british government long ago. He dug a tunnel under their building and tried to blow it up, he was killed... most painfully... and now we celebrate it here in NZ every 5th of November with fireworks.
What I want to know is are we celebrating that he tried to blow it up, or that he failed? If it is because he failed, then why celebrate by blowing things (all-be-it rather small things) up?
I run a business selling computers and the one thing that is common amongst nearly all new customers is that they ask for a manual. Does that mean that I shouldn't be allowed to sell them a new computer?
When I saw that scene I couldn't help but notice that Eolis never did get a girl in the end, instead he seemed to end up with Gimly the 6ft-somthing dwarf.
Well if only one of these rumors can be granted, then I want the ewok music back. From a musicians perspective that was much better than the crap they used in the re-release.
64 bit on 32 bit, sounds similar to the old 32 bit API/overlay systems for running DOS games. Makes me wonder how much of a mess this will make of the instruction set.
I'm suprised that I haven't seen this reason given yet. Faxes (at least in NZ) are always admisable in a court of law (as far as evidence of corrispondence), but email isn't. That is why all official business corrispondence is sent my fax (which is very hard to fake) rather than email (which is easy to fake)
priceless?! He nearly cost me a replacement of my monitor through the temptation of punching his lights out. I'm not a violent person ether... well unless you count running around with a shotgun blasting aliens. Relax boys, I'm talking about in a computer... Ummm... I'm with the city transit authority can you please look this way {pulls out sunnies and silver tube}...
you know, I may be relativly new to/. but I wouldn't get your hopes up if I were you. Afterall it would be advisable to find someone of the opposite gender before embarking on such a hazardous journey into the unknown... well the unknown for the general population here, anyway.
Slashdot Mirror
Damn, and I thought there was hope yet... imagine a harem for every slashdotter!
Was I the only one who read this as American's Idol getting his nuts cut off? {sorry if language offends}
and after that they can all get together for an infection match to form MyQuake.Arena, the beowulf of viruses
Might be a bit off topic, but reminds me of a true story. A lady had just bought one of these new fandangle optical thingees (this was when they first came out) with her new PC and complained when she got home and discovered it wasn't working.
Upon calling back to the people she got the PC from (who told me this story) she checked all cables, power etc and confirmed that the little red light was going. Getting frustrated, the tech told her to bring the mouse in and he would check it out - she did and there was nothing wrong with it. She got home and still nothing.
Anyway the tech ended up going on-site to see what the problem was do discover that her PC was on a glass-top table and that the mouse was working perfectly... in sending the light straight through the glass-top table making it seem as though it was in mid-air still.
Well today as a young whipper-snapper I have enough time to tan the hides of 6 oxen just to get to a start menu from where I then have to hunt for the prompt.
Solitaire? I always thought it was Minesweeper... no wait, you must be right, Minesweeper seems to be too stable.
Someone tried to do this with the british government long ago. He dug a tunnel under their building and tried to blow it up, he was killed... most painfully... and now we celebrate it here in NZ every 5th of November with fireworks. What I want to know is are we celebrating that he tried to blow it up, or that he failed? If it is because he failed, then why celebrate by blowing things (all-be-it rather small things) up?
Well, I would like to say that mine is, but then again that's pretty obvious as I'm Kiwi not American... Ouch that hurt!
I run a business selling computers and the one thing that is common amongst nearly all new customers is that they ask for a manual. Does that mean that I shouldn't be allowed to sell them a new computer?
When I saw that scene I couldn't help but notice that Eolis never did get a girl in the end, instead he seemed to end up with Gimly the 6ft-somthing dwarf.
You know my Dad still has one of those, still works but the monitor is dodgy
Hey that's my line!!!
Well if only one of these rumors can be granted, then I want the ewok music back. From a musicians perspective that was much better than the crap they used in the re-release.
64 bit on 32 bit, sounds similar to the old 32 bit API/overlay systems for running DOS games. Makes me wonder how much of a mess this will make of the instruction set.
I'm suprised that I haven't seen this reason given yet. Faxes (at least in NZ) are always admisable in a court of law (as far as evidence of corrispondence), but email isn't. That is why all official business corrispondence is sent my fax (which is very hard to fake) rather than email (which is easy to fake)
priceless?! He nearly cost me a replacement of my monitor through the temptation of punching his lights out. I'm not a violent person ether... well unless you count running around with a shotgun blasting aliens. Relax boys, I'm talking about in a computer... Ummm... I'm with the city transit authority can you please look this way {pulls out sunnies and silver tube}...
you know, I may be relativly new to /. but I wouldn't get your hopes up if I were you. Afterall it would be advisable to find someone of the opposite gender before embarking on such a hazardous journey into the unknown... well the unknown for the general population here, anyway.