yeah i have always read the UPDATE.TXT, looked at it for a while then thought i would always mess something up. it would be fubared mess of the last version and the next:(
9/11 changed this country...changed it.....in ways which we cant possibly imagine or even fathem. just look around, look at your work collegaues, your neighbours and yes even your family. then ask yourself can i trust these people? can really trust them?
the format wars are a mear distraction. possibly a cleaver ploy by the terrorists to lull hard working familes all around this great land of ours into a confusion then they will use that weakness to attack us! or not.
Yes because the excellent satellite intelligence helped find the WMDs in Iraq!
heck you liberals stupid or something? Photographs don't lie!! (especially with clever annotated military-speak notes to explain that it is chemical manufacturing plant)
Found Osma Bin-Laden and his magical underground caves of wonder!
And as we speak systematically rooting out all members of Al-Qaeda from their caves!
Roll on Iran!
Yes satellite intelligence is immensely to gather a *part* of the picture, but far too much reliance soley put on it. While HUMINT or having assests on the ground has basically been ignored for 20 years.
i always thought it odd the way veterens in the USA get a military funeral?
in Britian once you leave the armed forces, thats it, thanks old chap. you have to be currently serving to get one.
one of my grandfathers and 2 great uncles fought in the war and sadly all gone in that 4 years, (great uncle was a spitfire pilot and wasnt a very happy when a doctor grounded him for being colour bling halfway through his 2nd tour! great guy). but none of them would of even expected or want one.
i dont know if its just me but i could never sign up with Verizon due to its highly annoying name.
They probably spent thousands on ad people to come up with it.
[annoying ad guy #1:] We need a name which "encapsulates the broadband generation", something with "reach" and "go ahead qualities" which says "hey, we're here and going places! but we couldnt gave a rat's ass about you customers" [annoying ad guy #2:] hmmmmm, yeah it need something distant, but not too distant on the wave...or horizon.....horizon!! [annoying ad guy #1:] yeah horizion! Great just what we're looking for....but its missing *IT* [annoying ad guy #1:] yeah it defiantly needs *it*.... [annoying ad guy #2:] yeah....*it*....something on the horizon but its closer.....not unattainable yet still special with pazazz.. [annoying ad guy #1:] Nearizon..hmmm....Hereizon....!! I GOT IT! [annoying ad guy #1:] this is going to be great......HQ will just love it! [annoying ad guy #1:] get this VERIZON!! [annoying ad guy #2:] get this VERIZON!! [annoying ad guy #2:] annoying ad guy #1 you are totally the best! Wow that defiantly has *it*! [annoying ad guy #1:] >>false modesty mode>pointed gun finger gesture
just looking around the site, it is all depressing lowest common denominator. but that's federal education schemes for you!
on the "kids'" homepage there is also a weird video of Dubya doing a live linkup with the last Shuttle Crew[?] which actually depresses me even more. he waffles off some crap about the "importance of their mission" and "how proud the folks are", then the mission commander spiels off the latest BS NASA press release.
NASAs manned mission has sadly lost its way and is rapidly turning into a joke. what happened to the NASA which wasn't afraid of taking risks and pushing real boundaries. the astronauts which you aspired to be as a kid........."important missions" my left ass cheek, the last thing a manned mission did which was of an real use is fixing Hubble!
While the unmanned missions plods away doing the real science and exploration with none of the kudos or more importantly funding.
sigh, i know sound like a broken record and I have read the same stuff on/. a million times.
i think mainly due the fack that CD player were well established. the labeles didnt push it, and you had to order MDs due none of the big record shops (or small ones) carrying them in any large number.
who wants to wait 5 days for a MD to come in, while you can just walk down the aisle and pick up a CD?
GOTO line_2000034496864; . . ethics// [ from project leader: didnt you get the memo, ethics??] remove. redundant. professional_pride
can you imagine after finishing Windows ME, the Systems Architect lighting a big fat cigar, leaning back in his chair and saying softly to himself "damn fine Operating System that, damn fine",
the engineers in the local bar having a celebratory drink, chinking bud lights together "thats one for the Resume alright!!"
i use slackware and mainly only upgrade as per distro release. although i do have a sort of hybrid of programs where i like the extra functionality of a program update.
saying that i am a bit of new kernel whore.
meh.
on a serious note, who the hell buys an Operating System for a present?
Dad: Happy Christmas son, may this bring you years of productivity.
Son: Windows ME!! oh geez Dad just what i always wanted!
**48 Hrs later little jimmy was found dead in his room after several attemmpts at using Windows ME**
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what does "Mad props" mean? Personally i wouldn't want to give anyone an agitated propeller, let alone two.
:)
im not stupid, just british
also wasnt the last female "tourist" the "teacher in space"..........
yeah i have always read the UPDATE.TXT, looked at it for a while then thought i would always mess something up. it would be fubared mess of the last version and the next :(
agreed, although its starting to annoy me when they 'Dyson' mainly due to those hov..err vaccum cleaners being rubbish compared to the likes of the mighty Henry http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00008Z9XZ/202- 8882964-3659063?v=glance&n=11052681
you forgot the war on terrorism.
9/11 changed this country...changed it.....in ways which we cant possibly imagine or even fathem. just look around, look at your work collegaues, your neighbours and yes even your family. then ask yourself can i trust these people? can really trust them?
the format wars are a mear distraction. possibly a cleaver ploy by the terrorists to lull hard working familes all around this great land of ours into a confusion then they will use that weakness to attack us!
or not.
just be afraid.
yeah its called 'retro hat', what do you think the Film, Music and Television industries have been doing over the last 4 years?
eh, what about attlestar_Galactica? that was [is] pretty successful.
crowbar and baseball bat, its all you need.
i like to call it the "Daniel Boone factor".
more people should wear coonskin caps
Conjectulation hehehe.
not sure about pervious versions of slack, but 10.2 ISO has it, i dont see the problem way other distro dont include it?
jre-1_5
Yes because the excellent satellite intelligence helped find the WMDs in Iraq!
heck you liberals stupid or something? Photographs don't lie!! (especially with clever annotated military-speak notes to explain that it is chemical manufacturing plant)
Found Osma Bin-Laden and his magical underground caves of wonder!
And as we speak systematically rooting out all members of Al-Qaeda from their caves!
Roll on Iran!
Yes satellite intelligence is immensely to gather a *part* of the picture, but far too much reliance soley put on it. While HUMINT or having assests on the ground has basically been ignored for 20 years.
i would be interested to see what peoples replies are when we get bi-annualar
"w00t, I just totally h4x0red my P4 to hit 6.0Ghz,!!! it barely loads but 6GHz who cares, I am the w1n!!!
wow totally neat!
Pffft Pentiums.
Ohhhh liquid nitrogen!
i always thought it odd the way veterens in the USA get a military funeral?
:)
in Britian once you leave the armed forces, thats it, thanks old chap. you have to be currently serving to get one.
one of my grandfathers and 2 great uncles fought in the war and sadly all gone in that 4 years, (great uncle was a spitfire pilot and wasnt a very happy when a doctor grounded him for being colour bling halfway through his 2nd tour! great guy). but none of them would of even expected or want one.
but different countries different traditions.
lego bricks? they will be their a while then...
what i want to know is who the hell coined the phrase to "..surf the internet"? and did he die in a suitably painfully way?
i dont know if its just me but i could never sign up with Verizon due to its highly annoying name.
They probably spent thousands on ad people to come up with it.
[annoying ad guy #1:] We need a name which "encapsulates the broadband generation", something with "reach" and "go ahead qualities" which says "hey, we're here and going places! but we couldnt gave a rat's ass about you customers"
[annoying ad guy #2:] hmmmmm, yeah it need something distant, but not too distant on the wave...or horizon.....horizon!!
[annoying ad guy #1:] yeah horizion! Great just what we're looking for....but its missing *IT*
[annoying ad guy #1:] yeah it defiantly needs *it*....
[annoying ad guy #2:] yeah....*it*....something on the horizon but its closer.....not unattainable yet still special with pazazz..
[annoying ad guy #1:] Nearizon..hmmm....Hereizon....!! I GOT IT!
[annoying ad guy #1:] this is going to be great......HQ will just love it!
[annoying ad guy #1:] get this VERIZON!!
[annoying ad guy #2:] get this VERIZON!!
[annoying ad guy #2:] annoying ad guy #1 you are totally the best! Wow that defiantly has *it*!
[annoying ad guy #1:] >>false modesty mode>pointed gun finger gesture
just like the unsinkable ship.
the majority of homes in the UK dont have basements you insensitive clod!
just looking around the site, it is all depressing lowest common denominator. but that's federal education schemes for you!
/. a million times.
on the "kids'" homepage there is also a weird video of Dubya doing a live linkup with the last Shuttle Crew[?] which actually depresses me even more. he waffles off some crap about the "importance of their mission" and "how proud the folks are", then the mission commander spiels off the latest BS NASA press release.
NASAs manned mission has sadly lost its way and is rapidly turning into a joke. what happened to the NASA which wasn't afraid of taking risks and pushing real boundaries. the astronauts which you aspired to be as a kid........."important missions" my left ass cheek, the last thing a manned mission did which was of an real use is fixing Hubble!
While the unmanned missions plods away doing the real science and exploration with none of the kudos or more importantly funding.
sigh, i know sound like a broken record and I have read the same stuff on
a complete failure in the UK.
i think mainly due the fack that CD player were well established. the labeles didnt push it, and you had to order MDs due none of the big record shops (or small ones) carrying them in any large number.
who wants to wait 5 days for a MD to come in, while you can just walk down the aisle and pick up a CD?
does it run linux?
i'll just close the door on my way then..
you know i have always wondered about the engineers and code monkeys who work for MS.
// [ from project leader: didnt you get the memo, ethics??] remove. redundant.
making_money
making_money
climbing_the_greasy_pole
making_more_money
GOTO line_2000034496864;
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ethics
professional_pride
can you imagine after finishing Windows ME, the Systems Architect lighting a big fat cigar, leaning back in his chair and saying softly to himself "damn fine Operating System that, damn fine",
the engineers in the local bar having a celebratory drink, chinking bud lights together "thats one for the Resume alright!!"
i use slackware and mainly only upgrade as per distro release. although i do have a sort of hybrid of programs where i like the extra functionality of a program update. saying that i am a bit of new kernel whore. meh.
on a serious note, who the hell buys an Operating System for a present? Dad: Happy Christmas son, may this bring you years of productivity. Son: Windows ME!! oh geez Dad just what i always wanted! **48 Hrs later little jimmy was found dead in his room after several attemmpts at using Windows ME**
true nerds build their own. alienware is looked down upon in computer geek community. as this thread points out.