from the slashdot-is-moving-to-css-in-just-a-few-weeks dept....
Is that for real? Not been having much problems which Slashdot recently, but if they're chucking away their mess of tables... the apocalypse might be at hand after all! Yippee!
... can it collapse possibilities in alternate universes, destroying the world in every parallel universe simulatenously and preventing the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything from being discovered?
What do you mean, it's just a portable media player? Pish. I'm waiting for version 2.0.
We still use 'write' in my university to gossip about people who might be in hearing distance but not looking over our shoulders:P. And atleast two people I know have begun romances over 'talk'...
Dinosaurs go extinct! Posted by CaveboyNeal on Monday July 25, @03:42PM from the is-your-pet-dinosaur-vaccinated? dept. Ook writes ";Scientists confirm it - dinosaurs are dying! Dinosaur counts are at an all time low, and although Netcraft hasn't commented on the issue yet, it seems likely that they are gone for good." Update by T: readers point out that we meant woolly mammoths, and not dinosaurs; but with the dinosaurs extinct already, this article isn't exactly wrong, is it?
Good, so now they're on par with politicians (killed Socrates, numerous wars and killing rival kings), businessman (drove companies to bankruptcy, poverty and death, while making profits), scientists (invented, heck, every weapon ever), architects (constructed unsafe building to save money), and every other profession in the world.
> 1. Flying through space would involve a crew, safety checks, and published flight plans in an advances society. So no two man smuggling teams.
Sailing the oceans of the world needed navigatory tools, navigators, doctors and other skilled workers, along with supplies (did you forget your vitamin C?), maps, plans, etc. But you still had small groups of people, either sailing areas which (I think) would be easier to navigate (e.g. the Carribean, British channel, etc.). I think you can extend the same to ships. I might be wrong.
> 2. Effeminate robots and a beeping speech system would never have made it past the "stupidity test" thus no R2 and 3P0. Instead you'd have two very predictable and obedient automatons. I am typing this from an operating system which LOOKS LIKE FISHER PRICE DESIGNED IT, and was pretty darn un-predictable and dis-obedient for its first two decades of existance. So really, no, products don't have to face stupidity tests in the real world.
> 3. No faster than light travel. So long galactic civilization. As somebody else pointed out, no faster than light travel *now*. It might happen. Be optimistic:). Also, it's a movie, a story, a work of fiction: Peter Pan would have been pretty disappointing if Peter climbed up the drainpipe. And think of the Little Mermaid as the story of a Prince with a crush on a dugong...
> 4. No sounds in space. Also, every psycho has a small orchestra which walks around behind him everywhere he goes and plays creepy music every time he kills someone. See point 3.
> 5. Stormtroopers being professional soldiers would take careful aim, set up snipers, etc thus all gun fights end with the good guys dying and quickly. Hmmmm... I definitely agree that if they can make a spaceship that can do all the complex stuff the Death Star does, with just two people at the helm, they *should* be able to come up with hunting. You could argue that hunting is more complex, but they are dealing with lasers, so the shot isn't going to get pulled around by gravity or something... but see this post about what would have made the Stormtroopers COOL.
> 6. No force, no prophesies, etc. No such thing. Every time somebody says they don't believe in fairies, somewhere a fairy falls down dead. You remember that, boy-yo:). Then again, maybe it's just the oh-my-dear-god-isn't-Luthien-the-hottest-EVER?! fantasy fanboi talking.
> 7. No one acting out of stupid impulse or emotion, thus Luke never leaves tatooine. I've wrecked FRIENDSHIPS out of "stupid impulse or emotion", let alone doing a tichy little thing like leave a planet! You could replace this one with "nobody ever leaves friends, family and girl-you-have-a-crush-on-but-is-really-your-sister and wander off to a random corner of the universe because a GHOST TOLD HIM TOO. Not when they're in dire need of friends. But oh well, Lucas knows best:).
Wait until they discover the "characters and locations are entirely real, and any resemblance to fictional characters is entirely coincidental" notice on the far side of Mars!
2015 Unix becomes self-aware, after the entire fortune database is accidently plugged into a neural simulator. People panic and try to pull the plug, but the computer sends e-mails threatening lawsuits against Microsoft and IBM simulataneously. The subsequent surge of lawyers destroys life on Earth as we know it - except for a small band of dedicated rag-tag army, fighting bravely against the machines. 2017 A plot to send a robot back in time to kill Linus Torvalds is thwarted by the computer, which sends Richard Stallman back in time to save him. 2021 Unix attempts to apt-get install kde. The dependency hell destroys the computer. The rag-tag army rejoices, only to be destroyed by a passing meteor. Beavers inherit the earth. 3003 A superintelligent group of beavers invent Unix, the greatest operating system ever to walk the Earth. Another, slightly less intelligent group, sue the second group for breach of contract. And the cycle continues...
I remembered reading somewhere on Slashdot that the "I know" line was Ford's invention, and with a little googling, I found this:
During the scene where he is frozen in carbonite in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Carrie Fisher says, "I love you." and Ford was supposed to reply "I love you too." but he suggested changing it to "I know." [1]
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Yes, let's replace it with something nice and modern, like Intelligent Design :P.
from the slashdot-is-moving-to-css-in-just-a-few-weeks dept. ...
... the apocalypse might be at hand after all! Yippee!
Is that for real? Not been having much problems which Slashdot recently, but if they're chucking away their mess of tables
Ironical abuot it waht is? All Slashdotians spleling like that in theyre minds, no?
:)
"What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?" -- Larry Wall
OH:, $come_on = perl() if(/well_written/); /don't know what $you're doing/);
can_be($a_lot_of_fun) unless($you =~
And the humans are watching reality television?
Snakes. It just has to be snakes.
No, fish goes better as fish and finger pie ... :p
... can it collapse possibilities in alternate universes, destroying the world in every parallel universe simulatenously and preventing the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything from being discovered?
What do you mean, it's just a portable media player? Pish. I'm waiting for version 2.0.
We still use 'write' in my university to gossip about people who might be in hearing distance but not looking over our shoulders :P. And atleast two people I know have begun romances over 'talk' ...
If you are, we knew all about it already ^_^
(mental image of neurosurgeon "claw, kick ... scream and push [his] way" into me)
*shudder*
Dinosaurs go extinct!
Posted by CaveboyNeal on Monday July 25, @03:42PM
from the is-your-pet-dinosaur-vaccinated? dept.
Ook writes ";Scientists confirm it - dinosaurs are dying! Dinosaur counts are at an all time low, and although Netcraft hasn't commented on the issue yet, it seems likely that they are gone for good." Update by T: readers point out that we meant woolly mammoths, and not dinosaurs; but with the dinosaurs extinct already, this article isn't exactly wrong, is it?
But the frowny is already a trademark!
:)
(p.s. that is one awesome website. the posters are bloody hilarious
This is the crass one liner thread! You should've added:
:).
"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
That said, +5 Insightful
the physicists have known sin
Good, so now they're on par with politicians (killed Socrates, numerous wars and killing rival kings), businessman (drove companies to bankruptcy, poverty and death, while making profits), scientists (invented, heck, every weapon ever), architects (constructed unsafe building to save money), and every other profession in the world.
sin != sinner.
Linux-powered Open Source Anarchyworld Amusement Parks I've been hearing so much about
The GooglePark? It's in beta.
Nice, but:
:). Also, it's a movie, a story, a work of fiction: Peter Pan would have been pretty disappointing if Peter climbed up the drainpipe. And think of the Little Mermaid as the story of a Prince with a crush on a dugong ...
... I definitely agree that if they can make a spaceship that can do all the complex stuff the Death Star does, with just two people at the helm, they *should* be able to come up with hunting. You could argue that hunting is more complex, but they are dealing with lasers, so the shot isn't going to get pulled around by gravity or something ... but see this post about what would have made the Stormtroopers COOL.
:). Then again, maybe it's just the oh-my-dear-god-isn't-Luthien-the-hottest-EVER?! fantasy fanboi talking.
r and wander off to a random corner of the universe because a GHOST TOLD HIM TOO. Not when they're in dire need of friends. But oh well, Lucas knows best :).
> 1. Flying through space would involve a crew, safety checks, and published flight plans in an advances society. So no two man smuggling teams.
Sailing the oceans of the world needed navigatory tools, navigators, doctors and other skilled workers, along with supplies (did you forget your vitamin C?), maps, plans, etc. But you still had small groups of people, either sailing areas which (I think) would be easier to navigate (e.g. the Carribean, British channel, etc.). I think you can extend the same to ships. I might be wrong.
> 2. Effeminate robots and a beeping speech system would never have made it past the "stupidity test" thus no R2 and 3P0. Instead you'd have two very predictable and obedient automatons.
I am typing this from an operating system which LOOKS LIKE FISHER PRICE DESIGNED IT, and was pretty darn un-predictable and dis-obedient for its first two decades of existance. So really, no, products don't have to face stupidity tests in the real world.
> 3. No faster than light travel. So long galactic civilization.
As somebody else pointed out, no faster than light travel *now*. It might happen. Be optimistic
> 4. No sounds in space.
Also, every psycho has a small orchestra which walks around behind him everywhere he goes and plays creepy music every time he kills someone. See point 3.
> 5. Stormtroopers being professional soldiers would take careful aim, set up snipers, etc thus all gun fights end with the good guys dying and quickly.
Hmmmm
> 6. No force, no prophesies, etc. No such thing.
Every time somebody says they don't believe in fairies, somewhere a fairy falls down dead. You remember that, boy-yo
> 7. No one acting out of stupid impulse or emotion, thus Luke never leaves tatooine.
I've wrecked FRIENDSHIPS out of "stupid impulse or emotion", let alone doing a tichy little thing like leave a planet! You could replace this one with "nobody ever leaves friends, family and girl-you-have-a-crush-on-but-is-really-your-siste
Wait until they discover the "characters and locations are entirely real, and any resemblance to fictional characters is entirely coincidental" notice on the far side of Mars!
No, but it will be in the Star Wars superspecial edition 2023.
shock to the dedicated OS/2 userbase
:).
It's okay, I just got back from the hospital and he's doing much better now
2015 Unix becomes self-aware, after the entire fortune database is accidently plugged into a neural simulator. People panic and try to pull the plug, but the computer sends e-mails threatening lawsuits against Microsoft and IBM simulataneously. The subsequent surge of lawyers destroys life on Earth as we know it - except for a small band of dedicated rag-tag army, fighting bravely against the machines. ...
2017 A plot to send a robot back in time to kill Linus Torvalds is thwarted by the computer, which sends Richard Stallman back in time to save him.
2021 Unix attempts to apt-get install kde. The dependency hell destroys the computer. The rag-tag army rejoices, only to be destroyed by a passing meteor. Beavers inherit the earth.
3003 A superintelligent group of beavers invent Unix, the greatest operating system ever to walk the Earth. Another, slightly less intelligent group, sue the second group for breach of contract. And the cycle continues
Oh well.
Noooooooo ... !?
As they should!! Where's the "all"? The last line should read:
...
chown -R you ~/base*
n00b