Believe it or not, this is one of the classic pranks. (Earliest written account dates to ancient Rome, but I'd bet the Sumerians pulled it off too!) It seems that a cow will readily climb up a steep slope, such as a flight of stairs, but will refuse to climb down. (Don't ask me why, I don't know, I'd say ask a cow, but "MOO" doesn't explain a lot.)
Here's a better article on him: http://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/radscout.html Hmm, This quote: -Of his exposure to radioactivity he says, "I don't believe I took more than five years off my life."- Doesn't seem to match the present picture does it?
Back about 1986, I actually surfed the net on a Commodore 128. The local community college got a spanking new server hooked up, and students were allowed to dial in in to get schedules, some class material, whatever. (I think it was still Arpanet back then, but it was years before World wide web)
Anyway, I logged in (at a whopping 1200 baud), looked around (After a bit of tweaking, Commodore had lowercase and capitals switched in ascii, plus none standard characters) and actually made it to a few net sites. (IBM, some national Community college site, a couple of others)
Wasn't interested, it was slower than most BBS's I could get to, had almost no graphics (and none that I could view), and no content I was interested in at the time, So I logged off and didn't get back to the net until 1998. Things sure changed in a dozen years!
Oh, I wasn't a student there, just heard about it and was curious. Online security? Some things haven't changed much!
"Vendors are a problem. Relentlessly annoying. Going to have to come up with a system to keep them from bothering me all day."
Do what they did at a previous job of mine appoint a "Procurement Advisor".
Basically, when the secretary announce that "Bill from Wonderful widgets is here", Our Boss would say "Tell him the Procurement Advisor is on his way up." Then check to see who's available, and send him. (We were all briefed on the procedure, but good BSers were prime pickings for Procurement Advisor.)
PA of the day would then meet with Bill in an available office/conference room/whatever and listen, nod, and accept freebies. Then when Bill tries to close the deal, say "I'm just the Procurement Advisor, I'm not authorized to make this decision, but I will pass my recommendations up the chain. Thank you for your time."
Some weasel.. er, vendors caught on after awhile and tried to circumvent the system. They were politely, but firmly told "I'm afraid you'll have to talk to our Procurement Advisor, this is his job."
here's a few quotes from BBC: "Software on the launch vehicle did not behave normally during a test sequence." "The new system will enable British forces to make use of next-generation weapons systems, such as the recently introduced Reaper drones." "This is made possible only by Skynet's ability to handle the drones' real-time video feeds." Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7419751.stm The only thing to add is... BOO!
"Easy to use has nothing to do with it. Focus on Application and Hardware support. Easy to use doesn't help you if your applications won't install or some chipset goes unsupported. These people need to work on building the needed applications for the Linux that exists now."
Applications and hardware support that "just work" are exactly how I define "ease of use".
The OS is just the part that makes the applications work on the hardware. Ideally, an OS that "just works" means I shouldn't even notice it.
"Or something to cancel out the noise of accordion players."
Fight fire with dynamite, if the accordion playing annoys you, drown it out with bagpipes! Just make sure you're the closest to the door, and it's open, AND you have a get-a-way car right outside the door, with its door open and motor running.
Here's a real, functional light saber that can be built with todays tech:
Take a high-powered infra-red laser that can be focused with a lens so that the focal point is energetic enough to ionize air.
Now get a lens whose focus can be changed electrically (Quartz and germanium are two possibilities that come to mind, I know germanium is transparent to infrared, not too sure about quartz)
Put laser and lens in a handle, sweep the focus of the lens from just past the hilt out to about three feet and back, several times a second.
Voila! Nice hissing, glowing column of energy that looks like a sword, cuts like a plasma torch, and can be yielded with one hand.
Caveats: Beams wont block other beams like a real sword.
Wear safety goggles to protect remaining eye from laser.
Please just ignore the power cable running to the wall outlet. PS, if you're silly enough to do this, please post video of mishaps on You Tube AND Darwin Awards!
If the computer you bought doesn't work to your satisfaction, return it to where you bought it, and raise hell until you get a refund!
Remember, you're not Microsoft's customer, You're Dell's, Walmart's, Target's, Best Buy's, whoever you bought the computer from's customer.
THEY are Microsoft's customers. If THEY have to keep refunding THEIR sales, THEY will raise hell with Microsoft, and then Microsoft will either listen, or THEY will switch vendors.
(Notice how many computers ARE being sold with other operating systems now as opposed to say, five years ago? it's actually working the way it is supposed to be!)
As to "OH NOES, but what will I do without a new computer?" Well. wasn't the old one working better than the new one you're complaining about? Use it until you find one that actually works better!
This has been a public service message to Joe and Jill Sixpack. Reminding you that you DO have the right to a full refund if a product doesn't work. No need for a lawyer at all!
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Lightning fast! And if you call in your order in the next 15 minutes, we'll include *SPACE GOGGLES*, absolutely free!
Note: Goggles may do nothing, void where prohibited, Company not resposible... Seriously, we're a pretty irresposible group of idiots!
Believe it or not, this is one of the classic pranks.
(Earliest written account dates to ancient Rome, but I'd bet the Sumerians pulled it off too!)
It seems that a cow will readily climb up a steep slope, such as a flight of stairs, but will refuse to climb down.
(Don't ask me why, I don't know, I'd say ask a cow, but "MOO" doesn't explain a lot.)
Remember kiddies; after dropping a "Ballmer Bomber", Use TP, flush, and wash your hands!
"So what would one do with a magic lactating train?"
I don't know.
But I DO know there are probably pictures on the internet!
I DON'T wanna know, so I ain't gonna Google it!
Really, I have nothing to add here except a link to the most honest election year poster I've seen:
http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive/1957
Ouch! After reading all this, I need a beer!
And not just any beer, but a Chile Canada good stuff!
Here's a better article on him: http://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/radscout.html
Hmm, This quote: -Of his exposure to radioactivity he says, "I don't believe I took more than five years off my life."- Doesn't seem to match the present picture does it?
That had this: Veteran of the Psychic Wars - Blue Oyster Cult http://technorati.com/videos/youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dnrd2xf5DIlU run through their head when they read the headline?
BINGO! http://isd.usc.edu/~karl/Bingo/ Woot, I win!
"Furthermore, I can't imagine my mom wanting to bother trying to set up wireless in ANY Linux distro, can you envision your grandparents doing so?"
Your mom can't handle point and click? http://picasaweb.google.com/captain.daft/WirelessInternetSetupInPuppyLinux
Some distros are way easier than others.
Oh yeah, that worked out real well back in 1999, didn't it?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072564/plotsummary
About this http://lng.sourceforge.net/ much.
Unfortunately, it seems like it's been abandoned since 2004.
Back about 1986, I actually surfed the net on a Commodore 128.
The local community college got a spanking new server hooked up, and students were allowed to dial in in to get schedules, some class material, whatever. (I think it was still Arpanet back then, but it was years before World wide web)
Anyway, I logged in (at a whopping 1200 baud), looked around (After a bit of tweaking, Commodore had lowercase and capitals switched in ascii, plus none standard characters) and actually made it to a few net sites. (IBM, some national Community college site, a couple of others)
Wasn't interested, it was slower than most BBS's I could get to, had almost no graphics (and none that I could view), and no content I was interested in at the time, So I logged off and didn't get back to the net until 1998. Things sure changed in a dozen years!
Oh, I wasn't a student there, just heard about it and was curious. Online security? Some things haven't changed much!
Compared to Manos: the Hands of Fate http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060666/, Plan 9 looks like Citizen Kane!
Easily the worst movie ever!
"Vendors are a problem. Relentlessly annoying. Going to have to come up with a system to keep them from bothering me all day."
Do what they did at a previous job of mine appoint a "Procurement Advisor".
Basically, when the secretary announce that "Bill from Wonderful widgets is here", Our Boss would say "Tell him the Procurement Advisor is on his way up." Then check to see who's available, and send him. (We were all briefed on the procedure, but good BSers were prime pickings for Procurement Advisor.)
PA of the day would then meet with Bill in an available office/conference room/whatever and listen, nod, and accept freebies.
Then when Bill tries to close the deal, say "I'm just the Procurement Advisor, I'm not authorized to make this decision, but I will pass my recommendations up the chain. Thank you for your time."
Some weasel.. er, vendors caught on after awhile and tried to circumvent the system. They were politely, but firmly told "I'm afraid you'll have to talk to our Procurement Advisor, this is his job."
here's a few quotes from BBC:
"Software on the launch vehicle did not behave normally during a test sequence."
"The new system will enable British forces to make use of next-generation weapons systems, such as the recently introduced Reaper drones."
"This is made possible only by Skynet's ability to handle the drones' real-time video feeds."
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7419751.stm
The only thing to add is... BOO!
They survived: http://orcas.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/Kkatman/Bad_Ewoks_-Tameran.jpg
How? They had help: http://orcas.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/Kkatman/Bad_Ewoks_-_Xorak.jpg
I think the new alliance is in deep kimshi!
Seriously, THIS would make a kick-ass Star Wars sequel!
Actually, our president uses the latest in tablet/stylus technology.
http://www.crobike.de/en/store/product.php?whm=22214&kat=FunStressRelievers&will=Crayons&country=Worldwide
"Easy to use has nothing to do with it. Focus on Application and Hardware support. Easy to use doesn't help you if your applications won't install or some chipset goes unsupported. These people need to work on building the needed applications for the Linux that exists now."
Applications and hardware support that "just work" are exactly how I define "ease of use".
The OS is just the part that makes the applications work on the hardware. Ideally, an OS that "just works" means I shouldn't even notice it.
"When was the last time you got a pop-up visiting your bank, or PayPal etc?"
Last week: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/10/hsbc_cert_glitch/
Fortunately, it was not a problem, as people would recognize the site as legitimate anyway. (Well, that's what the bank said.)
"Answer, never."
Never say never.
"Or something to cancel out the noise of accordion players."
Fight fire with dynamite, if the accordion playing annoys you, drown it out with bagpipes!
Just make sure you're the closest to the door, and it's open, AND you have a get-a-way car right outside the door, with its door open and motor running.
Here's a real, functional light saber that can be built with todays tech:
Take a high-powered infra-red laser that can be focused with a lens so that the focal point is energetic enough to ionize air.
Now get a lens whose focus can be changed electrically (Quartz and germanium are two possibilities that come to mind, I know germanium is transparent to infrared, not too sure about quartz)
Put laser and lens in a handle, sweep the focus of the lens from just past the hilt out to about three feet and back, several times a second.
Voila! Nice hissing, glowing column of energy that looks like a sword, cuts like a plasma torch, and can be yielded with one hand.
Caveats: Beams wont block other beams like a real sword.
Wear safety goggles to protect remaining eye from laser.
Please just ignore the power cable running to the wall outlet.
PS, if you're silly enough to do this, please post video of mishaps on You Tube AND Darwin Awards!
"I tried a silver bullet three months ago, but it disintegrated in the aura of evil surrounding the Exec."
No no no, silver bullets are for werewolves. To vanquish evil assholes, you need to hit'em with a silver suppository!
How to get a better working computer:
If the computer you bought doesn't work to your satisfaction, return it to where you bought it, and raise hell until you get a refund!
Remember, you're not Microsoft's customer, You're Dell's, Walmart's, Target's, Best Buy's, whoever you bought the computer from's customer.
THEY are Microsoft's customers. If THEY have to keep refunding THEIR sales, THEY will raise hell with Microsoft, and then Microsoft will either listen, or THEY will switch vendors.
(Notice how many computers ARE being sold with other operating systems now as opposed to say, five years ago? it's actually working the way it is supposed to be!)
As to "OH NOES, but what will I do without a new computer?" Well. wasn't the old one working better than the new one you're complaining about? Use it until you find one that actually works better!
This has been a public service message to Joe and Jill Sixpack. Reminding you that you DO have the right to a full refund if a product doesn't work. No need for a lawyer at all!
News of a dead soldier is "A hero and a martyr to our just cause."
Rumors of soldiers going gay in the trenches is "Evidence that this useless war is
destroying the moral fabric of our society."
Which one do you want the other side's folks back home to be believing?