No no no, the ads were only meant to convey what using XP *feels like*. Continue using it for a extended period, and you'll be getting out-of-body experiences of flying in no time. You might even see a bright light at the end of a tunnel, and be transported to a glowing, happy place full of men in purple butterfly suits...
I can't wait for the press release that reads:
It all started when a guy in the legal department started having traumatic flashbacks to a Vietnam movie he watched in 1991. This may or may not have had something to do with the half pound of red leb he'd been smoking while watching 'cos he was still at law school at the time. The resulting hysteria was like, infectious, and spread to the management, and like, before anyone realised what was happening we'd turned charlie into evil commie open source developers that had to be wiped out at any cost.
Personally, I can't wait for the press release that says:
I was writing legal briefs on my Linux box, and it was like, 'beep beep beep beep', and then, like, half of my brief was gone.
And I was like, 'uunh?'
It devoured my brief. It was a really good brief. And then I had to write it again and I had to do it fast so it wasn't as good.
True, but they were 'legal' until congress passed the law, which is what the grandparent post was saying. If it were the other way around, it would have been illegal by default until congress decided to make it legal.
So, I take it the next State of the Union address will mention that "there is evidence that Tau Ceti has been attempting to acquire uranium for weapons of mass destruction"?
I submitted this same story(probobly rejected, unless it comes up as a dupe), and I read some other press reports. Apparently, the problem is that minorities that are hired by the DOJ leave at a higher rate than whites, and that women also leave at a higher rate than men(though not as much as minorities). This would indicate that there is a cultural problem in the DOJ and it is hindering them, especially in serving minority communities. Please understand that no one is suggesting that qualified white males should not be hired or that minorities be given a preference - just that the DOJ seek to retain those that they do hire, and fix whatever is pushing them away.
I caught the tail end of that Bill O'Reiley interview - probobly the worst I have ever heard on NPR. While I admit I don't watch Bill O'Reiley's show, in that interview he came across as literally the rudest person I have ever heard on public radio. Or radio in general, for that matter. Rush L. and other 'political commentators' say some rather nasty things about their opponents, but they seem to behave like adults. O'Reiley's behavior on that show was so childish that I couldn't believe it. I looked up his show on FoxNews.com, and he seems to run the kind of shouting match talkshow that the NPR interview degenerated into. Overall, not a very good impression.
hope that our new space overlords can make it down in one piece...
Seriously though, if I were an astronaut, guess what my expression would be if they handed me a foam brush as I was leaving for the pad and said, "Here, take this in case we screw up again and punch a giant hole in your wing." o_O
Set up your network using this topology -note that your computers are in bottom-center, with firewall between you and your attackers. To control it all, get a command center inside a facility like this. Of course, you'll need physical security; try using a giant robot. Make sure your pilot isn't a total wuss, though. Oh, and make sure you have large cooling units filled with these.
Well, Gigli has a hammerlock on the biggest second week drop, 'going down' 81.9%. If Revolutions does worse than that, I'll eat my own socks without ketchup.
...and in other news, Warner Bros. has announced that they are re-casting the final movie in the Matrix Triology. "We want actors with more screen presence", said one spokesman "and stars like Ben Affleck or J. Lo should fit right in with the gritty, dark feel of the series. We also felt that Ice Cube will be more 'gangsta-like' as Morpheus than that Laurence guy. I mean, who gives a leading part to a guy named Fishburn?" Unconfirmed reports suggest the crew is experiencing technical difficulties fitting J. Lo into a leather bodysuit, and may end up cutting all scenes with that outfit.
So do you want to eat your socks now, or wait 'till the release?
No one who is an open-source(or even proprietary) developer should download that code. If they are real, you're *seriously* opening yourself to future lawsuits, and 'tainting' your future code.
I am not sure whether or not the Saturn Vs were more or less safer than the SRBs on the Shuttle. However, I should point out that the fact that a Saturn V never had a catastrophic failure should not be taken to mean that they are thus safe.
According to this site, there were 32 Saturn launches(15 of them Saturn Vs). Out of that number, there was one non-critical rocket failure on Apollo 6(Saturn V), and two accidents unrelated to the rocket (Apollo 1 & 13). Compare that to the shuttle, which had 107 launches, and 1 critical rocket failure. Since Saturn Vs had only 15 launches, it's not really fair to say they were "safer" than Shuttles - the statistical margin of error could easily account for 1 or 2 failures if you extrapolate from 15 to 107.
Okay, before everyone else posts one of those stupid Slashdot in-jokes... Please post them as replies to this post.
In Soviet Russia, all your asteroid are belong to India!
Imagine a beowulf meteor shower of naked and petrified Natalie Portmans Slashdotting India!
"Where's the BitTorrent link?"
and last but not least...
Darl McBride: "We have good evidence that Indian villagers are stealing our intellectual property to the UNIX system encoded in million-year-old rocks... evidence will be presented shortly. In Sanskirt."
You mean, lots of geek guys dressing up as Niobe - like crossplayers at anime conventions. Then, you can re-enact the scene where Keanu runs for his life down the street, yelling "Get me the Hell out of here!" into his cellphone...
I refer you to this comic, in which this *very same* flaw in the 'Smegway' is part of an evil plot to take over the world! My god, it's true! But... but... if Sluggy Freelance is ture, then that means Santa is actually an EVIL ALIEN!!! AAAAAAHHHHH!!!
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No no no, the ads were only meant to convey what using XP *feels like*. Continue using it for a extended period, and you'll be getting out-of-body experiences of flying in no time. You might even see a bright light at the end of a tunnel, and be transported to a glowing, happy place full of men in purple butterfly suits...
Where's my meds?
I can't wait for the press release that reads: It all started when a guy in the legal department started having traumatic flashbacks to a Vietnam movie he watched in 1991. This may or may not have had something to do with the half pound of red leb he'd been smoking while watching 'cos he was still at law school at the time. The resulting hysteria was like, infectious, and spread to the management, and like, before anyone realised what was happening we'd turned charlie into evil commie open source developers that had to be wiped out at any cost.
Personally, I can't wait for the press release that says:
I was writing legal briefs on my Linux box, and it was like, 'beep beep beep beep', and then, like, half of my brief was gone.
And I was like, 'uunh?'
It devoured my brief. It was a really good brief. And then I had to write it again and I had to do it fast so it wasn't as good.
It's kind of...
...a bummer.
I'm Ellen Feiss, and I'm a lawyer.
True, but they were 'legal' until congress passed the law, which is what the grandparent post was saying. If it were the other way around, it would have been illegal by default until congress decided to make it legal.
So, I take it the next State of the Union address will mention that "there is evidence that Tau Ceti has been attempting to acquire uranium for weapons of mass destruction"?
Today Bagdad - tommorow Tau Ceti IV!
I submitted this same story(probobly rejected, unless it comes up as a dupe), and I read some other press reports. Apparently, the problem is that minorities that are hired by the DOJ leave at a higher rate than whites, and that women also leave at a higher rate than men(though not as much as minorities). This would indicate that there is a cultural problem in the DOJ and it is hindering them, especially in serving minority communities. Please understand that no one is suggesting that qualified white males should not be hired or that minorities be given a preference - just that the DOJ seek to retain those that they do hire, and fix whatever is pushing them away.
I caught the tail end of that Bill O'Reiley interview - probobly the worst I have ever heard on NPR. While I admit I don't watch Bill O'Reiley's show, in that interview he came across as literally the rudest person I have ever heard on public radio. Or radio in general, for that matter. Rush L. and other 'political commentators' say some rather nasty things about their opponents, but they seem to behave like adults. O'Reiley's behavior on that show was so childish that I couldn't believe it. I looked up his show on FoxNews.com, and he seems to run the kind of shouting match talkshow that the NPR interview degenerated into. Overall, not a very good impression.
...and all this time, I thought it was a magic electric grid!
You mean those electrons *aren't* being pushed to my outlet by little electric gnomes?
But did they make the messenger self-destruct, too?
hope that our new space overlords can make it down in one piece...
Seriously though, if I were an astronaut, guess what my expression would be if they handed me a foam brush as I was leaving for the pad and said, "Here, take this in case we screw up again and punch a giant hole in your wing." o_O
A Bill Clinton would be blue, with white spots :D
Set up your network using this topology -note that your computers are in bottom-center, with firewall between you and your attackers. To control it all, get a command center inside a facility like this. Of course, you'll need physical security; try using a giant robot. Make sure your pilot isn't a total wuss, though. Oh, and make sure you have large cooling units filled with these.
No, but 720 dollars is how much 79,800 yen is these days.
Apparently, you missed this sign. Perfectly understandable, I would've been drooling over the machine(and those models) had I been there.
His comments about Lara Croft/etc shows that he thinks the OSS community consists mostly of high school kids. The guy is WAY out of date. IMHO.
Yeah, no kidding - I have Anime posters on my walls, and I'm in college! Lara Corft? Sheesh, that is *so* 3 years ago...
Shit! It's a glitch in the Matrix! Quick, grab your guns and head for the nearest landline! They'll never take us al$#@... NO CARRIER
Oops, forgot to put that in the post...
When can we get Software Fashions like this, this or this? Then again, I don't think most Linux geeks would look good in this outfit!
Well, Gigli has a hammerlock on the biggest second week drop, 'going down' 81.9%. If Revolutions does worse than that, I'll eat my own socks without ketchup.
...and in other news, Warner Bros. has announced that they are re-casting the final movie in the Matrix Triology. "We want actors with more screen presence", said one spokesman "and stars like Ben Affleck or J. Lo should fit right in with the gritty, dark feel of the series. We also felt that Ice Cube will be more 'gangsta-like' as Morpheus than that Laurence guy. I mean, who gives a leading part to a guy named Fishburn?" Unconfirmed reports suggest the crew is experiencing technical difficulties fitting J. Lo into a leather bodysuit, and may end up cutting all scenes with that outfit.
So do you want to eat your socks now, or wait 'till the release?
How long before SCO joins in and sues Microsoft? "Your honor, this code is so crappy, it *clearly* had to come from us!"
No one who is an open-source(or even proprietary) developer should download that code. If they are real, you're *seriously* opening yourself to future lawsuits, and 'tainting' your future code.
Just say no to stolen code.
I am not sure whether or not the Saturn Vs were more or less safer than the SRBs on the Shuttle. However, I should point out that the fact that a Saturn V never had a catastrophic failure should not be taken to mean that they are thus safe.
According to this site, there were 32 Saturn launches(15 of them Saturn Vs). Out of that number, there was one non-critical rocket failure on Apollo 6(Saturn V), and two accidents unrelated to the rocket (Apollo 1 & 13). Compare that to the shuttle, which had 107 launches, and 1 critical rocket failure. Since Saturn Vs had only 15 launches, it's not really fair to say they were "safer" than Shuttles - the statistical margin of error could easily account for 1 or 2 failures if you extrapolate from 15 to 107.
Okay, before everyone else posts one of those stupid Slashdot in-jokes... Please post them as replies to this post.
In Soviet Russia, all your asteroid are belong to India!
Imagine a beowulf meteor shower of naked and petrified Natalie Portmans Slashdotting India!
"Where's the BitTorrent link?"
and last but not least...
Darl McBride: "We have good evidence that Indian villagers are stealing our intellectual property to the UNIX system encoded in million-year-old rocks... evidence will be presented shortly. In Sanskirt."
So how many Kilo-VW-Beetles is one San Francisco?
;)
I belive a 'San Fancisco' corrensponds to 2,567 VB Beetles, or 578 gay bars
Lots of geek girls dressing up as Niobe.
You mean, lots of geek guys dressing up as Niobe - like crossplayers at anime conventions. Then, you can re-enact the scene where Keanu runs for his life down the street, yelling "Get me the Hell out of here!" into his cellphone...
I refer you to this comic, in which this *very same* flaw in the 'Smegway' is part of an evil plot to take over the world! My god, it's true! But... but... if Sluggy Freelance is ture, then that means Santa is actually an EVIL ALIEN!!! AAAAAAHHHHH!!!
Um, if you have friends, I think you'll be too busy playing games to warchalk...
Who am I kidding, this is Slashdot.