The Librarian is known for his violent reaction whenever he hears anyone refer to him as a "monkey" (orangutans are apes). He speaks an elaborate language whose vocabulary consists of the single word Ook (and its antonym "eek" - where "ook" means yes, "eek" tends to mean no). Nonetheless, most people seem to be able to understand him. Both his language and his reaction were used separately and together as jokes in the first Discworld game.
These days, very little research, development and product design is done in the US. It's marketed as done in the US, but in reality, many if not most companies will order designs from no-name design firms across the dam, who specialize in delivering solutions and keeping strict NDAs. The US participation tends to be limited to those who communicate with the foreign designers.
You might want to try explaining this to the tens of thousands of IBM employees in North America.
Back when I had a CRT, I could see its flicker at 65 Hz, but almost no one else could see it. I think we Slashdotters and computer geeks have superhuman eyesight.
The first rule of supergeekdom is we don't talk about supergeekdom.
There's a guy at work that still has his set to 60Hz; I can't look at it for more than 5 seconds but he swears he can't see any flicker.
Have you also noticed that when you ask them about it they look at you like YOU are the crazy one?
After meeting people who could and others who could not see the flicker at 60Hz I started to casually keep track of this. From my limited observations I would say at least half the population can't see the flicker.
Yeah... sounds funny from the perspective of those of us who have suffered through the microsoft monopoly. But given that most organizations can't tell their asses from their elbows they may well be right. Google seems to grow and progress by throwing lots of young smart people at the problem, but the problem seems to be a moving target from day to day. But microsoft has managed to hold down a monopoly for 20 years.
Who are you going to take business process advice from? While microsoft's ethics are dubious at best it's very hard to argue with success.
-- godwin filter removed reference to unethical but successful leader --
There are a number of commercial UML solutions for embedded and real-time systems. e.g. Rhapsody which with IBM's acquisition of telelogic becomes the natural upgrade path for system development with UML.
Some of us will get witty replies in, we'll probably get a couple "In Soviet America" jokes, a few flamers talking about privacy invasions and at least one sad, months-late attempt at a Rick Roll.
I for one welcome our new prediction toting cynical overlords.
I have a friend in Minsk,
Who has a friend in Pinsk,
Whose friend in Omsk
Has friend in Tomsk
With friend in Akmolinsk.
His friend in Alexandrovsk
Has friend in Petropavlovsk,
Whose friend somehow
Is solving now
The problem in Dnepropetrovsk.
And when his work is done -
Haha! - begins the fun.
From Dnepropetrovsk
To Petropavlovsk,
By way of Iliysk,
And Novorossiysk,
To Alexandrovsk to Akmolinsk
To Tomsk to Omsk
To Pinsk to Minsk
To me the news will run,
Yes, to me the news will run!
It's a fairly simple equation. If at any point the administration admits that the detainees have rights then they have branded themselves war criminals.
While not perfect, and sometimes it takes decades to resolve, history shows us that the US populace does not tolerate their leaders taking this kind of liberty with the truth and ignoring the spirit of the constitution, if not the letter.
I'm fairly confident that Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld are going to be as fondly remembered as Nixon and Kissinger. The sad part of course is that the abuse will continue until morale improves.
A big deal was made of the natural lighting system at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa when it was built 20 years ago. There's a NY Times article:
The light tumbles in from light monitors lined with Mylar, so it reflects as it bounces down into the gallery, and it is exquisite and constantly changing.
I don't exactly spend my free time hanging out there, but if I was to choose a gallery to hang out in, this would be it.
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Not necessarily, he could be a monkey.
You mean orangutan. NEVER call him a monkey.
Good thing I wasn't drinking or you'd owe me a new keyboard!
For those not following along at home:
The Librarian
The Librarian is known for his violent reaction whenever he hears anyone refer to him as a "monkey" (orangutans are apes). He speaks an elaborate language whose vocabulary consists of the single word Ook (and its antonym "eek" - where "ook" means yes, "eek" tends to mean no). Nonetheless, most people seem to be able to understand him. Both his language and his reaction were used separately and together as jokes in the first Discworld game.
Most modern Linux distros require 512 to 1Ghz memory.
That's odd... I've been using linux for years and I've NEVER seen any FREQUENCY requirements for the memory...
:-)
Why bother with anything else?
*sigh* I cut my teeth on Slackware back in the day and remember it fondly... in much the way a marine remembers boot camp fondly I would imagine...
Configuring Slackware was a hobby unto itelf... while Ubuntu is almost install and forget.
Then one would think you would at least know the correct Canadian spelling of "armour".
I'm lexdisic you heartless bastard! *weeps*
Armour is spelled correctly, you ignorant American. Armor and armour are both legitimate ways to spell the same word. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences#-our.2C_-or
Breath in... and out.
I'm an ignorant Brit. living in Canada so you can bite my hairy Hobbit ass you pedant.
Can I at least link him to my armour(sic) for a stat boost?
Yes, but Godwin is Epic so it has to a full Tier 6 set and only provides protection from Shadow Magic.
woooosh!
Ha! The whoosh is on you! My post was a joke.
For small values of joke.
these changes seems to explain why i can't assign mod points with IE7 ?
who knows..
No, that's more likely to be a deliberate editorial decision. :-)
...if your friend/colleague/whatever wants to use an NTFS-formatted drive on your computer, he might be a little unhappy if you reformat it.
I put NTFS support on my Linux computers and Ext2/Ext3 support (and a proper formatting tool) on my Windows computers. It's called interoperability.
Nice one
Can't figure out if I should moderate as insightful, funny or +1 quality bitchsmack
I think that thousands of former IBM employees in North America already know.
So explain why they're hiring?
Yes... they may have reduced their helpless desk staff, but R&D is growing
These days, very little research, development and product design is done in the US. It's marketed as done in the US, but in reality, many if not most companies will order designs from no-name design firms across the dam, who specialize in delivering solutions and keeping strict NDAs. The US participation tends to be limited to those who communicate with the foreign designers.
You might want to try explaining this to the tens of thousands of IBM employees in North America.
Crap, that's where I keep all my stuff.
Tell me about it, I just finished renegotiating my mortgage!
Back when I had a CRT, I could see its flicker at 65 Hz, but almost no one else could see it. I think we Slashdotters and computer geeks have superhuman eyesight.
The first rule of supergeekdom is we don't talk about supergeekdom.
There's a guy at work that still has his set to 60Hz; I can't look at it for more than 5 seconds but he swears he can't see any flicker.
Have you also noticed that when you ask them about it they look at you like YOU are the crazy one?
After meeting people who could and others who could not see the flicker at 60Hz I started to casually keep track of this. From my limited observations I would say at least half the population can't see the flicker.
Yeah... sounds funny from the perspective of those of us who have suffered through the microsoft monopoly. But given that most organizations can't tell their asses from their elbows they may well be right. Google seems to grow and progress by throwing lots of young smart people at the problem, but the problem seems to be a moving target from day to day. But microsoft has managed to hold down a monopoly for 20 years.
Who are you going to take business process advice from? While microsoft's ethics are dubious at best it's very hard to argue with success.
-- godwin filter removed reference to unethical but successful leader --
About the only case where diagrams are helpful are FSM diagrams.
UML includes state machines, real-time UML is all about state machines.There are a number of commercial UML solutions for embedded and real-time systems. e.g. Rhapsody which with IBM's acquisition of telelogic becomes the natural upgrade path for system development with UML.
Some of us will get witty replies in, we'll probably get a couple "In Soviet America" jokes, a few flamers talking about privacy invasions and at least one sad, months-late attempt at a Rick Roll.
I for one welcome our new prediction toting cynical overlords.I have a friend in Minsk,
Who has a friend in Pinsk,
Whose friend in Omsk
Has friend in Tomsk
With friend in Akmolinsk.
His friend in Alexandrovsk
Has friend in Petropavlovsk,
Whose friend somehow
Is solving now
The problem in Dnepropetrovsk.
And when his work is done -
Haha! - begins the fun.
From Dnepropetrovsk
To Petropavlovsk,
By way of Iliysk,
And Novorossiysk,
To Alexandrovsk to Akmolinsk
To Tomsk to Omsk
To Pinsk to Minsk
To me the news will run,
Yes, to me the news will run!
Have you ever tried to interact with Acrobat programatically? It actually makes microsoft COM components look good by contrast.
Well said sir. Sadly I have already commented here and cannot moderate you "+1 godlike verbage"
It's a fairly simple equation. If at any point the administration admits that the detainees have rights then they have branded themselves war criminals.
While not perfect, and sometimes it takes decades to resolve, history shows us that the US populace does not tolerate their leaders taking this kind of liberty with the truth and ignoring the spirit of the constitution, if not the letter.
I'm fairly confident that Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld are going to be as fondly remembered as Nixon and Kissinger. The sad part of course is that the abuse will continue until morale improves.
A big deal was made of the natural lighting system at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa when it was built 20 years ago. There's a NY Times article:
The light tumbles in from light monitors lined with Mylar, so it reflects as it bounces down into the gallery, and it is exquisite and constantly changing.
I don't exactly spend my free time hanging out there, but if I was to choose a gallery to hang out in, this would be it.