"And finally something warm and cuddly like super cute genetically engineered puppies we could air drop all over the middle east to try and get those folks to relax."
A phone booth is where Clark undresses into Superman, Peter undresses to Spiderman, the Shoeshine boy turns into Underdog, and Dr. Who does some really strange stuff. Where have you been?
You are the type that gives us a bad name globally. Your mistake is in assuming that the American version of the English language is the only one in use, or existence. I thought that it was common knowledge here on/. that the term 'kit' used in this context translates to 'equipment', or 'gear', or even 'toolkit'(eh:toolkit could be a dead giveaway here!). *says under breath* Stupid git! (my apologies to Monty Python)
Remember where our English language came from. Not only that, but it is currently spoken over most of the globe, and I can assure you that outside of the USA, the version is most likely based on the current UK version.
Open your eyes and mind, quit limiting yourself and those you may influence. Get informed.
Allow me to expand for our newer PC (politically correct) and city-bred youngsters.
1. We have established ourselves at the top of the food chain on land. 2. Competition of the same species has resulted into numerous conflicts on Earth. Geographical and climate differences seem to back up sociological diff's, thus establishing a basis for conflict: after all, who wants to be wrong? 3. No threat groups: company picnic, or similar like a LUG. You may not know all of the people there, but they all seem to fall into a 'known' category, where on the tubes/subway, it is an unknown category that requires som awareness, some observation, and some training/knowledge on how to deal with the situation. YMMV 4. Why are sports and other forms of competition so popular (business world, etc.) if not for #2 above? It's our nature...society and civilizations would have you forget we were programmed to climbing to the top of our perceived food chain. We will conquer and exploit the oceans and seas of this world sooner or later. 5."...becomes "law enforcement" or maybe "military training." Circa 1977-79, some of our military training trumps all in a conflict. My experiences with USA law enforcement has left me with less than sterling respect. (with the exception of the Tishomingo, Oklahoma/Murray State College Sheriff Department. The top end of the department was made up of old, experienced war horses of various conflicts and filled out with recruits by way of the old guys. Thoroughly capable and professional outfit. I helped them set up a 'Hogan's Alley' type reactive Close Quarters Combat course, and acted as instructor for several months, then enough qualified, good people were able to shove me out. (no, I am 'old as dirt', a good student SHOULD usurp his teacher/master!- no bitterness except from resenting getting old!)
I served with the US Army from 1977-1981 in and around Berlin. We were a 6 man team that were tasked to exfiltrating political, industry, and science bigwigs from E. Berlin into W. Berlin so they could be sent on westward. My primary MOS (Military Occupational Specialty) was a sniper. but as did all members of my team , I had multiple secondary MOS's. Mine were : Close Quarters Combat, Small Arms, Medic, and Demolitions. As any combat vet can attest, having been there, done that, and wore the damned tee-shirt out...VR subways are an adrenaline letdown, as are the real thing.
Some are terrorists, but you left out the non-terrost segment of our neighbors....THEY ARE PROBABLY 'COOKING' METHAMPHETAMINES!!!
They are EVERYWHERE!! Cooking in their basements, garages, bathtubs, kitchen sink (YES!! Even the kitchen sink!!), pots and pans, the flowerpots!!
Now days, if you go anywhere, do anything, or touch anything...*cue sinister music* You may be consorting with terrorists or meth cookers!!!
'Holy Guano, Batman...Look at all of those lights shining on those weeds!'
'Yes Robin, we have fallen into what seems to be a hydroponics grow room full of that pervasive evil weed: marijuana! These villains know no bounds! Quick, to the Batmobile, we'll spray with Agent Orange and Paraquat!'
But yes, you are right, above all, we need to fear the terrorists...otherwise, how else could we justify the various department's budgets for the past years? (insert your own number of years here to reflect your own political philosophy-this subject is not in the scope of my post)
I hope my reply reflected the 'well done' sarcasm I read into your post.
If not, and you were serious.... Well then, you are an accurate and prophetic nutjob, and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter as I find your viewpoint interesting.:)
Oh yeah, I almost forgot: 'Hey you kids...Get off of my lawn!'
Well said. I see this naive 60% all of the time, and they have no observation skills, and have zero situational awareness as they carelessly meander about the area, and are shocked when something happens to them or around them. It's even worse with cellphone use in public.
"It has even been pushed off a table onto a cement floor while running! That was a year ago, and it (sadly) it is still the family computer!"
You have my sympathy, dude. Might I suggest pushing it off the roof, or better yet, nuke it from orbit...it's the only way to be sure.:)
On a serious note though, there seems to be no rhyme or reason with HDD failures. I've had a 40 GB maxtor, 15 GB WD, a 670 MB Seagate, 30 MB WD all fail, and an 80 GB WD that is now only 63 GB's of usable HDD, but still have a multitude of 10 MB-200 GB IDE/PATA drives still running strong along with Maxtor, WD, and Seagate SATA HDD's that never miss a beat. Meanwhile, I have known friends that cannot seem to keep a hard-drive alive for more than 1 1/2 years.
(yes- I still have running, functional 8086's, 8088's, 286's, 386's, 486's (with and without co-processors), 586's, a p133+ Cyrix 586 (supposed to be equal to an Intel Pentium 166 according to marketing hype)and enough parts to have at least 6-10 686's running...from 500 MHz Pentium III's to AMD 1.8 GHz Athlons, to my current (posting from this one) P4 478 3.0 GHz PC.
Currently in my home net it is: (from low to high-end)
Thrown together Frankenstein: Cyrix 586 p133+ w/ 64 MB RAM, 4x cd-ROM, 1.44 floppy, 670 MB HDD, S3 2 MB ISA vid card, running Caldera Open Linux Base 1.1.....just for the fun/exploration of it.
Dell Dimension XPS T500 P3 500 MHz, 448 MB RAM, 40 GB HDD (OEM), 10 GB WD ATA100 HDD, ATI AIW Radeon 7500 64 MB vid card, Lite-On 32x/12x/48x CD -+ burner, and 16x DVD-ROM, and 1.44 floppy, running Win XP Pro SP2, and Win 98 SE.
P3 733, 512 MB RAM, ATI rage 128 vid card, 24x CD-ROM, 1.44 floppy, 120 GB ATA133 PATA HDD, running CentOS 5.0 set up as a file server on my subnet.
Dell ??*something* (not in my stepdaughter's room, and too lazy to go look at her computer now- and yes, her and her mom are visiting friends right now!) w/ Athlon 1.8 GHz, 1 GB RAM, ATI 9200 128 MB vid card, 4x dual layer DVD burner (Sony DRUxxxx??), 16x DVD-ROM, 1.44 floppy, Primary Disk is OEM 40 GB SATA, Secondary is same OEM 40 GB SATA- no RAID, with above mentioned 63 of 80 GB ATA 133 PATA drive, dual-booting Kubuntu 7.10 and Win XP Pro SP2.(about 3/4's of the time in Kubuntu- only has one school web-page that requires windows, but she can 'work it' using Firefox!)
Home built P4 478 3.0 GHz, 2 GB RAM, ATI 9550 256 MB vid, Pri. HDD is 200 GB PATA 133 running Kubuntu 7.10, with an 80 GB SATA, and a 100 GB SATA, with/home on 80 GB, and back ups to the 100 GB- long story!
Bottom line, we can only get hopelessly bogged down in all of this anecdotal give and take. I don't really know for sure where and how to find solid info for this.
well, just be smart enough to mark me as foe in your/. pref's(as I have done for you) or I will haunt you forever. No loss to me whatsoever, you clueless fscker.
I am mostly with you here, but there is a noticeable difference in my PC between my 1st. generation Audigy card (which I'm quite happy with), and the xfi cards in my same PC. (I left Creative not long after the xfi came out, so I had a chance to test one in my PC- it is a nice soundcard under win xp sp2, but I am currently running Kubuntu with my Audigy card. And I can confirm that the 'test drive' I made with the xfi card did improve the framerates while playing Battlefield 1942, DC mod by 5-6 frames per second compared to the Audigy card, but I was already getting good enough framrates that it was marginal for me. I have no doubt that this was more important to other gamers trapped in Windows land, playing more modern, resource-intensive games, but I still use that same Audigy card in my current *Nix PC....and get phenomenal framerates in 'tux-racer'!!!
For the average PC user, you are on the right track. But beware future Windows audio support. I can replace my Audigy card with almost any legacy soundcard and have it work with Linux...how far back can Windows go? Not trying to be a troll...ALSA with Kubuntu seems to take a lot more in stride than XP or Vista is capable of.
Bottom line: keep on doing what you are doing- if MS fails you, the Linux solution is cool, and works fine....don't fear the penguins!
Advanced medical procedures do not = advanced knowledge. Maybe they drilled the holes to let out the evil spirits affecting the patient...who really knows for sure?
the "...describe their eyesight as X/Y with both numbers being distances in feet." is slightly off IIRC. The way I remember it is x=20 feet, and y=height in millimeters the letters/numbers need to be to be accurately discerned. Thus my 20/200 vision would require 200mm letters for me to read at 20 feet distance- a mixture of metric and Imperial measures....Ain't America grand?!
The -3.6, and -3.7 diopters is what my lense prescription is, so it might not mean the same thing you mentioned...I just am not sure, but that is the sum of my pitiful knowledge on the matter.
BTW, in the USA, my myopia is considered 'legally blind' for the purposes of driving a vehicle on public roads in most if not all states. From experience, I agree with this. I have had to drive home a short distance without my glasses once in daytime, but I experienced EXTREME rectal puckering, and would definitely walk if the light was less than full daylight, or heavy traffic!
Who knows,maybe someone with better info will jump on my info and help you out- at least I tried to help you out.:)
Well, I can't provide you with a conversion table, but can give you my spec's in both forms (Ha!-just noticed the very badly done pun!):
I have 20/200 vision-uncorrected (at 20 feet, need 200mm high letters to read), or: L. eye= -3.6 diopters, r. eye= -3.7 diopters for corrective lenses. I hope this helps somewhat. Actually, I hope this is less painful to get used to than my trifocals were for me!:)
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"And finally something warm and cuddly like super cute genetically engineered puppies we could air drop all over the middle east to try and get those folks to relax."
Drop off dogs...in the Middle East...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unclean_animals#Dogs....
You might want to switch to lolcats, or at least make sure the dogs are Saluki pups.
A large scale Chinese Fire Drill?!?!?
Hmmm....could work...
I can only display 256 colors, you insensitive clod!
I won't get to experience all of the nuances of your 'shades of grayware', but now I'm dithering....
A phone booth is where Clark undresses into Superman, Peter undresses to Spiderman, the Shoeshine boy turns into Underdog, and Dr. Who does some really strange stuff.
Where have you been?
THAT will teach those pesky Chinese not to infiltrate our networks!
You are the type that gives us a bad name globally. /. that the term 'kit' used in this context translates to 'equipment', or 'gear', or even 'toolkit'(eh:toolkit could be a dead giveaway here!). *says under breath* Stupid git! (my apologies to Monty Python)
Your mistake is in assuming that the American version of the English language is the only one in use, or existence.
I thought that it was common knowledge here on
Remember where our English language came from. Not only that, but it is currently spoken over most of the globe, and I can assure you that outside of the USA, the version is most likely based on the current UK version.
Open your eyes and mind, quit limiting yourself and those you may influence. Get informed.
I can has cheeseburger?
I'm in ur computer! LOL!!!
Allow me to expand for our newer PC (politically correct) and city-bred youngsters.
1. We have established ourselves at the top of the food chain on land.
2. Competition of the same species has resulted into numerous conflicts on Earth. Geographical and climate differences seem to back up sociological diff's, thus establishing a basis for conflict: after all, who wants to be wrong?
3. No threat groups: company picnic, or similar like a LUG.
You may not know all of the people there, but they all seem to fall into a 'known' category, where on the tubes/subway, it is an unknown category that requires som awareness, some observation, and some training/knowledge on how to deal with the situation. YMMV
4. Why are sports and other forms of competition so popular (business world, etc.) if not for #2 above? It's our nature...society and civilizations would have you forget we were programmed to climbing to the top of our perceived food chain.
We will conquer and exploit the oceans and seas of this world sooner or later.
5."...becomes "law enforcement" or maybe "military training."
Circa 1977-79, some of our military training trumps all in a conflict.
My experiences with USA law enforcement has left me with less than sterling respect. (with the exception of the Tishomingo, Oklahoma/Murray State College Sheriff Department.
The top end of the department was made up of old, experienced war horses of various conflicts and filled out with recruits by way of the old guys.
Thoroughly capable and professional outfit.
I helped them set up a 'Hogan's Alley' type reactive Close Quarters Combat course, and acted as instructor for several months, then enough qualified, good people were able to shove me out. (no, I am 'old as dirt', a good student SHOULD usurp his teacher/master!- no bitterness except from resenting getting old!)
I served with the US Army from 1977-1981 in and around Berlin. We were a 6 man team that were tasked to exfiltrating political, industry, and science bigwigs from E. Berlin into W. Berlin so they could be sent on westward.
My primary MOS (Military Occupational Specialty) was a sniper. but as did all members of my team , I had multiple secondary MOS's. Mine were : Close Quarters Combat, Small Arms, Medic, and Demolitions.
As any combat vet can attest, having been there, done that, and wore the damned tee-shirt out...VR subways are an adrenaline letdown, as are the real thing.
Some are terrorists, but you left out the non-terrost segment of our neighbors....THEY ARE PROBABLY 'COOKING' METHAMPHETAMINES!!!
:)
They are EVERYWHERE!! Cooking in their basements, garages, bathtubs, kitchen sink (YES!! Even the kitchen sink!!), pots and pans, the flowerpots!!
Now days, if you go anywhere, do anything, or touch anything...*cue sinister music* You may be consorting with terrorists or meth cookers!!!
'Holy Guano, Batman...Look at all of those lights shining on those weeds!'
'Yes Robin, we have fallen into what seems to be a hydroponics grow room full of that pervasive evil weed: marijuana! These villains know no bounds! Quick, to the Batmobile, we'll spray with Agent Orange and Paraquat!'
But yes, you are right, above all, we need to fear the terrorists...otherwise, how else could we justify the various department's budgets for the past years? (insert your own number of years here to reflect your own political philosophy-this subject is not in the scope of my post)
I hope my reply reflected the 'well done' sarcasm I read into your post.
If not, and you were serious....
Well then, you are an accurate and prophetic nutjob, and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter as I find your viewpoint interesting.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot:
'Hey you kids...Get off of my lawn!'
Well said. I see this naive 60% all of the time, and they have no observation skills, and have zero situational awareness as they carelessly meander about the area, and are shocked when something happens to them or around them.
It's even worse with cellphone use in public.
"It has even been pushed off a table onto a cement floor while running! That was a year ago, and it (sadly) it is still the family computer!"
:)
/home on 80 GB, and back ups to the 100 GB- long story!
You have my sympathy, dude.
Might I suggest pushing it off the roof, or better yet, nuke it from orbit...it's the only way to be sure.
On a serious note though, there seems to be no rhyme or reason with HDD failures.
I've had a 40 GB maxtor, 15 GB WD, a 670 MB Seagate, 30 MB WD all fail, and an 80 GB WD that is now only 63 GB's of usable HDD, but still have a multitude of 10 MB-200 GB IDE/PATA drives still running strong along with Maxtor, WD, and Seagate SATA HDD's that never miss a beat.
Meanwhile, I have known friends that cannot seem to keep a hard-drive alive for more than 1 1/2 years.
(yes- I still have running, functional 8086's, 8088's, 286's, 386's, 486's (with and without co-processors), 586's, a p133+ Cyrix 586 (supposed to be equal to an Intel Pentium 166 according to marketing hype)and enough parts to have at least 6-10 686's running...from 500 MHz Pentium III's to
AMD 1.8 GHz Athlons, to my current (posting from this one) P4 478 3.0 GHz PC.
Currently in my home net it is: (from low to high-end)
Thrown together Frankenstein: Cyrix 586 p133+ w/ 64 MB RAM, 4x cd-ROM, 1.44 floppy, 670 MB HDD, S3 2 MB ISA vid card, running Caldera Open Linux Base 1.1.....just for the fun/exploration of it.
Dell Dimension XPS T500 P3 500 MHz, 448 MB RAM, 40 GB HDD (OEM), 10 GB WD ATA100 HDD, ATI AIW Radeon 7500 64 MB vid card, Lite-On 32x/12x/48x CD -+ burner, and 16x DVD-ROM, and 1.44 floppy, running Win XP Pro SP2, and Win 98 SE.
P3 733, 512 MB RAM, ATI rage 128 vid card, 24x CD-ROM, 1.44 floppy, 120 GB ATA133 PATA HDD, running CentOS 5.0 set up as a file server on my subnet.
Dell ??*something* (not in my stepdaughter's room, and too lazy to go look at her computer now- and yes, her and her mom are visiting friends right now!) w/ Athlon 1.8 GHz, 1 GB RAM, ATI 9200 128 MB vid card, 4x dual layer DVD burner (Sony DRUxxxx??), 16x DVD-ROM, 1.44 floppy, Primary Disk is OEM 40 GB SATA, Secondary is same OEM 40 GB SATA- no RAID, with above mentioned 63 of 80 GB ATA 133 PATA drive, dual-booting Kubuntu 7.10 and Win XP Pro SP2.(about 3/4's of the time in Kubuntu- only has one school web-page that requires windows, but she can 'work it' using Firefox!)
Home built P4 478 3.0 GHz, 2 GB RAM, ATI 9550 256 MB vid, Pri. HDD is 200 GB PATA 133 running Kubuntu 7.10, with an 80 GB SATA, and a 100 GB SATA, with
Bottom line, we can only get hopelessly bogged down in all of this anecdotal give and take.
I don't really know for sure where and how to find solid info for this.
Help?!
I would not haul MY wang out to the trash...especially if it weighed over 100 pounds! *ducks and runs*
Nah, it's just a MUCH slimier subset of the oldest profession.
well, just be smart enough to mark me as foe in your /. pref's(as I have done for you) or I will haunt you forever. No loss to me whatsoever, you clueless fscker.
"I mean Fista? That doesn't even make sense. Come on!"
/.. much less worthy of vetting the used terms here.
Where have you been?
Fisting(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisting) + MS Vista(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ms_vista)=Fista
Crawl back to your hole, you stupid git...you are not worthy of
Have yourself castrated before you breed, then crawl back in your mom's basement and resume your LOLcats posts.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolcats)
I am mostly with you here, but there is a noticeable difference in my PC between my 1st. generation Audigy card (which I'm quite happy with), and the xfi cards in my same PC. (I left Creative not long after the xfi came out, so I had a chance to test one in my PC- it is a nice soundcard under win xp sp2, but I am currently running Kubuntu with my Audigy card.
And I can confirm that the 'test drive' I made with the xfi card did improve the framerates while playing Battlefield 1942, DC mod by 5-6 frames per second compared to the Audigy card, but I was already getting good enough framrates that it was marginal for me.
I have no doubt that this was more important to other gamers trapped in Windows land, playing more modern, resource-intensive games, but I still use that same Audigy card in my current *Nix PC....and get phenomenal framerates in 'tux-racer'!!!
For the average PC user, you are on the right track. But beware future Windows audio support.
I can replace my Audigy card with almost any legacy soundcard and have it work with Linux...how far back can Windows go?
Not trying to be a troll...ALSA with Kubuntu seems to take a lot more in stride than XP or Vista is capable of.
Bottom line:
keep on doing what you are doing- if MS fails you, the Linux solution is cool, and works fine....don't fear the penguins!
"But you have stolen Mr. King's labor..."
Mr King's amount and intensity of labor is the same to write the book whether I download his book or buy it in Wal-mart.
Now if I download it, I may have infringed on someones copyright, but I have not stolen anything.
Are you serious?
You must be new here.
Also, remember this kiddies:
In Soviet Russia, hypothesis tests YOU!
Was climate/seasonal differences accounted for when deciding on August?
I am seriously curious about this.
Interesting info, thanks!
I think he was trying to refer to this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trephining.
Advanced medical procedures do not = advanced knowledge.
Maybe they drilled the holes to let out the evil spirits affecting the patient...who really knows for sure?
But, like her hubby, she wn't inhale. *cough-cough*
Blunt thang, you make my eyes sting!
Blunt thang, you make everything groovy.
Blunt thang, I think I love you!
*to the tune of 'Wildthing'*
Does this mean I should always pick the blue teams in 'BZ Flag'?...or red? I'm confused now.
Sorry to double reply here, but....
:)
the "...describe their eyesight as X/Y with both numbers being distances in feet."
is slightly off IIRC. The way I remember it is x=20 feet, and y=height in millimeters the letters/numbers need to be to be accurately discerned. Thus my 20/200 vision would require 200mm letters for me to read at 20 feet distance- a mixture of metric and Imperial measures....Ain't America grand?!
The -3.6, and -3.7 diopters is what my lense prescription is, so it might not mean the same thing you mentioned...I just am not sure, but that is the sum of my pitiful knowledge on the matter.
BTW, in the USA, my myopia is considered 'legally blind' for the purposes of driving a vehicle on public roads in most if not all states. From experience, I agree with this. I have had to drive home a short distance without my glasses once in daytime, but I experienced EXTREME rectal puckering, and would definitely walk if the light was less than full daylight, or heavy traffic!
Who knows,maybe someone with better info will jump on my info and help you out- at least I tried to help you out.
Well, I can't provide you with a conversion table, but can give you my spec's in both forms (Ha!-just noticed the very badly done pun!):
:)
I have 20/200 vision-uncorrected (at 20 feet, need 200mm high letters to read), or: L. eye= -3.6 diopters, r. eye= -3.7 diopters for corrective lenses.
I hope this helps somewhat. Actually, I hope this is less painful to get used to than my trifocals were for me!
Hey! I resent^H^Hmble that remark!! (the Onion-TV link)
Whether you where being sarcastic or not, I agree 100%.
Anyhow, 'Well done!', sir!