It was knok-off Rubic's Cubes, BTW. (not that it really matters-concept is the same)
And yes, the DHS actually invaded the shop and removed them from the shelves, claiming that could be funding teh terrorists!
Why don't we just get it over with: instead of all of these 'War on Drugs', War on Pirates, War on Terrororists, etc., we just declare it to be the War on Citizens' and be done with it.
I agree that would be cool, but not ever likely to happen.
The hardware/software to skip recording the commercials, or skip playback of commercials would be trivial to implement-apparently this is a big no no nowdays.
What would be more reasonable to expect is right out of 'A Clockwork Orange'. New TV tech will require you to sit in this special chair with restraing devices and eyelid clamps so you have to watch their commercials. It will be marketed as the new soooper duper enhanced media chair that will expand your viewing experience by leveraging new, advanced technology. Or some such nonsense.
"Until you forget to add that pesky oxygen gas to the equation. Blast! Another folly!"
What do you mean? Most if not all explosives used for excavation/mining produce their own O2 (that's why you can 'fish' with dynomyte- those sticks don't have gills!).
Now trying to use Fuel Air Explosives on the moon would make your comment relevant, but that would be sill as FAE's need a lot of volume to be effective...not anything an intellegent person would try to use for excavation/mining.
Maybe you want to try coffee or Mountain Dew BEFORE Physics 101 instead of after you wake up at the end of class.
There are more Linux distro's out there than ever before, way more FOSS than ever before, and I've yet to see a notice on freshmeat, sourceforge, etc. stating that FOSS and Linux are dead/dying, so, 'Ththththaaat's all Fffolks!"
Yeah, I thought of them the other day reading over the other Scientology article. Reminded me of one of the meaner stunts I pulled in my youth...Moonies were fun!
Back in 1981 when one of my best friends was to be married to my sister, we (my brothers, his brothers, and a gang of friends) took my soon to be bro in law out to all the strip joints the night before the wedding (heh heh heh).
After we got him good and drunk (passed out beyond reacting to much), we shaved his head, stripped him and wrapped in a sheet, and but him on the bus with a one way ticket to Baltimore (about 120 miles away).
They ended up getting married the next weekend, but neither of them would speak to me for a couple of years.;)
Uhmm, not likely. Been there, dealt with it effectively.
I used to work in a truckstop, turnin' wrenches in Breezewood, PA. One afternoon I was there in the middle bay of a three bay garage fixing a flat on a semi. I had a tire hammer, braeaking the bead on a truck tire. (tire hammer weighs about 6lb. with an 18-24" handle) Out of the corner of my eye I saw someone 'sneaking' around the front corner at the first bay with something in his hand pointed into the garage towards me. As I looked up at him, I saw he had a revolver in his hand and his hand tensing, the cylinder started to rotate.(he was about 30 feet away) Still stooped over, I flung the tire hammer at him..hit him center of chest (right in the 10-ring! for you target shooters out there)- he collapsed while dropping the revolver.
Sucked to be him, he was just going to 'play a joke on me' with a starter gun with blanks.
As Nelson would say: "HA! HA!"
Shattered sternum, internal bleeding, broken ribs...it must have really hurt to laugh! And no, I did not feel bad about it at all.
The PA State Trooper that responded to the call examined the revover and said he would have reacted in the same spirit because it was impossible to tell it wasn't a real firearm from farther than several feet away.
Granted, a tire hammer may be more effective than a textbook, but I can't believe that nothing was at hand to someone.
The only real weapon is the mind, all else are tools to use or abuse.
I gave up trying to backup with optical media- with the price of harddrives, it's worked out better for me just to convert older PC's into file servers on my network so I can make redundant backups of stuff I don't want lost.
Most of the time it's much easier to format and re-install or mess with triple and quad boot systems. As an added bonus, as I upgrade the PC's on my network, the fileservers either get upgraded or added to.
With the uncertainty of how long optical backups remain viable on RW or R type media, I feel much more secure with my method...It allows me much room with experimentation if nothing else!
One of those big pills the doctor shoves up your butt?
Sorry, couldn't help myself!
BTW, I do agree with you in spite of using you for my low-based humor!:-)
I will mention this though, when I switched from WinXP to Linux last year, between the FC5 and ( currently) Ubuntu FAQ and User Forums, it was pretty easy for a *nix n00b to find out how to add/enable repositories.
My only real complaint is the crappy *nix support by ATI for their cards! ARRGH!
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You use only the eggshell, not the whole egg; but otherwise that is correct.
Yes, I'm older than dirt...that's how I learned coffee was made growing up.
Hear! Hear!
You said it!
Steve Ballmer:"Drats! Foiled again!"
*Then throws chair at picture of Steve Jobs*
I for one, am not letting MS anywhere near my phone (landline) or PC (Kubuntu dapper)!
That's the way to hit the nail on the head...with a sledge hammer!
Ya gotta luv F/OSS!
This is one of those articles that give me the warm fuzzies.
It was knok-off Rubic's Cubes, BTW. (not that it really matters-concept is the same)
And yes, the DHS actually invaded the shop and removed them from the shelves, claiming that could be funding teh terrorists!
Why don't we just get it over with:
instead of all of these 'War on Drugs', War on Pirates, War on Terrororists, etc., we just declare it to be the War on Citizens' and be done with it.
I liked his cousin, Slow Poke Rodriguez better, but Speedy was cool.
I agree that would be cool, but not ever likely to happen.
The hardware/software to skip recording the commercials, or skip playback of commercials would be trivial to implement-apparently this is a big no no nowdays.
What would be more reasonable to expect is right out of 'A Clockwork Orange'. New TV tech will require you to sit in this special chair with restraing devices and eyelid clamps so you have to watch their commercials.
It will be marketed as the new soooper duper enhanced media chair that will expand your viewing experience by leveraging new, advanced technology. Or some such nonsense.
Thanks for an excellant article despite the unimaginative trolls here.
My experience was similar last year (?) when MS started that WGA nonsense and I switched to Kubuntu Dapper.
Mostly it just worked, the few issues I had have been resolved in Edgy, but the fixes were easy to find help with and resolve.
And I love the fact that I can get to an installed Kubuntu configured my way in a small fraction of the time I could with WinXP Pro SP2. Love it!
Now if ATI will just get on the ball with their Linux drivers all would be perfect.
That actually is a great idea IMHO!
With Dell offering Ubuntu now, and all of MS's FUD recently with Linux, more people will be hearing about 'that Linux thingy'.
Some clever marketing and a good package deal (you described), this sounds like a great oppurtunity for a business.
Wish I had the resources to implement this myself.
Note to self: USE PREVIEW!
That should read Chemistry 101 instead of Physics 101, my bad.
"Until you forget to add that pesky oxygen gas to the equation. Blast! Another folly!"
What do you mean? Most if not all explosives used for excavation/mining produce their own O2 (that's why you can 'fish' with dynomyte- those sticks don't have gills!).
Now trying to use Fuel Air Explosives on the moon would make your comment relevant, but that would be sill as FAE's need a lot of volume to be effective...not anything an intellegent person would try to use for excavation/mining.
Maybe you want to try coffee or Mountain Dew BEFORE Physics 101 instead of after you wake up at the end of class.
Yeah sucker, you just landed on my Baltic Avenue..and I got hotels! Muhahahaha!
Yogi Berra ROCKED!
Exactly the right quote for this foolishness.
There are more Linux distro's out there than ever before, way more FOSS than ever before, and I've yet to see a notice on freshmeat, sourceforge, etc. stating that FOSS and Linux are dead/dying, so, 'Ththththaaat's all Fffolks!"
Besides, Netcraft hasn't confirmed it yet.
Yeah, I thought of them the other day reading over the other Scientology article. Reminded me of one of the meaner stunts I pulled in my youth...Moonies were fun!
;)
Back in 1981 when one of my best friends was to be married to my sister, we (my brothers, his brothers, and a gang of friends) took my soon to be bro in law out to all the strip joints the night before the wedding (heh heh heh).
After we got him good and drunk (passed out beyond reacting to much), we shaved his head, stripped him and wrapped in a sheet, and but him on the bus with a one way ticket to Baltimore (about 120 miles away).
They ended up getting married the next weekend, but neither of them would speak to me for a couple of years.
"Really, you gotta admire them. How they flagrantly keep their absurd beliefs and survive as a member of society. It's simply amazing."
Hmm..No.
Religions have been doing this for eons. They only change the names to protect the guilty, nothin' really new here.
"...some creative cloud seeding..."
I suggest we just drop Texas or California on it and flatten it like a pancake...that'll teach those blowhards.
"You're next..."
Uhmm, not likely. Been there, dealt with it effectively.
I used to work in a truckstop, turnin' wrenches in Breezewood, PA. One afternoon I was there in the middle bay of a three bay garage fixing a flat on a semi. I had a tire hammer, braeaking the bead on a truck tire. (tire hammer weighs about 6lb. with an 18-24" handle) Out of the corner of my eye I saw someone 'sneaking' around the front corner at the first bay with something in his hand pointed into the garage towards me. As I looked up at him, I saw he had a revolver in his hand and his hand tensing, the cylinder started to rotate.(he was about 30 feet away) Still stooped over, I flung the tire hammer at him..hit him center of chest (right in the 10-ring! for you target shooters out there)- he collapsed while dropping the revolver.
Sucked to be him, he was just going to 'play a joke on me' with a starter gun with blanks.
As Nelson would say: "HA! HA!"
Shattered sternum, internal bleeding, broken ribs...it must have really hurt to laugh! And no, I did not feel bad about it at all.
The PA State Trooper that responded to the call examined the revover and said he would have reacted in the same spirit because it was impossible to tell it wasn't a real firearm from farther than several feet away.
Granted, a tire hammer may be more effective than a textbook, but I can't believe that nothing was at hand to someone.
The only real weapon is the mind, all else are tools to use or abuse.
You are severely deluded if you think I made your point for you.
As for the rest of ypour post..Sounds Great!
Yeah, kinda what I was thinking also.
When I saw the title, all I could think of was the book 'Necromancer' and the AI telling him that it was "just a concern of the meat, boyo."
Umm..can I borrow your computer? My two sisters are a major PITA!
Babelfish is the poor man's LSD, and it's even legal!
*fires up Steppenwolf's Magic Carpet Ride and re-reads post*
Wow, mannnn! It's like colors and stuff!
"Yeah, I'm a digital packrat... :P"
I hear ya'.
I gave up trying to backup with optical media- with the price of harddrives, it's worked out better for me just to convert older PC's into file servers on my network so I can make redundant backups of stuff I don't want lost.
Most of the time it's much easier to format and re-install or mess with triple and quad boot systems.
As an added bonus, as I upgrade the PC's on my network, the fileservers either get upgraded or added to.
With the uncertainty of how long optical backups remain viable on RW or R type media, I feel much more secure with my method...It allows me much room with experimentation if nothing else!
"What's a repository?"
:-)
One of those big pills the doctor shoves up your butt?
Sorry, couldn't help myself!
BTW, I do agree with you in spite of using you for my low-based humor!
I will mention this though, when I switched from WinXP to Linux last year, between the FC5 and ( currently) Ubuntu FAQ and User Forums, it was pretty easy for a *nix n00b to find out how to add/enable repositories.
My only real complaint is the crappy *nix support by ATI for their cards! ARRGH!
Yeah, this reminds me of the so called 'psychic hotlines' scams...if they are really psychic, they should be calling me!