Heh!
I'm a parent. and almost 70. so far my kids aren't even interested in ubuntu, even though i have set them up to dual boot it.
In my strange world it seems the parents are geeks, the kids are (non)studiously avoiding this peculiar life style.
Mind you, they have pretty fast thumbs when it comes to cellphones!
I will not bother to read this complete thread - I've already wasted enuf time perusing the first 100 or so "witty" answers from, presumably, landlubbers.
So you may have gotten replies already similar to mine.
But we've sailed a 45' yacht several times from Lake Champlain ==> NYC ==> Caribbean and back, (No, not the inland waterway) as well as side trips to Bermuda with our Dell and Toshiba laptop with no damage whatsoever to them from salt.
Obviously you do not take the laptop up on deck if the sea is rough.
My friend has a satellite phone- most of these come with serial port/USB attachment and the software for a PC.
The sat-phone is of course a bit more expensive than the usual cell-phone.
The one we have used is good only for dialup speeds, but we have managed to exchange email on the open seas day and night.
As well we have hene managesto download UGRIB weather report for displaying on the laptops.
If you wish hi-speed however, no sure if it's available. Better to bring a big stack of torrented movie AVIs on DVD like we do!
Umm, speaking as a Canadian, I would be interested in knowing what the other four "countries" are.
My cousins in Australia and New Zealand would also be interested. Perhaps you could enlighten us.
PLEASE- we beg you!
What has become of this world, when a consortium of Slashdotters can't convert 1 sq m to sq ft? No wonder I didn't drive to work today in the flying car I was promised 50 years ago.
Good god, man! What has happened?
Is this the New America? Is this/. these days?
I slogged through all this kiddie stuff and mastered it more than 50 years ago!
Now I read a bunch of crap 1M^2 = 10.x FT^2 blah blah..etc etc...
WHY AM EVEN READING THIS MIDDLE SCHOOL CRAP???
Geez! Is this the state of math in the good ol' USA these days?
I am beginning to suspect that except for NASA, Caltech and Ivy-league colleges, and I'm not sure about this last group) most of of the USA is mathematically illiterate!
Forty years ago, NASA was full of Canadian engineers.
Now it's full of European and Asian engineers.
America, once you can't pay their salaries any more, they will leave. And then guess what?
If we can indeed establish some uhh, decorum in this silly/. article -
In WW-II, the Soviet Army apparently trained dogs as guerrilla fighters.
They would train the starving dogs by feeding the dogs their food under tanks or trucks.
When the dogs were sufficiently Pavlovinized, they would be transported to the front, and have bombs strapped to them with a trigger "antenna" above them.
The Russians would then release the 4-legged IEDs (presumably there were no Russian tanks or trucks nearby) at the invading Nazi tanks and/or trucks.
The doggie IEDs apparently did a fairly good job, knocking out a few hundred Nazi tanks. ("citation, please?" - Sorry!)
I wonder if there is a statue anywhere in Russia commemorating these heroic K9 fighters who valiantly gave their lives for the motherland.
Probably not, the insensitive commies!
Thank goodness, these current benighted mohammedin savages consider dogs to be unclean. (No jokes about Afghan hounds or monkeyfucking, please).
WOW! YES! It really rattled my bones!
Gimme a break..
WTF is/. doin' now? Hard up for stories again?
Hmmn was that thunder in the distance? Or a large truck on the road about 600 ft away?
(Yawn).. Believe it or not, the local NPR broke into the national feed, and actually did an EXCLUSIVE on it!
OMG Ponies! Good god -/. -and NPR - is getting desperate for stories!
OK, I'm still waiting for the Tsunami from Lake Champlain, or Lake Ontario.
And yes, that 45N above is true- I actually live on the 45th parallel.
The religious have always managed to adapt their pet mythologies to the evidence of the day. Scientists avoid sounding like creationists in front of their colleagues by following the evidence, rather than exclaiming "GODIDIT!", rolling around on the floor, and speaking in tongues. Nice try, tho.
Sort of like politicians, but in reverse.
Ya wanna get elected? You better have a really big kickass god backing you!
And don't EVER display any hint of your (possible) agnosticism. (At least in North America)
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Heh!
I'm a parent. and almost 70. so far my kids aren't even interested in ubuntu, even though i have set them up to dual boot it.
In my strange world it seems the parents are geeks, the kids are (non)studiously avoiding this peculiar life style.
Mind you, they have pretty fast thumbs when it comes to cellphones!
I will not bother to read this complete thread - I've already wasted enuf time perusing the first 100 or so "witty" answers from, presumably, landlubbers. /USB attachment and the software for a PC.
The sat-phone is of course a bit more expensive than the usual cell-phone.
So you may have gotten replies already similar to mine.
But we've sailed a 45' yacht several times from Lake Champlain ==> NYC ==> Caribbean and back, (No, not the inland waterway) as well as side trips to Bermuda with our Dell and Toshiba laptop with no damage whatsoever to them from salt. Obviously you do not take the laptop up on deck if the sea is rough.
My friend has a satellite phone- most of these come with serial port
The one we have used is good only for dialup speeds, but we have managed to exchange email on the open seas day and night.
As well we have hene managesto download UGRIB weather report for displaying on the laptops.
If you wish hi-speed however, no sure if it's available. Better to bring a big stack of torrented movie AVIs on DVD like we do!
Umm, speaking as a Canadian, I would be interested in knowing what the other four "countries" are.
My cousins in Australia and New Zealand would also be interested. Perhaps you could enlighten us.
PLEASE- we beg you!
What has become of this world, when a consortium of Slashdotters can't convert 1 sq m to sq ft? No wonder I didn't drive to work today in the flying car I was promised 50 years ago.
Good god, man! What has happened? /. these days?
Is this the New America? Is this
I slogged through all this kiddie stuff and mastered it more than 50 years ago!
Now I read a bunch of crap 1M^2 = 10.x FT^2 blah blah..etc etc...
WHY AM EVEN READING THIS MIDDLE SCHOOL CRAP???
Geez! Is this the state of math in the good ol' USA these days?
I am beginning to suspect that except for NASA, Caltech and Ivy-league colleges, and I'm not sure about this last group) most of of the USA is mathematically illiterate!
Forty years ago, NASA was full of Canadian engineers.
Now it's full of European and Asian engineers.
America, once you can't pay their salaries any more, they will leave. And then guess what?
In Soviet Russia, homicidal shrimp eat YOU!
......
Yeah, someone peed in my Cheereos this morning.
It was me. I'm a sociopath.
Silly! You put them on a shrimp-couch!
Study your biology.
Warlike monkeys will never be able stage a "coo".
"Coos" can be achieved only by peace-loving doves.
If we can indeed establish some uhh, decorum in this silly /. article -
In WW-II, the Soviet Army apparently trained dogs as guerrilla fighters.
They would train the starving dogs by feeding the dogs their food under tanks or trucks.
When the dogs were sufficiently Pavlovinized, they would be transported to the front, and have bombs strapped to them with a trigger "antenna" above them.
The Russians would then release the 4-legged IEDs (presumably there were no Russian tanks or trucks nearby) at the invading Nazi tanks and/or trucks.
The doggie IEDs apparently did a fairly good job, knocking out a few hundred Nazi tanks. ("citation, please?" - Sorry!)
I wonder if there is a statue anywhere in Russia commemorating these heroic K9 fighters who valiantly gave their lives for the motherland.
Probably not, the insensitive commies!
Thank goodness, these current benighted mohammedin savages consider dogs to be unclean.
(No jokes about Afghan hounds or monkeyfucking, please).
This is no longer a fight we can win.
... Send gas, ammo, and armor. Thanks, mom!
Uhhh.. And Mom? While you're at it, could you send me and the boys a few pounds of bananas?
No need to ask why....
Touch, but don't look!
Grapes, watermelons, peaches...
/.??
Just what flavour is this muon anyhow?
And know someone has thrown in a dead cat. (well, I'm betting it's dead, in spite of your stupid collapsed wave functions!)
Good god! WTF is happening on
Well, I know it's an old one, but....
Years ago, I broke my wristwatch- it stopped running.
I still wear it; but at least now I know it's right not once, but TWICE a day!
Pakistan must IMMEDIATELY block these sacrilegious pictures!
Please, upon pain of death, do NOT click on the above link!
Ummm..Do I get a reward for finding these?
No wonder I have so many errors on my old laptop! This explains everything!
Speak to the mayor of Detroit. Or governor of Michigan. I suspect they may know something.
In Soviet SoCal,....
6.5 gets YOU out of bed.
WOW! YES! It really rattled my bones! /. doin' now? Hard up for stories again?
/. -and NPR - is getting desperate for stories!
Gimme a break..
WTF is
Hmmn was that thunder in the distance? Or a large truck on the road about 600 ft away?
(Yawn).. Believe it or not, the local NPR broke into the national feed, and actually did an EXCLUSIVE on it!
OMG Ponies! Good god -
OK, I'm still waiting for the Tsunami from Lake Champlain, or Lake Ontario.
And yes, that 45N above is true- I actually live on the 45th parallel.
You, sir....
..
umm
\ .
JUNK?
are a raving loonie.
Oh, you silly eggheads!
Miracles can happen, you know!
You simply don't have enough FAITH!
The religious have always managed to adapt their pet mythologies to the evidence of the day. Scientists avoid sounding like creationists in front of their colleagues by following the evidence, rather than exclaiming "GODIDIT!", rolling around on the floor, and speaking in tongues. Nice try, tho.
Sort of like politicians, but in reverse.
Ya wanna get elected? You better have a really big kickass god backing you!
And don't EVER display any hint of your (possible) agnosticism. (At least in North America)
...You will have to pry this mouse out of my cold dead hands.
No. It's caused by pollution.
WHEN will man learn..?
You must remember that in North Korea, two Wongs do not make a Wright. Or a White.
(Sadly revealed to me many many years ago in a Honk Kong bordello, by Suzy and her sister Clarissa.)
makes my brain want to liquefy and seep out my ears.
Vous êtes chanceux !
Le babelfish fait mon cerveau vouloir liquéfier et filtrer dehors mes oreilles.