If the government of Quebec wants to upgrade their AutoCad 2000 license to AutoCad 2010 licenses, do they have to accept bids from people who want to sell them the free software program "Bricscad" running under Wine?
Autocad? AUTOCAD??
What % of the bureaucratic overpaid ofiice-clerk flunkies use this?
OK, a coupla hundred engineers? Maybe a thousand?
Most of these tappettes at best use Word or Excel, along with their IE7 and email! Gimme a break!
Give 'em the free stuff, and maybe 3 days of training, and all will be OK.
Autocad! (chortle)
Get off your computer, and get a life. And I'm not talking about levelling up your mage. Go to a coffee shop and talk to a stranger or go out and take a walk. PLEASE.
If there's no grain in it, it's not beer. Since the primary carbohydrate source in it is honey, it's mean - honey wine.
More trivia-
Similarly, Japanese Sake is not wine, but beer, since it is made with rice.
On the other hand, I'm not exactly sure WHAT Pinoqachole is...
Works great on my old (OK- THREE years old) Toshiba Satellite with only one gig.
A FREE showed very little swapspace being used, if any at all.
If this keeps up, I just may remove the original Vista from the laptop!
Not to mention a slow migration from NTFS to EXTx....
..And I am PISSED OFF!
I had to find out from slashdot that he died ??
He was one of my scientific heroes!
Ok, ok- So I don't read Randi or SciAm on a regular basis, but you'd think that at least the "regular" news might have had a small mention about him this past weekend.
TV? Radio? Nope.
As soon as I heard of his death, I quickly opened up Google news.
Nary a mention.
When I put "Martin Gardner" into the search box, I came up (obviously) with the SciAm article, some other English lang scientific journals, and then a whole slew of FOREIGN LANGUAGE journals.
It's sad that our society and its mainstream news feeds currently spends so much on current gossip crap, and so little on items such as Martin Gardner's passing.
Hmmnn.. Well, maybe that's the way it always was...?
NO! It wasn't.
People were much more interested in the more sublime things 30 or 40 years ago.
At least in North America. It's not my imagination..
I could keep ranting here- but perhaps I should shut up now.
RIP, Martin
I have a problem with "medical surveys"..... Put a lab monkey next to an active mobile phone and keep them there for several years. After that, dissect the monkey for any signs of cancer. If there is, then alert the public.
Trouble is, monkeys are gettin' kinda scarce. There's only 10,000 left. And only 5,000 chimps left.
On the other hand, there's 7,000,000,000 human simians. And this rat population is growin' really fast.
Why can't we just strap one these human rats next to the phone?
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OK, so the comments are boring, smartass.
Go ahead- mod me down some more-
My karma resides elsewhere; I don't waste it on/.
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One? I had FIFTY.
The idea (LOL!) was to drill holes into my eyeballs to relieve the excessive Intraocular Pressure (IOP) of Glaucoma.
I initially had a IOP of 54 and 55 in each eye. (Ask your Doctor about this)
I asked the ophthalmologist about the laser: "Does this shit really work?"
He answered "We're not really sure". Thanx, Doc.
Anyhow, the first few shots were like tiny pinpricks to the eyeballs.
After about ten or fifteen zaps, it REALLY started to be uncomfortable, to put it mildly.
Ten years later, I still take my myriad of eyedrops daily . Presumably the "Laser Witch Doctor" stuff was not successful.
And I suspect my retinas are still deteriorating....
DRAIN the damn oceans.
They're too salty for drinking or watering crops anyhow.
But first we get rid of all the fish.
Mitsubishi has a big lead on us in this regard: Kill 'em and freeze 'em!
When there's none left, sell 'em to the public.
Hey, Mitsubishi- Thats the idea!
Getcher Tuna now! Soon they will be extinct, like the Cod.
Slashdot Mirror
Tiens ta poutine, maudit crosseur.
Hell, you're not even an armature.
Well I don't know about you, but I probably wouldn't like being locked up and forced to have sex with some ugly fat chick..
Well then, Pilgrim... I guess you really DON'T know about me!
human beings have a propensity to violence.
And that makes us different from the rest of the animal kingdom in what way?
Reason. And violence.
Figured it out yet? No? then, ask a cow. or a horse.
Keep thinking, little grasshopper.
Just keep those big obnoxious blackbirds away from MY backyard!
If the government of Quebec wants to upgrade their AutoCad 2000 license to AutoCad 2010 licenses, do they have to accept bids from people who want to sell them the free software program "Bricscad" running under Wine?
Autocad? AUTOCAD??
What % of the bureaucratic overpaid ofiice-clerk flunkies use this?
OK, a coupla hundred engineers? Maybe a thousand?
Most of these tappettes at best use Word or Excel, along with their IE7 and email! Gimme a break!
Give 'em the free stuff, and maybe 3 days of training, and all will be OK.
Autocad! (chortle)
Get off your computer, and get a life. And I'm not talking about levelling up your mage. Go to a coffee shop and talk to a stranger or go out and take a walk. PLEASE.
I did. And I met you.
That's why I'm back here.
My preferred network has only 3 satellites-
It's called Lithium.
(and please- no jokes about your 5-satellite system)
If there's no grain in it, it's not beer. Since the primary carbohydrate source in it is honey, it's mean - honey wine.
Agreed, from a guy who's made both mead AND beer. (but these days it's simpler to stick to makin' wine from kits)
Conversely, Japanese Sake is not a wine, but a beer, since it is made with rice.
OTOH, I'm not exactly sure what Pinoqachole qualifies as....
If there's no grain in it, it's not beer. Since the primary carbohydrate source in it is honey, it's mean - honey wine.
More trivia-
Similarly, Japanese Sake is not wine, but beer, since it is made with rice.
On the other hand, I'm not exactly sure WHAT Pinoqachole is...
Works great on my old (OK- THREE years old) Toshiba Satellite with only one gig.
A FREE showed very little swapspace being used, if any at all.
If this keeps up, I just may remove the original Vista from the laptop!
Not to mention a slow migration from NTFS to EXTx....
Golly! You think Twain was a bad father? Turing was a total loss!
It's DRY ICE. The common name for frozen CO2.
Geez... Get with the terminology, Coondooger!
..And I am PISSED OFF!
I had to find out from slashdot that he died ??
He was one of my scientific heroes!
Ok, ok- So I don't read Randi or SciAm on a regular basis, but you'd think that at least the "regular" news might have had a small mention about him this past weekend.
TV? Radio? Nope.
As soon as I heard of his death, I quickly opened up Google news.
Nary a mention.
When I put "Martin Gardner" into the search box, I came up (obviously) with the SciAm article, some other English lang scientific journals, and then a whole slew of FOREIGN LANGUAGE journals.
It's sad that our society and its mainstream news feeds currently spends so much on current gossip crap, and so little on items such as Martin Gardner's passing.
Hmmnn.. Well, maybe that's the way it always was...?
NO! It wasn't.
People were much more interested in the more sublime things 30 or 40 years ago. At least in North America. It's not my imagination..
I could keep ranting here- but perhaps I should shut up now.
RIP, Martin
I have a problem with "medical surveys" ..... Put a lab monkey next to an active mobile phone and keep them there for several years. After that, dissect the monkey for any signs of cancer. If there is, then alert the public.
Trouble is, monkeys are gettin' kinda scarce. There's only 10,000 left. And only 5,000 chimps left.
On the other hand, there's 7,000,000,000 human simians. And this rat population is growin' really fast.
Why can't we just strap one these human rats next to the phone?
OK, so the comments are boring, smartass. /.
Go ahead- mod me down some more-
My karma resides elsewhere; I don't waste it on
One? I had FIFTY.
The idea (LOL!) was to drill holes into my eyeballs to relieve the excessive Intraocular Pressure (IOP) of Glaucoma.
I initially had a IOP of 54 and 55 in each eye. (Ask your Doctor about this)
I asked the ophthalmologist about the laser: "Does this shit really work?" He answered "We're not really sure". Thanx, Doc.
Anyhow, the first few shots were like tiny pinpricks to the eyeballs.
After about ten or fifteen zaps, it REALLY started to be uncomfortable, to put it mildly.
Ten years later, I still take my myriad of eyedrops daily . Presumably the "Laser Witch Doctor" stuff was not successful.
And I suspect my retinas are still deteriorating....
1953 called.
Randy Ayn needs to talk to you.
I might also be a lighting effect related to the Sun's position, our position and possibly other space phenomenons
YOU might, but I am most certainly not.
However, I might be a small chunk from Uranus.
DRAIN the damn oceans.
They're too salty for drinking or watering crops anyhow.
But first we get rid of all the fish.
Mitsubishi has a big lead on us in this regard: Kill 'em and freeze 'em!
When there's none left, sell 'em to the public.
Hey, Mitsubishi- Thats the idea!
Getcher Tuna now! Soon they will be extinct, like the Cod.
Oh no!
This doesn't involve Uranus, does it?
the oil leak plugs YOU!
they should add a black pixel, to improve contrast.
And get rid of the other three, to improve bandwidth.
Well, has he?
Does this mean they will be offering Skype also?