You're new at personal computing, huh?
Wha, you stopped using your typewriter 10 years ago?
News:
There were a lot of word-processors around before MS Word sprung up. And yes, there were even operating systems before "Windows".
I havent used a typewriter in 25-30 years.
To slowly boost the ISS outa orbit and put it in Moon orbit, or at a Lagrange point.
Hey, it's scheduled to burn up anyhow in 20xx...
And, would it be worth much out there?
Fuck Ridley Scott!
I always wanted to see Jonesey as a kitten!
And Sigourney!
Is she goonna look like.. butch young?
But it's JonesyI wanna see. Damn! I wanna see that kitten!
And Alien? Yo momma is ugly. An' eats big people!
1. Do nothing, let the shuttle stop flying at the end of 2010 and let the station be de-orbited at the end of 2016.
2. Fly 1 more mission, and still de-orbit the station at the end of 2016.
3. Extend station operations through to the end of depending on what funding they can get from Congress.
4. PROFIT!
??...
OOPS!
Sorry- I seem to be in the wrong thread!
1.5MB of RAM? Wow. Thats really light-weight, even for Windows 7!
And this is modded "funny"?
One more reason why I spend less and less time on/....
Of course we all know its a typo, weenie.
But with the current/. intellect, we understand why it's modded "funny"
Lissen, weenie- whenI grew up, we had to walk 640Km to school through the snow every day, and then had to eat Mbites of potatochips, just to impress the idiot jocks (who are now all Sales millionaires, and now breed with our sisters)
Now, I have to endure gigachuckles like the above quote.
I could say more, but my nephew is making fun of my idiot Linux interface. I gotta go tear a bite off of him! /. ain't what it used ta be... !
Hostie tabarnak!
Oh, grow up, little boy. Eat your spinach.
You're too young to remember, but 30 years ago, IBM was the FUD-creating evil empire.
You live in some kind of dream world. ...
Oh yeah, I forgot- Heh heh, This is/. - land of the linux weenies.
Son, you clearly don't belong here.
Get offa slashdot before it's too late.
I remember ordering a buncha Dell laptops back in 2000 or so for my boss (a pointy-haired ol lady) and our Network "manager" (Certified! LOL!)
The manager countermanded me, replacing his and the other Win2000 systems with Win98. (sigh)
And in ADDITION, wondered why I had ordered this weird "Dell". Didn't I know the business standard was "COMPAQ"?
The company was Cleyn & Tinker, and of course they soon deep-sixed, after a shitload of $$ was spent on this idiot manager's idiot IT choices.
Thankfully, I was allowed to keep my 'new' W2K. Soon, the rest of them had to re-purchase W2K. And - re-purchase MS Office which they had originally refused, when I tried to install it .
After I was "let go", they went from bad to worse- even newer PCs with XP. OK, it may have been a better OS than W2K-SP4, but hey- they knew sweetFA anyhow.
I wonder where that idiot manager is now.. still trying to promote XP over Vista or Linux or Win7? LOL!
Seriously? Windows 7? People are really going to play that game?
Yeah.. I'm serium, dolt.
Stick with your Linux, weenie.
And when my Aunt Margie has problems with it, I'll tell her to call you.
I've been using Win7 since last December. Recently I went from build 7000 to 7100. It's better than Vista. And... maybe just maybe.. it's better than my old XP.
Oh yeah - Golly! I've replaced my XP with it.
My Vista? Works OK with one gig of RAM, for the moment... but maybe I'll upgrade it too...
(sigh) But you and Auntie Margie probably know better.
OH! She needs help with her Linux. I'm busy; can I give her your ID?
Geeez... fuckin weenies! Whatever happened to Macintosh weenies? Now THERE was a system for Auntie Marge!
But I know I have just ONE chance to impress this Italian supermodel, who lurks on/.
Commander Taco? Come clean!
So, sweetheart:
CosÃ, la mia ragazza scarna brutta. Mastichereste prego sul mio grande salame grasso?
"Googol" in turn appears to a bastardization of Google
No. It's NOT, AFAIK
Without bothering to google (or perhaps "googol") it,
I would surmise that "Google" DID come from googling or eyeing, whereas "googol" came from some mathematician's son, who, after his father asked what the 1 with a hundred zeros after it meant, replied "it's a GOOGOL!".
Thus GOOGOL, and GOOGOLPLEX entered the lexicography.
I forget the professer'z name, but WTF- you can google it, can't you?
It has NOTHING to do with Barney Google AFAIK.
And please- let's not drag any Russian novelists into this!
Yeah, I know what you mean-
I live in Canada, and every time I go to the US, I am amazed at how everyone suddenly becomes 6 inches to a foot wider.
No taller, mind you. Just wider.
Astonishing. Presumably Europeans or Asians are even more astonished.
... or how much coal burnt in power-plants, did it take to "MAKE" that hydrogen?
Or did the ingenious students fly off to the planet Jupiter to scoop up some free hydrogen?
Huh! Maybe they just drilled a well and got hydrogen that way!
OK, let's leave the above to conjecture.
Now- how much energy was expended in condensing, chilling or otherwise storing this magical "hydrogen"?
Golly! It's a REAL BREAKTHROUGH, huh?
When are some people gonna wake up to this hydrogen scam?
The most common element in the universe is hydrogen. It will pay off in the long run to master using it for energy.
Hey, that's what I've been saying all along!
We just build some rockets, fly off to Alpha Centoori or Jupiter, or one o' dem other weird planets up dere, collect all that free HYDROGEN, and bring it back!
Shit-simple!
And we can get Oxygen from peroxide (my nerd friend told me)! My pharmacy has jars of the stuff!
Why is everyone so stoopid?
One minor, and by no means scientific thing I've noticed is in the taxonomy.
Most successful projects seem to have two syllables (or more):
google, yahoo, windows linux...
The ones with a SINGLE syllable somehow fall by the wayside-
Warp, live,... think of some more!
OK, so Dell is an exception....
So far the jury is still out on Bing. Bingle or bing-it woulda been better, but hey- who's gonna listen to me?
Haven't guys like IBM and Microsoft figured this out yet?
Without attempting to be too cruel, I regret to inform you:
THIS IS SHEER IDIOCY.
I use a couple of hi-tech devices myself- they are called a "dustpan" and a "broom". The broken glass is then carefully dumped into a "garbage can". (Those glass shard are dangerous)
Small horror story:
A coupla weeks ago, I chipped a tooth that already had a large mercury amalgam filing in it.
Thank goodness I saved the old filling.
The tooth was soon repaired by my dentist, with alas, another big gob of... the dreaded MERCURY! (plus some silver)
Migod! Do you know? There is more mercury IN JUST ONE OF MY TOOTH FILLINGS than all the CFLs ever used in my home!
Now- Mr. Science, what do I do with the old tooth filling?
1. Toss it down the toilet?
2. Dump it Into the garbage? (when no one is looking)
3.Recycling? (Problem: it's too hard for recycling guys to even see the minute amount of mercury- they just see glass and metal)
Or-
4. Can I mail it to you? Pretty please?
I'M SURE you will know what to do with it!
But if not, I have a suggestion or two for you .
Now-
What worries me more, is when I die and am cremated. What happens to all my Mercury fillings?
More than ten thousand CFLs! AIIEEE!!
Should I perhaps if I can beforehand, warn the mourners to hold their breaths? Or warn the undertaker? Or did he already...umm remove my fillings and then...
GOTO 1
Funny but true.
There- corrected it for ya.
I've been hearing this old bugaboo about "lightbulbs only warming the ceiling" for years.
Usually by people who know nothing about thermodynamics, fluids or for that matter science in general.
All heaters in a room will "heat the ceiling" by convection. Next winter, just stand on a chair in your living room. (Best you not have a belt or rope in your hand, or others may be alarmed)
You'll note that, unless you have some strong convections currents- fan, forced air heating, etc - it's a good deal warmer up there.
And if you do have artificially created air currents in the room, then the incandescent bulbs will just add to the heat that is hopefully circulating in the room.
Bah! I'm fed up with all this CFL marketing crap anyhow. Who CARES if you save 20 or 30 watts here or there? Most of your electricity goes into heat, refrigerators, hot water etc, stereos, motors of one sort or anither- the list goes on.... WTF do a few 60-watt bulbs contribute to the household energy use?
Great movie! It was directed by Sir Carol Reek.
"The Turd Man", starring Joseph Cottonelle, and Orson Wellies.
Harry Lime spreads his disinfectant in the outhouse, and Holly Oldman takes refuge in a ferris wheel.
Migod, I'm dealing with children here...they probably don't even know what a "Zither" is.
Slashdot Mirror
but I'm waiting for Ericcson to bring out the Leif.
...
Oh wait- they did- about a thousand years ago.
You're new at personal computing, huh?
Wha, you stopped using your typewriter 10 years ago?
News:
There were a lot of word-processors around before MS Word sprung up. And yes, there were even operating systems before "Windows".
I havent used a typewriter in 25-30 years.
To slowly boost the ISS outa orbit and put it in Moon orbit, or at a Lagrange point.
Hey, it's scheduled to burn up anyhow in 20xx... And, would it be worth much out there?
Only problem is, you need an atomic bomb to start (ignite) the engine every morning...
Fuck Ridley Scott!
I always wanted to see Jonesey as a kitten!
And Sigourney!
Is she goonna look like.. butch young?
But it's JonesyI wanna see. Damn! I wanna see that kitten!
And Alien? Yo momma is ugly. An' eats big people!
1. Do nothing, let the shuttle stop flying at the end of 2010 and let the station be de-orbited at the end of 2016.
2. Fly 1 more mission, and still de-orbit the station at the end of 2016.
3. Extend station operations through to the end of depending on what funding they can get from Congress.
4. PROFIT! ...
??
OOPS!
Sorry- I seem to be in the wrong thread!
Well...
....Because they're cheaper than day rates, silly!
mushrooms!!
SHROOMS!
There. Corrected it for ya.
1.5MB of RAM? Wow. Thats really light-weight, even for Windows 7!
And this is modded "funny"? /. ... /. intellect, we understand why it's modded "funny"
/. ain't what it used ta be...
One more reason why I spend less and less time on
Of course we all know its a typo, weenie.
But with the current
Lissen, weenie- whenI grew up, we had to walk 640Km to school through the snow every day, and then had to eat Mbites of potatochips, just to impress the idiot jocks (who are now all Sales millionaires, and now breed with our sisters)
Now, I have to endure gigachuckles like the above quote.
I could say more, but my nephew is making fun of my idiot Linux interface. I gotta go tear a bite off of him!
! Hostie tabarnak!
Oh yeah? ... HE WANTS HIS KERNEL BACK!
OH YEAH??
Well, Mr. Smartypants- Linus called and he
uhh.. wants his... umm.. OK.. yeah-
YA!
There. This should shut some of you witty twits up!
-
Oh, grow up, little boy. Eat your spinach.
... /. - land of the linux weenies.
You're too young to remember, but 30 years ago, IBM was the FUD-creating evil empire.
You live in some kind of dream world.
Oh yeah, I forgot- Heh heh, This is
Quindi, la mia ragazza brutta molto sottile. Volete masticare sul mio grosso grasso salame?
There! That should be more karma-lowering trollworthy dictum.
Son, you clearly don't belong here.
Get offa slashdot before it's too late.
I remember ordering a buncha Dell laptops back in 2000 or so for my boss (a pointy-haired ol lady) and our Network "manager" (Certified! LOL!)
The manager countermanded me, replacing his and the other Win2000 systems with Win98. (sigh)
And in ADDITION, wondered why I had ordered this weird "Dell". Didn't I know the business standard was "COMPAQ"?
The company was Cleyn & Tinker, and of course they soon deep-sixed, after a shitload of $$ was spent on this idiot manager's idiot IT choices.
Thankfully, I was allowed to keep my 'new' W2K. Soon, the rest of them had to re-purchase W2K. And - re-purchase MS Office which they had originally refused, when I tried to install it .
After I was "let go", they went from bad to worse- even newer PCs with XP. OK, it may have been a better OS than W2K-SP4, but hey- they knew sweetFA anyhow.
I wonder where that idiot manager is now.. still trying to promote XP over Vista or Linux or Win7?
LOL!
Seriously? Windows 7? People are really going to play that game?
Yeah.. I'm serium, dolt.
Stick with your Linux, weenie.
And when my Aunt Margie has problems with it, I'll tell her to call you.
I've been using Win7 since last December. Recently I went from build 7000 to 7100. It's better than Vista. And... maybe just maybe.. it's better than my old XP.
Oh yeah - Golly! I've replaced my XP with it.
My Vista? Works OK with one gig of RAM, for the moment... but maybe I'll upgrade it too...
(sigh) But you and Auntie Margie probably know better.
OH! She needs help with her Linux. I'm busy; can I give her your ID?
Geeez... fuckin weenies! Whatever happened to Macintosh weenies? Now THERE was a system for Auntie Marge!
But I know I have just ONE chance to impress this Italian supermodel, who lurks on /.
Commander Taco? Come clean!
So, sweetheart:
CosÃ, la mia ragazza scarna brutta. Mastichereste prego sul mio grande salame grasso?
"Googol" in turn appears to a bastardization of Google
No. It's NOT, AFAIK
Without bothering to google (or perhaps "googol") it, I would surmise that "Google" DID come from googling or eyeing, whereas "googol" came from some mathematician's son, who, after his father asked what the 1 with a hundred zeros after it meant, replied "it's a GOOGOL!".
Thus GOOGOL, and GOOGOLPLEX entered the lexicography.
I forget the professer'z name, but WTF- you can google it, can't you? It has NOTHING to do with Barney Google AFAIK.
And please- let's not drag any Russian novelists into this!
There is more hydrogen in one gallon of gasoline, than in one gallon of hydrogen.
At STP or otherwise.
Go figure.
Yeah, I know what you mean-
I live in Canada, and every time I go to the US, I am amazed at how everyone suddenly becomes 6 inches to a foot wider.
No taller, mind you. Just wider.
Astonishing. Presumably Europeans or Asians are even more astonished.
... or how much coal burnt in power-plants, did it take to "MAKE" that hydrogen?
Or did the ingenious students fly off to the planet Jupiter to scoop up some free hydrogen?
Huh! Maybe they just drilled a well and got hydrogen that way!
OK, let's leave the above to conjecture.
Now- how much energy was expended in condensing, chilling or otherwise storing this magical "hydrogen"? Golly! It's a REAL BREAKTHROUGH, huh?
When are some people gonna wake up to this hydrogen scam?
The most common element in the universe is hydrogen. It will pay off in the long run to master using it for energy.
Hey, that's what I've been saying all along!
We just build some rockets, fly off to Alpha Centoori or Jupiter, or one o' dem other weird planets up dere, collect all that free HYDROGEN, and bring it back!
Shit-simple!
And we can get Oxygen from peroxide (my nerd friend told me)! My pharmacy has jars of the stuff!
Why is everyone so stoopid?
One minor, and by no means scientific thing I've noticed is in the taxonomy. ...
... think of some more!
Most successful projects seem to have two syllables (or more):
google, yahoo, windows linux
The ones with a SINGLE syllable somehow fall by the wayside-
Warp, live,
OK, so Dell is an exception....
So far the jury is still out on Bing. Bingle or bing-it woulda been better, but hey- who's gonna listen to me?
Haven't guys like IBM and Microsoft figured this out yet?
Does being a junkie really help?
Was Miles a heroin addict?
More to the point:
Will Jazz go the same way as "warp"? Hey man- now that was a groovy name, daddy-o!
Without attempting to be too cruel, I regret to inform you: ...umm remove my fillings and then ...
THIS IS SHEER IDIOCY.
I use a couple of hi-tech devices myself- they are called a "dustpan" and a "broom". The broken glass is then carefully dumped into a "garbage can". (Those glass shard are dangerous)
Small horror story:
A coupla weeks ago, I chipped a tooth that already had a large mercury amalgam filing in it.
Thank goodness I saved the old filling.
The tooth was soon repaired by my dentist, with alas, another big gob of... the dreaded MERCURY! (plus some silver)
Migod! Do you know? There is more mercury IN JUST ONE OF MY TOOTH FILLINGS than all the CFLs ever used in my home!
Now- Mr. Science, what do I do with the old tooth filling?
1. Toss it down the toilet?
2. Dump it Into the garbage? (when no one is looking)
3.Recycling? (Problem: it's too hard for recycling guys to even see the minute amount of mercury- they just see glass and metal)
Or-
4. Can I mail it to you? Pretty please?
I'M SURE you will know what to do with it!
But if not, I have a suggestion or two for you .
Now-
What worries me more, is when I die and am cremated. What happens to all my Mercury fillings?
More than ten thousand CFLs! AIIEEE!!
Should I perhaps if I can beforehand, warn the mourners to hold their breaths? Or warn the undertaker? Or did he already
GOTO 1
Funny but not really true.
Funny but true.
There- corrected it for ya.
I've been hearing this old bugaboo about "lightbulbs only warming the ceiling" for years.
Usually by people who know nothing about thermodynamics, fluids or for that matter science in general.
All heaters in a room will "heat the ceiling" by convection. Next winter, just stand on a chair in your living room. (Best you not have a belt or rope in your hand, or others may be alarmed)
You'll note that, unless you have some strong convections currents- fan, forced air heating, etc - it's a good deal warmer up there.
And if you do have artificially created air currents in the room, then the incandescent bulbs will just add to the heat that is hopefully circulating in the room.
Bah! I'm fed up with all this CFL marketing crap anyhow. Who CARES if you save 20 or 30 watts here or there? Most of your electricity goes into heat, refrigerators, hot water etc, stereos, motors of one sort or anither- the list goes on.... WTF do a few 60-watt bulbs contribute to the household energy use?
Great movie! It was directed by Sir Carol Reek.
"The Turd Man", starring Joseph Cottonelle, and Orson Wellies.
Harry Lime spreads his disinfectant in the outhouse, and Holly Oldman takes refuge in a ferris wheel.
Migod, I'm dealing with children here...they probably don't even know what a "Zither" is.