My mother is Calabrese and my father is Sicilian so I'm brown-eyed, swarthy and build like a good agricultural worker (i.e., peasant) should be. I'm not short, though, which is odd.
Ditto on the willie, the calamari and the revenge.
My mom always used to joke about how Sicily is just a short swim from Africa, so who knows what might be in the woodpile. I'm not a pimp, but I do like to blow stuff up so there might be some Moor in there somewhere.
Oh, yeah: I've got an great uncle (from the Sicilian side, of course) in a California prison on a contract murder rap. No one likes to talk about it around the dinner table for some reason so I don't know the details. We used to go to his house from time to time when I was a kid but he always creeped me out even when he was being nice to me. Funny how perceptive kids can be, even the ones that grow up to be nerds.
If you think otherwise, then the next time you drive 5 miles after a fill up, be sure to drain your gas tank and dump all that "hazardous flammable fume spewing fluid" and get some new gasoline.
That's about the worst analogy I've come across on Slashdot in a while. You wouldn't happen to be BadAnalogyGuy posting as AC, would you?
Could I see your papers? You realize that it's now a crime in Arizona not to be able to produce proof of citizenship or legal residence upon demand, right?
Unless you have sufficiently pale skin, in which case it's all good.
I just wrote about that yesterday. I'm of Italian heritage and am often mistaken for a Hispanic; things could get dicy for me in AZ.
Bad quote. If you stored fuel rods that closely together they'd explode.
I'm not an expert in this sort of thing by any means but I don't think they'd actually explode. They would go critical, though, and possibly start a runaway chain reaction which would be bad enough. So you're certainly correct that it would a bad idea to stack them up that way. Not that anyone ever would. It was just an an example used to allow people to visualize the amount of nuclear waste that has been generated over the last 40 years.
Personally, I'd love to get cheap electricity from a nuclear power plant, as long as their built far away, say, in Arizona or South Carolina, where radiation can't do too much damage.
Hey, I live in Arizona you insensitive clod!
(Okay, not really, and I already live within 50 miles of a nuke plant. I just couldn't pass up a chance to post the "insensitive clod" meme.)
Pay attention, fool. Agilent has the test equipment now.
Right. Agilent has the test equipment now, which means that HP no longer makes it. Fool.
And come on, do you really expect a $99 laser printer to work like a $3500 LaserJet original?
Of course not, but I expect a $99 inkjet printer I bought two years ago which only lasted about 18 months to work as well as the $99 inkjet printer I bought ten years ago which still works. Fool.
If you're just going to send it flying, at least put on a simple camera and send it somewhere useful. Fly by the outer planets, or visit the asteroid belt, or try for a comet or KBO. Surely there's at least one object in the solar system within range for simple observations.
Yeah, I know what you mean, but where is the power to run the experiment going to come from? They didn't include an RTG on the spacecraft and a few square feet of solar panels is aren't going to provide enough power for long. All the articles I can find are short on detail but it appears as if the thing is no more than the minimum amount of hardware necessary to run a test of the solar sail. Even its launch was piggybacked with another spacecraft.
Say what you will but HP is one of very few that actually fully support Linux
Okay, I'll give them that. I guess I'm mostly dismayed by how far HP has fallen over the years. At one time, a person could count on anything he bought from them to be a good product, probably the best available. Beginning with the Carly Fiorina era, though, it's been all downhill for them. They don't even make all that great built-like-a-brick-shithouse test equipment that they built their reputation on anymore.
By "marketing blunders", do they mean Palm's "The Most Pale Woman in the World" campaign? Because I've gotta say, she really didn't sell me on a Palm, or anything else.
Agreed. That's got to be one of the worst ad campaigns ever--worse than Microsoft's abominable Bill Gates/Jerry Seinfeld ads, even. Palm should have gone after their ad agency and demanded a refund.
However, it was my post you replied to, hence my response.
anytime I have a chance to remind them how backwards Apple was during the 90s, I take it.
Sounds to me like you've got issues you need to work out. I would have to assume that, seeing how you're a fan of the Commodore Amiga, you're still upset that the Mac beat it out in the marketplace despite the Amiga's superior technology. Yeah, the Amiga was a better computer than the Mac of the day, I agree with you completely (fucking Mac OS 8 is a permanent stain on the history of computing), but Beta was better than VHS too and look which one won. Apple made better marketing decisions and strategic alliances than Commodore did is all. Stuff like that happens in a (nominally) free market, you've just got to get over it.
BTW, as proof that I haven't always chosen the winning technological contender either, I have a Sony Betamax VCR in my garage. It still works, too. I also have two much newer but broken VHS machines out there keeping it company.
And of course they mod me downward. Gotta silence those who are not "of the faith".
Funny, your post is currently rated "Score:5, Insightful".
Check out my posting history and you'll see that fanboys on all sides of the issues will mod down anyone that disagrees with them. Blame Slashdot's current absence of metamoderation for that, not Apple fanboys.
Uh, what does any of that have to do with floppy disks and USB? And I don't recall making any claim about innovation either. My post was nothing more than a simple statement that Apple was the first major manufacturer to ship computers without a floppy drive and with a USB port and, if you'd actually read it, you would have noticed that it said "they weren't responsible for" the progression of either one of those things.
Anyone know where it's going? "Deep space" isn't much of an answer, as it includes everywhere that isn't Earth. Does it have a destination besides "away"? The article does not say...
As far as I can tell, it's an experiment to test the propulsion system with no other purpose. Here's a slightly better article about it.
So you don't like Facebook. We get it. But would it have been so hard to write an unbiased summary?
He doesn't like Apple either and this was his chance to present his prejudices in the guise of a Slashdot summary. His use of the word pander is a pretty clear giveaway. Nothing inflammatory about that, no sir.
People are still bitter about swapping 15+ install floppies to update their programs (I assume some people remember the joy of a Photoshop install...)
Not to mention how much time and attention it took to make a pirated copy of Photoshop or Illustrator or Pagemaker back in those days, especially since most Macs built after 1990 or so only had one floppy drive. Gave a whole different meaning to "Don't Copy That Floppy."
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Wasn't the pre-WWW Usenet technically a separate network (like Fidonet) from the internet?
Yep, you're right. My old greybeard memory forgot that, although I always accessed my Usenet groups via the Internet anyway.
To a lot of people, WWW=Internet. Us old greybeards who remember when the Internet was telnet, FTP, e-mail and Usenet know better.
Sometimes I think they're AIs..
I'd agree with you if it wasn't for the "I" part of "AI."
That made me laugh out loud.
My mother is Calabrese and my father is Sicilian so I'm brown-eyed, swarthy and build like a good agricultural worker (i.e., peasant) should be. I'm not short, though, which is odd.
Ditto on the willie, the calamari and the revenge.
My mom always used to joke about how Sicily is just a short swim from Africa, so who knows what might be in the woodpile. I'm not a pimp, but I do like to blow stuff up so there might be some Moor in there somewhere.
Oh, yeah: I've got an great uncle (from the Sicilian side, of course) in a California prison on a contract murder rap. No one likes to talk about it around the dinner table for some reason so I don't know the details. We used to go to his house from time to time when I was a kid but he always creeped me out even when he was being nice to me. Funny how perceptive kids can be, even the ones that grow up to be nerds.
If you think otherwise, then the next time you drive 5 miles after a fill up, be sure to drain your gas tank and dump all that "hazardous flammable fume spewing fluid" and get some new gasoline.
That's about the worst analogy I've come across on Slashdot in a while. You wouldn't happen to be BadAnalogyGuy posting as AC, would you?
That's incorrect.
Agilent is a independent company that trades on on the New York Stock with a different ticker symbol (UTX) than HP (HPQ).
I'll be brief:
Fuckin' A!
Cary Fiorina is campaigning for the Republican nomination for governor of California. I really, really hope she fails.
Could I see your papers? You realize that it's now a crime in Arizona not to be able to produce proof of citizenship or legal residence upon demand, right?
Unless you have sufficiently pale skin, in which case it's all good.
I just wrote about that yesterday. I'm of Italian heritage and am often mistaken for a Hispanic; things could get dicy for me in AZ.
Bad quote. If you stored fuel rods that closely together they'd explode.
I'm not an expert in this sort of thing by any means but I don't think they'd actually explode. They would go critical, though, and possibly start a runaway chain reaction which would be bad enough. So you're certainly correct that it would a bad idea to stack them up that way. Not that anyone ever would. It was just an an example used to allow people to visualize the amount of nuclear waste that has been generated over the last 40 years.
Personally, I'd love to get cheap electricity from a nuclear power plant, as long as their built far away, say, in Arizona or South Carolina, where radiation can't do too much damage.
Hey, I live in Arizona you insensitive clod!
(Okay, not really, and I already live within 50 miles of a nuke plant. I just couldn't pass up a chance to post the "insensitive clod" meme.)
Bravo
agilent is HP. Fool.
No, fool, Agilent is not HP. Agilent Technologies is a separate company that was spun off from HP in 1999.
Pay attention, fool. Agilent has the test equipment now.
Right. Agilent has the test equipment now, which means that HP no longer makes it. Fool.
And come on, do you really expect a $99 laser printer to work like a $3500 LaserJet original?
Of course not, but I expect a $99 inkjet printer I bought two years ago which only lasted about 18 months to work as well as the $99 inkjet printer I bought ten years ago which still works. Fool.
Note that they weren't first to ship computers without floppies - e.g., Commodore dropped the floppy on the CDTV years earlier.
Like I said--first major manufacturer.
If you're just going to send it flying, at least put on a simple camera and send it somewhere useful. Fly by the outer planets, or visit the asteroid belt, or try for a comet or KBO. Surely there's at least one object in the solar system within range for simple observations.
Yeah, I know what you mean, but where is the power to run the experiment going to come from? They didn't include an RTG on the spacecraft and a few square feet of solar panels is aren't going to provide enough power for long. All the articles I can find are short on detail but it appears as if the thing is no more than the minimum amount of hardware necessary to run a test of the solar sail. Even its launch was piggybacked with another spacecraft.
Say what you will but HP is one of very few that actually fully support Linux
Okay, I'll give them that. I guess I'm mostly dismayed by how far HP has fallen over the years. At one time, a person could count on anything he bought from them to be a good product, probably the best available. Beginning with the Carly Fiorina era, though, it's been all downhill for them. They don't even make all that great built-like-a-brick-shithouse test equipment that they built their reputation on anymore.
By "marketing blunders", do they mean Palm's "The Most Pale Woman in the World" campaign? Because I've gotta say, she really didn't sell me on a Palm, or anything else.
Agreed. That's got to be one of the worst ad campaigns ever--worse than Microsoft's abominable Bill Gates/Jerry Seinfeld ads, even. Palm should have gone after their ad agency and demanded a refund.
If the direction the quality of HP printers is heading is any indication, say goodbye to Palm.
They used to be the best. Now, I wouldn't touch one.
Dude, he's working for a RUSSIAN government facility
Okay, that's what was saying--I hope he wasn't working for my government. Slashdot is an American-oriented site, after all.
So how many languages do YOU speak, besides 'merican?
English, Spanish and a bit of Italian. You?
Do you even know of many foreign countries? Say isn't Korea near France?
Don't be silly. Korea is one of those islands out in the ocean somewhere, isn't it? ;-)
My message wasn't specifically aimed at you.
However, it was my post you replied to, hence my response.
anytime I have a chance to remind them how backwards Apple was during the 90s, I take it.
Sounds to me like you've got issues you need to work out. I would have to assume that, seeing how you're a fan of the Commodore Amiga, you're still upset that the Mac beat it out in the marketplace despite the Amiga's superior technology. Yeah, the Amiga was a better computer than the Mac of the day, I agree with you completely (fucking Mac OS 8 is a permanent stain on the history of computing), but Beta was better than VHS too and look which one won. Apple made better marketing decisions and strategic alliances than Commodore did is all. Stuff like that happens in a (nominally) free market, you've just got to get over it.
BTW, as proof that I haven't always chosen the winning technological contender either, I have a Sony Betamax VCR in my garage. It still works, too. I also have two much newer but broken VHS machines out there keeping it company.
And of course they mod me downward. Gotta silence those who are not "of the faith".
Funny, your post is currently rated "Score:5, Insightful".
Check out my posting history and you'll see that fanboys on all sides of the issues will mod down anyone that disagrees with them. Blame Slashdot's current absence of metamoderation for that, not Apple fanboys.
Uh, what does any of that have to do with floppy disks and USB? And I don't recall making any claim about innovation either. My post was nothing more than a simple statement that Apple was the first major manufacturer to ship computers without a floppy drive and with a USB port and, if you'd actually read it, you would have noticed that it said "they weren't responsible for" the progression of either one of those things.
Anyone know where it's going? "Deep space" isn't much of an answer, as it includes everywhere that isn't Earth. Does it have a destination besides "away"? The article does not say...
As far as I can tell, it's an experiment to test the propulsion system with no other purpose. Here's a slightly better article about it.
Bravo, sir. I wish I had mod points today.
So you don't like Facebook. We get it. But would it have been so hard to write an unbiased summary?
He doesn't like Apple either and this was his chance to present his prejudices in the guise of a Slashdot summary. His use of the word pander is a pretty clear giveaway. Nothing inflammatory about that, no sir.
People are still bitter about swapping 15+ install floppies to update their programs (I assume some people remember the joy of a Photoshop install...)
Not to mention how much time and attention it took to make a pirated copy of Photoshop or Illustrator or Pagemaker back in those days, especially since most Macs built after 1990 or so only had one floppy drive. Gave a whole different meaning to "Don't Copy That Floppy."