Q: How many members of the U.S.S. Enterprise does it take to change a
light bulb? A: Seven. Scotty has to report to Captain Kirk that the light bulb in
the Engineering Section is getting dim, at which point Kirk will send
Bones to pronounce the bulb dead (although he'll immediately claim
that he's a doctor, not an electrician). Scotty, after checking
around, realizes that they have no more new light bulbs, and complains
that he "canna" see in the dark. Kirk will make an emergency stop at
the next uncharted planet, Alpha Regula IV, to procure a light bulb
from the natives, who, are friendly, but seem to be hiding something.
Kirk, Spock, Bones, Yeoman Rand and two red shirt security officers
beam down to the planet, where the two security officers are promply
killed by the natives, and the rest of the landing party is captured.
As something begins to develop between the Captain and Yeoman Rand,
Scotty, back in orbit, is attacked by a Klingon destroyer and must
warp out of orbit. Although badly outgunned, he cripples the Klingon
and races back to the planet in order to rescue Kirk et. al. who have
just saved the natives' from an awful fate and, as a reward, been
given all light bulbs they can carry. The new bulb is then inserted
and the Enterprise continues on its five year mission.
I think you messed up your quote. Here's what it really says without the marketing bullshit:
At Microsoft, we see a future full of people to exploit for money. We're working to expand the possibilities for using Microsoft-only computing every day, by continually making it harder to escape our vendor lock-in. Through partnerships with universities, governments, and other companies, Microsoft is working to embrace and extend the state of the art in ways that benefit our bottom line. and develop closed standards. We're hard at work, spreading FUD about our superior competitors. Security is now our top priority, after all of the other tasks we just mentioned.
how many more keys can you add and still be able to touch type? Fingers only reach so far
To be perfectly honest, I use a hunt-and-peck type strategy. I only use my index fingers to type. You end up remembering in which area of the keyboard the keys are in after a while. Though this is probably inefficient and yadda-yadda RSI yadda-yadda.
Just wanted to give full disclosure.
I'm sorry, but after looking at the Happy Hacking Keyboard, I'd much prefer one with more keys, not less. Considering all the special symbols we programmers use, I'd want a keyboard with separate keys for all the symbols (no more using shift so much). I wouldn't mind a larger keyboard and a little learning curve. However, I have no idea if you can work it so the '@' key sends the 'shift' and '2' signals. Also, could we remove some of the extraneous keys? * scroll lock (not used anymore) * 'menu' key (looks like a cursor selecting from a menu, brings up the right-click menu in win32) * num lock (since this thing should have separate arrow keys, numlock should always be on) * pause/break (what's it do anyway?) And of course, switch the position of the control keys so keyboard shortsuts are easier.
The other problem is that if starship travel at warp speeds, you run into problems with relativity, unless everyone uses one central clock. And if warp speed is >= (c) speed of light, then you're completely screwed.
Reminds me of my school. The computers are only supposed to be used for schoolwork (except for those in the student center), but most people in my class, and all of the CS guys have mame installed and play it on the computers. The school is blissfully ignorant to the fact that the ROMs are illegal. I've talked to the senior who helps admin and he knows and doesn't care, and most of the teachers don't either. The only ones who care are the ones in the library, and all they do is ask you to logoff. The apathy/stupidity of the admins is staggering.
Well, considering the ludicrously low percent of ads I click on purpose, I'm technically costing the ad agency/website money for the cost of downloading from them an ad I'll probably never click on. So technically, if I were to block ads, I would be saving the company money most of the time. Of course, I suppose advertising lives off that small percentage of people who do click and I'd be denying the rare company whose ads I click some revenue. So if I blocked only ads not concerning my areas of interest, I'm tehcnically saving them money. Targetted ads are definitely the future.
If this does happen, it would mean the end of all hierarchical storage/navigation. You wouldn't even need hierarchy among labels, though it would be handy in some cases. Assuming that ALL folders are just search queries, then, for instance, files in/etc/foobar would just be files with the labels etc and foobar. It sounds like a very interesting future possibility
[In the lost city of Atlanta episode...] Prof (after putting on a breather): This is uncomfortable and humiliating. Now, if you put it in the form of a suppository...
Yay! We might finally have a chance of Java dying. It was a nice idea that was poorly executed. And honestly, compared to Python/Ruby/Perl/PHP/etc it's quite limiting. Also, I hate how Sun has bribed the colleges into making Comp Sci a vocational Java course. Now someone just needs to start the Jolt programming language...
Wow, I wonder how many people actually bothered to find this version of the page you can actually comment on... In other news, Python 3000 was released today.
Let's just hope he doesn't make all sorts of furniture into a computer, like he did with the lamp (iMac). 1. Make furniture/computer hybrids 2. Sell them for an arm and a leg while not telling people it's a computer 3. Make $$$
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Q: How many members of the U.S.S. Enterprise does it take to change a
light bulb?
A: Seven. Scotty has to report to Captain Kirk that the light bulb in
the Engineering Section is getting dim, at which point Kirk will send
Bones to pronounce the bulb dead (although he'll immediately claim
that he's a doctor, not an electrician). Scotty, after checking
around, realizes that they have no more new light bulbs, and complains
that he "canna" see in the dark. Kirk will make an emergency stop at
the next uncharted planet, Alpha Regula IV, to procure a light bulb
from the natives, who, are friendly, but seem to be hiding something.
Kirk, Spock, Bones, Yeoman Rand and two red shirt security officers
beam down to the planet, where the two security officers are promply
killed by the natives, and the rest of the landing party is captured.
As something begins to develop between the Captain and Yeoman Rand,
Scotty, back in orbit, is attacked by a Klingon destroyer and must
warp out of orbit. Although badly outgunned, he cripples the Klingon
and races back to the planet in order to rescue Kirk et. al. who have
just saved the natives' from an awful fate and, as a reward, been
given all light bulbs they can carry. The new bulb is then inserted
and the Enterprise continues on its five year mission.
- fortune-mod
May the great actor rest in peace.
That sounds more like the FHS than the LSB.
The FHS, unlike the LSB, is a decent standard.
The LSB needs a major overhaul.
I'm sorry, but after looking at the Happy Hacking Keyboard, I'd much prefer one with more keys, not less.
Considering all the special symbols we programmers use, I'd want a keyboard with separate keys for all the symbols (no more using shift so much). I wouldn't mind a larger keyboard and a little learning curve.
However, I have no idea if you can work it so the '@' key sends the 'shift' and '2' signals.
Also, could we remove some of the extraneous keys?
* scroll lock (not used anymore)
* 'menu' key (looks like a cursor selecting from a menu, brings up the right-click menu in win32)
* num lock (since this thing should have separate arrow keys, numlock should always be on)
* pause/break (what's it do anyway?)
And of course, switch the position of the control keys so keyboard shortsuts are easier.
Just my $0.02
I wonder if the Evolve-o-Matic could help your post evolve...
See http://www.jhuger.com/evolve.php
The other problem is that if starship travel at warp speeds, you run into problems with relativity, unless everyone uses one central clock. And if warp speed is >= (c) speed of light, then you're completely screwed.
Where did you steal my plans from?
I'll get you for this!
Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to change my pgp key.
Reminds me of my school.
The computers are only supposed to be used for schoolwork (except for those in the student center), but most people in my class, and all of the CS guys have mame installed and play it on the computers.
The school is blissfully ignorant to the fact that the ROMs are illegal. I've talked to the senior who helps admin and he knows and doesn't care, and most of the teachers don't either. The only ones who care are the ones in the library, and all they do is ask you to logoff. The apathy/stupidity of the admins is staggering.
Well, considering the ludicrously low percent of ads I click on purpose, I'm technically costing the ad agency/website money for the cost of downloading from them an ad I'll probably never click on.
So technically, if I were to block ads, I would be saving the company money most of the time. Of course, I suppose advertising lives off that small percentage of people who do click and I'd be denying the rare company whose ads I click some revenue.
So if I blocked only ads not concerning my areas of interest, I'm tehcnically saving them money. Targetted ads are definitely the future.
If this does happen, it would mean the end of all hierarchical storage/navigation. You wouldn't even need hierarchy among labels, though it would be handy in some cases. Assuming that ALL folders are just search queries, /etc/foobar would just be files with the labels etc and foobar. It sounds like a very interesting future possibility
then, for instance, files in
What's next, a 'Grow Your Own Cancer' kit like those crystal ones? I hope it works better than the crystal ones do...
[In the lost city of Atlanta episode...]
Prof (after putting on a breather): This is uncomfortable and humiliating. Now, if you put it in the form of a suppository...
I await the quote from the worm episode.
Yay! We might finally have a chance of Java dying. It was a nice idea that was poorly executed.
And honestly, compared to Python/Ruby/Perl/PHP/etc it's quite limiting.
Also, I hate how Sun has bribed the colleges into making Comp Sci a vocational Java course.
Now someone just needs to start the Jolt programming language...
Only CmdrTaco knows for sure...
And if he doesn't stop, we will eat him. I always did like mexican food.
Okay, this is just plain stupid. Any moron could tell this is fake.
Wow, a repeat on April Fools Day.
Honestly, I never saw it coming.
Nothing for you to see here, please move along.
But honestly, how much bandwidth and how many cpu cycles have these jokes wasted?
I wonder how long it will take for Microsoft to sue for these guys copying their iLoo from last year's April 1 Joke...
Well, at least I tried.
It was today, or never
Wow, I wonder how many people actually bothered to find this version of the page you can actually comment on...
In other news, Python 3000 was released today.
Man, even w/ a new article every 5min I still can't get a 1st Post!
Let's just hope he doesn't make all sorts of furniture into a computer, like he did with the lamp (iMac).
1. Make furniture/computer hybrids
2. Sell them for an arm and a leg while not telling people it's a computer
3. Make $$$
This is about as real as the XBOX2 ThinkGeek (http://www.thinkgeek.com/) is selling.
:-)
To Ed: Okay, I plugged it, where's my cut?