And a side-note, we love you really Rob. It's just.. so many readers, so many page hits.. it's not like you couldn't afford to post a couple more articles each day. Reply if you want.:)
Well, I'll leave the moral question alone for the moment. I'd sell it on ebay, as well as running a small web server on the domain with a static page saying that it's for sale, and giving an e-mail address for offers.
This is re the comment about NASA having equal to or more supercomputing power than d.net - you'd be amazed at how much power you get by a percentage of idle time from the amount of computers that d.net has. It may not be the fastest cluster, but I'm certain that it gives them a processing speed many times faster than the faster supercomputer.
And I'd be fairly willing to bet that d.net as a entity has more processing power than NASA.
The guy who tried to get a first post and tripped over the cables connecting his monitor and knocked himself out when the monitor fell on him, and then he, uh, became impotent due to a bizarre cat-related event straight afterwards.
Agreed. Trying to blame someone sets minds at rest a little, but I'm fairly sure that 'blame' can't be attributed in this case. It's been icy over here, hundreds of accidents, you get the idea. Just a bad throw of the random dice of life:(
Good point. In any way, I share the guilt of killing Q with the 200,000-odd people in my town who also didn't see the signing. Diffusion of responsibility makes me feel better;)
But still, it's true. An extra ten seconds talking to someone - anyone - probably would have saved his life. Man, now I *am* depressed.. *sighs*
Yeah, fine, I guess it would be censorship. But given that the guy didn't write it himself, and therefore probably didn't empathise with what's being said, I think it can be removed. The dead shouldn't be insulted - Mr. Llewellyn was, I'm sure, a great man, and doesn't deserve to be ridiculed by a computer-generated insult.
This is *really* sad. Just today, in our local mall, I noticed that he was signing books tonight, so I guess that Mr. Llewellyn must have been on his way back from the signing when he crashed the car. I was going to go to the event, but ended up seeing the new Arnie flick with some friends instead. Now I know what I *should* have done. He'll be missed, that's for sure.:(
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Actually you could have used < and > with surprising ease.
Chris.
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Dude, it was my post. They didn't have to mention Neal Stephenson; I did. 'cause he's cool. It's true.
And a side-note, we love you really Rob. It's just.. so many readers, so many page hits.. it's not like you couldn't afford to post a couple more articles each day. Reply if you want. :)
Just another step closer to MS-Linux. :(
Well, I'll leave the moral question alone for the moment. I'd sell it on ebay, as well as running a small web server on the domain with a static page saying that it's for sale, and giving an e-mail address for offers.
Chris.
First India, now China.. things are looking good for linux.
This is re the comment about NASA having equal to or more supercomputing power than d.net - you'd be amazed at how much power you get by a percentage of idle time from the amount of computers that d.net has. It may not be the fastest cluster, but I'm certain that it gives them a processing speed many times faster than the faster supercomputer.
And I'd be fairly willing to bet that d.net as a entity has more processing power than NASA.
Chris.
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Good to hear. Hope more companies do the same..
There's a mirror of the logs at nodezero.org.uk at http://printf.net/ . Chris/Thoric. --
The guy who tried to get a first post and tripped over the cables connecting his monitor and knocked himself out when the monitor fell on him, and then he, uh, became impotent due to a bizarre cat-related event straight afterwards.
Woo! I'm there - hopefully the marketing peeps will realise that there's money in Linux games after this.
Chris.
Yeah, they could really put the world to rights between them :)
Chris.
Agreed. Trying to blame someone sets minds at rest a little, but I'm fairly sure that 'blame' can't be attributed in this case. It's been icy over here, hundreds of accidents, you get the idea. Just a bad throw of the random dice of life :(
Chris.
Good point. In any way, I share the guilt of killing Q with the 200,000-odd people in my town who also didn't see the signing. Diffusion of responsibility makes me feel better ;)
But still, it's true. An extra ten seconds talking to someone - anyone - probably would have saved his life. Man, now I *am* depressed.. *sighs*
Merry Christmas etc, peeps.
Chris.
>You killed Q. May the good Lord have mercy upon you.
:)
Oh my God, I killed Q! Well, I'm sure he'll be back in the next film. In more than one way
Chris.
Yeah, fine, I guess it would be censorship. But given that the guy didn't write it himself, and therefore probably didn't empathise with what's being said, I think it can be removed. The dead shouldn't be insulted - Mr. Llewellyn was, I'm sure, a great man, and doesn't deserve to be ridiculed by a computer-generated insult.
Chris.
Guys, please remove this comment. It's a vulgar excuse for a comment on the death of a great man. :(
Chris.
This is *really* sad. Just today, in our local mall, I noticed that he was signing books tonight, so I guess that Mr. Llewellyn must have been on his way back from the signing when he crashed the car. I was going to go to the event, but ended up seeing the new Arnie flick with some friends instead. Now I know what I *should* have done. He'll be missed, that's for sure. :(
Chris.
Well, if nothing else, this should persuade the Aibo-peeps that they need to keep working to keep up with the competition :)
Chris.
How do you feel about the emerging of distros basing themselves around Debian - eg. Stormix and Corel.. Chris. --
Yep.. good to see. ESR should be praised as much as Linus for GNU/Linux.. :)
Woo!