As long as they don't use hydrogen dioxide...
that stuff's toxic!
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-- Don't worry, I'm just a poser posting as a philosopher/laywer/comedian/tech wizard
Tinfoil is made from alumin(i)um, which costs a lot of energy to make, most of which is generated by burning fossil fuels, which cause global warming. Kif, we have a conundrum!
No, my joke was that you'd be killed by Microsoft (because of an infamous bug in Outlook, which saw the ``begin '' (two spaces) on a line on its own as the start of a non-existent attachment, and so could not display the message.
I have noticed that these machines are almost always located in Asia, Latin America, or Eastern Europe...
Coincidentally (or not so...) those are areas where many people can't afford to pay for software as well as hardware, and will be running pirated Windows versions, for which Microsoft does not supply patches.
no matter how sophisticated your robot is at avoiding people, people might not always manage to avoid it, and could end up tripping over it and falling down the stairs.
Or be pushed down the stairs...
"If you kick a robotic dog, are you then more likely to kick a real one?"
I think what Oracle was getting at is that when you buy a 250GB hard drive the formatted capacity is slightly less, 240GB or so.
No, the term "formatted capacity" must have been invented by people who are clueless. The filesystem overhead is only about 0.1% of the partition's capacity (for FAT32 filesystems). Maybe several times more for more advanced filesystems. Let's take 1%, that way, we can be pretty sure we're not underestimating. 1% of 250GB is 2.5GB. Do you have 247.5GB of space on a 250GB harddisk, once partitioned and formatted? No, you have significantly less. That's because it's all due to the 1000/1024 issue. You and your OS think a KB is 1024 bytes, and an MB is 1024 KB, and a GB is 1024 MB, but your harddisk manufacturer insists that it is 1000 instead of 1024, and so its capacity numbers get higher, because its units are smaller. One billion bytes (10**9) is significantly lower than 1024*1024*1024 (2**30) bytes.
In The Netherlands, there's quite a lot of phone tapping going on, and when questioned about this, the relevant minister couldn't even say exactly how much, so it must be very opaque.
So, do Linux users get the video encoded in a Flash object that requires Flash 8, like many Flash videos seem to require nowadays, but which isn't actually available for Linux? Hooray for proprietary software!
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Right, and it was the charger that got stolen, and not the other way around, huh?
Reading the text on the auction screenshots, the seller says the laptop doesn't have a charger. If that doesn't make you suspect it has come into the possession of the seller via extra-legal means of appropriation, I don't know what does...
1) Cashier gets instructed to sell things without a price tag for $1.
2) There is a magazine in the store, where non-employees aren't supposed to go, where items are kept that aren't for sale yet. Those items don't have a pricetag yet.
3) A customer goes into the magazine, takes some of the items there, and brings them over to the cashier, who, upon discovering no pricetag, rings them up for $1 each.
So we have: a) wrong behaviour by the client b) stupid behaviour by the cashier
This reminds me of a Slashdot sig, about everything you know being wrong and stupid...;-)
How do you know that 200,000 to 1,000,000 years isn't enough time for new bird species to evolve? Hell, the human species isn't even a million years old.
Slashdot Mirror
Good thing you're not posing as a chemist, then!
You mean Slurm, or Soylent Cola?
That was fictional...
It's not a book, it's a quote from a book. You should read your own sig again.
Tinfoil is made from alumin(i)um, which costs a lot of energy to make, most of which is generated by burning fossil fuels, which cause global warming. Kif, we have a conundrum!
It's links all the way down!
No, my joke was that you'd be killed by Microsoft (because of an infamous bug in Outlook, which saw the ``begin '' (two spaces) on a line on its own as the start of a non-existent attachment, and so could not display the message.
That's still better than the trigger word "begin " ;-)
Yeah, and the best part is, it's got Orks!
Coincidentally (or not so...) those are areas where many people can't afford to pay for software as well as hardware, and will be running pirated Windows versions, for which Microsoft does not supply patches.
Or be pushed down the stairs...
Only if it swallowed a mobile phone.
One More Turn... (yes, it is a marketing gimmick)
No, the term "formatted capacity" must have been invented by people who are clueless. The filesystem overhead is only about 0.1% of the partition's capacity (for FAT32 filesystems). Maybe several times more for more advanced filesystems. Let's take 1%, that way, we can be pretty sure we're not underestimating. 1% of 250GB is 2.5GB. Do you have 247.5GB of space on a 250GB harddisk, once partitioned and formatted? No, you have significantly less. That's because it's all due to the 1000/1024 issue. You and your OS think a KB is 1024 bytes, and an MB is 1024 KB, and a GB is 1024 MB, but your harddisk manufacturer insists that it is 1000 instead of 1024, and so its capacity numbers get higher, because its units are smaller. One billion bytes (10**9) is significantly lower than 1024*1024*1024 (2**30) bytes.
No, I think he's just lying.
In The Netherlands, there's quite a lot of phone tapping going on, and when questioned about this, the relevant minister couldn't even say exactly how much, so it must be very opaque.
So, do Linux users get the video encoded in a Flash object that requires Flash 8, like many Flash videos seem to require nowadays, but which isn't actually available for Linux? Hooray for proprietary software!
Right, and it was the charger that got stolen, and not the other way around, huh?
If you read the auction text, it comes without a charger, so it probably is stolen.
Reading the text on the auction screenshots, the seller says the laptop doesn't have a charger. If that doesn't make you suspect it has come into the possession of the seller via extra-legal means of appropriation, I don't know what does...
Grammar commie!
You've never seen the default Windows XP desktop wallpaper, have you?
Yes, it certainly seems less susceptible to flames ;-)
No, seems more like the following store analogy:
;-)
1) Cashier gets instructed to sell things without a price tag for $1.
2) There is a magazine in the store, where non-employees aren't supposed to go, where items are kept that aren't for sale yet. Those items don't have a pricetag yet.
3) A customer goes into the magazine, takes some of the items there, and brings them over to the cashier, who, upon discovering no pricetag, rings them up for $1 each.
So we have:
a) wrong behaviour by the client
b) stupid behaviour by the cashier
This reminds me of a Slashdot sig, about everything you know being wrong and stupid...
How do you know that 200,000 to 1,000,000 years isn't enough time for new bird species to evolve? Hell, the human species isn't even a million years old.
Terry Pratchett already showed that. Everywhere light goes, darkness was there first.
mov ax, 4c00h
int 21h
Now you can be afraid too.