sensors indicate a Class-M planet, with breathable air and humanoid lifeforms that speak English, having some kind of problem that can be solved in the next 45 minutes.
My * application is to send streaming audio to my cell phone. That is, before going out I plug the * console sound card into my streaming audio client. Then I can call in and dial the '1234' extension and listen to Internet audio from the car, while hiking, etc. Plus it was fun to play with setting up;)
This might be the same place that was caught in a cable theft scandal recently - a bunch of tv's hooked up to one service account. Anyway - it must come with the territory - about an hour south of the WV Capital is this guy.
Joke time: An old general, disgruntled over the amount of $$$ being spent on computers in the Pentagon (this was in the 50's) storms into the computer room and accosts an operator. "I want you to ask this newfangled machine, is it going to be peace or war!". The operator, thinking quickly, punches up a deck and puts it in the hopper. Shortly the printers clanks out, "Yes". The general reads this and bellows, "Yes, what?". The operator puts another card in the desk and feeds it in. This time the printer clanks out, "Yes, Sir!".
Our local pharmacy chain changed their telephone ordering system - it used to just ask you to wait while it retrives your records. Now it asks you to wait, then goes "wocka wocka wocka wocka" instead of dead silence, I guess to let old ladies know something was happening. Frankly, I'd rather it said "Working" in a Star Trek computer voice then make a bunch of cliche' SciFi computer beeps. That should be an option when you open an account, select your automated telephone reordering system theme;)
At our self checkout store, the bag is on a scale that expects the weight to go up according to the item scanned. If you scan a pack of gum, them put a leg of lamb in the bag it'll complain untill the attendant comes around to see whats going on.
That reminds me of this quote from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:
"If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?"
I do not beleive Msft Windows is the product of any "intelligent design" - all the evidence, to those willing to look it, points to a long history of random mutations and version selection based on profitability.
With one old version of Outlook, I started getting strange, scary, cryptic error messages. Then I noticed the folder they were going in had 16383 messages in it and figured they'd only allocated 14 bits somewhere.
Darl could call up HandelontheLaw.com - if you've ever heard his radio show the main point is for Bill Handel to tell you you have no case. He Loves That. Anyway, here's a joke from Bill Handel's web site:
In a recent FDA study, the United States government research physicians who were conducting studies on test drugs, administered weekly doses of Viagra to an equal number of doctors and lawyers.
While the majority of the doctors achieved enhanced sexual prowess, the lawyers simply grew taller.
Far from being merely academic, this could be useful for all the banking accounting programmers out there collecting fractional amounts of money. A third of a cent here, a tenth of a cent there, pretty soon it adds up to real money!
Um, lead has been transmuted into gold already, it just takes a million dollar particle accelerator to make minute quantities. Just replace "essence of the sun's emanatory spirit," with "energy, protons and neutrons" and "imbuing" with "colliding" and you got it!
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sensors indicate a Class-M planet, with breathable air and humanoid lifeforms that speak English, having some kind of problem that can be solved in the next 45 minutes.
One notable bug turned into a features was the A20 Address Line thing.
My * application is to send streaming audio to my cell phone. That is, before going out I plug the * console sound card into my streaming audio client. Then I can call in and dial the '1234' extension and listen to Internet audio from the car, while hiking, etc. ;)
Plus it was fun to play with setting up
it was almost 70 in St. Louis yesterday
Using that for 'proof' only proves that the global-warmers are idiots - On this day in history, it was 72 in St. Louis in 1906 (The record temp).
This might be the same place that was caught in a cable theft scandal recently - a bunch of tv's hooked up to one service account. Anyway - it must come with the territory - about an hour south of the WV Capital is this guy.
Joke time: An old general, disgruntled over the amount of $$$ being spent on computers in the Pentagon (this was in the 50's) storms into the computer room and accosts an operator. "I want you to ask this newfangled machine, is it going to be peace or war!". The operator, thinking quickly, punches up a deck and puts it in the hopper. Shortly the printers clanks out, "Yes". The general reads this and bellows, "Yes, what?". The operator puts another card in the desk and feeds it in. This time the printer clanks out, "Yes, Sir!".
Our local pharmacy chain changed their telephone ordering system - it used to just ask you to wait while it retrives your records. Now it asks you to wait, then goes "wocka wocka wocka wocka" instead of dead silence, I guess to let old ladies know something was happening. Frankly, I'd rather it said "Working" in a Star Trek computer voice then make a bunch of cliche' SciFi computer beeps. That should be an option when you open an account, select your automated telephone reordering system theme ;)
At our self checkout store, the bag is on a scale that expects the weight to go up according to the item scanned. If you scan a pack of gum, them put a leg of lamb in the bag it'll complain untill the attendant comes around to see whats going on.
That reminds me of this quote from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:
"If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?"
That seems like design.
I do not beleive Msft Windows is the product of any "intelligent design" - all the evidence, to those willing to look it, points to a long history of random mutations and version selection based on profitability.
With one old version of Outlook, I started getting strange, scary, cryptic error messages. Then I noticed the folder they were going in had 16383 messages in it and figured they'd only allocated 14 bits somewhere.
You know, Bill Gates may be Chairman, but Balmer has definitely become "The Chair Man".
Darl could call up HandelontheLaw.com - if you've ever heard his radio show the main point is for Bill Handel to tell you you have no case. He Loves That. Anyway, here's a joke from Bill Handel's web site:
In a recent FDA study, the United States government research physicians who were conducting studies on test drugs, administered weekly doses of Viagra to an equal number of doctors and lawyers.
While the majority of the doctors achieved enhanced sexual prowess, the lawyers simply grew taller.
Yeah, that'll set millions of high rolling executives straight.
"Newsforge? WTF's a 'Newsforge'???"
Let us know when it's above the fold on the Wall Street Journal.
Far from being merely academic, this could be useful for all the banking accounting programmers out there collecting fractional amounts of money. A third of a cent here, a tenth of a cent there, pretty soon it adds up to real money!
Now that seeing the spinning disk is easy, how long before they start putting visible (but magnetically transparent) images like this on them?
Um, lead has been transmuted into gold already, it just takes a million dollar particle accelerator to make minute quantities. Just replace "essence of the sun's emanatory spirit," with "energy, protons and neutrons" and "imbuing" with "colliding" and you got it!
Then Bill Gates said, "Bill doesn't like high profile vulnerabilities", as he sacked three red-shirted employees.
Just add a text to speech synth, a tiny fish shaped bud and you can ... stick it in your ear.
i think "Splurge" would be better, as in "rapidly spending over budget".
I wonder if these guys know about the new /. slogan. Might have to change it to "Cogs and Coulombs".
Actually "Zeptotech" sounds like a great name for a business.
the newer version will allow soldiers ... wearing it to move faster than 6 feet per second.
thus actually enabling a real version of "The Wrong Trousers"
I need these for my stem cell phone project - they're grown right in your ear!
Yeah, businesses really need this so their employees can securly trade dvd torrents and chat with their spouses.