Scientists have long known that dinosaurs have a kinship with birds even though they share traits with modern reptiles and many strides have been made in the field as a result of that knowledge.
This news clearly has to be one of the finer examples we have where almost everyone is compelled to say "Damn, why didn't I think of that!"
when the developers claim that the QA department is refusing to sign off on the build because they have a bug up their ass we can take their comment literally?
Actually, they already are quite common. Rubies are more rare than diamonds.
In fact, as I recall one particular company (*cough* DeBeers *cough*) has a large vault of them in the UK that they keep stuffing with them to keep them from reaching the market so they can artificially float the price.
I've witnessed the same crashes in the airports. In fact on December 19, 2004 I was rushing through O'Hare (Chicago) to catch a connecting flight because the first leg of my trip had been seriously delayed. While I was frantically trying to find out what gate I needed to get to _ALL_ of the information screens crashed one after the other and rebooted (W2K as I recall). It was a very frustrating moment for me, but at least it gave me the chance to point out to several similarly frustrated travellers that it never would have happened if they were running a stable OS like Linux.
It's more likely the species had split early on and that for some reason (e.g. scarcity of yummy leaves) one of the lines tried their hand at being carnivorous but it ended up not working out for them in the end (indigestion? bad karma?). Then, when they died out, the line that had remained strictly herbivore continued on for some generations afterwards. Thus giving the appearence of going from being a carnivore to a herbivore, when in fact it was the other way around.
The story says that at least one copy is already missing from the University of Illinois. I noticed that the item location of the ebay auction says "Chicago, IL"... hmmmm
Actually, it was just a mildly long one-liner. Those six newline chars were just placed there as a formatting convenience so nobody could complain that it was just another example of perl looking like line noise... oh wait...;)
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Isn't hell supposed to freeze over first?
Oh wait... I forgot, the Red Sox won the World Series!
...is that no one thought of this before now.
Scientists have long known that dinosaurs have a kinship with birds even though they share traits with modern reptiles and many strides have been made in the field as a result of that knowledge.
This news clearly has to be one of the finer examples we have where almost everyone is compelled to say "Damn, why didn't I think of that!"
You can encode, decode and listen to morse here
Oh, and try setting the speed at 40 wpm before you start thinking it's easy!
I'm sure George Bush will think that this is just the magic pixie dust (er.. spray) he needs to get his Social Security reform agenda off the ground.
Government Official: "In order for me to issue you your new Social Security ID, please sign here, here and here and sniff here."
Yet another security issue related to microsoft. Since when is that news?
when the developers claim that the QA department is refusing to sign off on the build because they have a bug up their ass we can take their comment literally?
"s/he" and "his/er" works quite well if you need to get anal about it.
That on the other hand does not make sense. As many programmers found out.
I need to harden my system better...
Can you tell me how to get Debian working on my laptop?
Duh, it's the first part of the puzzle you are supposed to solve! ;)
GUARD: Sir, the sensors have just lost track of 102420484096's bracelet!
SUPERVISOR: Where'd he go?
GUARD: I don't know! I tried to run a location query, but the system just gives me a "prisoner not found error".
SUPERVISOR: I thought this thing was supposed to keep track of prisoners.
[Supervisor calls the Warden]
SUPERVISOR: Hello Mr. Warden, this new system that you recommended to the governor just lost track of prisoner 102420484096 so I was wondering...
WARDEN: Yes?
SUPERVISOR: If the system is supposed to track a prisoner but then loses track of them, what happens then?
WARDEN: You get fired.
SUPERVISOR: But sir, how could that be my fault?!
WARDEN: It is now because I'm not about to tell Governer Schwarzenegger that I f*ed up. I've seen his movies and that man can do some damage!
Actually, they already are quite common. Rubies are more rare than diamonds.
In fact, as I recall one particular company (*cough* DeBeers *cough*) has a large vault of them in the UK that they keep stuffing with them to keep them from reaching the market so they can artificially float the price.
They probably wanted it to be represented by a single integer and 0..9 is still a scale of ten numbers.
Besides, in many programming languages, array indices start at 0 and not at 1. So from a programming point of view it's quite logical.
Someone update the poll with this latest option!
Great idea, but er... what would be our new country's native language? C? Perl?
*ducks*
I've witnessed the same crashes in the airports. In fact on December 19, 2004 I was rushing through O'Hare (Chicago) to catch a connecting flight because the first leg of my trip had been seriously delayed. While I was frantically trying to find out what gate I needed to get to _ALL_ of the information screens crashed one after the other and rebooted (W2K as I recall). It was a very frustrating moment for me, but at least it gave me the chance to point out to several similarly frustrated travellers that it never would have happened if they were running a stable OS like Linux.
I wasn't but thanks for the tip ;)
To which the democrats respond with... "you can have them back!"
It's more likely the species had split early on and that for some reason (e.g. scarcity of yummy leaves) one of the lines tried their hand at being carnivorous but it ended up not working out for them in the end (indigestion? bad karma?). Then, when they died out, the line that had remained strictly herbivore continued on for some generations afterwards. Thus giving the appearence of going from being a carnivore to a herbivore, when in fact it was the other way around.
What? Bob Dole is going to do a cameo as a hippie in the next Harry Potter movie?!
With a username like 'fishbowl' we would have figured that one out. ;)
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...and if you believe that, then I'd like to let you know that I'll gladly accept paypal for this bridge I have over here.
News that's fair. Stuff that's balanced.
The story says that at least one copy is already missing from the University of Illinois. I noticed that the item location of the ebay auction says "Chicago, IL"... hmmmm
Actually, it was just a mildly long one-liner. Those six newline chars were just placed there as a formatting convenience so nobody could complain that it was just another example of perl looking like line noise... oh wait... ;)
Are you sure you weren't told to "think different"... oh wait... ;)