Posts by Pirate Dave436 posts • joined Saturday 25th October 2008 15:35 GMT
A different type of ED six years and nine months earlier might have prevented this entire circus...
have we 'Merkins really gotten so stupid that we can't even safely handle saw blades that AREN'T IN A FUCKING SAW? Next we'll find out that if you drop a hammer on your foot, you might hurt your toe.
yeah, but you have to go through "space" to get to Mars, right? I was being rather generic, I admit - "space" meaning everything not on Earth.
The biggest omission I see is Richard Stevens. How many of us owe our knowledge of how TCP/IP works to him and his books? I would think he did at least as much for the Internet as did the hunter of the Manbearpig.
I'm rather hoping they'll call it Union Aerospace Corporation. A company with that name is bound to find interesting things in spaaace.
Interstellar travel at hyperdrive speeds just got much more dangerous. Large, unlit planets lurking in dark pockets, unknown until some boozer plows into them at .9c after a long night at the pub. Definitely need to keep your Interstellar Garmin updated.
"No company in the world owns the right to a particular, well-known, English word."
I could be wrong about this, but I seem to remember the IOC is very heavy-handed with restricting the use of the word "Olympic". I can recall news stories about companies here in Georgia (USA) who got nasty-grams from the IOC/USOC back before the '96 olympics because they had "Olympic" in their name. One was a barbeque restaurant in south Georgia that had been in operation for 20+ years. My recollection was that they had to change their name and signage to remove the offensive word.
And better, Microsoft probably has warehouses full of shiny new Zune players to give to their employees. Just sitting there. Getting dusty.
don't forget the Beethoven films (as in the St. Bernard).
Howard the Duck
Waterworld, which quite literally put me to sleep in the theater.
The Piano
Year One - what tripe. A whole year's worth. A movie sooo bad, even my teenage son wanted to walk out, and we did.
10,000 BC - could have been an OK movie, but cavemen versus Egyptians? Really?
But the worst offender - The Piano. Yeah, I know it won awards but that's still 121 minutes of my life wasted in the worst possible way. I'd much rather have had to suffer through the last two Terminator films consecutively. Or had boiling sugar poured into my eye sockets while being castrated.
object-oriented assembler? Or, hmm, TurboPascal6? That would be cool.
In the Win3.x days, I used something called Dashboard as a replacement for Program Manager. It was cool because it could shrink down to a small little box with tiny icons in it, and it sat at the lower-right corner of the screen, and left the rest of the screen free (important in the 640x480 days). I can't remember if it came from HP or Borland, but it was one of my favorite utilities back in the day.
I just last year finally left Win2000 behind and upgraded to 2k3 on my primary desktops. Have production servers now that run 2008, and I hate it completely. So many things have changed so drastically, and I wonder if all changes ( *cough*Task Scheduler*cough*, IIS Manager*cough*) are really for the better. Hardware support seems better and I've had no crashes so stability seems good, but overall, god, the UI sucks donkey balls.
On the up side, if metro is Microsoft's only vision of the future, then it could be a chance for some smart programmers to develop an alternative shell/ecosystem to replace metro and give folks a choice. Maybe the Classic Shell project will start getting more traction outside of nerd circles. God knows that's the only thing that makes Win7/2008 the slightest bit palatable.
have the rocket at the very end of the truss and tie the tether lines for that end one or two joints back? This way the rocket is already clear of the tethers and even if LOHAN is spinning like mad, the rocket should still clear when it launches.
Robert was the quiet one. It were his brothers Richard and Harold who always had the room in stitches.
There is some sort of solar-farm madness going on in North Carolina. My fiancee lives there (in the mountains south of Asheville) and I was surprised at the number of solar farms out in Bum-Fuck-Egypt, NC. Not as big as this 100-acre farm that Apple has planned, but lots of them that are 1 to 10 acres. It's gotten so prevalent that some local governments are putting moratoriums on constructing new solar farms to rein-in the solar-farm developers. Apparently south-west NC's primary real income is still tourism in the mountains, and the tourists aren't too keen on seeing shiny new solar-farms all over the place.
Apple may be trying to gain some whalehugger cred with this, but in reality, solar-farms are already spreading like wildfire in North Carolina, so Apple is just going with the flow.
Funny place, North Carolina. I'm never too sad to get back across the line into Georgia.
Great news for a Friday. Means I'll have one more in your honor tonight.
sounds, eh, pretty much like any other cricket. Not to pooh-pooh the fine boffinry, but as this was a JURASSIC cricket, I admit I was hoping for something more along the lines of a chainsaw cutting through a piece of sheetmetal.
I Love Coca-Cola. There, I said it. If they want something to tax, let them start taxing the publication of overbearing scholarly studies showing how we Americans still aren't eating/drinking properly, even after decades of the "We know better than you" nanny-isms coming from these self-righteous medical researchers. As a taxpayer and unconcerned consumer, I'm getting rather tired of the constant parade of "things to be afraid of" - BPAs, high fructose corn syrup, sugar, red meat, white meat, sun tans, cholesterol, alcohol. Fuck 'em all, none of us are going to live forever. If they want to live an ascetic lifestyle, fine, move to the Himalayas and find a local Guru. Leave the rest of us workaday Joes the fuck alone to muddle through our lives.
Most of us refer to the device that does all that as either "Wife" or "Dear"
why LOHAN is going to have engines? I mean, if it rides a balloon(s) up to 98,000 feet, what difference is the extra 200m from the engines going to make? Or are the engines a "just to say we did it" kind of thing?
No, the outrage is because a tax break is being offered to the survivors on the simple grounds that they are spending money on a luxury purchase for a room-temperature corpse, whereas regular Joe doesn't get an $8000 tax break for buying a regular tombstone and burial plot for his dead wife. Hence, bourgeoise.
it was the "free" file/printer-sharing client in Win9x (and to a lesser extent, Windows For Workgroups). Suddenly the little 3 and 4 person shops no longer needed to send money to Novell or Artisoft in order to share files or printers - they could do it for free when they bought a new Packard Bell. At least that was my experience at the time - there were a LOT of mom-and-pops using WIndows file sharing with Win9x in the mid-late 90's, but only a few using NT. I can't say that I remember many customers leaving Netware and moving to Win9x file sharing, but I do remember quite a few who never even considered Netware because Win9x was good enough.
@John Loy - I would like OES2 much better if Novell had spent some time replicating the interfaces from the old Netware admin programs like dsrepair and nwadmin. It shouldn't have been to hard to create text interfaces for Linux that were comfortable for those of us that liked them. It's like at some point the Linux guys got in charge at Novell and decided "Fuck it, we're going to make this as painful and irritating as possible for the old Netware gasbags because they are old and suck". Stability wise, you're right, I don't see much difference between NW and OES2, although it's still slightly in favor of NW here.
if you died filthy stinking rich, and your heirs decide to lavishly spend a wad of dough to shoot your ashes into space, they'll get a big tax deduction for that. Great. What a way to protect the bourgeoisie lifestyle.
because it's freaking stable as bedrock. Still have 3 or 4 old Netware 6.5 boxes around here doing various little things, and they just don't crash.
Sorry, but OES2 has proven to be a pitiful replacement for real Netware. I migrated our 5 primary NW and Groupwise servers to OES2 this past summer and have regretted it every since. But the truth is, Netware is dead and has no future, and as an Admin, I have to at least attempt to keep our systems relevant in the modern day, hence the migration to OES2. But as that sucks balls, and with no good alternative, we're heading off into the wonderful world of Windows/Exchange next year. {Deity} help us...
If the alleged in-place upgrade from NW to OES11 is for real, that's really cool. Must be some high-end wizardry to convert NSS volumes in-place. Or maybe OES11 can just mount them as-is.
I came here expecting to see lucious female bums in bikinis, like the picture promised. Instead all I got was IT scuttlebutt. Shame.
I realize I am American, but I thought I could read your English website until today. The first sentence begins with "Physicists". What are "physicists"? I take it they are some sort of sage researchers, but are they like witch-doctors? Or are they more like boffins? And no sign of the phrase "God particle-botherers"?
I must admit I am at a loss to understand this story because of the highly unusual vocabulary it contains.
I was cellphone free for about 3 years, and didn't really miss it either. Only got it back when the oldest son started driving. Once the kids are grown and gone, the cell will probably go back into a drawer.
Silence and disconnectedness are vastly under-rated these days.
"involved '22 healthy adult males' between the ages of 18 and 29 who had little past experience with violent video games."
Eh, yeah, right. As if anyone could find 22 males under the age of 30 who haven't played violent videogames. Or perhaps these were the only 22 that could be found world-wide.
If it ain't broken, don't fix it.
Netflix fucked themselves and have no one to blame but themselves for their stupidity. They had a great service, even before they rolled out the online viewing. But greed and arrogance got the better of them and they screwed up. Sure, they fixed their screwup, but too late, they'd already shown they are more worried about the stockholders than their customers. So fuck 'em.
$70 over 30 years? Wow, to think - if they'd started 10 years ago, I might have saved $23 on electricity by now.
Yeah, we get a taste of that every time we start Word2010...
OMG! They're going to banish the miscreants to MySpace as punishment...
Since Dominic Connor told all of us how badly our CVs suck? We'll never get jobs with NASA with these worthless pieces of paper that shouldn't even be seen by a blind person.
I would imagine the intrusiveness of having a scanning electron telescope sticking out yer ass would outweigh the medicinal benefits of the nanomachines in your bloodstream...
Speaking as a Computer Scientist, you don't have to be a dork to use a Windows Mobile phone. But it helps.
I cancelled 2 weeks ago. The qwikster thing was brain-dead stupid, and IMO, Netflix doesn't have enough streaming stuff available to make it worth the $9 a month. But then, I'm cheap and only watched 2 or 3 DVDs a month. $9 for streaming AND a single DVD was a decent price considering how little I used it. $15 isn't.
Nah, sounds more like it provides a clear path to the tenderest, softest parts of Samsung's arsehole, which Microsoft is showing it is more than happy to screw. Hopefully Google will stay away from this anal rape that Microsoft is forcing on the mobile industry. Perhaps Google's deep pockets will finally prompt MS to either divulge which patents are being infringed or shut the f*ck up about it.
has anyone asked the Firmware vendors if they are likely to include the disable ability in their firmwares? I can see Dell, HP, and Lenovo possibly specifying highly locked-down EFI stuff, but what about the white-box motherboard makers like Abit, Asus, Intel, etc? If the big OEMs like Dell and HP want to lock up their crap then fine, let them. So long as we can still get standard motherboards with this disabled or disable-able, we don't need the OEMs. At least for enthusiast desktops. Server use is another matter entirely.
considering how frequently NASA, et al, screw up their calculations and are just a teeny-tiny bit off, who would want to be strapped to a spaceship that has such a powerful laser focused at them? Sounds like a recipe for disaster...
Why? It's only the Internet. It's not real.
Peter, Peter, lulzsec reader,
had no wife, nor any leader,
Got locked up, but then made bail,
Is he Peter? He can't tell.
everybody knows that raft was a whore. Raise your hand if you didn't sleep with that raft...
that was what the "File Open" dialog was for in MS Word... at least that's how my users do it. ;)
"“The Department of Justice will continue to hold accountable companies who in their bid for profits violate federal law and put at risk the health and safety of American Phamaceutical Companies,”"
There, fixed that.
/^v.+b$/i
IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. VERITY.
PROCEDURE DIVISION.
BEGIN.
STOP RUN.
been too long, so there may be errors, but if you want to be remembered in perpetuity, choose an ancient language that will be around for all eternity...
"aviation gasoline from the Colombian Air Force." So it ran on cocaine?
put the vehicle inside the balloon and use some sort of sensor so when the balloon pops, the rocket engine fires. So then you only need some sort of ballast hanging from the bottom of the ballon to maintain orientation until the pop, at which point the vehicle and a minimal launch pad is (hopefully) still pointing upwards for long enough for the engines to ignite.
This assumes the neck of the balloon can stretch enough for you to wiggle the vehicle+pad into it. I'd think since the balloon body can stretch to 30m, the neck should be able to stretch a few inches.
could do porn if they wanted to... mebbe just a little.
