The collected works of Oskar45 - Page 9

Relax...a virus is not a living being.

Sorry, might be too old-fashioned - but what's the deal with yet another Jurassic-theme movie? Sure, I'd seen the previous three [the first one was really exciting] but nowadays I feel the concept has worn out long ago. I'm a Michael Crichton fan - having read almost all of his books, even the terribly weak ones - but I can't see how anything new could be culled out of his Jurassic canon at all. Yes, new people try to put together a fresh script - but how their fabrication will work remains to be determined...And: Jeff Blum - for me the most enjoyable actor of the trilogy - is apparently not casted anymore.

Prediction: the film will flop at box-offices...

hamei wrote:

sgifanatic wrote: N900... The Rand Paul of chargers.

How stupid can people get and still remember to breathe ?

While really OT - don't despair. Friendly Microsoft might be able to help you gladly

hamei wrote: Nice New Year's present, muchas gracias* Mr Neko

* per nongrato instructions, trying to avoid the word "thanks"

But asante sana is acceptable, isn't it?

Granted, US beers might be good stuff - nevertheless, I prefer Stoli Elit, Beluga, Snow Queen or the occasionally Highland Park...

hamei wrote: I'm going back to paper, pencil, and the telephone. It works better.

Excellent Better still - instead of condemning existing search-engines, why not implementing your very own miracle? Sure, as there is no such thing as the Bible, your's might not please the whole community - but some might indeed say karibu ...

hamei wrote: Checked the error message : gcc not only allows, it encourages illegal code. C++ defines an array using positive integers . But gcc is way too cool for that, they have "extensions" which allow anything. Excuse me. C++ is a language. It has rules. These aren't 'extensions', they are violations .

Nope. C++ as such is just an extension of C, violating certain C-rules [although Str. calls them "modifications"]. Any open-source implementation should be free to add or delete features to their own liking...

hamei wrote: Time to go live in the wilderness for me. Maybe sneak into town after dark once a month to pick up some Nestle's Quik, but that's about it.

Don't forget to grab a bag of Satarnta, though...

hamei wrote:

Oskar45 wrote: Don't forget to grab a bag of Satarnta, though...

Does that go well with roots and berries ?

Certainly! BTW, don't forget to take a copy of "How to shit in the woods" with you - it's a classic"!

vishnu wrote: I've still got my 30 year old copy of Forrest Mims' book "Getting Started in Electronics"...

Yeah, I know, I'm one of those old dudes...

Hi, Grandpa Quite OT now - but as I have this unfortunate habit of not to get rid of any books I ever purchased, I still have quite a few from the *early 60's* around...

Between 12/13/2013 and 12/09/2014 I used 13.861 kWh on gas and 1.876 kWh on electricity

Trippynet wrote: I'm going to assume that as he's from Austria, he swaps the comma with the decimal point. So that would be 13,861 kWh of gas and 1,876 kWh of electricity to us English speaking types

Right. We use the decimal point as thousands separator

ClassicHasClass wrote: Aha!

Still, 1 800 kWh in a year? I blow through that in a month and a half.

Just switch to iPad, and you'll save a lot

uunix wrote: A lot of you guys and girls are from overseas and have probably never heard of a little team of men called Aston Villa.

If you have no allegiance to a football team in the UK, can I please ask you spare a positive thought for my little team (owned by an American and supported by Prince William, his son George, Tom Hanks to name a few) Aston Villa.

We are in the fsking shite! HELP!!!

Aston Villa currently is indeed in bad shape - today they lost for the 7th time in series.

IIRC, in the Europe League they were eliminated twice by Rapid Vienna, my favorite team. But they should utilize Weimann more often

ClassicHasClass wrote: They just have the worst passing game. I never see them throw.

Yep, that's because they only use their feet - hands are not allowed except for throw-ins. Seems soccer is all but known in the US.

You might also want to check out

Goodheart & Cox, "The Magic Garden Explained. The Internals of UNIX System V Release 4 - An Open System Design". Prentice Hall 1994

And for programming, you'll not find anything better than

W. Richard Stevens, "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment". Addison-Wesley 1992

Both of them should still be available via Amazon.

PS: if you really are seriously into MIPS, try also

Britton, "MIPS Assembly Language Programming". Pearson/Prentice Hall 2004

As for 'Cerberus', re-read James Joyce, Ulysses , Episode 6, Hades.

Sad. But I can surely assume that all on here are familiar with his discworld novels (starting with 'The colour of magic', 1983). I most liked the 'witches' sub-series, beginning with 'Wyrd sisters', 1988. And there's "Reaper Man" (1991) - when read between the lines, it's probably the craziest love-story ever written.

RIP.

However RMS controversial is - he'll always remain a major figure among true hackers. Re-read ESR's comments on him in The Art of UNIX Programming .

Sorry, AV didn't make it. Well, maybe next year!

hamei wrote:

Oskar45 wrote: About 40% of Americans deny evolution. Sad.

US !=America.

Very true. But most don't even know that whales and pigs fall within the same order...

Anyone on here already saw the movie? If so, is it ok?

pentium wrote: Jesus this movie ran away. It's generated $1 billion globally already.

That's because those who still believe that humans & dinos once lived together think it's a must-see Discovery Channel reality show ...

Some of them old Godzilla & Co. movies are still more fun...

No idea, but in the non-human world wheels (?) have evolved only once.

hamei wrote: The Snake slithered his last comeback but true to character, he didn't tell anybody

Gen 3:1

Just a hint:

Allen Holub's "Compiler design in C" [Prentice Hall 1990] is a classic: it shows you how to design the (functional) backbone of an ANSI C compiler from scratch, from lexical analysis to optimization strategies - and all with complete source code.

@Holub: yes, that's it [I've a hard cover copy from '91]. True, the provided C code from 25 years ago might be outdated by today's industrial strength compilers [whatever that means]. But that's not the point: he shows you how to *design* an C compiler from scratch, and not how to implement it most efficiently [actually, you're certainly free to tweak the provided source in any way you like - in fact, the source should still be floating around somewhere on the net, but I can't remember where I got my copy from]. I don't know of any better. So, even it's only a second-hand copy on Amazon, grab it - and enjoy.

@Dragon: right, theoretically fine but practically useless.

ivelegacy wrote: have you written something evil in the past ? let me know

Yes. E.g., I 'd just hoaxed you in to get yourself a copy of Holub

PS: Out of curiosity - are you located in the UK?

GREAT! Alas, for my long-distance trips [Ireland, Scotland, France, New Zealand and, of course, Austria] I certainly prefer more sturdy bikes where I can fix low-riders etc. Wouldn't want to make such trips with a bike like yours

We should have fun once in a while - shouldn't we?

1.[Well-known] This blond who can't swim nevertheless dives into the Nile. Of course, from all sides crocodiles approach. Very well, she cries, Lacoste is coming to my rescue.

2. What is a blonde searching for in a rice-field? For Uncle Ben.

3. Father [to his son]: "Stop your silly jokes about blondes. There are certainly very intelligent blondes, you know"!
Son [to father]: "Yes, Pa, but they run on all four and are called Golden Retrievers!"

Any other blondes jokes?

... http://bhami.com/rosetta.html

PS: Can you fill in the "?" for IRIX?

Hm, for quite a few years we do have a summerly 1-month Winnetou festival [once upon a time even with Pierre B. himself], and the statue would perfectly well fit into it. But an orange-clad Old Shatterhand is certainly politically incorrect ...

recondas wrote:
Growing up I was a fan of cinematic Westerns and novels, but I was clueless as to the identity of Old Shatterhand, Winnetou and Karl May until I called on Google. I also found that Hollywood did an adaptation of Old Shatterhand in the 60's . Cultural apologies if they "adapted" May as badly as they did Louis L'Amour.

You're forgiven for not knowing anything about Karl May - after all, he was most definitely a purely German-language phenomenon. Out of his ca. 70 books very few featured the "good hearted Indian". As for films: never saw the Hollywood adaption - but, I assure you that none of the Germany-filmed stuff [Winnetou: Pierre Brice; Old Shatterhand: Lex Barker (a former Tarzan)] ever received an Academy Award nomination. Nevertheless, back then the films were as much a craze as the more recent 'Harry Potter' movies...

toasty wrote: Mine are named after Game of Thrones characters.

Out of curiosity. My favourite character is 'Tyrion'. Which one of your boxes did you name after him?

If I delete one of my posts - is it really off without traces or is it kept still stored somewhere anyhow?

hamei wrote: There is no politics in the US. It's the biggest clown show on earth.

And certainly China is on par.

foetz wrote:

Oskar45 wrote: If I delete one of my posts - is it really off without traces or is it kept still stored somewhere anyhow?

[...] as far as i know things are indeed deleted

Thanx. Fine. But does anyone on here know for *sure*?