smj, did you shave your eyebrows?
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Well, as long as everyone is doing it. Here I am, chest shaved, hard at work:
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Can't remember ever reading any RR Martin although the name is familiar. Still pretty miffed when they started grouping fantasy in with sci-fi. At least you can usually be sure which genre it is from the crappy cover art. For the longest time I haven't been able to read anything less than a trilogy. Five books is definitely my speed though, enjoy!:-)
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Oskar45 wrote:
VenomousPinecone wrote:
I don't shit gold.
If you'd, you'd be an ass.
that came out so blissfully glib, it sounds like an old Austrian saying.
BTW while "you'd" is a contraction of "you would", not "you did", using both meanings in the same sentence without context confuses the distinction which one was intended. if it was just a typo just ignore that helpful hint.
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Oskar wrote:
But, I'm sorry. What I'd intended to say is, "if you would [shit gold], [then] you would be an ass". As a non-native English-speaker I am of course not aware of the fact that my original construction is confusing in proper English. Thanks for your correction. My bad :-(
Not a correction, merely a shared clarification. I figured that was what you meant, when I looked up the scope of the contraction. While you're technically correct with the dual meaning of the contraction, without the context for "you'd" to discriminate between "you did" and "you could" the reader is left confused with your usage. I would avoid using both meanings without an explicate context for each, or at least one.
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Bummer. :-(
Obtw Slashdot sucks.
Obtw Slashdot sucks.
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What IBM are you going to compare with?
FWIW the best bet is almost away the MacPro.
FWIW the best bet is almost away the MacPro.
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Oskar45 wrote:
Check out this video on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6 ... ata_player
He'd more achieved in his too short a life than all Nekochaners together up to now...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6 ... ata_player
He'd more achieved in his too short a life than all Nekochaners together up to now...
speak for yourself :-)
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Oskar45 wrote:skywriter wrote: What IBM are you going to compare with?
FWIW the best bet is almost away the MacPro.
I'm not going to compare any IBM with anything else. No way. If you are old enough, you will certainly know what I mean. But I'm taking your advice and will check out the MacPro for my first Mac ever...thanks!
actually, no it's pretty vague.
I recommend getting the most modern Apple gear unless you want a romantic attachment to it.
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hamei wrote:
all of which are pretty much aimed at making the user into a mindless consuming zombie.
99.9999% of all technology users clearly are only capable of mindless consuming. this was the guaranteed output of the microsoft and linux generation. so, do I mind benefiting from a high quality product that targets this market, by delivering a product, that requires very little attention to operate in a superior way, rather than it's predecessors? of course not; all those so called 'features' of windows, android, and linux FOSS environments merely produce busy work for people enthralled by the 'means' rather than the 'ends'.
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apple gets my money since i get my valuable time back from the shoddy, overly complicated, rapidly changing pretzel logic of their competitors. i am more than equitably compensated.
and Steve gets my well earned thanks. their products were not always like this, but for now; they are the best.
and Steve gets my well earned thanks. their products were not always like this, but for now; they are the best.
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i learned a few languages before i abased myself before the gods of mediocrity, at pulpit of imperative languages, in the tabernacle of C. you might take a cotton to them: Forth, APL, Prolog, etc... none of them were as intoxicating as Verilog which got the fuck out of the way and let me fiddle the god damned bits themselves. of course, unless you actually have hardware to go along with your HDL then it's just more hi-tech masturbation; i've, been given to understand that's quite popular these days!
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oh good, another argument concerning the minute semantics of the meaning of words using a poorly shared language. can't wait!
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PymbleSoftware wrote:
Oskar45 wrote:
skywriter wrote:
a poorly shared language!
WHAT exactly are you referring to?
English?
R.
quite so.
note that what i said didn't refer to anyone in particular, only people taken pair-wise.
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You Die Joe!
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Don't waste your money on euro-lights. They won't do you any good; there'll still be the same stupid SUVs and Trucks with hi-intensity low beams and fog lights that will blind you at night. The only people that salivated for them were subhuman euro-gearhead message board junkies. The S60R is a great car if a little small. For that monet spend it on a turbo upgrade+tune. That'll give you something worth the money.
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so, there's another reason front plates are abominations for car styles. I keep my old Mass Green Plate because the law says I only have to display a rear plate.
i like the happy car look; as long as it's not on mine. I never noticed it on that particular model more than any other smiling grill. they all looked vaguely like faces to me.
i like the happy car look; as long as it's not on mine. I never noticed it on that particular model more than any other smiling grill. they all looked vaguely like faces to me.
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so, there's another reason front plates are abominations for car styles. I keep my old Mass Green Plate because the law says I only have to display a rear plate.
i like the happy car look; as long as it's not on mine. I never noticed it on that particular model more than any other smiling grill. they all looked vaguely like faces to me.
i like the happy car look; as long as it's not on mine. I never noticed it on that particular model more than any other smiling grill. they all looked vaguely like faces to me.
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@smj yeah people care more about satisfying some need than doing it right and the next owner is stuck with the problem of trying to deal with a mongrel. not that this thread is about that, but it could well be. I saved all my garage records, and a detailed explanation of what i did to the car in the event the car is sold to someone else. plus everything is reversible with standard parts.
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porter wrote:
Oskar45 wrote:
But, no, I'd started Windows Programming with 3.0 [although at that time Windows had already existed for a couple of years on the fringe of the DOS world]...
I started Windows 1.0 programming in 1987 with Microsoft C 3.0.
Now we're back to those tiled windows with Metro.
ugh, i'll never code for windows. i'll hire someone else to do it. someone with windows "principle windows flunky" experience.
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@ guard i always thought of you more as the unicycle type.
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Sorry, I never 'grew up' in the 80's, I was already a working adult. I grew up working in hi-tech engineering, we never had the need for the childish slags words you folks use. To me it's basically a denigration of the profession I've spend my life on. Sorry if I'm a downer, but I suppose you kids would never understand how crappy it makes me feel to have my kind of work trivialized in the end.
Oh well, everything is commoditized in the end even intelligence.
Oh well, everything is commoditized in the end even intelligence.
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Nuke wrote:
. It's funny when the really Mac obsessed kids say that I'm some sort of Microsoft junkie and I say I run Linux and they get mad.
that's because you're telling people that run a rational system (OS X) to try something that isn't put together well at all (Linux). say something meaningful, and you'll get better responses.
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no, Hamei had it right; you don't have an O2. you have a MIPS CPU in a tasteful package. the things you eschew because you are not running IRIX are what makes it an O2. since the O2 hardware isn't functional, the product isn't either.
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bvdwiel wrote:
Did I neglect to mention that I have an Octane sitting under the same desk
which
is
actually running IRIX?
;)
that part was redundant.
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guardian452 wrote:
I've run gentoo on an
octane
MIPS computer once upon a time :twisted:
fixed.
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I am reserving my SkyWriter as a coffin. the rest can go.
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just run GnuAPL. it's just as much fun but without the nifty keyboard. I studied it, used it, and like so many other things in life with not practical application, prompty forgot it.
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Oskar45 wrote:
you could retrieve data, manipulate them in APL in ways no DBMS will ever provide facilities for
of course.
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Didn't we do this already? well anyway, I am proudly bare-wristed. It's comfortable and sexy!
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Gerhard.Lenerz wrote:skywriter wrote: Didn't we do this already? well anyway, I am proudly bare-wristed. It's comfortable and sexy!
Been there, done that since about 1994.
Then there were the mobile phones that you could take a peek at.
And even later on there were the occasions where even that would be considered impolite.
So, I solved by not caring what time it was :-)
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And I love it.
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good things come to those that want them!
the display is reeeeaaaalllly nice. stuff looks so crisp on it, especially text. the rest of the upgrades are a pleasure coming from the first ipad. games are going to look awesome. too bad i dont play. i downloaded infinity blade ii too see what it's like though. definitely awesome.
the display is reeeeaaaalllly nice. stuff looks so crisp on it, especially text. the rest of the upgrades are a pleasure coming from the first ipad. games are going to look awesome. too bad i dont play. i downloaded infinity blade ii too see what it's like though. definitely awesome.
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Neko my first gen 64GB/3G was getting too slow. Since I didn't have an ipad2, the CPU bump was most appreciated. The display is awesome! I'm not happy with AT&T 4G, I might get the Verizon one too. I'll see it performs when someone at works gets one.
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Nope no overheating; I don't play games; bought a couple of they recommended games for their graphics (infinity blade II and galaxy on fire HD) anyway, and immediately lost interest in the boring gameplay. I haven't had a chance to watch a lot of HD movie material, Hulu, or Netflix yet. Nobody complained much about netbooks getting very hot when they came out.
The AT&T 4G is pretty good. At least while everyone else has jumped on Verizon.
The AT&T 4G is pretty good. At least while everyone else has jumped on Verizon.
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I am luuuuuvin the beautiful text. Games? Eh. Pinball is OK. I bought infinity blade II and galaxy something something... Snore.
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nekonoko wrote:
I apologize for the recent downtime - there was an issue at the central office that was finally resolved this morning. No hardware/software failures on my end though :)
I hope penguin didn't wet his oats this time!
And now, this time without autocorrection:
I hope Pentium didn't wet his pants this time!
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linux "the great equalizer": everything is truly equal when it's all worthless. there is no way to devalue something quicker that to put linux on it.
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Who forgot to give pentium his meds again?
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I don't know how this thread could have managed without you. next time they make a change in those little buttons please update us again.
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