Comment Re:gee, a sneaky way to get the average /.ers age (Score 1) 336
An overwhelming majority of Americans have more than the average number of legs.
An overwhelming majority of Americans have more than the average number of legs.
After the EMP, your digital cameras (and other electronics) won't work. Then again, neither will film -- the high background radiation will fog any emulsion after a few seconds*.
* obligatory nuclear obliteration apocalypse may be provided separately, and may not be available with all crumblings of civilization.
Is it morally worse to kill and eat an intelligent creature than to kill and eat an unintelligent creature? Why?
Or, as Gordon Bell allegedly said in the 90s, "in ten years, computers will just be bumps in cables."
The ten years may not be exactly right, the the overall sentiment is.
Flickr's nice for JPEGs, but they won't handle RAW images.
I have a USB drive backup at home, and a drive at the office a few miles away. I swap 'em at least weekly to minimize the risk.
LDOS was pretty cool.
So you were doing DS-DD 40 tracks? I thought I was the only one doing that. It took me about a week to figure out the NEWDOS-80 settings that would work with that density/track count. Then again, I didn't have the Radio Shack disk controller, either, it was homebrew.
The old TRS is still out in the garage. I wonder if it'd even power on. I don't think I've fired it up since 1989.
'cause
But I do watch movies using a DVD player and projector. But mostly old movies.
<curmudgeon>You just don't get dialogue and sparkle like Powell/Loy or Bogart/Bacall any more.</curmudgeon>
I'd write the equivalent of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court in 1800, and skunk Mark Twain.
Then I'd invent the transistor or something.
Sorry, but real pros replace ALL of the HTTP status codes at random to prevent the client / browser from detecting a pattern. Similarly, pros override "true" and "false" constants to be functions that return random booleans, just to keep the code guessing. Sure, standards are great, but pros make sites that are secure, not standard.
Most US-ians though the name was "Lemons" misspelled.
Finally, someone devious enough to get it!
I thought I was the only one.
What's the matter with you people? Back in the day, Slashdotters would have figured this out immediately.
It's the *terrorists* using the bid data as an out-of-band *communication protocol* for transmitting *encrypted messages*! Remember? Like they were doing with steganography in eBay auction photos? The brilliance is they are using our own tools against us!
Bear with me a moment, pour yourself a large frosty mug o' xenophobia, and think about all those *overseas programmers* in the financial industry. Why, if we don't stop them, they'll probably code up some *derivative bots* that will f-up the mortgage industry!
I've heard:
"This takes us to the crotch of the matter" (which, I suppose, might make sense in contexts other than the one in which it was delivered).
"Nothing more to talk about -- it's a mute's point"
"He was essentially in involuntary certitude"
"More changes are coming down the pile"
"We'll come to that bridge when we get to it"
"You need to think outside the blocks"
"There's no 'me' in 'Team'"
There are eight million stories in the naked city...
except that there are ten million of 'em in the County, and in the extended city it's closer to twenty-two million.
The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time. -- Merrick Furst