Comment Re:Monomania (Score 1) 425
I didn't really look closely. It just immediately jumped out at me.
I didn't really look closely. It just immediately jumped out at me.
My personal hypothesis bases on no facts whatsoever. Is that teachers in the attempt in instill proper grammar and other language skills, actually went to far...
Corrected:
Sorry, given the story topic, I couldn't help myself.
Maybe it should wipe out the Klingons, then.
Coming to Netflix this fall: "Systemd is the new EMACS"
Dude, at least RTFS.
That's what Wilson NC did. They asked the inumbents to build out and give a quote.
The big boys told them to go to hell. At which point, they decided to build out their own.
My take: "Those who have never seen anything different happy with status quo".
Demographic: 18-29. That means that they were between 5 and 16 when 9/11 happened. These kids grew up with "ZOMG!!! 3VIL TERRORIZTS!!!!!"
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Don't touch my Carlsbergite!!!!
Robert Conroy used the Trent Affair as the critical point in his alternate history novel 1862.
In the novel, Palmerston was not placated by Lincoln's actions, and Great Britain became an ally of the Confederacy.
In L.A., with two kids at UC? No.
They're busy herding spherical cows... And applying for the "perfectly spherical astronaut" jobs.
Back in the early to mid-90's, I admined a 486/33 (no bloody SX/DX suffix). It ran SCO ODT 2.0, and functioned as a departmental development server, supporting about 20 devs.
It had an Adaptec 1740 EISA SCSI-2 adapter, and an early Diamond S3(?) video card.
I *LOVED* that box, and wish I had tried to purchase it after they removed the classified media and decommissioned it. The thing was a frickin' tank, with a steel enclosure.
Let me guess... WUSTL? I remember that we wrote PL/1 using the PL/C subset in '80 and '81. Go WUSTL Bears!!!
This is madness!!!
No... THIS.... IS..... MARS!!!!!!!
And this is my Illudium Pu-36 Explosive Space Modulator!
What are these ads of which you speak? NoScript and AdBlockPlus, and I haven't seen an ad on Slashdot in YEARS.... except for Slashvertisements, of course.
There is no time like the present for postponing what you ought to be doing.