Comment Another clickbait-style headlines (Score 1) 145
Here's Why Apple Rejected Your iOS App
My iOS app? What iOS app? I haven't written one.
Just give me the news without trying to pal up to me.
Here's Why Apple Rejected Your iOS App
My iOS app? What iOS app? I haven't written one.
Just give me the news without trying to pal up to me.
Steve Ballmer Gets Billion-Dollar Tax Write-Off For Being Basketball Baron
C'mon, we can do better than that:
Ballmer Bags Billion Bucks By Becaming Basketball Baron
ORLY?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
Okay, the article's not clear if it actually went around the Moon, so it probably didn't do that, but it got to within 6,800km, which is 99% of the way there.
So, what was objection based on rudimentary orbital mechanics, then?
It's the first deliberate commercial mission to the moon.
I forget the details but there was a commercial satellite that ended up in the wrong orbit, and the easiest way to fix it was to send it out around the moon and back. Okay, it didn't do any actual science or anything, but still.
I never doubted [...] that I would get out
When Collins asked who didn't make it out of Vietnam, Stockdale replied:
Oh, that's easy, the optimists.
Sounds more like it was the lapsed optimists. What is Stockdale's first quote, if not optimistic?
You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end - which you can never afford to lose - with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.
How do you "confuse" those two things?
Not really sure what life lesson I'm supposed to take away from this - stay optimistic, just don't set a deadline for it so you're never actually disappointed? If you get sent to a POW camp, don't think "I'll be out by next week," think "I'll be out before I die," because then if you are, great, and if you aren't, you won't know about it?
Firefly first, Serenity later.
I need to build a system for outdoor use, capable of withstanding a high pressure water jet! "Embedded PC," I hear you cry.
No, I cry - well, no, just say, really - "why?"
That's okay, plenty more on eBay.
But you do have the right to choose a different type of cheese. You can choose microsoft cheese, bsd cheese, linux cheese.
I'm lactose intolerant, you insensitive clod!
It has now been established in law...
No it hasn't.
(this comment for readers who can't identify hyperbole)
How long would it take you to drive 135,908 feet?
How long would it take you to drive 25 miles?
I'd say the latter is easier to guess at than the former.
toxic
adjective
1.
of, pertaining to, affected with, or caused by a toxin or poison:
a toxic condition.
2.
acting as or having the effect of a poison; poisonous:
a toxic drug.
poison
noun
1.
a substance that is capable of causing the illness or death of a living organism when introduced or absorbed.
At least his shtick is on a different topic each time.
Dude, spoiler alert. Not cool!
Now that's a way to get more Slashdot readers reading your posts.
Thus spake the master programmer: "After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless." -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"
