Comment Re:Hit me with your pet shark (Score 1) 244
For me, Stevie Nicks with her "just like the wide ranger" (white-winged dove). That song has some others, but I don't remember them now.
Comment Re:def lep/ozzy (Score 1) 244
For years I interpreted that as "Awesome, shoot your own way".
Comment Re:Omega? (Score 1) 186
Omega and Larn were fun, too.
Comment Re:Month of truth, surely? (Score 1) 52
On the plus side, they may now have experimental proof of the Milky Way...
Comment Re:Discovery? (Score 2) 164
You're better off reading a book than watching this stuff.
Outside of a snake, a book is man's best friend.
Comment Re:Hipsta mode activated (Score 1) 145
Sugerstring theory isn't even experimentally verifiable!
Comment Re:Free Emulators for PDP-11 and VAX (Score 1) 62
This isn't a bad time to post a link to SIMH, too. It simulates:
Data General Nova, Eclipse
Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-1, PDP-4, PDP-7, PDP-8, PDP-9, PDP-10, PDP-11, PDP-15, VAX
GRI Corporation GRI-909, GRI-99
IBM 1401, 1620, 1130, 7090/7094, System 3
Interdata (Perkin-Elmer) 16b and 32b systems
Hewlett-Packard 2114, 2115, 2116, 2100, 21MX, 1000
Honeywell H316/H516
MITS Altair 8800, with both 8080 and Z80
Royal-Mcbee LGP-30, LGP-21
Scientific Data Systems SDS 940
SWTP 6800
Lennart Poettering: Open Source Community "Quite a Sick Place To Be In" 993
An anonymous reader writes "Free software programmer Lennart Poettering has been part of his fair share of controversy in the open source community, and his latest essay may raise the most eyebrows yet. Poettering takes on the idea that the community is one big happy family and has some harsh words for the loudest and most obnoxious members. He says in part: "I don't usually talk about this too much, and hence I figure that people are really not aware of this, but yes, the Open Source community is full of a#@&oles, and I probably more than most others am one of their most favourite targets. I get hate mail for hacking on Open Source. People have started multiple 'petitions' on petition web sites, asking me to stop working (google for it). Recently, people started collecting Bitcoins to hire a hitman for me (this really happened!). Just the other day, some idiot posted a 'song' on youtube, a creepy work, filled with expletives about me and suggestions of violence. People post websites about boycotting my projects, containing pretty personal attacks. On IRC, people /msg me sometimes, with nasty messages, and references to artwork in 4chan style. And there's more. A lot more."
Comment Re:5thed is irrelevant. (Score 1) 183
4 words altogether:
Fringeworthy
The Morrow Project
Comment Re:Sam Kinnison (Score 1) 55
The world would be improved with fewer 'dumb macho guys', so there's no downside to that.
Comment Re:Escalation (Score 1) 55
Breed, so that soon SciFy channel can make a movie called Sharkmatoe?
Comment Re:I still miss Byte... (Score 1) 105
I believe archive.org has (or had) a lot of Byte magazines downloadable as PDFs.
Comment Re:"float down on Europa's atmosphere" (Score 2) 79
Whichever destination, there's a lot of work to do before the final countdown.
Comment Re:parking tickets in NYC? (Score 1) 286
I remember walking by a few lots las time I was there. Some would have been visible from above; others, maybe only Street View would have shown. But yeah, the underground garages wouldn't be easily visible from unless they caught a vehicle coming in or out.
Comment Re:parking tickets in NYC? (Score 1) 286
A few minutes using Google Earth or the like would have shown him what it's like there.
