Comment Re:Hi-res picture you say ? (Score 1) 104
I'm one of the 0.16% of the population with a 1 pixel display you insensitive clod.
I dunno, 49% of the population have a 1-pixel display, usually encoded as up or down.~
Comment Re:Hyperbole or stupidity (Score 1) 571
The think-of-the-kids mentality is almost solely responsible for this pussification of the USA.
Along these lines, I saw this video a couple of months ago. It's maybe a fraction overdone, but he makes some good points. Nutnfancy - Lessons of my father - depussification. Worth the time.
Comment Re:Yay for common sense (Score 1) 612
Teaching someone how to learn is like fucking them into virginity.
Ultimately ineffective, but amusing to try?
Submission + - Why don't we buy sysadmin books anymore? (standalone-sysadmin.com) 4
Bandman writes: Our needs for good information and documentation have not changed, but the way that we get it has. The ebook revolution has made physical shelves of sysadmin books endangered species. A bigger issue may be that even ebook sales of books related to system administration have not been selling. Somewhere along the line, people stopped buying things like "DNS and Bind" or "Sed & Awk".
Has our need for documentation changed, or just our sources of it?
Has our need for documentation changed, or just our sources of it?
Porting Lemmings In 36 Hours 154
An anonymous reader writes "Aaron Ardiri challenged himself to port his classic PalmOS version of Lemmings to the iPhone, Palm Pre, Mac, and Windows. The porting was done using his own dev environment, which creates native C versions of the game. He liveblogged the whole thing, and finished after only 36 hours with an iPhone version and a Palm Pre version awaiting submission, and free versions for Windows and Mac available on his site."
Geologists Might Be Charged For Not Predicting Quake 375
mmmscience writes "In 2009, a series of small earthquakes shook the region of L'Aquila, Italy. Seismologists investigated the tremors, but concluded that there was no direct indication of a big quake on the horizon. Less than a month later, a magnitude 6.3 earthquake killed more than 300 people. Now, the chief prosecutor of L'Aquila is
looking to charge the scientists with gross negligent manslaughter for not predicting the quake."
Comment Re:Where's the applications? (Score 1) 271
I am an Australian so I already know the outcome of games involving my team but that wouldn't stop me from watching the game.
Aussie Aussie Aussi... Ah, fuckit, lets go to the pub and watch the game there.
Comment Re:Hey! (Score 2, Funny) 215
Don't call my ass "nothing", you insensitive clod!
I'm sorry, I forgot how hard you've worked to get it that big.
Comment Re:Bullshit (Score 1) 378
Nice. Thanks for taking the time, couple of incredible pictures there.
Comment Re:Honestly, I hope the US (Score 1) 378
But I'm doing some other stuff on the side to hedge my bets.
I've got mod-points, but I'd rather provoke a discussion: in broad-brush terms, what are the sort of things you're doing? Currency or precious metal investments, or more along the lines of buying extra tins of food every week, on the assumption that TEOTWAWKI is coming?
./Rockwolf
Comment Re:Bullshit (Score 1) 378
The picture of the woman shoving wadfuls of marks into the furnace should be burned into everyone's mind.
Got a link? I haven't seen it before, though I've heard stories similar of hyperinflation in Turkey.
Comment Re:Hmmmm (Score 1) 698
Slashdot really needs a filter to replace fuck with frack,
well maybe not really needs, more like I'd like it to have an option for it in the preferences.
That would be what greasemonkey and a script would be for. Have fun.
Comment Re:Here's what's in it (Score 1) 97
So... how many people are going to be hospitalized with poisoning symptoms after mixing large quantities of this in the hopes of drinking the elixir of immortality?
Hopefully at least one.
Comment Re:Automatic transmissions fail before engines, no (Score 1) 609
The second clutch (performance) was destroyed by my ex-wife driving it uphill and she slipped the clutch the whole way (like 5 miles).
Now I know why she's your ex.
Comment Re:Suuuuure It Was A Mistake ... (Score 1) 215
New portmanteau : Google + Oops! = Goops!
And a new malamanteau: iOops!
