Comment Re:Nothign new here (Score 2) 553
Unless you happen to be 49 years old...
Comment Re:"lava tubes" (Score 1) 124
My first thought was the moon worms from Major Matt Mason stories/toys of the late 60s/early 70s.
Ah, ok:
There was also a Big Little Book, Moon Mission written by George S Elrick and illustrated by Dan Spiegle published in 1968 that had the astronaut and his friends confront both giant rabbits and huge burrowing worms on the moon.
I had the book and a couple of the astronaut toys. I didn't remember the rabbits until reading this...
Comment Re:Not sure about that (Score 1) 274
A classic example is let/lassen. "Ich lasse mein Haar schneiden" doesn't literally mean "l let my hair be cut", although presumably it was a voluntary thing. However, the more precise translation would be "I have my hair cut", meaning, effectively that instead of permitting it to be done, I've ordered it to be done.
I noticed this while learning German as well, but I also noticed that you can see an echo of the German usage in programming/mathematics: LET X = 1, for example.
Comment Re: ECC Memory (Score 5, Funny) 180
Now that's insideous!
It takes 2 bit changes to change 'i' to 'e', so your problems are worse than you thought...
Comment Re:Great set up for a scifi (Score 1) 62
Our sterilization technology is known to be imperfect.
Don't let NOMAD hear you say that.
Comment Re:Give me a break (Score 1) 146
You obviously meant C-b, C-n, C-p, C-f.
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
