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amsalpemkcus · 11:19 AM

"When man calls an animal "vicious", he usually means that it will attempt to defend itself when he tries to kill it."

mishap · Oct 25, 2003, 08:11 PM

amusing? not really.

amsalpemkcus · Oct 25, 2003, 08:13 PM

Originally posted by mishap:
amusing? not really.

I
have a
lower threshold obviously
to get amused. Or
should I have said, "interesting?"

AKcrab · Oct 25, 2003, 08:46 PM

Originally posted by mishap:
amusing? not really.

More amusing than your comment.

Adam Betts · 02:52 PM

amsalpemkcus, the quote is more of truth than amusing though

fat mac moron · Oct 25, 2003, 08:58 PM

"The finest thing about GPL:ed software is that you can modify it yourself.

The worst thing is that you often have to."

amsalpemkcus · Oct 25, 2003, 09:15 PM

Originally posted by Adam Betts:
amsalpemkcus, the quote is more of truth than amusing though

Dont know about it being the truth. But I insist that it is amusing for me.

Superchicken · Oct 25, 2003, 09:22 PM

"When a MacNN forum member calls another forum member "stupid", he usually means that he isn't educated in the topic he is trying to discuss and the person has just talked over his head."

amsalpemkcus · Oct 25, 2003, 10:17 PM

The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time. -- Merrick Furst

quandarry · Oct 25, 2003, 10:30 PM

Gankdawg · Oct 25, 2003, 11:16 PM

Not again.......

I'm good for +1 though...

amsalpemkcus · Oct 26, 2003, 05:54 PM

The only difference between a car salesman and a computer salesman is that the car salesman knows he's lying.

yzeater · Oct 26, 2003, 07:31 PM

why'd the chicken cross the road...

The Placid Casual · Oct 27, 2003, 06:06 AM

"A programmer is a person who solves a problem you didn't know you had in a way you don't understand."

Xeo · Oct 27, 2003, 06:16 AM

Originally posted by Superchic[k]en:
"When a MacNN forum member calls another forum member "stupid", he usually means that he isn't educated in the topic he is trying to discuss and the person has just talked over his head."

Did you look in a mirror when you quoted that?

Judge_Fire · Oct 27, 2003, 01:05 PM

You: Open the hatch, Clippy.
Clippy9000: I'm sorry, Dave. I can't do that.

J

GoGoReggieXPowars · Oct 27, 2003, 06:20 PM

/. has the best sig quotes:

"Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak."

"Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? "

"Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked." - Robert D. Sprecht, Rand Corp.

"When life hands you lemons, grab the salt and pass the tequilla."

amsalpemkcus · Oct 29, 2003, 08:29 AM

Ginsburg's Law: At the precise moment you take off your shoe in a shoe store, your big toe will pop out of your sock to see what's going on.

amsalpemkcus · Dec 9, 2003, 10:13 AM

Drilling for oil is boring

Spheric Harlot · Dec 9, 2003, 10:49 AM

Here's one I SWEAR I came up with fifteen years ago in high school that I saw on /. a few weeks ago (no attribution):

Indecision is the basis of flexibility.

-s*

Zimphire · Dec 9, 2003, 11:20 AM

Originally posted by amsalpemkcus:
"When man calls an animal "vicious", he usually means that it will attempt to defend itself when he tries to kill it."

Of course, no animal has EVER tried to hurt people unless it's attacked first.

Ever.

Spheric Harlot · Dec 9, 2003, 11:32 AM

Originally posted by Zimphire:
Of course, no animal has EVER tried to hurt people unless it's attacked first.

Ever.

VERY rarely.

Ever.

entrox · Dec 9, 2003, 11:44 AM

I know I'll be going straight to hell for posting this, but hey... this is pure Slashdot culture

It is now official - Netcraft has confirmed: *BSD is dying

Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when recently IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.

Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

Recently, Slashdot confirmed that FreeBSD has been bucked away by WindRiver to FreeBSD Mall, for a carton of Winston's and a six-pack of Pabst Blue Ribbon. This only serves to confirm the fact that FreeBSD is unwanted, doomed to be passed around like a harelipped orphan from one foster parent to another.

All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.

Fact: *BSD is dead

derbs · Dec 9, 2003, 12:10 PM

The funniest slashdot comment, and perhaps the funniest comment i've ever read on a computer related site is this one, posted in a discussion about why you shouldn't log into OSX as root:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?cid=3468107&sid=32156

Root is like crack. Don't smoke it. I did once and got hooked. I ran Mac OS Updates as root. ****, I even had sex with my girlfriend as root. Man, that caused some permissions problems. When I started the road to recovery (logging in as Zacks) my girlfriend was all like: "**** no! You can't get any cause you don't own me an I don't go groups. You don't have the power to read, write OR execute so get out of my FACE" So I was all HELL NO bitch. And she wuz like you do not have root (superuser) privlages so get out of my TruBlueEnvironment! So then I went chown and chmodded her ass to me. Dat be-otch be up in my hizzouse. What what. Holla!

Nai no Kami · Dec 9, 2003, 07:14 PM

Why, why did the hell I opened this thread?. My Nerdmeter has exploded and I will have a hard time finding a replacement. Damn you all, there are nerdmeter debris all over my office!

Jansar · Dec 9, 2003, 07:16 PM

It's no differnt than that South Park quote...

IT'S COMING RIGHT FOR US!

*BLAM* *BLAM*

Landos Mustache · Dec 9, 2003, 07:18 PM

Originally posted by Zimphire:
Of course, no animal has EVER tried to hurt people unless it's attacked first.

Ever.

Don't worry, he didn't insult American or Religious animals so you don't have to do your typical defence.

amsalpemkcus · Dec 13, 2003, 02:53 PM

The intelligence of any discussion diminishes with the square of the number of participants. -- Adam Walinsky

MacGorilla · Dec 13, 2003, 06:14 PM

Spheric Harlot · Dec 13, 2003, 06:49 PM

Originally posted by Jansar:
It's no differnt than that South Park quote...

IT'S COMING RIGHT FOR US!

*BLAM* *BLAM*

You do realize South Park is satire, don't you?

-s*

amsalpemkcus · Jan 3, 2004, 10:50 PM

Every day it's the same thing -- variety. I want something different.

Zimphire · Jan 3, 2004, 11:04 PM

Originally posted by Landos Mustache:
Don't worry, he didn't insult American or Religious animals so you don't have to do your typical defence.

What are you going on about now?

BTW i think you mean "defense"

ambush · Jan 3, 2004, 11:08 PM

Originally posted by Zimphire:
Of course, no animal has EVER tried to hurt people unless it's attacked first.

Ever.

You suck.

Zimphire · Jan 3, 2004, 11:11 PM

Originally posted by ambush:
You suck.

theolein · Jan 3, 2004, 11:16 PM

From my old sig: C's simple son. Here's some pointers.

amsalpemkcus · Jan 3, 2004, 11:18 PM

Originally posted by Zimphire:
Of course, no animal has EVER tried to hurt people unless it's attacked first.

Ever.

ergo.

villalobos · Jan 3, 2004, 11:19 PM

Originally posted by Zimphire:
Of course, no animal has EVER tried to hurt people unless it's attacked first.

Ever.

How about 'no animal has EVER tried to hurt people unless it THINKS it's attacked first'? Closer to the Truth.

villa

MacGorilla · Jan 3, 2004, 11:22 PM

In Before Lock�

Zimphire · Jan 3, 2004, 11:27 PM

Originally posted by villalobos:
How about 'no animal has EVER tried to hurt people unless it THINKS it's attacked first'? Closer to the Truth.

villa

Closer, yes. Some animals see another animal looking at them, or being in view of them as being attacked.

amsalpemkcus · 11:20 AM

Originally posted by Zimphire:
Closer, yes. Some animals see another animal looking at them, or being in view of them as being attacked.

like this one:

http://www.scifi2000.com/Images/predbig.jpg

DeathToWindows · Jan 4, 2004, 12:14 PM

What the bloody hell was that?

Zimphire · Jan 4, 2004, 12:17 PM

Originally posted by DeathToWindows:
What the bloody hell was that?

A vagina infected with VD.

Be wary.

theolein · Jan 4, 2004, 09:52 PM

Originally posted by villalobos:
How about 'no animal has EVER tried to hurt people unless it THINKS it's attacked first'? Closer to the Truth.

villa

This is usually the case, but as with the original statement, it's not always the case as there definitely are some animals that will attack, kill and eat humans if hungry. Among those animals are crocodiles, which will attack people in the water if they are hungry, and some species of sharks, such as the great white shark, bull whaler shark and tiger shark, which will definitely attack and kill the occasional surfer, swimmer or diver for some extra protein (and it's not always a case of surfers being mistaken for seals). Large pythons and anacondas have been known to attack and kill humans as well if hungry.

These are not all. Spotted Hyenas will also attack and kill humans if hungry as will leopards, tigers and lions. The big cats otherwise mostly avoid people and will usually attack only if they see a human in their way.

Funnily enough the animal that kills more people than any other in africa is the hippopotamus, almost always when people are simply stupid enough to get between it and the water or those who go paddling in canoes in water holes.

So perhaps that saying should be: How about 'no animal has EVER tried to hurt people unless it was hungry.

Moral of the story: Don't feed the animals.

theolein · Jan 4, 2004, 09:53 PM

Originally posted by DeathToWindows:
What the bloody hell was that?

That is the creature from the Predator movies, and from the up and coming Alien vs. Predator this year.

iNub · Jan 4, 2004, 10:04 PM

Originally posted by Spheric Harlot:
You do realize South Park is satire, don't you?

-s*

So is Slasdot

amsalpemkcus · Jan 25, 2004, 03:44 PM

Mosher's Law of Software Engineering: Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, you'd be out of a job.

amsalpemkcus · Jan 31, 2004, 02:20 PM

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. -- Charlie Brown

mitchell_pgh · Jan 31, 2004, 02:46 PM

Originally posted by Adam Betts:
Your tone is unnecessary.

amsalpemkcus, the quote is more of truth than amusing though

I haven't seen you in the forums in a while... what's been up?

mac-at-kearsarge · Jan 31, 2004, 04:55 PM

Originally posted by mitchell_pgh:
I haven't seen you in the forums in a while... what's been up?

Another thread brought back to the top of the list....ALRIGHT, WHO'S BEEN DOIN' THE "TIME WARP" AGAIN?

ryju · Jan 31, 2004, 04:59 PM

Originally posted by Judge_Fire:
You: Open the hatch, Clippy.
Clippy9000: I'm sorry, Dave. I can't do that.

J