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Date: 2000-06-22 19:07:17
I merely suggested a "multiple personality" due to the postscript with several substitution commands. Had those not been there, I would have not considered that multiple personalities were an example.I spoke from personal experience when I suggested that one refuse to use "consumer"-grade operating systems, insisting on only their industrial-strength cousins. This was because of my personal experiences demonstrating to me the stabilitity of these (suposabally) industrial-strength operating systems, at least when compared with their consumer-grade cousins. So that was why I suggested that those of us used to using real industrial-strength operating systems insist on similar (at least supposed) industrial-strength operating systems. I will concede, however, that based on the testimony of Neelix, that the stability of "consumer-grade" operating systems is a direct function of of the stability of their BIOSes, and that the computers enabled with "consumer-grade" operating systems were pieces of crap that probably had nasty BIOSes. So it is possible, I suppose, for a "consumer-grade" operating system to be stable, but only on stable BIOSes.
Oh yeah, and I am pleased that an unnamed individual did get around to selecting an official name for his vehicle, alleviating me from using the former, now depreciated, female name for said vehicle. I am curious, too, about the origin of the now preffered name. Is it a fantasy allusion that I am not familiar with?
There, anything else I left unturned?
Well, there's always my day. Assuming I had one.
Ate lunch with bouncing and Peter at Wok and Roll. Pretty good food. Ate with chopsticks, something I haven't done in eons. Traded business cards with Peter using our handhelds. Contemplated stringing some sort of landline between Peter's house and mine, assuming bouncing decides to rent a room in Peter's basement. The line would have to go about half a kilometer, and shouldn't be too difficult. The only remaining problem is figuring out exactly what this line should be. The two things that come to mind is shielded twisted pair (phone lines are copper and go miles and are only limited on bandwidth because the phone company says so) and fiber. I think the biggest problem would be the trancivers on each end. Would be cool, though.
Coded all afternoon in sea postincrement. I have no clue if anything I wrote will execute with any reasonable ammount of errors, even after hours of debugging. Should be exciting.
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social subversion. An avid fan of salsa, developer-centric web design,
and cheesy pop music, Bitscape co-creates a world of love and
acceptance by sharing his vision. He enjoys helping low-tech firms
define their offline strategy, and he's advised many anonymous
unknowns, including the homeless on Pearl Street, escaped mental
patients, and hookers on East Colfax. As an aspiring web bum, he
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