• see also (unregistered) in reply to C-Octothorpe

    https://twitter.com/#!/wayfu/status/11687549317

  • cirne (unregistered)

    Send Message Error

    FNORD IS JUST A PLACEHOLDER. YOU SHOULD NEVER SEE THIS FNORD.

  • nitehawk (unregistered)

    Iridium fails yet again.

  • Lisa (unregistered)

    for "-- Please choose your universe --", what were the options?

  • (cs) in reply to Pollo Frito
    My band-mates and I once considered the name "Free Beer". We figured a lot more people would come and see us if the bar we were playing at had a sign out front that said "Tonight - Free Beer".
    There is a band like that in Romania (my country). It's called "Bere gratis" or Free Beer. My father actually fell for that, he went to a beer festival thinking it had free beer.
  • Le Forgeron (unregistered)

    95 weeks average delivery. It's just the no-stock system pushed on final customer:

    When you order, they go cut the trees and wait 93 weeks for the wood to dry. Add 1 week to make the items and a few days for the delivery. And voila.

    You do not want to increase the carbon footprint by having wood cut while there is no final customer for it, do you ?

  • Russell Howe (unregistered)

    I'd also point out that the Decathlon form is vulnerable to cross-site scripting

  • InitHello (unregistered)

    This is clearly a clever statement on math being a universal language.

  • (cs)

    My first thoughts about the universe dropdown were:

    A universe in Condor defines an execution environment. Condor Version 6.1.17 supports five different universes for user jobs:

    Standard Vanilla PVM MPI Globus

  • z0iid (unregistered) in reply to anonymouse

    cody here - I actually submitted this in November of 2008. Really surprised to see it show up 2 1/2 years later!

    It was taken in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

  • Zaphod (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous

    ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha should do the trick.

  • cwt (unregistered) in reply to C-Octothorpe

    There actually is a band named 'Free Beer and Chicken'.

  • JP (unregistered) in reply to Coyne

    It'll all be handled under ZCv6

  • João Galamas (unregistered)

    Just in case this hasn't been clarified yet. Decathlon calls their departments, or areas, "Universes". I have a couple of friends who work there (here in Portugal) and even internally they refer to their sport category areas as "Universes". So that's where that comes from!

  • jfk (unregistered) in reply to Scott

    They probably at least used a basic language translator..

  • The Poop... of DOOM (unregistered) in reply to Scott
    Scott:
    [image] What is "Hikking"? Or "Climbi"? Or "Roller Skate Ice skating"?

    I often wonder why people--especially those who are writing in a language they don't know well--don't even use basic spell check.

    Maybe they did, which caused that. When I write a mail to a French collegue, the English spell check jumps in. Got to fix everything I spelled right, but got changed by the spell check.

  • João Galamas (unregistered) in reply to jfk
    jfk:
    They probably at least used a basic language translator..

    Oh.. that makes as much sense in Portuguese as it does in English.. believe me..

  • Ryan (unregistered) in reply to Coyne

    That's why it's called a zip code - very compact.

  • none (unregistered)

    All these "Free Beer" references, I'm pretty sure that's how the Barenaked Ladies got their name.

  • neminem (unregistered) in reply to Jay
    Jay:
    A town I lived in years ago had a bar named "My Brother's Place". I always figured they did that so some guy could go out drinking all night, then call his wife and when she asked where he was, he could honestly answer, "I'm at My Brother's Place".
    Right by my apartment, there's this restaurant: http://www.yourhouserestaurant.com/

    The food's not that great, but the name sure is.

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