Things you don't need to know...

joxer said:

Astigmatism. Ever heard of it? Have it? Know someone who does?

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The term comes from the Greek α- (a-) meaning "without" and στίγμα (stigma), "a mark, spot, puncture".[1]

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It may come as a pleasant surprise to learn that SPAM is not the preservative-packed mystery meat you might think it is. In fact, SPAM only contains six ingredients! And the brand's website lists them all. They are: pork with ham meat added (that counts as one), salt, water, potato starch, sugar, and sodium nitrite. Most of those are as simple as simple gets! The only one that might raise eyebrows a little is the sodium nitrite, which is "a preservative to help retain freshness," Schend explains. The website says that it is there to "uphold the meat's high standard of quality." To make SPAM, the ground-up pork and ham are mixed with the other ingredients for 20 minutes. When the mixture reaches the proper temperature, it's put into the cans, which are vacuum-sealed. The cans are cooked and then cooled for three hours, after which they're ready for their labels. And that's all there is to it!

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Couchpotato said:

Ever wonder whats Spam is made of? If so read on then.

Now question is does anyone here eat it?

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In comparing the cultivated tomatoes to their wild counterparts the researchers noted literally thousands of genes which were missing from the produce we typically find in our supermarkets. In the never-ending quest to develop plants that produce bigger tomatoes at a faster rate, growers seem to have inadvertently favored plants that also produce inferior-tasting fruit.
“One of the most important discoveries from constructing this pan-genome is a rare form of a gene labeled TomLoxC, which mostly differs in the version of its DNA gene promoter,” James Giovannoni, co-author of the paper, said in a statement. “The gene influences fruit flavor by catalyzing the biosynthesis of a number of lipid (fat)-involved volatiles – compounds that evaporate easily and contribute to aroma.”
Based on their own testing, the researchers believe that the flavor-enhancing gene is only present in around two percent of modern store-bought tomatoes, but was found in over 90 percent of wild tomatoes.

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1. insecure with the concept of a terminal
2. has yet to learn the basics of vi
3. has not figured out how to get a directory
4. still has trouble with typing <RETURN> after each line of input

1. knows that ls will produce a directory
2. use the editor, but calls it vye.
3. has heard of C but never used it
4. has had his first bad experience with rm
5. is wondering how to read his mail
6. is wondering why the person next to him seems to like Unix so very much

1. uses vi and nroff, but inexpertly
2. had heard of regular-expr's but never seen one
3. uses egrep to search for fixed strings
4. has figured out that '-' precedes options
5. is wondering how to move a directory
6. has attempted to write C program and has decided to stick with pascal
7. thinks that sdb is a brand of stereo component
8. knows how to read his mail and is wondering how to read the news

1. uses nroff with no trouble, and is beginning to learn tbl and eqn
2. thinks that fgrep is fast grep
3. has figured out that mv will move directories
4. has learned that learn doesn't help
5. somebody has shown him how to write C programs
6. once used sed to do some text substitution
7. has seen sdb used but does not use it himself
8. thinks that make is only for wimps

1. uses sed when necessary
2. uses macro's in vi, uses ex when necessary
3. posts news at every possible opportunity
4. writes csh scripts occasionally
5. writes C programs using vi and compiles with cc
6. has figured out what && and || are for
7. thinks that human history started with !h

1. uses sed and awk with comfort
2. uses undocumented features of vi
3. writes C code with cat > and compiles with !cc
4. uses adb because he doesn't trust source debuggers
5. can answer questions about the user environment
6. writes his own 'nroff' macros to supplement standard ones
7. writes scripts for Bourne shell (/bin/sh)

1. uses m4 and lex with comfort
2. writes assembly code with cat >
3. uses adb on the kernel while system is loaded
4. customizes utilities by patching the source
5. reads device driver source with his breakfast
6. can answer any Unix question after a little thought
7. uses make for anything that requires two or more distinct commands to archive
8. has learned how to breach security, but no longer needs to try

1. writes device drivers with cat >
2. fixes bugs by patching the binaries
3. can answer any question before ask
4. writes his own troff macro packages
5. is on first-name basis with Dennis, Bill and Ken

pibbur who said:

And nearly 80 human language implemetations of the phrase.

Pibbur.WriteLine("Hallo verden");

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