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As long as they allow the dancing banana.

What's more American than peanut butter and jelly?

As the fine folks of AvenueQ would say... "just grab your d*ck and double-click!" :)

Here's your proof that it was a fake!

Actually, moontruth.com used to have content about how the video was made. It was filmed in England and done as a joke.

Walking on thin ice here :P

Bill Gates is a Little Teapot

The personalized search sounds an awful lot like the googlezon I've been fearing for the past year or so.

Looks like EPIC is proceeding on schedule...

"I for one welcome our not-motivated-by-profit overlords."

Wake me up when it can run Windows RG.

I am glad they are using open source. I hope it helps them in the future:
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/victories.htm l

Here it is if somebody haven't seen it or need to laugh a bit: http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/end.php

"Alaska can come too" :)

Oh and happy new year!

Everyone knows it!

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/internet4por n

robots are our friends... http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/robots.php

Should be +5 Informative. We all know that the Internet is for porn...

Shiggity shiggity shwa! http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/mario.php

Even Google doesn't know.

Be careful what you say! Look here and here for listings of several examples of French domination.

Be careful what you say! Look here and here for listings of several examples of French domination.

Check out this amazing story about the possible future of Google:

Epic 2005 (flash)

Sure it's fiction, but WOW!

Not all dating sites are fraudulent, you just haven't been using the right one! Click here to meet the real hot chicks!

who saw the title and thought about putting on my Robe and Wizard Hat?

This Google Base idea is truly Epic.

I guess I was being too obscure in my reference.
I must now kill the joke by telling you the terrible secret of space.

Your post said "slot loading is hte answer".

This made me think of an irc hoax (warning, last time I went to something awful from slashdot they were redirecting to gay porn) from something awful about "The Space Robots".

The Laziest Men on Mars made a song about it. After that this swf was created by Jonathon Robinson.

That (the song/swf) is why I asked if you had stairs in your house.

"French law concerning violent speech."

They should drop this law and pass one where they don't surrender at the first sign of conflict.

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/france.html

That should be an albinoblacksheep production: Where In The Hell Is Carmen Sandiego? Like Windows RG edition.

It works! Really! All you need is the flash plugin, and even FireFox can run Microsoft Windows Live!

i don my tinfoil hat and robe...

Wow, a tinfoil hat and robe! When do the pants and underwear come in? :)

However when you said "hat and robe", my first thought was of Bloodninja's cyber adventures.

Except that those 8 Opterons still share the same bus

Not necessarily. NUMA is more than just a web fad based on a fat guy lip-syncing to an O-Zone song. Non-Uniform Memory Access refers to an architecture in which each CPU has some of the memory directly connected to it for fast access, but all the CPUs can see all the memory. I'd imagine that it might be possible to do something similar for channel bonded network connections too.

Besides, channels of this speed are typically handled by router ASICs, not CPUs, especially inside Cisco routers (which don't let you see that thong either).

The French disputed the position of the GMT line for a couple of hundred years.

I'm sorry :-)

But if others in your crew are having sex, and you don't get any. That would really make things difficult.

Exactly. This kind of thing runs deep down to the most primal level in our minds. Picture stags locking antlers for the right to knock boots with a female. I'm confident that a lot of us have had that nightmare where our girlfriend, or object of our affection, chooses another male (likely a close friend) after some sort of bizarre feather-spreading ritual and how it is anger-invoking, spirit-crushing and, ultimately, the worst feeling imaginable.

It makes sense when you look at the differences between guys and gals when it comes to discussing sex. Women tend to be very frank and discuss a lot of aspects about masturbation and sex with their boyfriends quite openly. Men, on the other hand, tend to stick to the less threatening 'look at the tits on her', and on the few occasions when discussions turn to personal experiences, we only want to talk about our own. Everyone just parrots the same 'Guess what I did with Sarah last night' diatribes and it becomes a game of one-upmanship over a few beers. Your friend thinks you are listening to him, when in your mind you have your hands over your ears, saying 'LALALA NOT LISTENING' while trying to think of a better story to prove how virile and red blooded you are.

On Slashdot, most of us have witnessed ACs attack posters on the grounds of their sex lives. Why is it that we judge success and validation almost soleley on the amount of physical partners? Why is it that many people would sacrifice or 'trade-it-all' for that bit more pussy? Refer to the Simpsons episode where Arty Ziff tells Homer that he is stinking rich, whereupon Homer retorts, 'Yet, you'd trade it all for one night with my wife' and Ziff agrees. We all find it funny, but is our laughter half agreement and harrowing realisation?

So fast-forward to a space situation where you are very trapped and small in numbers. A sexual relationship would be a ticking time-bomb. Can you imagine a crew of two men and one woman, with a couple giggling between them and disappearing off to the 'bedroom', leaving poor old Joe No-fuck to man the controls? It doesn't matter if Joe is a cassnova with five women on the go back home, he will still feel ready to kill someone.

We are all aware that in consumerism, sex sells (and predominantly to male buyers). However, if you look at the precise methods of using sex to sell a product, the advertisers make you believe that EVERYONE ELSE is having more sex than you, and all you need to fix that is to buy the product. Infact, the most explicit use of this tactic can be currently seen in the Lynx Deodorant advertisements that are given the slogan Spray More, Get More. These is practically the same as teasing a dog with a bone to train it into becoming loyal, and the vulnerability of a person's raw instincts mean that this practice is very effective.

So I ask, as we head deeper into the 21st century where sex, celebrity, brand image, consumerism and self-improvement will remain or become ever more powerful, what will the effects be on an entire generation exposed to all these assaults? Or is this nothing new? Is it inescapable?

In essence, both the grandparent's and my own posts can be summed up by a three minute flash video seen here

-HM678

The first one is a ListView control, so if you right click or click View->Icons you can get icons instead. Also, as someone else pointed out it's in Classic mode, which is for people who've memorised the item placing on NT 4.0/Win2k.

The default 'Category' view you get looks like this

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/image/vista/3

Research Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA)

Ma-ya-hee, ma-ya-hoo...

Uh, no. You are incorrect, sir. I can only infer from your comment above that you are not in the applications development industry (or have extremely limited experience with it...Perhaps you are a "Gates fanboy").

You, and Mr. Gates (if this is what he professes to believe), are also mistaken that a rising number of students in these programs will correlate to a rising amount of top-notch talent. There's no correlative or causative relationship there, as the last tech boom (in the late nineties) proved. (How many of those graduates were considered "top-notch"?) There is a finite number of people who will be interested in this sort of work and an even smaller number of those who will be "good" and an even smaller number who will be "great". Those people know who they are and will frequently self-select into the field. Even fewer of those will be willing to work in the high pressure, "always on," "Ballermized" culture of Microsoft. (Think of the famous Windows 1.0 sales pitch or the "I love this company" speech or the "Developers" chant. As you watch the segements, ask yourself, "Would I want to work for this man?"). More likely, they will go work for Google.

Basically, you either have the "skillz" or you don't. No amount of training will take you to that level if you don't have the ability to intuitively grasp the underpinnings of the field. You could still be a programmer, but it would be unlikely that Microsoft would consider you to be a "good enough" programmer.

While this may do some good, really (in terms of inspiring people who might not have had a clue what they would want to do for a living) it strikes me as a strategic play to keep the cost of good developers low and to placate those who are politically opposed to raising the quota for H1-B visas in the US.

Of course, all of this is irrelevant, as the undergraduates (as another poster already mentioned) are smarter than they look and have finally figured out that law and finance are the two industries in this country in which demand will never decrease. And it is, definately, the smart play.

Are An Idiot!

MS did not pioneer this technology,

The whole point of the argument is "Microsoft don't innovate, they buy/borrow/steal".

but when they (Bill) took/stole/bought the existing tech, and made the deal with IBM, the floodgates opened. The combo of IBM-PC hardware

And Compaq reverse engineering the BIOS.... The PC wasn't intended to be nearly as open as it wound up being.

and cheap DOS software made it possible for many people and companies, at the time, to have a kick at the cat.

Atari, Acorn, Commodore - all were producing reasonably cheap systems at the time. But none of them had this kind of advertising.

Didn't Google have high profile legal troubles with France? 1 2 and the famous 3 Perhaps MSFT chose France because it seems the less Google-happy place on earth.

No, it's Googlezon...

Of course, this may explain France's military record.

What's wrong with french military victories?

WTF? AntiBIOTICS kill bacteria. AntiBODIES fight viruses like the common cold. Your own immune system makes antiBODIES. AntiBIOTICS are drugs derived from mold and funguses. Here is an informative link.

I put the windows xp emulator here.

Now show me the money!

The average person knew about the net when their friends, kids, or spouse started downloading porn.

Because we all know that The Internet is For Porn!

--Rob

Speaking of "China, France, India, Israel, Pakistan, Russia, the UK and US with Nukes." This seems mandotary :
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/end.php
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/flash/endofworld.html

The only sad thing is that he might very well be right. We are "definitely going to blow ourself up!"

Happy times,

Ahhhhhhhh!!! Motherland!!!!!
End of the World
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/end.php
Watch it, its great!

For those not familiar with the parent's reference

I'm sorry, but I thought this was already well established.

http://launch.yahoo.com/track/2098134
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/internet4por n (the flash sucks, but at least you can listen)

Did the book offer any insights on how the robots propose to protect us from the Terrible Secret of Space?

Remember these important words of wisdom... Don't Copy that Floppy!

You have no idea how right you are!

Just teach them kids right and don't copy that floppy