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read definition number 2.

Intel sucks, their products suck and their business behavior sucks even more than the previous put together.

the only reason to buy AMD is simply because they are the only other game in town in terms of x86 processors. VIA has abysmal offerings in the cpu sector; nothing worthy of competing in performance.

and i don't know what i'm going to do in 2006.

powerpc is going to have drm, x86 is going to have drm, consoles are born from day 1 with drm. basically any digital processor will have drm.

giving up computing may due to DRM may be a good goal but it's just not feasible for most of society.

the only reason not to buy DRM is at least to make it financially a disaster for companies like intel and ms who 're leading the industries.

at some point you stop being defensive about your rights, and become offensive and proactive.

the fight against DRM has up till 2005 been largely defensive.

we will see where it goes from here.

Why they should want to be associated with that, I'm not certain...

1. A hardened mass of dirt.
2. A person who would have to learn ettiquette just to elevate himself to the title of hardened mass of dirt.
3. A popular French given name.


It hasn't rained in weeks, look at all those clods!

Some clod sped through the puddle and splashed mud all over my suit!

Clod DeBussy was a good composer!

Look it up, it's faster than asking:
UrbanDictionary
Scottish usage: a) Someone who (sometimes unwittingly) by speech or action demonstrates a lack of knowledge or misconception of a particular subject or situation to the amusement of others.

Bum Fuck Egypt

It's from the United States. Urban Dictionary has many definitions of the term, but this (set of) definition(s) is perhaps the most complete and accurate:

1: A firecracker
2: A thin, crisp wafer
3: One whom cracks illegally into another's computer or network
4: A racist term used against Caucasians/Whites

I hate to correct your brilliantly informitive post, however the correct termonology would be 'love child.' Sex child? not even urban dictionary has heard of that...

actually, at work we went with an Open standard back in the 80s. Infact, it was the open standard; the Open System Interconnect 7 layer network stack. Who needs TCP/IP?! This was a global standard!

  We certainly got screwed on that one.
(and before you say anything, its not JUST a networking model; there are protocols to back it up and we have a fully working stack. Egads.)

As for the GBTW, it is typically combined with STFU. Searching Urban Dictionary is left as an exercise for the reader.

the president begs to differ.

Rick "Man on Dog" Santorum (R-PA) has introduced a bill in Congress to prohibit the National Weather Service from offering any free data. The NWS already subsidizes the commercial weather services by publishing weather data below cost - the corporations just repackage and sell it, with pretty visualizations. Now Santorum wants to take all the public data that US citizens own, and privatize it so only big corporations will be able to be in the weather game. Which means not only individual forecasts will be prohibitive, but teams of distributed processing won't be able to model climate change with real data.

OSX would never survive as an OS if it went open to the x86 platform at large.

This is just guesswork, but based on my own behavior, I think you're wrong. I know this; if x86 OS-X becomes available for whatever off-the-shelf hardware for $200 (approx. retail price of XP,) I will buy it. No question.

Windows has too much market share, and o one cares enough to relearn things.

I would put it in front of my wife and extended family based on reputation alone, if only to assure they can't make a hash of it like they do Microsoft products. In my experience, getting people to "relearn" enough to use OS-X is trivial. The kind of user that can't be bothered to learn new stuff is also the kind of user that could not give a damn which company created the GUI they use to read email.

Apple makes boatloads off of their hardware

It is entirely possible to make "boatloads" selling software. The fact is you and I don't really know why Apple is moving to Intel CPUs. You speculate that they got jacked in the ass by IBM. I suppose that means they got a new vendor because they were unhappy with the old one. That's really going out on a limb!. Consider the possibility that Apple agrees with me; moving to x86 is the first step toward an "open" OS-X.

Also, hardware support is a major issue. Everything would cease 'just working', which is a very nice benefit of osx.

I think you exaggerate; making the transition isn't that difficult and nothing will just cease. You "certify" the third parties and slowly accumulate compatibility. That's how IBM lost its PC business to the rest of the world. Apple is a credible vendor for whom the better hardware vendors already work to port their products. Moving to x86 dramatically lowers the bar for all vendors.

Microsoft owns the PC market. They have only one way to go, and that's down. OS-X is just the kind of product that could make it happen.

For years I have listened to slash-snotters speak with towering authority about Apple's commitment to PowerPC's superiority. Today, with apparently equal credibility, the locals claim a hardware independent OS-X is a metaphysical impossibility. We'll see.

title says it all

Oh, yes it is!

From this relevant resource.

And to top it all off the new Trusted Netwrok Connect system (Microsoft calls it Network Access Protection) can and will deny you any internet access at all unless you have a strictly locked down trusted compliant system. Of course they an't roll out such a system today, almost no one has a Trusted machine yet. You can expect Trusted Network Connect starting to become mandatory somewhere between 2010 and 2015.

They don't care if you use a non-Trusted computer without DRM. They don't care if you sell non-Trusted compters that do not enforce DRM. Such computers will be increasingly locked out of the new software and new files and websites and network protocals, and ultimately locked out of the internet itself.

Could you please define what you mean by "FTFA"

Preferably by adding it to the Urban dictionary.

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Or maybe I can't. Guess I need some scrilla first.

Mattel also encourages our children to engage in extreme body modification! Ken is a nullo! A nulllooooo!!!!!

Am I the only one who reads UEFI and thinks of UFIA? Then again, maybe the similarity of acronyms isn't coincidental.

Tainting?
Quick definition: Taint.

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All you need to know ;)

It's listed on londonslang.com, though. H2G2 also mentions it, as does urbandictionary.com. I'm not from London, but it sure seems to be real.

1. Smap refers to the act of spamming an internet forum without the intent to be annoying. Rather it is done for comic relief and to chase away forum trolls.

   
   The word was first used during a drunken post in the JTS at the famous nforcershq.com.

   
   Aug. 9, 2004

   
   
   

2. Sporst Music Assemble People

   
   Japan`s most successful boy band to date.
   The 5 members are also comedians and actors.

   
   May 9, 2005

   
   
   

3. It's the new "snap" - (see "snap" - An expression which expresses expression.)

   
   Aug. 23, 2004

   
   

yes, mouth breathing is suboptimal, but I'd hardly say enough so to constitute an insult

yes, mouth breathing is suboptimal, but I'd hardly say enough so to constitute an insult

yes, mouth breathing is suboptimal, but I'd hardly say enough so to constitute an insult

Since the dawn of the Automobile Revolution, automobile marques have been proactive in their approach to appeal to certain segments of society. By targeting these groups, automakers would find a much higher loyalty rate in an increasingly unloyal industry. Even today this tradition continues, with companies such as Toyota appealing to the youth market with its Scion brand, BMW and Mercedes appealing to the affluent market, Buick appealing to the understated senior market, and Subaru and Volvo appealing to the aging hippy market. One demographic spoken for by a large multinational automaker that often raises a bit of controversy, however, is the gay and lesbian market. It is within these confines that Honda finds its must staunch loyalists.

The connection stems much further than their not-so-subtle "H" logo. Since the inception of Honda by founder Kilimanjaro Honda in Tokyo, Japan in 1948, Honda has had a long line of successful industry firsts. Honda's first products imported to the United States were motorcycles capable of producing almost twice as much horsepower as their American brethren. Sold out of a small shop in San Francisco, their demographic was clear. From day one, Honda coined the term "Crotch Rocket" to target the gay and lesbian community. It wasn't long before Honda had made its first inroads in gaining market share in the vital west coast community.

While commercially successful, Honda didn't wish to fight a one-front war against Christians. In 1962, Honda started producing the HX100, their first entry into the area of gas powered lawn mowers. This allowed residents to show off their sexual preference to neighbors when not commuting. The new market, however, was something Honda was not experienced in, and proved to be initially unsuccessful. Honda faced several lawsuits alleging their lawnmowers oxidized almost instantly when mowing over damp grass.

It wasn't before long that founder Honda realized that the next battle would have to be fought in the ever-expanding industry of automobiles. In 1972, Honda began offering the United States its first car, the Honda Civic. While industry brass wanted to call it the "Civic Lesson," for the lesson it was trying to teach regarding the homosexual agenda, "Lesson" was eventually dropped from the title before release. Honda's experience in the lawn equipment market proved beneficial in their foray into automobiles, as the first generation of Civic Lessons were powered by their 49cc lawnmower engines producing a then-respectable 20 horsepower.

The response from the homosexual community was very positive, and sales of Civic Lessons matched other popular rivals in the west coast market from Toyota and AMC. Initial figures had pinned sales at achieving a 53% homosexual rate of buyers of Civic Lessons, a figure that has yet to be beat. The Civic Lesson proved to be a remarkable car for the homosexual market, as these families did not have any children and thus did not need room for a back seat. Honda foresaw new potential, however, with gay and lesbian

They don't even mention the possibility that it has anything to do with Gypsies, nor is it flagged as offensive.

Yes, as we all know, there's only one definition for each word, right?. Oxford lists TWO definitions for the word, and that's just the compact version:

gyp1
/jip/ (also gip)
noun Brit. informal pain or discomfort.

gyp2
/jip/ informal
verb (gypped, gypping) cheat or swindle.
noun a swindle.

From UrbanDictionary.com:

Used as a term to describe when one has received less than they paid for. Most people do not realize it's a racist term that stems from nomadic 'gypsies' who are stereotyped as theiving criminals. "Man, look at your glass. You got gypped on the Coke."

Look, this wasn't intended to slight ANYONE. My intent was to educate, then let people make their own choice. Not everyone knows this, as another poster previously noted. I didn't take offense at this issue personally, as it didn't seem to be intended as a derogatory statement. I tried to make that clear in my first post. Apparently I failed. I apologize. I didn't call the poster an insensitive clod, or attack him in any way. I simply said "You might consider..." and left it at that. I'm having trouble seeing where I caused offense, but it wasn't my intention. If there is any doubt in your mind, perhaps you should check my past posts, in which I tend to score 5 once every four posts because I try to HELP PEOPLE. I'm not in the habit of intentionally alienating anyone, and I apologize if my intentions were unclear. Relax already.

Personally, I prefer this definition.

I believe the term you're looking for is a Stranger. =)

"__Fill in the blank with one of the early players in the antivirus market__ had an ill-conceived bonus program in place for a while which rewarded employees for being the first to discover a virus. The incentives created by the program obviously ran counter to the long term interests of the company and their clients, and the bonus program was discontinued when an employee was caught writing their own viruses for submission."

all your base are belong to us

In A.D. 2101
War was beginning.
Captain: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's You !!
Cats: How are you gentlemen !!
Cats: All your base are belong to us.
Cats: You are on the way to destruction.
Captain: What you say !!
Cats: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Cats: HA HA HA HA ....
Captain: Take off every 'zig' !!
Captain: You know what you doing.
Captain: Move 'zig'.
Captain: For great justice.

I remember the day that I saw the flash movie (on gaming force I think)- it literally dropped me to the floor.

Time sure goes fast...Or am I just getting too old for my own good?

I love SMB! Luigi rocks!

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haha. nice.

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Cool! thanks for the info

Snooks
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well put.

matt
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what's the opening bid?

Snooks
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w00t.

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If they keep going, MS will end up as a jack of all trades

don't you mean jackin' all trades?

While I do not know off the top of my head what the word for 'geek/nerd' is in Japanese, I do know that the word Otaku (which is a very formal/polite way of saying 'you,' literally 'Your House') is in modern vernacular a derogatory term, meaning something along the lines of 'obsessed fan boy.'

It's not something you call yourself, like 'geek' or 'nerd' in America. The stupidest thing you can do is call yourself 'otaku.' After having been a member of the (Sub)cult(ure) of Anime in this country for about eight years I stare in amazement at people who proudly announce they are otaku in broken japanese without ever knowing the cultural connotations of the word.

It would be like proudly proclaiming yourself to be 'a serial child rapist and murderer' in America.

Please look here and here for more information.

The persecuted generally manage to find each other. When they do, it's amazing what they can do. Even more so when they are otaku, which they appear to be calling themselves now. And if you've never felt persecuted at least once in your life, you are no geek.

A shout-out, dedication, recognition...check Urban Dictionary, that should know better.

Frabernackle

Which basically means beyond bullshit.
"Did you see the frabernackle the MPAA is trying to pull with this broadcast flag proposal?"

Then again, me and my friends say a lot of dumb things.

Offended? No. Saddened? Yes. Check out this (urbandictionary.com) for more information about this strange phenomenon.

You might also find this entry useful for future reference.

In the throes of passion, my girlfriend sat bared-assed on my desk, or my keyboard, rather. The oral sex that ensued got her quite "moist." Needless to say, my keyboard shared that similar smell. Ok so maybe not "fresh-from-the-sea", but definitely "Budussy".

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I guess you could say its the British equivelant to "da bomb".

Comedy Relief had whole theme about it years ago, including a song by two British comedians. http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-sto3.htm has even more.

Damien

But only of the crippled equine variety?

That is often referred to as "throwing the goat".

Here's the Urban Dictionary entry (I put it the first entry - the one with the geeky Wil Wheaton reference.. hehe)

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I'll put in a purchase order for the $1,000,000 version with the $100,000 per year support contract. That's the version where girls with good hair provide on site support.

Then you should certainly consider the $200,000/yr support contract. Then the on-site tech is an experienced fluffer. Of course, on the paperwork we describe her as a network technician, so that she has a good excuse for spending a lot of time under people's desks straightening their cables.