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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday September 13, 2004 @02:00AM from the and-soon-lead-to-helium-3 dept.

webmilhouse writes "Wired has an article about Transitive Corporation that claims their software "allows any software application binary to run on any processor/operating system" without any performance hit. That would allow any program written for Windows to run on Linux or Mac, and vice-versa, which Wired likened to digital alchemy. The Transitive software is supposed to be released today. What do you think, vaporware or miracle?"

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I think... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-13 02:02 · Score: -1, Offtopic

That this is first post!
asdfasf by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-13 02:02 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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Re:She wanted a reason..... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-13 02:21 · Score: -1, Offtopic

But not as a reason to hold on to your Commodore 64. :D
whoa, mods... by pb · 2004-09-13 02:26 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Who pissed in your cornflakes?

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OT: where is that from? by Bill,+Shooter+of+Bul · 2004-09-13 02:37 · Score: 1, Offtopic

I remeber the quote "Tortoises all the way Down" as being from a women that believed that the earth was supported on th backs of tortises or something like that. Some one asked what the tortises were standing on and she replies "Tortoises all the way down". Where Do I remeber that from? Was in in one of Richard Feyneman's books, or do I remember it from history class ( it was a native american belief that the earth was actually a giant tortoises shell)? Or maybe it was from both.

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1. Re:OT: where is that from? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-13 08:04 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Well, aren't you just the pedantic literalist. Listen, shit-for-brains, when someone tells you "I could care less what you think"--a situation I can only assume you will find keenly familiar--he or she intends you to interpret the statement as a person would who in fact doesn't have his own head planted up to the collar into his ass. Since you clearly don't fit into this category, let me provide you with the translation: "Like I could care any less what you think," or alternately (but equivalently), "As if I could care any less what you think." This, you will note, is intended to indicate the speaker actually considers such possibility so far remote as to make it instantly apparent to anyone with the barest minimum of social graces that he or she does not, indeed could not possibly, care what you think. Had you any friends with whom to interact socially, you might have known this. Vote Kerry.
2. Re:OT: where is that from? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-13 08:55 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Or to a non-American. It's an American phrase, you provincial arse.
tortoises Re:OT: where is that from? by samjam · 2004-09-13 02:41 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I read that in "Surely you're joking Mr Feynman"

"You think you're clever don't you? It's tortoises all the way down"

Sam

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I think not. by geordie_loz · 2004-09-13 02:49 · Score: 0, Offtopic

About a minute out by my reconing.