That's funny, I know someone who had a similar notion about genetically-modified birds. Unlike the Chinese, he had a use in mind. Maybe not a practical or realistic one, but a use, nevertheless. The City of Chicago seems to like having bird doo on their statues, though, because they never responded.
Given Walmart's propensity for beating vendors into pulp by *mandating* greater return at lower cost - which they can do, given their ubiquity - it'll be interesting to see how this relationship develops. Are we looking at the ultimate techo-corporate version of the irresistable force versus the immovable object?
I'd say if Vista fails on the level/.-ers love to predict, we may actually see Microsoft get cowed into doing something that actually *benefits* the unwashed computing masses.
I don't know what distros you've tried, but I was able to install Fedora Core 5 on my store-bought Compaq WinXP machine without wiping out anything. The only hassle I had was the onboard video was b0rked with FC. Dropped in a card I had laying around and it was off to the races.
...is that 90% of the Internets is composed of/.-ers pretending to know what they're talking about and propping up their assertions with bogus statistics in an attempt to out-FUD Microsoft while promoting FOSS and Web 2.0 via ponies and tubes. Or something.
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Wait...they released the source for minesweeper?
Has Flash performance improved? I love FF, but Safari and IE consistently outperform it on pages with medium to heavy Flash.
GooPLe?
What goes up must come down.
Command-K to access the Google search bar - on Mac, of course. CTRL-K on Windows.
That's funny, I know someone who had a similar notion about genetically-modified birds. Unlike the Chinese, he had a use in mind. Maybe not a practical or realistic one, but a use, nevertheless. The City of Chicago seems to like having bird doo on their statues, though, because they never responded.
Given Walmart's propensity for beating vendors into pulp by *mandating* greater return at lower cost - which they can do, given their ubiquity - it'll be interesting to see how this relationship develops. Are we looking at the ultimate techo-corporate version of the irresistable force versus the immovable object? I'd say if Vista fails on the level /.-ers love to predict, we may actually see Microsoft get cowed into doing something that actually *benefits* the unwashed computing masses.
I don't know what distros you've tried, but I was able to install Fedora Core 5 on my store-bought Compaq WinXP machine without wiping out anything. The only hassle I had was the onboard video was b0rked with FC. Dropped in a card I had laying around and it was off to the races.
Let's see.... Wow! My penis is over 15 cm long! I suddenly feel incredibly well endowed! Go metric!
INSERT database_weenies (paycheck, units, cool_factor) SELECT 150000, 'DOLLARS', cool_factor*2 FROM web_weenies WHERE sql_injection IS NULL
OMG!!! Terrorist ponies!!! LOL!!1 /obligatory
...he started it.
...is that 90% of the Internets is composed of /.-ers pretending to know what they're talking about and propping up their assertions with bogus statistics in an attempt to out-FUD Microsoft while promoting FOSS and Web 2.0 via ponies and tubes. Or something.
1000 lines, bah. I could have done it with .NET in 10,000 lines.