Stop putting words into my mouth! Go back and look for the word Nazi in my original posting - not there, right? Keep the Nazis out of the argument for heaven's sake. If I'd used Dracula as an example would you have gone into a rant about burying people alive? If I'd used Torquemada as an example would you have said I was equating Bill Gates with anti-abortionist commandos? Someone replied to my posting and in my opinion misrepresented me, and I said why. Arguing about Nazis is off-topic. If you want to start arguing about morals and Nazis go find an alt newsgroup but keep out of my thread!
Who's being moral? Did I say anything about morals? I'm talking about hate. I'm talking about spite. Microsoft piss me off. The day Oracle piss me off I'll hate them too. This is gut logic, dear friend. The gloves are off and have been for a long time. Replace Hitler with some other hated name if my comment doesn't suit you.
I hate to say it, but would reactions be different if it was Microsoft who hired IGI against another company?
Of course reactions would be different, because Microsoft are hated and quite rightly so. They deserve different treatment. Did anyone object to spying against Hitler? Did anyone object to Hitler sending out spies?
...why all M$ have to do is add a dot and three letters to their products to earn them the title of innovators? Wake up Mr.Everyone, you're being taken for a sucker! ...but there again, who can blame anyone for taking you for a sucker with your track record to date.
The judge ordered them to give up their web address?? Were those the judge's exact words? What the fsck's a web address? Does this cretin of a judge know anything about domains? Here's a hypothesis... I've got a domain called nike.net because I'm a fan of Greek Gods and the Goddess of Victory in particular and I'm an internet service provider. My business is going rather well and I have 50 000 subscribers each with an E-mail address and the possibility of having their personal web pages hosted for free. One of my subscribers decides to use the nickname "sneakers" 'cos that's been his nickname since he was a kid. He opens his personal web page account which becomes sneakers.nike.net and sure enough, three weeks later along come the big boys with a lawsuit. The judge says yes, this is theft of identity and tells me to hand over the "web address"... Well, anyone care to develop this scenario?? Let me add that I'm not targeting Nike company in any way but just using a famous name as an example -- and anyway you'd have to be pretty dumb to name a domain nike.net -- but this could easily happen with a less familiar name. Like PETA. How many Slashdot readers had heard the name PETA before today?
Peta.org has one purpose: deliberate misdirection. It was bought because Mr. Doughney was aware that people will go there expecting the real PETA site.
How insightful. Can we call you in court as a witness? You can also explain to the judge how Mr.Doughney knew that users would try to connect to this world famous site by typing.org instead of blindly typing.com as they usually do.
This is innovation. How the hell dare companies like Microsoft even think about the word innovation when you look at what real research and development gives. But what gives me a sickening thud in the pit of my stomach is that this is the very same IBM who ruined the whole fucking future of microcomputing with two stupid monumental copouts when they are the ones who should have been leading the industry forward. IBM were big, they were monopolistic, and they trod on everyone's toes, but they were responsible - at least they were until those two stupid decisions. That's why I feel like crying when I see the sort of stuff they're still capable of even now.
Just make sure you never lose an opportunity to point out this disadvantage of using Gates's software - not as not a pro-Open Source or anti-Gates measure, but as simple common courtesy to all those uninitiated suckers who're going to find themselves in the shit by using it. As for those who are initiated and not suckers, what the hell do you want to install a new version of Gates for? Wipe your disk clean and reload the old CD-ROM.
That only leaves initiated suckers to be dealt with, and that's outside my field (^%
1. It was stupid to take out a.com domain name. 2. Mattel are stupid to think this name could dilute the value of their toy. 3. The law is stupid to allow firms to copyright girls' names or everyday words - Barbie Doll would arguably be a reasonable name to protect but not plain Barbie. 4. Firms are stupid to choose brand names that are everyday words or common names. 5. Anyone is stupid who accepts that a firm should take the smooth (having a name that rolls off the tongue) without the rough (having to share the use of that name with its more legitimate use). 6. We're all stupid to have created a society where this kind of situation arises. STOP! - let's do a retake! OK, Barbie is probably not the best example of this kind of stupidity but it does illustrate the way we've been conditioned into accept being dictated to by big business, and I reckon it's our duty to prick and sting greedy big businesses whenever we get the chance, so I'm glad Mattel are annoyed. BTW, were Mattel upset when they found out Barbie was the name of a Nazi murderer - the butcher of Lyon?
Like anyone else, I like to get my kicks from time to time. If the courts stamp on mycrapsoft until they squeal, I'll go celebrating for a whole week! I don't really care what the bastards did to other companies, it's what they've done to ME with their piss poor products that has me screaming for vengeance.
I would PAY good MONEY for a decent graphic browser for the platforms I use, and providing the Internet Explorer sprog was not the one Satan kept control of, I would have no problems buying that. However, it's out of the question that I pay so much as one filthy penny to $ so long as Gates and his cohorts are in control. Principles are principles.
Just a note of information for those who've read too much badly written English and therefore can be excused for not knowing better: when comparing points that differ, you compare one with the other — "Lead is very heavy compared with hydrogen"; when comparing things in order to pick out similarities, you compare one to the other — "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day". Having said all that, the verb "compare" is probably not the best choice in this case. But I can understand that you were in a hurry, as I am now, and didn't have time to parse your headline:) BTW thanks for the interesting information.
I've got a bilingual site, 100% PHP; admittedly, what I'm going to say applies only to languages using the latin alphabet, but the simple fact of having one directory per language makes maintaining the site in both languages as easy as falling off a log, and nothing is duplicated. And I didn't even consider whether this was design or content. Buttons and everything are completely bilingual except where I chose deliberately not to make them so. The site's called www.mrquiz.org. If you take a look and you're still interested, I'll gladly send you the source. My mail address is on the site.
I think that this is the perfect occasion to use that good old French expression "Allez vous faire enculer" to our friends in the Coca-Cola company. You're untouchable.
ZD net have let slip an important piece of information that none of us realized: we who all thought that W2K was the new NT... it turns out that all the time...
I started installing FreeBSD in earnest around Xmas 1999 and I'm still working to get it the way I want it. But that's because I want it EXACTLY the way I want it. And I haven't even looked at half of what it offers yet. The honest answer to your question is yes, BSD is very easy to install but it's a bitch to configure - a beautiful curvaceous bitch who gives you wet dreams. Here's wishing you many happy silo overflows.
If you want a choice of different flavours like you have with Javascript or HTML, just entrust your baby to the standards bodies and they'll do it for you in no time at all. They have as much clout (and probably as much will) as a ball of cotton wool when it comes to standing up against someone who wants to make a quick buck out of messing about with standards. So if you really want to be able to choose from Visual(TM) Java, - -Java, turboJava, MacJava, Slot1Java, JavaStick, JakartaBeans, Sumatra... go ahead: give Java to ECMA. If you want a boringly uniform Java on the other hand, give it to someone who kicks arse and SUES!!
Back in my youth, when if you used the word computer, people thought you were pronouncing "commuter" wrongly, the word nurd meant a ridiculously stupid person, somewhere between a dunce and an arsehole. It seems its meaning has taken an 180 degree turn since, and that makes me chuckle (depending on who uses it). OBTW: nurd is much more effective in the plural... "YOU PACK OF NURDS", for example, is a great way of venting your feelings.
See how everyone jumps to conclusions? The article says kilowatts per hour, i.e., kilojoules per hour squared, so it's obvious they're talking about an acceleration: every hour the machine stays connected, its power demand goes up by 30 kilowatts. This is because in the early days of computing, they knew how to store stuff in memory but didn't know how to remove it, so the memory kept piling up and consuming more and more kilowatts - sorry, kilojoules. Also, valves/lamps/tubes take a long time to warm up,so this also has some incidence on the power consumption. Also, the little prongs on the punching machine get more and more blunt as you go on, so they need more energy to pierce the paper or cardboard (they don't specify whether it uses tape or cards). There are a whole lot of similar factors to take into account - so stop degrading reporters who obviously know much more about their subject than all of you smart-arsed nerds! (:-) )
Oh.. so THAT'S what S.T.W. is all about!... I seem remember extending that conjecture two or three weeks ago, I think it was before breakfast one day - just before I found a way of using the golden number to explain entropy. What great news - I was wondering what sort of name I could put to it; now I know: it's STW! yours sincerely, good Will Hunting
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Oh woe is me ... you spotted who I was despite my elaborate attempt to pretend I was someone else. God, you're a fucking genius.
Adam:What kept you?.
Stop putting words into my mouth! Go back and look for the word Nazi in my original posting - not there, right? Keep the Nazis out of the argument for heaven's sake. If I'd used Dracula as an example would you have gone into a rant about burying people alive? If I'd used Torquemada as an example would you have said I was equating Bill Gates with anti-abortionist commandos? Someone replied to my posting and in my opinion misrepresented me, and I said why. Arguing about Nazis is off-topic. If you want to start arguing about morals and Nazis go find an alt newsgroup but keep out of my thread!
Adam:What kept you?.
Who's being moral? Did I say anything about morals? I'm talking about hate. I'm talking about spite. Microsoft piss me off. The day Oracle piss me off I'll hate them too. This is gut logic, dear friend. The gloves are off and have been for a long time. Replace Hitler with some other hated name if my comment doesn't suit you.
Adam:What kept you?.
I hate to say it, but would reactions be different if it was Microsoft who hired IGI against another company?
Of course reactions would be different, because Microsoft are hated and quite rightly so. They deserve different treatment. Did anyone object to spying against Hitler? Did anyone object to Hitler sending out spies?
Adam:What kept you?.
Why so long? Because GPL has been in alpha.
Adam:What kept you?.
...why all M$ have to do is add a dot and three letters to their products to earn them the title of innovators? Wake up Mr.Everyone, you're being taken for a sucker!
...but there again, who can blame anyone for taking you for a sucker with your track record to date.
Adam:What kept you?.
The judge ordered them to give up their web address ?? Were those the judge's exact words? What the fsck's a web address? Does this cretin of a judge know anything about domains? ... I've got a domain called nike.net because I'm a fan of Greek Gods and the Goddess of Victory in particular and I'm an internet service provider. My business is going rather well and I have 50 000 subscribers each with an E-mail address and the possibility of having their personal web pages hosted for free. One of my subscribers decides to use the nickname "sneakers" 'cos that's been his nickname since he was a kid. He opens his personal web page account which becomes sneakers.nike.net and sure enough, three weeks later along come the big boys with a lawsuit. The judge says yes, this is theft of identity and tells me to hand over the "web address" ...
Here's a hypothesis
Well, anyone care to develop this scenario??
Let me add that I'm not targeting Nike company in any way but just using a famous name as an example -- and anyway you'd have to be pretty dumb to name a domain nike.net -- but this could easily happen with a less familiar name. Like PETA. How many Slashdot readers had heard the name PETA before today?
Adam:What kept you?.
Peta.org has one purpose: deliberate misdirection. It was bought because Mr. Doughney was aware that people will go there expecting the real PETA site.
.org instead of blindly typing .com as they usually do.
How insightful. Can we call you in court as a witness?
You can also explain to the judge how Mr.Doughney knew that users would try to connect to this world famous site by typing
Adam:What kept you?.
This is innovation. How the hell dare companies like Microsoft even think about the word innovation when you look at what real research and development gives. But what gives me a sickening thud in the pit of my stomach is that this is the very same IBM who ruined the whole fucking future of microcomputing with two stupid monumental copouts when they are the ones who should have been leading the industry forward. IBM were big, they were monopolistic, and they trod on everyone's toes, but they were responsible - at least they were until those two stupid decisions. That's why I feel like crying when I see the sort of stuff they're still capable of even now.
Adam:What kept you?.
Oh come on now, give the human race a little bit of credit! Where did cynicism last get you?
Adam:What kept you?.
I guess we're lucky that we don't all live in the states.
Adam:What kept you?.
Just make sure you never lose an opportunity to point out this disadvantage of using Gates's software - not as not a pro-Open Source or anti-Gates measure, but as simple common courtesy to all those uninitiated suckers who're going to find themselves in the shit by using it. As for those who are initiated and not suckers, what the hell do you want to install a new version of Gates for? Wipe your disk clean and reload the old CD-ROM.
That only leaves initiated suckers to be dealt with, and that's outside my field (^%
Adam:What kept you?.
Hear, Hear. I couldn't have said it any better myself.
Adam:What kept you?.
1. It was stupid to take out a .com domain name. 2. Mattel are stupid to think this name could dilute the value of their toy. 3. The law is stupid to allow firms to copyright girls' names or everyday words - Barbie Doll would arguably be a reasonable name to protect but not plain Barbie. 4. Firms are stupid to choose brand names that are everyday words or common names. 5. Anyone is stupid who accepts that a firm should take the smooth (having a name that rolls off the tongue) without the rough (having to share the use of that name with its more legitimate use). 6. We're all stupid to have created a society where this kind of situation arises. STOP! - let's do a retake! OK, Barbie is probably not the best example of this kind of stupidity but it does illustrate the way we've been conditioned into accept being dictated to by big business, and I reckon it's our duty to prick and sting greedy big businesses whenever we get the chance, so I'm glad Mattel are annoyed. BTW, were Mattel upset when they found out Barbie was the name of a Nazi murderer - the butcher of Lyon?
Adam:What kept you?.
Like anyone else, I like to get my kicks from time to time. If the courts stamp on mycrapsoft until they squeal, I'll go celebrating for a whole week! I don't really care what the bastards did to other companies, it's what they've done to ME with their piss poor products that has me screaming for vengeance.
Adam:What kept you?.
I would PAY good MONEY for a decent graphic browser for the platforms I use, and providing the Internet Explorer sprog was not the one Satan kept control of, I would have no problems buying that. However, it's out of the question that I pay so much as one filthy penny to $ so long as Gates and his cohorts are in control. Principles are principles.
Adam:What kept you?.
Just a note of information for those who've read too much badly written English and therefore can be excused for not knowing better: when comparing points that differ, you compare one with the other — "Lead is very heavy compared with hydrogen"; when comparing things in order to pick out similarities, you compare one to the other — "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day". Having said all that, the verb "compare" is probably not the best choice in this case. But I can understand that you were in a hurry, as I am now, and didn't have time to parse your headline :)
BTW thanks for the interesting information.
I've got a bilingual site, 100% PHP; admittedly, what I'm going to say applies only to languages using the latin alphabet, but the simple fact of having one directory per language makes maintaining the site in both languages as easy as falling off a log, and nothing is duplicated. And I didn't even consider whether this was design or content. Buttons and everything are completely bilingual except where I chose deliberately not to make them so. The site's called www.mrquiz.org. If you take a look and you're still interested, I'll gladly send you the source. My mail address is on the site.
I think that this is the perfect occasion to use that good old French expression "Allez vous faire enculer" to our friends in the Coca-Cola company. You're untouchable.
ZD net have let slip an important piece of information that none of us realized: we who all thought that W2K was the new NT ... it turns out that all the time...
...it was running on a 9x kernel!
How could you, Bill!
I started installing FreeBSD in earnest around Xmas 1999 and I'm still working to get it the way I want it. But that's because I want it EXACTLY the way I want it. And I haven't even looked at half of what it offers yet. The honest answer to your question is yes, BSD is very easy to install but it's a bitch to configure - a beautiful curvaceous bitch who gives you wet dreams. Here's wishing you many happy silo overflows.
If you want a choice of different flavours like you have with Javascript or HTML, just entrust your baby to the standards bodies and they'll do it for you in no time at all. They have as much clout (and probably as much will) as a ball of cotton wool when it comes to standing up against someone who wants to make a quick buck out of messing about with standards. So if you really want to be able to choose from Visual(TM) Java, - -Java, turboJava, MacJava, Slot1Java, JavaStick, JakartaBeans, Sumatra... go ahead: give Java to ECMA. If you want a boringly uniform Java on the other hand, give it to someone who kicks arse and SUES!!
Back in my youth, when if you used the word computer, people thought you were pronouncing "commuter" wrongly, the word nurd meant a ridiculously stupid person, somewhere between a dunce and an arsehole. It seems its meaning has taken an 180 degree turn since, and that makes me chuckle (depending on who uses it). ... "YOU PACK OF NURDS", for example, is a great way of venting your feelings.
OBTW: nurd is much more effective in the plural
See how everyone jumps to conclusions? The article says kilowatts per hour, i.e., kilojoules per hour squared, so it's obvious they're talking about an acceleration: every hour the machine stays connected, its power demand goes up by 30 kilowatts. This is because in the early days of computing, they knew how to store stuff in memory but didn't know how to remove it, so the memory kept piling up and consuming more and more kilowatts - sorry, kilojoules. Also, valves/lamps/tubes take a long time to warm up,so this also has some incidence on the power consumption. Also, the little prongs on the punching machine get more and more blunt as you go on, so they need more energy to pierce the paper or cardboard (they don't specify whether it uses tape or cards). There are a whole lot of similar factors to take into account - so stop degrading reporters who obviously know much more about their subject than all of you smart-arsed nerds! ( :-) )
Oh .. so THAT'S what S.T.W. is all about! ... I seem remember extending that conjecture two or three weeks ago, I think it was before breakfast one day - just before I found a way of using the golden number to explain entropy. What great news - I was wondering what sort of name I could put to it; now I know: it's STW! yours sincerely, good Will Hunting