I can remember the Amiga taking 1.5 seconds to boot into a full multitasking GUI, and rendering a fractal while it boots. One day they'll get it again, thanks to the success of OSS.
Please use the constitutional term, inaliable rights. These do exist outside of legal scriptures, but it's always better to phrase them in legally binding terms.
I was modded funny (history's a bitch) but I was serious in my intent. OSX kicks Vistas arse. I guess once burnt, twice shy. If they'd have stuck with clones for more than 6 months the whole thing would have turned around and MS would have been crushed years ago. Alas, they lack balls. Ah well, here's hoping the plebs will install linux and like it, dammit.
City of Death was awesome, I'm personally partial to the Aldric era myself but if we must include the classics, the Tom Baker + Romana combo was unbeatable. Still, the classics are just that, relics of a bygone era. IIRC Douglas Adams himself had a hand in that script. Of the current generation of authours , Stephen Moffat is supreme overlord.
Leaving aside all of the apocalyptic musings, there may be a significance to the date. It appears that the date (December 21, 2012) coincides with a conjunction of the Winter solstice sun and the crossing point of the galactic equator and the ecliptic. This occurs every 13,000 years (of the longer 26,000 year long 'Platonic Year').
So, it may be a mile marker, but it isn't the end of the universe. It just happened to be when the Mayans decided to 'turn over' their long count calendar back to 0.
I will not vouch for the accuracy of this information or of the sites below. I have glanced at them and it makes sense on the surface (leaving out all of the mumbo jumbo).
Woah, that's a telling sign. Presumably they have decent access to MS details, as good as anyone could get, I just bet it's impossible to implement the OOXML spec outside a windows environment without reproducing half of WINE.
Well, I would say that in the right context the word 'One' could be included in the catch-all intellectual property phrase. There is a phone company here in Australia called 'Three'. Their logo is the numeral 3. I don't doubt they would try to protect that brand through courts if somebody used 'Three' in a context that would conflict with their brand. This is all to blame on the fact that phrases are like memes from the ether, or in other words language is like a virus from outer space. Therefore this 'intellectual property' stuff is nonsense until metaphysics formulates a quantifiable aether matrix.
You know, if Apple opened OSX so it ran on more than just their own hardware, they could make a serious attempt to dominate and crush Microsoft on the desktop. It's a pity they don't allow clones.
So fucking what. The 'criminal' downloaded 20-odd songs that were shared by default on her software. All she gained was 20-odd tracks, she never intended to be a distributor. She should be fined $30 or so, if they want to prosecute those who shared her tracks let them do so. As it stands, the fine in no way represents the crime. She was never in danger of earning 220,000 dollars by downloading a couple dozen tracks into her shared folder. The punishment in no way fits the crime here. While she did wrong, it wasn't any deliberate wrong, no more than me donating a CD to the local library or lending a CD to a friend.
One day, we'll see the light. Until then, at least the corporate oppression has marketing values.
Write once Read Only Memory - you need to enter a specific flash atate to rewrite it, it normal operation it is ROM first and foremost. Sure, malware authours can hijack the architecture, but really why bother with dozens of winboxen to fulfill your needs.
I doubt that is their function, I would say it is to create a hemispherical cavity behind the earlobe which helps to collect sound information coming from behind. Either that, or to nibble on in some sort of primitive mating ritual.
That is a great question, and I agree it's the best system out there, mainly because you control it instead of it controlling you. The combination of that and the anonymous feature allows free, uncensored discussion without excess clutter. It's not perfect, but it seems to be the best compromise around.
Well, the problem with impulse buying is being out of touch with your subconscious desires and motivations. Spiritualism can do wonders for fixing that. Mind you, the crass commercialism displayed by many modern churches makes me wonder if they have anyone spiritually aware left in them at all.
So if I bought a cool new CD that I thought was awesome should I be charged $9,250 every time I lend it to a friend? Would musicians ever get popular without sharing free performances via radio, tv and word of mouth? What of the CD section in my library, want to make it a crime to borrow from there too?
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I can remember the Amiga taking 1.5 seconds to boot into a full multitasking GUI, and rendering a fractal while it boots. One day they'll get it again, thanks to the success of OSS.
Please use the constitutional term, inaliable rights. These do exist outside of legal scriptures, but it's always better to phrase them in legally binding terms.
I'm not sure, but I think it was along the lines of
1) Found a telecommunications company
2) Operate legally for years
3) Sign exclusivity deal
4) ???
5) Profit!
Bah! the fools are stuck in the past, what with those stable, reliable distros. When will they ever convert to Gentoo?
I was modded funny (history's a bitch) but I was serious in my intent. OSX kicks Vistas arse. I guess once burnt, twice shy. If they'd have stuck with clones for more than 6 months the whole thing would have turned around and MS would have been crushed years ago. Alas, they lack balls. Ah well, here's hoping the plebs will install linux and like it, dammit.
City of Death was awesome, I'm personally partial to the Aldric era myself but if we must include the classics, the Tom Baker + Romana combo was unbeatable. Still, the classics are just that, relics of a bygone era. IIRC Douglas Adams himself had a hand in that script. Of the current generation of authours , Stephen Moffat is supreme overlord.
Will it have the functionality to ?
So, it may be a mile marker, but it isn't the end of the universe. It just happened to be when the Mayans decided to 'turn over' their long count calendar back to 0.
I will not vouch for the accuracy of this information or of the sites below. I have glanced at them and it makes sense on the surface (leaving out all of the mumbo jumbo).
THE MAYAN CALENDAR END-DATE
THE HOW AND WHY OF THE MAYAN END DATE IN 2012 A.D.
James Powell
Shamelessly stolen from the Snopes forums.
It's a tie between that and the clockwork frenchie one - Girl in the Fireplace. Stephen Moffat should write them all I say.
Woah, that's a telling sign. Presumably they have decent access to MS details, as good as anyone could get, I just bet it's impossible to implement the OOXML spec outside a windows environment without reproducing half of WINE.
Well, I would say that in the right context the word 'One' could be included in the catch-all intellectual property phrase. There is a phone company here in Australia called 'Three'. Their logo is the numeral 3. I don't doubt they would try to protect that brand through courts if somebody used 'Three' in a context that would conflict with their brand. This is all to blame on the fact that phrases are like memes from the ether, or in other words language is like a virus from outer space. Therefore this 'intellectual property' stuff is nonsense until metaphysics formulates a quantifiable aether matrix.
You know, if Apple opened OSX so it ran on more than just their own hardware, they could make a serious attempt to dominate and crush Microsoft on the desktop. It's a pity they don't allow clones.
So fucking what. The 'criminal' downloaded 20-odd songs that were shared by default on her software. All she gained was 20-odd tracks, she never intended to be a distributor. She should be fined $30 or so, if they want to prosecute those who shared her tracks let them do so. As it stands, the fine in no way represents the crime. She was never in danger of earning 220,000 dollars by downloading a couple dozen tracks into her shared folder. The punishment in no way fits the crime here. While she did wrong, it wasn't any deliberate wrong, no more than me donating a CD to the local library or lending a CD to a friend.
One day, we'll see the light. Until then, at least the corporate oppression has marketing values.
In Japan, judo-capable ironman is in charge of you!
Write once Read Only Memory - you need to enter a specific flash atate to rewrite it, it normal operation it is ROM first and foremost. Sure, malware authours can hijack the architecture, but really why bother with dozens of winboxen to fulfill your needs.
I think we should call it a Triffid. What could possibly go wrong?
Well, he already has patents on all the methods.
I doubt that is their function, I would say it is to create a hemispherical cavity behind the earlobe which helps to collect sound information coming from behind. Either that, or to nibble on in some sort of primitive mating ritual.
In the prequel, obviously.
You left out the two most needed - ohnoitsroland and kdawsonsucks.
That is a great question, and I agree it's the best system out there, mainly because you control it instead of it controlling you. The combination of that and the anonymous feature allows free, uncensored discussion without excess clutter. It's not perfect, but it seems to be the best compromise around.
Well, the problem with impulse buying is being out of touch with your subconscious desires and motivations. Spiritualism can do wonders for fixing that. Mind you, the crass commercialism displayed by many modern churches makes me wonder if they have anyone spiritually aware left in them at all.
Yeah, my new iPod sucks too.
So if I bought a cool new CD that I thought was awesome should I be charged $9,250 every time I lend it to a friend? Would musicians ever get popular without sharing free performances via radio, tv and word of mouth? What of the CD section in my library, want to make it a crime to borrow from there too?
It's only 25 light years away, obviously this is what He was busy doing during the godforsaken eighties.