Courier, slate, RROD, Zune, Vista. Failures abound, then Apple passed them by. The "flyover" states are indeed buying lots and lots of iPhones and iPods, and now iPads. I don't like them myself, but the proof is in the pudding. MS is a dying brand, if they don't turn it around and start to think (sorry) different. Not "just like Apple" I mean different, as in get some real ideas and stop focusing on the now declining bottom-line. Bean-counters don't make good software engineers, still you have to win on both sides of the house. Sorry, MS is just an over-sized company that might not be able to maneuver through this new world like a smaller, or more nimble thinking companies do. I'm no Apple fan anymore, MS may not want to follow the leader here either. Innovation is a mystery to them. Period.
It gets even better. For about $40/month I'm getting a 10Mbps DSL. So, for 825Mbps I'm looking at paying $3300.00/month. What a fucking value! Suddenly, paying $.10 for a text message seems reasonable. I won't pay it, but more reasonable for sure.
this is an official notice that sneakernet is under a court-ordered injunction to keep distributing and supporting its file-sharing software. downloading or sharing copyrighted content without authorization is awesome!
Yes, FTP is next.;) Not my sneakernet though. Thanks for the reminder, I need to obtain a 1TB drive for more sweet, free, sneakernet content. Really, we only need one person to buy any single piece of media, then we dist. Everyone is invited. RIP, share, enjoy. Never been to limewire.
Personally, I'll be happy with plain old computing on nano-structures or a Photon-Computer. Nothin' special, just wicked fast, all Unixy on the insides, and small enough to fit in my jeans change pocket. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon_computer
I'm still not going to buy a game that requires Battle.net lock-in for basic I-don't-give-a-flying-fuck-about-PvP usage, so stop asking.
(And spare me the "guest login" nonsense -- that's at best a workaround for a fundamental design choice.)
I'm with you. And people who ignorantly mark legitimate items as "offtopic" are fucked in the head. They'll get theirs when the tag-judging kicks in later in the program.
This item is extremely on-topic for the simple fact that this constant Slash-vertisement of Blizzard-DRM products this week is fucking making us all fucking ill. Fuck Blizzard and their DRM ilk. Wake me when this awful hack makes its way to a real OS... 'tards.
Sheesh. Personally, I think so highly of my brain that I'm waiting to get those awesome bio-friendly LED implants to light mine up like a frickin' x-mass tree! Not content to have just one "idea" I want a bunch, all at once, and in different colors with chaser patters. Feel free to stack presents under it!
You can wash it in the top rack of the dishwasher, then dry the crap out of it; viola - clean keyboard. It got the sticky Pepsi out of an old USB keyboard I had, left it looking and typing like new. Except another other user removed all the screws and lost some, but otherwise totally harmless to the 'board.
Yeah, I'd pick an Apple USB keyboard as well, unfortunately they restrict my choices so much I expect their keyboards to be missing the vowel characters until I sync my keyboard to my system and load the $10 Vowel Firmware Update.
Been typing for close to 30 years and have never had any wrist pain or "cut and paste pinky cramps" either. Possibly, some people aren't meant to type, or they have a bad idea of what ergonomics can do for or against them.
Thanks for the extra warning! I always avoid the *world.com sites like the plague, but Rob is above and beyond a complete numskull in all things tech and probably beyond. Still, good going for him to get such a flashy, almost tech job without any knowledge of the subject matter whatsoever. Cheers!
And that's not saying much as Nintendo and Sony are just DRM douchebags looking to lock in the consumer and thwart any thinking outside of their respective, limited, lesser console devices. I've already purchased my last Apple, Nintendo and Sony products for my lifetime. I suggest you all do the same, or suffer the mediocre consequences.
crApple wanted to charge me $10 for a cut&paste upgrade, fuck that. Nontendo makes it impossible to move my paid for apps from one device to any other device of the same type, fuck them. pSony, like Nontendo and crApple, thwart the home brew scene, and that's the last I'll buy from them. Companies that play those games wont get paid by me. So, go run out and get Diablow 3 when it comes out and love your phone-home, DRMey goodness. You deserve it, paid for it (sort of) and can live with the restrictions without really owning anything. Blizzard owns you and your game experiences.
Yeah, and I can think of dozens of open alternatives to MacOS X. MacOS X, the choice of a new generation, of idiots. Guess I won't need to save as much for my next "Mac" as it will be an entirely non-Apple, open system that caters to the folks who can go without a fucking mouse. So long, and thanks for all the fish, Steve. You just lost a faithful Apple customer and a long-time advocate of your systems. I hereby only support REAL Unix; Linux, Solaris, HP/UX, AIX, BSD, and every other non-Crapple Unix that isn't hobbled by the fucking pope of iPods. Get cancer and die already, asshole.
Also, what's the same is that the idiots who are broadcasting their person info are still doing it at local wifi hotspots and their own wide-open home nets. They're lucky that it was Google who captured that data. If it was anyone else, no one would ever have known until something bad happened, or at all. Google can adapt and improve. Dumb users? Not so much.
I got a Tatooine reference, a report that the Red Dwarf is quite fine it was only nanobots that disassembled it, a ham on rye, hold teh mayo, and quit calling me Shirley.
Our submitter is doing the right thing here; testifying against a company that tried to patent an already freely available idea. No patent should be allowed to protect this device's software. The hardware is a separate issue. Thanks for doing the right thing!
Agreed, but there's an even easier fix: CNAME pornbible.com to their site, and viola, TRAFFIC like there's no tomorrow! Additionally, I'm producing some related products: Extremely flammable bibles and korans, a line of fire-proof bibles and korans, and a dildo with a crucifix handle (Sorry, it's Friday and I'm a bit edgy for the room). Everybody wins! 8^) And I'll be gets mines!
No, they said it was in gold nugget rings, big thick chains, and little post earrings. All of which should be sent straight away to Cash For Moon Gold dot com!
"Dag burnit! Darn NASA done jumped my claim!" -- Grizzled Moon Prospector
Too late, AT&T, Comcrap, and every ISP already feeds all the data they move from their cores right out to the NSA. For "National Security." Bush signed your privacy away and Obama is keeping it status quo. Feel safer now? Yeah, me neither.
Toyota built cars there until recently. Ask yourself this; where are the big three now? I used to drive an American car too, now I can afford a proper German one. Your mileage may vary. I'll take Silicon Valley over Detroit any day. I already did. You're joking though, right? Detroit knows how to build cheap, shitty cars, except for a precious few high-end vehicles like the upper end Cadillacs, the Viper, Corvette, and we'll I ran out of examples. Camaros, and Mustangs don't count as the suspension and exhaust systems are typically so restrictive that you have to completely replace them as soon as you drive off the lot. So, sorry but Detroit better start building some better cars. The Volt ain't it, Son.
Actually, that sucks because I already sent in my remote control ballot and I would like to change my Gobernador vote to the Japanese guy with the bass guitar. I'll bet he can get a budget in on time!
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What Dr-DOS, or just regular MS-DOS? Oh, the attack? That's just the flood of well-wishers to MS' demise. Get used to it.
Courier, slate, RROD, Zune, Vista. Failures abound, then Apple passed them by. The "flyover" states are indeed buying lots and lots of iPhones and iPods, and now iPads. I don't like them myself, but the proof is in the pudding. MS is a dying brand, if they don't turn it around and start to think (sorry) different. Not "just like Apple" I mean different, as in get some real ideas and stop focusing on the now declining bottom-line. Bean-counters don't make good software engineers, still you have to win on both sides of the house. Sorry, MS is just an over-sized company that might not be able to maneuver through this new world like a smaller, or more nimble thinking companies do. I'm no Apple fan anymore, MS may not want to follow the leader here either. Innovation is a mystery to them. Period.
It gets even better. For about $40/month I'm getting a 10Mbps DSL. So, for 825Mbps I'm looking at paying $3300.00/month. What a fucking value! Suddenly, paying $.10 for a text message seems reasonable. I won't pay it, but more reasonable for sure.
"I ain't gonna let some silicon diode tell me what to do!" -- General Beringer
False alarm, good Amerika peoples. Only Peoples Republic of China installing network taps. Please to go about your daily businesses.
[sorry, the /. filter nazi made me go LC]
this is an official notice that sneakernet is under a court-ordered injunction to keep distributing and supporting its file-sharing software. downloading or sharing copyrighted content without authorization is awesome!
Yes, FTP is next. ;) Not my sneakernet though. Thanks for the reminder, I need to obtain a 1TB drive for more sweet, free, sneakernet content. Really, we only need one person to buy any single piece of media, then we dist. Everyone is invited. RIP, share, enjoy. Never been to limewire.
The clue to this comes from the URL, note this witty passage: /ceo-essentials/
Then, you know; NOT chocked full of science. It's written for people who did not end up taking any hard sciences in school.
Congratulations on the purchase of a Quant-U-com Q*Bert 3000 Personal Quantum Machine...
http://www.silicon.com/management/ceo-essentials/2010/10/25/quantum-computing-cheat-sheet-39746192/print/
Personally, I'll be happy with plain old computing on nano-structures or a Photon-Computer. Nothin' special, just wicked fast, all Unixy on the insides, and small enough to fit in my jeans change pocket.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon_computer
I'm still not going to buy a game that requires Battle.net lock-in for basic I-don't-give-a-flying-fuck-about-PvP usage, so stop asking.
(And spare me the "guest login" nonsense -- that's at best a workaround for a fundamental design choice.)
I'm with you. And people who ignorantly mark legitimate items as "offtopic" are fucked in the head. They'll get theirs when the tag-judging kicks in later in the program.
This item is extremely on-topic for the simple fact that this constant Slash-vertisement of Blizzard-DRM products this week is fucking making us all fucking ill. Fuck Blizzard and their DRM ilk. Wake me when this awful hack makes its way to a real OS... 'tards.
Mod that on-topic right this instant!
Sheesh. Personally, I think so highly of my brain that I'm waiting to get those awesome bio-friendly LED implants to light mine up like a frickin' x-mass tree! Not content to have just one "idea" I want a bunch, all at once, and in different colors with chaser patters. Feel free to stack presents under it!
You can wash it in the top rack of the dishwasher, then dry the crap out of it; viola - clean keyboard. It got the sticky Pepsi out of an old USB keyboard I had, left it looking and typing like new. Except another other user removed all the screws and lost some, but otherwise totally harmless to the 'board.
Yeah, I'd pick an Apple USB keyboard as well, unfortunately they restrict my choices so much I expect their keyboards to be missing the vowel characters until I sync my keyboard to my system and load the $10 Vowel Firmware Update.
Been typing for close to 30 years and have never had any wrist pain or "cut and paste pinky cramps" either. Possibly, some people aren't meant to type, or they have a bad idea of what ergonomics can do for or against them.
Thanks for the extra warning! I always avoid the *world.com sites like the plague, but Rob is above and beyond a complete numskull in all things tech and probably beyond. Still, good going for him to get such a flashy, almost tech job without any knowledge of the subject matter whatsoever. Cheers!
And that's not saying much as Nintendo and Sony are just DRM douchebags looking to lock in the consumer and thwart any thinking outside of their respective, limited, lesser console devices. I've already purchased my last Apple, Nintendo and Sony products for my lifetime. I suggest you all do the same, or suffer the mediocre consequences.
crApple wanted to charge me $10 for a cut&paste upgrade, fuck that. Nontendo makes it impossible to move my paid for apps from one device to any other device of the same type, fuck them. pSony, like Nontendo and crApple, thwart the home brew scene, and that's the last I'll buy from them. Companies that play those games wont get paid by me. So, go run out and get Diablow 3 when it comes out and love your phone-home, DRMey goodness. You deserve it, paid for it (sort of) and can live with the restrictions without really owning anything. Blizzard owns you and your game experiences.
Yeah, and I can think of dozens of open alternatives to MacOS X. MacOS X, the choice of a new generation, of idiots. Guess I won't need to save as much for my next "Mac" as it will be an entirely non-Apple, open system that caters to the folks who can go without a fucking mouse. So long, and thanks for all the fish, Steve. You just lost a faithful Apple customer and a long-time advocate of your systems. I hereby only support REAL Unix; Linux, Solaris, HP/UX, AIX, BSD, and every other non-Crapple Unix that isn't hobbled by the fucking pope of iPods. Get cancer and die already, asshole.
Same here. Blizzard-DRM, phone home, and no cheats? Do not want!!1!
Also, what's the same is that the idiots who are broadcasting their person info are still doing it at local wifi hotspots and their own wide-open home nets. They're lucky that it was Google who captured that data. If it was anyone else, no one would ever have known until something bad happened, or at all. Google can adapt and improve. Dumb users? Not so much.
I got a Tatooine reference, a report that the Red Dwarf is quite fine it was only nanobots that disassembled it, a ham on rye, hold teh mayo, and quit calling me Shirley.
Our submitter is doing the right thing here; testifying against a company that tried to patent an already freely available idea. No patent should be allowed to protect this device's software. The hardware is a separate issue. Thanks for doing the right thing!
Agreed, but there's an even easier fix: CNAME pornbible.com to their site, and viola, TRAFFIC like there's no tomorrow! Additionally, I'm producing some related products: Extremely flammable bibles and korans, a line of fire-proof bibles and korans, and a dildo with a crucifix handle (Sorry, it's Friday and I'm a bit edgy for the room). Everybody wins! 8^) And I'll be gets mines!
No, they said it was in gold nugget rings, big thick chains, and little post earrings. All of which should be sent straight away to Cash For Moon Gold dot com!
"Dag burnit! Darn NASA done jumped my claim!" -- Grizzled Moon Prospector
Too late, AT&T, Comcrap, and every ISP already feeds all the data they move from their cores right out to the NSA. For "National Security." Bush signed your privacy away and Obama is keeping it status quo. Feel safer now? Yeah, me neither.
Actually, you should read up some because there is a car manufacturing facility here call NUMMI. Your mileage may vary:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Motors#United_States
Toyota built cars there until recently. Ask yourself this; where are the big three now? I used to drive an American car too, now I can afford a proper German one. Your mileage may vary. I'll take Silicon Valley over Detroit any day. I already did. You're joking though, right? Detroit knows how to build cheap, shitty cars, except for a precious few high-end vehicles like the upper end Cadillacs, the Viper, Corvette, and we'll I ran out of examples. Camaros, and Mustangs don't count as the suspension and exhaust systems are typically so restrictive that you have to completely replace them as soon as you drive off the lot. So, sorry but Detroit better start building some better cars. The Volt ain't it, Son.
I thought it was Hatsune Miku?
He'll be back.
Sorry.
Actually, that sucks because I already sent in my remote control ballot and I would like to change my Gobernador vote to the Japanese guy with the bass guitar. I'll bet he can get a budget in on time!