I bought the DVD of The Matrix because all the people told me that I missed a phantastic film in the movies. I was disappointed. Stupid story, silly slowmo kung fu moves. But maybe it is due to the fact that I don't like "John Wu" action and I also don't like Keanu Reeves.
Last year I sent a computer from Vienna, Austria to my mother in law in Bavaria, Germany via UPS (surface delivery). The thing was in it's original box, well padded and everything.
The computer arrived with it's front panel broken and backpanel bent, the Pentium III (Slot-1) hit out of it's slot, with the CPU Fan dangling on it's cable. MoBo broken.
After months of legal moves and being redirected between various UPS offices we gave up.
Apple was not happy with the press ranting about "no new products".
The show would have been very weak, with another Jobs keynote just about the Mac OS X upgrade.
Now the terror threat comes in very handy to cancel the fiasco show.
The Cube stands in line with other Apple and NeXT products, which had to be designed under Steve Jobs cubic fanatism.
While the design of the computer itself looks great on pictures, the Apple Cube in the real world was not that beautiful.
The enormously large external power supply, and all those fat cables coming out of the bottom clutter your desk.
For the monitor cable, the Cube has a clunky "90 Degree" adapter and the microphone is a big black brick as well.
Here in Europe the PS/2 is no big success because it is very expensive (over $400.-). I see it sitting in big piles in electronic stores since February.
I think this story is a hoax.
What a stupid idea to set a monitor via the web. For what reason will you want to set it, when you are not in front of it?
Sure, some monitors have software control (Apple), but you only will want to set them when you are sitting in front.
I have never heared or read about such a company or product.
The irony in the article seems a bit to much too, smells like an urban legend to me.
When I read how the 3-hat-problem goes, the solution immediately popped up in my head (a person who sees two different hats passes, one who sees two similiar hats guesses the other color).
This needs a bunch of professional mathematicians thinking for days?
Not so obvious with a lot of hats, though.
I am selling services and together with these I am also selling hardware and software. I am trying to find the best solution for the clients. In the long term this is the best way for everybody involved.
On SGI and other UNIX systems software was licensed to the MAC address for years. Maybe they will do something like this.
But what with all the modem home users without an Ethernet adapter?
They could force 100MBit Ethernet into the next standard PC specifications.
What about a list of f*ucked up things which are still around?
For example: Differently rendering webbrowsers (Netscape should go to hell), obsolete operating systems which are annoying network administrators (Mac OS should be buried once and for all), etc.
BTW: Street cars are still very present in some European cities. Especially in Vienna, Austria.
Another question: What if I make up really good fake pictures in Photoshop and send them to some Mac Fanatics web site. And suddenly it turns out that Apple is going to bring out a product which look almost like my fakes? Will I or the Mac web site be sued?
The American legal system is very strange.
I think Apple is sueing for one perfect reason (other than Steve Jobs having his show stolen): They don't want rumors of new products floating because they want to sell out their old stuff from the shelves before hot new things are announced.
I thought the same thing. Especially since Apple is well known for sueing the shit out of everybody. Remember the GUI patent wars with MS or the lawsuits against all the iMac look-a-likes?
I am one of the few who seems to be not falling into that MP3 craze. I always BOUGHT the vinyl records and CDs I wanted. Sometimes I get tapes from friends, but when I really like the album I buy it after a few days. Maybe I am a collector, or an old style music fan. Most of the MP3 songs I downloaded were hard to find and/or of bad quality. And I NEVER managed to find a whole record to download. I was never buying singles or CD singles, always the whole thing. And I will still do that in the future. But I am buying most of my CDs online now, so I would also be one of the persons who is taking away money from the classic retail channels.
>My friend refuses to update his kernel because >of his...of course, if I had a 160+day uptime >I'd hate to reboot too... >(Just outta curiosity, is it even possible for >that other os to stay up for 5+ months?)
I had an easy 130+ days on a heavy loaded server recently and had to shut it down because of.... A FAULTY UPS *ARGH!*
I placed an order at my bank here in Vienna, Austria to buy some Red Hat shares at the IPO.
No, I cannot buy them directly, because I sit in the European Union and don't have an account in the US and yes, I will have to pay higher commission (about 2.5% overall).
But I can order the shares at the time of the IPO (which date is known) and at the IPO price (which margins are known). The remaining question will be, how many shares - if any - I'll get. I hope I'll get a lot, because I am a believer in Linux and RedHat.
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> the Matrix was a huge hit with everyone
I bought the DVD of The Matrix because all the people told me that I missed a phantastic film in the movies.
I was disappointed. Stupid story, silly slowmo kung fu moves.
But maybe it is due to the fact that I don't like "John Wu" action and I also don't like Keanu Reeves.
Here in Europe we have these for years.
Play Operation Flashpoint if your really wanna die.
Last year I sent a computer from Vienna, Austria to my mother in law in Bavaria, Germany via UPS (surface delivery). The thing was in it's original box, well padded and everything.
The computer arrived with it's front panel broken and backpanel bent, the Pentium III (Slot-1) hit out of it's slot, with the CPU Fan dangling on it's cable. MoBo broken.
After months of legal moves and being redirected between various UPS offices we gave up.
Apple was not happy with the press ranting about "no new products".
The show would have been very weak, with another Jobs keynote just about the Mac OS X upgrade.
Now the terror threat comes in very handy to cancel the fiasco show.
The Cube stands in line with other Apple and NeXT products, which had to be designed under Steve Jobs cubic fanatism. While the design of the computer itself looks great on pictures, the Apple Cube in the real world was not that beautiful. The enormously large external power supply, and all those fat cables coming out of the bottom clutter your desk. For the monitor cable, the Cube has a clunky "90 Degree" adapter and the microphone is a big black brick as well.
Here in Europe the PS/2 is no big success because it is very expensive (over $400.-). I see it sitting in big piles in electronic stores since February.
I think this story is a hoax.
What a stupid idea to set a monitor via the web. For what reason will you want to set it, when you are not in front of it?
Sure, some monitors have software control (Apple), but you only will want to set them when you are sitting in front.
I have never heared or read about such a company or product.
The irony in the article seems a bit to much too, smells like an urban legend to me.
When I read how the 3-hat-problem goes, the solution immediately popped up in my head (a person who sees two different hats passes, one who sees two similiar hats guesses the other color).
This needs a bunch of professional mathematicians thinking for days?
Not so obvious with a lot of hats, though.
I am selling services and together with these I am also selling hardware and software. I am trying to find the best solution for the clients. In the long term this is the best way for everybody involved.
I mean they force the standards to include Ethernet on the motherboard.
On SGI and other UNIX systems software was licensed to the MAC address for years. Maybe they will do something like this.
But what with all the modem home users without an Ethernet adapter?
They could force 100MBit Ethernet into the next standard PC specifications.
What about a list of f*ucked up things which are still around?
For example: Differently rendering webbrowsers (Netscape should go to hell), obsolete operating systems which are annoying network administrators (Mac OS should be buried once and for all), etc.
BTW: Street cars are still very present in some European cities. Especially in Vienna, Austria.
I am 100% sure that it is a hoax.
Where whould they train their "robot"?
I know nobody who privately owns a current Formula-1 car and runs it around race tracks for test purposes.
Hoss, Motorcycle racer
Another question: What if I make up really good fake pictures in Photoshop and send them to some Mac Fanatics web site. And suddenly it turns out that Apple is going to bring out a product which look almost like my fakes? Will I or the Mac web site be sued?
The American legal system is very strange.
I think Apple is sueing for one perfect reason (other than Steve Jobs having his show stolen): They don't want rumors of new products floating because they want to sell out their old stuff from the shelves before hot new things are announced.
I thought the same thing. Especially since Apple is well known for sueing the shit out of everybody. Remember the GUI patent wars with MS or the lawsuits against all the iMac look-a-likes?
I am one of the few who seems to be not falling into that MP3 craze.
I always BOUGHT the vinyl records and CDs I wanted. Sometimes I get tapes from friends, but when I really like the album I buy it after a few days.
Maybe I am a collector, or an old style music fan.
Most of the MP3 songs I downloaded were hard to find and/or of bad quality. And I NEVER managed to find a whole record to download.
I was never buying singles or CD singles, always the whole thing. And I will still do that in the future.
But I am buying most of my CDs online now, so I would also be one of the persons who is taking away money from the classic retail channels.
>My friend refuses to update his kernel because
.... A FAULTY UPS *ARGH!*
>of his...of course, if I had a 160+day uptime
>I'd hate to reboot too...
>(Just outta curiosity, is it even possible for
>that other os to stay up for 5+ months?)
I had an easy 130+ days on a heavy loaded server recently and had to shut it down because of
> I got all 70,000 shares I asked for. I am PUMPED! WooHoo!
:-(
Lucky you. I just asked for 1,000
But since I am sitting in far away Vienna, Austria I am afraid I won't get anything
I want a Green Card, I want an American social security number, I want to leave laid back Europe _whine_
>> Linux - I have better things to do than reboot.
>Like endlessly futzing around with config scripts?
Better than endlessly clicking around the bunch of annoyingly confusing card tabs and fiddling with hex values in the registry.
They have telnet open, too.
:-)
But no port else.
Good luck
I placed an order at my bank here in Vienna, Austria to buy some Red Hat shares at the IPO.
No, I cannot buy them directly, because I sit in the European Union and don't have an account in the US and yes, I will have to pay higher commission (about 2.5% overall).
But I can order the shares at the time of the IPO (which date is known) and at the IPO price (which margins are known).
The remaining question will be, how many shares - if any - I'll get. I hope I'll get a lot, because I am a believer in Linux and RedHat.
Oh my god...
When I first saw the new logo 2 weeks ago, I thought of an April fool's joke.
And now the new explanation for s.g.i...
It just sucks.
>If this were a Linux-only expo,
;-)
This was a networking expo, we were the only Linux booth there. The Lexmark booth next to us happend to shop on the picture. Sorry
>RoxenChallenger
Martin Baehr is Vienna's Mr. Roxen