Windows offers better profit margins...It's easier for me to mark up $1000 software by 10% than it is for me to charge a $100 "price" for free software.
What's easier to sell: one for $1100 or five for $20?
You want the configuration file for your pcmcia card. Nobody needs to tell me it's in/etc/pcmcia/config.
The only intuitive interface is the nipple -- everything else is learned. Linux is coherent (at least my Debian box), or you can say, intuitive, because as soon as your learn how it works, everything works how it should be.
Just send the digit of PI in binary where the file starts, and where it ends (assuming the digits of PI are truely random, so that every combination of digits can be found).
Perhaps the "printed" copy will be only a bar-coded document. All the "gambé" (police officer) has to do is scan the document. A display in the bar-code scanner could show your information and check the signature.
Anyway, just the possibility of sending documents in digital form through the internet makes it worth, IMO.
If I'm able to print a document, why couldn't I change it before I print it, for instance?
I haven' read the article, because it's currently down. But I believe it works like this: you take your documents and they will be signed by the notary office -- you will receive a digitally signed document in a floppy or CD.
You can then send that copy through e-mail, e.g., or print it. You can still change it and print it, but the digital signature will be ruined. If a police officer check the validity of the document, he will se that it was changed.
He expected his rocket to get to 1800 m. It reached 1525 m and two of the three parachutes became entangled.
Well, 1525/1800 = 84.7%. He said that the launch was 85% successfull, so he doesn't give a dam about the parachutes (actually, he gives 0.3%).
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Actually, when you have a slope in the ocean surface the water doesn't run downhill; it runs across the slope. If you have a "seamount", for example, water will circle it clockwise in the northern hemisphere.
Most of the large scale circulation is the result of the subtropical wind circulation, and small anomalies in the geoid will be insignificant. Also, part of the ocean circulation has a thermohaline nature, and is forced by the distribution of salt and temperature across the world.
Dr. Kolynsqwerky: What is this bottle of beer doing here?
Student: It's... hmmm... an excellent food source for the bacteria and helps to extend the lifespan of the normally short-lived SRBs by several months, Dr.!
So, let me get this straight. His friend called him in 10 days, saying he had deleted windows from his computer. Later on in the phone conversation, he then said that "... after a month.. removing windows from my computer...".
He deleted the partition after 10 days.
Then he installed Windows again.
Then, after 1 month, he was removing Windows again.
Apple released iTunes 2.0 on a Saturday night. When a major bug was found, not only did they pull the installer *immediately*, but they fixed the bug and had a new one up in its place (properly labelled 2.0.1) within 24 hours. Not only that, but they have also said that they will pay for DriveSavers recovery for anyone who lost data to the bug. Can anyone imagine MS responding that quickly? On a *weekend* even! (Or accepting responsibility for its bugs like that?)
It was a major bug, but it was also an easily fixed one. Windows, on the other hand...
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Do you know why did the blonde climb the concrete wall?
To see what's on the other side.
You forgot the "You forgot..." posts.
I say that we fight Microsoft by refering to all OS's as 'Windows.'
Hopefully this will cause Microsoft to lose the trademark name 'Windows' because it will become generic from over usage.
Strange, my "Windows" box has an uptime of 200 days...
Put this in your server's /etc/procmailrc:
:0 HB
x e|js)"
:0 fhwc
:0
#LOGFILE=/var/log/procmail
#VERBOSE
VIRUSDUMP='/var/spool/virus'
GOTCHA=`formail -xTo:`
:0
*^Content-type: (multipart/mixed|application/octet-stream)
{
*^Content-Disposition: attachment;
*filename=".*\.(vbs|wsf|vbe|wsh|hta|scr|pif|com|e
{
| (formail -r -I"Precedence: junk" ; echo -e "Our mail server refuses e-mail messages with suspect attachments, like: \n\n vbs, wsf, vbe, wsh, hta, scr, pif, com, exe ou js.\n\nYour e-mail was not delivered.\n\nPlease contact webmaster@host if you have any questions.") | $SENDMAIL -t
${VIRUSDUMP}
}
}
He also missed the "You missed..." posts.
Actually, I kinda wonder about that. I *own* a Linux box, but I don't use it for surfing, I use it as a server (web/ftp/mail/etc).
That's why it's called Linux On The Desktop.
Windows offers better profit margins...It's easier for me to mark up $1000 software by 10% than it is for me to charge a $100 "price" for free software.
What's easier to sell: one for $1100 or five for $20?
You want the configuration file for your pcmcia card. Nobody needs to tell me it's in /etc/pcmcia/config.
The only intuitive interface is the nipple -- everything else is learned. Linux is coherent (at least my Debian box), or you can say, intuitive, because as soon as your learn how it works, everything works how it should be.
Just send the digit of PI in binary where the file starts, and where it ends (assuming the digits of PI are truely random, so that every combination of digits can be found).
It is illegal to distribute the ISOs because Theo has the copyright on the CD's layout, although the software is BSDed.
In a S/390?
Perhaps the "printed" copy will be only a bar-coded document. All the "gambé" (police officer) has to do is scan the document. A display in the bar-code scanner could show your information and check the signature.
Anyway, just the possibility of sending documents in digital form through the internet makes it worth, IMO.
If I'm able to print a document, why couldn't I change it before I print it, for instance?
I haven' read the article, because it's currently down. But I believe it works like this: you take your documents and they will be signed by the notary office -- you will receive a digitally signed document in a floppy or CD.
You can then send that copy through e-mail, e.g., or print it. You can still change it and print it, but the digital signature will be ruined. If a police officer check the validity of the document, he will se that it was changed.
Does he really want to come back?
He expected his rocket to get to 1800 m. It reached 1525 m and two of the three parachutes became entangled.
Well, 1525/1800 = 84.7%. He said that the launch was 85% successfull, so he doesn't give a dam about the parachutes (actually, he gives 0.3%).
Actually, when you have a slope in the ocean surface the water doesn't run downhill; it runs across the slope. If you have a "seamount", for example, water will circle it clockwise in the northern hemisphere.
Most of the large scale circulation is the result of the subtropical wind circulation, and small anomalies in the geoid will be insignificant. Also, part of the ocean circulation has a thermohaline nature, and is forced by the distribution of salt and temperature across the world.
(Yes, I'm an oceanographer)
Dr. Kolynsqwerky: What is this bottle of beer doing here?
Student: It's... hmmm... an excellent food source for the bacteria and helps to extend the lifespan of the normally short-lived SRBs by several months, Dr.!
64.28.67.150 is the only IP you need!
So, let me get this straight. His friend called him in 10 days, saying he had deleted windows from his computer. Later on in the phone conversation, he then said that "... after a month .. removing windows from my computer...".
He deleted the partition after 10 days.
Then he installed Windows again.
Then, after 1 month, he was removing Windows again.
Apple released iTunes 2.0 on a Saturday night. When a major bug was found, not only did they pull the installer *immediately*, but they fixed the bug and had a new one up in its place (properly labelled 2.0.1) within 24 hours. Not only that, but they have also said that they will pay for DriveSavers recovery for anyone who lost data to the bug. Can anyone imagine MS responding that quickly? On a *weekend* even! (Or accepting responsibility for its bugs like that?)
It was a major bug, but it was also an easily fixed one. Windows, on the other hand...
Just find a surgeon and get your fingers removed.
At least you won't need them for pressing the reset button or ctrl-alt-del...
Col. Kittinger did a 102,800ft rise in a balloon back in the early 60s (Project "Man high").
He got too close to the sun, and the project was renamed to "Project Man High Tan".
LOL! Someone mod this +0, Funny!
...does it suggest "Windows" as and alternative to "Linux"?
...that when we are browsing /. we will actually hear "first post"?
If you walk 10 hours a day at 3 km/h that'll be 30 km, or ~20 miles. Too far for 802.11b, IIRC...