Oh bushboy !
You are so amazing !
I think I love you !
You didn't bable about 'first post' or 'Micropast', never mentioned a word against your former employers or attempted to be clever in any mentionable way.
You never ate too many baked beans before bedding down, drank too many 'super-strong-extra-powerful-melt-my-brain-15%-pro of-lager-from-germay-beer'
or performed like a smashing fool in front of your peers.
Bushboy, you are simply amazing !
Please send me $10.
I represent the 'keeping up with the technology jone'ses' group of paupers.
My wife eats pentium 120's for breakfast, we are poor, please help.
yes - and if you popped it in the over for an hour or two, it made an interesting table ornament guaranteed to be a talking piece at your next cocktail party.
Yeah - be thankfull you don't live in South Africa - it took 10 weeks to install a simple 64k leased line in our offices - we have no DSL options, or cable options at present. Our Telecommunications Monopoly is holding South Africa back big time - still another 2 years to go before the Monopoly comes to an end. Count yourself lucky you have these kinds of services. Even getting a normal home telephone installed here can take over a month !
Perhaps you do, but not everyone does - oh yeah, it also weighed about 50 grams, was about 25x15x5 cm's and had no hard drive. It was black. It had a Sinclair logo it the top left hand corner You connected a standard tape recorder to the back via a jack, the cheaper the better It made a lot of noise when loading programs, and often didn't load them properly, crashing in the process Clive Sinclair was bald at the time and wore glasses. It wasn't as cool as the vic20 or commodore64
When I was a wee nipper, my first computer was a Sinclair ZX81 - the keyboard was basically a piece of plastic over rubber buttons, the power cable would continuosly break where it plugged into the unit, and the 16k add on memory plugged into the back of the unit - one nudge by a passing cat, and all my basic code was fried ! Hey, what can I say, I couldn't afford an IBM with my allowance !
Ok, so a kid gets reported for behaving "differently" - then what happens ?
Do they break through his door dressed in full combat gear, wielding shotguns and teargas and frog-march the kid into custody ?
Sounds pretty damn scary to me - another great american witch hunt baby !
Little bo peep 'rats' on the freak, The feds come and take him away. Said the feds to the freak, are you some kind of Geek, with your anti-social ways ?
Are there bombs in your bag, is that a gun in your hand are you some kinda gay ? Said the freak to the feds, your outta your heads, your taking my freedom away !!
I've never even heard of Lynda Wienman, or her books, or even her website and I've been making webpages since '95 Just paid a visit to the site - what's the big deal ?
Besides the fact that consumers wont go for it, it's just another facet in our wonderful throw-away world - so what do you do with the damn thing when it won't work anymore - chuck it away.
I really hope page rendering gets improved in mozilla/netscape.
Being a webpage designer, the current version of netscape is a total nightmare to code for. It's pixel positioning is buggy to say the least, it's page rendering is still too slow, and it often crashes (especially in linux)
I only use it to make sure that my webpages display correctly for netscape users in windows and linux, and to browse HOWTO files
What I really hope mozilla turns into, is a functional 'non-bloatware' browser which renders flawlessley, is stable, fully supports CSS, DHTML, XML, PNG and runs faster than IE.
I think the bottom line is, you get what you pay for - if you don't want to spend cash on various mirror servers, back-up solutions, redundancy solutions etc. then it's just tough luck when your site gets bombed. It all depends on what you're hosting, if it's a 10 page website, with no backend functionality (brochure-ware iow) then you or you web design company should have a copy locally, plus a backup copy, so an expensive solution is not neccessary. If it's a database driven website complete with e-commerce, do a ton of research and spend money - it'll save you in the long run...
Putting a patent on the human genome is obviously ridiculous, but as someone pointed out, the patenting will most likely occur on genes created/modified as opposed to exisiting genes. The question here should be, do we really want science to create new genes ? We are already capable of creating life (supposedly). Look at the mess we've made with the atom - the first thing that man will do with genetic science (if it's not already being done) is to use it for warfare. In my opinion the patent is a moot point, it would be far better to be discussing the consequences of messing with something we don't fully understand. In the final analysis, however, I guess 12 foot basketball players and pianists with seven fingers on each hand will happen regardless. Mankind is the fool.
Bad Idea, There's little enough privacy in the world today without adding to the problem via a smart card unit hooked up to your PC. When I go shopping in the physical world, I like to remain as anonymous as possible - if I can pay with cash, I do so, if I have to resort to my credit card, ok. Online, I feel safer typing in whatever details I feel like typing - if I want to give bogus information, I can. With a smart-card, how do I really know what information is actually being passed to a website ?
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So exactly how much money is at stake here you greedy bastards ? ascii- ascii-
Oh bushboy !o of-lager-from-germay-beer'
You are so amazing !
I think I love you !
You didn't bable about 'first post' or 'Micropast', never mentioned a word against your former employers or attempted to be clever in any mentionable way.
You never ate too many baked beans before bedding down, drank too many 'super-strong-extra-powerful-melt-my-brain-15%-pr
or performed like a smashing fool in front of your peers.
Bushboy, you are simply amazing !
Please send me $10. I represent the 'keeping up with the technology jone'ses' group of paupers. My wife eats pentium 120's for breakfast, we are poor, please help.
yes - and if you popped it in the over for an hour or two, it made an interesting table ornament guaranteed to be a talking piece at your next cocktail party.
Yeah - be thankfull you don't live in South Africa - it took 10 weeks to install a simple 64k leased line in our offices - we have no DSL options, or cable options at present. Our Telecommunications Monopoly is holding South Africa back big time - still another 2 years to go before the Monopoly comes to an end. Count yourself lucky you have these kinds of services. Even getting a normal home telephone installed here can take over a month !
Perhaps you do, but not everyone does - oh yeah, it also weighed about 50 grams, was about 25x15x5 cm's and had no hard drive.
It was black.
It had a Sinclair logo it the top left hand corner
You connected a standard tape recorder to the back via a jack, the cheaper the better
It made a lot of noise when loading programs, and often didn't load them properly, crashing in the process
Clive Sinclair was bald at the time and wore glasses.
It wasn't as cool as the vic20 or commodore64
When I was a wee nipper, my first computer was a Sinclair ZX81 - the keyboard was basically a piece of plastic over rubber buttons, the power cable would continuosly break where it plugged into the unit, and the 16k add on memory plugged into the back of the unit - one nudge by a passing cat, and all my basic code was fried ! Hey, what can I say, I couldn't afford an IBM with my allowance !
My o my, it's a damn long way from the Southern Hemisphere, even when you run !
Luckily I've got my cellphone connected to my laptop so I can post this !
Man, this battery back-pack is getting heavy....
Ok, so a kid gets reported for behaving "differently" - then what happens ?
Do they break through his door dressed in full combat gear, wielding shotguns and teargas and frog-march the kid into custody ?
Sounds pretty damn scary to me - another great american witch hunt baby !
Little bo peep 'rats' on the freak,
The feds come and take him away.
Said the feds to the freak,
are you some kind of Geek,
with your anti-social ways ?
Are there bombs in your bag,
is that a gun in your hand
are you some kinda gay ?
Said the freak to the feds,
your outta your heads,
your taking my freedom away !!
Blam Blam Thank you Man
I've never even heard of Lynda Wienman, or her books, or even her website and I've been making webpages since '95 Just paid a visit to the site - what's the big deal ?
Who gives a toss about Macca anyway, it's just more advertising for mp3.com
Whatever record companies decide on the mp3 debate, it's not going to solve any problems until they can control what people upload and download.
I wouldn't call mp3 a movement, but it's definatley a small revolution in the way people listen to music - blah blah blah - yawn
That aint music, that's the way ya do it,record that guitar to mp3,
This aint piracy, it's just the way we do it,
after all, we own the CD ?
I want my, I want my, I want my mp3
What a brilliantly *crap* idea.
Besides the fact that consumers wont go for it, it's just another facet in our wonderful throw-away world - so what do you do with the damn thing when it won't work anymore - chuck it away.
sigh...
I really hope page rendering gets improved in mozilla/netscape.
Being a webpage designer, the current version of netscape is a total nightmare to code for. It's pixel positioning is buggy to say the least, it's page rendering is still too slow, and it often crashes (especially in linux)
I only use it to make sure that my webpages display correctly for netscape users in windows and linux, and to browse HOWTO files
What I really hope mozilla turns into, is a functional 'non-bloatware' browser which renders flawlessley, is stable, fully supports CSS, DHTML, XML, PNG and runs faster than IE.
I think the bottom line is, you get what you pay for - if you don't want to spend cash on various mirror servers, back-up solutions, redundancy solutions etc. then it's just tough luck when your site gets bombed. It all depends on what you're hosting, if it's a 10 page website, with no backend functionality (brochure-ware iow) then you or you web design company should have a copy locally, plus a backup copy, so an expensive solution is not neccessary. If it's a database driven website complete with e-commerce, do a ton of research and spend money - it'll save you in the long run...
Putting a patent on the human genome is obviously ridiculous, but as someone pointed out, the patenting will most likely occur on genes created/modified as opposed to exisiting genes. The question here should be, do we really want science to create new genes ? We are already capable of creating life (supposedly). Look at the mess we've made with the atom - the first thing that man will do with genetic science (if it's not already being done) is to use it for warfare. In my opinion the patent is a moot point, it would be far better to be discussing the consequences of messing with something we don't fully understand. In the final analysis, however, I guess 12 foot basketball players and pianists with seven fingers on each hand will happen regardless. Mankind is the fool.
Maybe the waiter in his favourite restuarant wrote down his credit card number on a scrap of paper and went on a massive $50 shopping spree !
Or perhaps it was the check-out girl at his local store ?
This is starting to get ridiculous ...
Bad Idea, There's little enough privacy in the world today without adding to the problem via a smart card unit hooked up to your PC. When I go shopping in the physical world, I like to remain as anonymous as possible - if I can pay with cash, I do so, if I have to resort to my credit card, ok. Online, I feel safer typing in whatever details I feel like typing - if I want to give bogus information, I can. With a smart-card, how do I really know what information is actually being passed to a website ?