Was this product in developement pre-Sept. 11? I'm interested in knowing if this is a knee-jerk reaction to terrorist attacks (ala duct tape shortages) or if it was on the drawing board before.
1. Sell millions through internet "e-tailers"
2. Realize that too much profit is bad (for whatever reason)
3. Quit selling to "e-tailers"
4. ???
5. Bankruptcy!
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Was this product in developement pre-Sept. 11? I'm interested in knowing if this is a knee-jerk reaction to terrorist attacks (ala duct tape shortages) or if it was on the drawing board before.
I want to mail this guy and find out which horse comes in first this Tuesday in the 8th at Churchill Downs.
Show this book to your resident MCSE[0] and watch the deer-in-the-headlights.
[0]- Must Consult Someone Else
"You have successfully activated Microsoft Office 2000.
Your computer will resume crashing.
Every quarter that Apple posts a profit is just another nail in the coffin of that dying company.
Oh wait..
I hope this brings even more realism and depth of character to Jar Jar.
Oh bloody hell, the Duke Nukem Forever people will want to start from square one again.
It's ironic that SCO is suing IBM over code in the Linux kernel.. but they're making profits off of Linux.
You assume they'll actually sell enough of this distro to make a profit.
Ron Jeremy has just been named as successor to the pope. Unbelievable.
Long answer: No. Skynet will when it becomes self aware and declares humankind the enemy. The terminators will seek us out and destroy us.
1. Sell millions through internet "e-tailers"
2. Realize that too much profit is bad (for whatever reason)
3. Quit selling to "e-tailers"
4. ???
5. Bankruptcy!
The interviewer didn't ask for Hubbard's reasoning for leaving a dying free OS to join a dying company.
yes I'm joking
I can't come up with a witty comment on this story. Might as well include a goatse.cx link.
Will this mean I have Feral Robot Dog turd to clean off the carpet when I get home after work?
Nowhere in that article did the reviewer say that the MS Tablet PC sucks! see prev article
The worst bit about this terrible submission is that Taco will dupe the post in about 3 hours.
The file looks much smaller than 726kb.. Did I lose the other half?
You probably have your machine running in 64 bit mode, reboot in 32 bit mode and everything should be fine..
Just look at what all the nano-nicotine and nano-tar they put in cigarettes does to people.
Flaw Delays Shipment Of New 'Canterwood' Pentium 4
Frankly I'm suprised a CPU made of wood would work at all.
All that is missing is Hyper Threading
The quad pumped 800 MHz bus is also missing..
In 1980 I had a 1.023 MHz Apple ][+ and I could type ~70 WPM. Intel is pushing 3+ GHz chips and I can still only type ~70 WPM.
Hell, even cheap broadband providers in NA let you snag ~5 GB.
Microsoft Bob
Old hat. Douglas Quaid cleaned up Mars back in 1990. They have a thriving mining community, breathable atmosphere and leet alien artifacts.
Apple has Safari.
Safaris are for big, strong dudes.
Acronym for big, strong dudes is "BSD"
BSD is dying.
Apple has a BSDish system under the hood.
ergo: Apple is dying.