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Back in my day we had a galvanized metal box with a circuit board dangling in it. We had an old VT100 terminal hooked up, and we were happy!. In fact we were so poor we couldn't afford all the serial lines so we had to get by with just both data lines and the ground, but we were happy! None of that Fancy-Pants hardware control stuff that became popular among the Brylcreme'd University people at the time.
Did I mention that to get to this VT100 I had to walk 40 miles uphill kneedeep in snow? Both ways?
No matter how much horsepower I put behind Mathematica, it still gives me errors when I divide by zero. My employer didn't spend zillions of dollars on SGI Origins just to get errors. Can't Wolfram include some sort of Clippy helper?/sarcasm
We should all keep in mind this simple truth: Armadillo Aerospace is dying.
You don't need to be Kreskin to predict Armadillo Aerospace's future. The hand writing is
on the wall: Armadillo Aerospace faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future
at all for Armadillo Aerospace because Armadillo Aerospace is dying. Things are looking very bad for
Armadillo Aerospace. As many of us are already aware, Armadillo Aerospace continues to lose market
share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Famed Armadillo Aerospace bigwig Bill Kourie states that there are 7000 configurations of
their rocket. How many does NASA have? Let's see. The
number of Armadillo Aerospace versus NASA posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio
of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NASA
visitors. Boeing posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of
NASA posts. Therefore there are about 700 visitors to
Boeing. A recent article put ESA at about 80 percent of the
aerospace market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Boeing
visitors. This is consistent with the number of ESA Usenet
posts.
Due to the troubles of Armadillo Aerospace's rockets , abysmal slashdotting of the website and so on,
Armadillo Aerospace is doomed while NASA runs
other troubled aerospace ideas. Now ESA is also dead,its corpse turned
over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Armadillo Aerospace has steadily declined in market share.
Armadillo Aerospace is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If
Armadillo Aerospace is to survive at all it will be among aerospace hobbyists, dabblers,
and dilettantes. Armadillo Aerospace continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could
save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Armadillo Aerospace is dead
I think his concern is that a USB only connection would require a driver, and hence possibly be tied to supported Windows versions.
I've used a USB->Ethernet adapter on my OpenBSD laptop which was recognized instantly as a CUEx device. No configuration (other than the usual ifconfig stuff) was needed.
It is official; Netcraft now confirms: Salon.com is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Salon.com community
when IDC confirmed that Salon.com market share has dropped yet again, now down
to less than a fraction of 1 percent. Coming close on the heels of a recent
Netcraft survey which plainly states that Salon.com has lost more market share,
this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Salon.com is
collapsing in complete disarray.
You don't need to be a Kreskin
to predict Salon.com's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Salon.com faces a
bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Salon.com because
Salon.com is dying. Things are looking very bad for Salon.com. As many of
us are already aware, Salon.com continues to lose market share. Red ink flows
like a river of blood.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
All major surveys show that Salon.com has steadily declined in market share.
Salon.com is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If
Salon.com is to survive at all it will be among dilettante dabblers. Salon.com
continues to decay. Nothing short of a cockeyed miracle could save Salon.com
from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Salon.com is
dead.
I've seen many comments saying "Don't buy from these companies" or the like. That's fine, but be sure to let them know why you aren't buying from them!
[rolling down the aisle] *beep* cart: "Your girlfriend needs tampons, see the specials on Tampax in aisle 5." you: "She does? Already? It seems like yesterday.. cart: "Seeing as you're not getting laid tonight, check out the sale on golf balls in aisle 2."
at what point, does other OS's have sufficient market share, and then Microsoft wont be concidered a monopoly?
Normal Answer: When Microsoft is no longer the dominant player in both the OS and applications markets and they stop using their muscle to put small companies out of business.
Slashdot Answer: When Bill Gates is drawn and quartered in a town square in Finland and Redmond is a deep, smouldering crater.
Al Quaeda wants to kill us all. Thousands die of starvation every day. Thousands more die of preventable diseases. Age old hatred keeps millions on the brink of war.
These people need to go outside for some fresh air. There are much bigger problems in life. This whole protest? bah, who McGives a SimShit?
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It is official; Netcraft now confirms: Segway is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Segway community
when IDC confirmed that Segway market share has dropped yet again, now down
to less than a fraction of 1 percent. Coming close on the heels of a recent
Netcraft survey which plainly states that Segway has lost more market share,
this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Segway is
collapsing in complete disarray.
You don't need to be a Kreskin
to predict Segway's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Segway faces a
bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Segway because
Segway is dying. Things are looking very bad for Segway. As many of
us are already aware, Segway continues to lose market share. Red ink flows
like a river of blood.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
All major surveys show that Segway has steadily declined in market share.
Segway is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If
Segway is to survive at all it will be among dilettante dabblers. Segway
continues to decay. Nothing short of a cockeyed miracle could save Segway
from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Segway is
dead.
Slashdot Mirror
When all that wireless Kazaa traffic gives me a brain tumour, who do I sue?
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Spoiled Linux punks.
Back in my day we had a galvanized metal box with a circuit board dangling in it. We had an old VT100 terminal hooked up, and we were happy!. In fact we were so poor we couldn't afford all the serial lines so we had to get by with just both data lines and the ground, but we were happy! None of that Fancy-Pants hardware control stuff that became popular among the Brylcreme'd University people at the time.
Did I mention that to get to this VT100 I had to walk 40 miles uphill kneedeep in snow? Both ways?
bah..
[/curmudgeon]
MS is aware its products have problems. This is a nice place to start to work on them.
A nice place to start?! How many years old is Windows?
scotty: Cap'n! The slashdot effect is hammerin' the servers!
kirk: Scotty.. if.. you.. can't.. get.. more horsepowertotheserverswe'llcrashandburnandI'llnev
The final recomendation from Microsoft? Don't trust/run ActiveX controls signed by Microsoft.
Ah excellent, for years I never trusted anything from Microsoft but now I can just distrust their signed ActiveX crud.
No matter how much horsepower I put behind Mathematica, it still gives me errors when I divide by zero. My employer didn't spend zillions of dollars on SGI Origins just to get errors. Can't Wolfram include some sort of Clippy helper?
Fact: Armadillo Aerospace is dying
We should all keep in mind this simple truth: Armadillo Aerospace is dying.
You don't need to be Kreskin to predict Armadillo Aerospace's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Armadillo Aerospace faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Armadillo Aerospace because Armadillo Aerospace is dying. Things are looking very bad for Armadillo Aerospace. As many of us are already aware, Armadillo Aerospace continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Famed Armadillo Aerospace bigwig Bill Kourie states that there are 7000 configurations of their rocket. How many does NASA have? Let's see. The number of Armadillo Aerospace versus NASA posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NASA visitors. Boeing posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NASA posts. Therefore there are about 700 visitors to Boeing. A recent article put ESA at about 80 percent of the aerospace market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Boeing visitors. This is consistent with the number of ESA Usenet posts. Due to the troubles of Armadillo Aerospace's rockets , abysmal slashdotting of the website and so on, Armadillo Aerospace is doomed while NASA runs other troubled aerospace ideas. Now ESA is also dead,its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Armadillo Aerospace has steadily declined in market share. Armadillo Aerospace is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Armadillo Aerospace is to survive at all it will be among aerospace hobbyists, dabblers, and dilettantes. Armadillo Aerospace continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Armadillo Aerospace is dead
Fact: Armadillo Aerospace is dying
I think his concern is that a USB only connection would require a driver, and hence possibly be tied to supported Windows versions.
I've used a USB->Ethernet adapter on my OpenBSD laptop which was recognized instantly as a CUEx device. No configuration (other than the usual ifconfig stuff) was needed.
Funny, I was never told to RTFM when I asked for commercial support.
No, you were likely just asked for a credit card number.
[To paraphrase the *BSD is dying trolls]
It is official; Netcraft now confirms: Salon.com is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Salon.com community when IDC confirmed that Salon.com market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent. Coming close on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Salon.com has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Salon.com is collapsing in complete disarray.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Salon.com's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Salon.com faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Salon.com because Salon.com is dying. Things are looking very bad for Salon.com. As many of us are already aware, Salon.com continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
All major surveys show that Salon.com has steadily declined in market share. Salon.com is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Salon.com is to survive at all it will be among dilettante dabblers. Salon.com continues to decay. Nothing short of a cockeyed miracle could save Salon.com from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Salon.com is dead.
Fact: Salon.com is dying
I've seen many comments saying "Don't buy from these companies" or the like. That's fine, but be sure to let them know why you aren't buying from them!
Here are some links to:
Walmart's comment page.
Best Buy's comment page or call them at 1-888-BESTBUY.
Target's comment page or call them at 1-800-440-0680.
Staple's comment page or call 1-800-3STAPLE.
Walmart is the oddman out with prices like "12.64" and "13.28".
Wal-Mart will start suing governments for minting pennies I guess.
[rolling down the aisle]
*beep*
cart: "Your girlfriend needs tampons, see the specials on Tampax in aisle 5."
you: "She does? Already? It seems like yesterday..
cart: "Seeing as you're not getting laid tonight, check out the sale on golf balls in aisle 2."
at what point, does other OS's have sufficient market share, and then Microsoft wont be concidered a monopoly?
Normal Answer: When Microsoft is no longer the dominant player in both the OS and applications markets and they stop using their muscle to put small companies out of business.
Slashdot Answer: When Bill Gates is drawn and quartered in a town square in Finland and Redmond is a deep, smouldering crater.
I'd like to see Bill's face in that moment
Here you go
"Corporations are like cockroaches. They'll survive everything," Lucas said.
Tell that to the companies with the dubious honour of appearing on fuckedcompany.com.
"..as long as it keeps making my industry billions on overpriced plastic."
- Copy protection has never worked, geeks find it a challenge.
- Copyright laws don't work against the small players.
- Cutting hands off thieves never worked, they stole with the other hand.
- Hanging for pickpocketting never worked, other pickpockets worked the crowds at public hangings.
EDUCATION is the best tool against theft, not more laws and ineffective technological hurdles.
John Cleese played Q's assistant in the last movie. I recall seeing him in trailers for this one. Doubtfull he'll do the funny walk though. :)
Troll... James Troll.
Al Quaeda wants to kill us all.
Thousands die of starvation every day.
Thousands more die of preventable diseases.
Age old hatred keeps millions on the brink of war.
These people need to go outside for some fresh air. There are much bigger problems in life.
This whole protest? bah, who McGives a SimShit?
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SkyNet not Skylab. Skylab fell back to earth in 1979.
It is official; Netcraft now confirms: Segway is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Segway community when IDC confirmed that Segway market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent. Coming close on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Segway has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Segway is collapsing in complete disarray.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Segway's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Segway faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Segway because Segway is dying. Things are looking very bad for Segway. As many of us are already aware, Segway continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
All major surveys show that Segway has steadily declined in market share. Segway is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Segway is to survive at all it will be among dilettante dabblers. Segway continues to decay. Nothing short of a cockeyed miracle could save Segway from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Segway is dead.
Fact: Segway is dying