I (grub.net Industries) have been granted a patent on:
"Voluntarily moderated muscle ring for the controlled
expulsion of solid and semi-solid waste from the posterior
opening of the alimentary canal."
Please note that I
claim immediate control of all such devices. grub.net Industries'
team of highly paid lawyers will station in all hospital delivery
rooms to receive our license fee from the parents before the child
first uses our product.
If you have been using said product
without paying our license fee please note that you are in direct
violation of patent law and may be held liable for damages. You
are ordered to cease use of The Product immediately until said
license fee ($100 at birth, 25 cents per use thereafter) to grub.net
Industries.
Hmm... does the fact that it can be used by mere mortals count as a 'technical advantage'? (hint: you shouldn't have to learn how to use a shell in order to operate or administrate a computer)
True story: My little brother's Mac and/or cable modem was acting up. He had been running OSX since the 'test drive'. I pulled up a console to check something and he asked "What's that?" I laughed at first but then it hit me; Apple has done such a damn good job on it's front end that the typical end user never had to worry about the chewy UNIXish creamy center.
Very very impressive job on Apple's part, and it can only get better..
(side note, the problem was with the cable modem, not his Mac or the OS)
(nb: The last IBM big-box I worked on was a first generation AS400 so this question may be dated) I recall licensing of IBM's OSs to be fairly expensive, have they cut prices at all to reflect the fact that a lot (the bulk?) of the vanilla Linux development happens outside IBM, therefore costing them nothing?
Root^H^H^Hed Hat should buy Loki's assets and licenses. They have a somewhat successful business already, a gaming division for "their" OS would be a nice feather in their cap (cap.. heh, no pun intended)
Last weekend I noticed that my bum was itchy. Leaning to one side
I scratched at the itch but it moved further towards my anus. I was
scratching at my anus when the itch moved inside my bum.
"Weird.." was all I could think. I managed to get my right index
finger in my puckered starfish in pursuit of the antagonist. Too late,
already the beast has gone around the bend past my rectum and into my
colon. I eased a second finger in my red-eye, followed by a third, fourth,
and finally my thumb. The thick knuckle ridge was a bit hard to get in
but I took a deep breath and it slipped in like butter. The itch was
mocking me. I could sense it laughing at my hand just centimeters away.
Taking another breath I slid my arm in my ass all the way to the elbow
but the itch had moved further up my intestinal tract. Past the elbow
to my bicep I went, my wrist making the bend in my colon with ease.
The itch was near, I could sense it! I pushed further in to the
moist darkness to the shoulder but the itch moved farther away..
If I was to scratch this itch, I'd have to do it by suprise! I lay
in my chair whistling to myself so as to get the itch thinking it
was forgotten about. When the time was right I pounced! My head,
shoulders and upper body were in my ass and I had the itch cornered,
for just past it was last nights dinner coming down the pipe, the
bits of corn glistening like stars at night. Another lunge forward
and I was within millimeters of the itch. I walked towards the
itch, smiling with joy.. "Wait! How am I walking?" then it hit
me. My anus was a portal through the space time contiuum. I was
in another dimension, the festering home to the itch.
Last weekend I noticed that my bum was itchy. Leaning to one side
I scratched at the itch but it moved further towards my anus. I was
scratching at my anus when the itch moved inside my bum.
"Weird.." was all I could think. I managed to get my right index
finger in my puckered starfish in pursuit of the antagonist. Too late,
already the beast has gone around the bend past my rectum and into my
colon. I eased a second finger in my red-eye, followed by a third, fourth,
and finally my thumb. The thick knuckle ridge was a bit hard to get in
but I took a deep breath and it slipped in like butter. The itch was
mocking me. I could sense it laughing at my hand just centimeters away.
Taking another breath I slid my arm in my ass all the way to the elbow
but the itch had moved further up my intestinal tract. Past the elbow
to my bicep I went, my wrist making the bend in my colon with ease.
The itch was near, I could sense it! I pushed further in to the
moist darkness to the shoulder but the itch moved farther away..
If I was to scratch this itch, I'd have to do it by suprise! I lay
in my chair whistling to myself so as to get the itch thinking it
was forgotten about. When the time was right I pounced! My head,
shoulders and upper body were in my ass and I had the itch cornered,
for just past it was last nights dinner coming down the pipe, the
bits of corn glistening like stars at night. Another lunge forward
and I was within millimeters of the itch. I walked towards the
itch, smiling with joy.. "Wait! How am I walking?" then it hit
me. My anus was a portal through the space time contiuum. I was
in another dimension, the festering home to the itch.
From the article: How the archive works is just with stacks and stacks of computers runnning Solaris on x86, FreeBSD, and Linux, all of which have serious flaws, so we need to use different operating systems for different functions.
The man puts bias aside and uses various OSs in areas in which each performs well. A real, tangible project like this is worth more than any amount of drooling zealotry.
If Darren Reed hadn't been such a stubborn cock and lightened up on his licensing then perhaps ipf would still be part of the OpenBSD install. It has likely taken him way longer to set up his own installer and layout than if he had just grown up and listened to reason.
No thanks, I'm sticking with the official OpenBSD CD sets.
hrm.. does Reed's come with a cool music track like OpenBSD 3.0 had on CD 2?:)
Ma and Pa Kettle on AOL don't know who Alan Cox, Linux Torvalds, Theo de Raadt, Jordan Hubbard, or any other GPL/BSD software luminaries are. AOL is a brand to which Red Hat may make a nice addition with its products. If Mr. Cox thinks AOL or Red Hat will pass up a deal because he might leave, I would suggest he will be in for a shocking reality-check.
Recall that "Linux" is owned by Linus. It's not inconceivable to envision a pissing match of the egos ending in "Cox' "rogue" kernel isn't true Linux. Rename it." one day.
Too bad. Northern Light was my primary search engine for a long while, and was my secondary recently (no need to say what #1 was.) The really nice thing was Northern Light's categorization of hits. It was often far more useful than trusting Google's "sort by relevance"
"Stay on target...Stay on target!" Porkins
"I've got the death sentence on 12 systems!" scumbag in cantina
"flubbablorgafthstuknirmblaaaa.." Greedo in cantina
Why are the most memorable characters from the first movie or two (or IV and V, depending on your viewpoint)? Good thing we have these gems to counteract the Jar Jar/Nsync crap.
Slashdot Mirror
I've had an Intel microscope for a couple of years and took pics of a used Biore nasal strip with it.
check them out.
...I hate everyone equally.
If I subscribe, will I be able to filter out all the fake stories?
Even better, if you get the Slashdot Gold Plan, you just get redirected to The Register.
NEWSFLASH
More than one April Fools joke isn't clever, it's lame.
Certainly there has been no shortage of real "News for nerds.." today.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
I (grub.net Industries) have been granted a patent on:
"Voluntarily moderated muscle ring for the controlled
expulsion of solid and semi-solid waste from the posterior
opening of the alimentary canal."
Please note that I claim immediate control of all such devices. grub.net Industries' team of highly paid lawyers will station in all hospital delivery rooms to receive our license fee from the parents before the child first uses our product.
If you have been using said product without paying our license fee please note that you are in direct violation of patent law and may be held liable for damages.
You are ordered to cease use of The Product immediately until said license fee ($100 at birth, 25 cents per use thereafter) to grub.net Industries.
Thank you for your time.
actually i'm waiting for all the open source hypocrits to issue a press release noting that this is yet another risk of using microsoft products
The patches for many of the open source products are already out with more to come. Where are Microsoft's? There is a risk.
Hmm... does the fact that it can be used by mere mortals count as a 'technical advantage'? (hint: you shouldn't have to learn how to use a shell in order to operate or administrate a computer)
True story: My little brother's Mac and/or cable modem was acting up. He had been running OSX since the 'test drive'. I pulled up a console to check something and he asked "What's that?" I laughed at first but then it hit me; Apple has done such a damn good job on it's front end that the typical end user never had to worry about the chewy UNIXish creamy center.
Very very impressive job on Apple's part, and it can only get better..
(side note, the problem was with the cable modem, not his Mac or the OS)
Unfortunately, you get one smooth GUI, and if you don't like it, you're stuck. Such are the joys of closed systems.
If you don't like Aqua just run any of your favourite X window managers. Yes, OSX is capable of running X.
I made one lousy +5 joke about Jon Katz, and now I'm banned from moderating.
Interesting. What's the poop?
(nb: The last IBM big-box I worked on was a first generation AS400 so this question may be dated)
I recall licensing of IBM's OSs to be fairly expensive, have they cut prices at all to reflect the fact that a lot (the bulk?) of the vanilla Linux development happens outside IBM, therefore costing them nothing?
Root^H^H^Hed Hat should buy Loki's assets and licenses. They have a somewhat successful business already, a gaming division for "their" OS would be a nice feather in their cap (cap.. heh, no pun intended)
~ a personal journey ~
Last weekend I noticed that my bum was itchy. Leaning to one side
I scratched at the itch but it moved further towards my anus. I was
scratching at my anus when the itch moved inside my bum.
"Weird.." was all I could think. I managed to get my right index
finger in my puckered starfish in pursuit of the antagonist. Too late,
already the beast has gone around the bend past my rectum and into my
colon. I eased a second finger in my red-eye, followed by a third, fourth,
and finally my thumb. The thick knuckle ridge was a bit hard to get in
but I took a deep breath and it slipped in like butter. The itch was
mocking me. I could sense it laughing at my hand just centimeters away.
Taking another breath I slid my arm in my ass all the way to the elbow
but the itch had moved further up my intestinal tract. Past the elbow
to my bicep I went, my wrist making the bend in my colon with ease.
The itch was near, I could sense it! I pushed further in to the
moist darkness to the shoulder but the itch moved farther away..
If I was to scratch this itch, I'd have to do it by suprise! I lay
in my chair whistling to myself so as to get the itch thinking it
was forgotten about. When the time was right I pounced! My head,
shoulders and upper body were in my ass and I had the itch cornered,
for just past it was last nights dinner coming down the pipe, the
bits of corn glistening like stars at night. Another lunge forward
and I was within millimeters of the itch. I walked towards the
itch, smiling with joy.. "Wait! How am I walking?" then it hit
me. My anus was a portal through the space time contiuum. I was
in another dimension, the festering home to the itch.
>
~ a personal journey ~
Last weekend I noticed that my bum was itchy. Leaning to one side
I scratched at the itch but it moved further towards my anus. I was
scratching at my anus when the itch moved inside my bum.
"Weird.." was all I could think. I managed to get my right index
finger in my puckered starfish in pursuit of the antagonist. Too late,
already the beast has gone around the bend past my rectum and into my
colon. I eased a second finger in my red-eye, followed by a third, fourth,
and finally my thumb. The thick knuckle ridge was a bit hard to get in
but I took a deep breath and it slipped in like butter. The itch was
mocking me. I could sense it laughing at my hand just centimeters away.
Taking another breath I slid my arm in my ass all the way to the elbow
but the itch had moved further up my intestinal tract. Past the elbow
to my bicep I went, my wrist making the bend in my colon with ease.
The itch was near, I could sense it! I pushed further in to the
moist darkness to the shoulder but the itch moved farther away..
If I was to scratch this itch, I'd have to do it by suprise! I lay
in my chair whistling to myself so as to get the itch thinking it
was forgotten about. When the time was right I pounced! My head,
shoulders and upper body were in my ass and I had the itch cornered,
for just past it was last nights dinner coming down the pipe, the
bits of corn glistening like stars at night. Another lunge forward
and I was within millimeters of the itch. I walked towards the
itch, smiling with joy.. "Wait! How am I walking?" then it hit
me. My anus was a portal through the space time contiuum. I was
in another dimension, the festering home to the itch.
Yup, google rocks my world.
I hope no one is taking my comments as a troll, but sometimes it's wise to detach yourself, take a step back and question what you like.
So the google we all know and love is really a "proof of concept" for it's sales team. Interesting, thanks.
Maybe it's just me, but if people can already find the most relevant results on Google, what are the chances anyone's gonna use this service?
Has google shown a profit yet? The thousands of CPUs, disks, and massive bandwidth have to be paid for by someone.
From the article:
How the archive works is just with stacks and stacks of computers runnning Solaris on x86, FreeBSD, and Linux, all of which have serious flaws, so we need to use different operating systems for different functions.
The man puts bias aside and uses various OSs in areas in which each performs well. A real, tangible project like this is worth more than any amount of drooling zealotry.
If Darren Reed hadn't been such a stubborn cock and lightened up on his licensing then perhaps ipf would still be part of the OpenBSD install.
It has likely taken him way longer to set up his own installer and layout than if he had just grown up and listened to reason.
No thanks, I'm sticking with the official OpenBSD CD sets.
hrm.. does Reed's come with a cool music track like OpenBSD 3.0 had on CD 2?
Go Theo!
Ma and Pa Kettle on AOL don't know who Alan Cox, Linux Torvalds, Theo de Raadt, Jordan Hubbard, or any other GPL/BSD software luminaries are. AOL is a brand to which Red Hat may make a nice addition with its products. If Mr. Cox thinks AOL or Red Hat will pass up a deal because he might leave, I would suggest he will be in for a shocking reality-check.
Recall that "Linux" is owned by Linus. It's not inconceivable to envision a pissing match of the egos ending in "Cox' "rogue" kernel isn't true Linux. Rename it." one day.
Too bad. Northern Light was my primary search engine for a long while, and was my secondary recently (no need to say what #1 was.)
The really nice thing was Northern Light's categorization of hits. It was often far more useful than trusting Google's "sort by relevance"
Damn this is sad.
I hope you offloaded all the ASCII pr0n before trashing your tapes.
I've got it partly deciphered.
It starts: "Make Money Fast!"
I'll work on the rest tommorrow.
Be a smart man: ssh.
"Stay on target...Stay on target!" Porkins
"I've got the death sentence on 12 systems!" scumbag in cantina
"flubbablorgafthstuknirmblaaaa.." Greedo in cantina
Why are the most memorable characters from the first movie or two (or IV and V, depending on your viewpoint)?
Good thing we have these gems to counteract the Jar Jar/Nsync crap.