The lab is temporarily closed as we deal with an experiment that got slightly out of hand. Nothing to be concerned about, really. All of our engineers are perfectly safe and there was never any real danger of it escaping into the wild.
Please check back in a few hours. Everything should be back to normal then and science will march on once again. We appreciate your patience.
Decision: HP-UX will be the long-term UNIX for the new HP. Tru64 UNIX has some very advanced features -- including clustering and file systems -- and some of those will be integrated into HP-UX over time.
Wow! Tru64 UNIX has support for file systems? What'll those Compaq engineers dream up next? Symbolic links?!
I don't think that has a lot to do with it, since shipping the items in question from the US would cost much more than from within the EU, therefore making up much of the difference.
However, the prices are cheaper in the US for most things, which means that even factoring in shipping, it's still cheaper for Europeans to buy many things from North America.
The precise implementation of the agreement seems to vary depending on what part of the world you're in, but the inclusion of Macs in the headcount, and the insistence that you have to count all PCs rather than just a specific number you want to license, is probably general. In the US "Microsoft Schools Agreement 3.0," for example, "100 per cent of all Pentiums, Power Macs, iMacs or better" are specified, whereas the FAQ document for the UK Microsoft School Agreement says "You need to count 100% of all Pentiums, Power Macs and iMacs."
Why the hell should dialup users do MX lookups themselves? Dialup users should send their outgoing mail via SMTP to their ISP's mail server and let it do the work.
There is almost never a legitimate reason for dialup clients to be doing direct delivery of mail!
Incidentally, the DUL is currently stopping CmdrTaco from directly emailing one of the Slash coders.
That's because he's trying to connect to the coder's ISP's SMTP server directly to send the mail. That SMTP server sees that Rob is coming in from a dialup pool and refuses the mail, as it bloody well should.
Solution: Rob should be using his ISP's SMTP server.
The price is already stratospheric! In actual fact, DVI input requires less processing than VGA input, but it's still regarded as a premium item. Case in point: Samsung's 171T is 1/3 the price of this monstrosity and has both DVI and VGA inputs...
Many of those irregularities come from words imported from other languages. For example, stimulus becomes stimuli, but genus becomes genera. Ignoramus is a Latin-sounding word, and indeed is of Latin origin. But it wasn't a noun in its original language; it was a first-person plural verb! So ignoramus is pluralized in the typical English fashion: ignoramuses.
w00t! Most amusing.:) I've been lusting over a Segway ever since they were unveiled, and I want one so badly! I'm going to try to get my hands on one as soon as they're offered to the public. It'll put me in the poor house, though...:(
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Thanks for your interest in Google Labs.
The lab is temporarily closed as we deal with an experiment that got slightly out of hand. Nothing to be concerned about, really. All of our engineers are perfectly safe and there was never any real danger of it escaping into the wild.
Please check back in a few hours. Everything should be back to normal then and science will march on once again. We appreciate your patience.
Scroll down to the bottom. (Couldn't resist, sorry!)
one: "All your base are belong to us!"
Seeing as Brilliant Digital will be storing content on people's machines, don't you mean "All your disk are belong to us"?
(Sorry.)
I can see the conversation with the registrar already:
.pro domain name for myself. Where do I fax my credentials?"
"Yes, my name is Seymour Edward Xavier, Ph.D. I'd like to register a
(If you don't get it, think about it for a minute.)
Decision: HP-UX will be the long-term UNIX for the new HP. Tru64 UNIX has some very advanced features -- including clustering and file systems -- and some of those will be integrated into HP-UX over time.
Wow! Tru64 UNIX has support for file systems? What'll those Compaq engineers dream up next? Symbolic links?!
I don't think that has a lot to do with it, since shipping the items in question from the US would cost much more than from within the EU, therefore making up much of the difference.
However, the prices are cheaper in the US for most things, which means that even factoring in shipping, it's still cheaper for Europeans to buy many things from North America.
Nah. The "or better" wording takes care of that nicely. ;)
In a bid to help European online sales, the EU is planning to tax online transactions.
In other news, in a bid to help women feel safer while walking alone at night, the government is planning to legalize rape.
WTF?!
The precise implementation of the agreement seems to vary depending on what part of the world you're in, but the inclusion of Macs in the headcount, and the insistence that you have to count all PCs rather than just a specific number you want to license, is probably general. In the US "Microsoft Schools Agreement 3.0," for example, "100 per cent of all Pentiums, Power Macs, iMacs or better" are specified, whereas the FAQ document for the UK Microsoft School Agreement says "You need to count 100% of all Pentiums, Power Macs and iMacs."
Is it just me, or do I spot a loophole?
Why the hell should dialup users do MX lookups themselves? Dialup users should send their outgoing mail via SMTP to their ISP's mail server and let it do the work.
There is almost never a legitimate reason for dialup clients to be doing direct delivery of mail!
Incidentally, the DUL is currently stopping CmdrTaco from directly emailing one of the Slash coders.
That's because he's trying to connect to the coder's ISP's SMTP server directly to send the mail. That SMTP server sees that Rob is coming in from a dialup pool and refuses the mail, as it bloody well should.
Solution: Rob should be using his ISP's SMTP server.
This is the sort of people that run pstwo.net. Great folk, apparently. Very in-tune with netiquette...
If at first you don't addict, try, try again!
8) Buy Compaq.
;)
They already beat Sun to it. Sorry, Bowie.
The price is already stratospheric! In actual fact, DVI input requires less processing than VGA input, but it's still regarded as a premium item. Case in point: Samsung's 171T is 1/3 the price of this monstrosity and has both DVI and VGA inputs...
This monitor is over THREE THOUSAND US DOLLARS and it doesn't even have a DVI INPUT?!
What the hell was NEC thinking?!?!
That puts things into perspective nicely. Thanks for the factoids. Makes you stop and think...
I second that motion. (Click my URL above to see what I mean. ;)
The admin machine is not sharing any drives.
\\machinename\C$ for one...
Many of those irregularities come from words imported from other languages. For example, stimulus becomes stimuli, but genus becomes genera. Ignoramus is a Latin-sounding word, and indeed is of Latin origin. But it wasn't a noun in its original language; it was a first-person plural verb! So ignoramus is pluralized in the typical English fashion: ignoramuses.
:)
;-)
And datum becomes data.
It's "grammar."
Ouch...
Oxen are just soooo cute, like little baby seals. See what I mean? No? That's my point. Oxen couldn't be cute if they tried.
If you have more than one octopus, they are octopii, not octopusses. Hence, virii.
That has to be some sort of record. Not only is that undoubtedly the single longest run-on sentence I have ever read, it is also one of the funniest.
:)
Good work, UPS-san.
Who the hell needs FedEx when the competition has employees with imagination like yours?! :)
w00t! Most amusing. :) I've been lusting over a Segway ever since they were unveiled, and I want one so badly! I'm going to try to get my hands on one as soon as they're offered to the public. It'll put me in the poor house, though... :(