Re:Right, And this part truly makes my blood boil!
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>I may be a pacifist, and hate the army. This >isn't quite the same as a child being exposed to >porn, but what if I don't want my child exposed >to violence, but the Scooby Doo movie has an >Army ad at the begining?
I won't go into the naivety of your proposed position, but I will say this:
I promise you that the Scooby Doo movie, no matter how "family oriented" it is, will have more violence than any advertisement for the US Army.
>Any site I hit that says something asinine >like "best viewed with Internet Explorer gets an >email from me explaining why I will never bother >to use their site
Two problems with this:
Just because it has the silly little button doesn't mean they've done anything that will make it not work with Netscape/Opera/Mozilla/whatever.
One email from someone that they will perceive as a fringe weirdo will do nothing to make them change their policy, as 98% of their visits will be coming from people that don't have any problem with it and really just don't care one way or the other about browser wars or hatred of MS.
>One wonders what the attraction of such a game is.
I wonder more what the attraction of that movie was. I like Ben Stiller ok (I dug Mystery Men, but that had a lot to do with Janeane), but I couldn't find any redeeming qualities in Zoolander.
>Extend that to 256 if you buy an expensive CF >card.
$100 is "an expensive CF card"?
I guess when you consider the Zaurus itself is $400ish, it could be considered expensive, but...
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Re:Headline is Wrong - Not White Hat
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>So, it'd be more like a closed, but not locked >door, and on a hunch the guy went over and >pushed the latch.
Ehh, maybe if he walked over, pushed the latch, then looked around inside for a while...
Finding an open lock isn't illegal - trespassing as a result of the open lock is.
They don't go into much detail about what he did with the open network during the time he knew about it, but what are the odds that he just ignored it and didn't report it till later cause it was on the back burner?
If they can demonstrate that he poked around, he broke the law.
>"During my service in the United States >Congress, I took the initiative in creating the >Internet," in an interview with CNN.
And he DID have a role in the early development of what we know as today's internet (http://www.salon.com/tech/col/rose/2000/10/05/gor e_internet/ )
The point was that it's another one of those things where someone (in this case, GW Bush's campaign) cooks something he said into something he didn't, which spreads via modern folklore until he's remembered as the guy that claimed to have invented the internet.
Rather like Bill Gates is popularly credited with saying "640k ought to be enough for anyone", when he never said it.
>I'd love to hear from the original citer on >when/where it was quoted from.
So would Bill, among others.
Go do a google search for "bill gates 640k". You'll find a couple of articles with Bill denying having said it, and a thousand sites with the quote itself, some with "1981" added on, but nobody ANYWHERE can say where he was or who he said it to.
As mentioned in a previous post, can we add this to the list of "handy quotes that were never said", right up there with Al Gore "inventing the internet"?
>http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Computing_timeli ne
But no date. No place. No context. That's what I'm looking for.
Something besides some random attribution on some random website.
Show me someone that HEARD him say it. Someone that can say where he was. When it was. Who he was addressing. ANY details. NOBODY can ever provide anything except "1981".
While we're at it, let's find the part where Al Gore claims to have invented the internet.
> Yet again, another person assuming everyone >wants windows
I never suggested that EVERYONE wants Windows.
The simple fact is that MORE people want Windows, and since IBM is first and foremost a business, it makes economical sense to focus on what most of the customers want.
Maybe they did some sort of analysis and realized that it wasn't cost effective to support Linux on Thinkpads. If you don't like that, too bad. You can still install it yourself.
IBM is big enough that they can stand up to MS and not be bullied into installing ONLY Windows. Let's also not forget that, as you mentioned, MS *IS* currently in court for bullying their customers. It'd be pretty stupid for them to try these kinds of tactics on IBM right now, wouldn't it?
Say what you like about Microsoft, but they didn't get to where they are today by being dumb.
>They are big enough to tell M$ to "fuck off" and >go ahead and sell whatever the hell they want >with their machines. Why don't they?
Maybe they ARE selling whatever they want, and it just happens to NOT BE LINUX.
Once again, another person assumes that a company is selling Windows because they are somehow FORCED to sell Windows, rather than because it's what the customers are asking for.
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>I may be a pacifist, and hate the army. This
>isn't quite the same as a child being exposed to
>porn, but what if I don't want my child exposed
>to violence, but the Scooby Doo movie has an
>Army ad at the begining?
I won't go into the naivety of your proposed position, but I will say this:
I promise you that the Scooby Doo movie, no matter how "family oriented" it is, will have more violence than any advertisement for the US Army.
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>i know that if i go pay a man to kill my wife
>that i can be charged with murder.
Actually, you'd be charged with conspiracy to commit murder.
Serious, but not first degree murder territory.
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>Any site I hit that says something asinine
>like "best viewed with Internet Explorer gets an
>email from me explaining why I will never bother
>to use their site
Two problems with this:
Just because it has the silly little button doesn't mean they've done anything that will make it not work with Netscape/Opera/Mozilla/whatever.
One email from someone that they will perceive as a fringe weirdo will do nothing to make them change their policy, as 98% of their visits will be coming from people that don't have any problem with it and really just don't care one way or the other about browser wars or hatred of MS.
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>they should make holographic pinball, they have
>the technology
Force-feedback just isn't good enough at an affordable level to make electronic pinball "real".
Pinball is a tactile game. You can do neat stuff with video simulations of pinball, but until it FEELS like pinball, it ain't pinball.
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>One wonders what the attraction of such a game is.
I wonder more what the attraction of that movie was. I like Ben Stiller ok (I dug Mystery Men, but that had a lot to do with Janeane), but I couldn't find any redeeming qualities in Zoolander.
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>Luckily we still have table football (at least
>in Belgium). Do you have it in the states too?
We call it "foosball".
And my favorite pool hall yanked out their only pinball machine to put in a foosball table. Reeeally annoying.
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>The only people who want to compute in a
>saltwater environment are pirates.
Well, he mentioned wanting to watch DVD's, so I guess he's looking for booty.
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>Extend that to 256 if you buy an expensive CF
>card.
$100 is "an expensive CF card"?
I guess when you consider the Zaurus itself is $400ish, it could be considered expensive, but...
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>So, it'd be more like a closed, but not locked
>door, and on a hunch the guy went over and
>pushed the latch.
Ehh, maybe if he walked over, pushed the latch, then looked around inside for a while...
Finding an open lock isn't illegal - trespassing as a result of the open lock is.
They don't go into much detail about what he did with the open network during the time he knew about it, but what are the odds that he just ignored it and didn't report it till later cause it was on the back burner?
If they can demonstrate that he poked around, he broke the law.
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>a vast number of /.'ers would probably use this
>to recreate a certain Monty Python and the Holy
>Grail scene
First the spankings, then the oral sex?
The force feedback isn't THAT good...
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>it's hard to find a topic I know enough about
Funny, I usually find it harder to find a topic I CARE enough about instead of knowing enough about.
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>well i was caught in a llama stampede when i was
>younger
Actually, I bet you're safer than the rest of us.
What are the odds of you getting run over by a llama TWICE?
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(credit to Garp)
>the guy _want's_ the software to fail in order
>to save lives.
Without even considering the lives that would be lost due to the software failing...
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>"During my service in the United States
r e_internet/ )
>Congress, I took the initiative in creating the
>Internet," in an interview with CNN.
And he DID have a role in the early development of what we know as today's internet (http://www.salon.com/tech/col/rose/2000/10/05/go
The point was that it's another one of those things where someone (in this case, GW Bush's campaign) cooks something he said into something he didn't, which spreads via modern folklore until he's remembered as the guy that claimed to have invented the internet.
Rather like Bill Gates is popularly credited with saying "640k ought to be enough for anyone", when he never said it.
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>I'd love to hear from the original citer on
>when/where it was quoted from.
So would Bill, among others.
Go do a google search for "bill gates 640k". You'll find a couple of articles with Bill denying having said it, and a thousand sites with the quote itself, some with "1981" added on, but nobody ANYWHERE can say where he was or who he said it to.
As mentioned in a previous post, can we add this to the list of "handy quotes that were never said", right up there with Al Gore "inventing the internet"?
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>http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Computing_timeli ne
But no date. No place. No context. That's what I'm looking for.
Something besides some random attribution on some random website.
Show me someone that HEARD him say it. Someone that can say where he was. When it was. Who he was addressing. ANY details. NOBODY can ever provide anything except "1981".
While we're at it, let's find the part where Al Gore claims to have invented the internet.
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>"640K should be enough for anybody"?
Sure. Who you gonna attribute this to?
Hint: It's not Bill. He never actually said it.
If you claim otherwise, provide documentation. At least a date. Preferably video or audio.
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>How about http://warez.slashdot.org/
>[slashdot.org]?
Pretty lame, I already had all that stuff.
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>My tax dollars should go to providing HBO and
>A/C to thugs and degenerates.
I'm not really a thug or degenerate, but I play them on the internet.
You wanna pay the cable or the electric bill?
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>I used to have long hair, cut it off not because
>of the statement it would make, but more the
>statement it would *not* make.
I guess my statement cutting mine off was "it's too damn hot".
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>Running linux on a box that Microsoft loses
>money on: Priceless
Being the fifth person to post the same lame joke: worthless.
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> Yet again, another person assuming everyone
>wants windows
I never suggested that EVERYONE wants Windows.
The simple fact is that MORE people want Windows, and since IBM is first and foremost a business, it makes economical sense to focus on what most of the customers want.
Maybe they did some sort of analysis and realized that it wasn't cost effective to support Linux on Thinkpads. If you don't like that, too bad. You can still install it yourself.
IBM is big enough that they can stand up to MS and not be bullied into installing ONLY Windows. Let's also not forget that, as you mentioned, MS *IS* currently in court for bullying their customers. It'd be pretty stupid for them to try these kinds of tactics on IBM right now, wouldn't it?
Say what you like about Microsoft, but they didn't get to where they are today by being dumb.
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>They are big enough to tell M$ to "fuck off" and
>go ahead and sell whatever the hell they want
>with their machines. Why don't they?
Maybe they ARE selling whatever they want, and it just happens to NOT BE LINUX.
Once again, another person assumes that a company is selling Windows because they are somehow FORCED to sell Windows, rather than because it's what the customers are asking for.
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>north attracks south, south attracks north..
>jeez you're an idiot
I'm speechless.
Or should I spell that "speachless"?
Wasn't there a Godwin-style law that said that any spelling flame will, itself, contain a spelling error?
Something like that, at least. Er.. at leest.
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> [ Or you can get... ] ...a proper video card.
>The Matrox Dualhead
Since this machine is also my gaming system, how's the 3D performance on that "proper video card" compared to my Nvidia?
That's kinda what I thought.
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