I want one to play my records with it's beak, one to fly out and change the channel on my TV, and one get all sassy and lock me out of my own stone-age house!
I wouldn't worry so much about Microsoft taking over the world with their new toy, most of the public will assume it's another game console for kids and leave it alone... besides, what are the odds that it'll actually work as advertised? Have they ever made something that did? (Ok, besides DOS 3.3, which rocked the house).
AOL gives away free disposable phones! Only catch - they call you twice a day to try to get you to subscribe to AOL, and of course, the phones are hard-coded to dial only 800 numbers.
Did anyone read the comments at the end of the ZDNet article? As usual, it's enough to make one ill. Those people can't even conduct a flame war properly! sheesh!
Corel's distro was the closest Linux has ever been to "easy". The installer was simplified, the file manager (my favorite part) was very windows-like. I wouldn't doubt that these things struck a chord with Bill and co... what if regular users could install and use Linux by themselves?
1. I loaded the Palm OS on my cell phone so I could transfer messages between my pants pockets!
2. I have apache loaded into the ROMs in my floor lamp, plugged in to the clapper(TM). Site up!(clap,clap), site down!(clap, clap), Apache!
3. My Tivo runs Oracle to ensure that I'll have a robust and scalable platform with which I'll never record anything due to the difficulty of entering a freakin' date field!
4. My Toyota runs Linux because I heard that you don't crash as much with Linux. Sounds good to me!
We pretty much know what people on/. will say on this one, don't we? BTW, if you've had Exchange forced on you (like me) make sure they turn on IMAP and/or POP support so you don't have to use that buggy MS client (Outcast? ShoutOut? Outtake? Outdated?).
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flamebait? it's a joke!! geez... can we re-evaluate who gets mod points based on their witty-ness?
I could see this type of thing really sprucing up the Dinosaur National Monument in Vernal, UT.
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Forget this CG crap, for Episode 3 I want C3-P0 to be a real live, autonomous robot actor, programmed with Anthony Daniels' voice!
I want one to play my records with it's beak, one to fly out and change the channel on my TV, and one get all sassy and lock me out of my own stone-age house!
IANAL, but IMHO the GPL and FSF allow this. BTW, HBO ran D.A.R.Y.L last night. LOL.
I wouldn't worry so much about Microsoft taking over the world with their new toy, most of the public will assume it's another game console for kids and leave it alone... besides, what are the odds that it'll actually work as advertised? Have they ever made something that did? (Ok, besides DOS 3.3, which rocked the house).
Could they at least have gotten Scott Baio? Sheesh!
Add to that the fact that KMail doesn't support IMAP, and you're in a real quandry. What's this P-O-P nonsense? Isn't that a bit outdated?
Information will always find a way... It's my favorite feature of the internet.
Shouldn't that read... (I.E., never!)?
"If you're using Windows NT in a nuclear missile command-and-control center, yes, you should be concerned." - Andrew Fernandes
Giving the term "Blue Screen of Death" a whole new meaning, eh?
Dell, apparently... those jerks still won't sell me AMD powered boxes. :P
I knew the Internet was getting dumbed down, I just didn't realize it would have to get as dumb as Texas!
I happen to think it's laughable when organizations like this become highly-publicized hypocrites.
But seriously, folks... imagine a version of IIS for UN*X... "Application error: IIS cannot get root access to the system". muhahaha
Lucky them! They won't know for months whether it passed!
(Hack available at sourceforge :P )
Make it about Captain Sulu or don't bother
Anyone else notice that /. is starting to look like fuckedcompany.com?
Did I mention that I love /. ?
Corel's distro was the closest Linux has ever been to "easy". The installer was simplified, the file manager (my favorite part) was very windows-like. I wouldn't doubt that these things struck a chord with Bill and co... what if regular users could install and use Linux by themselves?
1. I loaded the Palm OS on my cell phone so I could transfer messages between my pants pockets!
2. I have apache loaded into the ROMs in my floor lamp, plugged in to the clapper(TM). Site up!(clap,clap), site down!(clap, clap), Apache!
3. My Tivo runs Oracle to ensure that I'll have a robust and scalable platform with which I'll never record anything due to the difficulty of entering a freakin' date field!
4. My Toyota runs Linux because I heard that you don't crash as much with Linux. Sounds good to me!
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos!
We pretty much know what people on /. will say on this one, don't we? BTW, if you've had Exchange forced on you (like me) make sure they turn on IMAP and/or POP support so you don't have to use that buggy MS client (Outcast? ShoutOut? Outtake? Outdated?).
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