Psssst: "Baa Baa Black Sheep" and "God Save The Queen" (aka "My Country Tis of Thee") are in the public domain. But, at the time, "In the Mood" decidedly wasn't, probably still isn't today, maybe that's why they only used a short extract, fair use and all that.
Wow, you know you're right, it had never occurred to me that the melody of "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep" is the same as "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" presumably chosen because of it's connotations with the original Edison Phonograph recording. And "god save the Queen" is still turning up in strange embedded processor music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGEqlNU30Tg
Yeah, well, the most I've seen them charge extra for XP is £80 about $160 (on top end laptops) so I, for one, wish the Yanks would quit whining. Oh and Dell can shove their laptops where the sun don't shine.
I hope for his sake he never signed a contract with them agreeing the, otherwise unenforceable, clause:
Copying or disseminating any of this message is prohibited. Somehow, I suspect, posting the whole email to Slashdot might just count as disseminating. Actually, come to think of it, I just Copied and disseminated a bit of their email, and do I care?
For my fellow brits, used to BBC units of measurement, it's roughly 120 micro london buses (ub), 0.12 millibuses.
And a dime is an American coin worth roughly 5p (at time of writing).
On the other hand, it'll also make it easier to figure out how to make bigger sticks that are lighter and sharper. You mean they are taking Einstein's prediction that World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones seriously, and want to be ready for it?
I have a lexmark C510. It was incredibly easy to refill the toner. I have to say that Lexmark's inkjet business practices are as scummy as they come but their business laser printers are fine.
Yes, but, suspect or not, if 100lbs of muscle and teeth is coming at you you're going to putting out so much "fear scent" that humans could smell it, never mind the dog.
Actually we do have very effective lip reading computers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_Lip_Reading they just don't understand what they are reading. The documentary about lip reading the silent movies of Hitler was very interesting from a technical standpoint, even if it did turn out that they had hours of recordings of Nazis making small talk about the weather.
I was going to post this "Is this Bill laughing at us?
Or is this Bill ignoring us?
Or is this Bill fighting us?
Or are we winning?
My guess is that we are around the start of the fighting stage." but since you've covered that, I'll make this observation, what Micro$oft is afraid of is that their business model is based on planned obsolescence, the ability to sell you the same crap warmed over, again and again. Now that the alternative is getting more and more viable every new version of Windows and Office is an opportunity for their customers to jump ship.
Learning English would be a start.
So, you've dedicated a good portion of your life learning how to speak neanderthal, excellent, what language would I have to learn if I want to speak human? There, fixed that for you.
Note that "fully cleared" isn't when the money hits your account, it's about two weeks later when the cheque has been presented to the issuing bank.
The cheque fraud scammers rely on this and the bank WILL claw back the money. You're right that you probably won't get charged for depositing a fraudulent cheque in good faith, but you won't get to keep the money. At least that's how it works in the UK and US.
Allow me to rephrase that for you.
We constantly have clients that think that because we advertise that they can get 100000 TB of storage and 1000000 ZB of transfer for $3.95/mth, that's what we are actually selling.
It shouldn't even be treated as a reprieve, it should be left where it is. Sticking your fingers in your ears and shouting "Nyah, nyah, nyah, we can't hear you" won't make climate change go away. The US has made it abundantly clear that it won't listen to reason on the matter, and having ten times the supply available will only make that childish, selfish, profligate attitude to energy consumption ten times worse.
And no, I don't have a magic wand solution for global warming, but I think we can be pretty confident that burning billions of barrels of oil isn't it. Maybe I'm being a hypocrite, because I do work in the oil industry, I'd be happy to go work in another industry tomorrow if a solution to energy supply could be found which didn't cause climate change.
What's so dumb about developing on an in use phone?
I'm sure lots of hobbyist developers can't justify the expense of a second iPhone just to develop on.
If you are a solo developer, the easiest way to get alpha and beta test time on your software is to deploy it yourself on your own system. Any system that is so fragile that a non privileged application can do permanent damage or even just bring it down is seriously flawed.
And we're not even talking about that, we're discussing a cock up whereby Apple revoked the "permission to run" for the current developer's release of firmware.
Actually, "God did it" is a much simpler explanation than the sum of present scientific knowledge. I doubt there's any one person in the whole world who understands every intricate detail of, for example, general relativity AND quantum electrodynamics AND string theory AND cosmology AND all of biochemistry AND all of fluid dynamics (that one even caused Einstein headaches).
It does not automatically make "God did it" the right explanation but invoking Occam's razor is perhaps not wise in this case.
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Wow, you know you're right, it had never occurred to me that the melody of "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep" is the same as "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" presumably chosen because of it's connotations with the original Edison Phonograph recording. And "god save the Queen" is still turning up in strange embedded processor music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGEqlNU30Tg
Yeah, well, the most I've seen them charge extra for XP is £80 about $160 (on top end laptops) so I, for one, wish the Yanks would quit whining. Oh and Dell can shove their laptops where the sun don't shine.
It's all very well releasing Firefox 3, but when is a compatible version of Tabmix Plus going to be available for it?
For my fellow brits, used to BBC units of measurement, it's roughly 120 micro london buses (ub), 0.12 millibuses. And a dime is an American coin worth roughly 5p (at time of writing).
But you don't get karma for posts modded "funny".
<joke>Mods, feel free to mod this informative.</joke>
Ha, that's nothing, Windows went from version 3.11 straight to 95.
Immortality might be boring. Would I like to live forever? I don't know, ask me again in three hundred years.
Are you saying there are icebergs in Pisa?
It isn't, he ran it through the "Shatner" filter for that, authentic, Quebec, feel.
I have a lexmark C510. It was incredibly easy to refill the toner. I have to say that Lexmark's inkjet business practices are as scummy as they come but their business laser printers are fine.
Yes, but, suspect or not, if 100lbs of muscle and teeth is coming at you you're going to putting out so much "fear scent" that humans could smell it, never mind the dog.
Actually we do have very effective lip reading computers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_Lip_Reading they just don't understand what they are reading. The documentary about lip reading the silent movies of Hitler was very interesting from a technical standpoint, even if it did turn out that they had hours of recordings of Nazis making small talk about the weather.
I was going to post this "Is this Bill laughing at us? Or is this Bill ignoring us? Or is this Bill fighting us? Or are we winning? My guess is that we are around the start of the fighting stage." but since you've covered that, I'll make this observation, what Micro$oft is afraid of is that their business model is based on planned obsolescence, the ability to sell you the same crap warmed over, again and again. Now that the alternative is getting more and more viable every new version of Windows and Office is an opportunity for their customers to jump ship.
What is really needed is a good ISP list. The only way to sort this out is to hurt the bad ISPs in the wallet by moving to the good ISPs.
Note that "fully cleared" isn't when the money hits your account, it's about two weeks later when the cheque has been presented to the issuing bank.
The cheque fraud scammers rely on this and the bank WILL claw back the money. You're right that you probably won't get charged for depositing a fraudulent cheque in good faith, but you won't get to keep the money. At least that's how it works in the UK and US.
Allow me to rephrase that for you. We constantly have clients that think that because we advertise that they can get 100000 TB of storage and 1000000 ZB of transfer for $3.95/mth, that's what we are actually selling.
It shouldn't even be treated as a reprieve, it should be left where it is. Sticking your fingers in your ears and shouting "Nyah, nyah, nyah, we can't hear you" won't make climate change go away. The US has made it abundantly clear that it won't listen to reason on the matter, and having ten times the supply available will only make that childish, selfish, profligate attitude to energy consumption ten times worse.
And no, I don't have a magic wand solution for global warming, but I think we can be pretty confident that burning billions of barrels of oil isn't it. Maybe I'm being a hypocrite, because I do work in the oil industry, I'd be happy to go work in another industry tomorrow if a solution to energy supply could be found which didn't cause climate change.
What's so dumb about developing on an in use phone? I'm sure lots of hobbyist developers can't justify the expense of a second iPhone just to develop on. If you are a solo developer, the easiest way to get alpha and beta test time on your software is to deploy it yourself on your own system. Any system that is so fragile that a non privileged application can do permanent damage or even just bring it down is seriously flawed. And we're not even talking about that, we're discussing a cock up whereby Apple revoked the "permission to run" for the current developer's release of firmware.
Actually, "God did it" is a much simpler explanation than the sum of present scientific knowledge. I doubt there's any one person in the whole world who understands every intricate detail of, for example, general relativity AND quantum electrodynamics AND string theory AND cosmology AND all of biochemistry AND all of fluid dynamics (that one even caused Einstein headaches). It does not automatically make "God did it" the right explanation but invoking Occam's razor is perhaps not wise in this case.
You don't need a scanner to tell if a politician is lying.
Their lips move when they are lying.