This book inspired the beginning scene of Independence Day, Alien Nation and V. It goes something like "Blotting out the light of the very stars they came from". I can't exactly remember because I read it ages ago, but the story is still strongly embedded in my mind.
This book has pretty good twist regarding the appearance of the aliens. I am not going to tell you, because I think you should find out yourself. If you liked Sixth Sense twist, you'd definitely love this.
The other really insightful book by Arthur C. Clarke is City and the Stars.
If you like Sri Lanka ( as I do ), and would like to read a book based on Sri Lanka, try Fountains Of Paradise. I don't know how scientifically viable space elevators are, but it is a good read.
Let's face it, the work, in its entirety, belongs to whoever put up the capital to publish it. If the Rolling Stones didn't have a record deal, they'd be nothing.
According to John Locke's theory, One has a right to what one creates as an result of one's labour. For example, Linux belongs to Linus, because he created it. ( With the help of zillions of others, of course ). Rolling Stones have a moral right to whatever they create because they have put labour in creating it. However, in the modern market-oriented economy, one can buy another's fruit of labour. That is the reason that the work of Rolling Stones belong to the Recording Company.
The customer is only buying the right to listen to the work, and certainly has no conceivable right to make copies or anything of that nature.
I agree with your next point. When I buy a CD, I only have a right to the CD I buy. Because, when I bought the CD, I paid for the content and and the media. However, the content does not belong to me, although the media does. I have only been given a license to use ( in this case listen ) to the media.
Now for the Plan
There is a word in the dictionary called privacy. For many of us privacy matters a lot. Privacy is necessary for relationships of intimacy and trust. Privacy is aslo the basis of democracy. No body knows whom I voted for at the last election, and nobody shall know whom I am going to vote for at the next. This gives me autonomy as an individual.
How can I enjoy my privacy when the government knows each and everything I copy. I do not want the government to know what I discuss at home with my (future) wife. The same way, I do not want the government to know what I am copying.
he record companies have a compelling interest here, sorry. If we allow copying, we'll be destroying their incentives and the economy will be in flames within the week. I have a better solution. Recording companies are middle men. They earn money buy selling other peoples work. If we have a system where by the artists themselves can release their music, we will have
Cheaper Music
Artists making more money for their talents
The only feasible way of doing that is by releasing music in the form of MP3s on the internet.
I shall henceforth resigning my position as CEO of Microsoft Corp. I have suddenly realised that Microsoft is evil, corrupt and does not play fair. This is something I never realised during my 25 year tenure as CEO. As all you who have climbed up the corporate ladder know too well, the higher you go, the less you know.
By resigning my post as CEO, and going back to my dark cell from where I write code, I am going back to my roots. Yes, my geek roots. I want, once again, to become one with my computer.
I hope, now that I am one of you, that you will forgive my sins. I wasn't aware of predatory marketing tactis. I swear. That was work of the Marketing Dept. I was totally unaware of the existence of the Dirty Tricks Department, to which all other departments reported to.
After doing a lot of investigations, I found out the real culprit behind Microsoft's nefarious schemes. He is none other than Steve Ballmer, the guy who replaced me as president sometime ago. Goes onto show that becoming president corrupts any individual.
As he is the President, he is all powerful, and there is no way I can get rid of him. Therefore, I have decided to make him the new CEO.
Now let him face the music. I know that "Bill Gates is Evil" returns 1,000,000 hits on any search engine. I think that should be changed to "Steve Ballmer is Evil". From now on it should read
Steve Balmer is Evil
Steve Balmer is Satan
Steve Balmer is the Evil Emporer
Steve Balmer is the Borg King
Steve Balmer is the Beast
Tomorrow I am going to do something I wanted to do all my life. Yes, meet Linus Torvalds, the true king. I will learn from him how to build a functioning operating system, and in exchange, I will teach him how to market a product.
Most of you out there, used to hound me saying I am the king-pig of capitalists. No, more comrades. There was Chairman Mao. Now there shall be Chairman Bill.
I hope this letter clarifies all the misunderstandings you have had during the last quarter century. May you have a long uptime.
Smaller niche websites could be pushed further into the shadows by mega-media companies like AOL/Time Warner that have almost unlimited Internet and television promotion resources they can use to boost their own websites.
I don't visit AOL/Timer-WAarner sites apart from my rare visit to CNN by clicking on slashdot posting.
The reason the Internet thrives and on-line services ( AOL, Compuserve etc. ) don't, is the multi-cellular architecture of the internet.
If you scream, the mainstream media won't here you. But the internet will. There in lies the uniqueness of this entity we call the internet.
As for AOL/Time-Warner, well, we all know what happened to the dinosaurs ( although we don't know how it happened ), and well, the bigger you are the harder you fall.
Racist humour just is not right. Nothing racist is right for that matter. People are different, and they have the right to be different, and nobody else has the right to taunt, tease and torment them for being different.
There are numerous other topics on which to base your humour. Racist humour is cheap, and it stems from and leads to prejudice. Frankly, I find racist humour half-witted.
I well and truly believe in free speech. It is my right./*cliche*/ However, I also believe that with rights, come responsibilities./*end cliche*/ We have the responsibility to foster racial harmony. I come from a multi-racial country, plagued by ethnic tension. This ethnic tension was created because of the lack of understanding, and because of political bungling.
Racist jokes just inculcates the racial hatred that is prevalent in the society./*cliche*/What we should do is laugh with people of different races, not laugh at them./* end cliche*/
A rainbow is different because it is made of many colours. Same goes for humanity. Different races, different religions and different languages, can create a vibrant society, if people learn to co-exist in harmony.
Janet Reno, the mild mannered alter ego of the crime fighting super-heroine Attorney General, the only woman that is feared by Microsoft.
She is about to lose all the positive Karma she gained as a MS buster, by fighting against what the, according to most, what US stands, for. It is called Freedom.
Reno said LawNet would also need to focus on privacy issues, protecting consumers from invasions like the CD Universe extortion case.
To protect us ? Isn't there quite a lot of crime in the real world, the real world, that is within the jurisdiction of the police force ? Doesn't few instance of crime on the internet pale in comparison ?
Tell us the truth, Janet, Is this LawNet newspeak for Thought Police ?
I find that whenever a writer puts a date on his prediction, and makes it the title, they almost never come true.
Classic examples are 1984, 2001, then there was the TV series Space 1999.
Anyway, Arthur C. Clarke was one of the pioneers in the wired world, and what he predicted was not outside the limits of human achievement. The reason, that a manned mission is not heading for Jupiter is that we have wasted too much money developing wars and fighting wars, money which would have been better spent investigating the space. If we don't make that leap soon, humans might forever be doomed to exploring only cyberspace. ( I seriously don't mind that but, then when the population reaches the point that where earth cannot anylonger sustain it, we are going to have a problem)
As for HAL, the topic of discussion, too bad you are not going to get to Jupiter anytime soon. Have a nice birthday mate !
Guiness Unified Theory - GUT ---------------------------- At the beginning of the Universe, there was Guiness, and there was a bubble. The bubble, unable to resist the temptation to go up, did so. Once it reached the top, it had to come down, so it did. T+2s: There is Guiness, and there is a bubble, going up and down. The other bubbles, realising that this bubble was breaking the state of equilibrium, decided to join it, in it is endless monotonous cycle. T+3s: There is a Guiness, and there are bubbles. The bubbles are in a state of equilibrium. Is this, the future of the universe ? T+300s: A guy comes along, and sees a Guiness, and he sees bubbles. He is fascinated by the bubbles going up and down. He is so fascinated, he decides to create the rest of the universe, the stars, the planets, the comets, and other celestial objects. T+5Days: The guy is still fascinated by the Guiness, and its bubbles. He finds nothing so interesting in the rest of the universe he has created, so he puts plants and animals, on some planets. T+6Days: There is the Guiness, and there are the bubbles, and there is the rest of the universe. Still, the Guiness, with its bubbles, is more interesting. The guy ponders, while watching the bubbles go up and bubbles go down, and decides to put intelligent being, in the form of himself, on of the planets. He calls that being 'Man'. T+6.5Days: There is a Guiness, and there are bubbles, there is the rest of the universe, and there is Man. The first guy, gets a bit thirsty. He looks at the Guiness, and unable to resist the temtation drinks it. T+7Days: There is no Guiness, and there are no bubbles, but there are stars, planest, moons and, then there is Man. The first guy, the guy who has been there from the beginning of universe, and who is now totally drunk, looks at the man, and, he feels that the man looks too happy, and content. Then, he creates a woman.
My Company, Nothing Inc, is planning on making a Initial Public Offering on the NASDAQ exchange.
We do not produce anything, we do not offer any services, and we do not distribute anything. Essentially, we make nothing, do nothing, sell nothing. Our annual turnover is zero, profits zero, however we have great potential for making future profits, as you must have realised by now.
Given the high demand for stocks from such companies, such as thisandthatportal.com and Linuxone, we believe you are making the right decision by investing in our stock.
Our initial asking offer is US$10.00 per share, but we believe that before the end of the first day of trading, our shares are going to be worth US$100.00 each.
The class-action suit, filed in 1992, claimed that Microsoft treated temporary and contract workers as permanent employees except for compensation.
This year 2000. That makes it almost 8 years.
The saying goes, Justice delayed, is jusice denied
How sadly true. The lengthy court procedures often help big corporations like Microsoft. By the time justice is served, the victim is dead, sometimes in the literal sense, sometimes in the figurative.
James Bond made his 19th appearance. And he made the producers millions of bucks, for the 19th time.
Cold war is over, Soviet Empire in pieces, but 007 still attracts hoardes. Hoardes of crowds, not evil KGB agents.
I can't even begin to fathom what makes people go an spend £5 and waste 2 hrs of their otherwise busy, fulfilling lives to watch overremade movies about genetically mutated humans-turned-superheroes jumping who have poor dress-sence or mentally retarded secret agents who have yet to realise that Messers Reagan and Bush did what they have been trying to do for the last god-knows-howmany years.
It is rare to find big green ugly ultra-evil villains with grandoise schemes to take overther world [(c) Bill Watterson] these days. There is much worse, a far worse kind of bad guys, but if superheroes really want to fight them, why not form a political party and run for the whitehouse.
Spiderman and superman are for kids. We grow out of them, like we grow out of Santa Clause and the Tooth Fairy. These movies are a insult to the human intellect. That time could wasted at the theatre can be better spent posting on slashdot. Why not start saving the money you would otherwise spend watching films that even kids find too silly to watch ? You would be surprised how soon you can by that new Kryonix Athlon 900. Let James Bond chase big breasted blondes. Let Superman wear his underwear on top. We, have got work to do.
Finally ! 4D Bottles. Just what I always wanted. There is a small problem though.
The people at klien bottles have only specified the height and the diameter. By knowing the diameter, I can calculate the area. So I know three dimension.
However, before I buy the klein bottle, I want to know the 4th Dimension. Because I want to make sure that the klien bottle would fit my patent-pending 4D display case.
[I submitted this a while ago, but for some unforeseen reason, it has not been posted. If it gets posted sometime later ( as it happened twice before, 15 minutes later ), please ignore that ]
Your post is dead funny funny, I am hardly worried about our kids in the future because the term MCP is a oxymoron. I mean Microsoft Certified Professional ?
Professional. n. characterized by or conforming to the technical or ethical standards of a profession (2) : exhibiting a courteous, conscientious, and generally businesslike manner in the workplace (Merriam-Webster dictionary)
How can a corporation, to whom those qualities are alien, even begin to certify them ?
Sunday Jan 9, David Bowie, the Rock icon-cum-jack of all trades, announced today that he has released an open source operating system named Bowix [TM].
According to industry analysts, the 128 Bit operating system is bound to pose a strong challenge to other operating systems such as Windows, Linux and MacOS.
"People worship me for my music, and people worship Linus for his OS system " David said, "But now they will worship me for both"
Once upon a time, Christmas was a spiritual concept. It was time for the family to get together. It was a time for the religious among us to celebrate the birth of Christ. Time for carrols. Time to find out how good we have been during the last year.
Then everything changed. Christmas was bought over by the market. It became a time for consumerism. A time to sell all the stuff, that couldn't be sold otherwise. Time for manufacturers, vendors and credit card companies to make merry.
Easter, so far, has avoided that amount of commercialisation. According to my Christian friends, Easter is a time for both sorrow and rejoicing for them.
A shrewd businessman has realised that there is great untapped potential there. So what does he do ?
Why, he releases Starwars Episode I : The Phantom Menace, probably the second most overhyped movie ever to hit the silverscreen ( the first being Blair B^HWitch Project ).
Therefore, the first/last spiritual casualty of the millenium (depending on whether this is the 20th century or the 21st) looks set to be Easter.
Our atmosphere is acts bit like a lense, and bends refracts some of the light on to the moon. The amount of light that is defracted thus, therefore the brightness of the moon on during the eclipse, depends on the quality of earth's atmosphere on the day of the eclipse.
If the atmosphere is all full a volcanic ash, or smoke from big forest-fires etc., then the light of the moon would greatly diminish.
Every new-moon has the potential for a solar eclipse, and every fullmoon for a lunar one. However, given that the moon is pretty small compared to earth, during solar eclipses, the shadow of the moon might miss the earth completely. The moon is not that lucky to get out earth's shadow. Therefore, more lunar eclipses are visible than solar eclipses. For the folk on the moon, our lunar eclipse is a solar eclipse, and our solar eclipse is, errr, terra eclipse perhaps.
The next total solar eclipse won't be seen in North America till 2017. The path of totality will cross,northern Oregon first, and then head down in a general southeast direction through parts of Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Nth Carolina, Georgia, to finally leave the continent from South Carolina, between Charleston and Georgetown, and continue on down towards the south Atlantic.
I believe that the award to Dr Brooks was long overdue. He was a pioneering force behind the modernisation of computer technology.
I believe that we are uncosciously honouring there brilliance, commitment and dedication everytime we use a computer today. That, I think is the greatest honour, a far greater honour than any award one can receive.
Here is a list of other great people who were honoured with the A. M. Turing award
Winmodems only work with windows. Why ? Instead of the Manufacturers manufacturing modems according their own specification, MS gives the manufacturers a specification, and makes them churn-out a modem that fits the given specification. Then Microsoft [tm] hides the specification, so that nobody else can write drivers for it. They also make the manufacturer sign an agreement prohibiting them ( the manufacturer ) from releasing the specification.
The modem companies therefore, cannot release drivers for Linux. Winmodems are manufactured on the initiative of Microsoft [tm], and not on the initiative of the modem companies.
Slashdot Mirror
This book has pretty good twist regarding the appearance of the aliens. I am not going to tell you, because I think you should find out yourself. If you liked Sixth Sense twist, you'd definitely love this.
The other really insightful book by Arthur C. Clarke is City and the Stars.
If you like Sri Lanka ( as I do ), and would like to read a book based on Sri Lanka, try Fountains Of Paradise. I don't know how scientifically viable space elevators are, but it is a good read.
Minimum Qualifications
Dress Code: Tuxedo
Please email your application to m@mi5.mil.uk
According to John Locke's theory, One has a right to what one creates as an result of one's labour. For example, Linux belongs to Linus, because he created it. ( With the help of zillions of others, of course ). Rolling Stones have a moral right to whatever they create because they have put labour in creating it. However, in the modern market-oriented economy, one can buy another's fruit of labour. That is the reason that the work of Rolling Stones belong to the Recording Company.
The customer is only buying the right to listen to the work, and certainly has no conceivable right to make copies or anything of that nature.
I agree with your next point. When I buy a CD, I only have a right to the CD I buy. Because, when I bought the CD, I paid for the content and and the media. However, the content does not belong to me, although the media does. I have only been given a license to use ( in this case listen ) to the media.
Now for the Plan
There is a word in the dictionary called privacy. For many of us privacy matters a lot. Privacy is necessary for relationships of intimacy and trust. Privacy is aslo the basis of democracy. No body knows whom I voted for at the last election, and nobody shall know whom I am going to vote for at the next. This gives me autonomy as an individual.
How can I enjoy my privacy when the government knows each and everything I copy. I do not want the government to know what I discuss at home with my (future) wife. The same way, I do not want the government to know what I am copying.
he record companies have a compelling interest here, sorry. If we allow copying, we'll be destroying their incentives and the economy will be in flames within the week. I have a better solution. Recording companies are middle men. They earn money buy selling other peoples work. If we have a system where by the artists themselves can release their music, we will have
The only feasible way of doing that is by releasing music in the form of MP3s on the internet.
I shall henceforth resigning my position as CEO of Microsoft Corp. I have suddenly realised that Microsoft is evil, corrupt and does not play fair. This is something I never realised during my 25 year tenure as CEO. As all you who have climbed up the corporate ladder know too well, the higher you go, the less you know.
By resigning my post as CEO, and going back to my dark cell from where I write code, I am going back to my roots. Yes, my geek roots. I want, once again, to become one with my computer.
I hope, now that I am one of you, that you will forgive my sins. I wasn't aware of predatory marketing tactis. I swear. That was work of the Marketing Dept. I was totally unaware of the existence of the Dirty Tricks Department, to which all other departments reported to.
After doing a lot of investigations, I found out the real culprit behind Microsoft's nefarious schemes. He is none other than Steve Ballmer, the guy who replaced me as president sometime ago. Goes onto show that becoming president corrupts any individual.
As he is the President, he is all powerful, and there is no way I can get rid of him. Therefore, I have decided to make him the new CEO.
Now let him face the music. I know that "Bill Gates is Evil" returns 1,000,000 hits on any search engine. I think that should be changed to "Steve Ballmer is Evil". From now on it should read
Tomorrow I am going to do something I wanted to do all my life. Yes, meet Linus Torvalds, the true king. I will learn from him how to build a functioning operating system, and in exchange, I will teach him how to market a product.
Most of you out there, used to hound me saying I am the king-pig of capitalists. No, more comrades. There was Chairman Mao. Now there shall be Chairman Bill.
I hope this letter clarifies all the misunderstandings you have had during the last quarter century. May you have a long uptime.
Yours most Sincerely
Bill "ChrmnBill" Gates
I don't visit AOL/Timer-WAarner sites apart from my rare visit to CNN by clicking on slashdot posting.
The reason the Internet thrives and on-line services ( AOL, Compuserve etc. ) don't, is the multi-cellular architecture of the internet.
If you scream, the mainstream media won't here you. But the internet will. There in lies the uniqueness of this entity we call the internet.
As for AOL/Time-Warner, well, we all know what happened to the dinosaurs ( although we don't know how it happened ), and well, the bigger you are the harder you fall.
Check out the NASA site.
However, life has been discovered in active volcanoes on earth, so who knows.
I could've travelled here from USA. Therefore, I was born their. Cool, now I can claim US Citizenship.
There are numerous other topics on which to base your humour. Racist humour is cheap, and it stems from and leads to prejudice. Frankly, I find racist humour half-witted.
I well and truly believe in free speech. It is my right. /*cliche*/ However, I also believe that with rights, come responsibilities. /*end cliche*/ We have the responsibility to foster racial harmony. I come from a multi-racial country, plagued by ethnic tension. This ethnic tension was created because of the lack of understanding, and because of political bungling.
Racist jokes just inculcates the racial hatred that is prevalent in the society. /*cliche*/What we should do is laugh with people of different races, not laugh at them./* end cliche*/
A rainbow is different because it is made of many colours. Same goes for humanity. Different races, different religions and different languages, can create a vibrant society, if people learn to co-exist in harmony.
She is about to lose all the positive Karma she gained as a MS buster, by fighting against what the, according to most, what US stands, for. It is called Freedom.
Reno said LawNet would also need to focus on privacy issues, protecting consumers from invasions like the CD Universe extortion case.
To protect us ? Isn't there quite a lot of crime in the real world, the real world, that is within the jurisdiction of the police force ? Doesn't few instance of crime on the internet pale in comparison ?
Tell us the truth, Janet, Is this LawNet newspeak for Thought Police ?
Classic examples are 1984, 2001, then there was the TV series Space 1999.
Anyway, Arthur C. Clarke was one of the pioneers in the wired world, and what he predicted was not outside the limits of human achievement. The reason, that a manned mission is not heading for Jupiter is that we have wasted too much money developing wars and fighting wars, money which would have been better spent investigating the space. If we don't make that leap soon, humans might forever be doomed to exploring only cyberspace. ( I seriously don't mind that but, then when the population reaches the point that where earth cannot anylonger sustain it, we are going to have a problem)
As for HAL, the topic of discussion, too bad you are not going to get to Jupiter anytime soon. Have a nice birthday mate !
Guiness Unified Theory - GUT ---------------------------- At the beginning of the Universe, there was Guiness, and there was a bubble. The bubble, unable to resist the temptation to go up, did so. Once it reached the top, it had to come down, so it did. T+2s: There is Guiness, and there is a bubble, going up and down. The other bubbles, realising that this bubble was breaking the state of equilibrium, decided to join it, in it is endless monotonous cycle. T+3s: There is a Guiness, and there are bubbles. The bubbles are in a state of equilibrium. Is this, the future of the universe ? T+300s: A guy comes along, and sees a Guiness, and he sees bubbles. He is fascinated by the bubbles going up and down. He is so fascinated, he decides to create the rest of the universe, the stars, the planets, the comets, and other celestial objects. T+5Days: The guy is still fascinated by the Guiness, and its bubbles. He finds nothing so interesting in the rest of the universe he has created, so he puts plants and animals, on some planets. T+6Days: There is the Guiness, and there are the bubbles, and there is the rest of the universe. Still, the Guiness, with its bubbles, is more interesting. The guy ponders, while watching the bubbles go up and bubbles go down, and decides to put intelligent being, in the form of himself, on of the planets. He calls that being 'Man'. T+6.5Days: There is a Guiness, and there are bubbles, there is the rest of the universe, and there is Man. The first guy, gets a bit thirsty. He looks at the Guiness, and unable to resist the temtation drinks it. T+7Days: There is no Guiness, and there are no bubbles, but there are stars, planest, moons and, then there is Man. The first guy, the guy who has been there from the beginning of universe, and who is now totally drunk, looks at the man, and, he feels that the man looks too happy, and content. Then, he creates a woman.
My Company, Nothing Inc, is planning on making a Initial Public Offering on the NASDAQ exchange.
We do not produce anything, we do not offer any services, and we do not distribute anything. Essentially, we make nothing, do nothing, sell nothing. Our annual turnover is zero, profits zero, however we have great potential for making future profits, as you must have realised by now.
Given the high demand for stocks from such companies, such as thisandthatportal.com and Linuxone, we believe you are making the right decision by investing in our stock.
Our initial asking offer is US$10.00 per share, but we believe that before the end of the first day of trading, our shares are going to be worth US$100.00 each.
Thank you very much for your interest
(signed)
N. Othing
CEO
Nothing Inc.
This year 2000. That makes it almost 8 years.
The saying goes, Justice delayed, is jusice denied
How sadly true. The lengthy court procedures often help big corporations like Microsoft. By the time justice is served, the victim is dead, sometimes in the literal sense, sometimes in the figurative.
Looks pretty deadly to me...
Cold war is over, Soviet Empire in pieces, but 007 still attracts hoardes. Hoardes of crowds, not evil KGB agents.
I can't even begin to fathom what makes people go an spend £5 and waste 2 hrs of their otherwise busy, fulfilling lives to watch overremade movies about genetically mutated humans-turned-superheroes jumping who have poor dress-sence or mentally retarded secret agents who have yet to realise that Messers Reagan and Bush did what they have been trying to do for the last god-knows-howmany years.
It is rare to find big green ugly ultra-evil villains with grandoise schemes to take overther world [(c) Bill Watterson] these days. There is much worse, a far worse kind of bad guys, but if superheroes really want to fight them, why not form a political party and run for the whitehouse.
Spiderman and superman are for kids. We grow out of them, like we grow out of Santa Clause and the Tooth Fairy. These movies are a insult to the human intellect. That time could wasted at the theatre can be better spent posting on slashdot. Why not start saving the money you would otherwise spend watching films that even kids find too silly to watch ? You would be surprised how soon you can by that new Kryonix Athlon 900. Let James Bond chase big breasted blondes. Let Superman wear his underwear on top. We, have got work to do.
The people at klien bottles have only specified the height and the diameter. By knowing the diameter, I can calculate the area. So I know three dimension.
However, before I buy the klein bottle, I want to know the 4th Dimension. Because I want to make sure that the klien bottle would fit my patent-pending 4D display case.
[I submitted this a while ago, but for some unforeseen reason, it has not been posted. If it gets posted sometime later ( as it happened twice before, 15 minutes later ), please ignore that ]
Professional. n. characterized by or conforming to the technical or ethical standards of a profession (2) : exhibiting a courteous, conscientious, and generally businesslike manner in the workplace (Merriam-Webster dictionary)
How can a corporation, to whom those qualities are alien, even begin to certify them ?
What next ? Microsoft Certified Linux Guru ?
According to the Whitehouse spokesperson, this measure is to curb thread-space wastage on Slashdot.
"If we don't do this, we are going to end up with Spice OS, Backstreet Windows, PuffDaddix and SySpears " the spokesperson added.
The legislation states that even reporting about these OSes on slashdot carry a mandatory "-1: Offtopic" penalty.
According to industry analysts, the 128 Bit operating system is bound to pose a strong challenge to other operating systems such as Windows, Linux and MacOS.
"People worship me for my music, and people worship Linus for his OS system " David said, "But now they will worship me for both"
However, there is no charge on PCs, and many of us do own PCs, and therefore the only way for many of us to watch a video is in the VCD format.
Then everything changed. Christmas was bought over by the market. It became a time for consumerism. A time to sell all the stuff, that couldn't be sold otherwise. Time for manufacturers, vendors and credit card companies to make merry.
Easter, so far, has avoided that amount of commercialisation. According to my Christian friends, Easter is a time for both sorrow and rejoicing for them.
A shrewd businessman has realised that there is great untapped potential there. So what does he do ?
Why, he releases Starwars Episode I : The Phantom Menace, probably the second most overhyped movie ever to hit the silverscreen ( the first being Blair B^HWitch Project ).
Therefore, the first/last spiritual casualty of the millenium (depending on whether this is the 20th century or the 21st) looks set to be Easter.
If the atmosphere is all full a volcanic ash, or smoke from big forest-fires etc., then the light of the moon would greatly diminish.
Every new-moon has the potential for a solar eclipse, and every fullmoon for a lunar one. However, given that the moon is pretty small compared to earth, during solar eclipses, the shadow of the moon might miss the earth completely. The moon is not that lucky to get out earth's shadow. Therefore, more lunar eclipses are visible than solar eclipses. For the folk on the moon, our lunar eclipse is a solar eclipse, and our solar eclipse is, errr, terra eclipse perhaps.
The next total solar eclipse won't be seen in North America till 2017. The path of totality will cross,northern Oregon first, and then head down in a general southeast direction through parts of Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Nth Carolina, Georgia, to finally leave the continent from South Carolina, between Charleston and Georgetown, and continue on down towards the south Atlantic.
I believe that we are uncosciously honouring there brilliance, commitment and dedication everytime we use a computer today. That, I think is the greatest honour, a far greater honour than any award one can receive.
Here is a list of other great people who were honoured with the A. M. Turing award
The modem companies therefore, cannot release drivers for Linux. Winmodems are manufactured on the initiative of Microsoft [tm], and not on the initiative of the modem companies.