This is an "MS oriented" beta, deigned to demonstrate to Bill and Steve the attractiveness of Mandriva as an aquisition target over the rumors of a RedHat buy-out, earlier this summer.
This would be in line with past MS behavior. Microsoft often chooses "sloppy seconds" or "also-rans" as aquisition fare. This is a product of price conciousness, concerns of anti-trust action for snaring market leaders, and a disdain for anything not originating in-house. Past indicators ere were Great Plans Accounting, Interix,Connectix Virtual PC, RAV Anti Virus and Giant Anti Spyware. Mandrake/Connectiva/Turbo, with their miniscule commercial share (they are a sliver of RedHat - which is a fraction of a sliver of MS) is ideal.
The Winix Beta will not yet include Avalon or Indigo subsystems, although a rudimentary transplant of the.NET CLR and frameworks are rumored to be in the works once Redmond fully grasps this beast by the tail. Much of this work has been done on the BSD platform, and reputedly the internal Micosoft build - project Marklar - runs the Avalon-based Windows Dodge Colt Vista interface as flawlessly as XP.
Oh. I live off-and-on in the US. Have you been to Phoenix? A wasteland of cheap construction and strip malls - with nothing but franchise outlets - sprinkled between golf courses. The borderline depression one sees in its inhabitants is no marvel.
Unlike you - who manage to spend your tax dollars, not on your lazy sick people - but rather to build fanatic "mujahaddin" fighters, who later turn their bloodthirsty sights on the homes of their CIA paymasters!
Good shot. Americins seem to love Ameria so much, but express only contempt for many Americans themselves - as if there were some magical phantasm of "America" that were comprised of something other than the people dwelling therein.
How else can we in the U.K. preserve the American-Way-of-Life?
You've already perverted our west-London highstreets with your Blockbusters and your Baby Gap stores. Your filthy Nickolodeon and Soap Networks clog our satellite reception dishes. Your bizarre "humor" infects every avenue of communication not sullied by the right wing paranoia that drips almost intraveinously - all based on the same inferiority complexes that lead you to either worship or despise even a chip-shop lad from these parts.
The British child has dissapeared from London streets - replaced by a translocated americanoid. One who leaves his British parents scratching his head in confused dismay. What is a "conker?" Laughing at the name "spotted dick."
Polluted.
At least, we can still manage to emblazon the thoroughfares with public announcements, proclaiming in letters fully 18 feet from base to summit: F C U K
The shirt, seen on the streets today:
F C U K
America
However, it may be argued that the existence of 'terrorists' in the film (i.e., Jill Layton, Buttle/Tuttle, and Sam are all accused of being terrorists) and various 'terrorist' acts (i.e., the restaurant and shop bombing, the blown up car) are deliberately made ambiguous - it is very probable that the central threat of terrorism is the government's way to silence deviation, provoke fear, cover up its multiple errors, and provide a scapegoat enemy. Viewers must interpret this central theme of the film for themselves - and recognize the fact that ironically -- there may be no terrorists at all.
Interviewer: What do you believe is behind this recent increase in terrorist bombings?
Helpmann: Bad sportsmanship. A ruthless minority of people seems to have forgotten certain good old-fashioned virtues. They just can't stand seeing the other fellow win. If these people would just play the game -
Helpmann: - they'd get a lot more out of life.
Interviewer: Nevertheless, Mr. Helpmann, there are those who maintain that the Ministry of Information has become too large and unwieldy...And the cost of it all, Deputy Minister? Seven percent of the gross national product.
Helpmann: I understand this concern on behalf of the tax payers. People want value for money. That's why we always insist on the principle of Information Retrieval charges. It's absolutely right and fair that those found guilty should pay for their periods of detention and for the Information Retrieval Procedures used in their interrogation.
Interviewer: Do you believe that the government is winning the battle against terrorists?
Helpmann: Oh, yes. Our morale is much higher than theirs. We're fielding all their strokes, running a lot of them out, and pretty consistently knocking them for six. I'd say they're nearly out of the game.
Helpmann: Why should decent law-abiding citizens have to subsidize criminals?
Interviewer: But Mr. Helpmann, the bombing campaign is now in its thirteenth year.
Helpmann: Beginner's luck.
"Uhm, I do assure you, Mrs. Buttle, the Ministry is very scrupulous about following up and eradicating any error. But if you do have any complaints you wish to make, I'd be, well, only too happy to send you the appropriate forms."
Well,
They make available the relevent features in the GUI shell. These are extensible by apps in OS X - just as say, WinZip extends the XP menu. Stuffit (fullversion) does this. You have fewer app vendors exploiting/polluting this on OS X.
A bogus technological prediction or a foredoomed engineering concept, esp. one that fails by implicitly assuming that technologies develop linearly, incrementally, and in isolation from one another when in fact the learning curve tends to be highly nonlinear, revolutions are common, and competition is the rule. The prototype was Vannevar Bush's prediction of 'electronic brains' the size of the Empire State Building with a Niagara-Falls-equivalent cooling system for their tubes and relays, a prediction made at a time when the semiconductor effect had already been demonstrated. Other famous vannevars have included magnetic-bubble memory, LISP machines, videotex, and a paper from the late 1970s that computed a purported ultimate limit on areal density for ICs that was in fact less than the routine densities of 5 years later.
Lord, I'd take an overdose if you knew
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He'll build a glass asylum
With just a hint of mayhem
He'll build a better whirlpool
We'll be living from sin, then we can really begin
Please savior, saviour, show us
Hear me, I'm graphically yours
Someone to claim us, someone to follow
Someone to shame us, some brave Apollo
Someone to fool us, someone like you...
We want you Big Brother, Big Brother
I know you think you're awful square
But you made everyone and you've been every where
Lord, I'd take an overdose if you knew what's going down
Did you not read my other responses to this posting? I am not even talking about statistics.
Statistically, you are more likely to be killed by a McVeigh than an Atta. That factoid is useless in evaluating either risk, or the meaning of my quoted reference.
I did not claim that Mullahs and other self-proclaimed "religious authorities" were not also pederasts.
I quoted another - who indicated that preponderance of evidence supports one absurd and absolute statement better than another, which is more commonly adhered to.
The objective in this is not to validate either fallacy, or to endorse preponderance of evidence as a legitimate reasoning tool or instrument of rhetoric. Rather, the aim is to provoke the thoughtful into questioning the means at which they arrive at their biases, and to reveal the bigot, who will cling to his bias, and even demonstrate that predjudice with enthusiasm.
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What is in the Wikkipedia article for "Dodge Colt Vista"
This game will make you gesture!
[burmashave] ~ > ssh 127.0.0.1
panjandrum@127.0.0.1's password:
Welcome to the Interix UNIX utilities.
DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
That's not cool enough? Try this:
5 Klingons
4 starbases at 3,1, 0,2, 7,2, 1,3
It takes 250 units to kill a Klingon
Short range sensor scan
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
0 * . . . . . . . . . 0 stardate 2300.00
1 . . . . . . . E . . 1 condition GREEN
2 . . . . . # . . . . 2 position 3,1/1,7
3 . . . . . . . . . . 3 warp factor 5.0
4 . . . . . . . . . . 4 total energy 5000
5 . . . . . . . . . . 5 torpedoes 10
6 . . . . . . . . . . 6 shields up, 100%
7 . . . . . . . . . . 7 Klingons left 5
8 . . . * . . . . . . 8 time left 8.00
9 . * . . . . . . . 9 life support active
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Woohooo! I'd make "gestures" at other gaming platforms too, now that MS has "caught up" with Unix gaming!
Only Time Will Tell!
This would be in line with past MS behavior. Microsoft often chooses "sloppy seconds" or "also-rans" as aquisition fare. This is a product of price conciousness, concerns of anti-trust action for snaring market leaders, and a disdain for anything not originating in-house. Past indicators ere were Great Plans Accounting, Interix,Connectix Virtual PC, RAV Anti Virus and Giant Anti Spyware. Mandrake/Connectiva/Turbo, with their miniscule commercial share (they are a sliver of RedHat - which is a fraction of a sliver of MS) is ideal.
The Winix Beta will not yet include Avalon or Indigo subsystems, although a rudimentary transplant of the .NET CLR and frameworks are rumored to be in the works once Redmond fully grasps this beast by the tail. Much of this work has been done on the BSD platform, and reputedly the internal Micosoft build - project Marklar - runs the Avalon-based Windows Dodge Colt Vista interface as flawlessly as XP.
[dehli001] ~ > ssh 127.0.0.1
jahangir@127.0.0.1's password:
Welcome to the Interix UNIX utilities.
DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
Man, this was cool, no? Well then, check this out!
5 Klingons
4 starbases at 3,1, 0,2, 7,2, 1,3
It takes 250 units to kill a Klingon
Short range sensor scan
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
0 * . . . . . . . . . 0 stardate 2300.00
1 . . . . . . . E . . 1 condition GREEN
2 . . . . . # . . . . 2 position 3,1/1,7
3 . . . . . . . . . . 3 warp factor 5.0
4 . . . . . . . . . . 4 total energy 5000
5 . . . . . . . . . . 5 torpedoes 10
6 . . . . . . . . . . 6 shields up, 100%
7 . . . . . . . . . . 7 Klingons left 5
8 . . . * . . . . . . 8 time left 8.00
9 . * . . . . . . . 9 life support active
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
This is just beta. Wait untill we see what they're working into XBox!
GOOGLE spelled backwards is Echelon
Yer Wife doesn't just use a skillet?
Oh. I live off-and-on in the US. Have you been to Phoenix? A wasteland of cheap construction and strip malls - with nothing but franchise outlets - sprinkled between golf courses. The borderline depression one sees in its inhabitants is no marvel.
Unlike you - who manage to spend your tax dollars, not on your lazy sick people - but rather to build fanatic "mujahaddin" fighters, who later turn their bloodthirsty sights on the homes of their CIA paymasters!
Good shot. Americins seem to love Ameria so much, but express only contempt for many Americans themselves - as if there were some magical phantasm of "America" that were comprised of something other than the people dwelling therein.
Appealing to these children, who now prefer "Kimpossible" to "Bill and Ben"...
Drink tea - as it has been grown in Britain for over two-thousand years. Have one of out lovely chapatis - a native delicacy - and relax!
You've already perverted our west-London highstreets with your Blockbusters and your Baby Gap stores. Your filthy Nickolodeon and Soap Networks clog our satellite reception dishes. Your bizarre "humor" infects every avenue of communication not sullied by the right wing paranoia that drips almost intraveinously - all based on the same inferiority complexes that lead you to either worship or despise even a chip-shop lad from these parts.
The British child has dissapeared from London streets - replaced by a translocated americanoid. One who leaves his British parents scratching his head in confused dismay. What is a "conker?" Laughing at the name "spotted dick."
Polluted.
At least, we can still manage to emblazon the thoroughfares with public announcements, proclaiming in letters fully 18 feet from base to summit:
F C U K
The shirt, seen on the streets today:
F C U K
America
Interviewer: What do you believe is behind this recent increase in terrorist bombings?
Helpmann: Bad sportsmanship. A ruthless minority of people seems to have forgotten certain good old-fashioned virtues. They just can't stand seeing the other fellow win. If these people would just play the game -
Helpmann: - they'd get a lot more out of life.
Interviewer: Nevertheless, Mr. Helpmann, there are those who maintain that the Ministry of Information has become too large and unwieldy...And the cost of it all, Deputy Minister? Seven percent of the gross national product.
Helpmann: I understand this concern on behalf of the tax payers. People want value for money. That's why we always insist on the principle of Information Retrieval charges. It's absolutely right and fair that those found guilty should pay for their periods of detention and for the Information Retrieval Procedures used in their interrogation.
Interviewer: Do you believe that the government is winning the battle against terrorists?
Helpmann: Oh, yes. Our morale is much higher than theirs. We're fielding all their strokes, running a lot of them out, and pretty consistently knocking them for six. I'd say they're nearly out of the game.
Helpmann: Why should decent law-abiding citizens have to subsidize criminals?
Interviewer: But Mr. Helpmann, the bombing campaign is now in its thirteenth year.
Helpmann: Beginner's luck.
"Uhm, I do assure you, Mrs. Buttle, the Ministry is very scrupulous about following up and eradicating any error. But if you do have any complaints you wish to make, I'd be, well, only too happy to send you the appropriate forms."
"We at the Ministry are terribly sorry, Mrs. Buttle..."
Yeah - but VPC still faults on LongHorn! I can't get jack to work!
We got a whole continent full of 'em!
'Ain't faultin' no one!
But you are right. Mac style is good 'un...
Well,
They make available the relevent features in the GUI shell. These are extensible by apps in OS X - just as say, WinZip extends the XP menu. Stuffit (fullversion) does this. You have fewer app vendors exploiting/polluting this on OS X.
Of course, I don't mean the old Mac "fly-up" behavior from an un-clicked menu! That always reminded me of a snapping window-shade!
What ALWAYS gets me is the subtle difference in menu behavior for brwsing items - 'click n' hold' or just 'click -hover'...
Works FINE - just a aftermarket option. Command-Click, Jus' like Winders.
A bogus technological prediction or a foredoomed engineering concept, esp. one that fails by implicitly assuming that technologies develop linearly, incrementally, and in isolation from one another when in fact the learning curve tends to be highly nonlinear, revolutions are common, and competition is the rule. The prototype was Vannevar Bush's prediction of 'electronic brains' the size of the Empire State Building with a Niagara-Falls-equivalent cooling system for their tubes and relays, a prediction made at a time when the semiconductor effect had already been demonstrated. Other famous vannevars have included magnetic-bubble memory, LISP machines, videotex, and a paper from the late 1970s that computed a purported ultimate limit on areal density for ICs that was in fact less than the routine densities of 5 years later.
With just a hint of mayhem
He'll build a better whirlpool
We'll be living from sin, then we can really begin
Please savior, saviour, show us
Hear me, I'm graphically yours
Someone to claim us, someone to follow
Someone to shame us, some brave Apollo
Someone to fool us, someone like you...
We want you Big Brother, Big Brother
I know you think you're awful square
But you made everyone and you've been every where
Lord, I'd take an overdose if you knew what's going down
Did you not read my other responses to this posting? I am not even talking about statistics.
Statistically, you are more likely to be killed by a McVeigh than an Atta. That factoid is useless in evaluating either risk, or the meaning of my quoted reference.
It is a critique of prejudices, and methods of presenting evidence.
I did not claim that Mullahs and other self-proclaimed "religious authorities" were not also pederasts.
I quoted another - who indicated that preponderance of evidence supports one absurd and absolute statement better than another, which is more commonly adhered to.
The objective in this is not to validate either fallacy, or to endorse preponderance of evidence as a legitimate reasoning tool or instrument of rhetoric. Rather, the aim is to provoke the thoughtful into questioning the means at which they arrive at their biases, and to reveal the bigot, who will cling to his bias, and even demonstrate that predjudice with enthusiasm.