Do you think that people really believe that they're entitled to the free use of other people's work, whether the person who created it wants it that way or not? Or do you think that people are just so spoiled these days that they get angry at anybody who doesn't give them something for nothing?
Its nice to see that metallica really appreciates their fans. Point: Yeah, what wonderful fans. Ripping Metallica CDs and making them available to anyone for free download. Gee, I'm sure they'll really miss fans like that. Counterpoint: F**k you, you and Metallica are working for the man! Back when Metallica was cool, before they sold out, they used to send thank you letters to people who got caught shoplifting their CDs! I'll never pay for their music again now that they're making me jump through more hoops to steal it. Point: Now that's an... interesting policy. No, really. Counterpoint: Yeah, dude! Fight the man! Cheers,ZicoKnows@hotmail.com Cheers,ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Who knows, maybe the decline is due in part to the frequent moderating down of anyone who doesn't subscribe to the standard Slashdot groupthink. (Case in point.) When the postings that a new user sees devolve into a self-congratulatory sameness, I can see why original minds would be less than thrilled about getting involved.
Gun companies and tobacco companies are getting their asses sued off because they supposedly aren't acting responsibly in keeping their products from being used inappropriately. Lawyers won't even think twice about suing Napster on the same grounds.
I disagree with all three -- if you're going to go after someone, go after the person who's actually using the products illegally. However, I have no sympathy for Napster because the success of the product is due precisely to the fact that it can be used for music piracy. That's why they haven't kept their word about trying to keep people from using Napster illegally -- because they know that almost nobody would care about Napster if it weren't for all the illegal content there for the taking.
What is that supposed to mean? I don't have to ask GM's permission to use my sedan off-road. I don't have to ask Microsoft's permission to compile Open Source software with Visual C++.
And obviously you don't need anyone's permission to create terrible analogies. Congratulations.
If you're stupid enough to think that "Intellectual Property" is actual, real property
You sound like a little kid who thinks that they're smarter than their parents and should be able to do whatever they want. In case you didn't notice, the law routinely disagrees with your position. And after reading your post in toto, I'm way more inclined to trust their intelligence than yours.
I bought it? Then it's mine and I don't need permission to use it legally.
No shit, Einstein. Now here's a clue for you: Distributing it freely isn't using it legally.
Yeah, viva la revolucion, dude. Death to the infidels, and stuff.
No, it really wasn't a troll, although maybe I was a little harsh. I was just annoyed by the absolute arrogance of MP3 to not even ask how anyone else felt about them doing it. In a perfect world, my.mp3.com is an awesome idea. In the real world, though, it's so incredibly easy to get around its copyright protections that it's almost like having no protections. If they had approached some of the people whose music they'd be storing to work out a way to make it more pirate-proof, it would be hard to be nearly as annoyed at them.
I have absolutely no objection whatsoever to the service they run which allows bands to put their stuff up for free, and although I don't use it, I'm glad that there are places like mp3.com which are doing that.
Not trying to steer you away from mp3.com, but give some internet radio stations a try sometime -- I hate the local radio stations around here and get most of mine via the internet as well. Undergroundradio 3WK happens to be my current fave, with lots of great indie stuff, and is good if you have RealPlayer, although windowsmedia.com has loads of great internet radio stations if you own the Windows Media Player.
First of all, the concept of Napster is so simple that anyone can do an end run around it and roll their own. This will probably start happening when the Feds start cracking down on music pirates on Napster next month (see article). The pirates will drop in numbers, as many decide they don't want to face the risk of prosecution, and many will start using alternative programs, to stay a step ahead of the feds who are cracking down on Napster. Add these factors to Napster's rising legal costs to defend its existence, and you're looking at major trouble for Napster's survival.
And having rolled my eyes enough times at a barely-coherent Sean (Shawn?) Fanning (Napster's creator) blurting out "The technology can't be stopped!" I say good riddance to the both of 'em.
Well why stop there? I could just as easily say that $2.5 mil is no different than your $3 mil. And $2 mil's should be plenty for anyone, who really needs $2.5 mil? Our forefathers somehow managed to thrive without being multimillionaires, and they're a Hell of a lot smarter than most people around today, so nobody should need more than $1 million. But ya know, Metallica alreay has a $20 million recording contract, so it's not like they'd even notice whether or not they got that extra $1 million -- that settles it, all their music should be free.
Any argument starting with the premise that someone has too much money, or more than they need, is an inherently evil one with the real purpose wanting to take away your freedom to do what you want with your own money. Why the fsck is it any of your business how much I make, how much you think I need, or whether or not I decide to blow it all on the most frivolous, self-indulgent crap ever known to man. Mind your own damn business.
(And when I say "you" up there, I'm talking about the general you, not aiming that at you, Vince.)
Cheers, ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
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Wait 'til the multi-player version comes out, when people can exchange characters. I build up a great family, looking to sell it on eBay. Mr. Wright gets cute and throws in another virus. My family's wiped out, and I've got nobody left to sell on eBay. Time for my lawyers to have a little talk with Mr. Wright. You just wait.:)
Personally, I think the guinea pig thing is a great idea, and should just be seen as part of the game. Who's to say that there isn't someone going around to animal shelters injecting guinea pigs with nasty viruses? Sure it's far-fetched, but so is life -- how many people expected their Tylenol to be laced with cyanide back in the '80s?
It would be interesting if it only blew up in IE.(further proof of MS not adhering to standards.)
Actually, it would be much more interesting if you went and learned XML, rather than spout off half-baked Microsoft conspiracy theories.:) I suggest the nice recommendation spec over at www.w3.org.
Your link is spitting out bad XML, most likely due to Slashdot using tools which don't grok UTF-8 encoding. If they want to use ASCII characters in the 128-255 range, like the "á" that IE's parser flags as an error, and don't have any tools which will output UTF-8 characters, then they should be using the appropriate entity in their text instead, i.e. á. Failing that, a less effective solution would be for them to specify a character encoding for their xml file, like ISO-8859-1, since their document doesn't match the default UTF-8.
Oh yeah, and if Netscape 6 allowed that xml to go through without reporting an error, then it has a broken parser.
Now see, learning isn't so hard, is it? And besides, it's so much more original around here than senseless Microsoft-bashing.
it's understandable that they would go with Mozilla over IE
Eh? What part of "The system RealNetworks created for Global Media will use Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser if it is installed on a person's computer and will download the Mozilla-based browser otherwise," did you not understand?
Looks like they specifically are going with IE over Mozilla; only in the infrequent case (less than 20%) where a user doesn't have Internet Explorer will the Mozilla-based browser be downloaded.
Besides, didn't you get the memo from Larry Wall that laziness is one of the three chief virtues of a programmer?;)
Keyboard shortcuts to access all, or at least the vast majority of, functions. Along with this, the defaults should be pre-set to what people are most accustomed to, like the standard shortcuts for open, cut, paste, etc. A neat program will get an early boost from its wow factor, but to get people wanting to continue to use it, the power user needs to be able to get things done quickly and efficiently, not constantly reaching for the mouse.
One of the reasons why Mozilla has seen so little testing on my computer is because of the long lack of keyboard shortcuts -- browsing a lot of sites just gets to be a pain, and a slow one. Speaking of which, Netscape deserves some boos for changing ctrl+O to ctrl+L for opening up a URL box, as well as for not implementing backspace/shift-backspace for going forward and back. You should be able to retrieve both local files and web urls from a single ctrl+O action. (Actually, I can't even get alt+-> or alt+<- to work on the Preview Release, but surely they'll at least change this by the actual release.)
Cheers, ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
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Excellent -- pretty much exactly what I was hoping for. If I can make a suggestion, you might want to have your publisher add that as an item on the book's feature list, because that'll be a very attractive selling point for people thinking about buying the book. Thanks again!
It seems like the Palm CEO is referring to Palm competitors when he says this, but if he is, it doesn't seem to make much sense, with the way about one-third of the Palm's supposed screen size is wasted with the silly silk-screen thingy.
The extra processing power is nice (I think the real reason behind it is a plan to catch up with the WinCE devices' multimedia capabilities), but that Voice Activation is not a good idea if it's anything like the current voice technologies. The last thing I need is to have a bunch of jokers activating my Palm willy-nilly, like the way everyone has fun screwing with the poor folks who bought The Clapper to control their lights and televisions.
Cheers, ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
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Hi, thanks for the info, interspersed with a couple of boos 'cause I want this book yesterday!;)
My main question about the book, which I haven't been able to figure out from the info I've seen: Does it cover PHP 4? At all? Mostly? Thanks for the help, and I'm looking forward to reading the book!
I'm getting a quote of $34.00 at ThinkGeek for the mySQL book when I follow the link in your post. Is there a code I can enter to get some kind of discount, which would explain the $29 that you two are talking about? I'm not looking to buy this book, 'cause I already own it, but having the discount in the future would be nice. I didn't, like, insult Slashdot one too many times in my youth to recieve the discount or something, did I?;)
Cheers, ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
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If someone wants to knock this book, fine, but to moderate someone up when they admit they haven't even read the book is silly, especially when they offer no more detailed criticism than some vague "BAD experiences."
I read O'Reilly's mSQL and mySQL when it came out. Say what you want about their other books, this was not their finest hour. The New Riders books, which I read about three months ago, is a great book on its own -- in comparision to the O'Reilly book, however, it's simply outstanding. If you want to get one book on mySQL, the New Riders one is unquestionably the book to get.
Oh, and I have no connection with New Riders -- I own a lot of O'Reilly books, and the mySQL book is the only tech book of New Riders that I own so far. So far. I'm really looking forward to their Web Application Development with PHP, which I ordered a couple of weeks ago.
Oh yeah, and as for the info that I mentioned in the subject line. I just noticed that ComputerBookstore.com just extended their 41% off sale on all New Riders books until April 30. (The deadline had been April 16th, but I got inundated with tax-paying and forgot to order my books.) Heh, and as I check the above link to make sure it works, I noticed that they've also now got a 41% off sale on all Wrox books, too. Argh, pity me and my credit card....
Cheers, ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
P.S. Heh, I noticed that they've even got Jon Katz's Geeks at 41% off, too.
I don't know if many people here do, but a lot of people buy stuff they saw in spam. Some friends of mine who used to work at Xoom.com were actually pretty amazed at just how many people would buy that schlock.
Oh yeah, and another note about Xoom: When you email them asking them to not send you anymore spam, they actually remove you from the list -- they don't, like I suspect a lot of companies do -- use your reply as a red flag which says, "OK, this really is a legitimate email address. Let's spam the Hell outta this guy!"
And no, I have no affiliation with, nor even any fondness for, Xoom.com. Just had some friends who used to work there before NBCi bought 'em out.
To be honest, I never really considered that it might use my e-mail to send me an advertisement without first asking my permission.
Come on. It makes me wonder just how internet-savvy this guy is. Anyone who doesn't use an email address dedicated to receiving spam when they provide information for companies is just asking for it. And no, this isn't a new thing for big companies either, because it actually works -- especially for big companies.
Oh, and CmdrTaco? That spam I get typically has fewer typos than the average Slashdot article that you guys post.;)
So many celebrities, poets, actors, revolutionaries, wariers, politicians etc have died on 33 and 37.
That'd be a pretty neat trick and all, but unless they've mastered reincarnation where you're from, I'd be pretty stunned to have heard of someone dying at 33 and 37.:)
Hell yeah, one of those Star Trek games and some Berzerk ripoff were the only games, other than my own inane ones (Yahtzee, anyone? Yeah, me neither.), are the only games that I still can remember from my old Trash-80! I think that Tandy tape recorder drive still stands as the single worst piece of computer hardware that I ever used on a regular basis.
Perhaps that's why IBM's revenues fell 5% from the same quarter last year, with most of their business segments showing flat or negative growth, while Sun hit a home run with their earnings report, showing record revenue of $4 billion, a 37% increase from the same period last year. Hey, no shame, IBM wouldn't be the first company ruined by pandering to the open source community (see SGI, Netscape, etc.)!:) Cheers,ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Why not release it for a number of different clients then, or just make it available in HTML? It wouldn't happen to be because of the way Slashdot encourages the theft of intellectual property vis-à-vis MP3s, would it? Even though no intellectual property is involved here, if people were to pass this book around to each other the way Slashdot advocates they do with MP3s, there'd be a lot fewer people interested in paying for Jon Katz's dead tree edition, and no profit to be made by Jon/Slashdot.
Just a thought, but is Slashdot now reaping what you've sown?
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Do you think that people really believe that they're entitled to the free use of other people's work, whether the person who created it wants it that way or not? Or do you think that people are just so spoiled these days that they get angry at anybody who doesn't give them something for nothing?
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Its nice to see that metallica really appreciates their fans. Point: Yeah, what wonderful fans. Ripping Metallica CDs and making them available to anyone for free download. Gee, I'm sure they'll really miss fans like that. Counterpoint: F**k you, you and Metallica are working for the man! Back when Metallica was cool, before they sold out, they used to send thank you letters to people who got caught shoplifting their CDs! I'll never pay for their music again now that they're making me jump through more hoops to steal it. Point: Now that's an ... interesting policy. No, really. Counterpoint: Yeah, dude! Fight the man! Cheers,ZicoKnows@hotmail.com Cheers,ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Who knows, maybe the decline is due in part to the frequent moderating down of anyone who doesn't subscribe to the standard Slashdot groupthink. (Case in point.) When the postings that a new user sees devolve into a self-congratulatory sameness, I can see why original minds would be less than thrilled about getting involved.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Gun companies and tobacco companies are getting their asses sued off because they supposedly aren't acting responsibly in keeping their products from being used inappropriately. Lawyers won't even think twice about suing Napster on the same grounds.
I disagree with all three -- if you're going to go after someone, go after the person who's actually using the products illegally. However, I have no sympathy for Napster because the success of the product is due precisely to the fact that it can be used for music piracy. That's why they haven't kept their word about trying to keep people from using Napster illegally -- because they know that almost nobody would care about Napster if it weren't for all the illegal content there for the taking.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
What is that supposed to mean? I don't have to ask GM's permission to use my sedan off-road. I don't have to ask Microsoft's permission to compile Open Source software with Visual C++.
And obviously you don't need anyone's permission to create terrible analogies. Congratulations.
If you're stupid enough to think that "Intellectual Property" is actual, real property
You sound like a little kid who thinks that they're smarter than their parents and should be able to do whatever they want. In case you didn't notice, the law routinely disagrees with your position. And after reading your post in toto, I'm way more inclined to trust their intelligence than yours.
I bought it? Then it's mine and I don't need permission to use it legally.
No shit, Einstein. Now here's a clue for you: Distributing it freely isn't using it legally.
Yeah, viva la revolucion, dude. Death to the infidels, and stuff.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
No, it really wasn't a troll, although maybe I was a little harsh. I was just annoyed by the absolute arrogance of MP3 to not even ask how anyone else felt about them doing it. In a perfect world, my.mp3.com is an awesome idea. In the real world, though, it's so incredibly easy to get around its copyright protections that it's almost like having no protections. If they had approached some of the people whose music they'd be storing to work out a way to make it more pirate-proof, it would be hard to be nearly as annoyed at them.
I have absolutely no objection whatsoever to the service they run which allows bands to put their stuff up for free, and although I don't use it, I'm glad that there are places like mp3.com which are doing that.
Not trying to steer you away from mp3.com, but give some internet radio stations a try sometime -- I hate the local radio stations around here and get most of mine via the internet as well. Undergroundradio 3WK happens to be my current fave, with lots of great indie stuff, and is good if you have RealPlayer, although windowsmedia.com has loads of great internet radio stations if you own the Windows Media Player.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
First of all, the concept of Napster is so simple that anyone can do an end run around it and roll their own. This will probably start happening when the Feds start cracking down on music pirates on Napster next month (see article). The pirates will drop in numbers, as many decide they don't want to face the risk of prosecution, and many will start using alternative programs, to stay a step ahead of the feds who are cracking down on Napster. Add these factors to Napster's rising legal costs to defend its existence, and you're looking at major trouble for Napster's survival.
And having rolled my eyes enough times at a barely-coherent Sean (Shawn?) Fanning (Napster's creator) blurting out "The technology can't be stopped!" I say good riddance to the both of 'em.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
end $3 mil in sales is no different than $3.5 mil
Well why stop there? I could just as easily say that $2.5 mil is no different than your $3 mil. And $2 mil's should be plenty for anyone, who really needs $2.5 mil? Our forefathers somehow managed to thrive without being multimillionaires, and they're a Hell of a lot smarter than most people around today, so nobody should need more than $1 million. But ya know, Metallica alreay has a $20 million recording contract, so it's not like they'd even notice whether or not they got that extra $1 million -- that settles it, all their music should be free.
Any argument starting with the premise that someone has too much money, or more than they need, is an inherently evil one with the real purpose wanting to take away your freedom to do what you want with your own money. Why the fsck is it any of your business how much I make, how much you think I need, or whether or not I decide to blow it all on the most frivolous, self-indulgent crap ever known to man. Mind your own damn business.
(And when I say "you" up there, I'm talking about the general you, not aiming that at you, Vince.)
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Wait 'til the multi-player version comes out, when people can exchange characters. I build up a great family, looking to sell it on eBay. Mr. Wright gets cute and throws in another virus. My family's wiped out, and I've got nobody left to sell on eBay. Time for my lawyers to have a little talk with Mr. Wright. You just wait. :)
Personally, I think the guinea pig thing is a great idea, and should just be seen as part of the game. Who's to say that there isn't someone going around to animal shelters injecting guinea pigs with nasty viruses? Sure it's far-fetched, but so is life -- how many people expected their Tylenol to be laced with cyanide back in the '80s?
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
It would be interesting if it only blew up in IE.(further proof of MS not adhering to standards.)
Actually, it would be much more interesting if you went and learned XML, rather than spout off half-baked Microsoft conspiracy theories. :) I suggest the nice recommendation spec over at www.w3.org.
Your link is spitting out bad XML, most likely due to Slashdot using tools which don't grok UTF-8 encoding. If they want to use ASCII characters in the 128-255 range, like the "á" that IE's parser flags as an error, and don't have any tools which will output UTF-8 characters, then they should be using the appropriate entity in their text instead, i.e. á. Failing that, a less effective solution would be for them to specify a character encoding for their xml file, like ISO-8859-1, since their document doesn't match the default UTF-8.
Oh yeah, and if Netscape 6 allowed that xml to go through without reporting an error, then it has a broken parser.
Now see, learning isn't so hard, is it? And besides, it's so much more original around here than senseless Microsoft-bashing.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
it's understandable that they would go with Mozilla over IE
Eh? What part of "The system RealNetworks created for Global Media will use Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser if it is installed on a person's computer and will download the Mozilla-based browser otherwise," did you not understand?
Looks like they specifically are going with IE over Mozilla; only in the infrequent case (less than 20%) where a user doesn't have Internet Explorer will the Mozilla-based browser be downloaded.
Besides, didn't you get the memo from Larry Wall that laziness is one of the three chief virtues of a programmer? ;)
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com,
Keyboard shortcuts to access all, or at least the vast majority of, functions. Along with this, the defaults should be pre-set to what people are most accustomed to, like the standard shortcuts for open, cut, paste, etc. A neat program will get an early boost from its wow factor, but to get people wanting to continue to use it, the power user needs to be able to get things done quickly and efficiently, not constantly reaching for the mouse.
One of the reasons why Mozilla has seen so little testing on my computer is because of the long lack of keyboard shortcuts -- browsing a lot of sites just gets to be a pain, and a slow one. Speaking of which, Netscape deserves some boos for changing ctrl+O to ctrl+L for opening up a URL box, as well as for not implementing backspace/shift-backspace for going forward and back. You should be able to retrieve both local files and web urls from a single ctrl+O action. (Actually, I can't even get alt+-> or alt+<- to work on the Preview Release, but surely they'll at least change this by the actual release.)
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Excellent -- pretty much exactly what I was hoping for. If I can make a suggestion, you might want to have your publisher add that as an item on the book's feature list, because that'll be a very attractive selling point for people thinking about buying the book. Thanks again!
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
It seems like the Palm CEO is referring to Palm competitors when he says this, but if he is, it doesn't seem to make much sense, with the way about one-third of the Palm's supposed screen size is wasted with the silly silk-screen thingy.
The extra processing power is nice (I think the real reason behind it is a plan to catch up with the WinCE devices' multimedia capabilities), but that Voice Activation is not a good idea if it's anything like the current voice technologies. The last thing I need is to have a bunch of jokers activating my Palm willy-nilly, like the way everyone has fun screwing with the poor folks who bought The Clapper to control their lights and televisions.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Hi, thanks for the info, interspersed with a couple of boos 'cause I want this book yesterday! ;)
My main question about the book, which I haven't been able to figure out from the info I've seen: Does it cover PHP 4? At all? Mostly? Thanks for the help, and I'm looking forward to reading the book!
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
I'm getting a quote of $34.00 at ThinkGeek for the mySQL book when I follow the link in your post. Is there a code I can enter to get some kind of discount, which would explain the $29 that you two are talking about? I'm not looking to buy this book, 'cause I already own it, but having the discount in the future would be nice. I didn't, like, insult Slashdot one too many times in my youth to recieve the discount or something, did I? ;)
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
If someone wants to knock this book, fine, but to moderate someone up when they admit they haven't even read the book is silly, especially when they offer no more detailed criticism than some vague "BAD experiences."
I read O'Reilly's mSQL and mySQL when it came out. Say what you want about their other books, this was not their finest hour. The New Riders books, which I read about three months ago, is a great book on its own -- in comparision to the O'Reilly book, however, it's simply outstanding. If you want to get one book on mySQL, the New Riders one is unquestionably the book to get.
Oh, and I have no connection with New Riders -- I own a lot of O'Reilly books, and the mySQL book is the only tech book of New Riders that I own so far. So far. I'm really looking forward to their Web Application Development with PHP, which I ordered a couple of weeks ago.
Oh yeah, and as for the info that I mentioned in the subject line. I just noticed that ComputerBookstore.com just extended their 41% off sale on all New Riders books until April 30. (The deadline had been April 16th, but I got inundated with tax-paying and forgot to order my books.) Heh, and as I check the above link to make sure it works, I noticed that they've also now got a 41% off sale on all Wrox books, too. Argh, pity me and my credit card....
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
P.S. Heh, I noticed that they've even got Jon Katz's Geeks at 41% off, too.
I don't know if many people here do, but a lot of people buy stuff they saw in spam. Some friends of mine who used to work at Xoom.com were actually pretty amazed at just how many people would buy that schlock.
Oh yeah, and another note about Xoom: When you email them asking them to not send you anymore spam, they actually remove you from the list -- they don't, like I suspect a lot of companies do -- use your reply as a red flag which says, "OK, this really is a legitimate email address. Let's spam the Hell outta this guy!"
And no, I have no affiliation with, nor even any fondness for, Xoom.com. Just had some friends who used to work there before NBCi bought 'em out.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Dang ït, that'll teach me to post wïthout prevïewïng. I thïnk ït's ï anyway. :/
Cheers,
ZïcoKnows@hotmaïl.com
To be honest, I never really considered that it might use my e-mail to send me an advertisement without first asking my permission.
Come on. It makes me wonder just how internet-savvy this guy is. Anyone who doesn't use an email address dedicated to receiving spam when they provide information for companies is just asking for it. And no, this isn't a new thing for big companies either, because it actually works -- especially for big companies.
Oh, and CmdrTaco? That spam I get typically has fewer typos than the average Slashdot article that you guys post. ;)
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Yeah, okay, so it was just a trojan horse, so sue me. :P
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
So many celebrities, poets, actors, revolutionaries, wariers, politicians etc have died on 33 and 37.
That'd be a pretty neat trick and all, but unless they've mastered reincarnation where you're from, I'd be pretty stunned to have heard of someone dying at 33 and 37. :)
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Hell yeah, one of those Star Trek games and some Berzerk ripoff were the only games, other than my own inane ones (Yahtzee, anyone? Yeah, me neither.), are the only games that I still can remember from my old Trash-80! I think that Tandy tape recorder drive still stands as the single worst piece of computer hardware that I ever used on a regular basis.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Perhaps that's why IBM's revenues fell 5% from the same quarter last year, with most of their business segments showing flat or negative growth, while Sun hit a home run with their earnings report, showing record revenue of $4 billion, a 37% increase from the same period last year. Hey, no shame, IBM wouldn't be the first company ruined by pandering to the open source community (see SGI, Netscape, etc.)! :) Cheers,ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Just a thought, but is Slashdot now reaping what you've sown?
Cheers,ZicoKnows@hotmail.com