"Rudder said in 2003 Microsoft must ensure.NET becomes the preferred architecture for application development."...for hurting myself falling off of my chair in hysterical laughter?
I didn't have any trouble putting his "random facts" together. And I certainly didn't find him pointless. You, on the other hand, DO seem to be missing a point or two from your pointy little head. But I digress. What always amazes me about these little rants is that they never seem to relate to what has been said. It's as if the poster didn't bother to read the previous post. And this from a character whose sig line is: Arrogance and Ignorance go hand in hand. They certainly do seem to, don't they?;o) How more arrogant and ignorant can you get than not bothering to read the words of your target?
get ahold of one of these babies and point it at our aircraft from some mountain valley in Upper Allahjallabadallastan? Don't these morons ever learn? "Gee, Dr. Schnitt, what can you build us that we can use exclusively against our enemies for two years before it falls into the hands of our enemies?" Of course, now the defense industry can justify the production of a $100 Billion "Metropolitan Shield." Don't want any of the poor school kiddies getting blinded by the Red Chinese version of this.
"The news has been buzzing around for the last couple of days that Representative Berman, whose palm has been crossed with silver by the entertainment industry, would introduce a bill permitting copyright holders to hack or DoS people allegedly distributing their works without permission."
Have you even considered the ramifications of what you are proposing? Don't you think Osama bin Laden has the money to buy the rights to some stupid recording and then claim he's just protecting his copyrights by attacking every computer in the country? You, sir, are truly an idiot.
And don't you think that this sort of corporate vigilantism strikes at the very heart of the concept of rule of law? What next, poisoned candy from vending machines that is only detoxified upon payment? Is this really your vision of America's future?
"The new method, which allows an image to be created by 'painting with video' is used in conjunction with a wearable wireless webcam, so that image mosaics can be generated simply by looking around, in a sense, 'painting with looks'"
Reminds me of a technique that was used to photograph large airplanes in a hanger with a limited number of light sources. The lights were turned out, the shutter of the camera was opened, and the technicians would "paint with light," illuminating various parts of the airplane in sequence. This from someone who worked in the photography department of a large aircraft manufacturer.
If you could do that in the market, you'd be rich. I agree, all doctors aren;t egotists. Problem is, their power is such that a few of them have monumental consequences for their patients. Tom Brokaw can't kill you in the normal course of events. Politicians can , but it usually takes a while. CEOs can just lose you your job, which could kill you in the long run. But an egotistical doctor who doesn't know how to listen to his patients is a walking time bomb.
As for Guam, in the "absolute" sense, it's a speck of dust in the cosmos.
Same reason people believed eating carbohydrates would help them lose weight. They wanted to believe. They wanted to believe eating chocolate eclairs was good for them, and they wanted to believe that "nice man" wouldn't lie to them. And they wanted to believe the future was "so bright" they had "to wear shades." That's the one thing Clinton was able to impart to the country that Shrub doesn't seem to be able to. Optimism.
And this from the same organization whose head just apologized for the Inquisition. Maybe the Italian police haven't gotten the word yet. "Hello, Luigi? The Popa says you gotta stopa pickin' on da nona-catholics. Yah, dats a right. No puttin' yo stupid polica insignia ona da webba site. Yah, dis is officialista. Directa froma da maina man himself. No notta dah mafia. Dah holy fadda."
The way the patent office has been running lately, you might want to think about patenting a diskoid translational system compressed onto a cylindrical shaft.
You elect representatives with the IQ of a jar of cheezewhiz and this is what you get. For our British readers, that's a non-nutritive cheese flavored milk byproduct used to make all manner of things taste "cheesy." Not connected with the idea of cheesy computers.
I can't tell if you just like to argue or whether you have some kind of brain malformation that prevents you from seeing the obvious, so I won't call you a troll, though you may want to get a catscan to see if you have some kind of tumor or something.... +3 (Snide but humorous and incisive)
And then you go out and spend umpteen thousand dollars for a septuple bypass because you don't get enough exercise.
Really? A firewall to protect your toaster from being cracked? No offense but, have you lost your blinking mind?;o) And of course the purists will tell you you need a separate machine for the firewall because a software one on the same toaster is just not secure enough. Now that would be progress.
Hey, realistically, nobody's going to buy this.
As for programming your VCR on the way home, most folks can't talk on their cellphones without driving like drunken Parkinson's patients. You're gonna start punching VCR buttons while you're driving down the Antelope Freeway? Not in my universe.
Personally, I get enough annoyances in one day without some silly computer telling me the refrigerator light just went out. Take a break. Rest your eyes. Sit down at the kitchen table. Wait for the water to boil. The world won't stop rotating if you don't spend every last second debugging that program. Think of how many medical bills you'll avoid. And think about the greedy medical doctors who will have to worry about missing their Mercedes payments. Now that would be progress.:o)
From my own personal experience, nonprofit organizations tend to be oligarchies run like the Chinese Communist Party. The members don't get to vote for the officers--or they get to vote for either of one possible choice the way the Soviets did things, and the only function of the paying membership is to provide funds for the ruling elite.
Now I can't honestly say this about the FSF because I haven't studied them in particular, but I'd bet you dollars to donuts that the original poster was sure enough of his ground and the obviousness of it that he didn't feel it necessary to spell it all out.
Whether they are thus oligarchies, or actual dictatorships where their boards are appointed by the president (or pope), these organizations have entirely too much power in what purports to be a democratic society.
You could program it to print your daily schedule in jelly on your toast. What a marvelous idea! Where's that investment banker? I want to go public. I'll be rich rich rich!
Seriously though, I still can't fathom this insane inertia toward putting everything on the internet. This is all just another stupid hoola hoop craze. Like CB radio. Does anybody remember CB radio? Could somebody who does this for a living tell me what the advantage is to putting a bunch of non-networked machines and already networked machines on one, public, network? It seems to me this is just asking for trouble. Put all your eggs in one basket and then run around screaming the sky is falling and about to break the eggs! (What a mataphor!)
Short of a good excuse to set up a police state ruled by Emperor George, there's no point that I can see. Not that that's going to happen now. The way the market's acting, George would be lucky to get elected dogcatcher on the cryonics ticket....
I'm about halfway through A Wild Sheep Chase and I must say it is quite readable and just surrealistic enough to make it interesting. It really isn't very phildickian though. Dick may not be standard science fiction, but he does at least cast a glance in that direction. Murakami's strangeness is more on the level of Salvadore Dali. I haven't finished it yet though. Maybe some aliens will appear in the second half. There was one offhand reference to the sheep being of a breed not found on Earth....
games games games games games games games games....just killing time while the bozo server decides I've waited 20 seconds before replying. No wonder Gnulix never took off.
Why is it every time somebody expresses an opinion that is the least bit controversial, some dunderhead mods him down to troll? The guys running this thing need to take note of this kind of nonsense or they are going to end up with a forum with the interest of a bowl of homogenized oatmeal. I'm talking to YOU Cmdr Taco-for-brains.
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1. A company or organization large enough to be able to afford "enterprise" software or support for the "free" equivalent thereof.
;o)
2. Corporation.
3. Any large business or undertaking.
4. Any company too large for Microsoft to swallow whole. See: Borg.
"Rudder said in 2003 Microsoft must ensure .NET becomes the preferred architecture for application development." ...for hurting myself falling off of my chair in hysterical laughter?
Nobody had the balls to stand up to the bastards.
Well, HP's customer support is nonexistent and their products are quirky as hell, so nothing lost on that front.
I didn't have any trouble putting his "random facts" together. And I certainly didn't find him pointless. You, on the other hand, DO seem to be missing a point or two from your pointy little head. But I digress. What always amazes me about these little rants is that they never seem to relate to what has been said. It's as if the poster didn't bother to read the previous post. And this from a character whose sig line is: Arrogance and Ignorance go hand in hand. They certainly do seem to, don't they? ;o) How more arrogant and ignorant can you get than not bothering to read the words of your target?
get ahold of one of these babies and point it at our aircraft from some mountain valley in Upper Allahjallabadallastan? Don't these morons ever learn? "Gee, Dr. Schnitt, what can you build us that we can use exclusively against our enemies for two years before it falls into the hands of our enemies?" Of course, now the defense industry can justify the production of a $100 Billion "Metropolitan Shield." Don't want any of the poor school kiddies getting blinded by the Red Chinese version of this.
"The news has been buzzing around for the last couple of days that Representative Berman, whose palm has been crossed with silver by the entertainment industry, would introduce a bill permitting copyright holders to hack or DoS people allegedly distributing their works without permission."
Have you even considered the ramifications of what you are proposing? Don't you think Osama bin Laden has the money to buy the rights to some stupid recording and then claim he's just protecting his copyrights by attacking every computer in the country? You, sir, are truly an idiot.
And don't you think that this sort of corporate vigilantism strikes at the very heart of the concept of rule of law? What next, poisoned candy from vending machines that is only detoxified upon payment? Is this really your vision of America's future?
YOU MAKE ME ASHAMED TO BE A DEMOCRAT!
Steve Franklin
"The new method, which allows an image to be created by 'painting with video' is used in conjunction with a wearable wireless webcam, so that image mosaics can be generated simply by looking around, in a sense, 'painting with looks'"
Reminds me of a technique that was used to photograph large airplanes in a hanger with a limited number of light sources. The lights were turned out, the shutter of the camera was opened, and the technicians would "paint with light," illuminating various parts of the airplane in sequence. This from someone who worked in the photography department of a large aircraft manufacturer.
If you could do that in the market, you'd be rich. I agree, all doctors aren;t egotists. Problem is, their power is such that a few of them have monumental consequences for their patients. Tom Brokaw can't kill you in the normal course of events. Politicians can , but it usually takes a while. CEOs can just lose you your job, which could kill you in the long run. But an egotistical doctor who doesn't know how to listen to his patients is a walking time bomb.
As for Guam, in the "absolute" sense, it's a speck of dust in the cosmos.
Why does the stupid program insist I have to write something here? +3.5 (Fractal)
Same reason people believed eating carbohydrates would help them lose weight. They wanted to believe. They wanted to believe eating chocolate eclairs was good for them, and they wanted to believe that "nice man" wouldn't lie to them. And they wanted to believe the future was "so bright" they had "to wear shades." That's the one thing Clinton was able to impart to the country that Shrub doesn't seem to be able to. Optimism.
no comment.
And this from the same organization whose head just apologized for the Inquisition. Maybe the Italian police haven't gotten the word yet. "Hello, Luigi? The Popa says you gotta stopa pickin' on da nona-catholics. Yah, dats a right. No puttin' yo stupid polica insignia ona da webba site. Yah, dis is officialista. Directa froma da maina man himself. No notta dah mafia. Dah holy fadda."
Moderate this....
The way the patent office has been running lately, you might want to think about patenting a diskoid translational system compressed onto a cylindrical shaft.
Because he calls people names.
They also say peculiar things like "Texan company" rather than Texas company. I think they've been living next to France for too long.
You elect representatives with the IQ of a jar of cheezewhiz and this is what you get. For our British readers, that's a non-nutritive cheese flavored milk byproduct used to make all manner of things taste "cheesy." Not connected with the idea of cheesy computers.
He was talking about the idiotic part.
I can't tell if you just like to argue or whether you have some kind of brain malformation that prevents you from seeing the obvious, so I won't call you a troll, though you may want to get a catscan to see if you have some kind of tumor or something.... +3 (Snide but humorous and incisive)
And then you go out and spend umpteen thousand dollars for a septuple bypass because you don't get enough exercise.
;o) And of course the purists will tell you you need a separate machine for the firewall because a software one on the same toaster is just not secure enough. Now that would be progress.
:o)
Really? A firewall to protect your toaster from being cracked? No offense but, have you lost your blinking mind?
Hey, realistically, nobody's going to buy this.
As for programming your VCR on the way home, most folks can't talk on their cellphones without driving like drunken Parkinson's patients. You're gonna start punching VCR buttons while you're driving down the Antelope Freeway? Not in my universe.
Personally, I get enough annoyances in one day without some silly computer telling me the refrigerator light just went out. Take a break. Rest your eyes. Sit down at the kitchen table. Wait for the water to boil. The world won't stop rotating if you don't spend every last second debugging that program. Think of how many medical bills you'll avoid. And think about the greedy medical doctors who will have to worry about missing their Mercedes payments. Now that would be progress.
From my own personal experience, nonprofit organizations tend to be oligarchies run like the Chinese Communist Party. The members don't get to vote for the officers--or they get to vote for either of one possible choice the way the Soviets did things, and the only function of the paying membership is to provide funds for the ruling elite.
;o)
Now I can't honestly say this about the FSF because I haven't studied them in particular, but I'd bet you dollars to donuts that the original poster was sure enough of his ground and the obviousness of it that he didn't feel it necessary to spell it all out.
Whether they are thus oligarchies, or actual dictatorships where their boards are appointed by the president (or pope), these organizations have entirely too much power in what purports to be a democratic society.
Now get out from under my bridge!
You could program it to print your daily schedule in jelly on your toast. What a marvelous idea! Where's that investment banker? I want to go public. I'll be rich rich rich!
Seriously though, I still can't fathom this insane inertia toward putting everything on the internet. This is all just another stupid hoola hoop craze. Like CB radio. Does anybody remember CB radio? Could somebody who does this for a living tell me what the advantage is to putting a bunch of non-networked machines and already networked machines on one, public, network? It seems to me this is just asking for trouble. Put all your eggs in one basket and then run around screaming the sky is falling and about to break the eggs! (What a mataphor!)
Short of a good excuse to set up a police state ruled by Emperor George, there's no point that I can see. Not that that's going to happen now. The way the market's acting, George would be lucky to get elected dogcatcher on the cryonics ticket....
Thad, Tiffany, Sean, and, um, Shae.... Need I say more?
I'm about halfway through A Wild Sheep Chase and I must say it is quite readable and just surrealistic enough to make it interesting. It really isn't very phildickian though. Dick may not be standard science fiction, but he does at least cast a glance in that direction. Murakami's strangeness is more on the level of Salvadore Dali. I haven't finished it yet though. Maybe some aliens will appear in the second half. There was one offhand reference to the sheep being of a breed not found on Earth....
games games games games games games games games....just killing time while the bozo server decides I've waited 20 seconds before replying. No wonder Gnulix never took off.
Why is it every time somebody expresses an opinion that is the least bit controversial, some dunderhead mods him down to troll? The guys running this thing need to take note of this kind of nonsense or they are going to end up with a forum with the interest of a bowl of homogenized oatmeal. I'm talking to YOU Cmdr Taco-for-brains.
And Cmdr Burrito doesn't bother to do any filtering, let alone proofreading.