even so, what do you think would happen if i went on tv and offered 1 trillion dollars to anyone who can spit in a jar? if he proves that it was unreasonable to assume that he wasn't joking, i think he's off the hook (sorry for the double negative).
yeah, you're right, i'm sure microsoft's rise to power never had anything to do with the fact that windows and office were (and many would say still are) the most user-friendly and advanced products of their kind...
well, it might be unreliable, but i think you're overestimating the reliability of normal data centers. even if failure is twice as likely at this data center than others, i think it still improves overall performance and reliability enough that it's worth building. or at least google seems to think so.
small companies want open standards and interoperability. large companies want to hold their customers hostage, because they have a shot at absolute monopoly. apple has recently made a rare transition from the first to second category, and their incentives and policies have changed accordingly. that's all.
I agree. what I can't figure out is why nobody's going after them. it's not like there is no precedent. Microsoft is still being gang-raped in the EU...
the inkblot test is a pretty bad one. interpreting the meaning behind a patient's answers is completely up to whoever administers the test, thus making the results potentially very biased. i say, let's ruin it by publishing the pictures wherever we can. it has plagued the field of psychotherapy long enough.
so windows 98 is 14 times better than win 7? and of course, win 2000 is by far the best. (actually, that last part I believe. windows 2000 was like windows NT, but with graphics that didn't make you want to pull out your cerebral cortex through your nose.)
unfortunately it also means that in the event of some freaky sun-related incident like a giant solar flare, electronic devices on venus will be fried way easier than anything on earth, or especially mars. (although maybe i'm wrong about the mars part. after all, it doesn't have a humongous magnetic field protecting it...)
well, it's an all or nothing attitude. if i can't walk in a park that's on a planet on the other side of the galaxy, then i wont walk in any park at all!
this is offtopic, but could you shed some light on the meaning of your sig? i just spent 15 minutes trying to figure out what programming, politics, and the role of the breadwinner in a family all have in common...
it's an interesting read. it was assigned in a freshman seminar i took. talked about how the illusions people had that law was unenforceable on the internet was shattered in its early days.
still, i think the only reason the US didn't grant them asylum was because they didn't want a scandal with the UK. if those people were from, say, lebanon, i'm pretty sure the story would've had a different ending..
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well, these things happen... especially when you use the money for maintaining the park to buy your wife diamond earrings.
bullet + brains = segfault. can't get much faster than that.
even so, what do you think would happen if i went on tv and offered 1 trillion dollars to anyone who can spit in a jar? if he proves that it was unreasonable to assume that he wasn't joking, i think he's off the hook (sorry for the double negative).
yeah, you're right, i'm sure microsoft's rise to power never had anything to do with the fact that windows and office were (and many would say still are) the most user-friendly and advanced products of their kind...
well, it might be unreliable, but i think you're overestimating the reliability of normal data centers. even if failure is twice as likely at this data center than others, i think it still improves overall performance and reliability enough that it's worth building. or at least google seems to think so.
small companies want open standards and interoperability. large companies want to hold their customers hostage, because they have a shot at absolute monopoly. apple has recently made a rare transition from the first to second category, and their incentives and policies have changed accordingly. that's all.
I agree. what I can't figure out is why nobody's going after them. it's not like there is no precedent. Microsoft is still being gang-raped in the EU...
could be worse. they could have called it Big Brother's Phonebook. but i guess the UK has dibs on that name...
so, the best astronauts for a trip to mars are awkward 13 year old boys suffering from severe social anxiety? how bizarre...
so what? maybe they were simulating stopping at a burger king on the way to mars? i don't see anything wrong with that...
they've got little server kids to feed at home.
you're 13 and you already have a 3 Funny post on /.? way to go, kid. it took me a lot longer than that.
the inkblot test is a pretty bad one. interpreting the meaning behind a patient's answers is completely up to whoever administers the test, thus making the results potentially very biased. i say, let's ruin it by publishing the pictures wherever we can. it has plagued the field of psychotherapy long enough.
quit. now.
so windows 98 is 14 times better than win 7? and of course, win 2000 is by far the best. (actually, that last part I believe. windows 2000 was like windows NT, but with graphics that didn't make you want to pull out your cerebral cortex through your nose.)
unfortunately it also means that in the event of some freaky sun-related incident like a giant solar flare, electronic devices on venus will be fried way easier than anything on earth, or especially mars. (although maybe i'm wrong about the mars part. after all, it doesn't have a humongous magnetic field protecting it...)
well, it's an all or nothing attitude. if i can't walk in a park that's on a planet on the other side of the galaxy, then i wont walk in any park at all!
since when does an iphone cost $99? i thought it was $200 + sell your soul to at&t...
but dry present is discouraging.
it's not retro, its innovation - it's got a new GUI, so it has to be!
this is offtopic, but could you shed some light on the meaning of your sig? i just spent 15 minutes trying to figure out what programming, politics, and the role of the breadwinner in a family all have in common...
i especially like sarkozy's look of approval, like he's saying "way to go barack, i can tell we have similar tastes".
seriously, that's funny... but i have to say, the only "informative" thing about your post for me is that you noticed it ;)
http://www.amazon.com/Who-Controls-Internet-Illusions-Borderless/dp/0195152662
it's an interesting read. it was assigned in a freshman seminar i took. talked about how the illusions people had that law was unenforceable on the internet was shattered in its early days.
still, i think the only reason the US didn't grant them asylum was because they didn't want a scandal with the UK. if those people were from, say, lebanon, i'm pretty sure the story would've had a different ending..