"MSN is really working on building a prototype for the Summer festivals, perhaps Glastonbury..."
The Glasonbury Festival could be the ultimate test for a wired toilet. Problem is most of the users would be too stoned to notice, and who in their right mind is going to spend any longer than needed in a Glasto portaloo to check their hotmail, (that is if it doesn't get nicked by the skallies).
This is how the Festival Organisers describe them... "The 'long drop' toilets are open stalls positioned above a large pit - looking down is not advised! The stall gates often don't lock, so it's advised to look under the gate for feet before entering a stall. But don't be surprised if you then do find someone inside - squatting with feet on the seat is a popular way of avoiding skin contact."
It MUST be a double bluff. MS want to create a stink about it so MORE people will run Visual Fox Pro on Lenux, thus delaying the development of several OSS projects.
True Story: I was at a MS seminar, and a MS employee was presenting a demo on.net and data access. One guy asked a question starting:
In Sweden, my friend lives in appartment block, and they got a 100Mbps broadbend network installed free as the company wanted to test the technology. (They pay about $20 a month to use it).
Thay had a meeting about it, to discuss what people thought of it, the company explained that other appartments were having 10Mbps lines installed.
Being Swedish, they decided to have a vote, and democratically decided to change the network to 10Mbps so they would have the same as everyone else.
Your going to to mention "Blue Screen" one day and no one will know what you are talking about. I have not seen one for over a year now, as the releases progress, Windows is getting more stable. You have to find a different way to poke fun at the man-in-the-glasses.
Thay probably tricked them into thinking they were voting for some kind of Free-Be-A-Millionare-Lotto-Scratch-Card or something.
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I knew one programmer who didn't shower (except maybe once a year), didn't wear nice threads, was a very difficult person to deal with, and I really wished that they would have either moved his office or given him a chair with a full back to hide his plumbers butt that was stairing at you as you climbed up the stair. Ya know what, he found a wife who was just like him. To each their own.
Yeah, maybe owning Microsoft does have an effect on the chicks.
>>As one could expect, an injury/death in a theme park is the absolute worst thing for business possible.
I heard that the reverse is true. Sounds morbid but after there's a death on a ride, everyone wants to go on it. I remember as a kid at a park friends were saying "Someone died on this last year, it must be good!".
A friend of mine worked at a sky-diving school and whenever there was a fatal accident in the press the courses would be fully booked for weeks.
In the UK we have to buy a licence (about $200) to watch TV, if you didn'y have one, you could be fined about $2000. When I was a student, there was loads of hype about "TV Detector Vans".
Basically they drive round in a van with an arial on the top that can detect if you are watching TV.
They would run adverts like "TV Detector Vans are Operating in YOUR area, and actually have these green vans with arials on the top that thay would drive round.
It turns out this was all FUD. They did have the technology to do this, but it was impracticle to implement, so they just used empty vans.
The technology worked by detecting the CRT emissions form the TV set, so I guess Microsoft could build one to check for windows licences.
"XP Detector Vans are operating in YOUR area!! You have been warned..."
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I don't believe he fell for that one.
It's not as profitable as you think...
When developing for windoes "Microsoft F#&%", or "F#&%*!? .net" is the most common language our team uses.
"MSN is really working on building a prototype for the Summer festivals, perhaps Glastonbury ..."
The Glasonbury Festival could be the ultimate test for a wired toilet. Problem is most of the users would be too stoned to notice, and who in their right mind is going to spend any longer than needed in a Glasto portaloo to check their hotmail, (that is if it doesn't get nicked by the skallies).
This is how the Festival Organisers describe them...
"The 'long drop' toilets are open stalls positioned above a large pit - looking down is not advised! The stall gates often don't lock, so it's advised to look under the gate for feet before entering a stall. But don't be surprised if you then do find someone inside - squatting with feet on the seat is a popular way of avoiding skin contact."
You can also have a Flash-Powered house:
Here...
>>create a new breed of intellectually and physically superior people
A nerd who is captain of the school football team? This would destroy Americain society as we know it...
5 years in an Australian jail!
So I guess the DMCA means that music fans really do get raped in the arse...
It MUST be a double bluff. MS want to create a stink about it so MORE people will run Visual Fox Pro on Lenux, thus delaying the development of several OSS projects.
.net and data access. One guy asked a question starting:
True Story:
I was at a MS seminar, and a MS employee was presenting a demo on
"I'm a developer with Visual Fox Pro..."
The MS guy just replied:
"I'm sorry."
In Sweden, my friend lives in appartment block, and they got a 100Mbps broadbend network installed free as the company wanted to test the technology. (They pay about $20 a month to use it).
Thay had a meeting about it, to discuss what people thought of it, the company explained that other appartments were having 10Mbps lines installed.
Being Swedish, they decided to have a vote, and democratically decided to change the network to 10Mbps so they would have the same as everyone else.
Only in Sweden...
Don't think so...
Enjoy your joke while you can.
Your going to to mention "Blue Screen" one day and no one will know what you are talking about. I have not seen one for over a year now, as the releases progress, Windows is getting more stable. You have to find a different way to poke fun at the man-in-the-glasses.
Ayjay...
The BBC had an animation showing the build up of troops, and backed it with the music from "The Two Towers" trailer.
What?!?!
Thay probably tricked them into thinking they were voting for some kind of Free-Be-A-Millionare-Lotto-Scratch-Card or something.
I knew one programmer who didn't shower (except maybe once a year), didn't wear nice threads, was a very difficult person to deal with, and I really wished that they would have either moved his office or given him a chair with a full back to hide his plumbers butt that was stairing at you as you climbed up the stair. Ya know what, he found a wife who was just like him. To each their own.
Yeah, maybe owning Microsoft does have an effect on the chicks.
This is getting boaring.
I want to see "Mike Tysson vs Robo-Boxer". That's gotta be the ultimate test.
See who can build a boxing robot that can beat a heavy weight champion. The same weight restrictions, and approximate size would apply.
It's gotta be able to draw a bigger crowd, think of the add revenue.
I live in Sweden, and a Swede was trying to explain the Sauna tradition, he asked:
"What's the English word for the hole in the ice that you jump through after you have been in the Sauna?"
>>As one could expect, an injury/death in a theme park is the absolute worst thing for business possible.
I heard that the reverse is true. Sounds morbid but after there's a death on a ride, everyone wants to go on it. I remember as a kid at a park friends were saying "Someone died on this last year, it must be good!".
A friend of mine worked at a sky-diving school and whenever there was a fatal accident in the press the courses would be fully booked for weeks.
Well that's about all the BBC had to say on it.
"Maybe Porn For Nerds, Stuff that Splatters." would get through OK.
In the UK we have to buy a licence (about $200) to watch TV, if you didn'y have one, you could be fined about $2000. When I was a student, there was loads of hype about "TV Detector Vans".
Basically they drive round in a van with an arial on the top that can detect if you are watching TV.
They would run adverts like "TV Detector Vans are Operating in YOUR area, and actually have these green vans with arials on the top that thay would drive round.
It turns out this was all FUD. They did have the technology to do this, but it was impracticle to implement, so they just used empty vans.
The technology worked by detecting the CRT emissions form the TV set, so I guess Microsoft could build one to check for windows licences.
"XP Detector Vans are operating in YOUR area!! You have been warned..."
We've had "Aggressive Inlines", now all the rich kids are gonna start the next craze, 'Aggressive Sedgewaying'.
Anyone with $5000 can dye there hair green and look a tit trying to do tripple 360 bone-outs down at the local ramp.
Plenty of merchandizing oportunity here:
Tony Dawk Pro Sedgeway for the X-Box anyone?
I bet you can even nick one in the next GTA.
Imagine a bewul... --sssllllaaaaappppp!!!!
No wonder geeks have a hard time getting laid...
Model 1: We've been here nearly an hour. I'd have thought he'd have poped round to introduce himself. Whats he up to?
Model 2: It's hard to tell, he's running round franticly trying to fix something with a bin bag, some sticks and a piece of string.
Model 1: Just our luck, we've moved in next door to a System Adminidtrator.
I'm not.
When I was a lad kids used to hide behind the sofa when Dr Who came on TV.
Nowdays kids hide behind the sofa when the police come to the door.
This is how the BBC got the TARDIS idea:
Director: We'r doing a space time travel "Star Trek" type thing. We need a flash spaceship, with lots of flashing lights lights and things.
Props man: This is the BBC, be realistic.
Director: OK, well we need a cheap model spaceship with thin wires that we can blue-screen with and do some cheesy fly-by shots.
Props man: This is the BBC, be realistic.
Director: Well we need something, what have you got?
Props man: I've got this old phone box from "Dixon of Dock Green", needs a lick of paint but...