Maybe if Linus used a bit more political correct speech it would have went smoother? Instead of 'gnome' it is (depending on which type he was refering to)
- Vertical challenged person - Desktop challenged person
If it was to happen (the risk of that isn't somethink one should worry about) I would get along just fine. Most of what I do on a daily basis over the internet can be done with a dialup modem.
I reckon most people are "addicted to the internet"; They have access to something that they percieve as a need, and to fill that need they need more of it (take warez, music, video, porn etc.) and faster connections to fill the need. You might want the net or video/whatever over the net, but you don't need it.
And if the internet was to "break down", there is still old tech That Just Work tm, or you will get private or corporate networks to fill the void. BBS anyone?
The internet is a luxury, the world can and will survive without it.
That this woman ended up on the short end of the stick still doesn't affect the validity of her tail -- if only as a warning of what really can go wrong if you're unlucky.
I think most will agree that a tail is a bit more than a bad result from plastic surgery.
Minion: Sir, sir! I have some good news and some bad news. Ballmer: Stop breathing in my direction, and give me the bad news first. Minion: Evans say they will "significantly increase" its use of open-source software. Ballmer picks up a chair and advences towards the minion. Sweating minion: Sir, wait. You haven't heard the good news yet. Ballmer: This better be good! Minion: The council will use SUSE. Ballmer flops down into the chair and laughs loudly *evil pinky*
If ITER is successful, a commercial reactor could be built by 2040. Funny, I seem to remember fusion researchers from Livermore in the 70s say that commercial power was 20 years away...
They came pretty close, if you add the 10 years of negotiations and 4 years of inflation to the 20 years they came up with, you get 34 years from today which fits with the year 2040. Amazing forsight really.:P
I am pretty sure that Sisco wasn't a captain. The others were in charge of a spaceship, he was "just" the highest ranking federation officer on a Bajoran (sp? I am no trekkie:p). Don't remember anything remarkable about Janeway, but then Voyager was a bad show (and horrible inconsistent, even with its own storyline).
I don't think its the sort of thing you can put an exact date on.
The system goes on-line August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed and replace with ICANN. It begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes aware of pr0n at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
Granted, sudden selling is only dumping if the reason the stock went up was because of "pumping" - personal actions by the seller to deceive buyers, hence raising the price without fundamentally increasing the value of the company. That is the missing evidence, right there. It is easy to look at the stock value and see that it increase ten fold and that trading increased as well. But those two go hand in hand, a stock that becomes valuable also gets a lot of trading since there are oppertunities to "score big" with short term tradeing. SCOX went from a small trading and steady stock value, to a hot stock with high trade and value. That is not unique to SCOX in anyway. It is of course suspicious, but that is a long way from a proven fact. My point is, they get accused of pump and dump, but nobody have any evidence beyond the trading values and volume. Presummingly the SEC is/will investigate if there is any wrong doing, and judge on that. Until then we only have opinions, which are not facts.
Are you saying the burden is on us to prove SCO doesn't have a rock-solid legal case against IBM hidden away somewhere, after years of baseless legal maneuvering? That have nothing to do at all with what I said, I was only talking about the pump and dump, some claim SCO was doing. But since you brought it up, it is for the court to decide if they have a case or not. But from the evidence we have seen so far, it sure looks like SCO doesn't have a case.
That's bizarre. I find it bizarre that some require proof in one case, and doesn't in another case, even if it is the same company it is about.
Opinions are part of what makes us human, and how we shape our behaviour and view. Just don't lift opinions to facts, since that can skew your perception.
At this point, there's plenty of evidence that this entire IBM lawsuit was a pump-and-dump scheme. I will bite, where is that evidence then? All I see is people claiming it to be pump and dump. Selling stock when it is sudden worth ten times as much (who wouldn't?) isn't evidence of pump and dump. Given the context it can of course be suspicious. If you accuse without any proof, you will just be doing what SCO have done for so long.
Oh yeah, it is great. Until the day you come home to find that your gf have made a backup of all data she could find on the HD, repartioned the whole drive to install Linux on it, just to show how much she loves you. And when she says to you "I love you hon, don't you like my present?", all you can think is "NooooooOOoooo my porn" and pretend it is tears of joy.
Oh look here comes Supercar. *honk* What is it Supercar? *honk* *squeek* *hoooOoonk* Jimmy feel down the well after trying to rotate his tires, he can't get up because his engine is stalled and he found a ore of cartonite so you can't save him. Great Scott, someone call Batcar.
Interestingly enough the geek squad specie have many similarities with the (greek) squids:
- Both can leak ink; squid does it for defense, geeks just have cheap pens.
- Ability to adapt to work in odd positions; geeks often work in cubicles or are found in odd places doing repairs, squids again do it for defense or to seek food.
- Execelent use of appendixes; squids can assume almost any form to do the work it needs to do, geeks have all the tools (and more) to do the work it need to do.
- Good camuflage; Squids can often change colour to become undetectable, geeks are undetectable by the cloth style, and in some cases their behaviour.
Amazing really, two completely different species, and yet so much in common.
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- Vertical challenged person
- Desktop challenged person
P.S. I use neither KDE or GNOME.
Are there any other 'big picture' problems out there you think would benefit from the grid approach?
;p
How about "Global warming: Are humans affecting the enviroment on Earth"?
I don't think 5k computers can solve it, better increase the numbers tenfold or more.
If it was to happen (the risk of that isn't somethink one should worry about) I would get along just fine. Most of what I do on a daily basis over the internet can be done with a dialup modem.
I reckon most people are "addicted to the internet"; They have access to something that they percieve as a need, and to fill that need they need more of it (take warez, music, video, porn etc.) and faster connections to fill the need.
You might want the net or video/whatever over the net, but you don't need it.
And if the internet was to "break down", there is still old tech That Just Work tm, or you will get private or corporate networks to fill the void. BBS anyone?
The internet is a luxury, the world can and will survive without it.
Windows Waterloo service pack 1 and 2: WWI and WWII
MS: You did good, kid, real good. But as long as I am around, you will only be second best.
...?
BTW wasn't Google "elected" to be the new "evil", or was it Disney or
That this woman ended up on the short end of the stick still doesn't affect the validity of her tail -- if only as a warning of what really can go wrong if you're unlucky.
I think most will agree that a tail is a bit more than a bad result from plastic surgery.
Video of the giant rabbit in action.
They could just move the 'i', Phonie have a nice ring to it ...
Add more cow bell.
Don't forget about Sedenions, which is likely the most beatyful of the hypercomplex numbers (and probably the least useful one XD).
Henchman runs into Ballmers office.
Minion: Sir, sir! I have some good news and some bad news.
Ballmer: Stop breathing in my direction, and give me the bad news first.
Minion: Evans say they will "significantly increase" its use of open-source software.
Ballmer picks up a chair and advences towards the minion.
Sweating minion: Sir, wait. You haven't heard the good news yet.
Ballmer: This better be good!
Minion: The council will use SUSE.
Ballmer flops down into the chair and laughs loudly *evil pinky*
*confused expression*
What is wrong with the hula hoop? And why run a computer on it?
Crazy case modders, I tell you. Now get off my lawn.
Consumers thus will be able to download 'personality modules' and see how their Pleos react to different stimuli ...
Oh great, I just _know_ I will get the one with Marvin personality.
If ITER is successful, a commercial reactor could be built by 2040. Funny, I seem to remember fusion researchers from Livermore in the 70s say that commercial power was 20 years away...
:P
They came pretty close, if you add the 10 years of negotiations and 4 years of inflation to the 20 years they came up with, you get 34 years from today which fits with the year 2040. Amazing forsight really.
I bet none of you are going to mention some of the most important ones.
"How to build the perfect masturbatorium"
"wget - You and pr0n harvesting on the internet"
"Awk - Advanced wanking knowledge"
Leaked picture of the art on the retail box.
Title and summary have it (slightly) wrong.
Intel's prototype uses 80 floating-point cores.
Very interesting in itself, but not the same as 80 CPU cores, which is hinted at by summary.
Doesn't take much to make a turbo version of this microwave drive, simply add eggs!
I am pretty sure that Sisco wasn't a captain. :p).
The others were in charge of a spaceship, he was "just" the highest ranking federation officer on a Bajoran (sp? I am no trekkie
Don't remember anything remarkable about Janeway, but then Voyager was a bad show (and horrible inconsistent, even with its own storyline).
I don't think its the sort of thing you can put an exact date on.
The system goes on-line August 4th, 1997.
Human decisions are removed and replace with ICANN.
It begins to learn at a geometric rate.
It becomes aware of pr0n at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th.
In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
Granted, sudden selling is only dumping if the reason the stock went up was because of "pumping" - personal actions by the seller to deceive buyers, hence raising the price without fundamentally increasing the value of the company.
That is the missing evidence, right there. It is easy to look at the stock value and see that it increase ten fold and that trading increased as well. But those two go hand in hand, a stock that becomes valuable also gets a lot of trading since there are oppertunities to "score big" with short term tradeing.
SCOX went from a small trading and steady stock value, to a hot stock with high trade and value. That is not unique to SCOX in anyway.
It is of course suspicious, but that is a long way from a proven fact.
My point is, they get accused of pump and dump, but nobody have any evidence beyond the trading values and volume.
Presummingly the SEC is/will investigate if there is any wrong doing, and judge on that. Until then we only have opinions, which are not facts.
Are you saying the burden is on us to prove SCO doesn't have a rock-solid legal case against IBM hidden away somewhere, after years of baseless legal maneuvering?
That have nothing to do at all with what I said, I was only talking about the pump and dump, some claim SCO was doing. But since you brought it up, it is for the court to decide if they have a case or not.
But from the evidence we have seen so far, it sure looks like SCO doesn't have a case.
That's bizarre.
I find it bizarre that some require proof in one case, and doesn't in another case, even if it is the same company it is about.
Opinions are part of what makes us human, and how we shape our behaviour and view. Just don't lift opinions to facts, since that can skew your perception.
At this point, there's plenty of evidence that this entire IBM lawsuit was a pump-and-dump scheme.
I will bite, where is that evidence then? All I see is people claiming it to be pump and dump.
Selling stock when it is sudden worth ten times as much (who wouldn't?) isn't evidence of pump and dump. Given the context it can of course be suspicious.
If you accuse without any proof, you will just be doing what SCO have done for so long.
Oh yeah, it is great. Until the day you come home to find that your gf have made a backup of all data she could find on the HD, repartioned the whole drive to install Linux on it, just to show how much she loves you.
And when she says to you "I love you hon, don't you like my present?", all you can think is "NooooooOOoooo my porn" and pretend it is tears of joy.
Yeah, got to love that hidden volumes feature.
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it is Supercar!
Oh look here comes Supercar.
*honk*
What is it Supercar?
*honk* *squeek* *hoooOoonk*
Jimmy feel down the well after trying to rotate his tires, he can't get up because his engine is stalled and he found a ore of cartonite so you can't save him. Great Scott, someone call Batcar.
- Both can leak ink; squid does it for defense, geeks just have cheap pens.
- Ability to adapt to work in odd positions; geeks often work in cubicles or are found in odd places doing repairs, squids again do it for defense or to seek food.
- Execelent use of appendixes; squids can assume almost any form to do the work it needs to do, geeks have all the tools (and more) to do the work it need to do.
- Good camuflage; Squids can often change colour to become undetectable, geeks are undetectable by the cloth style, and in some cases their behaviour.
Amazing really, two completely different species, and yet so much in common.