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What I thought was funny about the story (which was actually a mostly good story) was how they said that Slashdot has "low brow content about Lego robots"...most newspapers think their readership is so 31337 and literate, but if the Washington Post is like most newspapers it probably dedicates one paragraph to the overthrow of a government in a country of millions; and runs a big old full page multicolored article about which member of the cast of Friends is sexiest.
One technicality: As far as I know, corn does not grow wild. Corn hasn't grown wild for thousands of years, and in fact, their is no such thing as wild corn. New World Natives genetically engineered corn out of some different plant. Corn can not even survive in the wild.
Totally irrelevant to your point, I know. I am just being snippy.
The important thing with Intel isn't thier technology, most home customers, and a lot of business customers, (and myself) couldn't tell you one thing about what the technical difference is between an Intel chip and an AMD chip, or even between an Intel chip and a Motorola G4.
Intel has a name, created by a gigantic campaign, and continued by a gigantic name. It is the name that makes Intel the industry leader, and they will swallow just amount any amount of money to keep that name.
Acording to the survey, they analyzed one thousand megabytes of programs...doesn't that seem a bit small? Meaning that all the open source software that they could find can only fit into an old style P-1 computer? Or is this just supposed to be a representative sample, and, if so, how did they choose this particular sample?
THese projects would average about 300 K each...what are they? Drivers? Application programs? Pac-Man clones?
There won't be so many fuss about two different people scrambling for one domain name. For example, Integrated Billing Mechanics can become IBM1985.com and Associated Textiles and Tyres can be ATT55.com...the possibilities are endless.
When I used to work ISP tech support, we hated and dreaded the words "but it always worked on AOL" so much that we took out our frustarations on the only aspect of AOL we could touch, namely their coasters that they sent out every week.
The AOL-CD-as-coaster joke having been used to many times that it was no longer a joke, we had to come up with a more creative game to play. Other then Frisbee, one of my favorite to play was to wedge the CD into the slots where our desks joined together, and then, while one person held them back, to throw a small item at it, and then to release the disc, sending said small object richocheting around our cubicle.
Yes, this is an additional step in merging internet and TV, meaning that the internet, once a system of equal computers ran by equal people sharing their independent views and experiences, will be taken over by the media companies, which will sell one thing that people will just have to sit there and look at.
In case anybody needs more, this certainly shows us that AOL & Time Warner shouldn't be joined, and that once they are we will have even worse news coverage then we do now.
If the Illuminati were a joke before, they aren't now. That Time would publish an article from Bill Gates as a place to spread his party line shows just how much these people are all in collusion.
Time Magazine acts as if it has the Mandate of Heaven to decide what is the truth and what is to report. I would like to see their certificate of authority to report the news. And now they've given their supposed authority to Bill Gates so he can spread his FUD, again, with absolutly no reasoning or proof behind his statement. How could a serious magazine allow one of the most biased people in the world (on this particular matter) give an opinion with no facts to back it up?
On a slightly more light note, did anyone notice that they used the word "Desktop" in quotation marks? c'mon people, get with the time.
And while the snakes are doing their evil slithery thing, an evil beuacrat will keep on insisting that "nothing is wrong". At the end of the movie, he will fall into a pit of the evil robotic snakes.
Including the hidden API that manages to crash the entire browser everytime there is a link that points to either (at least) file://C:\con\con or file://C:\nul\nul. That is the secret that I want to know.
I know all of you Open Source, anti-Micro$oft people are having a field day, but have you thought of the downside to this?
If the Windows API's are open to everyone, someone could use them to put a program into an innocent looking e-Mail that could be opened by a Macro reader in Outlook, and could then go through the system, ruining any kind of mpeg or jpeg file.
I think all you open source people really have to consider the security risks that could come up if just anybody was allowed to look into the guts of the otherwise safe, stable and secure Windows Platform.
I am as anti-Micro$oft as the next red blooded American, but this is not quite fair. This table seemes to say that the bug in M$ Outlook is responsible for the ILOVEYOU virus...which it isn't. The feature or bug in M$ Outlook is there because it is supposed to be helpful (which it probably isn't), but it is not malicious, and would not causes any damage if somebody else had not tried to be malicious.
To say the bug caused billions of lost files is an arguiment of insufficient causation. It was one of the causes, but not the finishing cause, of the loss of files. Much like the presence of Oxygen in the atmosphere was neccesary for WW II to be fought, but that doesn't mean it caused World War II.
It would have been much more useful for them to release the ROMs to free redistribution, so that all MAME users could use them in good conscience.
Do you really think that a company is going to give away their trademarked property so that people that they regard as pirates will be able to sleep easier?
But I do agree that this is too little too late, especially when the flood of ROMs is going to go on, legal or not. I think this is mostly meant as a novelty for people when they are idly surfing. (A lot of my coworkers didn't have anything better to do when I worked tech support then play Java Script games).
A perfectly rigid body would move the same amount of degrees on the outside as it did on the inside, so if you could push the inside angle around in 10 seconds, then the outside tip to tavel around the circle.
Only problem with this is that it is very hard to find a perfectly rigid body that large...if nto impossible. Although I do believe that most sub atomic particles are considered to be totally rigid particles.
Well, fully ionized hydrogen would be both protons and electrons, disengaged from each other. With about even amounts of each. And small amounts of isotopes of hydrogen mixed in, but that isn't really relevant. Also, of course, Hydrogen gas usually means molecular hydrogen gas, but in this case, this is atomic hydrogen in a plasma form.
But you are right, whether hydrogen is a proton or an atom is an issue, but it is mostly semantic.
It looks like someone is already sharing this on Napster, which is good since this site will probably be/.ed almost as bad as the poor Atari 800.
One other comment, I think Zelda (both I and II) need to be the next songs covered.
And isn't someone somewhere going to be pissed off at them for using the Metroid music, being that being able to hear the Metroid Music will cut down on the millions of dollars in sales of the original Metroid Cartridge that are still going on
I would have to say Me Too to that post, I think that KDE does work great (Besides I can't beat reversi!) . And I think it is a great thing that you can make it look and feel like Windows.
But the great thing is, that it doesn't have to just be Windows. After all, who would want to use the Windows GUI, when they could use the MacOS GUI, which KDE can also mimic (although not as closely as it does Windows). After playing around with the WindowsGUI in KDE, I switched over to the MacOS GUI, which I think is alot more stylish.
If only someone could think up a Linux desktop that was even more similiar to the Mac look, feel, and function, then everything would be perfect in the world.
...or am I just missing something? Probable the second, but I thought the current kernel was 2.3? Are people still using kernel 2.2 and updating it for some reason? And is there any reason to be using 2.2 instead of 2.3?
Anyway, I think that anyone familiar with the Law of Fives would know that kernel 2.3 is more in tune with the hidden order of the universe.
Could everyone please forgive my ignorance, but did Micro$oft have to do this? Was making propietary extensions to a GPL, or otherwise OpenSource protocol, in someway illegal for them to do, or was it just considered in bad taste?
Because if they did do something against their license, then they really can't pick and choose how they are going to follow their license...they either have to do it or not.
If however, they only did something in bad taste, and wish to make up for it, then we really can't argue too much with what they did...besides to say it is still in bad taste?
I imagine that Micro$oft didn't consider this manner to be that important, they must have known this kind of documentation would be leaked quickly enough. Or else they just don't know about Slashdot.
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Is Hotgrits.org really a real forum, or is it just cleverly designed to look like one?
Totally irrelevant to your point, I know. I am just being snippy.
Intel has a name, created by a gigantic campaign, and continued by a gigantic name. It is the name that makes Intel the industry leader, and they will swallow just amount any amount of money to keep that name.
THese projects would average about 300 K each...what are they? Drivers? Application programs? Pac-Man clones?
The AOL-CD-as-coaster joke having been used to many times that it was no longer a joke, we had to come up with a more creative game to play. Other then Frisbee, one of my favorite to play was to wedge the CD into the slots where our desks joined together, and then, while one person held them back, to throw a small item at it, and then to release the disc, sending said small object richocheting around our cubicle.
In case anybody needs more, this certainly shows us that AOL & Time Warner shouldn't be joined, and that once they are we will have even worse news coverage then we do now.
If the Illuminati were a joke before, they aren't now. That Time would publish an article from Bill Gates as a place to spread his party line shows just how much these people are all in collusion.
Time Magazine acts as if it has the Mandate of Heaven to decide what is the truth and what is to report. I would like to see their certificate of authority to report the news. And now they've given their supposed authority to Bill Gates so he can spread his FUD, again, with absolutly no reasoning or proof behind his statement. How could a serious magazine allow one of the most biased people in the world (on this particular matter) give an opinion with no facts to back it up?
On a slightly more light note, did anyone notice that they used the word "Desktop" in quotation marks? c'mon people, get with the time.
I think I used up my $0.02 already.
I know all of you Open Source, anti-Micro$oft people are having a field day, but have you thought of the downside to this?
If the Windows API's are open to everyone, someone could use them to put a program into an innocent looking e-Mail that could be opened by a Macro reader in Outlook, and could then go through the system, ruining any kind of mpeg or jpeg file.
I think all you open source people really have to consider the security risks that could come up if just anybody was allowed to look into the guts of the otherwise safe, stable and secure Windows Platform.
I am as anti-Micro$oft as the next red blooded American, but this is not quite fair. This table seemes to say that the bug in M$ Outlook is responsible for the ILOVEYOU virus...which it isn't. The feature or bug in M$ Outlook is there because it is supposed to be helpful (which it probably isn't), but it is not malicious, and would not causes any damage if somebody else had not tried to be malicious.
To say the bug caused billions of lost files is an arguiment of insufficient causation. It was one of the causes, but not the finishing cause, of the loss of files. Much like the presence of Oxygen in the atmosphere was neccesary for WW II to be fought, but that doesn't mean it caused World War II.
Just my $0.02 U.S.
Do you really think that a company is going to give away their trademarked property so that people that they regard as pirates will be able to sleep easier?
But I do agree that this is too little too late, especially when the flood of ROMs is going to go on, legal or not. I think this is mostly meant as a novelty for people when they are idly surfing. (A lot of my coworkers didn't have anything better to do when I worked tech support then play Java Script games).
Only problem with this is that it is very hard to find a perfectly rigid body that large...if nto impossible. Although I do believe that most sub atomic particles are considered to be totally rigid particles.
But you are right, whether hydrogen is a proton or an atom is an issue, but it is mostly semantic.
One other comment, I think Zelda (both I and II) need to be the next songs covered.
And isn't someone somewhere going to be pissed off at them for using the Metroid music, being that being able to hear the Metroid Music will cut down on the millions of dollars in sales of the original Metroid Cartridge that are still going on
But the great thing is, that it doesn't have to just be Windows. After all, who would want to use the Windows GUI, when they could use the MacOS GUI, which KDE can also mimic (although not as closely as it does Windows). After playing around with the WindowsGUI in KDE, I switched over to the MacOS GUI, which I think is alot more stylish.
If only someone could think up a Linux desktop that was even more similiar to the Mac look, feel, and function, then everything would be perfect in the world.
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Anyway, I think that anyone familiar with the Law of Fives would know that kernel 2.3 is more in tune with the hidden order of the universe.
Could everyone please forgive my ignorance, but did Micro$oft have to do this? Was making propietary extensions to a GPL, or otherwise OpenSource protocol, in someway illegal for them to do, or was it just considered in bad taste?
Because if they did do something against their license, then they really can't pick and choose how they are going to follow their license...they either have to do it or not.
If however, they only did something in bad taste, and wish to make up for it, then we really can't argue too much with what they did...besides to say it is still in bad taste?
I imagine that Micro$oft didn't consider this manner to be that important, they must have known this kind of documentation would be leaked quickly enough. Or else they just don't know about Slashdot.
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