I've followed the Register's Microsoft coverage, and unless they were blatently biased, Microsoft shot themselves in the foot on every conceivable occasion; a guilty verdict cannot but be far behind. But if that's the case, what happens next? Splitting up Microsoft seems to be the most favoured option, but while that'll stick it to Bill, I can't see it doing anything to encourage MS to move towards the light side.
In the long term, pretty much everyone's better of using Linux over NT, and while most people here know it, it's good to see the Fortune One taking an interest. The point I found interesting is that one of the things that makes this evaluation possible is the fact that GM is going web-based. <prediction> this is going to happen more and more as people realise that they need to go the web route, and while they're on the way, they might as well try out an OS that won't cost them anything and won't fall over </prediction>
I've mixed feelings on this one; on the one hand, it shows that congress still has some interest in the space programme, but on the other hand the station is a phenomenal waste of money. If I were Dan Goldin, I'd do my damdest to get together the $50 billion needed to establish a permanent base on Mars
So the technology didn't work out; big deal. Okay, so the companies lost a tonne of money on the project (probably), but these things'll happen. Not every technology works, and we should be grateful that companies are willing to risk things like this happening; this way lies progress.
Dissing a new technology before you've the slightest notion how it works is never wise. But neither am I, so here I go. Doesn't matter a damn what sort of hardware you've got, you're still sending stuff over the web. Therefore it can be faked. You won't need a reader; you just need to wait for an issue of phrack that contains the spec then you can spoof away.
I remember a certain amount of surprise in '77 that such a thesp as Alec Guinness would star in such a cheesy, effect-ridden movie. He's right, though; the dialogue is pretty dire. Same with everything since; right up to the appalling lines some of the characters in B5 had. Having said that, there's no excuse for verbally abusing a 12-year-old. I may never watch The Man in the White Suit again. Okay, maybe once more.
Third party contributions... I like that. It seems only a couple of months ago that naysayers were muttering about the death of Mozilla because no-one outside Netscape was contributing. And real-time messaging that's fully open; does that mean they're giving up that silly fight with microsoft?
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Nothing to do with nano at all, really... Nothing whatsoever. But... if you recall the end of the book, the government took godzillions of micron-sized bitties of slow glass and littered the country with them. No-one could act without the fear of being recorded, no matter where they were. The result is the same, even if the technology (so to speak) is different.
Anyone wanna run over a list of countries with better privacy/crypto laws? Fuck that. Just get all/. readers to collect all the AOL CDs they can find, dump 'em in the Atlantic and call the resulting island 'Slashdotia'. We can have a Cmdr instead of a president (a position that's held for life, and voted on every five years. That'll discourage potential politicos).
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Okay, it wasn't exactly the same, but Bob Shaw's 'slow glass' was around decades before Neal Stephenson. Not that I'm dissing the great man; but Bob Shaw was one of my favourite writers ever.
I forget who said it, but "you can lead a whore to culture, but you can't force them to read". I believe it was Dorothy Parker, and the quote was 'you can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think'. Erudite? Smartassed? Take your pick. I know I have.
I'm not sure whether this is the right strategy to take; it's been at least three years since the populace were luddist, technophobic, ignorant masses. Today, the internet is the thing to be on, and to get there you'll need a computer. And what does 'book-sized' mean?
cooler than just having the number tatooed on us....if they put the bar codes on teh backs of our necks "It's the bishop of Leicester" "How'd you know?" "It's tatooed on the back of his neck."
To sum up one Irishman's impression of the US based on recent news stories:
You can get 25 years in jail for stealing pizza
The government has a back door into every windows machine
It's damn-near illegal to use software that the government can't crack
The us government spies on the world, and passes secrets on to us companies. Am I missing anything? (I should point out at this juncture that, MS-hatin' linux-usin' zealot that I am, I don't believe the NSAkey story).
If you've got a congressbeing, write to it now (irony: listening to Manic Street Preachers as I type. Like they say, if you tolerate this your children will be next).
Well, I suppose this could be bad news; on the other hand it's possible that Apple have given up on making money on operating systems and are concentrating on the hardware. Of course, this would only happen if they were open sourcing MacOS to compete with LinuxPPC. Probable? Probably not. Possible? Possibly.
Now, scientists have inspected Dolly's mtDNA and found no trace of the ewe's contribution at all. That's a surprise, and it suggests the egg destroyed the ewe's mtDNA I'm no scientist, but neither am I clueless on the subject of genetics, and I'm sure I'm not the only one that was fully aware of the mitochondrial differences in Dolly. In fact, I'm surprised that this is news. If there was anything other than the egg's mtDNA I'd have been astonished. Remember the 'mitochondrial eve' story that first surfaced a couple of decades ago? The idea that a common ancestor could be traced through DNA is only possible because mtDNA is passed almost solely from the mother. Dolly didn't have a mother per se, so the mtDNA comes from the egg.
Picking on Star Trek for its lack of gay characters is, frankly, silly; no SF series features/featured a regular gay character (include Ivanova and Talia Winters if you like, but that was only one scene). Trek has made a couple of half-assed attempts at addressing the issue (once each in TNG and DSN), which is more than any other series has done. You can argue that this was done because of public demand, but whatever their motivation they did try to address it in some manner. As for what GR wanted: I don't mean to sound callous, but who cares? I'm sure the creator of MacGyver didn't want the series to turn into the piece of shit that it did, but it's got something in common with trek: it's only a television programme. BTW: My nomination for best heading ever goest o 'But Where Are the Homosexuals?'
I'm not sure I like this 'departure' thing; I lay awake nights for three years, fearing that C&C2 would be something different. Fortunately, Tiberian Sun is all I could hope for. Different doesn't always mean better.
Maybe compuserve was there first, but those of us who used it in those halcyon days are still trying desperately to exorcise it from our minds. Thanks for bringing it up again.
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I've followed the Register's Microsoft coverage, and unless they were blatently biased, Microsoft shot themselves in the foot on every conceivable occasion; a guilty verdict cannot but be far behind.
But if that's the case, what happens next? Splitting up Microsoft seems to be the most favoured option, but while that'll stick it to Bill, I can't see it doing anything to encourage MS to move towards the light side.
In the long term, pretty much everyone's better of using Linux over NT, and while most people here know it, it's good to see the Fortune One taking an interest.
The point I found interesting is that one of the things that makes this evaluation possible is the fact that GM is going web-based.
<prediction>
this is going to happen more and more as people realise that they need to go the web route, and while they're on the way, they might as well try out an OS that won't cost them anything and won't fall over
</prediction>
I've mixed feelings on this one; on the one hand, it shows that congress still has some interest in the space programme, but on the other hand the station is a phenomenal waste of money.
If I were Dan Goldin, I'd do my damdest to get together the $50 billion needed to establish a permanent base on Mars
Now that the G4 means that apple is a munitions company, it makes sense for the army to support them.
So the technology didn't work out; big deal. Okay, so the companies lost a tonne of money on the project (probably), but these things'll happen. Not every technology works, and we should be grateful that companies are willing to risk things like this happening; this way lies progress.
Dissing a new technology before you've the slightest notion how it works is never wise. But neither am I, so here I go.
Doesn't matter a damn what sort of hardware you've got, you're still sending stuff over the web. Therefore it can be faked. You won't need a reader; you just need to wait for an issue of phrack that contains the spec then you can spoof away.
BFD. The technology to bring computers to a grinding halt has been around since 1996 (it slipped back from its original release date).
I remember a certain amount of surprise in '77 that such a thesp as Alec Guinness would star in such a cheesy, effect-ridden movie. He's right, though; the dialogue is pretty dire. Same with everything since; right up to the appalling lines some of the characters in B5 had.
Having said that, there's no excuse for verbally abusing a 12-year-old. I may never watch The Man in the White Suit again. Okay, maybe once more.
Third party contributions... I like that. It seems only a couple of months ago that naysayers were muttering about the death of Mozilla because no-one outside Netscape was contributing.
And real-time messaging that's fully open; does that mean they're giving up that silly fight with microsoft?
Nothing to do with nano at all, really...
Nothing whatsoever. But... if you recall the end of the book, the government took godzillions of micron-sized bitties of slow glass and littered the country with them. No-one could act without the fear of being recorded, no matter where they were. The result is the same, even if the technology (so to speak) is different.
Anyone wanna run over a list of countries with better privacy/crypto laws? /. readers to collect all the AOL CDs they can find, dump 'em in the Atlantic and call the resulting island 'Slashdotia'. We can have a Cmdr instead of a president (a position that's held for life, and voted on every five years. That'll discourage potential politicos).
Fuck that. Just get all
Okay, it wasn't exactly the same, but Bob Shaw's 'slow glass' was around decades before Neal Stephenson. Not that I'm dissing the great man; but Bob Shaw was one of my favourite writers ever.
I forget who said it, but "you can lead a whore to culture, but you can't force them to read".
I believe it was Dorothy Parker, and the quote was 'you can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think'.
Erudite? Smartassed? Take your pick. I know I have.
I'm not sure whether this is the right strategy to take; it's been at least three years since the populace were luddist, technophobic, ignorant masses. Today, the internet is the thing to be on, and to get there you'll need a computer. And what does 'book-sized' mean?
cooler than just having the number tatooed on us....if they put the bar codes on teh backs of our necks
"It's the bishop of Leicester"
"How'd you know?"
"It's tatooed on the back of his neck."
You can get 25 years in jail for stealing pizza
The government has a back door into every windows machine
It's damn-near illegal to use software that the government can't crack
The us government spies on the world, and passes secrets on to us companies.
Am I missing anything?
(I should point out at this juncture that, MS-hatin' linux-usin' zealot that I am, I don't believe the NSAkey story).
If you've got a congressbeing, write to it now (irony: listening to Manic Street Preachers as I type. Like they say, if you tolerate this your children will be next).
Well, I suppose this could be bad news; on the other hand it's possible that Apple have given up on making money on operating systems and are concentrating on the hardware. Of course, this would only happen if they were open sourcing MacOS to compete with LinuxPPC. Probable? Probably not. Possible? Possibly.
Now, scientists have inspected Dolly's mtDNA and found no trace of the ewe's contribution at all. That's a surprise, and it suggests the egg destroyed the ewe's mtDNA
I'm no scientist, but neither am I clueless on the subject of genetics, and I'm sure I'm not the only one that was fully aware of the mitochondrial differences in Dolly. In fact, I'm surprised that this is news. If there was anything other than the egg's mtDNA I'd have been astonished.
Remember the 'mitochondrial eve' story that first surfaced a couple of decades ago? The idea that a common ancestor could be traced through DNA is only possible because mtDNA is passed almost solely from the mother. Dolly didn't have a mother per se, so the mtDNA comes from the egg.
With more and more people nowadays owning burners, it's about time ISO images were posted as standard.
Picking on Star Trek for its lack of gay characters is, frankly, silly; no SF series features/featured a regular gay character (include Ivanova and Talia Winters if you like, but that was only one scene). Trek has made a couple of half-assed attempts at addressing the issue (once each in TNG and DSN), which is more than any other series has done. You can argue that this was done because of public demand, but whatever their motivation they did try to address it in some manner.
As for what GR wanted: I don't mean to sound callous, but who cares? I'm sure the creator of MacGyver didn't want the series to turn into the piece of shit that it did, but it's got something in common with trek: it's only a television programme.
BTW: My nomination for best heading ever goest o 'But Where Are the Homosexuals?'
Holodeck mishaps that lead to danger and amusing adventures
Technobabble to cover up piss-poor plots
Major Kira
Incredibly powerful technology that's a plot device one week and never mentioned again
Major Kira
A brand-new alien race that's vaguely based on an old earth culture
Episodes written by more than eight people
I'm not sure I like this 'departure' thing; I lay awake nights for three years, fearing that C&C2 would be something different. Fortunately, Tiberian Sun is all I could hope for.
Different doesn't always mean better.
Maybe compuserve was there first, but those of us who used it in those halcyon days are still trying desperately to exorcise it from our minds.
Thanks for bringing it up again.
Do they have beer in the office on Fridays?
Yeah, but it's not free.
When the kid grows up, he can sue the mother for letting him watch south park every week.
on a related topic, a school in england is renaming itself from South Park Junior School. Can't imagine why.