With enough disk space Google could become Borge's The Library of Babel. Effectively, everything that could ever be written would be stored and referenced through a simple pointer. Binary would be UUencoded of course.
Wanted:
Willing, virgin, King-like Fool
Free housing in wicker Tux with ocean view.
Must understand clustering and the true meaning of sacrifice.
Apply: Gnu-isle
As much as it pains me to say it, I have been very happy with my Microsoft optical mouse and game controller. Good solid units with good solid Linux support.
Own it, seen it, not their best by far. Very slow to develop, poor story over all. Or...
The underlying metaphors are poorly developed leading to a misunderstanding of the character's inner angst. Further the overall oeuvre of the staging, far from eblemizing symbolic weltschmertz, only suffuses the participants sense of the platonic ideal of the paint and canvass counterpoint.
Um yeah. A company wants to help you copyright your work to which you already own copyright for "a small cost"? I wonder if they can make my manly unmentionables larger too? May be they want my assistance to retreive an unclaimed bank account left behind by a recently deceased German dictator?
The problem is ISP sell a model that tells users they can use their full bandwidth all the time. Except of course if you read the fine print on the AUP buried on some obscure support site.
Because a Microsoft product will install on my hardware without kernel recompilation.
Mandrake detected everything. No recomplilation, now driver downloads.
Because a Microsoft product will work with a wider range of hardware.
Mandrake saw everything I had. I had to get additional windows drivers for my scanner, printer and a whole software suite just to run my digital camera.
Because there is documentation, training, certification of support personnel.
man, apropos, various certs are all available. Most importantly, config files are easily user editable unlike the registry.
Because almost all written for Microsoft applications look and feel the same and I have no installation, navigation, etc user issues.
Gnome - no problem with this.
Becasue I can be sure I can exchange a file and not create problems at the other end.
I had a client using Word Perfect. Word butchered the doc completely.
Because it crashes so seldom as to be ignorable.
Yes if you reinstall every 6 months.
Because there is one button to push for support.
For support, I look in the mirror. And I don't pay exhorbitant per incident fees.
Because I don't have to worry about patch sets, Microsoft maintains my platform.
I maintain my platform. I know what's going on it. I don't have to worry about the ever changing EULA.
Because Microsoft just enables me to get my work done.
Linux does that for me. Microsoft eats my files.
When Linux can say all that, I'll buy it and eben pay for support. Until then, it is a wonderful development environment and a wonderful server... but I have work to do.
Me too.
Open office is never being asked to accept changes when you haven't made any.
Same for the Volvo concept car. I have visions of the windscreen (windshield) covered with flaming petrol (benzene) because someone got the fill points mixed up.
And yes I know there would be some safety device to prevent this and I know there would be no ignition mechanism. Maybe I have been watching Zoolander too much. Besides - you know some guy is going to have to do it.;)
Certain tiny segments of the human population are interested in fringe activities ranging from the benign - say collecting punch cards to the bizarre - necrophilia to the sick - kiddie porn. These people have existed and will continue to exist. The Egyptians killed a guy for shagging a corpse in what 800 bce.
The difference with the net is that people with fringe interests can find each other far more easily than ever before. This has had many many good effects - like chat groups for people with rare diseases. So too some outright freaks can now find each.
But despite all the legislation, all the website takedowns, all the moralizing, sick freaks will always be around. Track them and jail them if they break the law, but don't pretend that "removing" them from the web will have any effect.
I shave but the moustache is getting a little white.;)
What I miss is looking in the card catalogue under the general subject and being able to pull out all sorts of related material I hadn't thought of. Same for browseing the stacks. Grab the general Dewey number and go surf the titles.
It's an escalating battle. Someone hijacks a keyword that is highly relevant to your site so you have to figure how to overcome that and give users something that isn't porn or a crappy search portal.
I think it's fair to say there are white hat SEOs as well as black hat hijack^H^H^H^H^H^H SEOs.
At 40 you get to look back at all the stupid shit you did in your 20's and the stuff you didn't do in your 30's because you were trying to "succeed". Forty is like being twenty again but with the experience to do it right.
Now, where's my damn Ferarri and brace o' blonde bimbos?
Slashdot Mirror
Combine both. Self healing traffic cone array with a serious deterrant against not obeying the lane closure signs.
just to drive a bunch of LEDs. That seems a might inefficient to me.
What? With Leslie Meilsen as a Vulcan drag queen name T'Pork?
Queer Eye for the Trek Guy
With enough disk space Google could become Borge's The Library of Babel. Effectively, everything that could ever be written would be stored and referenced through a simple pointer. Binary would be UUencoded of course.
Wanted:
Willing, virgin, King-like Fool
Free housing in wicker Tux with ocean view.
Must understand clustering and the true meaning of sacrifice.
Apply: Gnu-isle
As much as it pains me to say it, I have been very happy with my Microsoft optical mouse and game controller. Good solid units with good solid Linux support.
I'll explain slowly for you:
Scene: Monks with boards
Pie Iesu domine, dona eis requiem.
Whack foreheads with the boards.
It's called a pun.
Wrong movie - Holy Grail definately proves it's whack.
Thee was some problem dangerous moose bites - or was that the Swedes?
The underlying metaphors are poorly developed leading to a misunderstanding of the character's inner angst. Further the overall oeuvre of the staging, far from eblemizing symbolic weltschmertz, only suffuses the participants sense of the platonic ideal of the paint and canvass counterpoint.
So There!
By modding this as a troll you have demonstrated your total lack of understanding of the scene.
This picture says it all
Root Mean Square
Royal Merchant Ship
Royal Meterological Society
Royal Microscopical Society
or my favourite in this context:
Microsoft Windows(R) Rights Management Services (RMS)
Thanks for the correction. The ad just reads like a cross between spam and those "calling all inventors" adds frome the back of Popular Science. ;)
Um yeah. A company wants to help you copyright your work to which you already own copyright for "a small cost"? I wonder if they can make my manly unmentionables larger too? May be they want my assistance to retreive an unclaimed bank account left behind by a recently deceased German dictator?
What is "sold" is not what is delivered.
Because a Microsoft product will install on my hardware without kernel recompilation.
Mandrake detected everything. No recomplilation, now driver downloads.
Because a Microsoft product will work with a wider range of hardware.
Mandrake saw everything I had. I had to get additional windows drivers for my scanner, printer and a whole software suite just to run my digital camera.
Because there is documentation, training, certification of support personnel.
man, apropos, various certs are all available. Most importantly, config files are easily user editable unlike the registry.
Because almost all written for Microsoft applications look and feel the same and I have no installation, navigation, etc user issues.
Gnome - no problem with this.
Becasue I can be sure I can exchange a file and not create problems at the other end.
I had a client using Word Perfect. Word butchered the doc completely.
Because it crashes so seldom as to be ignorable.
Yes if you reinstall every 6 months.
Because there is one button to push for support.
For support, I look in the mirror. And I don't pay exhorbitant per incident fees.
Because I don't have to worry about patch sets, Microsoft maintains my platform.
I maintain my platform. I know what's going on it. I don't have to worry about the ever changing EULA.
Because Microsoft just enables me to get my work done.
Linux does that for me. Microsoft eats my files.
When Linux can say all that, I'll buy it and eben pay for support. Until then, it is a wonderful development environment and a wonderful server ... but I have work to do.
Me too.
Open office is never being asked to accept changes when you haven't made any.
And yes I know there would be some safety device to prevent this and I know there would be no ignition mechanism. Maybe I have been watching Zoolander too much. Besides - you know some guy is going to have to do it. ;)
Certain tiny segments of the human population are interested in fringe activities ranging from the benign - say collecting punch cards to the bizarre - necrophilia to the sick - kiddie porn. These people have existed and will continue to exist. The Egyptians killed a guy for shagging a corpse in what 800 bce.
The difference with the net is that people with fringe interests can find each other far more easily than ever before. This has had many many good effects - like chat groups for people with rare diseases. So too some outright freaks can now find each.
But despite all the legislation, all the website takedowns, all the moralizing, sick freaks will always be around. Track them and jail them if they break the law, but don't pretend that "removing" them from the web will have any effect.
What I miss is looking in the card catalogue under the general subject and being able to pull out all sorts of related material I hadn't thought of. Same for browseing the stacks. Grab the general Dewey number and go surf the titles.
Wetware fuzzy logic at its best.
I think it's fair to say there are white hat SEOs as well as black hat hijack^H^H^H^H^H^H SEOs.
At 40 you get to look back at all the stupid shit you did in your 20's and the stuff you didn't do in your 30's because you were trying to "succeed". Forty is like being twenty again but with the experience to do it right.
Now, where's my damn Ferarri and brace o' blonde bimbos?
Been there done that with a temperature controlled iron and the proper solder.