Yeah... take a look at their page; I'm sure this guy would love to have dishes in his backyard that make the Statue of Liberty look tiny in comparison.
We need a.sucks top-level domain. To save time the
registrar could send the owner the date of his/her trademark infringement suit as soon as the first payment was made!
I hope they've got that "don't hurt any humans" thing down, because when they get smart enough to find out where all the pollution is coming from, they're going to come hunt us down.
Ah, we can explain that, Senator... I'll just write you an explanation... let me find a piece of paper... ah, here's one, in the ledger! A signature on the line there on the other side to prove our sincerity and... there you go! I think that should explain everything.
I'm set up for EST.../. will use whatever time zone you want it to.
I'd like to have the time displayed in seconds since the Epoch. Surely I'm not alone! Everyone knows nothing important happened before 1-1-1970 anyway, no?
OT: IIRC, Bayer had to hand over two trademarks at the end of WWI for war reparations. Those two trademarks were Asprin and Heroin. (How that makes up for a war I've no idea. "Ha, ha, you lose, give us your trademarks.")
2) I dunno. I think that if you could get enough controls onto the thing to move the keyboard off to the side and move the LCD under the monitor, you could play a game using it as your Perry Ferrell vision would pick it up, at least a bit, which might be enough if there were something to feel....
hmm, how about a clear plastic sheet (like those membrane plastic keyboard covers for standard keyboards) that can sit over the display with "buttons" moulded into it. So you could have a standard one with, say, 10 square regions for controls, or could ship a keyboard "skin" with a game if you wanted a different layout of button spaces... then just drop your graphics and controls into the spaces on the LCD underneath.
Irrational, yes, but I think in this case it's warranted. This is Apple we're talking about, here. This is Steve Jobs. I'm sure there's a plan being crafted in Cupertino to pull Apple away from the edge of success once more. It's just a matter of time.
Maybe Apple should have Steve cryogenicly frozen while they're still doing well. They could stay out of trouble but still have him around if they get into a jam again.
Note: nothing against Apple here. Before I was shown the Free Software Way, I owned all sorts of their products;all of the ][s at one time or another, a Powerbook, even a Lisa(!).
Dunno if this is a secret or not, but Win95/98 checks for the presence of c:\windows\win.com.
If you've an upgrade and want to install it on a fresh machine, create the file. If you've a standard install and want to upgrade with it, remove or rename the existing win.com file.
-j
How is it that copyright violations like this come under criminal law?
Any reasonable human (ie, not a lawyer) would agree that IP "theft" is an issue between the copyright holder and the accused thief--so it should be under tort law.
Instead, it's prosecuted under criminal law and in addition to the surly copyright holders, the government comes running in too, demanding a $250,000 fine and, uh... some number of years in prison--don't know exactly 'cause I haven't bought any CDs in a few years.:p
Anyway, what the hell? At what point did the gubbermint stop working for We The People and get a part-time job for Big Business anyway?
Actually, Aspirin was even worse than a simple dilution. At the end of WWI, Bayer was forced to give up the trademark "Aspirin" as part of the Treaty of Versailles. Bayer also owned the trademark "Heroin" and had to give that up as well, to the delight of junkies and Velvet Underground fans the world over.
Well, I hope that the first extra-terrestrials on Earth are the Organians. If you recall, they're the ones who enforce the truce between the Federation and the Romulans--by making all their weapons red-hot when they try to use them against each other. They could do wonders in the middle east!
Second choice: the space hippies. You know, the drums, funny ears (natch)... Herbert! Herbert! And damn, I'll bet you can grow some good smoke in zero-g.
Third choice: Wookies. They're big, furry, pretty peaceful, and make cute noises... what more do you want? I just hope that they're not all too popular with the ladies.
LAST choices: The Borg, if they're not here already; that Zorn lizard-thing that Cap'n Kirk had to bop in the head with a homemade cannon; Cats--I don't want 'em setting up us the bomb.
...which is to say that the odds that any one particular person is going to get hit by a bit of the Iridium system are 1 in 250 in 6 billion, or, uh... 1 in 1.5e+12. That number doesn't really scare me... I guess I still have to go Christmas shopping.
Slashdot keeps saying "Lameness filter encountered. Post Aborted" when I preview. Since when was lameness out of place here on./?
Yeah, great, Office 2000 works... but what about Microsoft Bob? My shell's shell needs a shell!
BTW, Ian, AZ and GNO/ME made my//gs useful up until the day my 20mhz Zip kicked the bucket a few years ago. Thanks!
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At least he'd be close to skiing.
We need a .sucks top-level domain. To save time the
registrar could send the owner the date of his/her trademark infringement suit as soon as the first payment was made!
I hope they've got that "don't hurt any humans" thing down, because when they get smart enough to find out where all the pollution is coming from, they're going to come hunt us down.
Each and every one of us.
And bore through our miserable human bodies.
Slowly.
FROM THE INSIDE OUT!
But, other than that, great idea!
"Hi, I send you this message in order to have your advice..."
Ah, we can explain that, Senator... I'll just write you an explanation... let me find a piece of paper... ah, here's one, in the ledger! A signature on the line there on the other side to prove our sincerity and... there you go! I think that should explain everything.
warning: that kind of thing will make you go blind and grow hair on your palms.
Posted by timothy on 18:59 31 December 2001
/. will use whatever time zone you want it to.
I'm set up for EST...
I'd like to have the time displayed in seconds since the Epoch. Surely I'm not alone! Everyone knows nothing important happened before 1-1-1970 anyway, no?
OT: IIRC, Bayer had to hand over two trademarks at the end of WWI for war reparations. Those two trademarks were Asprin and Heroin. (How that makes up for a war I've no idea. "Ha, ha, you lose, give us your trademarks.")
It's totally crackable, you just have to figure out how to get that half-dead cat in a box spliced into the line correctly first...
For example, engine output power will now be rated in scores of mule teams.
Hey, that link has got the players BIOS! If I download and install one, can it make my reflexes faster?
Text editor? Who needs a text editor when you have cat, head, tail, cut, sed, and a shell? Ya some kind of sissy or something?
(gee I hope that worked)
2) I dunno. I think that if you could get enough controls onto the thing to move the keyboard off to the side and move the LCD under the monitor, you could play a game using it as your Perry Ferrell vision would pick it up, at least a bit, which might be enough if there were something to feel....
hmm, how about a clear plastic sheet (like those membrane plastic keyboard covers for standard keyboards) that can sit over the display with "buttons" moulded into it. So you could have a standard one with, say, 10 square regions for controls, or could ship a keyboard "skin" with a game if you wanted a different layout of button spaces... then just drop your graphics and controls into the spaces on the LCD underneath.
Or whatever. I've got to change the cat box.
Maybe Apple should have Steve cryogenicly frozen while they're still doing well. They could stay out of trouble but still have him around if they get into a jam again.
Note: nothing against Apple here. Before I was shown the Free Software Way, I owned all sorts of their products;all of the ][s at one time or another, a Powerbook, even a Lisa(!).
www.X.org says, right on the front page, that X was first commercially released in 1986. How old is Windows?
Dunno if this is a secret or not, but Win95/98 checks for the presence of c:\windows\win.com. If you've an upgrade and want to install it on a fresh machine, create the file. If you've a standard install and want to upgrade with it, remove or rename the existing win.com file. -j
How is it that copyright violations like this come under criminal law?
:p
Any reasonable human (ie, not a lawyer) would agree that IP "theft" is an issue between the copyright holder and the accused thief--so it should be under tort law.
Instead, it's prosecuted under criminal law and in addition to the surly copyright holders, the government comes running in too, demanding a $250,000 fine and, uh... some number of years in prison--don't know exactly 'cause I haven't bought any CDs in a few years.
Anyway, what the hell? At what point did the gubbermint stop working for We The People and get a part-time job for Big Business anyway?
Actually, Aspirin was even worse than a simple dilution. At the end of WWI, Bayer was forced to give up the trademark "Aspirin" as part of the Treaty of Versailles. Bayer also owned the trademark "Heroin" and had to give that up as well, to the delight of junkies and Velvet Underground fans the world over.
Well, I hope that the first extra-terrestrials on Earth are the Organians. If you recall, they're the ones who enforce the truce between the Federation and the Romulans--by making all their weapons red-hot when they try to use them against each other. They could do wonders in the middle east!
Second choice: the space hippies. You know, the drums, funny ears (natch)... Herbert! Herbert! And damn, I'll bet you can grow some good smoke in zero-g.
Third choice: Wookies. They're big, furry, pretty peaceful, and make cute noises... what more do you want? I just hope that they're not all too popular with the ladies.
LAST choices: The Borg, if they're not here already; that Zorn lizard-thing that Cap'n Kirk had to bop in the head with a homemade cannon; Cats--I don't want 'em setting up us the bomb.
I guess this explains the splattered whale carcass and smashed flower and pot in my front yard...
...which is to say that the odds that any one particular person is going to get hit by a bit of the Iridium system are 1 in 250 in 6 billion, or, uh... 1 in 1.5e+12. That number doesn't really scare me... I guess I still have to go Christmas shopping.
./?
Slashdot keeps saying "Lameness filter encountered. Post Aborted" when I preview. Since when was lameness out of place here on
The details elude me, but didn't DEC have a product that pretty much did this for running i386 executables on Alpha/NT?
Yeah, great, Office 2000 works... but what about Microsoft Bob? My shell's shell needs a shell! BTW, Ian, AZ and GNO/ME made my //gs useful up until the day my 20mhz Zip kicked the bucket a few years ago. Thanks!
From: president@whitehouse.gov
To: The People of the United States of America
My fellow Americans,
I hereby forfeit all American land and assets to the Republic of Iraq. May Allah forgive us for our past evils.
Signed,
Saddam^H^H^H^H^H^HBill Clinton