Can you give a brief synapsis about Cricket since it seems that only the Brittish and derivatives of British culture (India and Australia) understand the game? ---
I guess this means that Microsoft still has need for *nix hackers like myself. At last! My dreams of becoming assimilated for the sole purpose of inserting a virus into the collective (not unlike Janeway) can finally be obtained. I guess reading Evil Geniuses for Dummys finally is going to pay off. ---
I was going to read this article and make an informed comment about it. But, because of my laziness to wait forever for it to load, I'm just going to post this summary of comments to come:
Linux users: Linux is better, Windows is unstable.
Win users: Windows is better, Linux is hard.
BSD users: You're both wrong.
Mac users: Hey, look at us. We are pretty.
Top 3: Mac, shut up.
BeOS users: We're better but y'all will never know it.
Bill Gates: All your $$ is belong to me.
Unfortunately for the average, naive American, the government isn't going to do anything until it is too late. By that time Microsoft will be to large to stop. As the saying goes, the bigger they are, the harder they fall. When MS falls (and they will...it's just a question of when) they are going to take most of the country with them. The government runs MS. They won't have the resources or funds to retrain everybody on something else. And then, my friends, the four horsemen will be upon us. ---
I think that Ballmer's interpretation of this "cancer" is actually very accurate...from his point of view. The GPL prevents Microsoft from up and stealing code for their own sick, twisted purposes. If the GPL did not exist Microsoft would assemilate the parts of Linux that makes it a superior operating system into the latest rename of Windows making it a less-crappy OS. XP==2000==NT==98==95==3.1==DOS==IBM...hmm ---
Very soon Microsoft will buy the companies that comprise the RIAA. Then the next version of Windows will automatically delete any file with the.mp3 extention. Microsoft will probably buy out the MPAA companies, too. Then that annoying paperclip (which isn't actually going away in Office XP, it's just not on by default) will pop up: "Hi! It looks like you're trying to view a DVD. Would you like me to 1) Verify your ownership of this DVD by using.NET to look up your credit card history or 2) Eject DVD?" But it's ok because by that time I will have ported BSD to my coffee maker so that it plays a (pirated? never) mp3 of the Maxwell House song while it brews my java in the morning. Ah, glorious coffee...you never sue for people sniffing the beans without a 36 page liscence. All you do is provide what I need to get me through a hard day of broadcasting my pirate signal and hacking into the Matrix. In Matrix 2, agents won't weild guns. Instead they will throw lawsuits at Neo.
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"Darwin was right - mankind evolved over a long period of time from primitive animal ancestors"
Too bad that's not Darwin's theory of evolution. If one were to actually read The Origin of Species, he or she would learn that Darwin believed that all creatures evolved together from more primitive versions of themselves, not that humans evolved from monkeys who evolved from lesser creatures. That is the common misconception about the theory of evolution.
We, Microsoft...um...er...the Powers that Be, request the installation of the patent for the URL Bookmark. The URL Bookmark involves the remembering of a URL by "something". "Something" is defined as (1) A program with the capability for remembering URLs, (2) An electronic device (such as a PDA) that allows the input of text that can take the form of a URL, (3) An organic device capable of remembering characters in the form of a URL (like a brain), and (4) Any device that can be marked on by paint, ink, graphite, lead, or other substance. The use of a URL in any lasting form by any of said devices falls under this patent.
Adjoining Powers that Be Patent:
We, the Powers that Be request the installation of the patent for a pulp derived substance capable of being easy marked on by devices like pens and pencils. This patent is necessary for the enforcement of our above patent for the URL Bookmark.
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Ian Turner
The pings times to an orbitting satellite wouldn't be so bad because the Sat is only 50-100 miles above the earth's surface...if that. The signal to the sat travels as fast if not faster than regular dialup over copper phone wires. It might even speed up the internet because to transmit long distances you would have fewer routers to go through.
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> err... actually this changed about 3 years ago. peta.org is now PETA's site. http://www.mtd.com/tasty/ is the one you mentioned.
Yes, but PETA.com != www.mtd.com/tasty just isn't the same.
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>>But, isn't it your big RAID box that attracts them in the first place?
You're catching on. RIAA Lawyers check in but they don't check out.
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>>That's the RIAA.
They're easy enough of a pest to get rid of. All you need is a big can of Raid...
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>>...at least until a vinyl-eating super-fungus makes landfall.
I'm glad a MP3 eating fungus probably won't appear.
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>>Could this fungus, once isolated and brought under control, have applications in recycling?
Sure, but the problem is that it probably grows when it eats (like most living things) and I think I've seen that horror flick.
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Just remember:
PETA.com != PETA.org
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals != People Eating Tasty Animals
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Can you give a brief synapsis about Cricket since it seems that only the Brittish and derivatives of British culture (India and Australia) understand the game?
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gcc...yum
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I guess this means that Microsoft still has need for *nix hackers like myself. At last! My dreams of becoming assimilated for the sole purpose of inserting a virus into the collective (not unlike Janeway) can finally be obtained. I guess reading Evil Geniuses for Dummys finally is going to pay off.
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I was going to read this article and make an informed comment about it. But, because of my laziness to wait forever for it to load, I'm just going to post this summary of comments to come:
Linux users: Linux is better, Windows is unstable.
Win users: Windows is better, Linux is hard.
BSD users: You're both wrong.
Mac users: Hey, look at us. We are pretty.
Top 3: Mac, shut up.
BeOS users: We're better but y'all will never know it.
Bill Gates: All your $$ is belong to me.
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All your cellphones are...oh, nevermind.
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Just stick a small computer somewhere and run a SCSI cable to a removeable HD bay in the dash. The exchangeability of CDs with the size of HDs.
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Unfortunately for the average, naive American, the government isn't going to do anything until it is too late. By that time Microsoft will be to large to stop. As the saying goes, the bigger they are, the harder they fall. When MS falls (and they will...it's just a question of when) they are going to take most of the country with them. The government runs MS. They won't have the resources or funds to retrain everybody on something else. And then, my friends, the four horsemen will be upon us.
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I think that Ballmer's interpretation of this "cancer" is actually very accurate...from his point of view. The GPL prevents Microsoft from up and stealing code for their own sick, twisted purposes. If the GPL did not exist Microsoft would assemilate the parts of Linux that makes it a superior operating system into the latest rename of Windows making it a less-crappy OS. XP==2000==NT==98==95==3.1==DOS==IBM...hmm
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Very soon Microsoft will buy the companies that comprise the RIAA. Then the next version of Windows will automatically delete any file with the .mp3 extention. Microsoft will probably buy out the MPAA companies, too. Then that annoying paperclip (which isn't actually going away in Office XP, it's just not on by default) will pop up: "Hi! It looks like you're trying to view a DVD. Would you like me to 1) Verify your ownership of this DVD by using .NET to look up your credit card history or 2) Eject DVD?" But it's ok because by that time I will have ported BSD to my coffee maker so that it plays a (pirated? never) mp3 of the Maxwell House song while it brews my java in the morning. Ah, glorious coffee...you never sue for people sniffing the beans without a 36 page liscence. All you do is provide what I need to get me through a hard day of broadcasting my pirate signal and hacking into the Matrix. In Matrix 2, agents won't weild guns. Instead they will throw lawsuits at Neo.
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"Darwin was right - mankind evolved over a long period of time from primitive animal ancestors" Too bad that's not Darwin's theory of evolution. If one were to actually read The Origin of Species, he or she would learn that Darwin believed that all creatures evolved together from more primitive versions of themselves, not that humans evolved from monkeys who evolved from lesser creatures. That is the common misconception about the theory of evolution.
We, Microsoft...um...er...the Powers that Be, request the installation of the patent for the URL Bookmark. The URL Bookmark involves the remembering of a URL by "something". "Something" is defined as (1) A program with the capability for remembering URLs, (2) An electronic device (such as a PDA) that allows the input of text that can take the form of a URL, (3) An organic device capable of remembering characters in the form of a URL (like a brain), and (4) Any device that can be marked on by paint, ink, graphite, lead, or other substance. The use of a URL in any lasting form by any of said devices falls under this patent.
Adjoining Powers that Be Patent:
We, the Powers that Be request the installation of the patent for a pulp derived substance capable of being easy marked on by devices like pens and pencils. This patent is necessary for the enforcement of our above patent for the URL Bookmark.
--
Ian Turner
The pings times to an orbitting satellite wouldn't be so bad because the Sat is only 50-100 miles above the earth's surface...if that. The signal to the sat travels as fast if not faster than regular dialup over copper phone wires. It might even speed up the internet because to transmit long distances you would have fewer routers to go through.