The ESA may be on to something it is cheaper to pay their scientists to read SF about launching things into space than it is to use the NASA approach of actually launching scrap metal at another planet
I almost posted the same joke before I saw yours with almost the exact wording except the tax deductible part wouldn't work where I live.
But it is a good question. Most likely the machines will be recycled internally. However, there is now an unused server setup that is not exactly a slouch. This could easily be donated to charity. The question is which one? Perhaps the MS Outlook Education Foundation.
There is plenty of room to play with the dietary suplements for the hamsters. However, within 18 months it will be necessary to consider upgrading to trained rats. Then again microsoft.com gets suprising performance using large quantities of bugs. There is also a rumor that Big Blue has an interesting multiplying server project under development using rabbits.
I have nothing against advertising. Infact I prefer to have advertising so I can have my cost effectve web experience. Sometimes I event see an ad I like. Once in a blue moon I see something I might buy. However, there are good adds and bad adds. Good ads load quickly and don't hold my page load hostage. Good ads don't track where I go. In many cases ads can be targeted by targeting a web site rather than by tracking the users. I would prefer to select which advertisers I am willing accept ads from. I don't know if there is such a service but a ratings service for various advertisers would be beneficial. I don't want to welsh on any bargain but there is a limit to what I will put up with. If an advertiser wants me to read their advertising than they should behave within parameters that I find acceptable. If an add hasn't finished downloading witing five seconds on a cable modem then it should be toasted.
If a car company discovers that it has shipped x units with bad brakes then it generally issues a recall and replaces the part(s).
This is similar to posting a software patch
A car company usually is not held liable for all damages caused by the bad brakes before the problem is rectified. This is what the car owner's insurance is for.
It probably is possible to get insurance for software but my guess is that it would be expensive.
Have you ever heard of Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology: Every non trivial program contains at least one bug.
If you want bug free software then it can be provided. It will cost two orders of magnitude more or you can choose to use nothing more sophisticated than Solitaire.
For those of us living in the real world this is not an option.
You cannot reasonably expect a software company to bear all liability for using their software. However, you should expect that reported bugs will be addressed in a timely manner in order of severity.
Although you should also be able to expect that software will be shipped with less than 63000 known bugs^H^H^H^H er issues.
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How long have you been working for the music industry?
You may be forgetting about some unsanctioned mind altering substances.
Oh my god It'S flatlined!
Quick! Call the Code Blue!
If the resulting lower prices reduced pirating, increased cd sales and made these companies more money.
Kool A Beowulf cluster of clusters of clusters of clusters...
Not according to one source
Love Bug affects Linux: MS spokeswoman's crazed claim from The Register
Wow computing with a molecule
Can you imagine a beowulf of these
Sorry, had to be said
The ESA may be on to something it is cheaper to pay their scientists to read SF about launching things into space than it is to use the NASA approach of actually launching scrap metal at another planet
I want that gun named Reason from Snowcrash.
This post will probably get me in the computers of several governments
bablefish translates this from German To English as:
ik vindt metallica stelletje vuige lamb een apen op het zelfde trapstukje staan as de phlubby gnoom van trepaan!
What Language is this anyway
Perhaps it is in code
How did they key in all 60000 pages so fast
I want to hire that data entry clerk
I almost posted the same joke before I saw yours with almost the exact wording except the tax deductible part wouldn't work where I live.
But it is a good question. Most likely the machines will be recycled internally. However, there is now an unused server setup that is not exactly a slouch. This could easily be donated to charity. The question is which one? Perhaps the MS Outlook Education Foundation.
There is plenty of room to play with the dietary suplements for the hamsters. However, within 18 months it will be necessary to consider upgrading to trained rats. Then again microsoft.com gets suprising performance using large quantities of bugs. There is also a rumor that Big Blue has an interesting multiplying server project under development using rabbits.
I have nothing against advertising. Infact I prefer to have advertising so I can have my cost effectve web experience. Sometimes I event see an ad I like. Once in a blue moon I see something I might buy. However, there are good adds and bad adds. Good ads load quickly and don't hold my page load hostage. Good ads don't track where I go. In many cases ads can be targeted by targeting a web site rather than by tracking the users. I would prefer to select which advertisers I am willing accept ads from. I don't know if there is such a service but a ratings service for various advertisers would be beneficial. I don't want to welsh on any bargain but there is a limit to what I will put up with. If an advertiser wants me to read their advertising than they should behave within parameters that I find acceptable. If an add hasn't finished downloading witing five seconds on a cable modem then it should be toasted.
And I thought Karma Whores were a problem
Now it looks like there is a Karma Rapist
I'd like to see what they would get if they did it on LinuxOne
This turns out to be not as evil
The feature was not removed it just had it's preference turned off.
Forged source may be somewhat evil
Delays in releasing source may be annoying
This goes beyond evil: AOL orders Mozilla to remove code that blocks adds
When Monopolies believe that it is their right to control open source development that will be the end of the OSS Movement.
Here is the Actual Time Article by Gates
http://www.time.com /time/magazine/articles/0,3266,44557,00.html
It's in Time But it belongs on Segfault
The hackers have been been cracked by hacks.
Get even refer to all journalists as hacks.
Canadian actors don't have time for British Television
They are too busy taking over the U.S.
The source code will be made available for download on a special server set up on the far side of the Andromeda Galaxy.
The server will be delivered to Andromeda by a Beowulf cluster of Iridium Satelites.
I need a device that will allow me to understand women.
I wholeheartedly agree.
nuff said
If a car company discovers that it has shipped x units with bad brakes then it generally issues a recall and replaces the part(s).
This is similar to posting a software patch
A car company usually is not held liable for all damages caused by the bad brakes before the problem is rectified. This is what the car owner's insurance is for.
It probably is possible to get insurance for software but my guess is that it would be expensive.
Have you ever heard of Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology: Every non trivial program contains at least one bug.
If you want bug free software then it can be provided. It will cost two orders of magnitude more or you can choose to use nothing more sophisticated than Solitaire.
For those of us living in the real world this is not an option.
You cannot reasonably expect a software company to bear all liability for using their software. However, you should expect that reported bugs will be addressed in a timely manner in order of severity.
Although you should also be able to expect that software will be shipped with less than 63000 known bugs^H^H^H^H er issues.