I hate to break this to them, but take a look at the surface of the moon. The traditional word for it is "pockmarked." Without an atmosphere to protect it, the moon is constantly bombarded with minor meteor strikes.
Am I saying it's like a Bruce Willis' movie? No. The last I heard, Armstrong's footprints were still up there undisturbed by weather. But I am saying it's not entirely unreasonable to expect big rocks moving at fairly remarkable speeds to crash into the roof of your structure some day. I would think it would be at least as likely as a tornado in Texas.
You can live your whole life in Austin without ever seeing one. Then one day, two tornadoes meet and shake hands in the middle of town like they did in the early part of the last century.
I would think that a structure on the moon would have to meet higher standards than those one Earth...
When, oh when, have you ever been on a company support line, especially one that will be as flooded as this one is bound to be, for only 10 minutes?
And when, oh when, have you ever actually received anything good, useful or helpful when you actually managed to slog through the hours of muzak?
And how long do you think it will take MS to impose draconian measures on these activation key "new issues" when they find that (heavens no!) a couple have been used in an "unauthorized manner?"
What on Earth are you smoking (and could I please have some?) that you think this will only be a ten-minute inconvenience instead of the unholy clusterfsck it smells like?
To all the people who complain they can't find any evidence this group existed before today, and therefore might be a Microsoft plant, ask yourselves something:
If you were going to release this information to the world, would you do it under your real name?
Like the rest of us, I've started passing out tapes loaded with my 90 minute speech to answer my non-geek friends and relatives when I hear them ask "Why won't the gov'mint just leave that nice Gates man alone? He invented the Internet, didn't he..."
I was actually looking forward to the day when I could say, "Well, Grandma, I could change your busted hard drive for you, but that would mean that nice Gates man would want another $300. Maybe you should just buy another computer..."
"Buy another computer?! What's wrong with you, boy? I'll just shop around for a cheaper copy of Windows! Someone'll will have it on sale..."
I was so looking forward to listening to Grandma on MS tech support demanding another activation code, and chewing them out when they inevitably refuse to give it to her...
XP activation was going to be the wake-up call for Joe EndUser. Now that it's been publicly hacked, I'm really rather torn...
OK, so maryR's a troll, but I'll bite...
Mary, if Ford had made his design open-source (and it was -- Ford's genius was in creating a manufacturing process, not the internal combustion engine he copied from some Europeans) we'd all be driving "Tuckers" version 30. They'd run on fuel cells, leave virtually zero pollution, and dust anything that actually had to worry about ignition and gear changes.
Oh, and btw, all those headaches from the Middle East? No one who have to care.
Umm, no, sorry, not really.
I've lived in Japan now for over seven years, and this sort of thing is common. Companies and the government will anounce brilliant new services they simply have no intention of ever offering. I mean the plan isn't even on paper.
Remember, you're dealing with a culture where appearance is everything. Following through... well, that's not really so important a concept here.
(Keep your flames. My wife is Japanese. I speak Japanese. I've lived here for a huge chunk of my life.)
Everyone should just remember to treat press releases with skepticism. This of course applies to companies in any country.
jeko
On a similar note, I notice that this overwhelming preoccupation with Jesus is also slowing down the eventual adoption of Christianity....
For this reason, I would like to suggest that future crucifixions be accomplished by a committee of corporate leaders who are sensitive to market forces. While three crosses was a good start initially, I feel that next time Golgotha should have far more representation, say at least twelve rows of three crosses. I would also like to suggest that Ms. Rooney accept a position on cross 12C.
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Am I saying it's like a Bruce Willis' movie? No. The last I heard, Armstrong's footprints were still up there undisturbed by weather. But I am saying it's not entirely unreasonable to expect big rocks moving at fairly remarkable speeds to crash into the roof of your structure some day. I would think it would be at least as likely as a tornado in Texas.
You can live your whole life in Austin without ever seeing one. Then one day, two tornadoes meet and shake hands in the middle of town like they did in the early part of the last century.
I would think that a structure on the moon would have to meet higher standards than those one Earth...
...And people complain that Slashdot never has anything cheerful to say...
And how long do you think it will take MS to impose draconian measures on these activation key "new issues" when they find that (heavens no!) a couple have been used in an "unauthorized manner?"
What on Earth are you smoking (and could I please have some?) that you think this will only be a ten-minute inconvenience instead of the unholy clusterfsck it smells like?
If you were going to release this information to the world, would you do it under your real name?
I was actually looking forward to the day when I could say, "Well, Grandma, I could change your busted hard drive for you, but that would mean that nice Gates man would want another $300. Maybe you should just buy another computer..."
"Buy another computer?! What's wrong with you, boy? I'll just shop around for a cheaper copy of Windows! Someone'll will have it on sale..."
I was so looking forward to listening to Grandma on MS tech support demanding another activation code, and chewing them out when they inevitably refuse to give it to her...
XP activation was going to be the wake-up call for Joe EndUser. Now that it's been publicly hacked, I'm really rather torn...
Barney, Pokemon, that damn Ken doll...
Umm, look I don't mean to sound "geekier than thou", but an algorithm like this really should be programmed recursively... :-)
A poorly-built wooden ship works like a raft.
A poorly-built airplane, provided you're not thick enough to push it off a cliff, works like a wagon.
A poorly-built rocket works like a bomb.
I'm beginning to wonder where our moral responsibility to protect an idiot from himself kicks in...
Is it just me, or does this sound like an old TV movie Salvage, with Andy Griffith playing the role of Bennett?
Yes. Untested ship designs generally don't explode on launch. Untested rockets regularly do.
Just read the post. It looks funny as Hell... and utterly useless, which of course makes it even funnier...
OK, so maryR's a troll, but I'll bite... Mary, if Ford had made his design open-source (and it was -- Ford's genius was in creating a manufacturing process, not the internal combustion engine he copied from some Europeans) we'd all be driving "Tuckers" version 30. They'd run on fuel cells, leave virtually zero pollution, and dust anything that actually had to worry about ignition and gear changes. Oh, and btw, all those headaches from the Middle East? No one who have to care.
Umm, no, sorry, not really. I've lived in Japan now for over seven years, and this sort of thing is common. Companies and the government will anounce brilliant new services they simply have no intention of ever offering. I mean the plan isn't even on paper. Remember, you're dealing with a culture where appearance is everything. Following through... well, that's not really so important a concept here. (Keep your flames. My wife is Japanese. I speak Japanese. I've lived here for a huge chunk of my life.) Everyone should just remember to treat press releases with skepticism. This of course applies to companies in any country. jeko
For this reason, I would like to suggest that future crucifixions be accomplished by a committee of corporate leaders who are sensitive to market forces. While three crosses was a good start initially, I feel that next time Golgotha should have far more representation, say at least twelve rows of three crosses. I would also like to suggest that Ms. Rooney accept a position on cross 12C. jeko