Eh, I just checked, and 50 billion Yen equal $US 423 million, not $US 400 billion.
Wow, $US400 billion every year, that would be more than 10% of their total purchasing power (quoting CIA's numbers), and about 90% of their total gross revenue (not yet calculating their expenditure). That would have been some serious fucking spending. But no, they're not spending that many dollars, it's just the story submitter's inability to do math.
FYI, it's a German company, which has an up-starty feel to it if you ask me, for example their address leads to a small village. "Ismael" probably speaks German, but not perfect English, and yes his name wouldn't be something surprising in Germany, because his parents are probably middle-eastern immigrants, and he probably does live in Germany, because an up-start company would just be spending too much money if they outsource to India.
Maybe the average European teen is just dumber then their US counterparts. I was waiting in line at the movies the other day, and heard some teenagers asking for tickets to "2 Fast 2 Furious". Oh, goddamnit.
Man, he does look like he was a fucking jock earlier in life, whose career path is of course bullshiting his way into management, who's never related to or respected the nerd culture. just one major asshole. "The DNA of Linux is SCO code."? Fuck you man!
Well, you could dig a short hole (assuming the earth still has some thickness), turn 90 degress, make a tunnel parallel to the ground and then dig up when you're under China. Haha but it would be useless, because you could just walk on the ground and get there faster because it's the same distance - with no need to dig.
Gee, you're in a city in the middle of a desert, and I bet you have a car, won't it be easy to drive half an hour in a direction, and find a totally clear sky?
Wasn't it "z10n"? Funny how it has the binary number "10".. Hmm, how peculiar, 10, the number that follows 01? "Zero One" being the robot nation mentioned in Animatrix.
Funny, I reckon the German word in place of "Goodbye" would be "Auf wiedersehen", which translates to "Until we see each other again", which is more reassuring.:)... hmm Germans also say "Have a nice flight/trip", that would also fit.
I'm reminded of a message that came up in Singapore Airport as a flight that was suppposed to be arriving there crashed: "Delayed - Please Contact Service Desk"..
Well, the press release states Lufthansa Systems will start offering Linux to its customers. For some reason, Lufthansa Systems is not Lufthansa the airline, but a 100% subsdiary of the company that focuses on IT for airlines. I assume their major customer is Lufthansa itself, and the list of press releases on their website confirms that they do work for other airlines and even a bank!
I know the "department" that does maintenance on their planes is also its own separate subsdiary. Maybe it's a way for the company to keep costs down, if their own subsdiary demands too high a price, they can always threaten to go elsewhere.
Looks like the Anti-Grammar-Nazies are pissed off at the language skills of the Grammar-Nazies and are modding the "were"-people off-topic.
To understand where the "were" come from, you have to learn the language of the real Nazis, i.e. German, from which English is "forked".. in German the subjunctive is "wre" and it's pronounced so close to "were". English simplifies the language, so it's converted the word to "were". In reality the two "were"'s in English aren't exactly the same word. Not that this would have people.:)
It doesn't seem they're doing that, I was once curious and read a PDF brochure of one of their servers. It still runs best with their own proprietary OS, but IBM offers Linux in partnership with SuSE and RedHat. If Linux tanks, they can always go back to offering just the proprietary OS.
Taylor says he plans to focus on (and fund) studies that 'will highlight Microsoft's advantages in areas such as security, feature-completeness and total cost of ownership.'
LOL, reading this I have to lough, it sounds like the Iraqi Information Minister just landed himself a new job!
"The server has not been hacked! There are no hackers in the mainframe! The infidel hackers are dying right now from Linux viruses we have leashed upon them!"
Does this mean, studies that don't highlight Microsoft's advantages won't be focused on and funded? You don't say...
Personalized menus on apps (like Office XP) is a horrible idea, but I find it useful when applied to the Start Menu. At first I thought it would be horrible, but after using it for a while, I notice I can scan the menu and find programs I often use faster, because the ones I don't use that often are hidden. Dunno why it doesn't work with Office programs, probably because it doesn't have enough data to go on, and I often go hunting for a feature when I'm not sure how to do something in Excel.
I am a bit skeptical about the tracking capabilities of the doll. The functions it has only needs input, not output, so it probably only has an IR receiver in its nose, but not a transmitter.
If you do find a transmitter in there, then Disney does have a capability to see where each doll is and track its movement, probably by making it send a UID everytime it receives a signal from a nearby transceiver.
I don't see what's evil about wanting to know what people find interesting or not in your own themepark though, but I agree there's a lot of ways this technology can be abused.
Indeed it takes a while to compile things. I'm reminded of a time when a misconfigured MAKEFILE (I assumed that's what it was) deleted the main qt library. I was in KDE, boom all of a sudden it went black and I was back at the console. So, re-emerged Qt. This time I made a backup copy of the file though, and sure enough I needed it a few (minutes/hours) later as I fubar'ed an ln -s and zeroed the qt lib file.
I tried LFS, but got confused after a while, how do you track what you've installed and into which directory?
I feel Gentoo is one-better than LFS, it does the same thing (compile from scratch) but with a useful package manager. LFS on the other hand is good to learn how a Linux system works, although one could argue reading a HOWTO about it would be faster than waiting for the compile to complete.
Exactly, especially with his idea that if a designer like Prada offers them, people can buy designer made seats, dashboards (that are too expensive to put in standard models), maybe even engines (not designer made, but hydrogen ones).
Hmm, doesn't the MIDI exploit involve corrupted data (that overflows the buffer and inject the exploit) in MIDI files? If so, it would be easy to just make a webpage with the tag Microsoft invented: . User visits the page, IE tries to play annoying background music and boom you're in. Gotta love Microsoft, that's too simple it's not worth doing.
Of course I'm assuming IE uses DirectMusic to play the MIDI file, this may not neccessarily be true
Not quite.. when they demo'ed it on TV, the guy looked at a TV set at a shopping center and compared the price, it was 60 cheaper from some online store, he mentioned it to the manager, and managed to get 40 discount. And it was on TV, so it must be true.;-)
But it's spoofable I guess, just tell your friend to send you an SMS with a pricetag of your choice. Dunno how they plan to make the system believable.
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Eh, I just checked, and 50 billion Yen equal $US 423 million, not $US 400 billion.
Wow, $US400 billion every year, that would be more than 10% of their total purchasing power (quoting CIA's numbers), and about 90% of their total gross revenue (not yet calculating their expenditure). That would have been some serious fucking spending. But no, they're not spending that many dollars, it's just the story submitter's inability to do math.
FYI, it's a German company, which has an up-starty feel to it if you ask me, for example their address leads to a small village. "Ismael" probably speaks German, but not perfect English, and yes his name wouldn't be something surprising in Germany, because his parents are probably middle-eastern immigrants, and he probably does live in Germany, because an up-start company would just be spending too much money if they outsource to India.
Maybe the average European teen is just dumber then their US counterparts. I was waiting in line at the movies the other day, and heard some teenagers asking for tickets to "2 Fast 2 Furious". Oh, goddamnit.
Man, he does look like he was a fucking jock earlier in life, whose career path is of course bullshiting his way into management, who's never related to or respected the nerd culture. just one major asshole. "The DNA of Linux is SCO code."? Fuck you man!
Quick, somebody name his piece of software/gadget "FakeOne"!
Ha, "FakeOne", maybe an audio guide on how to fake the perfect orgasm for girls? Or is that "perfect the fake orgasm".
Siemens? That's funny, Siemens is an MS-shop, I had a job interview once and they were thinking of developing on .NET ..
Well, you could dig a short hole (assuming the earth still has some thickness), turn 90 degress, make a tunnel parallel to the ground and then dig up when you're under China. Haha but it would be useless, because you could just walk on the ground and get there faster because it's the same distance - with no need to dig.
Gee, you're in a city in the middle of a desert, and I bet you have a car, won't it be easy to drive half an hour in a direction, and find a totally clear sky?
Wasn't it "z10n"? Funny how it has the binary number "10".. Hmm, how peculiar, 10, the number that follows 01? "Zero One" being the robot nation mentioned in Animatrix.
Funny, I reckon the German word in place of "Goodbye" would be "Auf wiedersehen", which translates to "Until we see each other again", which is more reassuring. :) ... hmm Germans also say "Have a nice flight/trip", that would also fit.
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I'm reminded of a message that came up in Singapore Airport as a flight that was suppposed to be arriving there crashed: "Delayed - Please Contact Service Desk"
Well, the press release states Lufthansa Systems will start offering Linux to its customers. For some reason, Lufthansa Systems is not Lufthansa the airline, but a 100% subsdiary of the company that focuses on IT for airlines. I assume their major customer is Lufthansa itself, and the list of press releases on their website confirms that they do work for other airlines and even a bank!
I know the "department" that does maintenance on their planes is also its own separate subsdiary. Maybe it's a way for the company to keep costs down, if their own subsdiary demands too high a price, they can always threaten to go elsewhere.
Three of them failed? I hope you got HDs from a different brand to replace all 4 of them..
Oops, not "wre", but "ware" (with an a-Umlaut)
Looks like the Anti-Grammar-Nazies are pissed off at the language skills of the Grammar-Nazies and are modding the "were"-people off-topic.
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To understand where the "were" come from, you have to learn the language of the real Nazis, i.e. German, from which English is "forked".. in German the subjunctive is "wre" and it's pronounced so close to "were". English simplifies the language, so it's converted the word to "were". In reality the two "were"'s in English aren't exactly the same word. Not that this would have people.
It doesn't seem they're doing that, I was once curious and read a PDF brochure of one of their servers. It still runs best with their own proprietary OS, but IBM offers Linux in partnership with SuSE and RedHat. If Linux tanks, they can always go back to offering just the proprietary OS.
Taylor says he plans to focus on (and fund) studies that 'will highlight Microsoft's advantages in areas such as security, feature-completeness and total cost of ownership.'
LOL, reading this I have to lough, it sounds like the Iraqi Information Minister just landed himself a new job!
"The server has not been hacked! There are no hackers in the mainframe! The infidel hackers are dying right now from Linux viruses we have leashed upon them!"
Does this mean, studies that don't highlight Microsoft's advantages won't be focused on and funded? You don't say...
Personalized menus on apps (like Office XP) is a horrible idea, but I find it useful when applied to the Start Menu. At first I thought it would be horrible, but after using it for a while, I notice I can scan the menu and find programs I often use faster, because the ones I don't use that often are hidden. Dunno why it doesn't work with Office programs, probably because it doesn't have enough data to go on, and I often go hunting for a feature when I'm not sure how to do something in Excel.
To reply to myself, the 2 last paragraphs of the "review" of the doll is probably an indication that the doll does have transmission capabilities!
I am a bit skeptical about the tracking capabilities of the doll. The functions it has only needs input, not output, so it probably only has an IR receiver in its nose, but not a transmitter.
If you do find a transmitter in there, then Disney does have a capability to see where each doll is and track its movement, probably by making it send a UID everytime it receives a signal from a nearby transceiver.
I don't see what's evil about wanting to know what people find interesting or not in your own themepark though, but I agree there's a lot of ways this technology can be abused.
Indeed it takes a while to compile things. I'm reminded of a time when a misconfigured MAKEFILE (I assumed that's what it was) deleted the main qt library. I was in KDE, boom all of a sudden it went black and I was back at the console. So, re-emerged Qt. This time I made a backup copy of the file though, and sure enough I needed it a few (minutes/hours) later as I fubar'ed an ln -s and zeroed the qt lib file.
I tried LFS, but got confused after a while, how do you track what you've installed and into which directory?
I feel Gentoo is one-better than LFS, it does the same thing (compile from scratch) but with a useful package manager. LFS on the other hand is good to learn how a Linux system works, although one could argue reading a HOWTO about it would be faster than waiting for the compile to complete.
Exactly, especially with his idea that if a designer like Prada offers them, people can buy designer made seats, dashboards (that are too expensive to put in standard models), maybe even engines (not designer made, but hydrogen ones).
Hmm, doesn't the MIDI exploit involve corrupted data (that overflows the buffer and inject the exploit) in MIDI files? If so, it would be easy to just make a webpage with the tag Microsoft invented: . User visits the page, IE tries to play annoying background music and boom you're in. Gotta love Microsoft, that's too simple it's not worth doing.
Of course I'm assuming IE uses DirectMusic to play the MIDI file, this may not neccessarily be true
You make it sound as if non-trivial encryption is something a lowly processor in a camera can easily do.
Not quite.. when they demo'ed it on TV, the guy looked at a TV set at a shopping center and compared the price, it was 60 cheaper from some online store, he mentioned it to the manager, and managed to get 40 discount. And it was on TV, so it must be true. ;-)
But it's spoofable I guess, just tell your friend to send you an SMS with a pricetag of your choice. Dunno how they plan to make the system believable.