An airliner jet traveling from Chili to New Zealand early today were in for an interesting ride. Flaming space debris -- the remains of a Russion satellite -- came hurtling back to Earth not far from commercial jet on their way to Auckland, New Zealand.
Chili?
Russion?
I hate it when my spicy peppers serve as runways.... editors, come on. Are you kidding me?
It happened to.... yes, that's right, Soviet Russia. And it may happen to us as well. We need to collect the world's geniuses and make it attractive to be an American scientist, not push them away by making it hard to get visas.
I actually like the old SimCity's copy protection method the best. A bunch of cities, coded with VERY odd symbols, on a red piece of paper (so it couldn't be photocopied.) It asked you to enter the city and population. Ingenious.
What exactly happened in the ending of FFVII? I never was quite able to figure it out. Is it supposed to be everyone in the world is dead? Sure, the game is a thinly veiled allegory for environmentalism, and one would expect that every human would die at the end, but come on.
Says Bill Gates from his home in Washington. It's been said before, but I feel the need to say it again:
The greatest effect Microsoft has had upon the world of software is the way it lowers customer expectations.
After years of leading the market with medium quality products, Microsoft has passed the first test in becoming a traditional standard. People have learned to live with the BSOD, and even joke about it instead of seeking alternatives. Not exactly good news for those in the know, but like it or not, Bill is a marketing genius.
My evil scheme for world domination is to melt down all those old computer parts and take the gold (and other precious metals). That, and they're really very fun to play around with.
KDE is taking even more steps to rivaling the UI Microsoft offers than GNOME is. The one thing I think Linux lacks now is interoperability, despite the openness of everything. Hopefully, KDE 3 will be a huge leap to close that gap.
Everytime you read about the newest development in telecscope technology, it's given an outrageous name describing how large it is. I remember when the Very Large Telescope, or VLT, came about. Now we have OverWhelmingly Large? This is complete craziness. We've got Large, Very Large, OverWhelmingly Large, and the ultimate which will probably never be developed, My Penis!
I don't think Dell will be getting mass e-mails demanding that they return to providing Linux on the desktop. Just as they said, I don't think they would get too many orders for it. Veteran Linux hackers are more likely to build their computers than to purchase them pre-made. Hopefully, people just getting into Linux will realize that understanding how installation works will help tremendously in understanding Linux as a whole. (Pick my root point? Why would I want to put this/usr directory on a separate mount point?...etc) So I don't really think there is a huge market in the first place for desktops with Linux on them.
Mother of 13 year-old script kiddie discovers his porn collection hidden in C:\WINDOWS\31337\P1X. Seriously, this is like someone's parents (or spouse) finding their porn. What is the government going to do, slap our wrists and check under our mattresses all the time?
But since most multiple OS users are more like the do-it yourself type as far as computers are concerned, I can't see this thing replacing LILO/Grub anytime soon. It's easy, more intuitive and more stable to keep the same disk as your boot drive all the time.
Besides, I can see a lot of problems arising when a certain operating system looks at certain disk expecting it to be the main drive, when it's really the auxiliary drive. Though it's a good, automatic solution, for many of us, this device could be more trouble than it's worth.
This might be a move to appease the FCC. Another of the deals of the merger was to make AOLTW's cable lines available to competitors to use for cable access. So, they give the FCC one thing they want (IM interoperability), so they can drag their feet introducing more competitor-friendly cable lines.
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True, but if you pedal them really hard, eventually you can get them going pretty fast!
So they're doing this to try to screw over your future chances for employment.
Turnabout is fair play: what company is this? If they get a bad rep, nobody good will want to work there...
What are you now, a preschool?
Yes, but he's talking about firing Bill Gates. Plural.
It's not like anyone else would!
I find your wordplay, sir, to be quite a Trivial Pursuit.
I thought "POOR IMPULSE CONTROL" meant you were doomed to surf around in your kayak all the time.
WOW.
I'm not getting married, ever.
Should I be buying stock in non-PBDE flame retardant chemical companies?
:)
Come on Slashdot, we can make serious bank!
I love getting investing advice from anonymous online fora.
Chili?
Russion?
I hate it when my spicy peppers serve as runways.... editors, come on. Are you kidding me?
Honk. If they try to do something jerky to you, run them over.
Jerks. I hate pedestrians.
Your interviews are set up in elaborate properties? How can I work for your company?
It happened to.... yes, that's right, Soviet Russia. And it may happen to us as well. We need to collect the world's geniuses and make it attractive to be an American scientist, not push them away by making it hard to get visas.
Nerds playing Quake meet none of those. Go back to your mom's basement.
I actually like the old SimCity's copy protection method the best. A bunch of cities, coded with VERY odd symbols, on a red piece of paper (so it couldn't be photocopied.) It asked you to enter the city and population. Ingenious.
What exactly happened in the ending of FFVII? I never was quite able to figure it out. Is it supposed to be everyone in the world is dead? Sure, the game is a thinly veiled allegory for environmentalism, and one would expect that every human would die at the end, but come on.
The greatest effect Microsoft has had upon the world of software is the way it lowers customer expectations.
After years of leading the market with medium quality products, Microsoft has passed the first test in becoming a traditional standard. People have learned to live with the BSOD, and even joke about it instead of seeking alternatives. Not exactly good news for those in the know, but like it or not, Bill is a marketing genius.
My evil scheme for world domination is to melt down all those old computer parts and take the gold (and other precious metals). That, and they're really very fun to play around with.
KDE is taking even more steps to rivaling the UI Microsoft offers than GNOME is. The one thing I think Linux lacks now is interoperability, despite the openness of everything. Hopefully, KDE 3 will be a huge leap to close that gap.
And next, this may even happen in Florida.
Everytime you read about the newest development in telecscope technology, it's given an outrageous name describing how large it is. I remember when the Very Large Telescope, or VLT, came about. Now we have OverWhelmingly Large? This is complete craziness. We've got Large, Very Large, OverWhelmingly Large, and the ultimate which will probably never be developed, My Penis!
I don't think Dell will be getting mass e-mails demanding that they return to providing Linux on the desktop. Just as they said, I don't think they would get too many orders for it. Veteran Linux hackers are more likely to build their computers than to purchase them pre-made. Hopefully, people just getting into Linux will realize that understanding how installation works will help tremendously in understanding Linux as a whole. (Pick my root point? Why would I want to put this /usr directory on a separate mount point? ...etc) So I don't really think there is a huge market in the first place for desktops with Linux on them.
Mother of 13 year-old script kiddie discovers his porn collection hidden in C:\WINDOWS\31337\P1X. Seriously, this is like someone's parents (or spouse) finding their porn. What is the government going to do, slap our wrists and check under our mattresses all the time?
Besides, I can see a lot of problems arising when a certain operating system looks at certain disk expecting it to be the main drive, when it's really the auxiliary drive. Though it's a good, automatic solution, for many of us, this device could be more trouble than it's worth.
This might be a move to appease the FCC. Another of the deals of the merger was to make AOLTW's cable lines available to competitors to use for cable access. So, they give the FCC one thing they want (IM interoperability), so they can drag their feet introducing more competitor-friendly cable lines.