Filming The Matrix in space might have made it easier for the actors to walk all over the place on the walls and the ceiling, and do super-duper zero-gee stuffs.
If nobody creates an open-source.NET, Microsoft will be its only vendor and, because of their strong monopoly,.NET will be accepted reluctantly by everybody.
If someone creates an open-source implementation of.NET that's compatible with Microsoft's, it will help make the.NET standard accepted, so Microsoft will sell more of it and.NET equivalents (free or not) will die disappear even faster
If someone creates a broken implementation of.NET (or Microsoft breaks the standard afterward), people will fall back reluctantly on Microsoft's version (the original) and the open-source community's ability to create good software will be questioned by Microsoft and the Microsofties.
So, whatever the community decides to do with.NET, Microsoft wins. That's why Microsoft has "no objections" (sic) to third-party open-source.NET implementations, and that's why most open-source public figures look like they're sitting on hot coal when the issue pops up.
All in all,.NET is pure genius from Microsoft, a very subtle game of chicken with the community where they have no chance to lose because of they monopolistic stronghold. Pity for us...
These crazy scientists are going to modify the weather pattern on Earth : as they progress in their weather simulations, they'll need more and more supercomputers, which in turn will run so hot they'll raise the temperature world-wide, which will make it harder for the scientists to simulate the weather, so they'll need more supercomputers...etc... ARGHH, SOMEBODY STOP THEM !
The concept of making coffee with the same strength reliably each time is silly : coffee should be as strong as possible, period. (recipe tip : put twice as much coffee in the filter, brew, let it sit in the pot for a day, enjoy watching your hair rise on your forearm as you swallow).
But instead, the guy could put the light barrier near the top of the coffee pot so more coffee can be brewed in the same size coffee machine without spillage (the liquid breaking the infrared light would stop the brewing). Additionally, the coffee machine could make a beeping noise when the barrier is broken to indicate that the coffee is ready. I for one would find this useful, as I always forget I put the coffee machine on.
"This article on heise-online reveals some more information on the K-Illustrator(TM) dispute. If my understanding of the German article is correct, the lawyer firm of Reinhard Skuhra Weise & Partner has issued a cease and desist letter to the University of Magdeburg, employer of K-Illustrator(TM)'s author, Dr Kai-Uwe Sattler. The cease-and-desist letter complains that k-Illustrator(TM)'s advertising damages Adobe(R)'s brand-name and damages the reputation of Adobe(R)'s product. The lawyers required that the University sign the cease and desist letter, destroy the k-Illustrator(TM)-package, name every K-Illustrator(TM) user, and disclose the profit they made from it. Finally the lawyers sent a bill for 4686 DM (German Marks, approximately 2000 dollars) not counting value added tax. Should the University not sign, the lawyers will sue for a million DM (approximately 400 thousand dollars) . Kai-Uwe Sattler is happy to change the name, but doesn't want to pay this bill. When he suggested changing the name, the lawyers rejected his proposal saying "Do you know any lawyer who works for nothing?" The lawyers insist on payment. Sattler regrets that Adobe(R) never contacted him before calling upon lawyers to ask him to change the name of his software. Udo Skuhra, who works at the lawyers' firm, refused to talk to heise-online about the cease-and-desist letter, and refused to state whether Adobe(R) asked his law-firm to issue it."
Torching a car dealership is ecological ?
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Let's see : when a car dealership is on fire, what burns ? tire and plastics (nitric vapors), gasoline (carbon monoxide), papers and salesperson's suits (carbon dioxide),...
Then because all the salespeople of the dealership lose their jobs, they have to vacate their nice expensive homes (clean them first with phosphate-based products) move their belongings to their new appartments (diesel particles from the moving trucks), find new jobs in the local newspaper (discarded newspapers with non-biodegradable ink),...
Wouldn't it have been more environmentally-friendly to just leave the car dealership alone ?
The next step of course, once the address bus is extended, is to make sure old hard drives can still be used with the new super-duper bus.
To achieve this, I propose the creation of the "GATE-A29" to allow older software that wrap around the addressing space to access the first sector of the hard disk to continue to function properly. This gate could be controlled with one of the keyboard controller's free lines (to save one cent), and could be turned on and off from the BIOS. Also, there should be a new INT21h function to control the "GATE-A29".
What a perfect way to extend the PC-AT architecture in the totally unencumbered and elegant fashion it has evolved so far !
[Seriously people, just buy SCSI drives, they already do the work properly]
A cell phone jammer : it works great in theaters to keep those pesky phones from ringing, so maybe it's possible to duct-tape a couple on stealth plane fuselages to defeat the Roke Manor sensor...
Utah is quite different from the rest of the US. Unwritten rules of many kinds are of far greater importance than the first amendment there.
Although the University of Utah is rather open-minded compared to, say, BYU, I'm not at all surprised that this site got shut down.
Utah is quite different from the rest of the US. Unwritten rules of many kinds are of far greater importance than the first amendment there.
Although the University of Utah is rather open-minded compared to, say, BYU, I'm not at all surprised that this site got shut down.
Utah is quite different from the rest of the US. Unwritten rules of many kinds are of far greater importance than the first amendment there.
Although the University of Utah is rather open-minded compared to, say, BYU, I'm not at all surprised that this site got shut down.
Utah is quite different from the rest of the US. Unwritten rules of many kinds are of far greater importance than the first amendment there.
Although the University of Utah is rather open-minded compared to, say, BYU, I'm not at all surprised that this site got shut down.
Utah is quite different from the rest of the US. Unwritten rules of many kinds are of far greater importance than the first amendment there.
Although the University of Utah is rather open-minded compared to, say, BYU, I'm not at all surprised that this site got shut down.
Utah is quite different from the rest of the US. Unwritten rules of many kinds are of far greater importance than the first amendment there.
Although the University of Utah is rather open-minded compared to, say, BYU, I'm not at all surprised that this site got shut down.
Utah is quite different from the rest of the US. Unwritten rules of many kinds are of far greater importance than the first amendment there.
Although the University of Utah is rather open-minded compared to, say, BYU, I'm not at all surprised that this site got shut down.
Utah is quite different from the rest of the US. Unwritten rules of many kinds are of far greater importance than the first amendment there.
Although the University of Utah is rather open-minded compared to, say, BYU, I'm not at all surprised that this site got shut down.
Utah is quite different from the rest of the US. Unwritten rules of many kinds are of far greater importance than the first amendment there.
Although the University of Utah is rather open-minded compared to, say, BYU, I'm not at all surprised that this site got shut down.
Utah is quite different from the rest of the US. Unwritten rules of many kinds are of far greater importance than the first amendment there.
Although the University of Utah is rather open-minded compared to, say, BYU, I'm not at all surprised that this site got shut down.
Utah is quite different from the rest of the US. Unwritten rules of many kinds are of far greater importance than the first amendment there.
Although the University of Utah is rather open-minded compared to, say, BYU, I'm not at all surprised that this site got shut down.
Utah is quite different from the rest of the US. Unwritten rules of many kinds are of far greater importance than the first amendment there.
Although the University of Utah is rather open-minded compared to, say, BYU, I'm not at all surprised that this site got shut down.
Utah is quite different from the rest of the US. Unwritten rules of many kinds are of far greater importance than the first amendment there.
Although the University of Utah is rather open-minded compared to, say, BYU, I'm not at all surprised that this site got shut down.
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Cell phones in rural areas that are cut off from the power grid ? :-)
Filming The Matrix in space might have made it easier for the actors to walk all over the place on the walls and the ceiling, and do super-duper zero-gee stuffs.
If nobody creates an open-source .NET, Microsoft will be its only vendor and, because of their strong monopoly, .NET will be accepted reluctantly by everybody.
If someone creates an open-source implementation of .NET that's compatible with Microsoft's, it will help make the .NET standard accepted, so Microsoft will sell more of it and .NET equivalents (free or not) will die disappear even faster
If someone creates a broken implementation of .NET (or Microsoft breaks the standard afterward), people will fall back reluctantly on Microsoft's version (the original) and the open-source community's ability to create good software will be questioned by Microsoft and the Microsofties.
So, whatever the community decides to do with .NET, Microsoft wins. That's why Microsoft has "no objections" (sic) to third-party open-source .NET implementations, and that's why most open-source public figures look like they're sitting on hot coal when the issue pops up.
All in all, .NET is pure genius from Microsoft, a very subtle game of chicken with the community where they have no chance to lose because of they monopolistic stronghold. Pity for us ...
I bet the winning program will be coded in befunge
When the casinos sell their customers database, just imagine the kind of junk mail high-rollers must be getting in their mailbox !
These crazy scientists are going to modify the weather pattern on Earth : as they progress in their weather simulations, they'll need more and more supercomputers, which in turn will run so hot they'll raise the temperature world-wide, which will make it harder for the scientists to simulate the weather, so they'll need more supercomputers ...etc... ARGHH, SOMEBODY STOP THEM !
But instead, the guy could put the light barrier near the top of the coffee pot so more coffee can be brewed in the same size coffee machine without spillage (the liquid breaking the infrared light would stop the brewing). Additionally, the coffee machine could make a beeping noise when the barrier is broken to indicate that the coffee is ready. I for one would find this useful, as I always forget I put the coffee machine on.
"This article on heise-online reveals some more information on the K-Illustrator(TM) dispute. If my understanding of the German article is correct, the lawyer firm of Reinhard Skuhra Weise & Partner has issued a cease and desist letter to the University of Magdeburg, employer of K-Illustrator(TM)'s author, Dr Kai-Uwe Sattler. The cease-and-desist letter complains that k-Illustrator(TM)'s advertising damages Adobe(R)'s brand-name and damages the reputation of Adobe(R)'s product. The lawyers required that the University sign the cease and desist letter, destroy the k-Illustrator(TM)-package, name every K-Illustrator(TM) user, and disclose the profit they made from it. Finally the lawyers sent a bill for 4686 DM (German Marks, approximately 2000 dollars) not counting value added tax. Should the University not sign, the lawyers will sue for a million DM (approximately 400 thousand dollars) . Kai-Uwe Sattler is happy to change the name, but doesn't want to pay this bill. When he suggested changing the name, the lawyers rejected his proposal saying "Do you know any lawyer who works for nothing?" The lawyers insist on payment. Sattler regrets that Adobe(R) never contacted him before calling upon lawyers to ask him to change the name of his software. Udo Skuhra, who works at the lawyers' firm, refused to talk to heise-online about the cease-and-desist letter, and refused to state whether Adobe(R) asked his law-firm to issue it."
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/29/113120 8
Then because all the salespeople of the dealership lose their jobs, they have to vacate their nice expensive homes (clean them first with phosphate-based products) move their belongings to their new appartments (diesel particles from the moving trucks), find new jobs in the local newspaper (discarded newspapers with non-biodegradable ink), ...
Wouldn't it have been more environmentally-friendly to just leave the car dealership alone ?
To achieve this, I propose the creation of the "GATE-A29" to allow older software that wrap around the addressing space to access the first sector of the hard disk to continue to function properly. This gate could be controlled with one of the keyboard controller's free lines (to save one cent), and could be turned on and off from the BIOS. Also, there should be a new INT21h function to control the "GATE-A29".
What a perfect way to extend the PC-AT architecture in the totally unencumbered and elegant fashion it has evolved so far !
[Seriously people, just buy SCSI drives, they already do the work properly]
A cell phone jammer : it works great in theaters to keep those pesky phones from ringing, so maybe it's possible to duct-tape a couple on stealth plane fuselages to defeat the Roke Manor sensor ...
Utah is quite different from the rest of the US. Unwritten rules of many kinds are of far greater importance than the first amendment there.
Although the University of Utah is rather open-minded compared to, say, BYU, I'm not at all surprised that this site got shut down.
Utah is quite different from the rest of the US. Unwritten rules of many kinds are of far greater importance than the first amendment there.
Although the University of Utah is rather open-minded compared to, say, BYU, I'm not at all surprised that this site got shut down.
Utah is quite different from the rest of the US. Unwritten rules of many kinds are of far greater importance than the first amendment there.
Although the University of Utah is rather open-minded compared to, say, BYU, I'm not at all surprised that this site got shut down.
Utah is quite different from the rest of the US. Unwritten rules of many kinds are of far greater importance than the first amendment there.
Although the University of Utah is rather open-minded compared to, say, BYU, I'm not at all surprised that this site got shut down.
Utah is quite different from the rest of the US. Unwritten rules of many kinds are of far greater importance than the first amendment there.
Although the University of Utah is rather open-minded compared to, say, BYU, I'm not at all surprised that this site got shut down.
Utah is quite different from the rest of the US. Unwritten rules of many kinds are of far greater importance than the first amendment there.
Although the University of Utah is rather open-minded compared to, say, BYU, I'm not at all surprised that this site got shut down.
Utah is quite different from the rest of the US. Unwritten rules of many kinds are of far greater importance than the first amendment there.
Although the University of Utah is rather open-minded compared to, say, BYU, I'm not at all surprised that this site got shut down.
Utah is quite different from the rest of the US. Unwritten rules of many kinds are of far greater importance than the first amendment there.
Although the University of Utah is rather open-minded compared to, say, BYU, I'm not at all surprised that this site got shut down.
Utah is quite different from the rest of the US. Unwritten rules of many kinds are of far greater importance than the first amendment there.
Although the University of Utah is rather open-minded compared to, say, BYU, I'm not at all surprised that this site got shut down.
Utah is quite different from the rest of the US. Unwritten rules of many kinds are of far greater importance than the first amendment there.
Although the University of Utah is rather open-minded compared to, say, BYU, I'm not at all surprised that this site got shut down.
Utah is quite different from the rest of the US. Unwritten rules of many kinds are of far greater importance than the first amendment there.
Although the University of Utah is rather open-minded compared to, say, BYU, I'm not at all surprised that this site got shut down.
Utah is quite different from the rest of the US. Unwritten rules of many kinds are of far greater importance than the first amendment there.
Although the University of Utah is rather open-minded compared to, say, BYU, I'm not at all surprised that this site got shut down.
Utah is quite different from the rest of the US. Unwritten rules of many kinds are of far greater importance than the first amendment there.
Although the University of Utah is rather open-minded compared to, say, BYU, I'm not at all surprised that this site got shut down.