I think it's pretty funny that these folks invested all that effort, all that money, all that time into the super-deluxe custom suit...and then walk around wearing it with dirty white Nike tennis shoes. Kind of spoils the effect.
You know...have you ever had the thought, even for a second, that I, the page viewer, don't give a shit if your "designs" show up correctly or not? I'm after information, not ooh and aah about how well-designed the page is I'm reading.
A lot of good design work is held back by the need to support older browsers.
Again, who benefits from "a lot of good design work"? The user? Nope. Makes for a good resume bullet point for the page designer, though. That's the problem I have with this "kill older than this year's browsers" initiative...the only one who benefits is the web page creator, who can more successfully satiate his own vanity. The plain old user gets left out in the cold waiting to download the 385k animated site navigation.GIF.
When using real software like Oracle under linux, you find out what the requirements are for the application you're going to run, and install a compatible setup. You don't just run out to the ftp site, burn a copy of the latest distro of Mandrake, and expect every application you install onto the new system to work flawlessly. Maybe you can run something like apache on every machine everywhere, but Big Important things like Oracle generally have pretty specific system requirements, even under other unicies.
Okay...what could be reproduced by these things then. Cheap plastic thingies, such as novelty toys, buttons, an RJ-45 end, the straw on a can of WD-40. If it can print as well as mold, you could be looking at the ultimate fake I.D. machine. Could it manufacture something as fancy as the two halves of a CD jewel box? What about scanning your wiener, and placing the file for sale on the internet so anyone can mold their own replica? C'mon people...think dirty. The first moneymaking applications are always the porno ones.
If you're offended, tough. It's that damn freedom of speech thing again. If there's a law against simulating putting kittens in jars, that law is unconstitutional. Deal with it. It's just a damn shame that some guy will have to take time out of his life and pay thousands of dollars in legal fees to defeat this federal government harassment instigated by politically correct activists.
They're laying people off because Turbolinux had a sucky distribution. It didn't work well. If they had the power to shove their product down people's throats, they'd be expanding, not contracting. However, anyone with a choice of distributions would not choose Turbolinux.
Mothballed air force base...that means it's out of business. The government got rid of the base (that means it's not government property any more). If you actually read the article, this goat thing was done *privately*, with private funds, on private time, and on private property. The U.S. Government is deserving of enough scorn without making up false rumors.
Hurrah for the hackers! Black Sunday will not take its place alongside Halloween 1998; August 24, 1995; December 7, 1941; and other famous disastrous dates.
Oh, come on...they just plain don't like bash, and just thought up the first lame excuse they could think of to avoid including it. Where's ksh? Where's the bourne shell? Nothing but tcsh. Yeah, choice.
Funny, every time I ask a Japanese person about Turbolinux, I get blank stares. They all use Redhat. Just because one distribution claims to be "big in Japan" doesn't mean they are.
That Ultra 5 will still be around in 10 years, by then probably headless and in a closet somewhere serving a print queue. How long do commodity PCs last? Two, three years? That's $834 per year, compared to $500 for the sparc.
Nah...you want to see overpriced, look at Sun's high-end stuff, like the Enterprise 10000. (On Sun's page for the E10K, why is there a "buy online" link?)
I cracked RSA, too, but as soon as I finished composing my email, federal agents burst in to my apartment, hauled me away, and informed me I'm now working for the NSA, and if I talk, I'll spend the next 40 years factoring primes with a pencil and paper in Leavenworth.
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Aren't you a little short for a Storm Trooper?
Hmm...you're right...maybe they're not Nikes...on second look, they look more like New Balance or Addidas.
I think it's pretty funny that these folks invested all that effort, all that money, all that time into the super-deluxe custom suit...and then walk around wearing it with dirty white Nike tennis shoes. Kind of spoils the effect.
A lot of good design work is held back by the need to support older browsers.
Again, who benefits from "a lot of good design work"? The user? Nope. Makes for a good resume bullet point for the page designer, though. That's the problem I have with this "kill older than this year's browsers" initiative...the only one who benefits is the web page creator, who can more successfully satiate his own vanity. The plain old user gets left out in the cold waiting to download the 385k animated site navigation .GIF.
You could always hire Executive Outcomes.
When using real software like Oracle under linux, you find out what the requirements are for the application you're going to run, and install a compatible setup. You don't just run out to the ftp site, burn a copy of the latest distro of Mandrake, and expect every application you install onto the new system to work flawlessly. Maybe you can run something like apache on every machine everywhere, but Big Important things like Oracle generally have pretty specific system requirements, even under other unicies.
Okay...what could be reproduced by these things then. Cheap plastic thingies, such as novelty toys, buttons, an RJ-45 end, the straw on a can of WD-40. If it can print as well as mold, you could be looking at the ultimate fake I.D. machine. Could it manufacture something as fancy as the two halves of a CD jewel box? What about scanning your wiener, and placing the file for sale on the internet so anyone can mold their own replica? C'mon people...think dirty. The first moneymaking applications are always the porno ones.
If you're offended, tough. It's that damn freedom of speech thing again. If there's a law against simulating putting kittens in jars, that law is unconstitutional. Deal with it. It's just a damn shame that some guy will have to take time out of his life and pay thousands of dollars in legal fees to defeat this federal government harassment instigated by politically correct activists.
Hey...bottled water is more expensive per gallon than gasoline...people buy it like crazy out here for some reason.
They're laying people off because Turbolinux had a sucky distribution. It didn't work well. If they had the power to shove their product down people's throats, they'd be expanding, not contracting. However, anyone with a choice of distributions would not choose Turbolinux.
Mothballed air force base...that means it's out of business. The government got rid of the base (that means it's not government property any more). If you actually read the article, this goat thing was done *privately*, with private funds, on private time, and on private property. The U.S. Government is deserving of enough scorn without making up false rumors.
Godwin's law...you lose! Thank you, drive through.
Hurrah for the hackers! Black Sunday will not take its place alongside Halloween 1998; August 24, 1995; December 7, 1941; and other famous disastrous dates.
Oh, come on...they just plain don't like bash, and just thought up the first lame excuse they could think of to avoid including it. Where's ksh? Where's the bourne shell? Nothing but tcsh. Yeah, choice.
In France, for example, someone other than the director's immediate family remaining in the theater for the entire length of the movie is unheard of.
A piece about an inflammatory loudmouth who used to hate geeks back in high school, and takes great zest in hating them today. Next story...zzz...
Funny, every time I ask a Japanese person about Turbolinux, I get blank stares. They all use Redhat. Just because one distribution claims to be "big in Japan" doesn't mean they are.
Nah...you want to see overpriced, look at Sun's high-end stuff, like the Enterprise 10000. (On Sun's page for the E10K, why is there a "buy online" link?)
Vaporware is everybody's problem...
using the web? looks like an irc log to me. irc predates the world wide web and the two services have nothing in common.
Only U.S. citizens can commit treason. You have to be loyal to a government before you can betray it.
What link? There isn't one. I see, "John Brown", "More on Technology", and "Also by Timothy". No link.
They certainly can make such knowledge illegal to implement, or to pass on to other people. Bomb-making instructions are the same way.
I cracked RSA, too, but as soon as I finished composing my email, federal agents burst in to my apartment, hauled me away, and informed me I'm now working for the NSA, and if I talk, I'll spend the next 40 years factoring primes with a pencil and paper in Leavenworth.
If old people are so smart, why can't they find the "ANY" key? Why are they scared of computers?