Apparently, we missed the Earth transit from Mars in 1984, but the next one is in 2073, so book now! (The link has a nice explaination of the timing of Venus transits, history, and uses!)
I figure they were the ones who almost run over L. Ron Hubbard when he was on Venus.
I notice that we all believe that Venus has a methane atmosphere and is unlivable. I almost got run down by a freight locomotive the other day -- didn't look very uncivilized to me. I'm allergic to freight locomotives, they're always running into you. (Real[evil]Audio)
If Elron is ever back there, I hope they do better next time.
The first Star Wars movie was a good adaptation of (Atari's?) fly-down-a-trench-and-shoot-things game. They managed to add quite a lot of detail and story to it. (The story and characters were still pretty flat, but look what they had to work with!) To me, it did suffer a bit that the main focus shifted from the main idea of the game, flying down the trench and shooting things. I sat there for over an hour before they finally got to the point. It was good, not great.
- A guy gets shot by a bullet, gets thrown backward 10 feet.
That would be fine if the person who fired the shot was also thrown back 10 feet. Or really braced, heavy as a tank, etc, and certainly not holding the gun wrist-breaking gansta style.
Well, I think we can forgive them for using it against SCO. No one would give a wet-slap whatever they used.
"Mass drivers! They have been outlawed by every civilized planet!"
"These are uncivilized times. Besides, it's against SCO."
"Oh! In that case, I may fire the first shot, yes?"
"But of course."
Win XP does, at least, assign different desktop backgrounds to each user when you create them. There's no indication of admin vs regular user, but at least there's a noticable difference. Of course, many people will just create one admin user and keep using it for everything.
Now I'm thinking of Lazlo in Real Genius, who lived in the steam tunnels, and only came out at night.
Imagine the security guards closing up for the night, switching off the lights, and suddenly hordes of tattered hermit researchers emerging from everywhere to get to work on it all.:^)
The assumption seems to be that someone would use this to take down sites or other disruption. Haven't there been cases of IP block hijacking using lax BGP security in the past? (Wasn't that how one company rerouted root DNS for a while several years back?)
There have been cases of "fossil" IP blocks being hijacked in the last few years by spammers. (Sometimes as simple as registering an expired domain that an ancient contact email address points to.) They seem to be paying for malware to be written. Don't think that spammers and other net-vermin won't take a look at this exploit for their uses.
No, I doubt it could be done with one employee. I just wanted the solution for the exponent x in: 1**x = supermajor. That way I can create a business model with exponential growth to reach that required number. (Hint: I was quibbling about the term "exponent larger".)
Since the patent runs out shortly, perhaps they figured what the hell and added Microsoft in hopes that they'd pay off a one-time fee to settle. It's like buying that lottery ticket when the jackpot is high. You're not going to win, but it only cost a couple bucks and what if you did win...
From gnu.org: 1. We were able to search the patent databases of the USA, Canada, Japan, and the European Union. The Unisys patent expired on 20 June 2003 in the USA, but it does not expire in most of Europe until 18 June 2004, in Japan until 20 June 2004 and in Canada until 7 July 2004. The U.S. IBM patent expires 11 August 2006, (we are still searching the databases of other countries).
Has IBM actually used its patent against anyone, or did they just get it in self-defence? Here's a timeline of the mess.
In a lot of companies the developers get the faster/most loaded machines* and their old machines trickle-down to other people. This is perhaps not a good idea.
* Company presidents get the absolutely most loaded laptops, which they use for email and PowerPoint.
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Apparently, we missed the Earth transit from Mars in 1984, but the next one is in 2073, so book now! (The link has a nice explaination of the timing of Venus transits, history, and uses!)
But the g'parent post is obviously trolling for a response like "You idiot! The game was based on Spielberg's movie, not the other way around!" ;)
Re-read my post carefully this time. :^)
I thought they were in Q*Bert: The Movie?
For '@' the tourist by Sir Richard Attenborough, '@' the rogue by Rowan Atkinson...
A space shuttle and Bruce Willis.
The first Star Wars movie was a good adaptation of (Atari's?) fly-down-a-trench-and-shoot-things game. They managed to add quite a lot of detail and story to it. (The story and characters were still pretty flat, but look what they had to work with!) To me, it did suffer a bit that the main focus shifted from the main idea of the game, flying down the trench and shooting things. I sat there for over an hour before they finally got to the point. It was good, not great.
No surprise there. He sued his last employer. I guess they maybe asked him about that during the job interview?
That would be fine if the person who fired the shot was also thrown back 10 feet. Or really braced, heavy as a tank, etc, and certainly not holding the gun wrist-breaking gansta style.
Nah, sounds like a job for a lot of duct tape. Sometimes confused with the Force because...
"Mass drivers! They have been outlawed by every civilized planet!"
"These are uncivilized times. Besides, it's against SCO."
"Oh! In that case, I may fire the first shot, yes?"
"But of course."
Win XP does, at least, assign different desktop backgrounds to each user when you create them. There's no indication of admin vs regular user, but at least there's a noticable difference. Of course, many people will just create one admin user and keep using it for everything.
Imagine the security guards closing up for the night, switching off the lights, and suddenly hordes of tattered hermit researchers emerging from everywhere to get to work on it all. :^)
There have been cases of "fossil" IP blocks being hijacked in the last few years by spammers. (Sometimes as simple as registering an expired domain that an ancient contact email address points to.) They seem to be paying for malware to be written. Don't think that spammers and other net-vermin won't take a look at this exploit for their uses.
No, I doubt it could be done with one employee. I just wanted the solution for the exponent x in: 1**x = supermajor. That way I can create a business model with exponential growth to reach that required number. (Hint: I was quibbling about the term "exponent larger".)
Quibble: My company has one employee. What exponent larger does it have to be before it too is also a supermajor? :)
Don't try it on a robot with a Bender module. "Yeah I'll show you my card .. my punch card!"
Excuse me. Coffee just reaching brain. MS not being sued. Got it.
Since the patent runs out shortly, perhaps they figured what the hell and added Microsoft in hopes that they'd pay off a one-time fee to settle. It's like buying that lottery ticket when the jackpot is high. You're not going to win, but it only cost a couple bucks and what if you did win...
Yeah, they should have very obvious warnings when you are root/administrator just like Windows does. Er, how does Windows do that exactly?
* Company presidents get the absolutely most loaded laptops, which they use for email and PowerPoint.
I don't know why they didn't use this picture with him shouting "Braaaan!" He certainly has the right expression for it.
They eventually re-used the "peekaboo" gimick in Demolition Man.