The actual article doesn't say "welded shut", just that the front is one piece, and needs to be removed with tools. (Probably one of those Ikea hex keys.;) In a real car (which this isn't), it couldn't be impossible for the average garage to change the oil, so do-it-yourself should still be possible, just not easy at the roadside(!!) (Warranty issues are another story.)
One important issue: There will now be a number of Swedish women pissed off at Volvo for treating them like idiots or children. That seems like an opportunity.
Umm, you might want to do a little research on the firm of Morrison & Forester. (Assuming that's the MoFo involved.) They've even gone toe-to-toe with $cientology and came out with a technical win.
I've done.. questionable things.. with Clippy. You can use him in your own code (violating the Office EULA), or even use him on a web page or an email/Usenet post. (If the reader allows HTML, and allows script, and has Win98SE+, and has Office installed in the usual place...)
However, I've yet to try remotely launching Clippy on boxes with the DCOM security hole open. Some things are just too evil even for me!
Not without a clever hack. Clippy is a Microsoft Agent, and could easily use any text-to-speech engine that works with SAPI4, except for two things: (1) the Clippy.acs is specifically flagged not talk, so you can't make it talk even in your own app, (2) Office sets text-only output even if you reg-hack it to use a talking agent like Merlin or Genie.
If it detects that you're drunk, it'll probably switch to Zork just to mess with you:
Welcome to Dungeon.
This version created 30-AUG-90.
You are in an open field west of a big white house with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here...
Keep in mind that PRNewswire will "publish" a press release from anyone that pays them. Think of them as a printer device on SCO's LAN. (I wonder what OS SCO uses in house?:)
Stop and RTFA?:^) In this case, since they used to be SCO customers, they can start with the number of copies of SCO that they used to use. (Great incentive to do business with them eh?)
If their web site doesn't run Linux, I wonder how SCO determined that Autozone is a Linux user. (I imagine that SCO will have to show that specific machines are running Linux.) Did SCO port-probe Autozone's IP space? Is Darl a skript-kiddie?
Aiee, all that work on all the translations posted when a single Google on the name of the robot would have given you the English versions of that story that have been running in the tech section of online newspapers for at least a day. (I posted two links near the top of the story.)
I would have submitted this yesterday, but better robot stories have been rejected and as soon as I saw the height and hands (not), I wrote it off as an expensive joke.
For the metrically challenged "39-centimetre-tall" is roughly 16 inches high. Woohoo. That'll scare burglars, especially with those blue balls on the end of its arms. For that price, I think I'll stick to the low-tech version that comes with an environmently friendly wind-up key.
1976
Deathrace - Exidy
This was the first video game to be (albeit, loosely) based on a movie (In this case, Deathrace 2000,) where the object of the game is to run over people for points and avoid the tombstones they leave behind where the people laid. This was also the first game to be taken off the market due to the public's reaction to it's violent nature.
I hear that some virus writers will be suing for co-ownership of that patent. "It was a collaboration", they say. Microsoft denies this: "We set it up as 'open software' so that anyone could have done it."
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One important issue: There will now be a number of Swedish women pissed off at Volvo for treating them like idiots or children. That seems like an opportunity.
Do I know you or do you just want to borrow money?
Umm, you might want to do a little research on the firm of Morrison & Forester. (Assuming that's the MoFo involved.) They've even gone toe-to-toe with $cientology and came out with a technical win.
Bring the noise, hold the atomic reactions.
I've done .. questionable things .. with Clippy. You can use him in your own code (violating the Office EULA), or even use him on a web page or an email/Usenet post. (If the reader allows HTML, and allows script, and has Win98SE+, and has Office installed in the usual place...)
However, I've yet to try remotely launching Clippy on boxes with the DCOM security hole open. Some things are just too evil even for me!
Not without a clever hack. Clippy is a Microsoft Agent, and could easily use any text-to-speech engine that works with SAPI4, except for two things: (1) the Clippy .acs is specifically flagged not talk, so you can't make it talk even in your own app, (2) Office sets text-only output even if you reg-hack it to use a talking agent like Merlin or Genie.
Welcome to Dungeon.
This version created 30-AUG-90.
You are in an open field west of a big white house with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here...
More like Gauntlet: "The freshman is about to flunk!"
"Hi, I see that you're trying to locate a dealer on campus!"
Keep in mind that PRNewswire will "publish" a press release from anyone that pays them. Think of them as a printer device on SCO's LAN. (I wonder what OS SCO uses in house? :)
I dunno why it was modded up to five either.
Ouch indeed! Didn't some of Darl's stock options depend on SCO showing a paper profit this quarter? If so, awwwww.
If their web site doesn't run Linux, I wonder how SCO determined that Autozone is a Linux user. (I imagine that SCO will have to show that specific machines are running Linux.) Did SCO port-probe Autozone's IP space? Is Darl a skript-kiddie?
I would have submitted this yesterday, but better robot stories have been rejected and as soon as I saw the height and hands (not), I wrote it off as an expensive joke.
Don't worry, I enjoyed the translator's notes!
Put a cowboy hat on that robot and teach it some country line-dancing, yeehah!
Besides, Pusher and Shover robots don't need hands. (Perhaps for the bread part.) They are here to protect you from the Terrible Secret of Space.
For the metrically challenged "39-centimetre-tall" is roughly 16 inches high. Woohoo. That'll scare burglars, especially with those blue balls on the end of its arms. For that price, I think I'll stick to the low-tech version that comes with an environmently friendly wind-up key.
Maybe they're going to sue Slashdot? ("I'll get you my pretty, and your little goatse too! Ahahaha!")
The streets will be filled with nerds doing the Penguin Dance. (I don't get any music of this page, poot!)
So Mars haven't taken a bath or shower in ages. No wonder they're finding crusty salt brine residue.
First post at 11:56. "Redundant" post at 11:59.
In ages to come, they'll dig up the bones of dot-coms and wonder what caused them all to die off at the same time.
I hear that some virus writers will be suing for co-ownership of that patent. "It was a collaboration", they say. Microsoft denies this: "We set it up as 'open software' so that anyone could have done it."
They're keeping busy with comets comets (with Europe) and the most distant galaxy in universe (with Swiss).