Apple should buy VMware and build the virtual machine into OS X in such a way that any x86 or x86-64 operating system can be run in a window or full-screen. They should also increase the capabilities of Rosetta, so that any G3, G4, or G5 software can be run on the new Intel-based Macs. Finally, they should create virtual machines for all other major platforms out there, such as the ones supported by NetBSD. This will permit darn nearly any software out there to run on a Mac.
Look at what Apple has been able to accomplish by mixing the code and culture of thir own system with that of NeXT and with that of the FOSS community. Eighty-six million lines of code from all of these sources comprise their marvelous operating system, a great success that continues improving across the board.
When will Microsoft, with all its economic power and marketing prowess, realize that they need to take the plunge and go open source? When will they realize that by mixing all of their software with lots of stuff from the FOSS community, they can grow the functionality of their software by orders of magnitude while increasing its stability?
District Attorney: The police dragged that river for three days and nary a gun was found. So there could be no comparison made between your gun and the bullets taken from the blood-stained corpses of the victims. And that, also, is very convenient, isn't it, Mr. Dufresne?
Dufresne: Since I am innocent of this crime, sir, I find it decidedly inconvenient that the gun was never found.
The only context aware application I need is context sensitive help. When I push F1 on my computer keyboard input device, the help menu that is loaded onto my display monitor output device should be the one that explains the field my text cursor was in at the time of said keypress.
Linux cannot do anything once it boots up. It just says: login. Whatever you type, it says: password. Then whatever you type, it just goes back to saying login again.
Windows is much better. When it starts up, you get glossy graphics with beautiful windows. The start menu is just one click away. It's so easy to use. Not like this login/password nonsense of Linux. In fact, any user can go up to your Windows computer and do whatever he wants.
Next thing you know, there will be a war between HD-DVD and HD+DVD, Blu-Ray and Blu+Ray, HD+/-DVD and Blu+/-Ray, HD+/-Ray, Blu+/-DVD, and a zillion other formats. And then the recordable media aisle will be even bigger and more confusing.
Your knowledge of geography is very good. Israel is, indeed, in the Middle East. In fact, street signs are in Arabic, in addition to Hebrew and English.
You can physically see Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Saudia Arabia, and Egypt from Israel (not all at the same time). In fact, while you're over there, why not visit some of those countries, to compare and contrast the typical lifestyle there with that of Israel.
You could also answer this question: What Arab country has street signs in Hebrew?
These ISPs are so stupid. They tell you that you pay X amount of dollars a month for "unlimited" Internet access, because they probably figure that some people will use the Internet, say, an hour a week, and leave the connection lying dormant the rest of the time. And in some cases, they're right. However, other people are making use of that "unlimited" access. And then the ISPs cry and whine about it.
If you don't want to cry and whine when someone actually makes use of the "unlimited" aspect of some service that you offer for a fixed price, then don't offer it in the first place!
I don't have a problem with the data mining of FAFSA stuff if it helps to fight the War on Terror.
As an aside, if you believe this war is a sham, and you believe that there is no global terrorist threat, then pay closer attention the next time Iranian "president" (A-mad-jihad or whatever his name is) goes on television and advocates the annihilation of a country, namely Israel. And that's only one piece of the puzzle. There has been global terrorism since at least the 1970's, and it's all connected to the same sources. Open oyur eyes and you'll realize that this war is very real and it's a grave threat to all people who want to live their lives in peace.
But I do see a problem with this data mining program: It means that people who do not fill out FAFSA forms will be excluded from the data mining process. And it's not as if the terrorists lack the funds to pay tuition in order to work around this data mining program.
I suggest that a simpler program should be put into effect that essentially ties all schools, colleges, and universities, into a database that houses very basic information about each student who enters the country with an educational visa in order to study. When they apply for the visa, detailed information about them would go into this database. Schools would submit information about every student who attends, basically just saying how many units they're enrolled in and whatnot. Very basic information. When the information about foreign students goes into the database, it would be matched against the other information about them in that database. The purpose of the whole thing would be to keep track of all foreign students -- who is enrolled where, and whether this person is actually attending class. That is the gist of it, because this particular program is supposed to find people who enter the country with an education visa in order to study, but actually go on to do other activities, like participate in terrorism.
And I'd send it using Mikro$oft Lookout, from an address called fired@insertthecompanysdomainnamehere.com, and guess what? I'd probably click one wrong button and send the email to ALL of the company's 40,000 employees. Guess who will be saying nanny nanny boo boo to who.
I hate to say it but BSD is dying. It was a thriving community and a great program while it lasted, but in the past month, there has been a decline in the use of this software, and now, everyone is switching to the Mac, with Mac OS X, which, with its market share of millions of installations, has absolutely nothing to do with BSD, and that is the reason that BSD has begun its decline last month, and probably by next month, there will be no more BSD code in use in the world. Oh well.
uh, did I miss something? Or is this April Fool's in August? I thought Firefox, Opera, and Safari already have the ability to delete your private web browsing data. And those three browsers are the only important ones. Anyone who uses Internet Exploder deserves to have their private data posted all over the Internet.
Yeah, especially the Wikipedia moderators. I don't envy them one bit the huge job they have to do all the time. Look at this page, for example. Why does it say:
"Because of recent vandalism, editing of this article by anonymous or newly registered users is disabled. Such users may discuss changes, request unprotection, or create an account."
No, I don't mean that it says that because one of the Wikipedia moderators put it there. I mean, it says that because people are stupid and can't be objective about anything, and they'll ruin it for the rest of us. Here's an encyclopedia that anybody can improve, but instead, people are putting trash on many its articles, because they disagree with something. That particular article is about the State of Israel. People are blinded by hate speech.
Here's another example of a page with such protection activated: George W. Bush. Again, even if someone doesn't agree with his policies, why vandalize the page? That's childish and stupid.
Sixteen gigs of storage in a USB dongle?! That's no small change... Looks like I'll be able to put all my files onto about fifty of those things, and that's a heck of an improvement over using a zillion floppies to store stuff, and then digging through all of them to find it.
Well (that's a deep subject), it doesn't look like it'll be that useful, but at least it will allow me to get junk from my laptop to my desktop, and vice versa, much faster than before. And that's always important, because time is of the essence. There just isn't enough time in the world to do anything. And that's why I'm sitting here, wasting a whole bunch of time typing this junk into this thing over here. Because I type at the whopping speed of sixty minutes per word. And, no, I'm not cixelsid.
A transcript of a talk with the father of free software is something that will forever go down in history as a very meaningful talk. It will be remembered long after Abraham Lincoln's State of the Union Address is forgotten.
I'll tell you where to draw the line. It's absolutely right that violent pornography (and all pornography, if I had my way) should be outlawed and people who mess around with this stuff should go to prison. It's bad stuff, and there's no room for it in a modern society.
I know this is a bit "off topic", but where does the saying "Smoke filled room" come from? I keep hearing it all the time, and what does the smoke symbolize? (Blame it on my English as a 2nd language, if you wish.)
Yeah, my girlfriend. When I send her an email, I never know if she received it or not. That's because I send her email after email after email and she never answers them. I think her filtering software just puts the stuff right in the trash. But why doesn't she ever look in the trash to see if there's a message from me? Come to think of it, she never answers the phone when I call either. Maybe because she dumped me four years ago? Nah, couldn't be.
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mine is 12345. Nobody would ever guess that one. It's a password only an idiot would put on his luggage.
Apple should buy VMware and build the virtual machine into OS X in such a way that any x86 or x86-64 operating system can be run in a window or full-screen. They should also increase the capabilities of Rosetta, so that any G3, G4, or G5 software can be run on the new Intel-based Macs. Finally, they should create virtual machines for all other major platforms out there, such as the ones supported by NetBSD. This will permit darn nearly any software out there to run on a Mac.
Look at what Apple has been able to accomplish by mixing the code and culture of thir own system with that of NeXT and with that of the FOSS community. Eighty-six million lines of code from all of these sources comprise their marvelous operating system, a great success that continues improving across the board.
When will Microsoft, with all its economic power and marketing prowess, realize that they need to take the plunge and go open source? When will they realize that by mixing all of their software with lots of stuff from the FOSS community, they can grow the functionality of their software by orders of magnitude while increasing its stability?
The only context aware application I need is context sensitive help. When I push F1 on my computer keyboard input device, the help menu that is loaded onto my display monitor output device should be the one that explains the field my text cursor was in at the time of said keypress.
When are our legislators going to pass a law against this phishing nonsense?
The aforementioned HTML is somewhat well written, I have to admit.
Do they intend to crush the high end DVD player market the same way that the Empire will crush the resistance with one swift blow?
Good to know that I'm almost as smart as a monkey.
Windows is much better. When it starts up, you get glossy graphics with beautiful windows. The start menu is just one click away. It's so easy to use. Not like this login/password nonsense of Linux. In fact, any user can go up to your Windows computer and do whatever he wants.
Next thing you know, there will be a war between HD-DVD and HD+DVD, Blu-Ray and Blu+Ray, HD+/-DVD and Blu+/-Ray, HD+/-Ray, Blu+/-DVD, and a zillion other formats. And then the recordable media aisle will be even bigger and more confusing.
Your knowledge of geography is very good. Israel is, indeed, in the Middle East. In fact, street signs are in Arabic, in addition to Hebrew and English.
You can physically see Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Saudia Arabia, and Egypt from Israel (not all at the same time). In fact, while you're over there, why not visit some of those countries, to compare and contrast the typical lifestyle there with that of Israel.
You could also answer this question: What Arab country has street signs in Hebrew?
You've said it better than I could have.
If you don't want to cry and whine when someone actually makes use of the "unlimited" aspect of some service that you offer for a fixed price, then don't offer it in the first place!
I don't have a problem with the data mining of FAFSA stuff if it helps to fight the War on Terror.
As an aside, if you believe this war is a sham, and you believe that there is no global terrorist threat, then pay closer attention the next time Iranian "president" (A-mad-jihad or whatever his name is) goes on television and advocates the annihilation of a country, namely Israel. And that's only one piece of the puzzle. There has been global terrorism since at least the 1970's, and it's all connected to the same sources. Open oyur eyes and you'll realize that this war is very real and it's a grave threat to all people who want to live their lives in peace.
But I do see a problem with this data mining program: It means that people who do not fill out FAFSA forms will be excluded from the data mining process. And it's not as if the terrorists lack the funds to pay tuition in order to work around this data mining program.
I suggest that a simpler program should be put into effect that essentially ties all schools, colleges, and universities, into a database that houses very basic information about each student who enters the country with an educational visa in order to study. When they apply for the visa, detailed information about them would go into this database. Schools would submit information about every student who attends, basically just saying how many units they're enrolled in and whatnot. Very basic information. When the information about foreign students goes into the database, it would be matched against the other information about them in that database. The purpose of the whole thing would be to keep track of all foreign students -- who is enrolled where, and whether this person is actually attending class. That is the gist of it, because this particular program is supposed to find people who enter the country with an education visa in order to study, but actually go on to do other activities, like participate in terrorism.
If I wrote the email, it would go something like this:
Dear Sucker, You're fired.... Nanny nanny boo boo.
And I'd send it using Mikro$oft Lookout, from an address called fired@insertthecompanysdomainnamehere.com, and guess what? I'd probably click one wrong button and send the email to ALL of the company's 40,000 employees. Guess who will be saying nanny nanny boo boo to who.
I hate to say it but BSD is dying. It was a thriving community and a great program while it lasted, but in the past month, there has been a decline in the use of this software, and now, everyone is switching to the Mac, with Mac OS X, which, with its market share of millions of installations, has absolutely nothing to do with BSD, and that is the reason that BSD has begun its decline last month, and probably by next month, there will be no more BSD code in use in the world. Oh well.
uh, did I miss something? Or is this April Fool's in August? I thought Firefox, Opera, and Safari already have the ability to delete your private web browsing data. And those three browsers are the only important ones. Anyone who uses Internet Exploder deserves to have their private data posted all over the Internet.
Here's another example of a page with such protection activated: George W. Bush. Again, even if someone doesn't agree with his policies, why vandalize the page? That's childish and stupid.
Sixteen gigs of storage in a USB dongle?! That's no small change... Looks like I'll be able to put all my files onto about fifty of those things, and that's a heck of an improvement over using a zillion floppies to store stuff, and then digging through all of them to find it.
Well (that's a deep subject), it doesn't look like it'll be that useful, but at least it will allow me to get junk from my laptop to my desktop, and vice versa, much faster than before. And that's always important, because time is of the essence. There just isn't enough time in the world to do anything. And that's why I'm sitting here, wasting a whole bunch of time typing this junk into this thing over here. Because I type at the whopping speed of sixty minutes per word. And, no, I'm not cixelsid.
A transcript of a talk with the father of free software is something that will forever go down in history as a very meaningful talk. It will be remembered long after Abraham Lincoln's State of the Union Address is forgotten.
I'll tell you where to draw the line. It's absolutely right that violent pornography (and all pornography, if I had my way) should be outlawed and people who mess around with this stuff should go to prison. It's bad stuff, and there's no room for it in a modern society.
I know this is a bit "off topic", but where does the saying "Smoke filled room" come from? I keep hearing it all the time, and what does the smoke symbolize? (Blame it on my English as a 2nd language, if you wish.)
Yeah, my girlfriend. When I send her an email, I never know if she received it or not. That's because I send her email after email after email and she never answers them. I think her filtering software just puts the stuff right in the trash. But why doesn't she ever look in the trash to see if there's a message from me? Come to think of it, she never answers the phone when I call either. Maybe because she dumped me four years ago? Nah, couldn't be.