...for the day when the CPU has about 1000 processor cores on it that each run at a few megahertz, at extremely low voltage, and with so much time between cycles that they run cool naturally... but with a performance gain over the fastest processors available today. And then we can say goodbye to this cooling nonsense.
Who could have guessed that Microsoft has so many Macs in its Mac lab? But then again, I think there was a story here on/. sometime ago about Microsoft having a Linux lab, too. And something more recently about how Microsoft is going to support Linux in some situation or other.
But on the other hand, I should have guessed, since they do make Mac software, that there should be a bunch of Macs of all models to test the software.
So that begs this question: Apple builds all the Macs. This means that there are basically a finite number of possible configurations for a Mac. It could be 100 or 1000 or 10000, depending on how far back you want to go, which Mac OSes you want to support, etc., but somewhere along the line, there is only so many ways that a Mac might be set up. On the other hand, there is basically an infinite number of possible configurations for a PC. Just think how many motherboard manufacturers there are, how many different versions each has turned out, how many x86 processor clones there are, how many versions of the x86 architecture since, say, the Pentium, how many different video configurations, how many sound cards, how many of each thing, and you'll come to the conclusion that if there are, say, 2 billion PCs in the world in current operation, then there must be about 2 billion and 1 configurations out there. So as I began to say, this Mac lab thing begs the question: How many different configurations of PCs does Microsoft have in its PC lab for testing Windows, Office, and all their other thousand and one apps?
This is an extremely interesting story. I think they have some kind of dictionary setup that compares various words to a bunch of different moods, and then some calculation based on how many of each category of words shows up. So if there's a bunch of cuss words, for example, it'll figure people are pissed off.
If I remember correctly, this is a pretty old story... But what difference does it make? If you meet with some business bigwigs on the golf course to talk business, I think you'll find that they don't use all kinds of weird gadgets. They'd probably be laughed right off the course. Sure, they'll have better clubs and whatnots, but nobody will judge you if you're not good at golf. The business meeting taking place is what they're paying attention to.
Also, this haves vs. the have-nots thing is a bunch of hogwash. Yes, there are a few extremely rich people who show it off. But most people who have a few million in the bank don't show it. I know a few people like this. One drives a car that's fifteen years old. Another drives a piece of junk. They look like simple people. Their bank account doesn't affect their thinking. But on the other end of the spectrum, there are a ton of people nowadays who feel a need to show off and attract attention. They do so by overextending themselves on their credit cards and multiple refinances of their homes, so they can drive fancy cars and live a high-roller's life. They're generally the ones who buy all those gadgets.
And like I said, they'll get laughed right off the golf course, because a guy who shows up with $15,000 in electronic golf gadgets is like the nerd kid who shows up on his bicycle with 50 different pieces of safety equipment like pads and gloves because his mom thinks he'll get a scratch otherwise.
So maybe the radiation, fallout, and whatnot doesn't make everything die, but I wouldn't pop the champaigne bottles just yet. It could be that although these animals look just fine, they might have a much shorter lifespan or age more quickly, or have some other defect due to the radiation.
I'm not fully against nuclear power, but I think it should be done far away from populated areas.
...has made a startling claim of 25x data compression for digital data storage. A combination of de-duplication and calculating and storing only the changes between similar byte streams is apparently the key. Imagine storing a terabyte of data on a single disk, and it all runs on Linux." Obviously nothing concrete or released yet so take with the requisite grain of salt."
I love how people make "claims" of stuff like this, and then there's never anything done already. It's like when you find a page that says:
Spizpopd/OS is a real time interactive operating system with support for multicore multiprocessor multicomputer distributed grid computing, featuring complete support for desktop, embedded, and server systems. Its rock solid architecture provides a robust platform for safety-critical industrial, medical, military, and flight control systems, while providing support for all standards, including the ability to execute all Windows, Mac, UNIX, and Java applications with full binary compatibility and no need to recompile. Spizpopd/OS is coded entirely in hand-optimized assembly for extremely fast performance on all major processor families in production, and is distributed under the GNU General Public License with full source code available for all its features.
And then you scroll down and it shows the most recent news posting was made on November of 1998, the only code is a semi-operational bootloader and nothing else has been written yet.
Believe it or not, there's a ton of open source vaporware out there with fancy web descriptions like the one simulated above.
I quit using Microsoft Office years ago. Back in 2001 or so, I think. We were stuck using that garbage for years for our technical documentation. We're talking 300 page books and the like. One day, Microsoft Turd crashed on me eight times. Then I got sick of it, said f*ck the company policy, and downloaded and installed OpenOffice. I opened up the book I was working on, and voila, it all worked! In fact, my experience with OpenOffice was SO MUCH BETTER than using Microsoft Turd that I saved the file in OpenOffice format, installed OpenOffice on all the computers, and began using it exclusively. And guess what? The whole company uses it now, because of the initiative I took. In fact, there was only ONE complaint that I had, and everyone else agrees: Saving takes a long time. Especially on large files. But other than that, the experience is overall a very good one, and nobody around here uses Microsoft Office anymore.
If Microsoft is "People Ready", then I am the King of India. I am glad that they suggest, at the very bottom of the article, to get a Mac. I remember back in, oh, 1997 or so, that I didn't like Macs at all and cringed at the idea of having to use one. There wasn't even a command line for crying out loud!
Then OS X came out. And it improved. And improved. Today, it is a beautiful and wonderfully designed system. Easy to use, powerful, and if you want to get down and dirty with UNIX, it's there, too. They did a spectacular job on that software.
And I bought a few Macs. But what ultimately prevented me from switching all my systems? Lack of availability of VMware on the Mac. This was due to VMware being a virtualizer, not an emulator, so it can't run x86 programs on those G4 processors. So here I was, using Linux and FreeBSD, running VMware on Linux, and not switching to the Mac, which I like better for its user interface and overall experience.
But now they've switched to x86. Quite frankly, there should be no reason within the next year to switch to the Mac. I'm sure there will be a native VMware soon, as they'd be crazy to ignore the market for that. And I'm sure that many of the "big apps" that we use here at work will become available on the Mac, because more people than ever are asking for them. It's only a matter of Mac gaining a critical mass of market share, and then Microsoft will fall. And their "people ready" garbage that I'm so sick of using will be lost to the ether forever, and good riddance.
I love how Microsoft tells all the 3rd party developers to use the.NET framework to program for Windows, and then Microsoft themselves do not use this framework. There was a recent story here on/. about most of the code in Vista being native.
I love how Microsoft sells all kinds of expensive products to developers, and also publishes books, that recommend programming in such a way as to reuse as much code as possible, and then itself goes and duplicates the same functionality dozens of times over in its own software. For example, Microsoft Office and Microsoft Works are two very much parallel products that duplicate nearly all the code, the proof being that they both work so differently and both have different file formats, etc. And then, why, instead of fixing bugs, refactoring, and improving existing code, do they leave existing crappy code and write new libraries on top of it? Why do they make ten different libraries that provide nearly the same functionality, just with Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows XP, IE4, IE5, IE6, Office 97, Office 2000, Office XP style buttons and visual controls? Look at how many different libraries to do the same exact thing, just that it looks slightly different. Why? This is part of what leads to so much bloat, so many bugs, and so many problems.
I love how Microsoft thought it could go all these years just adding and adding and adding and adding and adding and adding and adding and adding and adding all kinds of bloat and build layer on layer on layer on layer on layer on layer on layer on layer on layer of junk into their software, so they could get it to market faster, only to have their code reach critical mass and blow up in their faces.
I love how Microsoft put so many companies with fine software products out of business, either by buying them out and then turning what used to be perfectly good code into bloated buggy crap by adding tons of unnecessary features and eye candy to what used to be functional apps, or, if the other company wouldn't sell out for peanuts, by making a knock-off product that was inferior in every way, including by not limited to by being bloated and buggy in comparison to what was an elegant solution by the other company that wasn't even their competitor, and then put that other company out of business by using tons and tons and tons and tons and tons and tons and tons of marketing money to make the whole world believe they need to use Microsoft's "solution" instead of the other company's fine product... and I love how they did this only to reach the point where they're wrangling with so many different product lines that their programmers are spread thin and cannot make Windows work properly.
I love how Microsoft ignored security threats long after it became obvious to other companies that these issues need to be addressed, and I love how it has come back to haunt Microsoft now.
I love how I believe Microsoft will fall within a few years and become "just another software company" when superior software from Apple, the free software community, and companies that develop for these systems, reaches the level that businesses will be able to simply chuck Windows and maybe run the one Windows app that isn't yet on the Mac or Linux through VMware or something, and Microsoft will simply fall apart.
I love how Microsoft advertises all kinds of false "Get the facts" bullpoop that isn't true, and people are finding that out.
...to back up the claim that this is more efficient, though it intuitively "feels" like it should be faster, but not necessarily more efficient in terms of space. Suppose a file with a size of 1 byte takes up 512 bytes of space on the disk. With this larger sector size, that file would take 4k. I don't see why this isn't an option that can be set through drive initialization parameters, and why you can't choose any size for the sectors, depending on whatever tweaking you can do to figure out what's best for your application.
... that there's a bug in Sendmail?! Who would have thunk of such a thing?!?! Ok, ok, sarcasm aside, as much as people say that Sendmail is a configuration nightmare and a clunky and huge application, it is a very powerful tool and is quite mature, as things go. If only there were a configuration tool that allowed its full power (or close to it) to be used without causing too many headaches, Sendmail would kick every other MTA's butt.
See, those core duo processors are cool, but when they're able to fit 1024 cores onto a chip, and then you have 8-chip machines, and each core is a 24 GHZ nanotech quantum computer, we'll start to see some real performance. Either that, or Microsoft will make Windows even more bloated.
I remember when my cable bill was due one day and I hadn't paid it yet. There wasn't enough time left to mail it in, so I drove to their office to pay in person.
While I waited in line, I noticed that they had a whole wall of televisions set up, each showing a channel they offer, as if to entice you to get cable because these are the channels you'll get. But the picture quality was worse than a fiftieth generation VHS copy as viewed when the television is behind a smoke screen. If that is how bad the picture quality looks at the cable company's own offices, how bad will it look in your home?
And then to depend on such an irresponsible and retarded company for emergency services? I would like to invoke a certain profane word right now.
...would you buy a Mac, which comes with such an elegant operating system, and then install the clunky decrepid piece of junk called Windows on it?
I could understand if VMware worked on the Mac, to run Windows on VMware... I have come to this conclusion because when Windows is in control of your computer, you lose. That's why it's called Windows. It wins, you lose. But when a reliable program is in control of Windows and Windows is not in control, then you win. In such a case, it should be called Losedows, because Losedows loses and you win.
Here at the office, I would have switched everything over to Linux ages ago if it weren't for the idiot management we have. So we're still a Windows shop on the desktop (servers are Linux and FreeBSD), but when I install that clunky software, I put the theme on Windows Classic, turn off all effects, tell it NOT to display icons in all possible colors, and even make it so the title bars in Windows Classic are a solid fill rather than a gradient. But I go even further. I go into the registry and set the menu delay to 0, so that there is no delay between highlighting a menu item with the mouse and having the submenu appear. There are dozens and dozens of these things that I do when setting up a computer, and I've noticed that not only does it make the computer faster in terms of using less resources, but things like the menu delay make the computer "feel" faster even if it really isn't.
...with that annoying music they play, showing people doing stupid things. And then they say, "People do stupid things..."
I think their new commercial should show a guy getting Vonage and then his house burns down, and then they say, "People do stupid things. Going with Vonage is one of them."
I think it is very cool that entire applications can be delivered in this manner. On the one hand, we are sort of returning to the days of the dumb terminal, but on the other hand, we have smart terminals.
However, I am not convinced that the software industry will change quite yet. I think there is a place for AJAX applications, but there is quite a bit of software that I can think of that must run natively. Real time software, CAD/CAM/CAE software, graphic design software, audio and video editing software, and lots of other things must be designed for a particular platform and run natively.
As for AJAX, which means something about JavaScript and XML, who said you can't incorporate Java, Flash, and other elements as well, for a yet richer experience?
Linus Torvalds (NASDAQ: LNUS) today announced he is switching all his data centers from Linux to Windows. The move comes on the heels of a change in revision control systems.
"We needed to do some things that were impossible with Linux given the time demands and budget," said Linus Torvalds, a spokesperson for Linus Torvalds. "By migrating all our systems to Microsoft over the next eighteen quarters, we will save an estimated 35% on our IT costs."
By leveraging innovative technologies, content providers streamline compelling enterprise solutions. Microsoft. Where do you want to get the facts today?
...this functionality into the larger desktop OS, with interoperability with major software suites, now that is the trick! See, this software would enable people on all platforms to collaborate, and that will be a killer app that would put Outlook, a crappy program, out of the picture.
Somebody needs to set up a site where we can donate money to the OpenBSD project through PayPal or some other convenient method. This is an important project, and I think that a lot of people in the community realize that, but take for granted that development happens "for free."
I also think that the OpenBSD project needs to start operating a bit more like a business. Services need to be offered that bring in a healthy revenue stream. Two areas where the OpenBSD development team excel are cryptography and code auditing. Both are related to security, which is a good industry these days. The OpenBSD site could offer paid services, such as code auditing for other projects to enhance security, etc. The OpenBSD developers should also set up a consulting business that performs setup and maintainance of OpenBSD installations, perhaps primarily for small businesses that aren't in the IT business, such as clinics, legal offices, automotive repair facilities, family operated stores, etc. These are relatively simple setups for those familiar with OpenBSD and projects from the larger open source community, and the effort would be minimal. These small businesses would be willing to pay a reasonable price for the service, since they would save greatly on software licensing.
All of those methods could be used to bring in a healthy revenue stream for the OpenBSD project. But in the meantime, please get a PayPal account set up!
... my significant others and I discovered that our relationship was unique, so we decided to patent it. The patent application currently titles the patent, "Method and apparatus for joining three men, a woman, a dog, two cats, a caterpillar, a giraffe, and an ape, in a polygamous form of holy matrimony." One of my husbands, the gray cat, thinks we should patent his meow, too. The ACLU, being the politically correct entity that it is, will surely support us when the religious fanatics who think marriage is only between a man and a woman (not to mention that they don't understand marriage between humans and apes) attack us viciously.
what the F kind of "game" is this? Why in the world would I want to get locked up in some "facility" and then try to escape from it? That sounds like something I would NOT want to do.
Maybe they should think of something a bit more intuitive, such as a real-life game styled after Grand Theft Auto. It would take place in a facility--er, rather, a city--built for the purpose, with actors serving as cops. You steal various vehicles, have high speed chases, crash into things... There is always a goal that you try to achieve. For example, there may be a shipment of a rare vehicle arriving, and your task, working for some mob boss, is to steal that vehicle and drive it to a certain facility. The game might last several hours. You win if you succeed in bringing the vehicle. You fail if you're arrested by the cops. Each time someone plays the game, things change a bit.
...to hear that the rover has lost a wheel,
though pain it does not feel.
Now it limps along the Martian soil,
alone in a great vastness of red sand and rocks.
I hope it reaches the top of the slope,
else alas for naught will it toil.
For in that vast desert there's no telephone box.
Nor much chance for hope.
Like the injured lone explorer,
Oh! What a horror!
it will suffer its demise,
Alone on that alien world,
Its nearest neighbor far away,
as no one hears its cries.
The wrath of Mars is unfurled,
And there alone will it lay.
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...for the day when the CPU has about 1000 processor cores on it that each run at a few megahertz, at extremely low voltage, and with so much time between cycles that they run cool naturally... but with a performance gain over the fastest processors available today. And then we can say goodbye to this cooling nonsense.
But on the other hand, I should have guessed, since they do make Mac software, that there should be a bunch of Macs of all models to test the software.
So that begs this question: Apple builds all the Macs. This means that there are basically a finite number of possible configurations for a Mac. It could be 100 or 1000 or 10000, depending on how far back you want to go, which Mac OSes you want to support, etc., but somewhere along the line, there is only so many ways that a Mac might be set up. On the other hand, there is basically an infinite number of possible configurations for a PC. Just think how many motherboard manufacturers there are, how many different versions each has turned out, how many x86 processor clones there are, how many versions of the x86 architecture since, say, the Pentium, how many different video configurations, how many sound cards, how many of each thing, and you'll come to the conclusion that if there are, say, 2 billion PCs in the world in current operation, then there must be about 2 billion and 1 configurations out there. So as I began to say, this Mac lab thing begs the question: How many different configurations of PCs does Microsoft have in its PC lab for testing Windows, Office, and all their other thousand and one apps?
This is an extremely interesting story. I think they have some kind of dictionary setup that compares various words to a bunch of different moods, and then some calculation based on how many of each category of words shows up. So if there's a bunch of cuss words, for example, it'll figure people are pissed off.
Also, this haves vs. the have-nots thing is a bunch of hogwash. Yes, there are a few extremely rich people who show it off. But most people who have a few million in the bank don't show it. I know a few people like this. One drives a car that's fifteen years old. Another drives a piece of junk. They look like simple people. Their bank account doesn't affect their thinking. But on the other end of the spectrum, there are a ton of people nowadays who feel a need to show off and attract attention. They do so by overextending themselves on their credit cards and multiple refinances of their homes, so they can drive fancy cars and live a high-roller's life. They're generally the ones who buy all those gadgets.
And like I said, they'll get laughed right off the golf course, because a guy who shows up with $15,000 in electronic golf gadgets is like the nerd kid who shows up on his bicycle with 50 different pieces of safety equipment like pads and gloves because his mom thinks he'll get a scratch otherwise.
I'm not fully against nuclear power, but I think it should be done far away from populated areas.
I love how people make "claims" of stuff like this, and then there's never anything done already. It's like when you find a page that says:
And then you scroll down and it shows the most recent news posting was made on November of 1998, the only code is a semi-operational bootloader and nothing else has been written yet.Believe it or not, there's a ton of open source vaporware out there with fancy web descriptions like the one simulated above.
I quit using Microsoft Office years ago. Back in 2001 or so, I think. We were stuck using that garbage for years for our technical documentation. We're talking 300 page books and the like. One day, Microsoft Turd crashed on me eight times. Then I got sick of it, said f*ck the company policy, and downloaded and installed OpenOffice. I opened up the book I was working on, and voila, it all worked! In fact, my experience with OpenOffice was SO MUCH BETTER than using Microsoft Turd that I saved the file in OpenOffice format, installed OpenOffice on all the computers, and began using it exclusively. And guess what? The whole company uses it now, because of the initiative I took. In fact, there was only ONE complaint that I had, and everyone else agrees: Saving takes a long time. Especially on large files. But other than that, the experience is overall a very good one, and nobody around here uses Microsoft Office anymore.
Then OS X came out. And it improved. And improved. Today, it is a beautiful and wonderfully designed system. Easy to use, powerful, and if you want to get down and dirty with UNIX, it's there, too. They did a spectacular job on that software.
And I bought a few Macs. But what ultimately prevented me from switching all my systems? Lack of availability of VMware on the Mac. This was due to VMware being a virtualizer, not an emulator, so it can't run x86 programs on those G4 processors. So here I was, using Linux and FreeBSD, running VMware on Linux, and not switching to the Mac, which I like better for its user interface and overall experience.
But now they've switched to x86. Quite frankly, there should be no reason within the next year to switch to the Mac. I'm sure there will be a native VMware soon, as they'd be crazy to ignore the market for that. And I'm sure that many of the "big apps" that we use here at work will become available on the Mac, because more people than ever are asking for them. It's only a matter of Mac gaining a critical mass of market share, and then Microsoft will fall. And their "people ready" garbage that I'm so sick of using will be lost to the ether forever, and good riddance.
I love how Microsoft sells all kinds of expensive products to developers, and also publishes books, that recommend programming in such a way as to reuse as much code as possible, and then itself goes and duplicates the same functionality dozens of times over in its own software. For example, Microsoft Office and Microsoft Works are two very much parallel products that duplicate nearly all the code, the proof being that they both work so differently and both have different file formats, etc. And then, why, instead of fixing bugs, refactoring, and improving existing code, do they leave existing crappy code and write new libraries on top of it? Why do they make ten different libraries that provide nearly the same functionality, just with Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows XP, IE4, IE5, IE6, Office 97, Office 2000, Office XP style buttons and visual controls? Look at how many different libraries to do the same exact thing, just that it looks slightly different. Why? This is part of what leads to so much bloat, so many bugs, and so many problems.
I love how Microsoft thought it could go all these years just adding and adding and adding and adding and adding and adding and adding and adding and adding all kinds of bloat and build layer on layer on layer on layer on layer on layer on layer on layer on layer of junk into their software, so they could get it to market faster, only to have their code reach critical mass and blow up in their faces.
I love how Microsoft put so many companies with fine software products out of business, either by buying them out and then turning what used to be perfectly good code into bloated buggy crap by adding tons of unnecessary features and eye candy to what used to be functional apps, or, if the other company wouldn't sell out for peanuts, by making a knock-off product that was inferior in every way, including by not limited to by being bloated and buggy in comparison to what was an elegant solution by the other company that wasn't even their competitor, and then put that other company out of business by using tons and tons and tons and tons and tons and tons and tons of marketing money to make the whole world believe they need to use Microsoft's "solution" instead of the other company's fine product... and I love how they did this only to reach the point where they're wrangling with so many different product lines that their programmers are spread thin and cannot make Windows work properly.
I love how Microsoft ignored security threats long after it became obvious to other companies that these issues need to be addressed, and I love how it has come back to haunt Microsoft now.
I love how I believe Microsoft will fall within a few years and become "just another software company" when superior software from Apple, the free software community, and companies that develop for these systems, reaches the level that businesses will be able to simply chuck Windows and maybe run the one Windows app that isn't yet on the Mac or Linux through VMware or something, and Microsoft will simply fall apart.
I love how Microsoft advertises all kinds of false "Get the facts" bullpoop that isn't true, and people are finding that out.
...to back up the claim that this is more efficient, though it intuitively "feels" like it should be faster, but not necessarily more efficient in terms of space. Suppose a file with a size of 1 byte takes up 512 bytes of space on the disk. With this larger sector size, that file would take 4k. I don't see why this isn't an option that can be set through drive initialization parameters, and why you can't choose any size for the sectors, depending on whatever tweaking you can do to figure out what's best for your application.
... that there's a bug in Sendmail?! Who would have thunk of such a thing?!?! Ok, ok, sarcasm aside, as much as people say that Sendmail is a configuration nightmare and a clunky and huge application, it is a very powerful tool and is quite mature, as things go. If only there were a configuration tool that allowed its full power (or close to it) to be used without causing too many headaches, Sendmail would kick every other MTA's butt.
See, those core duo processors are cool, but when they're able to fit 1024 cores onto a chip, and then you have 8-chip machines, and each core is a 24 GHZ nanotech quantum computer, we'll start to see some real performance. Either that, or Microsoft will make Windows even more bloated.
While I waited in line, I noticed that they had a whole wall of televisions set up, each showing a channel they offer, as if to entice you to get cable because these are the channels you'll get. But the picture quality was worse than a fiftieth generation VHS copy as viewed when the television is behind a smoke screen. If that is how bad the picture quality looks at the cable company's own offices, how bad will it look in your home?
And then to depend on such an irresponsible and retarded company for emergency services? I would like to invoke a certain profane word right now.
I could understand if VMware worked on the Mac, to run Windows on VMware... I have come to this conclusion because when Windows is in control of your computer, you lose. That's why it's called Windows. It wins, you lose. But when a reliable program is in control of Windows and Windows is not in control, then you win. In such a case, it should be called Losedows, because Losedows loses and you win.
Here at the office, I would have switched everything over to Linux ages ago if it weren't for the idiot management we have. So we're still a Windows shop on the desktop (servers are Linux and FreeBSD), but when I install that clunky software, I put the theme on Windows Classic, turn off all effects, tell it NOT to display icons in all possible colors, and even make it so the title bars in Windows Classic are a solid fill rather than a gradient. But I go even further. I go into the registry and set the menu delay to 0, so that there is no delay between highlighting a menu item with the mouse and having the submenu appear. There are dozens and dozens of these things that I do when setting up a computer, and I've noticed that not only does it make the computer faster in terms of using less resources, but things like the menu delay make the computer "feel" faster even if it really isn't.
Windows is a piece of garbage, though.
I think their new commercial should show a guy getting Vonage and then his house burns down, and then they say, "People do stupid things. Going with Vonage is one of them."
However, I am not convinced that the software industry will change quite yet. I think there is a place for AJAX applications, but there is quite a bit of software that I can think of that must run natively. Real time software, CAD/CAM/CAE software, graphic design software, audio and video editing software, and lots of other things must be designed for a particular platform and run natively.
As for AJAX, which means something about JavaScript and XML, who said you can't incorporate Java, Flash, and other elements as well, for a yet richer experience?
"We needed to do some things that were impossible with Linux given the time demands and budget," said Linus Torvalds, a spokesperson for Linus Torvalds. "By migrating all our systems to Microsoft over the next eighteen quarters, we will save an estimated 35% on our IT costs."
By leveraging innovative technologies, content providers streamline compelling enterprise solutions. Microsoft. Where do you want to get the facts today?
I'm glad the judge ordered Wallace to pay the court costs. But I wonder just what Grommit has to say about that.
...this functionality into the larger desktop OS, with interoperability with major software suites, now that is the trick! See, this software would enable people on all platforms to collaborate, and that will be a killer app that would put Outlook, a crappy program, out of the picture.
I also think that the OpenBSD project needs to start operating a bit more like a business. Services need to be offered that bring in a healthy revenue stream. Two areas where the OpenBSD development team excel are cryptography and code auditing. Both are related to security, which is a good industry these days. The OpenBSD site could offer paid services, such as code auditing for other projects to enhance security, etc. The OpenBSD developers should also set up a consulting business that performs setup and maintainance of OpenBSD installations, perhaps primarily for small businesses that aren't in the IT business, such as clinics, legal offices, automotive repair facilities, family operated stores, etc. These are relatively simple setups for those familiar with OpenBSD and projects from the larger open source community, and the effort would be minimal. These small businesses would be willing to pay a reasonable price for the service, since they would save greatly on software licensing.
All of those methods could be used to bring in a healthy revenue stream for the OpenBSD project. But in the meantime, please get a PayPal account set up!
... my significant others and I discovered that our relationship was unique, so we decided to patent it. The patent application currently titles the patent, "Method and apparatus for joining three men, a woman, a dog, two cats, a caterpillar, a giraffe, and an ape, in a polygamous form of holy matrimony." One of my husbands, the gray cat, thinks we should patent his meow, too. The ACLU, being the politically correct entity that it is, will surely support us when the religious fanatics who think marriage is only between a man and a woman (not to mention that they don't understand marriage between humans and apes) attack us viciously.
and then those Daleks will show up and yell "EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! Must exterminate the doctor!"
Maybe they should think of something a bit more intuitive, such as a real-life game styled after Grand Theft Auto. It would take place in a facility--er, rather, a city--built for the purpose, with actors serving as cops. You steal various vehicles, have high speed chases, crash into things... There is always a goal that you try to achieve. For example, there may be a shipment of a rare vehicle arriving, and your task, working for some mob boss, is to steal that vehicle and drive it to a certain facility. The game might last several hours. You win if you succeed in bringing the vehicle. You fail if you're arrested by the cops. Each time someone plays the game, things change a bit.
though pain it does not feel.
Now it limps along the Martian soil,
alone in a great vastness of red sand and rocks.
I hope it reaches the top of the slope,
else alas for naught will it toil.
For in that vast desert there's no telephone box.
Nor much chance for hope.
Like the injured lone explorer,
Oh! What a horror!
it will suffer its demise,
Alone on that alien world,
Its nearest neighbor far away,
as no one hears its cries.
The wrath of Mars is unfurled,
And there alone will it lay.