Reminds me of another story. These two dumbshits got a summer job from a couple of old geezers who lived in their neighborhood. They mowed the lawn and cleaned up some leaves and crap.
School started.
One day, the dumbshits came up with the wise idea that they would bust into the old geezers' home in the middle of the cottonpickin' night and steal a bunch of crap.
So they went over there one night and busted down the back door, making as much noise as they wanted, thinking that the old geezers would just get scared or something. The noise woke up some girl who was sleeping upstairs. She came down to see what was going on, and when she saw them, she screamed like girls do. Instantly a bunch of young guys, weight lifters, sports players, and this gun collector, ran downstairs and beat the two dumbshits to a pulp. Turns out, the old geezers had a bunch of their grandkids living with them. They just happened to be away during the day when the dumbshits worked in the geezers' yard.
I don't understand what it is with all these desktop search tools. If I want to look for something, all I have to do is open up a browser and punch in "g searchphrase" and the results come up. What the hell is wrong with that? Now I need to have another piece of clutter running on the desktop???!!??!?!?!?!?!!!??!?!?
I can tell you that I've noticed two things about OOo's document format.
First of all, when I opened a large Microsoft Word document and then saved it into OOo format, the resulting file was roughly two-thirds the size of the original. Thus, OOo files take up less space. This might not seem quite so important in the modern age of hard drives bigger than Just Johnnie's brain implant, but it can make the difference between a file fitting on a floppy disk and being just too damn big.
The other thing I noticed is that OOo takes a long time to save documents. I haven't looked at the source code, but I assume that when the document is in memory, it is in some format, and that format is converted to XML upon being saved. Either this encoding process takes a long time because of the inherent differences between the in-memory format and the on-disk format, or it is a theoretically efficient process with a slow implementation.
So, yeah... OOo documents are small to store and slow to save.
The Globe and Mail is carrying a story that NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe may be set to resign as early as Monday
It's about time! Look how many screwups NASA has had under his supervision. Not to mention the fact that NASA, which you would think would be a really organized organization, doesn't have very good control over its money. This organization seriously needs to be fixed, and someone new is just the person to do it.
It's about cottonpickin' time that other sites besides eBay begin integrating with PayPal. I mean, seriously, how the devil is PayPal to be taken seriously if it's an eBay-only technology?
This is an excellent idea! Especially because employees who cannot install AOL software at their work are challenged to do so by BOFHs who give them mere user accounts, as opposed to the hallowed Administrator accounts that they, the BOFHs, use. Thus, the aforementioned employees against whom the BOFHs discriminate cannot install software.
The question, then, is just how the devil do you expect these lusers to install other AOL software, such as a browser?!!!???????!!!!!!!!!!
The answer, then, is not to create a new standalone browser, as AOL plans to do, but rather to create an Explorer plug-in that will install itself through the security holes that Microsoft has so thoughtfully installed in their software--the very same ones that allow hackers, crackers, cookies, 1337z h4x0rz, spyware, worms, viruses, spam, adware, malware, the RIAA, MPAA, and the anti-Christ himself to do anything with your computer that you cannot do, all while making the user interface so automatic and friendly that you, yourself, cannot access your own files, though these external users, programs, and entities can--to take control of the computer and place AOL software without the Administrator's permission.
I have a better idea. Install a chip inside the cerebral cortex of every newborn baby starting January 1, 2005. This chip will monitor the location of the subject, all its thoughts, and the operation of its body.
All of this information will be transmitted in real time to a giant government supercluster, which will essentially be a cluster of 8192 clusters, each of which will consist of 128,000 IBM zSeries 1000 computers. These computers will run complex psychological, psychiatric, medical, legal, and financial algorithms, which will use actuarial formulas and methods to compute the past trends of behavior and state, as well as the probability of possible future behaviors and states of the subject.
These technologies will be used for many purposes, such as law enforcement, the prediction of crimes and the assignment of mandatory psychiatric and criminal help before possible crimes occur, the automatic management and categorical assignment of financial transactions, automatic tax revenue deduction from each transaction, the monitoring of the location and activities of subjects, the prediction of future traffic patterns (which will be used by automatic automobile pilot systems to select faster routes, as the vehicles will be driven by computer, and by civil engineers to select locations for expansion or for new highways), and many other uses.
Furthermore, the chip will contain storage to be used for the maintainance of the subject's medical, legal, and financial information throughout its life.
This would allow parents to make sure their teens don't drive too fast, even though the vehicles will be driven by computer, as explained above.
You know, file sharing programs, protocols, and services remind me somewhat of those gopher games that you find in arcades... you know, the one where you have this huge mallet; when a gopher's head pops up, you hit it on the head, and it sinks back into its hole; then, another gopher pops up, and so on.
The media companies can fight P2P technologies all they want, but by the time they waste the costs to get one closed down, ten more will pop up, and they will be even more difficult to fight than the last.
Instead, has anybody in the media industries considered leveraging the existing network of P2P technologies and users to the benefit of their respective (but not respectable) organizations? Hell, by all means, make the software shareware and put it on the P2P networks; put movies on there, except you get videotape quality movies; put songs on there, except you get audiotape quality songs. Want it all perfect? There will be links that come with the file you download, which will direct you to purchase a "full" copy at a greatly discounted price. See, when you purchase a CD in the store, there is a physical case, a physical CD, some expensive 6-color printed materials, etc. This costs money to produce. But what does a download cost a company? Almost zilch. They get to keep nearly all of the money.
How do you prevent people from uploading the "full" versions to the P2P networks? Easy. Sign the files with steganography, with a unique signature for each user; A movie is hours long and has tons of frames; you'll never even notice fucked up pixels, if there are only a few scattered throughout the film. When the user buys a movie, the movie company gets the credit card information. When the movie gets uploaded to the P2P networks, the movie industry will know who did it. BUSTED!!!
It would be cool if all telecommunications companies merge into one huge telecommunications company.
It would be cool if all software companies merge into one huge software company.
It would be cool if all automobile companies merge into one huge automobile company.
It would be cool if all toy companies merge into one huge toy company.
Apply the above four to all other types of industries.
Then, it would be cool if all the resulting huge companies merge into one really, really, really huge company that does everything. It would be so big that nobody would be able to compete against it.
And then, that company would purchase the government, and enslave all the people.
The program is designed to make it easier for suppliers to migrate their software to Linux
First of all, before we try to make it easier for suppliers to migrate their software to Linux, why don't we come up with some standards for the operating system? Such as where in the heck are files supposed to go? I know there is an FS tree standard... but what about where DLLs are supposed to go? With all the package managers out there, we still suffer from DLL hell.
I think there is something to be learned from the OS that just won't die: BeOS... The file system was sort of like a database. Today, there are all sorts of file systems that support attributes, metadata that is attached to a file but isn't part of it; BeOS leveraged this feature to keep track of the type of files. It didn't matter what the extension was; BeOS kept a database of MIME types for each file. If the MIME type attribute hadn't been set, I believe it would first check the extension, and then the contents of the file, to figure out what the heck is going on. This type of file system could be used to provide ACL-like functionality, along with other great things.
This type of feature could be used to sort out the DLL hell mess that we suffer from on Linux. Because I simply don't understand why trying to install a single application causes so many dependencies that you practically have to pull in all applications that exist for Linux.
So what the heck did we talk about? Solving DLL hell, dependency hell, and using an attribute capable file system to create an OS that people can easily make software for.
I would even say that these problems are bigger (in my organization) than having a better scheduler or proc filesystem. But that's just my two cents worth.
Wait a minute. If FreeDOS is free, which it should be, because it has the word "Free" in its name, unless it doesn't mean "Free" in the sense of "Free as in beer", or as some might better understand, "Free as in you don't have to pay money for it", which could mean that it means "Free" in the other sense, which means "Free as in you're not in jail or something", but I believe it means the former, because usually when a free software project puts the name "Free" in the name of the free software project, as the FreeBSD folks have done with FreeBSD, which also contains the word "Free" in the name of the free software project, because you can obtain the software for free, as in not having to pay money for it, and you can then modify that software and distribute it for free or for money, whichever you want, because you're free in the other sense to do so with the so-called "Free" free software project, then HP shouldn't be charging a bunch of Chinese, who have to work in sweatshops since age two, because they don't have any money to buy food, a whole bunch of money for a PC, when most of them probably cannot afford a PC, because, like I said, they lack the money to buy food, because unlike free software projects with the word "Free" in the name, food is not "Free" in China, for FreeDOS.
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First of all, I believe that stewards of innovative technology products never lie about the performance of the same. By leveraging innovative technologies, content providers streamline compelling enterprise solutions.
For example, at the company at which I work at, we always de-tune our applications so that every operation will take place at the worst-case scenario level. Then, when our customers buy our products, expecting a class C- performance, and our products then provide a class A+++++++ performance, they are thrilled, which causes them to:
Buy more of our products.
Tell their friends and neighbors, who then buy our products.
That is what to the pain means. It means I leave you in anguish, wallowing in freakish misery forever.
I think you're bluffing.
It's possible, pig. I might be bluffing. It's conceivable you vomitous mass. I may only be lying here because I lack the strength to stand. Then again, perhaps I have the strength to stand after all.
I hate adware, and what we need to invent is some sort of adware realtime blacklist that contains all the IP addresses of adware companies. Then, all legitimate users could set up their firewall to disable access to and from any of these IP addresses. Then, the ISPs could completely disable access, and that would drastically cut down on the success of these illegitimate ventures.
Doing so could scare the spam authors, malware authors, virus authors, worm authors, spyware authors, and other illegitimate software authors into compliance with global IP standards, which will facilitate the streamlining of compelling enterprise solutions by content providers and emerging stewards of innovative technologies.
(If you didn't get the above then you need to do some critical thinking. It is composed in four layers and contains 12 hidden messages, 4 double meanings, and 9 psychological facts.)
And another thing: Patent fees are designed to favor the lone inventor. A person applying for a patent will get a very good price. A business applying for one will get a different, higher price.
If Microsoft invents innovative technology, which will facilitate the streamlining of compelling enterprise solutions at global content providers (in other words, they invent something like, say, the ability to push a button on a keyboard and have that cause a response in a computer system), then Microsoft would have to pay billions of dollars to get the patent. But if they allow the person within their company to get the patent on his own name and not on Microsoft's name, then the patent would cost two cents.
First of all, people are so freaking stupid. If you're a secretary who works in some company, and eight different applications need to be password protected, then you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that if you set all your applications to the same password, you'll only have to remember that one password.
Users are lusers. Lusers are StupidPeople (tm). StupidPeople are StuplePeopid (tm).
The way I see it, changing a password every month or so isn't too much to ask. Neither is creating a well-chosen password. Neither is remembering it. People don't have such a hard time remembering a locker combination. Nor do they have that much trouble remembering phone numbers, bank account numbers, and all sorts of other stuff. What the hell is so difficult about remembering a password that is a mere several characters long?
You wouldn't hide the key to your house under the doormat just because you might forget your keys somewhere, would you? Or you wouldn't write your home address on your keys, just in case you forget where you live, would you? Why in the phuc would you tape your password under your keyboard, or something stupid like that?
The way I see it, most of the problems in the world stem from the failure of our education system to teach anybody anything. It's not enough to learn reading, writing, and 'rithmetic. You have to learn how to teach yourself things. And schools don't teach anybody how to do that.
My friend is a chef. His employees can't even put food on a plate properly. How many times he has had to explain to them how to put the food on the plate, and they just don't get it.
My other friend works in a machine shop. How many times he has had to explain to his retarded employees that they have to measure and make sure everything is straight before drilling a hole. And they don't get it either.
People are just so stupid because they have gotten by in school, just doing the minimum to barely get by, not learning anything, and allowing their brain to stay dormant. The school system promotes this by allowing students to earn "A" grades for "F" work, and just passing students from one grade to the next, even though they have made NO achievements to show for it.
This continues in the career, where people expect to do shit work, but when June comes around every year, they expect their raise. It's the mentality caused by the failure of the education system.
And this applies to passwords as well. It's not that hard to remember a password. You can decide that certain numbers and symbols mean certain things to you, and then spell a word that only you would understand with those symbols. Then, all you have to do is remember that word. But people are either too dumb, or too lazy, to do even half of that. They'd rather just bitch and moan, because security isn't exactly convenient.
The solution to your problem is to place a computer over there with Linux on it, and run BugZilla and all the required support software on that box. Then, put that one window manager that makes things look like Windows XP, and put a window in the middle of the screen labeled "BugZilla Server for Windows XP" with fake but real looking flashy statistics in that window. Nobody will ever know, because people who use Windows and have never been exposed to anything else are too stupid to figure out something like that.
I'll invent a jurisdiction where in certain strategic intersections, at night, all the lights in the intersections will be red, and there will be a no-right-turn-on-red restriction during those times. Cops will be placed all over the place, but they'll be hidden. Then, they'll catch you.
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School started.
One day, the dumbshits came up with the wise idea that they would bust into the old geezers' home in the middle of the cottonpickin' night and steal a bunch of crap.
So they went over there one night and busted down the back door, making as much noise as they wanted, thinking that the old geezers would just get scared or something. The noise woke up some girl who was sleeping upstairs. She came down to see what was going on, and when she saw them, she screamed like girls do. Instantly a bunch of young guys, weight lifters, sports players, and this gun collector, ran downstairs and beat the two dumbshits to a pulp. Turns out, the old geezers had a bunch of their grandkids living with them. They just happened to be away during the day when the dumbshits worked in the geezers' yard.
Nanny nanny boo boo.
I don't understand what it is with all these desktop search tools. If I want to look for something, all I have to do is open up a browser and punch in "g searchphrase" and the results come up. What the hell is wrong with that? Now I need to have another piece of clutter running on the desktop???!!??!?!?!?!?!!!??!?!?
First of all, when I opened a large Microsoft Word document and then saved it into OOo format, the resulting file was roughly two-thirds the size of the original. Thus, OOo files take up less space. This might not seem quite so important in the modern age of hard drives bigger than Just Johnnie's brain implant, but it can make the difference between a file fitting on a floppy disk and being just too damn big.
The other thing I noticed is that OOo takes a long time to save documents. I haven't looked at the source code, but I assume that when the document is in memory, it is in some format, and that format is converted to XML upon being saved. Either this encoding process takes a long time because of the inherent differences between the in-memory format and the on-disk format, or it is a theoretically efficient process with a slow implementation.
So, yeah... OOo documents are small to store and slow to save.
It's about time! Look how many screwups NASA has had under his supervision. Not to mention the fact that NASA, which you would think would be a really organized organization, doesn't have very good control over its money. This organization seriously needs to be fixed, and someone new is just the person to do it.
It's about cottonpickin' time that other sites besides eBay begin integrating with PayPal. I mean, seriously, how the devil is PayPal to be taken seriously if it's an eBay-only technology?
The question, then, is just how the devil do you expect these lusers to install other AOL software, such as a browser?!!!???????!!!!!!!!!!
The answer, then, is not to create a new standalone browser, as AOL plans to do, but rather to create an Explorer plug-in that will install itself through the security holes that Microsoft has so thoughtfully installed in their software--the very same ones that allow hackers, crackers, cookies, 1337z h4x0rz, spyware, worms, viruses, spam, adware, malware, the RIAA, MPAA, and the anti-Christ himself to do anything with your computer that you cannot do, all while making the user interface so automatic and friendly that you, yourself, cannot access your own files, though these external users, programs, and entities can--to take control of the computer and place AOL software without the Administrator's permission.
Yeah. That's a good idea.
Ok, so what the hell do we do about SO hell?
All of this information will be transmitted in real time to a giant government supercluster, which will essentially be a cluster of 8192 clusters, each of which will consist of 128,000 IBM zSeries 1000 computers. These computers will run complex psychological, psychiatric, medical, legal, and financial algorithms, which will use actuarial formulas and methods to compute the past trends of behavior and state, as well as the probability of possible future behaviors and states of the subject.
These technologies will be used for many purposes, such as law enforcement, the prediction of crimes and the assignment of mandatory psychiatric and criminal help before possible crimes occur, the automatic management and categorical assignment of financial transactions, automatic tax revenue deduction from each transaction, the monitoring of the location and activities of subjects, the prediction of future traffic patterns (which will be used by automatic automobile pilot systems to select faster routes, as the vehicles will be driven by computer, and by civil engineers to select locations for expansion or for new highways), and many other uses.
Furthermore, the chip will contain storage to be used for the maintainance of the subject's medical, legal, and financial information throughout its life.
This would allow parents to make sure their teens don't drive too fast, even though the vehicles will be driven by computer, as explained above.
Then what the hell are all those files that end with ".so"?
The media companies can fight P2P technologies all they want, but by the time they waste the costs to get one closed down, ten more will pop up, and they will be even more difficult to fight than the last.
Instead, has anybody in the media industries considered leveraging the existing network of P2P technologies and users to the benefit of their respective (but not respectable) organizations? Hell, by all means, make the software shareware and put it on the P2P networks; put movies on there, except you get videotape quality movies; put songs on there, except you get audiotape quality songs. Want it all perfect? There will be links that come with the file you download, which will direct you to purchase a "full" copy at a greatly discounted price. See, when you purchase a CD in the store, there is a physical case, a physical CD, some expensive 6-color printed materials, etc. This costs money to produce. But what does a download cost a company? Almost zilch. They get to keep nearly all of the money.
How do you prevent people from uploading the "full" versions to the P2P networks? Easy. Sign the files with steganography, with a unique signature for each user; A movie is hours long and has tons of frames; you'll never even notice fucked up pixels, if there are only a few scattered throughout the film. When the user buys a movie, the movie company gets the credit card information. When the movie gets uploaded to the P2P networks, the movie industry will know who did it. BUSTED!!!
Well, he purchased all twenty spaces, so there is nobody else listed.
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Just had to add this: If Windows is an operating system, then I am Santa Claus.
It would be cool if all software companies merge into one huge software company.
It would be cool if all automobile companies merge into one huge automobile company.
It would be cool if all toy companies merge into one huge toy company.
Apply the above four to all other types of industries.
Then, it would be cool if all the resulting huge companies merge into one really, really, really huge company that does everything. It would be so big that nobody would be able to compete against it.
And then, that company would purchase the government, and enslave all the people.
First of all, before we try to make it easier for suppliers to migrate their software to Linux, why don't we come up with some standards for the operating system? Such as where in the heck are files supposed to go? I know there is an FS tree standard... but what about where DLLs are supposed to go? With all the package managers out there, we still suffer from DLL hell.
I think there is something to be learned from the OS that just won't die: BeOS... The file system was sort of like a database. Today, there are all sorts of file systems that support attributes, metadata that is attached to a file but isn't part of it; BeOS leveraged this feature to keep track of the type of files. It didn't matter what the extension was; BeOS kept a database of MIME types for each file. If the MIME type attribute hadn't been set, I believe it would first check the extension, and then the contents of the file, to figure out what the heck is going on. This type of file system could be used to provide ACL-like functionality, along with other great things.
This type of feature could be used to sort out the DLL hell mess that we suffer from on Linux. Because I simply don't understand why trying to install a single application causes so many dependencies that you practically have to pull in all applications that exist for Linux.
So what the heck did we talk about? Solving DLL hell, dependency hell, and using an attribute capable file system to create an OS that people can easily make software for.
I would even say that these problems are bigger (in my organization) than having a better scheduler or proc filesystem. But that's just my two cents worth.
People like me who teach Spanish and explain that this thing above the "n" is called a tilde. Not that anybody gives a damn.
Thanks! I'll give this a try.
green aint cheaper cuz its coming down in price. green is cheaper cuz red is going up in price. there is a big difference. pay attention to it.
Wait a minute. If FreeDOS is free, which it should be, because it has the word "Free" in its name, unless it doesn't mean "Free" in the sense of "Free as in beer", or as some might better understand, "Free as in you don't have to pay money for it", which could mean that it means "Free" in the other sense, which means "Free as in you're not in jail or something", but I believe it means the former, because usually when a free software project puts the name "Free" in the name of the free software project, as the FreeBSD folks have done with FreeBSD, which also contains the word "Free" in the name of the free software project, because you can obtain the software for free, as in not having to pay money for it, and you can then modify that software and distribute it for free or for money, whichever you want, because you're free in the other sense to do so with the so-called "Free" free software project, then HP shouldn't be charging a bunch of Chinese, who have to work in sweatshops since age two, because they don't have any money to buy food, a whole bunch of money for a PC, when most of them probably cannot afford a PC, because, like I said, they lack the money to buy food, because unlike free software projects with the word "Free" in the name, food is not "Free" in China, for FreeDOS.
For example, at the company at which I work at, we always de-tune our applications so that every operation will take place at the worst-case scenario level. Then, when our customers buy our products, expecting a class C- performance, and our products then provide a class A+++++++ performance, they are thrilled, which causes them to:
- Buy more of our products.
- Tell their friends and neighbors, who then buy our products.
That is what to the pain means. It means I leave you in anguish, wallowing in freakish misery forever.I think you're bluffing.
It's possible, pig. I might be bluffing. It's conceivable you vomitous mass. I may only be lying here because I lack the strength to stand. Then again, perhaps I have the strength to stand after all.
Doing so could scare the spam authors, malware authors, virus authors, worm authors, spyware authors, and other illegitimate software authors into compliance with global IP standards, which will facilitate the streamlining of compelling enterprise solutions by content providers and emerging stewards of innovative technologies.
(If you didn't get the above then you need to do some critical thinking. It is composed in four layers and contains 12 hidden messages, 4 double meanings, and 9 psychological facts.)
If Microsoft invents innovative technology, which will facilitate the streamlining of compelling enterprise solutions at global content providers (in other words, they invent something like, say, the ability to push a button on a keyboard and have that cause a response in a computer system), then Microsoft would have to pay billions of dollars to get the patent. But if they allow the person within their company to get the patent on his own name and not on Microsoft's name, then the patent would cost two cents.
Users are lusers. Lusers are StupidPeople (tm). StupidPeople are StuplePeopid (tm).
The way I see it, changing a password every month or so isn't too much to ask. Neither is creating a well-chosen password. Neither is remembering it. People don't have such a hard time remembering a locker combination. Nor do they have that much trouble remembering phone numbers, bank account numbers, and all sorts of other stuff. What the hell is so difficult about remembering a password that is a mere several characters long?
You wouldn't hide the key to your house under the doormat just because you might forget your keys somewhere, would you? Or you wouldn't write your home address on your keys, just in case you forget where you live, would you? Why in the phuc would you tape your password under your keyboard, or something stupid like that?
The way I see it, most of the problems in the world stem from the failure of our education system to teach anybody anything. It's not enough to learn reading, writing, and 'rithmetic. You have to learn how to teach yourself things. And schools don't teach anybody how to do that.
My friend is a chef. His employees can't even put food on a plate properly. How many times he has had to explain to them how to put the food on the plate, and they just don't get it.
My other friend works in a machine shop. How many times he has had to explain to his retarded employees that they have to measure and make sure everything is straight before drilling a hole. And they don't get it either.
People are just so stupid because they have gotten by in school, just doing the minimum to barely get by, not learning anything, and allowing their brain to stay dormant. The school system promotes this by allowing students to earn "A" grades for "F" work, and just passing students from one grade to the next, even though they have made NO achievements to show for it.
This continues in the career, where people expect to do shit work, but when June comes around every year, they expect their raise. It's the mentality caused by the failure of the education system.
And this applies to passwords as well. It's not that hard to remember a password. You can decide that certain numbers and symbols mean certain things to you, and then spell a word that only you would understand with those symbols. Then, all you have to do is remember that word. But people are either too dumb, or too lazy, to do even half of that. They'd rather just bitch and moan, because security isn't exactly convenient.
Where are my lucky numbers, asshole? :-)
The solution to your problem is to place a computer over there with Linux on it, and run BugZilla and all the required support software on that box. Then, put that one window manager that makes things look like Windows XP, and put a window in the middle of the screen labeled "BugZilla Server for Windows XP" with fake but real looking flashy statistics in that window. Nobody will ever know, because people who use Windows and have never been exposed to anything else are too stupid to figure out something like that.
Sorry, I'm dislexic. I was trying to say I prefer XML over DOC, but got it wardsback.
I'll invent a jurisdiction where in certain strategic intersections, at night, all the lights in the intersections will be red, and there will be a no-right-turn-on-red restriction during those times. Cops will be placed all over the place, but they'll be hidden. Then, they'll catch you.