BillG is the biggest PR-spin LIAR in the world! What, do you think that people in business, with all of their problems, have time to call Microsoft's technical support and pay 10 dollars a minute to be on hold for three hours before some idiot getting paid $2.95 an hour answers the phone and doesn't know what to do about your bug report? So after 30 years of making crappy products, BillG had to come out TODAY and say this to spin everything around. Anybody who is swayed by what he just said is an idiot.
Yes. I know this article or whatever is over seven years old. No, I don't care. Its age is irrelevant. BillG said this RIGHT NOW and that's the way it is.
This is really fucked up because I just authorized the purchase of 179 VMware licenses for the company I work for. This purchase has gone through today. We paid a ridiculous amount of money. I really hope that VMware doesn't go the way of the dodo or that's what will happen to my job. Shit.
IMB is obviously a bunch of idiot mother fuckers because they turned down PalmOS which is the superior operating system of choice for all products that require an operating system and instead proceeded to choose this stupid Qtopia thing over the PalmOS operating system platform which I consider to be a very poor and stupid decision when you consider the fact that like I said before in this post somewhere that like PalmOS is like superior and shit when compared to this Qtopia thing that I have never seen before but neither have I seen that PalmOS thing as I have never used one of the devices that uses it but I think that it would be kind of cool if people like Sony and shit provided PalmOS preinstalled on your computer when you but it at the store instead of putting that stupid windows thing on there instead.
I have a better idea. Why don't they invent software that destroys the physical hardware of the signature device within the Xbox, thereby allowing anything to run on the aforementioned piece of shit? It can probably be done in two or less assembly level instructions and I think I can figure it out... hold on a sec... Those instructions would be MOV AX,DX and XOR DX,DX. Yeah... That'll do it. (See note 1 for details.)
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Please note: Using the aforementioned two instructions to permanently disable said security device requires several fine wires to be soldered to strategic locations within the microprocessor's core and to particular lines within the inner ground layer of the motherboard. Instructions for doing this are available for a nominal fee of $1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.00, payable to:
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Oh, well. Time for yet another Negra Modelo. This will be my fifth beer in the last half hour, and I fully intend to get more drunker than usual tonight.
I have a better idea. The government should REQUIRE any media that contains DRM, copy protection, or any sort of similar access management system, to contain everything necessary, plus full instructions, to completely bypass the copy protection. Furthermore, the government should REQUIRE companies that produce such "protected" products to pay a $30.00 processing fee, within 1 hour, to every individual who claims verbally that they have bypassed the protection, for each such claim, not to exceed $1,000,000.00 per individual per day. Oh, and if someone makes such a claim and the evil company doesn't know about it (such as, someone tells their friend that they have bypassed this crap, but never tells the company), the company must pay an additional "Convenience Fee" of $20.00 upon being notified of such violation, not to exceed $2,000,000.00 per individual per day. Oh, and the government should require that no audio recording can be sold to the consumer for an amount exceeding 99 cents, of which 98 cents goes directly to the artist's bank account and the remaining 1 cent goes to a fund for legal action against the RIAA, MPAA and Microsoft. And each of the above three mentioned entities shall pay $1,000,000.00 per day, plus interest, penalties, fines, and "Convenience Fees," into this fund, if the proceeds of the aforementioned 1 cent per album do not meet a minimum requirement of $5,000,000,000.00 (five billion dollars) on that day. Thereupon, the owners, managers and every employee of the aforementioned three evil entities shall be banished to Papua New Guinea, where they shall serve as slaves in caves to the brave natives. And did I mention that each of these entities shall pay in taxes, daily, two hundred percent of their bank account balance? Yeah, add that to the list.
The company I work for pays us good money. But management sucks, so nobody in my department ever does any work. All we do is play Yahoo Chess and download all sorts of music, movies, etc. It's kind of fun. In fact, one of my buddies is running his own business out of his cubicle, another guy is writing erotic novels, and another dude just drinks beer and looks at porn all day. Oh yeah, and I'm the manager of our department. They really love me--my subordinates, that is. My superiors think I'm a jackass, and one day they'll pull the plug on our department... But until then, like I said, we're all earning some sizable salaries and basically not doing jack shit to deserve it.
I would get a space cadet's keyboard, which would have 92 meta-keys and 6 keys that perform a "function." These 6 keys, however, would be completely "silent"--meaning they would not do anything unless in combination with meta keys. And every meta-key will require three others to be pushed at the same time in order to become "active." In other words, even to type a letter, you would have to push four meta keys plus one of the six "function" keys to arrive at the desired letter. Each key would be placed at a location that makes it very difficult to push all the keys. You would have to perform daily hand-stretching exercises to be able to push all these keys. And that's a quick operation. For more complicated things, like Page Up, you would have to push several sequences like the above, each with totally different meta keys. To make matters as convenient as possible, not pushing the keys at exactly the right time would result in the wrong combination, and would thus insert the wrong character. And backspace/delete are the longest sequences for a simple command. It takes over 300 keystrokes to perform a delete, and over 750 to perform a backspace. This keyboard would be capable of typing any character in any language in the world. Like, the whole Unicode character set.
In effect, you would be furiously pounding away at wild combinations of keys to perform an operation that used to be performed with a simple keystroke. This is innovative because it goes along with the general direction of the computer industry. For example, where you'd once just enter some information, you now have to click through 600 screens, all containing all sorts of graphics, sounds, animations, and whatnot, which make what used to be a two second operation into a day's work, all in the name of "ease of use" for all the people who don't know jack about computers, who don't use this software anyway. In other words, software keeps getting worse, slower, buggier, and harder to use, so why shouldn't your keyboard follow the same path?
I have an idea that will promote greater computer security throughout the Windows-based computing world. If you have anything to add to this, please do... I'm interested to see what people think of this.
Ok, here goes: Microsoft should release a patch for Windows NT, 2000, and XP. This patch will modify the login window as follows: You'll have the option, as you do now, to enter your username and password. Additionally, the "shutdown" button remains, as it is assumed that if you have access to the machine, you're allowed to shut it down and restart it. (Besides, it's not like Windows is reliable enough to omit this button.) But here's the improvement: Microsoft will add a button called "Unauthorized." Anybody with access to the machine can click this button. It will immediately log them in as Administrator, or whatever 'root' is called on Windows, but without prompting for any password or other such pesky information. In other words, it will provide an obvious way for unauthorized users to log in and perform damage to the machine. Administrators will have no way to disable this button. As an added convenience, Microsoft should add a similar feature for remote logins, so that hackers on the other side of the world can take control of your machine within 10 seconds, without knowing any more than your IP address. (Oh, wait... This feature is already present... My bad.)
To spruce up future versions of Windows with innovative graphics and whatnot, this button will present the user with a menu, instead of immediately logging them in. The menu will include:
Format hard drives... Perform DoS attack... (which will display a dialog box requesting the IP address or DNS name of the host to be attacked) Spend administrator's money... (which will charge every credit card stored in Microsoft Wallet or whatever it might be called to a drug dealer's account in Columbia) and finally, Log in as Administrator without password (which performs the action described in the second paragraph of this innovative post)...
Microsoft. Where do you want to give us your money in exchange for crappy products today? Microsoft is not a trademark of Microsoft Corporation despite what they claim about the use of their own name... It's a REGISTERED trademark. There's a difference, you idiot.. IBM is a registered trademark of Jack's Donuts. Hewlett Packard is a registered trademark of Ali's Carpet Service. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners' pregnant 15-year-old daughter-in-law, or some bum on the street if they don't have a 15-year-old daughter-in-law or she is not pregnant.
Hey, I have a better idea... How about we have to plug our brains into the TV, like they have to do in the Matrix to go into the Matrix, you know? So we'll all be plugged into our television sets, and whenever a commercial comes on, the thing will read our minds. If it senses that we might even remotely be somewhat interested in owning the product being advertised, the amount of its price, plus shipping and handling (and plus a nominal clerical service charge--equaling the rest of your bank account--for reading your mind) will automatically and immediately be billed to your bank account or taken out of your next paycheck if you don't have enough in the bank, and the aforementioned product will be shipped within 6 to 8 years, for your convenience. If it senses that you're not interested in the product, it will charge you anyway, but it won't get sent to you, because you didn't want it. Now, the televisions will be set up electronically so that you can't watch unless you're jacked in. But a bunch of evil hackers, who will want to perform the worse-than-murder, worse-than-genocide act of watching television without paying extortion to advertisers, will figure out ways to bypass this technology, so that they can watch television without being billed for every product advertised. Of course, the television industry will gang up, buy everyone in Congress, and get innovative new legislation passed which makes it illegal to infringe on huge global multinational corporations' God-given right to perpetually increasing profits (the 11th commandment, which was so important that it was placed on a third tablet all by itself, said, "Thou shalt bend over before the holiness of the huge corporation and let it fuck you in the ass."). Oh, and the punishment for this crime? At least 50 years in maximum security prison without the possibility of parole, and you'll be beaten every day and given one slice of moldy bread once a week, along with a shotglass of dirty water once a month to live on. Oh yeah, and they'll throw your entire family and all your friends in jail too, even if they didn't know that you were committing this horrible, outrageous crime against humanity, just to be safe. They'll call this bill the "Ethical Television Broadcast Consumer Convenience Bill," or ETBCC. Just wait, I know it's going to happen sooner or later.
They call this shit Marketing?! They claim this creates value for the consumer?! Fuck that. Those lying theiving sons of bitches, those marketing people.
The other 95% of the people on this planet can take a long walk on a short pier. You wanna live in America? Learn Spanish and don't tell us how you do things in your country. If it's so great over there, why did you come over here? This is the greatest country in the world. I blindly believe EVERYTHING the leaders of this country say because they have my best interests in mind and don't care at all about themselves. So there might be some problems, such as that of importing so much junk from other places. But hey, it can't be perfect, you know. Still, this is the best place in the world.
By the way... I LIVE IN MEXICO, D.F.(That's like D.C. to you gringos out there. And yes, some Mexicans DO speak English.)
I find cloning distasteful. Yes, it would be cool if they could grow your own organs for you when the ones you have break down or something. But if the new one is identical to the one that's all fucked up, then won't the new one fail too? Shit, let's say you live 100 years and then one day, your guts stop working for some reason. I don't know... some gear breaks or some belt comes loose or something. So they grow new guts for you in the body of some wild boar or antelope or something, and then you live another 100 years. Oh.... Ok, maybe cloning is a good idea after all.
Dude, who cares if this ice is CO2 or H2O or C2H6O... It doesn't make any damn difference! What makes a difference is: Are there any of those friggen little green dudes cruizen around over there? If there ain't, then we should build a huge space ship outside of Earth's orbit. It would be so enormous that it will be bigger than the moon. Actually, we'll build two of them. In the first one, we'll put lots of soil and plants and stuff inside. In the other one, we'll put tons of oxygen and all kinds of other good stuff that a planet's atmosphere needs. Once that's done, we'll fly the damn things over to Mars and dump it all over the land over there like a couple of big dump trucks. Plants will start to grow, and guess what? Within a couple of weeks, Mars will have a human-friendly ecosystem and we can start building cities over there and polluting it to our liking. That'll be cool. There will be a whole Internet put together over there, with IPv6 from the start, of course, and there will be only one 1200 baud modem connecting that Internet to the one here on Earth. This will allow for fast data transfers and will keep the economy strong. Of course, Mars will belong to the United States. In effect, Mars will become the 51st state. I imagine Venus being the 52nd, after we nuke off that heavy cloud cover, making it possible to actually live there. The official language of Mars will be Spanish, by the way. So, yeah, Texas won't be the biggest friggen continent in the U.S. anymore. Oh, well. But at least my address will be:
837750 Negra Modelo Drive, Apartment 933 New Houston, New Texas 5F88C, Planet Mars, U.S.A.
Just wait until we have the whole friggen universe populated. Then, people's addresses will look like:
9938 Negra Modelo Drive, City of the Second Moon, New Africa Planet Nubecula 998-BJ2-98881-5, Holmberg IX Galaxy UGC 5336, God's Universe
We'll be using IPv83 by that time, with 16384-bit addresses. Your internet address will be something like: 881.89579827897.90213409.2394823480932840923840928 490283490829048.176.1489728728.1984278192749082374.9042308.20582095240783017582756982458723894.20957 24867982.12398637854.1846364.148.43276.12489.24098 729856293764.249872983:9283479823239874892374:2348 7432897492874.982377923647923.2348723.32846329.283 47382 (note: address truncated), or more simply, http://www.rice_burners_suck.2ndmoon.newafrica.nub ecula.holmberg.ugc5336.universe.com.us.
I've read the description and it sounds relatively interesting. Too bad it doesn't contain any violence. At the very least, I think that various groups of scientists, on their mission to unlock the secrets of Egypt, should get into a big war with each other, thereby turning the game into a blood and guts shootout inside the pyramids, whereby all sorts of secret chambers are discovered (and the pyramids are nearly destroyed by all the violence). At the end of the game, the truth would be discovered--that the pyramids are used to house big huge weapons, and the game would take on a new twist, kind of like the way Doom II takes a new twist when you find the BFG-9000, except there would be MUCH more blood and guts, because the amount of guts in DOOM is not nearly enough. Of course, the violence should stay IN the game. We don't need any more of that crap in real life. (Man, I would hate to be a cop... The shit they have to deal with. One minute, you're changing a flat tire for some old lady; The next, you're in some alley blowing some drug dealer's head off.)
Voting through electronic means is a bad idea because of the doors it opens to all sorts of trouble. Imagine what might happen if someone decides to fix the vote. He would change the information in the database software and then track down the paper trail and replace that with a modified paper trail. Now, there would be no way to prove that any such thing ever happened. This is a really bad idea.
It is good to encourage people of all sorts to participate in this show. I just want to point out that sometimes, though, all this encouragement gets old. For example, why do they specifically have to ask people of "color" to join? This all stems from so-called political correctness. Well, you have to be so considerate to every single person that in the end, nobody gets any consideration because everyone is so busy being considerate. Screw that! Color, sex, religion, shape, size, etc. are only continuing to hold people back BECAUSE of the fact that everyone has to be considerate. Why should people like me, who are so-called "minorities," be cut more slack than "white" people on things like tests? Do you want a brain surgeon who got his job because he could spell his name? Consider this: Forget about color, sex, religion, shape, size, etc. Just forget it and treat everyone the same way, like a person, for cryin' out loud. Then the problem will end. Just say, "We want folks to join Junkyard Wars." That's it!
Or... I can see it now. Some black guy, er, excuse me, African American who has never been to Africa, mind you, will join this program, participate, and lose the contest because their catamaran or whatever they had to build, uh, sank. Not because they're black (I mean African American), but because the mechanism somehow failed, just like it would have for some white guy. So this guy is going to sue Junkyard Wars for making black people look stupid. Well, hell, I'm black, maybe I should do this myself.
"...make their platform more attractive for less skilled programmers..." Uh, yeah. So we can have worse, buggier, more bloated applications. Instead of lowering the standards by making things easier for stupider people, why not put that effort into educating people so that software quality rises, thereby reducing the damages caused by buggy software and the consequent financial losses? And, hmmm.... if the financial losses are reduced, that leaves companies and individuals more money to spend on more software instead.
Some people like yourself are fundamentally opposed to RAD/IDE based development... I never said anything about RAD/IDE. I have authorized the purchase of Borland's products at my company for at least seven years. Their entire marketing strategy centers around RAD/IDE development. My post opposes.NET because I believe that at least one objective at Microsoft is to screw the computing community once again, not necessarily because of technical advances made since Win32 was designed, but because other companies have begun to offer Win32 APIs on platforms that compete with Microsoft's. By starting this.NET fiasco and closing all the legal loopholes from the start, Microsoft once again succeeds in holding back the entire community. And I refuse to fall into their trap.
I have an idea... Don't use this stupid.NET thing. I simply don't understand why it's such a big deal. Seriously... What is there in this.NET that is so important that the whole world needs to jump on it like flies on shit? Microsoft does these things on purpose to screw everyone over, and every time they do, everyone falls for it again. Well I'm not going to fall for it. This.NET thing can take a long walk on a short pier. I'm gonna continue performing my work on FreeBSD, without all this fancy shmancy junk, and guess what? It'll cost less too.
i am 23 you dumb fuvck. I been drinking with my buddies for the past two hours and had nine budl ights soi far. Most nights I have a few omre but I'm starting to feel a bit hung over already so I;m gonna stop rignt now.
Do us all a favor, have 9 more and then go play in traffic. Hehheh... I don't drink ad drive.
I brew some pretty damn good beer in my toilet. I found that brewing it in the tank (not the bowl) and then flushing it, with a pump in the bowl that gathers about 60% of the finished beer, creates a very aromatic beer and a great flavor. Oh yeah, and I cut some raisins in half and toss them in to increase the alcohol content.
Kasparov is a dumb ass. I bet I could beat him in 15 moves or less. I played against a kid in Florida who claimed he sucked at chess and I lasted over 30 moves before losing. So I could definitely beat Kasparov with half my brain tied behind my back.
I have been waiting for this day for a very long time. I have been watching the OpenWatcom project since its first days and was very excited when a LONG time after it was announced, manuals were finally available online. But still no software. Well now, it's available and I'm really happy about it. As a matter of fact, my company actually paid big bucks for this compiler back in the day. Now that the source code has been released, I'm going to modify this compiler to make highly optimized binaries out of awk scripts. When that comes to pass, humanity's purpose in the universe will have been fulfilled. Until then, I need more beer. (I only had 9 tonight...)
I have a better idea. The state of California should declare itself no longer a part of the United States and should instead become a dictatorship, with Gray Davis as the dictator. They'll put up walls 2 miles high going all around the borders of the state, including the coastline and build a huge roof over the whole state, blocking out the sun. Then, Gray Davis should confiscate everything in the whole state and beat everybody to death with a big wooden club like the one in Gangs of New York, with a mark for each person killed by the club, only this will be a digitally enabled club with an electronic counter instead. Then, everybody should be locked in cages and chained up so they can't move, much less do anything else. Then, Gray Davis should order everyone to pay 100% of their daily wages to him, but since nobody can work, as they're locked in cages, nobody can earn money, and nobody can pay him. So he'll walk around and continue to beat everyone up because they didn't pay. Oh, did I mention that he should drive around and bulldoze everything?
I believe that after these improvements, California will be a better place to live, because Gray Davis will have accomplished his purpose in life. Then, he can move on and improve life in another state, and another, and another.
Or, everyone in this friggen place will grow a friggen brain, *R*E*C*A*L*L* *T*H*A*T* *S*O*N* *O*F* *A* *B*I*T*C*H*, and put in someone who will get rid of this bullshit. But, like that'll ever happen. Shit, there's people in L.A. who would vote for Stalin if there was a (D) next to his name.
I have a much better idea. The United States should implement this as soon as possible. What they do is replace cash completely with a card that stores all of your personal information... name, entire geneology, your DNA, fingerprints, retina scans, blood composition, address, phone number, social security number, your entire credit file... basically, everything someone could possibly know about you. And it would store an amount of money that can be "recharged" from your bank account or whatever. The only catch is, anybody can use the card EXCEPT you. They'll ask for ID everywhere you go, and if it's your card, they won't accept it. This will create a need for higher crime, as people will jack each others' cards in order to buy things, and will create need for a stronger and more diverse police force. I think this is a good idea. But then, I just had nine Bud Lights in two hours, so my thinking might be a little irrational or something.
In that case, the techies should refuse to implement junk when asked by the marketing people, using the aforementioned problems (bugs, patches, etc.) as the evidence that such trash is unnecessary and undermines the effectiveness of the software, and further pointing out that users don't want any of it anyway. (Nearly everybody I know hates all that crap, and most of them aren't techies anyway. They just know that all that crap slows everything down, makes it crash and causes problems.)
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Yes. I know this article or whatever is over seven years old. No, I don't care. Its age is irrelevant. BillG said this RIGHT NOW and that's the way it is.
This is really fucked up because I just authorized the purchase of 179 VMware licenses for the company I work for. This purchase has gone through today. We paid a ridiculous amount of money. I really hope that VMware doesn't go the way of the dodo or that's what will happen to my job. Shit.
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I don't buy music. I turn on the radio. So there.
The company I work for pays us good money. But management sucks, so nobody in my department ever does any work. All we do is play Yahoo Chess and download all sorts of music, movies, etc. It's kind of fun. In fact, one of my buddies is running his own business out of his cubicle, another guy is writing erotic novels, and another dude just drinks beer and looks at porn all day. Oh yeah, and I'm the manager of our department. They really love me--my subordinates, that is. My superiors think I'm a jackass, and one day they'll pull the plug on our department... But until then, like I said, we're all earning some sizable salaries and basically not doing jack shit to deserve it.
In effect, you would be furiously pounding away at wild combinations of keys to perform an operation that used to be performed with a simple keystroke. This is innovative because it goes along with the general direction of the computer industry. For example, where you'd once just enter some information, you now have to click through 600 screens, all containing all sorts of graphics, sounds, animations, and whatnot, which make what used to be a two second operation into a day's work, all in the name of "ease of use" for all the people who don't know jack about computers, who don't use this software anyway. In other words, software keeps getting worse, slower, buggier, and harder to use, so why shouldn't your keyboard follow the same path?
Ok, here goes: Microsoft should release a patch for Windows NT, 2000, and XP. This patch will modify the login window as follows: You'll have the option, as you do now, to enter your username and password. Additionally, the "shutdown" button remains, as it is assumed that if you have access to the machine, you're allowed to shut it down and restart it. (Besides, it's not like Windows is reliable enough to omit this button.) But here's the improvement: Microsoft will add a button called "Unauthorized." Anybody with access to the machine can click this button. It will immediately log them in as Administrator, or whatever 'root' is called on Windows, but without prompting for any password or other such pesky information. In other words, it will provide an obvious way for unauthorized users to log in and perform damage to the machine. Administrators will have no way to disable this button. As an added convenience, Microsoft should add a similar feature for remote logins, so that hackers on the other side of the world can take control of your machine within 10 seconds, without knowing any more than your IP address. (Oh, wait... This feature is already present... My bad.)
To spruce up future versions of Windows with innovative graphics and whatnot, this button will present the user with a menu, instead of immediately logging them in. The menu will include:
Format hard drives...
Perform DoS attack... (which will display a dialog box requesting the IP address or DNS name of the host to be attacked)
Spend administrator's money... (which will charge every credit card stored in Microsoft Wallet or whatever it might be called to a drug dealer's account in Columbia)
and finally, Log in as Administrator without password (which performs the action described in the second paragraph of this innovative post)...
Microsoft. Where do you want to give us your money in exchange for crappy products today? Microsoft is not a trademark of Microsoft Corporation despite what they claim about the use of their own name... It's a REGISTERED trademark. There's a difference, you idiot.. IBM is a registered trademark of Jack's Donuts. Hewlett Packard is a registered trademark of Ali's Carpet Service. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners' pregnant 15-year-old daughter-in-law, or some bum on the street if they don't have a 15-year-old daughter-in-law or she is not pregnant.
They call this shit Marketing?! They claim this creates value for the consumer?! Fuck that. Those lying theiving sons of bitches, those marketing people.
Jackin' the drug dealer's stuff so you can profit as a corrupt cop, eh? Me gusta tu estilo.
By the way... I LIVE IN MEXICO, D.F. (That's like D.C. to you gringos out there. And yes, some Mexicans DO speak English.)
I find cloning distasteful. Yes, it would be cool if they could grow your own organs for you when the ones you have break down or something. But if the new one is identical to the one that's all fucked up, then won't the new one fail too? Shit, let's say you live 100 years and then one day, your guts stop working for some reason. I don't know... some gear breaks or some belt comes loose or something. So they grow new guts for you in the body of some wild boar or antelope or something, and then you live another 100 years. Oh.... Ok, maybe cloning is a good idea after all.
837750 Negra Modelo Drive, Apartment 933
New Houston, New Texas 5F88C,
Planet Mars, U.S.A.
Just wait until we have the whole friggen universe populated. Then, people's addresses will look like:
9938 Negra Modelo Drive,
City of the Second Moon,
New Africa
Planet Nubecula 998-BJ2-98881-5,
Holmberg IX Galaxy UGC 5336,
God's Universe
We'll be using IPv83 by that time, with 16384-bit addresses. Your internet address will be something like: 881.89579827897.90213409.2394823480932840923840928 490283490829048.176.1489728728.1984278192749082374 .9042308.20582095240783017582756982458723894.20957 24867982.12398637854.1846364.148.43276.12489.24098 729856293764.249872983:9283479823239874892374:2348 7432897492874.982377923647923.2348723.32846329.283 47382 (note: address truncated), or more simply, http://www.rice_burners_suck.2ndmoon.newafrica.nub ecula.holmberg.ugc5336.universe.com.us.
I've read the description and it sounds relatively interesting. Too bad it doesn't contain any violence. At the very least, I think that various groups of scientists, on their mission to unlock the secrets of Egypt, should get into a big war with each other, thereby turning the game into a blood and guts shootout inside the pyramids, whereby all sorts of secret chambers are discovered (and the pyramids are nearly destroyed by all the violence). At the end of the game, the truth would be discovered--that the pyramids are used to house big huge weapons, and the game would take on a new twist, kind of like the way Doom II takes a new twist when you find the BFG-9000, except there would be MUCH more blood and guts, because the amount of guts in DOOM is not nearly enough. Of course, the violence should stay IN the game. We don't need any more of that crap in real life. (Man, I would hate to be a cop... The shit they have to deal with. One minute, you're changing a flat tire for some old lady; The next, you're in some alley blowing some drug dealer's head off.)
Voting through electronic means is a bad idea because of the doors it opens to all sorts of trouble. Imagine what might happen if someone decides to fix the vote. He would change the information in the database software and then track down the paper trail and replace that with a modified paper trail. Now, there would be no way to prove that any such thing ever happened. This is a really bad idea.
Or... I can see it now. Some black guy, er, excuse me, African American who has never been to Africa, mind you, will join this program, participate, and lose the contest because their catamaran or whatever they had to build, uh, sank. Not because they're black (I mean African American), but because the mechanism somehow failed, just like it would have for some white guy. So this guy is going to sue Junkyard Wars for making black people look stupid. Well, hell, I'm black, maybe I should do this myself.
Some people like yourself are fundamentally opposed to RAD/IDE based development... I never said anything about RAD/IDE. I have authorized the purchase of Borland's products at my company for at least seven years. Their entire marketing strategy centers around RAD/IDE development. My post opposes .NET because I believe that at least one objective at Microsoft is to screw the computing community once again, not necessarily because of technical advances made since Win32 was designed, but because other companies have begun to offer Win32 APIs on platforms that compete with Microsoft's. By starting this .NET fiasco and closing all the legal loopholes from the start, Microsoft once again succeeds in holding back the entire community. And I refuse to fall into their trap.
I have an idea... Don't use this stupid .NET thing. I simply don't understand why it's such a big deal. Seriously... What is there in this .NET that is so important that the whole world needs to jump on it like flies on shit? Microsoft does these things on purpose to screw everyone over, and every time they do, everyone falls for it again. Well I'm not going to fall for it. This .NET thing can take a long walk on a short pier. I'm gonna continue performing my work on FreeBSD, without all this fancy shmancy junk, and guess what? It'll cost less too.
Do us all a favor, have 9 more and then go play in traffic. Hehheh... I don't drink ad drive.
I brew some pretty damn good beer in my toilet. I found that brewing it in the tank (not the bowl) and then flushing it, with a pump in the bowl that gathers about 60% of the finished beer, creates a very aromatic beer and a great flavor. Oh yeah, and I cut some raisins in half and toss them in to increase the alcohol content.
Kasparov is a dumb ass. I bet I could beat him in 15 moves or less. I played against a kid in Florida who claimed he sucked at chess and I lasted over 30 moves before losing. So I could definitely beat Kasparov with half my brain tied behind my back.
I have been waiting for this day for a very long time. I have been watching the OpenWatcom project since its first days and was very excited when a LONG time after it was announced, manuals were finally available online. But still no software. Well now, it's available and I'm really happy about it. As a matter of fact, my company actually paid big bucks for this compiler back in the day. Now that the source code has been released, I'm going to modify this compiler to make highly optimized binaries out of awk scripts. When that comes to pass, humanity's purpose in the universe will have been fulfilled. Until then, I need more beer. (I only had 9 tonight...)
I believe that after these improvements, California will be a better place to live, because Gray Davis will have accomplished his purpose in life. Then, he can move on and improve life in another state, and another, and another.
Or, everyone in this friggen place will grow a friggen brain, *R*E*C*A*L*L* *T*H*A*T* *S*O*N* *O*F* *A* *B*I*T*C*H* , and put in someone who will get rid of this bullshit. But, like that'll ever happen. Shit, there's people in L.A. who would vote for Stalin if there was a (D) next to his name.
I have a much better idea. The United States should implement this as soon as possible. What they do is replace cash completely with a card that stores all of your personal information... name, entire geneology, your DNA, fingerprints, retina scans, blood composition, address, phone number, social security number, your entire credit file... basically, everything someone could possibly know about you. And it would store an amount of money that can be "recharged" from your bank account or whatever. The only catch is, anybody can use the card EXCEPT you. They'll ask for ID everywhere you go, and if it's your card, they won't accept it. This will create a need for higher crime, as people will jack each others' cards in order to buy things, and will create need for a stronger and more diverse police force. I think this is a good idea. But then, I just had nine Bud Lights in two hours, so my thinking might be a little irrational or something.
In that case, the techies should refuse to implement junk when asked by the marketing people, using the aforementioned problems (bugs, patches, etc.) as the evidence that such trash is unnecessary and undermines the effectiveness of the software, and further pointing out that users don't want any of it anyway. (Nearly everybody I know hates all that crap, and most of them aren't techies anyway. They just know that all that crap slows everything down, makes it crash and causes problems.)