Anti-competitive? Perhaps you should look at cars from Eastern Europe before you start suggesting the design of the modern car is somehow inherently 'anti-competitive'. It is precisely because of such fierce competition between manufacturers that you are
not stuck with an old piece of shit that won't start on a cold morning and can go 10000+ miles between servicing.
Shoddy mod's to vehicles can be downright dangerous, and I sure as hell don't want some dumb fucker heading towards me at 100mph 'cos he didn't quite get the throttle response right in his bodged add-on and now it won't stop...
For once in his long and varied posting career, our one true friend, Anonymous Coward, has actually hit the nail on the head.
IMHO the original post should be mod'd as off-topic right here and right now
Meanwhile, for anyone actually dumbass enough to care more than a dog's fart about the life and times of Will Wheaton here's some more fascinating trivia:
The answer to 1 Across in Tuesday's Independent cryptic crossword is 'balance'.
Toast actually does land butter side down more often than not.
And airflow alternates between the nostrils so that one gets a rest whilst the other takes over
Get me some Mogadon someone, please, I'm getting over-excited here.
Despite the duck hunters above, this really is a shame for the GNU/Linux community. Progeny was one of the better Debian distro 'packagers' and will be sorely missed by many I'm sure.
Unfortunately, very few can 'buck the market' especially when dealing in a marketplace where the buyers really do want 'something for nothing' (and I'm not excluding myself).
Hopefully this isn't just yet another nail in the coffin for Debian...
Whenever I read that government X wants to ban Y from the internet or fine provider Z for a users web page/chat room comments I nearly fall off my sofa laughing. Maybe they don't see how ludicrous their statements would seem if the subtituted 'malicious or offensive voice content' carried over the 'public telephony system' for any of the statements they make about the internet.
Or perhaps they do/ think it would be sensible to prosecute Cable and Wireless or British Telecom for every crank call made from a payphone or mobile but just haven't got round to drafting the legislation yet.
Or, more credibly, they have no real understanding of the communications industry whatsoever.
Hey - maybe someone in the US should prosecute the mail service for delivering Anthrax. It would make just as much sense.
I would wholeheartedly agree, but I would add that I don't think that anyone's personality is ever 'fixed'. Cos if it is, maybe we should throw away the key when we lock anyone up.
Kids are, however, very susceptible to peer pressure and (just about any) external influences, especially those we wish they'd ignore....The permanence of the effects of these influences is another debate.Mind you, Kipling once wrote 'Give me a boy until he is 7 and I shall give you the man.'
Somehow I still can't quite bring myself to actually walk into a bookstore and buy one of these book. I always thought buying Discworld novels got me enough sideways glances (and hey, that's a lot of glances over the years), but I think I'd be looking sideways at myself if a passed a mirror after buying an HP book
Perhaps it's just that quiet British reserve that prevents me, or maybe I just can't be bothered to find out for myself (sad, pathetic, oh-so-timid victim of self-image).
And I won't watch the film either. Really. No, honestly.
Certainly opens a few possible 'revenue opportunities' for those in the advertising sector. Whether it will catch on is another matter. From a commercial standpoint it's great to advertise to those most likely to buy from you (and if they are nearby, so much the better).
However it's going to be difficult to sell advertising space to reach, lets say, the one unfortunate bastard in the whole state who has bought Onstar and happens to pass by everyday as he leaves his house...
And anyway, as a private individual, I abhor the idea of yet more corporate 'throat-stuffing' as I go about my daily business.
True, but when was the last time anyone here actually backed up ALL the useless crap on their HDD.
CDR is OK(ish), but 120GB is approx 170 CDRs and that's going to take a little while to burn...unless you buy an LTO drive autoloader of course and pay 10 times as much as for the cheap hard drive...
Or is everyone going own the RAID route with the new cheap IDE RAID mobo's available? Answers on a postcard please.
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But what if it's the wrong selected text, for example the single interesting sentence from a Jeffrey Archer novel...
Perhaps it's 3COM suing them for the use of the number 3...
Sorry, this business model is already being trialed in Northern Ireland with mixed results.
Well, it would explain his current cheerful demeanour :-)
Anti-competitive? Perhaps you should look at cars from Eastern Europe before you start suggesting the design of the modern car is somehow inherently 'anti-competitive'. It is precisely because of such fierce competition between manufacturers that you are not stuck with an old piece of shit that won't start on a cold morning and can go 10000+ miles between servicing.
Shoddy mod's to vehicles can be downright dangerous, and I sure as hell don't want some dumb fucker heading towards me at 100mph 'cos he didn't quite get the throttle response right in his bodged add-on and now it won't stop...
Bugger off and play with your Meccano.
 
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Sorry, but I have never had the urge to link to KPMG and I never will.
Thank you for your patience in this matter.
Sigh, just more Sun drenched propaganda.
What a waste of a good can of sugary gut-rot.
Aha! Realtime load dependant hardware upgrades! That's gotta be the plan!
Now let's just see...
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to have stood up long enough to read the article. I suppose I'd better put my can back in the fridge...
Sigh, and I was hoping I could use it to justify a quad Xeon server with 4GB of RAM as the next web app's server on our 8 user LAN....
For once in his long and varied posting career, our one true friend, Anonymous Coward, has actually hit the nail on the head.
IMHO the original post should be mod'd as off-topic right here and right now
Meanwhile, for anyone actually dumbass enough to care more than a dog's fart about the life and times of Will Wheaton here's some more fascinating trivia:
The answer to 1 Across in Tuesday's Independent cryptic crossword is 'balance'.
Toast actually does land butter side down more often than not.
And airflow alternates between the nostrils so that one gets a rest whilst the other takes over
Get me some Mogadon someone, please, I'm getting over-excited here.
Again? Poor unfortunate bastard.
Still, he's only running second to Lazarus in the all-time list of greatest comeback appearances.
Actually, is the end result of a long string of calculations 99.8% correct, or is each calculation step itself 99.8% correct?
Just work out how many 99.8% correct steps it takes to create a 99.8% wrong answer...
Despite the duck hunters above, this really is a shame for the GNU/Linux community. Progeny was one of the better Debian distro 'packagers' and will be sorely missed by many I'm sure.
Unfortunately, very few can 'buck the market' especially when dealing in a marketplace where the buyers really do want 'something for nothing' (and I'm not excluding myself).
Hopefully this isn't just yet another nail in the coffin for Debian...
Me and Bill Gates...in a Boston headlock.
Lord save us all from CEO's with bright ideas, cos' no one else is going to...
Can someone please give me the contract to supply these guys with 802.11b wireless kit?
Hmmm, just think of all those floating wireless access points...the ultimate roving (rowing?) LAN.
Off-topic, most certainly is.
By the way, what do you want a boat for? Can't you walk on water like the rest of us? Tsk, tsk.
Also leaves interpretation of the term 'valid' rather open to question.
Or, as Wild Bill Clinton once said,"It all depends on what your definition of 'is' is."
And, like man, who judges the Judge's interpretation? Websters?
Sorry, I should have made clear that this was a direct quotation of the most highly esteemed ex Vice president in United States history - Dan Quayle.
You are absolutely correct however, it makes no sense whatsoever :-)
Whenever I read that government X wants to ban Y from the internet or fine provider Z for a users web page/chat room comments I nearly fall off my sofa laughing. Maybe they don't see how ludicrous their statements would seem if the subtituted 'malicious or offensive voice content' carried over the 'public telephony system' for any of the statements they make about the internet.
Or perhaps they do/ think it would be sensible to prosecute Cable and Wireless or British Telecom for every crank call made from a payphone or mobile but just haven't got round to drafting the legislation yet.
Or, more credibly, they have no real understanding of the communications industry whatsoever.
Hey - maybe someone in the US should prosecute the mail service for delivering Anthrax. It would make just as much sense.
I would wholeheartedly agree, but I would add that I don't think that anyone's personality is ever 'fixed'. Cos if it is, maybe we should throw away the key when we lock anyone up.
Kids are, however, very susceptible to peer pressure and (just about any) external influences, especially those we wish they'd ignore....The permanence of the effects of these influences is another debate.Mind you, Kipling once wrote 'Give me a boy until he is 7 and I shall give you the man.'
Perhaps he was onto something.Somehow I still can't quite bring myself to actually walk into a bookstore and buy one of these book. I always thought buying Discworld novels got me enough sideways glances (and hey, that's a lot of glances over the years), but I think I'd be looking sideways at myself if a passed a mirror after buying an HP book
Perhaps it's just that quiet British reserve that prevents me, or maybe I just can't be bothered to find out for myself (sad, pathetic, oh-so-timid victim of self-image).
And I won't watch the film either. Really. No, honestly.
Certainly opens a few possible 'revenue opportunities' for those in the advertising sector. Whether it will catch on is another matter. From a commercial standpoint it's great to advertise to those most likely to buy from you (and if they are nearby, so much the better).
However it's going to be difficult to sell advertising space to reach, lets say, the one unfortunate bastard in the whole state who has bought Onstar and happens to pass by everyday as he leaves his house...
And anyway, as a private individual, I abhor the idea of yet more corporate 'throat-stuffing' as I go about my daily business.
How utterly fascinating and insightful.
True, but when was the last time anyone here actually backed up ALL the useless crap on their HDD.
CDR is OK(ish), but 120GB is approx 170 CDRs and that's going to take a little while to burn...unless you buy an LTO drive autoloader of course and pay 10 times as much as for the cheap hard drive ...
Or is everyone going own the RAID route with the new cheap IDE RAID mobo's available? Answers on a postcard please.