That is of course, the Micro web Site For Other Technologies. Interestingly, micorsoft.com redirects to Microsoft themselves. Maybe they haven't themselves made the 'sfot' typo yet, and don't realise that the website exists? Btw, I tried myself - YMMV - with a sample of 5,000,000 times typing microsoft and microsfot IS EASIER TO TYPO than micorsoft... and my fingers are sore. i'm gonna learn scripting next...
it's not crass and offensive at all. this is exactly what should be said more often, it is precisely the kind of thinking that led to all the strides forward in open source software - if you don't like what the big boys churn out, there's no-one stopping you writing your own software - (especially now, what with the free deve environments, tons of languages and so forth and so on).
One poster has pointed out that the "Caldera icon looks like a blue mickey mouse on a balloon". But the CEO's name is also odd: sounds like one of those slightly disturbing AOL passwords which AOL hands out on the free CDs: 'ransom-love'.
Check out some more good 'uns on this page. oh, and no of course i don't then go ahead and install AOL. duh, i use them for coasters like everyone else...
"has survived a few impromptu wrestling sessions"
wow, sure beats beaming your business card at someone:
"Say, Frank, rather than beam it, why doesn't your Palm wrestle mine for it?"
lol
re antenna in head and also screens: go read SnowCrash by Neal Stephenson. he has very interesting ideas about how virtuality requires something more of a 'beamed screen' (i.e. a holgraphic projection) rather than an actual physical job.
iain banks, of course, went for the 'screen that rolls out like a blind' in his Culture novels, but can you imagine that in a crowded subway-train? lol
Er, hasn't anyone read or heard of sci-fi book 'Nemesis'? I won't spoil it (although it's not particularly good) by giving any more details than to say that it involves Ruskies and the US and dashed clever British mountain-climbing scientists (what a surprise the author's like some Brit professor), but it does cover EXACTLY the scenario envisaged here: diverting an asteroid far enough away while it's still relatively easy and then plonking it down into, IIRC, Kansas.
Of course there's also the slightly better written but still relatively dire 'Footfall', which again uses the asteroid-as-weapon idea, tho' this time by alien bad guys. I still don't know why they didn't film this as the plot for Armageddon, actually.
OK, that's enough books for now.
Just my 0.02 - the service on Thawte is first-class. I had a couple of queries on certificates answered using their live Java chat customer support thingy - and with the *right* answers I might add - within 5 minutes of asking them.
Esepcially since one of these questions was relatively technical (how to muck about with IIS certs in Linux so as to reuse the cert with Apache) I consider this to be pretty good.
So: Thawte, I'd use them again.
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'cos your pc is a universal turing machine. that's why.
Wow, they have been busy.
i once spent the best part of 3 hours getting 100 000 on pac man for the atari 'home entertainment system' (complete with wood-effect panels).
man did i have sore thumbs.
That is of course, the Micro web Site For Other Technologies. Interestingly, micorsoft.com redirects to Microsoft themselves. Maybe they haven't themselves made the 'sfot' typo yet, and don't realise that the website exists? Btw, I tried myself - YMMV - with a sample of 5,000,000 times typing microsoft and microsfot IS EASIER TO TYPO than micorsoft... and my fingers are sore. i'm gonna learn scripting next...
it's not crass and offensive at all. this is exactly what should be said more often, it is precisely the kind of thinking that led to all the strides forward in open source software - if you don't like what the big boys churn out, there's no-one stopping you writing your own software - (especially now, what with the free deve environments, tons of languages and so forth and so on).
Check out some more good 'uns on this page. oh, and no of course i don't then go ahead and install AOL. duh, i use them for coasters like everyone else...
published client source-code
encrypts all traffic on the system
works with MySQL as backend
try Sonork (sonork.com), dev page at http://www.sonork.com/eng/devzone/default.htm.
"has survived a few impromptu wrestling sessions" wow, sure beats beaming your business card at someone: "Say, Frank, rather than beam it, why doesn't your Palm wrestle mine for it?" lol
re antenna in head and also screens: go read SnowCrash by Neal Stephenson. he has very interesting ideas about how virtuality requires something more of a 'beamed screen' (i.e. a holgraphic projection) rather than an actual physical job. iain banks, of course, went for the 'screen that rolls out like a blind' in his Culture novels, but can you imagine that in a crowded subway-train? lol
Er, hasn't anyone read or heard of sci-fi book 'Nemesis'? I won't spoil it (although it's not particularly good) by giving any more details than to say that it involves Ruskies and the US and dashed clever British mountain-climbing scientists (what a surprise the author's like some Brit professor), but it does cover EXACTLY the scenario envisaged here: diverting an asteroid far enough away while it's still relatively easy and then plonking it down into, IIRC, Kansas. Of course there's also the slightly better written but still relatively dire 'Footfall', which again uses the asteroid-as-weapon idea, tho' this time by alien bad guys. I still don't know why they didn't film this as the plot for Armageddon, actually. OK, that's enough books for now.
Just my 0.02 - the service on Thawte is first-class. I had a couple of queries on certificates answered using their live Java chat customer support thingy - and with the *right* answers I might add - within 5 minutes of asking them. Esepcially since one of these questions was relatively technical (how to muck about with IIS certs in Linux so as to reuse the cert with Apache) I consider this to be pretty good. So: Thawte, I'd use them again.
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