I hate Linux and Open Source in general with a passion
Which makes your 680/. posts all the more impressive. I mean, you despise Linux, perl, MySQL, and even SlashCode itself. You are surrounded by people who deeply and abidingly disagree with you. And yet you put up with all of this to bring us comments with titles like "erf" and "zerg".
Girls - don't have sex because 'it's cool'. That only leads to burnout. Do it for money. At least you get something back and don't ruin the market for us whores.
A friend of mine also has this situation. He doesn't help himself by having several computer monitors in his front room, giving a TV-like glow clearly visible from the street.
However, every time the BBC's jackbooted thugs show up, he politely tells them that he'll be happy to let them come in and check for unlicenced TVs as soon as they come back with a warrant. So far, they haven't.
There appears to be no physical evolution going on. I would think the prey species would pretty quickly select for a differently shaped power socket if physical evolution occurred.
Apparently: "Bill Gates, chairman and founder of Microsoft Corporation, receives a doctor's hat from Professor Henrik Alfredsson during a ceremony at the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2002. Gates was promoted honorary doctor by the institute. (AP Photo/Pressens Bild/Jack Mikrut)"
The DOJ would like to propose a new remedy, based on several of the 7,000 "opinions" received during the public comment phase.
Under the terms of the proposed remedy Bill Gates will be required to pose for a photograph, to be published on the World Wide Web at http://goatse.microsoft.com/
A DOJ spokesman said "We really had no clue what these people were asking for when they asked for Microsoft to 'open up their APIs'. But then someone sent us a link to goatse.cx, and all became clear."
Microsofts attorneys were said to be considering the proposal, although an unnamed source pointed out that goatse.sun.com and goatse.oracle.com do not resolve.
"When Steve & Larry open their asses on the web, then Bill might think about it," was the source's opinion.
Who gets this public money? Anybody that throws his hat in the ring, including my neighbor Jim-Bob who's just doing it for the cash?
What cash?
Public funding of elections generally means you get a pre-paid postage meter and an address list, and sometimes it means you get a five minute slot on TV at the same time, but on a different day, as your opponents.
Ditto. I figure that at some point my children will realize I'm not cool and they will not want to spend any time with me at all. Until then I'm going to be with them as much as I can.
l10n and ramen were two recent worms that attacked a bug in some versions of BIND on almost all unices. This would appear to be evidence against your theory that "no-one writes worms for *nix because of lack of market share".
Actually, screen size is not that important. If the resolution is there, you can always just sit closer.
What bugs me about sub-notebooks is the keyboard size. If that could trifold, but still be rigid enough for me to do my normal pounding on, then you'd have something.
That would be covered under [L]ifetime, if it happened after we started transmitting, or one of the [f]s if it happened before we became [technological | intelligent | alive]
This guy wants the internet to be mutually intelligible. A self-selecting group of users (Outlook users) are producing email that he cannot read. Rather than be faced with unintelligible email on the mailing lists he runs, he does not allow people with illiterate mail readers to post to them.
It's totally non-productive, of course. However, if we all did this, Outlook users could have their internet all to themselves, and could leave the real internet to the rest of us.
They don't. Either buy bundling, or dumping, or simply buying them out, Microsoft has effectively eliminated any competition.
> and the government forced you to buy their product
There are government departments that only accept document submissions in.doc format.
> then it would be a monopoly
For some definitions of the word monopoly, yes. However, you don't have to have complete control of a market to exert monopoly influence (mainly due to network effects), and that is the definition most commonly used by people talking about Microsoft.
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I hate Linux and Open Source in general with a passion
/. posts all the more impressive. I mean, you despise Linux, perl, MySQL, and even SlashCode itself. You are surrounded by people who deeply and abidingly disagree with you. And yet you put up with all of this to bring us comments with titles like "erf" and "zerg".
Which makes your 680
I salute you.
Girls - don't have sex because 'it's cool'. That only leads to burnout. Do it for money. At least you get something back and don't ruin the market for us whores.
Eventually, yes.
ROFLMAO!
A friend of mine also has this situation. He doesn't help himself by having several computer monitors in his front room, giving a TV-like glow clearly visible from the street.
However, every time the BBC's jackbooted thugs show up, he politely tells them that he'll be happy to let them come in and check for unlicenced TVs as soon as they come back with a warrant. So far, they haven't.
"Information wants to be free" in the same sense that "water wants to flow downhill".
And, yes, IP laws are every bit as environmentally damaging and profitable for a few as hydroelectric dams.
There appears to be no physical evolution going on. I would think the prey species would pretty quickly select for a differently shaped power socket if physical evolution occurred.
Just look at all that wasted whitespace in your post.
Apparently: "Bill Gates, chairman and founder of Microsoft Corporation, receives a doctor's hat from Professor Henrik Alfredsson during a ceremony at the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2002. Gates was promoted honorary doctor by the institute. (AP Photo/Pressens Bild/Jack Mikrut)"
s/Steve/Scott/
And I *did* preview it. I'm just a moron.
The DOJ would like to propose a new remedy, based on several of the 7,000 "opinions" received during the public comment phase.
Under the terms of the proposed remedy Bill Gates will be required to pose for a photograph, to be published on the World Wide Web at http://goatse.microsoft.com/
A DOJ spokesman said "We really had no clue what these people were asking for when they asked for Microsoft to 'open up their APIs'. But then someone sent us a link to goatse.cx, and all became clear."
Microsofts attorneys were said to be considering the proposal, although an unnamed source pointed out that goatse.sun.com and goatse.oracle.com do not resolve.
"When Steve & Larry open their asses on the web, then Bill might think about it," was the source's opinion.
Who gets this public money? Anybody that throws his hat in the ring, including my neighbor Jim-Bob who's just doing it for the cash?
What cash?
Public funding of elections generally means you get a pre-paid postage meter and an address list, and sometimes it means you get a five minute slot on TV at the same time, but on a different day, as your opponents.
Ditto. I figure that at some point my children will realize I'm not cool and they will not want to spend any time with me at all. Until then I'm going to be with them as much as I can.
l10n and ramen were two recent worms that attacked a bug in some versions of BIND on almost all unices. This would appear to be evidence against your theory that "no-one writes worms for *nix because of lack of market share".
Find another excuse.
ROFL!
I have one of these. It comes pretty expensive though (half my paycheck).
Actually, screen size is not that important. If the resolution is there, you can always just sit closer.
What bugs me about sub-notebooks is the keyboard size. If that could trifold, but still be rigid enough for me to do my normal pounding on, then you'd have something.
Should the US be invaded, make sure you put on a uniform before you pick up a gun.
That would be covered under [L]ifetime, if it happened after we started transmitting, or one of the [f]s if it happened before we became [technological | intelligent | alive]
Shouldn't that be tebibyte?
I think you'll find most home users are on dial-up, and most of those don't ever get the full 53k out of their 56k modems.
If your job involves reading the crackmonkey mailing list, your boss is unlikely to be so rigid as to not allow you to use a different mail reader.
This guy wants the internet to be mutually intelligible. A self-selecting group of users (Outlook users) are producing email that he cannot read. Rather than be faced with unintelligible email on the mailing lists he runs, he does not allow people with illiterate mail readers to post to them.
It's totally non-productive, of course. However, if we all did this, Outlook users could have their internet all to themselves, and could leave the real internet to the rest of us.
I think most socialists *do* understand that. They just disagree that this is the best way to run a society.
> If Microsoft made programs that were overpriced
.doc format.
They do. About 100% according to Jackson.
> and they didn't allow competition
They don't. Either buy bundling, or dumping, or simply buying them out, Microsoft has effectively eliminated any competition.
> and the government forced you to buy their product
There are government departments that only accept document submissions in
> then it would be a monopoly
For some definitions of the word monopoly, yes. However, you don't have to have complete control of a market to exert monopoly influence (mainly due to network effects), and that is the definition most commonly used by people talking about Microsoft.