microsoft says if you aren't going to BUY their software, it's sorta OK to warez it, because some day they'll jerk the rod and you'll have to buy it, being hooked.
but they're sparing no international pressure to destroy this educator in russia.
which lie should I believe? Bill? Monkeyboy? anybody???
I quit the MS habit cold after millenium, and my Mac does everything worth doing.
and I don't believe you. how's that for credibility ?!?
seriously, folks... when Apple innovates (first one-board computer, first consumer computer, first GUI computer under $40,000, Newton) they either hit or bust. it's the market, dummy.
when Apple has a triumph of vision and packaging (iMac, iPod, OC/X, iPhone) they haven't failed yet. anybody could have pulled the iPhone together. but nobody thought of it.
THAT'S where Apple shines, finding the right packaging and right mix of features.
Dvorak has stirred the waters, so he will get paid this week.
because all of their nervous US potential customers are now going to shun circus city in droves. I have bought a good amount of stuff at CC, but never again.
the original legislation was to require those seeking patents to PROVE UNIQUENESS. therefore, this silliness runs counter to law.
no patent for being able to write on a Big Chief tablet with a jumbo purple crayon, as the pinheads in washington seem to think is how it should work.
and they ought to search prior art. if they can't find it, then maybe the USPTO should just declare a moratorium on new applications until they scan and index all the old stuff, way back to patent #1. to intelligently "expedite" handling applications, they have to be able to intelligently find prior art.
from conductive plastic, and NASA had it for whatever on earth for in the 60s.
merely conductive plastic is easy to do, dump a bunch of carbon into the vat. somebody probably came up with it in the lab in the 30s or 40s, took it panting to their supervisor, who promptly said, "so what the hell can I do with conductive.... plastic insulation? Perkins, you need to take Friday off."
we already have tunnelling effects in present transistors in ICs, and this is being exploited. you get a long plastic molecule doped up for semiconduction, assuming the material is suitable for it, assuming the regions don't migrate under the ion bombardment, and it's bound to be leaky as a soaker hose in the garden.
conductive plastic actually has some uses, but being a larger molecule than molecular silicon or germanium, doesn't make it look like the next New Chip Substrate.
"Yo, Vinnie, youse working on your own here, and the CourtFather is VERY displeased with how youse is conducting yourself. And you didn't even ask to work this dock. The CourtFather is having a meeting with your Consigliore. Maybe youse should go home while you can."
Tonight on BBC1, a night of Shakespeare. On BBC2, it's comedy night, starting with Hikinks In Welsh. BBC3, Streetwalkers in Exeter. BBC4, pedestrians on The Mall. BBC5, Best of Silly Walks on Picadilly. BBC6, Crimes in Progress.
that one cries for a summary judgement from the bench.
"Well, let's see here, Diebold... you have no permanent record, you have a litany of hacks, your top management has a strong candidate bias on record, you act like assholes and sue everybody you don't like. Case dismissed with prejudice, get out of my court and stay out of my state. Diebold to pay all legal bills, back to the founding fathers."
oh, please. OpenOffice, Linux, unix, MacOS, AmigaOS, every mainframe has its own OS and apps, web apps... shoot, a Korean refrigerator with a touchscreen and an Ethernet connection can replace MS apps and OS. a blackberry can replace MS apps and OS for lots of folks with web apps.
is the EU going to do something useful, or just yap and whine?
and will MS do anything except spit unless they have a market shut on them for monopolizing it?
MS has basically entered gutless consent agreements ("we plead to nothing, but here's a bag of cash to spread around,") in the US and done zippo in the EU. the US smiled, and the EU is still whining after three years.
so it surely looks like MS doesn't follow the law here. so should Oracle, or HN Bull, or EADS/Airbus?
impound microsoft products at the port of entry, and no sales at all in the EU.
nothing else will get their attention.
old joke revisited... steve jobs dies and is waiting at the pearly gates. long line. suddenly, with a rush of clouds and chorus of angelic voices, a chair goes skidding across the horizon, and A Power rushes by and through the gates without slowing down.
"hey, what's the big idea?" says jobs.
"Oh, that's God," says St. Peter. "Every once in a while, he thinks he's steve ballmer of microsoft."
they flatly say in the 2001 document that they are a carrier, and students had better assume that they are visible and not protected if they hink around the law or educational propriety.
sounds like my alma mater has nicely insulated themselves and told everybody just how the cow eats the cabbage (and wrecks two crops in the process.)
I'd say that it's time to play The Rouser, folks, another touchdown for good ol' Nebraska U!
dude, hear the door knocks? they're not blue digital. they're pounce reporters looking for a hot quote to spike somebody else in the back with.
"not hurt their efforts?" you just chainsawed their credibility with potential clients.
would I hire that outfit to support my campaign for Benevolent Dictator? nah, not if some janitor or evelope stuffer changed all my literature to read "dick" instead of "benevolent dictator."
after all, it already happened once, right?
ever hear of a thing called ETHICS?
no, didn't think so.
nice video, though. play it over and over for satisfaction while they evict you for nonpayment of rent.
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microsoft says if you aren't going to BUY their software, it's sorta OK to warez it, because some day they'll jerk the rod and you'll have to buy it, being hooked.
but they're sparing no international pressure to destroy this educator in russia.
which lie should I believe? Bill? Monkeyboy? anybody???
I quit the MS habit cold after millenium, and my Mac does everything worth doing.
the iPod it ain't. brown for a reason.
and I don't believe you. how's that for credibility ?!?
seriously, folks... when Apple innovates (first one-board computer, first consumer computer, first GUI computer under $40,000, Newton) they either hit or bust. it's the market, dummy.
when Apple has a triumph of vision and packaging (iMac, iPod, OC/X, iPhone) they haven't failed yet. anybody could have pulled the iPhone together. but nobody thought of it.
THAT'S where Apple shines, finding the right packaging and right mix of features.
Dvorak has stirred the waters, so he will get paid this week.
ATT Wireless and Apple get paid soon. big.
because all of their nervous US potential customers are now going to shun circus city in droves. I have bought a good amount of stuff at CC, but never again.
the original legislation was to require those seeking patents to PROVE UNIQUENESS. therefore, this silliness runs counter to law.
no patent for being able to write on a Big Chief tablet with a jumbo purple crayon, as the pinheads in washington seem to think is how it should work.
and they ought to search prior art. if they can't find it, then maybe the USPTO should just declare a moratorium on new applications until they scan and index all the old stuff, way back to patent #1. to intelligently "expedite" handling applications, they have to be able to intelligently find prior art.
from conductive plastic, and NASA had it for whatever on earth for in the 60s.
merely conductive plastic is easy to do, dump a bunch of carbon into the vat. somebody probably came up with it in the lab in the 30s or 40s, took it panting to their supervisor, who promptly said, "so what the hell can I do with conductive.... plastic insulation? Perkins, you need to take Friday off."
we already have tunnelling effects in present transistors in ICs, and this is being exploited. you get a long plastic molecule doped up for semiconduction, assuming the material is suitable for it, assuming the regions don't migrate under the ion bombardment, and it's bound to be leaky as a soaker hose in the garden.
not ideal for controlling electron flow.
conductive plastic actually has some uses, but being a larger molecule than molecular silicon or germanium, doesn't make it look like the next New Chip Substrate.
then we should make reactors out of rabbits.
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the new york times has an article today about the next run of prospectors scooping up claims, curiously enough. free registration etc. required to see
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/business/28uran
translated to "street," it basically says
"Yo, Vinnie, youse working on your own here, and the CourtFather is VERY displeased with how youse is conducting yourself. And you didn't even ask to work this dock. The CourtFather is having a meeting with your Consigliore. Maybe youse should go home while you can."
aye, aye, hrumphh, call!
Tonight on BBC1, a night of Shakespeare. On BBC2, it's comedy night, starting with Hikinks In Welsh. BBC3, Streetwalkers in Exeter. BBC4, pedestrians on The Mall. BBC5, Best of Silly Walks on Picadilly. BBC6, Crimes in Progress.
Please pay your video tax promptly, thank you.
(obvious political/polling joke goes here)
but seriously, folks, back when men were MEN and sheep ran scared... (obvious king/subjects/fleecing joke goes here)
I don't want 15% human content in my supper. (obvious online sex site joke goes here.)
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can ANYbody take this seriously?
that one cries for a summary judgement from the bench.
"Well, let's see here, Diebold... you have no permanent record, you have a litany of hacks, your top management has a strong candidate bias on record, you act like assholes and sue everybody you don't like. Case dismissed with prejudice, get out of my court and stay out of my state. Diebold to pay all legal bills, back to the founding fathers."
wrong network, and there's too much demand on the battery. too much stuff in there.
then they'll get on that whatsit, that "internets."
or perhaps insightful ;)
:-D
maybe he's running the wrong BSD
oh, please. OpenOffice, Linux, unix, MacOS, AmigaOS, every mainframe has its own OS and apps, web apps... shoot, a Korean refrigerator with a touchscreen and an Ethernet connection can replace MS apps and OS. a blackberry can replace MS apps and OS for lots of folks with web apps.
and that is the crux of the argument here.
is the EU going to do something useful, or just yap and whine?
and will MS do anything except spit unless they have a market shut on them for monopolizing it?
MS has basically entered gutless consent agreements ("we plead to nothing, but here's a bag of cash to spread around,") in the US and done zippo in the EU. the US smiled, and the EU is still whining after three years.
so it surely looks like MS doesn't follow the law here. so should Oracle, or HN Bull, or EADS/Airbus?
slippery slope for the EU if they don't step up.
corporations are artificial persons in US law, and artifical collectives in many other countries'.
kinda like country governments and boundaries are ginned up out of whole cloth.
they are all artifices of man's invention.
you don't obey one, why obey any? that's where MS is at.
impound microsoft products at the port of entry, and no sales at all in the EU.
nothing else will get their attention.
old joke revisited... steve jobs dies and is waiting at the pearly gates. long line. suddenly, with a rush of clouds and chorus of angelic voices, a chair goes skidding across the horizon, and A Power rushes by and through the gates without slowing down.
"hey, what's the big idea?" says jobs.
"Oh, that's God," says St. Peter. "Every once in a while, he thinks he's steve ballmer of microsoft."
they flatly say in the 2001 document that they are a carrier, and students had better assume that they are visible and not protected if they hink around the law or educational propriety.
sounds like my alma mater has nicely insulated themselves and told everybody just how the cow eats the cabbage (and wrecks two crops in the process.)
I'd say that it's time to play The Rouser, folks, another touchdown for good ol' Nebraska U!
http://www.nebraska.edu/about/exec_memo16.pdf
I'm surprised they ever picked up on this Internet thingy.
bunch 'a' dinosaurs.
dismiss it all with prejudice and stick RIAA with the costs. serves 'em right.
dude, hear the door knocks? they're not blue digital. they're pounce reporters looking for a hot quote to spike somebody else in the back with.
"not hurt their efforts?" you just chainsawed their credibility with potential clients.
would I hire that outfit to support my campaign for Benevolent Dictator? nah, not if some janitor or evelope stuffer changed all my literature to read "dick" instead of "benevolent dictator."
after all, it already happened once, right?
ever hear of a thing called ETHICS?
no, didn't think so.
nice video, though. play it over and over for satisfaction while they evict you for nonpayment of rent.
for government airheads when they visit. they are truly eating the seed corn now.
this idiotic decision is beyond pathetic.
if NASA is going to shut down research for political suckup stunts like mars, they might as well shut down, and let the chinese colonize space.