A Slashdot report on a security hole in WebTV, whose only value is to make Slashdot readers go "gee another microsoft hole".
Maybe your browser ate part of your message -- I think you mean "Gee, another Microsoft hole that they aren't fixing." The page to which you refer includes the fixes to the bug you mention, thank you very much. I personally don't dislike the bugginess of Microsoft's programs (as you point out, every piece of software has its bugs) so much as their indolent attitude toward getting bugs fixed.
Indeed. Forget the Rants page -- the entire strip is one long tedious rant. When it isn't about UFies, it's about Linux zealots. When it's not about Linux zealots, it's about pimply-faced nerdy Windozers, or smug shallow Mac fanatics, or web site content allegedly stolen by Planet Quake...
...is nothing more nor less than the ground for Scott Kurtz's pissing and moaning. That's how it always has been, and probably how it always will be. Anyone expecting anything more from a comic (like, say, entertainment) would do best to look elsewhere.
THE MICROSOFT PROGRAMMER'S DRINKING SONG TTTO Jimmy Buffett's "Why Don't We Get Drunk" Lyrics copyright 1999 Matthew W. Miller <mattm@infinet.com>
I really do appreciate the paychecks from dear Bill Their jaws all drop in testimony to my codin' skill But then the marketing gurus all start to file in The icons are two pixels off, I gotta start again
CHORUS: Why don't we get drunk and hack? The best way to work for MS is with a monkey on your back Pressures from all over, we surely do not lack So why don't we get drunk and hack?
I've nearly got the spelling checker working sensibly When Steve from next cube over comes along to say to me "We're always losin' marketshare to that ol' wily Finn" And I don't say a word because I'm three sheets to the wind
This is an awful lot of effort you're going through just to be funny.
Aw, be a sport! If George H. had only said that much, he probably would've only sounded a few evolutionary rungs above Windozers who say "Duhhhh, I double-clicked on the icon but I just got a screenful of text and no pretty buttons to push".
Well, naturally they had to convert all three results (including the 3 meg original) into 256 gif (or better yet, jpeg uncompressed) because I doubt your browser can show JPEG2000 files.
I beg your pardon? My browser (Netscape navigator 4.6) can display 24bit PNG images (lossless compression, you know) just fine.
The "X" in "Mac OS X" isn't a Roman numeral, is it? I recall hearing that it refers to that system appropriating (cough) code from NEXTSTEP and X11. Anyone able to specify more precisely?
Hey, are there any candidates with like, political science degrees or anything? Or are they all professional atheletes, businessmen and actors? Just curious.
You might want to try doing research on the candidates and finding out for yourself. Clearly you could use the practice.
Not quite. Pronounce the 'gh' as in 'enough', 'o' as in 'women', 'ti' as in 'nation'.
Incidentally, one of the first things I tried when I got S.A.M. (Software-Automated Mouth) for ye old Commodore 64 was 'ghoti', which it pronounced 'gosh'.
Also incidentally, I think one of the words listed is misspelled. 'floccinaucinihilipilification', the act of judging a bit of information to be utterly worthless, according to the (dis)honorable Cecil Adams in _More of the Straight Dope_.
For that matter, so does Babel Fish. InterTran translates Ich bin Berliner as "I am doughnut" and Ich bin ein Berliner as "I am one doughnut" -- not too swift. At least it handles a ton more languages than Babel Fish does (even Japanese with Shift JIS encoding to some extent).
And you don't have to always have English as a language being translated to or from, either.
Thankfully, the new (dis?)improved Alta Vista once again has a link to the 'text only' page, which was missing for a while. (The text-only page was still accessible if you'd bookmarked it, mind you, but the link from the graphical page was missing.)
Now if only they'd get rid of the flarking fonts and style sheets...I can live with the stupidly designed way-too-wide table since what's trailing off the right edge is crap anyway.
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Maybe your browser ate part of your message -- I think you mean "Gee, another Microsoft hole that they aren't fixing." The page to which you refer includes the fixes to the bug you mention, thank you very much. I personally don't dislike the bugginess of Microsoft's programs (as you point out, every piece of software has its bugs) so much as their indolent attitude toward getting bugs fixed.
Indeed. Forget the Rants page -- the entire strip is one long tedious rant. When it isn't about UFies, it's about Linux zealots. When it's not about Linux zealots, it's about pimply-faced nerdy Windozers, or smug shallow Mac fanatics, or web site content allegedly stolen by Planet Quake...
Kind of like how you can only regurgitate one comment so many times before it loses any insight and eloquence it once had?
...is nothing more nor less than the ground for Scott Kurtz's pissing and moaning. That's how it always has been, and probably how it always will be. Anyone expecting anything more from a comic (like, say, entertainment) would do best to look elsewhere.
THE MICROSOFT PROGRAMMER'S DRINKING SONG
TTTO Jimmy Buffett's "Why Don't We Get Drunk"
Lyrics copyright 1999 Matthew W. Miller <mattm@infinet.com>
I really do appreciate the paychecks from dear Bill
Their jaws all drop in testimony to my codin' skill
But then the marketing gurus all start to file in
The icons are two pixels off, I gotta start again
CHORUS:
Why don't we get drunk and hack?
The best way to work for MS is with a monkey on your back
Pressures from all over, we surely do not lack
So why don't we get drunk and hack?
I've nearly got the spelling checker working sensibly
When Steve from next cube over comes along to say to me
"We're always losin' marketshare to that ol' wily Finn"
And I don't say a word because I'm three sheets to the wind
(REPEAT CHORUS UNTIL MANAGER WALKS IN)
Aw, be a sport! If George H. had only said that much, he probably would've only sounded a few evolutionary rungs above Windozers who say "Duhhhh, I double-clicked on the icon but I just got a screenful of text and no pretty buttons to push".
Beg pardon? Judging from his performance as the Joker on Batman, the Animated Series, I'd say he's recovered from Skywalkerdom incredibly well.
Don't worry, Uncle Orson. Some of us still remember the sword-fights from The Secret of Monkey Island.
I beg your pardon? My browser (Netscape navigator 4.6) can display 24bit PNG images (lossless compression, you know) just fine.
So Intel's next chip will be called the Jamcracker?
The "X" in "Mac OS X" isn't a Roman numeral, is it? I recall hearing that it refers to that system appropriating (cough) code from NEXTSTEP and X11. Anyone able to specify more precisely?
Maybe it's "tacky" and maybe it isn't -- but Fox *have* registered it with (your favorite bureaucratic pests) the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office anyway. The race is on with the golden egg being tried for by Fox Studios, but also some porn producer in Michigan, a very brave independent producer in Texas, and even some N.O.W.-wannabe web site at http://www.21st.centuryfox.com/!! This isn't the last we're going to hear of this fight, I can figure out that much...
Just for completeness's sake -- what's the address of the zdnet NT forum where you advertised it?
Check for a 'view for printing' or similarly-named link. In this case, it leads to:
http://www.wired.com/news/prin t/0,1294,32916,00.html
which is all on one page so you don't need to keep flipping.
You might want to try doing research on the candidates and finding out for yourself. Clearly you could use the practice.
That's not a stereotype, it's the truth.
Now be quiet while I'm drawing with Photoshop on my purple iMac and flaming someone who doesn't like HTML e-mail for not getting with modern times.
Why, yes, it *is* a real transcript, and if you (ahem) read it all the way to the end, you'll see an explanation of the credentials.
Before you start firing off yet another knee-jerk flame to this guy, look closely at the message and try to pick out the sarcastic bits.
Do you mean <like this>?
RTFM.
Not quite. Pronounce the 'gh' as in 'enough', 'o' as in 'women', 'ti' as in 'nation'.
Incidentally, one of the first things I tried when I got S.A.M. (Software-Automated Mouth) for ye old Commodore 64 was 'ghoti', which it pronounced 'gosh'.
Also incidentally, I think one of the words listed is misspelled. 'floccinaucinihilipilification', the act of judging a bit of information to be utterly worthless, according to the (dis)honorable Cecil Adams in _More of the Straight Dope_.
...is, for me, mostly a source of 5.25" DSDD floppies, which are getting blooming hard to find. Just hope the stock holds out for a few more years.
The famous line from John F. Kennedy's Berlin speech is as follows:
...according to http://www.historyplace.com/speec hes/berliner.htm. The German phrase could be interpreted as either "I am a citizen of Berlin" or "I am a jelly doughnut". Those listening knew perfectly well that he meant the former, although "Ich bin Berliner" (no "ein") would be more grammatically accurate. This is briefly explained at http://www.urbanle gends.com/language/kennedy_berliner_quote.html.
For that matter, so does Babel Fish. InterTran translates Ich bin Berliner as "I am doughnut" and Ich bin ein Berliner as "I am one doughnut" -- not too swift. At least it handles a ton more languages than Babel Fish does (even Japanese with Shift JIS encoding to some extent).
And you don't have to always have English as a language being translated to or from, either.
Never played Beyond Zork, huh? (I *think* that's the one with the Christmas tree monsters.)
Thankfully, the new (dis?)improved Alta Vista once again has a link to the 'text only' page, which was missing for a while. (The text-only page was still accessible if you'd bookmarked it, mind you, but the link from the graphical page was missing.)
Now if only they'd get rid of the flarking fonts and style sheets...I can live with the stupidly designed way-too-wide table since what's trailing off the right edge is crap anyway.