What better way way for Bill to become President? First he gets the government to pay billions for a new voting system, then every time they use it, he comes out the winner. "Geez, I dunno, we could recount again, but I'll bet the results will be the same."
Unless of course they are trying to get one of their other competitors (Sun, Oracle, AOL) to fall asleep at the wheel while Gates, Ballmer, et al steal their market.
About 20 years ago Pascal was about as popular as C. But C won out because it didn't impose as many restrictions as Pascal ("look, I can cast a function pointer to int..."). And besides, Pascal was developed for teaching good programming practices, not for "real" projects like C. So, being lazy, people started using C, and Pascal faded out of use. Even Modula-2, the "Object Oriented Pascal" couldn't save it.
How many virus exploits would have been averted if Microsoft had chosen Pascal?
4. During normal warking hours, extracts marked "FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY" (FOUO) shall not be left unattended in work... [yadayada... blahblahblah].
These people are in charge of our National Security and they can't even spell "working"? Or maybe "warking" is a special code that you need the highest security clearance to know. Or maybe it's a special "spook" kind of wanking. (Insert your own link to goatse.cx here, I'm too lazy.)
I just happened to buy StarOffice 5.2 for $40 two days ago. Then I went to work yesterday to discover that the company documents were now in Word 2000 format. I still have a Window 95 box at work for MS Outlook and Word. No one was sure if Word2K would run on Win95, so that meant I would have to a) "upgrade to Win98 or Win2k, and b) up[grade to a new machine. So I installed StarOffice instead, which supports word2k format. I installed it on Win95, Linux, and Solaris. I can even use it from my FreeBSD box as an X application on Solaris.
A movie can be in the theaters for 9 months in France? Here (in the US) even the successful ones only last about 3 weeks. In about 4 months they are released in video, and by 9 months you have to check the back of the bottom shelves in the video stores.
I don't read Russian either, but it's probably in Ukrainian. Ukraine made the Russian language illegal a few weeks ago. (Not that there's much diffference, kind of like English and American.)
I finally got around to renting M2M last night - god what a horrible movie. "The Face" should have been "the Scarface" and it should have been made out of 100% pure Columbian white. Inside they should have found a bunch of Cuban gangsters, and maybe a high-school psychokineticist, instead of Bambi-the-space-alien.
Hmm, you better tell Vita Nuova (the Inferno people). They mistakenly believe it's an OS. Here's an excerpt from their announcement:
Some seem to think that browsers should become operating systems, with sprawling functionality and clunky system calls. We thought it was much more stylish and productive to embed a proper
operating system inside a browser. So we did.
Looks like the Ministry of Silly Hats lives on. Someone had a lot of fun designing some of the stupidest looking hats ever seen on the small screen. Other than that, I guess it successful - we didn't even check out X-Files once.
In a related story, Bill Gates said Microsoft has a patent on making babies. "Hey, I had one before Torvalds. It clearly a rip-off of Microsoft's intellectual property. We plan to pursue this in the courts. We are especially concerned about infringements on our gooey interface."
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Maybe Pacific Gas & Electric will start their rolling blackouts there. Naw, too many rich folks.
You can check out the current CA system load here. Oops, sorry about that, try here.
What better way way for Bill to become President? First he gets the government to pay billions for a new voting system, then every time they use it, he comes out the winner. "Geez, I dunno, we could recount again, but I'll bet the results will be the same."
1) Linux isn't Un*x.
2) When was the last time M$ abided by the terms a contract if it didn't suit their needs?
Remember, GNU Linux is just a stopgap measure until the REAL GNU Operating System is ready.
Unless of course they are trying to get one of their other competitors (Sun, Oracle, AOL) to fall asleep at the wheel while Gates, Ballmer, et al steal their market.
They can't buy it and make it go away.
One word: M$Linux.
It must be true, since I got an email from them that started out "as one of our best customers we'd like to offer you ... blahblahblah...".
The only time I ever visited their site was when I followed a direct link to:
BadKitty stuff.
About 20 years ago Pascal was about as popular as C. But C won out because it didn't impose as many restrictions as Pascal ("look, I can cast a function pointer to int..."). And besides, Pascal was developed for teaching good programming practices, not for "real" projects like C. So, being lazy, people started using C, and Pascal faded out of use. Even Modula-2, the "Object Oriented Pascal" couldn't save it.
How many virus exploits would have been averted if Microsoft had chosen Pascal?
4. During normal warking hours, extracts marked "FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY" (FOUO) shall not be left unattended in work ... [yadayada ... blahblahblah].
These people are in charge of our National Security and they can't even spell "working"? Or maybe "warking" is a special code that you need the highest security clearance to know. Or maybe it's a special "spook" kind of wanking. (Insert your own link to goatse.cx here, I'm too lazy.)
Remember when a search for "more evil than satan" gave several hits for Bill Gates and M$FT in the top 10 (and even one for Disney)?
I guess it's pretty obvious you didn't read the article. Next time read it before trotting out your standard answer.
I just happened to buy StarOffice 5.2 for $40 two days ago. Then I went to work yesterday to discover that the company documents were now in Word 2000 format. I still have a Window 95 box at work for MS Outlook and Word. No one was sure if Word2K would run on Win95, so that meant I would have to a) "upgrade to Win98 or Win2k, and b) up[grade to a new machine. So I installed StarOffice instead, which supports word2k format. I installed it on Win95, Linux, and Solaris. I can even use it from my FreeBSD box as an X application on Solaris.
Try that with Word [97, 2k, 2.001k, etc etc).
A movie can be in the theaters for 9 months in France? Here (in the US) even the successful ones only last about 3 weeks. In about 4 months they are released in video, and by 9 months you have to check the back of the bottom shelves in the video stores.
I don't read Russian either, but it's probably in Ukrainian. Ukraine made the Russian language illegal a few weeks ago. (Not that there's much diffference, kind of like English and American.)
I don't have my Latin dictionary handy. What's it mean? Something about single-cell life forms?
is where M$FT wants to take XML.
I finally got around to renting M2M last night - god what a horrible movie. "The Face" should have been "the Scarface" and it should have been made out of 100% pure Columbian white. Inside they should have found a bunch of Cuban gangsters, and maybe a high-school psychokineticist, instead of Bambi-the-space-alien.
Are you kidding? Real defense weenies don't play solitaire, they play minesweeper.
Intel pays a lower rate, and in turn they agree to be among the first to cut power during an alert.
theIndex found nothing for this, but it did find 3 items for "teen porn".
Hmm, you better tell Vita Nuova (the Inferno people). They mistakenly believe it's an OS. Here's an excerpt from their announcement:
Some seem to think that browsers should become operating systems, with sprawling functionality and clunky system calls. We thought it was much more stylish and productive to embed a proper
operating system inside a browser. So we did.
Imagine that, putting an OS inside a browser. What does that do to Microsoft's antitrust case argument that the browser should be part of the OS?
Looks like the Ministry of Silly Hats lives on. Someone had a lot of fun designing some of the stupidest looking hats ever seen on the small screen. Other than that, I guess it successful - we didn't even check out X-Files once.
In a related story, Bill Gates said Microsoft has a patent on making babies. "Hey, I had one before Torvalds. It clearly a rip-off of Microsoft's intellectual property. We plan to pursue this in the courts. We are especially concerned about infringements on our gooey interface."