Reminds me of Northern Exposure after Joel left. They can try to bring in new people, but the "magic" is probably gone for good. Let's see if David Duchovny is any more successful in his movie career than Rob Morrow.
One thing that bugs me about X-Files is that they started calling "Cancerman" "Cigarette-Smoking Man". It just doesn't have the same ring to it. Did the tobacco companies complain that the TV show was tarnishing their pristine public image?
What you really need is some generic mail-message pattern-matching and a complaint & moderation system. You don't really need automatic detection of spam, since there would probably be plenty of people willing to complain if there was an effective place to complain to, and if mail clients as well as mail servers could consult the spam-detection service to eliminate confirmed spam before it reaches your eyeballs.
However, I have a feeling to "trust" Pi more than e, given that you can write e in form of continued fractions with repeating patterns, and nobody has yet found a pattern in the continued fractions of Pi.
I though that you could construct Taylor series for functions like arctan(x) and arctan(1) = 1/4*pi, so pi = 4*(ArcTanTaylorSeries(1)).
Quite right. Scientists are required to publish stuff, and the most valuable piece of the publication process is not the dead trees but the peer review, which is provided for free by other researchers.
This is correct. So far, Outlook viruses have been mostly just an irritation. Nothing of any substance will be done by Microsoft or users in general until the shit really hits the fan. If half the PCs on Earth were suddenly wiped out, Microsoft would actually take some heat. Virus writers need to grow some balls!
In others (the rocket and steam engine episodes), the junkyard is stocked with pristine, new, tested parts.
Exactly, and if they ever go for my idea about "car-sized battle bots", they'd need to stock the junkyard with radio controllers and powerful servoelectronics.;-)
Apparently they've never heard of the web. Very crafty; to avoid getting citizens all uppity about their opinions, they hide them behind some ancient BBS system that may or may not even still be around.
In five billion years, our sun is expected to do the same thing
The story about Andromeda colliding with the Milky Way earlier today said that this would happen in 15-billion years. How is a person supposed to make contingency plans with all of this conflicting information!?
Instead of "HailStorm", Microsoft should be forced to rename their service to "LightDrizzle", to avoid false metaphorical advertising about the degree of adverse conditions that the system will likely be able to withstand.
An often ignored concept... is that most pirated copies would NOT have been purchased anyways.
While this may be true about the latest cool game, a computer without an operating system is a very expensive paperweight.
Microsoft's anti-trust punishment should be a compulsory and immediate donation of $5-billion to the Free Software Foundation. This would shortly spell the end of Microsoft's tyranny.
And then there's the user base argument. When people are pirating your software, they're strengthening your monopoly.
Well, now that Microsoft's monopoly position has become so strongly entrenched, the marginal value of piracy to them has been reduced. However, their stock price is now embarrassingly low, so pirate users represent a good untapped resource to help reinflate their stock bubble. (Doubling costs to businesses is another good strategy.)
In fact, this is urgently important to Microsoft, since it hasn't actually turned a profit on software sales in a while ("The Bank of Microsoft" is solely responsible for Microsoft's good looking bottom line), and since it can't use its stock price as currency like it used to. In many ways, Microsoft looks like a falling empire, which it likely is, and pumping up its stock price is a good defence.
Now be good c1t1z3n5 and pay your Microsoft tax! (Or use something else...)
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You cannot forward a document to a stranger and then legally bind that stranger to behave according to the content of that document. Not in the USA.
At least not without a click button...
Reminds me of Northern Exposure after Joel left. They can try to bring in new people, but the "magic" is probably gone for good. Let's see if David Duchovny is any more successful in his movie career than Rob Morrow.
One thing that bugs me about X-Files is that they started calling "Cancerman" "Cigarette-Smoking Man". It just doesn't have the same ring to it. Did the tobacco companies complain that the TV show was tarnishing their pristine public image?
What you really need is some generic mail-message pattern-matching and a complaint & moderation system. You don't really need automatic detection of spam, since there would probably be plenty of people willing to complain if there was an effective place to complain to, and if mail clients as well as mail servers could consult the spam-detection service to eliminate confirmed spam before it reaches your eyeballs.
Just use GPS.
I would like to see NASA somehow extract the data from the tape (in any form) and post a huge tarball on their website.
But if they did that, we would find out about the secret Martian cities and the CIA coverup!
about his status as Civil Rights Hero.
Perhaps he feels more like a victim of the illegal laws of a banana republic.
However, I have a feeling to "trust" Pi more than e, given that you can write e in form of continued fractions with repeating patterns, and nobody has yet found a pattern in the continued fractions of Pi.
I though that you could construct Taylor series for functions like arctan(x) and arctan(1) = 1/4*pi, so pi = 4*(ArcTanTaylorSeries(1)).
First of all I have to congratulate Verizon for something, OUCH!
They're not standing up for a cause; they're just negotiating for a higher payoff.
But if they eliminate access to multimedia pr0n, the high-speed-Internet industry will collapse.
Quite right. Scientists are required to publish stuff, and the most valuable piece of the publication process is not the dead trees but the peer review, which is provided for free by other researchers.
It was the sheer stupidity of the worm's creator and the skill of some network admins which limited the worms attack and DoS potential.
I'm sure that version 2.0 of the worm will fix all of the problems.
This is correct. So far, Outlook viruses have been mostly just an irritation. Nothing of any substance will be done by Microsoft or users in general until the shit really hits the fan. If half the PCs on Earth were suddenly wiped out, Microsoft would actually take some heat. Virus writers need to grow some balls!
It appears to be in an impenetrable obfuscated format called ".ppt".
In others (the rocket and steam engine episodes), the junkyard is stocked with pristine, new, tested parts.
;-)
Exactly, and if they ever go for my idea about "car-sized battle bots", they'd need to stock the junkyard with radio controllers and powerful servoelectronics.
All citizens should have the right to secretly or non-secretly record any public official while they are discharging their duties in public.
Did you see this page.
Apparently they've never heard of the web. Very crafty; to avoid getting citizens all uppity about their opinions, they hide them behind some ancient BBS system that may or may not even still be around.
May be more a matter of $10-million * 19 Attorneys General == very good deal for Microsoft.
In five billion years, our sun is expected to do the same thing
The story about Andromeda colliding with the Milky Way earlier today said that this would happen in 15-billion years. How is a person supposed to make contingency plans with all of this conflicting information!?
Instead of "HailStorm", Microsoft should be forced to rename their service to "LightDrizzle", to avoid false metaphorical advertising about the degree of adverse conditions that the system will likely be able to withstand.
An often ignored concept ... is that most pirated copies would NOT have been purchased anyways.
While this may be true about the latest cool game, a computer without an operating system is a very expensive paperweight.
Microsoft's anti-trust punishment should be a compulsory and immediate donation of $5-billion to the Free Software Foundation. This would shortly spell the end of Microsoft's tyranny.
And then there's the user base argument. When people are pirating your software, they're strengthening your monopoly.
Well, now that Microsoft's monopoly position has become so strongly entrenched, the marginal value of piracy to them has been reduced. However, their stock price is now embarrassingly low, so pirate users represent a good untapped resource to help reinflate their stock bubble. (Doubling costs to businesses is another good strategy.)
In fact, this is urgently important to Microsoft, since it hasn't actually turned a profit on software sales in a while ("The Bank of Microsoft" is solely responsible for Microsoft's good looking bottom line), and since it can't use its stock price as currency like it used to. In many ways, Microsoft looks like a falling empire, which it likely is, and pumping up its stock price is a good defence.
Now be good c1t1z3n5 and pay your Microsoft tax! (Or use something else...)
Microsoft's anti-trust punishment should be a compulsory and immediate donation of $5-billion to the Free Software Foundation.
Quantum Computing: Putting the N in NP!
Sounds like Slashdot might be forced to remove your message because it looks like a copyright violation from one of Microsoft's advertising brochures.