Wired had an article about a year or so ago (can't remember the issue...sorry) about scientists that tried to promote blue green algae growth by dumping iron shavings into the water (iirc... it was something weird)... in an attempt to get the algae to combat global warming.
It failed. Not only did they not grow enough algae to call the experiment a mild success, but there were side effects, i believe they managed to kill off alot of fish.
I know I'm light on the details, but history is full of these kinds of things... someone thinks there is a simple answer to a problem, but their efforts are short-sighted and only create a larger problem (the US gov't has done this a million times).
Unfortunately, I've looked through www.wired.com/wired... the article was a minor one. I believe the article with in the first half of 2001 if anyone wants to check their archives
Where did M$ coders learn how to code? Don't they know that building large systems in a modular fashion makes everything evil? It seems like Microsoft is trying to get us to believe that their flagship product is a tangled mess of inseperable code that they can't sort out.
I don't think you would run into any serious problems if you uninstalled Konqueror from KDE. But even if I'm wrong, KDE isn't lying about this 'integration' in order to maintain an illegal monopoly... Microsoft is evil.
a) nothing will kill open source b) no industry has ever quickly and successfully changed formats... some computer labs and specialized 9i.e. crappy and not worth updating;) *STILL* use punch cards in the days of DVD-Rs c) i trust my spam filters d) that 20MB email can be filtered e) web service won't cost that much... everyone wants it.. it isn't that hard to get and peple want it... that means prices go down, not up f) windows xp 2004 will be called some gay like Windows #$ (...oh wait, that looks like perl) g) popup banners can be defated, get ad-aware and/or a recent version of mozilla and opera
i'm not too worried, sure there's a whole online world for idiots now, but the smart will survive.
but seriously, i think that people will only put up with so much crap... popup windows, subscription services, etc. speaking of crappy ads.../.'s new ads don't bother me nearly as much as i thought they would.
anyone used freenet lately? is it usable yet? i haven't in over 6 months.
as for microsoft, i believe the history books will point to windows xp, with it's lack of compelling new features and unattractive licensing loan (i.e. lease) as the beginning of the end. but that's another rant...
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I'll provide you access to my yahoo headline-grabbing service for $10/day... what a deal!
They missed one major revelation: Agent Dogget was the T-1000 -- an evil, shape-shifting , time-travelling terminator!
...But Sun has also begun work to bring Solaris features to Linux, said Vivek Mehra, vice president and general manager of Sun's Cobalt group.
That's nothing; I heard Microsoft was porting BSoD and their instability daemon to Linux.
If my yahoo accounts had real data in them... and not "Bob Bob from Bob, NY 10005, (212)555-5555" in them, I may have given a damn.
2) Coke
I hope you mean the white powder and not the carbonated, caffeinated beverage. That stuff will kill ya.
...The headline talks about toilets and workstations as if they were two different things...
They haven't seen my toilet.
I don't think I want my PDA to run Symbian. Am I wrong?
Yes.
...and of course some minor others life TF, TFC and Counter-Strike for Half-Life
Wired had an article about a year or so ago (can't remember the issue...sorry) about scientists that tried to promote blue green algae growth by dumping iron shavings into the water (iirc... it was something weird)... in an attempt to get the algae to combat global warming.
... the article was a minor one. I believe the article with in the first half of 2001 if anyone wants to check their archives
It failed. Not only did they not grow enough algae to call the experiment a mild success, but there were side effects, i believe they managed to kill off alot of fish.
I know I'm light on the details, but history is full of these kinds of things... someone thinks there is a simple answer to a problem, but their efforts are short-sighted and only create a larger problem (the US gov't has done this a million times).
Unfortunately, I've looked through www.wired.com/wired
s/everything evil/everything easier/
Whenever I think about Microsoft all my e-words come out as 'evil'.
Where did M$ coders learn how to code? Don't they know that building large systems in a modular fashion makes everything evil? It seems like Microsoft is trying to get us to believe that their flagship product is a tangled mess of inseperable code that they can't sort out.
I don't think you would run into any serious problems if you uninstalled Konqueror from KDE. But even if I'm wrong, KDE isn't lying about this 'integration' in order to maintain an illegal monopoly... Microsoft is evil.
90%? Does this mean their company is 90% sales/marketing people?
try{
IBM.Try(OS2);
IBM.Try(AllowPCClones);
}catch(Exception Microsoft){
IBM.Buy(Sun.Java);
}
I don't own any portables and am not really interested... I'd rather just have a decent laptop. But I would buy one of these.
i managed to backup the links saved as:p le/kl s/vdr/g fiala/p eople/kl s/vdr/software.htm
http://www.parseerror.com/www.cadsoft.de/peo
http://www.parseerror.com/www.s.netic.de/
http://www.parseerror.com/www.cadsoft.de/
respectively.
not to have to put together a perl script just to record "Naked Chef [foodtv.com]".
They have TV shows like that?
now when that recliner/toilet comes in i *really* won't need to leave the desk.
microsoft bad!
open source good!
this artile sounds like a moron's nightmare.
;) *STILL* use punch cards in the days of DVD-Rs
a) nothing will kill open source
b) no industry has ever quickly and successfully changed formats... some computer labs and specialized 9i.e. crappy and not worth updating
c) i trust my spam filters
d) that 20MB email can be filtered
e) web service won't cost that much... everyone wants it.. it isn't that hard to get and peple want it... that means prices go down, not up
f) windows xp 2004 will be called some gay like Windows #$ (...oh wait, that looks like perl)
g) popup banners can be defated, get ad-aware and/or a recent version of mozilla and opera
i'm not too worried, sure there's a whole online world for idiots now, but the smart will survive.
/.'s new ads don't bother me nearly as much as i thought they would.
but seriously, i think that people will only put up with so much crap... popup windows, subscription services, etc.
speaking of crappy ads...
anyone used freenet lately? is it usable yet? i haven't in over 6 months.
as for microsoft, i believe the history books will point to windows xp, with it's lack of compelling new features and unattractive licensing loan (i.e. lease) as the beginning of the end. but that's another rant...
imagine a BeoWulf cluster of those! :P
that means that they're absolutely certain they need cash-flow
Sorry, but anyone that can't spell "colleagues" correctly doesn't really have any. They have "buds" or "pals". It's a scale.