Put down your axe. That wasn't sexist, it was true. Been there, had to listen to it. If the tables had been turned and it had been me talking about my sagging nut sack and what brand of toilet paper I use, it might have been called sexual assault.
Oh, it was also a joke. And who the hell are you to talk about my work ethic? Talk about the pot and the fucking kettle...
Now, whoever modded it as 'informative'... whatever.
.NET? Just switch to C#. It's almost like progamming some ripped off version of Java... er wait I guess that's exactly what it is! Better than VB no matter how ripped off it is.
That makes sense. Let's try to remember here, that in 2001, the reign of terror that was NT 4.0 was still too fresh, and general confidence in W2K too weak, to allow anyone to upgrade from 3.51 to W2K.
Jet engines may have periods and sagging breasts (I doubt it but who really knows?), but at least they don't come to work and spend 6 hours a day telling the entire office about it (with the remaining two hours split between lunch and trying to look actually busy).
*shudder*
Thankyou slashdot, for bringing back up those well suppressed memories!
>> Michael just wants to bitch about Clear Channel and big evil corporations.
Sadly enough, I think Mr. AC hit it on the head here.
There is a reference to Clear Channel in the article text but absolutely no connection to it in the linked article whatsoever. Why is it there? What could it possibly have to do with some guy telecommuting to Florida? How could the linked article, in any reality, be considered 'News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters'?
It's there because somebody has an axe to grind, that's why. Is this not a perfect example of the need for the 'troll -1' moderation?
Nobody said the station is paying for it. It could just as easily be that he is paying for it out of pocket and the 'nice thing the station did' is simply letting him telecommute. Maybe they struck a deal where the station pays for some of the equipment or something. The point is, we don't know one way or the other do we?
You'd be better off getting the case and gluing a pocket pussy on the front. Then you'd kindof have a hooker bot that you could keep, and she'd be QUIET!
Enough of us agree on TCP/IP, HTTP, HTML, XML, yada yada yada... The problem is that people who WANT TO GET RICH don't agree for the simple reason that that is less conducive to getting rich. TCP/IP, for example, is agreed upon because the guys designing and deploying it weren't out to get rich, they were out to make a solid working system for its own sake (ya know, so we could blow people up more efficiently:-). This industry could use more of that kind of research on infastructure.
I'm with you. But there has to be some neato lofty goal that the average Joe sixpack will grunt and aprove. Let's just hope that this project doesn't turn into another one-off hack job. If the money is spent well, that cool get-into-orbit-for-cheap technology will come about as a matter of course, hopefully before we even bother with the moon shot.
"One wonders why these literal rocket scientists didn't just get a software programmable Linux or PalmOS based wrist-computer and hack together a Mars-time display application into it?"
Because a real working otherwise ordinary wrist watch is way cooler.
Win98 was the worst piece of crap excuse for an OS there ever was, with the possible exception of Win95. It's worse than <= Win3.1 and <= MacOS 9.* because it tried to masquerade as a real OS, with the lamest excuse for preemtive multi-tasking and memory protection ever conceived.
Now if they could only find a way to permanently remove every single copy in existence and delete all copies of the source code, the world would be a much better place.
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So, MS is spending a bunch of extra money to remove stuff and test the result, then charging the customer less for it.
This is just one reason I will NEVER understand marketing.
Wouldn't they be better off just selling the same thing everyone else gets, just at a discount?
I've had one of these sort of things for years.
It's a porn-o-meter. It tells me how good the porn is I happen to be looking at at any given time.
It's in my pants.
This is /. folks, it's funny!!! Isn't it?
Put down your axe. That wasn't sexist, it was true. Been there, had to listen to it. If the tables had been turned and it had been me talking about my sagging nut sack and what brand of toilet paper I use, it might have been called sexual assault.
Oh, it was also a joke. And who the hell are you to talk about my work ethic? Talk about the pot and the fucking kettle...
Now, whoever modded it as 'informative'... whatever.
.NET? Just switch to C#. It's almost like progamming some ripped off version of Java... er wait I guess that's exactly what it is! Better than VB no matter how ripped off it is.
I didn't ever think of it that way... but I didn't realize kill could take on a smell...
SCO has programmers? A guy with a crack pipe and diff doesn't exactly count as a programmer...
I dunno... get paid to sit around in a confy inter-stellar space craft and do nothing while people say you did... not so bad really :-)
That makes sense. Let's try to remember here, that in 2001, the reign of terror that was NT 4.0 was still too fresh, and general confidence in W2K too weak, to allow anyone to upgrade from 3.51 to W2K.
Jet engines may have periods and sagging breasts (I doubt it but who really knows?), but at least they don't come to work and spend 6 hours a day telling the entire office about it (with the remaining two hours split between lunch and trying to look actually busy).
*shudder*
Thankyou slashdot, for bringing back up those well suppressed memories!
>> Michael just wants to bitch about Clear Channel and big evil corporations.
Sadly enough, I think Mr. AC hit it on the head here.
There is a reference to Clear Channel in the article text but absolutely no connection to it in the linked article whatsoever. Why is it there? What could it possibly have to do with some guy telecommuting to Florida? How could the linked article, in any reality, be considered 'News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters'?
It's there because somebody has an axe to grind, that's why. Is this not a perfect example of the need for the 'troll -1' moderation?
Nobody said the station is paying for it. It could just as easily be that he is paying for it out of pocket and the 'nice thing the station did' is simply letting him telecommute. Maybe they struck a deal where the station pays for some of the equipment or something. The point is, we don't know one way or the other do we?
You'd be better off getting the case and gluing a pocket pussy on the front. Then you'd kindof have a hooker bot that you could keep, and she'd be QUIET!
You'd be the one to have to give your dog a bath tho... I'd hold off if it were me...
Enough of us agree on TCP/IP, HTTP, HTML, XML, yada yada yada... The problem is that people who WANT TO GET RICH don't agree for the simple reason that that is less conducive to getting rich. TCP/IP, for example, is agreed upon because the guys designing and deploying it weren't out to get rich, they were out to make a solid working system for its own sake (ya know, so we could blow people up more efficiently :-). This industry could use more of that kind of research on infastructure.
Are you the governer?
Hmmm you'd likely be called a cold fish. Or maybe your GF would claim to have been "cold cocked". The only thing going up would be the temperature!
I'm with you. But there has to be some neato lofty goal that the average Joe sixpack will grunt and aprove. Let's just hope that this project doesn't turn into another one-off hack job. If the money is spent well, that cool get-into-orbit-for-cheap technology will come about as a matter of course, hopefully before we even bother with the moon shot.
Yep, STILL stuck in Martian customs.
Wow, those are pretty nifty digital watches...
Put down the crack pipe dude...
This is slashdot. We have no idea what you're talking about :-)
You must be new... that's what it has ALWAYS meant.
It's probly just hung up in Martian Customs. The poor ole' Beagle might be undergoing a cavety search this very moment.
Win98 was the worst piece of crap excuse for an OS there ever was, with the possible exception of Win95. It's worse than <= Win3.1 and <= MacOS 9.* because it tried to masquerade as a real OS, with the lamest excuse for preemtive multi-tasking and memory protection ever conceived.
:-)
Now if they could only find a way to permanently remove every single copy in existence and delete all copies of the source code, the world would be a much better place.
I feel better