Seriously, five years ago I wouldn't have expected something like this from Microsoft, but these days I wouldn't put anything past them.
They should just get it over with and merge all these half-assed attempts at winning mindshare into one entity: The Microsoft Public Manipulation Team.
Leave it up to Microsoft to ruin the party for everyone else.
Seriously though, with a tiny bit of hacking, you can turn a standard, run of the mill IRC server into something that will provide Instant Messaging services for a client. The pieces are there, just put them together.
Don't get me wrong, it's great that SGI is adopting Linux, but I can't help wondering if they'll dump Linux when the "next big thing" hits their marketing department.
m. Wealthy U.S. businessman a closet revolutionary and Nazi
Ip. 154 (cV-75)
A very wealthy and famous businessman in the U.S. will be secretly involved with the American Nazi Party and the Ku Klux Klan in the south. The man's sole ambition in life is to overthrow the American government as it is presently constituted. The man will be involved with politics but will stay low-key, spinning webs of power and expanding his influence behind the scenes. This groundwork will prove useful for the Antichrist later on. The man will have a puppet, a figurehead, but he will pull the strings. The link will not be known until the time of the Antichrist.
Does that give you the chills or what? Wonder if it's Billy G..
And this is why companies are such tight-asses about advertising these days. It's why you see an asterik by everything even remotely intended to be amusing in advertisements. Because stupid people will sue them.
Take Nintendo for example. I was looking at the box for the game Pokémon Snap. As you can see, the box features the lens of the camera with various game characters around it. If you look at the back of the box, you'll see a disclaimer: "This is a game pak, not a camera".
One thing Katz misses on is that the theater restrictions are still being implemented on a voluntary basis. I can see what the fuss would be if this were a law of some sort, but it's simply a suggestion that some businesses are choosing to follow.
I was in a local theater this past weekend to see Deep Blue Sea, which was an average movie, but was also rated R. Looking around the theater I could see quite a few unaccompanied under-17 persons attending the showing. So much for the big "we honor age restriction guidelines" banner hanging out front, eh? Theaters just want your money. That's the bottom line.
Just remember, if they ever put Schindler's List back in the theaters, your kids won't be allowed to see it because it's rated R, and they're under 17. So much for learning from the past.
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I'd hate to know that code I submitted (now incorporated into the Linux kernel) was used to kill people. I think the GPL should be modified to disallow use of code in weapons.
If you didn't want your code used freely, then why did you release it under a free license in the first place?
Oh well. If they get driven away from the GPL, maybe we'll get a railgun that runs FreeBSD. One can only hope.
Listened to it last night.. As much fun as I think it'd be to have a guillotine-Rob's-fingers-off cam, the best parts were the token screeching/crashing car sound effect played when talking about the W2k test site, and Jeff's little medical talk.
I've also been keeping track, this is the first time Microsoft has even been mentioned on the show.
I seriously hope most of the people top-ranked in this poll aren't even in consideration.. Linus Torvalds, for example. Besides writing a few lines of computer code, what has he really done that's impacted this entire century? The same goes for entertainers. Elvis Presley? Madonna? Give me a break.
I don't think that any one person is worthy of the title of "Man of the Century". For every "big name" you see in that list, I'd bet there's at least 50 people working twice as hard behind-the-scenes that don't get media attention.
All of the people on that list are who they are/were because they have people behind them. They have a following. People working for them, subscribing to their way of the world, willing to go the extra mile for them. A single man is nobody without his peers to back him up.
In my opinion, the Man of the Century isn't even a man. It's the brain. Not necessarily the human brain, just the brain in general. They're everywhere. The unstable element in an otherwise stable experiment. They get us into trouble, and sometimes out of trouble if we're lucky. They build things, and they break things. They can be your best friend, or your worst enemy. They can reason, and adapt. And who knows what they'll experience over the course of the next century.
I'm from Microsoft and I'm OK I sleep all night and I sleep all day
He's from Microsoft and he's OK He sleeps all night and he sleeps all day
I code VB, I eat my lunch, I go to the lavat'ry On Wednesdays I do nothing But collect pay from Bill G.
He codes VB, he eats his lunch, he goes to the lavat-ry On Wednesdays he does nothing But collect pay from Bill G. He's from Microsoft and he's OK He sleeps all night and he sleeps all day.
I code VB, whilst taking a dump Ten lines done in two hours I wish I had GNU/Linux I just crashed my Windows taskbar
He codes VB, whilst taking a dump Ten lines done in two hours He wishes he had GNU/Linux He just crashed his Windows taskbar.. ?? He's from Microsoft and he's OK He sleeps all night and he sleeps all day.
I code VB, and MFC NT is such a crock I wish I'd learned BSD Just like my dear papa!
He codes VB, and MFC NT is such a crock.. ?!?
He's from Microsoft and he's OK He sleeps all night and he sleeps all day!
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They should just get it over with and merge all these half-assed attempts at winning mindshare into one entity: The Microsoft Public Manipulation Team.
Here's a log of the SlashNET Forum with mandrake a few months ago if anyone wants to look over it.
Seriously though, with a tiny bit of hacking, you can turn a standard, run of the mill IRC server into something that will provide Instant Messaging services for a client. The pieces are there, just put them together.
It pains me to see that Slashdot is back up and running thanks in part to NT.
If BSD wants XFS, they'll port it. It'll just reside as an option in the non-free section of the installation.
If I recall, it doesn't interpret HTTP requests, but serves you a document based on whichever port number you connect to it via.
Don't get me wrong, it's great that SGI is adopting Linux, but I can't help wondering if they'll dump Linux when the "next big thing" hits their marketing department.
m. Wealthy U.S. businessman a closet revolutionary and Nazi
Ip. 154 (cV-75)
A very wealthy and famous businessman in the U.S. will be secretly involved with the American Nazi Party and the Ku Klux Klan in the south. The man's sole ambition in life is to overthrow the American government as it is presently constituted. The man will be involved with politics but will stay low-key, spinning webs of power and expanding his influence behind the scenes. This groundwork will prove useful for the Antichrist later on. The man will have a puppet, a figurehead, but he will pull the strings. The link will not be known until the time of the Antichrist.
Does that give you the chills or what? Wonder if it's Billy G..
Just an observation, but I think Jesse's hairstyle changes more frequently than his opinion does.
Let's just be glad you-know-who isn't acquiring all these websites..
Jesus Christ got only 426,920.
I'll be damned. I guess Lennon was right.
Satan got only 221,090.
I don't know about you, but that just made my day.
Don't underestimate governments. If they want to know who you are, they will.
Take Nintendo for example. I was looking at the box for the game Pokémon Snap. As you can see, the box features the lens of the camera with various game characters around it. If you look at the back of the box, you'll see a disclaimer: "This is a game pak, not a camera".
Well, DUH.
I was in a local theater this past weekend to see Deep Blue Sea , which was an average movie, but was also rated R. Looking around the theater I could see quite a few unaccompanied under-17 persons attending the showing. So much for the big "we honor age restriction guidelines" banner hanging out front, eh? Theaters just want your money. That's the bottom line.
Just remember, if they ever put Schindler's List back in the theaters, your kids won't be allowed to see it because it's rated R, and they're under 17. So much for learning from the past.
If you didn't want your code used freely, then why did you release it under a free license in the first place?
Oh well. If they get driven away from the GPL, maybe we'll get a railgun that runs FreeBSD. One can only hope.
I've also been keeping track, this is the first time Microsoft has even been mentioned on the show.
Keep up the good work. (:
With all the people hammering the server though, I'm surprised nobody tried a meta refresh before my redhat.com and freebsd.org tests. :P
I accidently redirected the guestbook to freebsd.org. Sorry, Bill. Really.
Do GPFs count as "hidden messages"?
The goal is to see how a properly secured machine will stand up to attack. These machines are configured to prevent known attacks.
With a cookie-cutter operating system like Windows, you'd think they'd make the default configuration as resistant as possible to known attacks.
Are bananas necessary to the survival of vegetables?
I don't think that any one person is worthy of the title of "Man of the Century". For every "big name" you see in that list, I'd bet there's at least 50 people working twice as hard behind-the-scenes that don't get media attention.
All of the people on that list are who they are/were because they have people behind them. They have a following. People working for them, subscribing to their way of the world, willing to go the extra mile for them. A single man is nobody without his peers to back him up.
In my opinion, the Man of the Century isn't even a man. It's the brain. Not necessarily the human brain, just the brain in general. They're everywhere. The unstable element in an otherwise stable experiment. They get us into trouble, and sometimes out of trouble if we're lucky. They build things, and they break things. They can be your best friend, or your worst enemy. They can reason, and adapt. And who knows what they'll experience over the course of the next century.
The text formatting was a bitch.
I sleep all night and I sleep all day
He's from Microsoft and he's OK
He sleeps all night and he sleeps all day
I code VB, I eat my lunch, I go to the lavat'ry
On Wednesdays I do nothing
But collect pay from Bill G.
He codes VB, he eats his lunch, he goes to the lavat-ry
On Wednesdays he does nothing
But collect pay from Bill G.
He's from Microsoft and he's OK
He sleeps all night and he sleeps all day.
I code VB, whilst taking a dump
Ten lines done in two hours
I wish I had GNU/Linux
I just crashed my Windows taskbar
He codes VB, whilst taking a dump .. ??
Ten lines done in two hours
He wishes he had GNU/Linux
He just crashed his Windows taskbar
He's from Microsoft and he's OK
He sleeps all night and he sleeps all day.
I code VB, and MFC
NT is such a crock
I wish I'd learned BSD
Just like my dear papa!
He codes VB, and MFC .. ?!?
NT is such a crock
He's from Microsoft and he's OK
He sleeps all night and he sleeps all day!
Yet another twisted drwiii presentation :P
It's just like Linux vs. BSD.. Each side has something they excel at, and something that they lag behind at. Just use whichever one makes you happy.