Let me guess - videotron. When I signed up, I bought the unlimited bandwidth plan, and a couple of years ago it's suddenly capped at 100 gb/month.
Now, most months I use only a fraction of that, but when a new linux distro comes out, I want to give back by sharing as much as possible - plus I have several boxes that I want to upgrade (I do the network upgrade option, and with ~5,000 packages, that's almost 10 gigs per box).
For the people who point out that water is metered, guess what? Water is supplied by your local government, at cost, and we've never had the tap stop running - not even during the Ice Storm.
Municipalities should be free to get into supplying the pipes for the Internet to their "shareholders".
Obama never said that it was like winning the Geek Olympics, that even if you win, you're still a loser.
But if he HAD, he would have been correct.
Q: What's worse than entering the geek olympics?
A: Winning the geek olympics.
Q. What's worse than winning the geek olympics?
A: Bragging about winning the geek olympics.
Q. What;s worse than bragging about winning the geek olympics?
A. Passing the drug test afterward so you can't claim you were bombed out of your gourd and entered it as a joke.
Q. What's worse than passing the drug test afterward so you can't claim you were bombed out of your gourd and entered it as a joke?
A. Not a whole heck of a lot.
Q. At the first geek olympics, the two finalists had to get from the top of a tall building to the ground as fast as possible. They both jumped. Who hit the ground first?
A. Who gives a ****?
Seriously, there is no such thing as geek chic. Not in the real world. You can be a programmer without being a geek, without being a social misfit who can't talk about common everyday events with "the normals", without dividing the world into geeks and "the normals", without taking a perverse pride in self-diagnosed aspergers so you can continue to think that being an antisocial introverted jerk somehow makes you "special".
Even the kids who rode the short bus knew better. And they're often more interesting to talk with.
Geek Chic is as dead as Windows Phone 7. It's as uncool as saying you work for Microsoft in a room full of googlers. It's like saying you bought a zune because it's so cool. Or bragging that you haven't had a shower or bath in 5 days because you were too busy coding... and nobody noticed anything different about you because you always smell like oka cheese and you always wear the same grungy black metal t-shirt for 5 days straight - but one person did note that you finally no longer looked like you had tghe worst case of bed head.
The geek olympics... when being "special" is not enough:-)
Nope, no such luck - just another "It passed the spilling chucker, so we're good" story headline.
D a r n e d !
Rupert Murdoch said that The Daily offers "unthinkable innovations" to the world of publishing.
"New times demand new journalism," Murdoch said. "The devices that modern engineering has put in our hands demand a new service, edited and designed specifically for them."
It doesn't offer "unthinkable innovations" - after all, someone obviously thought of them.
How about a real innovation for Murdoch papers - like reporting the news with a bit less bias?
As opposed to the patent unknown of WebM. It's as known as H.264, e.i. we know who holds the known patents.
That's so wrong that it's... just wrong. The MPEG-LA patent pool states that they only license the patents of the pool members to licensees - you're still on your own if some 3rd party has a submarine patent.
The standards, because they ARE standards, do NOT specify a video codec. That's implementation-defined. h.264, because it is encumbered, is NOT something that can be considered as part of any truly open standard.
It was.NET that was in place. The switch-over will only occur on February 14th of this year.
Also, there was no police investigation.
But the Metropolitan Police, the e-crime unit and the City of London Police all told Computerworld UK that no such investigation was ongoing.
The system currently in place (.dot.NET-based) failed to meet the specs, because, try as they could, Accenture could not get a windows-based platform to run fast enough - too much letency.
The exchange finally realized it, and called for a linux-based system, which easily met the time guarantees - but obviously it's late, because it was only started when the exchange realized that the Microsoft-based system was never going to meet the performance goals.
In other words, after Microsoft spent big bucks in all the trade magazines bragging about "winning the contract against linux" - and making it sound like they were replacing a previous linux-based system, you won't hear a peep from them admitting that their servers are sh*t.
There are plenty of sites that sell facebook friends and followers, as low as 5 for a penny. So his 350 "friends" are worth less than a buck. He'd be better off looking for spare change in the couch.
If the market would "feel" that lower quality service, fucking over their customers and selling them out to the man is better for the bottom line of Bahnhof or Google or any other publicly traded company, then players in the market would probably make that happen, sooner or later, whatever delusions of goodness the current leadership may have.
Guys, please - this is really, REALLY bad. Also, the use of default very small fonts is a violation of accessibility rules - the people who sue to get $$$ under the ADA would like to have a word with you.
Also, nice copyright notice - "201"
This really, REALLY sucks. Are you trying to be worse than Failbook?
No. Most people still don't have widescreen displays.
Most people do. The market for computers has grown every year, and you haven't been able to even buy CRT for a few years now - I have a couple of 19" that I can't even give away... most people have a widescreen.
"To Serve Man" was written in 1950, when I was living in Greenwich Village and my unhappy first marriage was breaking up. I wrote it in one afternoon, while my wife was out with another man.
The topic might have been interesting, but as soon as I followed the link to the site, I noticed that it looked like something designed by someone from 1993.. he actual content stuffed in a column only 460 pixels wide. There's more (480 poxels) devoted to useless crap on the righthand sidebars. And almost half is devoted to... nothing... because, like most people, I have a widescreen monitor, not one of those "Best Viewed Using Internet Explorer at 800x600" screens.
No wonder newspapers and magazines are dying - they still don't "get" it.
All those Greenlanders will be chilling out at the beach in 50 years.
Plus we won't have to worry about Florida land scams - it will ALL be swampland. And every homeowner will be underwater, so no need for a bail-out. Just attach huge inner tubes and let the hurricanes float your abode to a new state.
That hasn't been settled in court - and it's probably headed there. While it's true that they were assigned it pre-ARIN, if ARIN decides to re-assign blocks of it to someone else and those parties start using it, what are they going to do? Sue? ARIN will say "Sue the U.S. government - they turned the administration of this resource over to us. But you can't own a number - not even '42'."
And they'd be right. Nobody can own a number - and that's what an IP address is. 4 numbers. I can't see people who got one of the million-IP blocks going and registering trademarks for each one of the addresses, and even a trademark registration wouldn't work, since numbers are, by definition, fungible.
The worst part is that the files in question were totally useless - they were part of a unit test that simply doesn't apply to Android.
Flagrant Muttonhead was just trolling, like he's been doing for years. This is someone whose anti-open-source agenda is coming apart, and he's getting desperate to try to re-establish any credibility.
That's you - and lots more. The stench of the flow of pointless logorrhea from you precedes you. First rule - when you're in it up to your neck, stop digging. Nobody with any technical knowledge believes anything you say, because we've seen you intentionally lie too many times. If you're going to troll, it would help to get a clue first.
This is probably the final ignomy - even the stupidest trolls wouldn't want to be associated with you after this boner.
Again, you're factually wrong. As I pointed out, you cannot, contrary to your original assertion, own an IP address. Ditto with a domain name. You only lease/license them.
By that argument, you don't actually own your house, because if you stop paying property taxes, the government will take it away from you.
Congratulations - someone finally figured it out!
Stop paying the license plates on your car, you still own it. Stop paying the taxes on "your" property, or the registration fees for "your" domain, and you lose it. Your "ownership" lapses.
That's the difference between ownership and non-ownership.
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Now, most months I use only a fraction of that, but when a new linux distro comes out, I want to give back by sharing as much as possible - plus I have several boxes that I want to upgrade (I do the network upgrade option, and with ~5,000 packages, that's almost 10 gigs per box).
For the people who point out that water is metered, guess what? Water is supplied by your local government, at cost, and we've never had the tap stop running - not even during the Ice Storm.
Municipalities should be free to get into supplying the pipes for the Internet to their "shareholders".
But if he HAD, he would have been correct.
Q: What's worse than entering the geek olympics?
A: Winning the geek olympics.
Q. What's worse than winning the geek olympics?
A: Bragging about winning the geek olympics.
Q. What;s worse than bragging about winning the geek olympics?
A. Passing the drug test afterward so you can't claim you were bombed out of your gourd and entered it as a joke.
Q. What's worse than passing the drug test afterward so you can't claim you were bombed out of your gourd and entered it as a joke?
A. Not a whole heck of a lot.
Q. At the first geek olympics, the two finalists had to get from the top of a tall building to the ground as fast as possible. They both jumped. Who hit the ground first?
A. Who gives a ****?
Seriously, there is no such thing as geek chic. Not in the real world. You can be a programmer without being a geek, without being a social misfit who can't talk about common everyday events with "the normals", without dividing the world into geeks and "the normals", without taking a perverse pride in self-diagnosed aspergers so you can continue to think that being an antisocial introverted jerk somehow makes you "special".
Even the kids who rode the short bus knew better. And they're often more interesting to talk with.
Geek Chic is as dead as Windows Phone 7. It's as uncool as saying you work for Microsoft in a room full of googlers. It's like saying you bought a zune because it's so cool. Or bragging that you haven't had a shower or bath in 5 days because you were too busy coding ... and nobody noticed anything different about you because you always smell like oka cheese and you always wear the same grungy black metal t-shirt for 5 days straight - but one person did note that you finally no longer looked like you had tghe worst case of bed head.
The geek olympics ... when being "special" is not enough :-)
Hint - if you do win, don't tell any women - The Big Bang Theory is not a reality TV show.
D a r n e d !
It doesn't offer "unthinkable innovations" - after all, someone obviously thought of them.
How about a real innovation for Murdoch papers - like reporting the news with a bit less bias?
-- Barbara
That's so wrong that it's ... just wrong. The MPEG-LA patent pool states that they only license the patents of the pool members to licensees - you're still on your own if some 3rd party has a submarine patent.
-- Barbara
Didn't we learn anything from MS-Office Open XML?
Also, there was no police investigation.
The system currently in place (.dot.NET-based) failed to meet the specs, because, try as they could, Accenture could not get a windows-based platform to run fast enough - too much letency.
The exchange finally realized it, and called for a linux-based system, which easily met the time guarantees - but obviously it's late, because it was only started when the exchange realized that the Microsoft-based system was never going to meet the performance goals.
In other words, after Microsoft spent big bucks in all the trade magazines bragging about "winning the contract against linux" - and making it sound like they were replacing a previous linux-based system, you won't hear a peep from them admitting that their servers are sh*t.
There are plenty of sites that sell facebook friends and followers, as low as 5 for a penny. So his 350 "friends" are worth less than a buck. He'd be better off looking for spare change in the couch.
And all armies can be beaten by much smaller forces of guerillas who prefer the low and dark places where the armies can't operate.
Think of the tunnel rats in Viet nam, etc.
And did you see the new layout for the polls?
Right-justifying the options???
What did they do, hire the rejects who weren't "good enough" to make Ubuntu the fugliest distro in the Universe?
If the market would "feel" that lower quality service, fucking over their customers and selling them out to the man is better for the bottom line of Bahnhof or Google or any other publicly traded company, then players in the market would probably make that happen, sooner or later, whatever delusions of goodness the current leadership may have.
*cough* Facebook, Microsoft, SCO *cough*
Also, nice copyright notice - "201"
This really, REALLY sucks. Are you trying to be worse than Failbook?
Most people do. The market for computers has grown every year, and you haven't been able to even buy CRT for a few years now - I have a couple of 19" that I can't even give away ... most people have a widescreen.
Read my profile.
All you need is an egg, a packet of salt, and a straw.
Score: Humans 2, Robots 0.
If robots are so great, let's see them assemble a human. We can do it with just two bumpers and a connecting rod.
What you want is this: To Serve Man.
He probably had the same feelings you do:
Keep playing ... but doesn't the fact that you got what I meant, instead of "just" what I wrote, prove my point :-)
The human (me) turns the pencil on it's side, and balances it in the middle.
Call me back when you have a robot that's smart enough to actually solve the problem, and I'll be impressed.
No wonder newspapers and magazines are dying - they still don't "get" it.
His real resume (as opposed to the sockpuppet wikileaks article) is so shallow that he could never get a job as a programmer.
All those Greenlanders will be chilling out at the beach in 50 years.
Plus we won't have to worry about Florida land scams - it will ALL be swampland. And every homeowner will be underwater, so no need for a bail-out. Just attach huge inner tubes and let the hurricanes float your abode to a new state.
And they'd be right. Nobody can own a number - and that's what an IP address is. 4 numbers. I can't see people who got one of the million-IP blocks going and registering trademarks for each one of the addresses, and even a trademark registration wouldn't work, since numbers are, by definition, fungible.
Flagrant Muttonhead was just trolling, like he's been doing for years. This is someone whose anti-open-source agenda is coming apart, and he's getting desperate to try to re-establish any credibility.
Florid Muttonead.
Flatulent Moron
Foolishly Mistaken
F****** M******
The Mouth that Roared
Anus Horribulus
That's you - and lots more. The stench of the flow of pointless logorrhea from you precedes you. First rule - when you're in it up to your neck, stop digging. Nobody with any technical knowledge believes anything you say, because we've seen you intentionally lie too many times. If you're going to troll, it would help to get a clue first.
This is probably the final ignomy - even the stupidest trolls wouldn't want to be associated with you after this boner.
Again, you're factually wrong. As I pointed out, you cannot, contrary to your original assertion, own an IP address. Ditto with a domain name. You only lease/license them.
By that argument, you don't actually own your house, because if you stop paying property taxes, the government will take it away from you.
Congratulations - someone finally figured it out!
Stop paying the license plates on your car, you still own it. Stop paying the taxes on "your" property, or the registration fees for "your" domain, and you lose it. Your "ownership" lapses.
That's the difference between ownership and non-ownership.