My God! I can't even imagine the horror involved in spending 200 years trying to get these morons to stop trying to punching the monkey or to stop opening every single attachment they get sent in Outlook.
Very true but then they are on a time limit aren't they? If the "deadline" (heh) was pushed back then maybe they would make significant contributions well into their 230's or so and then slack off for the remainder of their lives.
Don't think Death Star from the original Star Wars with it's wide open exhaust port just waiting for someone to come along and drop a torpedo in it and don't think Death Star from Jedi only halfway finished and wide open for anyone to drive inside.
Think Death Star with a huge pile of cash blocking the exhaust port and a giant dish on the side that shoots a beam of pure lawyers at whatever rival needs to be vanquished. Now think of SCO as an X-Wing piloted by an aging but still wacky Jar-Jar Binks.
I don't think IBM is finally opening their patent portfolio. I think the damned thing is so big that they've been going through it since SCO first started making noise and they've just now reached some entries in it that are applicable.
When you say "patent portfolio" and "IBM" together in the same post I get this mental picture of the warehouse from the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark. They've probably got a small mountain of stuff in there they can destroy SCO with. It just takes them a while to dig it out. It's like getting the Death Star in range, it takes a little while but once it's there you're done.
Damn man, good question. I guess the winner right up until the moment the verdict came through that slammed the loser into oblivion. In an instant I would be in the market for a new "friend" though.
And that would suit me just fine. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. If Jesse wants to play the race card here then I say fire it up. Normally I despise the poverty pimp but here I don't think it could happen to a nicer bunch of people.
RIAA meet Jesse Jackson, enjoy.
Maybe we can dig up Al Sharpton to "activate" on them while we're at it.
And I love how someone found this comment to be a troll. Priceless. Obviously nothing on Slashdot ever changes. And YEAH YOU MODERATING JERKOFFS THIS IS A TROLL TOO.
Well, whether or not the signal was hundreds of thousands of years old or from 15 minutes ago I can hardly imagine it being described as pointless. Evidence of life somewhere other than here, get that through your head. It would be nice to know that something else is going on out there or at the very least has gone on out there.
SETI might not be the first but it's without a doubt the most widely known. That's got to count for something doesn't it? It's advanced awareness of distributed computing far more than any other application so far (unless there's a distributed porn program running around I'm not aware of).
The list of shit people have pulled "back when they first started up" is miles long. I wouldn't have done it (re-fed the clients the same data over and over again) but it pales in comparison to some of the things that people have pulled in order to keep interest alive in their projects while they get things running smoothly.
It is well suited for this kind of thing. I love the way everything looks on my older 21" Studio Display at 1600x1200 but obviously we are talking about some very small text which has gotten harder for me to read as I've gotten closer to 40. I have never had really good vision to begin with but in OSX it's no problem to crank the fonts up to a size that's perfectly readable by me and it still looks great. Smooth and clear and big enough to read.
Well I for one would get a kick out of interacting with robots. My mom probably wouldn't like it and my grandparents probably would have found it novel but eventually would have decided that they didn't like it. I expect my children will think of it as no big deal and par for the course.
Their kids will probably wonder what we did when there weren't any robots to interact with.
My great grandchildren however will not be worrying about it since their lives will consist of living a tank on one side of the Matrix to provide electricity for the descendants of the robots who served me my first fully automated cheeseburger. I won't care at that point of course because I'll be dead!
They paid them nothing. They didn't have to. Buymusic.com did the only logical thing they could do. They targeted the largest group of users out there. Why do you think Apple is trying to get iTunes and the Music Store out there to the Windows pods? That's where most of the people are and so that's where most of the money is.
No one even remotely considered making it available for OSX or Linux. OSX users have iTunes and probably wouldn't care to use Buymusic.com and Linux users make up suck a small percentage of potential customers that nobody gives a rats ass what they think.
I don't know if it's exactly like iTunes. For the moment I agree that the similarities are there but Apple would love to be selling music to the Windows world right now and will be offering that as soon as they can. It's money and every company needs money except maybe Microsoft. I don't think they need anymore money.
I think you'll be waiting a long time for someone to do something with MP3's. The mention of MP3 makes music executives reach for the "Lawyer Line" (picture a red phone sitting under glass in every RIAA members office). You (and I) don't like DRM but for them it's a requirement.
Please stop. My sides hurt. I can't laugh anymore.
If everyone out there plugging away with alternative browsers (meaning NOT Internet Explorer) went there right this second then the numbers would be beneath notice compared to the mob of tards who are either already using a compatible browser or are rushing to comply.
I'm with you. I agree with you. I just think it's absolutely impossible, will not happen, and if it did it wouldn't make a bit of difference.
"Does the fact you were modded up as insightful prove that slashdotters are idiots?"
Fuck yeah it does. iTunes ownes these bitches (buymusic, pressplay, etc) and these guys know it. They're just Apple haters. The rest of the fucking sheep will jump on this because it's what? twenty cents cheaper per song than iTunes but they'll swallow all the DRM and Microsoft centric crap along with it. The same jackasses who will dog iTunes in here and tout this kind of crap as a better alternative will be posting tomorrow about how evil Micro$oft is. Slashdot is the mob my friend and the mob very rarely makes any sense.
Your credit card number? Industrial espionage? I'd think that you would have more to worry about from someone picking your pocket in the airport where your credit card number is concerned and the guy sitting in the row behind you is more likely to be spying on your laptop screen.
Do you do a lot of super secret work for your company on your laptop on an airplane? Does the company you work for know that your running around with their most important secrets displayed on your screen for anyone sitting near you to check out? I wouldn't worry too much about the underpaid security guard if I were you. he won't know what he's looking at and unless he can see down your blouse (in the event you're female) then you probably will escape his notice. Security guards are absolutely useless for anything. Industrial espionage is asking a bit much from a group of guys who can't stay awake if you ask me.
I think you grossly overestimate the number of people who care about what you or anyone else is doing (outside of the realm of the illegal)
Sensible post and very true. You are already being video taped in many other areas of your life without your knowledge so why is this any different. What exactly are you planning on doing while sitting in that seat that has you concerned folks?
Of course. In ourselves it's nothing more than unbridled and limitless confidence. That probably stems from the fact that we can back it up. When we see it the French we just laugh like we've been doing for close to a hundred years.
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My God! I can't even imagine the horror involved in spending 200 years trying to get these morons to stop trying to punching the monkey or to stop opening every single attachment they get sent in Outlook.
Kill me, please.
Very true but then they are on a time limit aren't they? If the "deadline" (heh) was pushed back then maybe they would make significant contributions well into their 230's or so and then slack off for the remainder of their lives.
Pardon my choice of language but I think my very first thoughts on your post would be the most appropriate.
"Fucking priceless."
Bravo man, seriously take a bow.
Don't think Death Star from the original Star Wars with it's wide open exhaust port just waiting for someone to come along and drop a torpedo in it and don't think Death Star from Jedi only halfway finished and wide open for anyone to drive inside.
Think Death Star with a huge pile of cash blocking the exhaust port and a giant dish on the side that shoots a beam of pure lawyers at whatever rival needs to be vanquished. Now think of SCO as an X-Wing piloted by an aging but still wacky Jar-Jar Binks.
I don't think IBM is finally opening their patent portfolio. I think the damned thing is so big that they've been going through it since SCO first started making noise and they've just now reached some entries in it that are applicable.
When you say "patent portfolio" and "IBM" together in the same post I get this mental picture of the warehouse from the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark. They've probably got a small mountain of stuff in there they can destroy SCO with. It just takes them a while to dig it out. It's like getting the Death Star in range, it takes a little while but once it's there you're done.
Damn man, good question. I guess the winner right up until the moment the verdict came through that slammed the loser into oblivion. In an instant I would be in the market for a new "friend" though.
You forgot to mention that the million shades of blue is described as "lickable". They're very proud of that.
And that would suit me just fine. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. If Jesse wants to play the race card here then I say fire it up. Normally I despise the poverty pimp but here I don't think it could happen to a nicer bunch of people.
RIAA meet Jesse Jackson, enjoy.
Maybe we can dig up Al Sharpton to "activate" on them while we're at it.
FLAMEBAIT?
Slashdot moderators remain completely devoid of the ability to evaluate a post. Film at 11
I dig the loud PC. I start the thing up and it sounds like one of those backpack leaf blowers.
And I love how someone found this comment to be a troll. Priceless. Obviously nothing on Slashdot ever changes. And YEAH YOU MODERATING JERKOFFS THIS IS A TROLL TOO.
At least is to you.
Well, whether or not the signal was hundreds of thousands of years old or from 15 minutes ago I can hardly imagine it being described as pointless. Evidence of life somewhere other than here, get that through your head. It would be nice to know that something else is going on out there or at the very least has gone on out there.
SETI might not be the first but it's without a doubt the most widely known. That's got to count for something doesn't it? It's advanced awareness of distributed computing far more than any other application so far (unless there's a distributed porn program running around I'm not aware of).
The list of shit people have pulled "back when they first started up" is miles long. I wouldn't have done it (re-fed the clients the same data over and over again) but it pales in comparison to some of the things that people have pulled in order to keep interest alive in their projects while they get things running smoothly.
It is well suited for this kind of thing. I love the way everything looks on my older 21" Studio Display at 1600x1200 but obviously we are talking about some very small text which has gotten harder for me to read as I've gotten closer to 40. I have never had really good vision to begin with but in OSX it's no problem to crank the fonts up to a size that's perfectly readable by me and it still looks great. Smooth and clear and big enough to read.
Well I for one would get a kick out of interacting with robots. My mom probably wouldn't like it and my grandparents probably would have found it novel but eventually would have decided that they didn't like it. I expect my children will think of it as no big deal and par for the course.
Their kids will probably wonder what we did when there weren't any robots to interact with.
My great grandchildren however will not be worrying about it since their lives will consist of living a tank on one side of the Matrix to provide electricity for the descendants of the robots who served me my first fully automated cheeseburger. I won't care at that point of course because I'll be dead!
"Who will they sell to?"
Rich Indian programers I'm thinking.
I don't know about the rest of you but if I don't do something soon I'm going to go "Marlon Brando".
They paid them nothing. They didn't have to. Buymusic.com did the only logical thing they could do. They targeted the largest group of users out there. Why do you think Apple is trying to get iTunes and the Music Store out there to the Windows pods? That's where most of the people are and so that's where most of the money is.
No one even remotely considered making it available for OSX or Linux. OSX users have iTunes and probably wouldn't care to use Buymusic.com and Linux users make up suck a small percentage of potential customers that nobody gives a rats ass what they think.
That may change but this is the way it is today.
I don't know if it's exactly like iTunes. For the moment I agree that the similarities are there but Apple would love to be selling music to the Windows world right now and will be offering that as soon as they can. It's money and every company needs money except maybe Microsoft. I don't think they need anymore money.
I think you'll be waiting a long time for someone to do something with MP3's. The mention of MP3 makes music executives reach for the "Lawyer Line" (picture a red phone sitting under glass in every RIAA members office). You (and I) don't like DRM but for them it's a requirement.
Please stop. My sides hurt. I can't laugh anymore.
If everyone out there plugging away with alternative browsers (meaning NOT Internet Explorer) went there right this second then the numbers would be beneath notice compared to the mob of tards who are either already using a compatible browser or are rushing to comply.
I'm with you. I agree with you. I just think it's absolutely impossible, will not happen, and if it did it wouldn't make a bit of difference.
"Does the fact you were modded up as insightful prove that slashdotters are idiots?"
Fuck yeah it does. iTunes ownes these bitches (buymusic, pressplay, etc) and these guys know it. They're just Apple haters. The rest of the fucking sheep will jump on this because it's what? twenty cents cheaper per song than iTunes but they'll swallow all the DRM and Microsoft centric crap along with it. The same jackasses who will dog iTunes in here and tout this kind of crap as a better alternative will be posting tomorrow about how evil Micro$oft is. Slashdot is the mob my friend and the mob very rarely makes any sense.
Your credit card number? Industrial espionage? I'd think that you would have more to worry about from someone picking your pocket in the airport where your credit card number is concerned and the guy sitting in the row behind you is more likely to be spying on your laptop screen.
Do you do a lot of super secret work for your company on your laptop on an airplane? Does the company you work for know that your running around with their most important secrets displayed on your screen for anyone sitting near you to check out? I wouldn't worry too much about the underpaid security guard if I were you. he won't know what he's looking at and unless he can see down your blouse (in the event you're female) then you probably will escape his notice. Security guards are absolutely useless for anything. Industrial espionage is asking a bit much from a group of guys who can't stay awake if you ask me.
I think you grossly overestimate the number of people who care about what you or anyone else is doing (outside of the realm of the illegal)
Sensible post and very true. You are already being video taped in many other areas of your life without your knowledge so why is this any different. What exactly are you planning on doing while sitting in that seat that has you concerned folks?
Of course. In ourselves it's nothing more than unbridled and limitless confidence. That probably stems from the fact that we can back it up. When we see it the French we just laugh like we've been doing for close to a hundred years.
Actually, his degree of wrongness exceeds "as wrong as one could get" by a factor of 4