Wait until the programs that make use of this keyboard come out. One that randomally re-arranges the keyboard every 10 seconds. try to touch type with that running. One that rotates the characters displayed on the keycaps whenever you type the character. Useless, yes, but entertaining to the little ones. Or the German code machine, wherin when you type one character, and the corresponding cypher character lights up for a second. Or a program that tries to anticipate what the next character you type is likely to be, and lights that one up. Sounds like something MicroSoft would want.
What would happen if we all decided not to curb our oil consumption habits until we either ran completely out of oil reserves.
I remember when I was younger, we were down to 10 years of oil underground. This was some twenty years ago. We did a few minor changes, slight improvement in gas mileage, but not much. We also greatly increased the number of cars on the road. Too bad for you youngsters, you now have only 10 years of oil left underground.
This article may or may not have been written by a psychic, depending on if it is true or not. It may or may not cause the end of the world as we know it. Otherwise, it may or may not fall on Elvis, killing him instantly at his job in the Wendy's drive-thru.
The fact that it's a two-year old, highly-classified spy satellite
In fact, it's so highly classified that nobody on slashdot knows about it. Good think nobody in the media is reporting on it. Really, what good are highly classified satellites that everyone knows about?
You mean the chair, with the stained cushions, left in the front reception area? I thought that that was being donated to Microsoft's Flight Simulator group (aerodynamics of physically accelerated lounge furniture).
Anyone remember that time a long time ago where he was getting so flagrant about it people started signing him up for datalogs, he was getting tons of them in the mail, and had the nerve to get angry about it?
Is there some way to get mail to him in prison? I'm sure that there are a few out there who would like to send him something.
There are many cleaner ways to generate electricity than nuclear.
All forms of power generation have their own problems.
Hydro,
This is where you bury a large amount of productive land under a lake, displacing all the people who used to live there, while stopping the fish from breeding. Lots of fun when the dam breaks (been there, done that).
geothermal,
Like, everyone lives on top of a volcano. Won't pulling up all that heat up increase "Global Warming"?
tidal and wave,
I'm sure that these won't cause problems with beach erosion, sand bars, sea life, etc. How much of the surface of the ocean would you have to cover to power one large city (and of course the sea life doesn't really need any light)?
wind
As long as you only need power when it's windy, and don't mind killing birds, and creating a lot of noise. How many of these are needed to power one city?
and solar energy
Cover acres of productive ground in black panels, great idea. Good thing you only need power during the day. Now, how large an area do you have to pave over to power one city? Aren't all those black panels going to cause problems with "Global Warming"?
Just think, how many days or is it hours of Iraq does it take to fund a solution to this? Not many.
And only minutes if you took it from the welfare system. You could pay for dozens of the things every year just by eliminating the fraud in that system.
they often need to buy excessive unneeded licenses to be absolutely sure they're not only legal, but can easily prove it if raided.
Whatever happened to "innocent until proven guilty"? I think Microsoft's BSA should be required to prove that the licenses are invalid, and not the other way around.
Over those years though I can't recount how many times a customer would need a windows re-install, or an office re-install, whatever. I'd ask for the original CD and they'd tell me "Don't you have a copy?"
And how many of those were just people who legally bought a new PC with Windows preinstalled on it, but were not supplied with installation CD's? Most PC's sold do not come with install CD's, nor do the purchasers have any way of getting them without paying an excessive amount of money for another copy of their Windows OS. Most of them don't even know that they might need these CD's at some future time.
MicroSoft encourages these practices because it allows them another change to screw their customers. How many people know that the "Certificates of authenticity" are worthless scrap? How many know that you are guilty of piracy until proven innocent?
Or, maybe they could take all the welfare projects, which has an even larger budget than the military, with many of the projects estimated to be over 50% fraud, and return all that money back to us, so that we can afford our own medical care.
The so-called war on poverty is lost, with more people living in poverty than when it was started by the democrats, and it becomes more costly every year. Now they want to use the same tactics to start a war on medicine by converting it to socilism.
Will you still be shouting "yea!" about it when the medical system becomes as full of fraud and incompitance, and as expensive as the socilist welfare system?
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Anyione else notice the tyipo?
Almost enough processing power to be able to run Windows Vista. Add some more cores and you should be able to run a few applications.
It's not MicroSoft, it's SCO. ;)
Stupid questions:
You obviously need to store the key in the chip to unlock it.
How hard is it to read the key from an unlocked chip?
What prevents the key from decaying over time, or static from scrambling the key? Are these chips going to have a short lifetime because of this?
Will my toaster refuse to work if it isn't plugged into the internet?
Wait until the programs that make use of this keyboard come out.
One that randomally re-arranges the keyboard every 10 seconds. try to touch type with that running.
One that rotates the characters displayed on the keycaps whenever you type the character. Useless, yes, but entertaining to the little ones.
Or the German code machine, wherin when you type one character, and the corresponding cypher character lights up for a second.
Or a program that tries to anticipate what the next character you type is likely to be, and lights that one up. Sounds like something MicroSoft would want.
What would happen if we all decided not to curb our oil consumption habits until we either ran completely out of oil reserves.
I remember when I was younger, we were down to 10 years of oil underground. This was some twenty years ago. We did a few minor changes, slight improvement in gas mileage, but not much. We also greatly increased the number of cars on the road. Too bad for you youngsters, you now have only 10 years of oil left underground.
This article may or may not have been written by a psychic, depending on if it is true or not. It may or may not cause the end of the world as we know it. Otherwise, it may or may not fall on Elvis, killing him instantly at his job in the Wendy's drive-thru.
The fact that it's a two-year old, highly-classified spy satellite
In fact, it's so highly classified that nobody on slashdot knows about it. Good think nobody in the media is reporting on it. Really, what good are highly classified satellites that everyone knows about?
Think of it as evolution in action.
That wasn't a case of vermin entering the shop, it was a case of produce escaping.
...and the deed to everything in the building.
You mean the chair, with the stained cushions, left in the front reception area? I thought that that was being donated to Microsoft's Flight Simulator group (aerodynamics of physically accelerated lounge furniture).
It will have two straps added to it so that it can be worn like a backpack
Will it come complete with a month's supply of burn cream?
There I was, installing "Duke Nukem Forever" on my PC, and then suddenly here I am. And I didn't even get a shotgun.
When you outlaw insects, only insects will have outlaws... ...or something like that...
Anyone remember that time a long time ago where he was getting so flagrant about it people started signing him up for datalogs, he was getting tons of them in the mail, and had the nerve to get angry about it?
Is there some way to get mail to him in prison? I'm sure that there are a few out there who would like to send him something.
According to SCO, most of it is already available: in Linux.
There are many cleaner ways to generate electricity than nuclear.
All forms of power generation have their own problems.
Hydro,
This is where you bury a large amount of productive land under a lake, displacing all the people who used to live there, while stopping the fish from breeding. Lots of fun when the dam breaks (been there, done that).
geothermal,
Like, everyone lives on top of a volcano. Won't pulling up all that heat up increase "Global Warming"?
tidal and wave,
I'm sure that these won't cause problems with beach erosion, sand bars, sea life, etc. How much of the surface of the ocean would you have to cover to power one large city (and of course the sea life doesn't really need any light)?
wind
As long as you only need power when it's windy, and don't mind killing birds, and creating a lot of noise. How many of these are needed to power one city?
and solar energy
Cover acres of productive ground in black panels, great idea. Good thing you only need power during the day. Now, how large an area do you have to pave over to power one city? Aren't all those black panels going to cause problems with "Global Warming"?
I now have a project to build in my backyard this weekend!
it was the first and more importantly, only ever space station.
Umm, what is that thing floating above our heads right now, that they recently sent additional solar panels to? ISS something.
And, what about that can that the US shoved up there many years back. Skylab?
And Mir was preceded by several Salyut's.
So, I don't know where this "first and only" bullshit comes from. It is like saying that the Ford Pinto is the first and only car.
According to the photo in the article, it was also a portable drive.
Just think, how many days or is it hours of Iraq does it take to fund a solution to this? Not many.
And only minutes if you took it from the welfare system. You could pay for dozens of the things every year just by eliminating the fraud in that system.
WHAT! This is slashdot! Why is this post so far down the list? Why isn't this the first post? You guys are really getting slow.
they often need to buy excessive unneeded licenses to be absolutely sure they're not only legal, but can easily prove it if raided.
Whatever happened to "innocent until proven guilty"? I think Microsoft's BSA should be required to prove that the licenses are invalid, and not the other way around.
Over those years though I can't recount how many times a customer would need a windows re-install, or an office re-install, whatever. I'd ask for the original CD and they'd tell me "Don't you have a copy?"
And how many of those were just people who legally bought a new PC with Windows preinstalled on it, but were not supplied with installation CD's? Most PC's sold do not come with install CD's, nor do the purchasers have any way of getting them without paying an excessive amount of money for another copy of their Windows OS. Most of them don't even know that they might need these CD's at some future time.
MicroSoft encourages these practices because it allows them another change to screw their customers. How many people know that the "Certificates of authenticity" are worthless scrap? How many know that you are guilty of piracy until proven innocent?
Or, maybe they could take all the welfare projects, which has an even larger budget than the military, with many of the projects estimated to be over 50% fraud, and return all that money back to us, so that we can afford our own medical care.
The so-called war on poverty is lost, with more people living in poverty than when it was started by the democrats, and it becomes more costly every year. Now they want to use the same tactics to start a war on medicine by converting it to socilism.
Will you still be shouting "yea!" about it when the medical system becomes as full of fraud and incompitance, and as expensive as the socilist welfare system?