Microsoft has driven a few comanies out of bussness. Netscape, Borland, Corel... But each of those comanies were huge, had some degree of missmanagement that caused their own downfall. And more importantly, anyone who worked for those comanies would have no trouble finding another job. Also all of those companies were on the same scale, or at least near to, the size of M$
Walmart on the other hand, kills small bussness left and right, small local stores, who's employees then have no choice but to move, find another line of work, or work for wallmart.
Microsoft may make our lives more annoying, Walmart ruins peoples lives. The two are hardly comparable.
Well. You do realize that regular speakers only work by vibration, don't you? You get sound out of these the same way you get sound out of single speaker cones, by moving them through each individual sound wave.
according to this lovely chart. Thats respectable, I suppose. Although if this company had IPO's 3 years ago they'd have been at $400 by now, and $1000 by tuesday:P
Someone did patent that. A university professor. Some company baught the patent from him for a few thousand (I think) and proceded to try to sue everyone (this was a couple years ago). I don't know what happened.
This seems to be another UPS fuckup... According to the Customs dep, you're supposed to get 90 days to apeal these types of things, but UPS said there was "no way." that anything can be done.
Asside from that, I think I speak for everyone when I say I find this a little desturbing. I mean, I'm sure Lik Sang has a 'reputation'... but the things are just wires for god sake.
I guess it would be nice to have SSL built into java, but you could write it yourself, it's not like it's a fundementl language flaw. The specs are out there, and the java Crypto API would probably help you out quite a bit.
Autopr0n.com actualy runs using the first beta of JDK1.4. I needed the new ImageIO libraries for the, um, 'site previewer:P' (and the regexs made some of the parsing I'm doing a lot easier:). I tried 1.4b3 but it was far more unstable, and my regexs broke.
Definetly cool that the stable version is out, I'll have to upgrade at some point, when I have time.
Hopefully they'll implement this at Topcoder.com too, so I don't have to keep using the old docs in the compos:P
Oceania was all of the Americas, England and I'm not sure Australia was mentioned... Although I would guess it would belong to Oceania, as the planet was supposed to be divided up by culture, not strictly geographics. (thus Air Strip One, (UK) was part of the American/English world, even though it was a lot closer to Europe then the Americas)
Trotsky was a fan of "world communism", but we all know what happened to him. Stalin wasn't intrested in expanding Communism beyond a few countries to provide a 'buffer zone' against the "evil capitalst opressors" who they thought would nuke them the first chance we got.
Anyway, the Cuban Missle Crisis was pretty hypocritical on our part, considering that we had missles in Turky that could hit the USSR in the same time it would take to fire from Cuba. It wasn't about protecting americans, it was about protecting America's "First strike ablity".
Ok, in reading this thread, there seems to be a lot of confusion about the term 'liberal' and what it means. Let me see if I can explain what's going on... someone correct me if I'm wrong.
First of all, the poster declared himself to be a 'libertarian', a libertarian, in the US is someone who believes in little government interference and that type of thing, it's a term only really used in the US, as far as I know. And he called what the Australian government's actions "liberal", now I'm guessing he means "liberal" in the US sense, rather then say, the British sense. Now, to make things extra-confusing "Liberal" in the US and "Liberal" outside the US mean opposite things. In the US the Democratic party is called "Liberal" and the republican party is called "Conservative". In the rest of the world, the republican party would be called "Liberal". Liberals out side favor liberty and the like. In the US, liberals are liberal with government money: P.
The term 'libertarian' thus came about here, because people who favored liberty but didn't think the republican party was any good needed something to call themselves. They couldn't use "liberal" because it was already in use by people who they even more strongly disagreed with, thus "libertarian" was minted.
To make things extra confusing partisans, people who identify strongly with a particular labeled viewpoint (like liberal, conservative, fascist, communist, whatever) tend to label things they don't like as being in the opposite camp. This libertarian here called the AU's listening "liberal" in the US sense (I think), because he didn't like it.
Personally I don't think listening to almost everyone in the AU has any particular political slant other then "Sleazy", and of course "Very, very disturbing", (although you might be able to say its "reactionary").
Anyway, let me know of any mistakes I've made. Personally I think we should choose new names in the US for these terms to make intercontinental communication easier.
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You think people would stop upgrading their computers if M$ stoped adding more crap to their OS?
That's a hell of a strech there dude, Nvidia for everquest addiction, or the free software foundation for Eric S. Raymond.
Microsoft has driven a few comanies out of bussness. Netscape, Borland, Corel... But each of those comanies were huge, had some degree of missmanagement that caused their own downfall. And more importantly, anyone who worked for those comanies would have no trouble finding another job. Also all of those companies were on the same scale, or at least near to, the size of M$
Walmart on the other hand, kills small bussness left and right, small local stores, who's employees then have no choice but to move, find another line of work, or work for wallmart.
Microsoft may make our lives more annoying, Walmart ruins peoples lives. The two are hardly comparable.
Two black, bespectacled ex-millitary guys named Powel in the bush admin? Are they related?
the longest game of 'I Spy' in history..
"I Spy.... A star."
"Hey, thats what I was going to say!"
I think it would be a pretty short game, personaly.
I'm getting over 500k/sec here :) Basicaly instant downloads on these videos. If only the rest of the internet worked like this :P
Well. You do realize that regular speakers only work by vibration, don't you? You get sound out of these the same way you get sound out of single speaker cones, by moving them through each individual sound wave.
I didn't recognize the matrix music myself in that video, but the rest of them were fine, starwars worked.
according to this lovely chart. Thats respectable, I suppose. Although if this company had IPO's 3 years ago they'd have been at $400 by now, and $1000 by tuesday :P
Jokes about CT being married became old at exactly 09:29AM.
Someone did patent that. A university professor. Some company baught the patent from him for a few thousand (I think) and proceded to try to sue everyone (this was a couple years ago). I don't know what happened.
btw, there's a k5 story about this for those who care.
This seems to be another UPS fuckup... According to the Customs dep, you're supposed to get 90 days to apeal these types of things, but UPS said there was "no way." that anything can be done.
Asside from that, I think I speak for everyone when I say I find this a little desturbing. I mean, I'm sure Lik Sang has a 'reputation'... but the things are just wires for god sake.
Kodak baught a company that was doing stuff with it, or trying to. Now their suing because they wan't more money.
Throw the classpath in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file on the C: drive on your win98 machine. Should work.
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I guess it would be nice to have SSL built into java, but you could write it yourself, it's not like it's a fundementl language flaw. The specs are out there, and the java Crypto API would probably help you out quite a bit.
Autopr0n.com actualy runs using the first beta of JDK1.4. I needed the new ImageIO libraries for the, um, 'site previewer :P' (and the regexs made some of the parsing I'm doing a lot easier :). I tried 1.4b3 but it was far more unstable, and my regexs broke.
:P
Definetly cool that the stable version is out, I'll have to upgrade at some point, when I have time.
Hopefully they'll implement this at Topcoder.com too, so I don't have to keep using the old docs in the compos
What does a server side Perl thing have to do with an MSN bug? Is this thing attacking vulnerable web servers to propagate it's malicious Jscript?
Intresting.
What's wrong with you? The answer is obvioulsy 2,500!!
I always have to carry around an extra toothpick to reset my WindowsCE device. It only locks up about 1 time every 6 months.
Why not just use the stylus?
But with out a hatachi brand name...
Oceania was all of the Americas, England and I'm not sure Australia was mentioned... Although I would guess it would belong to Oceania, as the planet was supposed to be divided up by culture, not strictly geographics. (thus Air Strip One, (UK) was part of the American/English world, even though it was a lot closer to Europe then the Americas)
Trotsky was a fan of "world communism", but we all know what happened to him. Stalin wasn't intrested in expanding Communism beyond a few countries to provide a 'buffer zone' against the "evil capitalst opressors" who they thought would nuke them the first chance we got.
Anyway, the Cuban Missle Crisis was pretty hypocritical on our part, considering that we had missles in Turky that could hit the USSR in the same time it would take to fire from Cuba. It wasn't about protecting americans, it was about protecting America's "First strike ablity".
It couldn't have been because he lived there could it?
Ok, in reading this thread, there seems to be a lot of confusion about the term 'liberal' and what it means. Let me see if I can explain what's going on... someone correct me if I'm wrong.
First of all, the poster declared himself to be a 'libertarian', a libertarian, in the US is someone who believes in little government interference and that type of thing, it's a term only really used in the US, as far as I know. And he called what the Australian government's actions "liberal", now I'm guessing he means "liberal" in the US sense, rather then say, the British sense. Now, to make things extra-confusing "Liberal" in the US and "Liberal" outside the US mean opposite things. In the US the Democratic party is called "Liberal" and the republican party is called "Conservative". In the rest of the world, the republican party would be called "Liberal". Liberals out side favor liberty and the like. In the US, liberals are liberal with government money: P.
The term 'libertarian' thus came about here, because people who favored liberty but didn't think the republican party was any good needed something to call themselves. They couldn't use "liberal" because it was already in use by people who they even more strongly disagreed with, thus "libertarian" was minted.
To make things extra confusing partisans, people who identify strongly with a particular labeled viewpoint (like liberal, conservative, fascist, communist, whatever) tend to label things they don't like as being in the opposite camp. This libertarian here called the AU's listening "liberal" in the US sense (I think), because he didn't like it.
Personally I don't think listening to almost everyone in the AU has any particular political slant other then "Sleazy", and of course "Very, very disturbing", (although you might be able to say its "reactionary").
Anyway, let me know of any mistakes I've made. Personally I think we should choose new names in the US for these terms to make intercontinental communication easier.
I just downloaded that. Holly shit it kicks ass :P
It would be nice if it had more fine graned controll, though.