Do away with the lawyers"? wuh? how's that supposed to work?
Use a few in your movie, and make it snuff film. As for the rest of the lawyers, there are plenty of options. I favor the sledgehammer, myself, but a one-at-a-time approach to the eradication of lawyers is rather inefficient.
Reminds me of the lawyer jokes that I had to endure when I was considering studying law. (Fortunately, I was talked out of it by a Magistrate during a short internship. She told me that I "had too much ethics" or "too many morals")
Q. What do you call 10,000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?
A. A Good Start.
But where would we be without all of our lawyers and politicians? Scratch that question... Who would we make fun of without all of our lawyers and politicians?
Nvidia don't need to *kill* AMD/ATI, they only need to stay one or two generations ahead of them in technology. So they *could* license them "last years tech" for use on their cards, to make "Least Common Denominator" not a factor which excludes their latest-get tech implementations.
I wish I still had Mod-Points, 'cos that deserves a +1, Insightful!
Yes, people seem to forget that business doesn't have to be ruthless. Sure, you can take that path and it has been proven to be effective by people in many industries, including IT. Punctuating your sentences with chairs can also help emphasise a point.
Many successful large companies quickly learn that the "Us vs Them" mentality isn't always necessary - and licensing IP or standards in this fashion can be quite lucrative! (Oh no... I made a positive reference on Slashdot that valid IP & standards being alright to license for profit... There goes my Karma!*)
Intel's licensing of its' SSE extensions to their competitors is a good example of how a standard can be strengthened and made more effective by 'working with' their competitors, as was AMD's licensing of x86-64 to Transmeta.
Of course, this is NVIDIA we're talking about. The likelihood of them licensing it, even for profit, is about as high as Microsoft donating millions (of dollars, not bugs) to the WINE project...
*For the FRZs, I am against Patent Trolls, but for a company/individual's right to profit from a defined standard if another company wants to benefit from their R&D rather than re-invent the wheel! This is, of course, completely different to Joe Scumbag getting a Patent for some-general-nose-picking-device (idea only, no intention to develop) and then extorting any companies that then try to develop a real nose-picking-device. That would be "Just Plain Wrong(tm)"
So you see, I'm a good sycophAnt... I hate Darl McBride too! Don't take it out on my posts, please!
In a reasonable system there is no way somebody can be convicted of murder without a body
Indeed. It's a pity that I can't get on his jury. I mean, I won't be convinced that she has been murdered until Speedle, Aiden, Sidle and Cooper find some way to prove it.
Yup - and I won't compromise. Has to be all 4, or none at all.
After all, it should be simple for Cooper. He's be able to scan the planet with one of the spy satellites, find her reflection in the reflection of a reflection of a tea-spoon, then run some fancy algorithm to clean it up, getting a full-glamour-shot out of 4 blurry pixels!
just take the corolla's, tough little bastards that won't die
Don't I know it!
17 years ago, I plowed my baby-poo-yellow 1976 Corolla into a 198cm (6'6" to the metrically challenged) Kangaroo (mid-jump). Pushed the front into the engine (along with the radiator), turned the bonnet (aka hood) into a toboggin, made the front quarter panel (don't know what a Quarter-panel would be in Imperial, sorry!) into steel origami...
And the fucker still wouldn't die! Jacked out the front, replaced the radiator, bonnet and quarter-panel. Ran like a dream.
And there I was, thinking that I could get a real car... Damned insurance... (I'm sure that my parent's hated me, giving my my Grandma's old car for my first car!)
To rub salt in my wounds, it was the test-drive after having to replace the engine that had blown up!
On the bright side, now I know what Skippy is saying when he's going "tch-tch-tch." It's something along the lines of "I've just been run over by a Toyota! Oh what a feeling!"
So if you could just inject that RFID tag into my neck right here...
No-can-do, sorry. You see, the RFID tags cause interference with the implants from the super-secret CIA-alien-hybrid-mutant-dolphins(withfrickinglaser s) that you already have...
Mine always had the tendency to spontaneously combust if you bumped them a little bit and they broke contact with the socket. Then it was back to the glory of 1K.
Let's not forget the magnificent storage on compact casettes, that would then never load again.
I still have my ZX81. Somewhere. I think it is in one of the cupboards under a pile of crap.
*sigh* Those were the days...
One final thought on this one: Did you buy Kit or Assembled?
What the poster misses is that people don't... D O N O T accept or reject a file format. They, with the small subset of geeks on/., don't give a flip about file format. They accept or reject a program.
That is not to say that it isn't a factor!
I converted the company I work for over to OO.o at the start of 2002 (Build 638 IIRC) and haven't looked back since. I didn't have any of the nightmares and re-training issues that people claim in FUD, either.
(Biggest problem was stopping people from emailing.sxw Writer files to people that can't tell the difference between their OS version and the MS Office version. "Q.What version of Word are you running?" "A.97")
ODF is quite an important aspect to me. It is competant, compact and cross-platform.
If it was just about "screwing Microsoft" and "not paying the M$ tax," then I would have simply configured OO.o to save in MS Document format by default; but when an everyday document takes up 600k+ on Word vs 60k on Writer, you begin thinking about file formats.
I've tried MS Office 2007 (and I feel very dirty!) and don't feel that there is any reason to consider OOXML, either on a technological level or on principal. (Why the creation of another standard, when a capable ISO format already existed?)
Sorry, I like ODF and will stick with it unless or until a universal standard is created and accepted.
I used to say the same thing; but that was back when I opted to use VESA cards). I mean, PCI cards could fall out of their slot so much easier than the great ISA 'clamps.'
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That's it! I'm taking my bat and ball and I'm going home!
Q. What do you call 10,000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?
A. A Good Start.
But where would we be without all of our lawyers and politicians? Scratch that question... Who would we make fun of without all of our lawyers and politicians?
Cheers,
Ant
Yes, people seem to forget that business doesn't have to be ruthless. Sure, you can take that path and it has been proven to be effective by people in many industries, including IT. Punctuating your sentences with chairs can also help emphasise a point.
Many successful large companies quickly learn that the "Us vs Them" mentality isn't always necessary - and licensing IP or standards in this fashion can be quite lucrative! (Oh no... I made a positive reference on Slashdot that valid IP & standards being alright to license for profit... There goes my Karma!*)
Intel's licensing of its' SSE extensions to their competitors is a good example of how a standard can be strengthened and made more effective by 'working with' their competitors, as was AMD's licensing of x86-64 to Transmeta.
Of course, this is NVIDIA we're talking about. The likelihood of them licensing it, even for profit, is about as high as Microsoft donating millions (of dollars, not bugs) to the WINE project...
*For the FRZs, I am against Patent Trolls, but for a company/individual's right to profit from a defined standard if another company wants to benefit from their R&D rather than re-invent the wheel! This is, of course, completely different to Joe Scumbag getting a Patent for some-general-nose-picking-device (idea only, no intention to develop) and then extorting any companies that then try to develop a real nose-picking-device. That would be "Just Plain Wrong(tm)"
So you see, I'm a good sycophAnt... I hate Darl McBride too! Don't take it out on my posts, please!
Or a bridge from Melbourne to Tasmania...
Or a version of Vista that doesn't SUCK!
(To which the Genie replied: "Is that bridge 4 lanes or 6?")
It didn't make the list, but was vapourware at the time:
Duke Nukem Forever
You need a new DM.
Yours obviously does not have enough narcissism, else they would be constantly reminding you of their experience and 'god-like' status.
Yup - and I won't compromise. Has to be all 4, or none at all.
After all, it should be simple for Cooper. He's be able to scan the planet with one of the spy satellites, find her reflection in the reflection of a reflection of a tea-spoon, then run some fancy algorithm to clean it up, getting a full-glamour-shot out of 4 blurry pixels!
Don't I know it!
17 years ago, I plowed my baby-poo-yellow 1976 Corolla into a 198cm (6'6" to the metrically challenged) Kangaroo (mid-jump). Pushed the front into the engine (along with the radiator), turned the bonnet (aka hood) into a toboggin, made the front quarter panel (don't know what a Quarter-panel would be in Imperial, sorry!) into steel origami...
And the fucker still wouldn't die! Jacked out the front, replaced the radiator, bonnet and quarter-panel. Ran like a dream.
And there I was, thinking that I could get a real car... Damned insurance... (I'm sure that my parent's hated me, giving my my Grandma's old car for my first car!)
To rub salt in my wounds, it was the test-drive after having to replace the engine that had blown up!
On the bright side, now I know what Skippy is saying when he's going "tch-tch-tch." It's something along the lines of "I've just been run over by a Toyota! Oh what a feeling!"
Score 5, Flamebait?
These 4-digiters are really talented...
Gregory House, eat your heart out! Er, wait...
I'm only 30, but I had an 8-track...
In fact, my first car had a portable 8-Track instead of a tape deck.
There's only so much crap music you can listen to that was released on 8-track before you rip the damn thing out of the dashboard though!
Thanks Darl, for all of the years of crap and nonsense. Now, don't let the door hit you in the arse on the way out.
Oh, sorry. That was not meant for publication.
Sudo forget that you read this
If this remarkable fuel powers the space shuttle and reduces CO2 emissions by 90 percent, then simply send up more space shuttles! Duh!
If we send up a shuttle per year, we can pollute as much as we like! The plants will take care of the other 10%!
They have big voices?
"Pay no attention to the Pufferfish behind the curtain"
And the most popular response to the halving of the OpenBSD userbase for humorous reasons:
"It's a sign that OpenBSD is a Mature O.S. So mature that the userbase has gone through puberty!"
[Whaddya mean "youdongeddit?" Puberty. You know; when a boys balls drop. The voice gets lower... Aw, forget it.]
The tremors that you are feeling are from the sounds of the collective users of OpenBSD all simultaneously shouting "Fuck!" in exasperation.
And the 16K expansion actually worked for you?
Mine always had the tendency to spontaneously combust if you bumped them a little bit and they broke contact with the socket. Then it was back to the glory of 1K.
Let's not forget the magnificent storage on compact casettes, that would then never load again.
I still have my ZX81. Somewhere. I think it is in one of the cupboards under a pile of crap.
*sigh* Those were the days...
One final thought on this one: Did you buy Kit or Assembled?
I converted the company I work for over to OO.o at the start of 2002 (Build 638 IIRC) and haven't looked back since. I didn't have any of the nightmares and re-training issues that people claim in FUD, either.
(Biggest problem was stopping people from emailing
ODF is quite an important aspect to me. It is competant, compact and cross-platform.
If it was just about "screwing Microsoft" and "not paying the M$ tax," then I would have simply configured OO.o to save in MS Document format by default; but when an everyday document takes up 600k+ on Word vs 60k on Writer, you begin thinking about file formats.
I've tried MS Office 2007 (and I feel very dirty!) and don't feel that there is any reason to consider OOXML, either on a technological level or on principal. (Why the creation of another standard, when a capable ISO format already existed?)
Sorry, I like ODF and will stick with it unless or until a universal standard is created and accepted.
My mother was run over by a server running Lotus, you insensitive clod!
"What?! He's still promoting that OpenOffice.org crap?!"
" Poke him with the Soft Cushions! "
(But make sure you've got all the stuffing up in the one end!)
I used to say the same thing; but that was back when I opted to use VESA cards). I mean, PCI cards could fall out of their slot so much easier than the great ISA 'clamps.'
And as long as there are still motherboards with ISA slots (and cool ISA expansion cards, then PCI will still exist!
I was accounced once. It's on my permanent record.
Another time I accounced my neighbours dog for barking while I was trying to sleep. I used a teaspoon. It was fun.