That a horde of tens of thousands of viruses would leave the Windows partition to invade my Mac OS X partition, where life is definitely more attractive. A little bit like the yearly spring break assault on Mexico.
One degree of separation. Everybody directly connected to Cowboy Neal. One word and all ready to crash the designated Web site. Sorry, PeopleAggregator...
> No matter what their credentials or rationale, it is wrong
> to use one's knowledge and the cover of academia to
> facilitate piracy and theft of digital property.
I do not think so. My tax dollars at work, baby. Would it be better to keep it a secret shared only by hackers? Thanks to this student, people will be able to focus their investments on companies that build *real*, valuable technology, unlike SunnComm and their laughable protection schemes.
Knowledge wants to spread. You cannot stop it.
Associated Press - The 6-year old daughter of an IBM engineer was killed after the Cindy Smart doll she received as a birthday present overheard the girl's father in the adjacent room yelling "F***! Where the hell did I put my Linux distro CDs?". Apparently, the doll immediately strangled the little girl in response. Although the police initially thought the doll's reaction was triggered by the use of the F word, it was later determined that the embedded version of Windows CE snapped on the utterance of the word "Linux". Microsoft could not be reached today. The toy's manufacturer canceled plans for a similar version for boys that was to be dubbed Smarmy Darl.
I had a real Qix in my appartment when I was still a bachelor. My wife thinks it does not look good in her living room (bummer). She thinks a 50" plasma screen doesn't either anyway... If you have any tricks on how to convince a wife, please share.
After having been asked to appear in front of a grand jury in relation to the 5% crash article, Bill Gates had to admit under oath, when asked about the 95% remaining installations, that "those actually crash *THREE* times or more everyday, which is not the same."
Let's not forget that Applied Semantics, formerly Oingo, invented pretty good technology to perform meaning-based searching of the Internet.
The Oingo site, now defunct, was actually pretty cool. You'd do a search on "apple" and it would offer you to refine the meaning of apple: Which kind? The fruit? The computer? Etc.
I would not be surprised if Google were to integrate the technology they now own into the Google site, which would make MSN's article quite obsolete. Just wait for a year or so.
The $1,000 giveaway is actually not in cash but in Microsoft software (makes it look like a settlement rather than a prize, doesn't it?).
So basically, you get to win half of a piece of software that's going to waste half of your life learning how to work around its flaws.
A spokesperson at Microsoft refuted the conclusions of two french researchers from Oxford University this afternoon, saying that the business model behind Open Source was flawed anyway, since fewer bugs meant less urgency in updating to newer versions of software where old annoying bugs had been eliminated (only to be replaced with fresh one in anticipation of the subsequent forced release). The spokesperson also mentioned the enormous success of Microsoft's recent Closed Source initiative, under Bill Gates's supervision, to make computing more stable and secure, and finished by indicating that the UK government, who is being turned by Microsoft into a strong Open Source opponent (see recent Slashdot story), belonged to them anyway, and that the "frogs" would be deported to France shortly.
Hatch makes his own songs available on cassette tape, but not on MP3. Bummer!!! Although it's easy to understand: he is probablyt worried that college students will pirate them, especially hit song "It's Not So Easy Growing Old" from his album "The Locket". So stop dissing the Orrin Dude! He is just fighting for himself!
I bet it's gonna be a blast to see the star of the event, Dale McBride. I thought they usually did the Burning Man thing in the desert but I guess it's a first this year...
Interesting Tidbits about Steve Jobs and Minitel
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Steve Jobs saw a Minitel terminal in France and was inspired by its design. He took the handle concept on top, which made the terminal easy to carry, and used it in the Macintosh.
See a photo at http://www.com1.fr/~pficheux/xtel/images/minitel.j pg or http://www.ravet-anceau.fr/Minitel.gif
Once again, the Yankees took all the credit for true Frog creativity.
I heard that the governor, who is a bit computer-illiterate, was especially and very pleasantly surprised to learn that the biggest download from kids was a software known as M.A.M.E. which, according to a kid whom the governor asks, stands for Macs Advancing Maine Education.
Extra, extra! Hear all about it! The Irish Times just revealed that the young genius is a follower of Rael. When interviewed, he mentioned that he was not sure he could let other computer scientists test the new browser to verify the veracity of his claims (besides, he said, "most real geeks do not have Flash installed"). He said that he was concerned with the safety of his "baby". Finally, he mentioned that he really did not deserve so much praise, that his new browser was merely an improvement over the one that THEY have been using for centuries.
Hmmm, I guess I should've tried my example before posting. Damn! Oh well, you see what I mean... Google is good for search, not for research (Disclaimer: I do not work for Vivisimo).
Page ranking is doomed because...
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... categorization is the future, unless you're looking for the official Britney Spears site, that is. If I'm going to search for some guy called Michael Jordan who is not the basketball star, there is no way I will ever find him with Google, especially since they never give you more than 2000 results (or is it 1000; try it, it's lame). However, with the best categorization technology out there (http://www.vivisimo.com), I might find him because he would be in some, say, Computer Science category assuming that he is a computer scientist. Sure, you can add "computer" to the list of keywords in Google but it's not the panacea when you're doing serious research.
Hey what about adding a similar vending machine on the side of each Apple store? It would feature small items such as RAM, power supplies, portable hard disks, all sorts of cables, the latest software, etc. I hate it when I need something at 11 PM and all stores are closed. This could save a life, man! Or at least some deadline-bound ass.
Conjugal Happiness Tip #269:
"Here, darling... Happy Valentine's, my love. And the biggest one in the necklace is Mom... your very own mother-in-law..."
Slashdot Mirror
Microsoft welcomes you to the dark side. Just watch out for the corn hole, buddy!
That a horde of tens of thousands of viruses would leave the Windows partition to invade my Mac OS X partition, where life is definitely more attractive. A little bit like the yearly spring break assault on Mexico.
of that blue brick fo death!
One degree of separation. Everybody directly connected to Cowboy Neal. One word and all ready to crash the designated Web site. Sorry, PeopleAggregator...
> No matter what their credentials or rationale, it is wrong > to use one's knowledge and the cover of academia to > facilitate piracy and theft of digital property. I do not think so. My tax dollars at work, baby. Would it be better to keep it a secret shared only by hackers? Thanks to this student, people will be able to focus their investments on companies that build *real*, valuable technology, unlike SunnComm and their laughable protection schemes. Knowledge wants to spread. You cannot stop it.
... when you can use all kinds of logic all at once. See the Pile system at http://www.pilesys.com/tech.htm
Associated Press - The 6-year old daughter of an IBM engineer was killed after the Cindy Smart doll she received as a birthday present overheard the girl's father in the adjacent room yelling "F***! Where the hell did I put my Linux distro CDs?". Apparently, the doll immediately strangled the little girl in response. Although the police initially thought the doll's reaction was triggered by the use of the F word, it was later determined that the embedded version of Windows CE snapped on the utterance of the word "Linux". Microsoft could not be reached today. The toy's manufacturer canceled plans for a similar version for boys that was to be dubbed Smarmy Darl.
I had a real Qix in my appartment when I was still a bachelor. My wife thinks it does not look good in her living room (bummer). She thinks a 50" plasma screen doesn't either anyway... If you have any tricks on how to convince a wife, please share.
After having been asked to appear in front of a grand jury in relation to the 5% crash article, Bill Gates had to admit under oath, when asked about the 95% remaining installations, that "those actually crash *THREE* times or more everyday, which is not the same."
Let's not forget that Applied Semantics, formerly Oingo, invented pretty good technology to perform meaning-based searching of the Internet. The Oingo site, now defunct, was actually pretty cool. You'd do a search on "apple" and it would offer you to refine the meaning of apple: Which kind? The fruit? The computer? Etc. I would not be surprised if Google were to integrate the technology they now own into the Google site, which would make MSN's article quite obsolete. Just wait for a year or so.
The $1,000 giveaway is actually not in cash but in Microsoft software (makes it look like a settlement rather than a prize, doesn't it?). So basically, you get to win half of a piece of software that's going to waste half of your life learning how to work around its flaws.
All Your Code Bases Are Belong To Us!
This week's edition pretty much summarizes my thinking about blogs...
A spokesperson at Microsoft refuted the conclusions of two french researchers from Oxford University this afternoon, saying that the business model behind Open Source was flawed anyway, since fewer bugs meant less urgency in updating to newer versions of software where old annoying bugs had been eliminated (only to be replaced with fresh one in anticipation of the subsequent forced release). The spokesperson also mentioned the enormous success of Microsoft's recent Closed Source initiative, under Bill Gates's supervision, to make computing more stable and secure, and finished by indicating that the UK government, who is being turned by Microsoft into a strong Open Source opponent (see recent Slashdot story), belonged to them anyway, and that the "frogs" would be deported to France shortly.
Hatch makes his own songs available on cassette tape, but not on MP3. Bummer!!! Although it's easy to understand: he is probablyt worried that college students will pirate them, especially hit song "It's Not So Easy Growing Old" from his album "The Locket". So stop dissing the Orrin Dude! He is just fighting for himself!
Vedette = Star (as in "Hollywood Star"). Speedboat is an alternate meaning of the word but it does not apply in this case, evidently...
I bet it's gonna be a blast to see the star of the event, Dale McBride. I thought they usually did the Burning Man thing in the desert but I guess it's a first this year...
That's all I have to say...
Steve Jobs saw a Minitel terminal in France and was inspired by its design. He took the handle concept on top, which made the terminal easy to carry, and used it in the Macintosh. See a photo at http://www.com1.fr/~pficheux/xtel/images/minitel.j pg or http://www.ravet-anceau.fr/Minitel.gif
Once again, the Yankees took all the credit for true Frog creativity.
I heard that the governor, who is a bit computer-illiterate, was especially and very pleasantly surprised to learn that the biggest download from kids was a software known as M.A.M.E. which, according to a kid whom the governor asks, stands for Macs Advancing Maine Education.
Extra, extra! Hear all about it! The Irish Times just revealed that the young genius is a follower of Rael. When interviewed, he mentioned that he was not sure he could let other computer scientists test the new browser to verify the veracity of his claims (besides, he said, "most real geeks do not have Flash installed"). He said that he was concerned with the safety of his "baby". Finally, he mentioned that he really did not deserve so much praise, that his new browser was merely an improvement over the one that THEY have been using for centuries.
Hmmm, I guess I should've tried my example before posting. Damn! Oh well, you see what I mean... Google is good for search, not for research (Disclaimer: I do not work for Vivisimo).
... categorization is the future, unless you're looking for the official Britney Spears site, that is. If I'm going to search for some guy called Michael Jordan who is not the basketball star, there is no way I will ever find him with Google, especially since they never give you more than 2000 results (or is it 1000; try it, it's lame). However, with the best categorization technology out there (http://www.vivisimo.com), I might find him because he would be in some, say, Computer Science category assuming that he is a computer scientist. Sure, you can add "computer" to the list of keywords in Google but it's not the panacea when you're doing serious research.
Hey what about adding a similar vending machine on the side of each Apple store? It would feature small items such as RAM, power supplies, portable hard disks, all sorts of cables, the latest software, etc. I hate it when I need something at 11 PM and all stores are closed. This could save a life, man! Or at least some deadline-bound ass.
Conjugal Happiness Tip #269: "Here, darling... Happy Valentine's, my love. And the biggest one in the necklace is Mom... your very own mother-in-law..."