"Bet you didn't know Edgar Allen Poe pre-discovered the Big Bang and Black Holes"
No I had no idea! But now I know.. And yes its Saturday night and yes 11pm down here in New Orleans and here I am rading about Edgar Allen Poe.. I should be crowned as king of all nerds to be reading about this while there is lots of "big banging" going on down few blocks from here on French Quater and Bourbon St
In the meantime internet service providers will be available in Louisiana as soon as gators stop chewing on internet backbone or when Dukem Nukem Forever comes out whichever comes first. Seriously though that sucks that even Utah is ahead of us..
Oh well at least we got shrimp and crawfish down here so there! Take that Utah!
Maybe for now the support for open source software might be more expensive than commercial.. However as more businesses switch to open source the market for open source support will increase and refine as the greater number of companies start specializing in open source support.. With greater number of companies specializing in open source support the "lifetime" cost of open source support should decrease due to competition and greater numbers of companies offering open source support. Basically the more the open source grows the more attention will it attract in terms of suport.. More and more companies will jump into the open source support market and as that happens prices will go lower if my memory of Economics serves me right..
As long as little blue smurfs stay on I am fine;oP Why? Watching smurfs stoned is even better than watching Wizard of Oz with Pink Floyd Dark side of the moon playing..
I hope they are not putting that supercomputer anywhere near Antarctica.. 16,000 Athlons can get pretty hot resulting in some serious polar melting forcing me to evacuate from New Orleans (we are already underwater).
Err am I the only one who was mislead by the title thinking it was pr0n?
"Eldred v. Ashcroft Oral Arguments"
Got me fooled I was excited there for a second thinking that slashdot started covering pr0n movies.. Maybe they will make one out of this case, I bet Ron Jeremy would have an idea or 2..
Hmmm, the most anticipated game of the year or of new millenium if you want (Doom III) is going to be released on PC first.. No One Lives Forever 2 is coming to PC first, Unreal Tournament 2003 is on PC first.. Warcraft 3 and Age of Mythology are on PC only... Everquest is on PC only.. Sims are PC only... All the games that define genre seem to be released on PC first.. Exception comes to fighting games which is the only reason why I would own console. I had my X-box for almost a year and its sitting there collecting dust..
They still have to pay 25 cents an hour, and that is a lot considering how much average Egyptian makes.. So no its not free internet... Its like AOL merging with BellSouth or whatever Bell there is in your area and saying we offer free internet access as long as u pay Bell $$$ an hour..
Why would we need TV?? Honestly there is absolutely nothing on TV that can hold my interest. I do watch DVD's sometimes and thats about the only thing that my TV is usefull for. All the media (news, infromation, research) I need I get from the internet. Internet has replaced TV completely in my case. I do think that todays non-interactive TV format is ancient.. I can picture us sometime in not too distant future wondering how in world did we manage to just sit there watch that TV BOX that constantly fed us whatever Media Bosses wanted us to see.. The greatest thing about the internet is that you controll information the way you want it. Whatever you want to research or do is available 24/7. So to talk about how to keep TV content alive without commercials does not make sense, since TV as we know it will die soon and will be replaced with someting else more interactive and meaningfull. I am sure I am not the only one that made complete switch from TV to internet?
Best Part of Article was at the end when the guy recieved angry e-mails from angry soccer moms regarding his view on computer games:
"You are obviously not a mother trying to raise teenagers you stupid freaking moron idiot."
"I'd like to take that stupid X Box and crack that moron from MIT over the head with it."
Now is it just me or is it a bit odd that most of the bad angry e-mails he got came exactly from the exact same people that oppose violence in video games??
Or another thought... I love all the religious fanatics who want to ban and censor any material which in their eyes promotes violence.. Shouldn't they try banning religious institutions first since afterall it is the religion itself that drastically slowed human progress throughout the history.. Not to mention that religion has been in some way or another a major fact behind most of the wars in world history that claimed millions of lives... Shouldn't they be the last ones to comment on anything? Since if I was one of them I would be too ashamed to show myself in public...
I live down here in New Orleans so I think I speak with some authority on this subject...
See New Orleans is a unique city where at any given time you got more parties, public nudity and drunkiness then anywhere else in the country combined! So New Orleans is a perfect place for Microsoft to test their stuff since when it starts crashing everybody will be too drunk to notice it or even care about it.. Afterall New Orleans is known as Big Easy;o) Everything goes down here.. We are used to it;o)
I am just a mindless sheep;o) As long as I get my daily dose of Slashdot and pr0n I am happy and I don't care about privacy;o) I can't see far enough to comprehend complete consequences of my complete ignorance;o) When shit hits the fan its gonna be too late, and I will blame everybody else but myself..
Sure.. Nukes are bad... But you can argue that they are the best thing that happened to us and that its the Nukes themselves that saved human race from ultimate destruction.. How?? You could argue that nukes serve as deterrent that keeps all the major world powers from going into the war.. think about it.. Without Nukes to serve as deterrent US and Russia would have probably went into a war that would have costed millions of lives.. So as bad as they are, you could argue that nukes brought STABILITY since no country is willing to risk complete destruction.. So when u look at the nukes as pacifying factor in world today then really it does not seem as bad. Few times Nukes have been used in Japan probably prevented an all out ground war between Japanese and Americans that could have resulted in far greater number of casualties then it was the case in Hiroshima and Ogasaki..
In another stunning development Bit Boys released their long awaited graphic board that is faster than 5 G-force 500 Ti's combined! The only catch is that the graphic board is only compatible with New Amiga "Phantom" computer which has been in development for quite a while and will be out "when its done" or shortly after Dukem Nukem Forever comes out.
"This new Athlon XP 2100+ with 512 megs of ram 160 GIG HD, G-force 4, DVD rewritable will help you get laid!"
It was a cruel lie! I will never believe salesman again;o(
Hmmmm....
MAybe one day they will introduce the bill that will ban human reproduction since human reproduction can lead to more crime? Its a proven fact.. More people = more crime..
Looks like a nice furniture piece? Something that will go well with interior design of my house... I hope it comes in color so I can match my furniture.. And thats about all the use I have for one of those.. Nice display furniture piece.. Maybe even a conversational piece during a coctail party? But thats about it as far as usability of iMac goes (as far as I am conerned that is)...
Slashdot Mirror
"Bet you didn't know Edgar Allen Poe pre-discovered the Big Bang and Black Holes"
No I had no idea! But now I know.. And yes its Saturday night and yes 11pm down here in New Orleans and here I am rading about Edgar Allen Poe.. I should be crowned as king of all nerds to be reading about this while there is lots of "big banging" going on down few blocks from here on French Quater and Bourbon St
Well.....
If its a hoax how come there are soo many moon rocks u can buy on E-bay? Huh? Somebody had to get em here!!
Gee some people today...
In the meantime internet service providers will be available in Louisiana as soon as gators stop chewing on internet backbone or when Dukem Nukem Forever comes out whichever comes first. Seriously though that sucks that even Utah is ahead of us..
Oh well at least we got shrimp and crawfish down here so there! Take that Utah!
Sweeeeeeet...
;o)))
Now RIAA is gonna be even more pissed at me
Maybe for now the support for open source software might be more expensive than commercial.. However as more businesses switch to open source the market for open source support will increase and refine as the greater number of companies start specializing in open source support.. With greater number of companies specializing in open source support the "lifetime" cost of open source support should decrease due to competition and greater numbers of companies offering open source support. Basically the more the open source grows the more attention will it attract in terms of suport.. More and more companies will jump into the open source support market and as that happens prices will go lower if my memory of Economics serves me right..
As long as little blue smurfs stay on I am fine ;oP Why? Watching smurfs stoned is even better than watching Wizard of Oz with Pink Floyd Dark side of the moon playing..
I hope they are not putting that supercomputer anywhere near Antarctica.. 16,000 Athlons can get pretty hot resulting in some serious polar melting forcing me to evacuate from New Orleans (we are already underwater).
Linux Fanatics usually don't brag about how simple their cute one button mouse is.
They also usually don't care about all the pretty colors their computer comes in.
Err am I the only one who was mislead by the title thinking it was pr0n? "Eldred v. Ashcroft Oral Arguments" Got me fooled I was excited there for a second thinking that slashdot started covering pr0n movies.. Maybe they will make one out of this case, I bet Ron Jeremy would have an idea or 2..
Hmmm, the most anticipated game of the year or of new millenium if you want (Doom III) is going to be released on PC first.. No One Lives Forever 2 is coming to PC first, Unreal Tournament 2003 is on PC first.. Warcraft 3 and Age of Mythology are on PC only... Everquest is on PC only.. Sims are PC only... All the games that define genre seem to be released on PC first.. Exception comes to fighting games which is the only reason why I would own console. I had my X-box for almost a year and its sitting there collecting dust..
How is this free?
They still have to pay 25 cents an hour, and that is a lot considering how much average Egyptian makes.. So no its not free internet... Its like AOL merging with BellSouth or whatever Bell there is in your area and saying we offer free internet access as long as u pay Bell $$$ an hour..
Why would we need TV?? Honestly there is absolutely nothing on TV that can hold my interest. I do watch DVD's sometimes and thats about the only thing that my TV is usefull for. All the media (news, infromation, research) I need I get from the internet. Internet has replaced TV completely in my case.
I do think that todays non-interactive TV format is ancient.. I can picture us sometime in not too distant future wondering how in world did we manage to just sit there watch that TV BOX that constantly fed us whatever Media Bosses wanted us to see.. The greatest thing about the internet is that you controll information the way you want it. Whatever you want to research or do is available 24/7. So to talk about how to keep TV content alive without commercials does not make sense, since TV as we know it will die soon and will be replaced with someting else more interactive and meaningfull. I am sure I am not the only one that made complete switch from TV to internet?
Best Part of Article was at the end when the guy recieved angry e-mails from angry soccer moms regarding his view on computer games:
"You are obviously not a mother trying to raise teenagers you stupid freaking moron idiot."
"I'd like to take that stupid X Box and crack that moron from MIT over the head with it."
Now is it just me or is it a bit odd that most of the bad angry e-mails he got came exactly from the exact same people that oppose violence in video games??
Or another thought... I love all the religious fanatics who want to ban and censor any material which in their eyes promotes violence.. Shouldn't they try banning religious institutions first since afterall it is the religion itself that drastically slowed human progress throughout the history.. Not to mention that religion has been in some way or another a major fact behind most of the wars in world history that claimed millions of lives... Shouldn't they be the last ones to comment on anything? Since if I was one of them I would be too ashamed to show myself in public...
I live down here in New Orleans so I think I speak with some authority on this subject...
;o) Everything goes down here.. We are used to it ;o)
See New Orleans is a unique city where at any given time you got more parties, public nudity and drunkiness then anywhere else in the country combined! So New Orleans is a perfect place for Microsoft to test their stuff since when it starts crashing everybody will be too drunk to notice it or even care about it.. Afterall New Orleans is known as Big Easy
Now I know what to look for! I am getting sick of pr0n anyway! hehehe
I am just a mindless sheep ;o) As long as I get my daily dose of Slashdot and pr0n I am happy and I don't care about privacy ;o) I can't see far enough to comprehend complete consequences of my complete ignorance ;o) When shit hits the fan its gonna be too late, and I will blame everybody else but myself..
Now every time Ted Turner opens his e-mail he hears: "You've got F*****"
Sure.. Nukes are bad... But you can argue that they are the best thing that happened to us and that its the Nukes themselves that saved human race from ultimate destruction.. How?? You could argue that nukes serve as deterrent that keeps all the major world powers from going into the war.. think about it.. Without Nukes to serve as deterrent US and Russia would have probably went into a war that would have costed millions of lives.. So as bad as they are, you could argue that nukes brought STABILITY since no country is willing to risk complete destruction.. So when u look at the nukes as pacifying factor in world today then really it does not seem as bad. Few times Nukes have been used in Japan probably prevented an all out ground war between Japanese and Americans that could have resulted in far greater number of casualties then it was the case in Hiroshima and Ogasaki..
In another stunning development Bit Boys released their long awaited graphic board that is faster than 5 G-force 500 Ti's combined! The only catch is that the graphic board is only compatible with New Amiga "Phantom" computer which has been in development for quite a while and will be out "when its done" or shortly after Dukem Nukem Forever comes out.
"This new Athlon XP 2100+ with 512 megs of ram 160 GIG HD, G-force 4, DVD rewritable will help you get laid!" It was a cruel lie! I will never believe salesman again ;o(
Hmmmm.... MAybe one day they will introduce the bill that will ban human reproduction since human reproduction can lead to more crime? Its a proven fact.. More people = more crime..
Maybe charging less than 600$ for their software could also help?
Yup it is a year old article.. Well little bit older than a year:
January 11, 2001 2:41 PM PT
2001... Not 2002....
Why does apple care more about exterior fashionable aspects of its products then about its funcionality and usability as well as perfomance?
Looks like a nice furniture piece? Something that will go well with interior design of my house... I hope it comes in color so I can match my furniture.. And thats about all the use I have for one of those.. Nice display furniture piece.. Maybe even a conversational piece during a coctail party? But thats about it as far as usability of iMac goes (as far as I am conerned that is)...