Stephenson's books end like a Kung-fu Movie.
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His endings remind me of ol' school Kung-Fu movies. Usually after the climatic battle, no sooner than the final blow is struck and the head baddie is dead they roll credits.
Stephenson's endings are like that, after the story is resolved they just end with no post to wrap things up with the characters.
At Intertrust's Site, there is a whole section about the law suit and it gives a little more info, here's a quick link
You can find specific patent numbers they claim MS is in violation of, such as US Patent No. 5,940,504 which I guess is about product activation. (I'm to feeling lazy right now so you go look up the patents.)
I'm not feeling that lazy so here's a quick cut and paste of MS's stuff they claim is violating their patents.
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Same for Groton CT home of Electric Boat, and hell the Mohegan Sun Casino in Montville CT is a reburbished factory (the oldest parts not the new hotel). It used to be United Nuclear where they built frickin' reactors.
Since you have recieved karma for a simple cut and paste of Mr. Gibson's work I wonder if you can be sued.
Sure it's only karma not money, it's not like you can go down to Krispy Kreme's and buy a chocolate glazed and a coffee with karma, but you still profited, you recieved something for someone else's work without even giving credit to the original author! The only thing you wrote was 'In case of a sh,4sj0b' and at least to me that dosen't say 'Written by William Gibson reproduced with permission'.
here's a hint: watching Cowboy Bebop in your jammies and eating a bowl of Shreddies is *not* "getting on with your life
You know he's right, that really isn't getting on with life. You should see that our time here is very finite with so much out there to see and do it's a shame to waste it, enjoy and cultivate life for it really is a precious commodity that can not be sold our bought only given.
Enjoying life can be a walk in the park, dinner with some one you love, or watching Cowboy Bebop in your jammies and eating a bowl of Shreddies.
Wasting life can be letting a addcition get out of control, intentional harming someone and spending a long ass time in prison or being an unoriginal/. troll. Sorry dude I've heard the bebop/cereal statement by other trolls. Maybe it's time for you to get away from the computer and find a girl.
Here's a snippet of the caption underneath the cover to the first comic.
THE TRS-80 COMPUTER WHIZ KIDS (1984 Edition) was produced for the Radio Shack Division of Tandy Corporation byArchie Comic Publications, Inc. 325 Fayette Avenue, Mamaroneck, N.Y. 10543.
2)Beat the shit out of the cabbie for the hell of it.
3)Drive around with the cab and do drive-bys with your Uzi.
4)Pick up and have sex with a prostitute then beat said prostitute's head in with a baseball bat to get back your money.
Which is the more shocking movie? Resident Evil or Natural Born Killers? Resident Evil has plenty of blood and violence but really is standard fare. On the other hand Natural Born Killers isn't any more bloody , it's just that you or me or Cowboy Neal can go of the deep end and do that stuff.
Doom maybe about shooting up zombies and demons. However to the best of my knowledge you can't do that in real life(If it was I would be born again real quick).
There's stuff in GTA3 that you CAN do and does happen in real life. That's why it's shocking and considered ultraviolent(and fun!).
Ummm. . . I did read your post, as a matter of fact I quoted half of it, Dumbass.
Were did you state your opinion? In your original post you did not show any sign of preference at all.
In a nutshell.
this is a sham and will not provide any privacy due to the fact he was a double click executive
Translation: This is a bad person who worked for an evil company.
he knows how to thwart companies and individuals who try to invade people's privacy becasue he was an executive at a company that did this.
In other words: It takes a thief to catch a thief.
So you see I did read your 'fucking' post and found it uninformative and ignorant. Except now instead of just recommending you actually READ, I suggest you sign up for some night english courses at your local Adult Education Center and learn about such things as.
1) How to get your point across without sounding like a buffoon.
2) Capitalization! It works wonders! Did you realize that you in both posts the only upper-case letters you used were the two I's in your second post?
3) Spelling. Ah yes what snot-faced, pimply/. cannot point out the fact the you my friend (or adversary) not only post before you read , but you lack the knowledge that most people in a computer literate society have. How to use a fucking spell checker!
)this is a sham and will not provide any privacy due to the fact he was a double click executive
He? C'mon I can understand making that mistake when Hillary Rosen is the subject, but clearly your just shouting the./ party line instead of reading the article.
By the way SHE is credited for turning Doubleclick from a reprehensible company to a . . . well . . . ok they're still reprehensible but not as reprehensible.
One of the funniest radio shows I have ever heard was about two years when Art recieves a caller who claims he's from the 23rd century. The caller goes on and describes what life is like all the new tech, stuff like that.
Then Art gets another caller and it's some dude who claims he's from the 24th century and he's calling Art to let him know that the guy from the 23rd century is full of shit. Then Art lets the guys talk to each other and keeps blanking out the arguement as one of them is obviously drunk and he
can't resist liberaly sprinkling the broadcast with the infamous f-word in his description of the grey's take-over of Europe using mind-control devices.
The moral of this quick little story folks is that people in trailer parks come up with better Sci-Fi than the Sci-Fi channel.
Even of Linux really has a higher cost of ownership compared to Microsoft's OS, at least your still not paying for it after you get rid of the thing.
I belive that we shouldn't be trying to convince our bosses that alterative's to MS are the way to go, management usually dismiss that as geeks trying to get some new toys. We should be convincing the accountants who management will listen to.
At least that's what I'm trying to do, other people's circumstances may differ of course.
The three laws are simple and straightforward and meant to be foolproof. However most of Asimovs Robot stories revolved around technicalites allowing the robots to violate the three laws.
For example the short story 'Reason' from I, Robot, the machines were actually hostile to the human characters at some points.
The scenario is Earth gets power beamed to them by giant solar collecters in space that are manned by robots. One of the collecters goes offline for some reason and two repairmen are sent.
The robots do not obey the repaimen for the robots have determined,
Robots were created by humans.
Humans = creator.
However the catch is is the spark of life comes from the stations reactor when the robots are first powered up. Thus the reactor gives the robots a soul.
Station's Reactor = human.
The point is even Asimov in his stories states that the three laws of robotics are not enough.
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His endings remind me of ol' school Kung-Fu movies. Usually after the climatic battle, no sooner than the final blow is struck and the head baddie is dead
they roll credits.
Stephenson's endings are like that, after the story is resolved they just end with no post to wrap things up with the characters.
I wonder what this guy has to say about this.
Pong is offensive as it encourges violence by depicting two large rectangles beating up a small square.
It wasn't Jurassic Park but The Sequel
nuff said
I'm unemployed and have plenty of time for video games you insensitive clod!
but I sure as hell wouldn't be giving them ideas.
You can find specific patent numbers they claim MS is in violation of, such as US Patent No. 5,940,504 which I guess is about product activation. (I'm to feeling lazy right now so you go look up the patents.)
I'm not feeling that lazy so here's a quick cut and paste of MS's stuff they claim is violating their patents.
# Xbox
# My Services
# Windows Hardware Quality Lab and Windows Logo Certification
# Windows File Protection System
# Windows XP Home
# Windows XP Professional
# Windows ME
# Windows XP Embedded
# Windows CE.NET
# Office XP Standard
# Office XP Professional
# Office XP Professional with FrontPage
# Office XP Developer
# Access 2002
# Excel 2002
# FrontPage 2002
# Outlook 2002
# PowerPoint 2002
# Project 2002
# Publisher 2002
# Word 2002
# Windows Media Player
# Microsoft Reader
# Digital Asset Server
# Internet Explorer 6.0
# ASP.NET
#
#
# Visio 2002
# Visio Enterprise Network Tools
# Visual Studio
# Visual Studio
# Visual Studio
I wonder if they missed one?
Same for Groton CT home of Electric Boat, and hell the Mohegan Sun Casino in Montville CT is a reburbished factory (the oldest parts not the new hotel). It used to be United Nuclear where they built frickin' reactors.
Since you have recieved karma for a simple cut and paste of Mr. Gibson's work I wonder if you can be sued.
Sure it's only karma not money, it's not like you can go down to Krispy Kreme's and buy a chocolate glazed and a coffee with karma, but you still profited, you recieved something for someone else's work without even giving credit to the original author! The only thing you wrote was 'In case of a sh,4sj0b' and at least to me that dosen't say 'Written by William Gibson reproduced with permission'.
My Atari t-shirt went from retro to contemporary in one click of the refresh button.
This time around, hit the math books a little harder.
Your library has Atari 2600 games? WOOT!
You know he's right, that really isn't getting on with life. You should see that our time here is very finite with so much out there to see and do it's a shame to waste it, enjoy and cultivate life for it really is a precious commodity that can not be sold our bought only given.
Enjoying life can be a walk in the park, dinner with some one you love, or watching Cowboy Bebop in your jammies and eating a bowl of Shreddies.
Wasting life can be letting a addcition get out of control, intentional harming someone and spending a long ass time in prison or being an unoriginal /. troll. Sorry dude I've heard the bebop/cereal statement by other trolls. Maybe it's time for you to get away from the computer and find a girl.
Here's one service I'm sure other /.'ers can point you to others advantgo
Here's a snippet of the caption underneath the cover to the first comic.
THE TRS-80 COMPUTER WHIZ KIDS (1984 Edition) was produced for the Radio Shack Division of Tandy Corporation byArchie Comic Publications, Inc. 325 Fayette Avenue, Mamaroneck, N.Y. 10543.
1)Steal a cab.
2)Beat the shit out of the cabbie for the hell of it.
3)Drive around with the cab and do drive-bys with your Uzi.
4)Pick up and have sex with a prostitute then beat said prostitute's head in with a baseball bat to get back your money.
Which is the more shocking movie? Resident Evil or Natural Born Killers? Resident Evil has plenty of blood and violence but really is standard fare. On the other hand Natural Born Killers isn't any more bloody , it's just that you or me or Cowboy Neal can go of the deep end and do that stuff.
Doom maybe about shooting up zombies and demons. However to the best of my knowledge you can't do that in real life(If it was I would be born again real quick).
There's stuff in GTA3 that you CAN do and does happen in real life. That's why it's shocking and considered ultraviolent(and fun!).
Were did you state your opinion? In your original post you did not show any sign of preference at all.
In a nutshell.
this is a sham and will not provide any privacy due to the fact he was a double click executive
Translation: This is a bad person who worked for an evil company.
he knows how to thwart companies and individuals who try to invade people's privacy becasue he was an executive at a company that did this.
In other words: It takes a thief to catch a thief.
So you see I did read your 'fucking' post and found it uninformative and ignorant. Except now instead of just recommending you actually READ, I suggest you sign up for some night english courses at your local Adult Education Center and learn about such things as.
1) How to get your point across without sounding like a buffoon.
2) Capitalization! It works wonders! Did you realize that you in both posts the only upper-case letters you used were the two I's in your second post?
3) Spelling. Ah yes what snot-faced, pimply /. cannot point out the fact the you my friend (or adversary) not only
post before you read , but you lack the knowledge that most people in a computer literate society have.
How to use a fucking spell checker!
He? C'mon I can understand making that mistake when Hillary Rosen is the subject, but clearly your just shouting the ./ party line instead of reading the article.
By the way SHE is credited for turning Doubleclick from a reprehensible company to a . . . well . . . ok they're still reprehensible but not as reprehensible.
One of the funniest radio shows I have ever heard was about two years when Art recieves a caller who claims he's from the 23rd century. The caller goes on and describes what life is like all the new tech, stuff like that.
Then Art gets another caller and it's some dude who claims he's from the 24th century and he's calling Art to let him know that the guy from the 23rd century is full of shit. Then Art lets the guys talk to each other and keeps blanking out the arguement as one of them is obviously drunk and he can't resist liberaly sprinkling the broadcast with the infamous f-word in his description of the grey's take-over of Europe using mind-control devices.
The moral of this quick little story folks is that people in trailer parks come up with better Sci-Fi than the Sci-Fi channel.
Even of Linux really has a higher cost of ownership compared to Microsoft's OS, at least your still not paying for it after you get rid of the thing.
I belive that we shouldn't be trying to convince our bosses that alterative's to MS are the way to go, management usually dismiss that as geeks trying to get some new toys. We should be convincing the accountants who management will listen to.
At least that's what I'm trying to do, other people's circumstances may differ of course.
In Soviet Russia you don't mod the X-Box.
The X-Box mods you!
The three laws are simple and straightforward and meant to be foolproof. However most of Asimovs Robot stories revolved around technicalites allowing the robots to violate the three laws.
For example the short story 'Reason' from I, Robot, the machines were actually hostile to the human characters at some points.
The scenario is Earth gets power beamed to them by giant solar collecters in space that are manned by robots. One of the collecters goes offline for some reason and two repairmen are sent.
The robots do not obey the repaimen for the robots have determined,
Robots were created by humans.
Humans = creator.
However the catch is is the spark of life comes from the stations reactor when the robots are first powered up. Thus the reactor gives the robots a soul.
Station's Reactor = human.
The point is even Asimov in his stories states that the three laws of robotics are not enough.
I mean one of those paperbacks you find in those bookstores in a red light district, not something from the Barns and Noble romance section.
Well I thought of using George Carlin's Seven words you can't say on T.V.