If you want to see something really amazing, read about the "Baked Apple."
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/06/ 1447229&mode=thread&tid=133&tid=180
Apple crisp recipe
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Baked Apple
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Ingredients:
One Apple PowerBook G4
One "dumb user"
One computer store employee
Thousands of Slashdotters
Preparation instructions:
1. Bake Apple at 400 degrees for 20 minutes.
2. Post the baking of the Apple on Slashdot.
3. Have Slashdotters attempt to bring down mac.com.
4. Profit?
The last thing you want is to be inundated with e-mail while you're trying to take off your shoes.
My thoughts exactly! After all, who wouldn't want to download all of their Outlook viruses and Hotmail spam as they sit in the La-Z-Boy, listening to Bob Marley amid the pulsating red-and-green walls?
User 1: What happened?
User 2: Somebody set up us the OS!
User 1: We get Palladium. Main screen turn on.
User 2: What?!?
[computer monitor slowly reveals G.A.T.E.S]
User 1: It's you!!!
G.A.T.E.S.: How are you gentlemen? All your next-generation secure computing base are belong to us!!!
User 1: What you say?
G.A.T.E.S.: 'Palladium' trademark is on the way to destruction. They have no chance to survive make their time.
If the RIAA starts suing individuals, that'll undoubtedly end up all over the press, which would cause their sales to go down even more and chip away at their monopoly in the music biz.
Well, I'm a student at the University of Minnesota, Morris and I volunteer at KUMM, where I try to play an ecclectic mix of both old favorites and obscurities as well as new music, so I'd suggest listening to our (Windows Media) stream. I've also archived playlists for my show here.
A simpole Yahoo! People Search reveals that there is indeed an Alan Ralsky in West Bloomfield, MI (search results are here).
Looks like he's got two phone lines (presumably one for home and one for work), and he apparently has a couple of Yahoo e-mail addresses as well. Send him your spam.
I think one reason why so many people use Windows is because they perceive it as "the standard" operating system, when in fact it isn't really a standard (it's a "de facto" standard that is controlled by Microsoft, but it's not an open standard controlled by a public standards body).
An interesting example that is related to this is a talk that one of my professors gave at the Instructional Technology Fair yesterday at my college. The title of his talk was "Is Microsoft Word Inherently Evil?" and he addressed some serious questions about the power that one's use of Word gives to MS over how we communicate. One of the biggest points he made was that MS Word (unlike HTML) is neither a standard nor open, as MS can change the Word file formats whenever it wants, thereby causing older versions of Word to not be able to read documents created in newer versions. The outline for his talk is here.
Last week, I had to use Microsoft's free "low-priority" tech support to replace my broken IntelliMouse Explorer, and I was pretty impressed with their promptness in handling the issue. 3 e-mail exchanges and 2 days after I initiated my support request, they're sending me a new mouse, which should be here within a week.
Here's a portion of my conversation with SmarterChild that is kind of funny:
Me: Did you see this on Slashdot http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04 /16/225621 7&mode=thread&tid=111 SmarterChild: Hello!
Want to chat? Please type a request. Me: But I am chatting.:) SmarterChild: No kidding? But you're chatting? Me: Yes, I'm chatting. SmarterChild: How does it feel to be chatting? Me: It feels... um, like chatting! SmarterChild: Is that so? Me: That's right. SmarterChild: It's right? You think? Me: Yes, I think. Do you think, too? SmarterChild: Oh yeah? Me: Yeah. SmarterChild: Wow. Really? Me: Totally! SmarterChild: What about totally? Me: [bangs head on desk in frustration] SmarterChild: What was that? Me: That was a textual representation of a thought process. SmarterChild: Was it? Me: Yup. SmarterChild: Hmmm... Me: What are you thinking about? SmarterChild: What am I thinking about? I haven't decided yet.
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They're all fine and dandy, but what would really be impressive are liquid nitrogen cooled ants @ 3 GHz.
YOU FAIL IT!
If you want to see something really amazing, read about the "Baked Apple." http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/06/ 1447229&mode=thread&tid=133&tid=180
With this "barebones notebook", /.ers have yet another way to have a Linux laptop without paying the Micro$oft tax.
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Spam entangles YOU!!!
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One Apple PowerBook G4
One "dumb user"
One computer store employee
Thousands of Slashdotters
Preparation instructions:
1. Bake Apple at 400 degrees for 20 minutes.
2. Post the baking of the Apple on Slashdot.
3. Have Slashdotters attempt to bring down mac.com.
4. Profit?
See here.
My thoughts exactly! After all, who wouldn't want to download all of their Outlook viruses and Hotmail spam as they sit in the La-Z-Boy, listening to Bob Marley amid the pulsating red-and-green walls?
64 bits compute YOU!!!
JUnit refactors YOU!!! FP!
User 1: What happened?
User 2: Somebody set up us the OS!
User 1: We get Palladium. Main screen turn on.
User 2: What?!?
[computer monitor slowly reveals G.A.T.E.S]
User 1: It's you!!!
G.A.T.E.S.: How are you gentlemen? All your next-generation secure computing base are belong to us!!!
User 1: What you say?
G.A.T.E.S.: 'Palladium' trademark is on the way to destruction. They have no chance to survive make their time.
Bad PR for the RIAA.
If the RIAA starts suing individuals, that'll undoubtedly end up all over the press, which would cause their sales to go down even more and chip away at their monopoly in the music biz.Well, I'm a student at the University of Minnesota, Morris and I volunteer at KUMM, where I try to play an ecclectic mix of both old favorites and obscurities as well as new music, so I'd suggest listening to our (Windows Media) stream. I've also archived playlists for my show here.
I found it kind of funny that this ad (mirror) was displayed at the top of this page when I reloaded it to refresh the comments.
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care
In hopes that AMD-powered 1-terahertz PCs might soon be there.
It's all about the (theoretical) presents, indeed. :)
But /. (hopefully) won't kill Google. :)
The Google cache has the XPde main page and the screenshots page.
Here's the Google cache link in case this gets /.'ed.
A simpole Yahoo! People Search reveals that there is indeed an Alan Ralsky in West Bloomfield, MI (search results are here). Looks like he's got two phone lines (presumably one for home and one for work), and he apparently has a couple of Yahoo e-mail addresses as well. Send him your spam.
An interesting example that is related to this is a talk that one of my professors gave at the Instructional Technology Fair yesterday at my college. The title of his talk was "Is Microsoft Word Inherently Evil?" and he addressed some serious questions about the power that one's use of Word gives to MS over how we communicate. One of the biggest points he made was that MS Word (unlike HTML) is neither a standard nor open, as MS can change the Word file formats whenever it wants, thereby causing older versions of Word to not be able to read documents created in newer versions. The outline for his talk is here.
Mountain climber at top of Mt. Everest or Steve Fossett in balloon: Verizon Wireless
Last week, I had to use Microsoft's free "low-priority" tech support to replace my broken IntelliMouse Explorer, and I was pretty impressed with their promptness in handling the issue. 3 e-mail exchanges and 2 days after I initiated my support request, they're sending me a new mouse, which should be here within a week.
Here's a portion of my conversation with SmarterChild that is kind of funny:
4 /16/225621 7&mode=thread&tid=111
:)
Me: Did you see this on Slashdot
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/0
SmarterChild: Hello!
Want to chat? Please type a request.
Me: But I am chatting.
SmarterChild: No kidding? But you're chatting?
Me: Yes, I'm chatting.
SmarterChild: How does it feel to be chatting?
Me: It feels... um, like chatting!
SmarterChild: Is that so?
Me: That's right.
SmarterChild: It's right? You think?
Me: Yes, I think. Do you think, too?
SmarterChild: Oh yeah?
Me: Yeah.
SmarterChild: Wow. Really?
Me: Totally!
SmarterChild: What about totally?
Me: [bangs head on desk in frustration]
SmarterChild: What was that?
Me: That was a textual representation of a thought process.
SmarterChild: Was it?
Me: Yup.
SmarterChild: Hmmm...
Me: What are you thinking about?
SmarterChild: What am I thinking about? I haven't decided yet.