... They're halfway across the 'bridge':
Bill: "This bridge is pretty shaky, who was the engineer of this thing?"
Ted (looks at travel guide): "God."
Bill: "Oh, he's good. Well then it must be safe..."
*Ice shifting in background*
Good luck!
Why.jp2??? Why not.jpeg2. This legacy DOS naming convention drives me nuts. Not even Windows is crappy enough to still require 8.3 filenames.
I still cringe when I see default.htm. It's a frickin' html file, name it properly.
Why not make it.jpeg2000 then, since that's the real name? I would really enjoy making web sites with an extension longer than many file names... =(
I helped organize a LAN for 40 people and even that was hard - I can only imagine how difficult organizing a tournament with 5000 potential entrants would be. Also, what about the smell!? At our two-day LAN party, 5 people stank noticeably by the end of it, one really bad. Some quick math:
5000 * (5/40) = 625 stinky people
5000 * (1/40) = 125 really stinky people
Bill Gates: "Okay! We need to talk about security. The bad news is that this could take a while. The good news is that we get to have one big pizza and pop party!"
My apologies... My previous post seemed to have all the HTML stripped from it... The post was supposed to look like this:
If we surrender this control, though, we'll find ourselves with a monopoly operating system that makes it impossible freely to write code for. (And it's not hard to cut off Linux and every other rogue free OS at the knees. The day that every motherboard's BIOS uses strong crypto to demand the master boot record be signed with a secret key known only to Microsoft is the day that Linux becomes a thing of the past.)
The thing I see that would prevent this 'absolute' control from happening has to do with profitable alternatives. If a company could make a profit from all the/. people who don't want Microsoft controlling everything and shutting down Linux, wouldn't they start developing a product for that group? I know I would - you would have no competition for those customers. A company would be able to establish a niche market for itself because of the number of people who desire something like this. Sure, Microsoft might control a majority of the systems, but I don't think they could ever achieve something like absolute control simply because the Microsoft solution isn't for everybody.
If we surrender this control, though, we'll find ourselves with a monopoly operating system that makes it impossible freely to write code for. (And it's not hard to cut off Linux and every other rogue free OS at the knees. The day that every motherboard's BIOS uses strong crypto to demand the master boot record be signed with a secret key known only to Microsoft is the day that Linux becomes a thing of the past.)
The thing I see that would prevent this 'absolute' control from happening has to do with profitable alternatives. If a company could make a profit from all the/. people who don't want Microsoft controlling everything and shutting down Linux, wouldn't they start developing a product for that group? I know I would - you would have no competition for those customers. A company would be able to establish a niche market for itself because of the number of people who desire something like this. Sure, Microsoft might control a majority of the systems, but I don't think they could ever achieve something like absolute control simply because the Microsoft solution isn't for everybody.
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... They're halfway across the 'bridge': Bill: "This bridge is pretty shaky, who was the engineer of this thing?" Ted (looks at travel guide): "God." Bill: "Oh, he's good. Well then it must be safe..." *Ice shifting in background* Good luck!
... the cross-platform compatibility. Java lets you do it anywhere. =)
So if somebody flips you the bird, take a picture and find out what he was really saying!
Indiana Jones and Quest for the Blue Pill!
Forget licenses... I want it for the girl that looks like Cher!
Bill Gates: "Okay! We need to talk about security. The bad news is that this could take a while. The good news is that we get to have one big pizza and pop party!"
If we surrender this control, though, we'll find ourselves with a monopoly operating system that makes it impossible freely to write code for. (And it's not hard to cut off Linux and every other rogue free OS at the knees. The day that every motherboard's BIOS uses strong crypto to demand the master boot record be signed with a secret key known only to Microsoft is the day that Linux becomes a thing of the past.) The thing I see that would prevent this 'absolute' control from happening has to do with profitable alternatives. If a company could make a profit from all the /. people who don't want Microsoft controlling everything and shutting down Linux, wouldn't they start developing a product for that group? I know I would - you would have no competition for those customers. A company would be able to establish a niche market for itself because of the number of people who desire something like this. Sure, Microsoft might control a majority of the systems, but I don't think they could ever achieve something like absolute control simply because the Microsoft solution isn't for everybody.
New AOL Slogan: "You've got jail!"
Awwwww.... With the amount of junk in my mailbox I could have written an epic that rivalled Beowulf!