I understand Microsoft is partnering with DSL providers (QWEST?) to push discounted DSL; the catch is that you have to install special MSN website-friendly software.
No doubt the WiFi stuff will have a similar catch...
Looks great at first, then you realize they've changed one middleman for a different, 'internet based' one.
The only folks who come out ahead on this deal are UPS, FEDEX, and USPS.
"Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic
means is, of course, living in a state of sin." --
Armchair nanotubes
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Quantum Wires
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· Score: 2, Funny
They've already produced some wires up to 100 meters long--the only thing left to do is figure out how to produce only a certain type of nanotube, the "5,5 armchair nanotube," that conducts so well that it can be considered a superconductor."
Does the amount of conductivity depend on how you set the little lever on the side of the armchair?
...the NCO waving his arms (no general in his right mind is gonna use this, he's gonna sit in a chair and use a laser pointer to tell the NCO what to do) has to scratch his butt?
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Google 'flipstart' - you'll find that this thing has been Vaporware since before 2004.
I'll believe it when woot has it on sale...
How about the iRobot Create platform? You can get ten of them for $1k, it's got the controller as well as the mechanics in a robust package.
cp = copy
mv = move
ls, rm, etc.
You get the idea. Scripting? Enso 3.0 of course!
The pendulum swings back again...
Poser.
The appropriate response is "Have your people call my people".
... I'm not buying one of these until they've killed it at least three more times.
Then I'll know they're serious!
How's FEMA gonna handle this?
Are they gonna send aid after it gets dark?
I understand Microsoft is partnering with DSL providers (QWEST?) to push discounted DSL; the catch is that you have to install special MSN website-friendly software.
No doubt the WiFi stuff will have a similar catch...
I rate it... 4 out of 5 donuts!
I rate it... 3 out of 4 trees!
I rate it... 4 out of 5 mxlpfghs!
I rate it... 4 out of 5 chairs!
Looks great at first, then you realize they've changed one middleman for a different, 'internet based' one. The only folks who come out ahead on this deal are UPS, FEDEX, and USPS.
... obsolete your own product before the competition does it for you.
Maybe that'll happen on Tuesday, but I doubt it. Jobs can be stubborn at times.
RE is slowing, people can't flip condos as easily, so the money is flowing back into stocks.
You get used to it after the first 5,000 floors...
Cheap at twice the price!
In the words of Chairman Jobs, "Security is a journey, not a destination".
These guys are gonna pay $30m/yr and more every year, forever.
And pass on the cost to the consumer.
Somehow Hurricane Homer and Hurricane Krabapple seem right.
... will have to be covered in foil!
"Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin." --
They've already produced some wires up to 100 meters long--the only thing left to do is figure out how to produce only a certain type of nanotube, the "5,5 armchair nanotube," that conducts so well that it can be considered a superconductor."
Does the amount of conductivity depend on how you set the little lever on the side of the armchair?
Probably this summer!
Google for Mitsubishi PocketProjector - 800x600 pixels, about the size of a thick paperback.
...the NCO waving his arms (no general in his right mind is gonna use this, he's gonna sit in a chair and use a laser pointer to tell the NCO what to do) has to scratch his butt?
...but I forgot to go.
Well, here's one that was made in the 80s:
Odex 1
Large and strong, this dude could pick up the end of a pickup truck and move it around.
You know, some dimwit is going to read this thread and/or the article and go running to his boss saying, "See? SEE?! Linux has Windows viruses too!"
Just you wait and see....