Nobody likes him anymore. I appreciate what he has done as an advocate of stem cell research, but all too often he comes off as a desperate cripple hoping for a miracle to be his fountain of youth. Blech. This is NOT a troll, this is my honest opinion. Discuss, don't mod down.
Just thought I'd point out that America would be in the exact same spot if Columbus had stopped at the first hurdle. Columbus had no intention of moving America in the first place. Sheesh. Do you know how heavy America is?
In true Slashdot fashion, no one has read the article. I did, and it states only that Linux has not met with the success on the desktop that was predicted in the late 90's. It went on to say that though it has improved by leaps and bounds, it has had trouble overcoming a market where most PCs are shipped with a version of Windows pre-loaded. That's all it said. Though the title was misleading, the article did not belittle the achievements of Linux.
The Forbes group of companies conveniently holds some of the most ridiculous patents on Earth, including nose hair pruning shears and random mom joke generators.
Ummm... Itanium was released a year ago. As of Jan 15, 2002. Intel only had 2155 chips placed on customer sites and 2000 of them were in an IBM "super cluster". Maybe you're referring Itanium, the Next Generation ??? (Majestic music starts playing in the background). Oh dear
Might be wrong on this one, but I don't believe that the Avian Carrier protocol would carry to the moon. There's nothing about this in the spec but I think it can't travel through a vacuum.
The G200 delivered beautifully on everything it promised. It allowed me to run 4 monitors. It wasn't a gamers chip, it was intended to help show more info than previously possible. Using the PCI version in Win2K with a special patch, I saw one PC that had 16 monitors attached. Amazing.
I had forgotten about Godzilla. Thanks! Remember those Taco Bell ads with that stupid dog with the Mexican accent? "I Theenk I need a beegger bocks." I hated that. Godzilla almost flopped harder than Waterworld.
Surprisingly, toner is not dry ink.
You should really check this out. I'm not interested in flaming you, but I think you'll find this pretty interesting. Thanks
Gotta love HP. Their new printers use ink refills with "Smart Chips". The chips check ink levels and if they ever increase, the printer refuses to use that cartridge. No more refilling the cartridges. I don't like H-Paq very much.
This is a commonly held theory but has been proved wrong. See here. For the lazy: "Glass is neither a normal liquid nor a normal solid. While the atoms in glass are essentially fixed in place like those in a normal solid, they are arranged in the disorderly fashion of a liquid. For that reason, glass is often described as a frozen liquid--a liquid that has cooled and thickened to the point where it has become rigid. But calling glass a liquid, even a frozen one, implies that glass can flow. Liquids always respond to stresses by flowing. Since unheated glass can't flow in response to stress, it isn't a liquid at all. It's really an amorphous or "glassy" solid--a solid that lacks crystalline order."
Apparently, these stores didn't even bother to turn on WEP. AT ALL. Thats just stupid. WEP has lots of supposed insecurities but GOD DAMN, how stupid is that??? It's better than nothing.
On a more interesting note, isn't this what Slashdot has done already? I don't really have a problem with it but honestly, if you want to skip the ads on this website, you cough up a fee. The difference is that we aren't already paying Slashdot for their content, whereas broadcasters (excepting the public broadcasters) are collecting fees from us so we can access their content.
Maybe we can work out a micropayment scheme with Turner and friends to not view ads. Five bucks for 1,000 deducted ads sounds great to me:-).
Someone moderated this as funny, but I find it not to be so. Chances are, this is how the cable companies and broadcasters will attack PVR users. While eyelid monitoring and viewing contracts are all very wonderfully 1984-ish, the more likely solution the broadcasters will use is some sort of fee for using PVRs. They can't control when you take a leak or flip to another channel during commercials but there is a good chance they will be able to put some sort of legislated fee in place for those of us with PVRs. That's what scares the shit out of me. All these execs have their personal monkey / congressman [à la Hollings] to look after their interests and sure enough, one of them will sponsor a piece of legislature to help this along. Maybe they'll be able to append it to the DCMA during the proposed ammendment period next year. In the end, it doesn't matter how it was done, it's gonna happen.
I checked with these people about a year ago. From what I saw and the people I spoke with, they are very much on the ball and quite thorough. They have some real talent working for them and techies from every discipline. Worth a look.
Remember when we bought RAM in "Lines of text"? That always cracked me up. My dad paid almost $2000 CDN in the 80's for 22,000 lines for his Apple I think.:-)
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Nobody likes him anymore. I appreciate what he has done as an advocate of stem cell research, but all too often he comes off as a desperate cripple hoping for a miracle to be his fountain of youth. Blech.
This is NOT a troll, this is my honest opinion. Discuss, don't mod down.
Just thought I'd point out that America would be in the exact same spot if Columbus had stopped at the first hurdle. Columbus had no intention of moving America in the first place. Sheesh. Do you know how heavy America is?
In true Slashdot fashion, no one has read the article. I did, and it states only that Linux has not met with the success on the desktop that was predicted in the late 90's. It went on to say that though it has improved by leaps and bounds, it has had trouble overcoming a market where most PCs are shipped with a version of Windows pre-loaded. That's all it said. Though the title was misleading, the article did not belittle the achievements of Linux.
A quick search shows more great examples:
Three wheeled vehicle
Neoprene bottle insulator
The Forbes group of companies conveniently holds some of the most ridiculous patents on Earth, including nose hair pruning shears and random mom joke generators.
Even 512KB is Xeon class.
I love L2 Cache.
Ummm ... Itanium was released a year ago. As of Jan 15, 2002. Intel only had 2155 chips placed on customer sites and 2000 of them were in an IBM "super cluster".
Maybe you're referring Itanium, the Next Generation ??? (Majestic music starts playing in the background).
Oh dear
Might be wrong on this one, but I don't believe that the Avian Carrier protocol would carry to the moon. There's nothing about this in the spec but I think it can't travel through a vacuum.
I spent 4 months hacking your software. It was my fulltime job! Phone switches are easier to hack then most home router/gateway combos.
The G200 delivered beautifully on everything it promised. It allowed me to run 4 monitors. It wasn't a gamers chip, it was intended to help show more info than previously possible. Using the PCI version in Win2K with a special patch, I saw one PC that had 16 monitors attached. Amazing.
I had forgotten about Godzilla. Thanks!
Remember those Taco Bell ads with that stupid dog with the Mexican accent? "I Theenk I need a beegger bocks."
I hated that.
Godzilla almost flopped harder than Waterworld.
He should have added an "All your base" sign.
Much more appropriate I think.
ALL YOUR NORTH 5 ARE BELONG TO US
Surprisingly, toner is not dry ink.
You should really check this out.
I'm not interested in flaming you, but I think you'll find this pretty interesting.
Thanks
Here you go:
Funeral held for New York girl starved to death
Sad but true.
If your LaserJet has ink in it, it won't last long. That's the bitch with printers that use toner :-)
Gotta love HP. Their new printers use ink refills with "Smart Chips". The chips check ink levels and if they ever increase, the printer refuses to use that cartridge. No more refilling the cartridges. I don't like H-Paq very much.
This is a commonly held theory but has been proved wrong. See here. For the lazy:
"Glass is neither a normal liquid nor a normal solid. While the atoms in glass are essentially fixed in place like those in a normal solid, they are arranged in the disorderly fashion of a liquid. For that reason, glass is often described as a frozen liquid--a liquid that has cooled and thickened to the point where it has become rigid. But calling glass a liquid, even a frozen one, implies that glass can flow. Liquids always respond to stresses by flowing. Since unheated glass can't flow in response to stress, it isn't a liquid at all. It's really an amorphous or "glassy" solid--a solid that lacks crystalline order."
Apparently, these stores didn't even bother to turn on WEP. AT ALL. Thats just stupid. WEP has lots of supposed insecurities but GOD DAMN, how stupid is that??? It's better than nothing.
On a more interesting note, isn't this what Slashdot has done already? I don't really have a problem with it but honestly, if you want to skip the ads on this website, you cough up a fee. The difference is that we aren't already paying Slashdot for their content, whereas broadcasters (excepting the public broadcasters) are collecting fees from us so we can access their content.
:-) .
Maybe we can work out a micropayment scheme with Turner and friends to not view ads. Five bucks for 1,000 deducted ads sounds great to me
Someone moderated this as funny, but I find it not to be so. Chances are, this is how the cable companies and broadcasters will attack PVR users. While eyelid monitoring and viewing contracts are all very wonderfully 1984-ish, the more likely solution the broadcasters will use is some sort of fee for using PVRs. They can't control when you take a leak or flip to another channel during commercials but there is a good chance they will be able to put some sort of legislated fee in place for those of us with PVRs. That's what scares the shit out of me. All these execs have their personal monkey / congressman [à la Hollings] to look after their interests and sure enough, one of them will sponsor a piece of legislature to help this along. Maybe they'll be able to append it to the DCMA during the proposed ammendment period next year. In the end, it doesn't matter how it was done, it's gonna happen.
Your grandma has a T1??? I had trouble talking mine into dialup, let alone DSL. Nice work!
Cheers!
I checked with these people about a year ago. From what I saw and the people I spoke with, they are very much on the ball and quite thorough. They have some real talent working for them and techies from every discipline. Worth a look.
Remember when we bought RAM in "Lines of text"? That always cracked me up. My dad paid almost $2000 CDN in the 80's for 22,000 lines for his Apple I think. :-)
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