Using IE as a browser is like putting your OS on the internet. Be smart, use a PROGRAM, not your OS to surf the web. Get Firefox http://getfirefox.com.
Bill's 160 IQ is over-rated. He's gullable!! Bill is getting this information from his advisors and at least one of them has a higher IQ and a bone to pick.
Next Bill Gates will demonstrate how an abacus can defeat the home computer in a game of Texas Holdem!
Yes, you made a funny statement. But this acquisition is not funny for Google. This is, perhaps, the first of many egregious errors on the part of Google. The technology behind Dodgeball.com is stupid.
Here's why...
If you don't know where your friends are -- they aren't your friends. So losers will use the service because they have no friends. They will use the service to find out where cool people are, but since no cool people are using the service, for obvious reasons, this service will turn into a real geekfest. Hence, the post, on Slashdot, about it.
On the other hand, if you want to know places you should avoid, perhaps using this service is not so bad, as long as you don't key in your location.
Now the longest/. UID in history can be created! Seriously though... any idea when our databases will enable INTs this high with indexing and normalization? I'd like to see a kind of infinite rid length at some point, and while database character types like varchar in mysql goes to 255, maybe it's really enough? (ducks from incoming Bill Gates quotes)
It's nice to see they have taken "seeking" out of the definition, but it's too complicated. Science is easy....continuing investigation that uses observation, hypothesis testing, measurement, experimentation, logical argument and theory building to lead to more adequate explanations of natural phenomena.
Science: The overcomplication of human perception. Effective Treatment: Unknown Suggested reading: Carlos Castaneda, because he's a total nut!
Here is what I want to know: Why is Symantec forking their projects into Spyware on one side, virus protection on the other, firewall on the other, subscription on the other? Why don't they have these services in one package?
I'll tell you why. They want to make more money off of this. Each and every service that Symantec provides is a de facto necessity to windows users, whether they get the services from Symantec or from some other company.
My challege to a startup out there: Create a complete Windows package that protects users, AND charge very little money for it.
Is this factual? I read that he once defeated a very tough adversary with only a boken. The story goes that he was stuck on a boat without any sword, so he carved a boken from one of his oars. Then he cut the enemy in half with one strike of the newly carved boken.
But I had never heard of the walking stick. That would be pretty cool though.
When Musashi uses the term "cut" he is only talking about the movement of the warrior's body. The blade is an extension of this form.
Falling like leaves is his metaphor meaning that he will use gravity to cut his opponent down, effortlessly.
He is not talking about the blade itself. Most samaurai are less concerned with the blade, which is already perfect -- they are concerned with the body, which must be mastered. To master the sword, you must master the body only.
The movement of the warrior on attack is to slice when cutting is not possible -- but Musashi looks at this as a weak style.
Copyright infringement is not illegal, well it's not really illegal where I'm from. It's kind of a grey area. In Canada, you can download but you can't upload or distribute. Most copyright infringement is dealt with up here with a slap on the wrist -- and I can't see it changing any time soon.
FTA: "The most common use, of course, is slicing."~
There is a big difference between slicing/slashing and CUTTING. According to Miyamoto Musashi, perhaps the greatest swordsman to have ever lived -- it is the act of CUTTING, and not slicing/slashing that makes a great warrior. Siege your opponent -- and cut them in two. It's all in the follow through.
With light sabers, perhaps they allow slicing/slashing to be as effective as cutting? Let's examine this premise.
A jedi who does not perfect his craft is not a jedi.
A jedi who does not follow the way of great sword hands, falls in battle.
A jedi who slashes, slices, is off balance.
A jedi who cuts, falls like leaves on his opponents.
The jedi master will only cut.
So, please Mr. Lucas, when you are buying How Stuff Works adverts, keep in mind that the people at Slashdot will cut, and surprisingly we won't actually slash, after all.
When the old, stale-dated, fools all die off from old age and scotch whiskey diets, and the rest of us are standing around, old and stale dated, then maybe censorship will be a thing of the past. But while old habits die hard, at least they all die -- eventually.
Al, thanks for inventing the internet, but I would like to ask for $100mil in damages from you for wasting all my time on Slashdot and these terrific/horrible online games I keep getting sucked into. My life in the fishtank isn't that bad, though... OTOH -- I make my living on this here thing, and I don't have to worry about rush hour traffic anymore because of telecommuting, so maybe we are even after all.
Give him the award, but tape his mouth shut when he receives it.
Slashdot Mirror
Using IE as a browser is like putting your OS on the internet. Be smart, use a PROGRAM, not your OS to surf the web. Get Firefox http://getfirefox.com.
I smell a rat.
1.) Market virus-prone OS
2.) Market protection from aformentioned viral threat.
3.) Profit^2!
4.) Lose everyone to Linux, Mac, due to mob protection type business practices at Microsoft.
So basically, KDE should read this.
Bill's 160 IQ is over-rated. He's gullable!! Bill is getting this information from his advisors and at least one of them has a higher IQ and a bone to pick.
Next Bill Gates will demonstrate how an abacus can defeat the home computer in a game of Texas Holdem!
We're talking about Star Wars -- not Star Trek.
Yes, you made a funny statement. But this acquisition is not funny for Google. This is, perhaps, the first of many egregious errors on the part of Google. The technology behind Dodgeball.com is stupid.
Here's why...
If you don't know where your friends are -- they aren't your friends. So losers will use the service because they have no friends. They will use the service to find out where cool people are, but since no cool people are using the service, for obvious reasons, this service will turn into a real geekfest. Hence, the post, on Slashdot, about it.
On the other hand, if you want to know places you should avoid, perhaps using this service is not so bad, as long as you don't key in your location.
Now the longest /. UID in history can be created!
Seriously though... any idea when our databases will enable INTs this high with indexing and normalization? I'd like to see a kind of infinite rid length at some point, and while database character types like varchar in mysql goes to 255, maybe it's really enough? (ducks from incoming Bill Gates quotes)
I did some work on Rent-A-Coder, and the pittance you can get paid doing OSS projects makes it more worthwhile to simply get a job like everyone else.
The Real Solution to Perl is...
PHP (or better yet, LAMP)
He's going to the Register.
Microsoft: Get ONE right, before you try and do so much.
With PHP and $_SESSION websites don't even *need* cookies -- at all. Info is saved on the server instead.
It's nice to see they have taken "seeking" out of the definition, but it's too complicated. Science is easy. ...continuing investigation that uses observation, hypothesis testing, measurement, experimentation, logical argument and theory building to lead to more adequate explanations of natural phenomena.
Science: The overcomplication of human perception.
Effective Treatment: Unknown
Suggested reading: Carlos Castaneda, because he's a total nut!
Here is what I want to know: Why is Symantec forking their projects into Spyware on one side, virus protection on the other, firewall on the other, subscription on the other? Why don't they have these services in one package?
I'll tell you why. They want to make more money off of this. Each and every service that Symantec provides is a de facto necessity to windows users, whether they get the services from Symantec or from some other company.
My challege to a startup out there: Create a complete Windows package that protects users, AND charge very little money for it.
Damn it TMM... now I have to go play moo3.
I think he had a knife. But taking a knife to a sword fight... well you know the rest.
Is this factual? I read that he once defeated a very tough adversary with only a boken. The story goes that he was stuck on a boat without any sword, so he carved a boken from one of his oars. Then he cut the enemy in half with one strike of the newly carved boken.
But I had never heard of the walking stick. That would be pretty cool though.
When Musashi uses the term "cut" he is only talking about the movement of the warrior's body. The blade is an extension of this form.
Falling like leaves is his metaphor meaning that he will use gravity to cut his opponent down, effortlessly.
He is not talking about the blade itself. Most samaurai are less concerned with the blade, which is already perfect -- they are concerned with the body, which must be mastered. To master the sword, you must master the body only.
The movement of the warrior on attack is to slice when cutting is not possible -- but Musashi looks at this as a weak style.
He only cuts.
Copyright infringement is not illegal, well it's not really illegal where I'm from. It's kind of a grey area. In Canada, you can download but you can't upload or distribute. Most copyright infringement is dealt with up here with a slap on the wrist -- and I can't see it changing any time soon.
If all the Jedi had to do is buy a lightsaber, then having a new one wouldn't be any more impressive than having good credit.
And we all know how bad Luke's credit was, when he couldn't charter anything but Solo's crappy old dirt-bucket ship.
FTA: "The most common use, of course, is slicing." ~
There is a big difference between slicing/slashing and CUTTING. According to Miyamoto Musashi, perhaps the greatest swordsman to have ever lived -- it is the act of CUTTING, and not slicing/slashing that makes a great warrior. Siege your opponent -- and cut them in two. It's all in the follow through.
With light sabers, perhaps they allow slicing/slashing to be as effective as cutting? Let's examine this premise.
A jedi who does not perfect his craft is not a jedi.
A jedi who does not follow the way of great sword hands, falls in battle.
A jedi who slashes, slices, is off balance.
A jedi who cuts, falls like leaves on his opponents.
The jedi master will only cut.
So, please Mr. Lucas, when you are buying How Stuff Works adverts, keep in mind that the people at Slashdot will cut, and surprisingly we won't actually slash, after all.
Hmm... cutdot.org anyone?
When the old, stale-dated, fools all die off from old age and scotch whiskey diets, and the rest of us are standing around, old and stale dated, then maybe censorship will be a thing of the past. But while old habits die hard, at least they all die -- eventually.
Al, thanks for inventing the internet, but I would like to ask for $100mil in damages from you for wasting all my time on Slashdot and these terrific/horrible online games I keep getting sucked into. My life in the fishtank isn't that bad, though... OTOH -- I make my living on this here thing, and I don't have to worry about rush hour traffic anymore because of telecommuting, so maybe we are even after all.
Give him the award, but tape his mouth shut when he receives it.
The terms of the EULA don't even come into play in this issue. This is a simple matter of copyright infringement.
And no one would ever cover copyright infringement in a EULA, right?