The lines seperating humor, sarcasm, irony, and even pathos are composed of juxtaposition and context. Slashdot comments are nortoriously lacking in context, which, in turn, leads to a lack of appreciation of the juxtapositions involved if the reader is unable to derive the appropriate context.
In other words, it's an education and experience issue. Being bitter over the lackthereof is just a cop-out.
Now wrap that third paragraph in a business process patent application and send it off to an IP attorney to be filed. In a year or two when you'll be awarded the patent (safe bet, given the USPO's track record), you can make a bundle from the VC's alone on the premise that you have the newest lighting-in-a-bottle-for-business-improvment(tm).
The number of hardware manufacturer's who currently Don't Get It would provide you with a potential customer base to whom to market that would last the rest of your life.
I don't want a console or appliance or what is really a second, specialized PC. I also would like to be able to play my old DOS-based games (Red Baron, various Star Treks, Dawn Patrol and the like) on my exising PC without having to jump through a thousand hoops to do it.
Incorrect! He'll feel electromagnetic fields coursing through his body
Are you forgetting wave-particle duality? The electromagnetic force is transmitted by electrons, which are subatomic particles. Along with gluons and photons they are bosons, IIRC.
But in the end: THEORY. Because I can't feel atoms or sub-atomic particles
Sure you can.
Lick your fingers, then with the same hand grab a fork and stick it in the nearest electrical socket. You'll be feeling all sorts of sub-atomic particles.
But seriously, you don't consider bubble chamber photos or electron microscope photos of atoms as conclusive enough, albeit vicarious, touching of atoms and sub-atomic particles to dispense with some of the caveating about atomic theory?
Microsoft has simply gotten too large. Gates was never good at turning the company on a dime, and in todays market, as TFA points out, he's even more screwed if he cannot do so. A spin-off is the most logical choice: spin the apps into a seperate company and leave the OS and other "core" products with MS.
Having said that, I'll concede that this won't happen until both Gates and Balmer retire, but it won't take too terribly long after that, either.
Because it's a demonstration of IBM's intent. Because it's not from IBM and because it's from a source close to the matter, it's a credible demonstration.
Also, as Caldera's successor, SCO is bound to continuous acknowledgement of that intent by virtue of allowing the status quo to continue for as long as they did.
In the IBM case, groklaw shows 436 documents, but does not have the text for all of them, but we'll used that number anyway. In 25 months, that's 17.5 docs per month. If we swag an average of 5 pages per doc, the per month download fee is seven bucks. Some people spend twice that on coffee in a week. (Also, Pacer doesn't bill in increments less than $10, so it truly become a per month event).
The real cost involved with the docs is hosting them all and providing the bandwidth for the world (or at least slashdotters) to access them. Oh but wait, that's donated too.
The real *value* PJ provides is her time and analysis, and for that I thank her. But that doesn't excuse people pointing to what amounts to trival aspects of doing what she does and making more out of it than what it is. After all, she's presumably making a living off this as well. And I am most definitely NOT arguing that she shouldn't, just that some of her groupies need to get a reality check.
Ah, the Redneck beer dispenser. These were just starting to be sold in places likes Spencers when I was in college. Hadn't heard the "bong" moniker applied to them before. I honestly thought you just left out a comma.
In this day and age it's entirely possible to have the web server on one box, the application on another, and the database on a third. The systems and OSs on all of them can all be different from each other.
If you haven't, read _Red_Storm_Rising_. It's his best work, IMO; I think it being one of his earliest has a bit to do with that. I sincerely hope they never make it into a movie. They screwed-up _Sum_of_All_Fears_ to accomodate the fact that Harrison Ford was too old to play Ryan as written and Affleck too young. Who knows what they'd do to get the runtime under 2.5 hours.
Of course it might work well if Ted Turner did the movie version of _Red_Storm_Rising_; then it'd be the 6 hour epic that might just do the book justice.
Then, I tried listening to audio books: it is really hard to find audio books that are tailored toward nerds
How hard did you look?
All of Tom Clancy, Tolkien, Douglas Adams are available on tape and CD, as well as more Star Trek and Star Wars shite that you'd ever want to know about in your life.
The Act should be challenged from a Constitutional standpoint with regard to the suspension of hebeas corpus.
Lincoln explicitly suspended hebeas corpus during the Civil War; to the best of my recollection, Bush has done no such thing and the PATRIOT ACT does not explicitly do so either. Whether or not it implicitly does so, however, is another question.
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The lines seperating humor, sarcasm, irony, and even pathos are composed of juxtaposition and context. Slashdot comments are nortoriously lacking in context, which, in turn, leads to a lack of appreciation of the juxtapositions involved if the reader is unable to derive the appropriate context.
In other words, it's an education and experience issue. Being bitter over the lackthereof is just a cop-out.
I noticed you were modded 'Funny' for your comment. Funny? I think not. It's this sort of justification that lets beliefs like this survive.
And it's comments like yours that demonstrate that the sarcasm gene is not evenly distributed.
Will Turner: You cheated.
Jack Sparrow: [shrugs] Pirate.
Most experienced divers don't run out of air while diving.
And I suspect that many of those who have don't have to worry about doing it a second time.
Now wrap that third paragraph in a business process patent application and send it off to an IP attorney to be filed. In a year or two when you'll be awarded the patent (safe bet, given the USPO's track record), you can make a bundle from the VC's alone on the premise that you have the newest lighting-in-a-bottle-for-business-improvment(tm).
The number of hardware manufacturer's who currently Don't Get It would provide you with a potential customer base to whom to market that would last the rest of your life.
Sweet! Thanks, I've grab the downloads and will try it tonight. There go the plans for the weekend...
I don't want a console or appliance or what is really a second, specialized PC. I also would like to be able to play my old DOS-based games (Red Baron, various Star Treks, Dawn Patrol and the like) on my exising PC without having to jump through a thousand hoops to do it.
...laura, badly in need of a life. As usual.
/. doesn't that qualify as having a life?
At least you can spell correctly. On
There's a registry hack to rename the "my computer" icon anything you want to. There's another for renamingthe "my network" icon as well.
Wasn't it a Mac in the movie, making this non sequitor? [/pendantic]
Incorrect! He'll feel electromagnetic fields coursing through his body
Are you forgetting wave-particle duality? The electromagnetic force is transmitted by electrons, which are subatomic particles. Along with gluons and photons they are bosons, IIRC.
But in the end: THEORY. Because I can't feel atoms or sub-atomic particles
Sure you can.
Lick your fingers, then with the same hand grab a fork and stick it in the nearest electrical socket. You'll be feeling all sorts of sub-atomic particles.
But seriously, you don't consider bubble chamber photos or electron microscope photos of atoms as conclusive enough, albeit vicarious, touching of atoms and sub-atomic particles to dispense with some of the caveating about atomic theory?
What he means is that there will still be malware, users will just know about it now when it hits their computer.
The Red Screen of Death will most likely be the big give-away.
Microsoft has simply gotten too large. Gates was never good at turning the company on a dime, and in todays market, as TFA points out, he's even more screwed if he cannot do so. A spin-off is the most logical choice: spin the apps into a seperate company and leave the OS and other "core" products with MS.
Having said that, I'll concede that this won't happen until both Gates and Balmer retire, but it won't take too terribly long after that, either.
Because it's a demonstration of IBM's intent. Because it's not from IBM and because it's from a source close to the matter, it's a credible demonstration. Also, as Caldera's successor, SCO is bound to continuous acknowledgement of that intent by virtue of allowing the status quo to continue for as long as they did.
In the IBM case, groklaw shows 436 documents, but does not have the text for all of them, but we'll used that number anyway. In 25 months, that's 17.5 docs per month. If we swag an average of 5 pages per doc, the per month download fee is seven bucks. Some people spend twice that on coffee in a week. (Also, Pacer doesn't bill in increments less than $10, so it truly become a per month event).
The real cost involved with the docs is hosting them all and providing the bandwidth for the world (or at least slashdotters) to access them. Oh but wait, that's donated too.
The real *value* PJ provides is her time and analysis, and for that I thank her. But that doesn't excuse people pointing to what amounts to trival aspects of doing what she does and making more out of it than what it is. After all, she's presumably making a living off this as well. And I am most definitely NOT arguing that she shouldn't, just that some of her groupies need to get a reality check.
She collates the data and buys the court paperwork
Most likely from www.pacer.uscourts.gov at $0.08 a page.
Just like anyone else can.
So the surprise ending is Riker and Troi find Patrick Duffy in the shower?
Dude, you must be using WAY too much of the other kind of bong
Not at all, I'm just old. (Graduated college in '86.)
Ah, the Redneck beer dispenser. These were just starting to be sold in places likes Spencers when I was in college. Hadn't heard the "bong" moniker applied to them before. I honestly thought you just left out a comma.
...a few grand worth of debt in beer bongs and...
beer bongs?
Is this an accessory for smoking or a new way to consume potent potables more expediantly?
In this day and age it's entirely possible to have the web server on one box, the application on another, and the database on a third. The systems and OSs on all of them can all be different from each other.
No.
If you haven't, read _Red_Storm_Rising_. It's his best work, IMO; I think it being one of his earliest has a bit to do with that. I sincerely hope they never make it into a movie. They screwed-up _Sum_of_All_Fears_ to accomodate the fact that Harrison Ford was too old to play Ryan as written and Affleck too young. Who knows what they'd do to get the runtime under 2.5 hours.
Of course it might work well if Ted Turner did the movie version of _Red_Storm_Rising_; then it'd be the 6 hour epic that might just do the book justice.
Then, I tried listening to audio books: it is really hard to find audio books that are tailored toward nerds
How hard did you look?
All of Tom Clancy, Tolkien, Douglas Adams are available on tape and CD, as well as more Star Trek and Star Wars shite that you'd ever want to know about in your life.
Maybe start with Spock vs. Q
The Act should be challenged from a Constitutional standpoint with regard to the suspension of hebeas corpus.
Lincoln explicitly suspended hebeas corpus during the Civil War; to the best of my recollection, Bush has done no such thing and the PATRIOT ACT does not explicitly do so either. Whether or not it implicitly does so, however, is another question.