After all he did write one program, by translating some open source software (BASIC) to a popular home computer system, using someone else's hardware resources...
I wonder what that union would have thought of the school I went to, where the kids were responsible for scrubbing and cleaning the school every evening. The worst was the latrines and the drains:-/ of course this was the school where a PE lesson might be "build a retaining wall for the garden" and punishment might be pick 100 thistles from the sports field with your bare hands... ah, happy days...
denmark as far as I can remember was quite agnostic and also tricked into the whole thing without really caring (they simply wanted the meeting to end)
Another proof of Dilbert's observation that meetings are "won" by the person with the strongest bladder!
Surely you don't expect people to change their names to "Smith" or "Jones" upon obtaining American citizenship, do you?
I thought that was standard practice there, for the 19th century anyway? An awful lot of US surnames are Germans pretending to be English anyway (Muller->Miller etc.), probably more than actual English surnames.
As the new head of warner games, he has stated that Warner should penalise developers of games based on Warner movies that score below an average of 70% in web reviews. Oddly enough the Matrix game from Atari scored 69% on the site mentioned. His previous role as boss of Monolith (which made another Matrix game) is purely co-incidental.
Some executives at music companies in London were recently threatened with ASBO, which if breached can lead to 5 years jail, for sponsoring "fly-posting" (putting posters for music events/albums illegally).
D'oh! My big mistake was running the "INIT" command on my grandad's Apple 2, which wiped his disk out. Oops. In my defense, on the C64 the Init command just means "Hello disk drive, sort yourself out". I guess I should have used "BRUN" instead...
Anyway, our high-school had a huge big breaker switch in the corridor outside the computer lab. This was asking for trouble. The obvious happened several times (always save your work, especially when the bell rings!).
I support the Dutch parliament in their opposition to their minister's opposition to the european parliament's formerly denied ammendments to the proposed legislation in favour of ammending the existing patent legislation to include software patents rather than just patents that include software. Do you support me?
I kinda like the LCD maps they had in Ipswich, Suffolk, where the actual current positions of the buses are shown on the route map (and web site).
It's shut down now though:-( wimps!
Oh yes. It had it on the front of the bus, and at the bus stop, and internally on the bus current destination display (which usually said things sort of like "Hoverport 3" (sheesh am I in Futurama?)) but there is a university and other stuff built up around the park and it wandered through those instead of getting anywhere near the main gate.
I recently visited "Futuroscope" in Poitiers, France; a major tourist attraction based on IMAX screens. There was a local bus that had "futuroscope" on the destination sign, but it dropped me off in a field in the middle of nowhere (god forbid that it might stop at the right place!) and there were none running at night (when the park closed). So it was a 33 euro taxi fare for the 6km back into town.
The idea seemed to be that either you stayed at the theme park hotels, or have a car if you go on holiday in France. (The TGV stops there occasionally but you have to book in advance etc.)
Richard Pearse (Otage, NZ) flew before the Wright Bros with a powered heavier than air plane (heck Lilienthal was earlier with a hang-glider). Their achievement was in claiming a controlled flight, since Pearse crashed into a hedge. Of course, they were flying on a beach (Kitty Hawk IIRC) with a convenient lack of hedges:-) Pearse's plane looks surprisingly modern (like an ultralight) but perhaps was ahead of the material technology of the time.
Of course, like Microsoft, they were much better at commercialising the technology than their rivals.
Surely the point is that that (Piracy) is the term used by the common populance now. So the **AA have succeeded in drawing an equivalence between copyright infringement and the rape/pillage/hijack/sink etc. crime of piracy. The government is redrawing the laws to suit, i.e. going from being a civil offense to being a crime with jail punishment of several years.
So not a lot of 60mpg SMART cars on the road there then? You could probably fit two or three of them into an average sized US parking space:-)
According to google ("mpg smart") they have been shown at auto shows in the USA but I guess that's sort of a freak show... "Here is a car you might want if you didn't work for an oil company".
Didn't they used to have spaceships or something like that in the old days? Now it's just Burt Rutan who can put a human into space from the USA (go Burt!).
Trust the kids. After all, they have vending machines on the street in Japan that sell beer, cigarettes, pr0n and used underwear. I have no idea if this trust is justified or not, but can you imagine those machines in a US, EU or Oz city?
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After all he did write one program, by translating some open source software (BASIC) to a popular home computer system, using someone else's hardware resources...
I wonder what that union would have thought of the school I went to, where the kids were responsible for scrubbing and cleaning the school every evening. The worst was the latrines and the drains :-/ of course this was the school where a PE lesson might be "build a retaining wall for the garden" and punishment might be pick 100 thistles from the sports field with your bare hands... ah, happy days...
5. How comfortable am I in latex gloves? I sure don't wanna touch those keyboards with my actual hands...
So you do have read /. !
Another proof of Dilbert's observation that meetings are "won" by the person with the strongest bladder!
I thought that was standard practice there, for the 19th century anyway? An awful lot of US surnames are Germans pretending to be English anyway (Muller->Miller etc.), probably more than actual English surnames.
As opposed to european gay porn, which takes the astonishingly different approach of having good-looking males in it. Well, some of the time anyway.
As the new head of warner games, he has stated that Warner should penalise developers of games based on Warner movies that score below an average of 70% in web reviews. Oddly enough the Matrix game from Atari scored 69% on the site mentioned. His previous role as boss of Monolith (which made another Matrix game) is purely co-incidental.
Some executives at music companies in London were recently threatened with ASBO, which if breached can lead to 5 years jail, for sponsoring "fly-posting" (putting posters for music events/albums illegally).
Free Speech = libre
Free Beer = gratis
Anyway, our high-school had a huge big breaker switch in the corridor outside the computer lab. This was asking for trouble. The obvious happened several times (always save your work, especially when the bell rings!).
Boy was I glad to get XP, and then get more than one hour's up-time.
I support the Dutch parliament in their opposition to their minister's opposition to the european parliament's formerly denied ammendments to the proposed legislation in favour of ammending the existing patent legislation to include software patents rather than just patents that include software. Do you support me?
I kinda like the LCD maps they had in Ipswich, Suffolk, where the actual current positions of the buses are shown on the route map (and web site). It's shut down now though :-( wimps!
Oh yes. It had it on the front of the bus, and at the bus stop, and internally on the bus current destination display (which usually said things sort of like "Hoverport 3" (sheesh am I in Futurama?)) but there is a university and other stuff built up around the park and it wandered through those instead of getting anywhere near the main gate.
Yup, me too! After thirty seconds it timed out.
Burt Rutan excepted of course! That man loves canards... (OK not bi-planes admittedly).
The idea seemed to be that either you stayed at the theme park hotels, or have a car if you go on holiday in France. (The TGV stops there occasionally but you have to book in advance etc.)
Of course, like Microsoft, they were much better at commercialising the technology than their rivals.
Surely the point is that that (Piracy) is the term used by the common populance now. So the **AA have succeeded in drawing an equivalence between copyright infringement and the rape/pillage/hijack/sink etc. crime of piracy. The government is redrawing the laws to suit, i.e. going from being a civil offense to being a crime with jail punishment of several years.
According to google ("mpg smart") they have been shown at auto shows in the USA but I guess that's sort of a freak show... "Here is a car you might want if you didn't work for an oil company".
Didn't they used to have spaceships or something like that in the old days? Now it's just Burt Rutan who can put a human into space from the USA (go Burt!).
Trust the kids. After all, they have vending machines on the street in Japan that sell beer, cigarettes, pr0n and used underwear. I have no idea if this trust is justified or not, but can you imagine those machines in a US, EU or Oz city?
They accept orders from all 48 states :-)
(or occasionally 50. Tough luck if you are in Pago Pago or Puerto Rico, let alone a foreign country).