HotGen Studios closed their doors recently and the boss of that lost a lot of personal money. Not that the former employees were happy about the closure either.
And that probably applies to most of the other smaller companies that have shut recently.
Who has the most to gain from eliminating open source operating systems? The bush/ashcroft regime!
After linux is ruled illegal, it will be a simple matter for the govt. to install spyware (against potential terrorists, i.e. everyone) on all remaining operating systems. Well, they will have to get rid of BSD as well I suppose.
Why do you think those "security patches" from microsoft are getting so big?
Microsoft windows is a subscription based o/s, with the Telcos/ISPs picking up the money. It costs about GBP 50 per year, based on BT dial-up costs of one hour per week downloading a few megabytes of critical security patches (has anyone actually worked out the figures?)
If you spend a lot of money on a flat-rate broadband connection, this will be hidden of course.
As a programmer, I moved stuff around the office by shoving it hard. A manager came and asked why I didn't use the trolley, as the wheel had already been invented? I thought this was an insensitive afront to my culture.
...you would realize that British idioms are more common in International English...
Not that one. In New Zealand anyway, Pants are slacks/trousers, whilst underpants/gruts are y-fronts/boxers/jockeys/slips/briefs. But we wear shorts anyway (traditionally green shorts, black singlet ("vest" to pommies), black gumboots (although kids are wearing fancy colours these days) and probably a floppy cotton hat).
I dream of one day going to Fry's where I hope to see... the actual components I want! Not like here with Maplins and their "any socket you want as long as it has 32 pins" policy:-(
October was the eighth month, December the tenth (well, duh!)
That's why we have April Fools Day - some roman geezer decided to change the start of the year from April to January, but the tax department said "nah, that'll never catch on" and they still haven't changed their calender after 2000 years!
Let's see, a British citizen was in Pakistan, but was taken by the US military to a base adjoining Cuba because his name was on a piece of paper in Afghanistan.
Apparently US military procedures (to be made up) will govern his "trial", where even the principles of Natural Justice, e.g. the defendant being allowed to hear the evidence against him, will not apply.
IIRC it is a criminal offence that not only can you be jailed for, but you lose the right to vote ever again (at least in florida) or work in certain jobs.
Hey, I get them sent to me all the time! Complete with patch executable. What service! Although I previously didn't know Microsoft was based in Uzbekistan.
Don't forget the tv movie "threads", the film "wargames" and (some time before that) the real bugs when e.g. the moon was mistaken for a massive nuclear attack by buggy software (trawl through comp.risks for details).
Hard to run since the first instruction is a JMP to somewhere outside the code you listed.
Umm from memory... JMP xxxx: brk, ?,?,?,jsr xxxx,lda #4, ?, sta 252, lda #216, sta 251, ?....
Hey, maybe I should have used a disassembler:-) I'm guessing they're setting up a pointer in zero page to 1240.
What's worrying me now is that although I can't remember most of the opcodes I am still writing 6502 family code after 20 years (VIC-20...C64...NES...SNES...Jakks).
In the 1980s the constituencies in Queensland were based more on land area than number of inhabitants. Strangely enough the farmers' party kept winning (until eventually even the farmers got tired of them and they were practically all arrested). Ditto the "rotten boroughs" in england just before queen victoria's time.
On the news today, the Princess Diana memorial trust is being (counter)sued by Franklin Mint for millions of dollars/pounds because the mint wants to put her image on stuff without paying the charity. So the charity has had its funds frozen and all those aids patients/homeless people etc. will have to do without until the lawyers calm down. Oops.
Although I guess this particular IP dispute would be "passing off" rather than copyright (or patent or trade secret) and there may be different laws in the UK/US about that.
I think that comparison of people with cerebral palsy with average slashbots is very unfair. Those I knew were way better than the average comment quality here indicates. Although Ctrl-Alt-Del (or Shift-Command-Apple-4 or whatever it was back in the 1980s) on lab machines was not ideal.
And I heard that in the case of 28 days later, you can start playing the DVD on one day, and the movie will start the next day, after aeons of Fox advertisements that cannot be forwarded. This is to try to ensure that no-one buys the official DVD.
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And that probably applies to most of the other smaller companies that have shut recently.
After linux is ruled illegal, it will be a simple matter for the govt. to install spyware (against potential terrorists, i.e. everyone) on all remaining operating systems. Well, they will have to get rid of BSD as well I suppose.
Why do you think those "security patches" from microsoft are getting so big?
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Look at pi-mania on the ZX Spectrum (Mel Croucher, 1982), for an example of real-money in a geo-caching kind of way.
But when Fidel Castro did that (nationalised a few Mafia bars in Havana), the USA got the hump with him for 50 years.
If you spend a lot of money on a flat-rate broadband connection, this will be hidden of course.
Imagine my shock when I heard some boys from Liverpool doing a cover of her song "I saw him standing there"...
What, a game involving encryption and embroidery patterns?
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Oh, there are other chapters...
As a programmer, I moved stuff around the office by shoving it hard. A manager came and asked why I didn't use the trolley, as the wheel had already been invented? I thought this was an insensitive afront to my culture.
And from tower blocks on no-go housing estates! But that tends to be (c)rap / hip-hop.
Not that one. In New Zealand anyway, Pants are slacks/trousers, whilst underpants/gruts are y-fronts/boxers/jockeys/slips/briefs. But we wear shorts anyway (traditionally green shorts, black singlet ("vest" to pommies), black gumboots (although kids are wearing fancy colours these days) and probably a floppy cotton hat).
For leftponders, febo is a dutch thing.
I dream of one day going to Fry's where I hope to see... the actual components I want! Not like here with Maplins and their "any socket you want as long as it has 32 pins" policy :-(
And of course they translated all the meaningful and self-evidently english commands in Linux, such as "ls" and "pwd" to their french equivalents.
That's why we have April Fools Day - some roman geezer decided to change the start of the year from April to January, but the tax department said "nah, that'll never catch on" and they still haven't changed their calender after 2000 years!
Is great. That's why I bought my PS2.
Apparently US military procedures (to be made up) will govern his "trial", where even the principles of Natural Justice, e.g. the defendant being allowed to hear the evidence against him, will not apply.
Never underestimate the stretch of US wishes.
IIRC it is a criminal offence that not only can you be jailed for, but you lose the right to vote ever again (at least in florida) or work in certain jobs.
Hey, I get them sent to me all the time! Complete with patch executable. What service! Although I previously didn't know Microsoft was based in Uzbekistan.
Sheesh, 1% would be better than what I've been getting. I thought pensions were supposed to get bigger as time went on, not shrink! :-(
Don't forget the tv movie "threads", the film "wargames" and (some time before that) the real bugs when e.g. the moon was mistaken for a massive nuclear attack by buggy software (trawl through comp.risks for details).
Umm from memory... JMP xxxx: brk, ?,?,?,jsr xxxx,lda #4, ?, sta 252, lda #216, sta 251, ?....
Hey, maybe I should have used a disassembler :-) I'm guessing they're setting up a pointer in zero page to 1240.
What's worrying me now is that although I can't remember most of the opcodes I am still writing 6502 family code after 20 years (VIC-20...C64...NES...SNES...Jakks).
In the 1980s the constituencies in Queensland were based more on land area than number of inhabitants. Strangely enough the farmers' party kept winning (until eventually even the farmers got tired of them and they were practically all arrested). Ditto the "rotten boroughs" in england just before queen victoria's time.
Although I guess this particular IP dispute would be "passing off" rather than copyright (or patent or trade secret) and there may be different laws in the UK/US about that.
I think that comparison of people with cerebral palsy with average slashbots is very unfair. Those I knew were way better than the average comment quality here indicates. Although Ctrl-Alt-Del (or Shift-Command-Apple-4 or whatever it was back in the 1980s) on lab machines was not ideal.
And I heard that in the case of 28 days later, you can start playing the DVD on one day, and the movie will start the next day, after aeons of Fox advertisements that cannot be forwarded. This is to try to ensure that no-one buys the official DVD.