Today, as Chief of RIAA Weapons, I stand before you to present the latest tool in our fight against piracy. Better even than the kazaa spiders and the DRM encoded speaker wire. With a potential far greater than the prototype CD-embedded surveillance camera.
I give you... RIAAquaSub. With 10 surplus MK.48 torpedos, 150 day sea endurance and tuned killer Bose sound system linked to an Apple iPod patch system - er... Lets concentrate on the MK.48s....
As flawed as this possibly is, imagine if in an airliner, the pilots and co-pilots stations only responded to authorized palms... otherwise it'd go into autopilot. Of course, control could be released by insertion of a secret code into a keypad that only certain ground security people would know and could tell the someone on the plane via radio in a pinch...
"Yah! uh-huh...no. It's not contagious...sure... no, yes - yes I'll meet you there. The Bawls bar on 2nd right? uh-huh... yah! lemme just check my email"
*click* Please identify! "Christ! I just went to the bathroom!" Place your palm in full contact with the mouse Stupid! {places palm on mouse} Identification incomplete "What?" Please state your name Rob
full name Robert Malda
Please state supplementary identifier "Which one?" Orientation "Lesbian!" OS Orientation "Linux" bzzzt! "BSD" bzzzt! "Oh for Christ's sake! -- OSX!" ding! Access granted.
However, the 1990s were an entirely new decade for the company. Digital was slow to comprehend the growing importance of UNIX. "UNIX is snake oil," declared CEO Olsen, one of the many factors that led to his departure. (He was replaced in 1992 by Robert Palmer.) The company was also late getting into the open systems PC market, and encroaching technology threatened the company's viability. It reported its first quarterly loss ever in 1990 and a net loss for fiscal 1991. Palmer undertook numerous restructurings, massive layoffs (more than 60,000 people), and plant closings in an effort to remain competitive.
*Swoosh!* ==mail sent!==
Thanks computer! Now, pull up the Microso...==mail received!==
open it please.
*click*
[wraparound view of a pink slip]
*click* [surround sound]
Ms. Fiorina, Microsoft has purchased your company. Your services are no longer required! Final credits have been transferred - All authorizations terminated!
Please proceed to the exit
==clunk, beep!==
==Thank you for working at Hewlett Compaqard!==
*command-e *drag to the trash (which morphs to an eject symbol) *hold down f12 for a sec. *open the terminal and use unmount...and that's not enough? Is there no pleasing people?
that said, I wish we could press the little button on the front of the drive...
*command-e
*drag to the trash (which morphs to an eject symbol)
*hold down f12 for a sec.
*open the terminal and use unmount...and that's not enough? Is there no pleasing people?
that said, I wish we could press the little button on the front of the drive...
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Today, as Chief of RIAA Weapons, I stand before you to present the latest tool in our fight against piracy. Better even than the kazaa spiders and the DRM encoded speaker wire. With a potential far greater than the prototype CD-embedded surveillance camera.
I give you... RIAAquaSub.
With 10 surplus MK.48 torpedos, 150 day sea endurance and tuned killer Bose sound system linked to an Apple iPod patch system - er... Lets concentrate on the MK.48s....
of truth.
and carries great weight.
(he's actually becoming a penguin)
And the artist list was hardly 'washed up'
Don't know if they could pull off a similar ad in today' climate...
Spoken like a true 90-minute-Memorex man
Just dug up some from years and years ago.
Sounded like shit.
They're so spoiled today...
As flawed as this possibly is, imagine if in an airliner, the pilots and co-pilots stations only responded to authorized palms... otherwise it'd go into autopilot. Of course, control could be released by insertion of a secret code into a keypad that only certain ground security people would know and could tell the someone on the plane via radio in a pinch...
"Yah! uh-huh...no. It's not contagious...sure... no, yes - yes I'll meet you there. The Bawls bar on 2nd right? uh-huh... yah! lemme just check my email"
*click*
Please identify!
"Christ! I just went to the bathroom!"
Place your palm in full contact with the mouse
Stupid! {places palm on mouse}
Identification incomplete
"What?"
Please state your name
Rob
full name
Robert Malda
Please state supplementary identifier
"Which one?"
Orientation
"Lesbian!"
OS Orientation
"Linux"
bzzzt!
"BSD"
bzzzt!
"Oh for Christ's sake! -- OSX!"
ding! Access granted.
Dragon Ass - The slowest, 'value priced' chip
Dragon Drop - Mid-range chip for publishing
Dragon Racing - Fastest chip for workstations
More Olsen (from scripophily.net):
However, the 1990s were an entirely new decade for the company. Digital was slow to comprehend the growing importance of UNIX. "UNIX is snake oil," declared CEO Olsen, one of the many factors that led to his departure. (He was replaced in 1992 by Robert Palmer.) The company was also late getting into the open systems PC market, and encroaching technology threatened the company's viability. It reported its first quarterly loss ever in 1990 and a net loss for fiscal 1991. Palmer undertook numerous restructurings, massive layoffs (more than 60,000 people), and plant closings in an effort to remain competitive.
He hires (bunches of) them to work for money
and of course - there's the satisfaction that your work is the foundation of something wonderful.
Flying phones
Video cars
in the next - well - real soon...
*Swoosh!* ==mail sent!==
Thanks computer! Now, pull up the Microso...==mail received!==
open it please.
*click* [wraparound view of a pink slip] *click*
[surround sound]
Ms. Fiorina, Microsoft has purchased your company. Your services are no longer required! Final credits have been transferred - All authorizations terminated!
Please proceed to the exit
==clunk, beep!==
==Thank you for working at Hewlett Compaqard!==
Half cylinder
citizens of Splashdot.
Might Slashdot get 'Googled'?
Yes - I like no-cat
of a Sparc
And ice? And some pretzels.
I mentioned that in my post (dickhead)
Didn't Heston's character hop on the bike to keep the lights on?
SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!
I'm so old now...
*command-e ...and that's not enough? Is there no pleasing people?
*drag to the trash (which morphs to an eject symbol)
*hold down f12 for a sec.
*open the terminal and use unmount
that said, I wish we could press the little button on the front of the drive...
*command-e *drag to the trash (which morphs to an eject symbol) *hold down f12 for a sec. *open the terminal and use unmount ...and that's not enough? Is there no pleasing people?
that said, I wish we could press the little button on the front of the drive...
Then click the disk and tap command-e
that stands for 'eject'
You open the iPod box and the first words you see are: " Don't Steal Music "
great minds...