So how about when the problem with the kid *is* the parents and they react to hearing about him/her being reported with an increase in abuse, perhaps even a *final* act of abuse?
He probably understands what's going on here better than Bore and Gush. The Register has an article today that points out that Reagan called off the dogs during the IBM anti-trust case and that Boy George will probably do the same for MS. The article ends with a disturbing thought--"...there is in the USA a very real possibility of executive interference with the job of the judiciary, casting doubt on the effectiveness of the separation of powers. It is disturbing that the issue may result being of Microsoft's breakup might well depend on who becomes President."
"...for PC-based entertainment (like MS Word)..." I've called MS Word a lot of things but never that. If that's your idea of entertainment you must be a real glutton for punishment.
Let's see, Microsoft has billions and has been investing in all sorts of other businesses at an average of millions of dollars a day. But they're going to vanish from the face of the earth in a puff of smoke? Don't hold your breath waiting for that one. We'll be post-Microsoft when we're post-money, but probably not before. If Bill Gates personal wealth falls by half he'll still have more than the rest of us put together. On the other hand, the way the tech sector stocks are falling and the old line stuff is gaining, we may for the first time be hearing people bragging about *selling* Microsoft stock.
This isn't the first highly accurate warning of impending computerized doom from the Weekly World News. If your computer was built after 1985, then it has enough hard drive space to accommodate one of Satan's minions (and that doesn't count any stuff from MS). The Register has a little something gleaned from the Weekly World News. One Reverend Jim Peasboro, author of an upcoming book, The Devil in the Machine, says that demons can possess anything with a brain. Apparently that now includes computers. According to the Georgia clergyman, "...many members of my congregation became in touch with a dark force whenever they used their computers", (and again I emphasize that he made no mention of Microsoft). That Print job you thought was screwed up by the wrong printer driver may have actually been "...a stream of obscenities written in a 2,800-year-old Mesopotamian dialect!" This happens right after the spontaneous Turing test.
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The Dow (The Dow Jones Industrial Average) is not an exchange. Dow Jones is a company that provides (for a price) information about stocks and other financial stuff. The rules for how the DJIA is computed have changed many times over the years (but as far as I know sheep entrails and chicken bones have always played an integral part).
"Read the rest of the comments"? So it's retroactively redundant? Rebirth of Amiga stories pop up so often here and elswhere that making a joke about one of them being a delayed bit of Slashdot April Foolery may not be lethally funny, but marking it redundant still seems to me to be a waste of moderator points that could be much better used elsewhere. As I point out elsewhere, perhaps the Moderator Guidelines need to be revised to include the definitions of the various available categories. We seem to have acquired some moderators that don't know what some of the words actually mean.
So is this post suggesting that the Amiga story is an April Fool's joke marked redundant because of the previous post which was marked redundant because the humor in it about the story being an April Fool's joke wasn't spelled out and therefore wasn't obvious enough for the moderator to see?
Perhaps it's time to update the Moderator Guidelines to include the definitions of all the words in the different available categories, as we seem to have acquired a number of new moderators without dictionaries at their disposal.
Let's just hope that those Disney animators also have backgrounds in RF engineering and understand the concept of "make it easy to open and close, make it easy get at everything inside, make it durable and reliable, make it easy to repair".
Dear moderator: Subtract 2 days from today's date. Re-read parent comment with that little bit of mathematical enlightenment in mind. Realise parent comment could have been labeled "funny", "troll", "flamebait", "insightful", informative", "interesting", "underrated", "overrated", or just left alone, but in no way could it be considered "redundant" to suggest that the story is an April Fool's joke.
The Register has an interesting look at what this latest in the Amiga saga is all about, including an observation that just about anybody and his brother can be a "stategic partner" with Sun.
The above post is one and a half hours old and hasn't produced the paroxysms of moderation I'd have expected but troll or flamebait or not, it raises a question I've been wondering about, "What's the next big thing?", or, more specifically, what's the next big thing that will be only for those "in the know" until it eventually goes mainstream, at which point something else will become the "next big but nobody knows about it yet thing"?
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So how about when the problem with the kid *is* the parents and they react to hearing about him/her being reported with an increase in abuse, perhaps even a *final* act of abuse?
Nah, we've just got him on our "d*mnyankees" list :-)
Jon, Charlotte is really part of South Carolina, they just keep drawing the maps wrong.:-)
"...get money for not doing something." :-)
I thought that was farm subsidies
He probably understands what's going on here better than Bore and Gush.
The Register has an article today that points out that Reagan called off the dogs during the IBM anti-trust case and that Boy George will probably do the same for MS.
The article ends with a disturbing thought--"...there is in the USA a very real possibility of executive interference with the job of the judiciary, casting doubt on the effectiveness of the separation of powers. It is disturbing that the issue may result being of Microsoft's breakup might well depend on who becomes President."
Funny, I'm hearing Pink Floyd and the O.J.'s :_)
Shouldn't Katz be lurking on Slashdot and writing this kind of stuff for the outside world? Does anyone else still publish him?
"...for PC-based entertainment (like MS Word)..."
I've called MS Word a lot of things but never that. If that's your idea of entertainment you must be a real glutton for punishment.
The next time I submit this I'm going to title it "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" :-)
Let's see, Microsoft has billions and has been investing in all sorts of other businesses at an average of millions of dollars a day. But they're going to vanish from the face of the earth in a puff of smoke? Don't hold your breath waiting for that one. We'll be post-Microsoft when we're post-money, but probably not before. If Bill Gates personal wealth falls by half he'll still have more than the rest of us put together.
On the other hand, the way the tech sector stocks are falling and the old line stuff is gaining, we may for the first time be hearing people bragging about *selling* Microsoft stock.
If you work user support it is!
This isn't the first highly accurate warning of impending computerized doom from the Weekly World News.
If your computer was built after 1985, then it has enough hard drive space to accommodate one of Satan's minions (and that doesn't count any stuff from MS).
The Register has a little something gleaned from the Weekly World News. One Reverend Jim Peasboro, author of an upcoming book, The Devil in the Machine, says that demons can possess anything with a brain. Apparently that now includes computers. According to the Georgia clergyman, "...many members of my congregation became in touch with a dark force whenever they used their computers", (and again I emphasize that he made no mention of Microsoft). That Print job you thought was screwed up by the wrong printer driver may have actually been "...a stream of obscenities written in a 2,800-year-old Mesopotamian dialect!" This happens right after the spontaneous Turing test.
Isn't that licensed application that Valenti referred to *Windows* ???
Separate all MS software from all computers :-)
The Dow (The Dow Jones Industrial Average) is not an exchange. Dow Jones is a company that provides (for a price) information about stocks and other financial stuff.
The rules for how the DJIA is computed have changed many times over the years (but as far as I know sheep entrails and chicken bones have always played an integral part).
This is the kind of thing I'd really rather not see unless browsing at -2 or lower.
"Read the rest of the comments"?
So it's retroactively redundant?
Rebirth of Amiga stories pop up so often here and elswhere that making a joke about one of them being a delayed bit of Slashdot April Foolery may not be lethally funny, but marking it redundant still seems to me to be a waste of moderator points that could be much better used elsewhere. As I point out elsewhere, perhaps the Moderator Guidelines need to be revised to include the definitions of the various available categories. We seem to have acquired some moderators that don't know what some of the words actually mean.
Perhaps it's time to update the Moderator Guidelines to include the definitions of all the words in the different available categories, as we seem to have acquired a number of new moderators without dictionaries at their disposal.
Let's just hope that those Disney animators also have backgrounds in RF engineering and understand the concept of "make it easy to open and close, make it easy get at everything inside, make it durable and reliable, make it easy to repair".
Subtract 2 days from today's date.
Re-read parent comment with that little bit of mathematical enlightenment in mind.
Realise parent comment could have been labeled "funny", "troll", "flamebait", "insightful", informative", "interesting", "underrated", "overrated", or just left alone, but in no way could it be considered "redundant" to suggest that the story is an April Fool's joke.
The Register has an interesting look at what this latest in the Amiga saga is all about, including an observation that just about anybody and his brother can be a "stategic partner" with Sun.
Change it all you want whenever you want, just tag a little notice on the end of the story on the main page saying that you did so.
I'm sorry, you've confused what *should* be the next big thing with whatever we're going to get instead. I'm pretty sure I like your ideas better.
Actually the question(s) wasn't (weren't) rhetorical, I'd really like to know who pays for what and where they get the money to do it with.
The above post is one and a half hours old and hasn't produced the paroxysms of moderation I'd have expected but troll or flamebait or not, it raises a question I've been wondering about, "What's the next big thing?", or, more specifically, what's the next big thing that will be only for those "in the know" until it eventually goes mainstream, at which point something else will become the "next big but nobody knows about it yet thing"?