What type of myth are we talking about here? A myth in the way that cellphone cancer is a myth, or a myth in the way the moon is a myth?
No, it's the third sort - it's FUD being spread by $CO (no doubt in conjunction with Micro$oft), who are claiming ownership of Asia's IP... address space.
Look, I spelt them with dollar signs, so it's satire!
I won't put in the obligatory Dijkstra quote, because by the time I finish this sentence, about 200 people will have posted it already.
Oh, what the hell:
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. -- Dijkstra
I disagree - my statistics show that only 39% of/. trolls think that *BSD IS DYING, compared with 40% last year, therefore *BSD IS LESS DEAD that it was last year.
Oh, and for "statistics" read "numbers that I pulled out of my ass
Why don't we get Parker Brothers/Hasbro/whoever to make a "Media Monopoly(TM)" - instead of streets, you buy towns/cities, with houses representing newspapers, radio stations etc, and a hotel being a TV station or something. We could have Chance cards along the lines of "A new file-sharing app is launched. Lose $200,000,000" or "The American legal system develops collective insanity and passes the DMCA. Collect $5 billion", "The IRS finds out about the $10 billion stuffed down the back of the CEO's sofa, go directly to jail" etc etc.
Come on guys! If we put our heads together, we could probably come up with decent analogies for the utilities, stations, free parking etc, then launch the game in a blaze of publicity, giving the profits (excessive optimism, probably...) to the EFF or something.
I think the "bad thing" is that it's being seen by many as a big "Fuck you" to the US - essentially "We don't trust you cowboy arseholes, so we're building our own system, so:-P" or something...
[Lister] W-w-w-what were you thinkin' of at the time?
[Kryten] Well, nothing in particular, sir. I was just idly flicking through an electrical appliance catalogue. I came across the section on super deluxe vacuum cleaners, and suddenly my underpant elastic was catapulted across the Medical Bay.
[Lister] You see, man? You're neither one thing or the other. You shouldn't be gettin' erotic thoughts about electrical appliances.
[Kryten] Er, it was a triple-bag, easy-glide vac, with turbo-suction and a self-emptying dustbag.
Slashdot Mirror
Could be worse - they could be asking the Slashdot editors!
No, it's the third sort - it's FUD being spread by $CO (no doubt in conjunction with Micro$oft), who are claiming ownership of Asia's IP ... address space.
Look, I spelt them with dollar signs, so it's satire!
And what address would that be then?
[Suppresses maniacal laughter]
Sorry, do SCO say IBM have done something bad? Has anything relating to this been reported on Slashdot before?
"Man has always loved his buildings, but what happens when the buildings say no more?"
("When Buildings Collapse" on Non-Stop Fox)
*hits cockroach with shoe*
What? Why is everyone looking at me like that?
No programming language ... or BASIC.
I won't put in the obligatory Dijkstra quote, because by the time I finish this sentence, about 200 people will have posted it already.
Oh, what the hell:
Room temperature is around 290 Kelvin (about 25 degrees Celsius, or 77 Fahrenheit). Remember, 0 Kelvin is absolute zero - -273.something degrees C.
I disagree - my statistics show that only 39% of /. trolls think that *BSD IS DYING, compared with 40% last year, therefore *BSD IS LESS DEAD that it was last year.
Oh, and for "statistics" read "numbers that I pulled out of my ass
Why don't we get Parker Brothers/Hasbro/whoever to make a "Media Monopoly(TM)" - instead of streets, you buy towns/cities, with houses representing newspapers, radio stations etc, and a hotel being a TV station or something. We could have Chance cards along the lines of "A new file-sharing app is launched. Lose $200,000,000" or "The American legal system develops collective insanity and passes the DMCA. Collect $5 billion", "The IRS finds out about the $10 billion stuffed down the back of the CEO's sofa, go directly to jail" etc etc.
Come on guys! If we put our heads together, we could probably come up with decent analogies for the utilities, stations, free parking etc, then launch the game in a blaze of publicity, giving the profits (excessive optimism, probably ...) to the EFF or something.
Obligatory MegaTokyo link
I think the "bad thing" is that it's being seen by many as a big "Fuck you" to the US - essentially "We don't trust you cowboy arseholes, so we're building our own system, so :-P" or something ...
Where '???' = 'Get twatface from N*Sync to be a passenger in your third flight, paying $20,000,000US'
C:\jazilla>java -Ddebug=true org/jxul/xulrunner/Main
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/jxul/xulrunner/Main
/me kicks Java, tries to work out what's wrong, gives up and goes back to revising for his finals ...
H) Cock Robin's brother, out for revenge.
Stop please, that joke really Hertz!
[sound of tumbleweed]
I'll get my coat.
"I mustn't run away, I mustn't run away"
Bar codes have been in use for much longer than that - see for example these animal barcodes
Build me an assault rifle in an MP3 player, then we'll talk