This reminds me of something I've always wondered about stealth aircraft....you always hear about a stealth aircraft having the radar signature of a small bird. Well, if you're watching a radar screen and see a pigeon flying at 500 miles an hour wouldn't you think something odd was going on?
Or maybe I'm just an idiot. That's always an option.
his probably shows how much of a geek I am compared to you but 11 million records...So say a name, an address, several series of numbers and general info...That is a hell of a lot of plain text. When did laptop hard drives get that big...
Nah, 11 million records isn't that much. Even with every conceivable piece of information about each of the 11 million people a laptop could easily handle it.
What econ did you take? Lowered supply always increases demand...
Wha? I have one weiner (a low supply you will agree?). Yet there is very little demand. *sigh*
I'm sure you can argue how I'm wrong with my interpretation of your comment, and you could very well be correct in that argument. I'm just joking around, is all.
The recording of history has seldom been democratic or representative. For much of the time we have been using written language, it has been the elite (in income or education) who have done the writing.
This reminded me of a interesting and related quote from Winston Churchill:
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
You were probably the first to bitch when they introduced the restrictive license, now that they've had a change of *ahem* heart you're still bitching. And if you didn't I apologize. If it wasn't you it was the rest of the anti-MS crowd.
I'm not sure why, but I feel necessary to clarify that I have no particular feelings towards MS love or hate. Beh.
I know exactly how the user base will respond: They won't buy it.
You're wrong I'm afraid. Business users will get Vista on their work computers during the next round of company upgrades and when users buy a new PC Vista will magically be on their computer. No fuss, no muss. I guess you're right that nobody will go out and buy a retail copy of Vista, but everybody will have purchased a copy one way or another.
You have to wonder how long it will be before Web Science and Web 2.0 morph into another fancy catch word
I heard it was supposed to be Web 3.0, but there were a lot of bugs in it so it became 3.1. However, they screwed up the networking so the fix to that was known as Web 3.11....
I haven't read any books by him, so maybe I'm really missing out on something. But instead of sending him money, I'd rather send him a letter advising him on how to live a better life throw a steady income job.
Instead of sending him money why not buy one of his books. He should get royalities from that right?
P.S. I haven't read any of his books and doubt I will so I can't say if you're missing out on anything or not.
Funny, I was thinking GWB needed some brushing up on his regular expressions. Here's two examples:
I think -- tide turning -- see, as I remember -- I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of -- it's easy to see a tide turn -- did I say those words?" --George W. Bush, asked if the tide was turning in Iraq, Washington, D.C., June 14, 2006
"There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again." --Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002
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Please note, that when calling somebody a "clueless dick" do not - I repeat - do not use the incorrect version of your/you're.
(you're welcome)
It looks like the Apple phone will be just that.
What's your basis for saying that? Steve Jobs's speech? If that were so, would you believe it when Bill Gates says Windows is the bees-knees?
+4 Insightful? How about "-1 RTFA, assface".
It takes a certain amount of sticking one's fingers in one's ears and singing LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU to not see this.
Well said sir! When I wish to not see something, I stick my fingers in my ear and yell "LA LA LA..."
tee-hee-hee
This reminds me of something I've always wondered about stealth aircraft....you always hear about a stealth aircraft having the radar signature of a small bird. Well, if you're watching a radar screen and see a pigeon flying at 500 miles an hour wouldn't you think something odd was going on?
Or maybe I'm just an idiot. That's always an option.
as someone who's father actually is a vicar...
:)
Are you new to slashdot? The proper way to phrase this....ummmm...phrase is as follows:
My father's a vicar you insensitive clod!
Seriously, can you come up with ONE activity that "conservatives" (such a broad term that it does not really mean anything) want to ban unreasonably
...but you used the word "unreasonably" so you've included an out for yourself in the very structure of the question.
abortion.
homosexuality
his probably shows how much of a geek I am compared to you but 11 million records...So say a name, an address, several series of numbers and general info...That is a hell of a lot of plain text. When did laptop hard drives get that big...
Nah, 11 million records isn't that much. Even with every conceivable piece of information about each of the 11 million people a laptop could easily handle it.
I'm going to buy a wii because I've got mortgage payments to make.
In 100 hundred years, the human race will make its greatest and most horrific discovery:
Solent Green is PEOPLE!!!!!
What econ did you take? Lowered supply always increases demand...
Wha? I have one weiner (a low supply you will agree?). Yet there is very little demand. *sigh*
I'm sure you can argue how I'm wrong with my interpretation of your comment, and you could very well be correct in that argument. I'm just joking around, is all.
The recording of history has seldom been democratic or representative. For much of the time we have been using written language, it has been the elite (in income or education) who have done the writing.
This reminded me of a interesting and related quote from Winston Churchill:
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
They're just covering their tails.
You were probably the first to bitch when they introduced the restrictive license, now that they've had a change of *ahem* heart you're still bitching. And if you didn't I apologize. If it wasn't you it was the rest of the anti-MS crowd.
I'm not sure why, but I feel necessary to clarify that I have no particular feelings towards MS love or hate. Beh.
Bye, bye "positive" karma, how I loved thee.
I know exactly how the user base will respond: They won't buy it.
You're wrong I'm afraid. Business users will get Vista on their work computers during the next round of company upgrades and when users buy a new PC Vista will magically be on their computer. No fuss, no muss. I guess you're right that nobody will go out and buy a retail copy of Vista, but everybody will have purchased a copy one way or another.
Sorry, but I patented the free speech patent in 1967.
You owe me
One hundred
*raises pinky to lip*
Billion
Dollars.
You have to wonder how long it will be before Web Science and Web 2.0 morph into another fancy catch word
...or something like that (but funnier)
I heard it was supposed to be Web 3.0, but there were a lot of bugs in it so it became 3.1. However, they screwed up the networking so the fix to that was known as Web 3.11....
I need three.
Come on now, that was funny. It was no troll. I know we don't get oot and aboot very much, but we do have some cool stuff up here. Eh.
I was just putting the covers on my TPS reports when I read this. I spewed Coke all over them. Thanks a lot!
...it was because this was slashdot and Microsoft can't do anything right.
This is +3 insightful? More like +3 Pie in the Sky, or +3 Rose coloured glasses.
I haven't read any books by him, so maybe I'm really missing out on something. But instead of sending him money, I'd rather send him a letter advising him on how to live a better life throw a steady income job.
Instead of sending him money why not buy one of his books. He should get royalities from that right?
P.S. I haven't read any of his books and doubt I will so I can't say if you're missing out on anything or not.
Cynical, *and* vaguely ominious in a 4 word sentance. Very nice.
Fred... Fred... He wrote that big thing with no documentation, right?
Nope, that was me. I'm writing another one inbetween visits to slashdot!
This book would be a great gift idea for Al Gore.
Funny, I was thinking GWB needed some brushing up on his regular expressions. Here's two examples:
I think -- tide turning -- see, as I remember -- I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of -- it's easy to see a tide turn -- did I say those words?" --George W. Bush, asked if the tide was turning in Iraq, Washington, D.C., June 14, 2006
"There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again." --Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002