we built the great pyramids that survived for thousands of years that you cant even replicate today
We can, we just won't. It was an impressive feat thousands of years ago, but keep in mind it took the resources of an entire nation to do.
we controlled gravity
Can you turn it off over here? it's a bit too strong.
and we were so advanced in medicine that we had a doctor for the left eye and a doctor for the right eye go figure that out you
just because there were seperate doctors for each eye, doesn't mean they did anything. I have this snake oil that is so well crafted it will cure any blockages in your left atrium of your heart! Go figure that out you.
, we taught the world how to farm
Good thing you did, or else there wouldn't have been civilization in china or in the americas until you discovered them and taught them. Oh wait.....
we are the essence of civilization and a never ending legacy.
Correct. Egypt was advanced beyond its time. It was one of the most advanced nation on earth until about 500 years ago. But please don't exagerate your claims to the rediculus level, please.
I wouldn't worry about Mercedes Benz using that many addresses. There are legit uses, like putting a wireless computer in cars that they make, and then providing service to maps or GPS or AIM or whatever.
What I would worry about is Apple. I doubt there are 16 million Apple computers in existance, let alone at apple inc.
And I'd keep an eye on Ford. The day that Ford puts a [working] wireless computer into each car, we'll all be on IPv8
some sort of learning language to get the kids hooked when they are young.
The scene: In a park with a lot of little kids around
(stranger dressed up like Bill Gates in a trenchcoat): Hey kid, I got something for you
Kid: What
Stranger: It's the good stuff...(holds out a box labeled 'GW-Basic#'
Kid: I don't know. My daddy told me that stuff is bad for you...it causes you to get fat and pimply and never get a date
Stranger: That's a lie! Come on. First taste is free (holds out box further)
Kid: Well, ok....
This is a prefect example as to why you NEVER comment your code. If the company fires or lays your off, all they'll be able to do with your code is compile it.
people who patent ideas for things they have no intentions of building, hoping to license technology
Isn't that one of the legit puposes of a patent? Pretend that while playing in my kitchen, I invent a new soda flavor. I have two options on what to do with this
1) Start Lord Slepnir beverages. I'll need to scrounge around for startup capital, get a factory, distribution, find a way to market it, etc. If I fail, I have to declare bankrupcy, and wind up having my house and car repoed. If I end up making a lot of money off of it, I have about 7 years to grow enough to compete with Coke and Pepsi, who will push their own knockoff of this flavor as soon as the patent runs out.
2) I contact coke or pepsi and tell them I have a new flavor. They give me a lump of cash, they take all the risk (I'm not ruined if it fails), they market it, and I get a small royality check to live off.
There have actually been 50 billion chips shipped. "Some of these chips, such as the 3.06ghz, are as much as 100 times faster than others, allowing pirates to encode music 100 times as fast. Thus, for our numbers, Intel has shipped over 50 billion chips" said RIAA president Hilary Rosen.
Frankly I keep the covers off my case to keep my CPU from overheating.
A bit of advice: Leave the covers on, but make sure that you have enough case fans to ensure that the CPU has a constant air current over it. I have the fan on the front of my box blow in and the fan on the back (plus the power supply) blow out. If you leave your case closed, the improved air flow will actually lower the temperature of your CPU and motherboard.
You won't hurt the artists that much. Most of the money 99.9% of them make from the record compainies was paid up front. Just go to a few concerts instead if you want to support the artists.
People suing Google because their 10 year old found porno?
Suing Yahoo because someone found copyright material on an unauthorized page? GASP!
Won't happen. Google and Yahoo are companies that can afford lawyers. They can afford litigation costs, whereas the poor college student can't. Him only giving over his life savings was probally a bargin for his point of view, since he didn't have to pay a lawyer to sit though an actual trial.
Remember, the wolves go for the weak caribu first. When they go for the strong ones, they have to spend a lot of energy running it down, and it isn't worth it to them.
When I can get paid $4 million a year just to show up to work every day for 4 hours, 6 months a year, get paid another $5 million just to say that I use XXX brand compilor (or reclining chair), get paid by a university to attend there just because they need a new star Perl Debugger (the last one graduated last year, and the backup got carpal tunnel), then I'll stop messing things up like that.
At first I wanted IBM to bury SCO in court, but now I wish they would just buy hem out to get this over with.
Amen to that. Here's what I would do in IBM's position.
1) Buy out SCO. Hostile style. Buy up enough of the stock to have them vote to merge under IBM.
2) Fire the entire board of directors. A severance package of one pack of oreos and cab fare
3) ??????
4) Profit....or at least not losing money on this crap, which is the next best thing.
The things SCO didn't realize is that while it is possible for a mouse to annoy an elephant, sooner or later the elephant will just stomp, and all the elephant will think of it will be "how do I get these mouse guts off of my foot"
First, a typo on my part. The last sentence should read: "...before it becomes economically viable for them not to do this"
Normally, I don't mind being modded up, but when I pull some numbers out of my ass in an attempt to be funny, can you at least give me the funny mod points? Then again, that's the same place the RIAA got their numbers, and they expect to be taken seriously, then so should I....
How many more mistakes are they going to be allowed to make without a penalty for their actions?
Lets see, it's a $10,000 bribe per congress-person per mistake. Assuming they want to bribe a little over half of congress, that's about 300 bribes, so about 3 million per mistake. Now, we all know that they are losing about 3 billion a year to piracy according to their own numbers, and, by their logic, once we see the error in our ways we'll start buying like we should, so that means that this will get them back that 3 billion. So they only need to make 1000 major mistakes before it becomes economiacally viable for them to do this!
Maybe that part of WWII isn't one of my strong areas. My point is that Finland, like it or not, did help the Germans out. Choice or not, they did help them out, so it's no surprise that they had to pay reparations and didn't get much in the way of aid.
btw, hats off to the Finnish Army for Stopping the Red Army. First at Soulmousammi (spelling, I know) and later at Tali-Ihantala.
Hmm. Maybe if you hadn't allied yourself with Germany, Finland would have been a bit better off in the end. The reparations that were paid to the Soviets were just to keep them from crushing Finland after they steamrolled through Ukraine. Ever hear of Leningrad? The Germans had almost nothing to do with that seige. It was mostly Finnish troops.
IIRC, what happened was that the Germans came to Finland and said "Either you can help us kill Russians, or we can roll over you like we did those pesky French. Seeing as how much the Finns hated the Russians, The Finns were eager to jump on board.
Thanks. I'm still trying to 'beat the Slashdot game'. So far I have the pro-microsoft Insightful post, the anti-Macintosh Insightful post and the anti-Linux Interesting post. I'm still working on the +5 Troll post, then I would have collected them all.
The one thing that Microsoft Windows beats back Linux in every time is compatability. Take the rescent Neverwinter Nights fiasco. It took Bioware forever to choose a platform to handle the graphics and even longer to choose one to handle the sound. With Windows, it's DirectX all the way. Also, until I can have an OS install on my computer that is as easy as 'pop in the disk, turn the thing on, choose a few simple options, then sit back and wait until its done', Windows will still have an advantage over Linux in the installer department. I was impressed with the RedHat 9 installer, which was able to find and detect enough of my USB devices on install that I didn't have to break out my PS2 mouse / keyboard, but then again, Windows has been doing that for years (since at least Windows 2k).
Linux does have many advantages over Windows, but to say that Linux and all of its branches are technically superior in pretty much every way is a bit over stepping your bounds there.
Granted, this post will never see the light of day as wave after wave of linux zealots launch a 'He supported MICROS~1 so we have to mod him down' Jihad against me
These two offer the best balance between realism and role-playing. If you want more realism, go to the SCA. If you want more role-playing, there's ampgard and larp, which I find a bit cheesy (using hacky-sacks to represent fireballs. When one hit the ground, everyone withing 5ft has to die.)
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we built the great pyramids that survived for thousands of years that you cant even replicate today
We can, we just won't. It was an impressive feat thousands of years ago, but keep in mind it took the resources of an entire nation to do.
we controlled gravity
Can you turn it off over here? it's a bit too strong.
and we were so advanced in medicine that we had a doctor for the left eye and a doctor for the right eye go figure that out you
just because there were seperate doctors for each eye, doesn't mean they did anything. I have this snake oil that is so well crafted it will cure any blockages in your left atrium of your heart! Go figure that out you.
, we taught the world how to farm
Good thing you did, or else there wouldn't have been civilization in china or in the americas until you discovered them and taught them. Oh wait.....
we are the essence of civilization and a never ending legacy.
Correct. Egypt was advanced beyond its time. It was one of the most advanced nation on earth until about 500 years ago. But please don't exagerate your claims to the rediculus level, please.
What I would worry about is Apple. I doubt there are 16 million Apple computers in existance, let alone at apple inc.
And I'd keep an eye on Ford. The day that Ford puts a [working] wireless computer into each car, we'll all be on IPv8
The scene: In a park with a lot of little kids around
(stranger dressed up like Bill Gates in a trenchcoat): Hey kid, I got something for you
Kid: What
Stranger: It's the good stuff...(holds out a box labeled 'GW-Basic#'
Kid: I don't know. My daddy told me that stuff is bad for you...it causes you to get fat and pimply and never get a date
Stranger: That's a lie! Come on. First taste is free (holds out box further)
Kid: Well, ok....
This is a prefect example as to why you NEVER comment your code. If the company fires or lays your off, all they'll be able to do with your code is compile it.
but I did work hard to produce this new flavor. I'm not abusing the system if I sell it to Pepsi
1) Start Lord Slepnir beverages. I'll need to scrounge around for startup capital, get a factory, distribution, find a way to market it, etc. If I fail, I have to declare bankrupcy, and wind up having my house and car repoed. If I end up making a lot of money off of it, I have about 7 years to grow enough to compete with Coke and Pepsi, who will push their own knockoff of this flavor as soon as the patent runs out.
2) I contact coke or pepsi and tell them I have a new flavor. They give me a lump of cash, they take all the risk (I'm not ruined if it fails), they market it, and I get a small royality check to live off.
You see, there is a world outside of Apple, and it is technologically advanced
Shitton (n.): 1) An ambibously large number, larger than a crapton, but less than a holyfuckton.
There have actually been 50 billion chips shipped. "Some of these chips, such as the 3.06ghz, are as much as 100 times faster than others, allowing pirates to encode music 100 times as fast. Thus, for our numbers, Intel has shipped over 50 billion chips" said RIAA president Hilary Rosen.
A bit of advice: Leave the covers on, but make sure that you have enough case fans to ensure that the CPU has a constant air current over it. I have the fan on the front of my box blow in and the fan on the back (plus the power supply) blow out. If you leave your case closed, the improved air flow will actually lower the temperature of your CPU and motherboard.
You won't hurt the artists that much. Most of the money 99.9% of them make from the record compainies was paid up front. Just go to a few concerts instead if you want to support the artists.
Suing Yahoo because someone found copyright material on an unauthorized page? GASP!
Won't happen. Google and Yahoo are companies that can afford lawyers. They can afford litigation costs, whereas the poor college student can't. Him only giving over his life savings was probally a bargin for his point of view, since he didn't have to pay a lawyer to sit though an actual trial.
Remember, the wolves go for the weak caribu first. When they go for the strong ones, they have to spend a lot of energy running it down, and it isn't worth it to them.
When I can get paid $4 million a year just to show up to work every day for 4 hours, 6 months a year, get paid another $5 million just to say that I use XXX brand compilor (or reclining chair), get paid by a university to attend there just because they need a new star Perl Debugger (the last one graduated last year, and the backup got carpal tunnel), then I'll stop messing things up like that.
Amen to that. Here's what I would do in IBM's position.
1) Buy out SCO. Hostile style. Buy up enough of the stock to have them vote to merge under IBM.
2) Fire the entire board of directors. A severance package of one pack of oreos and cab fare
3) ??????
4) Profit....or at least not losing money on this crap, which is the next best thing.
The things SCO didn't realize is that while it is possible for a mouse to annoy an elephant, sooner or later the elephant will just stomp, and all the elephant will think of it will be "how do I get these mouse guts off of my foot"
Wow. I didn't even know that Apple made mainframes.
Hey, Macintosh has a lot of good games! Like Warcraft 3 and umm.....photoshop!
Normally, I don't mind being modded up, but when I pull some numbers out of my ass in an attempt to be funny, can you at least give me the funny mod points? Then again, that's the same place the RIAA got their numbers, and they expect to be taken seriously, then so should I....
Lets see, it's a $10,000 bribe per congress-person per mistake. Assuming they want to bribe a little over half of congress, that's about 300 bribes, so about 3 million per mistake. Now, we all know that they are losing about 3 billion a year to piracy according to their own numbers, and, by their logic, once we see the error in our ways we'll start buying like we should, so that means that this will get them back that 3 billion. So they only need to make 1000 major mistakes before it becomes economiacally viable for them to do this!
btw, hats off to the Finnish Army for Stopping the Red Army. First at Soulmousammi (spelling, I know) and later at Tali-Ihantala.
IIRC, what happened was that the Germans came to Finland and said "Either you can help us kill Russians, or we can roll over you like we did those pesky French. Seeing as how much the Finns hated the Russians, The Finns were eager to jump on board.
Thanks. I'm still trying to 'beat the Slashdot game'. So far I have the pro-microsoft Insightful post, the anti-Macintosh Insightful post and the anti-Linux Interesting post. I'm still working on the +5 Troll post, then I would have collected them all.
I didn't know foam could do that much dammage. I should be more careful before I go to Belegarth Practice this weekend.
The one thing that Microsoft Windows beats back Linux in every time is compatability. Take the rescent Neverwinter Nights fiasco. It took Bioware forever to choose a platform to handle the graphics and even longer to choose one to handle the sound. With Windows, it's DirectX all the way. Also, until I can have an OS install on my computer that is as easy as 'pop in the disk, turn the thing on, choose a few simple options, then sit back and wait until its done', Windows will still have an advantage over Linux in the installer department. I was impressed with the RedHat 9 installer, which was able to find and detect enough of my USB devices on install that I didn't have to break out my PS2 mouse / keyboard, but then again, Windows has been doing that for years (since at least Windows 2k).
Linux does have many advantages over Windows, but to say that Linux and all of its branches are technically superior in pretty much every way is a bit over stepping your bounds there.
Granted, this post will never see the light of day as wave after wave of linux zealots launch a 'He supported MICROS~1 so we have to mod him down' Jihad against me
I'll give you a hint: No one should need to need to measure continental drift every second. They're not moving apart that fast.
Dagorhir Battle Games
Belegarth Battle Games
These two offer the best balance between realism and role-playing. If you want more realism, go to the SCA. If you want more role-playing, there's ampgard and larp, which I find a bit cheesy (using hacky-sacks to represent fireballs. When one hit the ground, everyone withing 5ft has to die.)