This has nothing to do with microsoft's COM dev. system, its just an old dos device name. There are various reserved words in DOS, com3 - (ie, communication port 3) is just one, com1, com2, wont work either. Nor will PRN (printer), LPT1 (parrallel port 1) LPT2, LPT3, CON, AUX, or COM4.
Our little friend here has either had a joke played on him, or is playing one.
that "10.1% of 12-17s are actively downloading/not purchasing music" does not mean that 100% of teens are downloading music. It may be that only 15% of teens are downloading music, the rest are just getting on with their lives.
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It is official; Netcraft confirms: *The Who is ying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Who community when Yahoo! confirmed that a Who musician has dropped yet again, now they are down to less than a fraction of 66% percent of all members. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that The Who has lost more band members, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. The Whoe is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by coming dead last in the recent MTV comprehensive music test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Thw Who's future. The hand writing is on the wall: The Who face a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for The Who because The Who is dying. Things are looking very bad for The Who. As many of us are already aware, The Who continues to lose market share. Blood flows like a river of red ink.
Who member "Ox" is the most endangered of them all, having lost 26% of his body to decomposition. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time The Who member "Ox" only serves to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: The Who is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Who leader Roger Daltrey states that there are 7000 fans of The Who. How many fans of "Ox" were there? Let's see. The number of Who versus "Ox" posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 "Ox" fans. The Who posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Elvis posts. Therefore there are about 700 fans of The Who. A recent article put The Who at about 60 percent alive. Therefore there are now (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 The Who fans. This is consistent with the number of Who Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of the music business, abysmal sales and so on, The Who went out of existance and was taken over by Brittany Spears who sells more troubled BS. Now Brittany is also dead, her corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All majr surveys show that The Who has steadily declined in market share. The Who is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If The Who is to survive at ll it will be among music dilettante dabblers. The Who continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, The Who is dead.
When there is a monopoly, whether government sanctioned or driven by market forces, there has to be regulation or the consumer will be screwed.
Monopolies rarely appear and never persist without government intervention. Looking for regulation to solve a monopoly problem is very much like expecting the fox to keep your chickens safe.
Cable companies are wonderful examples. Monopolies created and sustained by (typically municipal) governments. Why do you think Cox (or whoever they bought out in your area, more likely) was allowed to lay all that cable across both public and private land, but no one else can lay a competing network the same way?
It is official; Netcraft confirms: *The Who is ying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Who community when Yahoo! confirmed that a Who musician has dropped yet again, now they are down to less than a fraction of 66% percent of all members. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that The Who has lost more band members, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. The Whoe is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by coming dead last in the recent MTV comprehensive music test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict The Who's future. The hand writing is on the wall: The Who face a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for The Who because The Who is dying. Things are looking very bad for The Who. As many of us are already aware, The Who continues to lose market share. Blood flows like a river of red ink.
Who member "Ox" is the most endangered of them all, having lost 26% of his body to decomposition. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time The Who member "Ox" only serves to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: The Who is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Who leader Roger Daltrey states that there are 7000 fans of The Who. How many fans of "Ox" were there? Let's see. The number of Who versus "Ox" posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 "Ox" fans. The Who posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Elvis posts. Therefore there are about 700 fans of The Who. A recent article put The Who at about 60 percent alive. Therefore there are now (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 The Who fans. This is consistent with the number of Who Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of the music business, abysmal sales and so on, The Who went out of existance and was taken over by MCA Records who sells more troubled BS. Now MCA Records is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All majr surveys show that The Who has steadily declined in market share. The Who is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If The Who is to survive at ll it will be among music dilettante dabblers. The Who continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, The Who is dead.
It is official; Netcraft confirms: *The Who is ying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Who community when Yahoo! confirmed that a Who musician has dropped yet again, now they are down to less than a fraction of 66% percent of all members. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that The Who has lost more band members, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. The Whoe is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by coming dead last in the recent MTV comprehensive music test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict The Who's future. The hand writing is on the wall: The Who face a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for The Who because The Who is dying. Things are looking very bad for The Who. As many of us are already aware, The Who continues to lose market share. Blood flows like a river of red ink.
Who member "Ox" is the most endangered of them all, having lost 26% of his body to decomposition. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time The Who member "Ox" only serves to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: The Who is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Who leader Roger Daltrey states that there are 7000 fans of The Who. How many fans of "Ox" were there? Let's see. The number of Who versus "Ox" posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 "Ox" fans. The Who posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Elvis posts. Therefore there are about 700 fans of The Who. A recent article put The Who at about 60 percent alive. Therefore there are now (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 The Who fans. This is consistent with the number of Who Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of the music business, abysmal sales and so on, The Who went out of existance and was taken over by MCA Records who sells more troubled BS. Now MCA Records is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All majr surveys show that The Who has steadily declined in market share. The Who is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If The Who is to survive at ll it will be among music dilettante dabblers. The Who continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, The Who is dead.
It is official; Netcraft confirms: *The Who is ying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Who community when Yahoo! confirmed that a Who musician has dropped yet again, now they are down to less than a fraction of 66% percent of all members. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that The Who has lost more band members, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. The Whoe is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by coming dead last in the recent MTV comprehensive music test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict The Who's future. The hand writing is on the wall: The Who face a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for The Who because The Who is dying. Things are looking very bad for The Who. As many of us are already aware, The Who continues to lose market share. Blood flows like a river of red ink.
Who member "Ox" is the most endangered of them all, having lost 26% of his body to decomposition. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time The Who member "Ox" only serves to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: The Who is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Who leader Roger Daltrey states that there are 7000 fans of The Who. How many fans of "Ox" were there? Let's see. The number of Who versus "Ox" posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 "Ox" fans. The Who posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Elvis posts. Therefore there are about 700 fans of The Who. A recent article put The Who at about 60 percent alive. Therefore there are now (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 The Who fans. This is consistent with the number of Who Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of the music business, abysmal sales and so on, The Who went out of existance and was taken over by MCA Records who sells more troubled BS. Now MCA Records is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All majr surveys show that The Who has steadily declined in market share. The Who is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If The Who is to survive at ll it will be among music dilettante dabblers. The Who continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, The Who is dead.
The reason that they're not allowed to distribute the binaries is that they were compiled using MS's XBox SDK, and said SDK has a license agreement, etc.
You can still legally get the source, but until someone else builds a different compiler (aint gonna happen), its not legal for them to distribute the binaries.
Thus, I wouldn't expect them to be kicking up a fuss with microsoft about it.
If text ads are your thing, you should really look into Proxomitron. Its not evil, and there is no pay version. Its colour scheme is a bit wierd but you can turn it off. Its web filter software, and does all the usual stuff you might expect it to (stop pop-ups, status bar scrollers, blinking text, flash ads, practically anything evil you could think to do to a web page).
But one of the most beautiful things about is instead of just getting rid of the ad, it converts it into a clickable, text only link, using the alt text. That way, you can still click on ads to support sites that you like (I doubt that I've ever clicked on an ad that didn't come from think geek because of what it was advertising).
Not only that, buts its so damn customisable it aint funny. You can write you own filters to get rid of anything you want, be it window.focus() javascripts, or changing the text "nakana Now!!!!" into "Obnoxious Advertisment". Its beautiful.
Prox is what keeps me comin back to windows. Does anyone know of a way I can write custom html filters for linux?
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Linux community when IDC confirmed that Linux market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Linux has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Linux is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Linux's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Linux faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Linux because Linux is dying. Things are looking very bad for Linux. As many of us are already aware, Linux continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Debian Linux is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Debian Linux developers Ian and Deb only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Debian Linux is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
SuSe leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of SuSe. How many users of Slackware are there? Let's see. The number of SuSe versus Slackware posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Slackware users. GNU/Linux posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Slackware posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of GNU/Linux. A recent article put Red Hat Linux at about 80 percent of the Linux market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Red Hat Linux users. This is consistent with the number of Red Hat Linux Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, Red Hat Linux went out of business and was taken over by Mandrake who sell another troubled OS. Now Mandrake is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All majr surveys show that Linux has steadily declined in market share. Linux is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Linux is to survive at ll it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. Linux continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Linux is dead.
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This has nothing to do with microsoft's COM dev. system, its just an old dos device name. There are various reserved words in DOS, com3 - (ie, communication port 3) is just one, com1, com2, wont work either. Nor will PRN (printer), LPT1 (parrallel port 1) LPT2, LPT3, CON, AUX, or COM4.
Our little friend here has either had a joke played on him, or is playing one.
that "10.1% of 12-17s are actively downloading/not purchasing music" does not mean that 100% of teens are downloading music. It may be that only 15% of teens are downloading music, the rest are just getting on with their lives.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Who community when Yahoo! confirmed that a Who musician has dropped yet again, now they are down to less than a fraction of 66% percent of all members. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that The Who has lost more band members, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. The Whoe is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by coming dead last in the recent MTV comprehensive music test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Thw Who's future. The hand writing is on the wall: The Who face a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for The Who because The Who is dying. Things are looking very bad for The Who. As many of us are already aware, The Who continues to lose market share. Blood flows like a river of red ink.
Who member "Ox" is the most endangered of them all, having lost 26% of his body to decomposition. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time The Who member "Ox" only serves to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: The Who is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Who leader Roger Daltrey states that there are 7000 fans of The Who. How many fans of "Ox" were there? Let's see. The number of Who versus "Ox" posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 "Ox" fans. The Who posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Elvis posts. Therefore there are about 700 fans of The Who. A recent article put The Who at about 60 percent alive. Therefore there are now (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 The Who fans. This is consistent with the number of Who Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of the music business, abysmal sales and so on, The Who went out of existance and was taken over by Brittany Spears who sells more troubled BS. Now Brittany is also dead, her corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All majr surveys show that The Who has steadily declined in market share. The Who is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If The Who is to survive at ll it will be among music dilettante dabblers. The Who continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, The Who is dead.
Fact: The Who is ying
When there is a monopoly, whether government sanctioned or driven by market forces, there has to be regulation or the consumer will be screwed.
Monopolies rarely appear and never persist without government intervention. Looking for regulation to solve a monopoly problem is very much like expecting the fox to keep your chickens safe.
Cable companies are wonderful examples. Monopolies created and sustained by (typically municipal) governments. Why do you think Cox (or whoever they bought out in your area, more likely) was allowed to lay all that cable across both public and private land, but no one else can lay a competing network the same way?
mmmm, the sweet scent of copyright violation
(surprise - Disney is 16th!)
Of course, for Boucher, Verisign is first, and Microsoft is 17th.... That said, it doesn't look like a whole lot of money ($4000?)
Nice sig.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Who community when Yahoo! confirmed that a Who musician has dropped yet again, now they are down to less than a fraction of 66% percent of all members. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that The Who has lost more band members, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. The Whoe is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by coming dead last in the recent MTV comprehensive music test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict The Who's future. The hand writing is on the wall: The Who face a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for The Who because The Who is dying. Things are looking very bad for The Who. As many of us are already aware, The Who continues to lose market share. Blood flows like a river of red ink.
Who member "Ox" is the most endangered of them all, having lost 26% of his body to decomposition. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time The Who member "Ox" only serves to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: The Who is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Who leader Roger Daltrey states that there are 7000 fans of The Who. How many fans of "Ox" were there? Let's see. The number of Who versus "Ox" posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 "Ox" fans. The Who posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Elvis posts. Therefore there are about 700 fans of The Who. A recent article put The Who at about 60 percent alive. Therefore there are now (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 The Who fans. This is consistent with the number of Who Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of the music business, abysmal sales and so on, The Who went out of existance and was taken over by MCA Records who sells more troubled BS. Now MCA Records is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All majr surveys show that The Who has steadily declined in market share. The Who is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If The Who is to survive at ll it will be among music dilettante dabblers. The Who continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, The Who is dead.
Fact: The Who is ying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Who community when Yahoo! confirmed that a Who musician has dropped yet again, now they are down to less than a fraction of 66% percent of all members. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that The Who has lost more band members, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. The Whoe is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by coming dead last in the recent MTV comprehensive music test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict The Who's future. The hand writing is on the wall: The Who face a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for The Who because The Who is dying. Things are looking very bad for The Who. As many of us are already aware, The Who continues to lose market share. Blood flows like a river of red ink.
Who member "Ox" is the most endangered of them all, having lost 26% of his body to decomposition. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time The Who member "Ox" only serves to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: The Who is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Who leader Roger Daltrey states that there are 7000 fans of The Who. How many fans of "Ox" were there? Let's see. The number of Who versus "Ox" posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 "Ox" fans. The Who posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Elvis posts. Therefore there are about 700 fans of The Who. A recent article put The Who at about 60 percent alive. Therefore there are now (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 The Who fans. This is consistent with the number of Who Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of the music business, abysmal sales and so on, The Who went out of existance and was taken over by MCA Records who sells more troubled BS. Now MCA Records is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All majr surveys show that The Who has steadily declined in market share. The Who is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If The Who is to survive at ll it will be among music dilettante dabblers. The Who continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, The Who is dead.
Fact: The Who is ying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Who community when Yahoo! confirmed that a Who musician has dropped yet again, now they are down to less than a fraction of 66% percent of all members. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that The Who has lost more band members, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. The Whoe is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by coming dead last in the recent MTV comprehensive music test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict The Who's future. The hand writing is on the wall: The Who face a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for The Who because The Who is dying. Things are looking very bad for The Who. As many of us are already aware, The Who continues to lose market share. Blood flows like a river of red ink.
Who member "Ox" is the most endangered of them all, having lost 26% of his body to decomposition. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time The Who member "Ox" only serves to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: The Who is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Who leader Roger Daltrey states that there are 7000 fans of The Who. How many fans of "Ox" were there? Let's see. The number of Who versus "Ox" posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 "Ox" fans. The Who posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Elvis posts. Therefore there are about 700 fans of The Who. A recent article put The Who at about 60 percent alive. Therefore there are now (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 The Who fans. This is consistent with the number of Who Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of the music business, abysmal sales and so on, The Who went out of existance and was taken over by MCA Records who sells more troubled BS. Now MCA Records is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All majr surveys show that The Who has steadily declined in market share. The Who is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If The Who is to survive at ll it will be among music dilettante dabblers. The Who continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, The Who is dead.
Fact: The Who is ying
The reason that they're not allowed to distribute the binaries is that they were compiled using MS's XBox SDK, and said SDK has a license agreement, etc.
You can still legally get the source, but until someone else builds a different compiler (aint gonna happen), its not legal for them to distribute the binaries.
Thus, I wouldn't expect them to be kicking up a fuss with microsoft about it.
Another excellent troll from physicsgenious. What happened to the particle accelerator sig tho?
If text ads are your thing, you should really look into Proxomitron. Its not evil, and there is no pay version. Its colour scheme is a bit wierd but you can turn it off. Its web filter software, and does all the usual stuff you might expect it to (stop pop-ups, status bar scrollers, blinking text, flash ads, practically anything evil you could think to do to a web page).
But one of the most beautiful things about is instead of just getting rid of the ad, it converts it into a clickable, text only link , using the alt text. That way, you can still click on ads to support sites that you like (I doubt that I've ever clicked on an ad that didn't come from think geek because of what it was advertising).
Not only that, buts its so damn customisable it aint funny. You can write you own filters to get rid of anything you want, be it window.focus() javascripts, or changing the text "nakana Now!!!!" into "Obnoxious Advertisment". Its beautiful.
Prox is what keeps me comin back to windows. Does anyone know of a way I can write custom html filters for linux?
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Linux community when IDC confirmed that Linux market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Linux has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Linux is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Linux's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Linux faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Linux because Linux is dying. Things are looking very bad for Linux. As many of us are already aware, Linux continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Debian Linux is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Debian Linux developers Ian and Deb only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Debian Linux is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
SuSe leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of SuSe. How many users of Slackware are there? Let's see. The number of SuSe versus Slackware posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Slackware users. GNU/Linux posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Slackware posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of GNU/Linux. A recent article put Red Hat Linux at about 80 percent of the Linux market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Red Hat Linux users. This is consistent with the number of Red Hat Linux Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, Red Hat Linux went out of business and was taken over by Mandrake who sell another troubled OS. Now Mandrake is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All majr surveys show that Linux has steadily declined in market share. Linux is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Linux is to survive at ll it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. Linux continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Linux is dead.
Fact: Linux is ying