" If you are exposed to them from a young age and see fictional weddings on TV and how they focus on the ring, you will understand. It is ground into North American minds from the very beginning. Most people in North America know what I'm talking about when I refer to the "A Diamond is Forever Music."
Makes you wonder what would happen if they creating the "Scoring Ring", duddn't it?
"I believe that the sudden increase in console use can be atrtibuted to the Microsoft funded U.S. Army operation "Console Drop" which includes the strategic air lifts of 10,000 X-Box consoles with Halo and a bill for $250 to locations throughout Israel, Libya, Iraq, Iran and Egypt. Phase two of the operation is said to expand to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Azurbijan, Turjikistan and Othermideastcountrystan."
You had the right elements here, but just managed to make it unfunny.
"81GHz is the switching speed of the transistor, not the processing speed of a resulting PC. Some of the reasons are: * CPU's perform a large number of transistor switches in a single clock cycle. * The rise/fall response time must be much smaller than the switching time."
Thank you for clarifying that. The article had me rather confused.
No it's not. You have to update it just like Windows.
"...easy to use..."
No it's not. That's a pretty absurd statement. I'll grant it's getting better, but it has a long ways to go.
"...and 100% rock solid stable. "
No it's not. Linux isn't that hard to break. I personally have done it a few times, and I've heard other people mention it here too. Worse, I have 4 Win2k boxes all running just fine. I reboot them maybe once every two weeks. Linux can beat that but you're running into diminishing returns here. I have an NT4 server box running exchange that's been up 134 days now.
" And it's pretty much the perfect OS because open source is the perfect development model. "
No it's not. Missed all the discussions about making money with OSS?
I know you're just trolling, and I'm off topic, yadda yadda, but I am concerned other people believe this shit too. I have no problem with Linux being chosen over Microsoft. More power to ya. It is, however, rather far from perfect. To believe it is is your own undoing. I made that mistake, and my server had to be rebuilt by somebody more competent than me because some jackass rooted it. Easy to use my ass.
"Rain in the Sahara: possible. Rain in Redmond: possible. Must be dry in Redmond."
Nice try, but there's two problems with what you said:
1.) Nobody's ever won an argument with a metaphor or other illustrative response.
2.) Couldn't you even take a minute to make your response even remotely similar to what I said? I've had like 10 people try to use this type of response and nobody came close to scratching my comment. Honestly, is it that hard?
Funny thing is that part of my post was the most inconsequential, but people try to attack it anyway. Gee. Imagine taking on the points that are harder to argue.
"BUT GORE WON!!!!!THE PINHEAD STOLE IT!!!True, Gore wimped out and conceded. BUT GORE WON!!!!"
The people didn't want either dude as president, that's why the election was close enough for Bush to, as you say, take it. The problem here isn't that the system failed to put the right guy into office, the problem is 'none of the above' is an option on the ballot.
Wish I was trolling. Nobody seems to be listening to the point I was making about securing against a creative human. Instead they feel the need to climb up the watertower with a bucket of paint to defend Linux's honor.
That wasn't the point of my post. It doesn't matter what eviornment it is. Somebody will exploit Linux. It'll happen. There's 0 chance it won't happen. You still have to remain vigilant.
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Heh yeah. The "I disagree with you so you must be brainwashed" agrument. I'm impressed you dusted that one off.
" If you are exposed to them from a young age and see fictional weddings on TV and how they focus on the ring, you will understand. It is ground into North American minds from the very beginning. Most people in North America know what I'm talking about when I refer to the "A Diamond is Forever Music."
Makes you wonder what would happen if they creating the "Scoring Ring", duddn't it?
"Yeah, but diamonds weren't super popular even 50 years ago, people still got married."
Wasn't that about when Pet Rocks were popular?
" Good thing she isn't like most women: superficial and good for sex and not much else."
:(
Sorry to hear the sex isn't good.
"amen, brother... if you choose to marry a girl, choose wisely."
What do you do when there's between 0 and 1 choices?
"I believe that the sudden increase in console use can be atrtibuted to the Microsoft funded U.S. Army operation "Console Drop" which includes the strategic air lifts of 10,000 X-Box consoles with Halo and a bill for $250 to locations throughout Israel, Libya, Iraq, Iran and Egypt. Phase two of the operation is said to expand to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Azurbijan, Turjikistan and Othermideastcountrystan."
You had the right elements here, but just managed to make it unfunny.
"Here's an idea: Pay 50 bucks for decent performers, and DON'T pay for the bad ones."
Ah yes, logic to the spirit's rescue. This has worked so well in the past.
"81GHz is the switching speed of the transistor, not the processing speed of a resulting PC. Some of the reasons are:
* CPU's perform a large number of transistor switches in a single clock cycle.
* The rise/fall response time must be much smaller than the switching time."
Thank you for clarifying that. The article had me rather confused.
" Linux is the ONLY platform that is secure..."
No it's not. You have to update it just like Windows.
"...easy to use..."
No it's not. That's a pretty absurd statement. I'll grant it's getting better, but it has a long ways to go.
"...and 100% rock solid stable. "
No it's not. Linux isn't that hard to break. I personally have done it a few times, and I've heard other people mention it here too. Worse, I have 4 Win2k boxes all running just fine. I reboot them maybe once every two weeks. Linux can beat that but you're running into diminishing returns here. I have an NT4 server box running exchange that's been up 134 days now.
" And it's pretty much the perfect OS because open source is the perfect development model. "
No it's not. Missed all the discussions about making money with OSS?
I know you're just trolling, and I'm off topic, yadda yadda, but I am concerned other people believe this shit too. I have no problem with Linux being chosen over Microsoft. More power to ya. It is, however, rather far from perfect. To believe it is is your own undoing. I made that mistake, and my server had to be rebuilt by somebody more competent than me because some jackass rooted it. Easy to use my ass.
Right.
"Rain in the Sahara: possible.
Rain in Redmond: possible.
Must be dry in Redmond."
Nice try, but there's two problems with what you said:
1.) Nobody's ever won an argument with a metaphor or other illustrative response.
2.) Couldn't you even take a minute to make your response even remotely similar to what I said? I've had like 10 people try to use this type of response and nobody came close to scratching my comment. Honestly, is it that hard?
Funny thing is that part of my post was the most inconsequential, but people try to attack it anyway. Gee. Imagine taking on the points that are harder to argue.
Same topic, not a dupe.
We don't need people going on dupe patrol.
"BUT GORE WON!!!!!THE PINHEAD STOLE IT!!!True, Gore wimped out and conceded. BUT GORE WON!!!!"
The people didn't want either dude as president, that's why the election was close enough for Bush to, as you say, take it. The problem here isn't that the system failed to put the right guy into office, the problem is 'none of the above' is an option on the ballot.
... somebody will soon use the word 'overlords', and it won't really be funny.
"...akin to cheating at solitaire, a source of false accomplishment and just one more instance of the fraying in society's moral fabric."
Stupid ill-thought conclusions like that are doing more to fray society's moral frabic than cheating on games is.
Lol I read one of those Rama books and hated it. Bla bla bla.
Not trying to troll here, that one in particular just stood out in my mind as being a bunch of mindless babble.
"2001?"
Nope.
So Linux programmers have no real motivation to do it right either?
Honestly, I think this explains why OSS software has a tendency towards horrid UIs. They'll just work on the fun parts.
"I have to admit, I'm curious who'd win between a T-1000 and Odo."
;)
The answer to that depends more on the director than their technology.
"and I think _that_ is the biggest difference."
Yep, instead of cutting corners in security, they cut corners in UI design. Brilliant. It's more secure when you can't use it!
"So, who wants to set enough monkeys and enough typewriters to the task of writing the Linux kernel?"
Again?
Heh that's cute.
I can see Dogbert and Dilbert arguing about this.
"ps: decent troll."
Wish I was trolling. Nobody seems to be listening to the point I was making about securing against a creative human. Instead they feel the need to climb up the watertower with a bucket of paint to defend Linux's honor.
Argument rejected. Apples != Oranges.
Can you honestly tell me there is a human out there who has never errored?
That wasn't the point of my post. It doesn't matter what eviornment it is. Somebody will exploit Linux. It'll happen. There's 0 chance it won't happen. You still have to remain vigilant.