Well, I would like to see if someone tried a Delorian laptop... then lets the geeks get at it and plug in a flux capacitor, someone will have to drive at the correct speed plus with the way Intel are going with the CPU power requirements, it'll be a couple of Pentium revisions before we get to the 1.21Gigawatts that said notebook is needed to supply.
Why would we want to make a time travelling laptop? Why so we can remove any previous dupes/. have done from ever existing... but then we'd have a paradox problem with/. instead.
Thank crap for the feedback form, just hope it doesn't go to/dev/null
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How dare you,
Coming off the back of the Hutton 'enquiry', I cannot believe that another one of your reporters are resorting to more false accusations and suppositions just to make a front page article, I thought that was for the likes of the 'Daily Sport'.
The article by 'Stephen Evans BBC North America Business Correspondent' has not done the BBC good in the eyes of clued up IT people. I have read some good articles recently on BBCi (I cannot remember the reporters name, but he interviewed Bruce Perens) about IT and the SCO situation, but this kind of article does not help, and only serves to discredit your organisation (I should say 'our' since I have to pay the 'TV' tax called the license fee) in the eyes of those 'geeks' you seek to slander.
To quote the article:
"Deep in the darkness of the psyche, vandals and arsonists no doubt have their reasons - and so, presumably, do the run-of-the-mill geeks who wreak damage on the unsuspecting computer user."..should possible read:
"Deep in the darkness of the psyche, vandals and arsonists no doubt have their reasons - and so, presumably, do the run-of-the-mill reporters who wreak damage on the unsuspecting reader."
Don't they know what happens when you incur the wrath of linux users?
...and the wrath of the government, even though I'm not a fan of the British Government at the moment (Tony poodle Blair, ranking as the most arrogant 'leader' we've ever had, IMO).
I'm surprised that the BBC seem to be continuing with accusations just using conjecture and supposition... editorial control extends to any net articles as much as TV commentary at 6am in the morning (I'm relating to the Hutton/Kelly incident btw).
This is at a time when I have had a large amount sympathy for the BBC and what it has gone through the past few weeks, but this does not help them at all... who next are they going to piss off?
...and being synonymous with an net search, Google also becoming a dictionary word (i.e. googling, etc). It's like Napster, despite the lack of anything happening for years since it got closed down it still has it's name in the public consciousness.
On the other hand Microsoft's main brand (being Windows) relates to 'occasional' crashing, i.e. mud sticks, but in the case of Google they're the goose that makes the golden eggs... (they could almost be a monopoly themselves?)... everyone will still think of Google first when it comes to searchs, even if competitors do develop better search technology.
...so I thought I'd try the imaginary URL and see the response, and that certainly surprised me (using the above link):
Document Not Found
To find the document you're looking for, please see our company sitemap
or use the following search:
If you're having problems with a broken link, send us your e-mail and we'll find the page for you. If the page is on the Linux Documentation Project site (http://www.sco.com/LDP/), email feedback@linuxdocs.org
My hard drive blew up last week, and when rebuilding my system, I skipped ZoneAlarm and installed Kerio Personal Firewall instead... an incredible piece of software if I do say so myself, but it also has built in ad blocking (and configurable to add more blocking).
Not that that matters too much since I am using FireBird, but a two pronged approach is better than one.
Be worried if they release CPU's named after presidents... and you have the 'Pretzel' motherboard edition and a certain CPU edition, things are bound to go wrong.
I suppose instead of "hello world", you could have "heimlich maneuver".
Glad someone mentioned about the UK situation. One question though, with BT's 'unlimited' service... I can't remember if they still use the 'unlimited' word in their adverts (even though they do have the small print stating the restrictions). My point is, if any of the ISP's do advertise an 'unlimited' service (but do have active capping), couldn't they be easily bitch slapped down by the ASA (al la the Apple G5 - fastest PC in the world).
While I was on dialup, I always stuck with Freeswerve Anytime, and they never seemed to have any usage caps in place, whereas my friend was on the BT equivalent, left it connected overnight and immediately get a warning e-mail. At least I'm one of those fortunate to have had their 'unviable' exchanges LLU'd for broadband (damn BT to Heck and then Hell!). But for the meantime, I don't see any problems with Pipemedia DSL... plus I do throttle my usage, just incase:-)
Surprised I'm answering this, my point was that SCO's share prices don't make real world sense - i.e. they don't add up to real world worth, hence my intentional 3 halves.
This sounds like a crazy idea, but Google could slap themselves with a DMCA takedown (al la Kazaa Lite) regarding SCO... I mean they wouldn't be the only company using the DMCA is a frivolous way????
Also, this post is meant to be a bit like the SCO share prices: half funny, half interesting and half stupid;-)
I mean come on!!! A more appropriate spoof would be that those two were the virus version Smith (crikey, I'm writing this now and listening to the Animatrix OST and Red Pill Blue Pill is on!!!)... yeah Longhorn would have to be the Matrix code, constraining humanity and the problem is choice: which MS don't want people to have.
Plus, the Matrix is due for a critical crash, hmm the parrallels are endless...
I heartily agree with you. I would love to use OSX if it wasn't for the fact that I don't want to buy a Mac (and Apple is no way going to port OSX to PC hardware).
Say that an OSX like GUI was created, do you think Apple would start firing legal warning shots ? (i.e. you've copied our GUI - etc).
The other thing relating to a new desktop is: wouldn't it be a good idea if a full GUI/HCI spec was created first (like Apple did), to at least give some kind of uniformity for the GUI and APPs as well as acting as a decent guide. I also think that the vector/3D based GUI will help development (rather than having X amount of bitmap variations to cater for different screen resolutions, etc), plus be awful perty aswell.
Decent frontends should be aimed at being as user friendly and intuitive as possible, but allow the option to dig deeper for the more advanced features... and you might even need decent hardware to render all the whizz bang graphics, but if designed well enough then detail and effects can be easily downgraded to accomodate.
Thanks a lot! I feel much safer now, esp. considering I live about 8 miles away from Gaydon, where the army base there is *the* biggest munitions dump in the country (sorry, UK).
Although we're not exactly in the know about what they have stored there, but it wouldn't be pretty if that went up.
I saw the 'behind the series' program about Queer As Folk UK last week, and your nerdgasm takes on a whole new meaning (shampoo, err showergel?).
In the interview though, Russell Davies is a huge fan of Dr Who... if there was ever someone who could have used their work to say 'I Love Dr Who' in giant pink neon lights, then Queer As Folk would be it.
Errm, don't know why I admit knowing this but... there is a song called 'Girl Power' by 'Shampoo'.
I think you can add that to your list, although I wouldn't want to listen too much of their stuff (can't really call them songs) unless you're into using the music to torture other people (i.e. 'Sesame Street' and a certain detention centre in Cuba)...
..."Uh Oh, we're in trouble. Somethings come along and its burst our..." Arghhhhhhhhh!
Oh, I wondered why Nero wouldn't erase my CD-R Media:-P
Yes I see your point, maybe I should have written 'recordable CD/DVD orientated media' instead of me using a bastardisation of the CD-R term.
Either way, If you open the microwave and put in your 'recordable CD/DVD orientated media' into the said microwave. Close the door, set to maximum power and set the timer for 5 seconds (based around a 700watt microwave) then turn on microwave. When done, open microwave and the media should be unreadable (even if you couldn't erase your CD-R/RW, DVD/-/+/R/RAM, CD/DVD-ROM or any unmentioned media in Nero or your burning software of choice).
I might have missed some details in my instructions for you, or that incorrect usage of grammar and spelling might have occurred... or that (God forbid) I might have used technical terminology incorrectly. But I hope that I got my point across.
Just in case someone asks, I'm in a half playful, half sarcastic mood at the moment. Hence the tone of my post.
Although I haven't RTFA yet, I find the best way to get rid of data on CD-R's isn't to erase it (which can take as long as a full writing session) but stick it in the microwave for about 5 seconds (just before the lighting effect happens).
If you do this though, best ventilate the area afterwards!!
Even though the parent is modded +5, pity we couldn't have the option to remove the cap.
As with other responses to this parents thread, even if/. closed for a bit or plastered a huge protest notice at the top of the site... this needs as much coverage as possible.
Plus, if/. shut down for a couple of days, we could get a break from the SCO stories and dupes... mind anything that removes SCO from the headlines for over a day must be a good thing.
Don't most EULA's come with a 'we are not responsible for any failures blah blah' (I haven't read a EULA for years, so I'm not sure).
Hang on, maybe we're on to something... what if a virus writer built an indemnification EULA into the virus???;-) Joking aside, most people might actually click the 'I Agree' button and then the virus mayhem would continue.
...sounds more like The Daily Sport, along with stories like 'Condoms grow on trees' and 'Double Decker bus found on the moon'... plus their infamous Versace murder headline of "Shoots You Sir" (an understanding of the comedy show "The Fast Show" is needed there).
Slashdot Mirror
Well, I would like to see if someone tried a Delorian laptop... then lets the geeks get at it and plug in a flux capacitor, someone will have to drive at the correct speed plus with the way Intel are going with the CPU power requirements, it'll be a couple of Pentium revisions before we get to the 1.21Gigawatts that said notebook is needed to supply.
Why would we want to make a time travelling laptop? Why so we can remove any previous dupes /. have done from ever existing... but then we'd have a paradox problem with /. instead.
;)
Thank crap for the feedback form, just hope it doesn't go to /dev/null
..should possible read:
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How dare you,
Coming off the back of the Hutton 'enquiry', I cannot believe that another one of your reporters are resorting to more false accusations and suppositions just to make a front page article, I thought that was for the likes of the 'Daily Sport'.
The article by 'Stephen Evans
BBC North America Business Correspondent' has not done the BBC good in the eyes of clued up IT people. I have read some good articles recently on BBCi (I cannot remember the reporters name, but he interviewed Bruce Perens) about IT and the SCO situation, but this kind of article does not help, and only serves to discredit your organisation (I should say 'our' since I have to pay the 'TV' tax called the license fee) in the eyes of those 'geeks' you seek to slander.
To quote the article:
"Deep in the darkness of the psyche, vandals and arsonists no doubt have their reasons - and so, presumably, do the run-of-the-mill geeks who wreak damage on the unsuspecting computer user."
"Deep in the darkness of the psyche, vandals and arsonists no doubt have their reasons - and so, presumably, do the run-of-the-mill reporters who wreak damage on the unsuspecting reader."
Not good BBC, not good at all.
Don't they know what happens when you incur the wrath of linux users?
...and the wrath of the government, even though I'm not a fan of the British Government at the moment (Tony poodle Blair, ranking as the most arrogant 'leader' we've ever had, IMO).
I'm surprised that the BBC seem to be continuing with accusations just using conjecture and supposition... editorial control extends to any net articles as much as TV commentary at 6am in the morning (I'm relating to the Hutton/Kelly incident btw).
This is at a time when I have had a large amount sympathy for the BBC and what it has gone through the past few weeks, but this does not help them at all... who next are they going to piss off?
...and being synonymous with an net search, Google also becoming a dictionary word (i.e. googling, etc). It's like Napster, despite the lack of anything happening for years since it got closed down it still has it's name in the public consciousness.
On the other hand Microsoft's main brand (being Windows) relates to 'occasional' crashing, i.e. mud sticks, but in the case of Google they're the goose that makes the golden eggs... (they could almost be a monopoly themselves?)... everyone will still think of Google first when it comes to searchs, even if competitors do develop better search technology.
...so I thought I'd try the imaginary URL and see the response, and that certainly surprised me (using the above link):
Document Not Found
To find the document you're looking for, please see our company sitemap
or use the following search:
If you're having problems with a broken link, send us your e-mail and we'll find the page for you. If the page is on the Linux Documentation Project site (http://www.sco.com/LDP/), email feedback@linuxdocs.org
How long have they been 'battling' Linux?!
...but firewalls and AV software as well.
My hard drive blew up last week, and when rebuilding my system, I skipped ZoneAlarm and installed Kerio Personal Firewall instead... an incredible piece of software if I do say so myself, but it also has built in ad blocking (and configurable to add more blocking).
Not that that matters too much since I am using FireBird, but a two pronged approach is better than one.
Be worried if they release CPU's named after presidents... and you have the 'Pretzel' motherboard edition and a certain CPU edition, things are bound to go wrong.
I suppose instead of "hello world", you could have "heimlich maneuver".
;-)
Glad someone mentioned about the UK situation. One question though, with BT's 'unlimited' service... I can't remember if they still use the 'unlimited' word in their adverts (even though they do have the small print stating the restrictions). My point is, if any of the ISP's do advertise an 'unlimited' service (but do have active capping), couldn't they be easily bitch slapped down by the ASA (al la the Apple G5 - fastest PC in the world).
While I was on dialup, I always stuck with Freeswerve Anytime, and they never seemed to have any usage caps in place, whereas my friend was on the BT equivalent, left it connected overnight and immediately get a warning e-mail. At least I'm one of those fortunate to have had their 'unviable' exchanges LLU'd for broadband (damn BT to Heck and then Hell!). But for the meantime, I don't see any problems with Pipemedia DSL... plus I do throttle my usage, just incase :-)
Surprised I'm answering this, my point was that SCO's share prices don't make real world sense - i.e. they don't add up to real world worth, hence my intentional 3 halves.
This sounds like a crazy idea, but Google could slap themselves with a DMCA takedown (al la Kazaa Lite) regarding SCO... I mean they wouldn't be the only company using the DMCA is a frivolous way????
;-)
Also, this post is meant to be a bit like the SCO share prices: half funny, half interesting and half stupid
I mean come on!!! A more appropriate spoof would be that those two were the virus version Smith (crikey, I'm writing this now and listening to the Animatrix OST and Red Pill Blue Pill is on!!!)... yeah Longhorn would have to be the Matrix code, constraining humanity and the problem is choice: which MS don't want people to have.
Plus, the Matrix is due for a critical crash, hmm the parrallels are endless...
I heartily agree with you. I would love to use OSX if it wasn't for the fact that I don't want to buy a Mac (and Apple is no way going to port OSX to PC hardware).
Say that an OSX like GUI was created, do you think Apple would start firing legal warning shots ? (i.e. you've copied our GUI - etc).
The other thing relating to a new desktop is: wouldn't it be a good idea if a full GUI/HCI spec was created first (like Apple did), to at least give some kind of uniformity for the GUI and APPs as well as acting as a decent guide. I also think that the vector/3D based GUI will help development (rather than having X amount of bitmap variations to cater for different screen resolutions, etc), plus be awful perty aswell.
Decent frontends should be aimed at being as user friendly and intuitive as possible, but allow the option to dig deeper for the more advanced features... and you might even need decent hardware to render all the whizz bang graphics, but if designed well enough then detail and effects can be easily downgraded to accomodate.
Just my 0.02 pounds sterling.
Thanks a lot! I feel much safer now, esp. considering I live about 8 miles away from Gaydon, where the army base there is *the* biggest munitions dump in the country (sorry, UK). Although we're not exactly in the know about what they have stored there, but it wouldn't be pretty if that went up.
I hear you, but then I thought of Penny Arcade, or any other decent game reviewer.
AVG Free edition
Zonealarm
Winamp Classic
..they are the first things I install.
I can agree with the funny mod, but I thought of nVidia first (as in the 'revenge of nvidia')???
Just my $0.02
I saw the 'behind the series' program about Queer As Folk UK last week, and your nerdgasm takes on a whole new meaning (shampoo, err showergel?).
In the interview though, Russell Davies is a huge fan of Dr Who... if there was ever someone who could have used their work to say 'I Love Dr Who' in giant pink neon lights, then Queer As Folk would be it.
Just one petabyte of computer data could fill the Library of Congress more than 50 times.
How comforting, here we go again!
As a side note, does that mean the volume of 1 PB of storage would fill up the Library of Congress? it doesn't really clarify that to the masses ;-)
I'm not dissing Sesame Street or Jim Henson, but have a look here.
Errm, don't know why I admit knowing this but... there is a song called 'Girl Power' by 'Shampoo'.
I think you can add that to your list, although I wouldn't want to listen too much of their stuff (can't really call them songs) unless you're into using the music to torture other people (i.e. 'Sesame Street' and a certain detention centre in Cuba)...
..."Uh Oh, we're in trouble. Somethings come along and its burst our..." Arghhhhhhhhh!
Oh, I wondered why Nero wouldn't erase my CD-R Media :-P
Yes I see your point, maybe I should have written 'recordable CD/DVD orientated media' instead of me using a bastardisation of the CD-R term.
Either way, If you open the microwave and put in your 'recordable CD/DVD orientated media' into the said microwave. Close the door, set to maximum power and set the timer for 5 seconds (based around a 700watt microwave) then turn on microwave. When done, open microwave and the media should be unreadable (even if you couldn't erase your CD-R/RW, DVD/-/+/R/RAM, CD/DVD-ROM or any unmentioned media in Nero or your burning software of choice).
I might have missed some details in my instructions for you, or that incorrect usage of grammar and spelling might have occurred... or that (God forbid) I might have used technical terminology incorrectly. But I hope that I got my point across.
Just in case someone asks, I'm in a half playful, half sarcastic mood at the moment. Hence the tone of my post.
Although I haven't RTFA yet, I find the best way to get rid of data on CD-R's isn't to erase it (which can take as long as a full writing session) but stick it in the microwave for about 5 seconds (just before the lighting effect happens).
If you do this though, best ventilate the area afterwards!!
Even though the parent is modded +5, pity we couldn't have the option to remove the cap.
As with other responses to this parents thread, even if /. closed for a bit or plastered a huge protest notice at the top of the site... this needs as much coverage as possible.
Plus, if /. shut down for a couple of days, we could get a break from the SCO stories and dupes... mind anything that removes SCO from the headlines for over a day must be a good thing.
Don't most EULA's come with a 'we are not responsible for any failures blah blah' (I haven't read a EULA for years, so I'm not sure).
Hang on, maybe we're on to something... what if a virus writer built an indemnification EULA into the virus??? ;-) Joking aside, most people might actually click the 'I Agree' button and then the virus mayhem would continue.
...sounds more like The Daily Sport, along with stories like 'Condoms grow on trees' and 'Double Decker bus found on the moon'... plus their infamous Versace murder headline of "Shoots You Sir" (an understanding of the comedy show "The Fast Show" is needed there).
Ahh what lovely gutter media we have in the UK.