(because somebody probably already brought this up), I call your attention to the Tom Selleck movie "Runaway" - which was generally pathetic except for the excellent performance by Gene Simmons of KISS fame as the evil Dr. Charles Luthor.
The specific scenes of interest concern the home robot (the size of a vacuum cleaner without the handle) which has been reprogrammed by Luthor to wipe out the family of a techie accomplice by running around the house with a.357 Magnum clutched in its one "claw".
If you mean a giant software company making commodity software like word processors, you're right.
If you mean a giant software company in itself, you're wrong, OSS not withstanding. I support the OSS development model, but that doesn't stop someone from coming up with new tech "the old way".
And someone could easily get as big as Microsoft from some other technology, like nanotech.
Their cash is irrelevant. You wouldn't believe how fast cash - even scores of billions - can be pissed away.
Just look at Bush...
Besides, Microsoft just pissed away what - some $30 billion - in a one-time stock dividend to prop up their corporate image...instead of spending it on original R&D (instead of on crap like Longhorn)...
Believe me, these morons could piss away a hundred billion in a couple years and have nothing to show for it.
Gates personal fortune on the other hand is likely to remain, I agree. Why do you think he handed over twenty billion of it to his father for the Foundation?
I never said "regular software" (whatever that is) would do it.
However, if someone comes up with a breakthrough in conceptual processing that allows for even a decent emulation of human conceptual processing, that would be a technology that would bury Microsoft within two years (given adequate capital funding and defense of the IP against Microsoft's inevitable appropriation).
It would also bury Oracle and quite a few other companies.
Applying said technology to the educational software field - and education as a whole is a 6 trillion dollar a year business worldwide - would allow for a company bigger than anything yet in existence. I'd settle for a five percent market share...
I assume even Britney knows about Queen Elizabeth...I think...maybe...but who knows? Has she been asked?
Americans do seem to know their royalty - mostly due to the tabloids they read, apparently. They don't seem to know much of anything else that doesn't involve either Hollywood or murder cases...
"Windows XP was the only operating system that couldnt recognise and open an imported Excel file the included office software is very basic so you need to install Microsoft Office or another more advanced program."
If you're in England, the closest English-speaking ally of the US, you would be expected to know who the head of government is.
We're not talking about Sri Lanka, Colombia or some other benighted place.
Not knowing Tony Blair's name is like not knowing London is in England...
Of course, there are plenty of "educated" US citizens who can't find Italy on a map...
Not to mention the fact that she's viewed in Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" saying "We should trust our President"... That's as fucking dumb as it gets...
You're right...and I've got 707 pictures of either Paris, Nicky or both...(with or without Nicole Ritchie)...
And for the record, Paris is better looking (if a bit skinnier) than Britney...
Also, Paris makes no bones about actually fucking...
The only remaining question is: which one is dumber? I mean, Britney doesn't even know who the Prime Minister of England is WHEN SHE'S IN THE COUNTRY...
You're the one living in fantasy land, Mr. "Fair and Balanced"...oh, wait, he settled a sexual harassment lawsuit for a fortune IIRC...
You never bothered to read the latest poll?
"The poll released yesterday of 805 Iraqi adults living in Iraq also showed that 69 percent of Iraq's Shi'ite population and 82 percent of Sunni Arabs favored a rapid withdrawal of U.S. forces either immediately, or after an elected government is in place."
The idea that the Israelis don't want an expansion of the war in the Middle East is so laughable I can't imagine anyone actually believing that. Have you read ANYTHING the Israelis have said about Iran over the last year (at least)? How many times have they said they will NOT TOLERATE a nuclear-armed Iran (leaving aside the fact that there is NO evidence the Iranians are even trying to get a nuclear weapons program, let alone any actual weapons - certainly not nearly enough to counter Israel's estimated 100-200 nuclear weapons...)?
Also, your aggregation of "no one" wanting war must exclude the neocons who are regularly lobbying for exactly that in most of their missives in their national media. And Bush listens to those assholes, not you.
Finally, as to the Iraqis being able to defeat the US military, certainly it will cost them about a million Iraqi lives. Npbody said it would be easy. But it is utterly impossible for the US force presently in Iraq to control the country without resorting to nuclear weapons. A mass national resistance will without question have the capability of totaling defeating the US forces there within six months. Merely cutting off the flow of supplies to US bases - a process which is already being done to some degree by the few resistance fighters presently involved - would insure total US defeat. There is NO chance the US could successfully resupply 150,000 troops - let alone the hundreds of thousands more needed to cope with a mass national resistance involving one hundred thousand resistance fighters - with food, water, fuel and ammo via airlift or any other means if the insurgency were to massively enlarge - as it would if Sistani were to mobilize the Shia to join the resistance. Sistani has avoided issuing such a fatwa until now only because he had his eyes on the prize - a national election that empowers the Shia. Well, he (presumably, depending on the election results) has that now. So there is nothing stopping him from re-iterating what he has said before - that the first priority of the national assembly is to demand a timetable for withdrawal by the US - as he put it, "remove all traces of foreign occupation." And he will issue a fatwa if the US does not promise to exit Iraq in a timely manner - which we already know - and Bush has confirmed - Bush will not do. The entire exercise is a simple Q.E.D.
What systems do you support? We currently support PCs that are running Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Some might even work on some Windows 98 and ME machines but are still working through issues on these platforms.
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That's only if they install in the first place...
I ran Windows Update on the 2000 side of the machine. Three new security updates.
Two failed to install.
Why?
Who knows? The updater won't tell you.
Way to go, Bill...you fucking moron...(not you, poster, Bill)
"Windows users, don't forget to run WindowsUpdate first thing Monday morning."
I think he meant to say:
Install Linux first thing Monday morning...
I say: Why wait? Use the weekend wisely...
(because somebody probably already brought this up), I call your attention to the Tom Selleck movie "Runaway" - which was generally pathetic except for the excellent performance by Gene Simmons of KISS fame as the evil Dr. Charles Luthor.
.357 Magnum clutched in its one "claw".
The specific scenes of interest concern the home robot (the size of a vacuum cleaner without the handle) which has been reprogrammed by Luthor to wipe out the family of a techie accomplice by running around the house with a
If you mean a giant software company making commodity software like word processors, you're right.
If you mean a giant software company in itself, you're wrong, OSS not withstanding. I support the OSS development model, but that doesn't stop someone from coming up with new tech "the old way".
And someone could easily get as big as Microsoft from some other technology, like nanotech.
"(of course, if I'm wrong, all we poor humans won't be relevant as we are today...)"
Now THAT you got right!
Their cash is irrelevant. You wouldn't believe how fast cash - even scores of billions - can be pissed away.
Just look at Bush...
Besides, Microsoft just pissed away what - some $30 billion - in a one-time stock dividend to prop up their corporate image...instead of spending it on original R&D (instead of on crap like Longhorn)...
Believe me, these morons could piss away a hundred billion in a couple years and have nothing to show for it.
Gates personal fortune on the other hand is likely to remain, I agree. Why do you think he handed over twenty billion of it to his father for the Foundation?
I never said "regular software" (whatever that is) would do it.
However, if someone comes up with a breakthrough in conceptual processing that allows for even a decent emulation of human conceptual processing, that would be a technology that would bury Microsoft within two years (given adequate capital funding and defense of the IP against Microsoft's inevitable appropriation).
It would also bury Oracle and quite a few other companies.
Applying said technology to the educational software field - and education as a whole is a 6 trillion dollar a year business worldwide - would allow for a company bigger than anything yet in existence. I'd settle for a five percent market share...
I thought I saw Angelina Jolie wearing one of these at the awards shows...
This has to be the height of Geek Moron...
"You're not gonna be the next Microsoft"
Fuck him.
Somebody has to be - why not me?
Remember, Microsoft didn't exist thirty years ago - and will likely not exist thirty years from now...
This is just the usual bullshit from people who can't deal with change.
Total crap.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
"enhance communications and surveillance systems for both civilian and defense purposes.' Next up: sky-high neon advertisements."
As in: a sky-high neon sign saying:
"We're watching you..."
(And I don't mean the North Koreans or the Chinese, either...)
I assume even Britney knows about Queen Elizabeth...I think...maybe...but who knows? Has she been asked?
Americans do seem to know their royalty - mostly due to the tabloids they read, apparently. They don't seem to know much of anything else that doesn't involve either Hollywood or murder cases...
"Windows XP was the only operating system that couldnt recognise and open an imported Excel file the included office software is very basic so you need to install Microsoft Office or another more advanced program."
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Right - not a problem...
Don't be ridiculous...
If you're in England, the closest English-speaking ally of the US, you would be expected to know who the head of government is.
We're not talking about Sri Lanka, Colombia or some other benighted place.
Not knowing Tony Blair's name is like not knowing London is in England...
Of course, there are plenty of "educated" US citizens who can't find Italy on a map...
Not to mention the fact that she's viewed in Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" saying "We should trust our President"... That's as fucking dumb as it gets...
Found 1,474 images...
Including some I never saw before...
And yes, a lot of the images link to 404 pages, but I've seen that on Google, too.
No feedback for reporting bugs in a Microsoft product?
Wow, there's a surprise!
After, "security is a priority", according to Bill the other day...
Guess that means the best security in the Microsoft world is "Don't wanna hear it!"
You're right...and I've got 707 pictures of either Paris, Nicky or both...(with or without Nicole Ritchie)...
And for the record, Paris is better looking (if a bit skinnier) than Britney...
Also, Paris makes no bones about actually fucking...
The only remaining question is: which one is dumber? I mean, Britney doesn't even know who the Prime Minister of England is WHEN SHE'S IN THE COUNTRY...
Searching for WMDs still brings up "not found"...
"I personally dont think that Britney would have more than 10k pictures online (or may be offline too?)" (from the review)
At last count I have 2,347 pictures of Britney Spears.
And I don't even like her music...:-)
I wonder how many photos of the Corrs MSN can find...I've got 2,080 photos of them...
How about 1,228 of Salma Hayek?
1,406 of Angelina Jolie?
1,083 of Carmen Electra?
24 of Chelsea Clinton? Waitaminnit, WTF?
"Certainly you can never underestimate the level of malicious people out there who are going to try to take advantage of whatever things there are."
Unfortunately for him it applies to Gates...
"Bill Gates PLOTS a Windows future"
Lessee now, first I put a ton of money into some Senators' pockets...
Then I get them to declare all the Linux freaks "Communists" and "enemy combatants" and get them all shipped to Gitmo...
Then I accuse Larry Ellison of financing terrorist groups...
Then I give a few million more dollars to some charity to make me above criticism...
Then...
Profit!!!
2005?
More likely 2007...
2008?...
Well, no, we had to take that feature out...
But when it's done, it will be REALLY GREAT!
You're the one living in fantasy land, Mr. "Fair and Balanced"...oh, wait, he settled a sexual harassment lawsuit for a fortune IIRC...
You never bothered to read the latest poll?
"The poll released yesterday of 805 Iraqi adults living in Iraq also showed that 69 percent of Iraq's Shi'ite population and 82 percent of Sunni Arabs favored a rapid withdrawal of U.S. forces either immediately, or after an elected government is in place."
And you claim two years is "good enough".
LOL...
Are you in for a surprise this year...
The idea that the Israelis don't want an expansion of the war in the Middle East is so laughable I can't imagine anyone actually believing that. Have you read ANYTHING the Israelis have said about Iran over the last year (at least)? How many times have they said they will NOT TOLERATE a nuclear-armed Iran (leaving aside the fact that there is NO evidence the Iranians are even trying to get a nuclear weapons program, let alone any actual weapons - certainly not nearly enough to counter Israel's estimated 100-200 nuclear weapons...)?
Also, your aggregation of "no one" wanting war must exclude the neocons who are regularly lobbying for exactly that in most of their missives in their national media. And Bush listens to those assholes, not you.
Finally, as to the Iraqis being able to defeat the US military, certainly it will cost them about a million Iraqi lives. Npbody said it would be easy. But it is utterly impossible for the US force presently in Iraq to control the country without resorting to nuclear weapons. A mass national resistance will without question have the capability of totaling defeating the US forces there within six months. Merely cutting off the flow of supplies to US bases - a process which is already being done to some degree by the few resistance fighters presently involved - would insure total US defeat. There is NO chance the US could successfully resupply 150,000 troops - let alone the hundreds of thousands more needed to cope with a mass national resistance involving one hundred thousand resistance fighters - with food, water, fuel and ammo via airlift or any other means if the insurgency were to massively enlarge - as it would if Sistani were to mobilize the Shia to join the resistance. Sistani has avoided issuing such a fatwa until now only because he had his eyes on the prize - a national election that empowers the Shia. Well, he (presumably, depending on the election results) has that now. So there is nothing stopping him from re-iterating what he has said before - that the first priority of the national assembly is to demand a timetable for withdrawal by the US - as he put it, "remove all traces of foreign occupation." And he will issue a fatwa if the US does not promise to exit Iraq in a timely manner - which we already know - and Bush has confirmed - Bush will not do. The entire exercise is a simple Q.E.D.
What systems do you support?
We currently support PCs that are running Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Some might even work on some Windows 98 and ME machines but are still working through issues on these platforms.
What, no Linux?