Warning - people who have managed to erase the image from their minds are advised not to read any further. This message may harm your mental health - sorry about this, but, I just HAD to write this, it's too amusing to waste it.
Picture the goatse picture (shudder) with "O"O"XML" tattooed right on the butt.
This is what Microsoft wants everyone to do.
Now, you're going to think about whether this comment will be marked "funny", or "insightful".
Look at it from Microsoft's point of view (Yes, I know, it makes me feel creepy doing that too)...
Read out this statement : "OpenDocument Format is a world-recognised ISO standard. MOOXML is not a world-recognised ISO standard".
Now, if you were in charge of a monster-sized company which is also a monopoly, wouldn't you balk at that sentence?
In Microsoft's "mind", one of the ways in which they can counter the threat (to them) of ODF becoming a widely-used format, is to make its own format - MOOXLML - become an ISO standard - that way they can market their own format as such, and of course this format is also one their "lock-in" formats which they'll use to swat out the competition - yet again. This is why you see all these sudden new sign-ups to the ISO who suddenly saw the light and voted for MOOXML.
And that's precisely WHY they want MOOXML to be made an ISO standard.
I still have an Amiga 1200. Still very much alive and kicking, and a bit riced up too (monitor adapter/flicker fixer, 68040 accelerator card giving the Amy a whole 40Mhz of Insane Demonic Superpowah - wooo - IDE doubler so I can run the internal hard drive AND attach the cdrom drive, an NE2000-compatible pcmcia network card, and AmigaDOS 3.9. Oh and I had to ditch the Commodore power supply in favour of using a PC PSU in order to power all that extra stuff, heheh). The ultimate Amiga box - if only it were 15 years ago;) I can even dual-boot it to Debian too, though, really, it runs better with AmigaDOS 3.9 - it seems to run like molasses when booted to Debian.
I only boot it up from time to time, though, and since I moved to Japan I haven't touched it, simply because I haven't the time.
But every time I boot it up for a nostalgia trip I still to this day wish Commodore's execs and management hadn't completely managed to flush the whole concept down the drain like they did. Damn their interminable hides! I still remember the very first Amiga Demo I saw and heard shortly after I bought an Amiga (A500 at the time) - I literally could not believe what I was experiencing - you have to remember that at the time of the A500, PC's were still stuck in VGA-land, with very poor graphics and sound capabilities. The Amy just blew everything else out of the water. I can only dream now what current multimedia experiences would be like if the Amiga technology/hardware concepts were allowed to have evolved. When the Amiga went down the tubes, multimedia experience development and evolution was, in my opinion, basically stalled for at least a decade. Only now are graphics cards beginning to reach the stage where multimedia and games experience are beginning to impress me. I wonder what that experience would be like if the Amiga's hardware technology had been further developed and evolved since those halcyon days.
Look, really, where do people like you get your concepts of space travel from?
You were probably trying to be humorous, but, really! Lookee here;
1) Start your trip from Earth Orbit, by firing up them engines and transferring into a nice trajectory to our friendly-neighborhood planet Mars. 2) ??? 3) Profit!... no, I mean, half-way through the journey (or actually, just a little bit before half way, to give some leeway for properly transferring into a Mars orbital path), switch off them engines! 4) Swing your craft around so that the pointy-end is towards the trajectory's rear and the business end (the engines) are pointing towards the trajectory's forward path. 5) Fire up them engines again! Hey presto! You're now slowing down. 6) Transfer into a Mars orbit. 7) ??? 8) Profit!
The post has now magically changed! Hmmm! Sorry to swat away the faeries in your Reality, but my original post as you see it now, is exactly the same post - unedited and unaltered - that I wrote then.
Enjoy your Reality. It seems a lot more, uh, exciting than mine:)
I, for one, run Linux practically exclusively on my machines. However, my sister-in-law, for example, wanted to purchase a new laptop. Now, the particular model she wanted came with Vista, but I advised her to get the shop to install XP instead, for numerous reasons (the incompatibility with a lot of older programs, drivers, etc. (I'm too lazy to list ALL the reasons right now)), so she has followed my advice and is a happy person. The point of this post? Vista, in my opinion anyway, is rather like Windows ME of the past - a bit of an abortion from Microsoft - they have quite obviously released Vista FAR too early - it's an unfinished product, rushed out of the factory, because it perceived its competitor's products (Linux-based, OSX-based for example) being released with certain innovations which it wanted to claim for itself as its own innovations, and now because of that is paying the price of that rush. People percieve Vista to be what it is - a rushed out Operating System with many bugs, failed claims, and as a - to be extremely kind - beta quality product at the very most.
Please have a look at this : http://pictures.ed-morana.com/ISSTransits/ to see examples of someone catching ISS transits, both lunar and solar. They're quite impressive.
To me it looks more like an island, and the sea around it has gone...
What strikes me about the pictures from the Mars Express is how weird they look - they look kind of artificial - like they've been hand-drawn/painted by a 1950's space artist. They don't look like a picture if you nkow what I'm trying to say. The colours are very "rich" and unreal looking - difficult to explain - it might be a result of the prcoessing they've gone through.
I for one care not, especially since the study has been done by none other than the ever so neutral ZDNet. I mean, they're not Microsoft biased one little bit.
"Debian has released their own Service Pack for Windows XP./Debian Service Pack 1 for Windows XP/ is to be used only if you are disatisfied with XP after you install SP2. A Debian spokesperson stated : Just pop this CD in, reboot, then follow the onscreen instructions, and Windows will be upgraded on your PC, which will feel much more responsive and will not crash as much - if at all."
See http://www.debian.org for further details of this upgrade.
F) It has a GIANT SPRING, to pogo itself away from any Little Green Men if they come near it.
G) In the event of Giant Spring failure, the last resort is the Plasma Cannon.
H) In the event the Plasma Cannon initiates full scale interplantary war, it activates the Omega 13 device, reverses time, and destroys itself before it deploys the Plasma Cannon.
I) In the event of the Time Reversal Self Destruction Manuevor still incurring the Martian overlord's wrath, it sends a signal to me, so that I can get the f*ck off the planet with my immediate family, to settle in Alpha Centurai.
Remember that it's the State who will define who an "evildoer" is, and what constitutes "evildoing".
Doesn't matter what it's called, Orwellian surveillance systems will always be a gross breach of a citizen's right to privacy, and will always be open to abuse by those in power.
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Well the fact that my comment still hasn't been modded means (to me anyway) that whomever's got mod points are still confused ;)
Warning - people who have managed to erase the image from their minds are advised not to read any further. This message may harm your mental health - sorry about this, but, I just HAD to write this, it's too amusing to waste it.
Picture the goatse picture (shudder) with "O"O"XML" tattooed right on the butt.
This is what Microsoft wants everyone to do.
Now, you're going to think about whether this comment will be marked "funny", or "insightful".
Look at it from Microsoft's point of view (Yes, I know, it makes me feel creepy doing that too)...
Read out this statement : "OpenDocument Format is a world-recognised ISO standard. MOOXML is not a world-recognised ISO standard".
Now, if you were in charge of a monster-sized company which is also a monopoly, wouldn't you balk at that sentence?
In Microsoft's "mind", one of the ways in which they can counter the threat (to them) of ODF becoming a widely-used format, is to make its own format - MOOXLML - become an ISO standard - that way they can market their own format as such, and of course this format is also one their "lock-in" formats which they'll use to swat out the competition - yet again. This is why you see all these sudden new sign-ups to the ISO who suddenly saw the light and voted for MOOXML.
And that's precisely WHY they want MOOXML to be made an ISO standard.
No it wasn't, but, it did dilute the acronym for the format and their actions did manage to fuel the FUD-fire. http://hackfud.net/2007/11/06/now-its-open-document-formats-turn-for-the-fudmeisters/ Has a good summary of that plus links to further informative pages and information related to those chaps.
Indeed.
;) I can even dual-boot it to Debian too, though, really, it runs better with AmigaDOS 3.9 - it seems to run like molasses when booted to Debian.
I still have an Amiga 1200. Still very much alive and kicking, and a bit riced up too (monitor adapter/flicker fixer, 68040 accelerator card giving the Amy a whole 40Mhz of Insane Demonic Superpowah - wooo - IDE doubler so I can run the internal hard drive AND attach the cdrom drive, an NE2000-compatible pcmcia network card, and AmigaDOS 3.9. Oh and I had to ditch the Commodore power supply in favour of using a PC PSU in order to power all that extra stuff, heheh). The ultimate Amiga box - if only it were 15 years ago
I only boot it up from time to time, though, and since I moved to Japan I haven't touched it, simply because I haven't the time.
But every time I boot it up for a nostalgia trip I still to this day wish Commodore's execs and management hadn't completely managed to flush the whole concept down the drain like they did. Damn their interminable hides! I still remember the very first Amiga Demo I saw and heard shortly after I bought an Amiga (A500 at the time) - I literally could not believe what I was experiencing - you have to remember that at the time of the A500, PC's were still stuck in VGA-land, with very poor graphics and sound capabilities. The Amy just blew everything else out of the water. I can only dream now what current multimedia experiences would be like if the Amiga technology/hardware concepts were allowed to have evolved. When the Amiga went down the tubes, multimedia experience development and evolution was, in my opinion, basically stalled for at least a decade. Only now are graphics cards beginning to reach the stage where multimedia and games experience are beginning to impress me. I wonder what that experience would be like if the Amiga's hardware technology had been further developed and evolved since those halcyon days.
Regards.
I wasn't there, but, I did register with /. relatively early on in its history, and have been reading it ever since.
To the Anonymous Cowards who posted "Nobody Cares" , well actually I *do* care.
Regards.
Haha!
:)
Except, you're not
Look, really, where do people like you get your concepts of space travel from?
You were probably trying to be humorous, but, really! Lookee here;
1) Start your trip from Earth Orbit, by firing up them engines and transferring into a nice trajectory to our friendly-neighborhood planet Mars.
2) ???
3) Profit!... no, I mean, half-way through the journey (or actually, just a little bit before half way, to give some leeway for properly transferring into a Mars orbital path), switch off them engines!
4) Swing your craft around so that the pointy-end is towards the trajectory's rear and the business end (the engines) are pointing towards the trajectory's forward path.
5) Fire up them engines again! Hey presto! You're now slowing down.
6) Transfer into a Mars orbit.
7) ???
8) Profit!
I, for one, run Linux practically exclusively on my machines. However, my sister-in-law, for example, wanted to purchase a new laptop. Now, the particular model she wanted came with Vista, but I advised her to get the shop to install XP instead, for numerous reasons (the incompatibility with a lot of older programs, drivers, etc. (I'm too lazy to list ALL the reasons right now)), so she has followed my advice and is a happy person. The point of this post? Vista, in my opinion anyway, is rather like Windows ME of the past - a bit of an abortion from Microsoft - they have quite obviously released Vista FAR too early - it's an unfinished product, rushed out of the factory, because it perceived its competitor's products (Linux-based, OSX-based for example) being released with certain innovations which it wanted to claim for itself as its own innovations, and now because of that is paying the price of that rush. People percieve Vista to be what it is - a rushed out Operating System with many bugs, failed claims, and as a - to be extremely kind - beta quality product at the very most.
The Ironic Cynic in me says Microsoft released Vista /EXACTLY/ to increase it's sales of XP :P
Please have a look at this : http://pictures.ed-morana.com/ISSTransits/ to see examples of someone catching ISS transits, both lunar and solar. They're quite impressive.
NX
http://www.nomachine.com/
For Linux users, so much superior than X over ssh, or VNC.
There's also FreeNX which is the Open Source version of the same.
Yes I do realise that, thank you :)
0 8-230906-3253-6-3d2-Cydonia_H.jpg and you'll see what I'm talking about. What I think they've done is really enhance the contrast of the picture. The colouring still reminds me of old 1950's style drawings of craters and the like.
:)
But take a look at http://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/marsexpress/3
I wasn't trying to imply the pictures are fake at all, by the way.
To me it looks more like an island, and the sea around it has gone...
What strikes me about the pictures from the Mars Express is how weird they look - they look kind of artificial - like they've been hand-drawn/painted by a 1950's space artist. They don't look like a picture if you nkow what I'm trying to say. The colours are very "rich" and unreal looking - difficult to explain - it might be a result of the prcoessing they've gone through.
I for one care not, especially since the study has been done by none other than the ever so neutral ZDNet. I mean, they're not Microsoft biased one little bit.
*cough*
Why did you go tell all the /. readers the Nasa TV url?
/.'ed.
Now I won't be able to watch the webcast because it'll be
Looks like the production staff have taken the phrase "Brain the size of a planet" FAR too literally.
Tsk.
"Debian has released their own Service Pack for Windows XP. /Debian Service Pack 1 for Windows XP/ is to be used only if you are disatisfied with XP after you install SP2. A Debian spokesperson stated : Just pop this CD in, reboot, then follow the onscreen instructions, and Windows will be upgraded on your PC, which will feel much more responsive and will not crash as much - if at all."
See http://www.debian.org for further details of this upgrade.
I got the joke as soon as I saw the piechart.
So shush, young Skywalker, to learn a lot you have.
F) It has a GIANT SPRING, to pogo itself away from any Little Green Men if they come near it.
..and so on.
G) In the event of Giant Spring failure, the last resort is the Plasma Cannon.
H) In the event the Plasma Cannon initiates full scale interplantary war, it activates the Omega 13 device, reverses time, and destroys itself before it deploys the Plasma Cannon.
I) In the event of the Time Reversal Self Destruction Manuevor still incurring the Martian overlord's wrath, it sends a signal to me, so that I can get the f*ck off the planet with my immediate family, to settle in Alpha Centurai.
J)
Seaquest, DSV, had something exactly like that - it was one of the teenage-hero-brat's "mentor" display.
Personally speaking, I'd nab the computer, the blank CD's, and the CD collection.
;)
If I were that way inclined
Remember that it's the State who will define who an "evildoer" is, and what constitutes "evildoing".
Doesn't matter what it's called, Orwellian surveillance systems will always be a gross breach of a citizen's right to privacy, and will always be open to abuse by those in power.
"Round 'em up, put 'em in a field, and Bomb the Bastards!"