are fairly similar.. except that Bittorrent compels users to upload while downloading. Kazaa lets you search.. Bittorrent makes you find a seed file. Both let you download a single file from multiple users.
I'm not sure if Kazaa allows uploading of a file if it isn't done downloading. Anywhoo... it'd be nice to see a fusion of Kazaa and Bittorrent. A frontend to search for seeds and it forces you to, at the very least, share the file that you're currently downloading. Later on, some jerks may remove it from their share directory so it won't upload anymore.
anyhow, I guess you can just use kazaa to share.torrent seeds.
I use "odd, creative" in comparison to a virus that formats the hard drive. One virus mentioned two AI bots (who knows, maybe it was just a prewritten conversation) that loaded up and had a nervous conversation about whether or not the user would delete them. That's funny.. I like the idea of giving the computer a personality and having it talk back to the user. Have it where the user wanted to keep the virus since they enjoyed talking to the computer. "I want a new mouse.. please! A purple one!" "Why is there all this porn on my harddrive?!?! Please get rid of it!! Haha, just kidding!!!" but, when it comes to absolute creativity.. Not many people, in general, have it. It's too early for me to have any creative ideas.. then again, I rarely have any.
First, that sort of thing is in numerous articles.. so it's a useless starting point.
Second, the photos aren't very good. It's easier to tell if you look at the pictures in the NYTimes magazine. One's blurry and grainy, another is heavily dodged (darkened) everywhere except where that "Benny" guy is, and the detroit kid does seem to have on makeup, but the picture is just slow shutter with soft focus and a light flare.
Third, when I read the article.. it talked about how formatting hard drives was old and boring. The writers were interested in odd, creative payloads like flashing images or stupid messages. The guy who wrote the virus generator added the "format harddrive" option to his program.. but that's the main mention of modern hdd formatting. To quote the article: "the prevalence of hard-drive-destroying viruses has steadily declined to almost zero."
Fourth, it is explicitly stated in the article that the main fear is from for-profit or organized virus writing (spammers, mafia, terrorists). It goes on to mention how Sobig is being tested and, so far, has been released six separate times with a built in expiration. They can't profile organized criminals because they don't want to be profiled or found.
anyway, so what's the deal? why troll get food from mods?
not sure if you're trolling.. but most everyone who's been paying attention for the last 8-7 years knows that the problem with Cablemodem is that you share bandwidth with your neighbors. If the modem isn't capped, then you can suck up all the bandwidth that's available to your neighborhood. I have no idea what the topology is for a cable providers.. but my guess is that they run fiber or whatever to different hubs.. which then branch into the neighborhoods. So, they can cap off a neighborhood.. but they only know the mac address of the cablemodem hogging the bandwidth for that branch. Specifically, if you could interface with a cablemodem and have it generate a random, approved MAC address every N hours/minutes, then you could get free cablemodem access "forever". (Until they figure out a neat way to put a stop to your evil plans)
Anyhow, I've decided that you're a troll.. this is just to keep other readers from being misled.
You got me.. I guess I just assumed a client didn't exist. I installed it from ports and it works great on my local lan. Hopefully, it'll work good from remote locations.
I'm doing 5.2-Current with Fluxbox for my desktop. I suggest you just make boot floppies for 5.2-Release and do a net install. Otherwise, just download 5.2-Release ISO and do minimal install.. then CVSup the sources to Current and make buildworld, make installworld. Though, if you don't have a very new computer, 5.2-Release will be just fine. I haven't used 4.9-Release so I can't offer much on it. I use 5.2 because ifconfig and acpi weren't working good enough for my laptop when 5.1 and 4.8 were out. (ifconfig from 4.8 was lacking functionality that it had in 5.1) As for 5.2, acpi is up and running pretty good.
As for, gnome v kde.. I could care less about that bloated crap. Check out their websites. I will give my vote for XFree86 4.4.0 though. Hopefully it will be released soon and plopped into/usr/ports. I'm using CVS sources from xfree86 at the moment. I use it since I'm able to use vncviewer to control windows xp boxes with it. Wouldn't work with 4.3.0 for some reason.
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PS also, it goes without saying that watching dvds goes great using ogle or mplayer. Read Dru Lavigne's articles on Onlamp to get help with that stuff. use plugger playing media from websites. There are plenty of mp3 players in/usr/ports
PPS get familiar with portupgrade and cvsup your ports.
well.. here is the trail of logic for the "BSD is dying" troll:
BSD is dying -> major computer manufacturer like Apple uses BSD?? -> Apple is dying
Then again, I'm not inclined to refer to Apple as a major computer manufacturer (with about 5% of the world personal computer market). Then again, the world computer market is farly big.. so 5% isn't really that shabby.
Anyway, I use FreeBSD. I figure it will maybe change into something else.. but it won't die. Also, I don't see how Apple could hinder the growth of BSD. Also, scroll to the bottom of this page to see where Apple at least implies that they make most, if not all, of their modifications available to the community. That is a pretty good contribution. Yes, it would be nice if they just ported their windowing system to FreeBSD.. but you can't really expect that from them.
I missed your comment.. I should defer to you from now on instead of regurgitating only half of what you write. I think the real telling point is with MSN v AOL. Their MSN software goes out on every computer... (I assume.. or it did) yet AOL has four times as many customers after seven years of fighting it.
I guess it's just become really cool to be anti-anti-microsoft. All the kids are doing it. It's the new punk rock.
Yeah, the Economist article seems to suggest that a toolbar plugin will herald the end of Google. To strengthen their argument.. they suggest that Google's success is partially due to their very own Google Toolbar. Yet, there is absolutely no evidence stated to support this. Google survives by word of mouth and the willingness of users to type "google.com" and press [enter]. Again, IE won simply becuase it was there and it was just good enough. No one wanted to wait at least 20 minutes (on dialup) for Netscape to download.. especially when netscape wasn't really that good.
Unless microsoft blocks google, they can't leverage their monopoly in the search war if it ever gets going. IMO, a toolbar isn't going to cut it. As for Microsoft's previous attempts, see Xbox, Ultimate TV and MSN. AOL has 35 million users.. MSN has somewhere over 9 million. MSN has been kicking for over seven years. So.. give me a break.. they glutted the browser market with a functional browser.. they glutted the market with Media Player. That doesn't mean they know how to leverage their monopoly. It is far from obvious that microsoft has the slightest idea how to handle Google.
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I knew I should have left that statement out since I didnt' have space to defend it. But, I'll do that here. I give you this.. I microsoft won the "browser war" because no one needed to download and install their browser, and IE was good enough to keep people from seeking out Netscape.
I think you misrepresent the effect enduser laziness had on Netscape's demise. IMO, the enduser was too lazy to download and install Netscape (who wants to wait 20minutes on dialup when a browser is already available.) That barrier does not exist with google. My assertion is that typing "google.com" and pressing isn't enough of a deterrent.. especially when Microsoft's search isn't near 'good enough.' Also, their browser became better than Netscape since webpages were coded for IE instead of Netscape. (regardless of HTML specs) Data can't be made to conform to Microsoft's search engine while at the same time breaking Google's search. In this instance, Microsoft must be smarter. They can't just rely on brand awareness or whatever one wishes to call it.
My sarcastic remark is appropriate in that people tend to trivialize the work Microsoft must do to unseat Google. Microsoft has a better shot than it did (does) with Xbox or TV on demand.. but only a little better. Microsoft can win when it comes to software programs.. things that you have to install OR things that they can enforce compatibility issues with.. but, I assert, they rarely win when it comes to services or other sorts of products.
dammit, now I'm the moron....then what's the problem with either one? If you write some code and prepare to release it under the GPL, do you have to put it out under a BSDstyle license first? Or can you, as the author, always go back to do that? How can anyone call the GPL viral if it doesn't take precedence over other licenses? Guess I have to read the damn thing extra close.. now.
Just to be clear... so technically speaking, if everyone who coded under the GPL for Linux agreed to release their code dually under BSD-style licenses.. then Linux (presuming GNU would oddly do so also) would be effectively licensed in the same way as BSD.. except there would be an extra copy that was considered "different" since it was GPLed?
A chemist, an engineer and a computer scientist are passing through a vast desert in a car when suddenly the car breaks down.
"Goddamnit! There must have been some sudden increase of enthalpy in the cylinder!" the chemist yells, gnashing his teeth, banging on the steering wheel.
"Maybe the fan belt broke or the battery is dead or the wheels came off.." the engineer mumbles.
After thinking a while the computer scientist shrieks in a shrill, frantic voice:
"Let's just try getting out of the car and getting back in!!!@!"
hmm.. not sure why you were modded "Flamebait".. but you're right. The link to GNU mentions two problems with BSD-style licenses. One sentence says:
"Copyleft licenses such as the GNU GPL insist that modified versions of the program must be free software as well. Non-copyleft licenses do not insist on this."
Then the rest of the page goes on about Ad clauses and how bad they are.. but oh, the BSDs cut that requirement out as of 1999. ?
What difference does it make if some company in India takes the FreeBSD code, puts it in a box,adds two new programs, and sells it for $50 without releasing the source? How has that changed the development scene? GPL wants to compel people to play nice. It won't just allow a programmer to gift code with no strings. They must be prevented from ever using their own code in any other software that isn't GPL.
well, back in 1889 my great grandaddy made his own homebrew bullhorn and managed to shout information that could be heard 34 miles away.. on a rainy day. Then I made a time machine and went back to 1779 and cloned cows! AND TRANSMITTED THEM OVER A DISTANCE OF 100MILES!!!..so there
This is by far one of the dumbest links I've ever read. I get that it says "Press any key on the keyboard to indicate that you have read all of the software licenses and agree to their terms." But, more than likely, it's just a poorly worded prompt. In my opinion, the page is meant to be a reminder to read your license agreements. How is it legally binding? How do they prove that you pressed a key? How do they know you read about the license before opening the wrapper on the software? I feel like this is the kind of thing that wouldn't hold up in court.. BUT nobody cares so it hasn't been tested. Is he worried that the license will say that he forfeits all of his private assets? AND THEN HE IS SCReweD!!
This guy was so clueless he didn't even know to set boot from cd in the BIOS before trying to boot from cd.. so I assume Windows didn't just magically start booting when it "sensed" he was trying to install Linux. Yes, this fellow is beset on all sides by evil forces.
choose your battles..
PS I do agree with the need for Dell to let you opt out of Microsoft-ware
Yeah, and thank god they didn't change it to the Geospatial-Intelligence National Agency of America (GNAA). That would have shot this story into the gutter.
Well.. say k not odd. Then k = 2m for some m. Then we'd have:
k(2^n) + 1 = (2m)(2^n) + 1
which turns into m(2^(n+1)) + 1
So, then you ask.. what is m ?
Either you get, (2^(n+r)) if k simply equaled 2^r.. which then gives rise to something that I'm too hungover to recall (probably says that it will eventually spit out a prime ie (2^n) + 1 is prime for some n..
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you'd eventually terminate at some odd number. The main point is: for all n = 2k , n = (2^r)m for some r > 0 and some odd m > 0
This guy is a little off base. (I am resisting the urge to be "hyperbolic.") I'd like to see some information about what percentage of sales are directly to teens. He just has.. of teens who try to purchase a game.. this percentage succeeds. So, I'd question the impact.. but I suspect that at least %25 of the sales go directly to the under 18 crowd. (Meaning, the parents didn't purchase).. who knows. He also uses the old, "Columbine killers said it was like Doom!!" anecdote. I wish some kid would shoot a bunch of people and then say that it was just like Baghdad. (oops, slipped into overstatement.. oh well.) Nevermind, that joke was crap.
hehehe... why do I feel like the only one who took 15 seconds to figure that one out. "Why is this funny? It's a reserved IANA address... is it a funny name at the bottom?" Better than that dumb "Don't go Jennay" joke... AHHHH! I shit my pants in fear.
yah, I really don't see any reason to involve Moore's Law in the future of computing.
It's like insisting that Grogg's Law (Number of cheetah killed per hunting trip will double every two passing of the longday season) will carry over into shopping at the local grocery store.
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are fairly similar.. except that Bittorrent compels users to upload while downloading. Kazaa lets you search.. Bittorrent makes you find a seed file. Both let you download a single file from multiple users.
.torrent seeds.
I'm not sure if Kazaa allows uploading of a file if it isn't done downloading. Anywhoo... it'd be nice to see a fusion of Kazaa and Bittorrent. A frontend to search for seeds and it forces you to, at the very least, share the file that you're currently downloading. Later on, some jerks may remove it from their share directory so it won't upload anymore.
anyhow, I guess you can just use kazaa to share
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I use "odd, creative" in comparison to a virus that formats the hard drive. One virus mentioned two AI bots (who knows, maybe it was just a prewritten conversation) that loaded up and had a nervous conversation about whether or not the user would delete them. That's funny.. I like the idea of giving the computer a personality and having it talk back to the user. Have it where the user wanted to keep the virus since they enjoyed talking to the computer. "I want a new mouse.. please! A purple one!" "Why is there all this porn on my harddrive?!?! Please get rid of it!! Haha, just kidding!!!" but, when it comes to absolute creativity.. Not many people, in general, have it. It's too early for me to have any creative ideas.. then again, I rarely have any.
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First, that sort of thing is in numerous articles.. so it's a useless starting point.
Second, the photos aren't very good. It's easier to tell if you look at the pictures in the NYTimes magazine. One's blurry and grainy, another is heavily dodged (darkened) everywhere except where that "Benny" guy is, and the detroit kid does seem to have on makeup, but the picture is just slow shutter with soft focus and a light flare.
Third, when I read the article.. it talked about how formatting hard drives was old and boring. The writers were interested in odd, creative payloads like flashing images or stupid messages. The guy who wrote the virus generator added the "format harddrive" option to his program.. but that's the main mention of modern hdd formatting. To quote the article: "the prevalence of hard-drive-destroying viruses has steadily declined to almost zero."
Fourth, it is explicitly stated in the article that the main fear is from for-profit or organized virus writing (spammers, mafia, terrorists). It goes on to mention how Sobig is being tested and, so far, has been released six separate times with a built in expiration. They can't profile organized criminals because they don't want to be profiled or found.
anyway, so what's the deal? why troll get food from mods?
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not sure if you're trolling.. but most everyone who's been paying attention for the last 8-7 years knows that the problem with Cablemodem is that you share bandwidth with your neighbors. If the modem isn't capped, then you can suck up all the bandwidth that's available to your neighborhood. I have no idea what the topology is for a cable providers.. but my guess is that they run fiber or whatever to different hubs.. which then branch into the neighborhoods. So, they can cap off a neighborhood.. but they only know the mac address of the cablemodem hogging the bandwidth for that branch. Specifically, if you could interface with a cablemodem and have it generate a random, approved MAC address every N hours/minutes, then you could get free cablemodem access "forever". (Until they figure out a neat way to put a stop to your evil plans)
Anyhow, I've decided that you're a troll.. this is just to keep other readers from being misled.
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You got me.. I guess I just assumed a client didn't exist. I installed it from ports and it works great on my local lan. Hopefully, it'll work good from remote locations.
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I'm doing 5.2-Current with Fluxbox for my desktop. I suggest you just make boot floppies for 5.2-Release and do a net install. Otherwise, just download 5.2-Release ISO and do minimal install.. then CVSup the sources to Current and make buildworld, make installworld. Though, if you don't have a very new computer, 5.2-Release will be just fine. I haven't used 4.9-Release so I can't offer much on it. I use 5.2 because ifconfig and acpi weren't working good enough for my laptop when 5.1 and 4.8 were out. (ifconfig from 4.8 was lacking functionality that it had in 5.1) As for 5.2, acpi is up and running pretty good.
As for, gnome v kde.. I could care less about that bloated crap. Check out their websites. I will give my vote for XFree86 4.4.0 though. Hopefully it will be released soon and plopped into
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PS also, it goes without saying that watching dvds goes great using ogle or mplayer. Read Dru Lavigne's articles on Onlamp to get help with that stuff. use plugger playing media from websites. There are plenty of mp3 players in
PPS get familiar with portupgrade and cvsup your ports.
well.. here is the trail of logic for the "BSD is dying" troll: BSD is dying -> major computer manufacturer like Apple uses BSD?? -> Apple is dying Then again, I'm not inclined to refer to Apple as a major computer manufacturer (with about 5% of the world personal computer market). Then again, the world computer market is farly big.. so 5% isn't really that shabby.
Anyway, I use FreeBSD. I figure it will maybe change into something else.. but it won't die. Also, I don't see how Apple could hinder the growth of BSD. Also, scroll to the bottom of this page to see where Apple at least implies that they make most, if not all, of their modifications available to the community. That is a pretty good contribution. Yes, it would be nice if they just ported their windowing system to FreeBSD.. but you can't really expect that from them.
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I missed your comment.. I should defer to you from now on instead of regurgitating only half of what you write. I think the real telling point is with MSN v AOL. Their MSN software goes out on every computer... (I assume.. or it did) yet AOL has four times as many customers after seven years of fighting it.
I guess it's just become really cool to be anti-anti-microsoft. All the kids are doing it. It's the new punk rock.
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This article gives the numbers on MSN. Hey, I like Microsoft just fine.. but I don't think they know how to beat Google.
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Yeah, the Economist article seems to suggest that a toolbar plugin will herald the end of Google. To strengthen their argument.. they suggest that Google's success is partially due to their very own Google Toolbar. Yet, there is absolutely no evidence stated to support this. Google survives by word of mouth and the willingness of users to type "google.com" and press [enter]. Again, IE won simply becuase it was there and it was just good enough. No one wanted to wait at least 20 minutes (on dialup) for Netscape to download.. especially when netscape wasn't really that good.
Unless microsoft blocks google, they can't leverage their monopoly in the search war if it ever gets going. IMO, a toolbar isn't going to cut it. As for Microsoft's previous attempts, see Xbox, Ultimate TV and MSN. AOL has 35 million users.. MSN has somewhere over 9 million. MSN has been kicking for over seven years. So.. give me a break.. they glutted the browser market with a functional browser.. they glutted the market with Media Player. That doesn't mean they know how to leverage their monopoly. It is far from obvious that microsoft has the slightest idea how to handle Google.
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I knew I should have left that statement out since I didnt' have space to defend it. But, I'll do that here. I give you this.. I microsoft won the "browser war" because no one needed to download and install their browser, and IE was good enough to keep people from seeking out Netscape.
I think you misrepresent the effect enduser laziness had on Netscape's demise. IMO, the enduser was too lazy to download and install Netscape (who wants to wait 20minutes on dialup when a browser is already available.) That barrier does not exist with google. My assertion is that typing "google.com" and pressing isn't enough of a deterrent.. especially when Microsoft's search isn't near 'good enough.' Also, their browser became better than Netscape since webpages were coded for IE instead of Netscape. (regardless of HTML specs) Data can't be made to conform to Microsoft's search engine while at the same time breaking Google's search. In this instance, Microsoft must be smarter. They can't just rely on brand awareness or whatever one wishes to call it.
My sarcastic remark is appropriate in that people tend to trivialize the work Microsoft must do to unseat Google. Microsoft has a better shot than it did (does) with Xbox or TV on demand.. but only a little better. Microsoft can win when it comes to software programs.. things that you have to install OR things that they can enforce compatibility issues with.. but, I assert, they rarely win when it comes to services or other sorts of products.
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dammit, now I'm the moron. ...then what's the problem with either one? If you write some code and prepare to release it under the GPL, do you have to put it out under a BSDstyle license first? Or can you, as the author, always go back to do that? How can anyone call the GPL viral if it doesn't take precedence over other licenses? Guess I have to read the damn thing extra close.. now.
Just to be clear... so technically speaking, if everyone who coded under the GPL for Linux agreed to release their code dually under BSD-style licenses.. then Linux (presuming GNU would oddly do so also) would be effectively licensed in the same way as BSD.. except there would be an extra copy that was considered "different" since it was GPLed?
the car broke down.. you can't shut it down or restart it cause it broke down.. dagnabb youuu! you arere my enemiee!
A chemist, an engineer and a computer scientist are passing through a vast desert in a car when suddenly the car breaks down.
"Goddamnit! There must have been some sudden increase of enthalpy in the cylinder!" the chemist yells, gnashing his teeth, banging on the steering wheel.
"Maybe the fan belt broke or the battery is dead or the wheels came off.." the engineer mumbles.
After thinking a while the computer scientist shrieks in a shrill, frantic voice:
"Let's just try getting out of the car and getting back in!!!@!"
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hmm.. not sure why you were modded "Flamebait".. but you're right. The link to GNU mentions two problems with BSD-style licenses. One sentence says:
"Copyleft licenses such as the GNU GPL insist that modified versions of the program must be free software as well. Non-copyleft licenses do not insist on this."
Then the rest of the page goes on about Ad clauses and how bad they are.. but oh, the BSDs cut that requirement out as of 1999. ?
What difference does it make if some company in India takes the FreeBSD code, puts it in a box,adds two new programs, and sells it for $50 without releasing the source? How has that changed the development scene? GPL wants to compel people to play nice. It won't just allow a programmer to gift code with no strings. They must be prevented from ever using their own code in any other software that isn't GPL.
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well, back in 1889 my great grandaddy made his own homebrew bullhorn and managed to shout information that could be heard 34 miles away.. on a rainy day. Then I made a time machine and went back to 1779 and cloned cows! AND TRANSMITTED THEM OVER A DISTANCE OF 100MILES!!! ..so there
This is by far one of the dumbest links I've ever read. I get that it says "Press any key on the keyboard to indicate that you have read all of the software licenses and agree to their terms." But, more than likely, it's just a poorly worded prompt. In my opinion, the page is meant to be a reminder to read your license agreements. How is it legally binding? How do they prove that you pressed a key? How do they know you read about the license before opening the wrapper on the software? I feel like this is the kind of thing that wouldn't hold up in court.. BUT nobody cares so it hasn't been tested. Is he worried that the license will say that he forfeits all of his private assets? AND THEN HE IS SCReweD!!
This guy was so clueless he didn't even know to set boot from cd in the BIOS before trying to boot from cd.. so I assume Windows didn't just magically start booting when it "sensed" he was trying to install Linux. Yes, this fellow is beset on all sides by evil forces.
choose your battles..
PS I do agree with the need for Dell to let you opt out of Microsoft-ware
Yeah, and thank god they didn't change it to the Geospatial-Intelligence National Agency of America (GNAA). That would have shot this story into the gutter.
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Well.. say k not odd. Then k = 2m for some m.
.. which then gives rise to something that I'm too hungover to recall (probably says that it will eventually spit out a prime ie (2^n) + 1 is prime for some n..
Then we'd have:
k(2^n) + 1 = (2m)(2^n) + 1
which turns into m(2^(n+1)) + 1
So, then you ask.. what is m ?
Either you get, (2^(n+r)) if k simply equaled 2^r
OR
you'd eventually terminate at some odd number. The main point is: for all n = 2k , n = (2^r)m for some r > 0 and some odd m > 0
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This guy is a little off base. (I am resisting the urge to be "hyperbolic.") I'd like to see some information about what percentage of sales are directly to teens. He just has.. of teens who try to purchase a game.. this percentage succeeds. So, I'd question the impact.. but I suspect that at least %25 of the sales go directly to the under 18 crowd. (Meaning, the parents didn't purchase).. who knows. He also uses the old, "Columbine killers said it was like Doom!!" anecdote. I wish some kid would shoot a bunch of people and then say that it was just like Baghdad. (oops, slipped into overstatement.. oh well.) Nevermind, that joke was crap.
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hehehe... why do I feel like the only one who took 15 seconds to figure that one out. "Why is this funny? It's a reserved IANA address... is it a funny name at the bottom?" Better than that dumb "Don't go Jennay" joke... AHHHH! I shit my pants in fear.
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I kid.. I kid..
I hope some eternal flame beast thing rises up to drag you and that joke back to the depths of HELL!@### where you two belong.
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I kid.. I kid..
yah, I really don't see any reason to involve Moore's Law in the future of computing.
It's like insisting that Grogg's Law (Number of cheetah killed per hunting trip will double every two passing of the longday season) will carry over into shopping at the local grocery store.
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...will continue indefinitely.
Even Intel will only say that they expect it to continue "at least through the end" of the decade. They're running out of space.
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