Counterfeit ring sues Treasury Department for redesigning federal reserve notes with new security features. Unfair discrimination against forged currency claimed.
From a later article on the linked site:
It seems I've been Slashdotted. [...]
I've got to stop posting things that people on Slashdot might find interesting
ROFL! "Find something that no Slashdot reader will find interesting" seems like a Zen koan one could meditate on for weeks.
Well - that post being modded down proves conclusively that there is a government conspiracy, and furthermore, that slashdot is in on it. Now, where did I put my copy of Pyramid Power?
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She has to hit the manual return level to move the unit back to its original position, thus issuing a CR to the program
Not really - at least the mechanical typewriter I had way back when would allow you to keep typing when the carriage was at the right margin. It just wouldn't advance any further, so you'd be overtyping the last letter. That actually happened quite frequently in those days, and didn't necessarily justify typing the whole page all over again.
50 or 60 of these {....] they're my lifetime supply of keyboards
Damn, that's enough to last seven or eight generations of your descendants.
I got mine with a second-hand IBM AT back in 1990, and used it daily until just a few months ago, when one of my wife's cats chewed through the cable. I see no reason why it shouldn't last a few more decades (at which time keyboards will probably be obsolete relics known only to geeks like us, who think speech recognition is for wimps.)
Anyone happen to know of a good source for keyboard cables?
You do not need a license to call Microsoft's (or anyone else's) libraries. You do need a redistribution license if you wish to include someone else's libraries in your own software distributions.
AFAIK, the only way to obtain a redistribution license for Microsoft's runtime libraries (e.g. msvcrt.dll and mfc*.dll) is to purchase a Microsft compiler.
Unless you are a citizen of a non-nuclear country, that's quite an arrogant remark to make. Also remember, India isn't the only democracy exchanging hostilities with an islamic dictatorship these days.
Clusters are popular because usually you have to jusitfy the cost for purchasing the computers, but not the energy it uses, and you put it in a room that's there anyway.
A big adavantage of clusters is their inherent fault tolerance: a cluster can keep on working if one of the clustered machines spontaneously combusts. With a proprietary supercomputer, you usually have to wait for a service droid to arrive with the needed parts.
As for the cost of energy consumed, as long as you're talking about fully indistrialized countries that's going to be negligable compared to the costs of personnel and space.
could only lift I think about 100 punds two feet off the ground
Hell, that much jet propulsion can be achieved with the help of nothing but a generous portion of one of the less digestible varieties of beans. (Better hurry, thought, before they pass a law against personal greenhouse gas emissions.)
I thought that I was the only one here that would remember Renaissance
I never got to see them live, but I still have all Renaissance albums - including the ones from before Annie Haslam joined, which sounded a lot more like early Genesis than like the Carnegie Hall-era Renaissance. Now you've put me in the mood to dig up and play Illusion.
Being winter and all, why not use something like this
to fulfill your phone book destruction needs instead? Rather than stopping when it overheats, it works faster as it gets hotter. And instead of having to take a break after A-C, it can handle two or three area codes at a time.
I read the German original, it is written in academic language and perfect grammar. I don't think it's a hoax, just wild speculation that happens to lead to wrong conclusions.
I remember at one point, they did release a patch for the old version of Word to allow opening the new document format. I don't remember the version designations involved, although I do remember that some valid new-format documents would cause it to crash. As stated earlier, where interoperability is concerned Microsoft is not in the habit of giving one inch more ground than demanded by their large customers.
expect DOC will stay the default and the XML format will be popular in the web crowd, but heh, I could wrong
Since the web is just a fad that will pass as quickly as Al Gore's popularity, I guess it doesn't really matter. (Makes you wonder what Al Gore will invent next, huh?) But as long as XML is a popular buzzword, why not hijack the acronym to stand for eXcellent Microsoft Language?
It's easy to see how this inconvenienced your company as well as many other paying customers...but how was it not in Microsoft's interest?
I've always assumed that they intentionally changed the file format with every release specifically for the purpose of preventing previous versions from reading it. They *want* previous versions of their products to cease being useful once they have a new version to sell.
Do you know what it actually does? When I first saw it, I thought it probably used google searches to see how frequently both strings are used in each other's vicinity with (a) "good" verbs and (b) "bad" verbs inbetween, the report a/(a+b) as a percentage.
I guess it's really just a lame function based on the sums of the ASCII values of each string, modulo some arbitrary number.
Slashdot Mirror
1000 kWh/m/yr
...which equals 114 W/m (average) or, for the metrically challenged, a bit more than one Watt per four-inch square.
How about soliciting contributions in the name of "Legal Defense" when you're actually suing rather than defending - is that legal?
Counterfeit ring sues Treasury Department for redesigning federal reserve notes with new security features. Unfair discrimination against forged currency claimed.
From a later article on the linked site:
It seems I've been Slashdotted. [...] I've got to stop posting things that people on Slashdot might find interesting
ROFL! "Find something that no Slashdot reader will find interesting" seems like a Zen koan one could meditate on for weeks.
Well - that post being modded down proves conclusively that there is a government conspiracy, and furthermore, that slashdot is in on it. Now, where did I put my copy of Pyramid Power?
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She has to hit the manual return level to move the unit back to its original position, thus issuing a CR to the program
Not really - at least the mechanical typewriter I had way back when would allow you to keep typing when the carriage was at the right margin. It just wouldn't advance any further, so you'd be overtyping the last letter. That actually happened quite frequently in those days, and didn't necessarily justify typing the whole page all over again.
50 or 60 of these {....] they're my lifetime supply of keyboards
Damn, that's enough to last seven or eight generations of your descendants.
I got mine with a second-hand IBM AT back in 1990, and used it daily until just a few months ago, when one of my wife's cats chewed through the cable. I see no reason why it shouldn't last a few more decades (at which time keyboards will probably be obsolete relics known only to geeks like us, who think speech recognition is for wimps.)
Anyone happen to know of a good source for keyboard cables?
You do not need a license to call Microsoft's (or anyone else's) libraries. You do need a redistribution license if you wish to include someone else's libraries in your own software distributions.
AFAIK, the only way to obtain a redistribution license for Microsoft's runtime libraries (e.g. msvcrt.dll and mfc*.dll) is to purchase a Microsft compiler.
Unless you are a citizen of a non-nuclear country, that's quite an arrogant remark to make. Also remember, India isn't the only democracy exchanging hostilities with an islamic dictatorship these days.
Emergency phones don't need to be repaired as much because they're not used as much.
Use doesn't cause payphones to need repairs, vandalism does.
Funny you should mention that, I've been employing used cat litter in liew of a shredder for many years now.
P.S. No need to _buy_ a cat - we've got two young ones to give away currently, if you can convince us that you'll treat them well.
Graphical System [for] Protection Of Text
A far More likely response from Microsoft: Very Agressive Goons and Intimidatingly Numerous Attorneys
Clusters are popular because usually you have to jusitfy the cost for purchasing the computers, but not the energy it uses, and you put it in a room that's there anyway.
A big adavantage of clusters is their inherent fault tolerance: a cluster can keep on working if one of the clustered machines spontaneously combusts. With a proprietary supercomputer, you usually have to wait for a service droid to arrive with the needed parts.
As for the cost of energy consumed, as long as you're talking about fully indistrialized countries that's going to be negligable compared to the costs of personnel and space.
Can someone who got it please put the audio (mp3 file) up somewhere, like on eDonkey?
My German-made car
[...]
Internet Explorer
ERROR 853: Consumer preference mismatch. Stack dump follows.
could only lift I think about 100 punds two feet off the ground
Hell, that much jet propulsion can be achieved with the help of nothing but a generous portion of one of the less digestible varieties of beans. (Better hurry, thought, before they pass a law against personal greenhouse gas emissions.)
...or he probably could have gotten Disney interested in commercializing this toy.
I thought that I was the only one here that would remember Renaissance
I never got to see them live, but I still have all Renaissance albums - including the ones from before Annie Haslam joined, which sounded a lot more like early Genesis than like the Carnegie Hall-era Renaissance. Now you've put me in the mood to dig up and play Illusion.
Being winter and all, why not use something like this to fulfill your phone book destruction needs instead? Rather than stopping when it overheats, it works faster as it gets hotter. And instead of having to take a break after A-C, it can handle two or three area codes at a time.
Look at naked people. And then rate them. AUTOPR0N.COM [autopr0n.com].
Careful, pr0nography will make you go blind (and probably give you AIDS, too.)
[If you think that remark is off topic, you didn't read the article.]
I read the German original, it is written in academic language and perfect grammar. I don't think it's a hoax, just wild speculation that happens to lead to wrong conclusions.
I remember at one point, they did release a patch for the old version of Word to allow opening the new document format. I don't remember the version designations involved, although I do remember that some valid new-format documents would cause it to crash. As stated earlier, where interoperability is concerned Microsoft is not in the habit of giving one inch more ground than demanded by their large customers.
expect DOC will stay the default and the XML format will be popular in the web crowd, but heh, I could wrong
Since the web is just a fad that will pass as quickly as Al Gore's popularity, I guess it doesn't really matter. (Makes you wonder what Al Gore will invent next, huh?) But as long as XML is a popular buzzword, why not hijack the acronym to stand for eXcellent Microsoft Language?
It's easy to see how this inconvenienced your company as well as many other paying customers...but how was it not in Microsoft's interest?
I've always assumed that they intentionally changed the file format with every release specifically for the purpose of preventing previous versions from reading it. They *want* previous versions of their products to cease being useful once they have a new version to sell.
Nope, that can't be it because: William Jefferson Clinton III loves Al Gore 17 %
Do you know what it actually does? When I first saw it, I thought it probably used google searches to see how frequently both strings are used in each other's vicinity with (a) "good" verbs and (b) "bad" verbs inbetween, the report a/(a+b) as a percentage. I guess it's really just a lame function based on the sums of the ASCII values of each string, modulo some arbitrary number.
Well, at least there are some things it gets right:
Cartman loves Cheesy Poofs 91 %
Al Gore loves the internet 94 %