have Intel stuck out a press release to hide the fact that AMD now 0wn the 64-bit market and Windows XP for Itanium has just been dropped by Microsoft?
"Quick, lab guys, we need some good news!"
"What about lasers? Lasers are futuristic and cool, aren't they?"
There were certainly bugs galore, although firms with older systems naturally had more of them. Some got through - I know of a severe fault at the end of February 2000 because the original programmers hadn't realised it was a Leap Year, and another in 2004, because someone had put in a Leap Year kludge for 2000 and ignored later years (probably because knew they'd be long gone by then). In fact, Leap Year bugs were more severe than anything relating to the date wraparound.
So don't panic too much about the Bluetooth infection method. When something truly independent like Code Red can spread via Bluetooth, that's when people will start leaving their mobiles at home. Hang on, there's an idea...maybe I can sell it to rail passengers and restaurant customers and make $$$$?
MS Paint is useless! All it offers is very crude editing of bitmaps; I don't know anyone who uses it at all. It's like someone developing an OSS replacement for Sound Recorder.
Because, as they keep telling us, "naked PCs" encourage piracy, terrorism, spread avian flu and deprive Bill Gates of another heated driveway for his Porsche 959.
McDonalds' coffee was way hotter. That's why they lost the lawsuit - it was also way hotter than their competitors' coffee, they'd been told about the danger before yet did nothing.
The damages were reduced slightly because the victim was stupid enough to try and drive while drinking the coffee, hence she spilt it. I still think she was incredibly lucky with the verdict.
My mistake. The coffee forms a jacket around the container of lime and water, as in the diagram. Logical, really - all the heat goes into the coffee instead of burning your hands.
No, the coffee is heated under 4 atm pressure to achieve that temperature and thereby ensure that lawyers can profit from another "McDonalds" case against the manufacturer when you drop it into your lap whilst driving.
Or maybe Americans still like their cubits, hogsheads and lakhs.
To state the obvious, the coffee doesn't generate its own heat (or it would be full of slaked lime, which might impair the flavour). The lime and water, to produce the heat, are in a jacket around it.
Plasma and LCD are both relatively immature technologies for TV. The real issue is how far prices can fall when they become mainstream, and my money is on LCD (look at what has happened to the price of 17" LCD monitors over the last 2-3 years as volumes and manufacturing efficiencies have picked up). I'm not convinced that plasma TVs can be made an order of magnitude cheaper than they currently are, but I'm sure LCDs can.
"I don't know whether to trust the three year warranty on my new Mercedes. After all, they said the Third Reich would last 1000 years and it only managed about 12."
Not just because Sony don't actually manufacture plasma panels, but because it's a dead end technology. Plasma screens are horribly expensive (and not potentially as cheap as LCDs could become), they run hot and have a surprisingly short service life. LCD is the way to go, and it's catching up fast.
IBM advise that you should either use a proper CD marker, write in the central ring where there is no data, or choose CDs with a printable label side (they all used to be like this once, I think).
Incidentally, even on regular factory-produced "silver" CDs, the data layer is only a few microns beneath the *label side*. If you're going to scratch one, do it on the non-label side. Leaving it on your desk label side down, which seems more intuitive, is more likely to damage it.
Halide colour prints (i.e. on conventional photo paper) are good for at least ten years, and many decades if they're not in direct sunlight. Ilfochromes are even better. Inkjet prints from your average Epson or HP printer will fade in weeks when hung on the wall. My father has one which was printed earlier this year and only the cyan parts are left.
Plus all printers seem designed to screw up two out of every three pieces of photo paper, so each successful print costs about £5. Why is this stuff so expensive anyway?
Perhaps they meant the type of loons MC Hammer used to wear? A baggy pair of silk trousers watermarked into your driver's license would certainly be distinctive.
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It's those damn SPECTRE chappies again!
[ ] don't get stock options
[ ] don't work for a listed corporation
[ ] don't work
[ ] am not human
YOU INSENSITIVE CLOD!
A kind of stereotypical Usenet lamer, a bit like the kids who use l33t-5p34k these days. See the FOLDOC reference.
- First Soviet Russia joke
- First lame FP attempt
- First Kent Brockman "New Overlords" joke
- First Beowulf cluster joke
- First GNAA troll
- First BSD is dying troll
I could go on."Quick, lab guys, we need some good news!"
"What about lasers? Lasers are futuristic and cool, aren't they?"
There were certainly bugs galore, although firms with older systems naturally had more of them. Some got through - I know of a severe fault at the end of February 2000 because the original programmers hadn't realised it was a Leap Year, and another in 2004, because someone had put in a Leap Year kludge for 2000 and ignored later years (probably because knew they'd be long gone by then). In fact, Leap Year bugs were more severe than anything relating to the date wraparound.
Is that you, Dubya?
So don't panic too much about the Bluetooth infection method. When something truly independent like Code Red can spread via Bluetooth, that's when people will start leaving their mobiles at home. Hang on, there's an idea...maybe I can sell it to rail passengers and restaurant customers and make $$$$?
MS Paint is useless! All it offers is very crude editing of bitmaps; I don't know anyone who uses it at all. It's like someone developing an OSS replacement for Sound Recorder.
Or Google for "Nusselt number".
Because, as they keep telling us, "naked PCs" encourage piracy, terrorism, spread avian flu and deprive Bill Gates of another heated driveway for his Porsche 959.
What's so complicated about the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox? Otherwise known as Easter Sunday ;-)
Personally I'd be more worried about the threat from suicide bombers than nasty sub-airline food, but YMMV ;-)
The damages were reduced slightly because the victim was stupid enough to try and drive while drinking the coffee, hence she spilt it. I still think she was incredibly lucky with the verdict.
My mistake. The coffee forms a jacket around the container of lime and water, as in the diagram. Logical, really - all the heat goes into the coffee instead of burning your hands.
Or maybe Americans still like their cubits, hogsheads and lakhs.
To state the obvious, the coffee doesn't generate its own heat (or it would be full of slaked lime, which might impair the flavour). The lime and water, to produce the heat, are in a jacket around it.
Plasma and LCD are both relatively immature technologies for TV. The real issue is how far prices can fall when they become mainstream, and my money is on LCD (look at what has happened to the price of 17" LCD monitors over the last 2-3 years as volumes and manufacturing efficiencies have picked up). I'm not convinced that plasma TVs can be made an order of magnitude cheaper than they currently are, but I'm sure LCDs can.
"I don't know whether to trust the three year warranty on my new Mercedes. After all, they said the Third Reich would last 1000 years and it only managed about 12."
And if that's the Playboy Channel, boy are you in trouble with your wife!
/insert flames from irate plasma TV owners below
Incidentally, even on regular factory-produced "silver" CDs, the data layer is only a few microns beneath the *label side*. If you're going to scratch one, do it on the non-label side. Leaving it on your desk label side down, which seems more intuitive, is more likely to damage it.
Plus all printers seem designed to screw up two out of every three pieces of photo paper, so each successful print costs about £5. Why is this stuff so expensive anyway?
/adopts stentorian Discovery Channel announcer's voice
When Good Mergers Go Bad.
Perhaps they meant the type of loons MC Hammer used to wear? A baggy pair of silk trousers watermarked into your driver's license would certainly be distinctive.