It's 10x more expensive than a relatively high-end mountain bike.
It's 25x more expensive than a cheap mountain bike.
I'd have nothing against Segways if they didn't cost so damn much. It's more a testament to what can be done with technology these days than what should. Kamen is a great guy (his brother taught music at my school until the douches fired him), and he's had some great ideas, but the Segway isn't really one of them.
You know the ultimate hilarity of this is? Not a damn person's going to give SCO money.
The people who do take SCO's claims seriously might stop using Linux. But you know what? They're not going to start using SCO UnixWare. They're going to switch to another server OS, one that starts with "W".
Of course, then technically they still make money -- since Microsoft just licensed interoperability services for Unix from SCO, and everything. $700 or $0.19? I don't think they really care.
if you show a stranger's 7 year old a picture of a man sucking off a donkey in almost any city in the world, you will go to jail.
Not to sound like a troll here, but how would your 7-year-old's email address get on the Internet in the first place without him/her violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)?
Here's why Windows XP's multiple desktop manager bothers me so much:
Windows XP's Fast User Switching is implemented using Terminal Services. Each user has their own, isolated virtual desktop space; they can be loaded concurrently. Terminal Services was robust enough in Windows 2000 to do this, and I'm glad they chose this approach; take an existing server technologuy, and bring it to the desktop in an attractive way.
But why can't it create multiple desktops in Terminal Services and just switch between those like if it were switching between users? It would really be multiple desktops, each desktop would have its own GDI resources, so if something screwed up, your other desktops would be entirely unaffected.
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I bet someone on BMEZine.com has already done it.
One of their featured "body modders" had his twin brother's right arm grafted to his chest.
I don't really like most of these; too "I buy anything that ThinkGeek sells because I'm 1337." But I don't like most of the stuff ThinkGeek sells anyway, so all the better.
The Albert Einstein one is fucking hilarious, though.
Actually, I've bought 6 CDs this month alone from The End Records. $12/CD, with free shipping. Of course it's all mostly underground metal stuff. And most of that is European.
Anyway, the point I'm making here is that file-sharing is killing the RIAA's sales. What it is not doing is killing the music industry's sales.
Do you know a single person who hasn't found at least one new artist, on an indie label that gets no promotion, that has not been and probably will never be heard on the radio, via file-sharing and other forms of Internet downloading that they've absolutely fallen in love with? I've found about 200 (my MP3 collection is about 60 GB, and I own physical CDs to match half of the albums I've downloaded so far), most of them on tiny labels like Guitar Nine.
With very few exceptions, major labels push absolute garbage. The same people buy this re-packaged crap that buy SUVs to haul their groceries around and eat at McDonald's every day despite how much the food absolutely sucks.
I agree, I've been saying for awhile that software piracy is what's really killing the open software movement.
Because of this, we need to hit them where it counts. While Linux may gain desktop acceptance in corporate environments where software piracy just isn't an option unless you want visits from the BSA, due to its cost, for Joe Blow's desktop it's not going to make a different where it counts.
Product quality.
Not that your average consumer knows a quality product either. He doesn't know or care about the high flip rate of his gas-guzzling SUV, as long as he's at eye level with the woman in the drive-thru window at Wendy's, nor does he realize how much the shitty new Fox reality show he's watching really sucks, because it's got reasonably attractive women that he can watch without getting yelled at by the Mrs. for watching Girls Gone Wild: Doggy Style and leaving a protein stain on the couch. What consumers want is what is most successfully marketed to them, and seems the best. This is where free software will fail, without the tremendous marketing budgets of giant corporations.
I use Opera, though -- still waiting for Mozilla Firebird to get good enough to make the switch. It takes several seconds to start up, which is a pain when I just want to click a link in an email or IM to open a link up. Opera, on the other hand, takes well under a second. Kudos.
I adore the free software model, but a lot of the software just hasn't "made it" yet. This is why I still have my XP box in addition to Mandrake 9. As inconsistent as Windows is on the developer end (every new revision has an entirely new set of methodologies you're supposed to use for stuff, as older stuff becomes deprecated, ex: MFC->ATL->WTL) it's more "complete" than desktop Linux right now.
Good to see they include viruses/worms that have no history of spreading via P2P, like Klez and Nimda. Hey, why don't you put Code Red and Slammer/Sapphire up there too?
I've found JSP/Servlets very usable on the web front. Java performs very quickly when doing computational tasks, such as database access, etc. as opposed to drawing things onscreen. GUI applications are horribly slow in Java still, and this is where it needs the most improvement. Maybe native code will eventually help this out a lot, too.
But what really sets the F/A-22 apart is its ability to process data on air and ground targets using its own onboard radars and sensors, as well as those on other aircraft.
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Of course it's a dumb patent.
It's 10x more expensive than a relatively high-end mountain bike.
It's 25x more expensive than a cheap mountain bike.
I'd have nothing against Segways if they didn't cost so damn much. It's more a testament to what can be done with technology these days than what should. Kamen is a great guy (his brother taught music at my school until the douches fired him), and he's had some great ideas, but the Segway isn't really one of them.
And if you read the article, a bunch of women were on the customer list as well.
Or men using their spouses' credit cards and names due to embarassment.
Apple's more like a prostitute at a bachelor party, that will give you the ride of your life if you're willing to fork over $3000 for her.
Seriously, Halo is such a Tribes 2 wannabe in the first place.
You know the ultimate hilarity of this is? Not a damn person's going to give SCO money.
The people who do take SCO's claims seriously might stop using Linux. But you know what? They're not going to start using SCO UnixWare. They're going to switch to another server OS, one that starts with "W".
Of course, then technically they still make money -- since Microsoft just licensed interoperability services for Unix from SCO, and everything. $700 or $0.19? I don't think they really care.
Yes, and 2 physical processors; don't worry about your dual-Xeon system with HyperThreading needing to run Windows Server 2003.
if you show a stranger's 7 year old a picture of a man sucking off a donkey in almost any city in the world, you will go to jail.
Not to sound like a troll here, but how would your 7-year-old's email address get on the Internet in the first place without him/her violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)?
I think you made some very valid points, though.
Here's why Windows XP's multiple desktop manager bothers me so much:
Windows XP's Fast User Switching is implemented using Terminal Services. Each user has their own, isolated virtual desktop space; they can be loaded concurrently. Terminal Services was robust enough in Windows 2000 to do this, and I'm glad they chose this approach; take an existing server technologuy, and bring it to the desktop in an attractive way.
But why can't it create multiple desktops in Terminal Services and just switch between those like if it were switching between users? It would really be multiple desktops, each desktop would have its own GDI resources, so if something screwed up, your other desktops would be entirely unaffected.
I bet someone on BMEZine.com has already done it.
One of their featured "body modders" had his twin brother's right arm grafted to his chest.
Hell, some scientists aren't even convinced Jupiter even has a surface.
Nearly all of mine are too, but that doesn't mean all my friends downloading them own my CDs. ;)
I don't really like most of these; too "I buy anything that ThinkGeek sells because I'm 1337." But I don't like most of the stuff ThinkGeek sells anyway, so all the better.
The Albert Einstein one is fucking hilarious, though.
I wouldn't like it if someone mentioned my 5,000-MP3 server to the RIAA. I wouldn't report someone for software piracy, likewise.
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By the way, Bob Graham is twice the candidate Howard Dean is.
Actually, the Ximian logo rather shows a diving monkey
It always looked more to me like it was sprawled out at a murder scene.
Actually, I've bought 6 CDs this month alone from The End Records. $12/CD, with free shipping. Of course it's all mostly underground metal stuff. And most of that is European.
Anyway, the point I'm making here is that file-sharing is killing the RIAA's sales. What it is not doing is killing the music industry's sales.
Do you know a single person who hasn't found at least one new artist, on an indie label that gets no promotion, that has not been and probably will never be heard on the radio, via file-sharing and other forms of Internet downloading that they've absolutely fallen in love with? I've found about 200 (my MP3 collection is about 60 GB, and I own physical CDs to match half of the albums I've downloaded so far), most of them on tiny labels like Guitar Nine.
With very few exceptions, major labels push absolute garbage. The same people buy this re-packaged crap that buy SUVs to haul their groceries around and eat at McDonald's every day despite how much the food absolutely sucks.
Haha. Optimum Online in the NY tri-state area does a pretty good job speedwise. Their mail server is an unreliable hunk of crap, though.
Because some people have 10 Mbit cable.
I agree, I've been saying for awhile that software piracy is what's really killing the open software movement.
Because of this, we need to hit them where it counts. While Linux may gain desktop acceptance in corporate environments where software piracy just isn't an option unless you want visits from the BSA, due to its cost, for Joe Blow's desktop it's not going to make a different where it counts.
Product quality.
Not that your average consumer knows a quality product either. He doesn't know or care about the high flip rate of his gas-guzzling SUV, as long as he's at eye level with the woman in the drive-thru window at Wendy's, nor does he realize how much the shitty new Fox reality show he's watching really sucks, because it's got reasonably attractive women that he can watch without getting yelled at by the Mrs. for watching Girls Gone Wild: Doggy Style and leaving a protein stain on the couch. What consumers want is what is most successfully marketed to them, and seems the best. This is where free software will fail, without the tremendous marketing budgets of giant corporations.
I use Opera, though -- still waiting for Mozilla Firebird to get good enough to make the switch. It takes several seconds to start up, which is a pain when I just want to click a link in an email or IM to open a link up. Opera, on the other hand, takes well under a second. Kudos.
I adore the free software model, but a lot of the software just hasn't "made it" yet. This is why I still have my XP box in addition to Mandrake 9. As inconsistent as Windows is on the developer end (every new revision has an entirely new set of methodologies you're supposed to use for stuff, as older stuff becomes deprecated, ex: MFC->ATL->WTL) it's more "complete" than desktop Linux right now.
Apher, Benjamin, Backdoor, Duload, Fizzer, Hantner, Klez, Neuer, Nimda, Livra and Magic Eightball
Good to see they include viruses/worms that have no history of spreading via P2P, like Klez and Nimda. Hey, why don't you put Code Red and Slammer/Sapphire up there too?
I've found JSP/Servlets very usable on the web front. Java performs very quickly when doing computational tasks, such as database access, etc. as opposed to drawing things onscreen. GUI applications are horribly slow in Java still, and this is where it needs the most improvement. Maybe native code will eventually help this out a lot, too.
The more morons with 3-foot spoilers and neons on their cars, the more destruction can be caused during one night out. Mwahahahaha!
They've busted two CAPPS?
...for Internet Explorer to not implement it, and no one uses it.
But what really sets the F/A-22 apart is its ability to process data on air and ground targets using its own onboard radars and sensors, as well as those on other aircraft.
Ooh.