Take, for instance, the issue of DVD regions. The only reason this exists is political, and it's really unclear as to what damage would result from not having region-coded DVDs. Yes, I know about piracy and the "loss" of revenue,
It's not political, it's economic. Region coding was made so that DVDs release in one market, aren't playable in a different region where the first run has yet to occur. Many movies aren't release simultaneously. Region coding is an attempt by the industry to maximize profit. Not to prevent piracy. Just to get the most money out of the consumer possible.
not quite the same as the women wearing lycra in Star Trek, but we Brits are a bit more reserved
What was her name? Leela? Tom Baker's companion in the scanty animal skins. Brits helped pioneer the field, women in lycra is just the penulitmate expression of it.
If IBM was really serious about this, they'd make a system that you could buy for a couple hundred bucks.
I'd buy a PowerPC motherboard that had standard ATX power connections, IDE/SATA, maybe some PCI slots, maybe SMP. But I'm not going to spend >$3k thank you very much. I, and I'm sure others, would love to tinker with PowerPC chips if it wasn't cheaper to buy a Mac instead.
XP is four years old. If a lot of businesses were replacing all of their computers every three years, then those businesses wouldn't still be running Windows 2000.
Hmm... Wonder why Spyglass or its successor doesn't take that deal plus Microsoft's "IE is intergrated too tightly to the OS to be removed" argument and ask for an adjusted percentage of the price of Windows?
IBM doing a hostile takeover would be the second worst possible outcome. It won't really settle anything except this one case and it would reward the jerks that started the whole thing.
Come again? Ever heard of Oxford or Cambridge? What about Strasbourg in France? Or McMasters or McGill in Canada?
Well, a degree from Canada is not a big jump from a US degree, but lets not forget that the original poster speaks English and Japanese. This means Strasbourg is probably out. God only knows what foriegn language he'd have to learn to go to Oxford or Cambridge.
is that we have ten fingers, and we can count with them, and adding is easy, while adding inches, and calculating how tall is a person who is 6'8" is very difficult without pen and paper
Wow! Here is the thing. If you can't multiply 6 by 12 and then add 8, all in your head without resorting to paper, then you are waaaaay on the wrong side of the bell curve.
Wait, didn't our moon spin off into deep space five years ago, trapping the inhabitants of moonbase alpha, after a nuclear accident... er, um, ah, nevermind.
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That's because you are looking at when it was flopping around on the ground gasping. The knife went in between 1.2 and 2.0.
Take, for instance, the issue of DVD regions. The only reason this exists is political, and it's really unclear as to what damage would result from not having region-coded DVDs. Yes, I know about piracy and the "loss" of revenue,
It's not political, it's economic. Region coding was made so that DVDs release in one market, aren't playable in a different region where the first run has yet to occur. Many movies aren't release simultaneously. Region coding is an attempt by the industry to maximize profit. Not to prevent piracy. Just to get the most money out of the consumer possible.
Somebody get Bruce Campbell, cause we don't take no shit from the machines.
not quite the same as the women wearing lycra in Star Trek, but we Brits are a bit more reserved
What was her name? Leela? Tom Baker's companion in the scanty animal skins. Brits helped pioneer the field, women in lycra is just the penulitmate expression of it.
If IBM was really serious about this, they'd make a system that you could buy for a couple hundred bucks.
I'd buy a PowerPC motherboard that had standard ATX power connections, IDE/SATA, maybe some PCI slots, maybe SMP. But I'm not going to spend >$3k thank you very much. I, and I'm sure others, would love to tinker with PowerPC chips if it wasn't cheaper to buy a Mac instead.
Woudn't a Pentium 4 be an i986?
In response, SCO announced that it will be pressing new browser-based virtual lawsuits.
XP is four years old. If a lot of businesses were replacing all of their computers every three years, then those businesses wouldn't still be running Windows 2000.
Hmm... Wonder why Spyglass or its successor doesn't take that deal plus Microsoft's "IE is intergrated too tightly to the OS to be removed" argument and ask for an adjusted percentage of the price of Windows?
You could EMULATE a beowulf cluster with these!
You can have my pc (and its games) when you pry it from my cold dead fingers.
When it's false, it's libel. When it's true, then it's marketing.
Maybe next Microsoft will use this verison to go after the Mac OS.
SSN isn't a unique identifier.
Americans may not have invented those things, but we perfected them.
HA! I'd mod you up if you weren't already maxed out.
IBM doing a hostile takeover would be the second worst possible outcome. It won't really settle anything except this one case and it would reward the jerks that started the whole thing.
To quote Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven, "Deserves got nothing to do with it."
Do you want to put a stop to sex too? Cause that form of fertilization is pretty hit or miss too.
Now even the car will nag you about your driving.
I'd imagine the biggest use he has for it is bragging rights.
Cars running on recycled vegtable oil? Reminds of an old episode of wings, where everybody was driving around with a CarBQ cooking food on the engine.
Wait, didn't our moon spin off into deep space five years ago, trapping the inhabitants of moonbase alpha, after a nuclear accident... er, um, ah, nevermind.