That's a lot funnier if you read the whole conversation, and/or listen to the actual dialogue.
Farnsworth 1: "Hope you won't think it's evil of me to ask how you got that stylish head-wound?"
Farnsworth A: "Oh, this old thing? I was experimenting to see if I could remove my own brain."
Farnsworth 1: "Of course! I had the same idea. I flipped a coin to decide if I should proceed. But it came out tails, so I didn't. How'd it go?"
Farnsworth A: "Well, getting the brain out was the easy part. The hard part was getting the brain out." *insane laugh*,
Farnsworth 1: "Hehehe, you..."
Oh! And everyone should give a show of thanks to John Travolta for ensuring no future movies are made from L. Ron Hubbard's books. "Battlefield Earth"......(shudder)
Of course, I'm sure I'll now manage to get sued for making disparaging remarks against L. Ron Hubbard.
We'll see.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0400403/
Truly great book. I doubt it could ever be made into a decent movie.
However, I DO think "Treason" could make a great movie.
Hardly. It would take more than that to successfully dethrone MS from the Desktop. The following items (not all included, but important, none the less)
Unified Application Architecture
Application Interoperability
Legacy Application Support (Win32)
Desktop Office Software Solution
3rd Party Hardware Support
Game Publisher Support
Seamless platform transition ability for business users
All of these need to be at or above existing accepted Desktop standards before you can reasonably hope to unseat Microsoft.
So.... are they going to provide legal protection to their customers if it later turns out that Apache, Samba, etc. include IP some other vendor CLAIMS exists in their code?
Dvorak states "I'm on the side of benefit as Apple can now champion its design and aesthetic strategies in the world of Intel and allow people who prefer the Windows OS to actually buy a Macintosh for its design and run Windows on it."
Sorry, but I highly doubt these systems will use a standard PC infrastructure, including the BIOS. Almost certainly, Apple's x86 based systems will be OpenFirmware based with no adherence to any Windows OS functional hardware/firmeware requirements.
The only way I see this happening is via VirtualPC, Wine, or other virtualization software.
It depends on the orginal posters intent, but if the point is Microsoft needs to realize that "Windows" is a liability in other markets, they would ultimately be better off. Right now, Microsoft has the mentality that Windows must be tied to every product they make.
DRM is unacceptable to me in any form. It's basic premise is that consumers are untrustworthy and/or criminals.
In effect, it states I don't have control of my property, and logically means to me I don't own it.
I DO have products that are DRM'd, today (Apple iTunes). The only saving grace of which is that I can burn them to CD and be rid of the DRM.
Though she is not that well known, I think Leonor Varela would be perfect.
She has a haunting presence that would be perfect for that role, IHMO.
For those unsure what she has done, she was in "Blade II", "Cleopatra" miniseries, etc.
The comment was not intended for you specifically, but for the overall generalization people have for the poor.
I did not state it earlier, but my fundemental point is that I think the majority have the opinion that "For someone to get rich, someone must become poor" or "For someone to win, someone must lose".
In the purest definition of capitalism (and Austrian Economics, to be specific), all exchanges of capital occur becuase BOTH parties value more what they are receiving than what they are trading. This is the fundemental nature of the economic growth of wealth. It is not a static quantity.
1.) The poor will never go away. As long as someone is rich, someone will be poor.
Sorry, that argument only holds if you assume wealth is static, or you assume whoever holds the least money is by definition "poor".
By that, if the majority all have 5 bedrooms houses with 6 cars, and you only have a 3 bedroom house and 2 cars, then by comparison, you are poor. That's not a good definition.
However, it does make it worthwhile to state that todays "poor" have it far better off than the poor of 100 years ago.
But back to my main point. "wealth" is not a static entity. It varies based on the economic health of a group and the history of that economy. Hence, we have progressed from tents, to wood buildings, to stone buildings, to sky scrapers. The overall wealth has grown. My point is that in a free society (and economy), the classical definition of "poor" does not apply.
Considering that (since I last checked) the latest generation DirecTV Tivo's STILL don't support HMO, I'm sure this option won't be around for this either.
And.Mac has increased their default storage to 250meg, of which you can divide it to serve up what you want to either you iDisk or your mail. Don't know if they increased your per mail size limit.
You can also increase your disk to 1gig for $49.
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That's a lot funnier if you read the whole conversation, and/or listen to the actual dialogue.
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Farnsworth 1: "Hope you won't think it's evil of me to ask how you got that stylish head-wound?"
Farnsworth A: "Oh, this old thing? I was experimenting to see if I could remove my own brain."
Farnsworth 1: "Of course! I had the same idea. I flipped a coin to decide if I should proceed. But it came out tails, so I didn't. How'd it go?"
Farnsworth A: "Well, getting the brain out was the easy part. The hard part was getting the brain out." *insane laugh*,
Farnsworth 1: "Hehehe, you..."
http://www.gotfuturama.com/Multimedia/EpisodeSoun
Oh! And everyone should give a show of thanks to John Travolta for ensuring no future movies are made from L. Ron Hubbard's books. "Battlefield Earth"......(shudder)
Of course, I'm sure I'll now manage to get sued for making disparaging remarks against L. Ron Hubbard.
We'll see. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0400403/ Truly great book. I doubt it could ever be made into a decent movie.
However, I DO think "Treason" could make a great movie.
Probably, unlike when they were passing him, they were now intentionally trying to be noticed.
Big difference.
Too bad they didn't mean "extinction".
Unionize! That always fixes things.
Itanium more than makes up the margin.
I assume you mean a limitation in XP 64-bit. 64-bit addressing goes WAY over 128gig.
Hardly. It would take more than that to successfully dethrone MS from the Desktop. The following items (not all included, but important, none the less)
Unified Application Architecture
Application Interoperability
Legacy Application Support (Win32)
Desktop Office Software Solution
3rd Party Hardware Support
Game Publisher Support
Seamless platform transition ability for business users
All of these need to be at or above existing accepted Desktop standards before you can reasonably hope to unseat Microsoft.
Sounds like "Super Collider II: This time, we're going to finish it!"
So.... are they going to provide legal protection to their customers if it later turns out that Apache, Samba, etc. include IP some other vendor CLAIMS exists in their code?
OH, THE IRONY!!!
Dvorak states "I'm on the side of benefit as Apple can now champion its design and aesthetic strategies in the world of Intel and allow people who prefer the Windows OS to actually buy a Macintosh for its design and run Windows on it."
Sorry, but I highly doubt these systems will use a standard PC infrastructure, including the BIOS. Almost certainly, Apple's x86 based systems will be OpenFirmware based with no adherence to any Windows OS functional hardware/firmeware requirements.
The only way I see this happening is via VirtualPC, Wine, or other virtualization software.
Microsoft Windows for Automobiles - "Where do you want to stall, today?"
It depends on the orginal posters intent, but if the point is Microsoft needs to realize that "Windows" is a liability in other markets, they would ultimately be better off. Right now, Microsoft has the mentality that Windows must be tied to every product they make.
How ironic that a story about fighting DDoS attacks can't be read due to the Slashdot effect.
DRM is unacceptable to me in any form. It's basic premise is that consumers are untrustworthy and/or criminals.
In effect, it states I don't have control of my property, and logically means to me I don't own it.
I DO have products that are DRM'd, today (Apple iTunes). The only saving grace of which is that I can burn them to CD and be rid of the DRM.
Though she is not that well known, I think Leonor Varela would be perfect.
She has a haunting presence that would be perfect for that role, IHMO.
For those unsure what she has done, she was in "Blade II", "Cleopatra" miniseries, etc.
Sounds like you want the "append" attributed, which already exists for some Linux filesystems.
Though I don't disagree with Campaign Finance Reform, none of the suggestions address the real issue.
Large money is involved in Campaigns and office holders specifically because of the power of the office.
If you wish to remove the abuse of power, then you logically must remove the power.
Step one is enforcing the constitutional limits of power.
I think step two is defining a suitable punishment for violation of those constitutional constraints.
Once the power is removed that can be abused, then those that wish to abuse or influence that power will naturally fade as well.
The comment was not intended for you specifically, but for the overall generalization people have for the poor.
I did not state it earlier, but my fundemental point is that I think the majority have the opinion that "For someone to get rich, someone must become poor" or "For someone to win, someone must lose".
In the purest definition of capitalism (and Austrian Economics, to be specific), all exchanges of capital occur becuase BOTH parties value more what they are receiving than what they are trading. This is the fundemental nature of the economic growth of wealth. It is not a static quantity.
Sorry, that argument only holds if you assume wealth is static, or you assume whoever holds the least money is by definition "poor".
By that, if the majority all have 5 bedrooms houses with 6 cars, and you only have a 3 bedroom house and 2 cars, then by comparison, you are poor. That's not a good definition.
However, it does make it worthwhile to state that todays "poor" have it far better off than the poor of 100 years ago.
But back to my main point. "wealth" is not a static entity. It varies based on the economic health of a group and the history of that economy. Hence, we have progressed from tents, to wood buildings, to stone buildings, to sky scrapers. The overall wealth has grown. My point is that in a free society (and economy), the classical definition of "poor" does not apply.
I don't recall Rambus doing all THAT well.
I want to know if the games that come with a standard iPod going to be updated for color support? :-)
(Maybe even supply some new games)Considering that (since I last checked) the latest generation DirecTV Tivo's STILL don't support HMO, I'm sure this option won't be around for this either.
And .Mac has increased their default storage to 250meg, of which you can divide it to serve up what you want to either you iDisk or your mail. Don't know if they increased your per mail size limit.
You can also increase your disk to 1gig for $49.