M$30 is a tidy sum. I'll gladly develop them a super incredible anti piracy system. Of course, all half tech savvy persons know it won't really work and won't have any effect on piracy, but the Movie Moguls don't know that...
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Actually, the shuttle system is one hell of a heavy lifter. What is the weight of that thing - 50 tons?
Of course it is humans doing it. Those few thousand Neanderthals had to light freakin enormous fires to melt the glaciers 11000 years ago. It is all their fault.
However, in really ancient times the warming was all caused by dinosaur farts. The Honourable Ralf Klein, Prime Minister of Alberta said so, therefore it must be true.
The highly accurate, Symantec Automated Browser Security Highlights Investigation Tool (SABSHIT) (TM), which is automatically installed and executed in your system when you follow the Symantec link, provides incontrovertable proof that the Internet Explorer Browser is more secure than its competition.
This is further corroborated by ongoing monitoring of user web click habits, statistics gathering of expenditure on security software and is correlated against the user Social Security Number and Credit Card information.
On all the data gathered, Internet Explorer was rated very highly, while the Firefox and Safari browsers did not even register, which proves the superiority of the Microsoft product. -- Symantec.
Well, that should have been a lesson. It is not "Spyware", it is "Fucking Goddamn Crapware". You got to be accurate when you talk about these things...
Be careful that you don't compare 2002 with 2005 though. Now, it is almost impossible to sell anything and once you do manage to sell something, getting paid is a whole different ballgame too.
No, I am not intollerant - quite the contrary. I am not a religious fanatic, I read philosophy for fun. I don't preach from the street corners, I don't tell people what to wear and what to eat, I don't go house to house with pamphlets and begging lists, I don't do bible punching with Darwin's Origin of the Species...
Here is another Voltaireism: "Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas fanaticism does; atheism is opposed to crime and fanaticism causes crimes to be committed."
Or as I like to put it: "Religion is an air castle built from blood bubbles."
Religious nuts tend to view atheism as an anti-religion while in reality it isn't anti-anything.
Atheism is: cat/dev/zero >/dev/null Atheism is: Tell someone who cares. Atheism is: Whatever gets you through the night. Atheism is: Taking responsibility for your own actions.
The problem is that to keep one SW engineer occupied, you need at least 5 sales and marketing people and 10 support people. If you look at a coporation as a whole - the software development is the easy part.
No, I think people who believe in religion is nuts...
I enjoy science fiction, poetry, history and philosophy and I actually know the christian bible quite well - I have read all the books, not just the canon, but it is just that: Old books about super beings. The sci-fi and fantasy of 1500 to 2500 years ago.
I have also read a bunch of books by Homer, Aristotle, Plato, Stoa, Virgil and many other philosophers and historians up to modern times. So, I know the history of Christianity.
Basically, a King used his army to quell his foes and then he sent in the priests to scare the bejeezus out of everybody to keep the populace in line. There was method in the madness hundreds of years ago, but nowadays, we have electricity.
"I don't believe in Peter Pan, Frankenstein or Superman" and you can add to that the Tooth Fairy, Santa and the Easter Bunny...
Well, there are few things more funny, immature and tragic than Christianity.
As Voltaire put it about 300 years ago: "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world."..and when he was in a lighter mood, he put it this way: "What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?"
What I don't understand is why the enormous, bulky, clunky, heavy, mechanical, spinning magnetic metal iPod is popular at all. The small solid state players that go for a month on a single AAA battery are a whole lot better.
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MS has thousands of open positions.
Either their HR department is stupid and toss all the good resumes away, or good people don't want to work there anymore.
I suspect that it is the latter.
Shuttle + payload must be about 50t.
M$30 is a tidy sum. I'll gladly develop them a super incredible anti piracy system. Of course, all half tech savvy persons know it won't really work and won't have any effect on piracy, but the Movie Moguls don't know that...
Actually, the shuttle system is one hell of a heavy lifter. What is the weight of that thing - 50 tons?
Of course it is humans doing it. Those few thousand Neanderthals had to light freakin enormous fires to melt the glaciers 11000 years ago. It is all their fault.
However, in really ancient times the warming was all caused by dinosaur farts. The Honourable Ralf Klein, Prime Minister of Alberta said so, therefore it must be true.
The highly accurate, Symantec Automated Browser Security Highlights Investigation Tool (SABSHIT) (TM), which is automatically installed and executed in your system when you follow the Symantec link, provides incontrovertable proof that the Internet Explorer Browser is more secure than its competition.
This is further corroborated by ongoing monitoring of user web click habits, statistics gathering of expenditure on security software and is correlated against the user Social Security Number and Credit Card information.
On all the data gathered, Internet Explorer was rated very highly, while the Firefox and Safari browsers did not even register, which proves the superiority of the Microsoft product.
-- Symantec.
Well, that should have been a lesson. It is not "Spyware", it is "Fucking Goddamn Crapware". You got to be accurate when you talk about these things...
I always wonder about whose lifetime these lifetime contracts refer to.
The wizard is called XFdrake. You can run it whenever you want, but it sure is easier if the screen is configured properly during installation.
Hint:
http://www.mandrivalinux.com/
Run rpmdrake, search for 'wizard'.
Don't worry, be happy.
EMACS is a text mode desktop environment. Sorta like KDE on chemotherapy. Strictly for masochists only.
Beware of a man of only one book...
Be careful that you don't compare 2002 with 2005 though. Now, it is almost impossible to sell anything and once you do manage to sell something, getting paid is a whole different ballgame too.
No, I am not intollerant - quite the contrary. I am not a religious fanatic, I read philosophy for fun. I don't preach from the street corners, I don't tell people what to wear and what to eat, I don't go house to house with pamphlets and begging lists, I don't do bible punching with Darwin's Origin of the Species...
/dev/zero > /dev/null
Here is another Voltaireism:
"Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas fanaticism does; atheism is opposed to crime and fanaticism causes crimes to be committed."
Or as I like to put it:
"Religion is an air castle built from blood bubbles."
Religious nuts tend to view atheism as an anti-religion while in reality it isn't anti-anything.
Atheism is: cat
Atheism is: Tell someone who cares.
Atheism is: Whatever gets you through the night.
Atheism is: Taking responsibility for your own actions.
The problem is that to keep one SW engineer occupied, you need at least 5 sales and marketing people and 10 support people. If you look at a coporation as a whole - the software development is the easy part.
No, I think people who believe in religion is nuts... I enjoy science fiction, poetry, history and philosophy and I actually know the christian bible quite well - I have read all the books, not just the canon, but it is just that: Old books about super beings. The sci-fi and fantasy of 1500 to 2500 years ago. I have also read a bunch of books by Homer, Aristotle, Plato, Stoa, Virgil and many other philosophers and historians up to modern times. So, I know the history of Christianity. Basically, a King used his army to quell his foes and then he sent in the priests to scare the bejeezus out of everybody to keep the populace in line. There was method in the madness hundreds of years ago, but nowadays, we have electricity. "I don't believe in Peter Pan, Frankenstein or Superman" and you can add to that the Tooth Fairy, Santa and the Easter Bunny...
Huh? Make sense like ME, NT, XP, Excell, Outlook and Bob?
Well, there are few things more funny, immature and tragic than Christianity.
..and when he was in a lighter mood, he put it this way: "What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?"
As Voltaire put it about 300 years ago: "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world."
your towel.
Hmm, how about flying with 50 tons of jet fuel? Not at all dangerous huh?
A solid state player runs a whole month on a single AAA cell. How is a fuel cell going to be any better?
Sales and support are the hard part. Writing the code is easy.
What I don't understand is why the enormous, bulky, clunky, heavy, mechanical, spinning magnetic metal iPod is popular at all. The small solid state players that go for a month on a single AAA battery are a whole lot better.
Dear Prof/Dr/Mr/Mrs/Other Coward, Thank you for your insightful comment. It has been safely filed in /dev/null for later review.
Regards,
Cowboy Neal.
SSH? PuTTY? Http-tunnel? Common, gimme a break.