Off topic - What were you actually doing to get yourself arrested at 3am outside of the State Library? Or do they actually enforce the no loitering laws in Adelaide?
It used to be said that everybody wants to be 5 minutes from an airport, but nobody wants to have an airport in their area. The public is stupid.
Phone Customer: The reception in my area is poor
Phone support: Yes, that is because we have no transmitters in your area.
Phone Customer: Why not? I deserve to have good reception, I pay my bills
Phone support: We had planned to build one last year at the request of people in your area, but people in your area protested and the plan was scrapped. So, what do you want?
Phone Customer: I want perfect reception in the middle of nowhere, with not a tower to be seen.
I think that Ol' T-Rex can attest to the fact that the meteor was in fact a very bad vehicle. The driver could not even turn to avoid something as big as a planet.
If they stay on the same picture for about 5 minutes then leave the site it is a male. If they just browse the site (or read the articles) it a female.
Ever heard of developers who create cross platform applications?
Maybe that have an x86 and want to test a PPC build.
Instead of having a PC for Linux a PC for Windows and a Mac, a developer can test all these platforms on one computer with the help of VMWare and PearPC.
To expand futher, the ABC is fully government funded and only displays advertising for its own shows. SBS is partially funded by commercial advertising. Both ABC and SBS only show ads for about 10 minutes before and after each show (approx). So we do not get ads during southpark, happy tree friends and all the great Hong Kong movies.
The cash transaction does not go into "the books". They do not have to pay tax on the sale. If they are ever audited and it appears that 100 motherboards with P4 chips is not accounted for, they can say that a shelf that was holding collapsed and the hardware was destroyed.
If they want to make more money, they can even wait until they have a decent amount of cash sales and then claim the stock as stolen, or destroyed.
I worked in a place that allowed me to work on whatever I wanted (as long as it was related to what the company did). I could get whatever I needed like set top boxes, ipaqs, dvd players. What I developed, they were marketted.
First thing I did was port Mozilla to Nano-X, then get it running on an iPAQ. It was fun. The company however closed the Australian office (R&D) and I had to work elsewhere.
Microsoft literally gave Office to businesses with bulk licensing deals. Locking them in with the doc format. Employees of such businesses needed to be able to read and write the documents for work on their own computer (Who here has never completed a report or whatever at home?). The Users are forced into the Microsoft Office because of the binary file format. These users then sent letters, and personal documents to friends and family. These friends and family needed Office to open these documents.
Therefore, it could be argued that it was in fact the format that forced Office onto so many peoples computers.
Remember when each new version of Office came out, your documents would not look quite right in the new version. Not to mention that if you wrote a document in the new version, you would have no hope in being able to open it in any other version.
The registry is in a closed, binary format because Microsoft wanted it that way. If you think it is impossible to have a human readable registry, have a look at wine's implementation. You can edit it with any text editor.
BTW, have you looked how gconf stores its configuration data? It is in XML, but it is far from human readable.
I was listening to JJJ the other day and Doctor Karl was talking about placebos. He mentioned that a patent had come in to the hospital in which he was working in great pain (kidney stones or similar). The nurse was sent to get the pain killers (morphine?) which were located about 10 minutes away at the other end of the hospital. Dr Karl (mad scientist he is) was about to flush the "whatever they flush" with saline, and decided to try a placebo experiement.
Just before he injected the saline, he told the patient that he was giving him the pain killer. To the doctor's surprise, the pain went away quickly.
The interesting thing was, the nurse returned with the medication and it was administered. The patient then showed the symptoms of an overdose. His heart rate plummeted, his breathing changed dramatically (can't remember if it was slower of faster). But after a short while, (about 20 seconds) his heart rate returned and the man slept the remainder of the night.
After Microsoft back ports everything from Longhorn to XP, will the $499 upgrade from XP to Longhorn be like 95 to 98? Just some bug fixes and a free browser?
Actually, her comment "I knew I did a dumb thing..." was edited in the interview. The original was "I knew I did a dumb thing when I decided to go to McDonalds"
- Patent office is so overloaded they rubber stamp most applications without due research. - Companies realize this and flood patent office with useless patents that will get rubber stamped because of so many applications to process. - Rince, repeat.
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Actually downloading music is different to what Maui X-Stream is doing.
The equivilant would be if I downloaded the latest Britney Spears album, printed new covers and labels and then attempted to sell it as my own works.
Nobody who downloads songs on P2P is claiming they now own the copyright to the piece of music and are attempting to sell it as their own work.
Maui X-Stream have downloaded PearPC, printed new covers and labels and were attempting to sell it as their own work. Exactly what they are doing now.
Off topic - What were you actually doing to get yourself arrested at 3am outside of the State Library? Or do they actually enforce the no loitering laws in Adelaide?
"Your honour, I wasn't loitering, I was surfing."
It used to be said that everybody wants to be 5 minutes from an airport, but nobody wants to have an airport in their area. The public is stupid.
Phone Customer: The reception in my area is poor
Phone support: Yes, that is because we have no transmitters in your area.
Phone Customer: Why not? I deserve to have good reception, I pay my bills
Phone support: We had planned to build one last year at the request of people in your area, but people in your area protested and the plan was scrapped. So, what do you want?
Phone Customer: I want perfect reception in the middle of nowhere, with not a tower to be seen.
Phone support: have a nice day.
I think that about sums it up.
I think that Ol' T-Rex can attest to the fact that the meteor was in fact a very bad vehicle. The driver could not even turn to avoid something as big as a planet.
If they stay on the same picture for about 5 minutes then leave the site it is a male. If they just browse the site (or read the articles) it a female.
Nah, they were measuring the stats from porn pages.
Current Earth atmosphere not favourable to life.
Yeah, I have tried it and it isn't that slow. For example safari takes about 5 seconds to start.
Ever heard of developers who create cross platform applications?
Maybe that have an x86 and want to test a PPC build.
Instead of having a PC for Linux a PC for Windows and a Mac, a developer can test all these platforms on one computer with the help of VMWare and PearPC.
To expand futher, the ABC is fully government funded and only displays advertising for its own shows. SBS is partially funded by commercial advertising. Both ABC and SBS only show ads for about 10 minutes before and after each show (approx). So we do not get ads during southpark, happy tree friends and all the great Hong Kong movies.
PS. note to SBS: bring back the cult movie.
I have a mouse with those signatures on the right mouse button. But I think it is a fake
The cash transaction does not go into "the books". They do not have to pay tax on the sale. If they are ever audited and it appears that 100 motherboards with P4 chips is not accounted for, they can say that a shelf that was holding collapsed and the hardware was destroyed.
If they want to make more money, they can even wait until they have a decent amount of cash sales and then claim the stock as stolen, or destroyed.
I worked in a place that allowed me to work on whatever I wanted (as long as it was related to what the company did). I could get whatever I needed like set top boxes, ipaqs, dvd players. What I developed, they were marketted.
First thing I did was port Mozilla to Nano-X, then get it running on an iPAQ. It was fun. The company however closed the Australian office (R&D) and I had to work elsewhere.
Microsoft literally gave Office to businesses with bulk licensing deals. Locking them in with the doc format. Employees of such businesses needed to be able to read and write the documents for work on their own computer (Who here has never completed a report or whatever at home?). The Users are forced into the Microsoft Office because of the binary file format. These users then sent letters, and personal documents to friends and family. These friends and family needed Office to open these documents.
Therefore, it could be argued that it was in fact the format that forced Office onto so many peoples
computers.
Remember when each new version of Office came out, your documents would not look quite right in the new version. Not to mention that if you wrote a document in the new version, you would have no hope in being able to open it in any other version.
You have taken the lid off of the bottle.
-1 lame
The registry is in a closed, binary format because Microsoft wanted it that way. If you think it is impossible to have a human readable registry, have a look at wine's implementation. You can edit it with any text editor.
BTW, have you looked how gconf stores its configuration data? It is in XML, but it is far from human readable.
Have your alarm clock placed far enough from your bed that you have to get out of bed to turn it off?
DUH!!!
Sex once every seven years eh? Maybe that is why so many geeks want to play Spock at Sci Fi conventions.
Interesting, when was this introduced as the Ghostbusters phone number (from around 1980) is 555-2368.
I was listening to JJJ the other day and Doctor Karl was talking about placebos. He mentioned that a patent had come in to the hospital in which he was working in great pain (kidney stones or similar). The nurse was sent to get the pain killers (morphine?) which were located about 10 minutes away at the other end of the hospital. Dr Karl (mad scientist he is) was about to flush the "whatever they flush" with saline, and decided to try a placebo experiement.
Just before he injected the saline, he told the patient that he was giving him the pain killer. To the doctor's surprise, the pain went away quickly.
The interesting thing was, the nurse returned with the medication and it was administered. The patient then showed the symptoms of an overdose. His heart rate plummeted, his breathing changed dramatically (can't remember if it was slower of faster). But after a short while, (about 20 seconds) his heart rate returned and the man slept the remainder of the night.
Very interesting.
After Microsoft back ports everything from Longhorn to XP, will the $499 upgrade from XP to Longhorn be like 95 to 98? Just some bug fixes and a free browser?
Actually, her comment "I knew I did a dumb thing..." was edited in the interview. The original was "I knew I did a dumb thing when I decided to go to McDonalds"
Personally, I prefer to have my code self commented. Meaningful variable names, no "smart arse" tricks, good clear layout.
If you have to explain what a function is to do, it has not been coded very well.
Because they got paid.
This introduces a nice catch 22 situation.
- Patent office is so overloaded they rubber stamp most applications without due research.
- Companies realize this and flood patent office with useless patents that will get rubber stamped because of so many applications to process.
- Rince, repeat.
Actually green is just #asdf