Nah, we're transitioning to thinking IBM is the bad guy and Intel is the good guy. We hope to have the transition complete by 2007 or so. Don't worry, we'll still support you in the meantime, but only at about 60%-80% speed.
At least they trying to field a boy band to plant subliminal messages...
"Yvan eht nioj, yvan eht nioj.." Man I love that song, can't remember where I heard it though.
Well, I'm off to join the Navy!
Ha! One government program sharing data with another government program, differently named but obviously similar (or identical) in purpose and even in the same department?
Come on people, this isn't Star Trek. We can't expect instantaneous communication between the light years that seperate various government offices. I'm sure that once the Selective Service office hears about this after the message has enough time to travel through that new electronic mail they are using, they'll quit duplicating and decide to save money by just using the database already in place.
But seriously, chances are: 1) the home state of the company to host the new database has a powerful Senator/Representative 2) the new database will create X more jobs at the Pentagon 3) they really think that calling it a "voluntary recruitment" database or something will keep everyone from using the "d" word ("draft") since everyone knows that's what the SSS is for. TFA did say they are working with a marketing firm.
Yes, but Winamp lacks one feature that makes it immune from prosecution on this particular patent: billions of dollars and the number one (or two or whatever) brand name.
We would have also accepted, "cassette wanes you," "cassette still sells you," or "cassette eats you" (for all those annoying times the tape deck destroyed your tape).
Of course, other statements could have included:
Yes, but does it run Linux. (for those who never had a TRS-80 or other computer with a real cassette tape "drive," not a backup tape but a standard audio cassette tape, though "listening" to them in a cassette tape player was less than pleasant.) Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these cassette tapes? I for one welcome our new cassette tape overlords.
Yeah, this may just be the paranoid college student in me, but why do I see this being taken advantage of for textbooks? It's bad enough they release a new version just when you're finally ready to sell the book back to your campus bookstore, but updating possibly even quicker, new editions may keep coming out mid-course.
If they only make you pay once for the beta and for the full version when it is ready, as this one appears to work, that's okay I guess, but this could get way out of hand.
Microsoft's has been blocking the words "Apple" and "Tiger" and phrases containing either the words "Apple" AND "Intel" or "Longhorn" AND "release date" on all its portals.
We do have warp drive - Phoenix is ready to launch!
Now the question is whether we greet the Vulcans peacefully or do a "In a Mirror, Darkly" and pull out a shottie on them...hmm...
Well, maybe not. But close. Though I am disappointed in myself that I was actually able read all the l33t. English pwns l33t, it's just so hard to not be infected by the l33t virus when reading any sites that allow comments.
Yeah I'll probably only be one of many to reply to this before it gets modded down...
"Windows are faster, they have twice as many Mhz as apple's."
Wow, I want one of those 5.4Ghz Athlon64s
Sad thing is, after four years of Collage, the student found that randomly assembling bits of paper and pictures and such to create works of art doesn't really pay that much.
But seriously, my college just last year switched from plastering SSNs on IDs and such, IDs used for meals, building entry, even registration at student government meetings, to a university-only number. This doesn't surprise me one bit, and really it could have happened at a lot of colleges a long time ago.
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I don't see how that was funny, more an interesting or insightful.
Nah, we're transitioning to thinking IBM is the bad guy and Intel is the good guy. We hope to have the transition complete by 2007 or so. Don't worry, we'll still support you in the meantime, but only at about 60%-80% speed.
Heh, so can we use the same argument for "copying" copyrighted works, since many brand that as "stealing"?
I know what I'm going to do.
Get a bionic arm.
Wow, you almost covered all the bases.
Except for the ones with "
" in them.
You are the weakest link! Goodbye!
At least they trying to field a boy band to plant subliminal messages... "Yvan eht nioj, yvan eht nioj.." Man I love that song, can't remember where I heard it though. Well, I'm off to join the Navy!
Ha! One government program sharing data with another government program, differently named but obviously similar (or identical) in purpose and even in the same department?
Come on people, this isn't Star Trek. We can't expect instantaneous communication between the light years that seperate various government offices. I'm sure that once the Selective Service office hears about this after the message has enough time to travel through that new electronic mail they are using, they'll quit duplicating and decide to save money by just using the database already in place.
But seriously, chances are:
1) the home state of the company to host the new database has a powerful Senator/Representative
2) the new database will create X more jobs at the Pentagon
3) they really think that calling it a "voluntary recruitment" database or something will keep everyone from using the "d" word ("draft") since everyone knows that's what the SSS is for. TFA did say they are working with a marketing firm.
Because my beowulf of Linux-running Nintendo DS machines from the other day beat your Mac Minis.
Bah, that is the most ridiculous thing I have ever read. Vulcans don't laugh, duh.
Ah ha! It was all part of the "War of the Worlds" premiere. Speilberg strikes again!
./ ? This is Slashdot, you insensitive clod! Quit rubbing it in that Dotslash is dead.
Yes, but Winamp lacks one feature that makes it immune from prosecution on this particular patent: billions of dollars and the number one (or two or whatever) brand name.
Whoa whoa, that'd be a slashdotgasm (hmm...new word...eh, let's see if it catches on).
I tried listening to the "audio" on them after storing data from my TRS-80 on them...ouch.
Not bad.
We would have also accepted, "cassette wanes you," "cassette still sells you," or "cassette eats you" (for all those annoying times the tape deck destroyed your tape).
Of course, other statements could have included:
Yes, but does it run Linux. (for those who never had a TRS-80 or other computer with a real cassette tape "drive," not a backup tape but a standard audio cassette tape, though "listening" to them in a cassette tape player was less than pleasant.)
Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these cassette tapes?
I for one welcome our new cassette tape overlords.
Yeah, this may just be the paranoid college student in me, but why do I see this being taken advantage of for textbooks? It's bad enough they release a new version just when you're finally ready to sell the book back to your campus bookstore, but updating possibly even quicker, new editions may keep coming out mid-course.
If they only make you pay once for the beta and for the full version when it is ready, as this one appears to work, that's okay I guess, but this could get way out of hand.
Microsoft's has been blocking the words "Apple" and "Tiger" and phrases containing either the words "Apple" AND "Intel" or "Longhorn" AND "release date" on all its portals.
Let's settle this whole MIT-Cal Tech thing once and for all. Hire Illinois Tech grads. Problem solved.
Perhaps this one time it was actually the original author who submitted it...
We do have warp drive - Phoenix is ready to launch! Now the question is whether we greet the Vulcans peacefully or do a "In a Mirror, Darkly" and pull out a shottie on them...hmm...
...did not see Star Wars Episode III yet.
Best. post. ever.
Well, maybe not. But close. Though I am disappointed in myself that I was actually able read all the l33t. English pwns l33t, it's just so hard to not be infected by the l33t virus when reading any sites that allow comments.
Your Karma is sitting somewhere near the "Plain Old Text" option.
Yeah I'll probably only be one of many to reply to this before it gets modded down... "Windows are faster, they have twice as many Mhz as apple's." Wow, I want one of those 5.4Ghz Athlon64s
Sad thing is, after four years of Collage, the student found that randomly assembling bits of paper and pictures and such to create works of art doesn't really pay that much.
But seriously, my college just last year switched from plastering SSNs on IDs and such, IDs used for meals, building entry, even registration at student government meetings, to a university-only number. This doesn't surprise me one bit, and really it could have happened at a lot of colleges a long time ago.