You are talking about a 'Try before you buy' scheme. In your world that's okay. In your world, you can walk on the Chevy dealer's lot at 2AM, hot wire a Corvette, and take it for a joy ride so long as at some later point in life you actually buy a Corvette. Right?
Almost! When I leave the lot and look back, the Corvette is still there, unchanged, and can still be sold tomorrow.
Three, Murphy's Law is strong. [...]There's the Win98 issue - OK, that OS did crash a lot, but going by how often it crashed in use, you'd have said that the chance of it BSOD'ing during one short tech demo should have been about one in twenty.
Sorry, but the ghost of Jimmy the Greek and I gave the odds of a failure to be 1:1 given the design of Win98. The kernel and hardware weren't even protected from other programs. Any five-year old could crash it by using the mouse randomly on the desktop for ten seconds.
Lets just say that I felt really akward[sic] there when I brought my laptop running linux.
You were lucky. Nine years ago I was left hanging by my thumbs for a few weeks in the main dungeon (D1) for suggesting that we "think about" a distro of Linux to replace the much delayed Win-2000.
Ponkotsu Roman Daikatsugeki Bumpy Trot ("Bumpy Trot, a Romantic Junkyard Action-Adventure")
"Bumpy Trot?" "Sounds like Engrish for "Four obese hookers with diarrhea, jammed into a Ford Festiva, on an unpaved country road." Fun for the whole family.
Is the media confusing the difference between crackers and hackers again? Or is my understanding of the definitions out of date? (ie hackers = good, crackers = evil hackers)
I have never seen "the media" use the term "crackers" unless the writer was a hacker, in other words not "the media."
This all reminds me of a Canadian program which showed how "stupid" americans are. I think it was called "the Mercer Report" (not sure). He went to the US and interviewed americans with the most ridiculous questions about their feelings on Canadian topics.
Professor Fizzwizzle, http://grubbygames.com/games.php, is a great game that is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. The advanced puzzles are real brain-busters and the kids levels are great for the young-uns. Fun for the whole family.
...As I see it, the only people enjoying the current situation are the Ebay jockeys.
Speaking of Ebay, how are the auction/scalping prices for the new Xbox? During the last Xbox release the going price was about 200% of retail for the first week. People stopped bidding in the second week.
...About as smart as the DHS asking whether you are a terrorist or not (yes, they really do: read form I-94W).
The exact wording is:
C. Have you ever been or are you now involved in espionage or sabotage; or in terrorist activities: or genocide; or between 1933 and 1945 were you involved , in any way, in persecutions associated with NAZI Germany or its allies?
My bubble is burst. While reading about White Wilderness, I found this on snopes.com, "TV's Wild Kingdom -- staged events to capture exciting footage for their audiences."
I found the link, "Microsoft Xbox burnt our house down...", from the original Inquirer article to be much more interesting. See http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27873> for details.
Spike TV is a hetero man's TV network. It features manly things like wrastling and other sports, customizing cars, guy's movies with large-breasted females and, of course, video games. Check it out at www.spiketv.com to see for yourself.
You can play all of the Scott Adams adventures by installing the scottfree interpreter at http://linux.maruhn.com/sec/scottfree.html (for linux.) Clients are also available for Windows, OSX and DOS.
I didn't realize there were adult titles available for Nintendo systems. Or is this just in case someone, Microsoft or Sony, mayhaps, releases "Harry Potter Does Hermione," "Yugioh's Big Score" or "Mario gets High?"
Bill and Steve will see to it that a high-profile research centre (e.g. a university) will get a free supercomputer with a free Supercomputer Edition(TM) of Windows(TM) to play with and there will be much fanfare and positive publicity in the press.
Quite right! From TFA::"To support its move Microsoft announced "a multiyear, multimillion-dollar investment in the academic community". It is bankrolling the establishment of ten institutes for High-Performance Computing with universities including Stuttgart(Germany), Southampton(UK) and Nizhini Novgorod State University(Russia)."
If you have a windows admin worth his salt, the overhead of the GUI is negligible, and the benefit of the GUI (being able to remote desktop in or switch the KVM to use good graphical tools that help you solve problems quicker. Like it or not there are good graphical tools when used with good console tools that can help you solve problems quickly) is irreplaceable.
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Professor Fizzwizzle, http://grubbygames.com/games.php, is a great game that is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. The advanced puzzles are real brain-busters and the kids levels are great for the young-uns. Fun for the whole family.
My bubble is burst. While reading about White Wilderness, I found this on snopes.com, "TV's Wild Kingdom -- staged events to capture exciting footage for their audiences."
Oh Marlin, how could you deceive us children?
Why bother checking a few sites for a problem when you can search them all with google.com before you can say, "Draco Malfoy."
Does it take requests?
You Betcha!
Hey! Do you know you're just a piece of ice stuck fast on the seabed?
No, but if you hum a few bars I can probably pick it up.
I found the link, "Microsoft Xbox burnt our house down...", from the original Inquirer article to be much more interesting. See http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27873> for details.
Spike TV is a hetero man's TV network. It features manly things like wrastling and other sports, customizing cars, guy's movies with large-breasted females and, of course, video games. Check it out at www.spiketv.com to see for yourself.
Lets hope this doesn't turn out like the "The Hungarian Phrasebook sketch." "My hovercraft is full of eels," indeed. See http://www.serve.com/bonzai/monty/classics/TheHung arianPhrasebookSketch for details.
You can play all of the Scott Adams adventures by installing the scottfree interpreter at http://linux.maruhn.com/sec/scottfree.html (for linux.) Clients are also available for Windows, OSX and DOS.
I didn't realize there were adult titles available for Nintendo systems. Or is this just in case someone, Microsoft or Sony, mayhaps, releases "Harry Potter Does Hermione," "Yugioh's Big Score" or "Mario gets High?"