obviously you are too ugly/geeky/annoying for said girls, and if you force them to give you their phone numbers they are just going to ignore you anyways. leave these women alone, no matter how much you need to get laid.
Slashdot bitches about Windows and its backwards-compability causing blue screens.
Then, Slashdot bitches when Microsoft breaks compability to be more secure.
Yes, that's right. If Microsoft were to open-source all of Windows tomorrow, we would still hate them. It doesn't matter what Microsoft does, we still hate it. Bill and Linus could be shaking hands tomorrow, but that doesn't make any of difference to us. We will still hate Microsoft just as much.
I can't believe that out of 4 million patents, only 151 of them were been invalidated since 1988. Scary.
That's because if your patent gets rejected, you can appeal by taking the patent office to court. If you have a business case for the patent, you're pretty much guaranteed to win this appeal. Not only does this cost the patent office a lot, but it causes trouble for the clerks that rejected the patent. Thus, the patent office is better off accepting every patent. In this case, Microsoft is so large, the wrath of Eolas would be far less than Microsoft's, so they rejected Eolas' patent.
Funny you should say that. None other than Microsoft helped write the BASIC interpreter for the Apple II, called "Applesoft". It was known as FPBASIC, because it provided floating point operations, whereas the original Apple BASIC used integer arithmetic. Applesoft BASIC was available in ROM from the Apple II+ all the way up to the Apple IIgs.
Older Apple II machines had integer BASIC in ROM, but, if they had a 16k RAM expansion card, could load Applesoft BASIC from disk or tape. Likewise, early machines with Applesoft BASIC in ROM could load integer BASIC from disk or tape, provided they had a RAM card.
For systems that didn't have a RAM card, Apple made a "Language Card". The Language Card was a PC card that fitted into slot 0 of the Apple II, and contained a ROM of whichever BASIC you didn't have. A switch on the back of the card controlled which ROM was currently mapped into memory.
Being a Microsoft product, Applesoft was not entirely free of bugs. One of the worst was the fact that it initialized the random number seed from the wrong memory address. Ooops!
Thus, if you've wondered when the relationship between Apple and Microsoft got started, it was 1977!
and never rebuilt the desktop or had unexplained crashes.
Oh yeah, you had no unexplained crashes! Meanwhile, the rest of us remember having to deal with those darn error 11's that Apple had such a hard time squashing. There was nothing to do, but hit the "Restart" button, and it happened a lot in OS 7.5!
Thankfully, OS 8 got rid of these errors for good.
Of course, when OS 8 came out, I had to boot the install disk with extensions off to install the operating system. That was a little frustrating.
It's much better now. The late 90's were brutal, though, for Mac users.
Top Ten Things That Sound Dirty In Law But Aren't:
10. Have you looked through her briefs?
9. He is one hard judge!
8. Counselor, let's do it in chambers.
7. His attorney withdrew at the last minute.
6. Is it a penal offense?
5. Better leave the handcuffs on.
4. For $200 an hour, she better be good!
3. Can you get him to drop his suit?
2. The judge gave her the stiffest one he could.
And the number 1 thing that sounds dirty in law but isn't:
(I saw a more detailed picture with points drawn for major reactor projects like JET in my quantum book, but have been unable to find another since. Foo. Anyone out there seen it?)
The PPPL currently holds the record fusion reaction. I got to tour the facility when the TFTR was still operational and they'd just brought the neutral beam injectors online. That was pretty damn cool.
Calling people idiots is not only extremely rude, but very counterproductive.
I don't think he was calling every IE user an idiot. I think he was actually referring specifically to the IE "idiot" customer base, as opposed to the IE "advanced user" customer base. The former would be the people who buy books that refer to the reader as an idiot. Amazingly, this book is in it's seventh edition, so some people must like actually being called an "idiot".
If you really don't want to get rid of IE, there's also Avant, which uses the IE rendering engine, but adds all the features you're looking for.
Oh, and it's only one program to install...
Slashdot Mirror
No, that can't be right:
It's not a good idea to use products that rely on security through obscurity.
Did you just issue a challenge to Slashdot? You poor fool.
Nice troll. It's not going work, though.
I, for one, will work towards making that a reality. ;)
Then, Slashdot bitches when Microsoft breaks compability to be more secure.
Yes, that's right. If Microsoft were to open-source all of Windows tomorrow, we would still hate them. It doesn't matter what Microsoft does, we still hate it. Bill and Linus could be shaking hands tomorrow, but that doesn't make any of difference to us. We will still hate Microsoft just as much.
Unless it's Tuesday. Then we hate the RIAA.
To show support, I will now clap using only one hand!
Done! Now contemplate the sound of one hand clapping.
That's because if your patent gets rejected, you can appeal by taking the patent office to court. If you have a business case for the patent, you're pretty much guaranteed to win this appeal. Not only does this cost the patent office a lot, but it causes trouble for the clerks that rejected the patent. Thus, the patent office is better off accepting every patent. In this case, Microsoft is so large, the wrath of Eolas would be far less than Microsoft's, so they rejected Eolas' patent.
Actually, it was $666.66.
Uh, ka-pwing?
Funny you should say that. None other than Microsoft helped write the BASIC interpreter for the Apple II, called "Applesoft". It was known as FPBASIC, because it provided floating point operations, whereas the original Apple BASIC used integer arithmetic. Applesoft BASIC was available in ROM from the Apple II+ all the way up to the Apple IIgs.
Older Apple II machines had integer BASIC in ROM, but, if they had a 16k RAM expansion card, could load Applesoft BASIC from disk or tape. Likewise, early machines with Applesoft BASIC in ROM could load integer BASIC from disk or tape, provided they had a RAM card.
For systems that didn't have a RAM card, Apple made a "Language Card". The Language Card was a PC card that fitted into slot 0 of the Apple II, and contained a ROM of whichever BASIC you didn't have. A switch on the back of the card controlled which ROM was currently mapped into memory.
Being a Microsoft product, Applesoft was not entirely free of bugs. One of the worst was the fact that it initialized the random number seed from the wrong memory address. Ooops!
Thus, if you've wondered when the relationship between Apple and Microsoft got started, it was 1977!
Oh yeah, you had no unexplained crashes! Meanwhile, the rest of us remember having to deal with those darn error 11's that Apple had such a hard time squashing. There was nothing to do, but hit the "Restart" button, and it happened a lot in OS 7.5!
Thankfully, OS 8 got rid of these errors for good. Of course, when OS 8 came out, I had to boot the install disk with extensions off to install the operating system. That was a little frustrating.
It's much better now. The late 90's were brutal, though, for Mac users.
Jeez, either somebody didn't listen to the MP3 in the article, or has never heard Phish mess around on stage.
Said Dell, "It just got to the point where I was so damn rich, It just wasn't fun any more."
Union Federal rules!
Good question. Didn't disk space recently become cheaper than tape?
Oh, and the properly disrepectful term is pedant, not anal dickhead.
Oh, of course! I'll get it right next time. Glad to see you're one of us, BTW. ;)
Nope. Andrew S. Tannenbaum, Computer Networks, Section 2.2.1., "Magnetic Media"
The exact quote:
I only know that, because the book was sitting right next to me. Still...
"Slashdot: Exact quotes provided by anal dickheads while you wait."
Ask and you shall receive...
Top Ten Things That Sound Dirty In Law But Aren't:
10. Have you looked through her briefs?
9. He is one hard judge!
8. Counselor, let's do it in chambers.
7. His attorney withdrew at the last minute.
6. Is it a penal offense?
5. Better leave the handcuffs on.
4. For $200 an hour, she better be good!
3. Can you get him to drop his suit?
2. The judge gave her the stiffest one he could.
And the number 1 thing that sounds dirty in law but isn't:
1. Think you can get me off?
Oh, no, no, no. He meant a padded cell.
Yes, I'm a Computer Scientist, do you want fries with that?
It doesn't have anything to do with anime either. ;)
Try here.
The PPPL currently holds the record fusion reaction. I got to tour the facility when the TFTR was still operational and they'd just brought the neutral beam injectors online. That was pretty damn cool.
Yeah, mod up, Tick Comic reference!
IIRC, on Babaylon 5, the Centauri bombed the Narn planet using big rocks launched from orbiting ships.
I don't think he was calling every IE user an idiot. I think he was actually referring specifically to the IE "idiot" customer base, as opposed to the IE "advanced user" customer base. The former would be the people who buy books that refer to the reader as an idiot. Amazingly, this book is in it's seventh edition, so some people must like actually being called an "idiot".
If you really don't want to get rid of IE, there's also Avant, which uses the IE rendering engine, but adds all the features you're looking for.
Oh, and it's only one program to install...