I'm fairly sure AOL provided this developer kit to diffuse the anger of people revolting over their two-tiered email plans; the plan to offer spammers the chance to guarantee delivery of their spam for a fee.
"They're just geeks, distract them from the creamed corn by throwing them the steak and you'll be on the front page of Slashdot in seconds."
"Piffle," as one AOL "advocate" put it.
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Some Scanjets will play a tune if you hold the Scan button while powering on.
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Some time in the future:
Micro-time-warner-comcast-wal-mart-soft News reports today that God has brought a lawsuit against scientists from BC and Maryland for devloping beings who look exactly like, act exactly like and perform the exact same functions as humans. God claims that because these beings are essentially the same product, they must contain genetic code from humans. God is now demanding licensing fees for these new beings and has brought lawsuits against the original designers of the new beings, called Linmens. Scientists who developed the 'original' genetic code for the new beings claim that the work is entirely original and that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it may be a platypus.
"Search engines do not reproduce content. They help users find content by pointing to where it exists on the Web."
When I search for something on Google, then click on the "cached" link I get:
"This is Google's cache of http://www.foo.bar/ as retrieved on [date] [time]. Google's cache is the snapshot that we took of the page as we crawled the web."
Which of these is true and which of these is a lie?
Anytime something horrible happens there will be someone horrible who takes advantage of the trauma that affects the masses to their advantage. Could they be using the post-Sony-DRM state of consumers' minds to foment their acquisition of a right that could be dangerous and subversive?
Restart Manager will check to see if updates can be installed without rebooting and find that they can't. Windows XP already does this. Why would you reboot the system if you don't need to? But you always do. If you update the Windows kernel, everything that depends on it has to be unloaded and reloaded. If you did this without rebooting, hypothetically speaking, you'd have to unload and re-load every component, which would take just as long if not longer than rebooting. That's just the way Windows works. Remember how excited everyone was that you could install USB devices without rebooting in Windows? Then the devices became more complex and required drivers that caused the user to have to reboot, then that all went to hell. I'm sure bank robbers check to see if they need to rob a bank before they go to do a crack deal too.
Great, someone knows how to cram fifteen thousand computers into a specially-designed warehouse and make them go fast. Meanwhile, in another part of the world known as `reallity,' people realize there are more important things to worry about than who has the larger penis. More computers != research.
There's a lot of people who could be more productive in their use of the electricity, man hours, hardware and system resources that these computers are using. I submit to you that if they had given all of these Apple computers to universities and research facilities all over the world, man's greater goals would have been much closer to being achieved than they would have been with all of these machines crammed into a warehouse.
Lots of distro's of Linux doesn't make it good, it just means that no one's managed to do it right yet. It's a lot like beer in that, no matter what kind of brewing process you use, it's still watered-down fermented wheat and/or barley juice.
It 'stands to reason' that an operating system designed to function to the benefit of an ever-changing and far-from-perfect species would function such as something that is less than perfect. It breaks, you fix it and go on.
"I guess I've been wrong all my life, but so have billions of other people... Certainty is just an emotion." -- Hal Clement
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I'm fairly sure AOL provided this developer kit to diffuse the anger of people revolting over their two-tiered email plans; the plan to offer spammers the chance to guarantee delivery of their spam for a fee. "They're just geeks, distract them from the creamed corn by throwing them the steak and you'll be on the front page of Slashdot in seconds." "Piffle," as one AOL "advocate" put it.
Some Scanjets will play a tune if you hold the Scan button while powering on.
Some time in the future: Micro-time-warner-comcast-wal-mart-soft News reports today that God has brought a lawsuit against scientists from BC and Maryland for devloping beings who look exactly like, act exactly like and perform the exact same functions as humans. God claims that because these beings are essentially the same product, they must contain genetic code from humans. God is now demanding licensing fees for these new beings and has brought lawsuits against the original designers of the new beings, called Linmens. Scientists who developed the 'original' genetic code for the new beings claim that the work is entirely original and that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it may be a platypus.
This article says:
"Search engines do not reproduce content. They help users find content by pointing to where it exists on the Web."
When I search for something on Google, then click on the "cached" link I get:
"This is Google's cache of http://www.foo.bar/ as retrieved on [date] [time]. Google's cache is the snapshot that we took of the page as we crawled the web."
Which of these is true and which of these is a lie?
Anytime something horrible happens there will be someone horrible who takes advantage of the trauma that affects the masses to their advantage. Could they be using the post-Sony-DRM state of consumers' minds to foment their acquisition of a right that could be dangerous and subversive?
Restart Manager will check to see if updates can be installed without rebooting and find that they can't. Windows XP already does this. Why would you reboot the system if you don't need to? But you always do. If you update the Windows kernel, everything that depends on it has to be unloaded and reloaded. If you did this without rebooting, hypothetically speaking, you'd have to unload and re-load every component, which would take just as long if not longer than rebooting. That's just the way Windows works. Remember how excited everyone was that you could install USB devices without rebooting in Windows? Then the devices became more complex and required drivers that caused the user to have to reboot, then that all went to hell. I'm sure bank robbers check to see if they need to rob a bank before they go to do a crack deal too.
Great, someone knows how to cram fifteen thousand computers into a specially-designed warehouse and make them go fast. Meanwhile, in another part of the world known as `reallity,' people realize there are more important things to worry about than who has the larger penis. More computers != research. There's a lot of people who could be more productive in their use of the electricity, man hours, hardware and system resources that these computers are using. I submit to you that if they had given all of these Apple computers to universities and research facilities all over the world, man's greater goals would have been much closer to being achieved than they would have been with all of these machines crammed into a warehouse.
I'm still bleeding from the adds and cookies zinging by on that page that had three poorly-produced photos.
Lots of distro's of Linux doesn't make it good, it just means that no one's managed to do it right yet. It's a lot like beer in that, no matter what kind of brewing process you use, it's still watered-down fermented wheat and/or barley juice.
It 'stands to reason' that an operating system designed to function to the benefit of an ever-changing and far-from-perfect species would function such as something that is less than perfect. It breaks, you fix it and go on. "I guess I've been wrong all my life, but so have billions of other people... Certainty is just an emotion." -- Hal Clement