True. For some reasons the Windows geeks (as well as a few casual users) are flocking to Linux and the Linux geeks are flocking to Gentoo... It will be very interesting to see what becomes of this.
Once they see that Copla-- Vista isn't going to work out they'll go and buy NextSt-- Be-- YellowTab and present a modified Version of Zeta as their next big OS.
What's even better, Gates and Ballmer will be quickly replaced with whoever is in charge of YellowTab.
Well, me and my friends just used a beowulf cluster of computers running Google Earth to find all your base... They're now belong to us. As well as your statue of Natalie Portman. Yes, the naked and petrified one with the hot grits.
If what you say about the photo dimetric charge is true I'll need to immediately change the polarization of my main deflector or the entire ship will be flooded with bogon radiation... Better do a level three chack of the scanners too, in case the isonuclear backscatter has affected the tachyon relays.
The Bild is Germanys largest tabloid and is well known for not always reporting overly accurate, to put it mildly.
I quote: "Flying Saucer Shot Down Over Russia"
Yes, what's probably the most popular publication in Germany is seriously trying to tell us that the Russians have taken down an UFO.
The BILD's "articles" (which usually take up about as much space as the headlines) are varying in quality between grotesque oversimplification, blunt populism, sheer nonsense lacking any kind of relation to the real world and a mix of the above.
I'd recommend only using it as toilet paper but that'd probably make your ass dumber.
The scary thing about the BILD is that many people are actually relying on it for their daily news. I don't even want to think about how the upcoming elections will be affected by people making their decisions based on the bullshit written in this rag. (Note: I don't want to insult actual bovine excrements by comparing them to BILD articles.)
And something else. I support the theory that the nuclear weapons bring peace. No one will start a nuclear war, considering the consequences. Actually they make any kind of war senseless, because the classical war weapons and tactics are of no use in the nuclear war.
Which, however, only works if everyone hat nukes because as long as there is someone who can't turn your capital into a puddle of molten glass you can still wage war on him.
Unfortunately, we can't give everyone nuclear weapons as there are lots of nutjobs who don't care about consequences.
It's a nice theory and it works for some cases but it's not applicable to large parts of the world.
If there are feature differences that matter to the applications (such as games or normal productivity apps) everyone will ignore crippled versions - bye bye starter ed. Dunno why MS can't figure this out.
Oh, they're going to make a lot of money with the Starter Edition. Take one (1) poor country. Add one (1) organization that wants to provide the country with cheap computers. Add one (1) operating system that's so expensive that only the Starter Edition can be installed on the computers. Wait for one (1) new stream of revenue as people get hooked on your OS and have to upgrade in order to do anything useful with it. Take the money and make a big pile out of it.
You get one serving of cash, best served cold and hard.
Product segmentation is all nice, but seven different versions, at least three of which (Home Basic, Home Premium and Ultimate) are targetted at the home user market?
If they would have just released Crippled Edition (aka Starter Edition), a Home Edition, a Professional Edition and an Enterprise Edition, they probably wouldn't make that much less money and I bet that consumers would be less confused about what they want/need.
My biggest gripe with the Vista lineup is that it'll cause unnecessary confusion. Most home users most likely don't want to compare seven different versions of Windows against each other in order to determine which version suits them best.
Wel,, there is something you can use when quoting something strange and it's called "[sic]". People will always assume that you agree with what you quote if you don't say otherwise.
True. Germany is currently prearing for elections and I've been discussing with a few of my friends... Turns out that the physics/chemistry student with whom I usually agree on 90% of everything is deeply rooted with the Union (conservative), which I find rather scary. The philosopher happens to be an FDP (liberal) voter - I wouldn't have thought to ever run into anyone who votes for them. And so on. Most people are quite different from the usual stereotypes.
Although no one was surprised when I announced that I'd vote for The Party (the "party for work, the constitutional state, animal protection, promotion of elites and base democratic initiative", in short: "die PARTEI") if possible. The Party is a satiric-yet-real party founded by the staff of the satire magazine Titanic. The political program involves the re-erection of the Berlin wall and an economical growth of at least 19.99 EUR.
Yes, I really do think that this kind of party is better than the established parties. It might get people to actually start thinking about politics again. While I don't want them to rule Germany, I do hope that they get more then 5% of all votes (prerequisite to get nto the Bundestag).
I mean, heck - mining ore for return to Earth is itself hugely problematic. It's questionable whether even platinum would be valuable enough to justify the return trip - and whatever you mine would have to be mostly processed on Mars so you're not shipping back waste mass. A triangle trade with asteroid belt mines might make sense (in the very long term), but direct martian mining-and-return essentially requires very major launch cost reductions (in addition to a staggering amount of in-situ Mars-Tech).
Come on, have you never heard of the First Alien War? Mars mining is important because of the huge elerium stash underneath Cydonia. If we don't get access to the Martian elerium X-Com is going to keep anti-grav technology to themselves and we're stuck shooting our stuff into space using rockets.
I say that it's about damn time someone thought of commercially exploiting the Cydonia elerium deposits - especially since we're only 35 years from the Second Alien War and those Gauss guns aren't going to invent themselves.
BTW, I'm going buy as much Marsec stock as possible once the company IPOs. Those guys have the potential to become a big player, y'know.
God said they would persecute us. And they are doing that.
Oh my god, you're right! They're after us!! No place to run... They'll find us, wherever we go! If we don't want them to get us, we must GET THEM FIRST! Everyone, arm yourself! We'll show them who's boss!!
Okay, normally I wouldn't have cared about this, but the SIDstation mod had me sold. For that I even gave them one of my e-mail addesses and told them that my post code was 31337.
There just ain't nothing like the sound of a MOS Technologies SID.
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True. For some reasons the Windows geeks (as well as a few casual users) are flocking to Linux and the Linux geeks are flocking to Gentoo... It will be very interesting to see what becomes of this.
Once they see that Copla-- Vista isn't going to work out they'll go and buy NextSt-- Be-- YellowTab and present a modified Version of Zeta as their next big OS.
What's even better, Gates and Ballmer will be quickly replaced with whoever is in charge of YellowTab.
Remember, you heard it here first!
Being split in half is a symptom of midlife crisis? No thanks, I'll drive my car into a tree once I become 40.
Wait a second... "Static Man"... I know that naming scheme.
Someone notify Dr. Light, immediately! We need the Blue Bomber!
Well, me and my friends just used a beowulf cluster of computers running Google Earth to find all your base... They're now belong to us. As well as your statue of Natalie Portman. Yes, the naked and petrified one with the hot grits.
If what you say about the photo dimetric charge is true I'll need to immediately change the polarization of my main deflector or the entire ship will be flooded with bogon radiation... Better do a level three chack of the scanners too, in case the isonuclear backscatter has affected the tachyon relays.
PHPFanBoy: "Typing? What's a 'typing'? What good is a language that forces you to distinguish between objects and booleans?"
RubyFanboy: "Even worse, most languages distinguish between objects and... and... things that... aren't objects. Crazy idea."
HQ9+Fanboy: "H!"
The Bild is Germanys largest tabloid and is well known for not always reporting overly accurate, to put it mildly.
I quote: "Flying Saucer Shot Down Over Russia"
Yes, what's probably the most popular publication in Germany is seriously trying to tell us that the Russians have taken down an UFO.
The BILD's "articles" (which usually take up about as much space as the headlines) are varying in quality between grotesque oversimplification, blunt populism, sheer nonsense lacking any kind of relation to the real world and a mix of the above.
I'd recommend only using it as toilet paper but that'd probably make your ass dumber.
The scary thing about the BILD is that many people are actually relying on it for their daily news. I don't even want to think about how the upcoming elections will be affected by people making their decisions based on the bullshit written in this rag. (Note: I don't want to insult actual bovine excrements by comparing them to BILD articles.)
Then type everything in base64 and let the computer decode it. Problem solved.
And something else. I support the theory that the nuclear weapons bring peace. No one will start a nuclear war, considering the consequences. Actually they make any kind of war senseless, because the classical war weapons and tactics are of no use in the nuclear war.
Which, however, only works if everyone hat nukes because as long as there is someone who can't turn your capital into a puddle of molten glass you can still wage war on him.
Unfortunately, we can't give everyone nuclear weapons as there are lots of nutjobs who don't care about consequences.
It's a nice theory and it works for some cases but it's not applicable to large parts of the world.
Okay, so if someone kills Bob's daughter and he goes out and kills the killers... Does he envy them for haing killed his daughter? What a lousy dad.
If there are feature differences that matter to the applications (such as games or normal productivity apps) everyone will ignore crippled versions - bye bye starter ed. Dunno why MS can't figure this out.
Oh, they're going to make a lot of money with the Starter Edition. Take one (1) poor country. Add one (1) organization that wants to provide the country with cheap computers. Add one (1) operating system that's so expensive that only the Starter Edition can be installed on the computers. Wait for one (1) new stream of revenue as people get hooked on your OS and have to upgrade in order to do anything useful with it. Take the money and make a big pile out of it.
You get one serving of cash, best served cold and hard.
Product segmentation is all nice, but seven different versions, at least three of which (Home Basic, Home Premium and Ultimate) are targetted at the home user market?
If they would have just released Crippled Edition (aka Starter Edition), a Home Edition, a Professional Edition and an Enterprise Edition, they probably wouldn't make that much less money and I bet that consumers would be less confused about what they want/need.
My biggest gripe with the Vista lineup is that it'll cause unnecessary confusion. Most home users most likely don't want to compare seven different versions of Windows against each other in order to determine which version suits them best.
Obviously it involes rolling a natural 20 while on some kind of quest, as any roleplayer could tell you.
Combine sex and violence and -- Help me upgrade my Xbox to an Xbox360 [free360xbox.com]
Interesting idea, but I doubt it'd work.
Wel,, there is something you can use when quoting something strange and it's called "[sic]". People will always assume that you agree with what you quote if you don't say otherwise.
True. Germany is currently prearing for elections and I've been discussing with a few of my friends... Turns out that the physics/chemistry student with whom I usually agree on 90% of everything is deeply rooted with the Union (conservative), which I find rather scary. The philosopher happens to be an FDP (liberal) voter - I wouldn't have thought to ever run into anyone who votes for them. And so on. Most people are quite different from the usual stereotypes.
Although no one was surprised when I announced that I'd vote for The Party (the "party for work, the constitutional state, animal protection, promotion of elites and base democratic initiative", in short: "die PARTEI") if possible. The Party is a satiric-yet-real party founded by the staff of the satire magazine Titanic. The political program involves the re-erection of the Berlin wall and an economical growth of at least 19.99 EUR.
Yes, I really do think that this kind of party is better than the established parties. It might get people to actually start thinking about politics again. While I don't want them to rule Germany, I do hope that they get more then 5% of all votes (prerequisite to get nto the Bundestag).
$500 per gallon? Most factory-produced happy feelings are much more expensive!
I mean, heck - mining ore for return to Earth is itself hugely problematic. It's questionable whether even platinum would be valuable enough to justify the return trip - and whatever you mine would have to be mostly processed on Mars so you're not shipping back waste mass. A triangle trade with asteroid belt mines might make sense (in the very long term), but direct martian mining-and-return essentially requires very major launch cost reductions (in addition to a staggering amount of in-situ Mars-Tech).
Come on, have you never heard of the First Alien War? Mars mining is important because of the huge elerium stash underneath Cydonia. If we don't get access to the Martian elerium X-Com is going to keep anti-grav technology to themselves and we're stuck shooting our stuff into space using rockets.
I say that it's about damn time someone thought of commercially exploiting the Cydonia elerium deposits - especially since we're only 35 years from the Second Alien War and those Gauss guns aren't going to invent themselves.
BTW, I'm going buy as much Marsec stock as possible once the company IPOs. Those guys have the potential to become a big player, y'know.
Yeah, when I read that headline I thought that DVD Jon had done it again...
Oh, by the way, who exactly is prosecuting us? Y'know, I don't have enough ammo to kill 'em all, so I thought I'd ask.
God said they would persecute us. And they are doing that.
Oh my god, you're right! They're after us!! No place to run... They'll find us, wherever we go! If we don't want them to get us, we must GET THEM FIRST! Everyone, arm yourself! We'll show them who's boss!!
I must say the creationists are always god for some laughs.
Dear Sir or Madam, I find your theory of creationist polytheism very intersting and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
So you mean that Spirit Zone Recordings is not responsible for that supernova?
Okay, normally I wouldn't have cared about this, but the SIDstation mod had me sold. For that I even gave them one of my e-mail addesses and told them that my post code was 31337.
There just ain't nothing like the sound of a MOS Technologies SID.