USA: "ZOMG your latest patch has shut down our entire network!"
Microsoft: "We know that there might be slight stability problems under certain circumstances. The final version of that patch will be out in a month; we suggest that you either wait until then or reinstall Windows on all affected machines."
USA: "We demand that you fix our stuff! We're the government!"
Microsoft: "We're sorry, but since we moved to the Cayman Islands today you're no longer our government. Have fun reinstalling."
Even if Microsoft doesn't move to the Cayman Islands, the government is still in no position to tell Microsoft what to do. If MS doesn't want to release a patch then the patch doesn't get released. If the government hat problems with a patch they'll use the same support mechanisms they used before. The only difference is that now they get patches before Microsoft has finished QA for configurations different from the one they use.
From the same source: A Net surfer, continued to have downloaded or have copied nearly 500 films from the Internet or to the DVD, was released by the Court of Appeal of Montpellier, déboutant 17 giants of the cinema who had constituted civil parts.
Yes, there is only one DVD in France. It's illegal to copy movies to it.
Judging from the past few movies, Jar Jar will probably kill Anakin and become Darth Vader - shortly after, we learn that Darth Vader still is Luke's father.
I'm waiting for the original trilogy's Second Special Edition... Luke... *wheeze* mee'sa your father.
Remember that Google knows quite a lot about you from what you query. They can trivially map all your Google queries back to a single person/entity/IP address. Is it good that any company knows that much information about you? And what will they do with this information? Hmmmm....
Become a real big player in the porn selling business?
The question is, how good does it work? On rare occasions I do need to run Win software on my Mac - and emulating Windows XP an a G4 iBook with a mere 256 MiB of RAM is mainly an exercise in waiting...
I guess if Apple release an "iQuarium", which is an aquarium glued to the front of a flatscreen monitor, it would take less than three weeks for someone to release a knockoff.
Business people call this a "loss leader", because while it's almost certain that Apple doesn't make a large profit off the Mini, it'll probably lead many people into stepping up into the major profit products.
Quite true. My first Apple product is a 12" G4 iBook, which I mainly bought because it was cheaper than every Linux-compatible notebook in town (and I didn't want to have a non-*nix on my notebook). I'm very pleased, especially with OS X.
I've been thinking about getting a new PC for a while, some kind of lean working machine.
With the Mac Mini I can get a machine that is fast enough to use it for work, tinier than any x86 box, supposedly very silent and running OS X. With some extra RAM I can get all that for a mere 700 EUR, which is quite a selling point when you're a student.
Now, if I switch over to the Mac and do all my work there, what will I probably buy once I actually have money? More Macs. OS X is addictive and the Mac Mini is a gateway Apple. First one's not free, but it's not expensive either.
*bangs head against wall*
WHY? WHY DO WE LET THESE THINGS HAPPEN TO US?
I don't know, but once more I'm happy to live in Europe. This might sound like trolling, but if it wasn't for the way the USA are acting lately I'd never appreciate the EU (and the German tendency to instinctively say "no") as much as I do.
The small form factor makes it ideal for projects like this. And it's so quiet you can still hear your cat purring when it sits right on top of the mini.
You meant to say "after the cat has accidentally inhaled the mini", right?
cat already accepts stdin on Unix.
What'd be more interesting is tac - which works like cat, except backwards;^).
If we consider the part of a cat where food usually goes in to be stdin and the part where what's left of the food comes out to be stdout, then every normal cat will occasionally treat stdin as stdout - even if the output normally consists of hairballs and not "processed" food.
I think what you meant was "it cannot afford to see MSN rendered better in Firefox that in IE. therefore we can most certainly see changes to MSN that will make it render worse in Firefox."
I think what you meant was "it cannot afford to see MSN rendered better in Firefox that in IE. therefore we can most certainly see changes to MSN that will make it completely unnavigable in Firefox, Opera and every other non-IE browser."
It will be fully compatible with Windows Media Image (replacing PNG and delivering amazing new possibilities through innovative two bit transparency), ActiveStyle (replacing CSS), ActiveMarkup (replacing HTML, XML and XHTML), ActiveMath (replacing MathML) and ActiveDynamicVectorImages (replacing SVG). Also, VBScript, JavaScript and animated GIF support will be dropped in favor of ActiveX.NET.
All of these new technologies will of course have mandatory heavy-duty DRM, which means that in order to look at a 10 KiB site with five 100 KiB images you'll automatically download and upload ~12 MiB worth of certificates to see if you are allowed to do so (all MS ActiveWebContent DRM certificates are valid for the duration of one session or one hour, whichever ends first).
Since all of the mentioned technologies are valid Microsoft internal standards (the specification of which are accessible after signing an NDA and a non-competition agreement), IE is the most standars-compliant browser of all - that is, once the Longhorn users have made sure that the current web standards have died out.
Unfortunately, that hasn't helped us much in finding the right mix of drugs for many other cancers, which still have very low survival rats.
For some reason I have to think of a Rambo-like rat fighting for it's life in the middle of a war with noting but an army knife. In the jungle. Maybe it has a machine gun.
(I'll pretend that the parent said "DNA" instead of "cells", as it's the DNA that's being manipulated.)
"Most perfect hardware ever"? Human DNA has a higher mutation rate than Mydoom. Oxygen is carcinogenic, which means that even in the most healthy environment you will inevitably develop cancer cells (luckily, the cells are capable of committing suicide (apoptosis), so the mutated cell will usually kill itself before it can reproduce).
Out cells are not even capable of reliably making copies of the DNA - a lot of mutations are caused by incorrect DNA replication.
I'm damn happy that computer hardware is not quite as fragile as our DNA is!
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10.2 users can expect to receive security patches until next wednesday. Yes, we know that Tiger won't be out until then, but you asked for it.
Regards,
Apple
Beck and call? It'd probably be more like this:
USA: "ZOMG your latest patch has shut down our entire network!"
Microsoft: "We know that there might be slight stability problems under certain circumstances. The final version of that patch will be out in a month; we suggest that you either wait until then or reinstall Windows on all affected machines."
USA: "We demand that you fix our stuff! We're the government!"
Microsoft: "We're sorry, but since we moved to the Cayman Islands today you're no longer our government. Have fun reinstalling."
Even if Microsoft doesn't move to the Cayman Islands, the government is still in no position to tell Microsoft what to do. If MS doesn't want to release a patch then the patch doesn't get released. If the government hat problems with a patch they'll use the same support mechanisms they used before. The only difference is that now they get patches before Microsoft has finished QA for configurations different from the one they use.
From the same source:
A Net surfer, continued to have downloaded or have copied nearly 500 films from the Internet or to the DVD, was released by the Court of Appeal of Montpellier, déboutant 17 giants of the cinema who had constituted civil parts.
Yes, there is only one DVD in France. It's illegal to copy movies to it.
Judging from the past few movies, Jar Jar will probably kill Anakin and become Darth Vader - shortly after, we learn that Darth Vader still is Luke's father.
I'm waiting for the original trilogy's Second Special Edition... Luke... *wheeze* mee'sa your father.
Remember that Google knows quite a lot about you from what you query. They can trivially map all your Google queries back to a single person/entity/IP address. Is it good that any company knows that much information about you? And what will they do with this information? Hmmmm....
Become a real big player in the porn selling business?
That is unless the two departments inside google actually team up for a conspiracy.
The truth is out there...
Also they do have Mozilla/Firefox CSS extensions (but they are properly marked as extensions). Rounded borders and transparency are fun.
CSS(3, IIRC) has an opacity value and Firefox supports it.
font-size=stupid, you say? My Firefox doesn't seem to support this; should I try the CVS version?
Dammit, why weren't you the PREVIEW button?
I was, once. Talk about a shitty job...
Upgrade! Knock over a lick-her store or something, if you need the cash.
...of course, a job in a lick-her store would be ideal.
I've heard that there is something called a "job". I might try that first, but thanks for the tip.
Yes, I noticed that mistake immediately after hitting "Submit" (yes, I did preview my posting). "Sigh" indeed.
The question is, how good does it work? On rare occasions I do need to run Win software on my Mac - and emulating Windows XP an a G4 iBook with a mere 256 MiB of RAM is mainly an exercise in waiting...
Or her brain is IPv6-compatible.
I guess if Apple release an "iQuarium", which is an aquarium glued to the front of a flatscreen monitor, it would take less than three weeks for someone to release a knockoff.
Business people call this a "loss leader", because while it's almost certain that Apple doesn't make a large profit off the Mini, it'll probably lead many people into stepping up into the major profit products.
Quite true. My first Apple product is a 12" G4 iBook, which I mainly bought because it was cheaper than every Linux-compatible notebook in town (and I didn't want to have a non-*nix on my notebook). I'm very pleased, especially with OS X.
I've been thinking about getting a new PC for a while, some kind of lean working machine.
With the Mac Mini I can get a machine that is fast enough to use it for work, tinier than any x86 box, supposedly very silent and running OS X. With some extra RAM I can get all that for a mere 700 EUR, which is quite a selling point when you're a student.
Now, if I switch over to the Mac and do all my work there, what will I probably buy once I actually have money? More Macs. OS X is addictive and the Mac Mini is a gateway Apple. First one's not free, but it's not expensive either.
*bangs head against wall* WHY? WHY DO WE LET THESE THINGS HAPPEN TO US?
I don't know, but once more I'm happy to live in Europe. This might sound like trolling, but if it wasn't for the way the USA are acting lately I'd never appreciate the EU (and the German tendency to instinctively say "no") as much as I do.
The small form factor makes it ideal for projects like this. And it's so quiet you can still hear your cat purring when it sits right on top of the mini.
You meant to say "after the cat has accidentally inhaled the mini", right?
Hehe, I can imagine the cats find it pretty odd for a creature. Though I am suprised they don't try to attack the thing.
You mean apart from taking a crap on it's head?
cat already accepts stdin on Unix. What'd be more interesting is tac - which works like cat, except backwards ;^).
If we consider the part of a cat where food usually goes in to be stdin and the part where what's left of the food comes out to be stdout, then every normal cat will occasionally treat stdin as stdout - even if the output normally consists of hairballs and not "processed" food.
I think what you meant was "it cannot afford to see MSN rendered better in Firefox that in IE. therefore we can most certainly see changes to MSN that will make it render worse in Firefox."
I think what you meant was "it cannot afford to see MSN rendered better in Firefox that in IE. therefore we can most certainly see changes to MSN that will make it completely unnavigable in Firefox, Opera and every other non-IE browser."
It will be fully compatible with Windows Media Image (replacing PNG and delivering amazing new possibilities through innovative two bit transparency), ActiveStyle (replacing CSS), ActiveMarkup (replacing HTML, XML and XHTML), ActiveMath (replacing MathML) and ActiveDynamicVectorImages (replacing SVG). Also, VBScript, JavaScript and animated GIF support will be dropped in favor of ActiveX.NET.
All of these new technologies will of course have mandatory heavy-duty DRM, which means that in order to look at a 10 KiB site with five 100 KiB images you'll automatically download and upload ~12 MiB worth of certificates to see if you are allowed to do so (all MS ActiveWebContent DRM certificates are valid for the duration of one session or one hour, whichever ends first).
Since all of the mentioned technologies are valid Microsoft internal standards (the specification of which are accessible after signing an NDA and a non-competition agreement), IE is the most standars-compliant browser of all - that is, once the Longhorn users have made sure that the current web standards have died out.
Unfortunately, that hasn't helped us much in finding the right mix of drugs for many other cancers, which still have very low survival rats.
For some reason I have to think of a Rambo-like rat fighting for it's life in the middle of a war with noting but an army knife. In the jungle. Maybe it has a machine gun.
(I'll pretend that the parent said "DNA" instead of "cells", as it's the DNA that's being manipulated.)
"Most perfect hardware ever"? Human DNA has a higher mutation rate than Mydoom.
Oxygen is carcinogenic, which means that even in the most healthy environment you will inevitably develop cancer cells (luckily, the cells are capable of committing suicide (apoptosis), so the mutated cell will usually kill itself before it can reproduce).
Out cells are not even capable of reliably making copies of the DNA - a lot of mutations are caused by incorrect DNA replication.
I'm damn happy that computer hardware is not quite as fragile as our DNA is!
Hmm, I better get off of my zombie brain diet, then.
What about catgirls? They might have a feline HIV, you insensitive clod!