I, for one, am having a hard time predicting the future.
I realize that you posted as AC to hide your shame. But don't let this condition stop you from leading a normal life.
Every year, millions of people just like you and me discover that they have lost the ability to predict the future.
Science is working on a cure. With the generous help of people whose lives have been touched by this tragic condition, we hope that one day Future Blindness will be a thing of the past.
But we can't say when that might be.
Until then, you can post on/. and predict all the arrant nonsense you want without being answerable for any of it.
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We will fuck with you if we have to.
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General Presidente Señor Lanzero de Sillónes Ballmero La Republica de Bananas de Redmondia
When Mom calls long distance, Talking Woman is cheerful and polite in the background. Mom thinks I've finally found a nice girl and given up computers.
I finally get it -- It's not sufficient for them to own the market; in order to feel fully dominant, they must own it against our will. They want ~your will~ itself. Microsoft wants to own the user. Every time the user starts a Redmond application, the application is Microsoft territory just like an embassy.
And you had better have a passport, because on entrance you and your computer become subjects of El Presidente Señor Lanzero de Sillónes Ballmero.
Yeah we are so oppressed here[...] Oh wait that's not us thats Iran and Afghanistan.
Sir, this is a despicable argument.
The point is not that the US is "better" than some dictatorship or chaotic hell-hole.
The point is that the US today is much worse than the country defined by the US Constitution and bravely won by its founding citizens. To compare the US to a dictatorship or chaotic hell-hole is an insult to every American who has fought and died to protect the ideals of the US Constitution.
As for your right to vote, it's true that the citizens of the US have not yet been asked to relinquish it. Instead, elections are a circus of toadies funded by powerful interests. The US has been brought to its current state by people who were ~elected~. Think about that if you decide that your Constitution expresses ideals worth fighting for and even dying for.
Great people conceived the US Constitution. Brave people have defended it and died defending it. The measure of the success of the US is NOT weather it is better than some dictatorship or chaotic hell-hole. The measure of the success of the US is whether it is the nation that the Constitution intended it to be.
The Ascension of Ballboy to the Throne of Microsoft is the clearest sign that Microsoft has weak senior management and is embarrassingly impoverished in vision. Ballboy's unwillingness to speak the name of the "fucking guys" he was supposed to "kill" years ago shows how charmless and obsessive he can be. He is like a less personable Joseph Stalin with no big fur hat. His reign of terror will come to an end when Microsoft's shareholders start worrying about ~their~ value.
Microsoft has muscle, big teeth and claws and a walnut-sized brain. People like a company with cool ideas and vision. Google hits many notes perfectly. Apple hits some notes extremely well. Sun can sing but its ears are plugged. IBM gave up singing and now likes to set up the microphones. And Microsoft is the Michael Bolton of software.
When Flower Child Bill Gates says we need a Kinder, Gentler Capitalism, why do the suits IBM only seek to run the business?
When CEO Squirts Ballmer dons his Love Beads and Stallman Wig[TM] and asks for Peace, Love, and Understanding, why does IBM fight a religious and political battle?
Peace out, Brothers and Sisters! We are Stardust. If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with.
Music has no value but what will people are willing to pay for it to have the experience... if anything. Radiohead understands this. The 14th century troubadours understood this. Most people throughout human history have understood this. As long as ears and ideas are free, music will be free.
The Musico-Idolatry Complex is a perversion.
It's the artist's prerogative to go to great personal sacrifice, debt, and even bankruptcy to make a work of art. It's the artist's prerogative to do so knowing that no one wants to pay for it. It's the artist's understanding of what moves people that saves him or her from pretension and pays his or her bills.
What is happening to the Musico-Idolatry Complex is right. You can say "Fuck you" to people, but the fucking going on is you fucking yourself.
My own Bat Cave Home Theatre (BCHT) didn't work out so well. The computer equipment with flashing LEDs was easy by current case-modding standards. I had a little trouble with the analog input that was supposed to take alphabet soup and convert it to a list of movies, so I abandoned that after the first few blown motherboards.
What really stopped the project for me were the problems related to the Mechanical Wardrobe Manipulators that I had built to change my clothing as I slid down the pole from the main floor closet into the BCHT. The distance from the closet to the BCHT is about 12 feet max, whereas I guess Batman's Bat Cave was probably at least one hundred feet under Wayne Manor. I just never got the right balance of speed and safety. The Vertical Descent Shirt Unbuttoner alone put me in the hospital 4 times.
... will be if he can go back in time and relive his life so that he does not end up a washed-up, litigious, witless never-was whose only real claim to fame was getting beaten up by Bruce Lee in a bad Bruce Lee movie.
Running scripting languages in a single VM is a cool idea. If I have to do practical extraction and reporting, it sure as hell isn't going to be in Java.
Knicker-twisting quibblers like to blame Perl for the fact that they need tabs to understand their own code. Perl is excellent for its purpose.
Slashdot Mirror
Dear Library Of Congress,
We are interested in donating $3m USD in technology, services, and funding if you will use kiosks powered by Windows Vista and Silverlight.
If you choose not to accept our offer, we reserve the right to pursue all necessary steps to ensure that the Library Of Congress's patrons are provided with the opportunity to realize the value inherent in our proposal.
We will fuck with you if we have to.
Sincerely,
General Presidente Señor Lanzero de Sillónes Ballmero
La Republica de Bananas de Redmondia
The Flash-based "Talking Woman" has helped me.
When Mom calls long distance, Talking Woman is cheerful and polite in the background. Mom thinks I've finally found a nice girl and given up computers.
And you had better have a passport, because on entrance you and your computer become subjects of El Presidente Señor Lanzero de Sillónes Ballmero.
Sir, this is a despicable argument.
The point is not that the US is "better" than some dictatorship or chaotic hell-hole.
The point is that the US today is much worse than the country defined by the US Constitution and bravely won by its founding citizens.
To compare the US to a dictatorship or chaotic hell-hole is an insult to every American who has fought and died to protect the ideals of the US Constitution.
As for your right to vote, it's true that the citizens of the US have not yet been asked to relinquish it. Instead, elections are a circus of toadies funded by powerful interests. The US has been brought to its current state by people who were ~elected~. Think about that if you decide that your Constitution expresses ideals worth fighting for and even dying for.
Great people conceived the US Constitution. Brave people have defended it and died defending it. The measure of the success of the US is NOT weather it is better than some dictatorship or chaotic hell-hole. The measure of the success of the US is whether it is the nation that the Constitution intended it to be.
Ballmer: Linus Skyvalds, I am your father.
Skyvalds: Noooooooooooooooo!
The Ascension of Ballboy to the Throne of Microsoft is the clearest sign that Microsoft has weak senior management and is embarrassingly impoverished in vision.
Ballboy's unwillingness to speak the name of the "fucking guys" he was supposed to "kill" years ago shows how charmless and obsessive he can be. He is like a less personable Joseph Stalin with no big fur hat. His reign of terror will come to an end when Microsoft's shareholders start worrying about ~their~ value.
Microsoft has muscle, big teeth and claws and a walnut-sized brain. People like a company with cool ideas and vision. Google hits many notes perfectly. Apple hits some notes extremely well. Sun can sing but its ears are plugged. IBM gave up singing and now likes to set up the microphones. And Microsoft is the Michael Bolton of software.
Unfortunately, at the end of the letter under his signature, Ballmer wrote in ballpoint pen, "Microsoft reserves the right to fuck with Yahoo."
If there's one thing that infuriates me here, its Prescriptivist Slashdot Orthography Nazis telling us how we must spell people's names.
When Flower Child Bill Gates says we need a Kinder, Gentler Capitalism, why do the suits IBM only seek to run the business?
When CEO Squirts Ballmer dons his Love Beads and Stallman Wig[TM] and asks for Peace, Love, and Understanding, why does IBM fight a religious and political battle?
Peace out, Brothers and Sisters! We are Stardust. If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with.
For me too! I drive the bus that hits people who have kept crucial organizational knowledge to themselves.
It's a living.
Your signature brought a smile. There's a good recording of that by the Hilliard Ensemble, if you don't already know it.
Music has no value but what will people are willing to pay for it to have the experience... if anything. Radiohead understands this. The 14th century troubadours understood this. Most people throughout human history have understood this. As long as ears and ideas are free, music will be free.
The Musico-Idolatry Complex is a perversion.
It's the artist's prerogative to go to great personal sacrifice, debt, and even bankruptcy to make a work of art. It's the artist's prerogative to do so knowing that no one wants to pay for it. It's the artist's understanding of what moves people that saves him or her from pretension and pays his or her bills.
What is happening to the Musico-Idolatry Complex is right. You can say "Fuck you" to people, but the fucking going on is you fucking yourself.
"OS/2 Supporters Petition IBM To Open OS/2 Source In 2008"
"Bill Gates Says Capitalism Shouldn't Be So Cut-Throat"
"Microsoft Says Current Windows Is The Most Secure"
Billionaire Bill: "We need a new, kinder Capitalism."
Rich Man: [looks concerned] "He's talking like a socialist."
Billionaire Bill: "I am not calling for a fundamental change in how capitalism works."
Rich Man: [visibly relieved] "Whew! Business as usual."
Anyone who needed until 2008 to see this ain't too bright.
should be to run a virtualized Ballmer so that they can shut him down whenever he puts both of his dancing shoes in his mouth during interviews.
Interviewer: "Mr Ballmer, how cool is the Brown Zune?"
Ballmer: "It's an iPod killer. I squirt to you, you squirt to me and then..."
[Ballmer disappears suddenly]
Interviewer: "Wha... What happened?"
Voice From Above: "Do Not Worry. The Virtual Ballmer Has Been Shut Down. Your Interview Has Not Been Affected."
"Ask Slashdot"
Is that Tai chi chuan?
I have a black belt that holds up my pants.
My own Bat Cave Home Theatre (BCHT) didn't work out so well. The computer equipment with flashing LEDs was easy by current case-modding standards. I had a little trouble with the analog input that was supposed to take alphabet soup and convert it to a list of movies, so I abandoned that after the first few blown motherboards.
What really stopped the project for me were the problems related to the Mechanical Wardrobe Manipulators that I had built to change my clothing as I slid down the pole from the main floor closet into the BCHT. The distance from the closet to the BCHT is about 12 feet max, whereas I guess Batman's Bat Cave was probably at least one hundred feet under Wayne Manor. I just never got the right balance of speed and safety. The Vertical Descent Shirt Unbuttoner alone put me in the hospital 4 times.
In your reasoning, only a 9th-level grandmaster can point out that this 9th-level grandmaster is a bonehead?
:o)
I suppose now I have to wait for you to list YOUR credentials before I tell you that you're a bonehead too.
... will be if he can go back in time and relive his life so that he does not end up a washed-up, litigious, witless never-was whose only real claim to fame was getting beaten up by Bruce Lee in a bad Bruce Lee movie.
Picture quality improves... content degrades.
Who will be voted off the Island? As long as you keep watching, you are on the Island.
Running scripting languages in a single VM is a cool idea. If I have to do practical extraction and reporting, it sure as hell isn't going to be in Java.
Knicker-twisting quibblers like to blame Perl for the fact that they need tabs to understand their own code. Perl is excellent for its purpose.
It is, however, ghastly for OOP.