Back in my day, we would take hand cranked Victrolas onto the trolley over to Shelbyville. I'd tie an onion onto my belt, which was the style at the time, and board the trolley with a Victrola and some Bessie Smith cylinders. One time, the motorman got so annoyed that he swerved the trolley off a cliff. Singlehandedly defeated the Kaiser it did. Kids these days, with their cell phones and bell-bottom pants and polio vaccines. Hmmmppphhhh.
Sony announced today that, as part of their Global Replacement Program, they will be replacing the entire globe. "Yes, we screwed up so badly, that it is cheaper to leave and start a new planet than to fix everything that Sony has done wrong," said a Sony representative. Among Sony's past transgressions include rootkit-enabled laptop batteries, exploding CDs, and firing Nellie McKay. "On our new planet, we will build a Sonyful utopia, a planet by Sony, for Sony forever. A DRMed paradise for all to behold."
Phooie, back in my day, I had a hard drive the size of an Arby's that would hold only zero. That's right, half a bit. We had another one that only held one, so we could store a whole bit that way. Of course, that was enough for our software back then and we liked it that way. Kids these days are all spoiled with their hi-fallutin windows, and GUIs and multi-bit ASCII.
I got to wonder how many of our senators and congresspeople smoke these days? I mean, smoking is kind of looked down on anymore. Maybe the "Smoke-filled room" is where they go to light up away from the public.
Redmond WA (Hydraulic Press) - The Business Software Alliance announced today a settlement agreement in their long running trademark dispute with the Boy Scouts of America. According to the terms of the agreement, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) must use its swelling ranks to help the Business Software Alliance (BSA) sniff out piracy on the internet. Another controversial term of the settlement is the mandate that requirements for the Computing merit badge must be completed using only legitimately purchased Microsoft branded software.
The dispute started in 1998, when the Business Software Alliance noticed that the Boy Scouts of America, a quasi-military organization headquartered in Irving, Texas, had the same three letter initials as them. They promptly sued for damages and infringement. While many legal scholars believed that the Scouts would prevail as they have existed for nearly a century, the Business Software Alliance won the case by throwing wave after wave of lawyers at them until the Scouts relented.
"I cannot continue to sit back and allow the Boy Scouts to continue to sap and impurify all of our precious intellectual property," said a Business Software Alliance representative, "God willing, we will prevail, through the purity and essence of our trademarks and copyrights."
Bob Talbee, a scoutmaster in Grand Rapids, Michigan, stated that he would cancel the weekend campout to comply with the order, "Sorry kids, we've got to spend the weekend on the internet looking for something or someone called warez," he announced at a recent Scout meeting. Talbee, a bricklayer by trade, was not sure what a warez is, but thought it sounded thoroughly unwholesome and worthwhile for the scouts to work towards eliminating.
Maybe you aren't buying tampons because they aren't marketing them the right way. Maybe something like this would work better:
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When I hear them describe something as "rich" I always imagine high-calorie, unhealthy food or an engine producing lots of soot. If those are the metaphors they are going for, I'd say it represents much of Microsoft's product line quite well.
C'mon, a rave button would be cool. You stair at the big button marked DO NOT TOUCH. It calls to you. DO NOT TOUCH. No one is around. DO NOT TOUCH. Touch me, it seems to say. DO NOT TOUCH. You touch it. Oh GOD what have I done? The lights are dimming. There's techno music with its hypnotic beat: DOUCHE DOUCHE DOUCHE DOUCHE DOUCHE DOUCHE. Glowsticks drop from the ceiling. Ecstasy. Coke. Venereal disease.
For those who don't remember, this is a followup to ZipCar's previous venture, a line of conveniently located car vending machines. The machines were essentially large parking garages that were built in major metropolitan areas. Customers would insert the MSRP of the car they wanted in dollars bills and change into the machine, then select their model using a Battleship-like combination of letters and numbers on a keypad. After selecting their model, a large steal coil would rotate and push the car off the parking garage. The car would then drop behind a door to be retrieved by the buyer. Unfortunately, the venture was fraught with problems from the start. Automakers wouldn't honor warranties on cars that had been dropped several stories, and many customers had difficulties obtaining refunds when they entered the wrong code and got a different model of car than they wanted.
Some of you might recall that for a long time the Google index stood at around 4 billion pages. It turned out that this was because of the limited number of unique 32 bit index values. To handle this, Google created two index values to reference each each page. One is called the "Selector", and the other is called the "Offset". Simply put, the selector is left shifted by 4 bits and added to the offset so that Google can find any page on the internet simply by knowing its selector and offset. According to the article. Google has exhausted these values as well, and will introduce something called "protected mode page rank" where the slector is shifted farther to create a greater range of values.
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Back in my day, we would take hand cranked Victrolas onto the trolley over to Shelbyville. I'd tie an onion onto my belt, which was the style at the time, and board the trolley with a Victrola and some Bessie Smith cylinders. One time, the motorman got so annoyed that he swerved the trolley off a cliff. Singlehandedly defeated the Kaiser it did. Kids these days, with their cell phones and bell-bottom pants and polio vaccines. Hmmmppphhhh.
If it was me, I would have screamed "Oh my God what is that thing??!!" then turned off the mic.
Sony announced today that, as part of their Global Replacement Program, they will be replacing the entire globe. "Yes, we screwed up so badly, that it is cheaper to leave and start a new planet than to fix everything that Sony has done wrong," said a Sony representative. Among Sony's past transgressions include rootkit-enabled laptop batteries, exploding CDs, and firing Nellie McKay. "On our new planet, we will build a Sonyful utopia, a planet by Sony, for Sony forever. A DRMed paradise for all to behold."
Phooie, back in my day, I had a hard drive the size of an Arby's that would hold only zero. That's right, half a bit. We had another one that only held one, so we could store a whole bit that way. Of course, that was enough for our software back then and we liked it that way. Kids these days are all spoiled with their hi-fallutin windows, and GUIs and multi-bit ASCII.
Bully: Come over here.
Me: No! You'll hit me!
Bully: No I won't.
Me: Yes you will.
Bully: No I won't, I promise.
Me: Uh, okay.
Bully: (PUNCH!) Sucker!
Check out Channel 9! Breast exam!
B: Yup.
A: When do you graduate?
B: I was supposed to graduate in 2002. But I got held back. Then it was supposed to be 2003, 2005, then 2006.
A: Yikes! Are you that dumb?
B: No, they just tried to teach me too much unnecessary stuff. They kept cutting classes out of the requirements hoping I'd make it.
A: So, when are you graduating?
B: Right now, they're saying 2007, but many think it'll be 2008 or later.
Toronto Hydro is the power company, not the water company. Just in case you were wondering.
I got to wonder how many of our senators and congresspeople smoke these days? I mean, smoking is kind of looked down on anymore. Maybe the "Smoke-filled room" is where they go to light up away from the public.
Why good would that do? Violent porn images with hidden data in them are still illegal.
You can find out more about these remarkable printers at Pen Island.
Redmond WA (Hydraulic Press) - The Business Software Alliance announced today a settlement agreement in their long running trademark dispute with the Boy Scouts of America. According to the terms of the agreement, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) must use its swelling ranks to help the Business Software Alliance (BSA) sniff out piracy on the internet. Another controversial term of the settlement is the mandate that requirements for the Computing merit badge must be completed using only legitimately purchased Microsoft branded software.
The dispute started in 1998, when the Business Software Alliance noticed that the Boy Scouts of America, a quasi-military organization headquartered in Irving, Texas, had the same three letter initials as them. They promptly sued for damages and infringement. While many legal scholars believed that the Scouts would prevail as they have existed for nearly a century, the Business Software Alliance won the case by throwing wave after wave of lawyers at them until the Scouts relented.
"I cannot continue to sit back and allow the Boy Scouts to continue to sap and impurify all of our precious intellectual property," said a Business Software Alliance representative, "God willing, we will prevail, through the purity and essence of our trademarks and copyrights."
Bob Talbee, a scoutmaster in Grand Rapids, Michigan, stated that he would cancel the weekend campout to comply with the order, "Sorry kids, we've got to spend the weekend on the internet looking for something or someone called warez," he announced at a recent Scout meeting. Talbee, a bricklayer by trade, was not sure what a warez is, but thought it sounded thoroughly unwholesome and worthwhile for the scouts to work towards eliminating.
It's a radio station in North Carolina. Duh.
Nosebleed? Leaky faucet? Car missing an oil plug? Weak sphincter? With new Tampax general purpose plug-swabs, you can solve all these leaky problems and more! Simply remove the plug-swab from the package and jam it into the emanating orifice and, viola, no more leaks! The string even allows you to remove it later! Tampax. Not just for Vaginas any more.
2002 called, they want their The 90s called. they want their joke back joke back.
When I hear them describe something as "rich" I always imagine high-calorie, unhealthy food or an engine producing lots of soot. If those are the metaphors they are going for, I'd say it represents much of Microsoft's product line quite well.
A: There is magic marker ink all over the screen!
Plus, a lot of people hang out at the 7-11, didn't they watch Clerks?
Isn't that the stuff that's made out of people?
Does this mean that all the demonstrations and civil unrest of the sixties and early seventies weren't about buying the world a Coke?
Ah, the best years of my life.
Seems like there's an "ethnic submarine" joke in there somewhere.
For more info, see the Wikipedia page on Zipcar.
Some of you might recall that for a long time the Google index stood at around 4 billion pages. It turned out that this was because of the limited number of unique 32 bit index values. To handle this, Google created two index values to reference each each page. One is called the "Selector", and the other is called the "Offset". Simply put, the selector is left shifted by 4 bits and added to the offset so that Google can find any page on the internet simply by knowing its selector and offset. According to the article. Google has exhausted these values as well, and will introduce something called "protected mode page rank" where the slector is shifted farther to create a greater range of values.
If the levy breaks, will there be a torrent?