Why upgrade in the first place? I have a WindowsME sitting at my folk's home, used for e-mailing, chatting and little else. I think it's been lucky in the spyware dept, cos nobody surfs around much and most of the spyware would be targetting XP now... but it does everything that "needs to be done".
When my present WinXP laptop wears off, I'll either hunt down a 100% Linux compatible laptop (this one has winmodem) or just get whatever's top edge when I'm buying the next one. Either way, I get a hardware/software combination that works. Then I don't even think about upgrading until it wears out in its turn...
Okay, if you need to use software which has compatibility issues, but are there that many around any more? Not trolling, just wondering if there *is* a good reason to keep up with the Joneses.
In The Hobbit, gnomes were used to refer to the Noldor, but Tolkein changed that because of the stereotype gnome being short-and-fat and very unelvish (in the Tolkein universe). An overweight Noldor would look a lot like an overweight human. And, if the movies are to be believed, very gay, but I'm not buying that...
The way I see it, the money will just make sure that it gets on top of Slashdot:) and thus a lot of geeks, some with free time, will see it and go, "hey, that sounds interesting - and there's even something in it for me if I do it right!"
People who wouldn't have otherwise thought of trying to clean up Gnome will give it a shot. Go, Novell!
I was about to say, "This is part two, as mentioned in the brief, part one is still around and up, so you could check that up if you wanted a background", but part one didn't really have much in the summary either. Ah, well, this is Slashdot, you must be new here, etc. etc. JFGI.
"I can't see the sense in it [his honorary CBE] really. It makes me a Commander of the British Empire. They might as well make me a Commander of Milton Keynes - at least that exists."
A lot of the old guard were soldiers and other army men, who had won their awards for gallentry. The Beatles responded, "They won their knighthoods for killing people. We won ours for entertaining people. We think we deserve it more."
Those little words which mean so much
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Group Think clowns admit NOTHING. We have sworn our oaths on the Sacred Red Nose of Bobo and the Gloved White Hand of Krusty. We will be honest, generous and true to our cause.
We may or may not be funny.
cheers, The Group Think Clowns (laugh at us? -5, Unfunny to you, bozo)
The first rule of Homeland Security: don't you FRIGGIN' DARE to pretend to be homeland security. Or else our hired goons^W^W^W agents will have you illegally detained in Guantanamo Bay^W^W^W^W^W brought in for questioning.
That said, that's a really smart idea:) - as long as the HS doesn't find out. Or you run into that millionaire who was disallowed from flying...
You have used the phrase "copying movies" in your Slashdot post #11810495, dated March 1st. We remind you that copying movies is a dangerous and illegal activity, which can have harmful effects ranging from misguided threats of legal action from MPAA legalbots to being made to sit through Gigli. Think of all the millions of Hollywood actors living on the streets and eating out of dumpsters because of your thoughtless, violent and evil crime.
Just a gentle reminder from, your friend, RIAA LegalBot[tm] #1024 "Jeff"
In the Yes Minister book version, Sir Humphrey always writes in margins - according to the authors, he even has margin-sized memo paper to scribble notes on.
Apparently, this is because civil servants are so used to writing comments in the margins of official documents that they feel most as ease writing in this form. Maybe this is the same thing?
Look, once and for all, BSD is NOT dying. And yes, Netcraft does friggin' confirm it, so can we please let this troll die its long-overdue natural death?
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Why upgrade in the first place? I have a WindowsME sitting at my folk's home, used for e-mailing, chatting and little else. I think it's been lucky in the spyware dept, cos nobody surfs around much and most of the spyware would be targetting XP now ... but it does everything that "needs to be done".
...
When my present WinXP laptop wears off, I'll either hunt down a 100% Linux compatible laptop (this one has winmodem) or just get whatever's top edge when I'm buying the next one. Either way, I get a hardware/software combination that works. Then I don't even think about upgrading until it wears out in its turn
Okay, if you need to use software which has compatibility issues, but are there that many around any more? Not trolling, just wondering if there *is* a good reason to keep up with the Joneses.
I thought the Bill-Gates-as-borg icon had a slightly wider smile today ...
Look - trollmeat!
In The Hobbit, gnomes were used to refer to the Noldor, but Tolkein changed that because of the stereotype gnome being short-and-fat and very unelvish (in the Tolkein universe). An overweight Noldor would look a lot like an overweight human. And, if the movies are to be believed, very gay, but I'm not buying that ...
The way I see it, the money will just make sure that it gets on top of Slashdot :) and thus a lot of geeks, some with free time, will see it and go, "hey, that sounds interesting - and there's even something in it for me if I do it right!"
People who wouldn't have otherwise thought of trying to clean up Gnome will give it a shot. Go, Novell!
Slashdot: News for Nerds. Stuff that matters ... except in Utah!
And all bets are off if you try compiling more than one *.x.y kernel on the same computer ...
I was about to say, "This is part two, as mentioned in the brief, part one is still around and up, so you could check that up if you wanted a background", but part one didn't really have much in the summary either. Ah, well, this is Slashdot, you must be new here, etc. etc. JFGI.
You mean it's not a flatfile?
Nice! Mind if I copy this post for my quotes website? (see sig)
How did you get *that* past the lameness filter?
:).
Good work, though
"I can't see the sense in it [his honorary CBE] really. It makes me a Commander of the British Empire. They might as well make me a Commander of Milton Keynes - at least that exists."
I'll call you "Sir" for fifty bucks. :D
I love the Beatles' response to that.
A lot of the old guard were soldiers and other army men, who had won their awards for gallentry. The Beatles responded, "They won their knighthoods for killing people. We won ours for entertaining people. We think we deserve it more."
This biographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chris_W ard&action=edit).
So, really, who is he? And why should we be interested?
Treasure hunt, hide and seek, Scotland Yard ... a whole lot of "go find something/someone before anybody else does" games.
My first thought when I saw the article was, man, I wish they had this in Singapore!
Group Think clowns admit NOTHING. We have sworn our oaths on the Sacred Red Nose of Bobo and the Gloved White Hand of Krusty. We will be honest, generous and true to our cause.
We may or may not be funny.
cheers,
The Group Think Clowns
(laugh at us? -5, Unfunny to you, bozo)
The first rule of Homeland Security: don't you FRIGGIN' DARE to pretend to be homeland security. Or else our hired goons^W^W^W agents will have you illegally detained in Guantanamo Bay^W^W^W^W^W brought in for questioning.
:) - as long as the HS doesn't find out. Or you run into that millionaire who was disallowed from flying ...
That said, that's a really smart idea
All your thinks are belong to us.
cheers,
The Group Think Clowns
MPAA, RIAA and all the other *AAs, maybe?
... hey!
IANAA, either
I won't believe this 'til I see it.
Dear horsebutt,
You have used the phrase "copying movies" in your Slashdot post #11810495, dated March 1st. We remind you that copying movies is a dangerous and illegal activity, which can have harmful effects ranging from misguided threats of legal action from MPAA legalbots to being made to sit through Gigli. Think of all the millions of Hollywood actors living on the streets and eating out of dumpsters because of your thoughtless, violent and evil crime.
Just a gentle reminder from,
your friend,
RIAA LegalBot[tm] #1024 "Jeff"
In the Yes Minister book version, Sir Humphrey always writes in margins - according to the authors, he even has margin-sized memo paper to scribble notes on.
Apparently, this is because civil servants are so used to writing comments in the margins of official documents that they feel most as ease writing in this form. Maybe this is the same thing?
Look, once and for all, BSD is NOT dying. And yes, Netcraft does friggin' confirm it, so can we please let this troll die its long-overdue natural death?
And your user name is "GOOG is god"?