Here is your brand new car, sir. Drive it off the lot. Yay yay new car. Suddenly, new car shuts off. New car barely starts again and then only goes about 6 miles per hour and it belches smoke and every warning light on the dashboard is blinking on and off and the tires are screaming and the heater is blasting your feet and something smells like burned hair. You hobble back to the dealer, who only says, gosh, sorry, we thought you knew -- that's they way they all run. Enjoy!
There's just one thing the dealer in the metaphor didn't say - if you get on the road without putting paneling and windshields on the car, everyone will try to play bumper cars with you - and the gas tank is your bumper.
If he let his SO connect to the Internet on DSL (or cable, or in any way), regardless of the operating system, there should be massive revolt against him. If he wasn't on that connection, what is his setup like?
As soon as I sign up for this one, the only type of insurance plan that I will need which I don't already have will be insurance fraud insurance... and insurance fraud insurance insurance - just to be on the safe side.
Or imagine a penguin (named Tux, naturally) debating Bill Gates on the virtues of their respective OSes. Of course, we'd also need a Dr. Zoidberg as part of the peanut gallery - you know, variety and such.
there are a limited number of bits you can fit into a finite space
As soon as the right disk manufacturer joins up/merges/acquires ACME, they'll have access to those Bugs Bunny type portable black holes, at which point bit density and the laws of physics which currently apply to disk storage development shall no longer be relevant.
I do believe so... the next article's title is: "Despite slow news day, Slashdot editors maintain consistant daily volume of stories for readers."
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There are several stories/theories that are put out there, all claiming to be the right one.
For example, The Chicago Public Library tells us that it's because originally a sports league of four schools, the number four being "IV" in Roman numerals.
The straight dope, on the other hand, basically says it's the "Big Eight" (formerly "Big Three") who got together for sports competitions, and the "Ivy" in "Ivy League" refers to the Ivy growing on the walls. Wikipedia seems to agree with this, but has a much more detailed information on the league and the schools which form it, as well as other related information.
Can't see squat since the slashdot effect has taken hold already, but I from the Snopes info, I was sort of hoping to see some of Dr. Zoidberg's ancestors.
Of course, the sad part is that with the latest update, stating they'll be buying rack-mounted UPSes for their systems (that's a bunch of them for 100+ servers), certainly aided by the finances the SixApart deal provides, but most LJ users won't see it that way... or at all.
Uhmmm, Warped has *always* had, at the very least, a logo on that page. Don't believe it? Try The Wayback Machine, going as far back as it can, back to September 23rd, 2001.
Granted, the banner is bigger now, but that may be traffic driven (over x MB/month(day?) = larger banner) since it's a page that isn't used often. Then again, Warped.com may just be saying "We're not teh sux0rz".
LiveJournal should offer those who are willing to put in some sweat equity, charging UPSes or powering servers by pedaling/running in a hamster wheel/other old school electricity generation technique, the chance to update their journals, so they can let the world know how they felt about not being able to access livejournal... to be read once the site comes up.
Colour me redundant, but there must be at LEAST a hundred or so scremo/emo/angst filled poetry, song and interpretative dance about not being able to let the world know how you feel about livejournal being down.
Some sponsorship deals are worth OODLES. Jaguar is losing HSBC next year, which is one of their main sponsors (rear wing + others), and that's a loss of 70 MILLION dollars for the season, which is a significant chunk of change, specially when you consider that the top teams have a budget ranging around 200-250 million dollars per season. That 70 million is a lot of R&D in any form, wind tunnel, track time, chasis evolution and design, you name it.
Atually, more recently, I heard he was second behind Tiger Woods. Either way, that's buttloads more money than I make in a year. Maybe I should start slapping logos all over myself?
[quote] I have heard NAASCOOOORRR fans say that F1 is too much technology and not enough driving [/quote]
In which case, you need only mention two names to them... Andretti (went to F1 for a season, failed miserably and went back to SCRAPCAR) and Montoya, a.k.a. JPM. He was in SCRAPCAR and went to F1. I've heard him in interviews say they're both exciting, but F1 is more competitive and more of a thrill (paraphrasing here, but that was the gist of it).
It's nice and swell that a good number of utilities exist that can create a DoD caliber wipe of the data, however, more and more computers are being sold without floppy drives (since Microsoft did away with requiring a floppy drive for a system to be Windows compatible), specially laptops (if you're selling a laptop HD, it's either new, or attached to the remainder of the laptop parts, rarely used laptop drives alone), what do you do when all you have is an optical drive of some type and the hard drive itself?
Perhaps this is a queue to someone to create/build a bootable CD ISO image that can perform the wipe, as well as perhaps other hardware utilities and diagnostic tools.
It's probably not just me, but doesn't it seems to me that the Ministry of Culture should probably be called the Ministry of Truth (or MiniTruth for short)???
See SCO run down their cash supply, and a big Linux-backing entity (IBM, Novell, other) to come forth and offer SCO cash... for Unix, SystemV, anything else they may have along those lines.
I'm still waiting on my atomic-powered jet-pack, or ANY jet-pack for that fact. They promised us jet-packs, I want mine now! I've got enough Marlboro miles and bottle caps for it!
I would trust a machine to count votes or take in the information - it's the humans who tell it how to read and process this information I worry about.
And another 1/3 are forwards that people send you so they don't die, don't have a lifetime sex dry-spell, grow a mustache, work for the RIAA, get money from Bill Gates/Disney/AOHELL (pick one or more).
I know that's now 4/3, but if I don't wrongly use math five times within 24 hours, I will grow an arm out of my neck and I will never know true happiness. Now you've got it too!
Seven different colours??? SEVEN? I can't have that - no way should my mouse pad have more colour options than my good ol' trusty CGA monitor. What next, a "Lite-Brite" style mouse pad? Just put the pins in wherever you want to make the colour patern you want on your mousepad?
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is the patent system patented?
Here is your brand new car, sir. Drive it off the lot. Yay yay new car. Suddenly, new car shuts off. New car barely starts again and then only goes about 6 miles per hour and it belches smoke and every warning light on the dashboard is blinking on and off and the tires are screaming and the heater is blasting your feet and something smells like burned hair. You hobble back to the dealer, who only says, gosh, sorry, we thought you knew -- that's they way they all run. Enjoy!
There's just one thing the dealer in the metaphor didn't say - if you get on the road without putting paneling and windshields on the car, everyone will try to play bumper cars with you - and the gas tank is your bumper.
If he let his SO connect to the Internet on DSL (or cable, or in any way), regardless of the operating system, there should be massive revolt against him. If he wasn't on that connection, what is his setup like?
How about free certificates?
Got that, except now we need the money that was in that jar to replace the kid's glasses.
As soon as I sign up for this one, the only type of insurance plan that I will need which I don't already have will be insurance fraud insurance... and insurance fraud insurance insurance - just to be on the safe side.
Or imagine a penguin (named Tux, naturally) debating Bill Gates on the virtues of their respective OSes. Of course, we'd also need a Dr. Zoidberg as part of the peanut gallery - you know, variety and such.
there are a limited number of bits you can fit into a finite space
As soon as the right disk manufacturer joins up/merges/acquires ACME, they'll have access to those Bugs Bunny type portable black holes, at which point bit density and the laws of physics which currently apply to disk storage development shall no longer be relevant.
I do believe so... the next article's title is: "Despite slow news day, Slashdot editors maintain consistant daily volume of stories for readers."
There are several stories/theories that are put out there, all claiming to be the right one.
For example, The Chicago Public Library tells us that it's because originally a sports league of four schools, the number four being "IV" in Roman numerals.
The straight dope, on the other hand, basically says it's the "Big Eight" (formerly "Big Three") who got together for sports competitions, and the "Ivy" in "Ivy League" refers to the Ivy growing on the walls. Wikipedia seems to agree with this, but has a much more detailed information on the league and the schools which form it, as well as other related information.
Can't see squat since the slashdot effect has taken hold already, but I from the Snopes info, I was sort of hoping to see some of Dr. Zoidberg's ancestors.
Of course, the sad part is that with the latest update, stating they'll be buying rack-mounted UPSes for their systems (that's a bunch of them for 100+ servers), certainly aided by the finances the SixApart deal provides, but most LJ users won't see it that way... or at all.
Uhmmm, Warped has *always* had, at the very least, a logo on that page. Don't believe it? Try The Wayback Machine, going as far back as it can, back to September 23rd, 2001.
Granted, the banner is bigger now, but that may be traffic driven (over x MB/month(day?) = larger banner) since it's a page that isn't used often. Then again, Warped.com may just be saying "We're not teh sux0rz".
LiveJournal should offer those who are willing to put in some sweat equity, charging UPSes or powering servers by pedaling/running in a hamster wheel/other old school electricity generation technique, the chance to update their journals, so they can let the world know how they felt about not being able to access livejournal... to be read once the site comes up.
Colour me redundant, but there must be at LEAST a hundred or so scremo/emo/angst filled poetry, song and interpretative dance about not being able to let the world know how you feel about livejournal being down.
Some sponsorship deals are worth OODLES. Jaguar is losing HSBC next year, which is one of their main sponsors (rear wing + others), and that's a loss of 70 MILLION dollars for the season, which is a significant chunk of change, specially when you consider that the top teams have a budget ranging around 200-250 million dollars per season. That 70 million is a lot of R&D in any form, wind tunnel, track time, chasis evolution and design, you name it.
Atually, more recently, I heard he was second behind Tiger Woods. Either way, that's buttloads more money than I make in a year. Maybe I should start slapping logos all over myself?
[quote]
I have heard NAASCOOOORRR fans say that F1 is too much technology and not enough driving
[/quote]
In which case, you need only mention two names to them... Andretti (went to F1 for a season, failed miserably and went back to SCRAPCAR) and Montoya, a.k.a. JPM. He was in SCRAPCAR and went to F1. I've heard him in interviews say they're both exciting, but F1 is more competitive and more of a thrill (paraphrasing here, but that was the gist of it).
It's nice and swell that a good number of utilities exist that can create a DoD caliber wipe of the data, however, more and more computers are being sold without floppy drives (since Microsoft did away with requiring a floppy drive for a system to be Windows compatible), specially laptops (if you're selling a laptop HD, it's either new, or attached to the remainder of the laptop parts, rarely used laptop drives alone), what do you do when all you have is an optical drive of some type and the hard drive itself?
Perhaps this is a queue to someone to create/build a bootable CD ISO image that can perform the wipe, as well as perhaps other hardware utilities and diagnostic tools.
"drive" downhill all the time.
Your mileage (and brakes) may vary.
It's probably not just me, but doesn't it seems to me that the Ministry of Culture should probably be called the Ministry of Truth (or MiniTruth for short)???
See SCO run down their cash supply, and a big Linux-backing entity (IBM, Novell, other) to come forth and offer SCO cash... for Unix, SystemV, anything else they may have along those lines.
I'm still waiting on my atomic-powered jet-pack, or ANY jet-pack for that fact. They promised us jet-packs, I want mine now! I've got enough Marlboro miles and bottle caps for it!
I would trust a machine to count votes or take in the information - it's the humans who tell it how to read and process this information I worry about.
I don't need that much RAM. 640K is all I'll ever need. Uncle Bill said so!
And another 1/3 are forwards that people send you so they don't die, don't have a lifetime sex dry-spell, grow a mustache, work for the RIAA, get money from Bill Gates/Disney/AOHELL (pick one or more). I know that's now 4/3, but if I don't wrongly use math five times within 24 hours, I will grow an arm out of my neck and I will never know true happiness. Now you've got it too!
Seven different colours??? SEVEN? I can't have that - no way should my mouse pad have more colour options than my good ol' trusty CGA monitor. What next, a "Lite-Brite" style mouse pad? Just put the pins in wherever you want to make the colour patern you want on your mousepad?