We have a company here that is taking open source technology for their new browser, but then refuse to give the changes they make back in a way that might be useful to the original open source developers.
The Germans even have a word for brilliant off-the-cuff remarks you only think of after the fact: treppenwitz, the wit of the staircase. If you're lucky, though, history will be rewritten so that your quotes are remembered as extemporaneous. A great deal of famous Mark Twain saying are either misquoted or quoted in a false context, though it doesn't diminish the value of the quotes themselves.
Look at the timestamps, mods. The parent poster probably hit "reply" before the first post hit the page. Objectively redundant, yes, but not his fault.
I hate this "Base 10" nonsense. I mean, binary is base 10. Hexadecimal is base 10. Octal is base 10. The one that we all use where ten is the number of fingers we have (but has no name) is base 10. So is every decimal system. 10 is just one more than your biggest digit. Maybe we should use Roman numerals to describe base systems in absolute rather than relative terms. I mean, hexadecimal is base 10,000 for all I know.
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Your point is more pertinent to politics than business. Most companies don't exist in countries anyone is trying to destroy, and are more interested in things like the level of regulation than the military. I don't think Canadian companies are succeeding because Canada has a strong military, since frankly there would be little threat to Canada even if they had a very weak military.
True, but like the grandparent pointed out, inventing things isn't always what makes the greatest impact. Who invented the automobile? Or the photocopy machine? Or the light bulb? It sure wasn't Ford or Xerox or Edison. But I know those names, instead of the name of the inventors.
Yes, yes, "virii" verbum non est in Latina, sed vero necesse est tibi putere jocum non esse?
"Virii" is slang, just like "boxen." There's nothing wrong with using slang in certain contexts, however, and/. is certainly one of them. Elitism too often leads to downfall.
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Well that one's just a lie.
I assume that Hawaiians at least wouldn't think that their language sounds silly. In fact they might even take exception to someone calling it silly.
You say this now, but a few thousand years later when the Butlerian Jihad sets in you'll sure regret it.
Hey! I had shares in Apple once too! I must literally own OS/X and Mac AUX 10!
Ask that question on /. and you'll conjure images of a tinfoil hat-wearing Vince Foster being killed by Natalie Portman with hot grits in Japan.
Of course there are going to be glitches, but it's still rather embarrassing to get a BSOD.
Meanwhile you could use something like simultaneous multithreading (like hyper-threading).
Halo 2 already overstresses the Xbox though, and frankly without the goods from Bungie, Microsoft doesn't have a ton going for them.
The correct response, of course, is "mu."
Cromulent, by the way, is an adjective to describe something which has cromulence.
The Germans even have a word for brilliant off-the-cuff remarks you only think of after the fact: treppenwitz, the wit of the staircase. If you're lucky, though, history will be rewritten so that your quotes are remembered as extemporaneous. A great deal of famous Mark Twain saying are either misquoted or quoted in a false context, though it doesn't diminish the value of the quotes themselves.
Surely instead you meant:
"Fool me once...shame on...shame on you. ...You fool me...can't get fooled again."
Look at the timestamps, mods. The parent poster probably hit "reply" before the first post hit the page. Objectively redundant, yes, but not his fault.
I hate this "Base 10" nonsense. I mean, binary is base 10. Hexadecimal is base 10. Octal is base 10. The one that we all use where ten is the number of fingers we have (but has no name) is base 10. So is every decimal system. 10 is just one more than your biggest digit. Maybe we should use Roman numerals to describe base systems in absolute rather than relative terms. I mean, hexadecimal is base 10,000 for all I know.
Already been done.
Your point is more pertinent to politics than business. Most companies don't exist in countries anyone is trying to destroy, and are more interested in things like the level of regulation than the military. I don't think Canadian companies are succeeding because Canada has a strong military, since frankly there would be little threat to Canada even if they had a very weak military.
In fact it has the highest circulation of any daily English-language newspaper in the world.
Being Peter Molyneux, he probably hyped that he was being created a knight, but it turned out only to be OBE.
True, but like the grandparent pointed out, inventing things isn't always what makes the greatest impact. Who invented the automobile? Or the photocopy machine? Or the light bulb? It sure wasn't Ford or Xerox or Edison. But I know those names, instead of the name of the inventors.
You mean it will be signed? Why then, even Microsoft would have to approve!
"How big of a monkey?"
But does that mean that Lesbian GNU/Linux is not a "real distro?"
"Virii" is slang, just like "boxen." There's nothing wrong with using slang in certain contexts, however, and /. is certainly one of them. Elitism too often leads to downfall.
To be fair, they actually mention in the article, "Linux is nothing more than a kernel."