Microsoft tries to patent things like FAT, dragging icons, the colour blue.
But at least it designed / developed / colour tested / invented / copied in a darkened basement these things and actively created them.
Amazon downloaded *apache.org/*ws* and then says, wow this is neat technology, it must have been made for us! Woohoo lets patent its applications.
And google actually wrote the search engine highlighting at least. You see. Google innovated, they invented new ways of doing things (obvious or not) and wanted to eeek as much of an edge from their efforts as possible (and counter Microsofts course of action).
Amazon did not invent or develop any of these things. They took some technology that was being widely used, and applied it to their own website to make money, and now want to pretend they made it. They didn't though!
As I said, they do not have their own web service libraries, I am not 100% sure (although I can ask) they they use stock libraries for a huge range of what they do (i.e. webservices, xml shyte) which only adds salt to the wound.
If they invented 'super cool secure eacy simple adaptable free open web services' then let them patent it. This is stabbing a lot of people in the back, who actually nurtured the world of WS and online technologies in general.
I don't want to make a cool technology like bittorrent tomorrow, have amazon find it useful and patent its applications.
Of course they are not going to aggressively use their portfolio, until it is profitable for them to do so. The very fact that they patent it though sucks.
I realise as a business they feel the need ot cover their asses, and I wouldn't mind them scurrying for a patent portfolio, but the difference is: IBM is a technology creator, their bread and butter is making technology. They havea gazzillion billion gajillion patents, and have opened many up the OS community.
Amazon sells books (and kitchen sinks). Let them patent leather bookmarks (as opposed to xml shared bookmarks!).
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Because that would be exactly the same thing as they are doing now. If Amazon start using bittorrent to sell video media on their website - you can bet your ass they will patent it.
What makes me SICK is that the libraries they use to facilitate their 'invention' of web services are not written by them, but are most probably common open source implementations.
So :
1) wait for open source communities to develop cool things 2) use it 3) patent it to lock other out
What the fuck Amazon? Just to let you know I won't buy another thing from you, you LEECHERS stealing from the open source community, and the engineers who innovated throughout history to support your online store as it exists today, from Edison to Bernes-Lee.
Amazon are seeking a patent on a technology they did not develop, envisage or architect. A technology that was used by many more before them.
In other news, Kia motors have decided to patent the internal combustion engine, because, what the hey, how do they know they weren't the actual ones who invented it?
Amazon have pissed in the face of Tim Berners Lee (www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/), and every engineer since 1950, who have worked to develop technology that supports the Amazon way of life.
Amazon only exists because of the work of 100,000 people, NONE OF WHOM work at Amazon.
I know someone who works at Amazon, he does Perl coding. I don't see Amazon patenting Perl stuff.
All their credit cards, internet, protocols, databases, are all other peoples work. And now this.
WEB SERVICES WERE NOT INVENTED OR ENVISAGED BY AMAZON - they are once again stealing other peoples work, and just saying, well, we use them, so lets patent them.
They are steaking peoples work, and the f*ckers should be flogged, I have said it before and I wil say it again, Amazon are so f*cking arrogant to do this, they just take take take take take. Language? F*ck yeah, they can piss off.
You know, I bought a shed load of stuff off Amazon, I mean lots, $2500 in about 8 months, which is fairly good. I spend about the same at an online travel company. They have been good to me, so I still use them, Amazon have no pissed me off. Guess what, in the next 8 months, 0 for them.
So what they make more money than then entire readership of slashdot does in a week in about an hour of trading.
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WRONG! you are no longer allowed to point out potential security weaknesses to people who have paid money for something. Discussing the weakness of a product is wrong, and will in fact lead to the ladder breaking by itself. Inform the ladder manufacturer, and I am sure they will recall all ladders sold.
For fucks sake, everyone has no idea about security, there is no such thing as security in computing ONLY programs that are sub-standard and do not do their job properly.
Since this has become mainstream, the whole ideal has become warped, and not the onus is on the consumer to bear the risk, IN SILENCE, for fear of prosecution, because it is illegal to discover and discuss the flaws in software you have paid for.
This guy is a consumer, he paid for and analysed his product, which is no more different than talking about the fruit you bought at the market, or the shaving cream you use. He voiced his opinion that stated that the software was buggy, and would fail under certain circumstances. Not allowing him this right, or anyone else is wrong, and you cannot put the onus of security in shutting up everyone and anyone, because the next person will not nicely talk about it, but strike, oh no that will never happen. Code red, slammer, and a million other worms have costs BUSINESSES who pay the fucking FBI's wages BILLIONS. SO GO AND FUCK YOURSELF FBI, YOU FUCKING IGNORANT PIECES OF SHIT
*muttly mutterings*
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My name is, erm, Paul Preamble, and I would like to point out that if you release HD-DVD formats, then it will take oh so much longer for me to re-encode them to xvid so it will fit onto a cheapo CD, and be more easily attainable through P2P applications.
So I urge you, as a consumer, please keep your bit rates low, and consider us warez geezerz.
Otherwise I will just have to draw upon the dark powers of bittorrent, that evil protocol, and distribute gigs of high resolution video to all my l33t friends on the w3b, you know, d4rkh0rz, m@niac, l0tt0rz and b4dger. (their real handles have been changed to protect the innocent)
The open source and Microsoft cultures can complement one another. I hope they will. If we're going to safely enjoy the benefits of AJAX-style computing, we'll need all the help we can get.
Ridiculous!! thank goodness for Microsoft, who can step up and bail out the plucky open source projects like Firefox, and pat them on the head.
Waste of time website. You know, Microsoft may release its own Linux Distribution, bundled with Windows no doubt... put enough resources in that it keeps them at the top.
Who are they again: Look at their Firefox / Greasemonkey article:
This time there was no Microsoft (Profile, Products, Articles) to blame. The open source underdogs had done this to themselves.
Yeah, that was such a relevant way of outlining the story.
And while some would argue it wasn't Firefox's fault -- since Greasemonkey is a user-installed extension -- Firefox took its share of the blame, just as Internet Explorer does when its add-ins cause trouble.
Two birds with one back hander, well done Bill!
OK, lets black list this 'infoworld.com' shall we?
To see how Microsoft's proprietary technologies can better interoperate with Linux and a host of other open-source software.
Find ways of maximising the effect of all this money spent on brute forcing patents into the EU. Find ways that Linux is interoperable and quash them.
Hilf (wasn't this the nick name for Adolf?) is an open source evangelist, from IBM, working at Microsoft... erm... whats that Master Yoda? You sense great fear and anger in this one yes hmmmm? *cough*dark side*cough*
In fact, he boasted in rather geeky fashion that he has attended every single Linuxworld in the U.S. since the show was first held in 1999. "I should get some kind of medal for that," Hilf joked.
Yeah, one that says 'in medical emergencies call this number ### #######'. Mentalist.
"Microsoft has now gotten to a point that they're accepting the fact that there's enough Linux in their customer environments that they need to interoperate with Linux in the same way they interoperated with Unix in the past," Goulde said.
Erm - don't drop us yet, we are compatible with Linux!
Microsoft Windows ShortNose 2017: A Linux compatible operating system with FREE smileys!
"The attitude is more, 'Tell me more about this,' versus, 'God, don't touch this, it's going to explode if we look at it.' Polarization is starting to be less and less."
Yes, because open source is explosive... like those bomb terrorists use!! MSNBC.com:
Linux Officially a New Terrorist Threat!
This is all just a curtain of distraction while Microsoft rape the EU to get patents, and then land linux in a nice vat of steaming 'Yes we love linux, and interoperability, which is why they can license these 1838390 patents if they want to continue breathing!'.
In fact, that is exactly what will be the focus of a discussion the long-time open-source proponent will lead at this year's upcoming Linuxworld Conference & Expo next month in San Francisco
I am sure you all agree that this is not too strong a statement:
What the fuck??.... Bill Gates: We have always been about open source, heck, we invented Linux, just before the Internet, and I have always said that people like Linus Torvalds who says the GPL license is a disease, a cancerous growth are really bad people!
Interviewer: What the fuck you crackhead, you said all those things, you two bit company has dug itself into a hole, and you not be allowed back out this easily.
Bill Gates: Didn't we pay you lots of money to make us look good?
Interviewer: Oh yes, so tell me Bill, what was is like inventing the Internet?
Bill Gates: I am glad you asked...
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Monkeys look like monkey, not something in the uncanny valley though.
Interesting post, but what youa re saying is, that the uncanny valley is invalid for this type of interaction.
I think people do not 'forget they are interacting with a robot' but this is because the interaction is being forced through unfamiliar terms.
We know how to treat a VCR, an ATM or a computer, but when the inputs are not mechnical, but based on something we have painstakingly developed so not to look weird (i.e. human interaction, vocal intercourse, oh matron) - then we find ourselves trying to deal with the situation in a comfortable way:
1) feel stupid talking to a robot 2) ignore the robot and talk to it like a drive through microphone
Again, I am sure that 5x9's realism will hop over the uncanny valley, but this vacant staring, cold looking skin is close enough to a human that it triggers our 'intepret human' response, and we think, ZOMG look at that freak staring at nothing, and batting her eyelids at me...
Don't worry, I once took a photo of an old guy sat at madam tussauds (I am sure he was planted there, because he sat so still, and his skin didn't look right, as if they had put some off coloured, non-refracting (hard) make-up on him.
So if real people can look fake, then fake things shoudl be able to look real right?
Cisco says the the problem is not a security vulnerability
and...
Cisco and ISS are filing a law suit against Michael Lynn and the management of the Black Hat Conference, following Lynn's presentation discussing a vulnerability in IOS
Surely the defense would be: Your honour, obviously there was no vunerability in the beginning, because look, Cisco said themselves that the ability to take over the router, and sniff for pr0n on the network is a feature, not a vunerability!
Of course, he is write, Cisco suing him for disclosing a vunerability means it was a vunerability, and therefore this would be like suing someone for saying something TRUE about you (or a politician, who are ripe targets).
So are they suing hom for saying it was a vunerability, or for disclosing the vunerability. Assholes, gotta love large over hyped bitch corps.
How come the last story only has 72 comments? ya pervs!:-)
Seriously, as many have said the Uncanny valley plays a part here - and they seem to have hit rock bottom, euch!
I am just itching for the feminists to quip 'why does the fembot have to have soft skin and tits!'. Well I think it looks quite scarey.
Lets see if they go the route of a more beautiful simplified face (that is, an abstract, aesthetically pleasing, but not 'sexually beautiful' face) or trying to make it so real, that it entices us.
You see, the funny thing is, men like women, but they pissed us off so much that we are just trying to replace them now, with ones that can at least run linux!:-)
The surface temperature of the Sun is 6000 celcius, do we really want to bring it in to our offices? I mean, 1: it is hot, 2: it won't fit through the door, even if you unlock that side door partition which is really annoying 3: The gravitations forces would rip apart this planet, but not before it was vaporised into a little puff of dirty steam.
So, all in all, I could say keep the sun outside, and the pale white geeks inside.
Two people I know want to buy Macs, they are both non-techies, both girls, and both asked me where they could get one from.
Their lack of technical knowledge basically says 'computer' ok, that is a computer, and that is a computer, ok, which one shoudl I buy, oh that one looks nice.
Brilliant! not to mention 4 of my friends asked my to install ubuntu onto their machines. The interwebnet still works, their email works, and they have more card games!
I hate to do it, but come on Eric: Your signature isn't even a signature: - I have signature viewing turned off, yet your 'make easy money with google.com' website advertisment is still showing.
Keep your signature IN your signature, I don't believe you went to the trouble of copy/pasting a signature into your messages each and every time just to by pass peoples OWN choices in viewing signatures, that slashdot gives them. Luckily I just RIPped that link out of slashdot, so I won't see it again, but please respect the netiquette of slashdot (what little there is!).
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Hill said, "then by God we're going to take the (boom) down and we're going to get them more data and that data are going to look like they were sitting right there in front of the tile with their hands on it, it's going to be so good."
Seriously, get the man a tissue! I imagine him clenching his fist as he says that, perhaps holding it high and then striking his palm with it.
Perhaps then gestigulating wildly with his index finger, accusing and taunting the very heavens with his wild mannerisms.
I hope he is on medication for this, else he might hold his pinky to his mouth and laugh ala Dr Evil.
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Microsoft tries to patent things like FAT, dragging icons, the colour blue.
But at least it designed / developed / colour tested / invented / copied in a darkened basement these things and actively created them.
Amazon downloaded *apache.org/*ws* and then says, wow this is neat technology, it must have been made for us! Woohoo lets patent its applications.
And google actually wrote the search engine highlighting at least. You see. Google innovated, they invented new ways of doing things (obvious or not) and wanted to eeek as much of an edge from their efforts as possible (and counter Microsofts course of action).
Amazon did not invent or develop any of these things. They took some technology that was being widely used, and applied it to their own website to make money, and now want to pretend they made it. They didn't though!
As I said, they do not have their own web service libraries, I am not 100% sure (although I can ask) they they use stock libraries for a huge range of what they do (i.e. webservices, xml shyte) which only adds salt to the wound.
If they invented 'super cool secure eacy simple adaptable free open web services' then let them patent it. This is stabbing a lot of people in the back, who actually nurtured the world of WS and online technologies in general.
I don't want to make a cool technology like bittorrent tomorrow, have amazon find it useful and patent its applications.
Of course they are not going to aggressively use their portfolio, until it is profitable for them to do so. The very fact that they patent it though sucks.
I realise as a business they feel the need ot cover their asses, and I wouldn't mind them scurrying for a patent portfolio, but the difference is: IBM is a technology creator, their bread and butter is making technology. They havea gazzillion billion gajillion patents, and have opened many up the OS community.
Amazon sells books (and kitchen sinks). Let them patent leather bookmarks (as opposed to xml shared bookmarks!).
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Because that would be exactly the same thing as they are doing now. If Amazon start using bittorrent to sell video media on their website - you can bet your ass they will patent it.
What makes me SICK is that the libraries they use to facilitate their 'invention' of web services are not written by them, but are most probably common open source implementations.
So :
1) wait for open source communities to develop cool things
2) use it
3) patent it to lock other out
What the fuck Amazon? Just to let you know I won't buy another thing from you, you LEECHERS stealing from the open source community, and the engineers who innovated throughout history to support your online store as it exists today, from Edison to Bernes-Lee.
Amazon are seeking a patent on a technology they did not develop, envisage or architect. A technology that was used by many more before them.
In other news, Kia motors have decided to patent the internal combustion engine, because, what the hey, how do they know they weren't the actual ones who invented it?
Amazon have pissed in the face of Tim Berners Lee (www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/), and every engineer since 1950, who have worked to develop technology that supports the Amazon way of life.
Amazon only exists because of the work of 100,000 people, NONE OF WHOM work at Amazon.
I know someone who works at Amazon, he does Perl coding. I don't see Amazon patenting Perl stuff.
All their credit cards, internet, protocols, databases, are all other peoples work. And now this.
WEB SERVICES WERE NOT INVENTED OR ENVISAGED BY AMAZON - they are once again stealing other peoples work, and just saying, well, we use them, so lets patent them.
They are steaking peoples work, and the f*ckers should be flogged, I have said it before and I wil say it again, Amazon are so f*cking arrogant to do this, they just take take take take take. Language? F*ck yeah, they can piss off.
You know, I bought a shed load of stuff off Amazon, I mean lots, $2500 in about 8 months, which is fairly good. I spend about the same at an online travel company. They have been good to me, so I still use them, Amazon have no pissed me off. Guess what, in the next 8 months, 0 for them.
So what they make more money than then entire readership of slashdot does in a week in about an hour of trading.
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Woah, that ladder does look safe!
WRONG! you are no longer allowed to point out potential security weaknesses to people who have paid money for something. Discussing the weakness of a product is wrong, and will in fact lead to the ladder breaking by itself. Inform the ladder manufacturer, and I am sure they will recall all ladders sold.
For fucks sake, everyone has no idea about security, there is no such thing as security in computing ONLY programs that are sub-standard and do not do their job properly.
Since this has become mainstream, the whole ideal has become warped, and not the onus is on the consumer to bear the risk, IN SILENCE, for fear of prosecution, because it is illegal to discover and discuss the flaws in software you have paid for.
This guy is a consumer, he paid for and analysed his product, which is no more different than talking about the fruit you bought at the market, or the shaving cream you use. He voiced his opinion that stated that the software was buggy, and would fail under certain circumstances. Not allowing him this right, or anyone else is wrong, and you cannot put the onus of security in shutting up everyone and anyone, because the next person will not nicely talk about it, but strike, oh no that will never happen. Code red, slammer, and a million other worms have costs BUSINESSES who pay the fucking FBI's wages BILLIONS. SO GO AND FUCK YOURSELF FBI, YOU FUCKING IGNORANT PIECES OF SHIT
*muttly mutterings*
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My name is, erm, Paul Preamble, and I would like to point out that if you release HD-DVD formats, then it will take oh so much longer for me to re-encode them to xvid so it will fit onto a cheapo CD, and be more easily attainable through P2P applications.
So I urge you, as a consumer, please keep your bit rates low, and consider us warez geezerz.
Otherwise I will just have to draw upon the dark powers of bittorrent, that evil protocol, and distribute gigs of high resolution video to all my l33t friends on the w3b, you know, d4rkh0rz, m@niac, l0tt0rz and b4dger. (their real handles have been changed to protect the innocent)
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I think (but then I realised yanks write both with -se, so, as The Rock would say - it doesn't matter).
Else SCO will start asking for licenses from confectioners.
You have heard it all before, but when stories like this come up, you say, yeah yeah, right as if.
When you are sipping your complimentary drink, with your new verisign chip, you will be saying, yeah yeah, as if.
Sad but true. But listen to their site 'Come and Get Chipped!!!'
Humans, nothing more than a number.
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It might be BSD, it might be Linux, it might be some third thing
So, its either option A, or option B, or an option C which can be anything.
He has given himself quite a bit of leeway there.
If Marshmallows evolve into the dominant lifeform on this planet, his dying breath will be, I was right I tell ya!!! Its the third thing!!
(yes I RTFA and yes he really says that)
The open source and Microsoft cultures can complement one another. I hope they will. If we're going to safely enjoy the benefits of AJAX-style computing, we'll need all the help we can get.
Ridiculous!! thank goodness for Microsoft, who can step up and bail out the plucky open source projects like Firefox, and pat them on the head.
Waste of time website. You know, Microsoft may release its own Linux Distribution, bundled with Windows no doubt... put enough resources in that it keeps them at the top.
Mental.
Who are they again: Look at their Firefox / Greasemonkey article:
This time there was no Microsoft (Profile, Products, Articles) to blame. The open source underdogs had done this to themselves.
Yeah, that was such a relevant way of outlining the story.
And while some would argue it wasn't Firefox's fault -- since Greasemonkey is a user-installed extension -- Firefox took its share of the blame, just as Internet Explorer does when its add-ins cause trouble.
Two birds with one back hander, well done Bill!
OK, lets black list this 'infoworld.com' shall we?
To see how Microsoft's proprietary technologies can better interoperate with Linux and a host of other open-source software.
Find ways of maximising the effect of all this money spent on brute forcing patents into the EU. Find ways that Linux is interoperable and quash them.
Hilf (wasn't this the nick name for Adolf?) is an open source evangelist, from IBM, working at Microsoft... erm... whats that Master Yoda? You sense great fear and anger in this one yes hmmmm? *cough*dark side*cough*
In fact, he boasted in rather geeky fashion that he has attended every single Linuxworld in the U.S. since the show was first held in 1999. "I should get some kind of medal for that," Hilf joked.
Yeah, one that says 'in medical emergencies call this number ### #######'. Mentalist.
"Microsoft has now gotten to a point that they're accepting the fact that there's enough Linux in their customer environments that they need to interoperate with Linux in the same way they interoperated with Unix in the past," Goulde said.
Erm - don't drop us yet, we are compatible with Linux!
Microsoft Windows ShortNose 2017: A Linux compatible operating system with FREE smileys!
"The attitude is more, 'Tell me more about this,' versus, 'God, don't touch this, it's going to explode if we look at it.' Polarization is starting to be less and less."
Yes, because open source is explosive... like those bomb terrorists use!! MSNBC.com:
Linux Officially a New Terrorist Threat!
This is all just a curtain of distraction while Microsoft rape the EU to get patents, and then land linux in a nice vat of steaming 'Yes we love linux, and interoperability, which is why they can license these 1838390 patents if they want to continue breathing!'.
In fact, that is exactly what will be the focus of a discussion the long-time open-source proponent will lead at this year's upcoming Linuxworld Conference & Expo next month in San Francisco
....
I am sure you all agree that this is not too strong a statement:
What the fuck??
Bill Gates: We have always been about open source, heck, we invented Linux, just before the Internet, and I have always said that people like Linus Torvalds who says the GPL license is a disease, a cancerous growth are really bad people!
Interviewer: What the fuck you crackhead, you said all those things, you two bit company has dug itself into a hole, and you not be allowed back out this easily.
Bill Gates: Didn't we pay you lots of money to make us look good?
Interviewer: Oh yes, so tell me Bill, what was is like inventing the Internet?
Bill Gates: I am glad you asked...
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You sicko... now where was I... yes. realdoll.com... hmmmmmm nice...
Monkeys look like monkey, not something in the uncanny valley though.
Interesting post, but what youa re saying is, that the uncanny valley is invalid for this type of interaction.
I think people do not 'forget they are interacting with a robot' but this is because the interaction is being forced through unfamiliar terms.
We know how to treat a VCR, an ATM or a computer, but when the inputs are not mechnical, but based on something we have painstakingly developed so not to look weird (i.e. human interaction, vocal intercourse, oh matron) - then we find ourselves trying to deal with the situation in a comfortable way:
1) feel stupid talking to a robot
2) ignore the robot and talk to it like a drive through microphone
Again, I am sure that 5x9's realism will hop over the uncanny valley, but this vacant staring, cold looking skin is close enough to a human that it triggers our 'intepret human' response, and we think, ZOMG look at that freak staring at nothing, and batting her eyelids at me...
Don't worry, I once took a photo of an old guy sat at madam tussauds (I am sure he was planted there, because he sat so still, and his skin didn't look right, as if they had put some off coloured, non-refracting (hard) make-up on him.
So if real people can look fake, then fake things shoudl be able to look real right?
We all have it - I was typing right, while thinking about a different possible branch of that sentence that contained the verb write.
I suck
Cisco says the the problem is not a security vulnerability
and...
Cisco and ISS are filing a law suit against Michael Lynn and the management of the Black Hat Conference, following Lynn's presentation discussing a vulnerability in IOS
Surely the defense would be: Your honour, obviously there was no vunerability in the beginning, because look, Cisco said themselves that the ability to take over the router, and sniff for pr0n on the network is a feature, not a vunerability!
Of course, he is write, Cisco suing him for disclosing a vunerability means it was a vunerability, and therefore this would be like suing someone for saying something TRUE about you (or a politician, who are ripe targets).
So are they suing hom for saying it was a vunerability, or for disclosing the vunerability. Assholes, gotta love large over hyped bitch corps.
Hrm, well you got me there. Laziness is the undeniable excuse for everything. Sorry I over reacted a bit I guess. I realise I don't actually care :-)
Your comment was actually pretty insightful too, well, stet.
How come the last story only has 72 comments? ya pervs! :-)
:-)
Seriously, as many have said the Uncanny valley plays a part here - and they seem to have hit rock bottom, euch!
I am just itching for the feminists to quip 'why does the fembot have to have soft skin and tits!'. Well I think it looks quite scarey.
Lets see if they go the route of a more beautiful simplified face (that is, an abstract, aesthetically pleasing, but not 'sexually beautiful' face) or trying to make it so real, that it entices us.
You see, the funny thing is, men like women, but they pissed us off so much that we are just trying to replace them now, with ones that can at least run linux!
The surface temperature of the Sun is 6000 celcius, do we really want to bring it in to our offices? I mean, 1: it is hot, 2: it won't fit through the door, even if you unlock that side door partition which is really annoying 3: The gravitations forces would rip apart this planet, but not before it was vaporised into a little puff of dirty steam.
So, all in all, I could say keep the sun outside, and the pale white geeks inside.
RTF-what?
Two people I know want to buy Macs, they are both non-techies, both girls, and both asked me where they could get one from.
Their lack of technical knowledge basically says 'computer' ok, that is a computer, and that is a computer, ok, which one shoudl I buy, oh that one looks nice.
Brilliant! not to mention 4 of my friends asked my to install ubuntu onto their machines. The interwebnet still works, their email works, and they have more card games!
Score.
Sigs should be in sigs.
I hate to do it, but come on Eric: Your signature isn't even a signature: - I have signature viewing turned off, yet your 'make easy money with google.com' website advertisment is still showing.
Keep your signature IN your signature, I don't believe you went to the trouble of copy/pasting a signature into your messages each and every time just to by pass peoples OWN choices in viewing signatures, that slashdot gives them. Luckily I just RIPped that link out of slashdot, so I won't see it again, but please respect the netiquette of slashdot (what little there is!).
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Hill said, "then by God we're going to take the (boom) down and we're going to get them more data and that data are going to look like they were sitting right there in front of the tile with their hands on it, it's going to be so good."
Seriously, get the man a tissue! I imagine him clenching his fist as he says that, perhaps holding it high and then striking his palm with it.
Perhaps then gestigulating wildly with his index finger, accusing and taunting the very heavens with his wild mannerisms.
I hope he is on medication for this, else he might hold his pinky to his mouth and laugh ala Dr Evil.