This article has not been labeled "whatcouldpossiblygowrong".
<yoda>
It will be. It will be./<yoda>
Seriously, let's not forget that cyanobacteria were responsible for the the single most devastating environmental catastrophe (oh, and by the way, killed (almost) ALL other life) in the history of the planet - changing the atmosphere from a reducing one to an oxidizing one. To suggest that this could turn into some kind of biological grey-goo isn't that far-fetched.
You're right. The ST506 was full-height, (remember the squeaky monkey-like noise it made?) the ST225 was half-height - somewhere in my basement, I still have an ST225 I paid $250 for.
I'm guessing that they haven't sold 1 billion Seagate branded drives, but that they're including all the drives made by all the other drive companies they've bought in the past.
Actually, I thought this was the most telling line from the article:
The VP asserted that... the most important thing now was to ensure that OOXML came under ISO's control so that it could be "further improved".
This puts me in mind of that old quote about academia "The fights are so vicious because the stakes are so small".
The delusional hubris of a (European standards group) bureaucrat that they can somehow "control" or "improve" (shit - "influence in any non-quantum way") Microsoft's behavior just makes me groan.
Red Hat is just being disingenuous. They're really in the business of selling support for a free product to companies who want to run Linux on their servers and still have somebody to yell at when things go wrong. If you think about it, Microsoft isn't really interested in the "desktop" business either - they want to sell to companies, so they can charge full price, (re)sell frequent upgrades, and sign fat support contracts. After the initial sale, there's NO money to be made (either by Red Hat or Microsoft) for the typical "home desktop" machine - there's only headaches to be had from that market.
I'm going to have to start patenting all those 'inventions' by Newton
Just wait until Major League Baseball hears about my new patent "Method and Procedure for Throwing a Baseball so its Trajectory 'Curves' upon reaching Home Plate".
Slashdot Mirror
I love the fact that the message starts with a buffer overflow.
Seriously, let's not forget that cyanobacteria were responsible for the the single most devastating environmental catastrophe (oh, and by the way, killed (almost) ALL other life) in the history of the planet - changing the atmosphere from a reducing one to an oxidizing one. To suggest that this could turn into some kind of biological grey-goo isn't that far-fetched.
I have some lectures on black holes in mp3, and listening to the Japanese speakers talk about "brack hos" gets me going every time.
I understand they're working on an ISO-OOXML compliant office suite.
You're right. The ST506 was full-height, (remember the squeaky monkey-like noise it made?) the ST225 was half-height - somewhere in my basement, I still have an ST225 I paid $250 for.
I'm guessing that they haven't sold 1 billion Seagate branded drives, but that they're including all the drives made by all the other drive companies they've bought in the past.
So, only rap after that then, huh?
/ducks
sorry, sorry, sorry, had to...
If you live in the UK, (especially London) you know your movements are being monitored - there's a bloody video camera every 12 feet.
Sure, why not? "Oh fer the luvva mike"/"Oh fer cripes sake"/"Oh fer cryin' out loud" is an actual legal defense in the state of Wisconsin.
The delusional hubris of a (European standards group) bureaucrat that they can somehow "control" or "improve" (shit - "influence in any non-quantum way") Microsoft's behavior just makes me groan.
Should we tag this one "privacy"?
Walt Kelly was right: "we have met the enemy, and he is us".
Red Hat is just being disingenuous. They're really in the business of selling support for a free product to companies who want to run Linux on their servers and still have somebody to yell at when things go wrong. If you think about it, Microsoft isn't really interested in the "desktop" business either - they want to sell to companies, so they can charge full price, (re)sell frequent upgrades, and sign fat support contracts. After the initial sale, there's NO money to be made (either by Red Hat or Microsoft) for the typical "home desktop" machine - there's only headaches to be had from that market.
I think "peopleunclearontheconcept" is more like it.
"simply by looking at the filenames"
while (conscious)
head->desk();
I$O Standard?
I'm thinking you could roast some coffee beans on that server right about now.
I've been wanting to replace my Franklin Ace!
"Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them in summer school".
Heh. You linked to:
Aluminium
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aluminum redirects here.
It's "aluminium". Get used to it.
Nah. With chicks, it's just the opposite. The small hot ones are always orbited by larger ones.
He should have said "it's so fast it'll do an infinite loop in half a second".
I calculate a "fingertip-to-knuckle unit" to be 3.174 * 10^-4 football fields.
No.
Sam Ramji is an anagram for "I am Sam jr".
Microsoft is an acronym for "pure evil".