I'm sorry, ma'am, but your card says right here that you are Saddam Hussein. How you escaped and got the sex change and full facial reconstruction so fast is beyond us. Just come along peacefully, now.
The potential for virus mayhem is amazing.
If not rewritable, at least imagine the identity theft possibilities.
Get laid as much as possible, with as many different people as possible. It doesn't matter in the long run, and you'll have some great stuff to remember.
If the contract specifies full ownership of source code, it shouldn't be encrypted or otherwise protected, and the outsource company is in violation. If it's just for working binaries...too bad.
By living forever, I want to have to flee the solar system in my early youth because the sun is turning into a red giant. Of course, I also hope to be outside the solar system long before them, but I'd like to come back to visit my birth planet periodically. Later on, also in what I'd consider to be my early youth, I'd like to be able to sit back and watch the Milky Way galaxy collapse into a large black hole already at its center. I'd like to be able to measure lifetimes of stars as ticks on my stopwatch.
A thousand years isn't anywhere near forever.
My dad and I observed this a long time ago after playing Pac-Man for too long - he was driving down the road and kept trying to drive down the middle of the road, on the dotted lines. Fortunately he avoided the brightly colored cars, but kept wanting to run into the blue ones.
and yet they still exist. Movie rental has been around a long time, even when people could easily copy VHS tapes. They're not going away any time soon.
I'd start an exchange program with Blockbuster (and other rental stores) such that for every old style DVD that Blockbuster sent in, they'd get a free copy of the exact same movie in the new format plus a dollar back. Sure, it's a hefty cost, but when everyone tries to rent a DVD and finds they have to either rent or buy a new player, the new format automatically wins. Game over.
Why exactly would I buy DVDs that I can't play on my existing DVD player?
Oh yeah, in a few years they simply won't make DVDs that do play on my existing player.
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I'm sorry, ma'am, but your card says right here that you are Saddam Hussein. How you escaped and got the sex change and full facial reconstruction so fast is beyond us. Just come along peacefully, now. The potential for virus mayhem is amazing. If not rewritable, at least imagine the identity theft possibilities.
Do they need more than 4Ghz? If this can make computers thousands of times more powerful...a 10Thz machine would so totally rock, man.
space based 60 megawatt microwave projectors? Wouldn't that have some really ugly military applications?
On what planet are Apples cheaper than PCs?
...when one of these things grows up, would it be wrong to think Jessica Rabbit is hot?
What, you assigned them numbers and treated them like interchangeable drones?
Get laid as much as possible, with as many different people as possible. It doesn't matter in the long run, and you'll have some great stuff to remember.
If the contract specifies full ownership of source code, it shouldn't be encrypted or otherwise protected, and the outsource company is in violation. If it's just for working binaries...too bad.
but has SCO been ordered to turn over all of it's source code to the court yet? If not, why not?
By living forever, I want to have to flee the solar system in my early youth because the sun is turning into a red giant. Of course, I also hope to be outside the solar system long before them, but I'd like to come back to visit my birth planet periodically. Later on, also in what I'd consider to be my early youth, I'd like to be able to sit back and watch the Milky Way galaxy collapse into a large black hole already at its center. I'd like to be able to measure lifetimes of stars as ticks on my stopwatch. A thousand years isn't anywhere near forever.
Hmmm...how much does a good massage bunny cost?
Yup. Soylent Green is OLD PEOPLE!
So why did a login come up?
Sigh...you are right. I suppose that in some country where family name comes before the personal name, there's even someone called "Blow Mi".
Gee, I initially read that as "these things EAT OLD PEOPLE FOR FUEL!" Now *that* would solve the Social Security problem...
exactly why anyone would want this when they can already get Firefox?
I welcome our new Cylon overlords. Especially if they are hot as that blonde chick.
Ok, so maybe I'm totally wrong. It's happened before. But that's reverse engineering, not theft.
No, they bought a license fair and square.
but I gave up on the Internet.
My dad and I observed this a long time ago after playing Pac-Man for too long - he was driving down the road and kept trying to drive down the middle of the road, on the dotted lines. Fortunately he avoided the brightly colored cars, but kept wanting to run into the blue ones.
and yet they still exist. Movie rental has been around a long time, even when people could easily copy VHS tapes. They're not going away any time soon.
I'd start an exchange program with Blockbuster (and other rental stores) such that for every old style DVD that Blockbuster sent in, they'd get a free copy of the exact same movie in the new format plus a dollar back. Sure, it's a hefty cost, but when everyone tries to rent a DVD and finds they have to either rent or buy a new player, the new format automatically wins. Game over.
Why exactly would I buy DVDs that I can't play on my existing DVD player? Oh yeah, in a few years they simply won't make DVDs that do play on my existing player.
I thnk the best part of this post is that it got tagged as "Funny".