It's a bluff - they want to build a time travel machine. They know that the future will send a machine back so they'll be 'given' the techniology rather than build from scratch.
At the moment our galaxy is undergoing a phase-transition from an environment that is hostile to life surviving long enough to evolve intelligence, to one that has life living long enough to destroy it.
>How is one supposed to exercise caution when opening a Word document? Do click on it slowly and deliberately, or do you click it carefully after giving the PC a pat on the head..
No, click on it a little bit at a time until you can just make out what's inside.
"First it was the half naked and interracial menage-a-trois"
Oh, for pity's sake!
You describe them as if they were missing articles of clothing, they were decently dressed. I've seen worse on the side of a bus advertising perfume.
Then what's wrong with 'interracial' - got a problem with different ethnicities being seen together - OMG they were actually touching each other!! Do you know some of us actually touch other peole during the course of day - without having to wash afterward too! Can you believe that - actually touching someone else!! Sometimes, just sometimes mind -their skins are different colours too - imagine that!
'meneage a trois' - actually amounted to three people standing in a circle with their arms interlinked - ohh how racy was that!
Get some perspective on your life - a different background has always been available for those sensitive souls like yourself and if you believeyou need a professional aura then call it Ubuntu 5.04 or5.10.
"Scarier still, does this mean that the first AI will appear on Windows!?!"
Ah but you can rest asured that it won't have long to live, just imagine the senility setting in as BSOD's pop up throughout it's brain!
On anyhting but windows, it would be formidable. You should be grateful to Bill that he foresaw this possibilty and built in procedures to limit the uptime of any windows system.
Of course, if it *could* evolve enough to patch systems as it went that would be scary...
Ditching MS software would enable them to hire one or two more teachers. This will give the kids smaller class sizes and get better teaching as a result.
Also their parents wouldn't have to fork over a load of cash for OS + AV + Net Nanny + antispyware + office software + drawing software and so on.
With MS you get the OS and not much else, with any decent Linux distro you get everything you need.
My kids (8 + 4) can use MS and Mandriva with ease (I set it up that way and it didn't take much) They can use Openoffice and MSOffice interchangeably. They both prefer Mandriva, which suits me just fine - less work to look after the setup.
Kids need to learn word processing and spreadsheets not Word or Excel, there's a world of difference between the two.
Oh and my kids have to handwrite their stuff first, and it has to be spelt correctly, with good grammar before they go near the word processor, and they are not allowed to use calculators (or phones for that matter). Some of you Slashdotters need spelling lessons more than the kids at school.
30,000 tracks on one device - so the manufacturing/recording/distribution costs for the media are at a minimum then what are you paying for?
I agree with other posters that CD's are way overpriced, I don't buy them at all. In truth I very rarely listen to anything other than the radio.
Much of the music industry is consumed by greed, manufactured bands are formulaic and of generally low quality and just not worth my hard earned cash.
I am astonished at how much difference there is between countries, it's about time we all started paying similar prices for stuff that available globally. HP and their printer inks, and regional DVD's spring to mind.
Come to think of it I don't know why I didn't expect any of this, just think the worst of any corporation/conglomerate/government and you hit the nail on the head with astounding accuracy. For the paranoid out there, trust no-one.
Desktop Linux has, for the most part, stagnated because KDE and GNOME won't merge into one mega-standard.
I don't want a mega standard, I use Linux because I can change, I change everything about my set-up and not be answerable to anyone. I love to ring the changes - I regularly use IceWM, Window Maker and KDE and I can't stand Gnome - though I've no idea why, probably 'cos I can't change it very much. Anyway, the point is I love the flexibility and diversity that Linux gives, take that away and you take away peoples freedom of choice. And that my friend is a very bad thing.
Blue-ray will fail because the disks won't play in the current installed base of DVD players. People
now have DVD players in their living rooms, SUVs, cars, laptops, desktops, bedrooms, kitchens, vacation homes-- do you really want to explain to your kid that the new Spiderman3 Blue-ray disk they bought won't play in the minivan?
My kids are already complaining that we don't have a minivan to have a DVD player in! I could fit one to the back of my coat but the picture would be a bit jumpy.
"well, let's face it: if the current time keeping system were software we'd seriously be considering a rewrite"
Only one company would write software that had a bad API with obscure functions (Easter, days in the months) and would have a persistant bug long after it was pointed out that needed regular resets (Leap Years) to fix it.
Of course, they would also feature regular 'upgrades' and include feature lock in, I mean imagine hving a calendar that everyone uses and how difficult it would be to change.....
You forget that getting admitted to one of our NHS hospitals means getting rid of the disease you *do* have and replacing it with another, far more virulent - possibly even fatal one.
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It's a bluff - they want to build a time travel machine. They know that the future will send a machine back so they'll be 'given' the techniology rather than build from scratch.
Veerryy clever!
At the moment our galaxy is undergoing a phase-transition from an environment that is hostile to life surviving long enough to evolve intelligence, to one that has life living long enough to destroy it.
>How is one supposed to exercise caution when opening a Word document? Do click on it slowly and deliberately, or do you click it carefully after giving the PC a pat on the head..
No, click on it a little bit at a time until you can just make out what's inside.
"The fonts are so smooth I want to spread them all over my body."
I prefer spreading chocolate - my wife is addicted to the stuff. Sex on demand whoo hoo!
"First it was the half naked and interracial menage-a-trois"
Oh, for pity's sake!
You describe them as if they were missing articles of clothing, they were decently dressed. I've seen worse on the side of a bus advertising perfume.
Then what's wrong with 'interracial' - got a problem with different ethnicities being seen together - OMG they were actually touching each other!! Do you know some of us actually touch other peole during the course of day - without having to wash afterward too! Can you believe that - actually touching someone else!! Sometimes, just sometimes mind -their skins are different colours too - imagine that!
'meneage a trois' - actually amounted to three people standing in a circle with their arms interlinked - ohh how racy was that!
Get some perspective on your life - a different background has always been available for those sensitive souls like yourself and if you believeyou need a professional aura then call it Ubuntu 5.04 or5.10.
>Take it from me, I bag a different chick almost every night.
Since when does working with chickens give you the right to tell me about style?
They need a small display on the top of the mouse that shows the area under the mouse pointer.
Just think how useful that would be!
Oh Oh I just thought maybe they could have an alphanumeric keypad on there too.
Oh wait - they need USB ports and DVD/RW on there how else can you play multimedia.
Mind you, with all of that on there they really do need some storage - perhaps one of those mini hard drives.
Just think of the functionality you build in then!
Can you stick one under New Orleans, it's a bit damp at the moment and we'd like to dry it out.
Thanks.
Instead of all this R&D why don't they release a bew theme for XP. Save a lot of messing around.
Could have new widgets that ate memory, CPU, disk space and to phone home.
Cheaper and faster than how they're doing it now.
"Hey Europe, if all of your friends were jumping off of a bridge, would you do it too?"
Hell yes!!! We went to war with you didn't we?
"Scarier still, does this mean that the first AI will appear on Windows!?!"
Ah but you can rest asured that it won't have long to live, just imagine the senility setting in as BSOD's pop up throughout it's brain!
On anyhting but windows, it would be formidable. You should be grateful to Bill that he foresaw this possibilty and built in procedures to limit the uptime of any windows system.
Of course, if it *could* evolve enough to patch systems as it went that would be scary...
Money's a big factor at my kid's school.
Ditching MS software would enable them to hire one or two more teachers. This will give the kids smaller class sizes and get better teaching as a result.
Also their parents wouldn't have to fork over a load of cash for OS + AV + Net Nanny + antispyware + office software + drawing software and so on.
With MS you get the OS and not much else, with any decent Linux distro you get everything you need.
My kids (8 + 4) can use MS and Mandriva with ease (I set it up that way and it didn't take much) They can use Openoffice and MSOffice interchangeably. They both prefer Mandriva, which suits me just fine - less work to look after the setup.
Kids need to learn word processing and spreadsheets not Word or Excel, there's a world of difference between the two.
Oh and my kids have to handwrite their stuff first, and it has to be spelt correctly, with good grammar before they go near the word processor, and they are not allowed to use calculators (or phones for that matter). Some of you Slashdotters need spelling lessons more than the kids at school.
to get crap 'news' like this before anyone else.
'Liquid metal' cooling, stickers that improve battery life...
Just how gullible is CmdrTaco? How much did they pay you to put this crap up?
Waste of bloody bandwidth...
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Is that why the light comes on when you open the fridge door?
30,000 tracks on one device - so the manufacturing/recording/distribution costs for the media are at a minimum then what are you paying for?
I agree with other posters that CD's are way overpriced, I don't buy them at all. In truth I very rarely listen to anything other than the radio.
Much of the music industry is consumed by greed, manufactured bands are formulaic and of generally low quality and just not worth my hard earned cash.
I am astonished at how much difference there is between countries, it's about time we all started paying similar prices for stuff that available globally. HP and their printer inks, and regional DVD's spring to mind.
Come to think of it I don't know why I didn't expect any of this, just think the worst of any corporation/conglomerate/government and you hit the nail on the head with astounding accuracy. For the paranoid out there, trust no-one.
Soops
Of course we knighted him!
For services to business no less!
'Bout time we ditched the Queen for someone less dotty if you ask me.
Coming from the same government that uses EDS for major contracts, what did you expect?
Desktop Linux has, for the most part, stagnated because KDE and GNOME won't merge into one mega-standard.
I don't want a mega standard, I use Linux because I can change, I change everything about my set-up and not be answerable to anyone. I love to ring the changes - I regularly use IceWM, Window Maker and KDE and I can't stand Gnome - though I've no idea why, probably 'cos I can't change it very much. Anyway, the point is I love the flexibility and diversity that Linux gives, take that away and you take away peoples freedom of choice. And that my friend is a very bad thing.
Blue-ray will fail because the disks won't play in the current installed base of DVD players. People now have DVD players in their living rooms, SUVs, cars, laptops, desktops, bedrooms, kitchens, vacation homes-- do you really want to explain to your kid that the new Spiderman3 Blue-ray disk they bought won't play in the minivan?
My kids are already complaining that we don't have a minivan to have a DVD player in! I could fit one to the back of my coat but the picture would be a bit jumpy.
walking the line between wisdom and insanity. Looks like you crossed that line, did you take a run up?
"well, let's face it: if the current time keeping system were software we'd seriously be considering a rewrite"
Only one company would write software that had a bad API with obscure functions (Easter, days in the months) and would have a persistant bug long after it was pointed out that needed regular resets (Leap Years) to fix it.
Of course, they would also feature regular 'upgrades' and include feature lock in, I mean imagine hving a calendar that everyone uses and how difficult it would be to change.....
You forget that getting admitted to one of our NHS hospitals means getting rid of the disease you *do* have and replacing it with another, far more virulent - possibly even fatal one.