Oh boo hoo. I've been here practically forever, I didn't even bother to get an id until there were "features" with it. My karma has never gotten over 30 and I couldn't give a fsck. What the hell do you want? A certificate of accomplishment?
If no one gave a shit about karma then there wouldn't be all the damn trolls, hell someone should just write a patch to the slashcode to make karma invisible to everyone.
In fact I'd rather have an age based system (thats real world years). Go ahead and grab new accounts and try and troll, you'll just be an infant to me. Can we do that? Go for the simple scheme of anyone with an id under a quarter-mil is old? This would at least allow the friend/foe scheme to be useful since people wouldn't be able to just dump their account and get a new one to start over with.
Speaking of friend/foe, they need to add another option of
"just plain stupid".
Your logic is seriously faulty. The Riemann Hypothesis may never be proved whereas there is a non-zero quantity of >=$1M contracts floating around at all times.
The 601 isn't very different from the 603/604/750/... and Motorola has the relevant docs. The problem is supporting the entire machine, as someone else pointed out, the bus on the motherboard is wacked. Hence the model numbers of the systems are necessary to determine what will run on it.
If you were really a PNG geek you would have known about pngcrush which gets the file down to 540266 bytes.
method 119 for my possibly old version.
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yawn.
You can flap your lips all you like but it doesn't prove anything. Give us proof. Not the usual "blah blah blah we have a Win2k box blah blah blah never rebooted blah blah blah uku billion terrabytes workload blah blah blah."
That's all I ask, proof. Proof. Proof.
As for the win2k web servers not having very long uptimes, perhaps it is because it is a common practice to reboot them every week to prevent "unscheduled reboots".
This is my biggest complaint about Comp Sci degrees. Many of these people are useless programming anything with math. At my old company, I would rather hire a math guy with zippo programming experience because it was easy for those people to pickup programming. Just try and teach a CS guy math! I seriously wish they would start differentiating the degrees, e.g., Comp Sci with specialty in numerics or something.
That kind of nonsense is why there's 50+ email clients and only a handful of the important things like audio/video compression etc... Things with numbers.
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Good for you.
I personally like to zoom way the hell in. I like my uber zany levels of resolution, you apparently don't. Therefore, congratulations, technology has provided you with a product that you never have to replace.
And to continue your nonsensical logic, why don't you just decrease your rez to 32x32, you can store a crap load and you don't even need to waste cycles making thumbnails.
My question to you is, why do you care that other people want higher rez pictures?
Give me a break, like no one has ever seen a battery before. The real problem is that usually the display models are fake empty shells of the real deal.
There is nothing wrong with the link. For the 1 millionth time for all you lamers out there,/. in an effort to shut the stupid page-widening trolls up inserts spaces into long pieces of text such as urls. Read the FAQ if you are still clueless.
Actually you have the body temp thing wrong. As the size of the body increases, the percentage of surface area per body mass goes down. There was an article somewhere that talked about this w.r.t. to dinosaurs. The smaller you are the faster you lose body heat.
What I would be doing if I were Apple? Helping to add IE/Win functionality or code-morphing to translate VBscript and other MS crap into something more useful, then let all browsers lie to the server and say they are windows IE based. Help the Mozilla/Chimera effort in the wake of the inevitable.NOT incompatibilities that will "accidentally slip in".
This is exactly what M$ wants people to do. It perpetuates the myth that if you make something compatible with windows that it will eventually work on everything else. Except that M$ will continually tweak things to "fix security problems". It is a losing battle. The end result is that M$ becomes the defacto standard.
The correct thing to do is support a standard. That is what they are for.
It is obviously not 5 minutes on the Flash's watch since at the speed he is traveling (whatever it is) one quick glance at his watch and ker-splat!! I have enough trouble driving at 80mph while looking at a gps.
I think it would be cool to rewrite various comics, but do so with more realistic physics, e.g., watch the flash erupt into flames when he runs too fast.
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With the number of trollers on/. I have to ask you to prove yourself. Updating your webpage with your user number is probably sufficient.
Actually to say that "I did not have sex." when referring to a blow job is accurate.
Yes, tell your girlfriend that and see what she says. When she is screaming at you, tell her "it's your argument that fails." Later you can ponder on your own whether masturbation is sex.
Lovely throwing in the Nazis in all this. Makes a nice little comparison MS == Nazis. It's the comparison that so many MS bashers love to use.
sigh... Perhaps you should query wordnet yourself. It really is the first and primary definition. But then, I thought you weren't one to make assumptions.
the rest of your argument analogy etc... is pointless to respond to. Especially your comparison to the dipshit at your company, MS gets oodles of resumes and would not have to tolerate that type of behaviour. What is your company? I bet you won't say since it would prove how weak your argument was.
You are getting so much backlash because you did the same thing, you took their one line and came to the opposite conclusion which is in apparent opposition to the facts at hand.
This has always been a problem in english, that of affinity. e.g., we could rewrite the sentence using parentheses to demarcate phrases to get an interpretation that is factually correct.
This just emphasizes how hard (Open Source companies like Linux) and (RealMedia) are going to have to work to overcome the scourge that is Micro$oft.
So we could interpret it as "how hard A and B are going to..."
This is similar to stating "We have cats, dogs and fishes." Logically you know "dogs and fishes" are separate and is considered valid english but I personally prefer the extra comma for clarity, "We have cats, dogs, and fishes." Another example is "We have hotdogs, burgers, chips and dip." Should that really be "We have hotdogs, burgers and chips and dip." since "chips and dip" can be considered one thing?
They have yet to succeed on a long term basis. If MS the monopoly continues unabated, I'd bet money that this "Windows-less" option will suddenly cease one day.
To restate the same damn thing for you knuckleheads, you can't open a business that sells linux boxes (or OS-less boxes) and claim that MS does not have a monopoly because of the existence of your company. (VA Linux anyone?)
You destroy all credibility that you may have had by making idiotic statements. This is equivalent to saying "I did not have sex." means that blow jobs and such are not sex. Or by insisting "what do you mean by 'is'?" You ask a hundred people what "Extinguish" means and you will get the same answer. The wordnet dictionary has four definitions of "extinguish", two are related to putting out fires. The other two are of the kill nature. Yes KILL. If you still don't get it, here is definition 1:
1. snuff out, extinguish -- (put an end to; kill; "The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children")
So why is "embrace and extend" equated to "embrace and extinguish"? Because history has shown that whenever MS uses that strategy it ends up with the victim being extinguished.
And your simple explanation that that topic would get all types of conjecture etc is crap because this was not a public mailing list, it is an internal mailing list at MS that their boss reads. And your "Tom" wouldn't be working very long at MS if he usually had a negative opinion about everything.
Your entire argument reeks of illogic. I could continue but it is pointless.
Just start turning in companies all over the place, say you work there and know for a fact that they have pirated M$ software. Either they'll be too busy to mess with you or, if you really go ballistic, the entire city will backlash against them.
Or that researchers should give all rights to their work to the publisher. Doesn't that ring a bell with anyone? To be clear, if you submit a paper to a journal, you can't even offer that paper for download on your own website! Yes that's right YOUR paper, YOUR research, can't be published on YOUR website.
For those of you who don't grok what I'm saying, go on and conform to whatever those "journals" request of you, but don't come crying to us when they require a butt-raping as part of the honor of getting your paper published.
We need some kind of mass casualties to show how evil and stupid these software patents are. One of the biggest problems with the M$ case is that netscape didn't just completely die and have all its assets auctioned off.
At a previous job, a guy asked me if I could recover the data off of a harddrive that had "crashed". Of course in that case, "crashed" really meant "The computer it was in got knocked off of a high shelf while it was running and it started making a screechy sound shortly thereafter."
Personally I would rather have my tax info on a computer which crashes and is lost forever. I don't trust the government with my info with all this talk of M$ passport
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In fact I'd rather have an age based system (thats real world years). Go ahead and grab new accounts and try and troll, you'll just be an infant to me. Can we do that? Go for the simple scheme of anyone with an id under a quarter-mil is old? This would at least allow the friend/foe scheme to be useful since people wouldn't be able to just dump their account and get a new one to start over with.
Speaking of friend/foe, they need to add another option of "just plain stupid".
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Your logic is seriously faulty. The Riemann Hypothesis may never be proved whereas there is a non-zero quantity of >=$1M contracts floating around at all times.
The 601 isn't very different from the 603/604/750/... and Motorola has the relevant docs. The problem is supporting the entire machine, as someone else pointed out, the bus on the motherboard is wacked. Hence the model numbers of the systems are necessary to determine what will run on it.
If you were really a PNG geek you would have known about pngcrush which gets the file down to 540266 bytes.
method 119 for my possibly old version.
You can flap your lips all you like but it doesn't prove anything. Give us proof. Not the usual "blah blah blah we have a Win2k box blah blah blah never rebooted blah blah blah uku billion terrabytes workload blah blah blah."
That's all I ask, proof. Proof. Proof.
As for the win2k web servers not having very long uptimes, perhaps it is because it is a common practice to reboot them every week to prevent "unscheduled reboots".
t.
This is my biggest complaint about Comp Sci degrees. Many of these people are useless programming anything with math. At my old company, I would rather hire a math guy with zippo programming experience because it was easy for those people to pickup programming. Just try and teach a CS guy math! I seriously wish they would start differentiating the degrees, e.g., Comp Sci with specialty in numerics or something.
That kind of nonsense is why there's 50+ email clients and only a handful of the important things like audio/video compression etc... Things with numbers.
I personally like to zoom way the hell in. I like my uber zany levels of resolution, you apparently don't. Therefore, congratulations, technology has provided you with a product that you never have to replace.
And to continue your nonsensical logic, why don't you just decrease your rez to 32x32, you can store a crap load and you don't even need to waste cycles making thumbnails.
My question to you is, why do you care that other people want higher rez pictures?
Give me a break, like no one has ever seen a battery before. The real problem is that usually the display models are fake empty shells of the real deal.
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Actually you have the body temp thing wrong. As the size of the body increases, the percentage of surface area per body mass goes down. There was an article somewhere that talked about this w.r.t. to dinosaurs. The smaller you are the faster you lose body heat.
Or even easier "rm -r borkeddir; mkdir borkeddir;" why bother with special tricks? This is also the easiest way to get rid of wackily named files.
The correct thing to do is support a standard. That is what they are for.
my condolences on your gf's weight problem.
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I think it would be cool to rewrite various comics, but do so with more realistic physics, e.g., watch the flash erupt into flames when he runs too fast.
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the rest of your argument analogy etc... is pointless to respond to. Especially your comparison to the dipshit at your company, MS gets oodles of resumes and would not have to tolerate that type of behaviour. What is your company? I bet you won't say since it would prove how weak your argument was.
You are getting so much backlash because you did the same thing, you took their one line and came to the opposite conclusion which is in apparent opposition to the facts at hand.
t.
This just emphasizes how hard (Open Source companies like Linux) and (RealMedia) are going to have to work to overcome the scourge that is Micro$oft.
So we could interpret it as "how hard A and B are going to ..."
This is similar to stating "We have cats, dogs and fishes." Logically you know "dogs and fishes" are separate and is considered valid english but I personally prefer the extra comma for clarity, "We have cats, dogs, and fishes." Another example is "We have hotdogs, burgers, chips and dip." Should that really be "We have hotdogs, burgers and chips and dip." since "chips and dip" can be considered one thing?
t.
To restate the same damn thing for you knuckleheads, you can't open a business that sells linux boxes (or OS-less boxes) and claim that MS does not have a monopoly because of the existence of your company. (VA Linux anyone?)
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So why is "embrace and extend" equated to "embrace and extinguish"? Because history has shown that whenever MS uses that strategy it ends up with the victim being extinguished.
And your simple explanation that that topic would get all types of conjecture etc is crap because this was not a public mailing list, it is an internal mailing list at MS that their boss reads. And your "Tom" wouldn't be working very long at MS if he usually had a negative opinion about everything.
Your entire argument reeks of illogic. I could continue but it is pointless.
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This is arguing that "my vote doesn't count".
Or that researchers should give all rights to their work to the publisher. Doesn't that ring a bell with anyone? To be clear, if you submit a paper to a journal, you can't even offer that paper for download on your own website! Yes that's right YOUR paper, YOUR research, can't be published on YOUR website.
For those of you who don't grok what I'm saying, go on and conform to whatever those "journals" request of you, but don't come crying to us when they require a butt-raping as part of the honor of getting your paper published.
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