The prospect of trying to combine a corporation whose roots are in the Bay Area of California with one whose roots are in Texas--how come no one questions these catastrophic mis-marriages of disparate corporate culture? Houston, Texas and Palo Alto, California?! What a joke.
From my experience talking to New England Compaq employees, it's been the Digital culture that took over Compaq, not the other way around. This makes sense when you consider that Digital was far larger in terms of employees.
So then Compaq has a Boston/Route-128 culture, not a Houston one. Still a mismatch of course.
A version of Windows XP (because the only reason I still use Windows is for my ATI-TV card, and to review computer games) that only has these features:
1. Break an encryption scheme. (ok, this part could be difficult)
2. Encrypt the resulting code, documentation, etc using a scheme developed by you. Say, ROT-14 or something equally brilliant.
3. If Adobe's laywers (for example) come after you for possessing a "circumvention mechanism" then let them know that they have circumvented your encryption and are equally in violation of the DMCA.
The roots of the US government school system go back to a heirarchical system devised by the Prussians after their defeat at the Battle of Jena. This system divided students into an elite, to be trained to set policy (about 0.5% of the population) a class destined to implement policy (about 3%) and the remainder, destined to obey their betters.
I'm curious as to where this information came from.
I metamod far more often than I moderate or comment. And yes, frequently I mark things as unfair.
Now I know what happened. I'm keeping the "willing to moderate" box unchecked now, thank you.
Apparently, search for the word 'porn' on
BearShare results in more than 25,000 entries, many of them
video files.
This is a serious problem. I mean, think of how much time and space it would take to download all of that! My hard drive and modem are cringing just thinking about it.
I checked out that site and found nothing of sort. I found wild conjecture on what the SIOP could possibly be, and then a simulation run as a worst-case scenario, showing a whole lotta death.
Well, yes, there would be a whole lotta death, but don't let the NRDC fool you into thinking they were using actual plans.
I was gonna mod you down, but there's no (-1, Misinformed) option.
(And before some city fool posts an obnoxious, ignorant post about crop subsidies
and all the government waste, let me point out that these guys can't stand it either -
but faced with government protection of wholesale monopolies that name their price
for crops in ebay fashion, that subsidy means the difference between them eeking
out a pathetic survival and you having nothing on your dinner plate).
Please educate us. Perhaps we city-folk wouldn't rant about subsidies if we knew more about this monopoly you speak of. What is the situation and how are they hurting the farmers? --
Re:60,000,000,000,000 watts turns me on...
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Let's see. That would be 60,000 Gigawatts.
As we all know, it takes 1.21 Gigawatts to travel trough time.
60000 / 1.21 = 49586
So you could activate a Flux Capacitor 49,586 times. Beats Mr. Fusion any day!
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remande makes an excellent point. I'd like to add one thing:
Who did we immediately suspect bombed the Oklahoma City building? Arab extremists. But no, it was an American!
We shouldn't retaliate until we get more facts on who did this. THEN kill the motherfuckers.
The link to this story appears to be broken. Does anyone have it archived?
Thanks!
[alarm clock. wakes up groggy]
[pours a cup of coffee]
[reads morning Slashdot stories]
Oh, shit!
[dies]
Really? I had only heard that this was the case in New England, the old "Digital Country." I wasn't aware that it had spread throughout Compaq.
The prospect of trying to combine a corporation whose roots are in the Bay Area of California with one whose roots are in Texas--how come no one questions these catastrophic mis-marriages of disparate corporate culture? Houston, Texas and Palo Alto, California?! What a joke.
From my experience talking to New England Compaq employees, it's been the Digital culture that took over Compaq, not the other way around. This makes sense when you consider that Digital was far larger in terms of employees.
So then Compaq has a Boston/Route-128 culture, not a Houston one. Still a mismatch of course.
1. Basic OS/Gui.
2. Directx 8
Isn't that the idea behind the X-Box?
I hit the lameness filter. So now I'll write some more text.
1. Break an encryption scheme.
(ok, this part could be difficult)
2. Encrypt the resulting code, documentation, etc using a scheme developed by you. Say, ROT-14 or something equally brilliant.
3. If Adobe's laywers (for example) come after you for possessing a "circumvention mechanism" then let them know that they have circumvented your encryption and are equally in violation of the DMCA.
I'm curious as to where this information came from.
Shit! So that's where all my karma went.
I metamod far more often than I moderate or comment. And yes, frequently I mark things as unfair.
Now I know what happened. I'm keeping the "willing to moderate" box unchecked now, thank you.
Thanks.
I first read that as "Kafkaesque" ... and you know, that works too.
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This is a serious problem. I mean, think of how much time and space it would take to download all of that! My hard drive and modem are cringing just thinking about it.
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Most popular search terms on the Gnutella network
...
Teen
Preteen
Lolita
Oh, they're thinking about the children, all right.
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It was most likely swamp gas reflected off the planet Venus.
Or a weather balloon, perhaps.
But I would certainly not tell anyone that I saw a fireball the other night.
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MAY PRE HOUSE THE SEAMY SIDE VOLITATION!!!
Sorry, I had to :)
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Truly, AC, you have a way with words.
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Thank you, Lumpish Scholar, I wouldn't have been able to read the announcement otherwise.
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Compuser, it's funny due to the mocking, sarcastic tone. He's describing the way a Real Programmer would do it.
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Wow! Does that mean that a certain staple of movies with spy-cameras crucial to the plot will finally have a basis in reality?
Every time I hear, "I can't see his face because the video's not clear enough - here, let me enhance the image," I just wanna scream...
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Ok, maybe the Cyc-bot would be slightly more sophisticated...
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Under (3):
It developed its own exlucidating hidden human assumptions of space, and time, and object, and so-on
I think you meant:
It developed its own, elucidating hidden human assumptions of space, and time, and object, and so-on
Just to clarify for people, it confused me when I read it. I had to look up "elucidate" too: to explain or clarify.
I hope this elucidates things for someone :)
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I checked out that site and found nothing of sort. I found wild conjecture on what the SIOP could possibly be, and then a simulation run as a worst-case scenario, showing a whole lotta death.
Well, yes, there would be a whole lotta death, but don't let the NRDC fool you into thinking they were using actual plans.
I was gonna mod you down, but there's no (-1, Misinformed) option.
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Please educate us. Perhaps we city-folk wouldn't rant about subsidies if we knew more about this monopoly you speak of. What is the situation and how are they hurting the farmers?
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As we all know, it takes 1.21 Gigawatts to travel trough time.
60000 / 1.21 = 49586
So you could activate a Flux Capacitor 49,586 times. Beats Mr. Fusion any day!
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