Exactly. It's comparable to Wikipedia and other public knowledge infodumps. In the case of Wikipedia, the whole thing is run by a nonprofit foundation with all its policies, including all the legal terms you're releasing your contributions under, out in the open for all to see. It's a pretty safe bet that the Wikimedia foundation won't all of a sudden charge mandatory access fees and get rich off of what its users have spent years building up in good faith.
It turns out we can't get to India that way. Whew, thank goodness we didn't waste an insanely long and difficult journey just to come back and look stupid in front of Queen Isabella.
I can just see these guys standing around the office, saying "when in the future we get some venture capital, we have to remember to come back to the present and give it to ourselves.... now!"
And does anyone have a copy on punch cards they could dupe for me? I had the early release candidate all ported over to the UNIVAC standard 90-column cards and ready to go, but during the last inventory I spilled coffee on one of the DLL batches, jumped up in surprise, and accidentally knocked over crate #47,128.
Will someone please bring me a new rip of Vista right away, or at the very least a large rake?
Solar power has always been free. It's the gadgetry that can convert it to certain other kinds of power for us that are getting more affordable. </pedanticbastard>
"Hi! My name is Foofy the penguin doll, and I was just crammed behind the cushions on the living room couch of Lemmy and Esther Quackenbush of Freebish, Missouri. Come find me and sign my wings!"
The active ingredient in chili peppers has been used as a topical pain relief treatment for ages, you can buy it over the counter. It's also the active ingredient in that self-defense pepper spray. The more you know...
The results aren't terribly surprising to those in the trenches, stating that most executives view security as something akin to facilities management.
Sort of what I expected, but it still might make an interesting read. Perhaps I'll get a copy.
"Thankfully", the $495 report
Ouch! Screw that noise. Although, I may have stumbled upon why the IT crowd doesn't "get" upper-management decisions like spending half a grand on the same info you could get by talking to someone in the field over the morning coffee and bagel.
Not only could Dvorak completely fail to distinguish his arse from his elbow, he could then get paid by a magazine to write a rant about why elbows are evil things that should never be allowed near arses in the first place and clearly anyone not thinking with their elbows agrees. He could then get it posted to Slashdot, rake in another round of ad hits for his bosses, and increase his own notoriety.
What a silly article. Personally, I feel it's high time there stopped being one or two overhyped "must have" gifts every holiday season that everyone suddenly wants, filling the pockets of whoever crapped out the flashiest ads. Whatever happened to getting people thoughtful gifts you know they'd like, out of the large number of things possible to actually get without a second mortgage and a sideline dealing heroin to metal bands?
There are pantloads of gadgets and non-gadgets out there I'd love to receive this holiday season, chances are you've never seen a television commercial for any of them, none of them will cost you a week's pay, and if you know me you can guess what they are. And I hope whatever I give you is just as appreciated.
By the way, Slashdot, have I ever mentioned before that in real life I'm a 50-year-old blonde Chinese woman from Decatur, Illinois named Suzanne who loves "American Idol" and professional sports, and whose favorite food is eggplant?
Others have resorted to more extreme tactics--including kidnapping. One respondent said the vendor's own hardware and software engineers disagreed on the problem's source. "I kept them in a conference room and didn't let them leave until they mutually found a solution," he said.
This needs to be the standard for every corporate, political, or other human conflict. It's like a polite version of Thunderdome!
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Exactly. It's comparable to Wikipedia and other public knowledge infodumps. In the case of Wikipedia, the whole thing is run by a nonprofit foundation with all its policies, including all the legal terms you're releasing your contributions under, out in the open for all to see. It's a pretty safe bet that the Wikimedia foundation won't all of a sudden charge mandatory access fees and get rich off of what its users have spent years building up in good faith.
It turns out we can't get to India that way. Whew, thank goodness we didn't waste an insanely long and difficult journey just to come back and look stupid in front of Queen Isabella.
Good point, considering how much useful stuff is regularly acquired and recycled from plain old Earth dumpsters.
If we're going to jump backward as far as coal, we may as well go all the way. I say, dinosaur-powered Flinstones appliances for all!
I can just see these guys standing around the office, saying "when in the future we get some venture capital, we have to remember to come back to the present and give it to ourselves.... now!"
"Um.... now!"
"Nnnnnnnnnnow!"
And does anyone have a copy on punch cards they could dupe for me? I had the early release candidate all ported over to the UNIVAC standard 90-column cards and ready to go, but during the last inventory I spilled coffee on one of the DLL batches, jumped up in surprise, and accidentally knocked over crate #47,128.
Will someone please bring me a new rip of Vista right away, or at the very least a large rake?
Hear hear! Well said.
So how much will MS be paying all the unsigned bands who are duping their own discs without the "benefit" of a label?
I wonder who posted comment #16777216. That person should win some sort of "I borked Slashdot!" award.
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Yes, it's certainly terrible how we can't reply to comments.
"Hi! My name is Foofy the penguin doll, and I was just crammed behind the cushions on the living room couch of Lemmy and Esther Quackenbush of Freebish, Missouri. Come find me and sign my wings!"
The active ingredient in chili peppers has been used as a topical pain relief treatment for ages, you can buy it over the counter. It's also the active ingredient in that self-defense pepper spray. The more you know...
..will be the Nintendo Oui.
All your base.
Not only could Dvorak completely fail to distinguish his arse from his elbow, he could then get paid by a magazine to write a rant about why elbows are evil things that should never be allowed near arses in the first place and clearly anyone not thinking with their elbows agrees. He could then get it posted to Slashdot, rake in another round of ad hits for his bosses, and increase his own notoriety.
Four-seconds-is-the-most-time-I-would-ever-spend-r eading-a-Slashdot-article-or-comment-so-I-ask-all- posters-to-please-make-their-points-quickly-and-su ccinctly-in-small-manageable-doses-ooh-look-there- is-a-shiny-object-on-my-desk-gotta-go.
For those unfamiliar with Flickr, it's owned by Yahoo, who just loves them some patents.
What a silly article. Personally, I feel it's high time there stopped being one or two overhyped "must have" gifts every holiday season that everyone suddenly wants, filling the pockets of whoever crapped out the flashiest ads. Whatever happened to getting people thoughtful gifts you know they'd like, out of the large number of things possible to actually get without a second mortgage and a sideline dealing heroin to metal bands?
There are pantloads of gadgets and non-gadgets out there I'd love to receive this holiday season, chances are you've never seen a television commercial for any of them, none of them will cost you a week's pay, and if you know me you can guess what they are. And I hope whatever I give you is just as appreciated.
Your search, "Breasts," did not return any results.
Did you mean "beasts?"
I regret to inform you that all Slashdot tags are being aggressively converted to "itsatrap" starting today.
By the way, Slashdot, have I ever mentioned before that in real life I'm a 50-year-old blonde Chinese woman from Decatur, Illinois named Suzanne who loves "American Idol" and professional sports, and whose favorite food is eggplant?