I wonder if this is the editors (failed) attempt at humor at the expense of their rival digg.com.
Digg's biggest problem is/are dupes, so much so that you can see dupes on the front page on a semi-regular basis.
I see the Internet as the very beginning of something big in human evolution - we're getting to the point where we can control our own evolution.
At the moment, we all depend on our computers to search for data on the web, hence the question. But as we master quantum storage, I believe we will all have the ability to have all the info on the web surgically connected to our brains - thus we will 'know' all the info on the web. No more searching (well unless you count searching our own brains).
Faster than a senior citizen. More powerful than a trip with Jerry Garcia. Able to beat Grand Turismo in a single round.
Look! Sitting on my couch! It's an herb. It's mary jane. It's Superweed!
Yes, it's Superweed - strange strain from another DNA who came to my living room with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal plants. Superweed - who can change the course of mighty lives, make people eat Taco Bell with their bare hands, and who, disguised as Purple Haze, a mild flavored hash from 1967's hippie's Summer of Love, fights the never ending battle for Peace, Love and the Ultimate Frag.
Seriously - do you all really think that 30 - 40 years from now, space tourism won't be common place? Yes, it may still be for the more affluent of folks, but thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people will be traveling into space every year.
With that many people, do you all really think that there won't be space stations in the US, and everyone will travel half way around the world to Russia for launch?
Surely you all don't believe thousands of people will take a 14 hour flight, just to board another flight.
*queue the "Don't call me Sherly jokes"
I don't see these regulations as being something for the present, rather for the long-term.
And we need these regulations here in the US.. I mean isn't the US all about protecting us from ourselves - at least, that's the way it's becoming.
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>I will be unhappy with *every* GUI toolkit until I find one where you can express an entire dialog box in a SINGLE LINE (I don't care how Perl-like the syntax!) and get on with your life.
I'm pretty sure you can do this with Visual Basic.. happy now?
>Microsoft has annual revenues of 40 billion a year. The EU has an annual budget of around 100 billion a year. I'd say they're prety much th same league.
Microsoft is a company.. The EU is a government. Apples and Oranges.
>Name one war in which the subsequently occupied area was immediately freer than before the war.
Here's one: The American Civil War.
Here's two: The American Revolutionary War
Here's three: The French Revolution
Here's a bunch more: former states of the USSR, various civil wars in African countries, it goes on and on.
History is FILLED with these types of wars.
Don't get me wrong, I'd hate to have to go to war. I'd much much rather find a peaceful resolution - BUT I will not sit on my ass while government becomes tyranical. You say that I believe "guns are the ultimate protector of rights"? I say, you're pretty close. I say the *will* to use a gun is the ultimate protector of rights.
The way I see it - organizations such as government will always become corrupt. There is no way around it. Anyone who wants to enforce rules upon another being will eventually become greedy. I believe it is The People's responsiblity to keep that power in check, and when nessesary, remove that power - by force if it must come to that.
At the moment, it is a question not IF government is corrupt, but HOW corrupt is it. It is to the point, where we must start asking, can we *really* change policy from within? Or must we start again?
Personally I'm right around 52% we can change it, and 48% we gotta start over.
The world is rapidly becoming more big brother-ish. I don't like saying it, but it's something we'll have to get used to, until plenty of administrations change. As we innovate newer technologies, they'll continue to be used against us.
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?!?!?!!?
Seriously? "We just have to get used to it"?? FUCK THAT. I'm not willing to bend over for an incestual Big Brother.
No. I will take up arms far before then. Bring on civil war, if that is what it takes. Bring on pain and suffering, if that is what it takes. Bring on loss of not only my life, but everyone I love and care about, if that is what it takes.
Is this pro-MS day or something? 'mericuns, stop seeing this as a US/EU war and look at the bigger picture.
The EU wants MS to open up their protocols and fileformats to allow fair competition. Aren't open standards what everyone here wants in the end? This 2.4M/day fine is just because MS isn't listening, the EU has fined MS before. This is the EU's way of saying: open up your protocols, your fileformats and your system or we'll force you to. Fines and legislation are the only way the EU can slowly force MS into accepting this fact.
Sorry, no. This is/. What everyone here is to rant about the largest evil, doing the most evil things. This time it is the big EU bitch slapping, the relatively smaller, MS - and in turn tomorrow, there will be rantings about MS bitch slapping some *nix OS/app.
I however, would just like to bitch slap the (I'm sure much larger)/. editors because of all the god damned beatles beatles stories.
>... and, eventually, their front legs will turn into fins, and their hind legs will fuse into one large fin, all to help them swim further. And they'll get sued by the seals for patent infringement.
.. and then the RIAA will sue the seals claiming they stole their name from the artist Seal.
FACT: The mouse and rat do live a nicer life, until the zoophile scientist applies the lipstick he stole from PETA and skull-fucks the animal to death.
Ok ok.. maybe not FACT per se...
Perhaps the Windows shell has finally reached the levels of goodness of that old shell, whatchyacallit. DOS, I think it was.
I forget what company it was that made that, but I'm sure if they were still around, they'd be doing amazing things. We can certainly agree that they'd without a doubt have a command line that would blow Microsoft's right out of the water.
That company was called "Seattle Computer Products". Microsoft didn't create DOS, they just licensed it to IBM - before Gates had even "bought" it. They are now defunct, but not before sueing Microsoft for a million bucks back in '86. Just goes to show ya, MS had crummy business practices from the get-go.
One must be careful nowadays. Often, these devices, were carriers of viruses - due to the boss-employee relationship, and the fact the term "sexual-harrassment" was far less known.
Due to spiraling cost inflation even high level executives now must share the few remaining devices.
but if you end up in a job where an asshole demands your presence there 14 hours a day, and occasionally that you bring a sleeping bag and don't leave until he sees some program ready (yes, I've actually seen such an asshole)
Oh, so you worked for Apple back in the day, huh? That must have been fun working for an asshole making you work 14 hours a day, all the while, he was trippin his balls off!!
How many times are we going to see an article about this kind of stuff?? I don't check/. on a daily, or even sometimes weekily basis, but I've seen at least 3 articles on this same issue within the last month!
Seems to me, if we were in D.C.,/. would be lobbying for the Department of Homeland Security.
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Don't forget the enormous amount of money he donates to the WHO..
And here I thought "Pinball Wizard" would still be selling pretty well!!
I wonder if this is the editors (failed) attempt at humor at the expense of their rival digg.com. Digg's biggest problem is/are dupes, so much so that you can see dupes on the front page on a semi-regular basis.
I bought Avagadro's Constant and the Hubble Constant off eBay, and I own stock in e, pi and the golden ratio.
So, how much are you going to charge God for using the golden ration?
>I wish I was on a website with computer geeks.
>
>"hanging chads"
WHAT??! Oh.. sorry.. had to finish RTFP. As a man named Chad, I was very upset to hear about a website who "hangs chads".
In other news, the Google PC will replace all of Wal Mart's PC's that ship with Microsoft BOB..
..Walmart is also reportedly upset, as the new interface of Microsoft Bob looks remarkably similar to Walmart's smiley face.
Reporting the latest to you,
I'm Asian reporter Trisha Tockinowa with Quahog 5 News.
I see the Internet as the very beginning of something big in human evolution - we're getting to the point where we can control our own evolution.
At the moment, we all depend on our computers to search for data on the web, hence the question. But as we master quantum storage, I believe we will all have the ability to have all the info on the web surgically connected to our brains - thus we will 'know' all the info on the web. No more searching (well unless you count searching our own brains).
Faster than a senior citizen.
More powerful than a trip with Jerry Garcia.
Able to beat Grand Turismo in a single round.
Look! Sitting on my couch!
It's an herb. It's mary jane. It's Superweed!
Yes, it's Superweed - strange strain from another DNA who came to my living room with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal plants. Superweed - who can change the course of mighty lives, make people eat Taco Bell with their bare hands, and who, disguised as Purple Haze, a mild flavored hash from 1967's hippie's Summer of Love, fights the never ending battle for Peace, Love and the Ultimate Frag.
Seriously - do you all really think that 30 - 40 years from now, space tourism won't be common place? Yes, it may still be for the more affluent of folks, but thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people will be traveling into space every year. With that many people, do you all really think that there won't be space stations in the US, and everyone will travel half way around the world to Russia for launch? Surely you all don't believe thousands of people will take a 14 hour flight, just to board another flight. *queue the "Don't call me Sherly jokes" I don't see these regulations as being something for the present, rather for the long-term. And we need these regulations here in the US.. I mean isn't the US all about protecting us from ourselves - at least, that's the way it's becoming.
>I will be unhappy with *every* GUI toolkit until I find one where you can express an entire dialog box in a SINGLE LINE (I don't care how Perl-like the syntax!) and get on with your life.
I'm pretty sure you can do this with Visual Basic.. happy now?
>Microsoft has annual revenues of 40 billion a year. The EU has an annual budget of around 100 billion a year. I'd say they're prety much th same league.
Microsoft is a company.. The EU is a government. Apples and Oranges.
>Name one war in which the subsequently occupied area was immediately freer than before the war. Here's one: The American Civil War. Here's two: The American Revolutionary War Here's three: The French Revolution Here's a bunch more: former states of the USSR, various civil wars in African countries, it goes on and on. History is FILLED with these types of wars. Don't get me wrong, I'd hate to have to go to war. I'd much much rather find a peaceful resolution - BUT I will not sit on my ass while government becomes tyranical. You say that I believe "guns are the ultimate protector of rights"? I say, you're pretty close. I say the *will* to use a gun is the ultimate protector of rights. The way I see it - organizations such as government will always become corrupt. There is no way around it. Anyone who wants to enforce rules upon another being will eventually become greedy. I believe it is The People's responsiblity to keep that power in check, and when nessesary, remove that power - by force if it must come to that. At the moment, it is a question not IF government is corrupt, but HOW corrupt is it. It is to the point, where we must start asking, can we *really* change policy from within? Or must we start again? Personally I'm right around 52% we can change it, and 48% we gotta start over.
The world is rapidly becoming more big brother-ish. I don't like saying it, but it's something we'll have to get used to, until plenty of administrations change. As we innovate newer technologies, they'll continue to be used against us.
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?!?!?!!?
Seriously? "We just have to get used to it"?? FUCK THAT. I'm not willing to bend over for an incestual Big Brother.
No. I will take up arms far before then. Bring on civil war, if that is what it takes. Bring on pain and suffering, if that is what it takes. Bring on loss of not only my life, but everyone I love and care about, if that is what it takes.
Is this pro-MS day or something? 'mericuns, stop seeing this as a US/EU war and look at the bigger picture.
/. What everyone here is to rant about the largest evil, doing the most evil things. This time it is the big EU bitch slapping, the relatively smaller, MS - and in turn tomorrow, there will be rantings about MS bitch slapping some *nix OS/app.
/. editors because of all the god damned beatles beatles stories.
The EU wants MS to open up their protocols and fileformats to allow fair competition. Aren't open standards what everyone here wants in the end? This 2.4M/day fine is just because MS isn't listening, the EU has fined MS before. This is the EU's way of saying: open up your protocols, your fileformats and your system or we'll force you to. Fines and legislation are the only way the EU can slowly force MS into accepting this fact.
Sorry, no. This is
I however, would just like to bitch slap the (I'm sure much larger)
>... and, eventually, their front legs will turn into fins, and their hind legs will fuse into one large fin, all to help them swim further. And they'll get sued by the seals for patent infringement.
.. and then the RIAA will sue the seals claiming they stole their name from the artist Seal.
..in a pr0n store.
FACT: The mouse and rat do live a nicer life, until the zoophile scientist applies the lipstick he stole from PETA and skull-fucks the animal to death. Ok ok.. maybe not FACT per se...
What we do every night Pinky, try to take over the world!
When I was 7, I figured out how to unlock the hidden sex scene inside of Super Mario Bros.
That three-some between Mario, Lugi, and the Princess was hot.
Needless to say, my mom threw out my NES system.
Perhaps the Windows shell has finally reached the levels of goodness of that old shell, whatchyacallit. DOS, I think it was.
I forget what company it was that made that, but I'm sure if they were still around, they'd be doing amazing things. We can certainly agree that they'd without a doubt have a command line that would blow Microsoft's right out of the water.
That company was called "Seattle Computer Products". Microsoft didn't create DOS, they just licensed it to IBM - before Gates had even "bought" it. They are now defunct, but not before sueing Microsoft for a million bucks back in '86. Just goes to show ya, MS had crummy business practices from the get-go.
Here's the link.
Who modded this offtopic?!?
Obviously they don't remember this story.
Taco Bell is already in the process of a "Hit here and win a free taco for every American" tarp that they plan on floating out to sea.
One must be careful nowadays. Often, these devices, were carriers of viruses - due to the boss-employee relationship, and the fact the term "sexual-harrassment" was far less known.
Due to spiraling cost inflation even high level executives now must share the few remaining devices.
If they need to share these devices, couldn't some engineer come up with some sort of intermediate security system?
but if you end up in a job where an asshole demands your presence there 14 hours a day, and occasionally that you bring a sleeping bag and don't leave until he sees some program ready (yes, I've actually seen such an asshole)
Oh, so you worked for Apple back in the day, huh? That must have been fun working for an asshole making you work 14 hours a day, all the while, he was trippin his balls off!!
"Ask them [members of the younger generation] HOW the things work, and they have no idea."
Duh.. obviously they've never heard of This Site!!
How many times are we going to see an article about this kind of stuff?? I don't check /. on a daily, or even sometimes weekily basis, but I've seen at least 3 articles on this same issue within the last month!
/. would be lobbying for the Department of Homeland Security.
Seems to me, if we were in D.C.,