Wow! One Quebequoi that actually wants to be a Canadian! Now, if you could just convince the other 7,568,639 residents of Quebec that being Canadian isn't so bad, then we'd really have something!
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Well, one is too stupid to be evil, and the other is too evil to be stupid... I'm gonna have to back evil over stupid, at least in this case. Not everything Microsoft does is wrong, but absolutley everything Dvorak says is wrong.
Now we have to deal with bums on the corner acosting us and asking "Hey buddy, can you give me 10 Francs for a cup of coffee?" Listen... if you can afford cell phone service, you can afford to buy your own damn coffee!
But seriously, the major flaw in the scheme is that it assumes EVERYBODY is ready, willing, and able to buy into it. I for one don't wish to buy my 6 year old a mobile just so she can buy lunch at school. Sure, nobody can steal your lunch money without being traced... but they CAN steal your mobile phone, which is worth a lot more!
Gee... how about a hint about which specific computations it speeds up? FFT? DCT? Wavelet compression? I can think of lots of audio/video codec applications that this would be a win for, but nothing in the way of general purpose computing.
Ever been to Small Claims Court? The Judge just assumes both parties are lying equally and splits the difference. That means if you tell the truth, you get screwed! (And by the way, when I was taken to Small Claims, the person suing me said "Your honor, he hasn't given me a dime!" to which I replied "I have the canceled checks right here." Was she penalized for deliberate perjury? Not at all! The judge made up an arbitrary amount that was about half of what she was asking for and demanded I pay her. To this day, I have no idea what orifice the judge pulled that number out of...)
Their stated goal was to demonstrate the clarity or depth or somesuch without being overpowering...
But there actual goal was to get everybody in the theater to SHUT THE FUCK UP and listen to the movie, which requires a burst of sound so loud that nobody can talk over it.
Not the first time they haven't met expectations
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Imagine how poor Melinda Gates felt on her honeymoon, when she discovered what Bill had been promising her for years was going to be "the greatest thing ever" could be summed up in two words -- "micro" and "soft".
Microsoft is 'expected to offer sophisticated virtualization products in the next year or two,' Does Microsoft's definition of "sophisticated" include inducing random data corruption in any non-Microsoft OS? I think I'd be more a lot more comfortable getting my virtualization products from somebody that lets me look at the source code.
Since the porn industry is almost always the first early adopter of new technology, I predict synthetic biology will be used much sooner to produce abnormally large breasted women and men with outrageously large genitalia... not the rediculous "improvements" suggested in this article.
I mean, except for the nice weather, surfing and scantily-clad girls... You've obviously never been to Cupertino, have you? Companies wanting easy access to nice weather, surfing, and scantily-clad girls locate in San Diego, not the Silly Cone Valley. In fact, there is a decided lack of available attractive females in the area... the few that are there are already dating Larry Ellison!
How is the author profiting? He is profiting by tricking good, God-fearing, heterosexual into "coming over to his side" and accepting homosexuals as valid human beings! This abomination has got to stop! If we don't constantly treat homosexuals as second-class citizens, if we fail to keep insisting that there is something "wrong" with the way God created them -- then God will get pissed off and smite us! You don't want to get smitten, do you? At any rate, "profit" doesn't necessarily have to be monetary. If Falwell honestly beleives mistakenly going to this site is going to change any of his followers' minds, well, then, their faith must be on pretty shakey foundations to begin with!
Uh, they committed a crime and then posted evidence of the crime to a public forum on the net... at the very least, they should be prevented from breeding under the "too stupid to have children" principle!
This company appears to have actually implemented the electronic equivalent of a suggestion box! I call dibs on the patent for using a computer to implement suggestion box functionality!
If you explain exactly what is being patched, then you give the hackers a pretty clear roadmap of what they need to do to exploit all of the unpatched systems, don't you? The sad truth is that most systems remain unpatched. Granted, Microsofts assumption that it's customers are idiots that couldn't handle the truth is annoying to those of us that do understand the problems, but in the majority of cases there assumption is pretty close to the truth - they are protecting the naive by not giving hints out to the malicious.
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Sorry, that should be "Quebeqouis". I'm an American, you can't expect me to be able to spell French, can you? C'est la vie..
Wow! One Quebequoi that actually wants to be a Canadian! Now, if you could just convince the other 7,568,639 residents of Quebec that being Canadian isn't so bad, then we'd really have something!
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Well, one is too stupid to be evil, and the other is too evil to be stupid... I'm gonna have to back evil over stupid, at least in this case. Not everything Microsoft does is wrong, but absolutley everything Dvorak says is wrong.
What?!? We're talking about silicon implants? Uh... never mind!
But seriously, the major flaw in the scheme is that it assumes EVERYBODY is ready, willing, and able to buy into it. I for one don't wish to buy my 6 year old a mobile just so she can buy lunch at school. Sure, nobody can steal your lunch money without being traced... but they CAN steal your mobile phone, which is worth a lot more!
Gee... how about a hint about which specific computations it speeds up? FFT? DCT? Wavelet compression? I can think of lots of audio/video codec applications that this would be a win for, but nothing in the way of general purpose computing.
Ever been to Small Claims Court? The Judge just assumes both parties are lying equally and splits the difference. That means if you tell the truth, you get screwed! (And by the way, when I was taken to Small Claims, the person suing me said "Your honor, he hasn't given me a dime!" to which I replied "I have the canceled checks right here." Was she penalized for deliberate perjury? Not at all! The judge made up an arbitrary amount that was about half of what she was asking for and demanded I pay her. To this day, I have no idea what orifice the judge pulled that number out of...)
Most of us have personal rules against dating outside our species... on the other hand, I hear they do taste just like chicken!
But there actual goal was to get everybody in the theater to SHUT THE FUCK UP and listen to the movie, which requires a burst of sound so loud that nobody can talk over it.
Imagine how poor Melinda Gates felt on her honeymoon, when she discovered what Bill had been promising her for years was going to be "the greatest thing ever" could be summed up in two words -- "micro" and "soft".
Where do you think the Vista user interface design team has been spending all it's time?
Microsoft is 'expected to offer sophisticated virtualization products in the next year or two,' Does Microsoft's definition of "sophisticated" include inducing random data corruption in any non-Microsoft OS? I think I'd be more a lot more comfortable getting my virtualization products from somebody that lets me look at the source code.
Since the porn industry is almost always the first early adopter of new technology, I predict synthetic biology will be used much sooner to produce abnormally large breasted women and men with outrageously large genitalia... not the rediculous "improvements" suggested in this article.
I mean, except for the nice weather, surfing and scantily-clad girls... You've obviously never been to Cupertino, have you? Companies wanting easy access to nice weather, surfing, and scantily-clad girls locate in San Diego, not the Silly Cone Valley. In fact, there is a decided lack of available attractive females in the area... the few that are there are already dating Larry Ellison!
Well, for one thing, there is that easy access to all those cute little altar boys!
How is the author profiting? He is profiting by tricking good, God-fearing, heterosexual into "coming over to his side" and accepting homosexuals as valid human beings! This abomination has got to stop! If we don't constantly treat homosexuals as second-class citizens, if we fail to keep insisting that there is something "wrong" with the way God created them -- then God will get pissed off and smite us! You don't want to get smitten, do you? At any rate, "profit" doesn't necessarily have to be monetary. If Falwell honestly beleives mistakenly going to this site is going to change any of his followers' minds, well, then, their faith must be on pretty shakey foundations to begin with!
Get your Aeron Chair orders in NOW and avoid the rush!
Then why are all employees required to surrender their souls at the door on the way into work each day?
Well, I guess that explains the state of Microsoft code... they've been snorting too much "blow"! Must have used up all the old blow...
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There should be a .luser TLD just for people like you!
Uh, they committed a crime and then posted evidence of the crime to a public forum on the net... at the very least, they should be prevented from breeding under the "too stupid to have children" principle!
This company appears to have actually implemented the electronic equivalent of a suggestion box! I call dibs on the patent for using a computer to implement suggestion box functionality!
If you explain exactly what is being patched, then you give the hackers a pretty clear roadmap of what they need to do to exploit all of the unpatched systems, don't you? The sad truth is that most systems remain unpatched. Granted, Microsofts assumption that it's customers are idiots that couldn't handle the truth is annoying to those of us that do understand the problems, but in the majority of cases there assumption is pretty close to the truth - they are protecting the naive by not giving hints out to the malicious.