...Web 2.0's increasingly ballistic trajectory: 'You can use the leviathan forces of attention and enthusiasm that are swirling around Web 2.0 these days as a powerful enabler to make something important and exciting happen in your organization.'
I don't know about you, but those 2 sentences alone completely clogged up my bullshit filters! And isn't a "ballistic trajectory" what a bomb usually follows?
I've been repeatedly berated in the MMORPG I play for calling female players "guy", because either 1) I was looking at them from behind, 2) They were wearing armour, or 3) I really don't pay that much attention to the other players gender. Also, the only players in the game I'm sure actually are female and not gender-bending are the ones that are obsessed with their own appearance. I personally don't care what I look like in real life or virtual reality, and wear whatever helps me best get the job done - including wearing the incredibly gay-looking tiara for runecrafting in runescape.
Obviously, because web designers test their pages with IE and only with IE. I personally was unable to get pages with javascript generated slider controls to layout the same way in IE and netscape/mozilla, and didn't test with Safari simply because my employer didn't see fit to provide me with a Mac (one of my coworkers tested it with Safari and reported back the results). Let's not kid ourselves, NONE of the browsers are 100% standards compliant, and getting pages to work the same way in all browsers out there in not a trivial task.
But, what we all want to know is...
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Does this modification void the harddrive warranty?
Any user can look up this data via one of the many whois sites on the net. That explains the false data doesn't it? Perhaps all these people aren't using false information because the ARE spammers, but rather are using false information to avoid giving their real contact info TO spammers! I sure as hell wouldn't publish my actual home phone number, home address, or email address in a database that any spammer could easily search!
This safe, naturally occurring, unmodified virus... is patented Can't God or Darwin or somebody claim prior art on this? Pardon me while I file a patent on EVERY existing genome... I'll own EVERYTHING!
Much harder to bribe 1000 different bloggers, than to bribe a single news organization. Bullshit. Bloggers have far less to lose, not having spent the last 100 years building a reputation. Most can probably bought for a few trinkets. Microsoft is already paying bloggers for favorable press. Basically, bloggers can be bought for pennies compared to the price of traditional media. With traditional media, you've got to buy millions in advertising space to get them to lie about how good your product is...
The student (who wishes to remain anonymous) Oh sure, NOW he wants to be anonymous. If the student had posted his blog anonymously in the first place, he wouldn't now be having this problem, would he? People posting views that some might find offensive should follow the cardinal rule for one-night-stands: never use your real name. The only reason to post your real name is 'cause you're ego-tripping, in which case you probably shouldn't be blogging in the first place.
No, because it is virtually certain that the 14,000 other people signed an agreement to not take any future legal action against the RIAA as part of their "settlement". Remember, the "settlement" contract is drawn up entirely by RIAA lawyers, not by the defendent's lawyer.
about $2,500 an hour Which, by an amazing coincidence, is exactly what the RIAA lawyers charge! Yes, most of this money is going to lawyers, which means it is being taxed, but only as lawyer's income.
The honeypot computers would reside in a secure, dedicated network Wouldn't that make it just a little difficult for the honeypots to contract a virus? Or is this some new definition of the word "secure" that I'm not familiar with?
Or if you're smart you can sit on the beach drinking cocktails for 6 months and wait for the next generation of CPUs to come out. Unless of course you're trying to get on the top 500 supercomputers list, in which case you probably are not going to throw away those 32768 CPUs and buy new ones every six months, are you? The people who really need a hand-optimized BLAS library are the ones running massively parallel computers, not a single desktop PC.
Uh, why don't you get back to me when you can engineer bacteria that respond differently to different wavelengths of light, e.g. change to the same color as the light striking them. THEN I'll get excited!
This means we only need to buy about 238 million of these Xboxes to use up the cash Microsoft has on hand in the bank! Hey, I'm gonna give everybody I know an Xbox for Xmas -- if we all do it, we can bankrupt Microsoft!
Has anybody considered the possibility the Microsoft marketing might be behind these "Xbox sells at a loss!" rumours, in an effort to boost Xbox sales? Has anybody considered the possibility that if you are an 800-pound gorilla like Microsoft and buying in huge quantities, you might be able to get components a lot cheaper than the normal retail price?
So they're spending over $5000 per person to provide sunlight to the residents of a small town?!? Couldn't they keep every resident supplyed with full spectrum lightbulbs for the rest of their lives for far less money? Seems to me these people knew they were in the shadow of a mountain when they chose to live there in the first place...
On/., the correct version of the question is not "would you use ad-supported windows?", but rather "how much would they have to pay you to use ANY form of windows?"
If I could get office-appropriate wrinkle resistant shirts A-F, and pants 1-3, and consult a simple n-dimensional style-matching matrix on the website, I might finally get to talk to a girl. Dream on, brother... in my experience, there are 2 ways to get girls to actually come up and start talking to you: 1) Look like you have a lot more money than brains, and 2) Look like a drug dealer. Also in my experience, you absolutely don't want to have anything to do with any women attracted by either of these methods!
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I don't know about you, but those 2 sentences alone completely clogged up my bullshit filters! And isn't a "ballistic trajectory" what a bomb usually follows?
I've been repeatedly berated in the MMORPG I play for calling female players "guy", because either 1) I was looking at them from behind, 2) They were wearing armour, or 3) I really don't pay that much attention to the other players gender. Also, the only players in the game I'm sure actually are female and not gender-bending are the ones that are obsessed with their own appearance. I personally don't care what I look like in real life or virtual reality, and wear whatever helps me best get the job done - including wearing the incredibly gay-looking tiara for runecrafting in runescape.
Obviously, because web designers test their pages with IE and only with IE. I personally was unable to get pages with javascript generated slider controls to layout the same way in IE and netscape/mozilla, and didn't test with Safari simply because my employer didn't see fit to provide me with a Mac (one of my coworkers tested it with Safari and reported back the results). Let's not kid ourselves, NONE of the browsers are 100% standards compliant, and getting pages to work the same way in all browsers out there in not a trivial task.
Does this modification void the harddrive warranty?
Any user can look up this data via one of the many whois sites on the net. That explains the false data doesn't it? Perhaps all these people aren't using false information because the ARE spammers, but rather are using false information to avoid giving their real contact info TO spammers! I sure as hell wouldn't publish my actual home phone number, home address, or email address in a database that any spammer could easily search!
This safe, naturally occurring, unmodified virus... is patented Can't God or Darwin or somebody claim prior art on this? Pardon me while I file a patent on EVERY existing genome... I'll own EVERYTHING!
Much harder to bribe 1000 different bloggers, than to bribe a single news organization. Bullshit. Bloggers have far less to lose, not having spent the last 100 years building a reputation. Most can probably bought for a few trinkets. Microsoft is already paying bloggers for favorable press. Basically, bloggers can be bought for pennies compared to the price of traditional media. With traditional media, you've got to buy millions in advertising space to get them to lie about how good your product is...
The student (who wishes to remain anonymous) Oh sure, NOW he wants to be anonymous. If the student had posted his blog anonymously in the first place, he wouldn't now be having this problem, would he? People posting views that some might find offensive should follow the cardinal rule for one-night-stands: never use your real name. The only reason to post your real name is 'cause you're ego-tripping, in which case you probably shouldn't be blogging in the first place.
Now SCO will finally be able to find all the code that was stolen from them!
No, because it is virtually certain that the 14,000 other people signed an agreement to not take any future legal action against the RIAA as part of their "settlement". Remember, the "settlement" contract is drawn up entirely by RIAA lawyers, not by the defendent's lawyer.
about $2,500 an hour Which, by an amazing coincidence, is exactly what the RIAA lawyers charge! Yes, most of this money is going to lawyers, which means it is being taxed, but only as lawyer's income.
The honeypot computers would reside in a secure, dedicated network Wouldn't that make it just a little difficult for the honeypots to contract a virus? Or is this some new definition of the word "secure" that I'm not familiar with?
What the hell does "giving access to culture" mean? Leaving the yogurt refrigerator unlocked?
So, then... how do you explain Celine Dion?
This isn't the first evidence they have found of water on mars, see this article
I still use goto, but usually only as the most efficient way to break out of nested for/while loops.
Or if you're smart you can sit on the beach drinking cocktails for 6 months and wait for the next generation of CPUs to come out. Unless of course you're trying to get on the top 500 supercomputers list, in which case you probably are not going to throw away those 32768 CPUs and buy new ones every six months, are you? The people who really need a hand-optimized BLAS library are the ones running massively parallel computers, not a single desktop PC.
But I do miss being able to hold something in my hands while I lie back in bed. Yeah, I have the same problem whenever my wife is out of town...
Uh, why don't you get back to me when you can engineer bacteria that respond differently to different wavelengths of light, e.g. change to the same color as the light striking them. THEN I'll get excited!
Has anybody considered the possibility the Microsoft marketing might be behind these "Xbox sells at a loss!" rumours, in an effort to boost Xbox sales? Has anybody considered the possibility that if you are an 800-pound gorilla like Microsoft and buying in huge quantities, you might be able to get components a lot cheaper than the normal retail price?
So they're spending over $5000 per person to provide sunlight to the residents of a small town?!? Couldn't they keep every resident supplyed with full spectrum lightbulbs for the rest of their lives for far less money? Seems to me these people knew they were in the shadow of a mountain when they chose to live there in the first place...
On /., the correct version of the question is not "would you use ad-supported windows?", but rather "how much would they have to pay you to use ANY form of windows?"
I would, but my wife would object!
If I could get office-appropriate wrinkle resistant shirts A-F, and pants 1-3, and consult a simple n-dimensional style-matching matrix on the website, I might finally get to talk to a girl. Dream on, brother... in my experience, there are 2 ways to get girls to actually come up and start talking to you: 1) Look like you have a lot more money than brains, and 2) Look like a drug dealer. Also in my experience, you absolutely don't want to have anything to do with any women attracted by either of these methods!
You forgot the stretchable waistbands... and I'm sorry, but anybody whose wardrobe contains only "nerd grranimals" is destined to remain a virgin.