You can't really pull off the whole Like-A-Women's-Magazine to sell netbooks unless you can convince women the netbook will:
1. Teach them 20 ways to supercharge their sex in the bedroom. 2. Help them lose 40lbs in six months while simultaneously making the world's most delicious 5,000 calorie chocolate cake. 3. Do yoga exercises that take 20 years of their visible age.
I wonder if they could put inflatable tires on rovers and then manually adjust the pressure for each one to accomodate different soil types, a la WWII DUKW http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DUKW It might help the rover to better adapt to different kinds of soils.
Of course, it would have to be designed for the different pressures of the martian atmosphere.
In similar news researchers have discovered that a small town in Canada built on an underground resevoir of naturally-occuring scotch had statistically higher rates of traffic accidents.
Even more disturbing, this acryonym could be confused with TIGER, resulting in some guy in Fallujah getting a map of Cleveland and some guy in Cleveland thinking there's a IED around the next turn.
Is it that win32 lack a high-quality, well-tested, easily reusable path class, or is it that microsoft is such a large company that a rogue programmer circumventing the approved safe path class and engaging in not-invented-here-roll-your-own antics is commonplace?
If code that screws up your computer and resists deinstalling is defined as malicious, then the Symantec and McAfee suites must account for at least half of the malicious code being written.
Not only did I expect Microsoft to promote Linux, I expected them to remove all DRM features from Vista, hire Richard Stallman as CEO, drop M$ word in favor of a new product named Visual Emacs, and demote Steve Ballmer to blowing the dust out of Linus Torvald's desktop.
I never imagined that MS developers were smart enough to actually to think of something like this. We in Macintosh land where auto-detection of floppies was standard from the beginning had simply chalked it up to a simple case of microsoft being microsoft.
FLOSS zealot (ten minutes later):How dare you fork our stuff, that was entirely unjustified. Forks are meant for important stuff like kernels and file systems, not UI stuff. You've taken our code, done barely any work at all, and released it under a open source license as your own in what is little more than a lame patch at best. Duplication of effort! Duplication of effort! In fact, we're going to petition Freshmeat and sourceforge to have your project taken down from their sites. Long live Free Software!
FLOSS zealot:"Free software doesn't want to be anything." FLOSS zealot (five minutes later):"We want the desktop."
FLOSS zealot:"Quit criticizing what you're getting for free." FLOSS zealot (five minutes later):"Quit insulting us by saying you get what you pay for with Linux."
FLOSS zealot:"Linux is a movement that will one day take over the desktop." FLOSS zealot (five minutes later):"Linux is just a kernel, moron. Quit criticizing a kernel for an application's UI being crappy."
FLOSS zealot:"No one's forcing you to use linux." FLOSS zealot (five minutes later):"Write your congressman to force your government, employer, and children's school to convert to linux."
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So my future computer will resemble an 80's pac man machine with a browser?
Don't they mean trademark? ;)
The headmounted displays were accidently left in the flying cars in parking lot of the lunar hotel.
At least half of music fans already have penises.
You can't really pull off the whole Like-A-Women's-Magazine to sell netbooks unless you can convince women the netbook will:
1. Teach them 20 ways to supercharge their sex in the bedroom.
2. Help them lose 40lbs in six months while simultaneously making the world's most delicious 5,000 calorie chocolate cake.
3. Do yoga exercises that take 20 years of their visible age.
I'd use a desktop application.
I wonder if they could put inflatable tires on rovers and then manually adjust the pressure for each one to accomodate different soil types, a la WWII DUKW http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DUKW It might help the rover to better adapt to different kinds of soils.
Of course, it would have to be designed for the different pressures of the martian atmosphere.
"Is there some other way I can pay you?" only works in pornos.
Next you'll probably want an IBM model M keyboard emulation mode that plays a springy sound every time a key is hit.
One of these things just doesn't belong
python:
myArray.append(myvalue)
ruby:
myArray.push(myvalue)
objective-c:
[myArray addObject: myvalue]
smalltalk:
myArray add: myvalue
PHP:
array_push($myarray, $myvalue)
I wondered that original Holy Grail I bought of eBay was so gosh-darned cheap.
In similar news researchers have discovered that a small town in Canada built on an underground resevoir of naturally-occuring scotch had statistically higher rates of traffic accidents.
Considering polite society's one experiment with socially acceptable piracy was a dismal failure, I'd say yes.
In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these--Paul Harvey
Even more disturbing, this acryonym could be confused with TIGER, resulting in some guy in Fallujah getting a map of Cleveland and some guy in Cleveland thinking there's a IED around the next turn.
Googling for conficker gave me wikipedia's entry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conficker
Looking through conficker's entry gave me the vector MS08-067
Googling for the vector gave me this article
http://www.phreedom.org/blog/2008/decompiling-ms08-067/
Is it that win32 lack a high-quality, well-tested, easily reusable path class, or is it that microsoft is such a large company that a rogue programmer circumventing the approved safe path class and engaging in not-invented-here-roll-your-own antics is commonplace?
It's shit like this that shakes my faith in government conspiracies and the existence of men in black.
Wouldn't the portmanteau of "Working" + "Slacking Off" be "Wacking Off"?
If code that screws up your computer and resists deinstalling is defined as malicious, then the Symantec and McAfee suites must account for at least half of the malicious code being written.
Or are we dancer?
Not only did I expect Microsoft to promote Linux, I expected them to remove all DRM features from Vista, hire Richard Stallman as CEO, drop M$ word in favor of a new product named Visual Emacs, and demote Steve Ballmer to blowing the dust out of Linus Torvald's desktop.
In keeping with French tradition, the disgruntled music industry executives must now start a riot in the suburbs.
I never imagined that MS developers were smart enough to actually to think of something like this. We in Macintosh land where auto-detection of floppies was standard from the beginning had simply chalked it up to a simple case of microsoft being microsoft.
FLOSS zealot (ten minutes later):How dare you fork our stuff, that was entirely unjustified. Forks are meant for important stuff like kernels and file systems, not UI stuff. You've taken our code, done barely any work at all, and released it under a open source license as your own in what is little more than a lame patch at best. Duplication of effort! Duplication of effort! In fact, we're going to petition Freshmeat and sourceforge to have your project taken down from their sites. Long live Free Software!
FLOSS zealot:"Free software doesn't want to be anything."
FLOSS zealot (five minutes later):"We want the desktop."
FLOSS zealot:"Quit criticizing what you're getting for free."
FLOSS zealot (five minutes later):"Quit insulting us by saying you get what you pay for with Linux."
FLOSS zealot:"Linux is a movement that will one day take over the desktop."
FLOSS zealot (five minutes later):"Linux is just a kernel, moron. Quit criticizing a kernel for an application's UI being crappy."
FLOSS zealot:"No one's forcing you to use linux."
FLOSS zealot (five minutes later):"Write your congressman to force your government, employer, and children's school to convert to linux."