I suspect its just a parody of the computer in Lost (the tv series), you keep typing the numbers for no reason. But if its a complete parody something interesting will happen if you don't type the numbers in, and the timer runs out. And no, I haven't waited an hour and half to figure out what.
The fact that "Live Drive" and "Life Drive" sound similar is insufficient. To be taken to court they also need the "Live Drive" to basically be a replacement for the "Life Drive", in which case Microsoft would be trying to compete with a brand by using the other brand's recognition.
Not knowing what the "Life Drive" actually does, I can't comment on this particular case.
This is such a stupid fucking idea I can't even believe it flied.
Suppose you're channel flipping, and you happen on a commercial. What then? You have to finish watching the fucking thing?
First no one would buy this shit. My dog wouldn't buy this shit even if he could; and he's a spoilt mother fucker.
Second, even if we were force to buy this shit, people would quickly learn to change the channel when they hear "and when we come back...".
And what kind of shitty mechanism have they implemented anyway? I bet it'll be hacked lickety split. Hell, in the worst case one just has to make a box that takes each frame, finds the flag (they move, apparently), and then drops it from the signal. Phillips make a system that doesn't allow streams without occasional flags? Fuck them.
Hell is cold, pigs are flying. Do I seem mildly enraged?
I don't think you realize just how confusing this is to someone who has never seen star trek. (this is from star trek, right?).
So what exactly is going on? There is a simulated fight between two different sides (say Axis vs. Allies, circa 1943), that no one gets hurt in? How then can there be casualties? People are totally killed, rather than just "scratched"?
Dude. The post you are replying to is my only post in the thread (well, besides this one). I'm not trying to defend the GP's GP by going on a tangent here. I'm merely indicating that I read the linked article, and find it amusing.
I find it highly ironic that the Register article you linked to (How Computers Make Kids Dumb), talks about fisking: line-by-line rebuttals of straight facts with no actual argument in them.
To quote:
Many of today's debaters prefer "Fisking" - line-by-line rebuttals where facts are dropped like radar chaff - to rational debate or building a coherent argument.
The fact that the company that makes something is bad, doesn't mean that the actual product is bad. The mafia has lots of convenience store type operations, for example. There is nothing wrong with addiction as well, although generally you want something that won't hurt you or something else in the long run.
What is it that people have against Westerners? Jeez.
1) Europe saying fuck off won't make Office uninstall itself. Firefox isn't the only browser besides IE.
2) Not recognizing MSFT's intellectual property would be a very, very stupid move. It would put in doubt all the other company's IP security.
And what legal basis is there anyway? MSFT has secured copyrights, you can't remove them unless there is a copyright infringement or some other IP-related issues. Dropping IP just because the company won't sell in your market, is stupid, stupid, stupid.
3) Windows wouldn't be open source because... who would have the source? It would be free.
Wage war on Europe? Why? There are lots of ways MSFT can fix this. Like... have a few people go off and make a new company that just sells office. They would need no capital: Guess what? You "open sourced" Office. Surely Europe wouldn't have a problem with a company just selling IP like the next guy.
Punishing microsoft by fine is stupid when the problem is perceived to be so large (I say perceived because I don't want to take a stance pro/against Microsoft in this post), a goverment-enforced prohibition on selling the product is more appropriate. It make life better for the other companies, and is very fitting considering the crime. Its also going to be pretty expensive (in a forward looking way).
Yeah, but really, what moron would run Ubuntu as a server system. It's full of use-friendly bloat, it's still a very new distro (what one or two years old?), and has no formal corporate backing behind it (except one dude).
You know, I never turned my computer off at night. I mean never. On linux going 80 days without a restart was normal.
Then a fan broke. The fucking thing started making a hell of a racket. At first, one fixed this by bashing the computer on top of the case. Problem solved for about an hour.
Now the fix doesn't work anymore.
Did I mention that this computer is in my bedroom?
Right. Every night, the fucker gets turned off.
Why not get a new fan? Laziness, and its in my PSU.
Great. Another prediction on what technology will or will not be able to do in the near future.
We all know how accurate these are.
Also: There is a difference between serving the exact same fucking content, at the same time to 1 million people and generating custom pages on-demand for 1 million people.
It depends on how far you are from your speakers and how the room is setup.
You could hit 150db quite easily with a mid-end 700watt system in a small room (15' by 15' maybe) with hard surfaces. Granted, the sound would be shit because of the echos, but it could be done.
All that said, videogames do a lot to help one understand one's mortality.
Yep. Just yesterday, I was running around in Enemy Territory on adrenalin blasting the shit out of the damned axis. They were no match for my thompson, switch to akimbo pistols, jump, and gernade them combo. I got really hurt, but I just layed down for 5 minutes to get healed./I jest.
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It was called Hymen.
Clearly you never passed sex-ed in high school.
You actually checked google's cache? Wow.
I suspect its just a parody of the computer in Lost (the tv series), you keep typing the numbers for no reason. But if its a complete parody something interesting will happen if you don't type the numbers in, and the timer runs out. And no, I haven't waited an hour and half to figure out what.
Cheers.
The fact that "Live Drive" and "Life Drive" sound similar is insufficient. To be taken to court they also need the "Live Drive" to basically be a replacement for the "Life Drive", in which case Microsoft would be trying to compete with a brand by using the other brand's recognition.
Not knowing what the "Life Drive" actually does, I can't comment on this particular case.
(RTFA? Never!)
This is such a stupid fucking idea I can't even believe it flied.
Suppose you're channel flipping, and you happen on a commercial. What then? You have to finish watching the fucking thing?
First no one would buy this shit. My dog wouldn't buy this shit even if he could; and he's a spoilt mother fucker.
Second, even if we were force to buy this shit, people would quickly learn to change the channel when they hear "and when we come back...".
And what kind of shitty mechanism have they implemented anyway? I bet it'll be hacked lickety split. Hell, in the worst case one just has to make a box that takes each frame, finds the flag (they move, apparently), and then drops it from the signal. Phillips make a system that doesn't allow streams without occasional flags? Fuck them.
Hell is cold, pigs are flying. Do I seem mildly enraged?
thanks!
Coolies, thanks.
I don't think you realize just how confusing this is to someone who has never seen star trek. (this is from star trek, right?).
So what exactly is going on? There is a simulated fight between two different sides (say Axis vs. Allies, circa 1943), that no one gets hurt in? How then can there be casualties? People are totally killed, rather than just "scratched"?
There must be a wikipedia entry on this.
Thanks in advance.
:)
(I wonder if this will pass the lameness test)
Dude. The post you are replying to is my only post in the thread (well, besides this one). I'm not trying to defend the GP's GP by going on a tangent here. I'm merely indicating that I read the linked article, and find it amusing.
I find it highly ironic that the Register article you linked to (How Computers Make Kids Dumb), talks about fisking: line-by-line rebuttals of straight facts with no actual argument in them.
To quote:
And you're an idiot (and a coward I might add).
The fact that the company that makes something is bad, doesn't mean that the actual product is bad. The mafia has lots of convenience store type operations, for example. There is nothing wrong with addiction as well, although generally you want something that won't hurt you or something else in the long run.
What is it that people have against Westerners? Jeez.
Intellectual property usually refers to copyrights, patents, and trademarks.
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http://dictionary.law.com/default2.asp?searched=i
http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/
In points:
1) Europe saying fuck off won't make Office uninstall itself. Firefox isn't the only browser besides IE.
2) Not recognizing MSFT's intellectual property would be a very, very stupid move. It would put in doubt all the other company's IP security.
And what legal basis is there anyway? MSFT has secured copyrights, you can't remove them unless there is a copyright infringement or some other IP-related issues. Dropping IP just because the company won't sell in your market, is stupid, stupid, stupid.
3) Windows wouldn't be open source because... who would have the source? It would be free.
Wage war on Europe? Why? There are lots of ways MSFT can fix this. Like... have a few people go off and make a new company that just sells office. They would need no capital: Guess what? You "open sourced" Office. Surely Europe wouldn't have a problem with a company just selling IP like the next guy.
Punishing microsoft by fine is stupid when the problem is perceived to be so large (I say perceived because I don't want to take a stance pro/against Microsoft in this post), a goverment-enforced prohibition on selling the product is more appropriate. It make life better for the other companies, and is very fitting considering the crime. Its also going to be pretty expensive (in a forward looking way).
They use the Tango icon set. (Open source (art wise, I don't want to hear from the license-nazis), very nice). I use it.
Any significance? They seem to use a vanilla set.
huge?
The majority of Americans don't believe this guided evolution bullshit.
Granted, we're all looking forward to playing God in spore.
Yeah, but really, what moron would run Ubuntu as a server system. It's full of use-friendly bloat, it's still a very new distro (what one or two years old?), and has no formal corporate backing behind it (except one dude).
Gee, I dunno.
Oh yeah!
typedef struct {
unsigned int len;
char *content;
} String;
It depends on the law.
The PSU is really old (almost 6 yrs), I'm going to get a new one I just haven't gotten around to it. ;)
But thanks for the advice.
You know, I never turned my computer off at night. I mean never. On linux going 80 days without a restart was normal.
Then a fan broke. The fucking thing started making a hell of a racket. At first, one fixed this by bashing the computer on top of the case. Problem solved for about an hour.
Now the fix doesn't work anymore.
Did I mention that this computer is in my bedroom?
Right. Every night, the fucker gets turned off.
Why not get a new fan? Laziness, and its in my PSU.
HAHAHA!
Interestingly, its been proven that the lower-bound on comparison sort is effectively O(n lg n). You can get faster than that, but not by using ''.
Radix LSD sort is an example of that. If done properly: linear time sort on *numbers*, but only on numbers.
Great. Another prediction on what technology will or will not be able to do in the near future.
We all know how accurate these are.
Also: There is a difference between serving the exact same fucking content, at the same time to 1 million people and generating custom pages on-demand for 1 million people.
What moron of a moderator flagged the parent and grand-parent as trolls?
They're both perfectly valid statements that incite precisely shit.
[burn karma burn]
It depends on how far you are from your speakers and how the room is setup.
You could hit 150db quite easily with a mid-end 700watt system in a small room (15' by 15' maybe) with hard surfaces. Granted, the sound would be shit because of the echos, but it could be done.