Which is exactly what the problem with capitalism is - what if the other companies product IS better?
Advertising laws have been twisted so much that we're allowed to use subjective lies, but you can be sacked for giving away facts... roll on 1984. It's late. Very, very late. But not never...
No, NT 3.5 and Win 3.1 were not the same thing, I was aware that they are parallel codebases, however I do distinctly remember Microsoft bragging about bringing the interfaces and APIs from NT into consumer windows in 95.
As for calling people troll because they correct me, this is because people Mod me troll all the time even if my post is just a fact, and I wasn't so argumentative before, but it looks to me that the highest scored posts (i.e. those considered helpful) are often pointless corrections put in an aggressive way (Get offa my lawn!). I will, however, try take your last words as advice and attempt to be more civil and less defensive about participating and being trolled. Thanks for your time in pointing that out. Rachel
Windows 95 and Windows NT4 were released concurrently and were announced as consumer and corporate versions of the same thing, introducing the 95 interface and API which were unified. That is how I (and Microsoft) came to "lump them" together as v4.
I do not disagree, however, that this is somewhat convoluted. However, the description I have given is a pretty accurate description of how THEY think they got here (7), and I find your 2-point by default, karma whoring, addds nothing to my post, condescending reply somewhat misleading for those reading my post. You haven't actually corrected anything, even though your opening statement implies that you will!
Troll. You know damn well by know that your own government flew windowless, unmarked military planes into your precious WTC. You must all have seen the film by now, and you've heard the female bystander in the footage who exclaims "That is not American Airlines" and can see just what we see - dark gray fuselage, no windows, and NO LOGO!
Yet your representatives still troll anybody who suggests your stupid wars were a waste of money. Go fuck yourself, Government shill.
Windows 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 we progressively less blocky (graphically, anyway) 16-bit builds of an 8 bit OS based on a 4 bit etc etc you've heard that joke before.
Windows 3.1 added Win32 and Windows 3.11 added Workgroups. Windows 95, 98, NT4 and Win Me can be interpreted as updates of v4.
Windows 2000 Pro and Server series are v5, and XP and Windows Server series are v5.1.
Finally Vista is v6 and Windows 7 is Version 7. I've heard say that Microsoft got sick of yearly names around the time they unified Whistler Server etc and the Service packs aligned at XP SP2 (XP SP1 was the 2003 RTM and 2003 SP1 is XP SP2).
Possible guilt on my part for having smugly pointed out your broken lawn? I can be a bit trolly myself (but never AC), and when suggesting my HTML-only layout and forum etc. I was a bit worried I'd be laughed at yet again by the slashdot in-crowd (you know, the Drupal and PEAR users) for my hamster-powered-yet-beautiful, SECURE, HTML-only, IE 4+ Firefox+ Lynx compatible server-side PHP-only validation, Amstrad style programming (phew!) over there on the link.
But on the other hand, I had to take the risk of being trolled because if you were genuine, I thought that layout (perhaps without the Muslim and the Jew shaking hands!) would be perfect for a site about gettin' offa your lawn! So thanks for being nice, I hope you do use it, a link would be nice, and sorry I called you a troll! Rachel
I'm being trolled, aren't I? Well I'm only here to feed the ducks anyway... Why not try my HTML only, JavaScript-less bbs / political news system?:-O
You can have the layout for free as it's the same colour as your lawn - http://www.manchestergreenparty.org.uk/ yes i do have the right to the code and html as it's mine, but not the articles (Green Party). As for the custom forum / news / events system, thats for sale but im sure i'm being trolled but its late and im lonely so thank you and goodnight, troll! I bit! ps I'm Rachel, the common slutty spelling;-D
I was going to say what I usually say in that context, girls with balls in a place you wouldn't expect (/.), but it didn't look right next to the subject matter... and yes, thinking about it literally would give me worse nightmares than being hollow!
Your bisexual male friend (who happens to be a car) wants to play with your girlfriend (who is also a car?). BUT he wont let you play with his (multiple) girlfriends, err.. sorry, cars. They're bored and don't get any while he plays away. In fact, I can think of a few situations like this in real life, too!! Wierd but accurate. Not posted AC..., girls with guts on Slashdot, scary eh?? Guys, run awaaaayyy!
it must be recovered from bare metal using only our standard procedures + the backup tape
Wow, it must be really difficult re-installing all that proprietory firmware back to the BIOS, NIC, RAID etc. then getting it to bootstrap the *Insert OS Here" bootloader all on your own, I bet you don't get any help from the OEM there...
The PS2 hardware is completely different to a PC, which most of us "homebrew" types work on. It has more than one specialist CPU in addition to it's main one, custom made by IBM.
Emulator performance wouldn't be a real indicator of the performance of the console, so what would be the point in releasing a VM (emulator)?
It's very inconsiderate to diss the guy just because he dislikes the M key even if it is in the same place - everything else has moved and this changes the way the "m" key feels to him - not being an DVORAK expert myself but it seems to me if most characters he uses are in a block in the new layout and the M key is way over "there" somewhere then his perception that it doesnt "feel right" is completely reasonable, esp. given the time he's spent on QWERTY.
We geeks claim to be intelligent and reasonable, and yet sometimes we can be the most closed-minded and inconsiderate bunch possible at times! And plus, the guy was probably programming in assembler before your PARENTS knew what a computer was so of course he's more used to QWERTY and set in his ways than 99% of the baby boomers here... give him some respect... he can probably code better with his QWERTY than you can with your "me too! I'M FASHIONABLE! " fancy new keyboard (ps Im only 25 but I can completely understand where he's coming from)
Our best friend Zap Brannigan - a parody spaceship captain from the political / sci-fi / comedy Futurama. In addition to my boring recommendations above for the BBC documentaries, I can highly recommend Futurama as a lighter way of pointing out our current failings through VERY clever humour and irony.
He's based on nearly all military leaders throughout history. It's a brilliant comment, belongs right here in the same topic as my above post about the oil and so on.
Thanks for cheering me up, it was quite depressing denouncing that Bush troll; I hate to rant but when people can't even read the article they post in an objective manner it makes the blood boil... lol.
It specifically states in your linked article that the Asian contracts are tiny and are only happening because China et al are willing to send people where the West isnt!
It then goes on to say that these are tiny contracts and that British and U.S. interests are biding their time for longer-term, more secure, higher volume contracts ("up to 6 million barrels a day"). It also says that Bush saw the arrangements for Iraqi oil sales before Iraq's own parliament saw them (or voted??)!
The evidence of foul play is all over the US, the news, and even the article you use in the US govt's defence, but most of us are too dumb to see it. That's the result of the dumbed down idea that "the market will provide" we've been living under since the War.
It's time people realised that we are really are living in a world planned around the idea that everybody will betray everybody else whenever they can for profit; which has become a self-fulfilling prophesy because the people who don't think like sharks are left behind financially and thus do not have a voice.
I will rest this case even stronger if I get modded "Troll" or something because if you take an objective view of what is happening, watch a few documentaries (I recommend the BBC's "The Trap" or "The Century of the Self"), etc you will see all of this in every political speech you watch, nearly every news item, the way the banks treat their customers, social security, it's endemic. It's a giant pyramid scheme based on money.
Go on, mod me a troll. Prove my point.
Then read some of my previous posts. And perhaps you'll see that there REALLY is a pattern of idiocy in the way your happy to have freedoms taken away in the name of... errr... freedom??
Isn't what you're doing simply a workaround for having mod points taken away for steering a discussion? although I agree with the points in the post I am replying to, I just can't help wondering where you spent those mod points before logging out and posting AC - any editors reading this might want to read the parent and look a little closer at where the points were spent and where else this phenomenon might occur here on/.;)
Thanks, I make a serious a serious, on-topic post about something, and I get modded down for it "by mistake". Just goes to show, it's not my driving I should worry about but other peoples!
Because, frankly, despite all of the posts about black holes above being modded "Funny", you can bet there are a lot of scared people examining the LHC right now, in the full knowledge that they don't yet have all the answers or the correct odds of creating singularities; if they did they wouldn't need the LHC for their research! Which means most of them, at Fermilab and CERN are taking all of our safety VERY seriously.
That is why there is no "ha ha" tag and I hope there won't be one.
Another fried troll on this very serious post. I hope somebody follows up with more detail right here on the front page. I hope this does not jeopardize the LHC project in the medium or long term.
That is not true. The Green Card is exceptionally hard to acquire even for UK citizens, and plus, the US plays policeman all over the world over "ancient petty crimes" and we all have to put up with it.
Is it not surprising, then, that other countries might treat your citizens in exactly the same way your Israeli-American friends treat Palestinians in their own country?
Ill finish with a proverb - treat others the way you would have them treat you.
They don't - they start out at 2, and use their advantage in replies to posts like mine which require a little "alternative" thinking but are easily shot down with comments like the World Delivery Service just above there.
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Advertising laws have been twisted so much that we're allowed to use subjective lies, but you can be sacked for giving away facts... roll on 1984. It's late. Very, very late. But not never...
As for calling people troll because they correct me, this is because people Mod me troll all the time even if my post is just a fact, and I wasn't so argumentative before, but it looks to me that the highest scored posts (i.e. those considered helpful) are often pointless corrections put in an aggressive way (Get offa my lawn!). I will, however, try take your last words as advice and attempt to be more civil and less defensive about participating and being trolled. Thanks for your time in pointing that out. Rachel
I do not disagree, however, that this is somewhat convoluted. However, the description I have given is a pretty accurate description of how THEY think they got here (7), and I find your 2-point by default, karma whoring, addds nothing to my post, condescending reply somewhat misleading for those reading my post. You haven't actually corrected anything, even though your opening statement implies that you will!
Yet your representatives still troll anybody who suggests your stupid wars were a waste of money. Go fuck yourself, Government shill.
NOT POSTED AC. Prove me wrong.
There, fixed that for myself before Mr Troll could...
Windows 3.1 added Win32 and Windows 3.11 added Workgroups. Windows 95, 98, NT4 and Win Me can be interpreted as updates of v4.
Windows 2000 Pro and Server series are v5, and XP and Windows Server series are v5.1.
Finally Vista is v6 and Windows 7 is Version 7. I've heard say that Microsoft got sick of yearly names around the time they unified Whistler Server etc and the Service packs aligned at XP SP2 (XP SP1 was the 2003 RTM and 2003 SP1 is XP SP2).
But on the other hand, I had to take the risk of being trolled because if you were genuine, I thought that layout (perhaps without the Muslim and the Jew shaking hands!) would be perfect for a site about gettin' offa your lawn! So thanks for being nice, I hope you do use it, a link would be nice, and sorry I called you a troll! Rachel
You can have the layout for free as it's the same colour as your lawn - http://www.manchestergreenparty.org.uk/ yes i do have the right to the code and html as it's mine, but not the articles (Green Party). As for the custom forum / news / events system, thats for sale but im sure i'm being trolled but its late and im lonely so thank you and goodnight, troll! I bit! ps I'm Rachel, the common slutty spelling ;-D
How about an iTunes only mandatory internet, with no UDP?
Hey dude, your lawn server crashed and burned. Rachel
I was going to say what I usually say in that context, girls with balls in a place you wouldn't expect (/.), but it didn't look right next to the subject matter... and yes, thinking about it literally would give me worse nightmares than being hollow!
Your bisexual male friend (who happens to be a car) wants to play with your girlfriend (who is also a car?). BUT he wont let you play with his (multiple) girlfriends, err.. sorry, cars. They're bored and don't get any while he plays away. In fact, I can think of a few situations like this in real life, too!! Wierd but accurate. Not posted AC..., girls with guts on Slashdot, scary eh?? Guys, run awaaaayyy!
it must be recovered from bare metal using only our standard procedures + the backup tape
Wow, it must be really difficult re-installing all that proprietory firmware back to the BIOS, NIC, RAID etc. then getting it to bootstrap the *Insert OS Here" bootloader all on your own, I bet you don't get any help from the OEM there...
Troll or funny, take your pick...
Post! Taht was slow slashdot
I'm a girl Why would you still want my asshole when I've wet slippery bits at the front? Gay b****d!!!
Emulator performance wouldn't be a real indicator of the performance of the console, so what would be the point in releasing a VM (emulator)?
The Ferengi rules of acquisition of course!
It's very inconsiderate to diss the guy just because he dislikes the M key even if it is in the same place - everything else has moved and this changes the way the "m" key feels to him - not being an DVORAK expert myself but it seems to me if most characters he uses are in a block in the new layout and the M key is way over "there" somewhere then his perception that it doesnt "feel right" is completely reasonable, esp. given the time he's spent on QWERTY.
... give him some respect... he can probably code better with his QWERTY than you can with your "me too! I'M FASHIONABLE! " fancy new keyboard (ps Im only 25 but I can completely understand where he's coming from)
We geeks claim to be intelligent and reasonable, and yet sometimes we can be the most closed-minded and inconsiderate bunch possible at times! And plus, the guy was probably programming in assembler before your PARENTS knew what a computer was so of course he's more used to QWERTY and set in his ways than 99% of the baby boomers here
Just my 2 cents
Our best friend Zap Brannigan - a parody spaceship captain from the political / sci-fi / comedy Futurama. In addition to my boring recommendations above for the BBC documentaries, I can highly recommend Futurama as a lighter way of pointing out our current failings through VERY clever humour and irony.
... lol.
He's based on nearly all military leaders throughout history. It's a brilliant comment, belongs right here in the same topic as my above post about the oil and so on.
Thanks for cheering me up, it was quite depressing denouncing that Bush troll; I hate to rant but when people can't even read the article they post in an objective manner it makes the blood boil
Absolute rubbish.
... errr ... freedom??
It specifically states in your linked article that the Asian contracts are tiny and are only happening because China et al are willing to send people where the West isnt!
It then goes on to say that these are tiny contracts and that British and U.S. interests are biding their time for longer-term, more secure, higher volume contracts ("up to 6 million barrels a day"). It also says that Bush saw the arrangements for Iraqi oil sales before Iraq's own parliament saw them (or voted??)!
The evidence of foul play is all over the US, the news, and even the article you use in the US govt's defence, but most of us are too dumb to see it. That's the result of the dumbed down idea that "the market will provide" we've been living under since the War.
It's time people realised that we are really are living in a world planned around the idea that everybody will betray everybody else whenever they can for profit; which has become a self-fulfilling prophesy because the people who don't think like sharks are left behind financially and thus do not have a voice.
I will rest this case even stronger if I get modded "Troll" or something because if you take an objective view of what is happening, watch a few documentaries (I recommend the BBC's "The Trap" or "The Century of the Self"), etc you will see all of this in every political speech you watch, nearly every news item, the way the banks treat their customers, social security, it's endemic. It's a giant pyramid scheme based on money.
Go on, mod me a troll. Prove my point.
Then read some of my previous posts. And perhaps you'll see that there REALLY is a pattern of idiocy in the way your happy to have freedoms taken away in the name of
Rachel
Isn't what you're doing simply a workaround for having mod points taken away for steering a discussion? although I agree with the points in the post I am replying to, I just can't help wondering where you spent those mod points before logging out and posting AC - any editors reading this might want to read the parent and look a little closer at where the points were spent and where else this phenomenon might occur here on /. ;)
Thanks, I make a serious a serious, on-topic post about something, and I get modded down for it "by mistake". Just goes to show, it's not my driving I should worry about but other peoples!
That is why there is no "ha ha" tag and I hope there won't be one.
Another fried troll on this very serious post. I hope somebody follows up with more detail right here on the front page. I hope this does not jeopardize the LHC project in the medium or long term.
Rachel.
Is it not surprising, then, that other countries might treat your citizens in exactly the same way your Israeli-American friends treat Palestinians in their own country?
Ill finish with a proverb - treat others the way you would have them treat you.
They don't - they start out at 2, and use their advantage in replies to posts like mine which require a little "alternative" thinking but are easily shot down with comments like the World Delivery Service just above there.