I can hardly imagine this to not end in jobs beating up gates
or at least saying something like "I wont tell anything about my visions about the future, because gates here would steal them AGAIN.............. ISN'T THAT RIGHT, YOU THIEVING BASTARD!?!? COME ON, GET YOUR FISTS UP - YOU'LL GET THE BEATING OF YOUR LIFETIME NOW"... uhm... yes... as I saied - i can hardly imagine it not to end in jobs beating gates up...
So Linus, the head Mac kernel guy, and the head Vista kernel guy might be interesting. Shuttleworth might be a better guy to line up with Jobs and Gates.
or RMS... but I guess he would try to kill gates...
yes, try it... spend billions of dollars for an infrastructure that we will bypass within hours...
we will develop a tool that will use a tunneled, SSL encrypted connection over port 8080 to a foreign email provider infact - we can do that already... just use TOR and privoxy and then setup your own machine as proxy for your email application...
good luck with trying to find out if I wrote an email or requested some webpages... in 11 month you might know if I have sent an email today... in 22 month you might know if I have sent an email today or tomorrow... in 44 month you might know if I or my neighbour has sent an email today or tomorrow... etc...
god I hate politicians that think they had any clue about the internet, just because they've sent some emails and visited some websites...
in germany we pay "GEMA" charges for the content - that's 9% of the price
we also pay extra for CD-R, DVD+-R, Harddiscs, mp3 players, flashdiscs, CD Recorders, DVD Recorders, VCRs... still the MAFIAA keeps telling us we were criminals
they even pay for TV spots that say "copy piracy is a crime"
just to scare people (that don't know about their fair use right, which is a right here), away from making LEGAL copies... so that they don't legally give copies to their friends, so that their friends have to pay the full price...
they even went so far to build prison-cell immitations in cinemas, the games convention and such - where you can test how it feels where you're going if you copy stuff.... (but they don't tell people about their fair use right of course)
AND THEY'RE EVEN PROUD OF THIS GESTAPO MARKETING
they glorify this on their homepage http://www.hartabergerecht.de/
If the RIAA doesn't want radios to play their music, then radios should stop playing RIAA music
CC Music is fine, I bet 90% of the listeners won't even notice... the stations have faster access
by just downloading the material instead of going and buying cds...
I think this is a PERFECT example for "be careful what you wish, you might get it"
which format won the DVD+R vs DVD-R war again?
right... the DVD writers that support both formats won...
maybe this should be telling us something about the BR-vs-HDDVD war?...
and don't forget: Teradisc, Holodisc and 200GB Bluray are coming soon...
maybe BR and HDDVD should hurry up with their war, so it is decided
BEFORE both formats are wiped out...
Bill: "Boooohoooohooooo I told DoubleClick I liked her, but she saied she already has a boyfriend... Google... what does he have that I don't have?"
Steve: "Good looks, money, more clicks, he isn't such an assh..."
Bill: "BOOOOOOhUUUUhUUUUhuuuuuu"
Steve: "uh... I mean NOTHING of course! He's just a One-Trick-Pony! and we will dominate the searchengine market soon anyways"
Bill: "Bah, What's the Point??? That's the dumbest fucking idea I've heard since I've been at Microsoft..."
Steve: "Alright, Bill - I have a plan... you need to make her jealous! - you go and date another Ad Firm!... lets see... Oh look, there's Aquantive... she always liked you..."
Bill: "But she's ugly and I don't like her"
Steve: "That doesn't matter - you go out with her and take her to a restaurant, that's double as expensive as the one where Google went with DoubleClick"
Bill: "yeah, that will really make DoubleClick mad! - HEY, AQUANTIVE! CAN I TALK TO YOU FOR A SECOND?"
With around 400,000 licenses a day new Vista users will take 8 weeks to beat Mac users, 4 days to exceed Mac sales and 3 days to exceed Linux desktop users.
congratulations, bill - you just passed 7th grade... you finally found out how to calculate with linear functions...
now tell me, how long will it take to have 40 billion vista users?
well, in another 52 years you might be ready to learn about logarithmic functions which describe windows adoption better...
uh... what errorlevel does this return (which I can catch in batch scripts)?
and what libraries does this code use (i.e. how big will the program become)?
is the PRINT procedure buffered (i.e. faster) or unbuffered (i.e. uses less ram)?
is the string "Hello World!" a list (faster manipulatable) or an array (less ram, faster nonlinear access) of characters?
what charset do strings use?
can I overload the operators to get useful classes?
could I replace the libraries with own asm code to make the programs smaller/faster?
and is this an LR(1) grammar? missing delimiters (like ";") might screw up the language, the parse-trees might not be unique...
yes, basic is convenient, simple and intuitive... for beginners...
to professionals it's just a child's toy
translated from the german wikipedia article on dictatorship, section "characteristics of dictatorships":
abrogation of commensurability: penal laws where the punishment is much tougher, than it would be commensurable to the harm done
(often combined with selective amnesties and mass-imprisonments)
fix for OE: filter all emails that contain the text "09*F9*11*02*9D*74*E3*5B*D8*41*56*C5*63*56*88*C0" after forwarding them to snitch@cia.gov
fix for Vista: Change the NSAKEY from "09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0" to "HEIL_BALLMER_HEIL_BUSH"
fix for MSN Messenger: filter all messages that contain the text "09*F9*11*02*9D*74*E3*5B*D8*41*56*C5*63*56*88*C0" and report the sender to the child-abuse-reporting-service
fix for Office: Remove the text "09*F9*11*02*9D*74*E3*5B*D8*41*56*C5*63*56*88*C0" from all loaded documents and have clippy ask "it looks like you are trying to violate the DMCA - would you like to [] go to guantanamo [] pay 3750$ [] switch to linux?"
fix for Vista: Delete all files that contain the bytes "09*F9*11*02*9D*74*E3*5B*D8*41*56*C5*63*56*88*C0" (unfortunately this affects ntoskrnl.exe)
fix for Visual Studio: delete all programs that contain the text "09*F9*11*02*9D*74*E3*5B*D8*41*56*C5*63*56*88*C0" (unfortunately this affects a certain hd-disc player)
fix for Visual Studio: delete all programs that can somehow ever write the text "09*F9*11*02*9D*74*E3*5B*D8*41*56*C5*63*56*88*C0" (they should have asked Henry Gordon Rice first)
fix for Paint: Do OCR on images and delete all files that contain the text "09*F9*11*02*9D*74*E3*5B*D8*41*56*C5*63*56*88*C0"
fix for TWAIN: Do OCR on images and discard all images that contain the text "09*F9*11*02*9D*74*E3*5B*D8*41*56*C5*63*56*88*C0"
fix for Direct3D: Do OCR on Textures and don't render textures that contain the text "09*F9*11*02*9D*74*E3*5B*D8*41*56*C5*63*56*88*C0"
fix for OCR: if "09*F9*11*02*9D*74*E3*5B*D8*41*56*C5*63*56*88*C0" is recognized - don't return it (making the previous 3 fixes useless)
fix for Cryptography Service: Delete all Files that might (in ANY way) be an encrypted "09*F9*11*02*9D*74*E3*5B*D8*41*56*C5*63*56*88*C0" (FLOSS fans REALLY love this one)
fix for MediaPlayer: do speech recognition and delete all audiofiles that contain the spoken text "09*F9*11*02*9D*74*E3*5B*D8*41*56*C5*63*56*88*C0" (fortunately this key doesn't contain an N)
fix for MineSweeper: don't allow "09*F9*11*02*9D*74*E3*5B*D8*41*56*C5*63*56*88*C0" to be a hiscore name
fix for Notepad: delete all files that contain the text "09*F9*11*02*9D*74*E3*5B*D8*41*56*C5*63*56*88*C0"
fix for windows explorer: delete all files that have a filename of "*09*F9*11*02*9D*74*E3*5B*D8*41*56*C5*63*56*88*C0* "
fix for powershell: "echo *09*F9*11*02*9D*74*E3*5B*D8*41*56*C5*63*56*88*C0*" now crashes the system
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I can hardly imagine this to not end in jobs beating up gates
or at least saying something like "I wont tell anything about my visions about the future, because gates here would steal them AGAIN.............. ISN'T THAT RIGHT, YOU THIEVING BASTARD!?!? COME ON, GET YOUR FISTS UP - YOU'LL GET THE BEATING OF YOUR LIFETIME NOW"... uhm... yes... as I saied - i can hardly imagine it not to end in jobs beating gates up...
yes, try it... spend billions of dollars for an infrastructure that we will bypass within hours...
we will develop a tool that will use a tunneled, SSL encrypted connection over port 8080 to a foreign email provider infact - we can do that already... just use TOR and privoxy and then setup your own machine as proxy for your email application...
good luck with trying to find out if I wrote an email or requested some webpages... in 11 month you might know if I have sent an email today... in 22 month you might know if I have sent an email today or tomorrow... in 44 month you might know if I or my neighbour has sent an email today or tomorrow... etc...
god I hate politicians that think they had any clue about the internet, just because they've sent some emails and visited some websites...
in germany we pay "GEMA" charges for the content - that's 9% of the price
we also pay extra for CD-R, DVD+-R, Harddiscs, mp3 players, flashdiscs, CD Recorders, DVD Recorders, VCRs...
still the MAFIAA keeps telling us we were criminals
they even pay for TV spots that say "copy piracy is a crime"
just to scare people (that don't know about their fair use right, which is a right here), away from making LEGAL copies... so that they don't legally give copies to their friends, so that their friends have to pay the full price...
they even went so far to build prison-cell immitations in cinemas, the games convention and such - where you can test how it feels where you're going if you copy stuff.... (but they don't tell people about their fair use right of course)
AND THEY'RE EVEN PROUD OF THIS GESTAPO MARKETING
they glorify this on their homepage http://www.hartabergerecht.de/
why is this on slashdot?
because you can buy kevlar vests in counterstrike?
yes, it was in 2000...
but times have changed... look at [k+x]ubuntu - perfect for the average user
the problems for linux adaption are
a) people don't even know it exists
b) it isn't preinstalled
c) people are scared away by MS FUD...
If the RIAA doesn't want radios to play their music, then radios should stop playing RIAA music
CC Music is fine, I bet 90% of the listeners won't even notice... the stations have faster access by just downloading the material instead of going and buying cds...
I think this is a PERFECT example for "be careful what you wish, you might get it"
which format won the DVD+R vs DVD-R war again?
right... the DVD writers that support both formats won...
maybe this should be telling us something about the BR-vs-HDDVD war?...
and don't forget: Teradisc, Holodisc and 200GB Bluray are coming soon...
maybe BR and HDDVD should hurry up with their war, so it is decided BEFORE both formats are wiped out...
If they get enough money from every crucified open source user, to buy 20 cruciforms, then I *guess* the community runs out of people first...
they just lost $1.5 billion in a patent lawsuit
still they are heavily pushing europe to legalize software patents here...
I don't think they'll change their opinion before it's waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay to late for them to not go bankrupt or have to downsize big time...
god, I want modpoints, brother!
but if he did the same thing vice versa, he'd be facing another lawsuit...
they're going back to web 0.2 in hopes to kill the competition like they did with netscape in the "good old days"...
Bill: "Boooohoooohooooo I told DoubleClick I liked her, but she saied she already has a boyfriend... Google... what does he have that I don't have?"
Steve: "Good looks, money, more clicks, he isn't such an assh..."
Bill: "BOOOOOOhUUUUhUUUUhuuuuuu"
Steve: "uh... I mean NOTHING of course! He's just a One-Trick-Pony! and we will dominate the searchengine market soon anyways"
Bill: "Bah, What's the Point??? That's the dumbest fucking idea I've heard since I've been at Microsoft..."
Steve: "Alright, Bill - I have a plan... you need to make her jealous! - you go and date another Ad Firm!... lets see... Oh look, there's Aquantive... she always liked you..."
Bill: "But she's ugly and I don't like her"
Steve: "That doesn't matter - you go out with her and take her to a restaurant, that's double as expensive as the one where Google went with DoubleClick"
Bill: "yeah, that will really make DoubleClick mad! - HEY, AQUANTIVE! CAN I TALK TO YOU FOR A SECOND?"
strange... why hasn't live.com adapted the changes yet?...
emacs
are there other ways?
now tell me, how long will it take to have 40 billion vista users?
well, in another 52 years you might be ready to learn about logarithmic functions which describe windows adoption better...
and what libraries does this code use (i.e. how big will the program become)?
is the PRINT procedure buffered (i.e. faster) or unbuffered (i.e. uses less ram)?
is the string "Hello World!" a list (faster manipulatable) or an array (less ram, faster nonlinear access) of characters?
what charset do strings use?
can I overload the operators to get useful classes?
could I replace the libraries with own asm code to make the programs smaller/faster?
and is this an LR(1) grammar? missing delimiters (like ";") might screw up the language, the parse-trees might not be unique...
yes, basic is convenient, simple and intuitive... for beginners...
to professionals it's just a child's toy
translated from the german wikipedia article on dictatorship, section "characteristics of dictatorships":
abrogation of commensurability: penal laws where the punishment is much tougher, than it would be commensurable to the harm done (often combined with selective amnesties and mass-imprisonments)
apparently we are so far ahead that they can't even see us anymore...
so he saies "I am paied for nothing and should be fired immediately"?
it was a smart move, to buy that law, dear MAFIAA
THAT will REALLY get people to buy more CDs again...
- fix for IE: filter all sites that contain the text "09*F9*11*02*9D*74*E3*5B*D8*41*56*C5*63*56*88*C0"
- fix for IE: redirect http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=09F911029D74
E 35BD84156C5635688C0&btnG=Search to http://www.cia.gov/confess
- fix for OE: filter all emails that contain the text "09*F9*11*02*9D*74*E3*5B*D8*41*56*C5*63*56*88*C0" after forwarding them to snitch@cia.gov
- fix for Vista: Change the NSAKEY from "09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0" to "HEIL_BALLMER_HEIL_BUSH"
- fix for MSN Messenger: filter all messages that contain the text "09*F9*11*02*9D*74*E3*5B*D8*41*56*C5*63*56*88*C0" and report the sender to the child-abuse-reporting-service
- fix for Office: Remove the text "09*F9*11*02*9D*74*E3*5B*D8*41*56*C5*63*56*88*C0" from all loaded documents and have clippy ask "it looks like you are trying to violate the DMCA - would you like to [] go to guantanamo [] pay 3750$ [] switch to linux?"
- fix for Vista: Delete all files that contain the bytes "09*F9*11*02*9D*74*E3*5B*D8*41*56*C5*63*56*88*C0" (unfortunately this affects ntoskrnl.exe)
- fix for Visual Studio: delete all programs that contain the text "09*F9*11*02*9D*74*E3*5B*D8*41*56*C5*63*56*88*C0" (unfortunately this affects a certain hd-disc player)
- fix for Visual Studio: delete all programs that can somehow ever write the text "09*F9*11*02*9D*74*E3*5B*D8*41*56*C5*63*56*88*C0" (they should have asked Henry Gordon Rice first)
- fix for Paint: Do OCR on images and delete all files that contain the text "09*F9*11*02*9D*74*E3*5B*D8*41*56*C5*63*56*88*C0"
- fix for TWAIN: Do OCR on images and discard all images that contain the text "09*F9*11*02*9D*74*E3*5B*D8*41*56*C5*63*56*88*C0"
- fix for Direct3D: Do OCR on Textures and don't render textures that contain the text "09*F9*11*02*9D*74*E3*5B*D8*41*56*C5*63*56*88*C0"
- fix for OCR: if "09*F9*11*02*9D*74*E3*5B*D8*41*56*C5*63*56*88*C0" is recognized - don't return it (making the previous 3 fixes useless)
- fix for Cryptography Service: Delete all Files that might (in ANY way) be an encrypted "09*F9*11*02*9D*74*E3*5B*D8*41*56*C5*63*56*88*C0" (FLOSS fans REALLY love this one)
- fix for MediaPlayer: do speech recognition and delete all audiofiles that contain the spoken text "09*F9*11*02*9D*74*E3*5B*D8*41*56*C5*63*56*88*C0" (fortunately this key doesn't contain an N)
- fix for MineSweeper: don't allow "09*F9*11*02*9D*74*E3*5B*D8*41*56*C5*63*56*88*C0" to be a hiscore name
- fix for Notepad: delete all files that contain the text "09*F9*11*02*9D*74*E3*5B*D8*41*56*C5*63*56*88*C0"
- fix for windows explorer: delete all files that have a filename of "*09*F9*11*02*9D*74*E3*5B*D8*41*56*C5*63*56*88*C0
* "
- fix for powershell: "echo *09*F9*11*02*9D*74*E3*5B*D8*41*56*C5*63*56*88*C0*
" now crashes the system
yes, i got tired at the later ones