Yes, and the original plot called for them to sit around smoking weed all day, much akin to "That 70's Show". Due to budget constraints though, "The 70's IT Crowd" just didn't work because of the amount of production space needed to build a replica of a 1970's computer.
Clearly, the AP's editors determined this news was important enough to warrant such action.
Personally I think Apple and Microsoft have secretely joined themselves at the hip. As such, the editors were told to send out the alert or elese 'ol Stevie would Fucking Kill(TM) them.
Sounds like just the perfect thing you'd need to play a great practical joke with on your stoner roommate. Wait until they're really high, turn on all the black lights, and then shuffle in a few of the green pigs.
I'm sure there's several forces at work driving malware. First is money. Unfortunately security is a joke to Microsoft and a large portion of the folks who use their products. As such these companies are constantly finding new methods and ways to infect your system with their crap. There has to be a decent amount of idiots buying their products for them to be continually pumping out new malware. A second force is likely just ego. There's likely a bit of upmanship between peers constantly trying to outdo the other by finding new backdoors.
It's an interesting change for sure, but isn't the point of an iPod and it's inherent size to be able to take your music anywhere? Unless you're taking a tour of the local nuclear facility, exactly where else would you want to carry around such a thing? The last thing I'd want to lug with me when I go out for a job is a large box flying back in forth in my hand. I don't know about you, but I would think security would be stopping me left and right wondering what I'm doing with such a device.
You: "Dude, I'm listening to my music!"
Officer: "Sure you are, now spread 'em!"
"and Tom Cruise to show an MI: 3 trailer for some reason."
It's probably a good thing there wasn't a couch nearby otherwise we'd see hundreds of clips on the evening news about him jumping up and down on it while exlaiming how much he loves this software.
Ah, but wise is the IT staff who knows the level of intelligence, or lack thereof, of the average CEO and adjusts their access accordingly. Around here, even if you got hold of a VP's password, the biggest thing you could do would be to send a company-wide e-mail saying "OMFG j00 all sux0rz!".
Jack Ryan returns in 2006 for "The Sum of all FUD" : 27,000 fact stretched FUDs. One is misleading. CIA analyst Jack Ryan hunts down a group of US-CERTs who plan to announce a hawguash of FUD at the Superbowl.
With the amount of overseas outsourcing occuring in today's world of big business, will this mean a boom to the use of Instant Messaging as a form of technical support? Some might squak at the labor of having to type something in versus just saying it, but compared to dealing with "Shitty Wok, take ur orda prease" I think it'd be a Godsend.
Hey kids of America. It's machine painted plastic mouse-in-a-slot. Mogo's favorite mouse for over two months. Who needs constant comforting ergonomic stimulation when there's mouse-in-a-slot? You just use the mouse, put it in the slot, pull it out of the slot, use it, and put it in the slot again. The mouse is not on a wire and unattached to the slot, so there's no worry if you don't put the mouse in the slot. And clean up is as easy as putting a mouse, in a slot. So why spend another day not putting a mouse in a slot when you can be using a mouse-in-a-slot?
"[IBM has] four times the employees that I have, way more revenues than I have.'"
I can understand Bill being envious of the revenue stream of IBM, but the number of employees? My word he must be planning on world domination by being in every aspect of your life and to do so he's gonna need a lot larger of a workforce. I can just see Steve sitting in Bill's office with a conversation that hails from the days of the Animaniacs:
Bill: "Stevie, are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
Steve: "I think so Bill, but what are we going to after we Fucking Kill(TM) IBM?"
Bill: "The same thing we do every day Stevie. Try to take over the world!"
Steve: "Narf! Good one Bill."
"Do consumers even want another format war?"
Seems like an odd question to ask, have consumers ever even WANTED a format war? Consumers in general are like a herd of cattle, they'll buy whatever the flashy ad on TV tells them to. They don't want to spend hours of research reading through techno-babble to try and devise which offering is better. They just want to walk in, say "I need a player", pay for said item, go home and enjoy. Format wars are strictly one upmanships between manufacturers to see who can create enough buzz about their product first so that everybody else is forced to switch technology and pay royalties, regardless of which is the better technology for the consumer.
Microsoft must have some deeply vested interest in all this to be pushing so hard so as to ensure HD DVD's victory over Blueray. Besides it being a concern for which technology to introduce to the 360, what do they really have to gain with one technology trumping the other? Maybe they've spent the last year coding everything to support HD DVD and just are too lazy to go back and recode everything to support Blueray *shrug*
A Futurma comeback has been mentioned before and every time I've found myself thinking "Oh how kick ass is this gonna be?!!!" But then I have to wonder if it'll be the same Futurama that we've all come to love. Besides a heaping helping of cash, what else is there to motivate Groening into continuing the series? He's always been vocal about his dismay of the Fox execs cancelling the show in the first place. That seems like a big chip to carry on one's shoulders, though I suppose a few extra 0's on a paycheck can put a smile on anybody's face. I just hope his love of the characters and fanbase are enough to ensure the series returns to it's former glory.
Minus the fact that the robot pictured has legs versus tank treads, it's nearly a dead ringer for Number 5 from Short Circuit (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091949/). Well, that and they made him more appealing to the trendy crowd by fashioning his chest to look something like an iPod knock-off.
"When LEGO MINDSTORMS launched, we fundamentally changed the way people viewed LEGO building and play and helped spark the trend of affordable and attainable consumer robotics," says Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, CEO, LEGO Group.
With an expected retail price of $249, I think my $25 Transformer is all the "affordable" robotics I really need.
Is it any wonder that Microsoft continues to be hated more and more? They're trying to be all things to all people which to me doesn't seem to be the best of ideas when you can't even keep your core business product stable or bug free. How exactly do you expect customers to take any new offering of yours seriously when a patch for a highly exploitable bug comes from a third party developer?
And since when was MTV related to anything music? I thought they killed off that idea back in the early 90's. Perhaps they're planning on allowing folks to download just the audio segments to Real World so that we can see the Springeresque theatrics of it all via our own imagination.
"So SCO is essentially admitting that Novell owns the copyrights at this point, but is saying that Novell breached the contract (that specifically excluded copyrights) by failing to transfer them to Santa Cruz."
I can see there collectively being a large amount of heads exploding after trying to make sense of that one. I'm thinking SCO has nothing to do with Santa Cruz and more to do with SChizOphrenia because they've seem to have lost touch with reality.
They must not have run this product by their lawyers yet as I didn't see any disclaimers to the "one size fits all" line. By the time it hits market I imagine we'll see the inclusion of "one size fits all*" where * = "If product happens to be too constricting to blood flood and hand becomes black and blue, remove product immediately. Neither Imation or any of it's partners are liable for any amputations caused by use of this product."
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Yes, and the original plot called for them to sit around smoking weed all day, much akin to "That 70's Show". Due to budget constraints though, "The 70's IT Crowd" just didn't work because of the amount of production space needed to build a replica of a 1970's computer.
Clearly, the AP's editors determined this news was important enough to warrant such action.
Personally I think Apple and Microsoft have secretely joined themselves at the hip. As such, the editors were told to send out the alert or elese 'ol Stevie would Fucking Kill(TM) them.
Sounds like just the perfect thing you'd need to play a great practical joke with on your stoner roommate. Wait until they're really high, turn on all the black lights, and then shuffle in a few of the green pigs.
Don't forget the "Made from the best stuff on Earth" tagline, which would then have to be worded "Somore of the most expensive stuff on Earth"
The physics are so insane that even Albert Einstein was quoted as saying "Daaaaaaaaaammmn!"
I'm sure there's several forces at work driving malware. First is money. Unfortunately security is a joke to Microsoft and a large portion of the folks who use their products. As such these companies are constantly finding new methods and ways to infect your system with their crap. There has to be a decent amount of idiots buying their products for them to be continually pumping out new malware. A second force is likely just ego. There's likely a bit of upmanship between peers constantly trying to outdo the other by finding new backdoors.
It's an interesting change for sure, but isn't the point of an iPod and it's inherent size to be able to take your music anywhere? Unless you're taking a tour of the local nuclear facility, exactly where else would you want to carry around such a thing? The last thing I'd want to lug with me when I go out for a job is a large box flying back in forth in my hand. I don't know about you, but I would think security would be stopping me left and right wondering what I'm doing with such a device.
You: "Dude, I'm listening to my music!"
Officer: "Sure you are, now spread 'em!"
"Ding. You've got mail!" has now been replaced with "Bow chica bow wow. You got porn!"
Can I press the shiny, red, candy-like button?
Reporter: Why are you doing this?
Josh Caldwall: I just felt like Segwaying!
"Wouldn't the world actually be a BETTER place if all the users revolted, and the site shut down altogether?"
That it would, but you'd be hard pressed to get so many folks to give up a free service, irregardless of the actions of Rupert.
"and Tom Cruise to show an MI: 3 trailer for some reason."
It's probably a good thing there wasn't a couch nearby otherwise we'd see hundreds of clips on the evening news about him jumping up and down on it while exlaiming how much he loves this software.
How's Stalin and his Free Software Movement?
If you'd of read the FAQ and TPS Report you'd be ITK and not MIA.
Ah, but wise is the IT staff who knows the level of intelligence, or lack thereof, of the average CEO and adjusts their access accordingly. Around here, even if you got hold of a VP's password, the biggest thing you could do would be to send a company-wide e-mail saying "OMFG j00 all sux0rz!".
Jack Ryan returns in 2006 for "The Sum of all FUD" : 27,000 fact stretched FUDs. One is misleading. CIA analyst Jack Ryan hunts down a group of US-CERTs who plan to announce a hawguash of FUD at the Superbowl.
With the amount of overseas outsourcing occuring in today's world of big business, will this mean a boom to the use of Instant Messaging as a form of technical support? Some might squak at the labor of having to type something in versus just saying it, but compared to dealing with "Shitty Wok, take ur orda prease" I think it'd be a Godsend.
Hey kids of America. It's machine painted plastic mouse-in-a-slot. Mogo's favorite mouse for over two months. Who needs constant comforting ergonomic stimulation when there's mouse-in-a-slot? You just use the mouse, put it in the slot, pull it out of the slot, use it, and put it in the slot again. The mouse is not on a wire and unattached to the slot, so there's no worry if you don't put the mouse in the slot. And clean up is as easy as putting a mouse, in a slot. So why spend another day not putting a mouse in a slot when you can be using a mouse-in-a-slot?
McCalla has also been banned from using a computer for 3 years.
br? No porn for you!
"[IBM has] four times the employees that I have, way more revenues than I have.'"
I can understand Bill being envious of the revenue stream of IBM, but the number of employees? My word he must be planning on world domination by being in every aspect of your life and to do so he's gonna need a lot larger of a workforce. I can just see Steve sitting in Bill's office with a conversation that hails from the days of the Animaniacs:
Bill: "Stevie, are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
Steve: "I think so Bill, but what are we going to after we Fucking Kill(TM) IBM?"
Bill: "The same thing we do every day Stevie. Try to take over the world!"
Steve: "Narf! Good one Bill."
"Do consumers even want another format war?" Seems like an odd question to ask, have consumers ever even WANTED a format war? Consumers in general are like a herd of cattle, they'll buy whatever the flashy ad on TV tells them to. They don't want to spend hours of research reading through techno-babble to try and devise which offering is better. They just want to walk in, say "I need a player", pay for said item, go home and enjoy. Format wars are strictly one upmanships between manufacturers to see who can create enough buzz about their product first so that everybody else is forced to switch technology and pay royalties, regardless of which is the better technology for the consumer.
Microsoft must have some deeply vested interest in all this to be pushing so hard so as to ensure HD DVD's victory over Blueray. Besides it being a concern for which technology to introduce to the 360, what do they really have to gain with one technology trumping the other? Maybe they've spent the last year coding everything to support HD DVD and just are too lazy to go back and recode everything to support Blueray *shrug*
A Futurma comeback has been mentioned before and every time I've found myself thinking "Oh how kick ass is this gonna be?!!!" But then I have to wonder if it'll be the same Futurama that we've all come to love. Besides a heaping helping of cash, what else is there to motivate Groening into continuing the series? He's always been vocal about his dismay of the Fox execs cancelling the show in the first place. That seems like a big chip to carry on one's shoulders, though I suppose a few extra 0's on a paycheck can put a smile on anybody's face. I just hope his love of the characters and fanbase are enough to ensure the series returns to it's former glory.
Minus the fact that the robot pictured has legs versus tank treads, it's nearly a dead ringer for Number 5 from Short Circuit (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091949/). Well, that and they made him more appealing to the trendy crowd by fashioning his chest to look something like an iPod knock-off.
"When LEGO MINDSTORMS launched, we fundamentally changed the way people viewed LEGO building and play and helped spark the trend of affordable and attainable consumer robotics," says Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, CEO, LEGO Group.
With an expected retail price of $249, I think my $25 Transformer is all the "affordable" robotics I really need.
Is it any wonder that Microsoft continues to be hated more and more? They're trying to be all things to all people which to me doesn't seem to be the best of ideas when you can't even keep your core business product stable or bug free. How exactly do you expect customers to take any new offering of yours seriously when a patch for a highly exploitable bug comes from a third party developer? And since when was MTV related to anything music? I thought they killed off that idea back in the early 90's. Perhaps they're planning on allowing folks to download just the audio segments to Real World so that we can see the Springeresque theatrics of it all via our own imagination.
"So SCO is essentially admitting that Novell owns the copyrights at this point, but is saying that Novell breached the contract (that specifically excluded copyrights) by failing to transfer them to Santa Cruz."
I can see there collectively being a large amount of heads exploding after trying to make sense of that one. I'm thinking SCO has nothing to do with Santa Cruz and more to do with SChizOphrenia because they've seem to have lost touch with reality.
They must not have run this product by their lawyers yet as I didn't see any disclaimers to the "one size fits all" line. By the time it hits market I imagine we'll see the inclusion of "one size fits all*" where * = "If product happens to be too constricting to blood flood and hand becomes black and blue, remove product immediately. Neither Imation or any of it's partners are liable for any amputations caused by use of this product."