It doesn't. Welcome to the scientific method. As long as someone is doubtful, they are free to try to disprvoe the results. Although I assume any further investigations will not get any press.
So it turns out instead of 2, there are more like 9 different types of people.
The classics: Those who round a glass of water up (Has been filled) Those who round it down (Has been emptied)
The oddballs: The round-half-up crowd(Half or greater is filled) The round-half-down crowd(Half or less is empty) The round toward zero types(Always empty) The round away from zero groupies(Always Full) The round alternate weirdos(They get interesting when you give them two glasses) The round random subset(Carry around a coin or die to decide such problems) And finally... The truncate ones who cannot handle such a problem and smash the glass to make sure it is empty.
Make it an "activity LED," so that it would change colours or flash brightly when the drive is accessing
Oh man! Can you imagine the fun!?
Wannabe Modder: Guys check out what happens when I write this file
Modder groupies: OOH! AHH! WOW!
Of course, this would cut drive lifetimes in half as the people who would buy the HypnoSpin 3500 this would be the same people who would do big write-intensive operations all the time to watch the pretty colors.
Although I do admit, being able to go ADD with a HypnoSpin(I'm trademarking this by the way.) would be fun while doing some video encodes.
Either aliens or demons will appear from dimensional rifts or something similar
They will of course be geared for combat with high-tech weaponry or biological advanages.
You and you alone will survive the experiment and resulting devestation. You will only have puny earth weaponry that you will find laying around (Although you will notice there are a lot of guns lying around for what was supposed to be a science experiment) and be forced to contend against insurmountable odds to defend earth.
I know that history states you will triumph in the end.
But just in case, I will begin formatting spam for our new ALIEN/DEMON overlords.
Luckily, there is no $10 spam fine on Mars, so I can advertise all the ball enhancing juice I want.
As an update to the story, Microsoft has announced that the patch release was a hoax.
Hackers were supposedly able to infiltrate Microsoft systems after Bill Gates viewed an email in Outlook containing a WMF file diguised as a GIF. Other reports say Gates visited a site containing the compromised file while using IE.
Bill Gates had this to say: "That's a lie. Everyone knows that I'm too smart to use IE or Outlook. Do I look like a retard to you?"
Microsoft claimed that they had no intention of releasing a patch early, especially a working one.
From the press release:
We at Microsoft have specific guidelines to prevent this sort of thing from happening. A Windows platform that works perfectly would damage the booming IT industry. Microsoft is dedicated to providing a safe haven for up and coming sys admins and tech support specialists
When asked about their aborted plans for the security fix, the PR spokesman replied, "This vulnerability has been fixed in Vista. Had the hackers not maliciously spread this patch, users could have oficially fixed it by shelling out $1,000 for Vista when it is released."
In a final press release of the day, Microsoft has discovered a new vulnerability:
It has been discovered by a team of experts at Microsoft that all Windows machines will explode violently the day after Vista is released. This problem does not exist in Vista, however. Becuase no known exploits exist for the vulnerability, the status is set at Super-Cute-Pink-Bunny-Harmless. Since it has such a low status, a patch should not be expected until a month after Vista has been released.
I don't know why you everyone is hung up about the $$$ fine.
What is the man supposed to do without World of Warcraft, Internet Porn, and/. for 3 years?
Don't worry, that money should be here from Nigeria............any second now, just you see............they probably waited to send it with my cheap viagra.
Unless I am payed the sum of one mill... er... billion dollars to my offshore account with EvilGeniuses Global within two days, I will sink New Orleans... again.
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It doesn't. Welcome to the scientific method. As long as someone is doubtful, they are free to try to disprvoe the results. Although I assume any further investigations will not get any press.
You must be new at this. You forgot the last two steps.
5) ????
6) Profit
What's the matter with you? You must not conform to the Redneck Code of Conduct(TM).
"TV is made so you ain't gots ta read stuff."
Little non-invasive text-adds will alienate a huge demographic.
So it turns out instead of 2, there are more like 9 different types of people.
The classics:
Those who round a glass of water up (Has been filled)
Those who round it down (Has been emptied)
The oddballs:
The round-half-up crowd(Half or greater is filled)
The round-half-down crowd(Half or less is empty)
The round toward zero types(Always empty)
The round away from zero groupies(Always Full)
The round alternate weirdos(They get interesting when you give them two glasses)
The round random subset(Carry around a coin or die to decide such problems)
And finally...
The truncate ones who cannot handle such a problem and smash the glass to make sure it is empty.
There are people who use ME that care about their OS enough to patch it?
There are people who use ME that care about their OS?
There are people who use ME?
I'm confused.
Make it an "activity LED," so that it would change colours or flash brightly when the drive is accessing
Oh man! Can you imagine the fun!?
Wannabe Modder: Guys check out what happens when I write this file
Modder groupies: OOH! AHH! WOW!
Of course, this would cut drive lifetimes in half as the people who would buy the HypnoSpin 3500 this would be the same people who would do big write-intensive operations all the time to watch the pretty colors.
Although I do admit, being able to go ADD with a HypnoSpin(I'm trademarking this by the way.) would be fun while doing some video encodes.
Oooh! Oooh! I got this one!
Either aliens or demons will appear from dimensional rifts or something similar
They will of course be geared for combat with high-tech weaponry or biological advanages.
You and you alone will survive the experiment and resulting devestation. You will only have puny earth weaponry that you will find laying around (Although you will notice there are a lot of guns lying around for what was supposed to be a science experiment) and be forced to contend against insurmountable odds to defend earth.
I know that history states you will triumph in the end.
But just in case, I will begin formatting spam for our new ALIEN/DEMON overlords.
Luckily, there is no $10 spam fine on Mars, so I can advertise all the ball enhancing juice I want.
Plasma ball enhanicng juice that is...
As an update to the story, Microsoft has announced that the patch release was a hoax.
Hackers were supposedly able to infiltrate Microsoft systems after Bill Gates viewed an email in Outlook containing a WMF file diguised as a GIF. Other reports say Gates visited a site containing the compromised file while using IE.
Bill Gates had this to say: "That's a lie. Everyone knows that I'm too smart to use IE or Outlook. Do I look like a retard to you?"
Microsoft claimed that they had no intention of releasing a patch early, especially a working one.
From the press release:
We at Microsoft have specific guidelines to prevent this sort of thing from happening. A Windows platform that works perfectly would damage the booming IT industry. Microsoft is dedicated to providing a safe haven for up and coming sys admins and tech support specialists
When asked about their aborted plans for the security fix, the PR spokesman replied, "This vulnerability has been fixed in Vista. Had the hackers not maliciously spread this patch, users could have oficially fixed it by shelling out $1,000 for Vista when it is released."
In a final press release of the day, Microsoft has discovered a new vulnerability:
It has been discovered by a team of experts at Microsoft that all Windows machines will explode violently the day after Vista is released. This problem does not exist in Vista, however. Becuase no known exploits exist for the vulnerability, the status is set at Super-Cute-Pink-Bunny-Harmless. Since it has such a low status, a patch should not be expected until a month after Vista has been released.
But if he surrenders everything, where will all the viagra and Nigerian oil money be stored!?
I don't know why you everyone is hung up about the $$$ fine. What is the man supposed to do without World of Warcraft, Internet Porn, and /. for 3 years?
Don't worry, that money should be here from Nigeria... ... ... ...any second now, just you see... ... ... ...they probably waited to send it with my cheap viagra.
Unless I am payed the sum of one mill... er... billion dollars to my offshore account with EvilGeniuses Global within two days, I will sink New Orleans... again.
(I can also accept PayPal)
So when will we begin seeing extensions for our voting machines?