then it's the property of the Microsoft Corporation.
Oh, give them the benefit of the doubt! As in, create a *LOT* of doubt with your monopoly on complex, crappy products, along with fear & uncertainty, and then collect all the benefits, as in $30 bln worth of uncertainty.
Been real boring day so I've come up with these ways to rearrange the letters in "Microsoft Internet Explorer" to spell:
it's for experimenter control
extort, enforce, imprint loser
extreme profits control rein
cern extortion reptile forms
export control terrifies men
cool printer, extreme font sir
Say what you like about Microsoft, but they achieved market dominance by competing in a free market.
Purely superficial mktng 'innovative' BS.
Funny how all the skulduggery and backstabbing done by a ruthless, obsessively deranged boy genie-ass without a shread of ethic or conscious gets slowly forgotten - nevermind that Pertec purchased MITS with the understanding that they were buying MITS-BASIC (that's what the label says!), only to have the rights to BASIC returned to Micro-Soft due to a legal techinacality (hmm, no 'competitive market' choice there) - nevermind that IBM handed Msft a cash cow when Msft bought QDOS and flipped it to IBM for royalties ("Isn't that the kid who's mom is on our Red Cross committee" - nope, still no 'competition' going on). It also helps immensly to have a family of bankers and lawyers for lots of free dinner time advice that real innovators seldom enjoy.
No, only a Msft brainwashed, press release deluded revisionist-history adled mind can buy into the "won by competition in the marketplace" BS - instead of by quasi legal back room antics that would make embarrass a Rockefeller.
See the Bill Gates/Alfred E. Neuman comparison HERE or http://www.widomaker.com/~cswiger/bgisaen.html
I still have the newspaper clipping in my bible about the Vatican letting Galileo off the hook "359" years after he was declared "guilty" - just thought it was interesting being 1 year shy of the majick "360" number of the old cosmology.
We did a job busting the local real estate association hq from Novell to NT several years ago and what with MLS etc they are ALREADY highly networked and databased - it's just a matter of putting up a web front end on it. For searching out of town it's a dream come true, or just for 'searching' (pattern matching) in general - you don't have to subscribe to out of town papers to get the classifieds, make long distance calls, completely trust some agents judgement to find what YOU want. Nobody is going to close deals over a web form, unless it's securing a property with a credit card # untill the agent can be contacted, but it is sure handy for seeing what's out there. I wish more automobiles (local) were listed online.
Hmmmpf. I'm sure UNIVAC programmers were some of the first to lop off the century field in every date code to save on storage space. "19 to 20 - Ha, we'll let the next generation worry about that one 49 years from now, hahahaha!!"
Sure is a nice clean pic of the machine and attendants on the Wired site - kinda looks like an LCD screen in the middle of the console.
In the little town in Appalachia where I grew up there is a building made, I think, in the 30's with a band of swastica's all around it. I don't recall anyone ever making a big stink about it, but then it was in a pretty obscure, poorer part of town and you never heard much about it except for a few high school friends - "Hey, there's a building with swasticas all over it! Lets go look" and we'd drive by and look and then life went on as usual.
That's the deal - a few genuine cases and a lot of suspicious wanna-be ones. Seems there was a big outbreak of monitor-radiation miscarriages many years ago as well.
as the industry morphs from a widget/perpetual license to a service/subscription business model the above scenario will occur - just as if the lights go out if you don't pay the electric bill, or your cable is disconnected if you don't pay the cable co., your software will cease to work if you don't pay the subscription fees.
death is no good. You become a soul which has no body
is remeniscent of the good ol' confusion of the mind/body (or Spirit/Ghost etc vs physical reality (whatever THAT is)) split, which is itself a ghost and purely a fabrication of the rational mind artificially confined to the realm of symbols and speech, which are necessarily dualistic.
Now, I don't know to what extent this can be used for customer control, but it is cool to be able to send email to someone saying a package has been shipped, with an easy link to the UPS tracking. As it is, I have to copy the tracking # from the email (if the sender bothered even to include it) and copy/paste it into the browser after opening up the UPS page and clicking on 'track'. Yet another example of Msft giving the 'path of least resistance' option.
Gee, now *I* want an army of trojan attack zombies installed on a bunch of cabled Windows PCs ready to DDoS on command....
!r
EvilBot1.3 ready to attack...
EvilBot1.3 ready to attack...
EvilBot1.3 ready to attack...
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.
.
Re:To see how this will go, look at drugs
on
Killing Video Games
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· Score: 4
A more probable scenario is not mfg fps but the illicit enjoyment of them. Let's look in on 3 teenagers in the post Video persecution world:
T1: (rushes into a friends house breathlessly) Hey, psssst! Frank, guess
what I got???
T2: What?
T1: You won't beleive it, man! My Chinese connection came thru, look!
T2: Oh mi God, Doom II !!
T3: Hey, you better get rid of that! That's illegal!!
T1: Heheheh, let's boot it up
T3: Whoa, not on my PC, if Mom finds out, Jeez what if they turn us
in?
T1: Awe, don't worry, we'll just play a few levels and uninstall it.
I'll keep it under my mattress - they'll never find it there.
T2: Don't you remember what happened to Jimmy? He uninstalled it but
the cops still found it, and he got 2 years probation!
T1: You wimps, ain't nobody going to find out - look, we'll unplug from
the cable and just try a few screens, hey this is Doom II, DOOOM
TWO, th' mutha' of all --
T3: Hey, pipe down. Ok, maybe a few games but look, we gotta get rid of
this before Mom -
T1: Awright! Here's the CD -
T3: Frank, you'd better stand guard, Mom might show up early
T1: Sh, Don't worry, look, it's unpacking......
T3: Shit, if you get us in trouble..
T1: Whoa, cool splash screen, man I can't believe we're
T3: Wow!
T1: Look, a chainsaw!!
T3: Get that orc!!
T1: Heeeheeee through this door and blam! Blam!
T2: Psst! Someone's coming!!!
T1: Oh shit,
T3: Aw, Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!
(panic sets in)
T2: Quick, turn it off!!
T1: No! We have to delete-
T3: Just turn it OFF NOW!!!
T1: Fuxk!!! Ow!! The monitor it's....
T2: Wait, it's just the mailman
T1: Shew
T3: Look, delete this shit NOW - I'm not doing this anymore
T1: Wha, loose your nerve, pussy
T3: I am not! You take that back
T1: Here, fuckin' uninstall it, pussies; give me the CD, I'll
find some real friends
T2: Hey don't get sore
T1: Pffft, you guys can play your Civ32 - I know a guy with a P12,
he's not afraid, hehehe.
Spare Drum Memory Unit
on
Flywheel UPS
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· Score: 2
Might as well coat the flywheel with oxide, put a bunch of R/W heads around it and get some use out of the thing as rotating memory while the power is on. Wish I could post some pictures of some drum memory units from the 50's - they are BIG.
It's kinda apropriated to this discussion the fortune at the bottom of the page, to wit: "A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. -- G. B. Shaw " - which was my take on the subject, that computers in education (a neverending debate it appears, like abortion in the Supreme Court) are beneficial to some students, while others might be better off learning how to punch a time clock on time, keep a clean uniform, operate a Msft desktop, and contact your network administrator for anything else;)
Exactly how DO you make a lightbulb shine by microwaving it in a cup of water???
But seriously, how can you expect everyone to come up with a unique expression describing how an airplane wing works? It's pretty cut and dried - this type of crackdown might be appropriate for a creative fiction writing course, but for the hard sciences it's expecting too much. Of course a verbal definition of energy as being equal to "mass multiplied by the square of the speed of light" is going to come out quite similar on different papers.
I'm in no position to judge, but it may not be the case that "high-power neodymium-iron-boron (Nd-Fe-B) magnets" "would naturally and spontaneously occur to any skilled mechanic or operator in the ordinary progress of manufactures. "
They'll come to some compromise and the whole thing will blow over - it always does.
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then it's the property of the Microsoft Corporation.
Oh, give them the benefit of the doubt! As in, create a *LOT* of doubt with your monopoly on complex, crappy products, along with fear & uncertainty, and then collect all the benefits, as in $30 bln worth of uncertainty.
On Linux box typed:
/mnt/e -o username=administrator
/mnt/e/windows and proceed to grep.
smbmount \\\\ws1\\c
then cd
Been real boring day so I've come up with these ways to rearrange the letters in "Microsoft Internet Explorer" to spell:
it's for experimenter control
extort, enforce, imprint loser
extreme profits control rein
cern extortion reptile forms
export control terrifies men
cool printer, extreme font sir
Your welcome.
Say what you like about Microsoft, but they achieved market dominance by competing in a free market.
Purely superficial mktng 'innovative' BS.
Funny how all the skulduggery and backstabbing done by a ruthless, obsessively deranged boy genie-ass without a shread of ethic or conscious gets slowly forgotten - nevermind that Pertec purchased MITS with the understanding that they were buying MITS-BASIC (that's what the label says!), only to have the rights to BASIC returned to Micro-Soft due to a legal techinacality (hmm, no 'competitive market' choice there) - nevermind that IBM handed Msft a cash cow when Msft bought QDOS and flipped it to IBM for royalties ("Isn't that the kid who's mom is on our Red Cross committee" - nope, still no 'competition' going on). It also helps immensly to have a family of bankers and lawyers for lots of free dinner time advice that real innovators seldom enjoy.
No, only a Msft brainwashed, press release deluded revisionist-history adled mind can buy into the "won by competition in the marketplace" BS - instead of by quasi legal back room antics that would make embarrass a Rockefeller.
See the Bill Gates/Alfred E. Neuman comparison HERE or http://www.widomaker.com/~cswiger/bgisaen.html
I still have the newspaper clipping in my bible about the Vatican letting Galileo off the hook "359" years after he was declared "guilty" - just thought it was interesting being 1 year shy of the majick "360" number of the old cosmology.
We did a job busting the local real estate association hq from Novell to NT several years ago and what with MLS etc they are ALREADY highly networked and databased - it's just a matter of putting up a web front end on it. For searching out of town it's a dream come true, or just for 'searching' (pattern matching) in general - you don't have to subscribe to out of town papers to get the classifieds, make long distance calls, completely trust some agents judgement to find what YOU want. Nobody is going to close deals over a web form, unless it's securing a property with a credit card # untill the agent can be contacted, but it is sure handy for seeing what's out there. I wish more automobiles (local) were listed online.
but when it came to finding someone to put a new roof on the house these guys did a great job.
Hmmmpf. I'm sure UNIVAC programmers were some of the first to lop off the century field in every date code to save on storage space. "19 to 20 - Ha, we'll let the next generation worry about that one 49 years from now, hahahaha!!"
Sure is a nice clean pic of the machine and attendants on the Wired site - kinda looks like an LCD screen in the middle of the console.
In the little town in Appalachia where I grew up there is a building made, I think, in the 30's with a band of swastica's all around it. I don't recall anyone ever making a big stink about it, but then it was in a pretty obscure, poorer part of town and you never heard much about it except for a few high school friends - "Hey, there's a building with swasticas all over it! Lets go look" and we'd drive by and look and then life went on as usual.
That's the deal - a few genuine cases and a lot of suspicious wanna-be ones. Seems there was a big outbreak of monitor-radiation miscarriages many years ago as well.
as the industry morphs from a widget/perpetual license to a service/subscription business model the above scenario will occur - just as if the lights go out if you don't pay the electric bill, or your cable is disconnected if you don't pay the cable co., your software will cease to work if you don't pay the subscription fees.
but this quote:
death is no good. You become a soul which has no body
is remeniscent of the good ol' confusion of the mind/body (or Spirit/Ghost etc vs physical reality (whatever THAT is)) split, which is itself a ghost and purely a fabrication of the rational mind artificially confined to the realm of symbols and speech, which are necessarily dualistic.
Just noticed this the other day, press release here or http://www.pressroom.ups.com/pressreleases/0,1014, 514,00.html
Now, I don't know to what extent this can be used for customer control, but it is cool to be able to send email to someone saying a package has been shipped, with an easy link to the UPS tracking. As it is, I have to copy the tracking # from the email (if the sender bothered even to include it) and copy/paste it into the browser after opening up the UPS page and clicking on 'track'. Yet another example of Msft giving the 'path of least resistance' option.
Msft buys up PGP and integrates it into LookOut.
( Boo! Hiss! -5 BlameFait )
Would be great if they could be used, and probably can, with 3D Shutter Glasses (FedEx should be delivering mine today).
Check out BG is Alfred E Newman at
http://www.widomaker.com/~cswiger/bgisaen.html
This may get mod'd OT but I want to introduce my page that shows undisputable proof that Bill Gates is actually Alfred E. Newman: see it yourself at
http://www.widomaker.com/~cswiger/bgisaen.html
Thank you.
Gee, now *I* want an army of trojan attack zombies installed on a bunch of cabled Windows PCs ready to DDoS on command....
!r
EvilBot1.3 ready to attack...
EvilBot1.3 ready to attack...
EvilBot1.3 ready to attack...
.
.
.
A more probable scenario is not mfg fps but the illicit enjoyment of them. Let's look in on 3 teenagers in the post Video persecution world:
T1: (rushes into a friends house breathlessly) Hey, psssst! Frank, guess
what I got???
T2: What?
T1: You won't beleive it, man! My Chinese connection came thru, look!
T2: Oh mi God, Doom II !!
T3: Hey, you better get rid of that! That's illegal!!
T1: Heheheh, let's boot it up
T3: Whoa, not on my PC, if Mom finds out, Jeez what if they turn us
in?
T1: Awe, don't worry, we'll just play a few levels and uninstall it.
I'll keep it under my mattress - they'll never find it there.
T2: Don't you remember what happened to Jimmy? He uninstalled it but
the cops still found it, and he got 2 years probation!
T1: You wimps, ain't nobody going to find out - look, we'll unplug from
the cable and just try a few screens, hey this is Doom II, DOOOM
TWO, th' mutha' of all --
T3: Hey, pipe down. Ok, maybe a few games but look, we gotta get rid of
this before Mom -
T1: Awright! Here's the CD -
T3: Frank, you'd better stand guard, Mom might show up early
T1: Sh, Don't worry, look, it's unpacking......
T3: Shit, if you get us in trouble..
T1: Whoa, cool splash screen, man I can't believe we're
T3: Wow!
T1: Look, a chainsaw!!
T3: Get that orc!!
T1: Heeeheeee through this door and blam! Blam!
T2: Psst! Someone's coming!!!
T1: Oh shit,
T3: Aw, Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!
(panic sets in)
T2: Quick, turn it off!!
T1: No! We have to delete-
T3: Just turn it OFF NOW!!!
T1: Fuxk!!! Ow!! The monitor it's....
T2: Wait, it's just the mailman
T1: Shew
T3: Look, delete this shit NOW - I'm not doing this anymore
T1: Wha, loose your nerve, pussy
T3: I am not! You take that back
T1: Here, fuckin' uninstall it, pussies; give me the CD, I'll
find some real friends
T2: Hey don't get sore
T1: Pffft, you guys can play your Civ32 - I know a guy with a P12,
he's not afraid, hehehe.
Might as well coat the flywheel with oxide, put a bunch of R/W heads around it and get some use out of the thing as rotating memory while the power is on. Wish I could post some pictures of some drum memory units from the 50's - they are BIG.
;)
The willful destruction of cosmic property - the Aliens aren't going to like this. We should expect 'contact' shortly thereafter.
It's kinda apropriated to this discussion the fortune at the bottom of the page, to wit: "A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. -- G. B. Shaw " - which was my take on the subject, that computers in education (a neverending debate it appears, like abortion in the Supreme Court) are beneficial to some students, while others might be better off learning how to punch a time clock on time, keep a clean uniform, operate a Msft desktop, and contact your network administrator for anything else ;)
Exactly how DO you make a lightbulb shine by microwaving it in a cup of water???
But seriously, how can you expect everyone to come up with a unique expression describing how an airplane wing works? It's pretty cut and dried - this type of crackdown might be appropriate for a creative fiction writing course, but for the hard sciences it's expecting too much. Of course a verbal definition of energy as being equal to "mass multiplied by the square of the speed of light" is going to come out quite similar on different papers.
I'm in no position to judge, but it may not be the case that "high-power neodymium-iron-boron (Nd-Fe-B) magnets" "would naturally and spontaneously occur to any skilled mechanic or operator in the ordinary progress of manufactures. "
They'll come to some compromise and the whole thing will blow over - it always does.
Bacon used one of the very first instances of a binary system to hide messages in ordinary text by using two similar but distinguishible fonts.
... = 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ...
Where A B C D E F G H I
and normal is 0 and bold is 1, then:
the quick br... is code for 'hi'
00111 = 7 = h
01000 = 8 = i
This essay won a Silver Award in The Economist/Shell World in 2050 essay competition held last ear.
Meanwhile, some biological factories can still get you 10 years in the pen.