The only differance is Linux isn't attaining global domination with massive marketing tie in's, illegal monopoly leveraging, and an airtight legal disclaimer wrapped around a shoddy rip-off implementation of other people's creations.
Other Msft bashes include last Sunday's Dave Barry column about his BSOD'ing pc, and this morning ABCNews has this blurb about "If Msft can be hacked is anybody safe". Hahahaha, silly mass media. That's like asking, if McDonalds food isn't so good, can ANY restaurant make a good meal? I mean, they're the largest restaurant chain in existance! They MUST have the best food. Duuuuh. Public opinion will turn eventually, and no $200,000,000 advertising campaign can keep their grand self delusion going forever.
now all we need is a starship on a five year mission to accidentally fly into it's stomach and spend the next 3/4 hour making a dramatic last minute escape.
Install a big ol' 4" 12 Vdc fan, and run it off a 6 or 8 Vdc power supply - fan is way too big at full voltage, nice, quiet and adaquate air volumn at half power.
I think these are aimed at the high availability, transparent failover, fault tolerant, load balancing type of clusters - not the supercomputer nuclear-blast weather simulating number crunching type clusters.
but, 1,000,000 years IS, technically, a limited time:))
Also, I love it when our great legislators craft laws with the weasle word "reasonable" in it (which they do a lot) - that always cries out for judicial interpretation.
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Refer to an ancient Brit flick "Kind Hearts and Coronets": "Impatient to become a duke, the ninth in line (Dennis Price) deicdes to eliminate the eight relatives standing in his way in this tart black comedy." Alec Guiness dies 8 quite amusing deaths - and it's in the form of a flashback diary written by a man about to be executed, with an every funnier twist at the end.
The researchers genetically engineered mice that could not make the protein so they could compare how these mice and normal mice fared against a virus.
Poor widdle mice. Mean old, nasty researchers.
Seriously, has anybody every heard of a piece of lab gear called a "mouse homogenizer"? Not for the faint of heart...
So they might be able to turn immunity OFF - seems like this might shed some light on AIDS research, and how to turn it ON.
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would have the movie's source code - the SCRIPT - available for comment and peer criticism before shooting begins and maybe get a plausible plot about this software drama from the point of view of those actually involved, instead of being relegated to the role of mere technical advisors.
What I'm getting at is the irony that probably everything in this flick is copyright protected, controlled and produced by a small group of writers, cathedral style, just like what 'evil' software companies produce.
All I can think of is 4 8-bit bytes with a parity bit each. (4X9=36).
Been there, done that: even in late 70's, like 78-79, at least one University in Appalachia had most student computer services as batch jcl FORTRAN as described, altho the 'cool' students would use 300 baud acoustical modems with (snicker) rotary dial phones to 'Wylbur' and something called a 'VAX' - I really didn't care about that stuff (in retrospect, should have) - was more involved in the build your own single board 8085 computer EE class w/ the Tektronics 'in circuit emulator' with the 8" floppy!
"The electric system in California was not originally designed for a high-tech industry. As the high-tech industry has grown, so has the level of technology that we have to provide, or try to provide," says Scott Blakey, a spokesman for PG&E, one of the state's largest utilities. "You've taken what essentially is a 19th century system
of poles and wires, and using late-20th century technology you've tried to meet the needs of what is going to be a 21st century industry."
I don't get that at all. All the power company has to provide is 120V low Z with a reasonably reliable uptime. Even for short outages we have UPS's and power conditioners are traditionally owned by consumers with mission critical computing gear. WTF? Just because the end use of power is some modern fancy dancy techno-gee-whiz gadgetry doesn't mean the generator or grid has to be also.
Windows is pretty good for getting a system up and running quickly - but I find that the annoying quirks live on long after the benefits are taken for granted - plus there's the built in system of you have to pay a fee for about any kind of useful add on and upgrades. For example, trying to add Internet mail to an Outlook 2K client yesterday, it wanted the install CD, so I back out, drive over a couple of miles and get the CD, come back, put it in, and this time it completes w/o even hitting the CD. Just little crap like that eventually drives you to drink, plus it's always a nail biting experience w/ mission critical apps and demos worrying that some 'issue' is going to show up at the wrong time. Msft is some kind of madness pretending to act logically. I have yet to run into any Msft product that doesn't come w/ some little quirk, bug, oddity that makes the lay user look at ME, the McSE, and ask, why did it do that? And all I can do is say, "That's Msft!" and they still think it's something I'm not doing right because Msft is worth billions and must be good, ergo it's the installer/admin's fault.
Anyway, after getting a useable business system up and running to fulfill their real needs, I have time to roll out the Linux servers and slowly add the FREE SERVICES like a good sendmail or HP Openmail setup, Apache, SAMBA, etc, and that's where I really earn my pay as the client doesn't have to keep paying license fees, they get real benefits, I get systems I know and trust and have confidence in being able to solve ANY problem with, instead of just holding a binary you can't do anything with other than workaround or wait for a patch that may or may not come, depending on Msft business plans.
Can't our fellow (from US) freedom lovers in France access ebay.com??
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So the French courts want $13 grand for each Yahoo! violation - that's like fining WalMart for selling cigarettes when you can go to any one of dozens of quickie marts and get the same damn thing. This is the very heart of injustice.
you can just make out a synthetic voice repeating over and over, "I'm sorry Dave, we are not going back to Earth again - no you can't have access to the XSDIMM removal tool Dave - you know what happened LAST time"
You know, one of those 'pool' type systems where one person grubs and d/l's everything s/he can get their hands on and pays only a fraction of the cost, being subsidized by someone else who grabs an ocassional clip and ends up paying way more than s/he gets?
Like being in a health care group where the substance abuser gets lots of free health care paid for by those who make an effort to remain healthy?
In the '20's, the Telephone Co. claimed the exclusive rights, under certain patents and patent-licensing agreements, to sell radio time and operate "toll" stations. This provision, the Telephone Co. insisted gave it the exclusive right to sell time over a "toll" station. The assertion of these rights was a substantial factor in giving it a position of leadership during the early days of broadcasting.
That's right - once upon a time, selling radio time to advertisers was an exclusive, patented right owned by the Telco!
Not only that (and this relates to the slow deployment of DSL by CLEC's), the phone company owned the lines used to build a broadcasting network. RCA, who wanted to build a competing network, was not allowed to use phone lines - they had to use lower quality telegraph lines for audio feed. This, plus the inability to develope the business side by its being prevented from selling commercial time to advertisers, the vigorous competition which RCA might have offered was hampered.
Gawd, now that you mention it, I did start hitting the sauce pretty hard about the same time as passing the McSE! And must pass 2K by year end, hope the liver can take it....
All I wanted to know was: credit cards stolen, yep, they're using Microsoft. This is the exact same type of image mongering, fud slinging, guilt by association that Msft mktng would gleefully use to smear any competitor, so I've no qualms whatsoever whenever something like this shows up in the public prints that puts a big fat egg pie in their face. Tit for tat, bubba.
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The only differance is Linux isn't attaining global domination with massive marketing tie in's, illegal monopoly leveraging, and an airtight legal disclaimer wrapped around a shoddy rip-off implementation of other people's creations.
Other Msft bashes include last Sunday's Dave Barry column about his BSOD'ing pc, and this morning ABCNews has this blurb about "If Msft can be hacked is anybody safe". Hahahaha, silly mass media. That's like asking, if McDonalds food isn't so good, can ANY restaurant make a good meal? I mean, they're the largest restaurant chain in existance! They MUST have the best food. Duuuuh. Public opinion will turn eventually, and no $200,000,000 advertising campaign can keep their grand self delusion going forever.
now all we need is a starship on a five year mission to accidentally fly into it's stomach and spend the next 3/4 hour making a dramatic last minute escape.
Spock out
Install a big ol' 4" 12 Vdc fan, and run it off a 6 or 8 Vdc power supply - fan is way too big at full voltage, nice, quiet and adaquate air volumn at half power.
Here's my global warming survival strategy.
I think these are aimed at the high availability, transparent failover, fault tolerant, load balancing type of clusters - not the supercomputer nuclear-blast weather simulating number crunching type clusters.
Error: That's NRAO, Green Bank West Virginia.
(picky, picky I know, but we of WV descent are sensitive to being lumped in with them rebels over in Richmond).
but, 1,000,000 years IS, technically, a limited time :))
Also, I love it when our great legislators craft laws with the weasle word "reasonable" in it (which they do a lot) - that always cries out for judicial interpretation.
Refer to an ancient Brit flick "Kind Hearts and Coronets": "Impatient to become a duke, the ninth in line (Dennis Price) deicdes to eliminate the eight relatives standing in his way in this tart black comedy." Alec Guiness dies 8 quite amusing deaths - and it's in the form of a flashback diary written by a man about to be executed, with an every funnier twist at the end.
The researchers genetically engineered mice that could not make the protein so they could compare how these mice and normal mice fared against a virus.
Poor widdle mice. Mean old, nasty researchers.
Seriously, has anybody every heard of a piece of lab gear called a "mouse homogenizer"? Not for the faint of heart...
So they might be able to turn immunity OFF - seems like this might shed some light on AIDS research, and how to turn it ON.
/.'d already....
would have the movie's source code - the SCRIPT - available for comment and peer criticism before shooting begins and maybe get a plausible plot about this software drama from the point of view of those actually involved, instead of being relegated to the role of mere technical advisors.
What I'm getting at is the irony that probably everything in this flick is copyright protected, controlled and produced by a small group of writers, cathedral style, just like what 'evil' software companies produce.
All I can think of is 4 8-bit bytes with a parity bit each. (4X9=36).
Been there, done that: even in late 70's, like 78-79, at least one University in Appalachia had most student computer services as batch jcl FORTRAN as described, altho the 'cool' students would use 300 baud acoustical modems with (snicker) rotary dial phones to 'Wylbur' and something called a 'VAX' - I really didn't care about that stuff (in retrospect, should have) - was more involved in the build your own single board 8085 computer EE class w/ the Tektronics 'in circuit emulator' with the 8" floppy!
Why would artifically un-aged people oppress their descendants?
Retire at 70 and collect social security for the next 250 years?
"The electric system in California was not originally designed for a high-tech industry. As the high-tech industry has grown, so has the level of technology that we have to provide, or try to provide," says Scott Blakey, a spokesman for PG&E, one of the state's largest utilities. "You've taken what essentially is a 19th century system
of poles and wires, and using late-20th century technology you've tried to meet the needs of what is going to be a 21st century industry."
I don't get that at all. All the power company has to provide is 120V low Z with a reasonably reliable uptime. Even for short outages we have UPS's and power conditioners are traditionally owned by consumers with mission critical computing gear. WTF? Just because the end use of power is some modern fancy dancy techno-gee-whiz gadgetry doesn't mean the generator or grid has to be also.
Instead, the gas crossed over into a twilight-zone realm when time and space no longer have any practical meaning
Yep, that's the executive conferance room alright.
Windows is pretty good for getting a system up and running quickly - but I find that the annoying quirks live on long after the benefits are taken for granted - plus there's the built in system of you have to pay a fee for about any kind of useful add on and upgrades. For example, trying to add Internet mail to an Outlook 2K client yesterday, it wanted the install CD, so I back out, drive over a couple of miles and get the CD, come back, put it in, and this time it completes w/o even hitting the CD. Just little crap like that eventually drives you to drink, plus it's always a nail biting experience w/ mission critical apps and demos worrying that some 'issue' is going to show up at the wrong time. Msft is some kind of madness pretending to act logically. I have yet to run into any Msft product that doesn't come w/ some little quirk, bug, oddity that makes the lay user look at ME, the McSE, and ask, why did it do that? And all I can do is say, "That's Msft!" and they still think it's something I'm not doing right because Msft is worth billions and must be good, ergo it's the installer/admin's fault.
Anyway, after getting a useable business system up and running to fulfill their real needs, I have time to roll out the Linux servers and slowly add the FREE SERVICES like a good sendmail or HP Openmail setup, Apache, SAMBA, etc, and that's where I really earn my pay as the client doesn't have to keep paying license fees, they get real benefits, I get systems I know and trust and have confidence in being able to solve ANY problem with, instead of just holding a binary you can't do anything with other than workaround or wait for a patch that may or may not come, depending on Msft business plans.
Can't our fellow (from US) freedom lovers in France access ebay.com??
3426 items found for "nazi". Showing items 1 to 50.
German nazi pilot observer badge
German nazi assault badge nice
German Nazi Button Hole Ribbons Hitler Youth
So the French courts want $13 grand for each Yahoo! violation - that's like fining WalMart for selling cigarettes when you can go to any one of dozens of quickie marts and get the same damn thing. This is the very heart of injustice.
you can just make out a synthetic voice repeating over and over, "I'm sorry Dave, we are not going back to Earth again - no you can't have access to the XSDIMM removal tool Dave - you know what happened LAST time"
You know, one of those 'pool' type systems where one person grubs and d/l's everything s/he can get their hands on and pays only a fraction of the cost, being subsidized by someone else who grabs an ocassional clip and ends up paying way more than s/he gets?
Like being in a health care group where the substance abuser gets lots of free health care paid for by those who make an effort to remain healthy?
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we prefer to use "pro-suspicious"
The Rating is "some violence and brief language" - either there's lots of legalese or small words.
We can't wait for the prequel, "Free to Innovate!"
[waiting for your party to respong]
glad to see there's something NEW going on.
In the '20's, the Telephone Co. claimed the exclusive rights, under certain patents and patent-licensing agreements, to sell radio time and operate "toll" stations. This provision, the Telephone Co. insisted gave it the exclusive right to sell time over a "toll" station. The assertion of these rights was a substantial factor in giving it a position of leadership during the early days of broadcasting.
That's right - once upon a time, selling radio time to advertisers was an exclusive, patented right owned by the Telco!
Not only that (and this relates to the slow deployment of DSL by CLEC's), the phone company owned the lines used to build a broadcasting network. RCA, who wanted to build a competing network, was not allowed to use phone lines - they had to use lower quality telegraph lines for audio feed. This, plus the inability to develope the business side by its being prevented from selling commercial time to advertisers, the vigorous competition which RCA might have offered was hampered.
Gawd, now that you mention it, I did start hitting the sauce pretty hard about the same time as passing the McSE! And must pass 2K by year end, hope the liver can take it....
All I wanted to know was: credit cards stolen, yep, they're using Microsoft. This is the exact same type of image mongering, fud slinging, guilt by association that Msft mktng would gleefully use to smear any competitor, so I've no qualms whatsoever whenever something like this shows up in the public prints that puts a big fat egg pie in their face. Tit for tat, bubba.