Posts by Destroy All Monsters
5352 posts • joined Tuesday 3rd June 2008 16:11 GMT
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"Optimized version of an experience"?
“Also, less trialware and sampleware means more storage space for important things like that two-hour video that your buddies made of you trying to reach the top of the climbing wall.”
Insulting the customer again, I see. Jerks.
Any price differential? I would not expect a deviation from the trusted
"more usability by removing crud == it will cost ya"
And will you get an install DVD? I doubt it.
Yup...
As the saying went "Shake hands with Microsoft, better check that your arm is still attached."
1 billion USD over 5 years may not even be that much. In 5 years, the whole US monetary base might just be worth a cheeseburger with freedom fries on the side.
That's ok
Finally a good use of all that Panzer Kit we bought for the War on Terror.
"Obama to overhaul"
Like he "overhauled" the collapsing economy, the moneyprinting at the Fed, the Keynesian bowel movement, the Iraq war, the Af/Pak war, the UAW, healthcare, the Israeli settlement trainwreck, the skyrocketing military expenditures, Gitmo, the TSA, the war on terror, the war on drugs, the PATRIOT act, Big Insurance, Big Pharma and Big Phinance.
In the end someone will thus still be able to patent the circular closing movement of your rear-end sphincter. It will just go faster.
Space is hard to do, innit?
Wake me up when we got so far that Parker and Brett can routinely arse around on the lower decks.
Lolwut?
Spare us the defenseless widow with children spiel!
How are Red Hat Sharp Practices [tm] going to impede your income?
Maybe you are confused about what a RHCE is all about. It means you can handle a Red Hat System. It doesn't mean you can do all the support that comes with a Red Hat license yourself. If in doubt, ask for Red Hat support, which is presumably being paid for by your customer.
Ta!
Some sanity, shurely?
Praise be!
"The rifling is pressed into the bore"
But how do you get the mandrel out afterwards?
Only a perfect spiral rifling will do.
We now know who "the enemy" is.
"The military mentality is a bandit and raider mentality. Thus, all military represents a form of organized banditry where the conventional mores do not prevail. The military is a way of rationalizing murder, rape, looting, and other forms of theft which are always accepted as part of warfare. When denied an outside target, the military mentality always turns against its own civilian population, using identical rationalizations for bandit behavior."
- BuSab Manual, Chapter Five: "The Warlord Syndrome"
Posted in Government flies kite for VAT changes
Always this newspeak
"The Treasury reckons it is losing about £130m in tax per year thanks to the loophole."
The Treasury reckons that it leaves about £130m in tax in the hand of consumers who are then free to decide what to do with it.
Sounds like price fixing....
...but by the authorities. Who gives them the mandate to tell others what price to set on their books? If publishers decide to stupidly overprice ebooks, then these ebooks will be on torrents or parallel publishers, if need be from .cn and .ru, will step in. It's that simple.
By you know whom
"In the late afternoon of September 1, 1870, King William I, surrounded by a pompous staff of princes and generals, was looking down from a hill south of the Meuse at the battle in progress, when an officer brought the news that the capitulation of Napoleon III and his whole army was imminent. Then Moltke turned to Count Falkenberg, who like himself was a member of the Parliament of Northern Germany, and remarked: "Well, dear colleague, what happened today settles our military problem for a long time." And Bismarck shook hands with the highest of the German princes, the heir to the throne of Württemberg, and said: "This day safeguards and strengthens the German princes and the principles of conservatism."[i]In the hour of overwhelming victory these were the first reactions of Prussia's two foremost statesmen. They triumphed because they had defeated liberalism. They did not care a whit for the catchwords of the official propaganda: conquest of the hereditary foe, safeguarding the nation's frontiers, historical mission of the house of Hohenzollern and of Prussia, unification of Germany, Germany foremost in the world. The princes had overthrown their own people; this alone seemed important to them."
I thieve you intellectually!
Annette Schavan says...
"intellectual theft is not a small thing. The protection of intellectual property is a higher good."
What the hell does that even _mean_?
Has she been zombified by lawyer leeches? Something lost in translation? Confused paytardery?
Team Amurrica bombs you for IP!
"Urdu Bazaars (Pakistan): The Urdu Bazaars in Karachi and Lahore reportedly remain the main sources of pirated books in the country, though book piracy is widespread and extends beyond such bazaars."
Why doncha list Mom & Pop's copyshop then? Or maybe the local university library?
Posted in Natalie Portman slaps John Galliano
Why does he love Hitler and what does he have against Italian ladies?
>Err, firing procedures? What?
Better than gassing procedures, right?
Posted in HBGary chief exec resigns over Anon hack
"level 90 night-elf druid"
That's pretty much it.
I was cringing through their whole PowerPoint presentations.
Leet posing like that should be disallowed after the age of 20.
"you have to look at the individual"
Cue "data protection" and "privacy" problems galore.
If an insurance decided to up the premium against the guy who gets spastic rage attacks every 5 minutes on the highway because he's just wired that way as a PET scan would objectively show all hell would break loose which at least 50 QUANGOs and oppressed minority spokespersons filing amicus curiae briefs.
"But it would be unfair to charge you a premium based on your surname because there is nothing inherent about your surname that affects your driving."
As any statistical hypothesis testing would show. And that's why insurance isn't calculated on star signs.
"Men have more accidents. Being a man doesn't cause accidents."
Causality is irrelevant. Learn2statistics.
The dream to change reality towards the socialistic max-entropy worker's paradise advances!
"The ECJ should eliminate the right to charge different prices based on the sex of the insured person"
Because charging different prices is a _right_?
Posted in Vodafone's network knackered by thieves
Never speak against Luxembourg
If you knew what percentage of the population were state-employed bourgeoisie looking forward to vesting pension schemes you would understand why high tax revenue is VITAL for that country.
"Mr. Egorenkov willingly ignored a judge's order.”
If the law is an ass, this is honorable though foolish.
Expect retaliation by SONY BROWNSHIRT you must!
Posted in Buzzmeisters value Twitter at $4.5bn
Of course not!
Cash is easy and plentiful, interest rates are low, risks of inflation are being poo-pooed, Krugman is everywhere in the news and Bernanke is rolling out Quantitative Easing 2.
Living the vida loca à la Keynes? What's bad about that?
Hold on, there is a mustachioed guy in uniform at the door.
Like Overseer's "Heligoland"
Good stuff.
Highly unlikely.... oh!
Hey, it's Matt.
Posted in Toshiba sells Cell chip plant to Sony
Sold to the Empire of Consumer Rape and IP Evil...
I'm sure the Koch brothers are in there somewhere.
Some people's head are messed up
"And wasn't it LACK of government intervention... "
and other seriously wacky ideas like "I have insects crawling under my skins", "aliens fisted me yesterday" and "World Trade Center was brought down by nanothermite placed by GIULIANI".
I think here is an -excellent_ place to start with some base-level education:
http://mises.org/mediaPlayer.aspx?MediaId=5702/How-Mainstream-Economics-Miseducates-About-Money-and-the-Fed
Nah, not really.
"defeating Hitler (didn't outsource that one to the highest bidder: Halliburton, Blackwater)."
It was outsourced to the Soviet Union.
It's amazing what a whip-wielding command-economy can do
at least in the short run.
When it's up against another command economy that splurges mainly on wars and pork and has everything gridlocked through "Intellectual Property" faggotry.
Your tax dollars at work.
"And yet a huge fraction of the valley's economy derives from government funded research, both corporate and spinning out of universities. Not to mention direct government contracts and mandates. And defense work. And DARPA directed development efforts. "
Yep. Warcarp is where it's at. Money from universities is where it's at. All deficit funded.
The only ridiculous thing, Michael17, is that you assume that the governement owns you stock and barrel. "Tax incentives". Imagine that. The wise overlord suddenly decides to not rob me! Praise be!
Why doncha join the "tax me more" crowd in Wisconsion?
Crickets chirping
...Clouds drifting...
Now we will finally know more about sex life in Sweden!
... and maybe about Sweden's propensity of being fondled by the US administration.
Should be of interest.
All your brain are belong to us!
Yep, big biz anti-competitive protection by state all right.
"He's currently busy fixing Web2.0 government potholes"
A shovel-ready job, then?
What's slightly creepy about this case?
The Child Pornography Service?
US companies doing their Mickey Mouse lawsuit circlejerks again, I see.
"Harm done? We don't need no stinking harm done. All these ideas, all that code and all the work of your developers formerly employed at my place belongs to meeee...... Me MEEEE!"
Burned fingers eh?
It's good to know that our GSM have that much power output.
Now why not let people phone in peace? Nobody forces you to use mobile, stay with landline.
Maybe
... the "warlike situation" in Afghanistan looks better in XP.
Posted in UK inks space research deal with Russia
Why cite "Alien" in the header?
>>discuss future priority areas of research
Like, how to get up there in the first place, like?
Why do men watch porn? What do women want?
Unanswered Questions of the Universe!
Posted in God-game creator granted Bafta gong
Unfortunately...
....only one downvote is allowed.
Maybe I can buy more at the Moderatrix' emporium.
Read Karl Marx and Gottfried Feder, did we?
"You seem rather confused, inflation is not a tax, it is a debt reduction mechanism."
Best Politically Correct description of "stealing" ever.
If I "reduce my debt" by holding up the neighbor, I go to prison.
If government "reduces its debt" by inflation, pauperizing the taxpayer and anyone who has outstanding debts, commentards come out of the woodwork and defend the practice.
Nice doing.
Posted in Exhibition to applaud videogames as art
Hmmm.....
"be sure to vote for games that you think are visually spectacular or boast innovative design!"
Is this meant to say that only the eye candy shall play a role in the selection?
What about innovative gameplay or use of music...
Or innovative use of Intellectual Property Fascism, for that matter.
The image for "Zak McCracken and the Alien Mindbenders" just says "Rights Pending"
Posted in HBGary 'puppets' FAIL to convince
It must be the Koch brothers!
You know that DailyKos will find corporate threats to democracy and free discussion under every bed, in every managerial space (except the one currently occupied by the Peace Laureate) and in every potted plant with a slight a-progressive tinge.
Yes, their readers and the unionized worker proletariat are none too bright and are easily misled by blacktied-brownshirted (but presumably lavishly funded) alicebots.
What is the government doing against this?
Keep late-post trolling to a minimum
M'kay?
That's another way of saying...
THEY FAILED.
"Are you Sarah Connor? The name is Watson. IBM Watson."
Ohhh... black-and-white cathode-ray-tube scary...
"When THEY eventually make some wrong decisions or miscalculations the same as their designers and progammers did before they created"
Really! The old trope "computer connected to world, makes mistake, we all die" is so dusty that homeless people are using it to scrape dirt off their shoes. HAL's affirmation to be "foolproof and incapable of error" only generated sardonic grins nowadays.
You may have noticed that today:
a) People know that complex real-world algorithms make mistakes
and therefore
b) Keep the algorithms simple, specify them to death and go over them with a toothbrush (look up software assurance and reliability engineering)
and also
c) Underwrite major insurance contracts in case SHTF even so (which it will).
Chernobyl was _not_ a computer error....
Link!
http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs124/AIMagzine-DeepQA.pdf
I'm with you on that, man.
You forget inflation - the hidden tax for the money printing service.
Here's hoping...
...that the whole i* ecosystem suffers radical eutropization and subsequent total collapse with i*-toxified yuppies, teenagers, urban bohemians and armani-dressed marketdroids floating in dead rivers of putrid, stagnant data.
Because I just can't hear any more about it.
"Off-the-shelf gear ‘gets’ humans"
We already have this with the imperial COTS-based drone armada based in Af/Pak.
In the same vein, wait until state gets ahold of those tasty algorithms. Just connect it to the various databases and you will be visited by blue-clad goons for aggravated terrorist pedophilia with intention to evade taxes at least once a month.
That reminds me....
...whatever happened to Doug Lenat's CYC?
Sank without a trace?
C-Shell, huh?
That is fail on so many levels.
Any shell is better than csh
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