Slashback: 640K, Pioneer, Payback 465
Kudos to the guys behind Pioneer 10! Soft writes: "As a follow-up to yesterday's story, Pioneer 10 was successfully contacted for its 30th birthday, as announced in sci.space.news. The commands that were sent yesterday have been executed by the spacecraft, and more data has been collected by the Geiger Tube Telescope." lostchicken adds a link to Associated Press wire story on Yahoo!', writing "Not bad for a 30 year-old spacecraft. Perhaps those making time capsules could learn something from this?" Several readers also pointed out the SpaceDaily version of the goings on.
What, in the middle of Canadian winter?! schon writes: "An update to this /. story - The Canadian Copyright Board has announced the details of the public hearings on Canadian Digital Copyrights, at http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/SSG/rp00838e.html. Interested parties should register before attending (details available on the page.)"
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Death of a legend? Jean-Luc writes "The New York Review of Books has published an article that contains an e-mail from Bill Gates denying he ever said the infamous "640K should be enough for anyone" quote. He foists the blame on IBM and claims he tried to convince them to include more address space from the get go. Very technical and fairly convincing, showing that for all his might Bill is still basically a geek's geek."
They hadn't even gotten to the bowlderizing chip yet ... Dan Gilmor pointed out Intel's strong statement Thursday on copy protection front, "much stronger than the letter sent yesterday. Surprising given their history..." Maybe Intel believes they can do a better job of what deciding what goes into Silicon than a committee of bureaucrats steered by the entertainment moguls can.
Word has it (Score:2, Funny)
Slashdot... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Pioneer 10, not Voyager 10 (Score:3, Funny)
Or am I getting my Star Trek and Reality confused again?
BlackGriffen
no microsoft (Score:2, Funny)
Death of a legend??? (Score:1, Funny)
DUH? (Score:3, Funny)
Guess it's easier to type "Voyager" than "Pioneer" when you've got you've got your left thumb stuck up your butt...
-JT
Re: DUH? (Score:5, Funny)
> How can
It's part of their new strategy for obscuring duplicate stories.
Gates, and revisionist history. (Score:5, Funny)
I'd trust Gates about as far as I could throw a Buick.
Anyone remember words to this effect?
"Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft Corp. a fiercely competitive company(...)" - Microsoft Encarta, 1996
"Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft is a contributor to several charitable causes, including...(...)" Microsoft Encarta 2000
Canadia? (Score:3, Funny)
What? Aren't the DMCA, UCITA, and SSSCA good enough for them?
Why some backwater state in the USA would need their own special laws on this is totally beyond me...
(Before you flame, yes, I know.)
Re:no microsoft (Score:2, Funny)
I was getting really tired of jokes in the "such and such is reliable so it must not be running on Windows" vein. But then you came along and suddenly the whole premise seems fresh as a spring day!
Kudos!
It most certainly is NOT (Score:4, Funny)
votahewr
voryager
vottager
pioneer
ppioneer
ioneer
I did a lot better with pioneer. And my left hand stinks now. Thanks a lot.
Proof that BillG is not lying about the 640K Quote (Score:3, Funny)
2) BG is the Anti-Christ, as such he is master of space and time (and other amusing parlor tricks)
3) BG knew for a fact the 640K would not last long, it fact it would be impede the upgrade treadmill for a number of years.
Thus, BG would never have said it. However, I wonder about
4) John 8:44 "for the devil
I could be wrong.
Re:Pioneer Tech Specs (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Gates, and revisionist history. (Score:2, Funny)
>"Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft is a contributor to several charitable causes, including...(...)" Microsoft Encarta 2000
So if Microsoft used to be a competitive company, but isn't anymore, does that make them an anti-competitive company?
A Geek's Geek? (Score:3, Funny)
"Check out the bowl-job, Marge!" --Homer
You're wasting your time. (Score:3, Funny)
In case you haven't heard, Fritz Hollings is opposed to "cash-and-carry" government [wral.com]. What are you worried about? This has to be in your interest, otherwise, he wouldn't be bringing it up.
Re:It wasn't as clear-cut as Bill makes it sound (Score:3, Funny)
The biggest secret in the Universe (Score:3, Funny)
Alien A: OK. So now we know who they are, where they live, and how big they are.
Alien B: Umm...but where do babies come from?