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It's like Midas's touch, your golden. It's an Idiom

American, wot language that, perhaps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., surely you don't expect that. I think you mean that other language, the language of the poms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., you know from the colonies, as in prisoner of his or her majesty (don't wont to rile up feminists and apparantly they dislike that message so pretend it isn't true). Dude's that's called English, which apparently you lot don't know how to spell properly (that troublesome English spelling is just too hard to learn, zs and ss just too confusing and ou my how difficult). the crazy crap you septic tanks http://onlineslangdictionary.c... come up with. As I am not that rascist, perhaps a little but more culturalist than rascist, being called Russian, seems hardly a problem, is there any reason it should, assuming the Mikhail http://www.thinkbabynames.com/... is meant to be Russian rather than an anti-semetic swipe. Sure if you must know my great great grandmother the maid was diddled by her boss, twice mind you and dumped when he took off to the US to escape his responsibilities and changed his name. So if you feel the need to be anti-semetic, sure fine, not that I feel particularly Jewish but what ever (my religion being freedom, democracy and justice - the shared work of common effort - you might call that socialism).

Why would they do that because they are trying to force Windows ANAL PROBE 10 on every one and they are coming off as lame arse perverts and nobody wants their consumer products any more, so empty fucking marketing. M$ is being the consumer market touch of death , just ewww. Perhaps they can sell more smart phones if they shape them like round long and not to wide and increased vibration levels. Nobody likes fucking perves http://onlineslangdictionary.c... and that is exactly who M$ have become. So take the money and tell them to STFU.

However Google is not the original use of the word as in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.... So Barney Google and his Googly eyes and this of course led to google eyed and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.... This is where Google management got it's search (visual action) from, just your typical nerdy geek derivative use of language, although they emphatically disingenuously deny it now. Looks like there'll be a right barney http://onlineslangdictionary.c... over the word google yet to come. Sorry guys just because it is old and drifted out of use a little doesn't mean you can steal it and you can just bet the comic is going to get a revival now.

How about you counter GP's claim by actually naming the dog? [...] If you can not name the dog, just admit Israel has no dog in the fight.

I don't think you understand what the phrase means. It doesn't mean to have a favored side. It just means that you "have a stake in the outcome of the problem at hand" or if you have no dog in a fight, then "you are not concerned and will not be affected either way by the outcome of something." Here, have a few more citations.

The "dog" doesn't have to be a favored side that they're betting on. Neither side may be appealing to them, but they most certainly care about the progress of the civil war and whether or not it turns into a greater regional conflict that will suck them in.

Because it is a Mass Beer Spectacle -ometer, of course.

But I think the phrase there was, "It's a piece of work."

If you want to quibble about the source then go to the original sources:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOGoZFzHkhs
http://www.iam-magazine.com/blog/detail.aspx?g=cff2afd3-c24e-42e5-aa68-a4b4e7524177

Or more than one dictionary:

http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/patent+troll
http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/patent-troll.html
http://www.techopedia.com/definition/28564/patent-troll
http://onlineslangdictionary.com/meaning-definition-of/patent-troll
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=patent+troll

Anyway, the dictionary.com definition doesn't describe Apple either.

bonch, why don't you disclose that you were paid to post this?

That would take serious balls.

It is, and I didn't know it was an offensive word before looking it up, which I did a looooong time ago when I first read about people here finding the word inappropriate. It's a less nice word to say "cripple" and "cripple" isn't exactly nice. There is also this, but I'm not sure how it's related That said, I don't think kids should know what a Gimp is.

The thing that irks me, is that you could simply say "GNU Image Manipulation Program" instead and nobody would bat an eyelash. It's not as is "Adobe Photoshop" is short.

However, both Adobe Photoshop and The GIMP are both way overkill for schoolchildren. Personally, I'd go Paint.NET, which is a great product. Just too bad there is no real Linux equivalent for it.

make a bog deal out of sex between consenting adults

Are we talking about George Michael?

I don't know, cause it's what argumentative nerds do?

Yes. Yes we do :-)

(pronounced cited)?

Here you go...just as I suspected, local to the area. I was unaware that, according to the page I just linked to, it originated in the 80's...but I'm not that surprised. In case you don't want to click that link, you would pronounce both "c"s as if they were an S.

Good, let it die. Speak no more of it please.

Hey, I'm with you man...that shit annoyed me whenever anyone said it, (and it still does on the rare occasion someone says it). It just seemed topical, since we were discussing slang.

Was anyone else concerned when they first read that "toss" was going to be animated?

ICE ices ice.

I'll be brief:

Fuckin' A!

Cary Fiorina is campaigning for the Republican nomination for governor of California. I really, really hope she fails.

The Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinville, OR has a very nice collection of air and space exhibits.

McMinville Oregon you say? Why not just put the thing in Bumfuck Egypt? It's slightly bigger than McMinville.

hahaha, what a bunch of BS! Apparently, you've never been a contractor/consultant long term in IT. Trust me, as a contractor or consultant you're shown the door quite often and the supposed big money you've made all dries up in bills and expenses while you seek another spot as you're between gigs. I've been there for many years after the .com explosion in 2002 and trust me it was no picknick. You'll be no better off than a migrant farmer in that field right now. When the economy is humming along then you can play that musical chairs game but now isn't the right time.

All you need to do is be (or get) really good at supporting the systems that had been maintained by people who were laid off, and you'll have more work than you can handle.

If you're trotting out a dog-and-pony-show and trying to sell businesses new ways to "cultivate holistic technologies" or "reintermediate broad-based paradigms" you're completely SOL.

However if you don't mind enhancing 15 year old ERP system to handle a new business process, and you're good at making all the stuff they bought during the "boom" (that never actually worked) do what they need, you'll have to hire more help just to answer the phones.

Amazingly enough, "Providing services that are actually needed, to companies that can actually pay for them" still works really well as a business plan. In fact, I haven't changed my business model in the last 20 year and see no reason to do so now. However if you're happier doing something else, don't let me discourage you.

Average joe is not going to be installing a custom OS firmware on his "intanet box"

Then Average Joe is going to pay way too much for too little access for the Internet.

My friend has been trying to work with his Cable company to get streaming content and they are refusing to open up the upstream bandwidth so that the content will stream successfully. He even decided to pay the extra protection more bandwidth fee to increase his tier of service to their highest available tier.

The service he is paying over $50 per month for markets up to 16000Kbps downstream and 2000Kbps upstream!

I told him he was a fool. They first tried to blame his firewall/router and the DD-WRT software as the limiting factor to his bandwidth, but he was not as stupid as the Cable company hoped he would be.

Why do Cable companies think Average Joe will accept that the Speed Tests are gospel. They ARE NOT!

His Speed Test varies from 9000Kbps to 25000Kbps downstream and 930Kbps to 990Kbps downstream. Interesting how the Speed Test never goes above 1000Kbps to the promised 2000Kbps upstream! Can you say scam, I knew you could. That is JUST THE ignorant, only valid in that second, SPEED TEST via www.speakeasy.net. What a waste of time.

How is this NOT FRAUD?

Thanks to the Status / Bandwidth monitor via his DD-WRT software he sees the Speed go up with the speed test, however as soon as the speed test finishes he is once again throttled to less than 300Kbps downstream and 40Kbps upstream. Other than the speed test, his upstream bandwidth never exceeds 100Kbps.

We are guessing a sustained 200Kbps or 300Kbps upstream would give steady consistent streaming of video and IP content. But that is a guess as the Cable provider has never let him have over 100Kbps. Even though he is paying over $50 per month for the Highest tier of Internet Only service that the cable provider swears and markets as allowing the customer to watch IP TV, movies and videos. The three tiers below that for Internet Only service DO NOT state specifically that you can watch streaming content at all.

His only solution is probably DSL, his location, based on distance will give him 1.5Mbps down and 384Kbps upstream...so its half the price of Cable, for him, and it will allow him to stream content.

Having two DSL providers would cost just as much as he is now paying for 1 cable provider...redundancy, thanks to DD-WRT and VLANs he feels he would be better off and is looking forward to switching...

So if Average Joe fails to utilize the DD-WRT software, his provider can screw him over, make lame BS excuses, never admitting the real reason he is being restricted its because they want to via Bandwidth Shaping software.

So no DD-WRT software and Average Joe is like a mushroom, do not be stupid, do not be average; Only purchase /routers that support DD-WRT software!

Note to others, when you connect your PC directly to the cable modem, check your DNS server IP addresses, if you upgrade your service; these DNS servers change. However to get higher bandwidths, the Cable company MUST set up the software to allow you to have more bandwidth. They have flatly refused to do this for my friend.

Also if you check www.RipoffReports.com you will find multiple complaints that customers were paying for the higher tier of service from their provider but they were not getting it until they complained and the Cable company flipped the-bandwidth-switch to allow for it.

"Gosh, all this time I thought the term "killer app" meant that it was on course to unseat the long disputed champion of that application realm--you know, kill something."

You probably were not associated with any teenagers from California when the term was coined. Killer is slang for Mega-awesome, as in: "Dude, I was surfin' in Ensenada over the weekend and the waves were killer !", or when someone shows up at the party with some awesome bud: "Dude, I'm so wasted. That Ganj is so killer !" A lot of people don't know where the term came from, but you have to admit that once you do the feeling of being superior and "in the know" is totally bitchin' !

"Gosh, all this time I thought the term "killer app" meant that it was on course to unseat the long disputed champion of that application realm--you know, kill something."

You probably were not associated with any teenagers from California when the term was coined. Killer is slang for Mega-awesome, as in: "Dude, I was surfin' in Ensenada over the weekend and the waves were killer !", or when someone shows up at the party with some awesome bud: "Dude, I'm so wasted. That Ganj is so killer !" A lot of people don't know where the term came from, but you have to admit that once you do the feeling of being superior and "in the know" is totally bitchin' !