Another way is to register a company that performs "Marketing Quality Control Services". Send them a letter thanking them for using your service and informing them that by sending marketing material to your address they agreeing to your terms of service and rates.
Next time the catalog comes in, send them an honest opinion of the marketing material along with a bill for $1,000. Repeat for each catalog, adding a $500 late fee for everytime a bill is not paid before the 1st of the month billing cycle.
They will go away, and you can profit by taking them to small claims.
No, see they had this whole campaign to discredit anyone who had anything negative to say about the drug. The did do something wrong.
I think the plaintiffs should have held out for an admission and 1 year of ten commercials a day on prime time explaining to the public their practices of pushing drugs regardless of side effects, clearly highlighting their motivation of profit, and detailing herbal remedies that are more effective than pharma with less side effects.
New York runs on Red Hat, London runs on.NET and MSSQL
Yeah, and how did the current economic slide start? That's right, New York crashed. Sure London went down a bit later, but that was only because of the crap coming out of New York. So Red Hat crashed first
Suck it up Lunix Looserz!!11!!!!
This is such a F***in' LAME story I just had to start a flame war....
Don't take this personally, 'cause it really isn't - and I know I'll be modded down for this - but I must say this story has the greatest concentration of the lamest "Informative" posts, ever. ...
Hmmm, I haven't had problems installing a printer for about four years and I have bought a few printers since, but then maybe I buy hardware with good linux support....
I think your point about priviledges on Ubuntu vs OSX is interesting, but really, all you have to do is install the right package to extend nautilus and set it up to suit you. Whether they should include it as default is a matter of opinion, mine being that they should for Administrators.
If you install the nautilus script extensions (I think that's what it's called, do a synaptic search, you'll find it), you can add a "open as root" or "open as administrator" option in the context menu. So when you right click on a folder and select "open as root" it prompts for a password and then opens a new copy of nautilus in the drab default gnome theme. That's what I use and it works great. Anything you do with that nautilus session is done as root, you can copy from your desktop or any other nautilus folder to it, you can open config files in gedit as root, etc, etc, etc. Also, the fact that it uses the default gnome theme means I can easily tell which instance is which.
gksu nautilus %d%f
I think that's what I put in the box, but read the instructions on the tool and experiment to get it to suit you. Oh and yes folks, there is no CLI involved in setting any of that up.
I have also added a similar option to open in a terminal... but I do like the CLI sometimes.
It kind of reminds me of video game consoles. With the advent of computers, it became possible to emulate things like the NES and SNES on your computer
Not quite true. ENIAC was pretty crap for playing super mario brothers.
sorry for the pendantry, I understand what you are getting at, but the use of the word "advent" is pretty fn funny.
Telstra are only the "first major player" if you don't count a lot of federal and state government departments. I have friends who work at both state and federal levels and are banned from using Facebook even in their personal time. Haven't asked about Twitter, but I would assume the same applies for any of them.
That summary either needs clarification, or is just plain wrong.
"The Great Global Warming Swindle does not represent the current state of knowledge in climate science. Scepticism in science is a healthy thing, and the presence of orthodox scientific scepticism in climate change is ubiquitous. Many of the hypotheses presented in the Great Global Warming Swindle have been considered and rejected by due scientific process. This documentary is far from an objective, critical examination of climate science. Instead the Great Global Warming Swindle goes to great lengths to present outdated, incorrect or ambiguous data in such a way as to grossly distort the true understanding of climate change science, and to support a set of extremely controversial views."
Hmmm - also check wikipedia for more critism - it's largely seen as poor science, is based on unsubstantiated assertions and uses incorrect data. But whatever.
Have we actually determined that the warming models are correct
No, we have established that they are not correct. Things are happening way quicker than the models predicted.
I have the feeling that global warming continues to be more of a politically driven argument than a scientific one.
Yeah. It's a shame all these industrial lobbiests, in Australia it's currently the trade union for digging up coal and chopping down trees, have any say in political decisions at all. If it was purely down to the science, we would have had much stonger action a long time ago. And it's not just climate change from CO2 in the atmosphere we need be concerned about, but the increasing levels of CO2 in the oceans raising the pH and current warming melting permafrost in Siberia thus releasing massive amounts of CH4.
Ideas like this "block out the sun" concept fail to take this in to account, and have the potential to make things worse. Of course they are only put forward by people who want to placate those who make their fortunes from pumping out CO2 - those who want to sustain the unsustainable. If only politics wasn't involved...
I think also a online free database to compete with Google would be good. Ownership and licensing along the lines of the creative commons with distributed hosting provided by donation. Sure, let Google donate storage along with anyone else if they want, but make sure everything is mirrored and that they don't own any content or have any power other than "we don't want to donate hosting anymore".
I suppose as a kid I read too many fantasy books where the main evil character started out good, collected all the knowledge/power from ordinary folk and then hid it away for personal gain. That's why I just can't trust google with this. As a privately listed company they are far too exposed to evil influences, no matter how "good" they seem at this point in time.
No need to apologise here. An absolutely insightful post.
If you do get modded to death by those who think pragmatism and honest assemssment of history is pinko leftist liberal crap, but whatever, you're real world karma is excellent.
In 2005, company files lawsuit across huge base of manufacturers... <ranty-rant-rant>
BZZZZZZZZZZZZZT!
No, sorry bluefoxlucid, CSIRO is not a company. And as others have already replied, yes it is legal the companies were told about the infringement and been given plenty of time to cough up.
Now I know it's part of the fun of/. to get all up in arms at the sniff of a patent troll, but in this case there isn't one. RTFA and do a wiki search for CSIRO. Then come back and post a "meh" or something.
When you bludge, you are not necessarily putting anything off. You could just be relying on others to do the work for you. That's not exactly procrastination.
Bludging is an activity (or lack thereof) one could undertake while procrastinating, but so is running round like a headless chook. Bludging is more about piss-farting around on someone else's time or resources. For example, dole bludgers don't procastinate. Clear?
I speak Australian English (which is like English, but has additional words like tracky-dacks and struth) and in the days when I was doing graphics in java, I used to name java.awt.Color variables with the 'colour' spelling. I also once or twice extended the java.awt.Color class with some additional logic and named it Colour.
It was surprisingly easy to pick the difference between the two in source.
Just on the spelling thing, I'm noticing that newspapers are starting to refer to jails in this country rather than gaols. That bugs me.
The humor in this article was not obvious that I ended up thinking it was true. Haha I was fooled!
What, did you get to the bit about the server code decompiler?
If you read the whole article, it's so obvious that if you didn't get it, you probably shouldn't be on/. But then again, if you did RTFA, you probably shouldn't be on/. either.
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Another way is to register a company that performs "Marketing Quality Control Services". Send them a letter thanking them for using your service and informing them that by sending marketing material to your address they agreeing to your terms of service and rates.
Next time the catalog comes in, send them an honest opinion of the marketing material along with a bill for $1,000. Repeat for each catalog, adding a $500 late fee for everytime a bill is not paid before the 1st of the month billing cycle.
They will go away, and you can profit by taking them to small claims.
No, see they had this whole campaign to discredit anyone who had anything negative to say about the drug. The did do something wrong.
I think the plaintiffs should have held out for an admission and 1 year of ten commercials a day on prime time explaining to the public their practices of pushing drugs regardless of side effects, clearly highlighting their motivation of profit, and detailing herbal remedies that are more effective than pharma with less side effects.
And no, I do not think that is disproportionate.
Yeah, and how did the current economic slide start? That's right, New York crashed. Sure London went down a bit later, but that was only because of the crap coming out of New York. So Red Hat crashed first
Suck it up Lunix Looserz!!11!!!!
This is such a F***in' LAME story I just had to start a flame war....
My ironimeter just exploded.
Sorry... couldn't resist.
Hmmm, I haven't had problems installing a printer for about four years and I have bought a few printers since, but then maybe I buy hardware with good linux support....
I think your point about priviledges on Ubuntu vs OSX is interesting, but really, all you have to do is install the right package to extend nautilus and set it up to suit you. Whether they should include it as default is a matter of opinion, mine being that they should for Administrators.
Hey, this is getting a bit off topic, but....
If you install the nautilus script extensions (I think that's what it's called, do a synaptic search, you'll find it), you can add a "open as root" or "open as administrator" option in the context menu. So when you right click on a folder and select "open as root" it prompts for a password and then opens a new copy of nautilus in the drab default gnome theme. That's what I use and it works great. Anything you do with that nautilus session is done as root, you can copy from your desktop or any other nautilus folder to it, you can open config files in gedit as root, etc, etc, etc. Also, the fact that it uses the default gnome theme means I can easily tell which instance is which.
I think that's what I put in the box, but read the instructions on the tool and experiment to get it to suit you. Oh and yes folks, there is no CLI involved in setting any of that up.
I have also added a similar option to open in a terminal... but I do like the CLI sometimes.
Not quite true. ENIAC was pretty crap for playing super mario brothers.
sorry for the pendantry, I understand what you are getting at, but the use of the word "advent" is pretty fn funny.
Telstra are only the "first major player" if you don't count a lot of federal and state government departments. I have friends who work at both state and federal levels and are banned from using Facebook even in their personal time. Haven't asked about Twitter, but I would assume the same applies for any of them.
That summary either needs clarification, or is just plain wrong.
No. That title is reserved for a much unused part of his body.
Yeah. Have you read this?
"The Great Global Warming Swindle does not represent the current state of knowledge in climate science. Scepticism in science is a healthy thing, and the presence of orthodox scientific scepticism in climate change is ubiquitous. Many of the hypotheses presented in the Great Global Warming Swindle have been considered and rejected by due scientific process. This documentary is far from an objective, critical examination of climate science. Instead the Great Global Warming Swindle goes to great lengths to present outdated, incorrect or ambiguous data in such a way as to grossly distort the true understanding of climate change science, and to support a set of extremely controversial views."
Hmmm - also check wikipedia for more critism - it's largely seen as poor science, is based on unsubstantiated assertions and uses incorrect data. But whatever.
No, we have established that they are not correct. Things are happening way quicker than the models predicted.
Yeah. It's a shame all these industrial lobbiests, in Australia it's currently the trade union for digging up coal and chopping down trees, have any say in political decisions at all. If it was purely down to the science, we would have had much stonger action a long time ago. And it's not just climate change from CO2 in the atmosphere we need be concerned about, but the increasing levels of CO2 in the oceans raising the pH and current warming melting permafrost in Siberia thus releasing massive amounts of CH4.
Ideas like this "block out the sun" concept fail to take this in to account, and have the potential to make things worse. Of course they are only put forward by people who want to placate those who make their fortunes from pumping out CO2 - those who want to sustain the unsustainable. If only politics wasn't involved...
I think also a online free database to compete with Google would be good. Ownership and licensing along the lines of the creative commons with distributed hosting provided by donation. Sure, let Google donate storage along with anyone else if they want, but make sure everything is mirrored and that they don't own any content or have any power other than "we don't want to donate hosting anymore".
I suppose as a kid I read too many fantasy books where the main evil character started out good, collected all the knowledge/power from ordinary folk and then hid it away for personal gain. That's why I just can't trust google with this. As a privately listed company they are far too exposed to evil influences, no matter how "good" they seem at this point in time.
Or shitting on the star spangled banner in front of the white house.
See? Now some of you might get it - a corrupt republic is no better than a monarchy if all you've done is replace the monarch with a flag.
No need to apologise here. An absolutely insightful post.
If you do get modded to death by those who think pragmatism and honest assemssment of history is pinko leftist liberal crap, but whatever, you're real world karma is excellent.
Good god no. Keep IBM well away from that, thanks.
BZZZZZZZZZZZZZT!
No, sorry bluefoxlucid, CSIRO is not a company. And as others have already replied, yes it is legal the companies were told about the infringement and been given plenty of time to cough up.
Now I know it's part of the fun of /. to get all up in arms at the sniff of a patent troll, but in this case there isn't one. RTFA and do a wiki search for CSIRO. Then come back and post a "meh" or something.
Bludge != procrastinate
When you bludge, you are not necessarily putting anything off. You could just be relying on others to do the work for you. That's not exactly procrastination.
Bludging is an activity (or lack thereof) one could undertake while procrastinating, but so is running round like a headless chook. Bludging is more about piss-farting around on someone else's time or resources. For example, dole bludgers don't procastinate. Clear?
(See subject) There, fixed that for you.
Most people I know say the day first. "The thirty first of March". It comes from the older style "The thirty first day of March."
I find the "March thirty first" construct weird.
Yeah, but I expect everything in IT to be spelt wrong, for fsck sake.
I speak Australian English (which is like English, but has additional words like tracky-dacks and struth) and in the days when I was doing graphics in java, I used to name java.awt.Color variables with the 'colour' spelling. I also once or twice extended the java.awt.Color class with some additional logic and named it Colour.
It was surprisingly easy to pick the difference between the two in source.
Just on the spelling thing, I'm noticing that newspapers are starting to refer to jails in this country rather than gaols. That bugs me.
What, did you get to the bit about the server code decompiler?
If you read the whole article, it's so obvious that if you didn't get it, you probably shouldn't be on /. But then again, if you did RTFA, you probably shouldn't be on /. either.
I'm confused.
Just sayin'
I like the KDE release schedule better.
That's a little like saying "I like gastric influenza better than pixie dust".
Yep. All of your critisms are explained by the fact that KDE4 is just an attempt to make a bloated version of e17.
So are you like an English teacher and shit?