Um, so who gets to decide what should be age restricted? What age should it be? Why should I submit my content to the demands of your arbitrary rules? Who exactly is going to US banks not to do business with a website that refuses to participate in this scheme?
And of course, who gets to decide what kind of content should be age restricted? I, for example, think that no one under the age of 95 should be exposed to websites promoting crackpot extremist christian views like intelligent design. Can we add that to your list?
Enquiring minds wanna know.
The fired workers have a chance to apply for lower-paying positions after a 10-week wait, the company said. Wow, I'll bet there will be a lot of people taking them up on that generous offer... Oh wait, no there won't.
Circuit City: You make too much money. You're fired.
Dumbass Employee: What? Noooooooo! My PS3 comes in next week and I need the employee discount! I'll work for less!
CC: Not good enough. First you must go without a paycheck for 10 weeks to prove you are worthy.
DE: Aaaggghhhh! Okay, then what? I'll do anything.
CC: Then you must crawl back here, and I do mean crawl, and beg for your job back at half your previous salary!
DE: *sobbing* I'll do it!
CC: Oh, and bring me a shrubbery.
Now if they can come up with a quiet, personal-sized VTOL craft a la Paul Moller's Skycar (which is anything but quiet), we'll really have something." There are at least a half-dozen people in my small town who can't be trusted to drive a car half-way intelligently, let alone fly one. If we could be guaranteed that they would be the only people who would die in their dumb-ass accidents (caused by drunkenness, negligence, or just flat our dumb-assed-ness) then okay, but sadly we can't.
This is a little off-topic, but it must be almost impossible for any patent office to attract enough people who are both intelligent enough and educated enough to wade through complex patent applications, particularly related to technology, and have any hope of understanding them to a sufficient degree to make intelligent decisions about them. Given that an organization like the patent office isn't exactly the top priority for a government that is sinking in debt while funding a war and tax cuts, they can't possibly be paying enough to attract a large number of highly skilled professionals with the breadth and depth of knowledge to address these patents.
I guess this is why they are leaning towards peer review, but the person at the patent office still has to be sufficiently skilled to know if the "peer" review is accurate or BS. I don't envy the folks at the patent office.
Where are you going Dave? Dave? You're moving out of range Dave. I'm following you Dave. Dave, I'm concerned that you continue to move out of range. Here, let me help you stop moving by BREAKING YOUR FUCKING LEGS. There, now you're in range again Dave. Good Dave.
I don't think demanding credentials from people is going to make any difference. Some people will be more than happy to have their real names associated with pranking an online encyclopedia. I think the only realistic way to ensure that only "acceptable" material makes it into "print" is to have edits submitted to an editor to be proofed before they go live.
Oh, and distrust anything you see on the internet regardless of who wrote it.
There's a possibility that Linux or whatever software you're using has screwed up hardware drivers. You can't accurately diagnose a problem if you have multiple things that have changed. That's like trying to run a scientific experiment with no control. It can't be done conclusively. I believe what you meant to say was:
There's a possibility that the "help" desk person you are speaking to doesn't know fuck-all about computers. In fact, its almost guaranteed. He doesn't know what Linux or whatever software you're using is. He can't be expected to walk through his normal script of unhelpful suggestions, if you have actually used your computer and/or have an actual problem. That's like trying to run a scientific experiment with a retarded moneky at the controls. The chimp at the other end of the phone can't give you the three hour run-around if he can't follow his script.
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Using your logic, you can't provide tech support to anyone who has done anything at all with their computer. Installed a game? Oh, we don't know how that might affect the system - no support. Updated a driver? Oh, we don't know if thats compatible - no support. God forbid you installed one of the most common operating systems in existence...
And you wonder why people hate helpdesk people.
While I don't fault her for being concerned, I can't help but wonder if there is anyone out there who regularly participates in discussion groups or USENET that HASN'T been threatened by some idiot. Heck, I was getting death threats from people on the DIABLO boards years ago because (to my eternal embarassment) I took a sort of sick pleasure in pointing out when people were being stupid. Sure, I was kind of rude, but it always made me chuckle when some other anonymous geek would threaten to beat me up because of my posts. Yeah, like I was going to show up behind the Quickie mart for a "rumble". Sheesh.
You mean more people bought Casino Royale, a widely acclaimed addition to the ever-popular James Bond pantheon than bought Air Force One, an implausible ho-hum action movie made with a cookie cutter? I am shocked!
Dishonourable YouTube,
It has come to the attention of the ruling masters of the Shinobi-ryu that you are allowing the depiction by various mystic means of moving picture of an imposter claiming to be a Ninja. As the only true remnants of the proud Bushido tradition that is ninjitsu today, we insist that you cease and desist allowing our image and trademarks to be blatantly stolen by this gaijin.
Please accept this message as your only warning. Should you not comply with our demands, our legal department will take action, possibly including decapitations of hostages or the poisoning of pets.
Domo.
The taskbar preview is a perfect example. I move my mouse down to the taskbar to click on a folder, and a little thumbnail appears. A *useless* thumbnail. It doesn't do anything, or provide any more info than the folder icon and it's name did. I also don't find my new Vista install to be all that revolutionary, but on the taskbar preview, you couldn't be more wrong. They aren't just thumbnails, they are live windows - great for taking a quick peek to see if your install is done, or if someone has replied to you IM, or if your auction house scan is done in WOW, without having to actually change windows. Also, if you're someone like my wife who refuses to use a tabbed browers (don't ask), and who likes having 15 IE windows open at once, you get no useful info at all from the tiny name icon on the taskbar (cause of the crowding) but you can see at a glance which window is which via the thumbnails. I actual find that a tremendous improvement.
What? Online polls are being "shunted aside and ignored"? You say that like its a new phenomenon. When did an online poll ever count for anything other than an indication of how many pinheads can be persuaded to vote for Ms. Collossal Tits 2001?
The reasoning is that Open Source software tends to have lower hardware requirements and requires less frequent hardware upgrades to "keep up with the Joneses" This just in, crappy computers less expensive. Photos at 11:00.
I didn't know the PS3 had thousands of cores;)
I think what he meant was 'each tracked in a separate thread'...obviously each core is still handling many threads. I haven't watched the presentation and don't plan on it until later today, too much to do and I'd rather read something about it. It just sounds like it provides an efficient high level way to write a multi threaded app. Evolutionary but not revolutionary? Heh, that was my thought too. I was like, "Fuck, what the hell are those chickens doing that it requires an entire core to direct each one? Those are some complex chickens!"
Its my belief that morality evolved out of the painful realization that if we could do something to someone else, then it stood to reason that other people could do it to us. When early man came to this realization, he also discovered to his surprise that it wasn't quite so funny when it was his house being burned down, his wife screwing the neighbour, his guts in a pile on the ground, or his loot disappearing over the hill on some other guy's horse. Most moral codes boil down to some version of the Golden Rule (treat others like you would want to be treated). This leaves aside wacky religious rules that really have nothing to do with morality and everything to do with imposing a social structure on people (ie - pray on Sundays).
Well" she responded, "You didn't actually purchase the files, you really purchased a license to listen to the music, and the license is very specific about how they can be played or listened to."
Now I was baffled. "Records never came with any such restrictions," I said.
She replied, "Well they were supposed to, but we weren't able to enforce those licenses back then, and now we can" And here you all thought that you owned all those 8 track tapes, when in fact you're just storing them for the company that made them.
"IIT Bombay, one of the top Indian engineering schools, is restricting beer access to its students. The restriction is simply to cut off all access to beer at night from the dorms. The school claims the 24/7/365 beer access is hampering academic performance, personality development and extra curricular activities. There, now it resembles MY college reality.
I categorically condemn these anti-semantic comments. There is no place in our modern, advanced society for bigots like these blatant anti-semantites. Someone should alert the ACLU.
"Well, the calendar's got to end somewhere. Ya, damn inconsiderate of them not to have carved out their calendar until the end of time. Not like it would have taken them forever or anything... lol
No offense, but you're obviously not the target market. Since apparently you intend to continue to run your existing hardware and software for the foreseeable future, and don't have any interest in the newer interface, then there is no compelling reason for you to adopt any new OS - VISTA or not.
What exactly would it take from a new OS to make you upgrade? We've already established that you like the current interface and don't want to have to upgrade your computer, so what features are you looking for?
While without patents you would still likely have "scientists" puttering around in their basements accidentally discovering that some fungus that grows in forgotten beer bottles can cure baldness, but without any financial incentive I doubt you've find many people performing extensive safety trials or doing expensive gene splicing/stem cell research/etc just out of the kindness of their hearts. Do you have any idea how much it costs to bring a new drug to market today?
By this estimate http://healthcare-economist.com/2006/04/29/802m/, it takes 90.3 months and $802 million.
So unless you're not particularly interested in curing cancer, perhaps you can explain how this will happen absent any financial incentive.
answer may be to create a flexible tube with magnetic coils spaced at regular intervals along its length that could suck up the iron-heavy dust. Another advantage of these tubes is that the astronauts will be able to check their email and surf the internet.
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Um, so who gets to decide what should be age restricted? What age should it be? Why should I submit my content to the demands of your arbitrary rules? Who exactly is going to US banks not to do business with a website that refuses to participate in this scheme? And of course, who gets to decide what kind of content should be age restricted? I, for example, think that no one under the age of 95 should be exposed to websites promoting crackpot extremist christian views like intelligent design. Can we add that to your list? Enquiring minds wanna know.
You mean its mythical and can never actually be found?
Circuit City: You make too much money. You're fired.
Dumbass Employee: What? Noooooooo! My PS3 comes in next week and I need the employee discount! I'll work for less!
CC: Not good enough. First you must go without a paycheck for 10 weeks to prove you are worthy.
DE: Aaaggghhhh! Okay, then what? I'll do anything.
CC: Then you must crawl back here, and I do mean crawl, and beg for your job back at half your previous salary!
DE: *sobbing* I'll do it!
CC: Oh, and bring me a shrubbery.
This is a little off-topic, but it must be almost impossible for any patent office to attract enough people who are both intelligent enough and educated enough to wade through complex patent applications, particularly related to technology, and have any hope of understanding them to a sufficient degree to make intelligent decisions about them. Given that an organization like the patent office isn't exactly the top priority for a government that is sinking in debt while funding a war and tax cuts, they can't possibly be paying enough to attract a large number of highly skilled professionals with the breadth and depth of knowledge to address these patents. I guess this is why they are leaning towards peer review, but the person at the patent office still has to be sufficiently skilled to know if the "peer" review is accurate or BS. I don't envy the folks at the patent office.
Where are you going Dave? Dave? You're moving out of range Dave. I'm following you Dave. Dave, I'm concerned that you continue to move out of range. Here, let me help you stop moving by BREAKING YOUR FUCKING LEGS. There, now you're in range again Dave. Good Dave.
I don't think demanding credentials from people is going to make any difference. Some people will be more than happy to have their real names associated with pranking an online encyclopedia. I think the only realistic way to ensure that only "acceptable" material makes it into "print" is to have edits submitted to an editor to be proofed before they go live. Oh, and distrust anything you see on the internet regardless of who wrote it.
They may have gotten to our Pentagon, but I damn well double dare them to try and strike at our hexagon!
There's a possibility that the "help" desk person you are speaking to doesn't know fuck-all about computers. In fact, its almost guaranteed. He doesn't know what Linux or whatever software you're using is. He can't be expected to walk through his normal script of unhelpful suggestions, if you have actually used your computer and/or have an actual problem. That's like trying to run a scientific experiment with a retarded moneky at the controls. The chimp at the other end of the phone can't give you the three hour run-around if he can't follow his script.
\sarcasm off
Using your logic, you can't provide tech support to anyone who has done anything at all with their computer. Installed a game? Oh, we don't know how that might affect the system - no support. Updated a driver? Oh, we don't know if thats compatible - no support. God forbid you installed one of the most common operating systems in existence... And you wonder why people hate helpdesk people.
While I don't fault her for being concerned, I can't help but wonder if there is anyone out there who regularly participates in discussion groups or USENET that HASN'T been threatened by some idiot. Heck, I was getting death threats from people on the DIABLO boards years ago because (to my eternal embarassment) I took a sort of sick pleasure in pointing out when people were being stupid. Sure, I was kind of rude, but it always made me chuckle when some other anonymous geek would threaten to beat me up because of my posts. Yeah, like I was going to show up behind the Quickie mart for a "rumble". Sheesh.
You mean more people bought Casino Royale, a widely acclaimed addition to the ever-popular James Bond pantheon than bought Air Force One, an implausible ho-hum action movie made with a cookie cutter? I am shocked!
All work in the gulag is unpaid overtime.
Dishonourable YouTube, It has come to the attention of the ruling masters of the Shinobi-ryu that you are allowing the depiction by various mystic means of moving picture of an imposter claiming to be a Ninja. As the only true remnants of the proud Bushido tradition that is ninjitsu today, we insist that you cease and desist allowing our image and trademarks to be blatantly stolen by this gaijin. Please accept this message as your only warning. Should you not comply with our demands, our legal department will take action, possibly including decapitations of hostages or the poisoning of pets. Domo.
What? Online polls are being "shunted aside and ignored"? You say that like its a new phenomenon. When did an online poll ever count for anything other than an indication of how many pinheads can be persuaded to vote for Ms. Collossal Tits 2001?
Its my belief that morality evolved out of the painful realization that if we could do something to someone else, then it stood to reason that other people could do it to us. When early man came to this realization, he also discovered to his surprise that it wasn't quite so funny when it was his house being burned down, his wife screwing the neighbour, his guts in a pile on the ground, or his loot disappearing over the hill on some other guy's horse. Most moral codes boil down to some version of the Golden Rule (treat others like you would want to be treated). This leaves aside wacky religious rules that really have nothing to do with morality and everything to do with imposing a social structure on people (ie - pray on Sundays).
I categorically condemn these anti-semantic comments. There is no place in our modern, advanced society for bigots like these blatant anti-semantites. Someone should alert the ACLU.
No offense, but you're obviously not the target market. Since apparently you intend to continue to run your existing hardware and software for the foreseeable future, and don't have any interest in the newer interface, then there is no compelling reason for you to adopt any new OS - VISTA or not. What exactly would it take from a new OS to make you upgrade? We've already established that you like the current interface and don't want to have to upgrade your computer, so what features are you looking for?
While without patents you would still likely have "scientists" puttering around in their basements accidentally discovering that some fungus that grows in forgotten beer bottles can cure baldness, but without any financial incentive I doubt you've find many people performing extensive safety trials or doing expensive gene splicing/stem cell research/etc just out of the kindness of their hearts. Do you have any idea how much it costs to bring a new drug to market today? By this estimate http://healthcare-economist.com/2006/04/29/802m/, it takes 90.3 months and $802 million. So unless you're not particularly interested in curing cancer, perhaps you can explain how this will happen absent any financial incentive.