take whoever is tasteless enough to do it into indentured servitude and get rid of the pathetic wretches who'se lives are so empty that they'd ever want the fucking crap in the first place.
Music is merely the least unpleasant noise.
So STFU Gwen, Madonna, Cher and whoever is the dimly shinning star of the week.
All those salaries were insured so the company actually recoup the losses on death benefits, survivors' expenses, recruiment of replacements, all expenses except whatever the company the company deigns to give out to the grieving widowers, widows and orphans.
Getting offed at work by an irate fellow employee who has finally snapped is all part of the plan made up by that big underwriter in the sky.
The market 'leaders' are usually about as anti capitalst as you can get.
DeBeer's has been written about (google it youself, [there's more that just a little blood in their history,]) while Microsoft's anti-trust activities are well well known to/.ers.
Both DeBeers & Microsoft have used coercion, collusion and murder. (In Microsoft's I'll give 'em the benefit of the doubt that they didn't know how far the Chinese were going to go against their own software 'pirates.')
They want to be the market, not be subject to market forces.
The only effective remedy is boycotting them and that is not going to happen is it?
They screwed up the windows MDI before y2k and they never figured out that tabs was as workable as opening multiple windows within other windows.
It would mean reworking most of their OS so it can work with a multitude of things.
Never happen until somebody drags them kicking and screaming into 'The Year of the Fruit Bat'.
Like their SQL's definition of N:M. 'It doesn't exist!' 'Its a NO NO' and 'Fuggedaboudit'
It doesn't exist because they are still too ignurnt to figure out that its actually simple to implement in SQL, as a table of rows referencing rows in other tables. [They'd have to define Relationships and keep track of them the same way that they're currently doing for objects/tables.])
Micosoft went into someone else yard (in this case the browser market,) and ended up using monopolistic, illegal anti-competitive marketing tactics until they dfecimated the opposition.
They are planning to do the same thing with Linux. (They already tried to scare Linux users with SCO and it didn't work out too well.) They are going to 'improve' Linux until its dead as a door nail.
If it not RedHat, it'll be some other player. Starting with RedHat is easier because they have the biggest client base.
Then they'll go after the next biggest one.
I'm not too worried about the FTC and neither's Microsoft. There are enough accounting scandals out there to keep them busy.
on the air except a digital squeal but then I thought "When's the last time I even turned on the radio?"
I couldn't remember. The Buggle may have had something with "Video Killed the Radio Star" and the constant hammering with ads is doing the same for the Video star.
Does MTV ever have music videos anymore? It seems that, every time the station flickers past, its always something airheaded or plain stupid (Bevis & Butt-head or some maschists traipsing around wearing diapers in the jungle looking for something that's hungry enough to bite them.)
From their web site: "The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is a performing rights organization which licenses and collects royalties for performance"
Radio stations PAY. The Mall PAYS. The elevator company PAYS.
That's why there are "studio session" musicians who play 'covers' of popular songs, give up all rights to their music so that the cheezy music playing every hour in that elevator makes money for the elevator company. The artist who recorded the original version is probably not getting a dime.
ASCAP had to listen to every dreadful hour of the crap that was aired 24/7 until they got the idea of making the content consumers keep and submit play lists.
The reason they don't announce they artist to you anymore is that they are doing it to those that count, ASCAP, on paper so they don't need to lose commercial airtime (which pays for the 'filler') to the names of the artists or the songs.
That's also why they don't announce the 'songs' at the mall or in the elevators.
What ever happened to "Going gently into that long goodnight"?
The Press should be more restricted except when it comes to running "J Lo" stories?
What is IMPORTANT? To WHOM? Who wants the government to approve every story?
What about stories like Nixon's impeachment? What about stories like FDR's polio? What about stories like Napoleon's death at St. Helena's. What about stories like Pol Pot's agricultural reforms. What about stories like Stalin's policies on the West? What about stories like Stalin's policies on the East. What about stories like Stalin's policies on Siberia What about stories like Stalin's policies on Gulags. What about stories like Stalin's policies on the military before WWII and AFTER.
The government is NOT the arbitrer we want to use since they would bury (in some cases literally) wnat they are ashamed of.
The government is not in the business of censoring your thoughts. Actually, they (I know I know, the mythical 'they',) are not even interested in censoring your thought.
They just want to make sure you don't ACT on it, or if you do that you'll be caught by the consequences.
The entire civilization, the species, possibly all life, is based on sharing.
The "commons" form of intellectual sharing merely asks that you acknowledge the sources of your knowledge. That is called being a knowledgable and erudite human being.
Microsofts' form of 'pay for use' of an idea IMMEDIATLY put at any one who is not as 'rich' as a Bill Gates at a disadvatage.
Not only are they incapable of 'paying the tithe' but, due to the transfer of intellectual property outside its natural boundaries, they may end up not even knowing who to pay it to.
I would imagine that the 'concept' of "gravity" as a force of nature is copyrightable. I would also imagine that the concept that "The Earth Sucks" is also copyrightable.
That means that I would stand to make some money every time something tipped over.
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to collect, am I still owed?
Of course the ability to use speech is owed to the original speakers but since they we'ren't as smart as Microsoft, they aren't going to collect a single dollar from the idea.
a 'feetchur' that we can charge for patches instead of requilding on stable ground.
That's the kind of thinking that gets people killed in tsunami prone areas.
M$ has felt the rumblings underfoot, (customer dissatisfaction over security holes), and is seeing the wave build on the horizon, (Linux & Symbian & OS X & others,) and they are offering a patch kit for a hemmorhoid cushion as a floatation device.
If that is true, I'd worry if I was Apple
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There is something that just does not sound real in the statement "Apple does nothing of this, they just release multimegabyte hunks of code that are just *useless* (you would probably spend more time trying to separate the big blob into small patches than to rewrite these independently). Your example thus falls completely flat."
Apple may be being a bastard releasing the code this way because in this industry, unless you've got a CowBoy or a PHB, nothing gets changed or coded without explicit instructions to do so and all documentation/code must refer back to the explicit instructions.
Sometimes running a 'make' gets ugly but that's a small price to pay for getting a patch in and out of an image.
A patch may be a aggregate of smaller patches but at the bottom most level is the 'work-order' which addresses a single TR (Technical Requirement)
Apple may be disingeneous in not releasing the TRs at the lowest level of granularity, but that's up to the parties to hash out between them.
I think that anyone will notice this box and immediately notice that it doesn't fit in with any decor or that those 'self contained' curves resist any attempt to fit it into any environment.
This will be noticed for years. Not necessarily a good thing. It may be noticed as an obstruction.
Overall, I wouldn't own one becauses it clashes with the decor. Then again, I wouldn't own one in the first place.
with it as does the room design around the case (as I found out the hard way in the summer of 2001 when I moved my computer to some spot where there was stagnancy and fried 3 drives (of different capacity and manufacture.)
Where can you go from there? Anywhere you want to. You are invisible.
I wouldn't worry about product 'stagnation'.
When the iMac first came out, in 'bondi blue', it didn't look like a box.
The other PC makers couldn't match it. They were stuck with their beige boxes. Then they tried putting colored plastic panels around the same chassis that used to be in those beige boxes.
We have seem the iMac morph twice, the 'football' and the half ball with a scren slung in front of it, and now its just a flat panel on a pedestal. It was obvious what was happening but the PC makers are still selling their boxes.
I'm thinking that the MacMini and the tablet that Apple just patented, using a wireless network to hook up the devices are the future of home computing.
PCs are still stuck in their old chassis, requiring a desk and a chair in a 'work station' and instead Apple is offering invisibility.
If you had to change a house around, which would you rather have, a monolith with a big footprint or something you can't see except for a portable tablet?
I'm not ever going to touch the iPod, iPod Mini and iPod Shuffle. And neither can the PC manufacturers.
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take whoever is tasteless enough to do it into indentured servitude and get rid of the pathetic wretches who'se lives are so empty that they'd ever want the fucking crap in the first place.
Music is merely the least unpleasant noise.
So STFU Gwen, Madonna, Cher and whoever is the dimly shinning star of the week.
I'm fighting a bad case of the giggles right now. :-)0
Sabtage helps.
All those salaries were insured so the company actually recoup the losses on death benefits, survivors' expenses, recruiment of replacements, all expenses except whatever the company the company deigns to give out to the grieving widowers, widows and orphans.
Getting offed at work by an irate fellow employee who has finally snapped is all part of the plan made up by that big underwriter in the sky.
just means he can ride the subways all day long muttering about crap because that is where his new home will be.
There no disability cheques. There is no safety net of any kind left to pay for anything.
Like the sing on the Prarie Home Companion: "We're all Republicans now."
If he DOES need help, he'll end up being treated in a prison psych ward.
But only if he's arrested in the right state.
The market 'leaders' are usually about as anti capitalst as you can get.
/.ers.
DeBeer's has been written about (google it youself, [there's more that just a little blood in their history,]) while Microsoft's anti-trust activities are well well known to
Both DeBeers & Microsoft have used coercion, collusion and murder. (In Microsoft's I'll give 'em the benefit of the doubt that they didn't know how far the Chinese were going to go against their own software 'pirates.')
They want to be the market, not be subject to market forces.
The only effective remedy is boycotting them and that is not going to happen is it?
My friend is a SysAdmin and he's installed FireFox and ThunderBird on his mother's PC so he won't get calls about the machine anymore.
It seems to have worked.
... ever care about.
They screwed up the windows MDI before y2k and they never figured out that tabs was as workable as opening multiple windows within other windows.
It would mean reworking most of their OS so it can work with a multitude of things.
Never happen until somebody drags them kicking and screaming into 'The Year of the Fruit Bat'.
Like their SQL's definition of N:M.
'It doesn't exist!'
'Its a NO NO' and
'Fuggedaboudit'
It doesn't exist because they are still too ignurnt to figure out that its actually simple to implement in SQL, as a table of rows referencing rows in other tables. [They'd have to define Relationships and keep track of them the same way that they're currently doing for objects/tables.])
You're joking... Right?
-The BSOD
Oh well. I guess I'll have to wait.
Apart from the fact that it less than 2% of the cash reserves (reserves) none of the board have as much clout as Bill G.
If he wants it, it will come to pass. Its only money after all.
Look at the XBox. Now Microsoft's getting into hardware, in direct competition with the chumps who used to be their 'partners.'
Micosoft went into someone else yard (in this case the browser market,) and ended up using monopolistic, illegal anti-competitive marketing tactics until they dfecimated the opposition.
They are planning to do the same thing with Linux. (They already tried to scare Linux users with SCO and it didn't work out too well.) They are going to 'improve' Linux until its dead as a door nail.
If it not RedHat, it'll be some other player. Starting with RedHat is easier because they have the biggest client base.
Then they'll go after the next biggest one.
I'm not too worried about the FTC and neither's Microsoft. There are enough accounting scandals out there to keep them busy.
I'm talking about getting the tech right but leaving so many unexplained options in the GUI portion that it ends up being unimplementable.
And this is just to replace cat5 cable.
I've just tried and failed to install something this week-end that I had to retrofit to something that was a lot more primitive but worked.
Sorry dear but the apartment's just going to be a bit messier than we'd like.
on the air except a digital squeal but then I thought "When's the last time I even turned on the radio?"
I couldn't remember. The Buggle may have had something with "Video Killed the Radio Star" and the constant hammering with ads is doing the same for the Video star.
Does MTV ever have music videos anymore? It seems that, every time the station flickers past, its always something airheaded or plain stupid (Bevis & Butt-head or some maschists traipsing around wearing diapers in the jungle looking for something that's hungry enough to bite them.)
And this is entertainment???
From their web site: "The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is a performing rights organization which licenses and collects royalties for performance"
Radio stations PAY.
The Mall PAYS.
The elevator company PAYS.
That's why there are "studio session" musicians who play 'covers' of popular songs, give up all rights to their music so that the cheezy music playing every hour in that elevator makes money for the elevator company. The artist who recorded the original version is probably not getting a dime.
ASCAP had to listen to every dreadful hour of the crap that was aired 24/7 until they got the idea of making the content consumers keep and submit play lists.
The reason they don't announce they artist to you anymore is that they are doing it to those that count, ASCAP, on paper so they don't need to lose commercial airtime (which pays for the 'filler') to the names of the artists or the songs.
That's also why they don't announce the 'songs' at the mall or in the elevators.
choose wisely...
What ever happened to "Going gently into that long goodnight"?
The Press should be more restricted except when it comes to running "J Lo" stories?
What is IMPORTANT? To WHOM? Who wants the government to approve every story?
What about stories like Nixon's impeachment?
What about stories like FDR's polio?
What about stories like Napoleon's death at St. Helena's.
What about stories like Pol Pot's agricultural reforms.
What about stories like Stalin's policies on the West?
What about stories like Stalin's policies on the East.
What about stories like Stalin's policies on Siberia
What about stories like Stalin's policies on Gulags.
What about stories like Stalin's policies on the military before WWII and AFTER.
The government is NOT the arbitrer we want to use since they would bury (in some cases literally) wnat they are ashamed of.
The government is not in the business of censoring your thoughts. Actually, they (I know I know, the mythical 'they',) are not even interested in censoring your thought.
They just want to make sure you don't ACT on it, or if you do that you'll be caught by the consequences.
If a futile effort of Microsoft's part.
It leads to cebreral pralysis.
Its is not sustainable.
It is not implementable.
It is not workable.
The entire civilization, the species, possibly all life, is based on sharing.
The "commons" form of intellectual sharing merely asks that you acknowledge the sources of your knowledge. That is called being a knowledgable and erudite human being.
Microsofts' form of 'pay for use' of an idea IMMEDIATLY put at any one who is not as 'rich' as a Bill Gates at a disadvatage.
Not only are they incapable of 'paying the tithe' but, due to the transfer of intellectual property outside its natural boundaries, they may end up not even knowing who to pay it to.
I would imagine that the 'concept' of "gravity" as a force of nature is copyrightable. I would also imagine that the concept that "The Earth Sucks" is also copyrightable.
That means that I would stand to make some money every time something tipped over.
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to collect, am I still owed?
Of course the ability to use speech is owed to the original speakers but since they we'ren't as smart as Microsoft, they aren't going to collect a single dollar from the idea.
And then, when the players are bitchin about the lost revenues and how they can't pay their xxAA membership dues, you can watch the xxAAs die.
;-)
It'll be televised
a 'feetchur' that we can charge for patches instead of requilding on stable ground.
That's the kind of thinking that gets people killed in tsunami prone areas.
M$ has felt the rumblings underfoot, (customer dissatisfaction over security holes), and is seeing the wave build on the horizon, (Linux & Symbian & OS X & others,) and they are offering a patch kit for a hemmorhoid cushion as a floatation device.
There is something that just does not sound real in the statement "Apple does nothing of this, they just release multimegabyte hunks of code that are just *useless* (you would probably spend more time trying to separate the big blob into small patches than to rewrite these independently). Your example thus falls completely flat."
Apple may be being a bastard releasing the code this way because in this industry, unless you've got a CowBoy or a PHB, nothing gets changed or coded without explicit instructions to do so and all documentation/code must refer back to the explicit instructions.
Sometimes running a 'make' gets ugly but that's a small price to pay for getting a patch in and out of an image.
A patch may be a aggregate of smaller patches but at the bottom most level is the 'work-order' which addresses a single TR (Technical Requirement)
Apple may be disingeneous in not releasing the TRs at the lowest level of granularity, but that's up to the parties to hash out between them.
Its got some sweet specs (better than my PC.) But I wonder about the compatibility with an x86 architecture.
(Then again, maybe M$ will escape the x86 arch. [Haaaa!!!!])
Well I hope Mr Gates is proud of himself.
I think that anyone will notice this box and immediately notice that it doesn't fit in with any decor or that those 'self contained' curves resist any attempt to fit it into any environment.
This will be noticed for years. Not necessarily a good thing. It may be noticed as an obstruction.
Overall, I wouldn't own one becauses it clashes with the decor. Then again, I wouldn't own one in the first place.
with it as does the room design around the case (as I found out the hard way in the summer of 2001 when I moved my computer to some spot where there was stagnancy and fried 3 drives (of different capacity and manufacture.)
and the salesman who sold me the piece of crap would have sued me for braining him with it.
I want a phone to WORK damnit.
Well lets see.
There's the iPod Mini, the iPod Photo and lately the iPod Shuffle which has a drastically different case.
Sorry but the iPod has changed in size, capacity, utility and form factor.
I'd say that Apple has kept pretty good pace.
They are morphing into invisibility.
Where can you go from there? Anywhere you want to. You are invisible.
I wouldn't worry about product 'stagnation'.
When the iMac first came out, in 'bondi blue', it didn't look like a box.
The other PC makers couldn't match it. They were stuck with their beige boxes. Then they tried putting colored plastic panels around the same chassis that used to be in those beige boxes.
We have seem the iMac morph twice, the 'football' and the half ball with a scren slung in front of it, and now its just a flat panel on a pedestal. It was obvious what was happening but the PC makers are still selling their boxes.
I'm thinking that the MacMini and the tablet that Apple just patented, using a wireless network to hook up the devices are the future of home computing.
PCs are still stuck in their old chassis, requiring a desk and a chair in a 'work station' and instead Apple is offering invisibility.
If you had to change a house around, which would you rather have, a monolith with a big footprint or something you can't see except for a portable tablet?
I'm not ever going to touch the iPod, iPod Mini and iPod Shuffle. And neither can the PC manufacturers.
Apple 'gets it'.