actually, i believe that the planet Melmac was destryed in a freak boating accident.
i could be wrong, it has been a while. man i miss the cartoon version.
i asked this same question many a time when i worked in a MS house. There are a few answers that i always got.
1st - clueless office drones read about some (lame) new 'feature' of Office($ver) and insist to the IT folks that they need it. This eventually annoys the shit out of them until they break down and buy it.
2nd - Much more compelling reason is that your MS house does business with other MS houses that upgrade. The new default format is incompatable with the older Office version. Your office drones need the new version just to read documents that they get from other businesses. why do those people make the switch? see answer one.
BRAVO! Finally someone here seeing this from outside their US Jingoist reality tunnel. From the Chinese point of view, it doesnt matter who rammed who, what maters is that it happened in their (claimed) airspace. The fact that no one else in the whole world recognizes this as theirs is irrelivant. In their eyes, the US is at fault for even being there to 'provoke' the Chinese pilots. If this had happened in undisputed airspace this would have been over a week ago.
i was just reading this when i thought is hould submit it...
in any case, he has many valid points, but the execution of such a regulatory policy is far more difficult than getting people to say it is a good idea.
"The Internet should therefore cease to be governed by such undeniably loose rules and instead be overseen by an agency that would more closely resemble the FCC but have even broader power, specifically the power of prior restraint"
hmmm. difficult to do as the internet is an international entity. the FCC is able to be effective because any rules it makes effect only american viewers. any internet ruling body would need to be global to have any real effect and considering the HUGE moral variance between countries (US vs Afganistan for example) it would move at a galacial pace, if that fast.
if these folks cited in the article, and the author, are so unhappy with te quality of the their computer then they should buy MAC. there is a reason they are more expensive. they are thoroughly tested, all 3rd party hardware has to meet standards, as well as software. if people cared more about quality and less about $$$ then the PC clone industry would choke on its own lousy products.
slashdot: these are some serious questions about the integrity of Netscape and there relationship with Mozilla. we asked the mozilla rep, Pimpbot2000 for his thoughts on the matter.
Pimpbot2000: WHERES MY MONEY! I"M GONNA CUT YOU BITCH!
Will i need a pair of wrap-around sunglasses to opperate these Xtreme! servers? Perhaps they com included in the package.
what does this have to do with it?
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"He also purports to be an expert in patent law, though he has no specialized training in the field, has not graduated from any law school, is not admitted to practice before the Patent and Trademark Office and is not authorized to practice law."
I have no degrees whatsoever in any field, nor any certifications in my feild of employ. does this mean i am unfit to be a sysadmin? if so it flies in the face of fact, as i have successfully held down jobs in the field for the past 5 years. and my experiance has been that just because someone has a degree it does not mean that they know anything more than how to pass tests.
it seems than whenever anyone thinks 3rd party the name on their lips is Ralph Nader. It is time to focus some attention on Harry Browne, the Libertarian candiadte for pres. if you are truely interested in free tech policy then check out what Browne has to say in this wired article:
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,38748, 00.html
here are a few choise things he has to say about bush-gore: "If you vote for a Republican or a Democrat, you're just giving up. You're saying, 'We never will have smaller government, so I'm just voting for whoever will take me to Hell at the slowest possible rate.'"
"Both believe they are best qualified to run your life. Neither one of them believes in freedom, neither one of them believes in the Constitution as a limiting force on government."
or the greens:
"The Green Party platform is pure fascism and socialism," said Browne. "It's either government regulation to the nth degree, or government taking over to the nth degree."
give personal resposability a chance.
"Point out the benefits of a legally licensed, preinstalled operating system. Customers have the original CD so they can reload the software. They also have a manual for everyday troubleshooting, and a Certificate of Authenticity that proves the software is legal. " - a piece of paper!
cause you know, its impossible to aquire an OS LEGALLY from anywhere else. all those expensive copies of windows and linux i see in CompuUSA and Microcenter must be pirated. when will MS go reallize that if you want to stop piracy you have to go after the pushers!
let me get this straight. as long as i pay ASCAO $100 per year and broadcast on the internet i can download all the music i wish? Th ecost of 5 CDs? what is to stop me from setting up a station with me as the only listener? have a huge MP3 archive on a playlist, or control the Dj work from wherever i am at. i think i would be stuip NOT to do this....
you think moing off-planet will get you AWAY from government and mega-corps? Just who do you think is going to fund these little trips? Until space travel is as ubiquitous as car travel (ala the Jetsons) the Heileinian Wild West in space will never become a reality. It may be more freewheeling but try and imaging the american west if NO ONE had the ability to leave on a whim. Hard work, long hours, dangerous conditions, frustrated workers, and the inability to pickup and leave or go home without the aproval of your employer. I also would love to go, but the picture is not so rosy for the first wave of workers.
i have indeed seen this infomertial, though i had hoped to this point that it was sleep delerium and not real. As for radio shack, they have sold out in EVERY imaginable way. The MS Everyday Internet? Howie Long? Brand Name merchendice? They have forgotten their roots and are adrift on a sea of marketing.
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and all i can say is, new icons constitute a new OS? This is a Service Pack with a new skin. The only significant change i read was the built in ability to remotley administer another machine. Kudos to MS for recognizing a useful feature after a scant 30 years! I used to administer NT and i found the Dumbing Down of it disturbing.
the problem with EMP is that it is a gainst the rules of BattleBots. they have many restrictive rules, too many i think but they must be concerned with the safty of the crowd. pansies. perhaps a much less retrictive/way more dangerous league should be started. may not make it onto the tube but who cares. viva la resistance!
the folks at 2600 have taken the letter of the law to mean that they can have a simple text version of the url, but not an actual link. how does this ruling effect softwares such as flyswat that creates realtime links to words that it recognizes? or the netscape 'whats related' option? what about outlook and other email clients that convert anything that begins with www into a link? i actually created the link to the offending piece of code but it was created as a result of my actions. am i resposible for sending out data that can cause a link to be created or is the software manufacurer responsible for creating it? whata a mess. so much for handy internet tools....
this was done 15yrs ago
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Could it be that my Michael Jackson jacket with the built in boom-box is coming back in style? well all right...
I think that you may be missing the point of the coplaint. Most people are very willing to distribute the information that is in their thesis, however the fact that some company is SELLING their work is galling. Not at all the same situation as napster/gnutella. Of course if the info on the page is true, then all sales of thesis are tracked for royalty reasons.
I am having the same problem with the installer. I even tried downloading the files and changing the install/config files to point at the local files. same problem. this sux. I have had much good luck with PR1 (i am using it now) where did they go wrong? I would be much happier right now if I could download the whole thing and not have to do some stupid web install. what is wrong with untaring it to a directory and executing it from there?
BAH!
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actually, i believe that the planet Melmac was destryed in a freak boating accident. i could be wrong, it has been a while. man i miss the cartoon version.
i asked this same question many a time when i worked in a MS house. There are a few answers that i always got. 1st - clueless office drones read about some (lame) new 'feature' of Office($ver) and insist to the IT folks that they need it. This eventually annoys the shit out of them until they break down and buy it. 2nd - Much more compelling reason is that your MS house does business with other MS houses that upgrade. The new default format is incompatable with the older Office version. Your office drones need the new version just to read documents that they get from other businesses. why do those people make the switch? see answer one.
BRAVO! Finally someone here seeing this from outside their US Jingoist reality tunnel. From the Chinese point of view, it doesnt matter who rammed who, what maters is that it happened in their (claimed) airspace. The fact that no one else in the whole world recognizes this as theirs is irrelivant. In their eyes, the US is at fault for even being there to 'provoke' the Chinese pilots. If this had happened in undisputed airspace this would have been over a week ago.
i believe that this is airing on the Learning Channel tonight at 8(pdt).
t ica/robotic a.html
lots 'o flash so be prepared.
http://tlc.discovery.com/fansites/robo
1 - jurassic park
2 - westworld
3 - itchy and scratchy land (where nothing can posibli go wrong)
"People assume that what they read on the Net is true." - pg3 paragraph 3
if someone is dumb enough to believe everything they read (in ANY medium) then the det what they diserve.
i was just reading this when i thought is hould submit it...
in any case, he has many valid points, but the execution of such a regulatory policy is far more difficult than getting people to say it is a good idea.
"The Internet should therefore cease to be governed by such undeniably loose rules and instead be overseen by an agency that would more closely resemble the FCC but have even broader power, specifically the power of prior restraint"
hmmm. difficult to do as the internet is an international entity. the FCC is able to be effective because any rules it makes effect only american viewers. any internet ruling body would need to be global to have any real effect and considering the HUGE moral variance between countries (US vs Afganistan for example) it would move at a galacial pace, if that fast.
if these folks cited in the article, and the author, are so unhappy with te quality of the their computer then they should buy MAC. there is a reason they are more expensive. they are thoroughly tested, all 3rd party hardware has to meet standards, as well as software. if people cared more about quality and less about $$$ then the PC clone industry would choke on its own lousy products.
-ps i use cheap hardware becuaz i am cheap
slashdot: these are some serious questions about the integrity of Netscape and there relationship with Mozilla. we asked the mozilla rep, Pimpbot2000 for his thoughts on the matter.
Pimpbot2000: WHERES MY MONEY! I"M GONNA CUT YOU BITCH!
great idea. but what do you do when the record companies own the radio stations as well?
Will i need a pair of wrap-around sunglasses to opperate these Xtreme! servers? Perhaps they com included in the package.
"He also purports to be an expert in patent law, though he has no specialized training in the field, has not graduated from any law school, is not admitted to practice before the Patent and Trademark Office and is not authorized to practice law."
I have no degrees whatsoever in any field, nor any certifications in my feild of employ. does this mean i am unfit to be a sysadmin? if so it flies in the face of fact, as i have successfully held down jobs in the field for the past 5 years. and my experiance has been that just because someone has a degree it does not mean that they know anything more than how to pass tests.
it seems than whenever anyone thinks 3rd party the name on their lips is Ralph Nader. It is time to focus some attention on Harry Browne, the Libertarian candiadte for pres. if you are truely interested in free tech policy then check out what Browne has to say in this wired article:, 00.html
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,38748
here are a few choise things he has to say about bush-gore: "If you vote for a Republican or a Democrat, you're just giving up. You're saying, 'We never will have smaller government, so I'm just voting for whoever will take me to Hell at the slowest possible rate.'"
"Both believe they are best qualified to run your life. Neither one of them believes in freedom, neither one of them believes in the Constitution as a limiting force on government."
or the greens:
"The Green Party platform is pure fascism and socialism," said Browne. "It's either government regulation to the nth degree, or government taking over to the nth degree."
give personal resposability a chance.
"Point out the benefits of a legally licensed, preinstalled operating system. Customers have the original CD so they can reload the software. They also have a manual for everyday troubleshooting, and a Certificate of Authenticity that proves the software is legal. " - a piece of paper!
cause you know, its impossible to aquire an OS LEGALLY from anywhere else. all those expensive copies of windows and linux i see in CompuUSA and Microcenter must be pirated. when will MS go reallize that if you want to stop piracy you have to go after the pushers!
let me get this straight. as long as i pay ASCAO $100 per year and broadcast on the internet i can download all the music i wish? Th ecost of 5 CDs? what is to stop me from setting up a station with me as the only listener? have a huge MP3 archive on a playlist, or control the Dj work from wherever i am at. i think i would be stuip NOT to do this....
you think moing off-planet will get you AWAY from government and mega-corps? Just who do you think is going to fund these little trips? Until space travel is as ubiquitous as car travel (ala the Jetsons) the Heileinian Wild West in space will never become a reality. It may be more freewheeling but try and imaging the american west if NO ONE had the ability to leave on a whim. Hard work, long hours, dangerous conditions, frustrated workers, and the inability to pickup and leave or go home without the aproval of your employer. I also would love to go, but the picture is not so rosy for the first wave of workers.
i have indeed seen this infomertial, though i had hoped to this point that it was sleep delerium and not real. As for radio shack, they have sold out in EVERY imaginable way. The MS Everyday Internet? Howie Long? Brand Name merchendice? They have forgotten their roots and are adrift on a sea of marketing.
Offical Notification.
I have the sole rights of ownership and distribution of anything i do or say (unless it get me in legal trouble, in which case someone else is to blame). Any future news stories that i might be involved in must be OKed by me in writing before publication. Any violation of this agreement will result in swift retribution in te form of a Heavy Sack Beating (tm)
and all i can say is, new icons constitute a new OS? This is a Service Pack with a new skin. The only significant change i read was the built in ability to remotley administer another machine. Kudos to MS for recognizing a useful feature after a scant 30 years! I used to administer NT and i found the Dumbing Down of it disturbing.
the problem with EMP is that it is a gainst the rules of BattleBots. they have many restrictive rules, too many i think but they must be concerned with the safty of the crowd. pansies. perhaps a much less retrictive/way more dangerous league should be started. may not make it onto the tube but who cares. viva la resistance!
i sure hope that slashdot-green is on the list...
the folks at 2600 have taken the letter of the law to mean that they can have a simple text version of the url, but not an actual link. how does this ruling effect softwares such as flyswat that creates realtime links to words that it recognizes? or the netscape 'whats related' option? what about outlook and other email clients that convert anything that begins with www into a link? i actually created the link to the offending piece of code but it was created as a result of my actions. am i resposible for sending out data that can cause a link to be created or is the software manufacurer responsible for creating it? whata a mess. so much for handy internet tools....
Could it be that my Michael Jackson jacket with the built in boom-box is coming back in style? well all right...
I think that you may be missing the point of the coplaint. Most people are very willing to distribute the information that is in their thesis, however the fact that some company is SELLING their work is galling. Not at all the same situation as napster/gnutella. Of course if the info on the page is true, then all sales of thesis are tracked for royalty reasons.
I am having the same problem with the installer. I even tried downloading the files and changing the install/config files to point at the local files. same problem. this sux. I have had much good luck with PR1 (i am using it now) where did they go wrong? I would be much happier right now if I could download the whole thing and not have to do some stupid web install. what is wrong with untaring it to a directory and executing it from there?
BAH!