You make a great arguement for EU being more agitated than the US. That said, here in the states we have a bright red target on our forehead for all those "Jihadists" "Terrorists" so inclined. I realize countries in EU are dealing with it also, Spain, UK etc, its just that in addition to having terrorists trying to kill us, we are too busy shooting eachother!
But regardless, I like your arguement.
One thing i'm sure will not change... As soon as a CBS video ends up on a website not of their choosing (youtube) BAM!, DMCA take-down notice. I can just about guarantee it.
Now, correct me if i'm wrong... but haven't we been technically still "at war" with North Korea since what, 1950? An armistice was signed in 1953, but a formal peace accord never was reached between North and our 'ally' South Korea.
If Bush needed to use it, you know he would, lol. I'm personally not a fan of his leadership or believer in his inteligence, but going on 8 years with the man at the helm, ive seen my fair share of excuses manifest out of thin air.
You know those spam emails that have a nonsensical sentence or paragraph followed by a hot tip on cheap stocks??? yea this anonymous post reminds me of those emails... at least i can delete the emails..
Only problem here is with highway expansion. In my neck of the woods the highway is 2 lanes, hit the city and it grows, 3 to 4 to 5 lanes. The grass buffer gets eaten up with each additional lane. So what happens 20, 50 years down the road when traffic is jammed into oblivion (worse than it is at times already) and the turbines are sucking up the only expansion space? They get axed.
Are we (The Slashdot Community) the only rational ones left in this world? It takes us a matter of milliseconds to understand this kid was of no threat after reading the article... yet it took weeks for police and a school board to come to the same conclusion that the kid was of no threat.
I motion to rid the world of lame duck school boards in favor of Slashdot appointed representatives... All hail your Slashdot community overlords!
Three cheers to you my friend. I whole heartedly agree, one armed individual in addition to being a potential savior is also a preventative threat to the perpetrator's senseless action. This entire unfolding story makes me sick to my stomach. Unfortunately we will likely see attempts to further restrict gun rights as a "remedy". In the end, everyone has lost.
So the only reason AMD is doing this is to pander to the content providers I thought DRM was finally slowly dying into oblivion. We are seeing the music industry taking rapid steps away from DRM (horray!). Now i suppose we just need to wait for everyother industry to see consumers hate DRM and follow suit. I wonder how long that is going to take... damnit.
This guy is a jackoff. He lives in Jersey... last I checked, oh wait, yea Yankee bandwagon fan territory.
For my logical arguement, his calcs cannot possibly account for trades, injuries, or the fact that every god damn player ever in the MLB does not have many seasons that are close enough to eachother in terms of production to be predictable... This guy needs to go calculate the chances he gets hit by a bus on the Jersey Turnpike...
I agree, commercializing games is rediculous and imo unwelcome. That said, do you wonder why this has happened? Let's examine this:
Typical "extremely hardcore" WoW player plays for how long each day??? Say it's 6hrs (probably underestimated - and assume fulltime job, sleep, etc) On weekends, rack up another 12hrs each day. All told we are at 54hrs (understimated i'm sure) a week, playing a f*cking game religiously...
There are already two teams backed with corporate money, both pulled from prominent PvP guilds in the Bloodlust battlegroup. WoWPlayer:"What, you want to pay me to play WoW? GG!"
Now that player can advertise for this company in front of thousands of people daily for oh... 70hrsM/F + 24hrsS/S =94 hrs a week? Not to mention paying them relatively little bc they are happier than a pig in sh*t to get paid to play.
Granted if it can install Vista and run the core OS anyone can define a machine as "Capable." The problem is that sticker/statement is very misleading, making no mention of any potential product limitations due to hardware specifications.
I would think the PC makers (HP, Gateway etc) would actually have more responsibility in the lawsuit... after all, the stickers were on their machines, even if MS created them.
I do not mean to say that what Google has done is directly evil or they stood to gain from it. Merely the decision to show imaging (pre katrina) update the imaging (post Katrina) then revert to out of date imaging is questionable.
- If Google was concerned about better quality images, clouds, etc why not wait for more up to date imaging?
Instead they chose to erase the past in a geologically significant area.
Anyone viewing the maps would assume that imaging would be up to date (Or at least using the newest possible data). Without a notice disclaiming the imaging had been changed, a user would easily be mislead.
Google gets a black eye in my book on this one. This just doesn't make any sense without citing an explanation of the changes.
Had Google posted a small disclaimer or notification with their maps I'm sure little attention would have been paid.
It's just very puzzling why they would make this change. There is unlikely to be any michievous plan behind the switch, maybe they were a little nostalgic...who knows? But Google's promise to "Do no Evil" springs to my mind and makes we weary of a change to "Don't get caught"
This "customer issue" was a simple end-around to the author's real objective to the article.
MS has it's mitts in everything and touches just about everyone, but can we ditch the stories screaming conspiracy theory?
Cah Mahn..... Cah Mahn.....
Tier one manufacturers like Dell and HP are locked up in double-blind secrecy about their marketing deals with Microsoft, like the ones that keep them from offering preinstalled Linux like their customers are demanding, or even from offering machines without an OS installed at all.
Laura's problem will probably come to a satisfactory end: the return of the merchandise for a full refund, or a swap for a unit that is offered with Linux in the first place. But the bigger problem is that Microsoft's tentacles are still obvious in choking a free marketplace, and the tier one manufacturers are still submissive to and complicit in Microsoft's enterprise.
The MiniC.A.T is a simple, light urban car, with a tubular chassis that is glued not welded and a body of fibreglass.
Joints that are glued together.. no steel? no roll cage? no "OH Shit!" handles? Are you kidding? With idiots like me on the road?
I'll take the H2 please;-)
"Back in the day" I was a sales rep for Nextel and we sold an unlimited plan for $199.99. This was changed if i remember correctly about 5-6 years ago, when the plan was dropped.
I might be blind, but I couldn't see where the article stated that "most wireless plans will be unlimited... and expensive." It did suggest that those plans would become more popular for a current niche market. It does not say that the sky was falling and the wireless carriers were out to rob us blind. How rediculously sensationalist.
Does anyone think wireless carriers in their right minds would try to pull that shit? No, not when customers are able to add kids to current plans for just $10 and spend under $100 a month for several lines. Strictly from a competitive standpoint, the wireless carriers are primarily battling for pure number of subscribers, and prize "new activations" above all else. (They do also strive for high ARPU-Average Revenue per Subscriber, but this is second to getting the subscriber!)
Adding an 18yr old kid that can pay $40 per month plus shell some extra monthly cash for text messaging is fine by them. Any beliefs that plans will be costly and one size fits all are completely bunk.
So why is this news... and why on Slashdot? I've seen some articles of questionable validity, but this is pure sensationalist crap. Honestly, crap crap crap. Wise up already...::insert expletive here::
"But you'll see nothing on Apple's decision to move from PowerPC to Core, or the competitive battle between AMD and Intel. For that matter, you'll see almost nothing at all about AMD or its products."
Perhaps he should have named his book something else.
Inside the Machine: An Illustrated Introduction to INTELprocessors and PC Architecture
I do agree that outsourcing email can be the most cost effective step.
That said, finding "a company whose primary focus is email" could be and would be problematic. How many companies today are large enough and reliable enough that only focus on email? And if you find one, what about 2, 3, and 4 years from now when the company begins to see opportunity in other markets... Unfortunately, the Holy Grail of email outsourcing does not exist (but hell, I could be wrong). I guess the trick is simply finding something reliable that works for your user base.
Strangle me with my own wireless keyboard, but a large part of my job is replacing these failing drives. So, as much as i'd like to scream and yell for increased reliability I can't. There is a lot to say for my (current) job security;-)
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anyone else see that the date on the issue was October 2, 2002? wow..
You make a great arguement for EU being more agitated than the US. That said, here in the states we have a bright red target on our forehead for all those "Jihadists" "Terrorists" so inclined. I realize countries in EU are dealing with it also, Spain, UK etc, its just that in addition to having terrorists trying to kill us, we are too busy shooting eachother!
But regardless, I like your arguement.
One thing i'm sure will not change... As soon as a CBS video ends up on a website not of their choosing (youtube) BAM!, DMCA take-down notice. I can just about guarantee it.
Now, correct me if i'm wrong... but haven't we been technically still "at war" with North Korea since what, 1950? An armistice was signed in 1953, but a formal peace accord never was reached between North and our 'ally' South Korea.
If Bush needed to use it, you know he would, lol. I'm personally not a fan of his leadership or believer in his inteligence, but going on 8 years with the man at the helm, ive seen my fair share of excuses manifest out of thin air.
Just my thoughts.
You know those spam emails that have a nonsensical sentence or paragraph followed by a hot tip on cheap stocks??? yea this anonymous post reminds me of those emails... at least i can delete the emails..
Cheers from Soviet Estonia!
The system works does it not, comrade?
Alt + F4. Done.
Only problem here is with highway expansion. In my neck of the woods the highway is 2 lanes, hit the city and it grows, 3 to 4 to 5 lanes. The grass buffer gets eaten up with each additional lane. So what happens 20, 50 years down the road when traffic is jammed into oblivion (worse than it is at times already) and the turbines are sucking up the only expansion space? They get axed.
Are we (The Slashdot Community) the only rational ones left in this world? It takes us a matter of milliseconds to understand this kid was of no threat after reading the article... yet it took weeks for police and a school board to come to the same conclusion that the kid was of no threat.
I motion to rid the world of lame duck school boards in favor of Slashdot appointed representatives... All hail your Slashdot community overlords!
Three cheers to you my friend. I whole heartedly agree, one armed individual in addition to being a potential savior is also a preventative threat to the perpetrator's senseless action. This entire unfolding story makes me sick to my stomach.
Unfortunately we will likely see attempts to further restrict gun rights as a "remedy". In the end, everyone has lost.
This guy is a jackoff. He lives in Jersey... last I checked, oh wait, yea Yankee bandwagon fan territory.
:-P
For my logical arguement, his calcs cannot possibly account for trades, injuries, or the fact that every god damn player ever in the MLB does not have many seasons that are close enough to eachother in terms of production to be predictable... This guy needs to go calculate the chances he gets hit by a bus on the Jersey Turnpike...
btw BoSox all the way this year
Typical "extremely hardcore" WoW player plays for how long each day??? Say it's 6hrs (probably underestimated - and assume fulltime job, sleep, etc)
On weekends, rack up another 12hrs each day.
All told we are at 54hrs (understimated i'm sure) a week, playing a f*cking game religiously...
There are already two teams backed with corporate money, both pulled from prominent PvP guilds in the Bloodlust battlegroup.
WoWPlayer:"What, you want to pay me to play WoW? GG!"
Now that player can advertise for this company in front of thousands of people daily for oh... 70hrsM/F + 24hrsS/S =94 hrs a week? Not to mention paying them relatively little bc they are happier than a pig in sh*t to get paid to play.
gg
Granted if it can install Vista and run the core OS anyone can define a machine as "Capable." The problem is that sticker/statement is very misleading, making no mention of any potential product limitations due to hardware specifications.
I would think the PC makers (HP, Gateway etc) would actually have more responsibility in the lawsuit... after all, the stickers were on their machines, even if MS created them.
I do not mean to say that what Google has done is directly evil or they stood to gain from it. Merely the decision to show imaging (pre katrina) update the imaging (post Katrina) then revert to out of date imaging is questionable.
- If Google was concerned about better quality images, clouds, etc why not wait for more up to date imaging?
Instead they chose to erase the past in a geologically significant area.
Anyone viewing the maps would assume that imaging would be up to date (Or at least using the newest possible data). Without a notice disclaiming the imaging had been changed, a user would easily be mislead.
Google gets a black eye in my book on this one. This just doesn't make any sense without citing an explanation of the changes.
Had Google posted a small disclaimer or notification with their maps I'm sure little attention would have been paid.
It's just very puzzling why they would make this change. There is unlikely to be any michievous plan behind the switch, maybe they were a little nostalgic...who knows? But Google's promise to "Do no Evil" springs to my mind and makes we weary of a change to "Don't get caught"
Who actually read this article?
This "customer issue" was a simple end-around to the author's real objective to the article.
MS has it's mitts in everything and touches just about everyone, but can we ditch the stories screaming conspiracy theory?
Cah Mahn..... Cah Mahn.....
Tier one manufacturers like Dell and HP are locked up in double-blind secrecy about their marketing deals with Microsoft, like the ones that keep them from offering preinstalled Linux like their customers are demanding, or even from offering machines without an OS installed at all. Laura's problem will probably come to a satisfactory end: the return of the merchandise for a full refund, or a swap for a unit that is offered with Linux in the first place. But the bigger problem is that Microsoft's tentacles are still obvious in choking a free marketplace, and the tier one manufacturers are still submissive to and complicit in Microsoft's enterprise.
You, are the, fucking, man. lmao.... lol....
Joints that are glued together.. no steel? no roll cage? no "OH Shit!" handles? Are you kidding? With idiots like me on the road?
I'll take the H2 please
In soviet Russia letter writes you!!!
So how long until we put this technology in vehicles? Then when someone cuts you off you really will ram them... lol.
Unlimited plans are nothing new.
::insert expletive here::
"Back in the day" I was a sales rep for Nextel and we sold an unlimited plan for $199.99. This was changed if i remember correctly about 5-6 years ago, when the plan was dropped.
I might be blind, but I couldn't see where the article stated that "most wireless plans will be unlimited... and expensive." It did suggest that those plans would become more popular for a current niche market. It does not say that the sky was falling and the wireless carriers were out to rob us blind. How rediculously sensationalist.
Does anyone think wireless carriers in their right minds would try to pull that shit? No, not when customers are able to add kids to current plans for just $10 and spend under $100 a month for several lines. Strictly from a competitive standpoint, the wireless carriers are primarily battling for pure number of subscribers, and prize "new activations" above all else. (They do also strive for high ARPU-Average Revenue per Subscriber, but this is second to getting the subscriber!)
Adding an 18yr old kid that can pay $40 per month plus shell some extra monthly cash for text messaging is fine by them. Any beliefs that plans will be costly and one size fits all are completely bunk.
So why is this news... and why on Slashdot? I've seen some articles of questionable validity, but this is pure sensationalist crap. Honestly, crap crap crap. Wise up already...
"But you'll see nothing on Apple's decision to move from PowerPC to Core, or the competitive battle between AMD and Intel. For that matter, you'll see almost nothing at all about AMD or its products."
Perhaps he should have named his book something else.
Inside the Machine: An Illustrated Introduction to INTELprocessors and PC Architecture
I do agree that outsourcing email can be the most cost effective step.
That said, finding "a company whose primary focus is email" could be and would be problematic. How many companies today are large enough and reliable enough that only focus on email? And if you find one, what about 2, 3, and 4 years from now when the company begins to see opportunity in other markets... Unfortunately, the Holy Grail of email outsourcing does not exist (but hell, I could be wrong). I guess the trick is simply finding something reliable that works for your user base.
Or I am just starting out in the field. Some might call this gaining "experience". Think outside the box moron. ::smooches::
Strangle me with my own wireless keyboard, but a large part of my job is replacing these failing drives. So, as much as i'd like to scream and yell for increased reliability I can't. There is a lot to say for my (current) job security ;-)