Take Two has politely declined the offer." Would you consider $2B, a phat crib in the Hollywood hills, a gold-plated NASCAR racer, your choice of ho's, a pimped out fighter jet, a big ol' bag of spliffs, and some def minigames?
Prince, The Village People, and ABBA aren't threatening litigiation, they are threatening live performance. Much in the way the U.S. military smokes out insurgents by playing highly offensive music.
ABBA: "Ohhhhh Fernando...."
The Pirate Bay: "Weigh anchor mateys, thar serious this time!"
I bet all the kids are flocking to this rad new website.
Can I hire the Microsoft Coolness Brigade to plan my next birthday party? There'll be vegetables, stern lectures, and trips to the dentist. Oooh, can't wait!
Throughout the history of unmanned exploration (Hubble, Voyager, Spirit/Observer, etc.) there has been enormous return of science knowledge acquired relative to the cost the project. The manned projects, in contrast, cost orders of magnitude more and yield relatively little information of interest to the scientific community. Pulling numbers out of thin air, one could launch 1000 satellites and robotic missions for the cost of sending a live primate to Mars and back.
The manned projects are driven by the need to keep taxpayers fascinated enough to continue NASA support. If the manned missions then represent the true cost of the unmanned missions, perhaps it still worth it in the greater picture?
Every criticism, disparagement, and slight heaped on the MS operating systems reflects hundredfold on the inadequacy of the alternatives.
Windows is justifiably loathed. Multitudes, myself included, are dying to escape this wretched, foundering ship. When we do leap, a lucky few find alternatives that meet their needs. But the overwhelming majority get burned by this or that and are forced to go back to the MS galley. MS gives customers what they want--just barely. It ain't much, and its usually bitter, but it is always just a little more than the alternatives offer. Embrace, extend, extinguish, beg, borrow, cheat, steal, do anything, just make sure there are enough carrots and sticks to steer 95% of users into the fold.
The disgrace that is Windows is a greater condemnation of the failure of the *world* to provide an alternative that is, if not better, at least equal in functionality.
and I typically have >15 applications open at a time. Ha! You lie. You really expect us to believe there are 15 different applications available for the Mac?
...broadcast meteorologists be stripped of their scientific certification... TV weather people have scientific certification? How many proof of purchase stickers do I need before I can download my certificate?
'Cingular doesn't want to see their West Coast network go down because some application messed up.' "We don't need outside help," a Cingular spokesperson added, "Our in-house programmers are perfectly capable of bringing down the network all by themselves. But thanks for asking."
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In an unrelated story, young pups display surprising agility with said trick. Scientists baffled.
ABBA: "Ohhhhh Fernando...."
The Pirate Bay: "Weigh anchor mateys, thar serious this time!"
Can I hire the Microsoft Coolness Brigade to plan my next birthday party? There'll be vegetables, stern lectures, and trips to the dentist. Oooh, can't wait!
The manned projects are driven by the need to keep taxpayers fascinated enough to continue NASA support. If the manned missions then represent the true cost of the unmanned missions, perhaps it still worth it in the greater picture?
Cancel or cancel?
After his climactic handshake with Roy, I doubt he could even scratch his nose first.
to a certain 'bay of pirates.' *inoccent whistling*
Windows is justifiably loathed. Multitudes, myself included, are dying to escape this wretched, foundering ship. When we do leap, a lucky few find alternatives that meet their needs. But the overwhelming majority get burned by this or that and are forced to go back to the MS galley. MS gives customers what they want--just barely. It ain't much, and its usually bitter, but it is always just a little more than the alternatives offer. Embrace, extend, extinguish, beg, borrow, cheat, steal, do anything, just make sure there are enough carrots and sticks to steer 95% of users into the fold.
The disgrace that is Windows is a greater condemnation of the failure of the *world* to provide an alternative that is, if not better, at least equal in functionality.
"I...Wanna rock and roll all nigh--hey...get off my lawn!"
Ayckroyd and Ramis will be playing themselves, as ghosts. They are dead, right? http://www.deadoraliveinfo.com/dead.nsf/pages-nf/main
but isn't it the job of IT to make life easier for end users, not the other way around?
They meant the fees were unlimited.
Sorry, I held it in as long as I could.
You want cost savings? Let's offshore the six-figure salaried genius executives who perpetuate this shortsighted lunacy.
Senator Stevens: "I strongly oppose this interweb neuter thing. Our country was founded on a firm principal of one man, one tube."
Does this mean every naval port will be equipped with robot prostitutes--err..."maintenance droids?"
Bill G: "Wow! Give a raise to the guy who came up with this WGA idea."
Flunky: "Furthermore, results show that users who do not pass genuine authentication switch to Linux."
Bill G: "Fire that WGA guy."
Microsoft engineers have to work out one minor bug in the Vista download system. The download keeps getting quarantined by user's malware scanners.
Does this mean winners of the Ig Nobel Prize http://www.improb.com/ig/ on average die two years earlier?
...broadcast meteorologists be stripped of their scientific certification... TV weather people have scientific certification? How many proof of purchase stickers do I need before I can download my certificate?My keyboard is not happy about this announcement.