Maybe they figure if it goes to trial it will cost about $11,000 to pay the lawyers? Just a thought anyways.
That and considering how much it is, I don't think management (of the telemarketing companies) could let that much fly under the radar very often. Big'ol disincentive.
Yeah, I see the +Funny there, but just so some folks don't get the wrong idea this story was retracted by the source.
The drive manufacture folks denied that the recall happened. In short Maxtor drives are not going to die on you. Well, any faster than normal anyways. And certainly not as fast as the IBM Deathstars.
How often do you remember the name and address and city and state, then forget the zip code?
My guess is that you probably have the whole address written down in an addressbook for something. Or the address is coming directly from a peice of paper directly in front of you.
Based on latitude and longitude, the NAC system can represent an area the size of a province using two alphanumeric characters. A "universal address" with six characters will narrow down a search to an area measuring one square kilometre. With 10 characters, it can represent a specific area measuring one square metre.
Wow, they want to reinvent latitude/longitude (sp?).
I have an idea, lets make this round thing and poke another round hole in the center. Then take this stick and put it through the hole. We'll call it a wheel.
Anyone with a globe can understand lat/long, why not fly with that if you think country codes and addresses don't work well enough. No sense in reinventing the wheel here.
I think this is the part of OSS that could be refered to as karma. You make a good piece of software, people know about it, other people hire you to make sure cool products like this make it out more often.
I have to agree with you. Good luck to Bram.
I've only used it once now. When I dl'd the release of enemy territory I had corruption in the file from some regular dl site. While reading slashdot someone mentioned having the same problem and someone pointed BT to the corrupted file lo-and-behold it fixed the file for me.
I was impressed. I think I'll be trying BT more often now though.
Hmm, I'd assume Jodie Foster's dad is either here on earth or here in earth. Either way. I'd say that seti is looking for life in the wrong place if its fscking Jodie Foster's dad.
Hmm, one of the guys where I work has a license plate cover on his car. It is sort of like the tinted windows material. As far as I know he hasn't been pulled over for it. I'm not disputing that you are not allowed to have your plates obscured, just that I see it quite often.
On a side note, he also has a fuzbuster and routinely passes me on the way to work like I am standing still.
Might you be the "very open to discussion" fellow that has in the last hour or so gone through and systematically modded 5 of my posts down?
Why don't you go ahead and post non-AC?
I love how slashdot is supposed to be an open place, yet instead likes to hide behind AC's and quiet moderation to try and suppress folks with a differing view.
AC is truly a good term. Come now, its only karma. Show yourself.
From Princess Bride: And when I say you are a coward, that is only because you are the slimiest weakling ever to crawl the earth.
Geesh. The are probably a bunch of jackasses who haven't even thought through the ramifications of this. I could probably preach here all day till I am hoarse about the recklessness that is going on here by these cowboys. They are probably too mule-headed to care though.
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Got a silly offtopic question for you, well kind of a rhetorical question.
I personally do not know your view point of Christianity and such, but I am going to assume that you flow along with most of slashdot's anti-Christian undertones.
Who is Jesus Christ to you? Why is he fucking or tapdancing?
My point is, why could you not have choosen "Straight fucking tapdancing Jacket?" Why use Jesus Christ?
My point is more this. If, you don't believe in Christianity, why use the name at all, as you do not believe Jesus as the Christ. Might as well use any random name. Or do you believe in Christianity yet wish to openly rebel against it? At which point I would ask why. The other posibility that I see is that you don't believe yet actively want to just spew forth from your mouth/fingers acid and venom. Yet, seeing how you are a Friend of a Friend I would assume that is not the case. Perhaps you just have not looked at why you said "Jesus fucking tapdancing christ."
Yeah, we all know slim jims are only used for nefarious purposes. I mean, their advertising is totally reeking of it. "Break into a slim jim" and you have a huge muscular guy who is a wrestler (which coincidentally looks like a thug) who shouts that phrase. I'd have to say slim jims should be illegal. Regular beef jerky for everyone. None of that sausage crap.
Don't be a typical anti-gun liberal moron. A gun can *only* be used to shoot (people, animals, show of force to protect people, used in sporting events). Knives, baseball bats and other potentially lethal objects aren't *made* to kill people, just like guns.
You don't know poor. Poor is when you don't have a root over your head. Living pay check to pay check. Poor is when you truly need help.
You have a computer, which implies a roof over your head. You insult and mock poor people.
You may have said this in humor, but I do not find this humorous. I find it pathetic. You rationalize your lack of ethics by mocking poor people and lie to yourself that you help companies by not paying for their product. All for a beer.
Reminds me of a fortune:
Everyone has a price Bob, and yours was pretty low.
Blizzard is in the business to make money. They make a product and ask a fee for the product. Their business plan is to get paid for their work. This plan may or may not work here, but it is their plan.
RTCW is an example of another business plan. The company feels that a good will gesture will yeild more money in the long run than to toss a whole project out the window. They had already put in the bulk of the R&D, yet they did not feel it was marketable so they are releasing it for free.
Piracy. What a scummy thing. I hate shoplifters. The people who have enough money to pay for something then they just lift it cause they can. That is so slimey. Piracy is the same thing. Take it cause you can.
Folks here love to rationalize their actions, saying they are getting ripped off, or that they deserve it cause they are a big bad corporation. Well, if you really want to protest Blizzard, don't buy AND don't play the game. If you feel the game is not worth what they are asking for it, don't play it. Nothing gives you the right to play it. The best part, is you really get to stick it to Blizzard that way. You are voting with your dollar and not adding to the player base. Once you add to the player base more people will play.
Look at MS. Why are they king of the desktop? Because people keep USING it. Not because they are buying it. Look at how their market share grew so large when they didn't really attack piracy. Consider IE v. other browsers. Mozilla and IE and Opera (non registered) and most others are free. There is no excuse to use IE if you don't want the web to only be an IE haven. You just have to stand up for what you believe. Stand up and be counted. Be a leader and not a follower. However, understand that being a leader you pay a different price, that price is ostracization. You may not be in the in crowd, you might not be able to use your bank's website, you may not be able to see certain applets or plugins. However, future generations will if you make a mark.
So, in short, you may not be able to play WCIII expansions if you do not buy them, but don't pirate them if you dop not feel stongly enough to pay for them. Let your real dollars vote, and stand by your vote.
When election day comes along I vote. As an individual my vote may not decide the election, but my voice is heard. I may not be able to change the course that my country is heading, but I will give my input.
There are more than the two options here. A third one is to point out the hypocrisy and fight against it. Perhaps if I stand up against the abuse of moderation it will encourage more to also take heed of how they moderate. Even if it does not, I will still mark those who abuse it and point it out.
When I metamod I also will mark things I may agree with, but they have been modded interesting when they are funny. Or they may be modded as informative when they have no information in them, but they are interesting to think about.
So, do your part, make slashdot a better place. Metamod wrong mods. Speak up when people mod wrong. You'll make some enemies, such as someone has gone through and modded 4 of my comments here as offtopic, yet they ignored every other comment in this line that are also offtopic. I don't understand their pettiness. It'd be amusing if you could see who has modded your comments.
I'd also like to welcome lightcycle to my freaks list today.
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Maybe they figure if it goes to trial it will cost about $11,000 to pay the lawyers? Just a thought anyways.
That and considering how much it is, I don't think management (of the telemarketing companies) could let that much fly under the radar very often. Big'ol disincentive.
Yeah, I see the +Funny there, but just so some folks don't get the wrong idea this story was retracted by the source.
The drive manufacture folks denied that the recall happened. In short Maxtor drives are not going to die on you. Well, any faster than normal anyways. And certainly not as fast as the IBM Deathstars.
Okey, this is nonsense.
How often do you remember the name and address and city and state, then forget the zip code?
My guess is that you probably have the whole address written down in an addressbook for something. Or the address is coming directly from a peice of paper directly in front of you.
Based on latitude and longitude, the NAC system can represent an area the size of a province using two alphanumeric characters. A "universal address" with six characters will narrow down a search to an area measuring one square kilometre. With 10 characters, it can represent a specific area measuring one square metre.
Wow, they want to reinvent latitude/longitude (sp?).
I have an idea, lets make this round thing and poke another round hole in the center. Then take this stick and put it through the hole. We'll call it a wheel.
Anyone with a globe can understand lat/long, why not fly with that if you think country codes and addresses don't work well enough. No sense in reinventing the wheel here.
I can't be sure, but isn't one of the reasons people hate sendmail is because the bat book is so large?
Yowzers.
Maybe one of these days I'll have to look into Exim.
I think this is the part of OSS that could be refered to as karma. You make a good piece of software, people know about it, other people hire you to make sure cool products like this make it out more often.
I have to agree with you. Good luck to Bram.
I've only used it once now. When I dl'd the release of enemy territory I had corruption in the file from some regular dl site. While reading slashdot someone mentioned having the same problem and someone pointed BT to the corrupted file lo-and-behold it fixed the file for me.
I was impressed. I think I'll be trying BT more often now though.
I'd have to say your SCO-ed is wrong.
I think the proper definition is:
After attemping to SCO, the drop of the attempters sotck by 35% in the following two days.
Hmm, I'd assume Jodie Foster's dad is either here on earth or here in earth. Either way. I'd say that seti is looking for life in the wrong place if its fscking Jodie Foster's dad.
Well, that's just my two cents.
You stalking me or something?
The other possiblity is that some other action was performed with the other 92%. Not everything warrents and arrest.
Hmm, one of the guys where I work has a license plate cover on his car. It is sort of like the tinted windows material. As far as I know he hasn't been pulled over for it. I'm not disputing that you are not allowed to have your plates obscured, just that I see it quite often.
On a side note, he also has a fuzbuster and routinely passes me on the way to work like I am standing still.
Um, letse see.
Charlie Manson: is in jail for conspiring to kill some folks
Jesus Christ: was crucified for claiming he was the son of God
Charlie Manson: had the Manson chicks wack some folks
Jesus Christ: had apostles who died for their service
Yes, I'd agree one of us is a nitwit. Either, me for responding to trolls, or you for your complete lack of knowledge. Tell me, what was Jesus' crime?
Might you be the "very open to discussion" fellow that has in the last hour or so gone through and systematically modded 5 of my posts down?
Why don't you go ahead and post non-AC?
I love how slashdot is supposed to be an open place, yet instead likes to hide behind AC's and quiet moderation to try and suppress folks with a differing view.
AC is truly a good term. Come now, its only karma. Show yourself.
From Princess Bride: And when I say you are a coward, that is only because you are the slimiest weakling ever to crawl the earth.
Geesh. The are probably a bunch of jackasses who haven't even thought through the ramifications of this. I could probably preach here all day till I am hoarse about the recklessness that is going on here by these cowboys. They are probably too mule-headed to care though.
Got a silly offtopic question for you, well kind of a rhetorical question.
I personally do not know your view point of Christianity and such, but I am going to assume that you flow along with most of slashdot's anti-Christian undertones.
Who is Jesus Christ to you? Why is he fucking or tapdancing?
My point is, why could you not have choosen "Straight fucking tapdancing Jacket?" Why use Jesus Christ?
My point is more this. If, you don't believe in Christianity, why use the name at all, as you do not believe Jesus as the Christ. Might as well use any random name. Or do you believe in Christianity yet wish to openly rebel against it? At which point I would ask why. The other posibility that I see is that you don't believe yet actively want to just spew forth from your mouth/fingers acid and venom. Yet, seeing how you are a Friend of a Friend I would assume that is not the case. Perhaps you just have not looked at why you said "Jesus fucking tapdancing christ."
How about the bottle instead. Fill with some 190 proof and a rag.
Yeah, we all know slim jims are only used for nefarious purposes. I mean, their advertising is totally reeking of it. "Break into a slim jim" and you have a huge muscular guy who is a wrestler (which coincidentally looks like a thug) who shouts that phrase. I'd have to say slim jims should be illegal. Regular beef jerky for everyone. None of that sausage crap.
Don't be a typical anti-gun liberal moron. A gun can *only* be used to shoot (people, animals, show of force to protect people, used in sporting events). Knives, baseball bats and other potentially lethal objects aren't *made* to kill people, just like guns.
You are right. I agree with you.
You should be allowed to copy DVDs and have guns to kil people. I particularly like the idea of killing the ones trying to kill me or my family.
Killing off the dissidents in rocket crashes? Yeah, that is one way.
I'm poor so gimme gimme gimme.
You don't know poor. Poor is when you don't have a root over your head. Living pay check to pay check. Poor is when you truly need help.
You have a computer, which implies a roof over your head. You insult and mock poor people.
You may have said this in humor, but I do not find this humorous. I find it pathetic. You rationalize your lack of ethics by mocking poor people and lie to yourself that you help companies by not paying for their product. All for a beer.
Reminds me of a fortune:
Everyone has a price Bob, and yours was pretty low.
Sorry God, you must be mistaken. That was FroWoman touching me there. We're married. And allowed to do that.
Don't worry. God is out there. Heck, he's here too.
Couple things here.
Blizzard is in the business to make money. They make a product and ask a fee for the product. Their business plan is to get paid for their work. This plan may or may not work here, but it is their plan.
RTCW is an example of another business plan. The company feels that a good will gesture will yeild more money in the long run than to toss a whole project out the window. They had already put in the bulk of the R&D, yet they did not feel it was marketable so they are releasing it for free.
Piracy. What a scummy thing. I hate shoplifters. The people who have enough money to pay for something then they just lift it cause they can. That is so slimey. Piracy is the same thing. Take it cause you can.
Folks here love to rationalize their actions, saying they are getting ripped off, or that they deserve it cause they are a big bad corporation. Well, if you really want to protest Blizzard, don't buy AND don't play the game. If you feel the game is not worth what they are asking for it, don't play it. Nothing gives you the right to play it. The best part, is you really get to stick it to Blizzard that way. You are voting with your dollar and not adding to the player base. Once you add to the player base more people will play.
Look at MS. Why are they king of the desktop? Because people keep USING it. Not because they are buying it. Look at how their market share grew so large when they didn't really attack piracy. Consider IE v. other browsers. Mozilla and IE and Opera (non registered) and most others are free. There is no excuse to use IE if you don't want the web to only be an IE haven. You just have to stand up for what you believe. Stand up and be counted. Be a leader and not a follower. However, understand that being a leader you pay a different price, that price is ostracization. You may not be in the in crowd, you might not be able to use your bank's website, you may not be able to see certain applets or plugins. However, future generations will if you make a mark.
So, in short, you may not be able to play WCIII expansions if you do not buy them, but don't pirate them if you dop not feel stongly enough to pay for them. Let your real dollars vote, and stand by your vote.
When election day comes along I vote. As an individual my vote may not decide the election, but my voice is heard. I may not be able to change the course that my country is heading, but I will give my input.
There are more than the two options here. A third one is to point out the hypocrisy and fight against it. Perhaps if I stand up against the abuse of moderation it will encourage more to also take heed of how they moderate. Even if it does not, I will still mark those who abuse it and point it out.
When I metamod I also will mark things I may agree with, but they have been modded interesting when they are funny. Or they may be modded as informative when they have no information in them, but they are interesting to think about.
So, do your part, make slashdot a better place. Metamod wrong mods. Speak up when people mod wrong. You'll make some enemies, such as someone has gone through and modded 4 of my comments here as offtopic, yet they ignored every other comment in this line that are also offtopic. I don't understand their pettiness. It'd be amusing if you could see who has modded your comments.
I'd also like to welcome lightcycle to my freaks list today.