Then you could wardrive someone's network and goatse all their LCD windows...
That just great....Goatse.cx is now also a verb?
I'll be sure to slip that into any ESL curriculum that I can:
Verb: Goatsecx (Irregular)
I goatse You goatsecx He/She goatsecx We goatsexes They goatseces
Examples:
Bob goatsexed the other day - and now has trouble sitting in a chair. The whole family spent a evening goatsecing - and now nobody can find the TV remote.
I not a fan of outsourcing - as you can tell from my previous posts. I don't shop at Wal-Mart. I drive American. I buy from small businees and prefer to by directly from the people that make my goods and foods.
But - let's face it. If we can't compete with the third-world - that's our problem.
There's a bunch of things we should do to level the playing field - get rid of tax incentives that make offshoring more attractive for example, but, what is lost sometimes is the simple fact that making $45,000 (salary + benefits) for manual labor can't last, no matter what.
We need to improve out education system to develop skilled labor - and not just bitch and moan that we can't compete for manual labor.
To answer you question directly - the standard of the average American is falling, but most of that is due to the fact that your average American is short-sighted,lazy, and stupid. I don't feel sorry for them - they've been blessed to live in the nicest country in the world and all they can do is squander their oppertunity.
I'm none of these things, and I (and all my friends) are doing very well. Very very well.
PS - Don't by crap at WalMart. It's just that - crap.
#1. Auto prices in 1950 were 1x annual salary
Auto prices in 2000 are 2x annual salary
That's a bad data point: Modern cars are regulated much more that their '50's counterparts; they must be fuel-efficent, safe, and much more environmentally safe.
Using modern production methods - recreating a '50's style car would cost 50% less. But it would take leaded gas, and after an accident (without ABS) the windshield glass would cut you to ribbons as your un-secured body bounced around the hard and unforgiving cabin. You'd eventually settle down as the transmission stalk impaled your body though.
I was reading the english translation of a Japanese business plan (Orient Watch Compant), and the Japanese word for 'outsourcing' was translated into English as "Hollowing-out."
It's an interesting viewpoint: The English word 'outsourcing' imploys that it's just a business transaction - while the Japanese translator used a phrase that has connotations of taking out the core of a business and discarding it.
Good fun - reminds me of trying to re-ink the old TRS-80 printers.
If you have the room, and old IBM typewriter is fun to have around - they make some severely satisfying noises.
I did a bit of research - apparently IBM proportional typewriters were about twice the cost of the other ones, and weren't too popular due to the cost.
Who knows - I have no doubt that GW pulled a lot of strings. This whole election has got me bummed - I'm voting against one guy, and not happy with my choices.
Lemley's distinction also points to the unusual fact that in IP, traditional liberals are often calling for less and less government, while conservatives demand regulation in order to protect their exclusive right to use their intellectual creations."
Let's get this correct: True Liberals and true conservitives, both, want less regulation - or alt least, reasonable balances between the public-domain and free enterprise.
It's the self-serving politicians that want more regulation - regardless of their labels.
Remember: it took both a Republican house/senate and a Democrat president to pass DMCA and idea-monopoly extensions (read copyright extensions)
Remember: it was Democrat politicians that were pushing for the v-chip and music labels.
Remember: it was Republican politicians that were being bought by Disney.
Howlin, every single one of these memos to file is in a proportionally spaced font, probably Palatino or Times New Roman.
In 1972 people used typewriters for this sort of thing, and typewriters used monospaced fonts.
The use of proportionally spaced fonts did not come into common use for office memos until the introduction of laser printers, word processing software, and personal computers. They were not widespread until the mid to late 90's. Before then, you needed typesetting equipment, and that wasn't used for personal memos to file. Even the Wang systems that were dominant in the mid 80's used monospaced fonts.
I am saying these documents are forgeries, run through a copier for 15 generations to make them look old.
there *are* countries outside america that practice politics.
Sorry about that. We're working as fast as we can - after Iraq there's: Iran, France and Canada scheduled for assimilation. I think your country is next.
In the worst case scenario, us OpenSource/GPL freaks won't be able to watch these wonderful hi-definition movies on our wonderful full-room TVs.
Instead will have to do something else with our time....like...
Go hiking. Learn to play an instrument. Drink beer with friends. Read obscure books. Learn a foreign language. Play with children. Cook good food. Run.
By the way I did try to report the bug via our $500,000+/year global support contract with Microsoft, and was told directly by our Microsoft support representative, and I quote, "I wouldn't know how to file a bug report for that." Never was able to get it addressed, even though I had two good sample documents for reproduction of the problem.
Half a million? No wonder Bill Gates has billions - He's not spending the money on developers.
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In that case, you can't always make a living off of service and support.
You must be coding in the wrong language.....
Use VisualBasic.... trust me... your customres will need a lot of service and support.
IBM, who claims to be investing billions in Linux, but recommends Microsoft ® Windows ® XP Professional
All the desktop vendows have this boiler-plate phrase on their websites/advertising. When they put this in there - Microsoft gives them marketing dollers (read money).
So what if IBM recomends XP for it's Thinkpads. They certainly don't recomend it for their POWER5 servers or mainframes - the places where it counts.
The quote is rather amusing. However, it looses it's school-yard amusement when placed in it full context
"They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.We must never stop thinking about how best to defend our country. We must always be forward-thinking"
Basically.. Bush is saying that in order to prepare for an attack against a vulnerability we must fist identify that very vulnerability ourselves.
I do this all the time when securing my networks and computer - I ask my self "how would I attack my own system."
The Bill of Rights was framed right after we Americans just removed a foreign government from our lands. In order to have a revolution - you need free speech to articulate your reasons, you need privacy and meeting to plan, and you need guns.
That the reason the Bill of Rights allows us to talk, meet and have guns.... just in case.
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Then you could wardrive someone's network and goatse all their LCD windows...
That just great....Goatse.cx is now also a verb?
I'll be sure to slip that into any ESL curriculum that I can:
Verb: Goatsecx (Irregular)
I goatse
You goatsecx
He/She goatsecx
We goatsexes
They goatseces
Examples:
Bob goatsexed the other day - and now has trouble sitting in a chair.
The whole family spent a evening goatsecing - and now nobody can find the TV remote.
And if it turns out to be true, never admit that your were wrong.
Looks like you're going to have to admin that you're wrong.
I'm waiting.
jhaynor is a $NASTY-LIE-OR-FALSEHOOD-HERE
And because jhaynor has not denied it, IT MUST BE TRUE.
Hint: Silence does not imply consent. Just ask any child-hood victim of abuse.
I not a fan of outsourcing - as you can tell from my previous posts. I don't shop at Wal-Mart. I drive American. I buy from small businees and prefer to by directly from the people that make my goods and foods.
But - let's face it. If we can't compete with the third-world - that's our problem.
There's a bunch of things we should do to level the playing field - get rid of tax incentives that make offshoring more attractive for example, but, what is lost sometimes is the simple fact that making $45,000 (salary + benefits) for manual labor can't last, no matter what.
We need to improve out education system to develop skilled labor - and not just bitch and moan that we can't compete for manual labor.
To answer you question directly - the standard of the average American is falling, but most of that is due to the fact that your average American is short-sighted,lazy, and stupid. I don't feel sorry for them - they've been blessed to live in the nicest country in the world and all they can do is squander their oppertunity.
I'm none of these things, and I (and all my friends) are doing very well. Very very well.
PS - Don't by crap at WalMart. It's just that - crap.
#1. Auto prices in 1950 were 1x annual salary
Auto prices in 2000 are 2x annual salary
That's a bad data point: Modern cars are regulated much more that their '50's counterparts; they must be fuel-efficent, safe, and much more environmentally safe.
Using modern production methods - recreating a '50's style car would cost 50% less. But it would take leaded gas, and after an accident (without ABS) the windshield glass would cut you to ribbons as your un-secured body bounced around the hard and unforgiving cabin. You'd eventually settle down as the transmission stalk impaled your body though.
I was reading the english translation of a Japanese business plan (Orient Watch Compant), and the Japanese word for 'outsourcing' was translated into English as "Hollowing-out."
It's an interesting viewpoint: The English word 'outsourcing' imploys that it's just a business transaction - while the Japanese translator used a phrase that has connotations of taking out the core of a business and discarding it.
Perhaps - there's some truth in that idea.
Interesting... That would make sense.
Don't comlain about the MX-80 too much - at least it wasen't a thermal printer.
Good fun - reminds me of trying to re-ink the old TRS-80 printers.
If you have the room, and old IBM typewriter is fun to have around - they make some severely satisfying noises.
I did a bit of research - apparently IBM proportional typewriters were about twice the cost of the other ones, and weren't too popular due to the cost.
Who knows - I have no doubt that GW pulled a lot of strings. This whole election has got me bummed - I'm voting against one guy, and not happy with my choices.
It's probably unlikely that a army field officer would use a $4500 IBM Executive Selectric.
From IBM's history site: At a 1961 release price of about $765 the Selectric quickly became a profitable line for IBM.
Due to inflation:What cost $675 in 1961 would cost $4541.11 in 2003.
(but then again, the military has never been cost effective)
Lemley's distinction also points to the unusual fact that in IP, traditional liberals are often calling for less and less government, while conservatives demand regulation in order to protect their exclusive right to use their intellectual creations."
Let's get this correct: True Liberals and true conservitives, both, want less regulation - or alt least, reasonable balances between the public-domain and free enterprise.
It's the self-serving politicians that want more regulation - regardless of their labels.
Remember: it took both a Republican house/senate and a Democrat president to pass DMCA and idea-monopoly extensions (read copyright extensions)
Remember: it was Democrat politicians that were pushing for the v-chip and music labels.
Remember: it was Republican politicians that were being bought by Disney.
Both parties suck.
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Howlin, every single one of these memos to file is in a proportionally spaced font, probably Palatino or Times New Roman.
In 1972 people used typewriters for this sort of thing, and typewriters used monospaced fonts.
The use of proportionally spaced fonts did not come into common use for office memos until the introduction of laser printers, word processing software, and personal computers. They were not widespread until the mid to late 90's. Before then, you needed typesetting equipment, and that wasn't used for personal memos to file. Even the Wang systems that were dominant in the mid 80's used monospaced fonts.
I am saying these documents are forgeries, run through a copier for 15 generations to make them look old.
This should be pursued aggressively.
there *are* countries outside america that practice politics.
Sorry about that. We're working as fast as we can - after Iraq there's: Iran, France and Canada scheduled for assimilation. I think your country is next.
We'll get there soon!
You made milk come out of my nose.
And I was drinking root-beer.
In the worst case scenario, us OpenSource/GPL freaks won't be able to watch these wonderful hi-definition movies on our wonderful full-room TVs.
Instead will have to do something else with our time....like...
Go hiking.
Learn to play an instrument.
Drink beer with friends.
Read obscure books.
Learn a foreign language.
Play with children.
Cook good food.
Run.
Microsoft can keep it's crap for all I care.
if I had a dollar for every windows box that crashed... .... you'd be as rich as Bill Gates.
Dear Slashdot,
I've been having fun with my new Mandrake install - but coming from a Windows world, I'm puzzeled...
Does Linux have a text editor?
When you need one to stop a gusher - $90 is going to seem cheap when somebody's life is on the line.
From on of the comments from the blog:
By the way I did try to report the bug via our $500,000+/year global support contract with Microsoft, and was told directly by our Microsoft support representative, and I quote, "I wouldn't know how to file a bug report for that." Never was able to get it addressed, even though I had two good sample documents for reproduction of the problem.
Half a million? No wonder Bill Gates has billions - He's not spending the money on developers.
In that case, you can't always make a living off of service and support.
You must be coding in the wrong language.....
Use VisualBasic.... trust me... your customres will need a lot of service and support.
(And to balance things out, so is Al Frankin IIRC, but I wouldn't compare the two)
I will..
One is a pompus ass. The other is a pompus ass.
IBM, who claims to be investing billions in Linux, but recommends Microsoft ® Windows ® XP Professional
All the desktop vendows have this boiler-plate phrase on their websites/advertising. When they put this in there - Microsoft gives them marketing dollers (read money).
So what if IBM recomends XP for it's Thinkpads. They certainly don't recomend it for their POWER5 servers or mainframes - the places where it counts.
This new user base may be overseas, but they aren't retarded.
Well..... they are using XP. Tellitubby interface and all...
The quote is rather amusing.
However, it looses it's school-yard amusement when placed in it full context
"They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.We must never stop thinking about how best to defend our country. We must always be forward-thinking"
Basically.. Bush is saying that in order to prepare for an attack against a vulnerability we must fist identify that very vulnerability ourselves.
I do this all the time when securing my networks and computer - I ask my self "how would I attack my own system."
I going to hold out at wait for the service pack for SP2.
(kidding)
The Bill of Rights was framed right after we Americans just removed a foreign government from our lands. In order to have a revolution - you need free speech to articulate your reasons, you need privacy and meeting to plan, and you need guns.
That the reason the Bill of Rights allows us to talk, meet and have guns.... just in case.