Seven trips total over 8 months to the Maryland DMV in G.B. to get my license transferred from another state. My wife was afraid to send me there alone, thinking that I'd show up on the 11 O'clock news:)
This has been discussed in other discussions. Now this is whining.
The deal with McDonalds was not just that some old lady spilled it in her lap, it was that McDonalds was heating coffee, and serving it, at temperatures that were far and above the line for being within safety standards. They fought it, saying that the extra heat kept the flavor in, but ultimately lost. When you serve food/drink to a customer, that customer shouldn't have to wait 2 hours before being able to drink it.
And as far as tobacco, the labels are the point of the lawsuits. The lawsuits are being based on victims of tobacco/nicotine that became addicted to the product before the safety labels were mandatory for package. At that time, smokers had no clue that cigarettes could kill them, but once they found out, most were too addicted to stop completely.
Wow, that's cool. This should happen more often, I think.
Looking Glass Studios was tricked, raped, pillaged, and salvaged by Eidos. Eidos made an initial proposal to fund LGS through it's projects, but there were a few projects it was not interested in. So instead of 'wasting' their money on side projects, when all they wanted was the money-maker Thief, they devised a plan.
LGS knew they needed to be bought out, and went off and started hitting up all the major publishers who would be interested. They hit up Eidos, and Eidos made them a deal, and in such a way that LGS gave up on searching for more money, confident that Eidos would pull through for them. At that point, Eidos just sat back and waited, not sending any checks. Shortly after, LGS went bankrupt, that much we know, because of Eidos not funding them as they should.
Now what do you see happening? Looking Glass Studios was auctioned off by it's creditors to pay the bills. The vulture Eidos then came in and bought up projects that they wanted, at cut-rate prices. Much less than they would have paid in the first place.
This is a highly unethical, unsuitable business practice, but it occurs many times, and makes me sick to my teeth.
Yes, I'm happy that Thief 3 is being finished. But, I didn't want to lose my favorite company in the process, because Eidos was money-hungry.
IBM already mentioned that it's not being created for consumer use. It's being to made to see 'Wow, what cool things can we do with Linux to gain support/publicity'. But, that being said, I'm impressed.
Not sure if I saw this before here or on another site, but it made me wonder then. If they're tracking for saltpeter, whatever, on you: how long does that residue stay in contact with your body after you've left the source? If I shake hands with a demolition person, will their residue stay on my hand and be picked up?
But I don't like the idea from the start. It's like riding home in a car full of smoking people, then your mom getting onto you, thinking that you were smoking. There's too much of a gray area.
The talk of cozying up in bed to read, well, you could do this with a simple printer. That's where publication costs come from anyways. You could pay the $1 for the story, then do the work of printing it out in a nice format. Or you could pay $7.95 for a book that's been pre-printed and formatted nicely.
More economical and fun to try it yourself though:)
Our company bought 4 of them about 3 months ago, for use as a file cluster. Seagate makes the ST173404LW. They're Ultra160, 10k RPM, and great for speed, but cost us around $1700 each.
Did anyone else notice that when this story was first posted, the posted date was today at 4:04PM? Makes you wonder... Do the editors input the time manually, and timothy mistyped? Do the editors queue up stories and program them to be posted at certain times, but they decided to post this earlier?
Aiwa makes their CDC-MP3 and Kenwood has their eXcelon Z919. These are in-dash head units that play mp3s on cds, like these, but have been available for awhile. Not too expensive (well, the Aiwa isn't), and pretty sharp graphics.
It may have been extremely hot, but this woman jammed the coffee cup into her crotch and drove off without even checking if the lid was secure; and when she spilled the molten stuff all over her groin, what did she do? She kept right on driving while the skin on her lap was being destroyed.
Actually, she was not driving. She was a passenger in a carpool. She did the right thing by waiting for the car to come to a stop, before opening it to add cream/sugar. The car didn't cause the coffee to spill over. The plastic top had to be pryed off, but was on in such a way that when it came off, the coffee splashed out. And the driver did not drive off while she was screaming. They immediately tried to help her and took her to the hospital.
It was hotter because most of their customers wanted it that way! The typical McCoffee drinker is a blue-collar 9-to-5er who buys the coffee on their way to work, and doesn't actually drink it until much later, sometimes a half hour or hour later. In order to prevent the coffee from being as cold as a witch's t?? by the time they drink it, the coffee was sold hotter than the temperature you would normally drink it at.
Trust me, 135-145 is suitable to keep the coffee warm for hours. McDonalds reasoning was that high temperatures helped deliver a greater taste. Anyways, to drink an hour later or not, a better solution would be to use better insulated cups, instead of dangerouly hot liquid.
And, btw, a lot of people actually sip quite a bit of the coffee before they drive away, to prevent it from splashing out.
snip> Last year, unconfirmed reports circulated that Microsoft was building a new language called "Cool" that would be similar to Java but free of technological or licensing obligations to Sun. Microsoft vehemently denied the rumors. Yesterday, Microsoft executives denied that C# was related to the rumored Cool project. /snip>
Unrelated or not, it is. They 'free' consumers from Sun's licensing obligations, then Microsoft institutes their licenses in the same place.
Seems like it'll be the exact same, just syntax changes. A way for MS to say 'Hey! Sun's got too much market share here; let's recreate the wheel of their software and seize it back into our control!'
It's a complex balance between good and evil that must exist. If writers stopped creating virii, there would be no need for protection. Users would go on their blissful way until one person takes advantage of the peacefulness to collapse the system. Most times, it's just something that would be great to watch, seeing a creation of your own cause mass destruction. Or even, knowing that it is able to cause desctruction, then seeing a naive person steal the code from your machine and send it out.
The first ILOVEYOU hit our company hard. We took the Exchange down, updated all the mail servers, and the network-wide virus scanning for all the users' computers. However, the problem was that idiot users were mapped to production web boxes, and caused the virus to spread to machines that we didn't think would ever have to be checked. It's because of this infection that now we spent hours installing AV clients on 120+ production servers.
As a whole, ILOVEYOU wasn't too drastic. It deleted some web images that we just had to restore. But it was because we got hit that we're now prepared to defend against virii like this new ILOVEYOU, which does drastic damage.
After the machine is infected is where the hidden extension comes into play. Or if someone was mapped to your machine, and they became infected, and you had no clue (the biggest problem in our outbreak). Then, since you didn't open the emails, you disregard the warnings, and open up your (infected) jpg's. And boom, you spread it around again, now on your entire hard drive, and everything you're mapped to.
by our country's heroic, intelligent crime fighters. They singlehandedly outmastered and conquered the world's premiere virus writers in the space of a few days. The intelligence of the hacker virus writers is in question, since everyone knows that only morons and idiots would write virii or spread warez.
Extreme sarcasm intended. But, I swanny, there's more to it than people see. Why, in any stupid fashion, would someone pinpoint a virus to their city, when it could be anywhere in the world. And the whole Barok program last year, same identities on it; I'm not sure if this was a trial of ignorance, or a trial of just how much they can get away with before they're caught. Or maybe they just didn't think they could be prosecuted, since they're in the Phillipines.
First they are, then they aren't, then in 2005, now in September. It seems like Lucas has dropped a line and is slowly reeling it in.
A DVD release is customary of new movies, so how can they spice it up? They stir up their own controversy, by saying that they won't release it. Then once enough people become outraged over the news, far-off release dates are thrown out to lead us on. Once that news has settled, and everyone looks forward to waiting 5 years for it, they find out that it will actually be out in 6 months.
Sales will probably be triple of what they would if Lucas would release the DVD customarily. And every fan feels a spirit of gratitude to the man for not waiting 5 years to release it.
Companies look at people as equals, in every aspect, except for themselves. Then again, most people do. It's a common thought for most people not to acknowledge the circumstances that control someone else's life. (Well, I'm normal, I do my work, you should be able to too!)
I had a similar experience. I was an all-A student since I started school, in AP classes, school 'Academically Gifted' programs, and even started taking Computer Science college classes at night. Until my sophomore year of high school, when I suddenly lost all my strength and interest in my activities.
I knew, myself, that something was wrong. But how can you just go up to an adult and admit it, knowing that they would probably just lock you up in padded rooms for the thoughts that went in your brain. After getting 'forced' into 2 years of counseling, psychiatry, countless prescriptions to anti-depressants, I was getting very frustrated, and frequently expressed my rage, verbally and physically. My school, and my peers, had it in their minds that I 'chose' to be sick, or that I had just given up on life. I suddenly became very unpopular, and an extreme outcast. If someone came up to me, trying to be friendly, I'd blow them off, assuming that they'd treat me as others had. That's the problem with our human society, from both sides of the coin.
So after two years of useless tests (so that the doctors can admit that they weren't ignoring me, and sleep well at night) they finally decided that maybe something was REALLY wrong. So, my senior year in high school, after having to take all remedial classes to graduate, they diagnosed that I had narcolepsy and hypo-glaucema. So when I was asleep, I wasn't in REM. When I was awake, I was either dipping in and out of REM randomly ("Oh, he must have spent all night playing on his computer."), or just plain "lazy" from my sugar running in the 30's.
Think of how many hundreds, thousands, who knows, students or adults in the world that have similar medical problems as us. These are issues that are handled gently, especially for teenagers, who are so obsessed with how they are viewed because of their differences, and are likely to keep things private, away from friends and family. That makes them a prime candidate for WAVE, and all of the checklists that it can make up.
The problem isn't with the person, it's with the society, and how society views people singularly. The idea is so spread that ANYONE we meet around the corner could be the one that rapes us, carjacks us, or kills us, that we, as a society, are taking such drastic actions as this.
This is definately true. Here, all users run NT 4 Wks/Server, with Visual Interdev and all that crap thrown in. We have a 6-12 month cycle set up for most users, depending on what they use.
I can't really explain it. But after 6 months, memory consumption grows, hard drive space disappears with no clue where it went, and the computer becomes slower and more crash-prone.
Once users start complaining that their computers lock up from just going to a File Properties, we reinstall from scratch. We save only their documents and saved code/queries, then copy it back over and reinstall all the apps. And I swanny, the computer is 100 times faster/better. Until 6 months down the road...
Now if only Norton Ghost was working to make the job easier...
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Seven trips total over 8 months to the Maryland DMV in G.B. to get my license transferred from another state. My wife was afraid to send me there alone, thinking that I'd show up on the 11 O'clock news :)
This has been discussed in other discussions. Now this is whining.
The deal with McDonalds was not just that some old lady spilled it in her lap, it was that McDonalds was heating coffee, and serving it, at temperatures that were far and above the line for being within safety standards. They fought it, saying that the extra heat kept the flavor in, but ultimately lost. When you serve food/drink to a customer, that customer shouldn't have to wait 2 hours before being able to drink it.
And as far as tobacco, the labels are the point of the lawsuits. The lawsuits are being based on victims of tobacco/nicotine that became addicted to the product before the safety labels were mandatory for package. At that time, smokers had no clue that cigarettes could kill them, but once they found out, most were too addicted to stop completely.
I don't see how this got moderated Insightful.
They mention that MS overcharged California residents. Why only CA, rather than other states?
:)
Was this Microsoft's way of getting back at California residents for ripping them off earlier this year?
Wow, that's cool. This should happen more often, I think.
Looking Glass Studios was tricked, raped, pillaged, and salvaged by Eidos. Eidos made an initial proposal to fund LGS through it's projects, but there were a few projects it was not interested in. So instead of 'wasting' their money on side projects, when all they wanted was the money-maker Thief, they devised a plan.
LGS knew they needed to be bought out, and went off and started hitting up all the major publishers who would be interested. They hit up Eidos, and Eidos made them a deal, and in such a way that LGS gave up on searching for more money, confident that Eidos would pull through for them. At that point, Eidos just sat back and waited, not sending any checks. Shortly after, LGS went bankrupt, that much we know, because of Eidos not funding them as they should.
Now what do you see happening? Looking Glass Studios was auctioned off by it's creditors to pay the bills. The vulture Eidos then came in and bought up projects that they wanted, at cut-rate prices. Much less than they would have paid in the first place.
This is a highly unethical, unsuitable business practice, but it occurs many times, and makes me sick to my teeth.
Yes, I'm happy that Thief 3 is being finished. But, I didn't want to lose my favorite company in the process, because Eidos was money-hungry.
IBM already mentioned that it's not being created for consumer use. It's being to made to see 'Wow, what cool things can we do with Linux to gain support/publicity'. But, that being said, I'm impressed.
Not sure if I saw this before here or on another site, but it made me wonder then. If they're tracking for saltpeter, whatever, on you: how long does that residue stay in contact with your body after you've left the source? If I shake hands with a demolition person, will their residue stay on my hand and be picked up?
But I don't like the idea from the start. It's like riding home in a car full of smoking people, then your mom getting onto you, thinking that you were smoking. There's too much of a gray area.
The talk of cozying up in bed to read, well, you could do this with a simple printer. That's where publication costs come from anyways. You could pay the $1 for the story, then do the work of printing it out in a nice format. Or you could pay $7.95 for a book that's been pre-printed and formatted nicely. :)
More economical and fun to try it yourself though
At 4:04PM, the story shows up for 3 mins, the time changes to 6:04PM, then disappears, to be replaced by a 3:58 story. It's almost funny to watch :)
Our company bought 4 of them about 3 months ago, for use as a file cluster. Seagate makes the ST173404LW. They're Ultra160, 10k RPM, and great for speed, but cost us around $1700 each.
I guess it was the latter. As the story is now gone from the main screen, and back to it's 4:04PM time, instead of 12:05AM.
Did anyone else notice that when this story was first posted, the posted date was today at 4:04PM? Makes you wonder ...
./ conspiracy, just curious ...
Do the editors input the time manually, and timothy mistyped?
Do the editors queue up stories and program them to be posted at certain times, but they decided to post this earlier?
Not trying to start
Would those wires be the ones that remove them from the gene pool without killing them?
Aiwa makes their CDC-MP3 and Kenwood has their eXcelon Z919. These are in-dash head units that play mp3s on cds, like these, but have been available for awhile. Not too expensive (well, the Aiwa isn't), and pretty sharp graphics.
It may have been extremely hot, but this woman jammed the coffee cup into her crotch and drove off without even checking if the lid was secure; and when she spilled the molten stuff all over her groin, what did she do? She kept right on driving while the skin on her lap was being destroyed.
Actually, she was not driving. She was a passenger in a carpool. She did the right thing by waiting for the car to come to a stop, before opening it to add cream/sugar. The car didn't cause the coffee to spill over. The plastic top had to be pryed off, but was on in such a way that when it came off, the coffee splashed out. And the driver did not drive off while she was screaming. They immediately tried to help her and took her to the hospital.
It was hotter because most of their customers wanted it that way! The typical McCoffee drinker is a blue-collar 9-to-5er who buys the coffee on their way to work, and doesn't actually drink it until much later, sometimes a half hour or hour later. In order to prevent the coffee from being as cold as a witch's t?? by the time they drink it, the coffee was sold hotter than the temperature you would normally drink it at.
Trust me, 135-145 is suitable to keep the coffee warm for hours. McDonalds reasoning was that high temperatures helped deliver a greater taste. Anyways, to drink an hour later or not, a better solution would be to use better insulated cups, instead of dangerouly hot liquid.
And, btw, a lot of people actually sip quite a bit of the coffee before they drive away, to prevent it from splashing out.
Since the other story is gone from the home screen, jump to it and steal all the +5 stories and repost them here for free karma!
snip>
Last year, unconfirmed reports circulated that Microsoft was building a new language called "Cool" that would be similar to Java but free of technological or licensing obligations to Sun. Microsoft vehemently denied the rumors. Yesterday, Microsoft executives denied that C# was related to the rumored Cool project.
/snip>
Unrelated or not, it is. They 'free' consumers from Sun's licensing obligations, then Microsoft institutes their licenses in the same place.
Seems like it'll be the exact same, just syntax changes. A way for MS to say 'Hey! Sun's got too much market share here; let's recreate the wheel of their software and seize it back into our control!'
It's a complex balance between good and evil that must exist. If writers stopped creating virii, there would be no need for protection. Users would go on their blissful way until one person takes advantage of the peacefulness to collapse the system.
Most times, it's just something that would be great to watch, seeing a creation of your own cause mass destruction. Or even, knowing that it is able to cause desctruction, then seeing a naive person steal the code from your machine and send it out.
The first ILOVEYOU hit our company hard. We took the Exchange down, updated all the mail servers, and the network-wide virus scanning for all the users' computers. However, the problem was that idiot users were mapped to production web boxes, and caused the virus to spread to machines that we didn't think would ever have to be checked. It's because of this infection that now we spent hours installing AV clients on 120+ production servers.
As a whole, ILOVEYOU wasn't too drastic. It deleted some web images that we just had to restore. But it was because we got hit that we're now prepared to defend against virii like this new ILOVEYOU, which does drastic damage.
After the machine is infected is where the hidden extension comes into play. Or if someone was mapped to your machine, and they became infected, and you had no clue (the biggest problem in our outbreak). Then, since you didn't open the emails, you disregard the warnings, and open up your (infected) jpg's. And boom, you spread it around again, now on your entire hard drive, and everything you're mapped to.
by our country's heroic, intelligent crime fighters. They singlehandedly outmastered and conquered the world's premiere virus writers in the space of a few days. The intelligence of the hacker virus writers is in question, since everyone knows that only morons and idiots would write virii or spread warez.
Extreme sarcasm intended. But, I swanny, there's more to it than people see. Why, in any stupid fashion, would someone pinpoint a virus to their city, when it could be anywhere in the world. And the whole Barok program last year, same identities on it; I'm not sure if this was a trial of ignorance, or a trial of just how much they can get away with before they're caught. Or maybe they just didn't think they could be prosecuted, since they're in the Phillipines.
to see someone named big_hairy_mama building high-priced electronic equipment like this, and not expect it to be installed with duct tape.
First they are, then they aren't, then in 2005, now in September. It seems like Lucas has dropped a line and is slowly reeling it in.
A DVD release is customary of new movies, so how can they spice it up? They stir up their own controversy, by saying that they won't release it. Then once enough people become outraged over the news, far-off release dates are thrown out to lead us on. Once that news has settled, and everyone looks forward to waiting 5 years for it, they find out that it will actually be out in 6 months.
Sales will probably be triple of what they would if Lucas would release the DVD customarily. And every fan feels a spirit of gratitude to the man for not waiting 5 years to release it.
IMO, a ploy worthy of Microsoft.
Companies look at people as equals, in every aspect, except for themselves. Then again, most people do. It's a common thought for most people not to acknowledge the circumstances that control someone else's life. (Well, I'm normal, I do my work, you should be able to too!)
I had a similar experience. I was an all-A student since I started school, in AP classes, school 'Academically Gifted' programs, and even started taking Computer Science college classes at night. Until my sophomore year of high school, when I suddenly lost all my strength and interest in my activities.
I knew, myself, that something was wrong. But how can you just go up to an adult and admit it, knowing that they would probably just lock you up in padded rooms for the thoughts that went in your brain. After getting 'forced' into 2 years of counseling, psychiatry, countless prescriptions to anti-depressants, I was getting very frustrated, and frequently expressed my rage, verbally and physically. My school, and my peers, had it in their minds that I 'chose' to be sick, or that I had just given up on life. I suddenly became very unpopular, and an extreme outcast. If someone came up to me, trying to be friendly, I'd blow them off, assuming that they'd treat me as others had. That's the problem with our human society, from both sides of the coin.
So after two years of useless tests (so that the doctors can admit that they weren't ignoring me, and sleep well at night) they finally decided that maybe something was REALLY wrong. So, my senior year in high school, after having to take all remedial classes to graduate, they diagnosed that I had narcolepsy and hypo-glaucema. So when I was asleep, I wasn't in REM. When I was awake, I was either dipping in and out of REM randomly ("Oh, he must have spent all night playing on his computer."), or just plain "lazy" from my sugar running in the 30's.
Think of how many hundreds, thousands, who knows, students or adults in the world that have similar medical problems as us. These are issues that are handled gently, especially for teenagers, who are so obsessed with how they are viewed because of their differences, and are likely to keep things private, away from friends and family. That makes them a prime candidate for WAVE, and all of the checklists that it can make up.
The problem isn't with the person, it's with the society, and how society views people singularly. The idea is so spread that ANYONE we meet around the corner could be the one that rapes us, carjacks us, or kills us, that we, as a society, are taking such drastic actions as this.
Really now, please name one software product EVER that has been bug-free.
:)
Ever see hello.c?
Maybe some people should validate sources before moderating up ...
This is definately true. Here, all users run NT 4 Wks/Server, with Visual Interdev and all that crap thrown in. We have a 6-12 month cycle set up for most users, depending on what they use.
...
...
I can't really explain it. But after 6 months, memory consumption grows, hard drive space disappears with no clue where it went, and the computer becomes slower and more crash-prone.
Once users start complaining that their computers lock up from just going to a File Properties, we reinstall from scratch. We save only their documents and saved code/queries, then copy it back over and reinstall all the apps. And I swanny, the computer is 100 times faster/better. Until 6 months down the road
Now if only Norton Ghost was working to make the job easier