Is the current Iraqi situation about oil? Absolutely. But not in the way you think. If the United States wanted oil so badly, why would we have supported the measure to restrict Iraq from producing as much oil as they want? If the US wanted oil so badly, why would we be in the midst of an oil embargo with Iran? The real oil angle in the Iraqi situation comes from - duh duh duuuuhhhhh - France. Yes, France. France has a sweetheart deal with Saddam Hussein for oil on the cheap. If... er... When Saddam is removed from office, this sweet deal disappears. So, yes, oil is a huge issue in the current situation, but look to the French for the reasons.
I just got my MC newsletter and one of the topics was how well they are doing:
"An avalanche of new members! == Over the past month, MandrakeClub's membership level has swelled to over 20,000 members due to the recent membership drive, and due to the fact that we are giving away one month trial membership to all MandrakeStore customers.
Combined with newly introduced "alumni" membership, this will assure that everyone who cares about Mandrake Linux stays in contact with MandrakeClub."
So with 20,000 new subscribers (granted, there's no mention of how many free memberships they gave away) I wonder how this happened?
I have seen XBoxen at a crash screen (not a bad disc screen) notifying the owner (the store in this case) that there was a problem with the console and to return it to Microsoft for repair.
Here's an idea for something that would be interesting to go over for the newbies... Webmin. There seem to be a lot of comments related to the (lack of)virtue of the CLI. I like the CLI, but sometimes don't feel lie screwing with it. With Webmin, I can configure just about anything on the box via this web interface. I can also update Webin from within Webmin in addition to adding functinonality to it from within it. All of the configuration modules are right there at your fingertips. Very cool stuff. You can even configure a box remotely if you've got everything set up correctly. Windows can't touch Webmin.
...is The Linux Network Toolkit. Granted, it's not exactly a total newbie's book, but it really got me rolling on the Linux thing and networking Windows and Linux machines. Which, if someone is just starting out with Linux, is a very likely scenario.
Instead of Download Accelerator, try LeechGet. Instead of WinZip, try UltimaetZip. Both are as good or better than their counterparts, yet never resort to these shenanigans.
You could always use snail mail to send out your invoices. Incidentally, I use QB 2002 to run my business and have not seen a message such as you described. The only time anything remotely similar has come up is when accidentally clicking on premium features (like do a credit check or bank online).
Um. As a huge fan of FFX, I, for one, am awaiting X-2 with bated breath. I DO want to play in that universe again. And what of FFXI and XII? They are obviously not ignoring, either financially or developmentally, new games. Hell, I'd assume that they've sunk more money into XI than any other FF ever. It'll be the first online FF (which is one reason I'm not all that interested in it - FF should be a single player experience). Putting everything in place that needs to be there has got to be costing them a fortune in money and programmers. Hell, I even liked Kingdom Hearts, but wish that some aspects of it had been different (I got really tired of turning around and seeing Goofy's mouth-breathing head or Donald Duck's ass - but I figure Disney required they be onscreen all the time).
You made thecomment about Stormtrooperd in Hilfinger, but you've missed your own point. If we say away with the ads in games what you'd get would be:
Generic space game (Star Wars is a cash cow, wouldn't want the evil Lucasfilm corporation or Fox to tarnish the purity of our space gaming!).
Can't license real players or equipment for sports games, either, so no Madden, NFL2Kx or NBA2Kx.
The Gran Turismo series would not have "real" cars or accurate tracks or the accurate advertising on said cars and tracks. Nope. Fantasy cars and tracks only and plain walls. No Enkei wheels either.
GTA Vice City would have to drop those '80s songs as well. All new generic music to set the tone for a decade.
Advertising and tie-ins actually accentuate the realism in certain games. There has been advertising in games for a while now. This smells of issues with McDonalds (and maybe globilization) than with advertising in games. If that's true, then the protestors don't have a chance of making any difference because a) there simply aren't enough of them and b) IT'S VIRTUAL!!!! No one's going to notice a few crackpots whining in an online game (that apparently they bought and pay for anyway - you have to be in the game to protest the Mickey D's in the game - bizarre).
...if they've been able to solve their NASDAQ problems. Their stock has been under a dollar for a long time now (I bought some at.23 and sold at.47). The NASDAQ sent them formal notice several months ago that if they could not maintain a stock price above a dollar for three consecutive weeks by November, they'd be dropped from the exchange. That hasn't happened. The closest they've come is almost.75 cents for a few minutes. I'm not sure the company can survive long enough to make a run of it. I think they were just a touch ahead of their time. They're very probably going to be dropped from the NASDAQ, but more importantly, they're in debt and operating at a loss.
Yes, they can. I know, because they did. When Comcast switched from @Home to Comcast.net, there were all kinds of troubles. They were still signing up new customers and then telling them that they wouldn't have email for at least three months when they expected to have the mail servers and accounts set up. I sat back and snickered from behind my DSL modem.:)
Actually, as much of a supporter of the 2nd amendment as I am, I'd have to disagree. The idea of a bunch of civilians (hell, for that matter, pilots or agents) packing on a plane is not appealing to me. Decompression is a bitch. Besides, the 2nd amendment doesn't guarantee the right to keep and bear arms everywhere, all the time.
Airport security did NOT FAIL on September 11th. The terrorists that flew into the WTC were not carrying anything that was prohibited on an airplane. The breakdown came in the intelligence community. As many have pointed out from said community, a great deal of the fault for that is because the Clinton administration prohibited our intelligence agencies from consorting with undesireables. I'm sure there are other reasons, but you cannot lay the blame at the feet of airport security (even though the government clearly did).
Nope. Libertarianism in a nutshell: I got mine, and I won't stand in the way of you getting yours. Give a man a fish and all. The less people rely on the government the better for the people. The more the government supports people, the more they rely on it. It's a viscious circle. That's why there was so much public outcry over the idea of workfare. God forbid that someone that's on welfare actually attempt to pick themselves up and make something of themselves.
Government can only succeed at certain things. Defense is one. Education is not. Interstate infrastructure is one. The DMV is clearly not.
To believe that there aren't any monopolies because of government is naive. There are plenty of monopolies that are, in fact, propped up by government.
I consider myself a libertarian (small "l"). The official Libertarian party is too anarchistic for my tastes. On the other hand, given a choice between the Libertarians and the other two parties, I'd choose the Libs any day. Between the Dems and the GOP, the GOP gets my nod. Mostly because of the inneffectualness of the right's fascist tendencies. The GOP has less of a chance of pushing through their moarlistic agenda than the Dems do of pushing through their socialist agenda.
But the only thing that you can do with a tablet that you couldn't do with a standard laptop is write on the screen. Integrated wireless... Laptops already have it. Low Power... There's no reason that this couldn't be implemented more in normal Laptops. As for notes in class, typing is still faster. I still establish that it's a vertical market application.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Tablets will only be successful in vertical markets. Sure, they may sell some at first because of the GeeWhiz factor, but writing on the screen is simply less efficient than typing. If Transmeta and/or Microsoft is/are pinning their futures on tablets, then a rough future it/they will have.
Actually, I think the point was that a business model that relies on any one company is shaky. Intuit, Visio, etc... don't necessarily need Microsoft per se, just any OS with a suffeciently large user base. This could be any OS. I will concede that Symantec and McAfee rely on Windows, though.;) Actually, when the Amiga was at her height, the best anti-virus tools were free (as in beer).
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Actually, Cingular was running trivia contests and announcements (read: ads) to their subscribers over their phones running up to the release of Spider-Man this summer. It was opt in, but a vision of what's to come.
I don't know if it's the fault of the EchoStar/Hughes attornies for not being able to explain the situation to the feds or what, but the idea that allowing this merger would create a monopoly is laughable. I'm a DirecTV subscriber and I am all for this merger for a couple of reasons.
1) It would mean instant, nationwide broadband availability. This is good for consumers and for the economy without having to get the government involved (referencing a comment in the poll thread).
2) It would mean local station availability to all small dish satellite subscribers. The only way the CABLE companies will ever notice satellite as a true competitor is to break THEIR monopoly on their markets. Sattelite is simply not an option for a majority of people because they can't get thier local stations on the dish. I have an external antenna on my mine, and I can only get CBS (which is great because I get SEC football coverage, but I digress), Fox and UPN. I apparently don't qualify for a waiver to get the network feeds because I live in an area where I "SHOULD" be able to get acceptable reception with an antenna.
The feds don't understand that the sattelite companies are offering a competitive alternative to cable, not creating a new monopoly in a new market.
About 4-5 years ago I modded my Gateway Tower case to hold my Amiga 4000 guts and painted it with an appropriate color scheme (candy apple red with white checkers made out of contact paper). Some of us are ahead of the curve (or more sad than most).
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Is the current Iraqi situation about oil? Absolutely. But not in the way you think. If the United States wanted oil so badly, why would we have supported the measure to restrict Iraq from producing as much oil as they want? If the US wanted oil so badly, why would we be in the midst of an oil embargo with Iran? The real oil angle in the Iraqi situation comes from - duh duh duuuuhhhhh - France. Yes, France. France has a sweetheart deal with Saddam Hussein for oil on the cheap. If... er... When Saddam is removed from office, this sweet deal disappears. So, yes, oil is a huge issue in the current situation, but look to the French for the reasons.
I just got my MC newsletter and one of the topics was how well they are doing:
"An avalanche of new members!
==
Over the past month, MandrakeClub's membership level has swelled to over
20,000 members due to the recent membership drive, and due to the fact
that we are giving away one month trial membership to all MandrakeStore
customers.
Combined with newly introduced "alumni" membership, this will assure that
everyone who cares about Mandrake Linux stays in contact with
MandrakeClub."
So with 20,000 new subscribers (granted, there's no mention of how many free memberships they gave away) I wonder how this happened?
I have seen XBoxen at a crash screen (not a bad disc screen) notifying the owner (the store in this case) that there was a problem with the console and to return it to Microsoft for repair.
I went to both sites with Mozilla 1.2b and got no ads like the ones you described.
Here's an idea for something that would be interesting to go over for the newbies... Webmin. There seem to be a lot of comments related to the (lack of)virtue of the CLI. I like the CLI, but sometimes don't feel lie screwing with it. With Webmin, I can configure just about anything on the box via this web interface. I can also update Webin from within Webmin in addition to adding functinonality to it from within it. All of the configuration modules are right there at your fingertips. Very cool stuff. You can even configure a box remotely if you've got everything set up correctly. Windows can't touch Webmin.
...is The Linux Network Toolkit. Granted, it's not exactly a total newbie's book, but it really got me rolling on the Linux thing and networking Windows and Linux machines. Which, if someone is just starting out with Linux, is a very likely scenario.
You said this:
"No one was saying these individuals were trying to act as agents of the company."
But apparently didn't read this:
"BellSouth is the latest ISP to forbid any official tech support representation."
Instead of Download Accelerator, try LeechGet. Instead of WinZip, try UltimaetZip. Both are as good or better than their counterparts, yet never resort to these shenanigans.
You could always use snail mail to send out your invoices. Incidentally, I use QB 2002 to run my business and have not seen a message such as you described. The only time anything remotely similar has come up is when accidentally clicking on premium features (like do a credit check or bank online).
Um. As a huge fan of FFX, I, for one, am awaiting X-2 with bated breath. I DO want to play in that universe again. And what of FFXI and XII? They are obviously not ignoring, either financially or developmentally, new games. Hell, I'd assume that they've sunk more money into XI than any other FF ever. It'll be the first online FF (which is one reason I'm not all that interested in it - FF should be a single player experience). Putting everything in place that needs to be there has got to be costing them a fortune in money and programmers. Hell, I even liked Kingdom Hearts, but wish that some aspects of it had been different (I got really tired of turning around and seeing Goofy's mouth-breathing head or Donald Duck's ass - but I figure Disney required they be onscreen all the time).
We'll have the government (or RIAA) install the video cameras in YOUR house first, then.
You made thecomment about Stormtrooperd in Hilfinger, but you've missed your own point. If we say away with the ads in games what you'd get would be:
Generic space game (Star Wars is a cash cow, wouldn't want the evil Lucasfilm corporation or Fox to tarnish the purity of our space gaming!).
Can't license real players or equipment for sports games, either, so no Madden, NFL2Kx or NBA2Kx.
The Gran Turismo series would not have "real" cars or accurate tracks or the accurate advertising on said cars and tracks. Nope. Fantasy cars and tracks only and plain walls. No Enkei wheels either.
GTA Vice City would have to drop those '80s songs as well. All new generic music to set the tone for a decade.
Advertising and tie-ins actually accentuate the realism in certain games. There has been advertising in games for a while now. This smells of issues with McDonalds (and maybe globilization) than with advertising in games. If that's true, then the protestors don't have a chance of making any difference because a) there simply aren't enough of them and b) IT'S VIRTUAL!!!! No one's going to notice a few crackpots whining in an online game (that apparently they bought and pay for anyway - you have to be in the game to protest the Mickey D's in the game - bizarre).
...if they've been able to solve their NASDAQ problems. Their stock has been under a dollar for a long time now (I bought some at .23 and sold at .47). The NASDAQ sent them formal notice several months ago that if they could not maintain a stock price above a dollar for three consecutive weeks by November, they'd be dropped from the exchange. That hasn't happened. The closest they've come is almost .75 cents for a few minutes. I'm not sure the company can survive long enough to make a run of it. I think they were just a touch ahead of their time. They're very probably going to be dropped from the NASDAQ, but more importantly, they're in debt and operating at a loss.
It's the same here with Comcast vs. DSL (Bellsouth). Here is Charleston, SC BTW.
Yes, they can. I know, because they did. When Comcast switched from @Home to Comcast.net, there were all kinds of troubles. They were still signing up new customers and then telling them that they wouldn't have email for at least three months when they expected to have the mail servers and accounts set up. I sat back and snickered from behind my DSL modem. :)
Actually, as much of a supporter of the 2nd amendment as I am, I'd have to disagree. The idea of a bunch of civilians (hell, for that matter, pilots or agents) packing on a plane is not appealing to me. Decompression is a bitch. Besides, the 2nd amendment doesn't guarantee the right to keep and bear arms everywhere, all the time.
Airport security did NOT FAIL on September 11th. The terrorists that flew into the WTC were not carrying anything that was prohibited on an airplane. The breakdown came in the intelligence community. As many have pointed out from said community, a great deal of the fault for that is because the Clinton administration prohibited our intelligence agencies from consorting with undesireables. I'm sure there are other reasons, but you cannot lay the blame at the feet of airport security (even though the government clearly did).
Nope. Libertarianism in a nutshell: I got mine, and I won't stand in the way of you getting yours. Give a man a fish and all. The less people rely on the government the better for the people. The more the government supports people, the more they rely on it. It's a viscious circle. That's why there was so much public outcry over the idea of workfare. God forbid that someone that's on welfare actually attempt to pick themselves up and make something of themselves.
Government can only succeed at certain things. Defense is one. Education is not. Interstate infrastructure is one. The DMV is clearly not.
To believe that there aren't any monopolies because of government is naive. There are plenty of monopolies that are, in fact, propped up by government.
I consider myself a libertarian (small "l"). The official Libertarian party is too anarchistic for my tastes. On the other hand, given a choice between the Libertarians and the other two parties, I'd choose the Libs any day. Between the Dems and the GOP, the GOP gets my nod. Mostly because of the inneffectualness of the right's fascist tendencies. The GOP has less of a chance of pushing through their moarlistic agenda than the Dems do of pushing through their socialist agenda.
But the only thing that you can do with a tablet that you couldn't do with a standard laptop is write on the screen. Integrated wireless... Laptops already have it. Low Power... There's no reason that this couldn't be implemented more in normal Laptops. As for notes in class, typing is still faster. I still establish that it's a vertical market application.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Tablets will only be successful in vertical markets. Sure, they may sell some at first because of the GeeWhiz factor, but writing on the screen is simply less efficient than typing. If Transmeta and/or Microsoft is/are pinning their futures on tablets, then a rough future it/they will have.
Actually, I think the point was that a business model that relies on any one company is shaky. Intuit, Visio, etc... don't necessarily need Microsoft per se, just any OS with a suffeciently large user base. This could be any OS. I will concede that Symantec and McAfee rely on Windows, though. ;) Actually, when the Amiga was at her height, the best anti-virus tools were free (as in beer).
Actually, Cingular was running trivia contests and announcements (read: ads) to their subscribers over their phones running up to the release of Spider-Man this summer. It was opt in, but a vision of what's to come.
Come on Linus, whip up some Linux tunes goodness. :)
I don't know if it's the fault of the EchoStar/Hughes attornies for not being able to explain the situation to the feds or what, but the idea that allowing this merger would create a monopoly is laughable. I'm a DirecTV subscriber and I am all for this merger for a couple of reasons.
1) It would mean instant, nationwide broadband availability. This is good for consumers and for the economy without having to get the government involved (referencing a comment in the poll thread).
2) It would mean local station availability to all small dish satellite subscribers. The only way the CABLE companies will ever notice satellite as a true competitor is to break THEIR monopoly on their markets. Sattelite is simply not an option for a majority of people because they can't get thier local stations on the dish. I have an external antenna on my mine, and I can only get CBS (which is great because I get SEC football coverage, but I digress), Fox and UPN. I apparently don't qualify for a waiver to get the network feeds because I live in an area where I "SHOULD" be able to get acceptable reception with an antenna.
The feds don't understand that the sattelite companies are offering a competitive alternative to cable, not creating a new monopoly in a new market.
About 4-5 years ago I modded my Gateway Tower case to hold my Amiga 4000 guts and painted it with an appropriate color scheme (candy apple red with white checkers made out of contact paper). Some of us are ahead of the curve (or more sad than most).