The people who first identified the molecular structure of air should charge us all $5.95 per breath.
Deliberately obtuse is what I'd call Gates' ravings. The software can't be improved? The hell you say.
For instance, I wish Bill would please explain to me how I'm able to plug and play USB devices using GPL software on Linux without a problem, whereas 10 years ago it was a struggle fiddling with drivers and scripts and definition files?
Bill, how is it that now I am able to burn CDs using GPL software on Linux from a graphical interface on Linux, whereas 10 years ago it was mostly took fiddling around with drivers and scripts and command line utilities with tons of arcane options?
How is it, Mr. Gates, that I can drop a gross monster of a program like World of Warcraft into a Wine installation on Linux, a well-known GPL software competitor and emulator of your software protocols and programming interfaces, and have that program run flawlessly, whereas that same feat 10 years using GPL software was an impossible, horrific mess?
Stop talking. You only point out the weaknesses in your silly argument.
Fix the headline, please
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ISO Approves OOXML
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Interesting headline you have there. I think it should read:
Microsoft buys ISO certification; World looks on with drool on its face
If a woman's pretty, then he really, really wants to have sex with her but has no idea how to get from "Hi" to "Let's fuck." There's everything about timing--when's the right time to ask?
As a male gets older sometimes this gets easier, but most remain incoherent as to the little signals that a woman might learn to drop by the time she's past age 30. If the woman would just open her yap and at least say something tangible about the subject instead of hinting around and playing hide and seek with the Secret Snail, things would get a whole lot easier.
If she's ugly and intelligent and witty or slightly ditzy but not intolerably idiotic, then he'd be her friend but might get more interested if she would open up about her wild penchant for oral sex or something else that might get more than wondering looks out of the guy. Ugly women need lovin' too, and most of them have all the right equipment that guys shouldn't ignore. I don't know about other guys, but unless they're really brutally ugly, I'm still wondering what they'd be like in the sack.
If she's ugly and stupid then he doesn't want to know her.
Mostly dark this morning turning brightly sunny then partly cloudy during the day with a slight threat of rain showers tonight. Temps will go from bitter cold early this morning to somewhat tolerable for about 5 minutes this afternoon before heading back to bitter cold again tonight.
Next week will see warming temperatures during the day, continued cold temperatures at night, and continued varying cycles of dark and light throughout the day.
That's the weather; I'm not Chevy Chase, but maybe you are.
Funny thing is, companies like Genova Diagnostics of North Carolina have been doing saliva hormone testing for several years now and have touted it as the only way to get true levels of estradiol, testosterone, cortisol, progesterone, DHEA and others. A doctor that I worked for 3-4 years ago to set up a fellowship in functional medicine was big into saliva testing and hormone balancing based on these saliva tests, and she's still doing some good work today. I know she's worked with lots of patients, mostly premenopausal and menopausal women, and has helped them with maladies that go along with menopause like headaches, osteoporosis, and all the uncomfortable changes that go along with the big change in life. Biggest problem she's had is getting the mainstream insurance companies to accept her work and the work of others that have gone toward supporting the use of saliva hormone testing.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
I don't see anything about, "unless it's speech we really, really don't like," in there at all, do you?
So, being SubGenius myself and rather abhorrent of any and all religions, does anyone else think that I can get NetSol to close down any and all religious websites that they currently host?
I did the same for the Penguicon event for the first three years, starting in 2002. We got some excitement, but not much. By year 3, there was little to no interest in gaming on Linux.
It's really vicious circle problem. I think it stems from the lack of Linux support from nearly all the big gaming manufacturers. I'd be excited if I could get a Linux World of Warcraft client, but will that ever happen? Blizzard hasn't the numbers to even say yes to a feasibility study. Thus, gamers will continue to stick where the platform is well-developed, on the WinSuck OS.
Until we see some well-developed Windows gaming companies wake up and realize the profit that could be had, I'm afraid Linux will not become a gaming platform anytime real soon.
I was in the Marines back in '82-'86, specifically with 1st Bn 6th Mar 2nd Div. At the time, there were a couple guys I hung around with, Dave, Brian, and Vic. Dave was married to Deb. We all hung out with Dave and Deb at their place in off-base housing near Camp Lejeune playing D&D until the wee hours.
Many nights and many gallons of beer and trashcan Everclear Kool-Aid were consumed during those weekends. We'd build up our characters, and Dave the sicko DM would tear us down. It was a twisted extension of boot camp, now that I look back on it. Often we'd end up passed out by 3 a.m. on a Friday night, wake up Saturday morning; Deb would cook breakfast, and we'd shake off our hangovers and do it all over again from noon or 1 p.m. until dawn Sunday morning. Sunday afternoon we'd gather up our laundry and head off to the barracks to get our shit together for the coming week.
Another time I got into it was while living out in New Haven, MI. I was working for a small auto seating manufacturer and made friends with a guy and his wife who had a penchant for gaming. He did a great job ripping us apart. By that time I was married, he was married, and we, wives and all, had a rippin' good time getting drunk and gaming all night long on weekends. Yeah, history repeats itself.
I owe a lot to Gary and the rest of the guys in on his project for all the fun and good drunken rip-roaring nutcase shenanigans. I won't mention all the time wasted on spin-offs from his work, including my own penchant for games like Nethack and World of Warcraft. If it weren't for him, what would we have done to waste the time?
I think I'll scare up a drink in Gary's honor. Man, those were good times!
Unless their goal was something other than "winning".
The goal has been "FUDding" all along.
This whole thing has been an obvious farce that Karl Rove would have been proud of perpetrated by the Monopoly to sow fear, uncertainty and doubt while trying to advance the latest sinking flagship OS on the world, all in the hope that the entire world would be so stupid, apathetic, or blind as to accept it all.
Unfortunately for them, they chose a smarter opponent, the Linux community. Bastard Operators from Hell are to be feared.
A lot of games would run well on Linux if the Wine devs could get some meaningful documentation from Microsoft on how all the graphical hooks work, so that they in turn could implement all the right APIs in their own code to do the exact same thing as Windows. This is one of the interoperability issues that the EU has fined Microsoft over this week.
Also to support the effort, more hardware vendors need to wake up and start coding Linux drivers for their products. Why, just a week ago I saw a great deal on a Lexmark printer/fax/copier that I assumed would offer some sort of support for Linux. Unfortunately for me, I let my big head do all the wrong thinking.
The printer works great in Windows, but the only thing I have running Windows is a small laptop. My servers close to where I have room in this little house are both running Linux. Lexmark can't be arsed to develop a fully-working driver for anything but Windows products. They have a Linux developer's kit, but unless you're a programmer, that's basically useless. If only they'd realize that with both Linux and Mac users left out in the cold, they're pissing off 33% of the market these days. All it would take is to write a PPD file for cups.
Anyone up to the job? Find Reverend Eggplant on Usenet alt.slack if you want to contribute to the effort.
Porcine-mounted aviatrices with huge breasts just flew past my window!!
I'm absolutely stunned that someone, some government, finally got up the nuts to face off with the Monopoly. Took 10 years to get done, but FINALLY!! Think we'll see some big changes at Microsoft soon? Watch carefully. The fireworks are about to start.
Fuck the non-American's, it's the American side of the conversation that needs, no REQUIRES, protection. Last I checked, unwarranted searches and wiretaps were still unconstitutional, but the Bush administration has trampled roughshodden over our rights so much anyway that the sheep living in this country just shut up and take it. It's like everyone in this country has been put under some Svengali spell designed to keep them complacent, docile, and unquestioning, primed for the day before the '08 election, when the Bushies will dispatch the National Guard to institute martial law and a new Christian Theocracy. No one will question it, and no one will even raise a hand to do a damned thing about it.
Yeah, I know, it's a totally made up scenario. But with things going the way they are, that scenario could one day become very real. Take this moment to drop an email to your elected representatives and demand an end to this nonsense.
And yet despite all these reasons its (albeit growing) market share is around 15%, compared to the vastly worse IE 6's 42ish% and IE 7's 32ish%.
Well, it's kind of hard to supplant the de facto browser installed with every copy of the Windows OS, don't you think? It's not for lack of trying or any fault of Mozilla's that Firefox isn't on top. Add to that the lack of any kind of decent ActiveX script reader for Firefox so that it might work well with all the idiotic corporate IE-only applications, and there's the problem in a nutshell.
Rofl, like the folks concerned would see them. Anyway, what would be nice would be an effective filtering mechanism for Usenet groups. I try to use the current filtering system in Thunderbird and it just sucks all kinds of ass. I'd also love to see a way to rescind filtering and accidentally killed threads.
Anyone got the FQDNs and nameservers for the domains these bozos want to use yet? I've got null zones for most of the major ad servers, i.e., 247realmedia.com, doubleclick.com, atdmt.com, amongst many others, already set up on my nameserver. This change is going to cost another 20 minutes of my time to craft null zones for their domains so I don't have to see their idiotic crap.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
How is locking our culture, our music, our films behind lock and key to be performed only on a pay-per-view basis going to help anyone but RIAA/MPAA? For centuries, people have been sharing cultural performances without much upset from the artists and producers. Now comes the digital age, these companies missed the boat by about 10 years in trying to understand the technology and deliver their product in the easiest, most obvious way that people want to use it, so people do what they have done for years, and that suddenly means it's time to sue everyone and his brother for copyright violations?
IBM may very well have been legally justified to not reimburse these folks the overtime pay in the first place. However, since it was found otherwise, I think the 15% pay cut to compensate is just spitting in the face of their employees. How many good engineers and other employees will they lose as a result of this move? It seems to me that if you have good people working for you, willing to stay after hours to keep things moving, you should reward them for the extra effort. Too bad if it happens that computer employees rack up lots of overtime, but it's the nature of the business and should be considered cost of doing business.
On three level 70s and one level 61, I still have trouble breaking 3,000 gold between them. How does one get that much gold together in the first place?
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The people who first identified the molecular structure of air should charge us all $5.95 per breath.
Deliberately obtuse is what I'd call Gates' ravings. The software can't be improved? The hell you say.
For instance, I wish Bill would please explain to me how I'm able to plug and play USB devices using GPL software on Linux without a problem, whereas 10 years ago it was a struggle fiddling with drivers and scripts and definition files?
Bill, how is it that now I am able to burn CDs using GPL software on Linux from a graphical interface on Linux, whereas 10 years ago it was mostly took fiddling around with drivers and scripts and command line utilities with tons of arcane options?
How is it, Mr. Gates, that I can drop a gross monster of a program like World of Warcraft into a Wine installation on Linux, a well-known GPL software competitor and emulator of your software protocols and programming interfaces, and have that program run flawlessly, whereas that same feat 10 years using GPL software was an impossible, horrific mess?
Stop talking. You only point out the weaknesses in your silly argument.
Microsoft buys ISO certification; World looks on with drool on its face
No, it's only just slightly more complex:
If a woman's pretty, then he really, really wants to have sex with her but has no idea how to get from "Hi" to "Let's fuck." There's everything about timing--when's the right time to ask?
As a male gets older sometimes this gets easier, but most remain incoherent as to the little signals that a woman might learn to drop by the time she's past age 30. If the woman would just open her yap and at least say something tangible about the subject instead of hinting around and playing hide and seek with the Secret Snail, things would get a whole lot easier.
If she's ugly and intelligent and witty or slightly ditzy but not intolerably idiotic, then he'd be her friend but might get more interested if she would open up about her wild penchant for oral sex or something else that might get more than wondering looks out of the guy. Ugly women need lovin' too, and most of them have all the right equipment that guys shouldn't ignore. I don't know about other guys, but unless they're really brutally ugly, I'm still wondering what they'd be like in the sack.
If she's ugly and stupid then he doesn't want to know her.
Mostly dark this morning turning brightly sunny then partly cloudy during the day with a slight threat of rain showers tonight. Temps will go from bitter cold early this morning to somewhat tolerable for about 5 minutes this afternoon before heading back to bitter cold again tonight.
Next week will see warming temperatures during the day, continued cold temperatures at night, and continued varying cycles of dark and light throughout the day.
That's the weather; I'm not Chevy Chase, but maybe you are.
No, I mean women in their 40s and on up, nearing that big change in life called menopause. What, I have to be this bloody specific for you idiots??
Funny thing is, companies like Genova Diagnostics of North Carolina have been doing saliva hormone testing for several years now and have touted it as the only way to get true levels of estradiol, testosterone, cortisol, progesterone, DHEA and others. A doctor that I worked for 3-4 years ago to set up a fellowship in functional medicine was big into saliva testing and hormone balancing based on these saliva tests, and she's still doing some good work today. I know she's worked with lots of patients, mostly premenopausal and menopausal women, and has helped them with maladies that go along with menopause like headaches, osteoporosis, and all the uncomfortable changes that go along with the big change in life. Biggest problem she's had is getting the mainstream insurance companies to accept her work and the work of others that have gone toward supporting the use of saliva hormone testing.
Contrast your own words to these:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
I don't see anything about, "unless it's speech we really, really don't like," in there at all, do you?
So, being SubGenius myself and rather abhorrent of any and all religions, does anyone else think that I can get NetSol to close down any and all religious websites that they currently host?
No? Me either, but hey, it'd be fun to try.
Millions of spambots, what else? If they want a Great Firewall of China, I'm happy to help!
I'd encourage everyone to simply null route China's netblocks and enjoy the sudden decrease in criminal activity.
I did the same for the Penguicon event for the first three years, starting in 2002. We got some excitement, but not much. By year 3, there was little to no interest in gaming on Linux.
It's really vicious circle problem. I think it stems from the lack of Linux support from nearly all the big gaming manufacturers. I'd be excited if I could get a Linux World of Warcraft client, but will that ever happen? Blizzard hasn't the numbers to even say yes to a feasibility study. Thus, gamers will continue to stick where the platform is well-developed, on the WinSuck OS.
Until we see some well-developed Windows gaming companies wake up and realize the profit that could be had, I'm afraid Linux will not become a gaming platform anytime real soon.
I was in the Marines back in '82-'86, specifically with 1st Bn 6th Mar 2nd Div. At the time, there were a couple guys I hung around with, Dave, Brian, and Vic. Dave was married to Deb. We all hung out with Dave and Deb at their place in off-base housing near Camp Lejeune playing D&D until the wee hours.
Many nights and many gallons of beer and trashcan Everclear Kool-Aid were consumed during those weekends. We'd build up our characters, and Dave the sicko DM would tear us down. It was a twisted extension of boot camp, now that I look back on it. Often we'd end up passed out by 3 a.m. on a Friday night, wake up Saturday morning; Deb would cook breakfast, and we'd shake off our hangovers and do it all over again from noon or 1 p.m. until dawn Sunday morning. Sunday afternoon we'd gather up our laundry and head off to the barracks to get our shit together for the coming week.
Another time I got into it was while living out in New Haven, MI. I was working for a small auto seating manufacturer and made friends with a guy and his wife who had a penchant for gaming. He did a great job ripping us apart. By that time I was married, he was married, and we, wives and all, had a rippin' good time getting drunk and gaming all night long on weekends. Yeah, history repeats itself.
I owe a lot to Gary and the rest of the guys in on his project for all the fun and good drunken rip-roaring nutcase shenanigans. I won't mention all the time wasted on spin-offs from his work, including my own penchant for games like Nethack and World of Warcraft. If it weren't for him, what would we have done to waste the time?
I think I'll scare up a drink in Gary's honor. Man, those were good times!
Will it run on Linux? No?
Ho Hum.
The goal has been "FUDding" all along.
This whole thing has been an obvious farce that Karl Rove would have been proud of perpetrated by the Monopoly to sow fear, uncertainty and doubt while trying to advance the latest sinking flagship OS on the world, all in the hope that the entire world would be so stupid, apathetic, or blind as to accept it all.
Unfortunately for them, they chose a smarter opponent, the Linux community. Bastard Operators from Hell are to be feared.
Linux 2.4? Latest kernel version?
Dude, that is SOOO 90s. Unfortunately, SCO doesn't have a headlock on the POSIX standard.
A lot of games would run well on Linux if the Wine devs could get some meaningful documentation from Microsoft on how all the graphical hooks work, so that they in turn could implement all the right APIs in their own code to do the exact same thing as Windows. This is one of the interoperability issues that the EU has fined Microsoft over this week.
Also to support the effort, more hardware vendors need to wake up and start coding Linux drivers for their products. Why, just a week ago I saw a great deal on a Lexmark printer/fax/copier that I assumed would offer some sort of support for Linux. Unfortunately for me, I let my big head do all the wrong thinking.
The printer works great in Windows, but the only thing I have running Windows is a small laptop. My servers close to where I have room in this little house are both running Linux. Lexmark can't be arsed to develop a fully-working driver for anything but Windows products. They have a Linux developer's kit, but unless you're a programmer, that's basically useless. If only they'd realize that with both Linux and Mac users left out in the cold, they're pissing off 33% of the market these days. All it would take is to write a PPD file for cups.
Anyone up to the job? Find Reverend Eggplant on Usenet alt.slack if you want to contribute to the effort.
Porcine-mounted aviatrices with huge breasts just flew past my window!!
I'm absolutely stunned that someone, some government, finally got up the nuts to face off with the Monopoly. Took 10 years to get done, but FINALLY!! Think we'll see some big changes at Microsoft soon? Watch carefully. The fireworks are about to start.
Fuck the non-American's, it's the American side of the conversation that needs, no REQUIRES, protection. Last I checked, unwarranted searches and wiretaps were still unconstitutional, but the Bush administration has trampled roughshodden over our rights so much anyway that the sheep living in this country just shut up and take it. It's like everyone in this country has been put under some Svengali spell designed to keep them complacent, docile, and unquestioning, primed for the day before the '08 election, when the Bushies will dispatch the National Guard to institute martial law and a new Christian Theocracy. No one will question it, and no one will even raise a hand to do a damned thing about it.
Yeah, I know, it's a totally made up scenario. But with things going the way they are, that scenario could one day become very real. Take this moment to drop an email to your elected representatives and demand an end to this nonsense.
Who says crazy isn't a religion??
Hell, it's the best religion money can buy!
Well, it's kind of hard to supplant the de facto browser installed with every copy of the Windows OS, don't you think? It's not for lack of trying or any fault of Mozilla's that Firefox isn't on top. Add to that the lack of any kind of decent ActiveX script reader for Firefox so that it might work well with all the idiotic corporate IE-only applications, and there's the problem in a nutshell.
Monopoly has it's influences, eh?
Rofl, like the folks concerned would see them. Anyway, what would be nice would be an effective filtering mechanism for Usenet groups. I try to use the current filtering system in Thunderbird and it just sucks all kinds of ass. I'd also love to see a way to rescind filtering and accidentally killed threads.
Yeah, I know, wishful thinking, good luck.
Anyone got the FQDNs and nameservers for the domains these bozos want to use yet? I've got null zones for most of the major ad servers, i.e., 247realmedia.com, doubleclick.com, atdmt.com, amongst many others, already set up on my nameserver. This change is going to cost another 20 minutes of my time to craft null zones for their domains so I don't have to see their idiotic crap.
Someone on Capital Hill needs to learn to fucking read:
* Fourth Amendment - Protection from unreasonable search and seizure.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
How is locking our culture, our music, our films behind lock and key to be performed only on a pay-per-view basis going to help anyone but RIAA/MPAA? For centuries, people have been sharing cultural performances without much upset from the artists and producers. Now comes the digital age, these companies missed the boat by about 10 years in trying to understand the technology and deliver their product in the easiest, most obvious way that people want to use it, so people do what they have done for years, and that suddenly means it's time to sue everyone and his brother for copyright violations?
Shoot the other foot next.
http://www.dol.gov/esa/regs/compliance/whd/whdfs23.pdf>U.S. Department of Labor Fact Sheet #23: Overtime Pay Requirements of the FLSA
29 CFR Part 541, Defining and delimiting the exemptions for executive, administrative, professional, outside sales and computer employees, final rule
IBM may very well have been legally justified to not reimburse these folks the overtime pay in the first place. However, since it was found otherwise, I think the 15% pay cut to compensate is just spitting in the face of their employees. How many good engineers and other employees will they lose as a result of this move? It seems to me that if you have good people working for you, willing to stay after hours to keep things moving, you should reward them for the extra effort. Too bad if it happens that computer employees rack up lots of overtime, but it's the nature of the business and should be considered cost of doing business.
On three level 70s and one level 61, I still have trouble breaking 3,000 gold between them. How does one get that much gold together in the first place?