Oh noes! I might have to perform an extra step to download some codecs via a very helpful wizard to listen to all my stolded musics! It's tooooo haaaarrrrddd!!!
Sheesh, can ya find something a bit more relevant to complain about?
Funny thing was, the last time my lawn service guy came by to cut the grass 2-3 weeks ago, he had a visit from a friend in the neighborhood with whom he trades movies. Guy drove up, they swapped some cash for a CD, and he drove away.
How's the RIAA or MPAA going to stop that nonsense?
Apparently the RIAA has no idea about how Usenet and NNTP work at all. Suing one NNTP service provider will not get everything removed from Usenet, since it is a distributed system with thousands, if not millions, of servers carrying the data. They can try to sue usenet.com, but they won't get the material removed from every server carrying their "stolen" IP.
Increased or decreased levels of progesterone in the bloodstream can cause fluid retention; synthetic forms of progesterone also may do so. Women with naturally excessive or low levels of this hormone, pregnant women, and women going through menopause, either naturally or surgically, may retain enough fluid to have an effect on their wrist symptoms due to increased edema and pressure in the soft tissues beneath the carpal ligament.
I type for a living. I do medical transcription working an 8 hour day 4-5 days a week. I'm also a student in Linux administration at a local business college and hobby with it constantly. I game at night after work. I spend probably 12-15 hours most days with a laptop on my lap. I type furiously fast and very accurately. As long as I obey practical prevention techniques, like keep my wrists straight, take frequent breaks to rest and stretch, and drink plenty of fluids, I could probably keep this up for another 10-15 years before osteoarthritis sets in, as is likely based on my dad's current joint health. One big benefit from my past is that I worked for a hand rehabilitation therapy clinic with a bunch of occupational therapists who taught me all I ever needed to know about wrist health.
It's all about posture. If you type with your hands in funny positions, yes, they're going to hurt. If you're a skinny person with skinny wrists, you're more likely to develop the condition due to basic mechanical stress on your wrists. Baby them and be careful. Splinting before you get symptoms can help stave off but not prevent the syndrome. Most of all, don't take the advice of some geek on Slashdot, talk to your doctor and let him know of any problems you might have.
TCP, LDAP, and SMTP are common networking protocols. I'm not stupid, just not familiar with some arcane, meaningless arconym for which there was no definition. I don't think that's my fault, do you?
I love how Slashdot stories always refer to some acronym without any reference to the acronym's meaning. This article, for instance, refers to RTS. I have no idea what the hell RTS stands for, so I think the article could have been written differently and held just as much meaning as the original:
"Austrian researchers experimenting with adding emotion to game frammistan say that 'neurotic' software is best at zowifropistontics. They developed aggressive, defensive, neutral and neurotic bots to play Age of Mythology, based on psychological models of emotion. Neurotic bots beat the standard game frammistan every time and faster than the other personalities."
So, not having looked at these patents and not knowing which ones are easily invalidated by prior art, I should just blindly start throwing money at the problem to make it go away?
That not unlike The SCO Group, we're going to need to ask this of Microsoft over and over and over before we might see an answer. But then again, SCO hasn't shown any code to support their allegations at any time in the last 4 years; what makes anyone think that MS will reveal their patents?
We're all fairly certain which of the two is riding rectally impaled on the other's forearm.
Given Microsoft's track record in the last 20 years for security flaws, I don't think I'll be participating with this one. I'd rather my personal and medical data be safer locked in a nice, strong FILE CABINET, thank you very much.
Welcome to the American legal system, the wheels of which grind slowly but very fine.
In this case, I'll be writing my elected reps to lord it over all of them. I did write to thank them a couple days ago when I read about how they had tried but failed to pass a measure to repeal that stinking pile of horseshit law called the Patriot Act.
At least the tide seems to be turning back to status pre-September 11, 2001. Too bad it's taken so bleedin' long.
I won't hesitate to point out what PJ has already pointed out, that most of these stories about all the trouble with Linux infighting is meant as the next undermining tactic by a company with deep pockets in an attempt to further bolster its market dominant position.
I, for one, do not welcome our FUD-spewing, bad-software-making overlords.
Checks and balances in government power to prevent abuses? This idea that the government should be allowed unfettered access to private communications just goes completely against what the Constitutional Framers had in mind. It would be best that these creeps be made to go through the paces of getting a warrant and *then* conducting a perfectly legal wiretap. The unfortunate part is that these clowns couldn't come up with believable grounds to get the warrant in the first place.
Zonk writes that Morhaime says, "When Burning Crusade rolled out, they took the lessons from WoW's launch to heart. They upgraded their entire infrastructure for the game, and ensured they had extra capacity for their first day of new gameplay. The servers withstood the extra load well, and CS folks said they viewed it as a 'smooth patch release.'"
Obviously this guy wasn't in-game at Hellfire Peninsula at all on any of the heavily populated realms during BC's opening. I was, and the game did not run smoothly at all. I was on a pretty heavily populated realm server, Whisperwind, and trying to do anything on WoW in Hellfire was like swimming in molasses with all the players crowded into one zone. Low frame rates and poor ping times in the upper hundreds of milliseconds to single seconds was the norm. It wasn't until Blizz opened up some new servers for free character transfers a week after BC's opening that me and my guild jumped. Only then did things smooth out from our perspective.
I'll give Blizz credit, though. Playing WoW:BC now is quite entertaining, and I can usually find something new each day in to keep my interest. It seems like I'm constantly finding some kind of new content, whether it be different quests or new instances. Let's hope it stays good.
I'll tell ya what all the fuss is about: Political Correctness (PC) and the erosion of First Amendment rights as a result.
I think PC sucks. I think censoring people because they might say something that bothers or offends me is completely anti-First Amendment. I may not like what the group Fuck Islam has to say, but they have a right to say what they want to say, no matter whether it's offensive, hate speech, politically incorrect, racist, or anything else.
Fuck Political Correctness should be the next group to organize, though the closest I could come was http://www.subgenius.com./
"We had a situation where an employee sent a communication via e-mail that was inconsistent with our corporate policy," said Tom Robertson, general manager for interoperability and standards at Microsoft. "That communication had no impact on the final vote."
In other news tonight, the sun set in the west again, and the dark didn't follow along afterward. Climatological, astronomical, and biblical scholars are justifiably baffled.
Some time ago, when Google first announced this Apps product, I signed up for an account to take a look at what they had offered. Seeing as how I host my own vanity domain, I didn't see much use for it, and I decided to just ignore it until I needed it in case a machine here took a dump.
I ended up logging on and dropping the account. I also made the decision that until that term in their license changes, I probably will not consider Google Apps for anything else.
Well, let's see. The friend consults me for help on mail problems. He says that the customer won't accept changes in his system to something more reliable and easier to configure, and since he's paying the bills and won't foot for the changes necessary, it sounds like we're living in la-la land already, so an easy solution isn't going to be easy.
I'm certain you've seen the syndrome: Speak to the business owner and his management team about the problem in easy-to-understand terms, and their eyes glaze over like you're speaking Greek about Pythagorean theory and then decide that if it's not Microsoft Brand software, it's not gonna go into their systems. Copy there, Ace?
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Oh noes! I might have to perform an extra step to download some codecs via a very helpful wizard to listen to all my stolded musics! It's tooooo haaaarrrrddd!!!
Sheesh, can ya find something a bit more relevant to complain about?
Funny thing was, the last time my lawn service guy came by to cut the grass 2-3 weeks ago, he had a visit from a friend in the neighborhood with whom he trades movies. Guy drove up, they swapped some cash for a CD, and he drove away.
How's the RIAA or MPAA going to stop that nonsense?
Apparently the RIAA has no idea about how Usenet and NNTP work at all. Suing one NNTP service provider will not get everything removed from Usenet, since it is a distributed system with thousands, if not millions, of servers carrying the data. They can try to sue usenet.com, but they won't get the material removed from every server carrying their "stolen" IP.
Anyone reminded of Don Quixote yet?
Increased or decreased levels of progesterone in the bloodstream can cause fluid retention; synthetic forms of progesterone also may do so. Women with naturally excessive or low levels of this hormone, pregnant women, and women going through menopause, either naturally or surgically, may retain enough fluid to have an effect on their wrist symptoms due to increased edema and pressure in the soft tissues beneath the carpal ligament.
I type for a living. I do medical transcription working an 8 hour day 4-5 days a week. I'm also a student in Linux administration at a local business college and hobby with it constantly. I game at night after work. I spend probably 12-15 hours most days with a laptop on my lap. I type furiously fast and very accurately. As long as I obey practical prevention techniques, like keep my wrists straight, take frequent breaks to rest and stretch, and drink plenty of fluids, I could probably keep this up for another 10-15 years before osteoarthritis sets in, as is likely based on my dad's current joint health. One big benefit from my past is that I worked for a hand rehabilitation therapy clinic with a bunch of occupational therapists who taught me all I ever needed to know about wrist health.
It's all about posture. If you type with your hands in funny positions, yes, they're going to hurt. If you're a skinny person with skinny wrists, you're more likely to develop the condition due to basic mechanical stress on your wrists. Baby them and be careful. Splinting before you get symptoms can help stave off but not prevent the syndrome. Most of all, don't take the advice of some geek on Slashdot, talk to your doctor and let him know of any problems you might have.
TCP, LDAP, and SMTP are common networking protocols. I'm not stupid, just not familiar with some arcane, meaningless arconym for which there was no definition. I don't think that's my fault, do you?
I love how Slashdot stories always refer to some acronym without any reference to the acronym's meaning. This article, for instance, refers to RTS. I have no idea what the hell RTS stands for, so I think the article could have been written differently and held just as much meaning as the original:
"Austrian researchers experimenting with adding emotion to game frammistan say that 'neurotic' software is best at zowifropistontics. They developed aggressive, defensive, neutral and neurotic bots to play Age of Mythology, based on psychological models of emotion. Neurotic bots beat the standard game frammistan every time and faster than the other personalities."
Get my drift??
So, not having looked at these patents and not knowing which ones are easily invalidated by prior art, I should just blindly start throwing money at the problem to make it go away?
Great strategy.
Steve? Is that you, man?
Dude, you're an such an excellent dancer.
That not unlike The SCO Group, we're going to need to ask this of Microsoft over and over and over before we might see an answer. But then again, SCO hasn't shown any code to support their allegations at any time in the last 4 years; what makes anyone think that MS will reveal their patents?
We're all fairly certain which of the two is riding rectally impaled on the other's forearm.
Given Microsoft's track record in the last 20 years for security flaws, I don't think I'll be participating with this one. I'd rather my personal and medical data be safer locked in a nice, strong FILE CABINET, thank you very much.
Welcome to the American legal system, the wheels of which grind slowly but very fine.
In this case, I'll be writing my elected reps to lord it over all of them. I did write to thank them a couple days ago when I read about how they had tried but failed to pass a measure to repeal that stinking pile of horseshit law called the Patriot Act.
At least the tide seems to be turning back to status pre-September 11, 2001. Too bad it's taken so bleedin' long.
I won't hesitate to point out what PJ has already pointed out, that most of these stories about all the trouble with Linux infighting is meant as the next undermining tactic by a company with deep pockets in an attempt to further bolster its market dominant position.
I, for one, do not welcome our FUD-spewing, bad-software-making overlords.
Heh. Right, Vista is just *sooo* much better, with it's restrictive interface, DRM nonsense, and overall bloat.
No thanks, I'll pass on that pile of doo doo.
Try to put the toothpaste back in the tube. I dare ya.
Pandora's box also comes immediately to mind.
A finger? He should have went with the whole-body experience.
I guess we should all be happy that the guy wasn't shot, huh?
Checks and balances in government power to prevent abuses? This idea that the government should be allowed unfettered access to private communications just goes completely against what the Constitutional Framers had in mind. It would be best that these creeps be made to go through the paces of getting a warrant and *then* conducting a perfectly legal wiretap. The unfortunate part is that these clowns couldn't come up with believable grounds to get the warrant in the first place.
... he's doing his master's bidding and getting paid. That's all he likely cares about.
Obviously this guy wasn't in-game at Hellfire Peninsula at all on any of the heavily populated realms during BC's opening. I was, and the game did not run smoothly at all. I was on a pretty heavily populated realm server, Whisperwind, and trying to do anything on WoW in Hellfire was like swimming in molasses with all the players crowded into one zone. Low frame rates and poor ping times in the upper hundreds of milliseconds to single seconds was the norm. It wasn't until Blizz opened up some new servers for free character transfers a week after BC's opening that me and my guild jumped. Only then did things smooth out from our perspective.
I'll give Blizz credit, though. Playing WoW:BC now is quite entertaining, and I can usually find something new each day in to keep my interest. It seems like I'm constantly finding some kind of new content, whether it be different quests or new instances. Let's hope it stays good.
I'll tell ya what all the fuss is about: Political Correctness (PC) and the erosion of First Amendment rights as a result.
I think PC sucks. I think censoring people because they might say something that bothers or offends me is completely anti-First Amendment. I may not like what the group Fuck Islam has to say, but they have a right to say what they want to say, no matter whether it's offensive, hate speech, politically incorrect, racist, or anything else.
Fuck Political Correctness should be the next group to organize, though the closest I could come was http://www.subgenius.com./
In other news tonight, the sun set in the west again, and the dark didn't follow along afterward. Climatological, astronomical, and biblical scholars are justifiably baffled.
Some time ago, when Google first announced this Apps product, I signed up for an account to take a look at what they had offered. Seeing as how I host my own vanity domain, I didn't see much use for it, and I decided to just ignore it until I needed it in case a machine here took a dump.
I ended up logging on and dropping the account. I also made the decision that until that term in their license changes, I probably will not consider Google Apps for anything else.
Now, I wonder how many other accounts will close?
Well, let's see. The friend consults me for help on mail problems. He says that the customer won't accept changes in his system to something more reliable and easier to configure, and since he's paying the bills and won't foot for the changes necessary, it sounds like we're living in la-la land already, so an easy solution isn't going to be easy.
I'm certain you've seen the syndrome: Speak to the business owner and his management team about the problem in easy-to-understand terms, and their eyes glaze over like you're speaking Greek about Pythagorean theory and then decide that if it's not Microsoft Brand software, it's not gonna go into their systems. Copy there, Ace?
I'm reposting this to make certain that if one point gets made here, this is it.