I was going to post about this, but you and a few dozen other people beat me to it.
Windows 7 ought to have a Windows legacy emulator that does NOT run by default. If you just run programs like Office/OpenOffice, a web browser, media player(s), etc., you would not need to load it up and your system would run a lot faster. And safer.
...where the fuck is his Presidential Medal of Freedom, but it turns out that he's already been awarded one almost 50 years ago. His list of honors and accolades is huge:
* Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Academy of Medical Films
* American Heart Association (AHA)
* Children Uniting Nations
* Encyclopaedia Britannica
* Foundation for Biomedical Research
* International College of Angiology
* International Health and Medical Film Festival
* Research! America
* Tulane Medical Alumni Association
* U.S. Army Legion of Merit (1945)
* American Medical Association Hektoen Gold Medal (1954 and 1970)
* Rudolph Matas Award in Vascular Surgery (1954)
* International Society of Surgery Distinguished Service Award (1958)
* Leriche Award (1959)
* American Medical Association Distinguished Service Award (1959)
* Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research (1963)
* American Medical Association Billings Gold Medal Exhibit Award (1967)
* American Heart Association Gold Heart Award (1968)
* Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences 50th Anniversary Jubilee Medal (1973)
* Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Foreign Member (1974)
* Veterans of Foreign Wars Commander-in-Chiefâ(TM)s Medal and Citation (1980)
* American Surgical Association Distinguished Service Award (1981)
* Academy of Surgical Research Markowitz Award (1988)
* Association of American Medical Colleges Special Recognition Award (1988)
* American Legion Distinguished Service Award (1990)
* Premio Giuseppe Corradi Award for Surgery and Scientific Research (1997)
* Russian Military Medical Academy, Boris Petrovsky International Surgeons Award and First Laureate of the Boris Petrovsky Gold Medal (1997)
* John P. McGovern Compleat Physician Award (1999)
* Russian Academy of Sciences Foreign Member (1999)
* Texas Senate and House of Representatives, Adoption of resolutions honoring Dr. DeBakey for 50 years of medical practice in Texas (1999)
* American Medical Association Virtual Mentor Award (2000)
* American Philosophical Society Jonathan Rhoads Medal (2000)
* Library of Congress Bicentennial Living Legend Award (2000)
* Villanova University Mendel Medal Award (2001)
* Houston Hall of Fame (2001)
* NASA Invention of the Year Award (2001)
* MUSC[1] "Lindbergh-Carrel Prize"[2](2002)
* Congressional Gold Medal (April 23, 2008)
Note that he not only won awards from the States, but the U.S.S.R. honored him with awards as well. Our mortal enemy for nearly 50 years recognized how great this guy is.
Has Bush said anything about this, or is he continuing to be an inept idiot ignorant of events in the scientific community?
Mod parent up, this is an excellent point. I think we will be seeing a prevalence of emphasis on individual skills and freelance work in the future.
I was very much the same way - I run a personal computer repair business. I have had very few return customers - not because I do not do my job well, but because I do it too well. Some customers have called me many times for other issues (such as purchasing), emphasizing that they personally know I do a good job and I am honest with them. That is worth more to them than saving a few bucks.
I'm sure any one of the parent's customers could find someone who could program for a quarter of his asking price - but they would likely not get the same quality, nor would they want to take the risk of working with someone whose skills they have not assessed.
Right, because once e-mail filters out the messages there's absolutely no way for anyone to get information anymore. Well, except for websites, BBSes, Usenet, television, radio, telephone, letters...
Do you honestly think that if more people knew they could get refunds by leaving in the first 15-20 minutes of the movie, they would just say "fuck it, nothing I can do now!"?
Unless one of the two major political parties collapses, the system is rigged against the smaller parties. "The best candidate" doesn't have a chance anymore. You just have to pick from the lesser of two evils.
Card catalog description When players of their virtual reality computer game fall into a coma, Liz and BJ O'Connor, teenage owners of a computer games company, flee from the police in an attempt to locate a copy of their game and correct the programming.
Right click on your AVG icon and click on "Open AVG User Interface". Right click on Linkscanner in Overview and click Open. Uncheck "Enable AVG Search-Shield (need web browser restart)". (You do not have to restart your browser to disable it.)
Now click on Overview on the left to go back to the Overview screen. Right click on Linkscanner and select "Ignore component State". It's shut off and AVG won't whine at you for turning it off.
Microsoft actually has a long history of its higher level employees contributing to or creating charitable contributions. For example, thanks to Ballmer's research, today's average office chair is now 73% more aerodynamic.
Why the Hell do people spell it Amerika? Is it because of Rammstein, or is it because we just want it to sound German and oppressive (which... is pretty much Rammstein, but still)?
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I was going to post about this, but you and a few dozen other people beat me to it. Windows 7 ought to have a Windows legacy emulator that does NOT run by default. If you just run programs like Office/OpenOffice, a web browser, media player(s), etc., you would not need to load it up and your system would run a lot faster. And safer.
Wooooooooooooosh
... why couldn't they do that 10 years ago?
They did.
Then they shredded and destroyed it.
...where the fuck is his Presidential Medal of Freedom, but it turns out that he's already been awarded one almost 50 years ago. His list of honors and accolades is huge:
* Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Academy of Medical Films
* American Heart Association (AHA)
* Children Uniting Nations
* Encyclopaedia Britannica
* Foundation for Biomedical Research
* International College of Angiology
* International Health and Medical Film Festival
* Research! America
* Tulane Medical Alumni Association
* U.S. Army Legion of Merit (1945)
* American Medical Association Hektoen Gold Medal (1954 and 1970)
* Rudolph Matas Award in Vascular Surgery (1954)
* International Society of Surgery Distinguished Service Award (1958)
* Leriche Award (1959)
* American Medical Association Distinguished Service Award (1959)
* Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research (1963)
* American Medical Association Billings Gold Medal Exhibit Award (1967)
* American Heart Association Gold Heart Award (1968)
* Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences 50th Anniversary Jubilee Medal (1973)
* Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Foreign Member (1974)
* Veterans of Foreign Wars Commander-in-Chiefâ(TM)s Medal and Citation (1980)
* American Surgical Association Distinguished Service Award (1981)
* Academy of Surgical Research Markowitz Award (1988)
* Association of American Medical Colleges Special Recognition Award (1988)
* American Legion Distinguished Service Award (1990)
* Premio Giuseppe Corradi Award for Surgery and Scientific Research (1997)
* Russian Military Medical Academy, Boris Petrovsky International Surgeons Award and First Laureate of the Boris Petrovsky Gold Medal (1997)
* John P. McGovern Compleat Physician Award (1999)
* Russian Academy of Sciences Foreign Member (1999)
* Texas Senate and House of Representatives, Adoption of resolutions honoring Dr. DeBakey for 50 years of medical practice in Texas (1999)
* American Medical Association Virtual Mentor Award (2000)
* American Philosophical Society Jonathan Rhoads Medal (2000)
* Library of Congress Bicentennial Living Legend Award (2000)
* Villanova University Mendel Medal Award (2001)
* Houston Hall of Fame (2001)
* NASA Invention of the Year Award (2001)
* MUSC[1] "Lindbergh-Carrel Prize"[2](2002)
* Congressional Gold Medal (April 23, 2008)
Note that he not only won awards from the States, but the U.S.S.R. honored him with awards as well. Our mortal enemy for nearly 50 years recognized how great this guy is.
Has Bush said anything about this, or is he continuing to be an inept idiot ignorant of events in the scientific community?
Mod parent up, this is an excellent point. I think we will be seeing a prevalence of emphasis on individual skills and freelance work in the future.
I was very much the same way - I run a personal computer repair business. I have had very few return customers - not because I do not do my job well, but because I do it too well. Some customers have called me many times for other issues (such as purchasing), emphasizing that they personally know I do a good job and I am honest with them. That is worth more to them than saving a few bucks.
I'm sure any one of the parent's customers could find someone who could program for a quarter of his asking price - but they would likely not get the same quality, nor would they want to take the risk of working with someone whose skills they have not assessed.
Cripes! Look at this grammar... Are we outsourcing Slashdot posts to India, too?
We have public officials in charge of airport security
Yes, just what we need - a 4 1/2 hour wait to connect to the Internet.
Right, because once e-mail filters out the messages there's absolutely no way for anyone to get information anymore. Well, except for websites, BBSes, Usenet, television, radio, telephone, letters...
I've never asked for a movie ticket refund because the movie sucked, so why would you expect to refund a game if it sucks?
Actually, if you leave during the first 15-20 minutes and tell the manager "The Movie sucks, I'd like a refund" they will generally oblige you.
Source: http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/yourmoney/11349201.html
Do you honestly think that if more people knew they could get refunds by leaving in the first 15-20 minutes of the movie, they would just say "fuck it, nothing I can do now!"?
Here's everything the parent said in flowchart form.
His Level 14 "Wall of Words" didn't have high enough defense.
Have fun throwing away your vote.
Unless one of the two major political parties collapses, the system is rigged against the smaller parties. "The best candidate" doesn't have a chance anymore. You just have to pick from the lesser of two evils.
Let's get real.
Well now we know the user name of Dr. Phil's /. account.
Does the guide cover how to beat the end boss of the Internet?
World of Pagerank?
Gemini Game by Michael Scott. It was one of my favorite books when I was a young'in.
Card catalog description
When players of their virtual reality computer game fall into a coma, Liz and BJ O'Connor, teenage owners of a computer games company, flee from the police in an attempt to locate a copy of their game and correct the programming.
You'd be so bored you'd want to die.
World of Warcraft proves otherwise.
I personally don't like WoW, but I'm just saying it doesn't take much to entertain people for hundreds if not thousands of hours per year.
Well at least I'd feel right at home playing the Undead...
It'd be hard when my guild wanted to get onto Ventrilo, though.
"Hey dude, why do you sound like Stephen Hawking?"
...did it first and for free.
How's this OffTopic? This is very relevant to the topic considering that this has happened once before.
I'd mod you back up if I had the points.
Right click on your AVG icon and click on "Open AVG User Interface". Right click on Linkscanner in Overview and click Open. Uncheck "Enable AVG Search-Shield (need web browser restart)". (You do not have to restart your browser to disable it.)
Now click on Overview on the left to go back to the Overview screen. Right click on Linkscanner and select "Ignore component State". It's shut off and AVG won't whine at you for turning it off.
Microsoft actually has a long history of its higher level employees contributing to or creating charitable contributions. For example, thanks to Ballmer's research, today's average office chair is now 73% more aerodynamic.
It would be nice to see things more concise.
"Christ, I love Greek! I stuck my wang in her pooper. The end."
Why the Hell do people spell it Amerika? Is it because of Rammstein, or is it because we just want it to sound German and oppressive (which... is pretty much Rammstein, but still)?
I really think they are missing the point
Politicians missing the point? I am SHOCKED!
Falcon
And then you punched them, right?