Wow. If I was interviewing you, I wouldn't be able to express how happy I was that you revealed yourself to be a complete clod during the interview, rather than bothering to 'appear professional' in front of your prospective employer.
Almost certainly not. Having dealt with stuff like this working for government, the proper way of disposing of stuff is to declare it salvage, (meaning that it has 0 value, or < 0 value (it costs more to store than it's worth), and then it would be sold for scrap. Nearly nothing is thrown away.
In reality, since 9/11, the NYC city agency that used to accept salvage stopped. So it's actually more normal now - is it crap? Okay, toss it.
Yeah, but maybe you don't want them opening all the time... who knows what might happen? Maybe the TNG Enterprise had advanced AI to determine if the crewmember was actually trying to walk into the room blocked by the door, or just walking down the hall. On a starship, you don't want doors that open willy-nilly, like every time I walk past CVS on my way to the bank.
God, what the hell am I saying?!? You know, I don't think geeks watch Star Trek. I think Star Trek makes geeks.
Well, that's what I thought, and I think what I said. If you're doing a gradient, I don't know why you'd want the shortest distance across the RGB cube, unless you enjoyed banding.;p
Darn you to heck for making me try to think in 3d.;p
Yes, I'm pretty sure you're more or less right on the 443, though I would have expressed it as ~400, due to the fact that I don't like niggling with triangles.
The thing is, you get more shades of blue than just the 443. As 255 RGB values, shades of red can be
Um. You get banding because of pixelation, not because of a lack of colors to choose from. Maybe it would help if you knew what you were talking about?
If you want to display a gradient from say, dark blue to light blue, you have quite a few shades of blue to choose from. More than 1024, that's for sure, especially in 32 bit color. But your monitor can only display 1024 vertical lines, each being a different shade. (Depending on your resolution, blah, blah, blah.)
Therefore, you get banding. Go ahead, use 64 or 128 bit color. It'll help, in the 'it won't help at all' sense.
Have you listened to the radio lately? With the right 30 seconds of any song, I could loop it into the *whole* song. It's only popular these days if it's brain-dead.
I have to say. If you're an actor, being on a gameshow is one of the few times a majority of your fans can see you when you're not being completely spoonfed what to say, and how to say it.
(I considered talk shows, but they spoonfeed you the general stuff. Promote the movie, smile, say it was a challenging but fun project... there's a reason they all sound the same.)
So, with that being said, perhaps he shouldn't have been such a cock-boy. Is cock-boy hyphenated?
Microsoft should not force OEMs to sell a copy of Windows with every PC they sell, but even though it does not hold true in all situations, there is some logic to them thinking that you should ship something with the PC since otherwise you could very well be planning to pirate a copy of Windows.
True. And I don't think I ever disagreed with *that*, at least not intentionally, or something. But... (admit it, you saw that coming. =)
I mean, they can think whatever they'd like, and it really makes no difference. The problem is that thanks to the system of government and laws, that despite all the complaining, we more or less enjoy, punnishing one group for the actions of another is unacceptable, under any circumstances.
So, of course people pirate Windows. If you want a real kick from a newsgroup, download Windows 8N1, that's one of the slickest CD's I ever saw. =)
*but*
This doesn't mean that it is appropriate for Microsoft to force Gateway and Dell into doing anything at all. At the very least, they're costing them a hundred grand or so just stamping and printing stuff to supply whatever the heck OS just to satisfy Microsoft's wacky whims. If Microsoft wants to stop piracy, track USENET a little bit, subpoena EasyNews for a couple of posters, and send 'em to prison. They're the ones that are breaking the law, after all. Not Joe Linux, or Frank 'I can't believe I bought a boxed copy of XP'.
And, as an extension of your argument, look at this situation. Let's say, for the sake of the argument that I want to buy a blank Gateway, and put a pirated copy of Windows on it. (As an example, thanks. I'd never buy a Gateway.;p) What did Microsoft gain by forcing Dell to include a copy of (Debian/Drake/FreeDOS/RedHat/BSD/Bob's Your Uncle Operating System From Heck) with each PC that doesn't have Windows on it?
Your logic is severely flawed, and you're only addressing the parts of my point you feel like, cheerfully ignoring the others. You say that Ergo it's not beyond the realm of possibility that a lot of people are just walking around with Windows CDs and Microsoft is trying to prevent this.
Oh, the horror. People have Windows CD's? Well, could that be because they're sold in stores? Why should someone have to pay for Windows XP twice? Or if they have a 2k CD, or ME CD, or, god bless 'em, Windows 98, and want to keep using it when they get a new machine, why should they have to buy another Microsoft product?
Because Microsoft says so? Honestly, fuck that.
And since all machines have an option to come with Windows pre-installed, and configured, why assume that 99% of the OS-less machines are going to get Windows put on them? The people who don't want their OS coming pre-installed are a lot more likely to *not* install windows. So, it simply does not [stand] to reason that Windows will go on 99% of all PCs purchased without an OS.
I could make a crappy analogy, if you really want. Back in the day of the first Nintendo Gameboy, (I think, don't quote me on any of this, I was like, 12) you could buy a Gameboy, and it came with Tetris. (Or something. Maybe I mean the 8 bit Nintendo, and duck hunt. Whatever.) Most Gameboy's were sold with Tetris, but you could buy them for a little cheaper, no Tetris.
Tetris was amazingly popular. And fun. =)
99% of all Gameboys would more or less "be running" Tetris. (you would own the game). But for people who didn't like Tetris, and wanted a gameboy, it's not reasonable to assume they'd go out and get Tetris anyway, certainly not as much as the people who bought the combo.
(I TOLD you it was a crappy analogy! Look what you made me do!)
Right. So, you're screwing everyone who bought a Windows XP or ME CD with these forced OEM agreements. Microsoft doesn't own Dell, or Gateway, but they're able to force them to make ME pay MICROSOFT $30 or so for nothing?
Not for nothing, but another "fuck that" is in order.
I'd ask if you work for Microsoft, but you're running Apache. Why can't you imagine other people running Linux? Also, I'm not asking the question if there's *no* validity to their claim or not. I'm pointing out that the (super-duper-prime-key-important-number one-hefty-most) foremost reason for the OEM agreement to be the way it is would be to Sell MICROSOFT PRODUCTS.
If preventing piracy is even in the car, it's certainly taken a backseat.
With all this italic junk in my post, I start to wonder. If you put a period in italics, does anything happen?;p
I'm not complaining about machines coming with Windows. I'm complaining about machines that *MUST* come with Windows. Why do I have to pay for what I'm not going to use?
What the article says, means that Microsoft's method of outright forcing OEM's to include Windows with *every* machine sold is to 'prevent piracy' and my personal favorite, 'keep better track of OS shipments'.
I can't even figure out what that second one means.
Thanks to Gateway, Dell, and Compaq being so competitive, PC prices are... really low. Profit margin is incredibly tight. Not being able to sell a machine with Windows pre-installed means death. Not having an OEM agreement with them also means death, since it will cost you ~$50 (US) per machine more to put together your machine with Windows on it. So, no OEM agreement means death.
The only OEM agreement they offer is to ship every machine witn Windows.
So, if you bought Windows XP at that massive hoop-de-hoo campaign they had a while ago, then buy a new machine, whoops, you're paying Microsoft again! Another product sold. If you want to install Linux? Who cares, another Microsoft product sold!
The new policy exists to prevent piracy and to better track OS shipments.
My ass. It exists to sell MORE MICROSOFT PRODUCTS. I'm not even normally a MSFT basher, but even someone completely asleep at the switch should see something wrong with that line.
Tell me I'm being cynical, maybe, but have you ever read even a Microsoft EULA? I mean, they don't just say 'Do not make illegal copies of this disc.' They say things like, 'You may not use this software on more than one computer. Even if the other computer is in a Jaccuzzi. Even on Sundays. Especially if there's a full moon.'
Er, what I mean to say is, why would Microsoft stipulate no OS, but *not* stipulate no Linux, and if they did, why did Dell only figure this out now?
I get the feeling I'll get a -1, Flamebait for this, but I'm not trying to be a pain in the ass.
Money shouldn't control you like that. Never think that because you paid for something, especially in a case like that, that you have to make it worth your money. Play for the most fun, and then stop playing again, until you want to play some more.
At that point, if it's not worth your money, just stop paying, and playing.;p
True, they were wrong about some things in one direction (no flying cars) but wrong about some things in the other direction - tiny computers, with like, screens, instead of a big row of colored lights. =)
Even though this is an article praising what they admit to be an amazing military blunder, kindly note the fatal flaws. They FAILED to realize that Germans could, get this, walk around the line.
Naturally, all the big immovable guns and firing positions were facing east.
So the Germans walked up from the west, and uh... knocked on the door, and the French surrendered.
There's a reason the French have that stereotype, you know. Let's not forget Vichy France, eh? As part of their deal, they disbanded the army, surrendered all French Jews, and the 1.5 million French troops that had already surrendered remained POW's.
Wow. This americunt knows a little history, instead of how to call people names, anonymously. I don't know why I bothered to write this, though.;p
Well, lord knows I'd enjoy having a Tennessee drivers license. I'll tell you what. I'll send you 50 bucks, and rent out some space under your couch. And I'll pay your phone bill for a month or two. Fax in a signed affidavid in the name of Harry J. Satan, and I'm in!
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Wow. If I was interviewing you, I wouldn't be able to express how happy I was that you revealed yourself to be a complete clod during the interview, rather than bothering to 'appear professional' in front of your prospective employer.
Of course, SACD players play regular CD's... so uh... like Apple says, Rip, Mix, Burn.
*shrug*
Almost certainly not. Having dealt with stuff like this working for government, the proper way of disposing of stuff is to declare it salvage, (meaning that it has 0 value, or < 0 value (it costs more to store than it's worth), and then it would be sold for scrap. Nearly nothing is thrown away.
In reality, since 9/11, the NYC city agency that used to accept salvage stopped. So it's actually more normal now - is it crap? Okay, toss it.
Yeah, but maybe you don't want them opening all the time... who knows what might happen? Maybe the TNG Enterprise had advanced AI to determine if the crewmember was actually trying to walk into the room blocked by the door, or just walking down the hall. On a starship, you don't want doors that open willy-nilly, like every time I walk past CVS on my way to the bank.
God, what the hell am I saying?!? You know, I don't think geeks watch Star Trek. I think Star Trek makes geeks.
Well, that's what I thought, and I think what I said. If you're doing a gradient, I don't know why you'd want the shortest distance across the RGB cube, unless you enjoyed banding. ;p
Darn you to heck for making me try to think in 3d. ;p
;p
;p
Yes, I'm pretty sure you're more or less right on the 443, though I would have expressed it as ~400, due to the fact that I don't like niggling with triangles.
The thing is, you get more shades of blue than just the 443. As 255 RGB values, shades of red can be
255 0 0
255 1 0
255 1 1
255 0 1
255 2 0
255 2 1
255 2 2
255 0 2
255 1 2
(I say red now because I put the 255's first, and don't want to write it again.)
And so on. Each resulting in a different shade of blue.
*I think* anyway. We're wandering off the pier of stuff I know, into the stuff I think I might be able to figure out.
So, I think you'd get more than 443, and have more blue than monitor lines, still.
Um. You get banding because of pixelation, not because of a lack of colors to choose from. Maybe it would help if you knew what you were talking about?
If you want to display a gradient from say, dark blue to light blue, you have quite a few shades of blue to choose from. More than 1024, that's for sure, especially in 32 bit color. But your monitor can only display 1024 vertical lines, each being a different shade. (Depending on your resolution, blah, blah, blah.)
Therefore, you get banding. Go ahead, use 64 or 128 bit color. It'll help, in the 'it won't help at all' sense.
(This one paticular guy i'm thinkin of had a wife and 4 mistresses!)
So?
What does this have to do with managing a railroad?
Have you listened to the radio lately? With the right 30 seconds of any song, I could loop it into the *whole* song. It's only popular these days if it's brain-dead.
I have to say. If you're an actor, being on a gameshow is one of the few times a majority of your fans can see you when you're not being completely spoonfed what to say, and how to say it.
(I considered talk shows, but they spoonfeed you the general stuff. Promote the movie, smile, say it was a challenging but fun project... there's a reason they all sound the same.)
So, with that being said, perhaps he shouldn't have been such a cock-boy. Is cock-boy hyphenated?
Now I just need to buy my wife a 'pager'. ;p
No, because if you search for *any program* crack, it returns the same pages. You didn't actually look at the link, did you?
Oh, and it didn't do this, say, six months ago.
Microsoft should not force OEMs to sell a copy of Windows with every PC they sell, but even though it does not hold true in all situations, there is some logic to them thinking that you should ship something with the PC since otherwise you could very well be planning to pirate a copy of Windows.
;p) What did Microsoft gain by forcing Dell to include a copy of (Debian/Drake/FreeDOS/RedHat/BSD/Bob's Your Uncle Operating System From Heck) with each PC that doesn't have Windows on it?
True. And I don't think I ever disagreed with *that*, at least not intentionally, or something. But... (admit it, you saw that coming. =)
I mean, they can think whatever they'd like, and it really makes no difference. The problem is that thanks to the system of government and laws, that despite all the complaining, we more or less enjoy, punnishing one group for the actions of another is unacceptable, under any circumstances.
So, of course people pirate Windows. If you want a real kick from a newsgroup, download Windows 8N1, that's one of the slickest CD's I ever saw. =)
*but*
This doesn't mean that it is appropriate for Microsoft to force Gateway and Dell into doing anything at all. At the very least, they're costing them a hundred grand or so just stamping and printing stuff to supply whatever the heck OS just to satisfy Microsoft's wacky whims. If Microsoft wants to stop piracy, track USENET a little bit, subpoena EasyNews for a couple of posters, and send 'em to prison. They're the ones that are breaking the law, after all. Not Joe Linux, or Frank 'I can't believe I bought a boxed copy of XP'.
And, as an extension of your argument, look at this situation. Let's say, for the sake of the argument that I want to buy a blank Gateway, and put a pirated copy of Windows on it. (As an example, thanks. I'd never buy a Gateway.
Well... nothing at all. So what's the point?
But do a google search for crack/serial/warez.
;p
.de spoofed pr0n pages. Someone figured it out.
For instance. Webcam32 Crack
Yes, I OWN webcam32. So there.
The point is, the first THREE PAGES are
Your logic is severely flawed, and you're only addressing the parts of my point you feel like, cheerfully ignoring the others. You say that Ergo it's not beyond the realm of possibility that a lot of people are just walking around with Windows CDs and Microsoft is trying to prevent this.
;p
.
Oh, the horror. People have Windows CD's? Well, could that be because they're sold in stores? Why should someone have to pay for Windows XP twice? Or if they have a 2k CD, or ME CD, or, god bless 'em, Windows 98, and want to keep using it when they get a new machine, why should they have to buy another Microsoft product?
Because Microsoft says so? Honestly, fuck that.
And since all machines have an option to come with Windows pre-installed, and configured, why assume that 99% of the OS-less machines are going to get Windows put on them? The people who don't want their OS coming pre-installed are a lot more likely to *not* install windows. So, it simply does not [stand] to reason that Windows will go on 99% of all PCs purchased without an OS.
I could make a crappy analogy, if you really want. Back in the day of the first Nintendo Gameboy, (I think, don't quote me on any of this, I was like, 12) you could buy a Gameboy, and it came with Tetris. (Or something. Maybe I mean the 8 bit Nintendo, and duck hunt. Whatever.) Most Gameboy's were sold with Tetris, but you could buy them for a little cheaper, no Tetris.
Tetris was amazingly popular. And fun. =)
99% of all Gameboys would more or less "be running" Tetris. (you would own the game). But for people who didn't like Tetris, and wanted a gameboy, it's not reasonable to assume they'd go out and get Tetris anyway, certainly not as much as the people who bought the combo.
(I TOLD you it was a crappy analogy! Look what you made me do!)
Right. So, you're screwing everyone who bought a Windows XP or ME CD with these forced OEM agreements. Microsoft doesn't own Dell, or Gateway, but they're able to force them to make ME pay MICROSOFT $30 or so for nothing?
Not for nothing, but another "fuck that" is in order.
I'd ask if you work for Microsoft, but you're running Apache. Why can't you imagine other people running Linux? Also, I'm not asking the question if there's *no* validity to their claim or not. I'm pointing out that the (super-duper-prime-key-important-number one-hefty-most) foremost reason for the OEM agreement to be the way it is would be to Sell MICROSOFT PRODUCTS.
If preventing piracy is even in the car, it's certainly taken a backseat.
With all this italic junk in my post, I start to wonder. If you put a period in italics, does anything happen?
.
I'm not complaining about machines coming with Windows. I'm complaining about machines that *MUST* come with Windows. Why do I have to pay for what I'm not going to use?
;p
What the article says, means that Microsoft's method of outright forcing OEM's to include Windows with *every* machine sold is to 'prevent piracy' and my personal favorite, 'keep better track of OS shipments'.
I can't even figure out what that second one means.
Thanks to Gateway, Dell, and Compaq being so competitive, PC prices are... really low. Profit margin is incredibly tight. Not being able to sell a machine with Windows pre-installed means death. Not having an OEM agreement with them also means death, since it will cost you ~$50 (US) per machine more to put together your machine with Windows on it. So, no OEM agreement means death.
The only OEM agreement they offer is to ship every machine witn Windows.
So, if you bought Windows XP at that massive hoop-de-hoo campaign they had a while ago, then buy a new machine, whoops, you're paying Microsoft again! Another product sold. If you want to install Linux? Who cares, another Microsoft product sold!
This is... a problem, see?
Clearly you do. ;p
Here's a line of crap from the article:
The new policy exists to prevent piracy and to better track OS shipments.
My ass. It exists to sell MORE MICROSOFT PRODUCTS. I'm not even normally a MSFT basher, but even someone completely asleep at the switch should see something wrong with that line.
Tell me I'm being cynical, maybe, but have you ever read even a Microsoft EULA? I mean, they don't just say 'Do not make illegal copies of this disc.' They say things like, 'You may not use this software on more than one computer. Even if the other computer is in a Jaccuzzi. Even on Sundays. Especially if there's a full moon.'
Er, what I mean to say is, why would Microsoft stipulate no OS, but *not* stipulate no Linux, and if they did, why did Dell only figure this out now?
I get the feeling I'll get a -1, Flamebait for this, but I'm not trying to be a pain in the ass.
;p
Money shouldn't control you like that. Never think that because you paid for something, especially in a case like that, that you have to make it worth your money. Play for the most fun, and then stop playing again, until you want to play some more.
At that point, if it's not worth your money, just stop paying, and playing.
Okay, I'll scare the hell out of you.
St. Petersburg Times
ZDNet
So...
Yeah. I think that bad fathers will be bad fathers. If it wasn't EQ, it probably would have been *actual* heroin.
The kid who committed suicide is true too, according to Wired.
True, they were wrong about some things in one direction (no flying cars) but wrong about some things in the other direction - tiny computers, with like, screens, instead of a big row of colored lights. =)
Maybe it's a parody of a troll!
/. - I can get all this out in 20 seconds. Too long, okay?)
Seriously, Borned in the USA?
(Hint to
Do you know *anything* about the history of the Maginot Line?
;p
Try reading. It can't hurt.
Even though this is an article praising what they admit to be an amazing military blunder, kindly note the fatal flaws. They FAILED to realize that Germans could, get this, walk around the line.
Naturally, all the big immovable guns and firing positions were facing east.
So the Germans walked up from the west, and uh... knocked on the door, and the French surrendered.
There's a reason the French have that stereotype, you know. Let's not forget Vichy France, eh? As part of their deal, they disbanded the army, surrendered all French Jews, and the 1.5 million French troops that had already surrendered remained POW's.
Wow. This americunt knows a little history, instead of how to call people names, anonymously. I don't know why I bothered to write this, though.
Oy. Thanks for more or less terrifying me. ;p
NY has a more restrictive system... you need six points to make up proper ID, and even a valid US passport doesn't count for all six.
Details.
Well, lord knows I'd enjoy having a Tennessee drivers license. I'll tell you what. I'll send you 50 bucks, and rent out some space under your couch. And I'll pay your phone bill for a month or two. Fax in a signed affidavid in the name of Harry J. Satan, and I'm in!
*shudder*