Apparently, this is how Bill tries to separate the wheat from the chaff; he attacks your idea (and you) and expects you to defend it, if it's worth defending.
I've read accounts where Microsoft has taken massive risks on the basis of a single engineer shooting back at Bill and defending an idea.
A willing political tool; like he says in his monologue while's he's whupping the Soviets, the world doesn't want heroes. People get jealous, and fearful, and angry.
He's just doing what he feels he has to, to be able to continue to do good.
Probably the part where the American women in frumpy clothes still is allowed to go out in public without getting bones broken, getting gang raped, and so on.
Well, the Conventions do say that spies (i.e. somebody captured out of uniform, basically) aren't considered Prisoners of War, and I believe they can be summarily executed. That might be the old convention (small-c) though.
Was there perhaps a difference that Dec would have somebody with a replacement and a tool kit at your location within four hours? Or perhaps indemification against cost of data loss?
I'll third that; it was only a few weeks ago, actually, that I got around to removing my MX300 A3d 2 card from my main computer; the driver situation under XP was just too damn bad.
Replaced with with an m-audio revolution 7.1 I had lying around after an aborted attempt to build a home theater PC.
Don't shortchange Unreal's software mode; it was one of the first games to really make use of that new-fangled MMX crap, and on a fast enough processor, it looked better than the 3dfx mode, as it was 32 bit colour, not 16 bit.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, any bill that has an acronym that produces one or more English words should instantly be thrown out, as it's obviously without merit. Why else would they go to the trouble of coming up with such an acronym?
Aye. Unfortunately, as so many people don't know the difference, I tend to assume, when they're talking about hard drives, that they mean bytes, and when talking about network speeds, they mean bits.
The other approach was to do a kind of nonviolent game where your goal was to obtain reputation by pranking different people in the school, but it seemed off-topic to do that, when the results of Columbine were so clear. Two students decided to wage war on their peers as a way of getting even for years of abuse. It was a tragedy that I think isn't too far in the history to warrant a mod using the game blamed for the violence in the first place.
Here's a concept for you. Feel free to use it as you will.
Doom for Columbine: You place a jock. You walk around with an arsenal of mean things to do to geeks and nerds; trips, flinging their books down the hallways, verbal putdowns, and so on.
Eventually a nerd snaps; try to avoid the carnage! Bonus points for saving attractive members of the opposite sex, calling CNN from a cell phone for a play by play. If you find the super secret video camera and get good footage, bonus!
Because for every person who understands enough to hop on a forum and bitch, how many are simply sitting at their computer, wondering why that brand new CD they just bought isn't doing anything?
They don't understand about copy protection, safedisc, or firmware. They just know that their new purchase isn't working.
Now, I know that Slashdot isn't exactly a bastion of journalistic integrety.
But couldn't you at least point out in the giant headline that this ain't 'SP2' that got tested?
This is an unreleased, still in testing, being considered for release, but never the less, NOT released version of some software. It's EXPECTED not to work properly.
Should we sue Red Hat every time some idiot installs a machine from that old RH 6.2 CD he has lying around, and it gets owned within thirty seconds of being on the Internet?
Of course not. A WinXP or 2k machine, up to date with the *automatic* updates, is perfectly secure for day to day use. The vast majority, if not all, of the 'windows worms' of the last several YEARS; code red, nimda, sasser, the patches preceeded the worms themselves by weeks, sometimes months.
Is Ford liable when somebody smashes the windows on an Explorer, climbs in, hotwires the car, and runs somebody down? After all, their windows were obviously not up to the task of keeping somebody out....
NO. Of course not. The fault lies, as always, with the person ACTUALLY COMMITTING THE CRIME.
Why is 'personal responsibility' such a difficult concept?
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Apparently, this is how Bill tries to separate the wheat from the chaff; he attacks your idea (and you) and expects you to defend it, if it's worth defending.
I've read accounts where Microsoft has taken massive risks on the basis of a single engineer shooting back at Bill and defending an idea.
A willing political tool; like he says in his monologue while's he's whupping the Soviets, the world doesn't want heroes. People get jealous, and fearful, and angry.
He's just doing what he feels he has to, to be able to continue to do good.
But yes, Bats whups him good.
Probably the part where the American women in frumpy clothes still is allowed to go out in public without getting bones broken, getting gang raped, and so on.
Well, the Conventions do say that spies (i.e. somebody captured out of uniform, basically) aren't considered Prisoners of War, and I believe they can be summarily executed. That might be the old convention (small-c) though.
Was there perhaps a difference that Dec would have somebody with a replacement and a tool kit at your location within four hours? Or perhaps indemification against cost of data loss?
I'll third that; it was only a few weeks ago, actually, that I got around to removing my MX300 A3d 2 card from my main computer; the driver situation under XP was just too damn bad.
Replaced with with an m-audio revolution 7.1 I had lying around after an aborted attempt to build a home theater PC.
This is both, then. It's a satire of Bush and Kerry, expressed in the form of a Parody of an almost fifty year old folk song.
The idea here is that, by definition, doing something so incredibly stupid counts as willful malice.
Don't shortchange Unreal's software mode; it was one of the first games to really make use of that new-fangled MMX crap, and on a fast enough processor, it looked better than the 3dfx mode, as it was 32 bit colour, not 16 bit.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, any bill that has an acronym that produces one or more English words should instantly be thrown out, as it's obviously without merit. Why else would they go to the trouble of coming up with such an acronym?
Aye. Unfortunately, as so many people don't know the difference, I tend to assume, when they're talking about hard drives, that they mean bytes, and when talking about network speeds, they mean bits.
Here's a concept for you. Feel free to use it as you will.
Doom for Columbine: You place a jock. You walk around with an arsenal of mean things to do to geeks and nerds; trips, flinging their books down the hallways, verbal putdowns, and so on.
Eventually a nerd snaps; try to avoid the carnage! Bonus points for saving attractive members of the opposite sex, calling CNN from a cell phone for a play by play. If you find the super secret video camera and get good footage, bonus!
Urm, doesn't the CD explictly say that you can't, lend, borrow, rent, hire, and so on?
Will the RIAA turn around and sue said library should the CD wind up on shelves?
(Sounds of crickets chirping. From somewhere in the back, a man coughs. More crickets.)
You do mean '.25 TB,' yes?
1024 megabytes = 1 gigabyte; 1024 gigabytes = 1 terabyte.
Because for every person who understands enough to hop on a forum and bitch, how many are simply sitting at their computer, wondering why that brand new CD they just bought isn't doing anything?
They don't understand about copy protection, safedisc, or firmware. They just know that their new purchase isn't working.
Now, I know that Slashdot isn't exactly a bastion of journalistic integrety.
But couldn't you at least point out in the giant headline that this ain't 'SP2' that got tested?
This is an unreleased, still in testing, being considered for release, but never the less, NOT released version of some software. It's EXPECTED not to work properly.
Probably. If they convice everybody that they're idiots, then they can do something fiendishly clever, and nobody'll notice.
I believe it was when Universal sued Nintendo over Donkey Kong, the head honcho from Universal said 'We view litigation as a profit center.'
Ok, how about a parallel between Windows Update (or Red Hat Network) and, say, regular car maintanence?
"Hey, honey, we just got this letter from Ford announcing a recall of several hundred thousand vehicles...."
Should we sue Red Hat every time some idiot installs a machine from that old RH 6.2 CD he has lying around, and it gets owned within thirty seconds of being on the Internet?
Of course not. A WinXP or 2k machine, up to date with the *automatic* updates, is perfectly secure for day to day use. The vast majority, if not all, of the 'windows worms' of the last several YEARS; code red, nimda, sasser, the patches preceeded the worms themselves by weeks, sometimes months.
Actually, it's why you insist on escrow unless you can afford to throw the money in question into a fireplace.
Is Ford liable when somebody smashes the windows on an Explorer, climbs in, hotwires the car, and runs somebody down? After all, their windows were obviously not up to the task of keeping somebody out....
NO. Of course not. The fault lies, as always, with the person ACTUALLY COMMITTING THE CRIME.
Why is 'personal responsibility' such a difficult concept?
Hrm. That would do it. Point being, though, that ability to deliver a package to a target is only part of the equasion.