Didn't they uphold the "unlock phone for any network" in Nov. 2006? That's what makes me think the jailbreak business will amount to very little: it's been perfectly legit to unlock your phone for almost four years, but how many carriers are selling unlocked phones? Or unlocking your phone for you at the end of your contract? Hell, is "unlock" even applicable when you're talking Verizon or Sprint and CDMA handsets?
The only way watching this could be any worse is if they had sent wrestlers through the theater every 20 minutes to kick me in the nuts.
All the artsy-fartsy critic types will now chirp about how I just don't understand the deeper meaning and the critical vision of this movie. But for me, the Thin Red Line is like being on the back end of anal sex: no matter how good you say it is, I'm not convinced, nor am I willing to accept convincing. And I'm happy to live without understanding.
...which had the exclusive contract to build in the Metro. Any analog carrier can roam down there, though with varying degrees of success and cost.
I heard rumors that the GSM carriers were working to build a common infrastructure for coverage throughout the Metro, but said rumors also suggested a 2005-05 timeframe. I can't wait. I'm moving;]
It's got excellent smooth gel ink, a comfortable grip, and pulls apart to expose the point. So you can snap it open, scribble, close it, and throw it in a pocket...all with one hand and without getting ink on anything.
...but I now have a one-inch crack in my skull from laughing at this shit. Hysterical. Sadly true, of course, we have consultants who tell us that Lotus Notes ND6 is just fine on any Pentium with 64 MB of RAM.
The triumph of hope over experience never ends, do it?
We're budgeting for 2003 to finish converting all our Macs to G4 systems...and we ordered a LOT of computers with an eye toward keeping OS 9 on them. Why? Quark Publishing System. The way we're set up, three of our five magazines use QPS, based around Netware 4 servers running IPX. AFAIK there is no plan now or ever for IPX support under OS X...so we've got a long road ahead of us.
Too, every time I talk to our Apple rep about the situation, I get the same answer: "Have you tried InDesign?"
Personally, I'd love to make the jump: QPS is administered here by a separate group from the rest of the IS department, and if QPS goes away, my grip on complete world domination will tighten even more! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
...he's in the General Services department at National Geographic (and a better code and hardware hacker, in all senses of the word, than anyone in our IS group). This guy's spent months trying to build a GPS that would fit on your watch face.
The funny thing here is that he went to NG to offer them coverage - he wasn't looking for funding or anything - and they declined, saying there wouldn't be enough interest. Well now it's in the Post, it's on/. and to cap it all off, who's doing a TV special about it? Discovery. Ain't that a swift kick in the crotch.
i knew this guy from a mailing list--when he got promoted to manager, his first task was to replace his old spot, which he did with me. Then six months later he hired my then-girlfriend as a contractor to help do rollout. Then a year later we hired another guy from the list to be a workstation tech. Most of our second-level support, therefore, either has known each other for years or bonded (they're all from Philly or Ireland, or both) so we spend a lot of time pounding Guinness. We have so few technical staff, in an environment full of brainless users,heterogeneous servers and non-standard machine configs, that we have to get along and trust each other or nothing would ever get done.
Of course, the bunker mentality we developed fighting against an infrastructure group full of old mainframe codgers and ex-librarians (I kid you not) helped build esprit de corps in a "wish I was dead...you too?" kind of way.
It's a miracle National Geographic ever gets a magazine out...
two completely different operating systems...one started from the point of being robust and bulletproof and is trying to evolve a human face, the other started as amazingly user-friendly and optimized for the newb and is trying to evolve toward stability. OS X will be slick, BSD-based, with more available source code than you can get from M$...of course, the Eazel guys invented useable GUI...the only real hard fact is that cNet obviously know what two groups of fanatics they can exploit when it comes time to drive up the hit count...
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Didn't they uphold the "unlock phone for any network" in Nov. 2006? That's what makes me think the jailbreak business will amount to very little: it's been perfectly legit to unlock your phone for almost four years, but how many carriers are selling unlocked phones? Or unlocking your phone for you at the end of your contract? Hell, is "unlock" even applicable when you're talking Verizon or Sprint and CDMA handsets?
Who's going to make the T-shirts?
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DEFCON 15...
The only way watching this could be any worse is if they had sent wrestlers through the theater every 20 minutes to kick me in the nuts.
All the artsy-fartsy critic types will now chirp about how I just don't understand the deeper meaning and the critical vision of this movie. But for me, the Thin Red Line is like being on the back end of anal sex: no matter how good you say it is, I'm not convinced, nor am I willing to accept convincing. And I'm happy to live without understanding.
...which had the exclusive contract to build in the Metro. Any analog carrier can roam down there, though with varying degrees of success and cost.
;]
I heard rumors that the GSM carriers were working to build a common infrastructure for coverage throughout the Metro, but said rumors also suggested a 2005-05 timeframe. I can't wait. I'm moving
It's got excellent smooth gel ink, a comfortable grip, and pulls apart to expose the point. So you can snap it open, scribble, close it, and throw it in a pocket...all with one hand and without getting ink on anything.
Cheap, too - only about $20.
...but I now have a one-inch crack in my skull from laughing at this shit. Hysterical. Sadly true, of course, we have consultants who tell us that Lotus Notes ND6 is just fine on any Pentium with 64 MB of RAM.
The triumph of hope over experience never ends, do it?
Anything that fizzes is Coke in Alabama. If you want the red-and-white Dynamic Ribbon(tm)-decorated drink, you have to specify a "Co-Cola."
Honestly, I was 16 before I ever heard the word "pop" and it still sounds like nails on a chalkboard... =)
Awfully cruel, considering it's his birthday =)
(and mine too!)
We're budgeting for 2003 to finish converting all our Macs to G4 systems...and we ordered a LOT of computers with an eye toward keeping OS 9 on them. Why? Quark Publishing System. The way we're set up, three of our five magazines use QPS, based around Netware 4 servers running IPX. AFAIK there is no plan now or ever for IPX support under OS X...so we've got a long road ahead of us.
Too, every time I talk to our Apple rep about the situation, I get the same answer: "Have you tried InDesign?"
Personally, I'd love to make the jump: QPS is administered here by a separate group from the rest of the IS department, and if QPS goes away, my grip on complete world domination will tighten even more! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Ahem.
...he's in the General Services department at National Geographic (and a better code and hardware hacker, in all senses of the word, than anyone in our IS group). This guy's spent months trying to build a GPS that would fit on your watch face.
/. and to cap it all off, who's doing a TV special about it? Discovery. Ain't that a swift kick in the crotch.
The funny thing here is that he went to NG to offer them coverage - he wasn't looking for funding or anything - and they declined, saying there wouldn't be enough interest. Well now it's in the Post, it's on
Congrats, Foster - clear skies =)
the switchboard at the Capitol is (202) 244-3121, and they should be able to route you to any MoC from there, House or Senate.
...congratulations. One less reason to have to wear the Big Black Matrix Coat today.
=)
i knew this guy from a mailing list--when he got promoted to manager, his first task was to replace his old spot, which he did with me. Then six months later he hired my then-girlfriend as a contractor to help do rollout. Then a year later we hired another guy from the list to be a workstation tech. Most of our second-level support, therefore, either has known each other for years or bonded (they're all from Philly or Ireland, or both) so we spend a lot of time pounding Guinness. We have so few technical staff, in an environment full of brainless users,heterogeneous servers and non-standard machine configs, that we have to get along and trust each other or nothing would ever get done.
Of course, the bunker mentality we developed fighting against an infrastructure group full of old mainframe codgers and ex-librarians (I kid you not) helped build esprit de corps in a "wish I was dead...you too?" kind of way.
It's a miracle National Geographic ever gets a magazine out...
two completely different operating systems...one started from the point of being robust and bulletproof and is trying to evolve a human face, the other started as amazingly user-friendly and optimized for the newb and is trying to evolve toward stability. OS X will be slick, BSD-based, with more available source code than you can get from M$...of course, the Eazel guys invented useable GUI...the only real hard fact is that cNet obviously know what two groups of fanatics they can exploit when it comes time to drive up the hit count...