This is the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and it was FOUNDED ONE NATION UNDER GOD.
Why do we have to give up our country and what it started as to all the crazies in our country, half of which aren't even native born.
I know that everything now is all about being politically correct and pro-choice, pro-homosexual, pro-minority this and that...
How much longer before the "normal" people are the ones that are the minority and have been stripped of all their rights?
Go ahead and mod me down. I know that most of the people on here are liberal with every belief, but man, I sure do like the way things were going before all this crap.
It really hurts to have all the things that I truly believe in stripped away from me just to make other people happy that probably shouldn't be here anyway.
Giving out the source would be like giving out the engine design specs. Ford and GM go through a lot of R&D and don't want to have to give out every piece of info about the cas they build and they shouldn't have to, Microsoft goes through a lot of R&D and also shouldn't have to give out their "engine source."
The US could drop some nukes on afghanistan and save US lives by obliterating every last afghan, but people are against it... Why? Because it comes at a tremendous cost.
We must proceed with caution with such powerful technology as cloing and stem cell projects.
It's not necessary to allow companies to harvest babies for stem-cells when they're doing fine with what they've got. If we don't put limitations on people they'll abuse their power. It's human nature.
So if creativity was your only limitation, what would the ultimate artificial eyeball be capable of?
I assume it would have huge amounts of optical zoom capability. Would it also have some sort of CCD showing so that you could change your eye "style" on demand?
Maybe it could have a little hole in the middle of it setup to squirt "eye fluid" on people you don't like!
No regrets. My situation was slightly different in the fact that it was very near review time so I had to wait until the review to see what they would come back with.
Send blizzard a letter with all your credit card information and tell them that they can process it and send you a copy as soon as the lawsuit is dropped.
Actually, after I posted I read your reply and I agree, that does look like a really good service for what they need. I'll recommend it. Thanks for the link!
I deal with a lot of real estate agents and I have yet to find a nice complete backup system for under $500. It needs to be automated and require little to no technical knowledge. (Flipping CDs is too complex for them. They want something they don't have to touch.)
I've had very few calls. The ones I still get are from Charities such as the Missouri Highway Patrol wanting me to donate money to them... (Someone explain that to me? I pay them to get a sticker in hopes of a higher probability of getting out of tickets. I would invest but I don't put stickers on my cars.)
I did have one telemarketer call me and luckily I had the No Call list rules right next to me. I collected the correct information and submitted it to the Attorney General and he got busted!
The biggest problem I've been having is junk faxes. I probably only get one a month, but they are annoying as heck! They call at 2-4am and keep calling until they get a fax machine to pick up.
Then they're virtually untraceable. You call the 800 numbers on them and it goes to a call center with a bunch of phone monkies that claim to know nothing.
When are we going to see something big from Corel?
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I've been hoping to see Corel do some big stuff before long.
I think that Sun really had the right idea by starting their projects opensource. That way they got people interested, they got free code from people, and they gave something back to all the people they helped out by allowing the open-office branch.
Now the thing I don't understand is... If it started as open-source, how can they turn it back into closed source? Can the creator of any work do that?
Under Windows, I finally switched from IE to Opera during 5.02, but the one feature they're really lacking is javascript popup management. If they'd just add the same support they have for cookies, it would be perfect.
I consider myself a regular reader of slashdot and I haven't seen anyone post about it.
So even if I am redundant, I at least got to one person that hadn't seen the other posts.
I've blocked doubleclick in dns by putting in fake entries, but I'm not sure if there is a better way to do it. This results in an error everytime Opera hits a doubleclick page.
Sure they can piss and moan about stuff like this and maybe they'll take it all the way through court. Win or lose it doesn't matter really...
Think of government and educational facilities that have just begun to adopt linux and are loving it. Many of them RELY on samba.
I mean, geez, my company just put in a network to replace Novell with SuSE 7.3 throughout an entire school district. 90% of the usage is file and printer sharing.
So if Microsoft is going to screw them, I'd be very surprised to see them even buy any more MS clients. Microsoft will basically force them to switch to linux on the desktop which is something they're already experimenting with.
You'd be surprised how much easier it is to switch to linux on the desktop when your entire organization switches at the same time. (and budget cuts don't leave any room to purchase new MS licensed software.)
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The company is kind of going down hill in some areas while progressing in others.
Their R&D staff seems to be on top of things, only hindered by management.
Every since Ford started offering "same-sex rights" the company has started going down the toilet. Soon they've be on the same level as GM.
This is the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and it was FOUNDED ONE NATION UNDER GOD.
Why do we have to give up our country and what it started as to all the crazies in our country, half of which aren't even native born.
I know that everything now is all about being politically correct and pro-choice, pro-homosexual, pro-minority this and that...
How much longer before the "normal" people are the ones that are the minority and have been stripped of all their rights?
Go ahead and mod me down. I know that most of the people on here are liberal with every belief, but man, I sure do like the way things were going before all this crap.
It really hurts to have all the things that I truly believe in stripped away from me just to make other people happy that probably shouldn't be here anyway.
If Worldcom/MCI/UUNet dies, what happens to the internet?
The only advantage I see is that maybe the flow of spam will slow when routers start getting their plugs pulled. hehe.
You're comparing apples to oranges...
Giving out the source would be like giving out the engine design specs. Ford and GM go through a lot of R&D and don't want to have to give out every piece of info about the cas they build and they shouldn't have to, Microsoft goes through a lot of R&D and also shouldn't have to give out their "engine source."
Giving out the API would be good though...
One of the best programs out there:m l
http://home.earthlink.net/~patglenn/ct.ht
It allows you to change hundreds of variables and run several different tests.
The dos version is at the bottom of the page.
IBM laptops are some of the ugliest out there, so are their server cases!
IBM needs to take a lesson from Dell or Sony on making their stuff without sharp edges and corners that hurt when you bump into them.
The US could drop some nukes on afghanistan and save US lives by obliterating every last afghan, but people are against it... Why? Because it comes at a tremendous cost.
We must proceed with caution with such powerful technology as cloing and stem cell projects.
It's not necessary to allow companies to harvest babies for stem-cells when they're doing fine with what they've got. If we don't put limitations on people they'll abuse their power. It's human nature.
So if creativity was your only limitation, what would the ultimate artificial eyeball be capable of?
I assume it would have huge amounts of optical zoom capability. Would it also have some sort of CCD showing so that you could change your eye "style" on demand?
Maybe it could have a little hole in the middle of it setup to squirt "eye fluid" on people you don't like!
Until you start getting network congestion messages every time you make a call.
Am I imagining things or is net traffic and latency going to be a real serious problem before these can become used abound?
If it happened to a company I deal with I'd want to know about it.
No regrets. My situation was slightly different in the fact that it was very near review time so I had to wait until the review to see what they would come back with.
Send blizzard a letter with all your credit card information and tell them that they can process it and send you a copy as soon as the lawsuit is dropped.
Actually, after I posted I read your reply and I agree, that does look like a really good service for what they need. I'll recommend it. Thanks for the link!
I deal with a lot of real estate agents and I have yet to find a nice complete backup system for under $500. It needs to be automated and require little to no technical knowledge. (Flipping CDs is too complex for them. They want something they don't have to touch.)
Does such a system exist?
It sounds to me like they're opening up the market for new competition.
I'm sure users would love to pay $10/month extra to have full bandwidth all the time. Maybe I will start a bandwidth reselling company.
More like two years...
I saw this a long long time ago. I'm really surprised it made it again this much later. Oh well, still a cool read for those that have never seen it.
I think they're telling the truth and they mean well.
I only hope it convinces the rest of us to pull our heads out and realize what a monster we're dealing with.
I've had very few calls. The ones I still get are from Charities such as the Missouri Highway Patrol wanting me to donate money to them... (Someone explain that to me? I pay them to get a sticker in hopes of a higher probability of getting out of tickets. I would invest but I don't put stickers on my cars.)
I did have one telemarketer call me and luckily I had the No Call list rules right next to me. I collected the correct information and submitted it to the Attorney General and he got busted!
The biggest problem I've been having is junk faxes. I probably only get one a month, but they are annoying as heck! They call at 2-4am and keep calling until they get a fax machine to pick up.
Then they're virtually untraceable. You call the 800 numbers on them and it goes to a call center with a bunch of phone monkies that claim to know nothing.
I've been hoping to see Corel do some big stuff before long.
I think that Sun really had the right idea by starting their projects opensource. That way they got people interested, they got free code from people, and they gave something back to all the people they helped out by allowing the open-office branch.
Now the thing I don't understand is... If it started as open-source, how can they turn it back into closed source? Can the creator of any work do that?
I want to turn it on and off per site.
The way they allow you to allow and reject cookies per domain.
Under Windows, I finally switched from IE to Opera during 5.02, but the one feature they're really lacking is javascript popup management. If they'd just add the same support they have for cookies, it would be perfect.
I consider myself a regular reader of slashdot and I haven't seen anyone post about it.
So even if I am redundant, I at least got to one person that hadn't seen the other posts.
I've blocked doubleclick in dns by putting in fake entries, but I'm not sure if there is a better way to do it. This results in an error everytime Opera hits a doubleclick page.
Um... Complaining about privacy invasion, yet slashdot uses doubleclick for it's privacy invasion.
When we have lan parties over hear even the more relaxing games such as starcraft are an adrenaline rush!
Sure they can piss and moan about stuff like this and maybe they'll take it all the way through court. Win or lose it doesn't matter really...
Think of government and educational facilities that have just begun to adopt linux and are loving it. Many of them RELY on samba.
I mean, geez, my company just put in a network to replace Novell with SuSE 7.3 throughout an entire school district. 90% of the usage is file and printer sharing.
So if Microsoft is going to screw them, I'd be very surprised to see them even buy any more MS clients. Microsoft will basically force them to switch to linux on the desktop which is something they're already experimenting with.
You'd be surprised how much easier it is to switch to linux on the desktop when your entire organization switches at the same time. (and budget cuts don't leave any room to purchase new MS licensed software.)