If more people use "your" product, there's more chance it will survive, more chance it will interoperate with other programs you own, more chance it will even operate at all with other programs, more chance it won't disappear leaving you high and dry with legacy software... In the specific case of Firefox, I have already noticed that my favorite genealogy site has modified their display to work better with Firefox thus making it unnecessary to open the same page in IE. This becomes a more and more probable outcome the wider Firefox is used. It also leads to closer adherance to web standards by the "big guys." In short, in the software world, there are players and there are nonplayers. You want the software you use to be a player simply because it's going to be more useful to use if it is. And the only way to help make your software a player is to flog it with everyone you meet. At least, that's how I see it.
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When are they going to disconnect YOUR feeding tube?
As for Liberals, it would be greatly appreciated if you practised what you preached and didn't make accusations you can't prove. I AM A LIBERAL, you bat-breathed little pinhead, and your attempt to equate Liberalism with everything you don't like about the world is getting a little old. You morons have control of all three branches of government and yet you continue to blame all your own stupid cock-ups on someone who hasn't been president in FOUR years. Go back under your bridge and say ten hail marys.
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You are so simple minded you can't conceive of some of the ideas of Christianity being true (perhaps the ones they stole from the Pagans?) without the entire system being true?
This character spent his entire life telling little children a pack of lies and you can't conceive of him going to Hell under the terms of original christianity? Forget the clowns in the Chinese silk robes and their modern mumbo-jumbo.
From what I recall, they just ask you where you are planning to drive, in-state or out-of-state. Something about different fees. The point is they don't try to justify it by citing federal law. All they are doing thereby is making a mockery of that very law.
If you have that kind of money to throw away, you can afford your own French Chef, preferably one who's female and walks around in her underwear. What is WITH the Japanese anyway?
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"First published in 1954: How to Lie With Statistics"
An excellent book. It is especially hilarious in how it treats the kind of fudging you can do with charts and graphs--such things as leaving out everything but the range you are discussing or using a log-log scale where it isn't appropriate.
Which is the weakest link in the entire concept of a law-based society. And it is one of the major contributing factors to the inequality among citizens based on level of income and wealth. A rich football player can get away with murder and mayhem, but a public forum can't discuss an obviously phildickian "religious" organization without being threatened with eternal litigation, which is a lot worse on a practical level than eternal damnation...
Sorry, my linguistic parsers don't go down to quite that thin a slice.
The definition of UCE is actually a bit broader than my own particular definition of spam, which is basically mass-mailed ads for something either unsavory in its nature or for something I could not reasonably be expected to want. Some guy wants to send me an ad for a book on Jewish genealogy in India, which I could conceivably be expected to be interested in, though I never asked for it, doesn't bother me, since this fits into the image I have put on public view on my website. It's the infernal baboons who send me this "Taken your meds yet today?" crap I would seriously like to see disemboweled on worldwide TV. And I'm afraid that's what it would take to get through to these lunkheads. Not that I'm advocating any more "reality TV"....
I absolutely refuse to believe that a real Britisher would spell it "Britan," even in haste. I think he may be referring to Britain as an example. He never actually says he's British, though the term "advert" puts him somewhere in the Commonwealth.
Personally, I think it's quite a humorous little series of ads, at least it was when I stopped watching TV a year ago. From what I've seen on the web, ads are pretty consistent throughout the Euro-centric world. "Buy our stuff, it's better, faster, stronger, newer, costs less, and gives you 50% more Ubik for your money. Safe when used as directed."
Let's see, you think that facts are fattening? Hmmm... Oh, you made a pun on fact and fat... Gee, how clever of you. For those of you on a lowfat diet, the above post is certified good humor-free.
"Toys, yes. But does anyone still think there's any reason whatsoever to hold their DVD watching hostage to Bill's pathetic little OS? 'Gee, I think I'll watch a movie...[8 hours later:] Well, fixing that little Windders program wasn't all THAT troublesome. Oops, it's 3:00 o'clock in the morning. Guess I'll have to wait till tomorrow to watch that DVD.' These people truly have lost their minds."
"Remember, the more you jerk off, the more moderator points you get..." Sorry you guys don't like my sig, but you really ought to keep in mind that moderation involves postings and not sigs.
Actually, the above experience isn't hypothetical. In fact, that was the very point at which I decided to buy a 5-channel speaker system with DVD player rather than spend any more money upgrading the computer.
So let me get this straight. Folks are going to buy computers that play copyguarded DVDs for $1000 because you can "do more" with a computer than they can with a $100 DVD player with an onboard processor? Uh huh...Raiiiiit! Do you sometimes get the feeling that some people think that more complicated is automatically better? I'm just waiting for the first Windders controlled car you have to reboot every time you stop at a stop sign.
No, actually, if you look at the geographic distribution of the vote you'll notice that Bush's majority was directly proportional to the percentage of farmers in the neighborhood. Basically, he won because there are a lot of people whose idea of thoughtful action is to pray for rain and whose concept of morality is based on a book written 2000 years ago by a bunch of ascetic lunatics who thought that anything pleasurable was evil. Remember, Ashcroft didn't have an inaugural ball when he was elected governor because dancing is immoral.
"What differentiates them is that they sell this piece of shit at no profit and then, because they know that 50% of people who buy this box also buy a color printer, they will also sell them a printer and make money."
Do intelligent people actually still buy HP printers? I mean, Canon makes better printers with better software for less money. And the paper feeds vertically, not horizontally, so you can print on both sides of even old fashioned typing paper without the bloody thing missing a page here and there. And photographs printed with Canons have no discernable dot in the sky or anywhere else, and...well, you get the point. These characters can't even keep up with printer advancements by the Japanese. At this point they're just sucking the last marrow out of the bones of their brand name before they carve the company up and sell it to the highest bidder, which at this rate will be Krishnamurti Printer Associates of Mumbai....
Toys, yes. But does anyone still think there's any reason whatsoever to hold their DVD watching hostage to Bill's pathetic little OS? "Gee, I think I'll watch a movie...[8 hours later:] Well, fixing that little Windders program wasn't all THAT troublesome. Oops, it's 3:00 o'clock in the morning. Guess I'll have to wait till tomorrow to watch that DVD." These people truly have lost their minds.
Do you suppose I could patent a top eleven list? For that matter, I wonder if I could patent the eleven commandments? Aha! I have had an enlightenment! I will patent all lists of rules that consist of a prime number of components.
I found neither Avalon nor GITS incomprehensible. Neither did I find the first 4 episodes of the TV series incomprehensible. Oshii's other live action films are a bit obscure, but we weren't talking about those. The fact that something is deep enough to stand rewatching doesn't make it incomprehensible on the first watching. Unless of course you just don't want to think at all. That level of mindlessness is not my idea of entertainment, though it might help you get into a Zen monestary.
Convoluted? You must think Avalon was downright labyrinthine. Personally, I like a movie I can watch a dozen times and still get something new out of it the 12th time. That to me is the difference between good cinema and the kind of pap you can hardly watch once that Hollywood likes to crank out.
Funny, I watched Blade Runner to Hearts of Space and Echoes on FM last Sunday and I must say it didn't do the plot any harm at all. None of Oshii's movies have much dialogue, including his original anime, Angel's Egg.
Indeed. Considering that, in my not so humble opinion, Oshii's Avalon is the best movie ever made on several levels, I have to imagine that the problem with the critics is that they're movie critics and not critics of neo-technical electronic literature. In short, they just don't get it, which is their problem, not mine. What, Batou isn't likeable? As for Major Kusanagi, who only has a short appearance in II, I think I could fall in love with her....;-)
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If more people use "your" product, there's more chance it will survive, more chance it will interoperate with other programs you own, more chance it will even operate at all with other programs, more chance it won't disappear leaving you high and dry with legacy software... In the specific case of Firefox, I have already noticed that my favorite genealogy site has modified their display to work better with Firefox thus making it unnecessary to open the same page in IE. This becomes a more and more probable outcome the wider Firefox is used. It also leads to closer adherance to web standards by the "big guys." In short, in the software world, there are players and there are nonplayers. You want the software you use to be a player simply because it's going to be more useful to use if it is. And the only way to help make your software a player is to flog it with everyone you meet. At least, that's how I see it.
When are they going to disconnect YOUR feeding tube?
What "word" would that be?
As for Liberals, it would be greatly appreciated if you practised what you preached and didn't make accusations you can't prove. I AM A LIBERAL, you bat-breathed little pinhead, and your attempt to equate Liberalism with everything you don't like about the world is getting a little old. You morons have control of all three branches of government and yet you continue to blame all your own stupid cock-ups on someone who hasn't been president in FOUR years. Go back under your bridge and say ten hail marys.
You are so simple minded you can't conceive of some of the ideas of Christianity being true (perhaps the ones they stole from the Pagans?) without the entire system being true?
This character spent his entire life telling little children a pack of lies and you can't conceive of him going to Hell under the terms of original christianity? Forget the clowns in the Chinese silk robes and their modern mumbo-jumbo.
Consider yourself corrected.
He's a graduate student? Does his university know what he's up to? Is he perchance using the university's computers to spam?
I think I'd figure out how to make room....
This is irony, right? You aren't seriously telling me you'd paint a picture during the time your automatic toaster was toasting your bread?
From what I recall, they just ask you where you are planning to drive, in-state or out-of-state. Something about different fees. The point is they don't try to justify it by citing federal law. All they are doing thereby is making a mockery of that very law.
"Show up at their door with a baseball bat?"
I am beginning to think that this is a legitimate option.
If you have that kind of money to throw away, you can afford your own French Chef, preferably one who's female and walks around in her underwear. What is WITH the Japanese anyway?
"First published in 1954: How to Lie With Statistics"
An excellent book. It is especially hilarious in how it treats the kind of fudging you can do with charts and graphs--such things as leaving out everything but the range you are discussing or using a log-log scale where it isn't appropriate.
Which is the weakest link in the entire concept of a law-based society. And it is one of the major contributing factors to the inequality among citizens based on level of income and wealth. A rich football player can get away with murder and mayhem, but a public forum can't discuss an obviously phildickian "religious" organization without being threatened with eternal litigation, which is a lot worse on a practical level than eternal damnation...
Sorry, my linguistic parsers don't go down to quite that thin a slice.
The definition of UCE is actually a bit broader than my own particular definition of spam, which is basically mass-mailed ads for something either unsavory in its nature or for something I could not reasonably be expected to want. Some guy wants to send me an ad for a book on Jewish genealogy in India, which I could conceivably be expected to be interested in, though I never asked for it, doesn't bother me, since this fits into the image I have put on public view on my website. It's the infernal baboons who send me this "Taken your meds yet today?" crap I would seriously like to see disemboweled on worldwide TV. And I'm afraid that's what it would take to get through to these lunkheads. Not that I'm advocating any more "reality TV"....
I absolutely refuse to believe that a real Britisher would spell it "Britan," even in haste. I think he may be referring to Britain as an example. He never actually says he's British, though the term "advert" puts him somewhere in the Commonwealth.
Personally, I think it's quite a humorous little series of ads, at least it was when I stopped watching TV a year ago. From what I've seen on the web, ads are pretty consistent throughout the Euro-centric world. "Buy our stuff, it's better, faster, stronger, newer, costs less, and gives you 50% more Ubik for your money. Safe when used as directed."
Let's see, you think that facts are fattening? Hmmm... Oh, you made a pun on fact and fat... Gee, how clever of you. For those of you on a lowfat diet, the above post is certified good humor-free.
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"Toys, yes. But does anyone still think there's any reason whatsoever to hold their DVD watching hostage to Bill's pathetic little OS? 'Gee, I think I'll watch a movie...[8 hours later:] Well, fixing that little Windders program wasn't all THAT troublesome. Oops, it's 3:00 o'clock in the morning. Guess I'll have to wait till tomorrow to watch that DVD.' These people truly have lost their minds."
"Remember, the more you jerk off, the more moderator points you get..." Sorry you guys don't like my sig, but you really ought to keep in mind that moderation involves postings and not sigs.
Actually, the above experience isn't hypothetical. In fact, that was the very point at which I decided to buy a 5-channel speaker system with DVD player rather than spend any more money upgrading the computer.
So let me get this straight. Folks are going to buy computers that play copyguarded DVDs for $1000 because you can "do more" with a computer than they can with a $100 DVD player with an onboard processor? Uh huh...Raiiiiit! Do you sometimes get the feeling that some people think that more complicated is automatically better? I'm just waiting for the first Windders controlled car you have to reboot every time you stop at a stop sign.
No, actually, if you look at the geographic distribution of the vote you'll notice that Bush's majority was directly proportional to the percentage of farmers in the neighborhood. Basically, he won because there are a lot of people whose idea of thoughtful action is to pray for rain and whose concept of morality is based on a book written 2000 years ago by a bunch of ascetic lunatics who thought that anything pleasurable was evil. Remember, Ashcroft didn't have an inaugural ball when he was elected governor because dancing is immoral.
"What differentiates them is that they sell this piece of shit at no profit and then, because they know that 50% of people who buy this box also buy a color printer, they will also sell them a printer and make money."
Do intelligent people actually still buy HP printers? I mean, Canon makes better printers with better software for less money. And the paper feeds vertically, not horizontally, so you can print on both sides of even old fashioned typing paper without the bloody thing missing a page here and there. And photographs printed with Canons have no discernable dot in the sky or anywhere else, and...well, you get the point. These characters can't even keep up with printer advancements by the Japanese. At this point they're just sucking the last marrow out of the bones of their brand name before they carve the company up and sell it to the highest bidder, which at this rate will be Krishnamurti Printer Associates of Mumbai....
Toys, yes. But does anyone still think there's any reason whatsoever to hold their DVD watching hostage to Bill's pathetic little OS? "Gee, I think I'll watch a movie...[8 hours later:] Well, fixing that little Windders program wasn't all THAT troublesome. Oops, it's 3:00 o'clock in the morning. Guess I'll have to wait till tomorrow to watch that DVD." These people truly have lost their minds.
Do you suppose I could patent a top eleven list? For that matter, I wonder if I could patent the eleven commandments? Aha! I have had an enlightenment! I will patent all lists of rules that consist of a prime number of components.
I found neither Avalon nor GITS incomprehensible. Neither did I find the first 4 episodes of the TV series incomprehensible. Oshii's other live action films are a bit obscure, but we weren't talking about those. The fact that something is deep enough to stand rewatching doesn't make it incomprehensible on the first watching. Unless of course you just don't want to think at all. That level of mindlessness is not my idea of entertainment, though it might help you get into a Zen monestary.
Funny, one of the cuts on the soundtrack album for the TV series has the line, "I wonder what she does in the morning."
Convoluted? You must think Avalon was downright labyrinthine. Personally, I like a movie I can watch a dozen times and still get something new out of it the 12th time. That to me is the difference between good cinema and the kind of pap you can hardly watch once that Hollywood likes to crank out.
Funny, I watched Blade Runner to Hearts of Space and Echoes on FM last Sunday and I must say it didn't do the plot any harm at all. None of Oshii's movies have much dialogue, including his original anime, Angel's Egg.
"Sounds like a typical Oshii picture."
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Indeed. Considering that, in my not so humble opinion, Oshii's Avalon is the best movie ever made on several levels, I have to imagine that the problem with the critics is that they're movie critics and not critics of neo-technical electronic literature. In short, they just don't get it, which is their problem, not mine. What, Batou isn't likeable? As for Major Kusanagi, who only has a short appearance in II, I think I could fall in love with her....