Executives of Microsoft, IBM and Unisys are protesting a recent Argentine Supreme Court decision ruling that antiquated copyright laws don't cover computer software. Software makers point out that royalties aren't paid on about 70% of the software sold in Argentina, resulting in roughly $165 million in revenue losses annually. A recent study by Price Waterhouse & Co. indicates the biggest abusers are Argentine federal and local government agencies and small private businesses. "There's no culture in Argentina of assigning value to software," says a Unisys unit president. (Wall Street Journal 6 Feb 98).
(Agenda Computing is based in Irvine, California, but is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kessel International Holdings Limited)
Kessel Company prosectus: "In view of the Euro currency fluctuation, shortage of certain electronic components and start up stage of new product lines, the Directors believes that there will not have any significant change in the overall performance of the Group in the 2nd half of the year. However, provided that the new businesses are operated as planned and all unfavorable factors graduated away from the Group, the Group look forward to the future with optimism."
Same reason I go to the more expensive movie theater in town: better seats, larger screen, and fewer riff-raff to deal with.
I'd pay whatever it took for a website to give me what I want, ad-free, feature-rich, and know that it would be served 100 times faster since all the free-loaders have trimmed back their web-surfing and pR0n downloading since it now costs them something more than zero.
I've been begging Yahoo to set me up with something ad-free (and yes, I know about all the filters/blockers/etc) and give me more customization. Maybe two tiers of service are needed. As I use the Internet practically all day long, I'm willing to pay a bit more for something better.
we're in this band
we ain't got no mic stand
our music isn't that bland
and, we play punk
none of us can dunk
all other muse is junk
that's why we're Bucky Balls the band
we'll never sell out
that's not what we're about
we play what we want to play
so if ya don't like it
just go away
or just stay
that's why we're Bucky Balls the Band
Mike, Cameron, Corey
Matt & Brad
our music don't make ya sad
and our music is really loud
there usually ain't no crowd
and
that's why we're Bucky Balls the band
I did a conservation-of-momentum project involving a 30-06 rifle fired into a suspended log (pendulum) and measured the maximum extension swing of the log. With this experiment, I didn't have much to actually display except some tables, and of course, the 30-06 which sat in the gym all week.
Engineers hate risk. They try to eliminate it whenever they can. This is understandable, given that when an engineer makes one little mistake, the media will treat it like it's a big deal or something.
Examples of Bad Press for Engineers:
Space Shuttle Challenger.
Hindenberg.
SPANet(tm)
Hubble space telescope.
Apollo 13.
Titanic.
Ford Pinto.
Corvair.
The risk/reward calculation for engineers looks something like this:
Risk -
Public humiliation and the death of thousands of innocent people.
Reward -
A certificate of appreciation in a handsome plastic frame.
Being practical people, engineers evaluate this balance of risks and rewards and decide that risk is not a good thing. The best way to avoid risk is by advising that any activity is technically impossible for reasons that are far too complicated to explain.
If that approach is not sufficient to halt a project, then the engineer will fall back to a second line of defense: "It's technically possible but it will cost too much."
I didn't find one useful bit of information at all in that article - the author was uniformed and I disagree strongly with his assumptions. I feel that his background in the material in question was lacking and his conclusions were unsubstantiated. So there -
I've been trying to find this oldie but goodie -
A "Life" demonstration that ran under EGA resolution, it used definable parameters of Sharks and Minnows to extrapolate a particular set's life until extinction...
Help!!!
Give me any watermarked file, and I'll bet I can defeat it. For example, if it's an image file, a slight rotation of say 0.5% will fix it. If it's a music file, I'll just feed the audio through a board and re-record it.
(btw - why was the above post moderated down to 0 as 'overrated' ? Are you moderators telling me you couldn't find enough troll posts to mod down and you had to take out one where the guy is ACTUALLY on topic?)
"Stealing is when you take something from someone without their permission"
Semantics. Take the Ten Commandments - God didn't feel that is was necessary to say:
"Tho Shalt Not Steal (or purloin, filch, snitch, pilfer, cop, hook, swipe, lift, pinch, plagerize, or borrow with the intent to return it later without the owner's permission, or short-change, or swap those little bar-code stickers in the aisle before you get to the cashier)"
- by downloading everything I can get my hands on.
You are LYING to your self if you claim otherwise - I know I've saved myself several hundred dollars over the last few months by hearing a song on the radio, and burning myself a CD when I get home. And I ALSO used to spend about $1G on CD's each year -
Let he who is without a stolen.mp3 cast the first flame...
I don't know which company I consider less relevant (Don't flame me! I simply don't know anyone who runs either SCO or Caldera! No that isn't an invitation for both of you to e-mail me and complain!)
I think that if you could take that windmill and make the blades efficient enough, and grease the generator spindle just right, you could deploy the windmill while you were driving and produce enough electricity to propel you foward! (Thus causing air to move past the windmill, making electricity, making the car go forward, causing air to move, etc. etc.)
Hell, on less than windy days, you could even reverse the current to the windmill generator from the battery, thereby making the generator into a motor, and the windmill into a propeller, and blow a brisk wind into a handily deployed front-sail, giving you a one-of-a-kind sail-car that makes it's own wind! With the sail deployed while you are moving, you could even charge the batteries with a Honda portable gasoline generator.
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Executives of Microsoft, IBM and Unisys are protesting a recent Argentine Supreme Court decision ruling that antiquated copyright laws don't cover computer software. Software makers point out that royalties aren't paid on about 70% of the software sold in Argentina, resulting in roughly $165 million in revenue losses annually. A recent study by Price Waterhouse & Co. indicates the biggest abusers are Argentine federal and local government agencies and small private businesses. "There's no culture in Argentina of assigning value to software," says a Unisys unit president. (Wall Street Journal 6 Feb 98).
(Agenda Computing is based in Irvine, California, but is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kessel International Holdings Limited)
Kessel Company prosectus: "In view of the Euro currency fluctuation, shortage of certain electronic components and start up stage of new product lines, the Directors believes that there will not have any significant change in the overall performance of the Group in the 2nd half of the year. However, provided that the new businesses are operated as planned and all unfavorable factors graduated away from the Group, the Group look forward to the future with optimism."
Seems like a fairly simple sceme to me -
Original Message:
"All you base are belong to us."
Anti-Crypted message:
"Remember your bases? They are ours now."
Hell Yes!
Same reason I go to the more expensive movie theater in town: better seats, larger screen, and fewer riff-raff to deal with.
I'd pay whatever it took for a website to give me what I want, ad-free, feature-rich, and know that it would be served 100 times faster since all the free-loaders have trimmed back their web-surfing and pR0n downloading since it now costs them something more than zero.
I've been begging Yahoo to set me up with something ad-free (and yes, I know about all the filters/blockers/etc) and give me more customization. Maybe two tiers of service are needed. As I use the Internet practically all day long, I'm willing to pay a bit more for something better.
It pointed nowhere, so I posted a corrected version. It got changed, later, after enough people pointed this out.
All of your base are belong to us - make your time for great justice, zig.
Try THIS link.
we're in this band
we ain't got no mic stand
our music isn't that bland
and, we play punk
none of us can dunk
all other muse is junk
that's why we're Bucky Balls the band
we'll never sell out
that's not what we're about
we play what we want to play
so if ya don't like it
just go away
or just stay
that's why we're Bucky Balls the Band
Mike, Cameron, Corey
Matt & Brad
our music don't make ya sad
and our music is really loud
there usually ain't no crowd
and
that's why we're Bucky Balls the band
I did a conservation-of-momentum project involving a 30-06 rifle fired into a suspended log (pendulum) and measured the maximum extension swing of the log. With this experiment, I didn't have much to actually display except some tables, and of course, the 30-06 which sat in the gym all week.
(I got this idea from a previous post, but I've revised the link a bit)
Once a day, go here and right-click on each link, select 'open in new window' and let the pages load.
The expense will add up quite quick, I think!
If this is for real, then we could /. the shit out of these links and cost these mofo's some SERIOUS CASH!
Send a message!!!
Click that link, then for speed, right-click on each link and choose, "open in new window"
Just let each page load, and force them to spend some REAL BUCKS!!!
Engineers hate risk. They try to eliminate it whenever they can. This is understandable, given that when an engineer makes one little mistake, the media will treat it like it's a big deal or something.
Examples of Bad Press for Engineers:
Space Shuttle Challenger.
Hindenberg.
SPANet(tm)
Hubble space telescope.
Apollo 13.
Titanic.
Ford Pinto.
Corvair.
The risk/reward calculation for engineers looks something like this:
Risk -
Public humiliation and the death of thousands of innocent people.
Reward -
A certificate of appreciation in a handsome plastic frame.
Being practical people, engineers evaluate this balance of risks and rewards and decide that risk is not a good thing. The best way to avoid risk is by advising that any activity is technically impossible for reasons that are far too complicated to explain.
If that approach is not sufficient to halt a project, then the engineer will fall back to a second line of defense: "It's technically possible but it will cost too much."
"Iraq has long had difficulty calculating the potential yield of nuclear devices -- a critical requirement in designing such weapons."
Why is this so important? Why not just MAKE one, and if it works, measure the size of the hole?
I didn't find one useful bit of information at all in that article - the author was uniformed and I disagree strongly with his assumptions. I feel that his background in the material in question was lacking and his conclusions were unsubstantiated. So there -
I tried to use Bablefish to translate a letter to a friend about a girl I met in Cuba, and when I translated it back, it looked like this:
""I met a nice girl"
became:
"Satisfice agradable a una muchacha"
which (re-translated) means:
"I satisfied pleasant a girl"
Uh... I hope I satisfied her, but that's not what I was trying to say exactly...
I've been trying to find this oldie but goodie - A "Life" demonstration that ran under EGA resolution, it used definable parameters of Sharks and Minnows to extrapolate a particular set's life until extinction... Help!!!
Give me any watermarked file, and I'll bet I can defeat it. For example, if it's an image file, a slight rotation of say 0.5% will fix it. If it's a music file, I'll just feed the audio through a board and re-record it.
(btw - why was the above post moderated down to 0 as 'overrated' ? Are you moderators telling me you couldn't find enough troll posts to mod down and you had to take out one where the guy is ACTUALLY on topic?)
we are evaluating for purchase this week
one, two, three
"Stealing is when you take something from someone without their permission"
Semantics. Take the Ten Commandments - God didn't feel that is was necessary to say:
"Tho Shalt Not Steal (or purloin, filch, snitch, pilfer, cop, hook, swipe, lift, pinch, plagerize, or borrow with the intent to return it later without the owner's permission, or short-change, or swap those little bar-code stickers in the aisle before you get to the cashier)"
...because it's all stealing
I tell you what - don't take MY word for it: See for yourself
"given to me by people who own the CD's"..."NONE of them are "stolen".
Dude - If someone who "own's a CD" of Autocad or Microsoft Office "give's you a copy" then by this logic you are not "stealing" either -
[BUZZZ] Next...
- by downloading everything I can get my hands on.
.mp3 cast the first flame...
You are LYING to your self if you claim otherwise - I know I've saved myself several hundred dollars over the last few months by hearing a song on the radio, and burning myself a CD when I get home. And I ALSO used to spend about $1G on CD's each year -
Let he who is without a stolen
I don't know which company I consider less relevant (Don't flame me! I simply don't know anyone who runs either SCO or Caldera! No that isn't an invitation for both of you to e-mail me and complain!)
CmdrTaco has become what he despises: a troll
It's not his fault - I forgot to put the obligatory emoticons on the end of my message.
So, belatedly, here y'all go:
There. That should help.
I think that if you could take that windmill and make the blades efficient enough, and grease the generator spindle just right, you could deploy the windmill while you were driving and produce enough electricity to propel you foward! (Thus causing air to move past the windmill, making electricity, making the car go forward, causing air to move, etc. etc.)
Hell, on less than windy days, you could even reverse the current to the windmill generator from the battery, thereby making the generator into a motor, and the windmill into a propeller, and blow a brisk wind into a handily deployed front-sail, giving you a one-of-a-kind sail-car that makes it's own wind! With the sail deployed while you are moving, you could even charge the batteries with a Honda portable gasoline generator.