"Your logic fails when you consider that Glitter grossed more than Citizen Kane."
Personally, I never saw the supreme greatness of Citizan Kane. But then, I only sat through it once. I generally chalk that movie up to "Emperor's New Clothes" phenomenon. That is, enough critics say it's the best, so anyone who doen't say it's the best must be a buffoon who should never watch movies again.
In terms of best movies every, I rank Godfather higher than Citizen Kane. Camerons films don't make top 20 list, but Aliens almost makes it if only for the memorable Bill Paxton lines.
Yeah! I want to continue getting movies for free, or else I'm not going to pay for any more...
Speeding on the freeway. Everyone does it and usually you get away with it, but sometimes you get caught and ticketed. It's a matter of whether or not getting from point A to point B more quickly is worth more to you than than what's in your wallet. If to you, saving $17.00 for a DVD is worth the chance of getting a major fine, feel free to risk it. But until enough voices force a change in the law, trading copyrighted material is against the law.
As for finding another, quieter place, such a thing usually doesn't exist. What, you want people who need to talk or concentrate on something to find another airport?
No, I want people at an airport to fly somewhere else. Not hang out with friends, shine my shoes, sell me books, sing me songs, ask for spare change, or give me a sermon.
If people need to talk or concentrate on something, then by all means either speak loud enough to be heard over the TV or go to their local library. Yeah, that place everyone pays for, but nobody hardly uses.
I get the impression that the parent poster doens't have friends that are more interesting than what is on TV.
My boss, the tightwad VP of Finance, thinks he knows a lot about IT. He really only knows MS Excel and Lotus 123. I'll send up project proposals or he'll ask for cost analyses and never act on either. Very frustrating. I feel like I'm just doing busy work to make him feel important.
But the worse part is the company is cheap. Factoring in insurance costs and overtime, I got paid more working at a local factory. I not only have to do IT management, but network admin, DBA (in two different databases), programming, tech support, telecomm installation and support, and anything else with an electric cord.
When I need to do something with the hardware, it always has to be after everyone has left. And above mentioned VP always stays extra late. That leaves me putting off stuff and working weekends, which gets old quickly.
What's worse is the guy before me was an a$$ kisser, so everthing I do doesn't compare.
It's not all bad, some days I can sit around and look busy, reading/. and playing Utopia and nobody even notices. But, I'm presently looking elsewhere for better wages.
Well, you can go from your $10 boombox to your PC using the Plusdeck.
or for $135 less ($10 boombox, $5 cable), just get a Cable
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I am similar to you, but I actually post now and then. When someone mentions getting "modded to hell", I look for a reason that they should. I usually don't find one.
I try to avoid stuff to moderate that I feel strongly about: politics, religon, Han shooting first. It's hard to mod up a JarJar fan, after all.
Of course, I would moderate yours and my posts as "off-topic".:)
The report, funded by the Ford Foundation, was conducted for the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers, a Seattle organization that wants to unionize workers at Microsoft Corp. and other technology companies.
What? You want to send my job to India? How about I strike for higher wages instead?
Bill: That Mac is cool. I want that on an IBM compatible. The way every program has it's own door, no, it's own tabletop. Yeah, we'll call it Tabletops for DOS. Paul: Actually, they're more like windows. Bill: Windows? That's a stupid name. Look, I'm the genius around here...I say it's tabletops. (Paul walks off disheartened) Bill: Steve, I just came up with a great name for my Apple clone, I mean our new program manager: Windows for DOS...
1. I asked a guy at Home Depot today where the wall anchors were. He walked me to them. That's "old school" customer service, rather than just telling me: "On aisle five, to the left".
2. One of my Maxtor HD's was acting flaky. I ran their diagnostics on it and it not only gave me a fault code, but directed me to their website where I could enter the code and receive a free replacement. It did it and a new one showed up a week later. Very nice. How many of those get tossed because nobody realizes they have a three year warranty? I didn't, until I ran that diagnostics.
On the other hand,
The SBC guy never showed up today to install our long-distance T1. I called my SBC sales rep, who called the installer and chewed some tail, the installer apologetically calls me and gives me the "gold treatment" on the install.
Good customer service isn't always how well you do your job, it's how well you recover when you don't do it right the first time.
One of the guys on my network shares his music library, and this Cd was in the collection. It's not bad. Some of it has an old school Curtis Blow type feel to it. Some of it sounds like they are just looking for opportunites to say "motherf***". Some of it tries too hard to be political.
Which, if you've listened to a lot of Beastie Boys, you'll know that most of their lyrics are a combination of self-appreciation, oddball pseudo-namedropping and rhymes that would be silly if they weren't so crafty.
For example:
Music for all not just one people
And now we're gonna bust with the Putney Swope sequel More Adidas sneakers that a plumber got pliers Got more suits that Jacoby & Meyers
Diversity is good--for apps. When you are trying to win marketshare on the desktop, diversity is confusion for the end user. Joe Sikspak doesn't care if he's using KDE or Gnome. He doesn't want to know what a window manager is. To him, a kernel is a white-haired, goateed, string-tie wearing peddler of greasy chicken. He wants the easiest and cheapest way to download REO Speedwagon tunes, play games, and surf for porn.
Linux distros are like going to the movie rental place and taking three hours to pick out a 90 minute movie. You weed though the stacks of Eric Roberts "B" Movies only to end up going home with Blade Runner for the fifth time.
I don't know what to do... try to tough it out, go straight to graduate school or just leave the country.
I did both. I worked at a factory doing assembly line and forklift driving work while I went to college. I finished my CS degree almost two years ago and I had to lowball myself to get an IT Manager job at a another smaller factory (just last week). Meanwhile, I've been hacking away hours towards a MS degree.
Barring the chance that I meet up with the next Steve Wozniak and do something special, I plan to teach one day. It's what I enjoy most.
I remember tuning into PBS and getting duped into watching Dr. Who, thinking it was going to be a British version of Star Trek or something. I tried to like it. The theme song was excellent and the premise was neat, but I just couldn't get into the Sid and Marty Kroft looking sets. Today though, I would proably think it is great television.
FWIW, why doesn't/. have a Tardis icon they can use? They could swipe these guys' artwork for some Who game I've never played.
Anyone that would consider buying an automobile, let alone a house, on eBay must be daft.
I know a guy who bought a pristine Saab 900S through eBay. He said he was nervous about the deal, but ended getting the car for a song (this was back when you could actually find good deals on eBay).
Similary, I had the rare occasion of finding a car I was looking for in a location not far from my home. I drove down to look at it and I can say this much. If a picture is worth a thousand words, I would much rather have had the words. Or at least he could have told me it was a rust bucket before I made the two hour drive. Looked great in the pictures though!
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Personally, I never saw the supreme greatness of Citizan Kane. But then, I only sat through it once. I generally chalk that movie up to "Emperor's New Clothes" phenomenon. That is, enough critics say it's the best, so anyone who doen't say it's the best must be a buffoon who should never watch movies again.
In terms of best movies every, I rank Godfather higher than Citizen Kane. Camerons films don't make top 20 list, but Aliens almost makes it if only for the memorable Bill Paxton lines.
Those are product names. How would you like it if cans of Mt. Dew were blank? You could buy a Pepsi or whatever.
Now if your computer showed a Mt. Dew ad when you booted it up...
I don't know. I just popped my LodeRunner disk into my 1541 and played a quick game on my Commodore 64.
That's a 20 year old 5.25" floppy on a 21 year old computer.
I guess I am just lucky...
Yeah! I want to continue getting movies for free, or else I'm not going to pay for any more...
Speeding on the freeway. Everyone does it and usually you get away with it, but sometimes you get caught and ticketed. It's a matter of whether or not getting from point A to point B more quickly is worth more to you than than what's in your wallet. If to you, saving $17.00 for a DVD is worth the chance of getting a major fine, feel free to risk it. But until enough voices force a change in the law, trading copyrighted material is against the law.
No, I want people at an airport to fly somewhere else. Not hang out with friends, shine my shoes, sell me books, sing me songs, ask for spare change, or give me a sermon.
If people need to talk or concentrate on something, then by all means either speak loud enough to be heard over the TV or go to their local library. Yeah, that place everyone pays for, but nobody hardly uses.
I get the impression that the parent poster doens't have friends that are more interesting than what is on TV.
No.
I started using AOL back when it was QuantumLink on the Commodore 64 in 1989, and I was a late-bloomer then.
My boss, the tightwad VP of Finance, thinks he knows a lot about IT. He really only knows MS Excel and Lotus 123. I'll send up project proposals or he'll ask for cost analyses and never act on either. Very frustrating. I feel like I'm just doing busy work to make him feel important.
/. and playing Utopia and nobody even notices. But, I'm presently looking elsewhere for better wages.
But the worse part is the company is cheap. Factoring in insurance costs and overtime, I got paid more working at a local factory. I not only have to do IT management, but network admin, DBA (in two different databases), programming, tech support, telecomm installation and support, and anything else with an electric cord.
When I need to do something with the hardware, it always has to be after everyone has left. And above mentioned VP always stays extra late. That leaves me putting off stuff and working weekends, which gets old quickly.
What's worse is the guy before me was an a$$ kisser, so everthing I do doesn't compare.
It's not all bad, some days I can sit around and look busy, reading
So...
Samara Sutradhara + Kama Sutra = History's first Mile High Club?
Well, you can go from your $10 boombox to your PC using the Plusdeck.
or for $135 less ($10 boombox, $5 cable), just get a Cable
I am similar to you, but I actually post now and then. When someone mentions getting "modded to hell", I look for a reason that they should. I usually don't find one.
:)
I try to avoid stuff to moderate that I feel strongly about: politics, religon, Han shooting first. It's hard to mod up a JarJar fan, after all.
Of course, I would moderate yours and my posts as "off-topic".
Man, that's an awful lot of trouble to go though just to play "Crazy Train".
What? You want to send my job to India? How about I strike for higher wages instead?
You are surprised? Look at the history...
Bill: That Mac is cool. I want that on an IBM compatible. The way every program has it's own door, no, it's own tabletop. Yeah, we'll call it Tabletops for DOS.
Paul: Actually, they're more like windows.
Bill: Windows? That's a stupid name. Look, I'm the genius around here...I say it's tabletops.
(Paul walks off disheartened)
Bill: Steve, I just came up with a great name for my Apple clone, I mean our new program manager: Windows for DOS...
Blah, blah.
Nah, they just didn't want to learn the IBM Song.
Does ANYBODY have good customer service anymore?
Yes, you just don't remember the good stuff.
1. I asked a guy at Home Depot today where the wall anchors were. He walked me to them. That's "old school" customer service, rather than just telling me: "On aisle five, to the left".
2. One of my Maxtor HD's was acting flaky. I ran their diagnostics on it and it not only gave me a fault code, but directed me to their website where I could enter the code and receive a free replacement. It did it and a new one showed up a week later. Very nice. How many of those get tossed because nobody realizes they have a three year warranty? I didn't, until I ran that diagnostics.
On the other hand,
The SBC guy never showed up today to install our long-distance T1. I called my SBC sales rep, who called the installer and chewed some tail, the installer apologetically calls me and gives me the "gold treatment" on the install.
Good customer service isn't always how well you do your job, it's how well you recover when you don't do it right the first time.
Which, if you've listened to a lot of Beastie Boys, you'll know that most of their lyrics are a combination of self-appreciation, oddball pseudo-namedropping and rhymes that would be silly if they weren't so crafty.
For example:
That works for me. It makes Joe Schmuckatelli wonder who the heck Putney Swope is, or who Jacoby and Meyers are.
Diversity is good--for apps. When you are trying to win marketshare on the desktop, diversity is confusion for the end user. Joe Sikspak doesn't care if he's using KDE or Gnome. He doesn't want to know what a window manager is. To him, a kernel is a white-haired, goateed, string-tie wearing peddler of greasy chicken. He wants the easiest and cheapest way to download REO Speedwagon tunes, play games, and surf for porn.
Linux distros are like going to the movie rental place and taking three hours to pick out a 90 minute movie. You weed though the stacks of Eric Roberts "B" Movies only to end up going home with Blade Runner for the fifth time.
Nog
What's with the giant floor tiles anyway?
I could never work in a place that sterile looking. I gots to have my extra short loop-pile carpet.
Then again, you could probably get a few raquetball games going in a place like that...
I did both. I worked at a factory doing assembly line and forklift driving work while I went to college. I finished my CS degree almost two years ago and I had to lowball myself to get an IT Manager job at a another smaller factory (just last week). Meanwhile, I've been hacking away hours towards a MS degree.
Barring the chance that I meet up with the next Steve Wozniak and do something special, I plan to teach one day. It's what I enjoy most.
I remember tuning into PBS and getting duped into watching Dr. Who, thinking it was going to be a British version of Star Trek or something. I tried to like it. The theme song was excellent and the premise was neat, but I just couldn't get into the Sid and Marty Kroft looking sets. Today though, I would proably think it is great television.
/. have a Tardis icon they can use? They could swipe these guys' artwork for some Who game I've never played.
FWIW, why doesn't
Nog
I know a guy who bought a pristine Saab 900S through eBay. He said he was nervous about the deal, but ended getting the car for a song (this was back when you could actually find good deals on eBay).
Similary, I had the rare occasion of finding a car I was looking for in a location not far from my home. I drove down to look at it and I can say this much. If a picture is worth a thousand words, I would much rather have had the words. Or at least he could have told me it was a rust bucket before I made the two hour drive. Looked great in the pictures though!
Nog