My bank just contacted my the other day for a $1.33 charge. They called within an hour of transaction which I didn't make. Operator cancelled the card and my card immediately but wouldnt explain how they knew they knew I didnt do it. I appreciate the proactive approach, but they should really be telling me The Whole Truth.
The charge was to a company called Jazz Inc with an 800#, when you call it it says "Press 1 for more information to be texted to you about the charge on your bill." I assume they somehow ends up in a sizable charge via you cell carrier, but I just hung up.
We are consitutionally given the right to free expression. There are already liable and slander laws to deal with the excesses of such. Why should any public or private entity by why of exclucivity or contract have a right to abridge those rights?
Seriously, do we belive in the bill of rights or not? Remember why it was so important to state those rights in the first place.
How would you know until you tried? Not many people (but bless those that do) care about working extra for a.3% improvement.
The point is most people dont even care about a 200% increase. Only raw computaions an IO are faster on current hardware, but without question, the programs are slower. More features you say? Why is my software loading modules/features/etc I never use? A small bit of thought here would go a long way. Sad part is, the market will figure this out due to pricing and demand quicker than any producer on a budget and schedule.
People use software to make them efficent. Sometimes it actually does, but rarely is it doing something more efficently.
The telepnone/baby bell thing always comes up as the big cometition argument. But phone service always sucked and nobody even noticed when it got better. Wait, did it?
But, imagine in Time warner and Comcast and whoever else could actually pay their way on a per subscriber basis actually had equal access to each others lines (on our tax supprted lines/poles). You couldn't help but have unbelievably creative ways to get more out of your broadband. As soon as people realize that REAL growth opportunities come from things they would never even dare to do, people win. Large entities can't even consider those risks.
Prodigy or Compuserv or MSN a decade ahead could never have been "the internet". Competition explodes when the medium to deliver is available and afforadable. Innovation lives in striving to win.
The thing with windows is that anything out of the ordinary is either a "supported procedure", or your fucked. I recently had the fun (by masochistic choice) of setting up a Win2k/SQL cluster. If you follow any one of the KB articles or TechNet articles, you're screwed. You need to read all 40 of them to understand all the gotchas. The best help I had was an internal doc supplied to me that nobody has access to but should. It was a simple doc written by somebody that had read all of the relavent KB and Technet articles.
Linux/Unix/whatevr is no better, but atleast somebody forked to better solution in most cases.
If MS KB did the simple thing that Amazon does with it's products, it would be a cakewalk. Simply recommend other articles based on the same searches/questions/and especially, internal recs. Reliably. The pros there know it inside out, and yet they always leave crappy docs out there that folks follow and end up looking like... well... Windows users.
These guys provide outsourced SEC compliant messaging for the enterprise. Their big product is doing email archival and hosting, but they also provide some IM services powered by IMLogic software.
I'm glad I'm not the only one going crazy over this. It now requires you to move you mouse about 4-5 pixels to grab the link after you push the button. Why on earth did they do this?
If you liked J's Ladder, check out the DVD sometime. There's another 30 minutes (as a seperate show, not edited in unfortunately) of quality scene's. Makes a pretty big impact on the story too.
Run, Lola, Run was fun too. Same director and actress did another movie 2 years ago called The Princess and The Warrior. It's definately weird and doubly so in german, but I like it a lot.
Well, either way, Lynch still shot it. I can't stand the Smithee version tho. Especially the whole cartoon at the beginning. It's literally the made-for-TV edit.
WND is the textbook for understanding Irish humor. I definately agree.
Other underrated movies I think are (this thread is at 1300, gotta stick em somewhere): City of Lost Children Jacob's Ladder Dune (Lynch version) The Hudsucker Proxy Rushmore Big Trouble in Little China
And I just watched Death to Smoochy. So damn funny. Takes the drunk-clown premise to an entirely new level.
I think most software of this nature has an option to ignore the SIT tones anyway. I put the SIT on my answering machine and still get plenty of marketing calls. It is less than it was tho.
This product doesn't seem to be doing anything new for all the attentions it's been getting. This should only go to further for state enforced do-not-call lists.
Yeah, well they tried something a little different with Dune: Emperor and it pretty much failed. 3d engine, original structures and unit types. Same with C&C Renegade. Completely new concept on a crappy 3D engine. Didn't sell well off the mark so support and patches have been miserable. Add that to the one of the flakiest online systems around and you can see Westwood has been losing some diehard fans for years now.
Most of the generals beta-testers I know won't be buying the game. They've done a poor job integrating user suggestions and nobody is expecting them to fix much after release.
I know they need to focus on the successful products, but they can only burn their fans so many times. Maybe will bring some changes, but I doubt it.
By no means an expert, but the Daisy Cutter does have an effective blast up to 3 miles from what I've read. Hiroshima's damage was a simialar radius. Anything that big could easily be confused for a tactical nuke.
I completely with your second and last paragraphs.
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My bank just contacted my the other day for a $1.33 charge. They called within an hour of transaction which I didn't make. Operator cancelled the card and my card immediately but wouldnt explain how they knew they knew I didnt do it. I appreciate the proactive approach, but they should really be telling me The Whole Truth.
The charge was to a company called Jazz Inc with an 800#, when you call it it says "Press 1 for more information to be texted to you about the charge on your bill." I assume they somehow ends up in a sizable charge via you cell carrier, but I just hung up.
Anyone seen or know more about this obvious scam?
Actually, most offer both plans.
We are consitutionally given the right to free expression. There are already liable and slander laws to deal with the excesses of such. Why should any public or private entity by why of exclucivity or contract have a right to abridge those rights?
Seriously, do we belive in the bill of rights or not? Remember why it was so important to state those rights in the first place.
How would you know until you tried? Not many people (but bless those that do) care about working extra for a .3% improvement.
The point is most people dont even care about a 200% increase. Only raw computaions an IO are faster on current hardware, but without question, the programs are slower. More features you say? Why is my software loading modules/features/etc I never use? A small bit of thought here would go a long way. Sad part is, the market will figure this out due to pricing and demand quicker than any producer on a budget and schedule.
People use software to make them efficent. Sometimes it actually does, but rarely is it doing something more efficently.
If only the theories were right. You're right and all, but please stop speaking like that.
Insightful?! Just plain wrong. While the parent is just as silly, why does fear triumph?
Creating and testing nuclear weapons has proven far more difficult that making effective rockets. Wait, way am I even beginning to argue this point?
It's silly shit like this that makes me weep. Damn you red states. Damn you to Rumsfeld. Damn you for convincing the the passionate illiterate.
This franchise would probably disagree with you.
Using FIPS compliant software and devices would also be a good start.
The telepnone/baby bell thing always comes up as the big cometition argument. But phone service always sucked and nobody even noticed when it got better. Wait, did it?
But, imagine in Time warner and Comcast and whoever else could actually pay their way on a per subscriber basis actually had equal access to each others lines (on our tax supprted lines/poles). You couldn't help but have unbelievably creative ways to get more out of your broadband. As soon as people realize that REAL growth opportunities come from things they would never even dare to do, people win. Large entities can't even consider those risks.
Prodigy or Compuserv or MSN a decade ahead could never have been "the internet". Competition explodes when the medium to deliver is available and afforadable. Innovation lives in striving to win.
Please vote appropriately.
The thing with windows is that anything out of the ordinary is either a "supported procedure", or your fucked. I recently had the fun (by masochistic choice) of setting up a Win2k/SQL cluster. If you follow any one of the KB articles or TechNet articles, you're screwed. You need to read all 40 of them to understand all the gotchas. The best help I had was an internal doc supplied to me that nobody has access to but should. It was a simple doc written by somebody that had read all of the relavent KB and Technet articles.
Linux/Unix/whatevr is no better, but atleast somebody forked to better solution in most cases.
If MS KB did the simple thing that Amazon does with it's products, it would be a cakewalk. Simply recommend other articles based on the same searches/questions/and especially, internal recs. Reliably. The pros there know it inside out, and yet they always leave crappy docs out there that folks follow and end up looking like... well... Windows users.
haha... silly movie.
"Come in Jamaica"
These guys provide outsourced SEC compliant messaging for the enterprise. Their big product is doing email archival and hosting, but they also provide some IM services powered by IMLogic software.
Some guy has been working on this for over a year. Haven't tried his patch, but you might want to take a look...
bug 124029
I believe there are other bugs/implementations in bugzilla, so you might want to hunt around.
I'm glad I'm not the only one going crazy over this. It now requires you to move you mouse about 4-5 pixels to grab the link after you push the button. Why on earth did they do this?
Wow. Those screenshots look like total shit.
If you liked J's Ladder, check out the DVD sometime. There's another 30 minutes (as a seperate show, not edited in unfortunately) of quality scene's. Makes a pretty big impact on the story too.
Run, Lola, Run was fun too. Same director and actress did another movie 2 years ago called The Princess and The Warrior. It's definately weird and doubly so in german, but I like it a lot.
Well, either way, Lynch still shot it. I can't stand the Smithee version tho. Especially the whole cartoon at the beginning. It's literally the made-for-TV edit.
:P
Just a little spittle for you face
WND is the textbook for understanding Irish humor. I definately agree.
Other underrated movies I think are (this thread is at 1300, gotta stick em somewhere):
City of Lost Children
Jacob's Ladder
Dune (Lynch version)
The Hudsucker Proxy
Rushmore
Big Trouble in Little China
And I just watched Death to Smoochy. So damn funny. Takes the drunk-clown premise to an entirely new level.
I think most software of this nature has an option to ignore the SIT tones anyway. I put the SIT on my answering machine and still get plenty of marketing calls. It is less than it was tho.
This product doesn't seem to be doing anything new for all the attentions it's been getting. This should only go to further for state enforced do-not-call lists.
Try this.
Yeah, well they tried something a little different with Dune: Emperor and it pretty much failed. 3d engine, original structures and unit types. Same with C&C Renegade. Completely new concept on a crappy 3D engine. Didn't sell well off the mark so support and patches have been miserable. Add that to the one of the flakiest online systems around and you can see Westwood has been losing some diehard fans for years now.
Most of the generals beta-testers I know won't be buying the game. They've done a poor job integrating user suggestions and nobody is expecting them to fix much after release.
I know they need to focus on the successful products, but they can only burn their fans so many times. Maybe will bring some changes, but I doubt it.
Obviously being linked to from slashdot would be one.
By no means an expert, but the Daisy Cutter does have an effective blast up to 3 miles from what I've read. Hiroshima's damage was a simialar radius. Anything that big could easily be confused for a tactical nuke.
I completely with your second and last paragraphs.
Haven't you ever seen a McMansion before?
it looks to me from the screenshots
lmao