Ten days ago, Nortel Networks Corp. said it would lose an astonishing $19.2 billion this quarter because its phone-equipment sales are falling.
..The real difficulty is that their telemarketers can't get through to you to sell you new gear, because your line is busy with that dial-up sucking down MP3's at 14.4k.
Yep. And it a good idea, but it *not* perpetual motion. what I found amusing was the assertion that it would run perpetually without any additional energy input.. i.e. charge it up once and the generators would forever charge the batteries after that.
This reminds me of a guy I knew that wanted to build an electric car with genrators running off all the wheels.. He figured that would let his car run forever for free...This must have been before the discovery of friction.
Pop-up ads annoy the hell out of a lot of online users, but they're impossible to ignore,
What?.. My automatic reaction to a pop-up is to close it. To me thats a pretty effective way to ignore them, not to mention that I usually won't return to a site with pop-ups if I can help it..
Would you be interested in buying some of my Miracle-Oil? It increases sex-appeal by 300 percent, increases cash-flow by 270 percent and makes your teeth shiny white.
This has all been proven by our many scientific lab-tests, and you can benefit from this research for only $19.95 a bottle.
Note: ClemCo's rigorous commitment to quality and value has resulted in the jealous former researchers who claim that this product is ineffective. This is not true, and to prove it we are bringing legal action against these ingrates. We stand by our record, and are proud of our achievements. We will be judged only by God Almighty, and not government regulatory agencies, disgruntled employees or consumer advocate groups.
So what defines a typo? Is this going to cause major problems for Cmdr Taco? What if I go domain shopping drunk? Is a site like monsantos a typo or a parody? Am I going to get busted because PopeAlien.com could be construed to be a typo of Pepsi.com?.. This is just silly.
Yeah.. And Katz assumes that there is a finite source of 'small media' web zines etc, and that all 'Big media' has to do is buy them up.. Seems to me that the great thing about the Web is that anyone with a connection and an Idea can put something up..
So 'Big Media' is bigger. So what? It's always been that way, and it always will be. And there will also always be those of us that look for something a bit different than what 'Big Media' is offering.
Deciding who to pay is a RIGHT; privacy at work is not.
Do you have those camera installed in the bathrooms as well?
It seems to me that my employer pays me for what I do not how I do it. I occasionaly take work home, and you know what? I also occasionaly take my personal interests to work. If I'm not doing the job I was hired to do, well, fire me. No need to spy on me.
Yeah great, Now I have to worry about RSI in my neck from looking back and forth across the expansive face of this monitor. But where can I get a four-foot wide keyboard?
I dunno.. I'm not sure any site with advertising is "free". There are different ways to pay for things, and one of them is to fill your eyeballs with banner-ads. Not that I disagree with your point, I think that if anything, this asks the question - Why would you pay for someone else to 'hold onto' your data, and lose that much control?
I would fully support any effort by the RIAA to eliminate fluorescent lights to prevent file-sharing. It would save me the effort of looking for a ladder to remove the tubes from my office ceiling.
I look forward to the days when audio devices have no audio output for 'protection'.
Customer: "I'd like to return this walkman"
Salesperson: "Is it broken?"
Customer: "well, theres nowhere to plug the headphones in"
Salesperson: "oh.. They just clip on the back, like this"
Customer: "yeah.. I tried that, but I couldn't hear anything.. Isn't there supposed to be a headphone jack or something?"
Salesperson: "Oh, No sir.. Pirates use headphone jacks to steal the audio signal.. This walkman is secured against intellectual property theft.."
..For those of us that already have a PC, you can get a hundred dollar TV tuner card and software like snapstream and do the same thing. Not only that, but if you feel like it, you can set your recording schedule online through that service. I havent tried it yet with my old ATI tv card, but it looks pretty cool, and the limited version is free (as in beer).
Some open source licenses are viral, that is, they require that all derivative works be licensed on the same terms as the original program. These licenses are described as viral because they "infect" derivative programs. Viral licenses vary in how infectious they are, depending on how they define which programs are derivative works.
Good lord! I had no idea running open source software was so dangerous! I mean, what with the liberal news media and their anti-microsoft slant you'd think it was good american programs like, oh, say.. Outlook that had 'viral' problems.. VBS must be open source.
.. Sorry, no my tan is a CRT tan. Though similar, there are differences - for your reference here are the main types of Geek Tans (in no particular order)
CRT= Computer Reductive Tan
-A negative tan, that is to say that the melanin levels in the skin are actualy depleted by lack of exposure to natural light.
RGB= Rotten Grey Bubbly Tan
-One step beyond a CRT tan, the depleted melanin has been replace by lead, mercury and other heavy metals off-gasing from computer hardware. This condition is only possible on a diet of cheezies and Jolt.
LCD= Liquid Caffeine Discharge Tan
-This tan is caused by a combination lack of light and lack of sleep. Caffeine levels in the skin cause a visible sizzling when exposed to sunlight. -aka the 'road-warriors tan'.
EMF= Electric Mind-funk Tan
-A temporary condition caused by a combination of the above tans & High levels of Electro-Magnetic radiation (Quake III on an overclocked AMD box)-The surface of the brain darkens and causes the subject to believe that they R001 the W0r1d. Woot woot.
.. Regardless of the merits of a courtday protest, if you want to be there, you should go at 10:00 am, not on your lunch break. Unlike the court dates before, this one consists of a 20 minute argument from the 2600 side, and a 30 minute argument from the other side - It'll be over quick.
The 'other side' gets more time because there are two of them - MPAA gets 20 minutes, US government gets 10 minutes.
This info comes from the 2600 radio show Off the Hook.
..Not to mention that as the databases grow and merge we're dealing with a fairly complete profile of what you like, what forms of advertising you'll respond to, where you go on vacation, how much you make, etc. etc.. Sounds a bit like me like we're headed towards the ideal consumer set into feed troughs and kept fat and slow.
And then there's identity theft - So count me out - I try to add a bit to a database every day. Anita Prawduct, Don T. Botherme, Joe Shopper, etc. etc. etc. Let them track and market to the figments of my imagination!
As far as a convergence device goes, my PC works great, and I'm in control of the individual components thank you very much.
The winner moves on to the eight-game match this October in Bahrain against Kramnik -- who will collect a cool $1 million if he wins and $600,000 if he loses.
Now thats my kind of contest, where can I sign up? (and I dont even play chess, but still, 600,00! yeah..)
I use Belkin KVM Switches at home and at work. I'd love to have other connectors availiable as well in one box (audio, Firewire, USB, etc), but for now Its nice just having access to four boxes from one workstation setup.
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..So what? Tall buildings are *so* twentieth century. Whatever happened to those great big pyramid buildings ala Bladerunner? I mean come on people, its the year Two-Thousand-and-One! Lets get with the times!
Ah! but when they were developing it, they most likely were impressed with linux for a few reasons-
-Golly that Linux stock sure is rocketing up.. it must be the next big thing.
-You mean it's free? As in free beer? No licensing costs? *rubs hands in glee*..We'll be rich, RICH I Say! Mua ha ha..
I assume this because I worked with someone who called me up when 'Linux' meant 'big ol' IPO' and asked me if I knew anything about it.. turns out they had a penny stock mining company and they wanted to jump on the bandwagon and get the stock up.. -They were going to do 'Linux Training'.. funny thing is that by the time they had done up their news releases the market had begun to slide..
Whats astounding is how this happens over and over again, and yet marketbots will still look at an unfinished product, stop development while drooling over profits and release a product into the marketplace that no one will buy.
I wonder if people's expectations have been steadily dropping, and they no longer actually expect technology to work when they buy it.. Perhaps thats what they are bettting on -As long as it has nice packaging, lets not worry about those little functionality issues..
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Caldera expects each customer to have a COLA for each system that deploys OpenLinux Workstation.
..but I just want water..
Ten days ago, Nortel Networks Corp. said it would lose an astonishing $19.2 billion this quarter because its phone-equipment sales are falling.
..The real difficulty is that their telemarketers can't get through to you to sell you new gear, because your line is busy with that dial-up sucking down MP3's at 14.4k.
Shame on you.
Yep. And it a good idea, but it *not* perpetual motion. what I found amusing was the assertion that it would run perpetually without any additional energy input.. i.e. charge it up once and the generators would forever charge the batteries after that.
This reminds me of a guy I knew that wanted to build an electric car with genrators running off all the wheels.. He figured that would let his car run forever for free. ..This must have been before the discovery of friction.
Pop-up ads annoy the hell out of a lot of online users, but they're impossible to ignore,
.. My automatic reaction to a pop-up is to close it. To me thats a pretty effective way to ignore them, not to mention that I usually won't return to a site with pop-ups if I can help it..
What?
Would you be interested in buying some of my Miracle-Oil? It increases sex-appeal by 300 percent, increases cash-flow by 270 percent and makes your teeth shiny white.
This has all been proven by our many scientific lab-tests, and you can benefit from this research for only $19.95 a bottle.
Note: ClemCo's rigorous commitment to quality and value has resulted in the jealous former researchers who claim that this product is ineffective. This is not true, and to prove it we are bringing legal action against these ingrates. We stand by our record, and are proud of our achievements. We will be judged only by God Almighty, and not government regulatory agencies, disgruntled employees or consumer advocate groups.
Surely a direct result of bringing that MIR space-fungus down to earth.. I tried to warn you...
So what defines a typo? Is this going to cause major problems for Cmdr Taco? What if I go domain shopping drunk? Is a site like monsantos a typo or a parody? Am I going to get busted because PopeAlien.com could be construed to be a typo of Pepsi.com?.. This is just silly.
Yeah.. And Katz assumes that there is a finite source of 'small media' web zines etc, and that all 'Big media' has to do is buy them up.. Seems to me that the great thing about the Web is that anyone with a connection and an Idea can put something up..
So 'Big Media' is bigger. So what? It's always been that way, and it always will be. And there will also always be those of us that look for something a bit different than what 'Big Media' is offering.
Deciding who to pay is a RIGHT; privacy at work is not.
Do you have those camera installed in the bathrooms as well?
It seems to me that my employer pays me for what I do not how I do it. I occasionaly take work home, and you know what? I also occasionaly take my personal interests to work. If I'm not doing the job I was hired to do, well, fire me. No need to spy on me.
Yeah great, Now I have to worry about RSI in my neck from looking back and forth across the expansive face of this monitor. But where can I get a four-foot wide keyboard?
I dunno.. I'm not sure any site with advertising is "free". There are different ways to pay for things, and one of them is to fill your eyeballs with banner-ads. Not that I disagree with your point, I think that if anything, this asks the question - Why would you pay for someone else to 'hold onto' your data, and lose that much control?
I would fully support any effort by the RIAA to eliminate fluorescent lights to prevent file-sharing. It would save me the effort of looking for a ladder to remove the tubes from my office ceiling.
I look forward to the days when audio devices have no audio output for 'protection'.
Customer: "I'd like to return this walkman"
Salesperson: "Is it broken?"
Customer: "well, theres nowhere to plug the headphones in"
Salesperson: "oh.. They just clip on the back, like this"
Customer: "yeah.. I tried that, but I couldn't hear anything.. Isn't there supposed to be a headphone jack or something?"
Salesperson: "Oh, No sir.. Pirates use headphone jacks to steal the audio signal.. This walkman is secured against intellectual property theft.."
Oh well, until then there's always FM radio
..For those of us that already have a PC, you can get a hundred dollar TV tuner card and software like snapstream and do the same thing. Not only that, but if you feel like it, you can set your recording schedule online through that service. I havent tried it yet with my old ATI tv card, but it looks pretty cool, and the limited version is free (as in beer).
Some open source licenses are viral, that is, they require that all derivative works be licensed on the same terms as the original program. These licenses are described as viral because they "infect" derivative programs. Viral licenses vary in how infectious they are, depending on how they define which programs are derivative works.
Good lord! I had no idea running open source software was so dangerous! I mean, what with the liberal news media and their anti-microsoft slant you'd think it was good american programs like, oh, say.. Outlook that had 'viral' problems.. VBS must be open source.
-A negative tan, that is to say that the melanin levels in the skin are actualy depleted by lack of exposure to natural light.
RGB= Rotten Grey Bubbly Tan
-One step beyond a CRT tan, the depleted melanin has been replace by lead, mercury and other heavy metals off-gasing from computer hardware. This condition is only possible on a diet of cheezies and Jolt.
LCD= Liquid Caffeine Discharge Tan
-This tan is caused by a combination lack of light and lack of sleep. Caffeine levels in the skin cause a visible sizzling when exposed to sunlight. -aka the 'road-warriors tan'.
EMF= Electric Mind-funk Tan
-A temporary condition caused by a combination of the above tans & High levels of Electro-Magnetic radiation (Quake III on an overclocked AMD box)-The surface of the brain darkens and causes the subject to believe that they R001 the W0r1d. Woot woot.
.. Regardless of the merits of a courtday protest, if you want to be there, you should go at 10:00 am, not on your lunch break. Unlike the court dates before, this one consists of a 20 minute argument from the 2600 side, and a 30 minute argument from the other side - It'll be over quick.
The 'other side' gets more time because there are two of them - MPAA gets 20 minutes, US government gets 10 minutes.
This info comes from the 2600 radio show Off the Hook.
..Its just that, well, that'd be outside right? like in the sun? Its hard to see my monitor in the sun..
How 'bout if I just send email? I'd hate to mess up my CRT tan..
..Not to mention that as the databases grow and merge we're dealing with a fairly complete profile of what you like, what forms of advertising you'll respond to, where you go on vacation, how much you make, etc. etc.. Sounds a bit like me like we're headed towards the ideal consumer set into feed troughs and kept fat and slow.
And then there's identity theft - So count me out - I try to add a bit to a database every day. Anita Prawduct, Don T. Botherme, Joe Shopper, etc. etc. etc. Let them track and market to the figments of my imagination!
As far as a convergence device goes, my PC works great, and I'm in control of the individual components thank you very much.
The winner moves on to the eight-game match this October in Bahrain against Kramnik -- who will collect a cool $1 million if he wins and $600,000 if he loses.
Now thats my kind of contest, where can I sign up? (and I dont even play chess, but still, 600,00! yeah..)
I use Belkin KVM Switches at home and at work. I'd love to have other connectors availiable as well in one box (audio, Firewire, USB, etc), but for now Its nice just having access to four boxes from one workstation setup.
..So what? Tall buildings are *so* twentieth century. Whatever happened to those great big pyramid buildings ala Bladerunner? I mean come on people, its the year Two-Thousand-and-One! Lets get with the times!
- -You mean it's free? As in free beer? No licensing costs? *rubs hands in glee*
..We'll be rich, RICH I Say! Mua ha ha..
I assume this because I worked with someone who called me up when 'Linux' meant 'big ol' IPO' and asked me if I knew anything about it.. turns out they had a penny stock mining company and they wanted to jump on the bandwagon and get the stock up.. -They were going to do 'Linux Training'.. funny thing is that by the time they had done up their news releases the market had begun to slide..Whats astounding is how this happens over and over again, and yet marketbots will still look at an unfinished product, stop development while drooling over profits and release a product into the marketplace that no one will buy.
I wonder if people's expectations have been steadily dropping, and they no longer actually expect technology to work when they buy it.. Perhaps thats what they are bettting on -As long as it has nice packaging, lets not worry about those little functionality issues..