I'll turn my booster off when the FCC forces cellular companies to provide better coverage. Until then, they can both bite me.
I'll GLADLY shut mine down when the ILEC for my area installs a hard line for an affordable price. Their quote of $250K is a bit above my budget.
All the years I lived in a metro area I paid a "tax" to support rural service. Now that I'm in a rural area I can't get a hard line - go figure.
Hmmm... I am a gray-haired, 50+, joe sixpack redneck, and I don't use MickeySoft at all. I prefer to have control of my purchases (including 'puters), and I support truly open standards.
Okay, I lied. Most nights, a six pack doesn't cut it for me. My native american name is "Ten Beers".
What's the big deal? It's 54 degrees here in Texas right now...what? metric? we don't do metric here in Texas. How much is that in 'merican? Wow, that IS hot. Never mind.
... Although it might be cheaper from a licensing and maintenance perspective to put everyone on Ubuntu, the cost of re-training all your employees to use LibreOffice and Unity greatly exceeds the cost of licensing the products.
It is surprising to me (jaded as I am) that businesses and governments fail to recognize that the conversion effort and retraining needed to shift between the recent (read: last decade or more) "upgrades" of MS products is no different than that required to move to open platforms.
I moved from MS to Linux (and associated open applications) many years ago. I have saved hundreds (nay, thousands) of dollars in license fees by doing so. Open data formats have saved my bacon on more than one occasion. I've been able to rescue and reformat data for my friends and employers with open source applications on many occasions.
Since the legitimate government of Iran was overthrown and the current cycle of extremist leaders/newly rich plutocrats was engineered by the US and UK in Operation Ajax not so long ago
If you define 1953 as not so long ago you must be in it for the long run. Waiting for the return of Zoroaster?
Great post!
While I agree that 1953 was a "long time ago" for most of "us", please remember that people in the middle east have been fighting among themselves since the beginning of recorded history. It's likely they will continue to fight until the end of recorded history.
With any luck, Zoroaster won't show up any time soon.
Well you could call your senator and tell them to take the class. You could mention how voters in the technical community would be more likely to vote for them. Or at the very least, it might help them gain respect from that voting block.
Senators, by and large, need an 'introduction to the introduction' class and, unfortunately Ted 'the Tubes' Stevens isn't with us anymore to help guide the curriculum. Judging from what comes out of Congress the days a blank chalkboard is about all we could expect most of them to be able to handle on their own.
s/chalkboard/checkbook/
If only we could deny them the writing instruments!
If these guys had their way we'd still have all music on Vinyl LP's and Movies could only be viewed in a theater or on broadcast television.
Ahh! Fond memories! We should be so lucky.
So you'll throw away any sound card (or disable any on-board hardware) and speakers attached to your computer, and give up any video capability for a good old green-on-black terminal then, right? And you'll throw away your television and any cable or satellite subscriptions, and throw away any digital TV antenna right? Then you too can be this lucky!
Looks like I failed to put in the "sarcasm" tag. I do get nostalgic about Saturday matinees, though.
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If you take latent heat out of the air, where does it go?
Washington, DC.
I'll turn my booster off when the FCC forces cellular companies to provide better coverage. Until then, they can both bite me.
I'll GLADLY shut mine down when the ILEC for my area installs a hard line for an affordable price. Their quote of $250K is a bit above my budget. All the years I lived in a metro area I paid a "tax" to support rural service. Now that I'm in a rural area I can't get a hard line - go figure.
...why everything tastes like blue.
Errmmm... no, that's because of the little sugar cubes...
Hmmm... I am a gray-haired, 50+, joe sixpack redneck, and I don't use MickeySoft at all. I prefer to have control of my purchases (including 'puters), and I support truly open standards.
Okay, I lied. Most nights, a six pack doesn't cut it for me. My native american name is "Ten Beers".
"It's not the despair - I can deal with the despair. It's the HOPE."
What's the big deal? It's 54 degrees here in Texas right now...what? metric? we don't do metric here in Texas. How much is that in 'merican? Wow, that IS hot. Never mind.
That's "hotter'n hell" in Texican.
Gotta be a Washington DC joke in there somewhere.
All the Jokes ARE in Washington DC?
Hey, hey, hey! Don't be making sense! This is Slashdot, you know?
Just use a fire built of your current hardware / software enemy - iWhatevers, M$Sgoofs, or any *nix platform. Hope for an unpleasant after taste.
That hurt, I am currently watching all of ST:Voyager.
On Topic I am smoking my turkey.
Ooooh - what a give away! Having a Crisco party?
Posting to undo mod. Sorry - numb fingers strike again. Good (funny) post.
Must be pretty boring to be conscious but unable to do anything at all.
Shades of _Johnny Got His Gun_, by Dalton Trumbo.
... Although it might be cheaper from a licensing and maintenance perspective to put everyone on Ubuntu, the cost of re-training all your employees to use LibreOffice and Unity greatly exceeds the cost of licensing the products.
It is surprising to me (jaded as I am) that businesses and governments fail to recognize that the conversion effort and retraining needed to shift between the recent (read: last decade or more) "upgrades" of MS products is no different than that required to move to open platforms.
I moved from MS to Linux (and associated open applications) many years ago. I have saved hundreds (nay, thousands) of dollars in license fees by doing so. Open data formats have saved my bacon on more than one occasion. I've been able to rescue and reformat data for my friends and employers with open source applications on many occasions.
Thanks for the insightful and humorous post!
You forgot 1.1.1.1 "Format like Word 97"
You owe me a keyboard!
A self-driving car doesn't have to pay much attention to the fragility of the human form when it doesn't have any on board.
Accelerate at 50g? no problem just add extra bracing.
Or add extra braking / breaking (see discussion above).
Since the legitimate government of Iran was overthrown and the current cycle of extremist leaders/newly rich plutocrats was engineered by the US and UK in Operation Ajax not so long ago
If you define 1953 as not so long ago you must be in it for the long run. Waiting for the return of Zoroaster?
Great post!
While I agree that 1953 was a "long time ago" for most of "us", please remember that people in the middle east have been fighting among themselves since the beginning of recorded history. It's likely they will continue to fight until the end of recorded history.
With any luck, Zoroaster won't show up any time soon.
Microsoft can give me a baby?
Yes. It will have four cloven hooves, and a set of horns on its head. It will also emit clouds of putrid gas, and bellow frequently.
A chair counts as a device. They should start making them. Then as an added service they can make them fly.
The only "service" that MS provides is the kind a bull provides to a cow.
Have any of you people ever even been to the sticks? All the signs I've ever seen there say: "TRESPASSERS WILL BE SHOT; SURVIVORS WILL BE PROSECUTED"
Seen in rural Texas: "No Trespassing. Violators will be shot. Survivors will be shot again."
Well you could call your senator and tell them to take the class. You could mention how voters in the technical community would be more likely to vote for them. Or at the very least, it might help them gain respect from that voting block.
Senators, by and large, need an 'introduction to the introduction' class and, unfortunately Ted 'the Tubes' Stevens isn't with us anymore to help guide the curriculum. Judging from what comes out of Congress the days a blank chalkboard is about all we could expect most of them to be able to handle on their own.
s/chalkboard/checkbook/
If only we could deny them the writing instruments!
If these guys had their way we'd still have all music on Vinyl LP's and Movies could only be viewed in a theater or on broadcast television.
Ahh! Fond memories! We should be so lucky.
So you'll throw away any sound card (or disable any on-board hardware) and speakers attached to your computer, and give up any video capability for a good old green-on-black terminal then, right? And you'll throw away your television and any cable or satellite subscriptions, and throw away any digital TV antenna right? Then you too can be this lucky!
Looks like I failed to put in the "sarcasm" tag. I do get nostalgic about Saturday matinees, though.
If these guys had their way we'd still have all music on Vinyl LP's and Movies could only be viewed in a theater or on broadcast television.
Ahh! Fond memories! We should be so lucky.
....And eventually the fuedal system failed.
"I'm not sure about that," said the Serf.
Don't give Apple any ideas. They may see that a wheel is a completely rounded corner!
Aaaaahhhhhh.... but we got plenty of prior arts, don't we? :)
Hasn't stopped them so far, has it? :)