Telling a joke to by buddy while waiting in line in a public place is not creating a disterbance unless their is some other mitigating circumstance (I'm physically barring the door while telling the joke, screaming it at the tops of my lungs, etc).
I agree completely. Neither of us know the facts of the case. Clearly, the court is accusing them of creating a disturbance. This may or may not be true. They say they didn't do it. The court says they did. Based on the various accounts, I lean towards believing the court and you lean towards believing the jackasses.
I'm labelling the speaker as a jackass without knowing all (or any) of the facts. That's the reason I'm likely wrong. However, if these guys were really harassing everyone in line to enter the courtroom, I'm delighted to see them made an example of. They can spout whatever the hell the want... on the sidewalk, where people can walk away.
Finally, your cited text, that's what bullshit looks like when it's formally documented.
Agreed. But so do their professions of innocence.
Honestly, if I was on a jury hearing the case of a lawyer who was brutally murdered, unless the guy was Jimmy Carter off the clock, it'd probably be a hung jury. It's called karma.
But Dan Bagnuola, a spokesman for the Nassau courts, said the men were causing a stir and that their exercise of their First Amendment rights to free speech was impeding the rights of others at the court.
"They were being abusive and they were causing a disturbance," Bagnuola said. "They were making general comments to the people on line, referring to them as 'peasants,' and they were causing a disturbance. And they were asked on several occasions to act in an orderly manner, not to interfere with the operation of the court."
Frankly, they sound like jackasses. Dunno wtf their point was, but it certainly wasn't to have a conversation with each other.
Oh, I consider myself a geek alright. I certainly was throughout grade school. It's only in retrospect that I can tell that I certainly wasn't the smartest person there, no matter how much I might have though so. It's just that those people were also good at basketball and talking to girls.
Professor Max "Mad Max" Mintz was wrapping up the first class in Intro to Computer Science at UPenn. He's ghost-white, crotchety, and rambling a little. His age is totally impossible to guess, because he looks like such a freak. Having his image in mind is required for this to make sense.
"Many people in computer science lament that there aren't more women involved in research. Some people say they think it's because girls don't like computer science. I think they're wrong. I think it's because girls don't like
the boys in computer science."
The movie will prominently feature a marginalized group, like homosexuals or people of color. The movie will have an obvious color theme. The movie will exhibit a solid understanding of cultural theory and/or philosophy, although that understanding will not be crucial to enjoyment of the film.
Based on the material in V for Vendetta, the Wachowskis may also bring some politics into the mix. I'd love it.
Read the fucking summary. Do you think Business Week is going to advocate against spectrum regulation? He's just talking about making it easier for companies to own (lease, whatever) and trade spectrum. He certainly isn't talking about ending governement regulation of spectrum. Hell, we have regulation of 2.4 gHz, and that's why it works so well.
The Apple store kept dropping my connection when I tried to configure a Mac mini at home. A half an hour later, from the show floor, everything was snappy.
I kindof wonder if Apple has a whole set of servers dedicated to connections coming from the show floor. So Steve's presentation stays snappy when he plays with the iTunes Music Store. Hell, maybe they have a whole set of servers physically at MacWorld, so they don't have to worry about internet connectivity while Steve does his thing.
Hey, asshole. We had a real debate. Then I went to MacWorld to get more information regarding the export filters. I came back with more information, and added them to the thread.
My original post was on topic, and remains so. My most recent post comes with information that you did not previously have access to. I thought you'd be fascinated to know, being a coder for an office suite.
No, that is still a nonsequitor. I am a feminist. Dunno wtf you mean by "the Gloria Steinem sense of the word", but assume for a moment that your quote were a fact:
"A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual."
If you objected to some videogame saying that it was somehow anti-semitic, and I refuted you and said that the lead designer was a Jew, that would also be a nonsequitor. Women can be anti-feminist. Jews can be anti-semitic. The gender of the lead designer of the playboy videogame is completely irrelevant, whether you are a feminist or not. If you are suggesting otherwise, you're dumb.
I'll be curious to see how the HTML and.doc compatibility works.
I just got back from MacWorld, and this was the very first thing I asked of the very first demoer I saw. Well, I don't care about.doc formatting working perfectly as well as I care about HTML formatting working perfectly. And the answer is that it doesn't work very well at all. Most of the general layout is there, but much is lost. I didn't ask to see.doc exporting.
One of the project managers was over the shoulder of the demo guy, and he pointed out "but our columns have features that they don't have". The columns actually worked perfectly, but text flow around an image element had a semi-messed up border.
Obviously, given the headaches of multiple browser compatibility, there would be absolutely no way that they could allow you to use whatever layout feature you wanted in Pages, export it to HTML, and have it to look perfect. Unfortunately, it doesn't look very good at all. The demo guy said, "Well, all the content is there".
Outside of the HTML export, the application is fucking rad. If your desired output method is PDF or paper, I've never seen a slicker word processor. They beefed up the Keynote canvas until it could handle everything you need for page layout.
While Pages may be sufficient for doing the basics of letter writing and entry-level document preparation, many of the more complex business level documents still will require Microsoft Office or an equivalent alternative.
And while Microsoft Office might be sufficient for doing the basics of memo writing and entry-level document preparation, many of the more complex prepress documents still will require Pages or an equivalent alternative.
Look at Apple's screenies for Pages, and tell me that you'd want to try and use MS Word to create those documents. I'd rather have a hole in my head. Pages' layout features look as if they surpass Word like Keynote surpasses PowerPoint. Yes, if you need an embedded Excel spreadsheet, you'll need Office. But you might already have MS Office, and still need Pages.
The page layout features in Pages make it look like it might be better (different) than other products that are just for layout or just for word processing. Kindof like Keynote is better (different) than PowerPoint. This might be desireable for people that already have another layout or word processing application.
Give them time for a spreadsheet app. They haven't figured out a way to make it better than Excel. Unsurprisingly.
There's something kindof like that in a few US cities. In SF, we have "MetroPCS", offering $35/mo, no contract, no minute limit. For an extra $5 you get free long distance, and for $3, you get unlimited text messages.
They'd be a real competitor, but their coverage sucks (at least it used to), and there's no roaming. Not no roaming charges, no roaming. When you leave the bay area, your phone becomes a paperweight. I've always suspected that they were owned by one of the bigger providers, and just wanted to avoid confusing their brand image. Like 10-10-220 or whatever being owned by MCI back in the day.
The biggest problem with cell phones in SF has been that the GSM phones all had crappy coverage. Idiot NIMBY activists fought to prevent cells being installed in their neighborhoods, citing research that "cell phones cause brain cancer". Ignoring the fact that (a) the research was crap and (b) the research was about cell phones a centimeter from your head, not cell phone towers on top of a building. The SF board of supervisors never met a group of nimby jackasses that they didn't like, so they'd reject every cell tower plan on appeal. All of this I learned from an editorial in the SF weekly. Sounds plausible.
So, until recently, only CDMA providers (and Nextel, but whatever) had decent coverage. Somehow, in the past six months, Cingular managed to bust through the local political horse manure, and set up a new tower. So now Cingular & AT&T both have decent coverage in the city for the first time since AT&T went to GSM.
I'm with T-Mobile, with shitty coverage and out of contract. Totally paralyzed, because I know whatever choice I make will be the wrong one. Maybe if I hang with T-mobile, they'll be able to set up a tower too... ? Ugh.
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Were you offended?
(No, it's not un-PC.)
Telling a joke to by buddy while waiting in line in a public place is not creating a disterbance unless their is some other mitigating circumstance (I'm physically barring the door while telling the joke, screaming it at the tops of my lungs, etc).
I agree completely. Neither of us know the facts of the case. Clearly, the court is accusing them of creating a disturbance. This may or may not be true. They say they didn't do it. The court says they did. Based on the various accounts, I lean towards believing the court and you lean towards believing the jackasses.
Fair enough?
I'm labelling the speaker as a jackass without knowing all (or any) of the facts. That's the reason I'm likely wrong. However, if these guys were really harassing everyone in line to enter the courtroom, I'm delighted to see them made an example of. They can spout whatever the hell the want... on the sidewalk, where people can walk away.
Finally, your cited text, that's what bullshit looks like when it's formally documented.
Agreed. But so do their professions of innocence.
Honestly, if I was on a jury hearing the case of a lawyer who was brutally murdered, unless the guy was Jimmy Carter off the clock, it'd probably be a hung jury. It's called karma.
And I feel that too.
How much am I allowed to harass you in public? Can I really harass you so long as I don't do it with a baseball bat?
Oh, I consider myself a geek alright. I certainly was throughout grade school. It's only in retrospect that I can tell that I certainly wasn't the smartest person there, no matter how much I might have though so. It's just that those people were also good at basketball and talking to girls.
If by "extremely good personalities" you mean "not socially retarded", then yeah, we're on the same page.
And I'm not talking about people "with the title". I'm talking about real intelligence.
Whatever. Smart kids aren't unpopular at school. Geeks are, maybe, but that's a subset of the smart people.
You're forgetting Bound.
The movie will prominently feature a marginalized group, like homosexuals or people of color. The movie will have an obvious color theme. The movie will exhibit a solid understanding of cultural theory and/or philosophy, although that understanding will not be crucial to enjoyment of the film.
Based on the material in V for Vendetta, the Wachowskis may also bring some politics into the mix. I'd love it.
Read the fucking summary. Do you think Business Week is going to advocate against spectrum regulation? He's just talking about making it easier for companies to own (lease, whatever) and trade spectrum. He certainly isn't talking about ending governement regulation of spectrum. Hell, we have regulation of 2.4 gHz, and that's why it works so well.
That's ok, they'll just export their Kyoto treaty credits and make a fortune. They'll be the Kuwait of kyoto treaty credits.
That would be a better source of revenue. Icelanders got made.
GPOs, anyone?
The Apple store kept dropping my connection when I tried to configure a Mac mini at home. A half an hour later, from the show floor, everything was snappy.
I kindof wonder if Apple has a whole set of servers dedicated to connections coming from the show floor. So Steve's presentation stays snappy when he plays with the iTunes Music Store. Hell, maybe they have a whole set of servers physically at MacWorld, so they don't have to worry about internet connectivity while Steve does his thing.
Hey, asshole. We had a real debate. Then I went to MacWorld to get more information regarding the export filters. I came back with more information, and added them to the thread.
My original post was on topic, and remains so. My most recent post comes with information that you did not previously have access to. I thought you'd be fascinated to know, being a coder for an office suite.
Whatever.
I'll be curious to see how the HTML and .doc compatibility works.
.doc formatting working perfectly as well as I care about HTML formatting working perfectly. And the answer is that it doesn't work very well at all. Most of the general layout is there, but much is lost. I didn't ask to see .doc exporting.
I just got back from MacWorld, and this was the very first thing I asked of the very first demoer I saw. Well, I don't care about
One of the project managers was over the shoulder of the demo guy, and he pointed out "but our columns have features that they don't have". The columns actually worked perfectly, but text flow around an image element had a semi-messed up border.
Obviously, given the headaches of multiple browser compatibility, there would be absolutely no way that they could allow you to use whatever layout feature you wanted in Pages, export it to HTML, and have it to look perfect. Unfortunately, it doesn't look very good at all. The demo guy said, "Well, all the content is there".
Outside of the HTML export, the application is fucking rad. If your desired output method is PDF or paper, I've never seen a slicker word processor. They beefed up the Keynote canvas until it could handle everything you need for page layout.
Look at Apple's screenies for Pages, and tell me that you'd want to try and use MS Word to create those documents. I'd rather have a hole in my head. Pages' layout features look as if they surpass Word like Keynote surpasses PowerPoint. Yes, if you need an embedded Excel spreadsheet, you'll need Office. But you might already have MS Office, and still need Pages.
Playboy: Mansion's lead designer is a woman.
Nonsequitor.
Moreover, she is pregnant with twins.
Unbelievably absurd nonsequitor.
The page layout features in Pages make it look like it might be better (different) than other products that are just for layout or just for word processing. Kindof like Keynote is better (different) than PowerPoint. This might be desireable for people that already have another layout or word processing application.
Give them time for a spreadsheet app. They haven't figured out a way to make it better than Excel. Unsurprisingly.
Ah... another adapter to come, I assume.
Uh, isn't wifi one of the most famous features of the DS?
So it would have to be at least as heavy as a collapsing wave form?
Huh. After all that bullshit, I went to the MetroPCS website and discovered that they're a CDMA provider.
Now all my understanding of local cell business is totally fucked. I have no idea why they got known for crappy coverage.
There's something kindof like that in a few US cities. In SF, we have "MetroPCS", offering $35/mo, no contract, no minute limit. For an extra $5 you get free long distance, and for $3, you get unlimited text messages.
They'd be a real competitor, but their coverage sucks (at least it used to), and there's no roaming. Not no roaming charges, no roaming. When you leave the bay area, your phone becomes a paperweight. I've always suspected that they were owned by one of the bigger providers, and just wanted to avoid confusing their brand image. Like 10-10-220 or whatever being owned by MCI back in the day.
The biggest problem with cell phones in SF has been that the GSM phones all had crappy coverage. Idiot NIMBY activists fought to prevent cells being installed in their neighborhoods, citing research that "cell phones cause brain cancer". Ignoring the fact that (a) the research was crap and (b) the research was about cell phones a centimeter from your head, not cell phone towers on top of a building. The SF board of supervisors never met a group of nimby jackasses that they didn't like, so they'd reject every cell tower plan on appeal. All of this I learned from an editorial in the SF weekly. Sounds plausible.
So, until recently, only CDMA providers (and Nextel, but whatever) had decent coverage. Somehow, in the past six months, Cingular managed to bust through the local political horse manure, and set up a new tower. So now Cingular & AT&T both have decent coverage in the city for the first time since AT&T went to GSM.
I'm with T-Mobile, with shitty coverage and out of contract. Totally paralyzed, because I know whatever choice I make will be the wrong one. Maybe if I hang with T-mobile, they'll be able to set up a tower too... ? Ugh.