They probably wanted your SSN or EIN for the purpose of a 1099, putting you as an employee would cost them MORE in taxes, fool. They can write off repairs to computers in the course of business, and once you get some x amount from them, they are *required* to issue you a 1099. If you get a 1099, don't forget to include it on your tax return.:-D
Sorry if I no longer have a l33t $4000 gaming machine, but Doom 3 was utter trash in terms of actual engine performance. Pretty pictures and detailed Imp blood splatter go only so far, especially at an occasionally jittery 800x600. HL2 *FEELS* much better than Doom 3 in both engine performance and actual gameplay.
What the hell are you trying to troll? Steam sucks, no doubt, but complaining about embedding IE instead of BT? Did you mean mozilla framework? or are you foolishly only talking about in-game downloads? (a good webhost clan server should sufficiently outrun BT for straight 1-10MB file xfer, you don't need much other than basic file tran functionality for level/fx/snd DLs, albeit embedding BT would be nice for large file/game/mod DLs)
My question is what are you using now? I had Q2000 but my new laptop came with a free copy of Q2004 so I didnt even notice the sunset issue since i switched. Quicken will not be receiving any more of my business, and I will not ever recommend Q to my small biz clients again.
you underestimate the drive of lonely emo teenage boys to create fake 'female' journals so they can add themselves to the friends list and pretend to have a modicum of popularity and skill with the ladies.
you want beer and pizza? email me an address/zipcode at the sig email and ill do my part to support restoring lj.
if my wife cant post this weekend, im gonna hear about it. and not even be able to post my lj about getting yelled it about lj being down as if i caused the power outage myself.;)
shouldnt that be "millions of lonely emo teenage boys"?
hopefully the 'power outage' that took out lj was actually something cool like someone sneaking an emp bomb into the datacenter. and not some dipshit power company employee hooking up something wrong on a transformer outside and melting the lines.
Actually I think/. was bought by Andover who in turn was bought by OSTG by its previous name or something.
And yes, many of us had arguments against commercializing/. by SELLING OUT instead of developing their own business to slingshot with the publicity of/.
Not trying to start a bitchfest, but it is how I felt about it on many levels.
i guess i should say im just utterly fed up with debate and politica agendas after the past few years of becoming more involved and more interested in such things. its all a lot of bullshit that no longer affects change. hell, maybe it never did.
as far as the glitz and glamour point, thats all too true and its why experienced techs get so goddamn frustrated with Microsoft. KISS, Keep It Simple, Stupid, and the sons of bitches force you to use the glitz and glamour to even access the command line these days, but all of the advanced MS tools (until win2k3 for some newer tools as it turns out) are all very command line oriented. Ever had to attempt to restore a partially corrupted Exchange mbox and reconnect it with Active Dir on a vanilla 2k box [client's latest backup was over a year prior]? If you have and know some glitz and glamour tools that do it, pleae share, I'm getting lazier the longer I work primarily on Windows. heh.
like i said, its a two way street and i accept it as one of those 'the way it is' things. just because you make music or build a car, does not automagically mean you are entitled to have someone pay you for the use of it, or for you to limit the use of it once you sell it to someone. see what i mean? It comes down to mental construct based on various philosophies derived from theories such as capitalism and authoritarianism.
I think the Anon Coward had the right idea, even if he was trolling. The business model is outdated, and was in the mid 1980s.
If you read up on the history of GNU and Richard Stallman, he realized that software must be geared towards the ideas and ideals of real freedom in order to cultivate technology and prevent companies (eg MS) from polluting and distracting the advancement of our technology. It was ok to copy music from the radio to tape, how is this so different? (I don't buy that 'the quality is too high' argument one bit, but will discuss it more if you wish).
Small suggestion: go back and rtfa again, this IS more bs babble from MS. Its not a legitmate debate, its a 'focused' debate on why Windows is better than Linux.
Frankly, I don't care who 'wins' a debate between Windows vs Linux, I use Windows, I use Linux, I don't need political meanderings to tell me what to use for what I need. (That said, from what I've experienced with linux, you can do just about any damn thing you can think of with, for example, the Debian distribution using all free software, it just takes persistance and reading comprehension with average technical competence... with windows, you end up dropping $599 for some half baked tool whos biggest advantage is a GUI that feels more polished.)
I was losing tech IQ points as soon as Win95 hit the scene and I left my precious DOS. Linux and BSD boxes at an ISP I worked at a few years later saved me.
One of the quarters in the price of each beer you drink is going to the goddamn IP cartel already. Do you know anything about ASCAP licensing, etc for commercial establishments? Has it ever occured to you to wonder why you are not allowed to play your personal CDs in the jukebox at your favorite bar?
If I'm not 'entitled' to free entertainment, you are NOT entitled to earn money for entertainment. Two way street bub, and I'm fine with that.
what a crock of shit, sir, and you probably dont even realize it.
A burglar physically stealing your PC is completely different from copying 0s and 1s without you actually losing any of the 0s and 1s. "Loss" from piracy is an imaginary number. Wake up, people.
No, the developers didnt port GIMP to windows, it was done third party, beyond that, if you don't like the UI, make a new one, or donate to support someone else making one. Frankly, its very easy to get a copy of, ahem, that shop photo program thingy, if you will, from a myriad of online sources. Most of us are ok dealing with GIMP or the existing windows graphics editors (Paintshop Pro, Adobe, etc) and MS is blatantly trying to take market share IE vs Netscape style with this.
You are framing the question incorrectly. Its google that is choosing to mirror the data. its still copyrighted to you, and google is altering the data and access to the data. Doesn't sound very ethical or legitimate, regardless of case law or copyright law.
a p4 box with 1 gig of ram could probably host a server of 64 players, its just a matter of having the bandwidth. database licenses? where does that come into play and whats wrong with using free db software?
Btw, you obviously haven't tried to run a server of Doom 3 (or even play Doom 3) on a run of the mill 'home box'...
I can host a game of Neverwinter Nights on my box at home, no problem, with custom mods and its as in-depth as it can possibly be.
Managing a database of a few thousand/hundred thousand players on one postgreSQL or mySQL farm on the face is a pain in the ass, but its cake if you have a few buddies that know databases
who the hell is the target audience of your post?
Yes, I'm mostly talking out my ass here, but it makes sense to me.
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They probably wanted your SSN or EIN for the purpose of a 1099, putting you as an employee would cost them MORE in taxes, fool. They can write off repairs to computers in the course of business, and once you get some x amount from them, they are *required* to issue you a 1099. If you get a 1099, don't forget to include it on your tax return. :-D
Cheers.
Sorry if I no longer have a l33t $4000 gaming machine, but Doom 3 was utter trash in terms of actual engine performance. Pretty pictures and detailed Imp blood splatter go only so far, especially at an occasionally jittery 800x600. HL2 *FEELS* much better than Doom 3 in both engine performance and actual gameplay.
What the hell are you trying to troll? Steam sucks, no doubt, but complaining about embedding IE instead of BT? Did you mean mozilla framework? or are you foolishly only talking about in-game downloads? (a good webhost clan server should sufficiently outrun BT for straight 1-10MB file xfer, you don't need much other than basic file tran functionality for level/fx/snd DLs, albeit embedding BT would be nice for large file/game/mod DLs)
My question is what are you using now? I had Q2000 but my new laptop came with a free copy of Q2004 so I didnt even notice the sunset issue since i switched. Quicken will not be receiving any more of my business, and I will not ever recommend Q to my small biz clients again.
Cheers.
$2 bills are considered very good luck by strippers.
Cheers.
you underestimate the drive of lonely emo teenage boys to create fake 'female' journals so they can add themselves to the friends list and pretend to have a modicum of popularity and skill with the ladies.
cheers.
you want beer and pizza? email me an address/zipcode at the sig email and ill do my part to support restoring lj.
;)
if my wife cant post this weekend, im gonna hear about it. and not even be able to post my lj about getting yelled it about lj being down as if i caused the power outage myself.
not really.
well maybe.
Cheers.
shouldnt that be "millions of lonely emo teenage boys"?
hopefully the 'power outage' that took out lj was actually something cool like someone sneaking an emp bomb into the datacenter. and not some dipshit power company employee hooking up something wrong on a transformer outside and melting the lines.
cheers.
is that an echelon station?
You forgot Poland.
er i mean
You forgot Rush Limbaugh.
Cheers.
Actually I think /. was bought by Andover who in turn was bought by OSTG by its previous name or something.
/. by SELLING OUT instead of developing their own business to slingshot with the publicity of /.
And yes, many of us had arguments against commercializing
Not trying to start a bitchfest, but it is how I felt about it on many levels.
Cheers.
i guess i should say im just utterly fed up with debate and politica agendas after the past few years of becoming more involved and more interested in such things. its all a lot of bullshit that no longer affects change. hell, maybe it never did.
;)
as far as the glitz and glamour point, thats all too true and its why experienced techs get so goddamn frustrated with Microsoft. KISS, Keep It Simple, Stupid, and the sons of bitches force you to use the glitz and glamour to even access the command line these days, but all of the advanced MS tools (until win2k3 for some newer tools as it turns out) are all very command line oriented. Ever had to attempt to restore a partially corrupted Exchange mbox and reconnect it with Active Dir on a vanilla 2k box [client's latest backup was over a year prior]? If you have and know some glitz and glamour tools that do it, pleae share, I'm getting lazier the longer I work primarily on Windows. heh.
The fun never ends.
Cheers.
like i said, its a two way street and i accept it as one of those 'the way it is' things. just because you make music or build a car, does not automagically mean you are entitled to have someone pay you for the use of it, or for you to limit the use of it once you sell it to someone. see what i mean? It comes down to mental construct based on various philosophies derived from theories such as capitalism and authoritarianism.
:)
cheers.
I think the Anon Coward had the right idea, even if he was trolling. The business model is outdated, and was in the mid 1980s.
If you read up on the history of GNU and Richard Stallman, he realized that software must be geared towards the ideas and ideals of real freedom in order to cultivate technology and prevent companies (eg MS) from polluting and distracting the advancement of our technology. It was ok to copy music from the radio to tape, how is this so different? (I don't buy that 'the quality is too high' argument one bit, but will discuss it more if you wish).
Cheers.
touche, duly noted. sorry for the harsh reaction. caffine deficiency issues. :-D
Small suggestion: go back and rtfa again, this IS more bs babble from MS. Its not a legitmate debate, its a 'focused' debate on why Windows is better than Linux.
Frankly, I don't care who 'wins' a debate between Windows vs Linux, I use Windows, I use Linux, I don't need political meanderings to tell me what to use for what I need. (That said, from what I've experienced with linux, you can do just about any damn thing you can think of with, for example, the Debian distribution using all free software, it just takes persistance and reading comprehension with average technical competence... with windows, you end up dropping $599 for some half baked tool whos biggest advantage is a GUI that feels more polished.)
I was losing tech IQ points as soon as Win95 hit the scene and I left my precious DOS. Linux and BSD boxes at an ISP I worked at a few years later saved me.
Cheers.
One of the quarters in the price of each beer you drink is going to the goddamn IP cartel already. Do you know anything about ASCAP licensing, etc for commercial establishments? Has it ever occured to you to wonder why you are not allowed to play your personal CDs in the jukebox at your favorite bar?
If I'm not 'entitled' to free entertainment, you are NOT entitled to earn money for entertainment. Two way street bub, and I'm fine with that.
Cheers.
it would be very bad for them to rip up Linux w/o justifying each and every insult
Well that certainly hasn't stopped them yet, haven't you been paying attention?
Cheers.
what a crock of shit, sir, and you probably dont even realize it.
A burglar physically stealing your PC is completely different from copying 0s and 1s without you actually losing any of the 0s and 1s. "Loss" from piracy is an imaginary number. Wake up, people.
Cheers.
No, the developers didnt port GIMP to windows, it was done third party, beyond that, if you don't like the UI, make a new one, or donate to support someone else making one. Frankly, its very easy to get a copy of, ahem, that shop photo program thingy, if you will, from a myriad of online sources. Most of us are ok dealing with GIMP or the existing windows graphics editors (Paintshop Pro, Adobe, etc) and MS is blatantly trying to take market share IE vs Netscape style with this.
You are assuming they pay him enough to care.
Cheers.
I was looking into getting a Karma, does it require Rio software to add music and offer *NO* usb hard drive functionality at all?
carbon monoxide is certainly what kills you, but excessive carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is what will turn Earth in Venus much quicker.
Cheers.
Intel SAT 7, perhaps?
You are framing the question incorrectly. Its google that is choosing to mirror the data. its still copyrighted to you, and google is altering the data and access to the data. Doesn't sound very ethical or legitimate, regardless of case law or copyright law.
Cheers.
wtf are you talking about?
a p4 box with 1 gig of ram could probably host a server of 64 players, its just a matter of having the bandwidth. database licenses? where does that come into play and whats wrong with using free db software?
Btw, you obviously haven't tried to run a server of Doom 3 (or even play Doom 3) on a run of the mill 'home box'...
I can host a game of Neverwinter Nights on my box at home, no problem, with custom mods and its as in-depth as it can possibly be.
Managing a database of a few thousand/hundred thousand players on one postgreSQL or mySQL farm on the face is a pain in the ass, but its cake if you have a few buddies that know databases
who the hell is the target audience of your post?
Yes, I'm mostly talking out my ass here, but it makes sense to me.
Cheers.