Whenever I see those, I remember the "video pirates" scene in Amazon Women from the Moon. The pirates see the screen and say, "Ooooooo! I'm sooooooo scared!". I say that and then I pull my pants down, moon the FBI warning, and then flip them off.
Of course after that, they then have every frick'in company that had anything to do with the production of the damn thing: the studio, the film company, the distributor, and every one else with their 30 second video graphic or whatever - god forbid if you watch a Spielberg or a Lucas movie! At least with video tape you could fast forward through all that horseshit.
Then you get to the menu. You select something and you have to sit through several seconds of video clip to get to the next screen. And if you have to go 2 or more deep it gets really old fast - Spy Game was like that. Speaking of which, watch out for that DVD. The zipper heads who programmed that screwed up and it won't play on many players.
Privacy in this day and age of Facebook where folks are posting their bowel movements? Or what about all those folks who send the tax preparing software companies their returns for electronic filing?
We're in the minority when it comes to protecting privacy.
Remember the Apple advertising campaign where one said he was a PC and the other was an Apple or some such nonsense? Apple Computer doesn't think they're PCs.
The point? Companies like Zenith and Sony made money long after the "TV revolution" was over. Better models, ergonomic features, add-ons, incremental refinements, solid state vs. tube, etc.
Those guys (I think SONY too), GE and RCA licensed their names to cheap Asian electronics makers. Meaning that named brand TV is really some really cheap thing from Asia that is using the name only. The reason is that the margins became so thin that those big US companies didn't think it was worth it to manufacture and they were able to get a better return by licensing their names. The Asian manufacturers got instant brand recognition.
I was really surprised when IBM cut their ties with Lenovo. I was really expecting IBM to license their name to Lenovo, allowing Lenovo to keep selling PCs and Laptops under the IBM name - with IBM having nothing to do with it.
I found the GNUCash is a replacement for Quickbooks statement to be hysterical. GNUCash doesn't even come close. And until Intuit ports QB to Linux, Linux isn't going to penetrate much into the small business world outside of servers.
When the Calc spreadsheet was saved as an.xls file, it displayed almost perfectly in Excel 2007. Only a single cell border was missing.
When you're doing something for a potential client or for a client, having little imperfections like that, imperfections that are uncontrollable, does not make a good impression. That concerns me that there's little things like that that still crop up.
My university's new "Cannabis Horticulture" degree has quadrupled university enrollment. Who would have thought that offering a degree in something that every teenager enjoys would drastically increase enrollment?
Yes exactly. Some film schools really needs to watch this too. I hear they're developing a pornography filming program - it's only a minor, though. No majors.
There may be a flood of folks wanting to take the class.
The director of the Balloon Launching Centre, Professor Ravi Sood, says no one was hurt.
But he says the scientists involved in the NASA-sponsored project are crushed.
It says right there, some NASA scientists were crushed in the accident.
I think the old couple needs to sue, sell chunks of their car on eBay, and retire rich!
A perfect example of why we need net neutrality rules in place. An ISP should not be allowed to modify packets or redirect packets to/from known destinations.
We can have all the rules we want till we're blue in the face, but what do we do about countries who violate them? Block them? And what if they don't give a shit?
It already is trivial to copy GPL software. And if fair use is preserved, I don't see how it hurts GPL or the **AAs, for that matter - except in the eyes of paranoid lawyers.
The only problem that the GPL software has run into is when folks have marketed GPL software or parts of it as their own without making their software GPL compliant; which isn't affected by fair use - it's an outright violation.
So guys, in order to avoid the ridicule and shame for playing Halo so much, do you just tell people that you're locked behind closed doors masturbating to internet porn?
And don't forget those poster sized flip books that were all the rage in the 80's and 90's before digital projectors became commonplace.
Oh Yeah! That's right! I forgot about those! Multicolored markers, drawing horrible diagrams, flipping pages when you fill one up, knocking the easel over when walking around it, blaming slurred speech on markers when it really was the martinis at lunch..... I miss those days!
like our expense management system and our Siebel ticketing system
OK #1 Siebel.
Who does your expense mgt system?
So, guys, when there's supposed to be input for IT purchases, Siebel systems are off the table for being security and liability risks for the enterprise.
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...making you sit through FBI warnings...
Whenever I see those, I remember the "video pirates" scene in Amazon Women from the Moon. The pirates see the screen and say, "Ooooooo! I'm sooooooo scared!". I say that and then I pull my pants down, moon the FBI warning, and then flip them off.
Of course after that, they then have every frick'in company that had anything to do with the production of the damn thing: the studio, the film company, the distributor, and every one else with their 30 second video graphic or whatever - god forbid if you watch a Spielberg or a Lucas movie! At least with video tape you could fast forward through all that horseshit.
Then you get to the menu. You select something and you have to sit through several seconds of video clip to get to the next screen. And if you have to go 2 or more deep it gets really old fast - Spy Game was like that. Speaking of which, watch out for that DVD. The zipper heads who programmed that screwed up and it won't play on many players.
Now you got me going.
We're in the minority when it comes to protecting privacy.
Remember the Apple advertising campaign where one said he was a PC and the other was an Apple or some such nonsense? Apple Computer doesn't think they're PCs.
The point? Companies like Zenith and Sony made money long after the "TV revolution" was over. Better models, ergonomic features, add-ons, incremental refinements, solid state vs. tube, etc.
Those guys (I think SONY too), GE and RCA licensed their names to cheap Asian electronics makers. Meaning that named brand TV is really some really cheap thing from Asia that is using the name only. The reason is that the margins became so thin that those big US companies didn't think it was worth it to manufacture and they were able to get a better return by licensing their names. The Asian manufacturers got instant brand recognition.
I was really surprised when IBM cut their ties with Lenovo. I was really expecting IBM to license their name to Lenovo, allowing Lenovo to keep selling PCs and Laptops under the IBM name - with IBM having nothing to do with it.
Many other industries operate this way.
Lose, fucktard. Not loose, lose. Even a goddamn monkey can be trained to get this right!
Dude, did you get a pink slip three days into quitting smoking after your dog died and your wife left you for a Windows MSCE?
The same goes for: Gates, Jobs, Ellison, and every other Silicon Valley entrepreneur.
...a common weed, scientists created a cheap yet highly efficient solar system
A cheap and efficient solar system - guys?! Come on!
Yeah, a solar system of cheap weed!
A solar system populated with Chinese labor?
Duuuuuuude! A solar system made out weed! That's soooo knarly!
I mean let's go!
*grumbling*I spent all that time learning it */grumbling*
Par for the course with "new" technology. I guess it's usually safe to stick to open platforms.
I found the GNUCash is a replacement for Quickbooks statement to be hysterical. GNUCash doesn't even come close. And until Intuit ports QB to Linux, Linux isn't going to penetrate much into the small business world outside of servers.
When the Calc spreadsheet was saved as an .xls file, it displayed almost perfectly in Excel 2007. Only a single cell border was missing.
When you're doing something for a potential client or for a client, having little imperfections like that, imperfections that are uncontrollable, does not make a good impression. That concerns me that there's little things like that that still crop up.
My university's new "Cannabis Horticulture" degree has quadrupled university enrollment. Who would have thought that offering a degree in something that every teenager enjoys would drastically increase enrollment?
Yes exactly. Some film schools really needs to watch this too. I hear they're developing a pornography filming program - it's only a minor, though. No majors.
There may be a flood of folks wanting to take the class.
The director of the Balloon Launching Centre, Professor Ravi Sood, says no one was hurt. But he says the scientists involved in the NASA-sponsored project are crushed.
It says right there, some NASA scientists were crushed in the accident.
I think the old couple needs to sue, sell chunks of their car on eBay, and retire rich!
Why? Why would the Compaq brand name annoy Jobs?
There's the right way, the wrong way, and the HP way.
I'm even seeing Sting walking around with his 1983 razor stubble and white clothes.
He's got the stubble back but now at his age, he looks more like a lobster boat captain than a cool looking rock star.
At home I do that by mistake and I get a page with an advertisement for something local saying the page couldn't be found.
Out of curiosity, have you type in hooker.com or something and gotten an ad for something local? Or potsmokers.com?
Just wondering.
A perfect example of why we need net neutrality rules in place. An ISP should not be allowed to modify packets or redirect packets to/from known destinations.
We can have all the rules we want till we're blue in the face, but what do we do about countries who violate them? Block them? And what if they don't give a shit?
The only problem that the GPL software has run into is when folks have marketed GPL software or parts of it as their own without making their software GPL compliant; which isn't affected by fair use - it's an outright violation.
I don't understand your point, I guess.
So guys, in order to avoid the ridicule and shame for playing Halo so much, do you just tell people that you're locked behind closed doors masturbating to internet porn?
What is the purpose of the contract for the hovering rockets? Is NASA planning landers that will have to hover somewhere - like Mars - or something?
"We reserve the right to change these terms at anytime."
So, it's not just Facebook, it every website on the net.
And in the meantime NASA has been struggling for funding for scientific projects.
Nice. Taxpayer money at work! Way to go Washington!
How much does it cost us to kill one Taliban fighter?
Less than $2 for the .223 round.
And don't forget those poster sized flip books that were all the rage in the 80's and 90's before digital projectors became commonplace.
Oh Yeah! That's right! I forgot about those! Multicolored markers, drawing horrible diagrams, flipping pages when you fill one up, knocking the easel over when walking around it, blaming slurred speech on markers when it really was the martinis at lunch..... I miss those days!
like our expense management system and our Siebel ticketing system
OK #1 Siebel.
Who does your expense mgt system?
So, guys, when there's supposed to be input for IT purchases, Siebel systems are off the table for being security and liability risks for the enterprise.
Let's get this going and kill IE6.