Falun Gong is assumed by the Chinese government to be a terrorist group.
Participation in Falun Gong, according to Manfred Nowak, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, is enough to get your organs harvested for transplant use, and your remains cremated to prevent your family from being able to prove the manner of your ending.
Would you continue to prefer this method of dealing with terrorism?
It's not a false god, not when you're coding for a business that has to meet both regulators and profitability expectations.
Code written for Windows 95/NT (back in 1996) still works today on the Windows platform. 12 years later.
Try that with System 7 code on OS X.
Yes, this is part of why writing business-logic code sucks. You seldom get to just re-write anything to be really, truly good instead of something perennially built-upon and increasingly hacked-together. No one will pay for a change that doesn't deliver "business value". (And no, greater stability/performance is almost never enough, as that argument usually demands an associated headcount reduction) But at least the app still works and can continue to deliver. And since some will doubt, yes, I do maintain/enhance such code.
The market speaks - this sort of backwards compatibility is a conscious choice by MS, and it does sell their OS. Not concidentially, it also sells mainframes and *UX systems. And I'm convinced it's one of the big reasons Apple isn't bigger in the corporate world. Steve's demands for newer/better/faster totally supplanting the old are well known, and rightly feared.
US Bank is having no such problem, as you can see from their first quarter results and what the analysts said about them.
And they're not the only big bank.
The problem is executive focus on short-term profit over, well, anything else.
In the case of Bear Stearns, they had sufficient capital, it's just that no one wanted to trade with them, fearing they didn't. And that resulted in what is essentially a run on a bank. The government didn't step in for Bear Stearns, they stepped in to prevent all the major brokerage houses from following them down the hole.
And what a bailout! The fatcats of Bear saw their personal fortunes drop to about 7% of starting value within hours. (stock price from 150 to 10)
And, for what it's worth, analysts with a similar focus loved the moves those banks made - it made stockholders lots of money in dividend payments, up till now. You should move your money to some bank that makes smart decisions, or at the very least, decisions you agree with. After all, it's why Morgan Stanley just had what might be its best first quarter ever - customers of Bear left.
From the US Constitution, Article 1, Section 10: Powers prohibited of States: "No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress."
Coca-cola is bottled locally pretty much everywhere it's consumed.
It is, after all, much easier to ship syrup than finished soda.
All Coca-cola and Dasani is just local water, filtered and with additives (there's a mineral packet for making Dasani). The other major soft drink brands work the same way.
Because no one considers Ron Paul a serious candidate. Also, his supporters utilize a botnet to send political spam, which is about the only sure way to make every red-blooded slashdotter hate you.
No bureaucrat has ever been hatched who believes we have enough laws.
Small wonder a legal scholar thinks we all need more laws - his job is to read them.
Lawyers are like other people--fools on the average; but it is easier for an ass to succeed in that trade than any other. -quoted in Sam Clemens of Hannibal, Dixon Wecter
Yeah, that attitude clearly explains Clinton administration handling of the Rose Law Firm files. Or the following chronology: May 22, 1993 - Judge Richey cites the Clinton White House and the acting Archivist of the United States for contempt of court for failing to carry out his order to issue new and appropriate guidelines for the preservation of the computer records of the Reagan, Bush and Clinton White House staff.
August 13, 1993 - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit vacates Judge Richey's contempt orders but upholds his overall decision that the Federal Records Act (FRA) requires that complete electronic copies of e-mail messages be preserved by the White House, and by extension, government agencies in general. The appeals court remands the case to Judge Richey to decide the issue of the dividing line between "agency" records covered by the FRA and presidential records covered by the Presidential Records Act.
March 25, 1994 - In a brief filed in federal court, the Clinton administration declares that the National Security Council is not an agency, and should be accorded the protection from public scrutiny given to the President's personal advisers. This argument attempts to remove the Clinton administration's White House e- mail from the reach of FOIA requests and the FRA, arguing that all its documents are subject only to the Presidential Records Act (PRA) and therefore not to court oversight. ------------ Meanwhile, the site you link to in your homepage has a poll up: Who would make the worst president? Giuliani, Paul, Kucinich, Nader, Huckabee. It also makes arguments about why Hillary is a wonderful human being.
Actually, no, Dateline is never presented as a "serious" news program.
Sit down and watch the NBC Nightly News, then watch Dateline.
Note: NBC Nightly News: Leads in with a restrained, newspapery-font, and trumpet music Anchor wears a dark suit, white shirt, conservative tie. Topics are always news of national or political significance, with a possible human-focus segment at the end for filler. Lighting and colors are subdued.
Note: Dateline Leads in with tension-building music that sounds like a techno remix, often customized to the news story receiving main focus. Anchor is Ann Curry, a carry-over from The Today Show, which is news/talk show fusion, and not considered serious. (anchors never cross these formats, save Katie Couric, who is largely considered a failure in her new role, and older newsmen hated the selection) Topics are always of a sensationalist nature; the headline for the website even says, "News stories about crime, celebrity and health" Anchors never wear white shirts, always an off pastel (a sign of a somewhat relaxed situation - white shirts are more formal, gives a harsher/crisper look) Lighting and colors echo the usual news to carry over teh Newsiness.
In other words, the signs are there for those who care to see them. Neither of these shows hide what they are. In fact, they're rather clear about it, when you care to pay attention. The problem is, most people don't pay attention. And judging about your comments about Dateline, that includes you.
The Daily Show may not hide what it is, but nonetheless, some people do get _all_ their news there, which leaves them believing the comedic point-of-view they give is the only valid one. That is the essential problem.
Well, since you asked, this John Hockenberry seems to have two main complaints: 1. He doesn't consider mainstream news relevant to his life. (Kurt Cobain, etc) 2. He doesn't think the mainstream news will report anything that doesn't grab at gut-level emotions.
Well, he's probably right about both. But his complaints seem to come from the fact that, rather than understanding what the show is and not taking a job there, he tried to make it into something it isn't. The guy should have stayed with NPR if he didn't want to write news copy for the express purpose of selling ads - that's the glory of Welfare Radio. No meaningful bottom line.
Mostly because anything on the TV, Jon Stewart included, is designed to put you into enough of a trance to mindlessly watch advertising. It feeds the bottom line that keeps everyone employed and the bosses in stock options.
Jon Stewart isn't any better or worse than Dateline. Dateline is a newsy show designed to appeal to emotion, not logic. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart is a newsy show designed to appeal to a liberally-oriented laugh track, not logic.
If you get your news from either source, you have no idea what's going on. The audiences are equivalent. The sad part is that so many of you with-whiners don't realize that the same blame you're pointing onto others applies to you as well.
From TFA: "I was motivated to take action when I found out that there was embedded illicit sexual content in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The [ESRB] was unaware of the embedded content. I called on the FTC to investigate the source of the content and, as a result, the company issued a recall of the game."
Hillary takes full credit for getting GTA:SA off the shelves. That's not limiting who gets access, that's eliminating access. Video games are already rated. Parents need to be aware of what their kids are buying, and the current ratings system allows this.
Also, her position in that bill was to create an oversight board to make sure the ESRA was giving "correct" ratings. If you'd like to see her full waffle on the issue (including the part where she shuts up in trade for campaign cash) check out Ars Technica's coverage of the dustup. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051212-5740.html
According to the Ars-ticle, even Jack Thompson knew the bill was a bad idea. Think about what that means - Hillary is both more dumb and more rabid than Jack Thompson.
Payola still exists today; it is the practice of recording companies paying radio stations under the table to play their music. Rather than paying radio stations directly, they just funnel it through advisory companies. Ever wonder why Ashlee Simpson's music didn't disappear from the radio after her SNL lip-synching exposure? The RIAA invested enough in her that they needed to reinforce her career with payola. Otherwise, she would have fallen off the radio like Milli Vanilli.
All the RIAA is going to do is find a way to pay the radio stations what they pay in royalties, and then charge that cost back to the artists via some "promotional fee" or other such garbage.
The only solution to getting artists paid is the death of the RIAA and its component companies.
You started out going to college for a degree in Management so you could learn to make things with your hands. You could have joined several trade unions or chosen other options that cost far less, take significantly less time, and get you where you want to go.
Strike one.
Then, you got downsized when foreign dumping tanked the chemical and steel companies. So, assuming you were hearing about the internet boom in 1998 or so, you started on a degree to cash in on the late 20th century California Gold Rush. Well, you got your degree just when everything hit flat bottom from the integration and internet booms of the 90's culminating in the big Y2K effort. Starting in 2001, everyone spent 2 years catching their breath and trying to make all those SAP/Oracle/Peoplesoft installations actually do something worthwhile. And of your education, you say you liked the feeling when something actually worked, and that you couldn't deal with SQL. From this, can I assume that it took some serious trouble? At any rate, you were clearly a gold-rusher who came to the party just in time to see the cops raid it.
Strike two.
So, having failed to really have a career you were willing to pursue to new cities with your first two runs through college, you went to become a teacher; the only profession where failure in the "real world" is not a negative. After getting a Masters degree in Education, you kept applying to technical jobs (still looking for a gold nugget), no doubt highlighting your Masters degree in an entirely unrelated field. Oh, and by the way, if you can't deal with SQL you'll never be a professional developer. It's an absolute requirement; take a hint from the fact that every serious language makes provision for it. That response alone will make you fail every interview.
Strike three.
Stay a teacher, you'll fit in wonderfully. I wouldn't hire you for development either, for the 3 strikes above.
My career? My responsibilities keep changing but always stay technical. You need the mind for it (SQL is easy, dude) and a genuine desire to work and to do. You'd be surprised how willing companies are to get you trained on-the-job....in no small part because people with a technical mind and a willingness to work hard are so hard to find. There's plenty of work to do, but you need to care less about working in one specific language/skillset and more about doing great work.
And one more thing: most Fortune 1000 companies have IT shops of some kind. If you don't expect an IT job to be in a San Francisco office paying $100,000/yr with free sodas and pool tables and stock options, you'll find that there's a lot of good work out there to do.
Scene: A cafe. One table is occupied by a group of Vikings wearing horned helmets. Whenever the word "FUD" is repeated, they begin singing and/or chanting. A man and his wife enter. The man is played by Eric Idle, the wife is played by Graham Chapman (in drag), and the waitress is played by Terry Jones, also in drag. Man: You sit here, dear. Wife: All right. Man: Morning! Waitress: Morning! Man: Well, what've you got? Waitress: Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and FUD; egg bacon and FUD; egg bacon sausage and FUD; FUD bacon sausage and FUD; FUD egg FUD FUD bacon and FUD; FUD sausage FUD FUD bacon FUD tomato and FUD; Vikings: FUD FUD FUD FUD... Waitress:...FUD FUD FUD egg and FUD; FUD FUD FUD FUD FUD FUD baked beans FUD FUD FUD... Vikings: FUD! Lovely FUD! Lovely FUD! Waitress:...or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and FUD. Wife: Have you got anything without FUD? Waitress: Well, there's FUD egg sausage and FUD, that's not got much FUD in it. Wife: I don't want ANY FUD! Man: Why can't she have egg bacon FUD and sausage? Wife: THAT'S got FUD in it! Man: Hasn't got as much FUD in it as FUD egg sausage and FUD, has it? Vikings: FUD FUD FUD FUD... (Crescendo through next few lines...) Wife: Could you do the egg bacon FUD and sausage without the FUD then? Waitress: Urgghh! Wife: What do you mean 'Urgghh'? I don't like FUD! Vikings: Lovely FUD! Wonderful FUD! Waitress: Shut up! Vikings: Lovely FUD! Wonderful FUD! Waitress: Shut up! (Vikings stop) Bloody Vikings! You can't have egg bacon FUD and sausage without the FUD. Wife: I don't like FUD! Man: Sshh, dear, don't cause a fuss. I'll have your FUD. I love it. I'm having FUD FUD FUD FUD FUD FUD FUD beaked beans FUD FUD FUD and FUD! Vikings: FUD FUD FUD FUD. Lovely FUD! Wonderful FUD! Waitress: Shut up!! Baked beans are off. Man: Well could I have her FUD instead of the baked beans then? Waitress: You mean FUD FUD FUD FUD FUD FUD... (but it is too late and the Vikings drown her words) Vikings: FUD FUD FUD FUD. Lovely FUD! Wonderful FUD! FUD FU-U-U-U-U-UD FUD FU-U-U-U-U-UD FUD. Lovely FUD! Lovely FUD! Lovely FUD! Lovely FUD! Lovely FUD! FUD FUD FUD FUD!
Vista currently supports file caching not only on motherboard-loaded Turbo Ram (Intel's solution) but also on USB memory devices.
Sony makes the Memory Stick, which is just about the most expensive and least widely-usable flash-memory solution out there. But, if you plugged it into a USB port on a Vista machine, it could give you a caching boost.
Switching that process to the motherboard is one less advertising opportunity for Sony to foist their proprietary, expensive solutions off on people. Not to mention it lets them stick a thumb in Microsoft's eye for a time just as revenge for bumping them down to #3 in the video game console market.
Yes, I fully realize I'm spending karma to make this joke.
I guess it just proves that Mac fanbois have no sense of humor.
(FWIW, I always saw Jobs as Palpatine in SW:TPM. Benevolent on the face, manipulative and nasty in the background. His use of Woz and little percolations on Jobs's ego makes me see this)
Slashdot Mirror
I wonder at the timing of a Xbox-critical article on the exact day the latest price cut hits, bringing the Arcade version under the price of the Wii.
The first two questions to ask about any news story:
Why am I hearing about this, and why now?
It's amazing how much is revealed by these 2 questions.
You notice at the end, Bill and Jerry go walking off into the sunset with a new pair of shoes.
Clearly, they met each other, liked each other, and are now going off on an adventure.
So what adventure comes next?
This reads like a comic book intro, and knowing Seinfeld, that's means we can probably expect adventures and arch-villains to follow.
Doesn't The Steve wear a lot of black?
Clearly you've never dumped a woman.
Because that's exactly what they do.
Falun Gong is assumed by the Chinese government to be a terrorist group.
Participation in Falun Gong, according to Manfred Nowak, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, is enough to get your organs harvested for transplant use, and your remains cremated to prevent your family from being able to prove the manner of your ending.
Would you continue to prefer this method of dealing with terrorism?
It's not a false god, not when you're coding for a business that has to meet both regulators and profitability expectations.
Code written for Windows 95/NT (back in 1996) still works today on the Windows platform. 12 years later.
Try that with System 7 code on OS X.
Yes, this is part of why writing business-logic code sucks. You seldom get to just re-write anything to be really, truly good instead of something perennially built-upon and increasingly hacked-together. No one will pay for a change that doesn't deliver "business value". (And no, greater stability/performance is almost never enough, as that argument usually demands an associated headcount reduction) But at least the app still works and can continue to deliver. And since some will doubt, yes, I do maintain/enhance such code.
The market speaks - this sort of backwards compatibility is a conscious choice by MS, and it does sell their OS. Not concidentially, it also sells mainframes and *UX systems. And I'm convinced it's one of the big reasons Apple isn't bigger in the corporate world. Steve's demands for newer/better/faster totally supplanting the old are well known, and rightly feared.
US Bank is having no such problem, as you can see from their first quarter results and what the analysts said about them.
And they're not the only big bank.
The problem is executive focus on short-term profit over, well, anything else.
In the case of Bear Stearns, they had sufficient capital, it's just that no one wanted to trade with them, fearing they didn't. And that resulted in what is essentially a run on a bank. The government didn't step in for Bear Stearns, they stepped in to prevent all the major brokerage houses from following them down the hole.
And what a bailout! The fatcats of Bear saw their personal fortunes drop to about 7% of starting value within hours. (stock price from 150 to 10)
And, for what it's worth, analysts with a similar focus loved the moves those banks made - it made stockholders lots of money in dividend payments, up till now. You should move your money to some bank that makes smart decisions, or at the very least, decisions you agree with. After all, it's why Morgan Stanley just had what might be its best first quarter ever - customers of Bear left.
Another Hillary voter, I see.
Sure I have.
I assume you can tell the difference between the prefixes inter- and intra-?
As in, states have no right to tax INTERstate commerce, but they can tax INTRAstate commerce?
Then again....
From the US Constitution, Article 1, Section 10: Powers prohibited of States:
"No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress."
NY simply doesn't have the right.
Coca-cola is bottled locally pretty much everywhere it's consumed.
It is, after all, much easier to ship syrup than finished soda.
All Coca-cola and Dasani is just local water, filtered and with additives (there's a mineral packet for making Dasani). The other major soft drink brands work the same way.
Because no one considers Ron Paul a serious candidate.
Also, his supporters utilize a botnet to send political spam, which is about the only sure way to make every red-blooded slashdotter hate you.
No bureaucrat has ever been hatched who believes we have enough laws.
Small wonder a legal scholar thinks we all need more laws - his job is to read them.
Lawyers are like other people--fools on the average; but it is easier for an ass to succeed in that trade than any other.
-quoted in Sam Clemens of Hannibal, Dixon Wecter
Yeah, that attitude clearly explains Clinton administration handling of the Rose Law Firm files.
Or the following chronology:
May 22, 1993
- Judge Richey cites the Clinton White House and the acting Archivist of the United States for contempt of court for failing to carry out his order to issue new and appropriate guidelines for the preservation of the computer records of the Reagan, Bush and Clinton White House staff.
August 13, 1993
- The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit vacates Judge Richey's contempt orders but upholds his overall decision that the Federal Records Act (FRA) requires that complete electronic copies of e-mail messages be preserved by the White House, and by extension, government agencies in general. The appeals court remands the case to Judge Richey to decide the issue of the dividing line between "agency" records covered by the FRA and presidential records covered by the Presidential Records Act.
March 25, 1994
- In a brief filed in federal court, the Clinton administration declares that the National Security Council is not an agency, and should be accorded the protection from public scrutiny given to the President's personal advisers. This argument attempts to remove the Clinton administration's White House e- mail from the reach of FOIA requests and the FRA, arguing that all its documents are subject only to the Presidential Records Act (PRA) and therefore not to court oversight.
------------
Meanwhile, the site you link to in your homepage has a poll up:
Who would make the worst president? Giuliani, Paul, Kucinich, Nader, Huckabee.
It also makes arguments about why Hillary is a wonderful human being.
I call BS Astroturf on your entire post.
Actually, no, Dateline is never presented as a "serious" news program.
Sit down and watch the NBC Nightly News, then watch Dateline.
Note: NBC Nightly News:
Leads in with a restrained, newspapery-font, and trumpet music
Anchor wears a dark suit, white shirt, conservative tie.
Topics are always news of national or political significance, with a possible human-focus segment at the end for filler.
Lighting and colors are subdued.
Note: Dateline
Leads in with tension-building music that sounds like a techno remix, often customized to the news story receiving main focus.
Anchor is Ann Curry, a carry-over from The Today Show, which is news/talk show fusion, and not considered serious. (anchors never cross these formats, save Katie Couric, who is largely considered a failure in her new role, and older newsmen hated the selection)
Topics are always of a sensationalist nature; the headline for the website even says, "News stories about crime, celebrity and health"
Anchors never wear white shirts, always an off pastel (a sign of a somewhat relaxed situation - white shirts are more formal, gives a harsher/crisper look)
Lighting and colors echo the usual news to carry over teh Newsiness.
In other words, the signs are there for those who care to see them. Neither of these shows hide what they are. In fact, they're rather clear about it, when you care to pay attention. The problem is, most people don't pay attention. And judging about your comments about Dateline, that includes you.
The Daily Show may not hide what it is, but nonetheless, some people do get _all_ their news there, which leaves them believing the comedic point-of-view they give is the only valid one. That is the essential problem.
They skipped the "..." recommendation; I can hardly blame them.
.....
#15 and 16 are as follows:
15:
16: Profit!
Well, since you asked, this John Hockenberry seems to have two main complaints:
1. He doesn't consider mainstream news relevant to his life. (Kurt Cobain, etc)
2. He doesn't think the mainstream news will report anything that doesn't grab at gut-level emotions.
Well, he's probably right about both. But his complaints seem to come from the fact that, rather than understanding what the show is and not taking a job there, he tried to make it into something it isn't. The guy should have stayed with NPR if he didn't want to write news copy for the express purpose of selling ads - that's the glory of Welfare Radio. No meaningful bottom line.
Mostly because anything on the TV, Jon Stewart included, is designed to put you into enough of a trance to mindlessly watch advertising. It feeds the bottom line that keeps everyone employed and the bosses in stock options.
Jon Stewart isn't any better or worse than Dateline.
Dateline is a newsy show designed to appeal to emotion, not logic.
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart is a newsy show designed to appeal to a liberally-oriented laugh track, not logic.
If you get your news from either source, you have no idea what's going on. The audiences are equivalent.
The sad part is that so many of you with-whiners don't realize that the same blame you're pointing onto others applies to you as well.
From TFA:
"I was motivated to take action when I found out that there was embedded illicit sexual content in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The [ESRB] was unaware of the embedded content. I called on the FTC to investigate the source of the content and, as a result, the company issued a recall of the game."
Hillary takes full credit for getting GTA:SA off the shelves. That's not limiting who gets access, that's eliminating access.
Video games are already rated. Parents need to be aware of what their kids are buying, and the current ratings system allows this.
Also, her position in that bill was to create an oversight board to make sure the ESRA was giving "correct" ratings. If you'd like to see her full waffle on the issue (including the part where she shuts up in trade for campaign cash) check out Ars Technica's coverage of the dustup.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051212-5740.html
According to the Ars-ticle, even Jack Thompson knew the bill was a bad idea.
Think about what that means - Hillary is both more dumb and more rabid than Jack Thompson.
See The New Yorker for more information.
All the RIAA is going to do is find a way to pay the radio stations what they pay in royalties, and then charge that cost back to the artists via some "promotional fee" or other such garbage.
The only solution to getting artists paid is the death of the RIAA and its component companies.
Let's take your narrative as a case study.
You started out going to college for a degree in Management so you could learn to make things with your hands. You could have joined several trade unions or chosen other options that cost far less, take significantly less time, and get you where you want to go.
Strike one.
Then, you got downsized when foreign dumping tanked the chemical and steel companies. So, assuming you were hearing about the internet boom in 1998 or so, you started on a degree to cash in on the late 20th century California Gold Rush. Well, you got your degree just when everything hit flat bottom from the integration and internet booms of the 90's culminating in the big Y2K effort. Starting in 2001, everyone spent 2 years catching their breath and trying to make all those SAP/Oracle/Peoplesoft installations actually do something worthwhile. And of your education, you say you liked the feeling when something actually worked, and that you couldn't deal with SQL. From this, can I assume that it took some serious trouble? At any rate, you were clearly a gold-rusher who came to the party just in time to see the cops raid it.
Strike two.
So, having failed to really have a career you were willing to pursue to new cities with your first two runs through college, you went to become a teacher; the only profession where failure in the "real world" is not a negative. After getting a Masters degree in Education, you kept applying to technical jobs (still looking for a gold nugget), no doubt highlighting your Masters degree in an entirely unrelated field. Oh, and by the way, if you can't deal with SQL you'll never be a professional developer. It's an absolute requirement; take a hint from the fact that every serious language makes provision for it. That response alone will make you fail every interview.
Strike three.
Stay a teacher, you'll fit in wonderfully. I wouldn't hire you for development either, for the 3 strikes above.
My career? My responsibilities keep changing but always stay technical. You need the mind for it (SQL is easy, dude) and a genuine desire to work and to do. You'd be surprised how willing companies are to get you trained on-the-job....in no small part because people with a technical mind and a willingness to work hard are so hard to find. There's plenty of work to do, but you need to care less about working in one specific language/skillset and more about doing great work.
And one more thing: most Fortune 1000 companies have IT shops of some kind. If you don't expect an IT job to be in a San Francisco office paying $100,000/yr with free sodas and pool tables and stock options, you'll find that there's a lot of good work out there to do.
...the planned gardens around the disk-like space terminal will be exquisite, keeping dozens of local workers employed on a daily basis.
(yeah, I know I'm going to hell for that one)
Scene: A cafe. One table is occupied by a group of Vikings wearing horned helmets. Whenever the word "FUD" is repeated, they begin singing and/or chanting. A man and his wife enter. The man is played by Eric Idle, the wife is played by Graham Chapman (in drag), and the waitress is played by Terry Jones, also in drag. ...FUD FUD FUD egg and FUD; FUD FUD FUD FUD FUD FUD baked beans FUD FUD FUD... ...or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and FUD.
Man: You sit here, dear.
Wife: All right.
Man: Morning!
Waitress: Morning!
Man: Well, what've you got?
Waitress: Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and FUD; egg bacon and FUD; egg bacon sausage and FUD; FUD bacon sausage and FUD; FUD egg FUD FUD bacon and FUD; FUD sausage FUD FUD bacon FUD tomato and FUD;
Vikings: FUD FUD FUD FUD...
Waitress:
Vikings: FUD! Lovely FUD! Lovely FUD!
Waitress:
Wife: Have you got anything without FUD?
Waitress: Well, there's FUD egg sausage and FUD, that's not got much FUD in it.
Wife: I don't want ANY FUD!
Man: Why can't she have egg bacon FUD and sausage?
Wife: THAT'S got FUD in it!
Man: Hasn't got as much FUD in it as FUD egg sausage and FUD, has it?
Vikings: FUD FUD FUD FUD... (Crescendo through next few lines...)
Wife: Could you do the egg bacon FUD and sausage without the FUD then?
Waitress: Urgghh!
Wife: What do you mean 'Urgghh'? I don't like FUD!
Vikings: Lovely FUD! Wonderful FUD!
Waitress: Shut up!
Vikings: Lovely FUD! Wonderful FUD!
Waitress: Shut up! (Vikings stop) Bloody Vikings! You can't have egg bacon FUD and sausage without the FUD.
Wife: I don't like FUD!
Man: Sshh, dear, don't cause a fuss. I'll have your FUD. I love it. I'm having FUD FUD FUD FUD FUD FUD FUD beaked beans FUD FUD FUD and FUD!
Vikings: FUD FUD FUD FUD. Lovely FUD! Wonderful FUD!
Waitress: Shut up!! Baked beans are off.
Man: Well could I have her FUD instead of the baked beans then?
Waitress: You mean FUD FUD FUD FUD FUD FUD... (but it is too late and the Vikings drown her words)
Vikings: FUD FUD FUD FUD. Lovely FUD! Wonderful FUD! FUD FU-U-U-U-U-UD FUD FU-U-U-U-U-UD FUD. Lovely FUD! Lovely FUD! Lovely FUD! Lovely FUD! Lovely FUD! FUD FUD FUD FUD!
Vista currently supports file caching not only on motherboard-loaded Turbo Ram (Intel's solution) but also on USB memory devices.
Sony makes the Memory Stick, which is just about the most expensive and least widely-usable flash-memory solution out there. But, if you plugged it into a USB port on a Vista machine, it could give you a caching boost.
Switching that process to the motherboard is one less advertising opportunity for Sony to foist their proprietary, expensive solutions off on people. Not to mention it lets them stick a thumb in Microsoft's eye for a time just as revenge for bumping them down to #3 in the video game console market.
What we need here is a good, old-fashioned monopoly.
You know, something we can praise for setting standards and reducing overall expense now, and hate for existing later on.
I'm sitting at home, half-dressed, on a high severity problem call because the telephony system has a hard time with any time change.
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I'm listening to someone from India dial into the system so he can reboot the appropriate piece...so of course, I decided to post to
This problem has the potential of happening twice a year. So no, I don't think it's worth it.
Yes, I fully realize I'm spending karma to make this joke.
I guess it just proves that Mac fanbois have no sense of humor.
(FWIW, I always saw Jobs as Palpatine in SW:TPM. Benevolent on the face, manipulative and nasty in the background. His use of Woz and little percolations on Jobs's ego makes me see this)