Screw Guido and Luigi, if you send me spam, I get to punch you in the nose. Seems like it would be a pretty good deterrent as well. Send 1 million emails and risk one million people punching you in the nose.
Another option would be the scarlett letter. Just make them tattoo the word spammer on their forehead.
I dont' see why anyone would use a download service that's not bittorrent anymore. Users benefit from faster downloads and content providers have to pay for less bandwidth. It's a win win situation (unless you break it like Blizzard).
Err, it's hardly ever faster for me. When the last version of Fedora came out, I gave BT a try at it and gave up after 24 hours. I switched over to FTP from USF.edu and got 485K/s. Download was done rather quickly.
Another thing that irks me with BT is that it stops periodically, and doesn't seem to want to restart itself. I have to go back to the torrent to get it going again. Most decent FTP clients will just keep trying periodically. It sucks to wake up in the morning to find out that your download stopped 45 minutes after you left the computer.
Among the list of "crankpots" should we include mainstream religion and their various objections to things like cloning? I fail to see how mainstream religion differs significantly from the rest of the crackpots... I mean if you overlook the organization, political power and all that.
Because mainstream Christians and Jews are not like the crazy ones. Just because some of us are crazy doesn't mean the rest of us are. Please stop making the association. I am a Christian, and I don't have any problem with stem cell research.
The idea that hours equates to productivity is ludicrous. As long as you get your stuff done, it shouldn't matter to your employer how long you work. My wife took over a job that took the previous person (actually, each of the last three) 70-80 hours per week to do. She was able to get it done in 40-45 hours. Her employer was thrilled. The point isn't how long you work, but whether you get your work done.
The Blackberry is popular because it does what you want it to do without any hassle. Other PDA Email devices suck in comparison. It seems so simple - basically be a live connected email client, but all the others just have ridiculous methods of going about it.
It's the same thing as Tivo. You don't realize how nice the Tivo is until you try the cable company's DVR. Sure, it accomplishes the task, but it's more painful.
Despite the borg nature of Congress and politicians, Supreme Court justices are notoriously difficult to peg and will go both ways. Sure, they have tendencies, but they are far from voting the party line.
Sooner or later you would think that people are going to realize that the vast, vast majority of users can do without MS Office and its $400 price tag. I hope that it's sooner!
Near as I can tell, KOffice doesn't run on Windows.
Every bill must have a scope. It must apply to a single budget, or a single government organization, or their subsidiaries. Or it must be a "metabill", which specifies only a collection of bills related in an explicit policy, the exact relationship stated in the metabill.
Please. Did you see what happened to the Interstate Commerce clause? They can relate any two things easier than you can tie it to Kevin Bacon.
My last experience was the clincher. This company will remain anonymous because they are dirty enough to go after me and tie me up in court if they ever found out I was talking about them negatively.
Don't worry, Scott, they won't know who posted this..
So what you are saying is that Walmart should bend over backwards and expose themselves to lawsuits? I dislike Walmart as much as the next guy, but Walmart is the victim here. The tort laws need to be changed.
The (original) problem is with the company that sued Walmart. They are the ones screwing someone for money. Walmart just passed the screwing on to us so they could save money. They're not as bad, but they're still choosing to screw us for some money.
What's right and what's fair isn't what we're discussing - this is strictly an issue of practicality in modern courts. Obviously someone at Walmart thinks that putting these restrictions in place is a lot cheaper in the long run than the alternative.
I keep forgetting that capitalism was redefined to mean screw people over to get their money.
If I sign something claiming ownership of the image, why are they liable? They have no way of actually knowing, and couldn't reasonbly be expected to do so. To expect the printer to be the enforcer is only creating a point of friction between the printer and their customers. This just seems so black and white obvious to me.
Sorry - I don't check my post follow ups very frequently. I was largely speaking to the specific situation of the post. S/he works for a company that employs a number of developers. They could easily handle this in their spare time. A mail server, file/print server, firewall, etc are simple to handle for a small company, which is why you are able to do it on a consulting basis for a number of companies with only a few employees. To have an already existing employee handle it provides no additional hard cost. It adds a potential loss of productivity, but that is a soft cost that may or may not be realized.
So, think about it... tattoos go a long way... and regardless of right or wrong, some people react negatively to them, and regardless of whether you like that or not, it's there! (I know of a very close friend who lost out to a med-school... she found out later it was influenced by her tattoos.) (Also, I think this has even passed muster in court of law -- I think Starbucks actually has a dress code and appearance code that was challenged by someone who had a pierced something, and Starbucks prevailed.)
That's the whole thing right there. Employers don't want the potential for people you interact with (customers, clients, vendors, etc) to be offended or put off by your "art". As long as a significant number of people don't care for them, then you'll be stuck with that.
Besides, as they said on The Man Show - if you make more than $35,000, you can't get a tattoo (it had a little more bite to it than that, but I can't remember).
I think saying Apple will *stop* people from running OS X on their computers is a bit much. That's why they have said they won't "allow" it.
Unless a big market for video cards, sound cards, etc springs up around the Apple machines, you won't have much in the way of drivers even if you do get OS X running on your Dell.
I mean, sure, once the network is set up, the infrastructure for 30 machines should be perfectly stable.
But then email stops working. Or someone gets spyware on their machine. Or a graphics card plays up. Or someone loses their printer settings. Or a mouse is playing up. Or someone can't get through to google.
Seriously? I've done this before with a group of complete non-techie users and had no problems.
Spyware is simple to stop. Hardware is under a support contract. Getting to Google is either a 120 second fix or a support call to the ISP.
It's not worth the employer's money to hire someone full time, and it's not worth it to outsource it. If your staff is largley techie, then it makes perfect sense to use what you have. If you reject this, you will damage your image within the management of your company.
So yeah. Save points can be painful sometimes, but the increased motivation, joy from victory, and immersion in the game are well worth it.
If I had to play something like you described in DMC3, I'd probably take the game out of the console and beat the living shit out of it. After that, my wife would probably tell me not to buy any more games because I obviously don't like them. You may think it makes the game better, but it makes me miserable. I don't play games as frequenlty as most "gamers", so if I have to sustain a high level of skill for a prolonged amount of time, I'm just going to put the game away and never finish it.
Save points are a fairly nice way of saving progress in a completely linear world, like for instance Halo. Less so in free-roamers like Resident Evil, but thats just my opinion. I can see why developers use them, and I've worked on games which have them in, and its better than the alternative. They're not there to save space!
No, I'd prefer to save when I want to, thank you very much. For those of us with lives, kids, etc, sometimes you just need to save right then and be done.
Sports game commentary will suck for quite some time, game DVDs aren't 9Gb (usually, anyway), and commentary is difficulty not because of how much speech you record...
Sucks just as much on TV, so why would a video game be any better. Just play some music.
And do you have some kind of magical map that shows you floor layouts of places you've never been before? No? Didn't think so. How do you find your way around? Exactly.
Well, there's either a map supplied by the building, or I ask someone. No, I don't wander aimlessly for hours.
Apparently, Kelly McNeill talks about Kelly McNeill in the third person.
Kelly McNeill writes "...Kelly McNeill submitted the following editorial to osOpinion/osViews..."
N64 was $200 at launch. I worked at Target at the time, and held one for a friend of mine who bought it on his Target card, and his limit was only $300. He got the N64, Mario 64, and Cruisin 64 on his card.
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Screw Guido and Luigi, if you send me spam, I get to punch you in the nose. Seems like it would be a pretty good deterrent as well. Send 1 million emails and risk one million people punching you in the nose.
Another option would be the scarlett letter. Just make them tattoo the word spammer on their forehead.
(see parent post regarding ordering NLD stickers for your PC) Microsoft employees should indicate this clearly in order to receive priority processing
That's awesome!
I dont' see why anyone would use a download service that's not bittorrent anymore. Users benefit from faster downloads and content providers have to pay for less bandwidth. It's a win win situation (unless you break it like Blizzard).
Err, it's hardly ever faster for me. When the last version of Fedora came out, I gave BT a try at it and gave up after 24 hours. I switched over to FTP from USF.edu and got 485K/s. Download was done rather quickly.
Another thing that irks me with BT is that it stops periodically, and doesn't seem to want to restart itself. I have to go back to the torrent to get it going again. Most decent FTP clients will just keep trying periodically. It sucks to wake up in the morning to find out that your download stopped 45 minutes after you left the computer.
Among the list of "crankpots" should we include mainstream religion and their various objections to things like cloning? I fail to see how mainstream religion differs significantly from the rest of the crackpots... I mean if you overlook the organization, political power and all that.
Because mainstream Christians and Jews are not like the crazy ones. Just because some of us are crazy doesn't mean the rest of us are. Please stop making the association. I am a Christian, and I don't have any problem with stem cell research.
The idea that hours equates to productivity is ludicrous. As long as you get your stuff done, it shouldn't matter to your employer how long you work. My wife took over a job that took the previous person (actually, each of the last three) 70-80 hours per week to do. She was able to get it done in 40-45 hours. Her employer was thrilled. The point isn't how long you work, but whether you get your work done.
The Blackberry is popular because it does what you want it to do without any hassle. Other PDA Email devices suck in comparison. It seems so simple - basically be a live connected email client, but all the others just have ridiculous methods of going about it.
It's the same thing as Tivo. You don't realize how nice the Tivo is until you try the cable company's DVR. Sure, it accomplishes the task, but it's more painful.
I mean, what's the point of a "portable" computer if you have to plug it in all the time?!
Given the complete scarcity of electrical outlets, I'd have to agree with you!
Despite the borg nature of Congress and politicians, Supreme Court justices are notoriously difficult to peg and will go both ways. Sure, they have tendencies, but they are far from voting the party line.
Sooner or later you would think that people are going to realize that the vast, vast majority of users can do without MS Office and its $400 price tag. I hope that it's sooner!
Near as I can tell, KOffice doesn't run on Windows.
This is the first time I have ever heard of a tech support person, save at AOL/Netscape, recommending an alternative web browser.
If you teach them to fish, they won't keep buying your fish.
Every bill must have a scope. It must apply to a single budget, or a single government organization, or their subsidiaries. Or it must be a "metabill", which specifies only a collection of bills related in an explicit policy, the exact relationship stated in the metabill.
Please. Did you see what happened to the Interstate Commerce clause? They can relate any two things easier than you can tie it to Kevin Bacon.
My last experience was the clincher. This company will remain anonymous because they are dirty enough to go after me and tie me up in court if they ever found out I was talking about them negatively.
Don't worry, Scott, they won't know who posted this..
So what you are saying is that Walmart should bend over backwards and expose themselves to lawsuits? I dislike Walmart as much as the next guy, but Walmart is the victim here. The tort laws need to be changed.
The (original) problem is with the company that sued Walmart. They are the ones screwing someone for money. Walmart just passed the screwing on to us so they could save money. They're not as bad, but they're still choosing to screw us for some money.
What's right and what's fair isn't what we're discussing - this is strictly an issue of practicality in modern courts. Obviously someone at Walmart thinks that putting these restrictions in place is a lot cheaper in the long run than the alternative.
I keep forgetting that capitalism was redefined to mean screw people over to get their money.
If I sign something claiming ownership of the image, why are they liable? They have no way of actually knowing, and couldn't reasonbly be expected to do so. To expect the printer to be the enforcer is only creating a point of friction between the printer and their customers. This just seems so black and white obvious to me.
People (such as myself) with young children who don't attend many movies since small crying children in theaters are bad
You may as well come - everyone else brings their kids!
Sorry - I don't check my post follow ups very frequently. I was largely speaking to the specific situation of the post. S/he works for a company that employs a number of developers. They could easily handle this in their spare time. A mail server, file/print server, firewall, etc are simple to handle for a small company, which is why you are able to do it on a consulting basis for a number of companies with only a few employees. To have an already existing employee handle it provides no additional hard cost. It adds a potential loss of productivity, but that is a soft cost that may or may not be realized.
So, think about it... tattoos go a long way... and regardless of right or wrong, some people react negatively to them, and regardless of whether you like that or not, it's there! (I know of a very close friend who lost out to a med-school... she found out later it was influenced by her tattoos.) (Also, I think this has even passed muster in court of law -- I think Starbucks actually has a dress code and appearance code that was challenged by someone who had a pierced something, and Starbucks prevailed.)
That's the whole thing right there. Employers don't want the potential for people you interact with (customers, clients, vendors, etc) to be offended or put off by your "art". As long as a significant number of people don't care for them, then you'll be stuck with that.
Besides, as they said on The Man Show - if you make more than $35,000, you can't get a tattoo (it had a little more bite to it than that, but I can't remember).
I think saying Apple will *stop* people from running OS X on their computers is a bit much. That's why they have said they won't "allow" it.
Unless a big market for video cards, sound cards, etc springs up around the Apple machines, you won't have much in the way of drivers even if you do get OS X running on your Dell.
I mean, sure, once the network is set up, the infrastructure for 30 machines should be perfectly stable.
But then email stops working. Or someone gets spyware on their machine. Or a graphics card plays up. Or someone loses their printer settings. Or a mouse is playing up. Or someone can't get through to google.
Seriously? I've done this before with a group of complete non-techie users and had no problems.
Spyware is simple to stop. Hardware is under a support contract. Getting to Google is either a 120 second fix or a support call to the ISP.
It's not worth the employer's money to hire someone full time, and it's not worth it to outsource it. If your staff is largley techie, then it makes perfect sense to use what you have. If you reject this, you will damage your image within the management of your company.
So yeah. Save points can be painful sometimes, but the increased motivation, joy from victory, and immersion in the game are well worth it.
If I had to play something like you described in DMC3, I'd probably take the game out of the console and beat the living shit out of it. After that, my wife would probably tell me not to buy any more games because I obviously don't like them. You may think it makes the game better, but it makes me miserable. I don't play games as frequenlty as most "gamers", so if I have to sustain a high level of skill for a prolonged amount of time, I'm just going to put the game away and never finish it.
Save points are a fairly nice way of saving progress in a completely linear world, like for instance Halo. Less so in free-roamers like Resident Evil, but thats just my opinion. I can see why developers use them, and I've worked on games which have them in, and its better than the alternative. They're not there to save space!
No, I'd prefer to save when I want to, thank you very much. For those of us with lives, kids, etc, sometimes you just need to save right then and be done.
Sports game commentary will suck for quite some time, game DVDs aren't 9Gb (usually, anyway), and commentary is difficulty not because of how much speech you record...
Sucks just as much on TV, so why would a video game be any better. Just play some music.
And do you have some kind of magical map that shows you floor layouts of places you've never been before? No? Didn't think so. How do you find your way around? Exactly.
Well, there's either a map supplied by the building, or I ask someone. No, I don't wander aimlessly for hours.
Apparently, Kelly McNeill talks about Kelly McNeill in the third person. Kelly McNeill writes "...Kelly McNeill submitted the following editorial to osOpinion/osViews..."
How can they run an XBox on Windows 3.11?? I just don't get it... Will we be required to add TCP/IP on our own if we wish to play over the network?
Perhaps they will have preinstalled Trumpet Winsock for us.
Nintendo 64 launched at $299.
N64 was $200 at launch. I worked at Target at the time, and held one for a friend of mine who bought it on his Target card, and his limit was only $300. He got the N64, Mario 64, and Cruisin 64 on his card.