Socially awkward? Hey, at least these are the nerds that are getting out:) And yeah, I wanted the stats for the greater Toronto area, but couldn't find anything on google that looked recent, my bad.
Your statistics mean nothing. The ACs are arguing that Americans just aren't interested in the meetup, but that's so subjective that it's not worth arguing, and I don't even think it's true. Anyway, the reason your stats are useless is because they don't take per capita into accont. The population of Seattle is 500,000 people, 500,000/100meetup people, it's about 1 in 5000. The population of Toronto is about 2.5 million people. Does Toronto have 5 times as many people as Seattle on the meetup? Not even close. I in 17,000. So no, Candians aren't taking anything over, they're just bad at math.
I am tired of posts and articles that point out file sharing increses profits. Even if that's true, it's still against what the RIAA wanted when they put it out. When Morpheus switched from the kazaa-like client and switched to an open source client, even though it was great for open source, the first thing people asked was "Does it comply with the GPL?". It didn't matter if it was good for open source, they did it against the rules. With the RIAA, it's their music, let them release it under their rules, and if you have a problem with it, don't use their product.
What are you talking about? The biggest reason people have been telling me to switch to linux is because it's free. Publishing studies of cost of Windows vs. Linux, and not putting a price on Linux software. Should they go back and redo those?
If you want your favorite commercial Linux distro to survive then you'd better give it more support than Lip Service.
Maybe you don't understand, all these people who thought Linux was going to be *free*, because the community advertised that way, would only want it to survive so they can get free software. Please stop advertising Linux as free if companies are going to try the "we're underpaid/always in debt/working for the community/ so give us money, by the way, software is free" bit. Are they going to sell software or not?
My favorite musical warning was at this ISP I used to work at. We had an old machine that we didn't really do anything with except test out peoples dial-up accounts. One day my coworker was on the phone and the machine next to him starts playing Fur Elise. He panicked and told the customer to hold while he flipped off the computer because the music was a warning that the fan had failed. I was laughing so much. What made it great was when we found microsoft knowledge base articles on it.
That's a pretty pessimistic view of anti-virus software makers. What about a company like RedHat that makes money off of support? Do you think they make buggy software on purpose?
The problem is he uses an empty 1x1 table cell to render an image using table. The face would render in mozilla if a.) mozilla rendered empty 1x1 cells, a problem mentioned in the parent. b.) He was allowed to use an image, and decided to put in a 1x1 clear pixel. The crash one is just a problem with NS4 not being able to handle 2176 lines and a whole bunch of tables.
On my web design site we don't let designers upload designs with images because we want users to be able to use designs without an image editor. People that couldn't break from the images started some pretty interesting alternatives.
What about narcotics sniffing dogs? A lot of time (seen it on cops) they walk up with a dog and if the dog signals they may use that as probable cause to search your car/person. Isn't that like the x-ray and metal detectors? They haven't physically searched you until they look at the x-ray and see something suspicious, using the x-ray as probable cause. Also, what about DUIs? They may ask people to take a breathalyzer voluntarily, but in WA if you decline it's a 1 year license suspension. It's 3 months if you take it and get caught. But basically isn't that the same as "If you don't let me search you, you may not drive"? I think it's also worth pointing out that there isn't a criminal penalty for that, just a suspension. The only thing that's messed up is random searches, but they seem too effective to give up if you ask me.
You must be kidding. In fact, you just reminded me of a hilarious comic strip from the far side. I thought I'd share it with the group. Hell, with thinking like that, who needs to spend the thousands I'm spending on college, I could spend $40 on a video game!
Anyone else think of the femputer from futurama when they hear the name "simputer"?
Simputer: That does not simpute. Simputer will return after deciding your punishment... After lengthy simputations I, Simputer, have decided the fate of the men. Simputer sentences them... to death!
I pronounce it zee because my preschool teacher told me to, I wasn't about to tell her she was wrong. Teachers were authority figures back then ya know.
Here's a post I made a couple months ago on the topic in response to a similar post, I think it's still valid:
Let me just quickly say, scripts like that is the stupidest abuse of referrers I've ever come across. The referrer is a great tool for following the flow of traffic, not to police flow of traffic. The referrer is set in the browser (client side), it is not something that any browser has to use. And it can be easily spoofed or disabled. If 10% of the websites blocked my traffic based on my referrer, I'd just find a browser that let me turn off the referrer. And I'm sure I'm not alone. So by abusing the referrer, it's more than possible for browsers to just stop sending it, and hurt websites that are trying to watch flow of traffic to help the users out.
I don't think so:) If you didn't want your subscription to expire you could set your computer to look at a local ntp server instead of MS, and have your subscription never expire. I'm guessing they do a little more than if (date expire_date) { on the computer to see if your license expired. And don't make bogus claims you can't back up, quit with the "all they have to do is..." attitude. You post is so subjective it sounds like you don't have the slightest clue what it takes to accomplish what you're saying.
Actually, Microsoft doesn't have the nasty habit of charging for bandwidth on updates and charging money for support. Or asking for donations all the time. $4billion in RedHat means jack, $4 billion in windows licenses means you get free updates for years, and plenty of online support. None of that preferred treatment for $$$ crap.
I admit I come from a pretty liberal part of the country, but I went a few years never saying the pledge of allegiance and never once had anyone say anything about it. Sure, they are going to do it daily, but you may refuse.
From the AP: "WorldCom, which owns the nation's No. 2 long-distance carrier MCI, said Tuesday that more than $3 billion of expenses in 2001 and $797 million in the first quarter of 2002 were wrongly listed on company books as capital expenses, thus not reflected in its earnings results."
From the President, I'm sure if he could figure it out, anyone can: "I am deeply concerned about some of the accounting practices that take place in America," Bush said. "There are revelations that WorldCom has misaccounted $3.4 billion. It's outrageous," Bush said. "We will fully investigate and hold people accountable for misleading not only shareholders but also employees as well."
June 25 -- WorldCom has uncovered what people close to the company describe as a massive fraud, inflating a common measure of its earnings by more than $3.8 billion over the last five quarters. The company late Tuesday confirmed its intention to restate its earnings and said it had notified the Securities and Exchange Commission.
6 billion seems to be what their earnings should be: Without these transfers, the company's reported EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) would be reduced to $6.339 billion for 2001
Yeah, no kidding. Here in Washington sales tax is 8%. So their rule of thumb is "Just tip twice the tax." And I always think "Why not just add up 15%?" Oh wait, it's cause they're not smart enough. Although the PDA tip thing is a bit of a joke. I think most people just do that for their "hello world" PDA programs. At least I hope so.
That means we shouldn't leave our under aged offspring to roam around freely in places where they could be exposed.
So parents shouldn't allow children to go to the *library*? For starters, I believe that some perv wouldn't look up porn with people walking around the library. And I have a hard time believing that there isn't anyone who wouldn't agree that looking up child porn on tax dollars is not cool. Although I agree that nazi/kkk/black panther/whatevah shouldn't be filtered. I've actually had to do reports on that stuff. That's all a political message though, not swearing. So I guess I believe in blocking of porn/obsceneties, after all, the History channel seems to teach just fine without showing porn or swearing. The government decides what they can show, right?
Live's "V" album at 3 different stores had the price at $18.99. At one it was marked down from $19.99. Even at online stores it's about $19. It's not an import, and it's only 13 songs. So yes, $20 is very reasonable for the average price. Unless you want to count singles or something.
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Socially awkward? Hey, at least these are the nerds that are getting out :) And yeah, I wanted the stats for the greater Toronto area, but couldn't find anything on google that looked recent, my bad.
I'm sure we could all chip in and buy you a nice hard hat.
He could move to the Austrailian outback, and we could buy him a bunch of pillows to cover his trailer.
Your statistics mean nothing. The ACs are arguing that Americans just aren't interested in the meetup, but that's so subjective that it's not worth arguing, and I don't even think it's true. Anyway, the reason your stats are useless is because they don't take per capita into accont. The population of Seattle is 500,000 people, 500,000/100meetup people, it's about 1 in 5000. The population of Toronto is about 2.5 million people. Does Toronto have 5 times as many people as Seattle on the meetup? Not even close. I in 17,000. So no, Candians aren't taking anything over, they're just bad at math.
I am tired of posts and articles that point out file sharing increses profits. Even if that's true, it's still against what the RIAA wanted when they put it out. When Morpheus switched from the kazaa-like client and switched to an open source client, even though it was great for open source, the first thing people asked was "Does it comply with the GPL?". It didn't matter if it was good for open source, they did it against the rules. With the RIAA, it's their music, let them release it under their rules, and if you have a problem with it, don't use their product.
What are you talking about? The biggest reason people have been telling me to switch to linux is because it's free. Publishing studies of cost of Windows vs. Linux, and not putting a price on Linux software. Should they go back and redo those?
If you want your favorite commercial Linux distro to survive then you'd better give it more support than Lip Service.
Maybe you don't understand, all these people who thought Linux was going to be *free*, because the community advertised that way, would only want it to survive so they can get free software. Please stop advertising Linux as free if companies are going to try the "we're underpaid/always in debt/working for the community/ so give us money, by the way, software is free" bit. Are they going to sell software or not?
My favorite musical warning was at this ISP I used to work at. We had an old machine that we didn't really do anything with except test out peoples dial-up accounts. One day my coworker was on the phone and the machine next to him starts playing Fur Elise. He panicked and told the customer to hold while he flipped off the computer because the music was a warning that the fan had failed. I was laughing so much. What made it great was when we found microsoft knowledge base articles on it.
That's a pretty pessimistic view of anti-virus software makers. What about a company like RedHat that makes money off of support? Do you think they make buggy software on purpose?
The problem is he uses an empty 1x1 table cell to render an image using table. The face would render in mozilla if a.) mozilla rendered empty 1x1 cells, a problem mentioned in the parent. b.) He was allowed to use an image, and decided to put in a 1x1 clear pixel. The crash one is just a problem with NS4 not being able to handle 2176 lines and a whole bunch of tables.
On my web design site we don't let designers upload designs with images because we want users to be able to use designs without an image editor. People that couldn't break from the images started some pretty interesting alternatives.
Face (IE Only)
Blueish (Ascii pron, all browsers)
Some Impressive CSS Design
2176lines (in emacs, crashes NS4)
C64 (all browsers)
And the list goes on, here's an ascii solution to flash while I'm at it. The web would be just fine without images and flash.
What about narcotics sniffing dogs? A lot of time (seen it on cops) they walk up with a dog and if the dog signals they may use that as probable cause to search your car/person. Isn't that like the x-ray and metal detectors? They haven't physically searched you until they look at the x-ray and see something suspicious, using the x-ray as probable cause. Also, what about DUIs? They may ask people to take a breathalyzer voluntarily, but in WA if you decline it's a 1 year license suspension. It's 3 months if you take it and get caught. But basically isn't that the same as "If you don't let me search you, you may not drive"? I think it's also worth pointing out that there isn't a criminal penalty for that, just a suspension. The only thing that's messed up is random searches, but they seem too effective to give up if you ask me.
You must be kidding. In fact, you just reminded me of a hilarious comic strip from the far side. I thought I'd share it with the group. Hell, with thinking like that, who needs to spend the thousands I'm spending on college, I could spend $40 on a video game!
Anyone else think of the femputer from futurama when they hear the name "simputer"?
... After lengthy simputations I, Simputer, have decided the fate of the men. Simputer sentences them... to death!
Simputer: That does not simpute. Simputer will return after deciding your punishment
where, for some unkonwn reason, we call it zee
I pronounce it zee because my preschool teacher told me to, I wasn't about to tell her she was wrong. Teachers were authority figures back then ya know.
Here's a post I made a couple months ago on the topic in response to a similar post, I think it's still valid:
Let me just quickly say, scripts like that is the stupidest abuse of referrers I've ever come across. The referrer is a great tool for following the flow of traffic, not to police flow of traffic. The referrer is set in the browser (client side), it is not something that any browser has to use. And it can be easily spoofed or disabled. If 10% of the websites blocked my traffic based on my referrer, I'd just find a browser that let me turn off the referrer. And I'm sure I'm not alone. So by abusing the referrer, it's more than possible for browsers to just stop sending it, and hurt websites that are trying to watch flow of traffic to help the users out.
I don't think so :) If you didn't want your subscription to expire you could set your computer to look at a local ntp server instead of MS, and have your subscription never expire. I'm guessing they do a little more than if (date expire_date) { on the computer to see if your license expired. And don't make bogus claims you can't back up, quit with the "all they have to do is..." attitude. You post is so subjective it sounds like you don't have the slightest clue what it takes to accomplish what you're saying.
Nice to know *somebody* is making money off of technology.
Actually, Microsoft doesn't have the nasty habit of charging for bandwidth on updates and charging money for support. Or asking for donations all the time. $4billion in RedHat means jack, $4 billion in windows licenses means you get free updates for years, and plenty of online support. None of that preferred treatment for $$$ crap.
I admit I come from a pretty liberal part of the country, but I went a few years never saying the pledge of allegiance and never once had anyone say anything about it. Sure, they are going to do it daily, but you may refuse.
From the AP:
"WorldCom, which owns the nation's No. 2 long-distance carrier MCI, said Tuesday that more than $3 billion of expenses in 2001 and $797 million in the first quarter of 2002 were wrongly listed on company books as capital expenses, thus not reflected in its earnings results."
From the President, I'm sure if he could figure it out, anyone can:
"I am deeply concerned about some of the accounting practices that take place in America," Bush said. "There are revelations that WorldCom has misaccounted $3.4 billion. It's outrageous," Bush said. "We will fully investigate and hold people accountable for misleading not only shareholders but also employees as well."
+3 informative? I don't think so
June 25 -- WorldCom has uncovered what people close to the company describe as a massive fraud, inflating a common measure of its earnings by more than $3.8 billion over the last five quarters. The company late Tuesday confirmed its intention to restate its earnings and said it had notified the Securities and Exchange Commission.
6 billion seems to be what their earnings should be:
Without these transfers, the company's reported EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) would be reduced to $6.339 billion for 2001
Only once have I ever had any conflict about it
:)
I want the dirt on the conflict please
Yeah, no kidding. Here in Washington sales tax is 8%. So their rule of thumb is "Just tip twice the tax." And I always think "Why not just add up 15%?" Oh wait, it's cause they're not smart enough. Although the PDA tip thing is a bit of a joke. I think most people just do that for their "hello world" PDA programs. At least I hope so.
That means we shouldn't leave our under aged offspring to roam around freely in places where they could be exposed.
So parents shouldn't allow children to go to the *library*? For starters, I believe that some perv wouldn't look up porn with people walking around the library. And I have a hard time believing that there isn't anyone who wouldn't agree that looking up child porn on tax dollars is not cool. Although I agree that nazi/kkk/black panther/whatevah shouldn't be filtered. I've actually had to do reports on that stuff. That's all a political message though, not swearing. So I guess I believe in blocking of porn/obsceneties, after all, the History channel seems to teach just fine without showing porn or swearing. The government decides what they can show, right?
Live's "V" album at 3 different stores had the price at $18.99. At one it was marked down from $19.99. Even at online stores it's about $19. It's not an import, and it's only 13 songs. So yes, $20 is very reasonable for the average price. Unless you want to count singles or something.
#!/usr/bin/perl
my $answer;
$answer = 6 * 4;
print $answer;
$./universe
42
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