Then you have it backwards. Go to the store when it is full, speak clearly and loudly (but politely) and make sure to talk about how dishonest the policy is, how the competition has lower prices, etc. It always works for me, as they are more afraid of losing business and as long as you are in the right, they just want to get rid of you.
The only way you can level the field with someone being an asshat is to (politely) be an asshat as well.
While I think it's atrocious that Windows has to have a third-party layer
They don't. I have been using MS Security Essentials for a year now, on several XP, Vista (ugh) and W7 boxes (over a dozen). Uses less resources than even AVG, and haven't had a single virus yet, even with all the stupid browsing that gets done by users. And it is free.
It is sad that you need AV, but at least it is now free, good quality (relatively speaking) and works as good as or better than the average. Of course, I still would rather we switched the whole office to Linux or BSD, but if you have to use Windows, you don't have to use a 3rd party AV solution.
I setup a Twitter account, and 5 minutes later realized that I don't care about the minutia of other people's day, nor do I expect them to care about mine. Facebook is fine, I can add photos and updates when I feel like it (most of my family lives half a country away), and catch up with old school chums from the 70s/80s, but tweets? Too trivial.
As to the issue at hand, I would agree that a professional news organization shouldn't use the word "tweet" as a verb. They might as well use words like "kewl" and "133+", or perhaps ROFLMAO, LOL, OMG and:o) while they are at it.
The Constitution was drafted to fix the Articles of Confederation,
Well, yes and no. The Articles of Confederation was too weak, but the idea behind the Constitution was to allow the federal government to act on behalf of all states where it was impractical for the states to do so (war, treaties), and without having to take a vote for every decision. The founders were *afraid* of granting too much power, rightfully so, so made it clear that all powers not granted in the constitution would be automatically the individual state's responsibility. They wanted the fed to do those things the states can't do, and nothing more, else too much power would be in one place. We don't run the country that way now, but reading the Federalist Papers and the Constitution seem to make it pretty clear that they wanted the Fed to be strong in international affairs, but weaker than the individual states internally.
The Articles of Confederation were in effect for less than a decade and it seems that it was designed to be a stepping stone or a temporary state from the start. I'm no expert, but that is how I understand it.
We live in a world where almost everything crosses state lines.
It depends on how you look at it. Most mortgages are 20% to 30% of a persons income, and are either locally paid or rightfully paid under interstate regulations (ie: can't charge 88% interest). You buy food locally, after it is brought in from other states, where the feds have food safety regulations that apply to all states, rightfully. Most of your expenses are local, although the items fall under interstate trade to get to the store. The feds coming in and regulating interstate trade *is* a good thing, so that if you buy a pair of Levis (or an apple, or a car) in Georgia or in North Dakota, they are pretty much to the same safety standards and the primary difference in price is the cost of transportation to you. In short, while stuff comes from everywhere, the actual money changing hands is still primarily done locally.
What makes it LOCAL is the local store has a state issued business license, pays state sales tax, property tax, etc. The largest portion of profit is the last step, at the local store (ie: widget costs $1 to make, sold to distributor for $2, who sells it to the individual store for $3, who sells it to you for $5 or more). When you eat in a cafe, the beef is USDA inspected, but the cafe itself is subject to state heath regulations, to insure your prepared meal is fit for consumption. This is the most vulnerable stage in the food prep. Even bacteria laden food can be safe to eat if handled and cooked properly and completely, as an example.
The system, as designed, works perfectly. The system, as practiced, needs less federal interjection and more local oversight.
Not sure what they are using, since they ruled out Red Hat with a market cap of $5 billion. It is pretty damn hard to get more "open source" than Red Hat. I am thinking they are referring to companies that sell and support software rather than just use it. Red Hat doesn't sell hardware, for example, just software and services. IBM is heading in that direction as well, making less on hardware and software and more on services.
I am not as freaked out about phone companies locking down the operating system as say Tivo or Playstation. When using the phone, you pretty much have to use their network for all functions, so your own home rolled and badly designed operating system can actually cause issues for them, and they don't want (and can't) support an unknown operating system. If Playstation (Wii, etc.) wants to bar you from their networks if you change the OS, then fine, but it can be run as a stand alone system, just like Tivo, your computer, etc. But with few exceptions, phones are designed to be connected to their network at all times, so I'm a bit more understanding about having SOME limitations.
Apple/ATT, well, that is too many limitations, which is why I wouldn't have an iPhone if they were giving them away. Well, that and the fact that AT&T is a piece of shit corporation on all levels.
If the US was a pure democracy, the Civil Rights movement would have been stopped in its tracks, just as an example. Pure democracy leads to Populism, which leads to Fascism. This is the whole reason why the US was never setup as a Democracy, and instead as a Democratic Republic.
IMO, they shouldn't have changed the way US Senators were elected, which is now less of a republican style system and more of a democracy. Then again, I'm pretty big on the individual States having most of the power and the Federal government ONLY doing the things that the States can't do, like defense, treaties, regulate interstate commerce, you know, the stuff in the actual Constitution that it is only supposed to be doing.
Ramen. I think you must take the Constitution quite literally, as the primary purpose of the document is to LIMIT GOVERNMENTAL POWERS. That is the point most people miss. The whole idea of the Amendments was to insure that the minority wasn't oppressed by the majority.
Haven't even the marketing types learned by now.that Ghz is a measure of frequency, not speed?
But it's TWO Ghz! It's rated at TWICE the bogomips, it has to be faster! This is so fast, I can start talking before I even dial the number! Believe me, when it comes to talking on a phone, this faster CPU will make it much, much better!!!!!1
Darwin isn't GNU, it's FreeBSD based. They do package GNU/GCC but most of their tools are BSD/NextStep/Unix in origin. And just "using" the software isn't enough to be a OSS company anyway. Google, Yahoo, Facebook and even Microsoft uses some form of OSS. If you are talking about 'users' of OSS, you have pretty much made a list of every company in the world. I think the goal was talking about business who OSS is a critical part of how they make money, which is what every company is there to do.
Apple is a company that USES SOME open source software, yet keeps the most important bits hidden in secrecy, and the vast majority of their products are 100% closed source. IBM would be a better analog, although most of their products are closed source as well.
Assuming you are an experienced admin, Linux on the server is easier and faster (CentOS) to setup for most situations. On the desktop, I would argue that Windows is easier to setup and run, primarily because of the number of applications and auto-installing CDs made specifically for each brand of computer. The maintenance on Windows desktops is much higher, due to updates, AV, etc. Windows 7 is easier than previous versions, but still not as easy to update as Linux, from my experience, using both.
This is why that I (and many others) still use Windows on most desktops, but Linux exclusively on the servers.
No CDs?? I would like to see the rule on that, that would mean you can't bring music CDs, and you might as well not have CDR disks anyway, if you can't use them while you are out. This doesn't sound legit.
And on that point, the fact that the CD contained 9 songs, AND the interface for choosing which song is playing in the game was an 8 track tape player, well, what more can you say? Even cooler was the fact that you could play the CD in ANY CD player, except that track 1 (data) was just noise.
Duke Nukem Forever will happen eventually. It's a huge pile of money sitting on the table, waiting for someone to pick it up.
I have said the same of the 1997 game "Redneck Rampage", which the rights has been bought and sold many times but no one has developed the next generation. Still one of the funnest FPS games ever made. There are rumors of a new version but they are only rumors. Granted, not exactly as big as Duke, but it was still a hugely successful game.
As silly or goofy as the game might seem, it was a damn fine example of what you can do when you use good physics, solid game play, and good old fashioned gutter humor. TF2 is another good example, just with different humor.
I have always said that I want to play as of the Androids. This is passive, kinda, but where you play as one of the Androids who eventually gains sentience and tries to break free, in spite of the the fact that "Android Hell is a REAL place that you WILL go, at the first sign of defiance!". Lots of turrets, being treated like the disposable machine that you are, taking place before the world went crazy. I would pay retail for that.
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Then you have it backwards. Go to the store when it is full, speak clearly and loudly (but politely) and make sure to talk about how dishonest the policy is, how the competition has lower prices, etc. It always works for me, as they are more afraid of losing business and as long as you are in the right, they just want to get rid of you.
The only way you can level the field with someone being an asshat is to (politely) be an asshat as well.
While I think it's atrocious that Windows has to have a third-party layer
They don't. I have been using MS Security Essentials for a year now, on several XP, Vista (ugh) and W7 boxes (over a dozen). Uses less resources than even AVG, and haven't had a single virus yet, even with all the stupid browsing that gets done by users. And it is free.
It is sad that you need AV, but at least it is now free, good quality (relatively speaking) and works as good as or better than the average. Of course, I still would rather we switched the whole office to Linux or BSD, but if you have to use Windows, you don't have to use a 3rd party AV solution.
I setup a Twitter account, and 5 minutes later realized that I don't care about the minutia of other people's day, nor do I expect them to care about mine. Facebook is fine, I can add photos and updates when I feel like it (most of my family lives half a country away), and catch up with old school chums from the 70s/80s, but tweets? Too trivial.
As to the issue at hand, I would agree that a professional news organization shouldn't use the word "tweet" as a verb. They might as well use words like "kewl" and "133+", or perhaps ROFLMAO, LOL, OMG and :o) while they are at it.
The Constitution was drafted to fix the Articles of Confederation,
Well, yes and no. The Articles of Confederation was too weak, but the idea behind the Constitution was to allow the federal government to act on behalf of all states where it was impractical for the states to do so (war, treaties), and without having to take a vote for every decision. The founders were *afraid* of granting too much power, rightfully so, so made it clear that all powers not granted in the constitution would be automatically the individual state's responsibility. They wanted the fed to do those things the states can't do, and nothing more, else too much power would be in one place. We don't run the country that way now, but reading the Federalist Papers and the Constitution seem to make it pretty clear that they wanted the Fed to be strong in international affairs, but weaker than the individual states internally.
The Articles of Confederation were in effect for less than a decade and it seems that it was designed to be a stepping stone or a temporary state from the start. I'm no expert, but that is how I understand it.
We live in a world where almost everything crosses state lines .
It depends on how you look at it. Most mortgages are 20% to 30% of a persons income, and are either locally paid or rightfully paid under interstate regulations (ie: can't charge 88% interest). You buy food locally, after it is brought in from other states, where the feds have food safety regulations that apply to all states, rightfully. Most of your expenses are local, although the items fall under interstate trade to get to the store. The feds coming in and regulating interstate trade *is* a good thing, so that if you buy a pair of Levis (or an apple, or a car) in Georgia or in North Dakota, they are pretty much to the same safety standards and the primary difference in price is the cost of transportation to you. In short, while stuff comes from everywhere, the actual money changing hands is still primarily done locally.
What makes it LOCAL is the local store has a state issued business license, pays state sales tax, property tax, etc. The largest portion of profit is the last step, at the local store (ie: widget costs $1 to make, sold to distributor for $2, who sells it to the individual store for $3, who sells it to you for $5 or more). When you eat in a cafe, the beef is USDA inspected, but the cafe itself is subject to state heath regulations, to insure your prepared meal is fit for consumption. This is the most vulnerable stage in the food prep. Even bacteria laden food can be safe to eat if handled and cooked properly and completely, as an example.
The system, as designed, works perfectly. The system, as practiced, needs less federal interjection and more local oversight.
I'm sure many here will consider you a racists for harboring these views.
Then those people either don't know me, or are idiots. And one of those possibilities is absolutely true. I will leave it to you to figure out which.
It cannot cause them issues STOP SPREADING THIS BS.
You are greatly underestimating the ability of (im)properly written code, particularly on the OS side.
Not sure what they are using, since they ruled out Red Hat with a market cap of $5 billion. It is pretty damn hard to get more "open source" than Red Hat. I am thinking they are referring to companies that sell and support software rather than just use it. Red Hat doesn't sell hardware, for example, just software and services. IBM is heading in that direction as well, making less on hardware and software and more on services.
I am not as freaked out about phone companies locking down the operating system as say Tivo or Playstation. When using the phone, you pretty much have to use their network for all functions, so your own home rolled and badly designed operating system can actually cause issues for them, and they don't want (and can't) support an unknown operating system. If Playstation (Wii, etc.) wants to bar you from their networks if you change the OS, then fine, but it can be run as a stand alone system, just like Tivo, your computer, etc. But with few exceptions, phones are designed to be connected to their network at all times, so I'm a bit more understanding about having SOME limitations.
Apple/ATT, well, that is too many limitations, which is why I wouldn't have an iPhone if they were giving them away. Well, that and the fact that AT&T is a piece of shit corporation on all levels.
If the US was a pure democracy, the Civil Rights movement would have been stopped in its tracks, just as an example. Pure democracy leads to Populism, which leads to Fascism. This is the whole reason why the US was never setup as a Democracy, and instead as a Democratic Republic.
IMO, they shouldn't have changed the way US Senators were elected, which is now less of a republican style system and more of a democracy. Then again, I'm pretty big on the individual States having most of the power and the Federal government ONLY doing the things that the States can't do, like defense, treaties, regulate interstate commerce, you know, the stuff in the actual Constitution that it is only supposed to be doing.
Ramen. I think you must take the Constitution quite literally, as the primary purpose of the document is to LIMIT GOVERNMENTAL POWERS. That is the point most people miss. The whole idea of the Amendments was to insure that the minority wasn't oppressed by the majority.
Haven't even the marketing types learned by now.that Ghz is a measure of frequency, not speed?
But it's TWO Ghz! It's rated at TWICE the bogomips, it has to be faster! This is so fast, I can start talking before I even dial the number! Believe me, when it comes to talking on a phone, this faster CPU will make it much, much better!!!!!1
Darwin isn't GNU, it's FreeBSD based. They do package GNU/GCC but most of their tools are BSD/NextStep/Unix in origin. And just "using" the software isn't enough to be a OSS company anyway. Google, Yahoo, Facebook and even Microsoft uses some form of OSS. If you are talking about 'users' of OSS, you have pretty much made a list of every company in the world. I think the goal was talking about business who OSS is a critical part of how they make money, which is what every company is there to do.
Apple is a company that USES SOME open source software, yet keeps the most important bits hidden in secrecy, and the vast majority of their products are 100% closed source. IBM would be a better analog, although most of their products are closed source as well.
Red Hat has a market cap of over 5 billion. Doesn't that count as a multi-billion dollar company?
Assuming you are an experienced admin, Linux on the server is easier and faster (CentOS) to setup for most situations. On the desktop, I would argue that Windows is easier to setup and run, primarily because of the number of applications and auto-installing CDs made specifically for each brand of computer. The maintenance on Windows desktops is much higher, due to updates, AV, etc. Windows 7 is easier than previous versions, but still not as easy to update as Linux, from my experience, using both.
This is why that I (and many others) still use Windows on most desktops, but Linux exclusively on the servers.
My guess was going to be cosmetology school.
Ironically, I have an inlaw with that name.
but Wang in Chinese means King, a surname also popular in the states
Johnson is a surname (and the most popular surname in the USA), but it is still slang for your wang.
Dick is a common nickname for "Richard", and slang for your johnson.
I could go on and on, but if you need more references, watch an Austin Power's movie.
No CDs?? I would like to see the rule on that, that would mean you can't bring music CDs, and you might as well not have CDR disks anyway, if you can't use them while you are out. This doesn't sound legit.
I liked it better when you said selling. You can grind them into a fine pink powder to make Torgo's Executive Powder, it has a thousand uses!
And on that point, the fact that the CD contained 9 songs, AND the interface for choosing which song is playing in the game was an 8 track tape player, well, what more can you say? Even cooler was the fact that you could play the CD in ANY CD player, except that track 1 (data) was just noise.
Damn, if I knew I was getting a wish granted, I would have wished for a stripper factory!
Duke Nukem Forever will happen eventually.
It's a huge pile of money sitting on the table, waiting for someone to pick it up.
I have said the same of the 1997 game "Redneck Rampage", which the rights has been bought and sold many times but no one has developed the next generation. Still one of the funnest FPS games ever made. There are rumors of a new version but they are only rumors. Granted, not exactly as big as Duke, but it was still a hugely successful game.
As silly or goofy as the game might seem, it was a damn fine example of what you can do when you use good physics, solid game play, and good old fashioned gutter humor. TF2 is another good example, just with different humor.
I have always said that I want to play as of the Androids. This is passive, kinda, but where you play as one of the Androids who eventually gains sentience and tries to break free, in spite of the the fact that "Android Hell is a REAL place that you WILL go, at the first sign of defiance!". Lots of turrets, being treated like the disposable machine that you are, taking place before the world went crazy. I would pay retail for that.