You mean to tell me that some corporation has the audacity to try to force their proprietary standards and technologies upon the web at large? I'm shocked and chagrined!
Seriously though this will never happen, because the rest of the world will simply say, "Ummm... no." Microsoft and Netscape (back in the day) have already tried such nonsense. Both managed to force a few minor things, but they failed for the most part. And they have (or in Netscapes case, had) a hell of a lot more leverage then Macromedia.
However, an issue of influence and contributions is going to get more play in the local (statewide press) if it happens to one of their own.
Don't be so sure about that. Check out the blurb about South Carolina AG, Charlie Condon, at the bottom of the article. I lived most of my life in S.C. (moved to St. Louis in 2000), and I like to think I keep up with current events more than the average person. During the 1998 elections and subsequent withdrawal of S.C. from the lawsuit, the issue of Condon's political contributions didn't even appear on the radar. Local papers and TV news would much rather focus on local fires, murders, rapes, and other scenes of carnage these days. Politics? Yawn.
And the naive voter thinks of all that federal money as "free" money.
They'd have to be pretty damn naive. How many people have never read the federal (IC, FICA, Medicare, etc.) tax withholdings on their paychecks?
So when you reduce the power of the federal government... where does it go?
I seem to recall that the early power struggles in our countries infancy were primarily federal government vs. state governments. If more power were granted to the states, Microsoft and other corporations would merely switch their focus to brib^H^H^H^H contributing to state and local officials (Not that they're overlooking them now, mind).
so if you saved that message from the boss that said "Screw the client and don't tell them about this problem.", you just cost the company some large sums of money.
If you get an email (or hardcopy) message from your boss saying, "screw the client," you'd damn well better keep it. You know what happens if you don't? That's right, with no documentation pointing upstream, you are now the sacrificial goat. Don't think for an instant that a boss willing to screw a client would treat you any differently.
Better still, if the action your boss proposes is illegal, not only should you keep several copies at home and at work, but you may wish to blow the whistle yourself, depending on your paricular moral compass.
The last thing you should do is destroy the message. When the big, bad boomerang-o-karma comes back your way, you'll have no recourse but to take it squarely in the nads.
Disclaimer: It's been about 10 years since my college geology classes, and while I love to watch volcano stuff on PBS, Discovery, etc., I haven't actually had to use any of this knowledge in quite a while... Feel free to point out and correct any innacuracies.
A subduction zone is a location on the earth's surface where one tectonic plate is pushed under antother (or subducted). Once the subducted plate is pushed deep enough and subjected to enough heat, pressure, and whatnot it becomes part of the Earth's mantle (i.e. it melts).
Now, don't go thinking that the plate that rides over the subducted one has it easy. The tremendous forces involved in the plate collisions cause the plate above to buckle and fracture (mountain ranges, faults, earthquakes, etc). Some of the molten material from the plate below finds its way up through the cracks and fissures thus created and bursts through to the surface (volcanoes).
I have no idea if the amount of radioactive waste to be disposed of in such a fashion would stay concentrated enough to make a difference (probably not). All I know is that the normal, non-radioactive emissions from Mt. St. Helens was devestating enough and rained on a huge portion of the Pacific Northwest. Imagine the carnage if it were highly radioactive as well! Of course this could just be alarmist bullshit, but it's something to think about... not everything buried in a subduction zone goes away never to be seen again.
(One second is how long a photon takes to travel a certain distance.)
Question: Seconds, as a unit of time, have been around far longer than the ability to observe photons, have they not? Has the concept of a second been redefined by physicists to mean the amount of time it takes a photon to travel a certain distance?
Not trying to be argumentative here, just curious. My knowledge of physics could fit in a thimble, with room to spare
So wat he's saying is that the mass adoption of their inflexible software has driven people to create open products that will meet their needs, or am I misinterpreting him ?;)
Yeah, that's kinda like Osama bin Laden patting himself on the back for doing his part to beef up airport security.
It may be a good way to test the Xbox, but it's still a horrible blunder from a marketing standpoint.
What's your garden variety 12 year old boy going to say when he plays with an Xbox kiosk and it crashes? He's not going to say "Oh. A bug. I guess I'll contact Microsoft with the circumstances and error details." No, he's going to say "Dude, this sucks. I'm getting a PS2."
- "Engineering" (there are no "engineering" spaces on aircraft)
What, you've never heard of a flight engineer before? Here's a partial description: "The flight engineer is a technical expert, who must be thoroughly familiar with the operation and function of various airplane components." Sounds like the same concept to me.
Anyway, I agree that Starfleet is more derivative of a navy than an air force... just thought I'd clear up the "engineering" part.
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Agreed. That the buildings lasted as long as they did is a testament to the engineers who designed and built them. Can we do better the next time around? Absolutely... we have so much more materials and design research under our belts.
Complaining that the buildings "only" stood for about an hour or so seems silly to me. Some are asking, "Why did the buildings collapse?" Well, I'm no civil engineer, but if I had to guess, I'd say it's because THEY WERE RAMMED WITH BIG HONKING PASSENGER JETS CHOCK-FULL-O-FUEL. Sounds like a plausible explanation to me.
All civillian air traffic is down. I'm sure National Guard or other military/government units would happily fly shipments of blood to NY.
Also, I agree that the highest demand for blood is likely to occur shortly after a disaster, but that shouldn't prevent you from giving blood. What happens when someone in your town is in an auto accident, but no blood is available because the lion's share was flown to NY the previous day?
I too have had arguments with RS salesmen about my personal data... even when paying with cash.
Me: I'm sorry, I don't give out personal information. RS: I have to have the information to complete the sale. Me: So just enter some random crap, then. RS: But don't you want us to keep you recieve our catalogs and be kept up to date on all of our new products and sales? Me: First of all, you guys haven't had a new product in eons. Second of all, when you do, it's usually a rebranded knock-off of someone else's stuff. And third, I despise junk mail. When I'm in the market for a cheap-ass plastic fire truck that chages directions when it bumbs into a wall and makes a sound like someone stepping on an asthmatic cat, I'll know where to get one, okay?
Your argument only makes sense if herding elephants for ivory is illegal. If ranchers are allowed to breed elephants for ivory- then I'm sure they'd take exception to hunters killing their property
This has to be the dumbest thing I've read in quite some time. Do you have any idea how much it would cost to raise an elephant to maturity for its ivory? Well, I don't either, but I'll wager it costs a damn site more than you'd get for the ivory on the open market. It certainly costs more than a couple of bullets and a hacksaw... which is all you'd need to kill a wild elephant and harvest the tusks.
Even if raising herds of domestic elephants for their ivory was economically viable (which I doubt), that is all you'd be left with... domesticated elephants. All the wild ones would still be hunted and eliminated.
he could just as easily have been watching a food processor demonstration or standing next to a famous celebrity who was being photographed
Ahhhh, but he wasn't standing next to famous celebrity or in an infomercial audience. When you stand around near the limos outside the Academy Awards, there are flashbulbs and TV cameras all over the place. When you get paid to ooooh and aaaah at Ron Popiel doing ungodly things chicken legs and motorized blades, you expect your ugly mug to show up on late night cable TV.
Was this guy doing either of these things? No, he was just eating lunch and minding his own damn business... something the authorities (and two media outlets in this case) should do more often, methinks.
If we're getting into a whole "Lisa or Minmei" type dispute here, let me throw in my two cents... Neither. Give me the short little red haired girl stationed on the bridge instead.
IMHO the very best Minmei moment is from "Do You Remember Love" where Rick bitchslaps her. I could wear out the rewind button living vicariously through Rick at that moment.
I just had a great idea. I'm going to patent "1/2-click shopping". Here's how it works:
Next to the book, CD, erotic video, or marital aid the customer wants to buy, there will be a "buy it now, damn you!" button. When the user clicks the icon, the Javascript on the page will use the onMouseDown event to submit the form, instead of onClick.
One of the local "alternative" rock stations (how can they be an "alternative" when there's so many of them, and they're all the same?) just completed a weekend of programming that was not based on their usual rotation system.
Basically, the DJ's dug up some of their old (and new) favorites and played those instead. Oh, it wasn't like they went too far out on a limb... they were all songs that had been played on the station at one time or another, when they were "current".
Still, the listener response was overwhelmingly positive, with comments such as "Man, I haven't heard some of that stuff in a while. You guys should do this more often!" The DJ's agreed, but sadly they were back to playing the same old schlock on Monday morning. Why? The payola system, most likely.
One of SmarTruck's advanced features, all-wheel steering, is due out on some 2002 GM vehicles.
All wheel steering really isn't that new. Honda Preludes had this feature in the late 80's to early 90's IIRC. Looks like GM uses Microsoft's definition of innovation. Still, the SmarTruck (wtf kinda name is that, anyway?) looks like the ultimate road-rage vehicle. Just the thing for those crowded L.A. freeways.
how nice it is to shop here, how we have so much stuff
Somehow I find that hard to believe.
Believe it. My family has several relatives and friends from Europe (primarily Germany). When they visit the states, they all gush at the quantity and selection of goods and services available in the states. In addition, the prices in the U.S. tend to be slightly lower than comparable items found in Germany... when you can find them at all.
I also know a few people from GB... same story.
Now, I'm not usually the kind of person who believes "more stuff = better quality of life", but for those who do, the US has little competition.
Heh... Maybe we could get the Navy to try their new trick... "accidentally" surface a US attack sub to beneath one of the Chinese trawlers off our coast.
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You mean to tell me that some corporation has the audacity to try to force their proprietary standards and technologies upon the web at large? I'm shocked and chagrined!
Seriously though this will never happen, because the rest of the world will simply say, "Ummm... no." Microsoft and Netscape (back in the day) have already tried such nonsense. Both managed to force a few minor things, but they failed for the most part. And they have (or in Netscapes case, had) a hell of a lot more leverage then Macromedia.
However, an issue of influence and contributions is going to get more play in the local (statewide press) if it happens to one of their own.
Don't be so sure about that. Check out the blurb about South Carolina AG, Charlie Condon, at the bottom of the article. I lived most of my life in S.C. (moved to St. Louis in 2000), and I like to think I keep up with current events more than the average person. During the 1998 elections and subsequent withdrawal of S.C. from the lawsuit, the issue of Condon's political contributions didn't even appear on the radar. Local papers and TV news would much rather focus on local fires, murders, rapes, and other scenes of carnage these days. Politics? Yawn.
And the naive voter thinks of all that federal money as "free" money.
They'd have to be pretty damn naive. How many people have never read the federal (IC, FICA, Medicare, etc.) tax withholdings on their paychecks?
So when you reduce the power of the federal government... where does it go?
I seem to recall that the early power struggles in our countries infancy were primarily federal government vs. state governments. If more power were granted to the states, Microsoft and other corporations would merely switch their focus to brib^H^H^H^H contributing to state and local officials (Not that they're overlooking them now, mind).
If you get an email (or hardcopy) message from your boss saying, "screw the client," you'd damn well better keep it. You know what happens if you don't? That's right, with no documentation pointing upstream, you are now the sacrificial goat. Don't think for an instant that a boss willing to screw a client would treat you any differently.
Better still, if the action your boss proposes is illegal, not only should you keep several copies at home and at work, but you may wish to blow the whistle yourself, depending on your paricular moral compass.
The last thing you should do is destroy the message. When the big, bad boomerang-o-karma comes back your way, you'll have no recourse but to take it squarely in the nads.
Disclaimer: It's been about 10 years since my college geology classes, and while I love to watch volcano stuff on PBS, Discovery, etc., I haven't actually had to use any of this knowledge in quite a while... Feel free to point out and correct any innacuracies.
A subduction zone is a location on the earth's surface where one tectonic plate is pushed under antother (or subducted). Once the subducted plate is pushed deep enough and subjected to enough heat, pressure, and whatnot it becomes part of the Earth's mantle (i.e. it melts).
Now, don't go thinking that the plate that rides over the subducted one has it easy. The tremendous forces involved in the plate collisions cause the plate above to buckle and fracture (mountain ranges, faults, earthquakes, etc). Some of the molten material from the plate below finds its way up through the cracks and fissures thus created and bursts through to the surface (volcanoes).
I have no idea if the amount of radioactive waste to be disposed of in such a fashion would stay concentrated enough to make a difference (probably not). All I know is that the normal, non-radioactive emissions from Mt. St. Helens was devestating enough and rained on a huge portion of the Pacific Northwest. Imagine the carnage if it were highly radioactive as well! Of course this could just be alarmist bullshit, but it's something to think about... not everything buried in a subduction zone goes away never to be seen again.
Among the other pointless and redundant al Qaeda plots recently discovered:
(One second is how long a photon takes to travel a certain distance.)
Question: Seconds, as a unit of time, have been around far longer than the ability to observe photons, have they not? Has the concept of a second been redefined by physicists to mean the amount of time it takes a photon to travel a certain distance?
Not trying to be argumentative here, just curious. My knowledge of physics could fit in a thimble, with room to spare
So wat he's saying is that the mass adoption of their inflexible software has driven people to create open products that will meet their needs, or am I misinterpreting him ? ;)
Yeah, that's kinda like Osama bin Laden patting himself on the back for doing his part to beef up airport security.
It may be a good way to test the Xbox, but it's still a horrible blunder from a marketing standpoint.
What's your garden variety 12 year old boy going to say when he plays with an Xbox kiosk and it crashes? He's not going to say "Oh. A bug. I guess I'll contact Microsoft with the circumstances and error details." No, he's going to say "Dude, this sucks. I'm getting a PS2."
- "Engineering" (there are no "engineering" spaces on aircraft)
What, you've never heard of a flight engineer before? Here's a partial description: "The flight engineer is a technical expert, who must be thoroughly familiar with the operation and function of various airplane components." Sounds like the same concept to me.
Anyway, I agree that Starfleet is more derivative of a navy than an air force... just thought I'd clear up the "engineering" part.
Agreed. That the buildings lasted as long as they did is a testament to the engineers who designed and built them. Can we do better the next time around? Absolutely... we have so much more materials and design research under our belts.
Complaining that the buildings "only" stood for about an hour or so seems silly to me. Some are asking, "Why did the buildings collapse?" Well, I'm no civil engineer, but if I had to guess, I'd say it's because THEY WERE RAMMED WITH BIG HONKING PASSENGER JETS CHOCK-FULL-O-FUEL. Sounds like a plausible explanation to me.
All civillian air traffic is down. I'm sure National Guard or other military/government units would happily fly shipments of blood to NY.
Also, I agree that the highest demand for blood is likely to occur shortly after a disaster, but that shouldn't prevent you from giving blood. What happens when someone in your town is in an auto accident, but no blood is available because the lion's share was flown to NY the previous day?I too have had arguments with RS salesmen about my personal data... even when paying with cash.
Me: I'm sorry, I don't give out personal information.
RS: I have to have the information to complete the sale.
Me: So just enter some random crap, then.
RS: But don't you want us to keep you recieve our catalogs and be kept up to date on all of our new products and sales?
Me: First of all, you guys haven't had a new product in eons. Second of all, when you do, it's usually a rebranded knock-off of someone else's stuff. And third, I despise junk mail. When I'm in the market for a cheap-ass plastic fire truck that chages directions when it bumbs into a wall and makes a sound like someone stepping on an asthmatic cat, I'll know where to get one, okay?
That pretty much ended the discussion.
On the off chance that this isn't a troll...
Your argument only makes sense if herding elephants for ivory is illegal. If ranchers are allowed to breed elephants for ivory- then I'm sure they'd take exception to hunters killing their property
This has to be the dumbest thing I've read in quite some time. Do you have any idea how much it would cost to raise an elephant to maturity for its ivory? Well, I don't either, but I'll wager it costs a damn site more than you'd get for the ivory on the open market. It certainly costs more than a couple of bullets and a hacksaw... which is all you'd need to kill a wild elephant and harvest the tusks.
Even if raising herds of domestic elephants for their ivory was economically viable (which I doubt), that is all you'd be left with... domesticated elephants. All the wild ones would still be hunted and eliminated.
he could just as easily have been watching a food processor demonstration or standing next to a famous celebrity who was being photographed
Ahhhh, but he wasn't standing next to famous celebrity or in an infomercial audience. When you stand around near the limos outside the Academy Awards, there are flashbulbs and TV cameras all over the place. When you get paid to ooooh and aaaah at Ron Popiel doing ungodly things chicken legs and motorized blades, you expect your ugly mug to show up on late night cable TV.
Was this guy doing either of these things? No, he was just eating lunch and minding his own damn business... something the authorities (and two media outlets in this case) should do more often, methinks.
Not to mention identifiable as well. "Hey, Thok, isn't that Gargag's axe you have there? Say, whatever happened to Gargag, anyway?"
If we're getting into a whole "Lisa or Minmei" type dispute here, let me throw in my two cents... Neither. Give me the short little red haired girl stationed on the bridge instead.
IMHO the very best Minmei moment is from "Do You Remember Love" where Rick bitchslaps her. I could wear out the rewind button living vicariously through Rick at that moment.
I just had a great idea. I'm going to patent "1/2-click shopping". Here's how it works:
Next to the book, CD, erotic video, or marital aid the customer wants to buy, there will be a "buy it now, damn you!" button. When the user clicks the icon, the Javascript on the page will use the onMouseDown event to submit the form, instead of onClick.
Suck on that, Jeff Bozos!
One of the local "alternative" rock stations (how can they be an "alternative" when there's so many of them, and they're all the same?) just completed a weekend of programming that was not based on their usual rotation system.
Basically, the DJ's dug up some of their old (and new) favorites and played those instead. Oh, it wasn't like they went too far out on a limb... they were all songs that had been played on the station at one time or another, when they were "current".
Still, the listener response was overwhelmingly positive, with comments such as "Man, I haven't heard some of that stuff in a while. You guys should do this more often!" The DJ's agreed, but sadly they were back to playing the same old schlock on Monday morning. Why? The payola system, most likely.
Sad.
One of SmarTruck's advanced features, all-wheel steering, is due out on some 2002 GM vehicles.
All wheel steering really isn't that new. Honda Preludes had this feature in the late 80's to early 90's IIRC. Looks like GM uses Microsoft's definition of innovation. Still, the SmarTruck (wtf kinda name is that, anyway?) looks like the ultimate road-rage vehicle. Just the thing for those crowded L.A. freeways.
Not only should the samples be quarantined, but it might be a good idea to have some Slim Whitman CD's on hand as well.
Believe it. My family has several relatives and friends from Europe (primarily Germany). When they visit the states, they all gush at the quantity and selection of goods and services available in the states. In addition, the prices in the U.S. tend to be slightly lower than comparable items found in Germany... when you can find them at all.
I also know a few people from GB... same story.Now, I'm not usually the kind of person who believes "more stuff = better quality of life", but for those who do, the US has little competition.
Heh... Maybe we could get the Navy to try their new trick... "accidentally" surface a US attack sub to beneath one of the Chinese trawlers off our coast.
So if the concrete block weighs as much as a duck...
A witch!!! Burn it!!!
If they don't know what time it is, how would they know if they have enough time to set the clock?