I work at a very small company (50 seats) and we run Exchange/Outlook. I think it does a fine job for little companies like us, but I have to agree that the shutdown/restart is just unreal. We have a decent server (dual proc) with plenty of RAM, and it still takes forever.
The ratio of street pills is closing in on 50/50 MDMA only/other crap. More and more, you're starting to see crazy stuff like PCP sold as "E". I took a pill about a month ago that was mostly mescaline. Not entirely unpleasant, but very different the evening I was expecting to have.
-B
Re:Scour in terms of Napster
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Scour = Napster - quality control?
What percentage of the songs available from Napster
1) have the correct artist name and song title
2) contain the complete song
3) sound good enough to play loudly in your car
Maybe 50 - 60%.
That's pretty good for a free service, but nothing outstanding. I think Scour was great.
There is a cool show on The History Channel about how some British scientists are discovering cocaine residue inside ancient mummies. They are pretty confident that the people actually consumed cocaine while they were alive. The problem is that cocaine was not available in Egypt or Europe anywhere close to that time period. Some people have proposed that ancient Egyptians where trading with Central and South America thousands of years before Colombus or the Vikings had even thought about it. I'm not sure we'll ever know for sure, but it's a cool idea.
Besides not making any sense, that was really funny. Rambus has not been popular with either independant reviewers or the mainstream public. Even thier biggest business partner hates them. If you're going to make lame election jokes, make good ones.
Other ramifications:
Intel has been completely disgusted by the lawsuit. Craig Barrett from Intel said "We hoped we were partners with a company that would concentrate on technology innovation rather than seeking to collect a toll from other companies..."
I assume you capitalized the A implying that only one measly machine will use this product. Toshiba Satellites are pretty popular. When I sold those things several years ago, they were one of our best selling laptop lines.
Seems that there are lot of independant voters - who might well be legitimate Buchanan supporters.
I have heard this a few times and I'll respond to this one. This is West Palm Beach we're talking about. My grandparents have a condo near Palm Beach and I visited there once. It is just old liberal (lots of ex new yorker) jews as far as you can see. My grandarents are old liberal jews so I'm not knocking that, but the fact of the matter is that West Palm Beach should be a county with some of the LEAST numbers of Buchanan votes. When I read that a fifth of all Florida's Buchanan votes came from West Palm Beach, something has to be wrong.
At this point, I don't really care who wins. I just hope somebody wins by 10 votes and everyone freaks out. By my quick calculations based on the 50% of the recount completed so far, if Gore keeps gaining votes at the current rate, he'll still fall short by about 100 votes. Also, I think it's really funny that page layout my decide a presidential election.
I was thinking about this last night because some states do this for primary voting. Common sense would say that if electors were divided by the % of the popular vote within a state, then it would be equivalent to a national popular vote (my common sense anyway, I could be wrong). Can someone prove mathematically that I'm either right or wrong? After thinking about it for another minute I realized that because the elector number is an integer, the rounding involved could make this system go against the national popular vote. But as it stands now, a person can win something like 11 states, get 12.5% of the popular vote and still be president.
Isn't Napster still facing a potentially multibillion dollar judgement from the RIAA case? Could the finance guys somehow file bankrupcy for the current company we know as Napster and start a new company to parter with BMG? Also, I would think that this would hurt the RIAA case because it somewhat acknowledges that what they are doing for free is illegal. I have always thought that the Napster business plan was horrible and couldn't believe anyone put money into it. Well now instead of getting "11 CDs for 1 cent" envelopes in my mailbox every week, I can start getting "110 downloads for 1 cent" emails every week.
I can't believe nobody has responed with a screenshot of Gran Turismo 2000 yet. There are millions on the web, I won't bother linking one. Instead, I'll paste a headline from an IGN article written after GT2000 was first shown at some expo.
"The best looking racer ever? No, the best looking game ever."
IGN is not a PS2 fansite, they cover all consoles as well as other stuff.
Forget the GameGear, there were two other systems from the same era with MUCH better hardware and much worse marketing/game support: The Atari Lynx and the Turbo Express. The Turbo Express not only has awesome hardware specs, but played the exact same games as the TurboGraphix-16 console. Anyone else out there remember Bonk?
What is your incentive? Between 1 and 10 million people paying 50 bucks a piece, depending on when you release it. Releasing to multiple platforms is great, but for the forseeable future there will be plenty of money to be made off of great games for one console (read: Goldeneye).
No, they probably wouldn't write, "Hey Dudes, check this out! This is M$ Office Source Code!". They would most likely write, "Hey Dudez, check this out! This is M$ Office Source Code!". Actually, they would probably capitalize every other letter, too. I was into the warez scene right around the time the Win95 betas were coming out (I was 14 and stupid). Those kids don't have an ounce of subtlety in their bodies.
Besides that, anyone who is a good enough programmer to contribute to any serious OSS project should be a good enough programmer to recognize code from an MS product (the fact that it's bloated and sucks should be a hint). Also, code posted with no license whatsoever should be pretty suspect.
I love the part about letting themselves into your office. They should add some fine print underneath saying:
Upon entering the premises, representatives of our company may help themselves to a Mountain Dew from your fridge. Even if there is only one left, we may still take it. If we take the last one and there is a full case sitting next to the fridge, our representatives are not responsible for putting it into the fridge to get cold.
That's pretty much the only way they could be bigger bastards.
I'll concede part of the point about AT&T being a government mandated monopoly. That was more through government inaction than government action. AT&T said "We can be a monopoly, can't we?" and the government shrugged and sure, "Sure, do whatever."
As for monopolies not being able to put you in jail, I would say they can (almost). On April 26th, there was a Slashdot article called "Get a Cable Modem...Go to Jail" (link is dead, can't find another) about a woman who signed up for Comcast@home but not Comcast cable TV. She was facing jail time for "stealing" cable despite the fact that she called both Comcasts repeatedly saying that she was not supposed to be getting cable TV. An awesome read if anyone can track down a working link.
I could argue with you that IBM was never a monopoly. My evidence would be that the public did in fact vote them out of office using their checkbooks.
Yes, the phone system came about, for the most part, without government involvement. Unforntunately, it created a monopoly that lasted decades before the government stepped in and broke it up. Monopolies are even worse than the government. There are no checks and balances and you can't vote them out of office. A free market is supposed to be the checks and balances and your checkbook is supposed to be your vote, but by the time a monopoly is in place that system has already broken down.
I real "dead man's switch" is a large button (usually red for effect) used in heavy industrial operations like a lumber mill or train yard where losing a limb would be very easy. You have to actively hold down the button to make the machinery work, not just flip a switch to the "on" position. The theory is that if you or your buddy are injured or about to be injured, you would let go of the button and everything comes to a halt. In reality, by the time you let go of the button someone has probably lost a limb already, but it's a good theory anyway.
If you have 5 minutes to spare (yeah you do), read the SkunkHouse page in the above post. It's exactly like the house that everyone lives in at college but MUCH MUCH worse. I almost feel good about my shithole of a house after seeing that one.
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I work at a very small company (50 seats) and we run Exchange/Outlook. I think it does a fine job for little companies like us, but I have to agree that the shutdown/restart is just unreal. We have a decent server (dual proc) with plenty of RAM, and it still takes forever.
-B
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The ratio of street pills is closing in on 50/50 MDMA only/other crap. More and more, you're starting to see crazy stuff like PCP sold as "E". I took a pill about a month ago that was mostly mescaline. Not entirely unpleasant, but very different the evening I was expecting to have.
-B
Scour = Napster - quality control?
What percentage of the songs available from Napster
1) have the correct artist name and song title
2) contain the complete song
3) sound good enough to play loudly in your car
Maybe 50 - 60%.
That's pretty good for a free service, but nothing outstanding. I think Scour was great.
-B
Pour some beer on the sidewalk for Scour.
There is a cool show on The History Channel about how some British scientists are discovering cocaine residue inside ancient mummies. They are pretty confident that the people actually consumed cocaine while they were alive. The problem is that cocaine was not available in Egypt or Europe anywhere close to that time period. Some people have proposed that ancient Egyptians where trading with Central and South America thousands of years before Colombus or the Vikings had even thought about it. I'm not sure we'll ever know for sure, but it's a cool idea.
-B
Besides not making any sense, that was really funny. Rambus has not been popular with either independant reviewers or the mainstream public. Even thier biggest business partner hates them. If you're going to make lame election jokes, make good ones.
-B
Other ramifications:
Intel has been completely disgusted by the lawsuit. Craig Barrett from Intel said "We hoped we were partners with a company that would concentrate on technology innovation rather than seeking to collect a toll from other companies..."
-B
Subtle difference. The woman in the Mona Lisa exhibits a half smile. The guy on goatse.cx appears to be yawning.
-B
Hey, at least the kid in Auckerman's post got 72 megs of RAM. That's more than I have in my home machine and I have a good job.
-B
I'm sure the people who lived in Love Canal will agree with you.
-B
I assume you capitalized the A implying that only one measly machine will use this product. Toshiba Satellites are pretty popular. When I sold those things several years ago, they were one of our best selling laptop lines.
-B
I'm gonna get Släshdöt.org. It has a more "heavy metal" feel to it, like "Mötley Crüe".
-B
You are confusing real life with "Survivor" again. Actually, it hasn't been too far off.
-B
Seems that there are lot of independant voters - who might well be legitimate Buchanan supporters.
I have heard this a few times and I'll respond to this one. This is West Palm Beach we're talking about. My grandparents have a condo near Palm Beach and I visited there once. It is just old liberal (lots of ex new yorker) jews as far as you can see. My grandarents are old liberal jews so I'm not knocking that, but the fact of the matter is that West Palm Beach should be a county with some of the LEAST numbers of Buchanan votes. When I read that a fifth of all Florida's Buchanan votes came from West Palm Beach, something has to be wrong.
-B
At this point, I don't really care who wins. I just hope somebody wins by 10 votes and everyone freaks out. By my quick calculations based on the 50% of the recount completed so far, if Gore keeps gaining votes at the current rate, he'll still fall short by about 100 votes. Also, I think it's really funny that page layout my decide a presidential election.
-B
I was thinking about this last night because some states do this for primary voting. Common sense would say that if electors were divided by the % of the popular vote within a state, then it would be equivalent to a national popular vote (my common sense anyway, I could be wrong). Can someone prove mathematically that I'm either right or wrong? After thinking about it for another minute I realized that because the elector number is an integer, the rounding involved could make this system go against the national popular vote. But as it stands now, a person can win something like 11 states, get 12.5% of the popular vote and still be president.
-B
Isn't Napster still facing a potentially multibillion dollar judgement from the RIAA case? Could the finance guys somehow file bankrupcy for the current company we know as Napster and start a new company to parter with BMG? Also, I would think that this would hurt the RIAA case because it somewhat acknowledges that what they are doing for free is illegal. I have always thought that the Napster business plan was horrible and couldn't believe anyone put money into it. Well now instead of getting "11 CDs for 1 cent" envelopes in my mailbox every week, I can start getting "110 downloads for 1 cent" emails every week.
-B
I can't believe nobody has responed with a screenshot of Gran Turismo 2000 yet. There are millions on the web, I won't bother linking one. Instead, I'll paste a headline from an IGN article written after GT2000 was first shown at some expo.
"The best looking racer ever? No, the best looking game ever."
IGN is not a PS2 fansite, they cover all consoles as well as other stuff.
-B
Forget the GameGear, there were two other systems from the same era with MUCH better hardware and much worse marketing/game support: The Atari Lynx and the Turbo Express. The Turbo Express not only has awesome hardware specs, but played the exact same games as the TurboGraphix-16 console. Anyone else out there remember Bonk?
-B
What is your incentive? Between 1 and 10 million people paying 50 bucks a piece, depending on when you release it. Releasing to multiple platforms is great, but for the forseeable future there will be plenty of money to be made off of great games for one console (read: Goldeneye).
-B
No, they probably wouldn't write, "Hey Dudes, check this out! This is M$ Office Source Code!". They would most likely write, "Hey Dudez, check this out! This is M$ Office Source Code!". Actually, they would probably capitalize every other letter, too. I was into the warez scene right around the time the Win95 betas were coming out (I was 14 and stupid). Those kids don't have an ounce of subtlety in their bodies.
Besides that, anyone who is a good enough programmer to contribute to any serious OSS project should be a good enough programmer to recognize code from an MS product (the fact that it's bloated and sucks should be a hint). Also, code posted with no license whatsoever should be pretty suspect.
-B
I love the part about letting themselves into your office. They should add some fine print underneath saying:
Upon entering the premises, representatives of our company may help themselves to a Mountain Dew from your fridge. Even if there is only one left, we may still take it. If we take the last one and there is a full case sitting next to the fridge, our representatives are not responsible for putting it into the fridge to get cold.
That's pretty much the only way they could be bigger bastards.
-B
I'll concede part of the point about AT&T being a government mandated monopoly. That was more through government inaction than government action. AT&T said "We can be a monopoly, can't we?" and the government shrugged and sure, "Sure, do whatever."
As for monopolies not being able to put you in jail, I would say they can (almost). On April 26th, there was a Slashdot article called "Get a Cable Modem...Go to Jail" (link is dead, can't find another) about a woman who signed up for Comcast@home but not Comcast cable TV. She was facing jail time for "stealing" cable despite the fact that she called both Comcasts repeatedly saying that she was not supposed to be getting cable TV. An awesome read if anyone can track down a working link.
I could argue with you that IBM was never a monopoly. My evidence would be that the public did in fact vote them out of office using their checkbooks.
-B
Yes, the phone system came about, for the most part, without government involvement. Unforntunately, it created a monopoly that lasted decades before the government stepped in and broke it up. Monopolies are even worse than the government. There are no checks and balances and you can't vote them out of office. A free market is supposed to be the checks and balances and your checkbook is supposed to be your vote, but by the time a monopoly is in place that system has already broken down.
-B
I real "dead man's switch" is a large button (usually red for effect) used in heavy industrial operations like a lumber mill or train yard where losing a limb would be very easy. You have to actively hold down the button to make the machinery work, not just flip a switch to the "on" position. The theory is that if you or your buddy are injured or about to be injured, you would let go of the button and everything comes to a halt. In reality, by the time you let go of the button someone has probably lost a limb already, but it's a good theory anyway.
Yeah, it's off topic, but he asked and I knew.
-B
If you have 5 minutes to spare (yeah you do), read the SkunkHouse page in the above post. It's exactly like the house that everyone lives in at college but MUCH MUCH worse. I almost feel good about my shithole of a house after seeing that one.
-B