Stop pitting Futurama against The Simpons and other cool shows. For crying out loud, if FOX ever had a wide open time slot it should be 3rd Rock's spot. Does anyone get that show?
At the very least we can pray that it isn't replaced with yet another reality tv show. I'm still finding IQ points around the house just from the hearing the commercials.
Not that it would help "much", as I'm sure these guys need millions, but I'd gladly send them $50 or so. PayPal is simple and easy enough for most.
Throw in the Slashdot effect and we should be able to get them started with a few thousand. Then, just cross your fingers and hope for the snowball effect from a few other sites.
"Please hold off on the endangered species sig jokes," he added.
I'd feel safe saying WinZip is the most overly pirated and useful shareware ever. Read the license agreement, 30 Days then you need to register. This software is installed on almost every home (and office) PC in the world. I'm pretty sure it actually ships with Dell & Gateway computers. Our department recently purchased licenses, but the rest of the company continues to click the agree button 3 years after installing it.
Makes you wonder, what would happen if they disabled it and required registration after 30 days?
Maybe it was one of the X10 cameras...? Anyway, you can get the headboard pics and wavs over at alt.binaries.erotica.amateur.chinese.government E njoy!
Microsoft was going to make the donations to poor school districts rather than pay out $1 to each person in the class action lawsuit. Sorry, but I can't see this as a good thing. The trial will go on forever and eventually everyone may get a dollar.
Your overly "closed-minded" and selfish approach to a simple obstacle has confirmed our suspicion that you are an idiot. When you come to work on Monday, you will find that your security card has been disabled. Please contact the security team for an escort into the building, they will be expecting you. You will have 30 minutes to clear your personal belongings from the building and un-ass the premises.
For future reference, the world owes you nothing. If you choose to use a non-industry standard word processor, please expect to put up with, and overcome, such trivial inconveniences.
>You sent the attachment in Microsoft Word format, a secret proprietary format so it is hard for me to read. >If you send me plain text, HTML, >or PDF, then I will read it.
Hope they haven't been waiting on chapter 2 of the first message..., "Damn Orgloff, no more pictures!" May as well beam up my calculus III book, they'd probably have better luck...
So what about high school/college students who are interested in Oracle, SQL Server, Photoshop, Visual Studio, etc.? Even at the "discounted" educational price, most apps are way out of budget for most folks (In high school, I was lucky to have enough for a night of playing pool...College was worse).
Don't ignore the fact that many of these apps cost so much money they make it near impossible for anyone to just "learn the tool." Once they've pirated a copy, they aren't using it to make money, they're learning it so they can get jobs. When they get those jobs, they bring the product to company they work for, and those companies purchase the product and pay up tons of $$ in licensing fees.
Was that pirated copy worth it to the company? Damn right it was.
Was that pirated copy worth it to O'Reily and WROX Press? Damn right it was.
I wonder how many game 3D designers went out and bought Alias or Maya just to see if they had the knack for it? I can't see any of them forking over a few grand just to see, "What does it look like?" That would be a big, resounding, "No."
Sometimes a short-term loss can mean big bucks in the long run.
A high GPA says nothing but, "My parents paid for my college and I used to work at Burger King when I was in high school. I basically sat back and studied until their check came in every month."
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As an ex artillery guy, I can speak from experience.
A standard 155mm HE round weighs in at 103lbs. The shell itself is nothing but steel with a grid-like pattern etched on the inside (for shrapnel). The thickness varies from about 1/2" to 3/4" thick (at the bottom next to the propellant). Other than that, they're just filled with gunpowder. At the tip is a fuse (there are too many types to list), and just below that is a small bag of quick burning powder to kick things off. If this laser is heating things up as hot as they say, that baby is going to blow pretty quick no matter where it's hit.
I have collection of shrapnel I picked up at the National Training Center at Ft. Irwin, that's where I got a look at the innards.
As a side note, by themselves they're not all that fragile. I dropped one on my foot (almost everyone does at some point), and apart from the two seconds of deafening silence following, we loaded it up and it was 12 miles away in a few seconds. Then I proceeded to scream like a bitch. Big toe was smashed something awful.
This is long overdue, we've been placid and patient and now we've paid the price with 6000 innocent lives. Do you want to wait? Do you want to wait until entire cities begin to fall to nuclear weapons? I suggest you pull your head out of your asses and look at the bigger picture. The actions that took place on Sept 11th are trivial compared to the capability these crazy fucks may have in 20, maybe even 10, years. This is not going to stop by preaching peace, ask the families of the 6 million jews slaughtered in WWII. These people don't understand "reason," read the garbage these people are preaching (osama and taliban. These people are screwed in the head. Get a grip, grab your balls, and realize there is a time for us all to stand up and say, "no more"
Just wondering how food and water will be distributed among the mice...
I'm no PETA freak, but tell me these little guys aren't going to be strapped in and hooked up to IVs for 6 months, or a year if they're lucky enough to get a return mission. We've got plenty of useless people on Earth, wouldn't they make better test subjects?
I'm all for a mouse mutiny, turn that sucker around and head for the ISS at 30,000 mph - ramming speed.
Ahh, the good 'ole days before every site popped up "Shock the Monkey" and "The amazing X-10 perv cam."
"The alternative seems to be a move toward closed networks, not unlike America Online, in which the user experience is guided, shaped and far more controlled -- something advertisers and online retailers are demanding."
All I can say is, "arghhh!!, Oh wait...,/. just guided me to that site, up yours Hemos!"
Lawnmowers are movable personal property too, and I find them much more annoying than satellites. So are bicycles, battery-operated Barbie mobiles, etc. Its not even Friday night yet.
You place a tax on movable personal property that the average consumer has, and you're going to piss people off. Instead, slap a tax on some obscure BS that from a multi-million dollar company (everyone hates the corporate machine anyway, right?), and everyone is happy. Out of sight, out of mind - to the average tax payer.
This is my sig; There are many like it, but this one is mine
Wasn't the Internet designed to provide an easy way to communicate and share information?
For the most part, all Slashdot offers is a bunch of links to stories written by other people. Is this a service? Me thinks not; And don't even think about charging for it. Why? I call it a 'hobby site' and we're all a bunch of geeks sharing the same interests. Go ahead and take this personally Mr. "I'm a professional and I don't appreciate...blah." BS. We're all professionals, but this is our passion, and our hobby.
Let's see CNN, MSN, BBC, etc. start charging for their content, hell, they even own most of it. Count how many seconds it takes for their site to dissapear faster than Napster. They're web sites are simply a supplement, or 'additional feature' to their revenue generating machines. So how do you start charging for a site? Well, money is often exchanged for goods and services. So smart guys, offer a #$*@'in service. Make sure it doesn't suck, most small business ventures fail you know...
Best example in recent history goes to, believe it or not, Old Man Murray. Rather than begging for PayPal, they went out and made something, silly as it may be. Nevertheless, I'll bet they've raked in more $$ than all of the "Please make a donation to keep us alive" sites combined. Kudos hombres, good work.
That's my two cents worth. Hope this post has maintained continuity through various phone calls.
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Stop pitting Futurama against The Simpons and other cool shows.
For crying out loud, if FOX ever had a wide open time slot it should be 3rd Rock's spot. Does anyone get that show?
At the very least we can pray that it isn't replaced with yet another reality tv show.
I'm still finding IQ points around the house just from the hearing the commercials.
I think Salmon Days is going to start running a BOFH-ish broadcast series.
If you haven't seen The Trailer you're missing out.
All I can say is, "ROFLMAO!"
Not that it would help "much", as I'm sure these guys need millions, but I'd gladly send them $50 or so. PayPal is simple and easy enough for most.
Throw in the Slashdot effect and we should be able to get them started with a few thousand. Then, just cross your fingers and hope for the snowball effect from a few other sites.
"Please hold off on the endangered species sig jokes," he added.
I'd feel safe saying WinZip is the most overly pirated and useful shareware ever.
Read the license agreement, 30 Days then you need to register. This software is installed on almost every home (and office) PC in the world. I'm pretty sure it actually ships with Dell & Gateway computers.
Our department recently purchased licenses, but the rest of the company continues to click the agree button 3 years after installing it.
Makes you wonder, what would happen if they disabled it and required registration after 30 days?
Maybe it was one of the X10 cameras...?
Anyway, you can get the headboard pics and wavs over at alt.binaries.erotica.amateur.chinese.government
Microsoft was going to make the donations to poor school districts rather than pay out $1 to each person in the class action lawsuit.
Sorry, but I can't see this as a good thing. The trial will go on forever and eventually everyone may get a dollar.
I'd rather see the kids get the goods.
Dear Mr. Stallman,
Your overly "closed-minded" and selfish approach to a simple obstacle has confirmed our suspicion that you are an idiot.
When you come to work on Monday, you will find that your security card has been disabled. Please contact the security team for an escort into the building, they will be expecting you. You will have 30 minutes to clear your personal belongings from the building and un-ass the premises.
For future reference, the world owes you nothing. If you choose to use a non-industry standard word processor, please expect to put up with, and overcome, such trivial inconveniences.
>You sent the attachment in Microsoft Word format, a secret proprietary format so it is hard for me to read.
>If you send me plain text, HTML,
>or PDF, then I will read it.
Hope they haven't been waiting on chapter 2 of the first message..., "Damn Orgloff, no more pictures!"
May as well beam up my calculus III book, they'd probably have better luck...
um...I was about 12 or 13 when I first saw Star Wars.
I don't think the demographic has changed, in fact, I think its still the same.
So what about high school/college students who are interested in Oracle, SQL Server, Photoshop, Visual Studio, etc.? Even at the "discounted" educational price, most apps are way out of budget for most folks (In high school, I was lucky to have enough for a night of playing pool...College was worse).
Don't ignore the fact that many of these apps cost so much money they make it near impossible for anyone to just "learn the tool." Once they've pirated a copy, they aren't using it to make money, they're learning it so they can get jobs. When they get those jobs, they bring the product to company they work for, and those companies purchase the product and pay up tons of $$ in licensing fees.
Was that pirated copy worth it to the company? Damn right it was.
Was that pirated copy worth it to O'Reily and WROX Press? Damn right it was.
I wonder how many game 3D designers went out and bought Alias or Maya just to see if they had the knack for it? I can't see any of them forking over a few grand just to see, "What does it look like?" That would be a big, resounding, "No."
Sometimes a short-term loss can mean big bucks in the long run.
A high GPA says nothing but, "My parents paid for my college and I used to work at Burger King when I was in high school. I basically sat back and studied until their check came in every month."
Hell, read up on them yourself...
Chamberlain Manufacturing Corporation - M107 HE Projectile
As an ex artillery guy, I can speak from experience.
A standard 155mm HE round weighs in at 103lbs. The shell itself is nothing but steel with a grid-like pattern etched on the inside (for shrapnel).
The thickness varies from about 1/2" to 3/4" thick (at the bottom next to the propellant). Other than that, they're just filled with gunpowder.
At the tip is a fuse (there are too many types to list), and just below that is a small bag of quick burning powder to kick things off.
If this laser is heating things up as hot as they say, that baby is going to blow pretty quick no matter where it's hit.
I have collection of shrapnel I picked up at the National Training Center at Ft. Irwin, that's where I got a look at the innards.
As a side note, by themselves they're not all that fragile. I dropped one on my foot (almost everyone does at some point), and apart from the two seconds of deafening silence following, we loaded it up and it was 12 miles away in a few seconds. Then I proceeded to scream like a bitch. Big toe was smashed something awful.
This is long overdue, we've been placid and patient and now we've paid the price with 6000 innocent lives.
Do you want to wait? Do you want to wait until entire cities begin to fall to nuclear weapons?
I suggest you pull your head out of your asses and look at the bigger picture. The actions that took place on Sept 11th are trivial compared to the capability these crazy fucks may have in 20, maybe even 10, years.
This is not going to stop by preaching peace, ask the families of the 6 million jews slaughtered in WWII. These people don't understand "reason," read the garbage these people are preaching (osama and taliban. These people are screwed in the head. Get a grip, grab your balls, and realize there is a time for us all to stand up and say, "no more"
I still have my C64, and she still runs well.
It's just that [TV Game] adaptor on the back of the TV that annoys me so much.
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The amonium nitrate fertilizer we'll be bombing people with.
Oh, and how about bird seed shrapnel.
Just wondering how food and water will be distributed among the mice...
I'm no PETA freak, but tell me these little guys aren't going to be strapped in and hooked up to IVs for 6 months, or a year if they're lucky enough to get a return mission. We've got plenty of useless people on Earth, wouldn't they make better test subjects?
I'm all for a mouse mutiny, turn that sucker around and head for the ISS at 30,000 mph - ramming speed.
Ahh, the good 'ole days before every site popped up "Shock the Monkey" and "The amazing X-10 perv cam."
/. just guided me to that site, up yours Hemos!"
"The alternative seems to be a move toward closed networks, not unlike America Online, in which the user experience is guided, shaped and far more controlled -- something advertisers and online retailers are demanding."
All I can say is, "arghhh!!, Oh wait...,
I can't imagine how anyone can be truly, "tired" of the Quake genre.
There isn't any id game that wasn't worth its price tag.
Lawnmowers are movable personal property too, and I find them much more annoying than satellites.
So are bicycles, battery-operated Barbie mobiles, etc. Its not even Friday night yet.
You place a tax on movable personal property that the average consumer has, and you're going to piss people off. Instead, slap a tax on some obscure BS that from a multi-million dollar company (everyone hates the corporate machine anyway, right?), and everyone is happy. Out of sight, out of mind - to the average tax payer.
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What 'chu talkin' bout Willis?!
I could probably think of 10,000 more feasible forms of tax revenue on a drunken Friday night.
This is my sig; There are many like it, but this one is mine
Wasn't the Internet designed to provide an easy way to communicate and share information?
For the most part, all Slashdot offers is a bunch of links to stories written by other people. Is this a service? Me thinks not; And don't even think about charging for it. Why? I call it a 'hobby site' and we're all a bunch of geeks sharing the same interests.
Go ahead and take this personally Mr. "I'm a professional and I don't appreciate...blah." BS. We're all professionals, but this is our passion, and our hobby.
Let's see CNN, MSN, BBC, etc. start charging for their content, hell, they even own most of it. Count how many seconds it takes for their site to dissapear faster than Napster. They're web sites are simply a supplement, or 'additional feature' to their revenue generating machines.
So how do you start charging for a site? Well, money is often exchanged for goods and services. So smart guys, offer a #$*@'in service. Make sure it doesn't suck, most small business ventures fail you know...
Best example in recent history goes to, believe it or not, Old Man Murray. Rather than begging for PayPal, they went out and made something, silly as it may be. Nevertheless, I'll bet they've raked in more $$ than all of the "Please make a donation to keep us alive" sites combined. Kudos hombres, good work.
That's my two cents worth. Hope this post has maintained continuity through various phone calls.
This is my sig; There are many like it, but this one is mine
So much for my rooftop crop.
Damn the man!
oh, the other one... nevermind
If we could just get Chet and Erik to update their page more than once a month I'd be a happy man. What's up with those two lately??