No, dude. It's shareholders who screw THEMSELVES out of billions by buying Google stock at astronomical prices. No one forces them. In case of Google, no one even promises them a gold mine. Google's position is neutral here. You want to buy our stock at $450? Be our guest, we'd be stupid to discourage you. Don't expect us to ever reach a sane P/E ratio, though, because we've never promised you that we will. Brin and Page realize themselves Google is ridiculously overpriced. They both sell their stock as fast as they can.
All I want from scanner manufacturers is come up with a model of scanner that can scan _multiple_ pages, from _both sides_, _automatically_, bundled with decent OCR software and archiving software. I'd just feed all the paperwork I receive in a week into it and have a searchable archive. Unfortunately, the industry is run by morons and it's not gonna happen.
When your Hotmail address gets deleted due to inactivity (or even by your request), your email is kept for 30 days in case FBI wants to take a look at it. I think there's a law that forces them to do so, so everyone else has to do it.
Back when I was I kid there was a very good treatment for ADHD. You lack attention in school and your mother opens a large can of whoop-ass on you. Voila! You don't lack attention anymore (until your ass stops hurting at least). To me this seems like a better alternative to stuffing kids with psychotropic drugs.
What if I have a TV, but I only use it to watch DVDs? Do I still have to pay for this stupid license? How do they differentiate from their stupid van whether I'm watching a movie off of a DVD or a broadcast program?
>> Like any desk jockey executive, he will kick back, collecting a >> multi-million dollar salary plus bonuses that will bankrupt the company, >> and laugh all the way to the bank. Gateway will be kaput by 2006, and that >> is a generous estimate.
I'd be all for it, if Verizon wasn't charging me $45 per month for my DSL connection. You can't eat with two spoons, folks. Either you take money from me, or you take it from content providers. When you start doing both I'm terminating my subscription so you ain't getting a dime from me ever again.
It's been out for something like two years now. So before you say that google web based chat is groundbreaking, check out this link: http://webmessenger.msn.com/. Works in Firefox, too.
Cost us $400B in direct losses and 1000+ lives so far with no end in sight. Some of that $400B goes to companies closely affiliated with Bush and Cheney. Bush gets blanket immunity from impeachment under the guise of "war on terror", domestic economy goes down the shitter, international relations follow, constitutional rights are infringed upon... Sure beats Clinton screwing an intern. Why was Clinton impeached and this fella is still in the office like nothing happened?
Verizon, Covad and Comcast sure aren't going to like this one. If this shit works, three wireless hotspots (channels 1, 6 and 11) per apartment building will be enough. Right now I can see 12 routers in our building and in G range alone. This means Verizon/Comcast have $480 monthly from owners of the routers. If those hotspots are open (as in Linus) or open for a small(er) fee (as in Bill) - they'll get 1/4th of that. If this takes off, Verizon will need to learn to live a much leaner life.
They tell you the camera has 8MP, but "forget" to mention that in reality it has 4M green pixels and 2M of each red and blue. And there's a blurring filter in front of the sensor to reduce moire. So if you photograph fall foliage, your 8MP camera turns into a 2MP one at best. In the BEST case, it's a 4MP camera really, not 8MP.
The only sensor that takes full RGB readings at each sensor location is Foveon, but it suffers from inferior color reproduction and lower ISO sensitivity. It's also pretty low on "real" pixel count - currently at around 3.5MP (which in Canon/Nikon terminology would be called 10MP, because each pixel takes full RGB readout). Foveon pictures are extremely sharp, though, and render textures very well. If they solved their color reproduction issues and upped the pixel count to "real" 5MP - I'd RUN to the store with my credit card in hand to buy a camera based on this sensor.
Divorce is often a better option. When parents hate each other's guts, it's better to get divorced. Divorce doesn't mean that the father (or mother) instantly forgets about the kids he (she) left behind. Divorce is also unavoidable. The situation where a gay couple adopts a kid IS avoidable and SHOULD BE avoided for the sake of the kid. The kid can not make an informed decision. He/she should not be forced into a family that has abnormal and distorted (men aren't technically designed to have sex with men, you know) values and sexual preferences.
I have no issues with gay marriage. If gays want to fuck each other in the ass - that's their business. My only issue with the whole thing is that I think same sex couples should not be allowed to adopt/raise kids. A kid needs both mother and father, IMO. Otherwise you're just messing him/her up.
Once we close this threshold - I will do whatever I can to help ban gay marriage for this reason alone.
They have an obligation under GPL to supply the source code to GPL-covered pieces to whoever purchases the software. Which I guess iRobot would have to do anyway when dealing with DOD.
Quite often additional job responsibilities are given not because of evil intent of the management, but because employee is eager to take stuff on in hope of a raise or promotion. This is especially true of new employees just out of college. Make things mechanical. Plan how much time your current workload will take, and once there's an attempt to add something on ask what part of the stuff you currently do your manager wants to "load balance" to someone else. If he has no intent to do so, warn him that things will take longer and some things may not be done.
You will end up working a little overtime (just to recoup the time you spend browsing slashdot at work), but things will become controllable. Working more than 10 hours a day and more than 5 days a week is unsustainable. So it only makes sense to do so if you need or want to do it temporarily, to, say, meet a deadline or to get rich in a startup. Pre-deadline crunches shouldn't last more than two weeks, though. If it's more - your management is doing something wrong and you should simply refuse to come in on the weekend or stay late.
That's it, I yield dominance over chicks to Brad Pitt. Yeah, you heard me right, Brad, you can let out that sigh of relief. Now that I've made this announcement you have nothing to worry about anymore.
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>> screw shareholders out of billions
No, dude. It's shareholders who screw THEMSELVES out of billions by buying Google stock at astronomical prices. No one forces them. In case of Google, no one even promises them a gold mine. Google's position is neutral here. You want to buy our stock at $450? Be our guest, we'd be stupid to discourage you. Don't expect us to ever reach a sane P/E ratio, though, because we've never promised you that we will. Brin and Page realize themselves Google is ridiculously overpriced. They both sell their stock as fast as they can.
... and compact enough to keep on my desk. $1K+ behemoth is OK for the office, but at home I need something smaller an less expensive.
All I want from scanner manufacturers is come up with a model of scanner that can scan _multiple_ pages, from _both sides_, _automatically_, bundled with decent OCR software and archiving software. I'd just feed all the paperwork I receive in a week into it and have a searchable archive. Unfortunately, the industry is run by morons and it's not gonna happen.
One thing CIOs don't realize is that non-OSS software is often more immature than betas of OSS products. Was Win XP mature before SP2? Not really.
When your Hotmail address gets deleted due to inactivity (or even by your request), your email is kept for 30 days in case FBI wants to take a look at it. I think there's a law that forces them to do so, so everyone else has to do it.
Back when I was I kid there was a very good treatment for ADHD. You lack attention in school and your mother opens a large can of whoop-ass on you. Voila! You don't lack attention anymore (until your ass stops hurting at least). To me this seems like a better alternative to stuffing kids with psychotropic drugs.
What if I have a TV, but I only use it to watch DVDs? Do I still have to pay for this stupid license? How do they differentiate from their stupid van whether I'm watching a movie off of a DVD or a broadcast program?
Take a look at this thread:
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http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/03/23
I've particularly liked the following post:
>> Can Wayne Inouye Save Gateway? No!
>> Like any desk jockey executive, he will kick back, collecting a
>> multi-million dollar salary plus bonuses that will bankrupt the company,
>> and laugh all the way to the bank. Gateway will be kaput by 2006, and that
>> is a generous estimate.
I'd be all for it, if Verizon wasn't charging me $45 per month for my DSL connection. You can't eat with two spoons, folks. Either you take money from me, or you take it from content providers. When you start doing both I'm terminating my subscription so you ain't getting a dime from me ever again.
It's been out for something like two years now. So before you say that google web based chat is groundbreaking, check out this link: http://webmessenger.msn.com/. Works in Firefox, too.
Half a trillion in military spending has nothing to do with budget imbalance then? I'm kind of confused there.
Cost us $400B in direct losses and 1000+ lives so far with no end in sight. Some of that $400B goes to companies closely affiliated with Bush and Cheney. Bush gets blanket immunity from impeachment under the guise of "war on terror", domestic economy goes down the shitter, international relations follow, constitutional rights are infringed upon... Sure beats Clinton screwing an intern. Why was Clinton impeached and this fella is still in the office like nothing happened?
Verizon, Covad and Comcast sure aren't going to like this one. If this shit works, three wireless hotspots (channels 1, 6 and 11) per apartment building will be enough. Right now I can see 12 routers in our building and in G range alone. This means Verizon/Comcast have $480 monthly from owners of the routers. If those hotspots are open (as in Linus) or open for a small(er) fee (as in Bill) - they'll get 1/4th of that. If this takes off, Verizon will need to learn to live a much leaner life.
1. 48 bit color.
2. Full color management, including soft-proofing and conversion into profiles.
That's about it for me. If it had just these two things, I'd put my copy of Photoshop CS2 on ebay.
Have you ever tried shooting fall foliage with Bayer sensor based camera? It quickly turns fine detail in read leaves into mush.
Olympus E-system cameras have this feature.
They tell you the camera has 8MP, but "forget" to mention that in reality it has 4M green pixels and 2M of each red and blue. And there's a blurring filter in front of the sensor to reduce moire. So if you photograph fall foliage, your 8MP camera turns into a 2MP one at best. In the BEST case, it's a 4MP camera really, not 8MP.
The only sensor that takes full RGB readings at each sensor location is Foveon, but it suffers from inferior color reproduction and lower ISO sensitivity. It's also pretty low on "real" pixel count - currently at around 3.5MP (which in Canon/Nikon terminology would be called 10MP, because each pixel takes full RGB readout). Foveon pictures are extremely sharp, though, and render textures very well. If they solved their color reproduction issues and upped the pixel count to "real" 5MP - I'd RUN to the store with my credit card in hand to buy a camera based on this sensor.
Divorce is often a better option. When parents hate each other's guts, it's better to get divorced. Divorce doesn't mean that the father (or mother) instantly forgets about the kids he (she) left behind. Divorce is also unavoidable. The situation where a gay couple adopts a kid IS avoidable and SHOULD BE avoided for the sake of the kid. The kid can not make an informed decision. He/she should not be forced into a family that has abnormal and distorted (men aren't technically designed to have sex with men, you know) values and sexual preferences.
I have no issues with gay marriage. If gays want to fuck each other in the ass - that's their business. My only issue with the whole thing is that I think same sex couples should not be allowed to adopt/raise kids. A kid needs both mother and father, IMO. Otherwise you're just messing him/her up.
Once we close this threshold - I will do whatever I can to help ban gay marriage for this reason alone.
They have an obligation under GPL to supply the source code to GPL-covered pieces to whoever purchases the software. Which I guess iRobot would have to do anyway when dealing with DOD.
Quite often additional job responsibilities are given not because of evil intent of the management, but because employee is eager to take stuff on in hope of a raise or promotion. This is especially true of new employees just out of college. Make things mechanical. Plan how much time your current workload will take, and once there's an attempt to add something on ask what part of the stuff you currently do your manager wants to "load balance" to someone else. If he has no intent to do so, warn him that things will take longer and some things may not be done.
You will end up working a little overtime (just to recoup the time you spend browsing slashdot at work), but things will become controllable. Working more than 10 hours a day and more than 5 days a week is unsustainable. So it only makes sense to do so if you need or want to do it temporarily, to, say, meet a deadline or to get rich in a startup. Pre-deadline crunches shouldn't last more than two weeks, though. If it's more - your management is doing something wrong and you should simply refuse to come in on the weekend or stay late.
That's it, I yield dominance over chicks to Brad Pitt. Yeah, you heard me right, Brad, you can let out that sigh of relief. Now that I've made this announcement you have nothing to worry about anymore.
Goatse, is that you?
I'm holding out for weight management service pack.
Just very, very dense. It'll suck in additional mass then.