Just because you win a lawsuit against a company that legitimately wronged you[*] doesn't entitle you to a lottery payout. Punitive damages should go to the court. Fund the public defender or something.
"Over-use of technology when there's no need for it is a bigger mistake than not implementing the "latest and greatest" when you have a system that already works."
Engineers, Programmers, Designers, LEND ME YOUR EARS!
Too long have we toiled under the idiotic yoke of marketing, always trying to squeeze just one more useless checkbox feature to differentiate our product from the competition! Too long have we been forced by pointy-haired management to build overly-complex systems and ship them before they are mature!
Now is the time to throw off the chains of mediocrity! One product, one function!
"The Unusual Profession of Jonathan Hoag and Other Collected Works"
Oh, yeah.... RIGHT... seems slashdot consensus is that TEFT and much of his latter work is marred by the unusual sexual relationships involved. Just wait 'till they getta load of "All You Zombies"!!!
(Personally, I liked Hoag and Zombies from that collection, nicely paranoia-inducing.)
You guys mention "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" as a possible introduction to Heinlien?!!! Geeze, save if for once you've developed a taste for his writing and can appreciate it better.
I would reccommend getting your feet wet with some of his short stories, "The Menace to Earth" being the best example that comes to mind immediately.
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For someone who was a noted military aviator, Bush sure is abusing the fuck out of the military and the reserves. \scathing sarcasm
Granted, it requires flash. But it shows you pretty diagrams that help you in refining your search.
Just make more episodes and sell DVDs on ebay!
In each pair you've got the ambitious competitor and the introverted tinkerer.
I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to come up with other examples of similar pairs that have founded successful tech companies.
"WHOOPS! We didn't think about that.." the mgt.
"Duuuude, I am sooooo much more stoned than you!"
Hwuuuhhhh? /Jon Stewart
Now we just need Orbitz made with grain alcohol!
No wonder Americans are fat!
He's probably a web designer with a wardrobe entirely in black.
Is this the same volcano that Ben Kenobi throws Anakin Skywalker into?!!!
Finding energized powerlines!!!
I hope http://www.news.navy.mil has a sense of humor about the dreaded /. DDOS attack that they're under!!! /lamer
You just need a 4-D monitor to properly display the results!
Sheesh, kids these days... Don't they even teach you basic topology in grammar school anymore?!!!
Compact, as in "a compact with the devil".
My grandma is terrorized of computers.
They deny our hard-working vetrans the right to have a ice cold draft beer, and create an environment in which organized crime can flourish.
Your (heh) government at "work".
I wish I could vote myself a raise whenever I felt like it!
Hell, son, that's chicken feed. That nice Nigerian fellar's promising me $60,000,000!!!! Sorry, but I don't do business with two-bit operators.
[*] Hell, or even not...
God bless America, where I can get my watermelon for $2 a piece on the Independence and Memorial days, as is proper.
Now if I could just find a way to ship those $2 watermelons to Japan and sell them for $30!!
Engineers, Programmers, Designers, LEND ME YOUR EARS!
Too long have we toiled under the idiotic yoke of marketing, always trying to squeeze just one more useless checkbox feature to differentiate our product from the competition! Too long have we been forced by pointy-haired management to build overly-complex systems and ship them before they are mature!
Now is the time to throw off the chains of mediocrity!
One product, one function!
In certain parts of Florida in the Winter, most of the people there are Canadadian!!!
Oh, yeah.... RIGHT... seems slashdot consensus is that TEFT and much of his latter work is marred by the unusual sexual relationships involved. Just wait 'till they getta load of "All You Zombies"!!!
(Personally, I liked Hoag and Zombies from that collection, nicely paranoia-inducing.)
I would reccommend getting your feet wet with some of his short stories, "The Menace to Earth" being the best example that comes to mind immediately.