This is the truth! I was working much like tnok85 a couple of years back. I loved the job but the stress from multiple directions eventually led to me gaining 50+ lbs over 6 months. I had maintained my previous weight for over 4 years. When I left that position for a new opportunity working straight 8-5 M-F making the same salary and not being pulled at from every direction the weight gain stopped. I'm still working the extra weight off but I feel much better and will avoid high stress environments.
That would come out of a different Cost Center which requires pre-approval. The emergency CC is funded for..you know..emergencies and gets funded On The Fly when it is affecting the bottom line. You know what they say "It's easier to ask forgiveness than permission"
While a whisper campaign does by its very nature seek to avoid detection is does not necessarily involve "outright lies". It does in this case but that's not what makes this a whisper campaign. Marketing companies use whisper campaigns all the time to hawk goods. they pay some guy to go into a bar and order the spirit they are marketing really loud or buying a round of said spirit for the bar patrons without telling them he works for the company that makes the stuff.
Microsoft weren't the only company giving away widgets.
They were the only ones with the power to forbid OEMs from installing third party software or risk losing OEM pricing for Windows.
Of all the browsers on windows at the time of the big three IE, Netscape, and Opera two of the three charged for their browser. Opera chose not to try and go toe to toe with IE and focused on non-US markets (sensible since they are located in Australia) and Netscape was simply arrogant and refused to team up with any partners (AOL tried to work with them but Netscape turned them down). Opera also managed to offer a free version but only because they worked out ad deals injecting ads in the browser itself so it wasn't really free like IE. Without Microsoft's vast capitol and other profitable properties there is no way IE would have been free given how much they spent licensing Mosaic from Spyglass and subsequently pouring resources into it.
If Netscape was the better browser, then it wouldn't have been the manually installable version of IE4 that dethroned it.
If I am selling widgets for $40 and my competition is giving away feature comparable widgets for free who are customers going to go to for their widgets? That is why Microsoft was convicted of abusing its monopoly power.
Internet Explorer had the upper hand, as the amount of manpower and capital dedicated to it eventually surpassed the resources available in Netscape's entire business. By version 3.0, IE was roughly a feature-for-feature equivalent of Netscape Communicator, and by version 4.0, it was generally considered to be more stable on Windows than on the Macintosh platform. Microsoft also targeted other Netscape products with free workalikes, such as the Internet Information Server (IIS), a web server which was bundled with Windows NT.
Netscape could not compete with this strategy. In fact, it didn't attempt to. Netscape Navigator was not free to the general public until January 1998,[15] while Internet Explorer and IIS have always been free or came bundled with an operating system and/or other applications.
"I really *wanted* to just give her a yahoo account instead of gmail. But they won't allow imap without paying them for it? wtf?"
Yahoo mail is free because of advertising on their web-mail portal. If you are getting your mail through IMAP then you don't receive the ads. They also put ads at the bottom of all your outgoing emails. For $19.99 a YEAR you get IMAP access and no ads in your emails. I wasn't aware gmail even had IMAP access let alone for gratis but I would be curious to know how they can do that unless they are injecting adwords into your emails. I guess if you view your email as HTML that wouldn't be too difficult but if you view as text only it would.
Actually they got Olivia Munn of Attack of the Show fame to hawk the Bingathon. The ads on Hulu show Olivia getting ready for the Bingathon but don't tell you anything about what it is. One of the spots ends with a prop guy handing her a necklace of frankfurters which she delightfully puts on. I knew what Bing was so I was disgusted by the ad (though I never tire of Olivia) but I can see how Bing stats could SURGE based on those ads.
This all comes down to control. U.S. Congress wants to control our morals, like a modern-day version of the medieval church. This is not freedom.
The U.S. Congress wants to control. (you should have stopped there) They also want the campaign contributions from Jack Daniels, Jim Beam, Johnny Walker, etc., etc.
There are many "medieval church's" that used marijuana for medicinal purposes so attributing it's illegality to them is inaccurate at best.
I love how society today loves to blast the church for its "intolerance" but completely forgets all of the freedoms the church has given man. You know...like the ability to read a book (reading was reserved for the elite until monks started handwriting books and teaching the peasants how to read). There's also a little thing called beer. yep monks again. Those pesky do gooders trying to keep us from having a good time by creating arguably the most prolific fun-enhancing beverage in the world (they only ask that we use it in moderation).
Sure today's average religious zealot needs a good thrashing but don't attribute to them what can be easily linked to power and greed.
I worked with a woman who had daisy chained 6 power strips together to make an "extension cord" to her desk (A network administrator at that) and one day we heard a really loud pop in her office. The next to the last strip in the chain went BOOM! Never daisy chain power strips.
I was going to Linux install "parties" as far back as 1995 but my career has led me away from the Linux groups of old and I hadn't really done much with Linux in recent years. I'm finally getting around to doing a home theater and decided I wanted the server to be a Linux derivative so I searched and it looked as though MINT had everything I wanted to do with a minimum amount of post setup for the media stuff. I proceeded to install on a fairly current piece of hardware and everything went smoothly until the first logon. The network card had been recognized but it would not connect no matter how much poking or prodding so I installed another network card and got the same results. I did everything I knew to do and still could not get it to work with my home network. Then I thought maybe it was MINT that had the problem so I proceeded to install the latest version of UBUNTU and lo and behold same exact problem. I searched forums, followed step by step guides and yet nothing worked. It would act like it was going to work and then just stop. So as someone who is fairly technical and has a little history with Linux I can say Linux is still not ready for the desktop. I'm sure there is something simple stupid I am missing and I'll feel like an idiot when I figure out what it is but the fact that it is occurring at all AND is so difficult to remedy make that statement valid.
Actually American has become a generic term to describe USians. When speaking to my friends from Canada I'll slip in a "We're all Americans here" and wait for the indignant "I am NOT an American". Of course half the time they don't get it so I have to explain it to them.
I think shelf life and convenience need to be factored in too. I constantly have produce go bad before I can eat it but that can of refried beans will be good after Armageddon. Also refrigeration can be a factor. And since lower income families often work multiple jobs there is less time available to make a meal so ready made trumps from scratch there as well.
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Perhaps a history lesson is in order.
"The core of Apple's Mac OS X (and its predecessor NextStep) is Darwin, which contains a lot of BSD code, especially FreeBSD 5 code."
"XNU's BSD component uses FreeBSD as the primary reference codebase (although some code might be traced to other BSDs). Darwin 7.x (Mac OS X 10.3.x) uses FreeBSD 5.x. As mentioned before, BSD runs not as an external (or user-level) server, but is part of the kernel itself."
"Darwin integrates a number of technologies, most importantly Mach 3.0, operating-system services based on 4.4BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution), high-performance networking facilities, and support for multiple integrated file systems."
Lather, rinse, & repeat....
We are ugly bags of mostly Di-Hydrogen Monoxide.
This is the truth! I was working much like tnok85 a couple of years back. I loved the job but the stress from multiple directions eventually led to me gaining 50+ lbs over 6 months. I had maintained my previous weight for over 4 years. When I left that position for a new opportunity working straight 8-5 M-F making the same salary and not being pulled at from every direction the weight gain stopped. I'm still working the extra weight off but I feel much better and will avoid high stress environments.
That would come out of a different Cost Center which requires pre-approval. The emergency CC is funded for..you know..emergencies and gets funded On The Fly when it is affecting the bottom line. You know what they say "It's easier to ask forgiveness than permission"
Man, I knew that headline was too good to be true.
If this actually gets passed we're all going to need really good thermal undergarments when the earth's core becomes frozen solid.
Of course let's see if/how they handle the recent Disney/ESPN "strongarming" attempts.
Precisely why I want this to happen. I'm booking a trip to Cabo this summer.
While a whisper campaign does by its very nature seek to avoid detection is does not necessarily involve "outright lies". It does in this case but that's not what makes this a whisper campaign. Marketing companies use whisper campaigns all the time to hawk goods. they pay some guy to go into a bar and order the spirit they are marketing really loud or buying a round of said spirit for the bar patrons without telling them he works for the company that makes the stuff.
Whisper Campaign
Of course this post can be taken as insightful or funny given the subject matter.
Microsoft weren't the only company giving away widgets.
They were the only ones with the power to forbid OEMs from installing third party software or risk losing OEM pricing for Windows.
Of all the browsers on windows at the time of the big three IE, Netscape, and Opera two of the three charged for their browser. Opera chose not to try and go toe to toe with IE and focused on non-US markets (sensible since they are located in Australia) and Netscape was simply arrogant and refused to team up with any partners (AOL tried to work with them but Netscape turned them down). Opera also managed to offer a free version but only because they worked out ad deals injecting ads in the browser itself so it wasn't really free like IE. Without Microsoft's vast capitol and other profitable properties there is no way IE would have been free given how much they spent licensing Mosaic from Spyglass and subsequently pouring resources into it.
If Netscape was the better browser, then it wouldn't have been the manually installable version of IE4 that dethroned it.
If I am selling widgets for $40 and my competition is giving away feature comparable widgets for free who are customers going to go to for their widgets? That is why Microsoft was convicted of abusing its monopoly power.
Internet Explorer had the upper hand, as the amount of manpower and capital dedicated to it eventually surpassed the resources available in Netscape's entire business. By version 3.0, IE was roughly a feature-for-feature equivalent of Netscape Communicator, and by version 4.0, it was generally considered to be more stable on Windows than on the Macintosh platform. Microsoft also targeted other Netscape products with free workalikes, such as the Internet Information Server (IIS), a web server which was bundled with Windows NT.
Netscape could not compete with this strategy. In fact, it didn't attempt to. Netscape Navigator was not free to the general public until January 1998,[15] while Internet Explorer and IIS have always been free or came bundled with an operating system and/or other applications.
"I really *wanted* to just give her a yahoo account instead of gmail. But they won't allow imap without paying them for it? wtf?"
Yahoo mail is free because of advertising on their web-mail portal. If you are getting your mail through IMAP then you don't receive the ads. They also put ads at the bottom of all your outgoing emails. For $19.99 a YEAR you get IMAP access and no ads in your emails. I wasn't aware gmail even had IMAP access let alone for gratis but I would be curious to know how they can do that unless they are injecting adwords into your emails. I guess if you view your email as HTML that wouldn't be too difficult but if you view as text only it would.
Actually they got Olivia Munn of Attack of the Show fame to hawk the Bingathon. The ads on Hulu show Olivia getting ready for the Bingathon but don't tell you anything about what it is. One of the spots ends with a prop guy handing her a necklace of frankfurters which she delightfully puts on. I knew what Bing was so I was disgusted by the ad (though I never tire of Olivia) but I can see how Bing stats could SURGE based on those ads.
"In any case, the claims are bogus, almost everybody on Earth runs pirated software."
Fixed that for you ;-)
This all comes down to control. U.S. Congress wants to control our morals, like a modern-day version of the medieval church. This is not freedom.
The U.S. Congress wants to control. (you should have stopped there) They also want the campaign contributions from Jack Daniels, Jim Beam, Johnny Walker, etc., etc.
There are many "medieval church's" that used marijuana for medicinal purposes so attributing it's illegality to them is inaccurate at best.
I love how society today loves to blast the church for its "intolerance" but completely forgets all of the freedoms the church has given man. You know...like the ability to read a book (reading was reserved for the elite until monks started handwriting books and teaching the peasants how to read). There's also a little thing called beer. yep monks again. Those pesky do gooders trying to keep us from having a good time by creating arguably the most prolific fun-enhancing beverage in the world (they only ask that we use it in moderation).
Sure today's average religious zealot needs a good thrashing but don't attribute to them what can be easily linked to power and greed.
Because a vest has no sleeves.
That's redundant. Canadian's ARE American's. They just aren't US American's
I worked with a woman who had daisy chained 6 power strips together to make an "extension cord" to her desk (A network administrator at that) and one day we heard a really loud pop in her office. The next to the last strip in the chain went BOOM! Never daisy chain power strips.
I was going to Linux install "parties" as far back as 1995 but my career has led me away from the Linux groups of old and I hadn't really done much with Linux in recent years. I'm finally getting around to doing a home theater and decided I wanted the server to be a Linux derivative so I searched and it looked as though MINT had everything I wanted to do with a minimum amount of post setup for the media stuff. I proceeded to install on a fairly current piece of hardware and everything went smoothly until the first logon. The network card had been recognized but it would not connect no matter how much poking or prodding so I installed another network card and got the same results. I did everything I knew to do and still could not get it to work with my home network. Then I thought maybe it was MINT that had the problem so I proceeded to install the latest version of UBUNTU and lo and behold same exact problem. I searched forums, followed step by step guides and yet nothing worked. It would act like it was going to work and then just stop. So as someone who is fairly technical and has a little history with Linux I can say Linux is still not ready for the desktop. I'm sure there is something simple stupid I am missing and I'll feel like an idiot when I figure out what it is but the fact that it is occurring at all AND is so difficult to remedy make that statement valid.
I'm sensing a little tension. May I suggest decaf?
Actually American has become a generic term to describe USians. When speaking to my friends from Canada I'll slip in a "We're all Americans here" and wait for the indignant "I am NOT an American". Of course half the time they don't get it so I have to explain it to them.
I think shelf life and convenience need to be factored in too. I constantly have produce go bad before I can eat it but that can of refried beans will be good after Armageddon. Also refrigeration can be a factor. And since lower income families often work multiple jobs there is less time available to make a meal so ready made trumps from scratch there as well.
Citation needed
Kinda like sitting at the front of the bus when it's illegal to do so. Trivial and childish sounding yes, but society changing nonetheless.
Running Man? Try Logan's Run. They used robots with Fricken Laser Beams to change peoples appearance.