after the text, so these big, new ads will display better...
<A HREF="mailto:jfe@@@purgo...net">jfengel</A&g t; writes: <i>"According to Newsbytes, some Windows XP users are <A HREF="http://www.computeruser.com/news/02/03/12/ne ws1.html">finding random words inserted into their text</a> as they write. The problem is caused by XP's speech recongition system, which is turned on by default by some manufacturers. It's listening to the random noise you get even when the mic is turned off. Kind of an insight into your computer's subconscious, perhaps."</i>
Right about here ya want a <p> or a <br> to push the image down away from the text...
Politicians here, at every level, are trying anything they can think of to maintain their revenue streams.
Government at all levels here in Washington is under a tremendous pressure to reduce taxation thanks to several populist initiatives written by Tim (I'm a liar) Eyman, and passed for the most part very succesfully by the voters each time one has come up for a vote.
The State legislature has just passed a $0.09 per gallon gas tax increase, and they are down in Olympia squabbling at this very moment about whether they dare let the voters have the final say-so on the tax increase by voting for it in a referendum some time this spring.
Most of the career politicians don't have the backbone to let the public vote, because they know people will vote it down.
So it's not surprising Seattle is going to tax thinking.
"They are reasonable lazy to try to buy or download and _install_ Linux."
No.
Wrong.
The vast majority of people have no idea what an operating system is, let alone that there may be another operating system besides Window$.
The vast majority of people have no idea that Linux even exists.
I don't have the link handy (memo to self: go find it...) but months ago I posted the thought that in five years, in the minds of elementary school-age children, the word "microsoft" will be synonymous with "computer" -- in fact, they'll call it a "microsoft" and the word "computer" will have fallen into disuse...
The problem is that the vast majority of people are consumerist sheep, with no understanding of anything other than what corporate mass-marketing tells them.
Other than Detleff Schrempf as the basketball player identified as "Linux" in a recent series of IBM ads, when was the last time you saw the word "Linux" in an ad on television?
I'll tell you: never.
Most people are sheep.
Sheep graze on Micr$oft products.
But they don't know any better, which is why the word "sheep" is a pejorative for...
Although I do reserve the right to use an asterisk in an expletive, as I did in the offending passage, above, by replacing the vowel with a star to soften the full weight of my choice of words...
It's an excellent news source, with a British/European focus, it's extremely well-written, and covers a lot of stuff that most of the people who read *^H (oops: not supposed to do that;-) this place would probably find interesting.
Slashdot Mirror
t_t_b
or a
after the text, so these big, new ads will display better...
<A HREF="mailto:jfe@@@purgo...net">jfengel</A&g t; writes: <i>"According to Newsbytes, some Windows XP users are <A HREF="http://www.computeruser.com/news/02/03/12/ne ws1.html">finding random words inserted into their text</a> as they write. The problem is caused by XP's speech recongition system, which is turned on by default by some manufacturers. It's listening to the random noise you get even when the mic is turned off. Kind of an insight into your computer's subconscious, perhaps."</i>
Right about here ya want a <p> or a <br> to push the image down away from the text...
<a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/N2613.osdn/B9 60233.2;sz=336x280">
<img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/N2613.osdn/B9602 33.2;sz=336x280"></a>
See?
Not only do the readers write /., but we debug it, too...
Do I get a free subscription for this?
No: I'll probably get mod'ed down as "offtopic"
t_t_b
What in God's name is going to come out of Redmond next?
This really takes the cake!
What is XP listening to, fer crissakes?
Cosmic rays?
Micro$oft: it would be funny if it weren't so real.
t_t_b
t_t_b
Visio is not Micro$oft.
Visio hardly constitutes "Micro$oft being in Seattle".
t_t_b
Of course, the government could never try to become more efficient, or try to get by on what it has, like I do, every paycheck.
It's always more, more, more.
The f*cking politicians can never get enough of your money.
As for Washington itself, I've lived here for over 25 years, and it's just tax and spend, tax and spend.
Tim Eyman is right, even if he is a liar...
t_t_b
I'm off to the Reg®...
t_t_b
Politicians here, at every level, are trying anything they can think of to maintain their revenue streams.
Government at all levels here in Washington is under a tremendous pressure to reduce taxation thanks to several populist initiatives written by Tim (I'm a liar) Eyman, and passed for the most part very succesfully by the voters each time one has come up for a vote.
The State legislature has just passed a $0.09 per gallon gas tax increase, and they are down in Olympia squabbling at this very moment about whether they dare let the voters have the final say-so on the tax increase by voting for it in a referendum some time this spring.
Most of the career politicians don't have the backbone to let the public vote, because they know people will vote it down.
So it's not surprising Seattle is going to tax thinking.
They tax just about everything else...
t_t_b
Fixed it; thanks...
t_t_b
A great big honkin' thing popped up right in the middle of the "article".
(Sorry if I've missed this before -- I was using Lynx all yesterday...)
t_t_b
Right on!
Let's tax the sh*t out of all those Lexus SUV's and Land Rovers, single occupant vehicles every one, driving onto the Micro$oft "campus" every day!
t_t_b
Micro$oft is based in Redmond, WA -- which is not, I repeat, not, Seattle, WA
(Thank god...)
Who's in Seattle?
umm..
I think Real (Audio..) is, and Adobe is still...
t_t_b
The movie is fsck'ing 20 years old.
Are you?
t_t_b
What do I bet you won't be signing up for a subscription?
Posted from Lynx.
Graphics? What graphics?
t_t_b
No.
Wrong.
The vast majority of people have no idea what an operating system is, let alone that there may be another operating system besides Window$.
The vast majority of people have no idea that Linux even exists.
I don't have the link handy (memo to self: go find it...) but months ago I posted the thought that in five years, in the minds of elementary school-age children, the word "microsoft" will be synonymous with "computer" -- in fact, they'll call it a "microsoft" and the word "computer" will have fallen into disuse...
You heard it here, first...
t_t_b
Other than Detleff Schrempf as the basketball player identified as "Linux" in a recent series of IBM ads, when was the last time you saw the word "Linux" in an ad on television?
I'll tell you: never.
Most people are sheep.
Sheep graze on Micr$oft products.
But they don't know any better, which is why the word "sheep" is a pejorative for...
t_t_b
t_t_b
Re:It's gotten to the point...
by Anonymous Coward on 12:53 Wednesday 06 March 2002 (Score:1) (#3120428)
Wow. Quite an accusation comparing them to Nazis but right on target. M$'s payments to the gov't have come to a disgusting point and need to stop
t_t_b
Shoo, Micro$oft pimp!
t_t_b
Liar! Liar! Liar! Liar!
Those people are at least as disassociated from reality as the Nazis who perpetrated the Holocast...
t_t_b
What's the difference?
They're bad boys; they're stealing.
t_t_b
If you were to look at the full headers, sure, maybe the spam originates from a dialup in the US, but without an open relay in Asia it goes nowhere.
The vast majority of spam is bounced off open relays in Asia, predominately Korea, and China...
t_t_b
Although I do reserve the right to use an asterisk in an expletive, as I did in the offending passage, above, by replacing the vowel with a star to soften the full weight of my choice of words...
t_t_b
From now on it'll be <strong>strong tags</strong>
How's that?
t_t_b
Seriously: check out the Reg® at http://www.theregister.co.uk/
It's an excellent news source, with a British/European focus, it's extremely well-written, and covers a lot of stuff that most of the people who read *^H (oops: not supposed to do that ;-) this place would probably find interesting.
If conservation of bandwidth is your gig, check out the USA version at http://www.theregus.com/
It's a little different in content (less British focus..) so I personally find it a little less interesting..
t_t_b