> Countries that have strict gun control laws also have strict controls over the press and other ways that freedom is repressed.
Seeing as how you haven't actually given any evidence to support this comment I'll assume it's a troll. Here in Australia we have excellent gun control and excellent freedom of the press. When I go to the store, I like knowing that there is very, very little chance of even hearing the word, 'gun', let alone seeing one.
Perhaps one day the technology will be invented to link the words "A video has surfaced on YouTube" to the actual video on Youtube. In the meantime, here it is:
For the benefit of World Cup viewers, this may seem more familiar:
"Only a handful ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ exist, most ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ information: the ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ match, the number ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ a match's ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ So researchers ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ Applying ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ the ball's ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ ultimately ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ ball's flow toward the goal ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ for each team and player."
That's not a good indicator. Maybe ASP applications have more problems or require greater upkeep. Maybe PHP applications can get by with occasional free updates from open source projects. Maybe ASP-using firms are larger and employ more people. Maybe PHP-related jobs are solved more quickly.
> I request of all my friends and family members that they not take pictures of me specifically because I don't want my life broadcast on Facebook outside of my control.
I understand, but that's a terribly finite attitude. One day you will want to be able to look back on images of yourself. I avoided photos for a while years back. And now there is a big gap in my history where I don't know what I looked like, and can't remember how I felt. Photographs are memories. Don't eschew them just because of Facebook.
Microsoft doesn't want to step up the plate - they don't want to solidify their claims. They want to create in the midns of existing and potential Microsoft products that Linux and assorted alternatives are too risky to switch towards. Patents this week, usability next week, compatability the week after. This is not a game about patents, this is a game of unobservable quality and obfuscating the quality determination process. "What if there really are problems with Linux? Maybe it isn't the good solution I've heard it is? Best to stick with Microsoft, the lemon/devil I know".
This may sound like a troll, but it really is not: in my opinion, Linux enthusiasts crying, "sue me first!" creates in the mind of traditional business people the idea that such enthusiasts are risk-seeking. Not everyone wants to be associated with a risk-seeker.
My cousin played for a while in an all-girl CounterStrike clan (in fact, she was the one who introduced me to CS:S). She was a great player, but eventually stopped playing because she was so sick of the taunts and abuse coming from other (male) players. In all likelihood these were things that no one would ever say in real life or face to face.
She said she liked CS, but it just wasn't worth the hurt.
> I took software engineering in university. We used to say...
Let me tell you what we used to say about software engineers. Very bright chaps, most of them. Can't communicate their way out of a paper bag, especially with the opposite sex (that's 'females', by the way), and not too good with problems involving poorly arranged information or indefinite answers. On the whole, probably quite useful people, when you could pry them away from their "Magic: The Gathering" campaign.
> Information management systems...Management information systems (yes, there was a differnce),
Not in any of the literature I've ever read. Care to point it out?
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> Countries that have strict gun control laws also have strict controls over the press and other ways that freedom is repressed.
Seeing as how you haven't actually given any evidence to support this comment I'll assume it's a troll. Here in Australia we have excellent gun control and excellent freedom of the press. When I go to the store, I like knowing that there is very, very little chance of even hearing the word, 'gun', let alone seeing one.
Anyway, you are wrong.
Don't cross the *streams*.
> It wasn't particularly ingenious
Mate, from where I'm sitting it looks pretty ingenious!
Perhaps one day the technology will be invented to link the words "A video has surfaced on YouTube" to the actual video on Youtube. In the meantime, here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6cxaVRs60w
For the benefit of World Cup viewers, this may seem more familiar:
"Only a handful ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ exist, most ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ information: the ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ match, the number ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ a match's ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ So researchers ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ Applying ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ the ball's ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ ultimately ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ ball's flow toward the goal ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ for each team and player."
> You have to love Australia. That particular manoeuvre is illegal there. Also illegal is exiting a roundabout from the same road you entered.
You are wrong. U-turns are perfectly legal.
> Truth is everybody in Australia is a criminal.
Aha! A troll.
> Dual folding screens were always a non-starter
Yeah, Nintendo found that out the hard way with all the millions of Game and Watches they sold.
I wonder how many Bothans died to bring us this YouTube video?
I think if you did a good job of (a) you would inevitably get (b).
If I had moderator points etc. etc. :)
> Bender said, 'we can breathe new life into millions of decrepit old machines.'
If it doesn't work, I wonder if we can bite his shiny metal ass?
Why couldn't the OP link to the Eff story directly?
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/06/record-labels-awarde
I appreciate Techdirt 'getting the word out' and all, but their article hardly adds anything to what they include of the original piece.
Your sig reads suspiciously like mine. Thanks! ;)
Not mentioned in either of the two original links, but this page features a clip of the augmented reality technology:
http://gamesalfresco.com/2009/02/24/microsoft-to-demo-augmented-reality-at-techfest/
Easy there, mate. You don't see us getting out of our pram when someone calls us 'Aussies'.
IANALBMHI?
That's not a good indicator. Maybe ASP applications have more problems or require greater upkeep. Maybe PHP applications can get by with occasional free updates from open source projects. Maybe ASP-using firms are larger and employ more people. Maybe PHP-related jobs are solved more quickly.
> I request of all my friends and family members that they not take pictures of me specifically because I don't want my life broadcast on Facebook outside of my control.
I understand, but that's a terribly finite attitude. One day you will want to be able to look back on images of yourself. I avoided photos for a while years back. And now there is a big gap in my history where I don't know what I looked like, and can't remember how I felt. Photographs are memories. Don't eschew them just because of Facebook.
> the diameter of a dime and the thickness of a nickel.
Does anyone have these dimensions in other currencies?
Friended.
And I'll give it a go.
Good on you mate.
"Deafy"!
For that, sir, I friend you.
Microsoft doesn't want to step up the plate - they don't want to solidify their claims. They want to create in the midns of existing and potential Microsoft products that Linux and assorted alternatives are too risky to switch towards. Patents this week, usability next week, compatability the week after. This is not a game about patents, this is a game of unobservable quality and obfuscating the quality determination process. "What if there really are problems with Linux? Maybe it isn't the good solution I've heard it is? Best to stick with Microsoft, the lemon/devil I know".
This may sound like a troll, but it really is not: in my opinion, Linux enthusiasts crying, "sue me first!" creates in the mind of traditional business people the idea that such enthusiasts are risk-seeking. Not everyone wants to be associated with a risk-seeker.
My cousin played for a while in an all-girl CounterStrike clan (in fact, she was the one who introduced me to CS:S). She was a great player, but eventually stopped playing because she was so sick of the taunts and abuse coming from other (male) players. In all likelihood these were things that no one would ever say in real life or face to face.
She said she liked CS, but it just wasn't worth the hurt.
They're talking about CounterStrike - much easier to make a headshot kill across a map with a Desert Eagle than a Glock. :)
> I took software engineering in university. We used to say...
Let me tell you what we used to say about software engineers. Very bright chaps, most of them. Can't communicate their way out of a paper bag, especially with the opposite sex (that's 'females', by the way), and not too good with problems involving poorly arranged information or indefinite answers. On the whole, probably quite useful people, when you could pry them away from their "Magic: The Gathering" campaign.
> Information management systems...Management information systems (yes, there was a differnce),
Not in any of the literature I've ever read. Care to point it out?