I bought one a few days ago. It plays DivXs better than my computer does. Yes, the case quality is still the same, and yes, it uses a standard Toshiba DVDrom. Playing a 1.4G Xvid (with AC3 audio) in comparison to the DVD and I couldn't tell the difference!
Why keep _those_ particular companies afloat? Just because a company goes bust doesn't mean that the planes will cease to exist. The planes will be sold to another company to try to service the debts and another company will buy them and fly them (probably with a lot of the original employees).
I think all of my contracts have stated that either side can cancel by giving a months notice. However Govt regulations can override certain aspects in that they can't fire you because you are black/asian/female/blind/incompetent...
In certain European countries both sides must give 3 months notice, which makes changing jobs/hiring a little trickier.
Tech support don't exactly help themselves when they do telephone tag, and misleading options on the automated systems.
I had a notebook full of phone numbers trying to switch from one provider to another all because noone knew the correct phone number and the one way to do it was hidden under '2. I want to place a new order'.
*blink* When has IT ever been able to stand on high and say what users will use - it's the people in the board room who make deals with M$, IBM, Sun etc who decide what people will have on their desktops. And the only way to alter that decision is to come up with a 50 page document spelling out 'it's technically impossible'.
Many fully working systems have been thrown out and replaced by less functional and more buggy systems because the Board made a deal with a big company/CEO is screwing the Sales Rep.
Open Source is often only getting into companies 'through the back door' as it were, because getting free software in doesn't require a sign off from the financial director.
Dude, my library has about ->||||||- that many books in the sci-fantasy section. Of which there are none that I want to read. I personally own more books in my house than the entire fiction section. I enjoy rereading good books, so my book habit doesn't cost more than $150 a quarter these days.
New guy in town walks into the bar, and after a few drinks, heads to the toilet.
Looking inside the stall, he sees no toilet paper, only 3 seashells where it should be.
He wanders back and asks the barman what the shells were all about. Barman points and laughs and says 'It's the great new thing, try it out! Just don't press the third seashell!'.
So the guy walks back to the toilet, does his business and presses the first seashell. Quick as a flash, a spigot pops out and cleans and powders his arse.
Guy feels quite impressed. So he tries the second seashell. Quick as a flash, a soft but rather robotic arm seizes his penis and gives him a very enjoyable jerkoff.
Filled with curiousity, the guy can't resist pressing the third shell.
Guy wakes up in hospital in total agony..."What happened he asked"
an other alike question could be: would you eat meat of you had to kill and butcher the cow yourself..
In a word, yes. And actually have done. It's not pleasant by any means, but when it's a choice of that or not eating, you just do it, and try to do it as cleanly and painless as you can.
Here they have an appraisal system designed to give the most raises to managers and manager wannabes than to the people who do the bottom line stuff. There's 12 sections. 11 of them are on management technique, 1 is on technical ability. I get 30% higher than required on the technical side, but because I don't know the latest management buzzwords and don't give presentations to the board, there's no way I'm going to get an above inflation payrise.
.... at least, until you develope a comparable skill with hypertext. The manner of reading is different but not necessarily inferior.
Nope, if I hold the spine of a book in the left hand, and the top right corner in the right, I can bend over the coner, and then move the thumb back, making the entire contents of the book flash past my eyes in 2 seconds, allowing me to very quickly know whether the information I require is in that book. Try that with 200 pages of HTML.
The police don't expect you to protect yourselves from
murderers, thieves, and other criminals, why should we as Infomation Technology People (The regulators and protectors of information) expect our charges (users) to protect themselves???
Um, so you are saying that the police should stop people who receive a gun in the mail from shooting everyone in their office and then shooting themselves in the foot? The criminal only sent them the gun...the user didn't have to pull the frigging trigger!
Better yet, George Walker Bush jr., though it would have been possible for him to do so, explicitly denied him pardon. This definitely makes him at least an accessory in murder (according to German law), if not even complicity in and conspiring to commit.
When was the next time he intended to visit Germany again?;-)
On official state visits, he'll get diplomatic immunity. ie, yes, he could literally kill someone, claim diplomatic immunity and the worst that would happen is that he'd be deported.
The problem with your argument is that :
a) You wouldn't be able to sell your OS to the OEMs because M$ has an agreement with them not to sell other OSes or else fear the wrath of having to pay full price for Windoze.
b) Linux comes with several browsers, several word processors, a couple of GUIs, all made by different people/companies. You don't have to pay Red Hat to put it in, just make a half decent product and it'll get in. But they aren't tied to the OS. You can uninstall any or all of the bundled applications at any time. It's only under great pressure that they have given an uninstall option for IE in WinXP...strangely enough, something they said was impossible not so long ago.
And enuf for now....changing opinion on/. is like a peaceful march achieving change in govt policy - unheard of, but technically not impossible.
This is so sicking it could make someone vomit. It seems like someone seemed to forget that if your too dam lazy to walk a few blocks or drive 15 min to a place (school, community center, ect) to vote then you do not deserve the right of voting. All it takes is a few min to wait on the line and mailing in a dam simple form a few weeks or months before you vote and your done.
I'm not too lazy, I simply disagree with the philosophy, processes and people currently involved in the 'democratic' system.
It's true that the unwashed masses sometimes do not know what is best.
True, but also the politicians don't want to have to obey the population. As it currently stands, the govt can freely ignore the wants and desires of the people and only fear not getting relelected the next term.
Direct Democracy would allow the people to immediately see their wishes being ignored, and hence it will never be allowed.
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I bought one a few days ago. It plays DivXs better than my computer does.
Yes, the case quality is still the same, and yes, it uses a standard Toshiba DVDrom.
Playing a 1.4G Xvid (with AC3 audio) in comparison to the DVD and I couldn't tell the difference!
Why keep _those_ particular companies afloat? Just because a company goes bust doesn't mean that the planes will cease to exist. The planes will be sold to another company to try to service the debts and another company will buy them
and fly them (probably with a lot of the original employees).
Actually, I would have stood up for myself and rebelled _more_.
My parents advice on almost everything was and is a load of crap.
But then I meekly did everything I was told so as to avoid being shouted at.
On the topic of what advice I'd give myself? I wouldn't. Even the bad times were a learning experience and made me what I am today.
I'd be tempted to buy them except that once I can sample the rest of the songs on the album, I decide that they're a waste of money.
For some reason, I'm hooked on anime themesongs.
5-10% profit?
So why do they claim they almost never make money on a movie?
Yes, I know it's all an accounting scheme, but how can they claim that piracy is cutting into their profits when they say they never make a profit?
I think all of my contracts have stated that either side can cancel by giving a months notice.
However Govt regulations can override certain aspects in that they can't fire you because you are black/asian/female/blind/incompetent...
In certain European countries both sides must give 3 months notice, which makes changing jobs/hiring a little trickier.
Expecting us to hold to the EULA when they won't hold to it themselves?
If both sides won't hold be bound to a contract, then there is no contract (depending on the laws of your country).
Having said that, I'm bound to the part of the EULA which says that the copy of Win XP Home OEM that I own is bound to the hardware I bought with it.
The hardware I bought with it is a computer fan.
The reason that people expect a refund is because the EULA says that if you don't agree with it, then you can return it for a full refund.
If it didn't say you could get a refund (no matter what the legalities), many more people wouldn't expect one.
oh, and I forgot - the nice person who found this out for me broke out of the script, rang around himself and called me back with how to do it.
Now that is Support.
Tech support don't exactly help themselves when they do telephone tag, and misleading options on the automated systems.
I had a notebook full of phone numbers trying to switch from one provider to another all because noone knew the correct phone number and the one way to do it was hidden under '2. I want to place a new order'.
Many fully working systems have been thrown out and replaced by less functional and more buggy systems because the Board made a deal with a big company/CEO is screwing the Sales Rep.
Open Source is often only getting into companies 'through the back door' as it were, because getting free software in doesn't require a sign off from the financial director.
Dude, my library has about ->||||||- that many books in the sci-fantasy section. Of which there are none that I want to read. I personally own more books in my house than the entire fiction section.
I enjoy rereading good books, so my book habit doesn't cost more than $150 a quarter these days.
New guy in town walks into the bar, and after a few drinks, heads to the toilet.
Looking inside the stall, he sees no toilet paper, only 3 seashells where it should be.
He wanders back and asks the barman what the shells were all about. Barman points and laughs and says 'It's the great new thing, try it out! Just don't press the third seashell!'.
So the guy walks back to the toilet, does his business and presses the first seashell. Quick as a flash, a spigot pops out and cleans and powders his arse.
Guy feels quite impressed. So he tries the second seashell. Quick as a flash, a soft but rather robotic arm seizes his penis and gives him a very enjoyable jerkoff.
Filled with curiousity, the guy can't resist pressing the third shell.
Guy wakes up in hospital in total agony..."What happened he asked"
"You pressed the third seashell didn't you?"
"Er, yeah, was that wrong? What was it?"
"Automatic Tampon Remover"
an other alike question could be: would you eat meat of you had to kill and butcher the cow yourself..
In a word, yes. And actually have done. It's not pleasant by any means, but when it's a choice of that or not eating, you just do it, and try to do it as cleanly and painless as you can.
Here they have an appraisal system designed to give the most raises to managers and manager wannabes than to the people who do the bottom line stuff. There's 12 sections. 11 of them are on management technique, 1 is on technical ability. I get 30% higher than required on the technical side, but because I don't know the latest management buzzwords and don't give presentations to the board, there's no way I'm going to get an above inflation payrise.
"There are no strangers, only enemies I haven't gotten around to killing yet"
So then the mighty ad-blocker will be a piece of black card taped to the top and bottom of the screen ;)
Nope, if I hold the spine of a book in the left hand, and the top right corner in the right, I can bend over the coner, and then move the thumb back, making the entire contents of the book flash past my eyes in 2 seconds, allowing me to very quickly know whether the information I require is in that book. Try that with 200 pages of HTML.
Yes, I love that program too. However, it doesn't do OLE (which I temporarily needed, but then decided on another solution).
That's funny, cos I'm an Australian who grew up in New Zealand, living in the UK.
I DL lots of anime that I have no option to watch on TV or to even buy on video or DVD.
Plus of course Buffy, but I buy that on DVD whens it's available anyway, as I _much_ prefer watching things on the TV with decent sound.
murderers, thieves, and other criminals, why should we as Infomation Technology People (The regulators and protectors of information) expect our charges (users) to protect themselves???
Um, so you are saying that the police should stop people who receive a gun in the mail from shooting everyone in their office and then shooting themselves in the foot? The criminal only sent them the gun...the user didn't have to pull the frigging trigger!
When was the next time he intended to visit Germany again? ;-)
On official state visits, he'll get diplomatic immunity. ie, yes, he could literally kill someone, claim diplomatic immunity and the worst that would happen is that he'd be deported.
The problem with your argument is that : a) You wouldn't be able to sell your OS to the OEMs because M$ has an agreement with them not to sell other OSes or else fear the wrath of having to pay full price for Windoze. b) Linux comes with several browsers, several word processors, a couple of GUIs, all made by different people/companies. You don't have to pay Red Hat to put it in, just make a half decent product and it'll get in. But they aren't tied to the OS. You can uninstall any or all of the bundled applications at any time. It's only under great pressure that they have given an uninstall option for IE in WinXP...strangely enough, something they said was impossible not so long ago. And enuf for now....changing opinion on /. is like a peaceful march achieving change in govt policy - unheard of, but technically not impossible.
I'm not too lazy, I simply disagree with the philosophy, processes and people currently involved in the 'democratic' system.
As someone put earlier - Vote Random!
True, but also the politicians don't want to have to obey the population. As it currently stands, the govt can freely ignore the wants and desires of the people and only fear not getting relelected the next term.
Direct Democracy would allow the people to immediately see their wishes being ignored, and hence it will never be allowed.