We used to think the earth was flat -- We know it's round, now
Speaking of ignorance, that fallacy was ignorance in itself. For centuries sea farers have known that the earth was at least curved-- how else do you explain seeing a ship's mast and sail first, THEN the rest of the ship as it gets closer?
We used to think the universe revolved around us -- We know the world revolves around the sun, which revolves around the center of the galaxy, etc...
And the sun used to be a (roughly) meter across, as it was scientifically proven by a well known Greek. Was that ignorance on the part of that Greek scientist, or the Catholic Church whom insisted the universe rotated around the earth, or maybe... both?
So... When you really think about it, No we were not Created.
I've thought about it, quite a bit. And forgive the flamethrower... but what you're doing is preaching religion with such a blind statement.
(Disclaimer: I'm not Christian, and I'm not atheistic. I just don't like hypocrasy, that's all...) (or the lack of a spell checker... grr)
When an offense is clicking, and really rolling, the defense can know what ever single play is and still not stop it. Such an offense also takes a lot of time to actually work together, and this looks like what marred alot of the XFL's play... offenses that didn't work well together.
(as opposed to a defense, which can be readily thrown together for the most part)
I can name a personal instance where copy protection sorta worked:)
Back in the day when DOS games had all the weirdest fucking forms of copy protection (Code discs, manual references, yada yada yada... thank god for Xerox), I saw a game on the shelf. Looked good. It was Jet Fighter II.
And on the cover, in a nice, bold blazing sign it said "NO COPY PROTECTION"
I think that statement bought a customer that day for the hideous price of $49.99:)
Ok ok... so it was the lack of copy protection on a game that seemed to be made by a buncha cool guys. I still bought it.
All this talk about Mozilla, Netscape, IE, and Opera gets old real fast...
But seriously, for the little bit I've been using Konqueror, I've loved it. It does most everything that I want it to (hotmail is the only javascript enabled site, and I don't bother with java). Konqueror seems to render everything as well as netscape 4.7 under linux. In short, i'm much more impressed with Konqueror than Mozilla or (admittedly older versions of) Opera.
hell, our parents/grandparents didn't even fight WWII because it was a "just war", that's all justification after the fact
What the hell is that supposed to mean? Lemme think... oh yes. the United States *was* attacked first. I'm very sure all of the soldiers who died at Pearl Harbor (and the Philipines, and ad naseum) would love to hear that remark.
Sure, W2k is good. It's nothing but rock solid on my work machine. Of course, all I use it for is web browsing, MS Office, and the occasional tera term pro telnet/ssh connection.
When it works, it works FUCKING GREAT.
But every so often... it won't work. From my point of view (as an admin and pc tech), that W2k behaves alot like a finely tooled car engine... work wonderful, until a small part breaks. Then the cascade comes down, and the whole system goes down.
Although, I have to say the weirdest W2k experience I've had yet is that I got a BSOD on a laptop when i plugged in some RJ-11...
And if someone knows... please for the love of god and girls tell me how to stop W2K from 'hiding' menu options that i "haven't used lately"!!!
(Its this sort of bullshit annoyance that makes me love linux... most distros/GUIs/etc. are more flexible and configurable.)
I'm (more or less) the tech guy at my company (small, only 150ish employees, but with a fairly large WAN). Recently, we switched from Post.Office (which sucks) to Microsoft Exchange 5.5.
Here's the reason why: middle and upper management LOVE the 'groupware' features that Exchange and Outlook 97/2000 provide. This is why they forced so hard for it. (and in my case, I work for a bunch of locked-into-the-Microsoft lifestyle weenies)
I don't know how decent Exchange 2000 is, but IMO Exchange 5.5 sucks bigtime from an administrative standpoint; the GUI is nothing short of abysmal (sp?).
I'm losing the UNIX vs. NT/2k war here, but there are also some alternatives to Exchange. One of the most promising that I found was HP's OpenMail. It is pricy (as if Exchange isn't...), but it boasts (perhaps claims is a more appropriate term) better compatibilty in terms of MS Outlook than MailOne. Best of all, there is a linux version of it. No clue though, as to whether there is a version of it for Solaris.
HP Openmail
http://www.openmail.com/cyc/om/00/index.html
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I was unsure of the RIAA link posted... are we talking about strictly revenue here, and not profit?
Speaking of ignorance, that fallacy was ignorance in itself. For centuries sea farers have known that the earth was at least curved-- how else do you explain seeing a ship's mast and sail first, THEN the rest of the ship as it gets closer?
And the sun used to be a (roughly) meter across, as it was scientifically proven by a well known Greek. Was that ignorance on the part of that Greek scientist, or the Catholic Church whom insisted the universe rotated around the earth, or maybe... both?
I've thought about it, quite a bit. And forgive the flamethrower... but what you're doing is preaching religion with such a blind statement.
(Disclaimer: I'm not Christian, and I'm not atheistic. I just don't like hypocrasy, that's all...) (or the lack of a spell checker... grr)
When an offense is clicking, and really rolling, the defense can know what ever single play is and still not stop it. Such an offense also takes a lot of time to actually work together, and this looks like what marred alot of the XFL's play... offenses that didn't work well together.
(as opposed to a defense, which can be readily thrown together for the most part)
I can name a personal instance where copy protection sorta worked :)
:)
Back in the day when DOS games had all the weirdest fucking forms of copy protection (Code discs, manual references, yada yada yada... thank god for Xerox), I saw a game on the shelf. Looked good. It was Jet Fighter II.
And on the cover, in a nice, bold blazing sign it said "NO COPY PROTECTION"
I think that statement bought a customer that day for the hideous price of $49.99
Ok ok... so it was the lack of copy protection on a game that seemed to be made by a buncha cool guys. I still bought it.
All this talk about Mozilla, Netscape, IE, and Opera gets old real fast...
But seriously, for the little bit I've been using Konqueror, I've loved it. It does most everything that I want it to (hotmail is the only javascript enabled site, and I don't bother with java). Konqueror seems to render everything as well as netscape 4.7 under linux. In short, i'm much more impressed with Konqueror than Mozilla or (admittedly older versions of) Opera.
Now if any of those could reliably handle java...
What the hell is that supposed to mean? Lemme think... oh yes. the United States *was* attacked first. I'm very sure all of the soldiers who died at Pearl Harbor (and the Philipines, and ad naseum) would love to hear that remark.
Sure, W2k is good. It's nothing but rock solid on my work machine. Of course, all I use it for is web browsing, MS Office, and the occasional tera term pro telnet/ssh connection.
When it works, it works FUCKING GREAT.
But every so often... it won't work. From my point of view (as an admin and pc tech), that W2k behaves alot like a finely tooled car engine... work wonderful, until a small part breaks. Then the cascade comes down, and the whole system goes down.
Although, I have to say the weirdest W2k experience I've had yet is that I got a BSOD on a laptop when i plugged in some RJ-11...
And if someone knows... please for the love of god and girls tell me how to stop W2K from 'hiding' menu options that i "haven't used lately"!!!
(Its this sort of bullshit annoyance that makes me love linux... most distros/GUIs/etc. are more flexible and configurable.)
I'm (more or less) the tech guy at my company (small, only 150ish employees, but with a fairly large WAN). Recently, we switched from Post.Office (which sucks) to Microsoft Exchange 5.5.
Here's the reason why: middle and upper management LOVE the 'groupware' features that Exchange and Outlook 97/2000 provide. This is why they forced so hard for it. (and in my case, I work for a bunch of locked-into-the-Microsoft lifestyle weenies)
I don't know how decent Exchange 2000 is, but IMO Exchange 5.5 sucks bigtime from an administrative standpoint; the GUI is nothing short of abysmal (sp?).
I'm losing the UNIX vs. NT/2k war here, but there are also some alternatives to Exchange. One of the most promising that I found was HP's OpenMail. It is pricy (as if Exchange isn't...), but it boasts (perhaps claims is a more appropriate term) better compatibilty in terms of MS Outlook than MailOne. Best of all, there is a linux version of it. No clue though, as to whether there is a version of it for Solaris.
HP Openmail http://www.openmail.com/cyc/om/00/index.html