I'm pretty sure I show all those emotions in the course of a trip through security:
Fear: I'm afraid that these idiots are the ones in charge of "making air travel safe" Anger: That so many millions of people buy into the farce that is the TSA Surprise: That the 85 year old lady in a walker ahead of me in line seems to be the biggest prospective threat of the day Contempt: Take your pick.
The NCAA has proven once again that there DOES exist an organization that is more idiotic, closed minded, and out of touch with reality than either the MPAA or RIAA could hope to be. Bravo.
At least not the free gift part. From an email received from Microsoft posted to hardwareanalysis.com forums:
"What happened to the free product option?
Thank you for your interest in the feedback program. Due to overwhelming response, the supply of gifts have been exhausted so we have closed our free product offer on 12/11/2007 at 2pm. Thanks to everyone that participated!"
You're right - the quality of the movie, or lack thereof, is irrelevant to the discussion (which I thought I noted pretty clearly in the original post - "mostly because they're shit, but that's really beside the point here"). I should have just left the snarky comment out.
Oh bugger off. I haven't EVER pirated a movie. If I'm not willing to pay $10 to see it in a theater, or $15 to buy on DVD or $5 to rent it or whatever, I DON'T WATCH IT. EVER. I know, it's a novel concept - either pay what the owner is charging for the product, or don't buy it. Don't presume to know what I do with my time and my money, and don't accuse me of doing something based solely on a smartass remark I've made in passing. What, do you work in the movie industry or something?
What you fucking imbeciles don't realize is that the people pirating your movies WOULD NOT PAY FOR THEM OTHERWISE (mostly because they're shit, but that's really beside the point here). But no, dickbeats like Glickman parade their made up and meaningless numbers in front of the largest congregation of dickbeats on the face of the earth (hello, US Congress!), they have a big circle jerk, and come up with some abominable brainchild of a bill like this one. Sigh. If the terrorists haven't won already, they probably deserve to. They don't even have to take our freedom, we're just selling it off a piece at a time.
The number one problem is all the idiots who are too stubborn/stupid to learn how to use their tools. If these people knew as little about hammers and they do about computers, there wouldn't be a round thumb left in the whole goddamn world. Just because it's a computer doesn't mean you have to turn off your brain.
Please do something useful with your time. I know, you're so out of the habit of doing so that it's going to be tough to get back on track. But please, try, very hard.
Nah, not even close. All my fans are 120mm and run at 7V, making them pretty much inaudible. My power supply is a Seasonic S12 with an extremely quiet 120mm fan as well. It'll ramp up fan speed as temperature increases, but even with four disks and an 8800GT I've never been able to hear it above the disk whine.
Senator Leahy, I used to respect you as a person and as a Senator, and value your dedicated service to the State of Vermont. Today, it is clear to me that you need to be put out to pasture.
Call IT when your "mashup" starts fucking up. It would be great if dumbasses like this columnist could maintain their own websites, but given that most probably can't even program their VCR (err excuse me, PVR), I'm not holding out a lot of hope. So long as people cling to the belief that technology alone will solve their problems, there will be work for people who actually know more than jack shit about technology - cleaning up after the problems technology causes.
What companies like Google don't realize is that it's the uncertainty that kills customers. Most of us won't really care if you're going to buy Urchin, move all the best pieces to Google Analytics, and then kill it off - just tell us what the fuck you are doing so we can plan accordingly. Dicking people around by pretending to support what you know will be a dead product is a good way to get people to hold grudges against you.
I can only assume this is some of our special overzealous brand of business retardation creeping north over the border. You have my apologies on behalf of the handful of us left here who aren't complete tools.
My local cable company did just this in the mid 1980s or so. I don't remember the exact numbers, but it was something like $20 for all 30 channels. Or, you could pay $10/month for the first tier of channels, plus $2/ea to add more channels. If you wanted anything more than a small handful of a la carte channels, it was vastly more expensive to purchase them outside of the bundle. We may think we want a la carte, but the devil is in the details. As long as cable companies are monopolies, you can bet on any such "changes" remaining a better deal for the cable companies than anyone else.
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I'm pretty sure I show all those emotions in the course of a trip through security:
Fear: I'm afraid that these idiots are the ones in charge of "making air travel safe"
Anger: That so many millions of people buy into the farce that is the TSA
Surprise: That the 85 year old lady in a walker ahead of me in line seems to be the biggest prospective threat of the day
Contempt: Take your pick.
I guess I should stop traveling by air?
The NCAA has proven once again that there DOES exist an organization that is more idiotic, closed minded, and out of touch with reality than either the MPAA or RIAA could hope to be. Bravo.
At least not the free gift part. From an email received from Microsoft posted to hardwareanalysis.com forums:
"What happened to the free product option?
Thank you for your interest in the feedback program. Due to overwhelming response, the supply of gifts have been exhausted so we have closed our free product offer on 12/11/2007 at 2pm. Thanks to everyone that participated!"
You're right - the quality of the movie, or lack thereof, is irrelevant to the discussion (which I thought I noted pretty clearly in the original post - "mostly because they're shit, but that's really beside the point here"). I should have just left the snarky comment out.
Oh bugger off. I haven't EVER pirated a movie. If I'm not willing to pay $10 to see it in a theater, or $15 to buy on DVD or $5 to rent it or whatever, I DON'T WATCH IT. EVER. I know, it's a novel concept - either pay what the owner is charging for the product, or don't buy it. Don't presume to know what I do with my time and my money, and don't accuse me of doing something based solely on a smartass remark I've made in passing. What, do you work in the movie industry or something?
What you fucking imbeciles don't realize is that the people pirating your movies WOULD NOT PAY FOR THEM OTHERWISE (mostly because they're shit, but that's really beside the point here). But no, dickbeats like Glickman parade their made up and meaningless numbers in front of the largest congregation of dickbeats on the face of the earth (hello, US Congress!), they have a big circle jerk, and come up with some abominable brainchild of a bill like this one. Sigh. If the terrorists haven't won already, they probably deserve to. They don't even have to take our freedom, we're just selling it off a piece at a time.
It has a battery?
Sigh. Preview. Preview. PREVIEW! Sorry :(
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He had me going until this little gem. Sometimes it takes me a little while to spot a joke, sorry.
The number one problem is all the idiots who are too stubborn/stupid to learn how to use their tools. If these people knew as little about hammers and they do about computers, there wouldn't be a round thumb left in the whole goddamn world. Just because it's a computer doesn't mean you have to turn off your brain.
Please do something useful with your time. I know, you're so out of the habit of doing so that it's going to be tough to get back on track. But please, try, very hard.
-beavis88
P.S. Get bent.
Nah, not even close. All my fans are 120mm and run at 7V, making them pretty much inaudible. My power supply is a Seasonic S12 with an extremely quiet 120mm fan as well. It'll ramp up fan speed as temperature increases, but even with four disks and an 8800GT I've never been able to hear it above the disk whine.
For me personally, the biggest benefit would be silence. My hard drives are easily the loudest part of my machines.
From a message to Rackspace customers:
"When generator power was established two chillers within the data center failed to start back up"
They had backup power for the chillers - but obviously, something didn't go quite right.
Senator Leahy, I used to respect you as a person and as a Senator, and value your dedicated service to the State of Vermont. Today, it is clear to me that you need to be put out to pasture.
Being an upgrade and all, they assumed you already had things like a case, hard drive, monitor, etc...
Call IT when your "mashup" starts fucking up. It would be great if dumbasses like this columnist could maintain their own websites, but given that most probably can't even program their VCR (err excuse me, PVR), I'm not holding out a lot of hope. So long as people cling to the belief that technology alone will solve their problems, there will be work for people who actually know more than jack shit about technology - cleaning up after the problems technology causes.
I can't think of any way to say it politely, so I'll just put it out there - I think you're patently insane if this post isn't a troll.
Is there anything to say besides "Duh"?
Yeah - "Don't write your encryption passphrase on a sticky note and attach it to your laptop"
Because you just know that'll be the next TSA directive.
What companies like Google don't realize is that it's the uncertainty that kills customers. Most of us won't really care if you're going to buy Urchin, move all the best pieces to Google Analytics, and then kill it off - just tell us what the fuck you are doing so we can plan accordingly. Dicking people around by pretending to support what you know will be a dead product is a good way to get people to hold grudges against you.
I can only assume this is some of our special overzealous brand of business retardation creeping north over the border. You have my apologies on behalf of the handful of us left here who aren't complete tools.
I thought that the point of XML was to embed the documentation in with the data, so that it was human-readable?
This is definitely not the point of XML. The point is generic exchange of structured data, with the ability to validate and query the data.
You could certainly argue it hasn't lived up to those aims, but that's a different argument in my book...
Keep including excerpts/relevant portions in the documentation, and separately, provide supporting reference materials - full XML files, XSD, etc.
Yep. I hope for Matt's sake that crow is a tasty meal.
My local cable company did just this in the mid 1980s or so. I don't remember the exact numbers, but it was something like $20 for all 30 channels. Or, you could pay $10/month for the first tier of channels, plus $2/ea to add more channels. If you wanted anything more than a small handful of a la carte channels, it was vastly more expensive to purchase them outside of the bundle. We may think we want a la carte, but the devil is in the details. As long as cable companies are monopolies, you can bet on any such "changes" remaining a better deal for the cable companies than anyone else.