You can be stressed and still enjoy it, overall. Some people thrive on competition and being "ON" all the time, at least at work, so it makes sense that someone could be very stressed and still consider it having an enjoyable lifestyle. Especially if the management and release from that stress is pleasurable and harms no one in the process. Seems quite logical to me.
TL:DR? Next time, try reading the thread before attempting to summarize it, dolt. The conversation is about the ads being theft of your bandwidth service, not that not getting them is theft of Microsoft's service.
I did the same thing. What did it get me? New fucking SPAM, that's what.
There is a new trick the ASSHOLE spammers are using to target people with facebook accounts. You will receive SPAM with the subject personalized to your name, and with the "From:" field forged with your facebook friends' names. The actual address of the "From:" is some random yahoo tosser who is being Joe-Jobbed, but if you don't look at the "From:" field closely, you'll see the common names of your facebook contacts (which have nothing to do with the SPAM in question) along with a random email address that ends in yahoo.com.
Nice, huh? It took me a while to figure out how they were getting names of contacts and my full name to "personalize" the SPAM, but there you have it.
So, fuck facebook, wasteofspace, and other worthless time wasting junk like it - they simply give the bad guys another vector for attacking you. Worse than useless.
I think his point was more that it was a dupe, rather than complaining about what category it was posted under, and he should have searched before asking, but thanks for playing!
See, this is exactly the problem when people blow a gasket when they see an "assault weapon", You take a look at a picture of a TEC-9 and say "Oohh. that is a nasty-looking weapon". It's not, it just looks that way. It looks like a military style machine gun, but isn't. It's a semi-automatic pistol that shoots the exact same 9mm rounds in the same way that the police handguns do. In fact most police use 40cal rounds that are actually larger and more deadly nowadays. So-called "assault weapons" are simply pistols with slightly larger magazines. The reason they were made and got popular is they are inexpensive to manufacture, before all the bans, restrictions, and hoopla they cost about half of what a regular handgun cost because they are made of stamped steel rather than precision machined parts. They hold about 25 rounds, while the police guns hold 18, so for the fact that it holds 7-10 more bullets than a normal looking pistol, these weapons have been vilified and unjustly singled out. This is complete nonsense. This is also why after the initial knee-jerk reaction by the anti-gun nuts to ban them, most of the bans are not being renewed or allowed to sunset. People are starting to realize these legal, semi-automatic weapons aren't really any different than conventional pistols, save a few physical features.
That said, the guy is a moron for carrying ANY gun when on probation, and he's damn lucky the cop was a good shot and quick-thinking so they are both still alive to tell the tale.
It makes you ask the question - "Then, why can't they make a Cell Phone that can't be left in a bar?" You'd think that with all the wonders of technology, they'd invent a solution to this obviously dreadful and omipresent epidemic danger.
Apparently, an important real-world test of a cell phone seems to be their performance in a small crowd of people while under the influence of alcohol. You'd think a valuable prototype in Alpha test would be tracked and controlled a little better. No, a LOT better, actually. Like, after the Apple fiasco, rule number one would be "Don't take it into a bar"!
Pfft. Sounds like another "marketing" stunt to me.
Sounds like that nerd 'attitude' being discussed is rife within you!
No, idiot, I'm not talking about the OBVIOUS NON-VERBAL stuff that any moron like you would get knocked over with. I am talking about truly unintentional and non-obvious "tells" that even a completely clueless person like yourself would pick up without even realizing it and cannot describe.
Normal people communicating normally don't MAKE people feel any particular way unless they are trying to be emotionally manipulative.
Good point. People subconsciously pick up on cues like tone of voice, microexpressions, gestures, etc. that give away your "attitude" when you're being condescending even if you're trying to hide it. Even though they might not be able to put their finger on exactly what, something will "feel wrong" when they deal with you, and they will realize it's an unpleasant experience even though they're not quite sure why.
You forgot the part where Bill Gates personally will deliver to you a giant pile of Microsoft Preferred Stock and $1,000,000.00 for forwarding the message on...
I can second this, too. I have had some early 802.11b stuff that used to lock up and BSOD whenever they would get around a router that did 802.11g. I had others that worked fine with linksys and netgear stuff but would lock up around Apple Airport routers. So yes, there are definitively incompatibility issues between differing hardware setups and especially so between differing generations of hardware.
I'll second this. I have an old crummy original 'drioid Motorola A855 and that still runs 2.2.3. There was never any further updates for it from.2 to.3 and the unsecured WiFi is completely unusable. It works passably on WEP and WPA2 but unsecured never worked right. If it ever would connect, it would time out or lock up after a few minutes of operation. Totally suck-tastic.
Sounds like what I have started calling "My Law of Program Bugs", which states that no program of sufficient complexity can ever be bug-free. That somehow regression testing and simulation can never encompass the entire possible realm of user stupidity, and once you reach a certain level of complexity, that you will _never_ be _totally_ sure your program is _completely_ bug-free, or there is some obscure combination of seemingly impossible conditions that will screw it up, or expose a hidden bug.
In the immortal words of Mr, Burns, "I'd trade it all for a little bit more." Simple greed is why the 1% won't budge on the profit margins that they already enjoy.
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I am not a spider, or an animal...
What are you then, a vegetable or a mineral?
Oh, you want Abuse. This office is for Arguments only. Second door on the right, down the hall...
You can be stressed and still enjoy it, overall. Some people thrive on competition and being "ON" all the time, at least at work, so it makes sense that someone could be very stressed and still consider it having an enjoyable lifestyle. Especially if the management and release from that stress is pleasurable and harms no one in the process. Seems quite logical to me.
Charm bar? It's right next to the Magic Bar, and that's of course just above the Wonder Bar!
I think I need a drink with all this talk of Bars. If only there was a public place I could consume mass quantities of alcohol!
TL:DR? Next time, try reading the thread before attempting to summarize it, dolt. The conversation is about the ads being theft of your bandwidth service, not that not getting them is theft of Microsoft's service.
Sheesh.
OK, I'll buy that excuse, but isn't it about time you paid for your copy of Windows 98? :D
Yeah, or ads for Apple :)
They are so secret you don't even know if you're a member or not, until it's too late!
The better question is can't TV and Hollywood do better?
I did the same thing. What did it get me? New fucking SPAM, that's what.
There is a new trick the ASSHOLE spammers are using to target people with facebook accounts. You will receive SPAM with the subject personalized to your name, and with the "From:" field forged with your facebook friends' names. The actual address of the "From:" is some random yahoo tosser who is being Joe-Jobbed, but if you don't look at the "From:" field closely, you'll see the common names of your facebook contacts (which have nothing to do with the SPAM in question) along with a random email address that ends in yahoo.com.
Nice, huh? It took me a while to figure out how they were getting names of contacts and my full name to "personalize" the SPAM, but there you have it.
So, fuck facebook, wasteofspace, and other worthless time wasting junk like it - they simply give the bad guys another vector for attacking you. Worse than useless.
I think his point was more that it was a dupe, rather than complaining about what category it was posted under, and he should have searched before asking, but thanks for playing!
Face it, you didn't get the joke, dumbass...
On the internet, no one knows you're Dog the Bounty Hunter!
They got 'em.
http://www.amazon.com/ZOMM-Wireless-Bluetooth-Speakerphone-Personal/dp/B003N3J6F6
Why the hell Google can't spring for a lousy 50 dollar gadget to protect a multi-millon dollar prototype phone is completely beyond me.
See, this is exactly the problem when people blow a gasket when they see an "assault weapon", You take a look at a picture of a TEC-9 and say "Oohh. that is a nasty-looking weapon". It's not, it just looks that way. It looks like a military style machine gun, but isn't. It's a semi-automatic pistol that shoots the exact same 9mm rounds in the same way that the police handguns do. In fact most police use 40cal rounds that are actually larger and more deadly nowadays. So-called "assault weapons" are simply pistols with slightly larger magazines. The reason they were made and got popular is they are inexpensive to manufacture, before all the bans, restrictions, and hoopla they cost about half of what a regular handgun cost because they are made of stamped steel rather than precision machined parts. They hold about 25 rounds, while the police guns hold 18, so for the fact that it holds 7-10 more bullets than a normal looking pistol, these weapons have been vilified and unjustly singled out. This is complete nonsense. This is also why after the initial knee-jerk reaction by the anti-gun nuts to ban them, most of the bans are not being renewed or allowed to sunset. People are starting to realize these legal, semi-automatic weapons aren't really any different than conventional pistols, save a few physical features.
That said, the guy is a moron for carrying ANY gun when on probation, and he's damn lucky the cop was a good shot and quick-thinking so they are both still alive to tell the tale.
Yes, I have a whole pile of them. They're these little cardboard rectangles called "Business Cards".
They also probably have google-issued smartcard ID's of some sort as well.
It makes you ask the question - "Then, why can't they make a Cell Phone that can't be left in a bar?" You'd think that with all the wonders of technology, they'd invent a solution to this obviously dreadful and omipresent epidemic danger.
Apparently, an important real-world test of a cell phone seems to be their performance in a small crowd of people while under the influence of alcohol. You'd think a valuable prototype in Alpha test would be tracked and controlled a little better. No, a LOT better, actually. Like, after the Apple fiasco, rule number one would be "Don't take it into a bar"!
Pfft. Sounds like another "marketing" stunt to me.
Sounds like that nerd 'attitude' being discussed is rife within you!
No, idiot, I'm not talking about the OBVIOUS NON-VERBAL stuff that any moron like you would get knocked over with. I am talking about truly unintentional and non-obvious "tells" that even a completely clueless person like yourself would pick up without even realizing it and cannot describe.
Normal people communicating normally don't MAKE people feel any particular way unless they are trying to be emotionally manipulative.
Way to miss the point entirely. Git.
Good point. People subconsciously pick up on cues like tone of voice, microexpressions, gestures, etc. that give away your "attitude" when you're being condescending even if you're trying to hide it. Even though they might not be able to put their finger on exactly what, something will "feel wrong" when they deal with you, and they will realize it's an unpleasant experience even though they're not quite sure why.
You forgot the part where Bill Gates personally will deliver to you a giant pile of Microsoft Preferred Stock and $1,000,000.00 for forwarding the message on...
I can second this, too. I have had some early 802.11b stuff that used to lock up and BSOD whenever they would get around a router that did 802.11g. I had others that worked fine with linksys and netgear stuff but would lock up around Apple Airport routers. So yes, there are definitively incompatibility issues between differing hardware setups and especially so between differing generations of hardware.
I'll second this. I have an old crummy original 'drioid Motorola A855 and that still runs 2.2.3. There was never any further updates for it from .2 to .3 and the unsecured WiFi is completely unusable. It works passably on WEP and WPA2 but unsecured never worked right. If it ever would connect, it would time out or lock up after a few minutes of operation. Totally suck-tastic.
Let us not forget emacs vs. vi!
Of course, everyone knows emacs is better! ;)
Sounds like what I have started calling "My Law of Program Bugs", which states that no program of sufficient complexity can ever be bug-free. That somehow regression testing and simulation can never encompass the entire possible realm of user stupidity, and once you reach a certain level of complexity, that you will _never_ be _totally_ sure your program is _completely_ bug-free, or there is some obscure combination of seemingly impossible conditions that will screw it up, or expose a hidden bug.
In the immortal words of Mr, Burns, "I'd trade it all for a little bit more." Simple greed is why the 1% won't budge on the profit margins that they already enjoy.