And how much did you fucking pay for it? I seriously don't know why everyone here is so down on yahoo.
First, I was talking about the transport, not the company (though it does work both ways now that you mention it). Second, "because it's free" is no excuse when the free competition does it better already.
The yahoo transport sucks donkeyballs. It's unreliable and crashes for no reason, usually while I'm trying to get other work done. As evil as Microsoft typically is, they're doing us a favor: Now Jabber only has to maintain two or three transports and none of them involving some bletcherous hack from jabberd's transports if you're using the otherwise far easier to deal with ejabberd. Microsoft has to have their way, so you can pretty much kiss the YIM protocol good bye and everybody with a YIM ID suddenly having @yahoo.com Passports instead, and good riddance. Now there's only two proprietary protocols left: Oscar (AIM/ICQ) and MSN.
The 80 gajillion Google fanboys are suddenly able to access the rest of the IM landscape that isn't stuck in the last millennium with their Google Talk JID. Google users and the rest of the Jabber network rejoice, AOL shits itself seeing headlights coming from both directions.
Microsoft and Time Warner are going to strike a deal that will be kind of like AOL announcing that October 1993 would effectively follow January 2005 on the Usenet calendar. Except instead of AOL continuing to exist, Time Warner flushes AOL like an unwanted fetus on prom night, selling it out to Microsoft. Microsoft has to have their way, so you can pretty much kiss the Oscar protocol goodbye. Everybody with AIM IDs suddenly get @aim.com passports. Everybody at ICQ gets @icq.com passports.
And then there was one. MSN Messenger fights to the bitter death, losing mindshare bit by bit until 10 years from now, Microsoft's holding an empty bag and wondering how the hell they missed the boat on IM. Everybody loves Google, and many will switch to Google Talk on basis of name recognition alone. Thank God that they don't abuse that power.
(And in other news, the Portland Winterhawks probably won't make the playoffs this year. Again. Dammit.)
I don't think it's really going to work out, though, unless they also raise the cost of the DVDs.
They said that about American's driving habits and gasoline, then (save for Portland, Oregon; New York City and San Fransisco, California) failed to build anything resembling a functional transit system. Same deal with the disposable DVD: Making the the established default more expensive will not make people switch to an unusable alternative. Liberty City, New York City and San Fiero drivers have a transit alternative. Movie enthusiasts everywhere have the video store alternative. And I play too much GTA.
The new generation of DVD disc will spearhead a fresh assault by Microsoft on the home-entertainment market
Just what the world needs. A new assault on consumer rights, and *more* shit to throw in the landfill. Forward thinking will be the first state whose Department of Environmental Quality outlaws the disposable disc on the grounds that the product is 100% trash.
The Boy Scouts of America (the proper BSA) has no corporate members. Preston and Gates don't have any current affiliation with the organization (though it's likely they did when they were teenagers).
If you are fixated on going hybrid with an SUV, why not buy a brand new hybrid Highlander or Lexus?
The early 90s Jeep Cherokees were off-road vehicles, not like the toys you named, or the toys that replaced it with the same name. They won't go into the sticks, they'll tip over or high-center on something the first time they see dirt, ugly as sin, and won't readily fit in a standard sized (for Oregon anyway) parking space.
I would have suggested a Kia Sportage if you were going for something newer, but Hyundai bought out Kia and replaced the Kia Sportage with a rebadged Hyundai Tuscon. In another words, they took the exact opposite of a Sportage and called it a Sportage. The Sportage was fuel efficient, sub-compact yet still comfortably seated four, 8.5 inches of ground clearance standard, yet a relatively low center of gravity, with enough off-road capability and reliability to become the vehicle of choice for the South Korean and other east-Asian militiaries. The Hyundai Tuscon knockoff that replaced it is too large, too gas guzzling, practically no ground clearance, a center of gravity somewhere around midway up my CB antenna mast on the roof of my Sportage, and impossible to paralell park.
The age of getting a new utility truck (as opposed to a sport utility toy) is over. If you want something that does everything, you have to look in the used market, they just don't make what gets the job done anymore.
5MPG for me would be the same difference as adding another 1.5 gallons to my gas tank, but without having to pay to fill that 1.5 gallons every time. That's a savings of upwards of $4.50 with current gas prices per tank, or $234/year.
To me, 5MPG could mean the difference between using my vacation days for more than one or two vacations a year instead of just spreading out what I can't otherwise use for fun out for when I just don't feel like going to work. And I already get 4-15MPG in 4WD, 30 city/35 highway.
Personally, I wish I could go biogasoline since I see stations selling it for under $1/gal, but they're perpetually out. (Not sure why, it's not like anybody eats soybeans in this country...)
...if it's your call, just do it, catch the users up on it as they need it. Users aren't interested in learning the nitty gritty, so anything you can do to interface what works with what the user knows is good. Introducing new but comparable software (one browser for another) and taking the time to set up after-school classes to catch people up on the new software for those who want it will go a long way (these people will probably share their knowledge with other users, so your efforts will ripple).
Explain your situation in as no-nonsense of a way possible: Your predecessor clearly got by in your role on a huntch and some stupid luck, and that luck happened to run out on your watch because of the lousy infrastructure he built. NT wasn't built to take the abuse a school will put it through: My school district learned that the brutal way around the time I took over at my school.
If your paid, you have a lot more time to work on this than I did: Imagine being the only guy doing that job, training your replacement, and still maintaining a full high school course load and getting decent grades, without pay. My life, 1998-2000...
Someone actually told me "LOL" out loud. Instead of laughing. I felt like following up with a "/me kills idiot", but I didn't have my gun with me.
These people are just asking to be tied to a chair and be forced to live in a society made entirely of AOL chat rooms until they die. They infest conventions of all types, too. If you go AOL on us, constaff should be able to throw your ass back home....
About a year ago, I wrote to Google and said, "Hey, could you advocate Jabber?" And now there's Google Talk.
Meanwhile, just last night, I wrote to Google and said, "OK, you find everything on the Internet, you find what I need to get stuff done at work on my workstation, but why can't you find my car keys?" And now they're going to do that.
Apparently, this means we can all stop submitting Google headlines to Slashdot. Ask me instead.
Wow... people that easily bribed can't get a job as a minimum wage security officer, and this jackass gets rewarded for doing just that. People like this CIO guy don't deserve to have a job.
You are limited by your perspective. Waste vegetable oil is available under $20 for 50 gallons, usually free. That's most of what biodiesel is. The rest of what's used in the process are cheap household products you can pick up for a couple dollars at any decent grocery store. Cost of production is just under 70 cents/gallon on average, and doesn't change much (feel the power of renewable resources).
Gas was less than a dollor around when I got my car (late '97 early '98). In inflation adjusted it kicks your.88 ass.
Only if you automatically assume that $1.40
What plant product do you currently buy at less than a dollor a gallon that you are using as an estimate for biofuel costs by the way?
Waste vegetable oil goes for $20 barrel on wholesale, $0 on retail (and they're glad to be rid of it).
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First, I was talking about the transport, not the company (though it does work both ways now that you mention it). Second, "because it's free" is no excuse when the free competition does it better already.
*snip a bunch of irrelevant crap*
When was the last time jabber.org had transports installed?
Disclaimer: I run the ursine.ca Jabber server.
The yahoo transport sucks donkeyballs. It's unreliable and crashes for no reason, usually while I'm trying to get other work done. As evil as Microsoft typically is, they're doing us a favor: Now Jabber only has to maintain two or three transports and none of them involving some bletcherous hack from jabberd's transports if you're using the otherwise far easier to deal with ejabberd. Microsoft has to have their way, so you can pretty much kiss the YIM protocol good bye and everybody with a YIM ID suddenly having @yahoo.com Passports instead, and good riddance. Now there's only two proprietary protocols left: Oscar (AIM/ICQ) and MSN.
The 80 gajillion Google fanboys are suddenly able to access the rest of the IM landscape that isn't stuck in the last millennium with their Google Talk JID. Google users and the rest of the Jabber network rejoice, AOL shits itself seeing headlights coming from both directions.
Microsoft and Time Warner are going to strike a deal that will be kind of like AOL announcing that October 1993 would effectively follow January 2005 on the Usenet calendar. Except instead of AOL continuing to exist, Time Warner flushes AOL like an unwanted fetus on prom night, selling it out to Microsoft. Microsoft has to have their way, so you can pretty much kiss the Oscar protocol goodbye. Everybody with AIM IDs suddenly get @aim.com passports. Everybody at ICQ gets @icq.com passports.
And then there was one. MSN Messenger fights to the bitter death, losing mindshare bit by bit until 10 years from now, Microsoft's holding an empty bag and wondering how the hell they missed the boat on IM. Everybody loves Google, and many will switch to Google Talk on basis of name recognition alone. Thank God that they don't abuse that power.
(And in other news, the Portland Winterhawks probably won't make the playoffs this year. Again. Dammit.)
Meanwhile, Google announces that they have absolutely no interest in starting an IM service based on Jabber.
They said that about American's driving habits and gasoline, then (save for Portland, Oregon; New York City and San Fransisco, California) failed to build anything resembling a functional transit system. Same deal with the disposable DVD: Making the the established default more expensive will not make people switch to an unusable alternative. Liberty City, New York City and San Fiero drivers have a transit alternative. Movie enthusiasts everywhere have the video store alternative. And I play too much GTA.
Just what the world needs. A new assault on consumer rights, and *more* shit to throw in the landfill. Forward thinking will be the first state whose Department of Environmental Quality outlaws the disposable disc on the grounds that the product is 100% trash.
The Boy Scouts of America (the proper BSA) has no corporate members. Preston and Gates don't have any current affiliation with the organization (though it's likely they did when they were teenagers).
Has the grave bug of lack of basic functionality like reply-to-mailing-list fixed yet?
To be fair, the last movie Disney Animation made before it closed forever was Brother Bear.
Now we have a lifeless planet full of transit bus fuel. Just have to get it here...
Know any place that can do a PHEV conversion to a '95 Kia Sportage? I could make it to work and halfway home on a charge then.
The early 90s Jeep Cherokees were off-road vehicles, not like the toys you named, or the toys that replaced it with the same name. They won't go into the sticks, they'll tip over or high-center on something the first time they see dirt, ugly as sin, and won't readily fit in a standard sized (for Oregon anyway) parking space.
I would have suggested a Kia Sportage if you were going for something newer, but Hyundai bought out Kia and replaced the Kia Sportage with a rebadged Hyundai Tuscon. In another words, they took the exact opposite of a Sportage and called it a Sportage. The Sportage was fuel efficient, sub-compact yet still comfortably seated four, 8.5 inches of ground clearance standard, yet a relatively low center of gravity, with enough off-road capability and reliability to become the vehicle of choice for the South Korean and other east-Asian militiaries. The Hyundai Tuscon knockoff that replaced it is too large, too gas guzzling, practically no ground clearance, a center of gravity somewhere around midway up my CB antenna mast on the roof of my Sportage, and impossible to paralell park.
The age of getting a new utility truck (as opposed to a sport utility toy) is over. If you want something that does everything, you have to look in the used market, they just don't make what gets the job done anymore.
To me, 5MPG could mean the difference between using my vacation days for more than one or two vacations a year instead of just spreading out what I can't otherwise use for fun out for when I just don't feel like going to work. And I already get 4-15MPG in 4WD, 30 city/35 highway.
Personally, I wish I could go biogasoline since I see stations selling it for under $1/gal, but they're perpetually out. (Not sure why, it's not like anybody eats soybeans in this country...)
...they're just starting to feel the pinch of transgaming, wine, Linux and a world that realizes we don't need them to have game.
Explain your situation in as no-nonsense of a way possible: Your predecessor clearly got by in your role on a huntch and some stupid luck, and that luck happened to run out on your watch because of the lousy infrastructure he built. NT wasn't built to take the abuse a school will put it through: My school district learned that the brutal way around the time I took over at my school.
If your paid, you have a lot more time to work on this than I did: Imagine being the only guy doing that job, training your replacement, and still maintaining a full high school course load and getting decent grades, without pay. My life, 1998-2000...
These people are just asking to be tied to a chair and be forced to live in a society made entirely of AOL chat rooms until they die. They infest conventions of all types, too. If you go AOL on us, constaff should be able to throw your ass back home....
You do know you can just filter out humor articles, right?
But just remember, SCOOTY PUFF JUNIOR SUUUUUUUUUCKS!
Meanwhile, just last night, I wrote to Google and said, "OK, you find everything on the Internet, you find what I need to get stuff done at work on my workstation, but why can't you find my car keys?" And now they're going to do that.
Apparently, this means we can all stop submitting Google headlines to Slashdot. Ask me instead.
Wow... people that easily bribed can't get a job as a minimum wage security officer, and this jackass gets rewarded for doing just that. People like this CIO guy don't deserve to have a job.
Editors: Please take note of the proper definitions of hack and crack.
Wow, sucks to be you. Costs me about $10 to change it myself, or $20 for WalMart to do the same work for me...
You are limited by your perspective. Waste vegetable oil is available under $20 for 50 gallons, usually free. That's most of what biodiesel is. The rest of what's used in the process are cheap household products you can pick up for a couple dollars at any decent grocery store. Cost of production is just under 70 cents/gallon on average, and doesn't change much (feel the power of renewable resources).
Only if you automatically assume that $1.40 What plant product do you currently buy at less than a dollor a gallon that you are using as an estimate for biofuel costs by the way?
Waste vegetable oil goes for $20 barrel on wholesale, $0 on retail (and they're glad to be rid of it).
And that was 1994, not the 1980s. DOS 3.3 and Windows 2.0 were all the rage on PCs in the 1980s.
I'd like to relive 1988, though: Gas was 88 cents a gallon. Oh, wait, I can, if gas stations would only start stocking biogasoline...