Nobody would trust them again if they realize MS sues projects it actually collaborated with.
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Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, anyone? Microsoft has historically done more than enough to make it where "nobody would trust them again" on multiple PR fronts (the one that pissed me off and affected me more directly was what they did with MechWarrior, but there's a lot more than that). They seem to be doing fine... and there aren't many people or companies beyond Linux users who even know what the hell Mono is that matter in the eyes of Microsoft. For those companies that do happen to rely on Mono for Linux, you can bet that Microsoft would extend their own offering of a.NET platform for Linux using the remnants of Mono that they embraced. Companies that matter to Microsoft's world don't care about ethics, they only want solutions.
Long story short: The PR hit on MSFT would be miniscule compared to other PR hits that the company has already taken throughout their history (even the Simpsons used the 3 E's as a gag for an episode, complete with Bill Gates as a guest star), and probably not even noticed by anyone who mattered.
The company didn't give me any paperwork or forms except for the contract terms. I had to file the 1099 myself at the end of the quarter. I also had to bond with the state for that time period (3 months) and it was that bond that made me legal as a contractor. I was essentially covering for the owner while he took a 3 month cruise with his wife one summer. I was not restricted from working any other job beyond maintaining an open storefront during normal business hours. I was also able to perform that duty in any way I saw fit. If I wanted to subcontract out someone to watch the storefront for me, I was given leeway to do that (made easier by the fact that storefront duties were under a different log entry code than repair duties). If I wanted to work for a competitor, I was perfectly able to do so, though the nearest competitor was 50 miles away (came to find out later that for the Georgia mountain region, that was a drop in the bucket compared to what I was used to in Connecticut).
Also the ideal launch point for such a nuke would be from space, not Earth.
So are you saying...nuke it from orbit?
We could nuke it from orbit with enough nukes that the NEO trajectory could be adjusted to come into earth orbit. Essentially we could nuke it into orbit from orbit to nuke it repeatedly while it orbits, dawg!
One last one... That's no Moon! That's a NEO...it really is the One! Just call it Mr. Anderson.
There was a time I did computer repair as an Independent Contractor for a Repair Business. I filed as a 1099. That was my only income at the time. I was not an employee. I was not entitled to benefits. My job there evaporated at a pre-determined end of contract date (which happened to coincide with the start of the next school year). Try again.
I can agree with this. I have a Saitek Cyborg that has the poppable module to convert the left thumb controls to either PS style or X-Box style. I was used to the PS style of control so for a long time I had it in the PS configuration. Unfortunately, I began feeling numbness in my left thumb when I was using the left A-stick during prolonged sessions. When I swapped it to X-Box style, the fatigue went away. After discovering this I started using the feature to adapt to the game I was playing. D-pad heavy games I used PS style, A-stick heavy: X-box style. Haven't had a problem with fatigue or numbness since.
As someone who escaped Connecticuticuticuticut 15 years ago.... I think Massachusetts and Connecticut are in direct competition for how costly and corrupt each government can make their respective states. But there's one thing that Connecticut has claim to that trumps Massachusettes: CT elected and re-elected current RIAA CEO and Chairman Christopher Dodd to the senate for 30 straight years! Beat that ya wannabe Irish Bastards!
Agreed. And the guy being interviewed seems to be on the same side of the argument we are. The media however are trying to spin this. I detect a hint of disdain in the tone of the anchorwoman as she goes over the list of repairs that were deemed a higher priority... Like replacing boilers, roofs, and removing asbestos... None of which are cheap. The bloody computer system works. It has its problems, but it works on 30 year old hardware. If it works on that there's no need to build out a 1.5 mil system to replace it. A modest modern desktop system to run the controller, upgrade the radios to get it off the communication frequency, and a good service contract with whoever you get that desktop from...you've got a system that'll last another 30 years for less than half the proposed budget.
Everything I deal with is a computer issue of some kind, so thanks for that. I tend to like to have a bit more context so when I call the client back I can get right down to troubleshooting the specific issue without wasting the client's time for the client to describe the issue in more or less the exact same way he described in the voicemail.
So your bitch is with Adobe, not Google. This is the apples to apples comparison that wernercd was mentioning.
People have a problem with Oracle's method of having Oracle's Java installation include an opt-out download of the Ask Toolbar which is known to be malware and very difficult to uninstall through traditional methods.
People have a problem with Adobe's method of having Adobe's Flash installation include an opt-out download of the Google Toolbar which is known to be spyware and fairly easy to uninstall through traditional methods.
People do not bitch about InterActiveCorp force feeding the toolbar on them for the Java install, because IAC has no control over Oracle's installer. Likewise there's no reason for people to bitch about Google force feeding the toolbar on them for the Flash install, because Google has no control over Adobe's installer. This is not to say that IAC's and Google's respective toolbars don't have issues of their own, only that IAC and Google aren't directly responsible for what 3rd parties do when 3rd parties try to install their software.
Yes. Google had a tool bar, no one is contesting that; but was it forced down your throat by google? If you downloaded any google software, did you have to specifically uncheck a box to not have it installed, or did you have to explicitly click on a link that said "Get the google toolbar" that was more than a few lines below the "Google Search" and "I'm Feeling Lucky" buttons where you couldn't accidentally miss the button by a few pixels to click on the link? If I remember right, it fit more the latter case I presented.
That's a lot different from putting a checkbox with 8pt Text in a 12pt body that you have to find and uncheck to prevent the installer from automatically installing the toolbar.
Except when the majority of people you get a voicemail from has a sufficiently thick accent that transcription leaves an indecipherable jumble of words.
"My car hill devil cream pewter shakes dawn under noticable with. Read line on palestine." is an actual transcription of a single sentence of a voicemail I received from a client. Allow me to relay what the customer actually said in the recording:
"My goddamn computer shut down without notice and there's a red light on the power brick." (This turned out to be from a short that developed in the client's $3 powered USB hub that he got off ebay, for those interested.)
My voicemail gets full of these types of transcriptions daily, and I frankly find them useless. Sometime's they'll be closer to where there's enough context that makes it through to decipher the message. Unfortunately, more often than not, the transcriptions are worse than the example I used. I've used both Sprint's offering for Visual Voicemail (on promo only...it wasn't worth paying for), and Google hangouts VV. Neither are worth having.
As someone who used to have to pay for messaging fees, I've found that shorthand was very useful in keeping the cost down as what would usually take 4 text messages under normal grammar and spelling rules could be easily cut down to 1 or 2. It was also a pain in the ass to type out full words on a phone's keypad (8 44 2 8 0 777 33 1 555 555 999 0 7777 88 222 555 33 3). Now that unlimited text messaging plans and full qwerty keyboards are nearly ubiquitous, I don't bother with shorthand anymore as it even grated on my nerves when I did it out of necessity. Now it just shows lack of care and laziness to continue.
What's the intelligence agencies objective in releasing this story to the press? That's what needs to be examined. Is it meant as a message to ISIS "We got you and we'll get you again because your people are stupid"? Or was it meant to convey to us, the American People: "This is what our metadata surveillance can accomplish if you'd just let us use it"?
The Vandals had the lyric "If you think you're free, try walking into a deli and pissing on the cheese" in Anarchy Burger. It was featured in xXx.
I think it could safely be changed to "If you think you're free, try doing cosplay (strike)in a school-zone(/strike)," now. (If only the -strike- tag actually worked here)
Could be. For all we know the Universe we live in is nothing more than some particles racing through a tube and our entire timeframe from bang to end is nothing more than a small blip of infinitesimally insignificant readings on some giant screen.
Funny...my local one still has used PC games on its rack, and gets additional ones. Unfortunately the local market for PC games seems rather small as GameStop has the largest selection of used PC games taking about a shelf and a half (estimated) on their PC rack. The local Goodwill stores will come in second by having maybe a few PC titles in their glass cage. Even for new PC game titles, GameStop here out-does Wal-Mart, BestBuy, AND Staples on what they carry in-store. Sadly, there just doesn't seem to be much of a PC market in brick & Mortar anymore. I think Steam might have had something to do with that.
Yeah... you were talking about raising by 50% when the previous poster was talking about raising it by 100% (otherwise known as doubling.) Sorry. You seemed confused about what was being said in the post you initially replied to.
Doubling the current price is not raising it by 50% (ie you're paying 150% of what you were before). Doubling means you're paying 200%, so if you're paying $10 and they double it you're now paying $20. They would then cut that by 50% and bring you back to the 10%.
At this point, I'd say $10 is on the high end of acceptable that I'd pay. For comparison, that's what I paid for each Guild Wars 2 license I bought for my wife and I to play when they had a sale a couple months ago. I've given celeron55 $15 so far to assist with operating costs for maintaining his site. Why is minetest worth more to me? Because modding is so much easier on it than it's ever been for Minecraft.
Some other comparisons on price disparity of what I'd pay for some more well known titles. I won't pay more than $20 for any of the Arkham games (and haven't). Elite: Dangerous can kiss off with their $60 entrance fee...plus whatever they charge for their paint packs if I wanted a "custom" ship coloring(that everyone else has the ability to get as well). Then they have the bloody merchandizing racket on top of that which apparently doesn't subsidize the price any. For what I've seen of E:D on youtube vids, I'd consider it for $25. ES:O can also kiss off with their $60 entry fee per license(aka $120 for both me and my wife to play at the same time). Guild Wars 2 cost half as much at its full price and that was still too much for me to take interest. At least ES:O dropped the subscription model, but it's still not enough. From my experience in the beta there's nothing that really differentiates ES:O from any other Fantasy MMO, and I've heard that they haven't really added much since.
If conservation of momentum were not true, it would break 99.999% of our understanding of physics.
FTFY.
If man's law defining conservation of momentum is found to have a loophole, then physics as defined by the universe will work the same way it always has. It's just our definition that's been broken, which would mean that every other theory we've created that's been supported by this law would have to be brought back to hypothesis and reworked into a new theory of how things work based on new evidence.
To think that it's unlikely that conservation of momentum will be discovered to have a loophole we didn't understand doesn't make you the 'religious shitreaded fanatic' [sic]. I also highly doubt that we'll find that loophole, even with this new discovery, and I feel that all the laws of physics have been fairly solidly proven thus far that they can be safely presumed to be a certainty. That said, I would not be so arrogant to say that if it were discovered that one of our laws was flawed that physics has been broken. I would only say that man's understanding of physics has been shown to be flawed and that we must come to understand that flaw so that we can rework a more complete understanding of the physics of our universe that correspond with this new information.
Ok, what I've played of Minecraft on my roommate's X-Box 360, it's a decent concept but it is in no way worth the $20 that Microsoft wants for it. Looking at the site now, it's not even close to being worth the $27 that they want for the windows version. I swear I think they jacked the price up since the last time I looked (it was $21 or $22 then, if I remember correctly). Doesn't software depreciate in value? What the hell? At least with minetest I can get the minecraft experience and just periodically donate to celeron55 if I notice some innovative updates that have been made since last donation.
Doesn't injecting your own judgemental opinion into someone else's post and then re-broadcasting it make you a self-important wanker? or is that nullified by making sure you post as an AC?
Whether or not they were self-important wankers is a matter of opinion (one that I do agree with, but I was trying to keep my opinion out of my post). The fact is that, self-important wankers or not, they were slashdot users who felt they were justified in hijacking threads to ensure that an issue they felt important and being ignored was seen by the general slashdot population.
Basic Income... for someone to live on? Where? Your numbers are a grave underestimation even considering a rural Georgia community. When I was renting a (shitty)3 bedroom trailer for me and my wife, that was $600/month alone. That leaves $150 for...what? Weekly food that would give us the proper nutrition to live healthily was $100 by itself. If we wanted to live on junk food that would cause us to be bed-confined at 400 lbs each, $100 might get us 3 weeks worth. Electricity just to run a fridge and a couple of fans every night cost me $80 monthly on the low end. Fuel to get back and forth to work on (Republican town doesn't believe in public transit)? At that time it was $120 a month (couldn't afford to get my motorcycle yet). I was making $1200 a month working my ass off for RadioShack, and almost couldn't afford a pot to piss in on that! Internet? Local library once a week. TV? Built my own OTA antenna from scrap metal because getting one from RadioShack was $30 I couldn't afford to waste. With your numbers, I might as well have been homeless. At least I probably would have been healthier then with $750 going to fuel and food only.
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Nobody would trust them again if they realize MS sues projects it actually collaborated with.
Hi! You must be new to this earth; Welcome!
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, anyone? Microsoft has historically done more than enough to make it where "nobody would trust them again" on multiple PR fronts (the one that pissed me off and affected me more directly was what they did with MechWarrior, but there's a lot more than that). They seem to be doing fine... and there aren't many people or companies beyond Linux users who even know what the hell Mono is that matter in the eyes of Microsoft. For those companies that do happen to rely on Mono for Linux, you can bet that Microsoft would extend their own offering of a .NET platform for Linux using the remnants of Mono that they embraced. Companies that matter to Microsoft's world don't care about ethics, they only want solutions.
Long story short: The PR hit on MSFT would be miniscule compared to other PR hits that the company has already taken throughout their history (even the Simpsons used the 3 E's as a gag for an episode, complete with Bill Gates as a guest star), and probably not even noticed by anyone who mattered.
The company didn't give me any paperwork or forms except for the contract terms. I had to file the 1099 myself at the end of the quarter. I also had to bond with the state for that time period (3 months) and it was that bond that made me legal as a contractor. I was essentially covering for the owner while he took a 3 month cruise with his wife one summer. I was not restricted from working any other job beyond maintaining an open storefront during normal business hours. I was also able to perform that duty in any way I saw fit. If I wanted to subcontract out someone to watch the storefront for me, I was given leeway to do that (made easier by the fact that storefront duties were under a different log entry code than repair duties). If I wanted to work for a competitor, I was perfectly able to do so, though the nearest competitor was 50 miles away (came to find out later that for the Georgia mountain region, that was a drop in the bucket compared to what I was used to in Connecticut).
Also the ideal launch point for such a nuke would be from space, not Earth.
So are you saying...nuke it from orbit?
We could nuke it from orbit with enough nukes that the NEO trajectory could be adjusted to come into earth orbit. Essentially we could nuke it into orbit from orbit to nuke it repeatedly while it orbits, dawg!
One last one... That's no Moon! That's a NEO...it really is the One! Just call it Mr. Anderson.
There was a time I did computer repair as an Independent Contractor for a Repair Business. I filed as a 1099. That was my only income at the time. I was not an employee. I was not entitled to benefits. My job there evaporated at a pre-determined end of contract date (which happened to coincide with the start of the next school year). Try again.
I can agree with this. I have a Saitek Cyborg that has the poppable module to convert the left thumb controls to either PS style or X-Box style. I was used to the PS style of control so for a long time I had it in the PS configuration. Unfortunately, I began feeling numbness in my left thumb when I was using the left A-stick during prolonged sessions. When I swapped it to X-Box style, the fatigue went away. After discovering this I started using the feature to adapt to the game I was playing. D-pad heavy games I used PS style, A-stick heavy: X-box style. Haven't had a problem with fatigue or numbness since.
As someone who escaped Connecticuticuticuticut 15 years ago.... I think Massachusetts and Connecticut are in direct competition for how costly and corrupt each government can make their respective states. But there's one thing that Connecticut has claim to that trumps Massachusettes: CT elected and re-elected current RIAA CEO and Chairman Christopher Dodd to the senate for 30 straight years! Beat that ya wannabe Irish Bastards!
Agreed. And the guy being interviewed seems to be on the same side of the argument we are. The media however are trying to spin this. I detect a hint of disdain in the tone of the anchorwoman as she goes over the list of repairs that were deemed a higher priority... Like replacing boilers, roofs, and removing asbestos... None of which are cheap. The bloody computer system works. It has its problems, but it works on 30 year old hardware. If it works on that there's no need to build out a 1.5 mil system to replace it. A modest modern desktop system to run the controller, upgrade the radios to get it off the communication frequency, and a good service contract with whoever you get that desktop from...you've got a system that'll last another 30 years for less than half the proposed budget.
Everything I deal with is a computer issue of some kind, so thanks for that. I tend to like to have a bit more context so when I call the client back I can get right down to troubleshooting the specific issue without wasting the client's time for the client to describe the issue in more or less the exact same way he described in the voicemail.
So your bitch is with Adobe, not Google. This is the apples to apples comparison that wernercd was mentioning.
People have a problem with Oracle's method of having Oracle's Java installation include an opt-out download of the Ask Toolbar which is known to be malware and very difficult to uninstall through traditional methods.
People have a problem with Adobe's method of having Adobe's Flash installation include an opt-out download of the Google Toolbar which is known to be spyware and fairly easy to uninstall through traditional methods.
People do not bitch about InterActiveCorp force feeding the toolbar on them for the Java install, because IAC has no control over Oracle's installer. Likewise there's no reason for people to bitch about Google force feeding the toolbar on them for the Flash install, because Google has no control over Adobe's installer. This is not to say that IAC's and Google's respective toolbars don't have issues of their own, only that IAC and Google aren't directly responsible for what 3rd parties do when 3rd parties try to install their software.
Yes. Google had a tool bar, no one is contesting that; but was it forced down your throat by google? If you downloaded any google software, did you have to specifically uncheck a box to not have it installed, or did you have to explicitly click on a link that said "Get the google toolbar" that was more than a few lines below the "Google Search" and "I'm Feeling Lucky" buttons where you couldn't accidentally miss the button by a few pixels to click on the link? If I remember right, it fit more the latter case I presented.
That's a lot different from putting a checkbox with 8pt Text in a 12pt body that you have to find and uncheck to prevent the installer from automatically installing the toolbar.
Except when the majority of people you get a voicemail from has a sufficiently thick accent that transcription leaves an indecipherable jumble of words.
"My car hill devil cream pewter shakes dawn under noticable with. Read line on palestine." is an actual transcription of a single sentence of a voicemail I received from a client. Allow me to relay what the customer actually said in the recording:
"My goddamn computer shut down without notice and there's a red light on the power brick." (This turned out to be from a short that developed in the client's $3 powered USB hub that he got off ebay, for those interested.)
My voicemail gets full of these types of transcriptions daily, and I frankly find them useless. Sometime's they'll be closer to where there's enough context that makes it through to decipher the message. Unfortunately, more often than not, the transcriptions are worse than the example I used. I've used both Sprint's offering for Visual Voicemail (on promo only...it wasn't worth paying for), and Google hangouts VV. Neither are worth having.
As someone who used to have to pay for messaging fees, I've found that shorthand was very useful in keeping the cost down as what would usually take 4 text messages under normal grammar and spelling rules could be easily cut down to 1 or 2. It was also a pain in the ass to type out full words on a phone's keypad (8 44 2 8 0 777 33 1 555 555 999 0 7777 88 222 555 33 3). Now that unlimited text messaging plans and full qwerty keyboards are nearly ubiquitous, I don't bother with shorthand anymore as it even grated on my nerves when I did it out of necessity. Now it just shows lack of care and laziness to continue.
What's the intelligence agencies objective in releasing this story to the press? That's what needs to be examined. Is it meant as a message to ISIS "We got you and we'll get you again because your people are stupid"? Or was it meant to convey to us, the American People: "This is what our metadata surveillance can accomplish if you'd just let us use it"?
The Vandals had the lyric "If you think you're free, try walking into a deli and pissing on the cheese" in Anarchy Burger. It was featured in xXx.
I think it could safely be changed to "If you think you're free, try doing cosplay (strike)in a school-zone(/strike)," now. (If only the -strike- tag actually worked here)
Could be. For all we know the Universe we live in is nothing more than some particles racing through a tube and our entire timeframe from bang to end is nothing more than a small blip of infinitesimally insignificant readings on some giant screen.
Bah... It's gotta be a false story. I mean think of the fuel costs from having these things perpetually in the....
Who the hell am I kidding? These are the same people who purchase hammers for $200 just to justify a bigger budget for their existence...
Funny...my local one still has used PC games on its rack, and gets additional ones. Unfortunately the local market for PC games seems rather small as GameStop has the largest selection of used PC games taking about a shelf and a half (estimated) on their PC rack. The local Goodwill stores will come in second by having maybe a few PC titles in their glass cage. Even for new PC game titles, GameStop here out-does Wal-Mart, BestBuy, AND Staples on what they carry in-store. Sadly, there just doesn't seem to be much of a PC market in brick & Mortar anymore. I think Steam might have had something to do with that.
Yeah... you were talking about raising by 50% when the previous poster was talking about raising it by 100% (otherwise known as doubling.) Sorry. You seemed confused about what was being said in the post you initially replied to.
Doubling the current price is not raising it by 50% (ie you're paying 150% of what you were before). Doubling means you're paying 200%, so if you're paying $10 and they double it you're now paying $20. They would then cut that by 50% and bring you back to the 10%.
At this point, I'd say $10 is on the high end of acceptable that I'd pay. For comparison, that's what I paid for each Guild Wars 2 license I bought for my wife and I to play when they had a sale a couple months ago. I've given celeron55 $15 so far to assist with operating costs for maintaining his site. Why is minetest worth more to me? Because modding is so much easier on it than it's ever been for Minecraft.
Some other comparisons on price disparity of what I'd pay for some more well known titles. I won't pay more than $20 for any of the Arkham games (and haven't). Elite: Dangerous can kiss off with their $60 entrance fee...plus whatever they charge for their paint packs if I wanted a "custom" ship coloring(that everyone else has the ability to get as well). Then they have the bloody merchandizing racket on top of that which apparently doesn't subsidize the price any. For what I've seen of E:D on youtube vids, I'd consider it for $25. ES:O can also kiss off with their $60 entry fee per license(aka $120 for both me and my wife to play at the same time). Guild Wars 2 cost half as much at its full price and that was still too much for me to take interest. At least ES:O dropped the subscription model, but it's still not enough. From my experience in the beta there's nothing that really differentiates ES:O from any other Fantasy MMO, and I've heard that they haven't really added much since.
If conservation of momentum were not true, it would break 99.999% of our understanding of physics.
FTFY.
If man's law defining conservation of momentum is found to have a loophole, then physics as defined by the universe will work the same way it always has. It's just our definition that's been broken, which would mean that every other theory we've created that's been supported by this law would have to be brought back to hypothesis and reworked into a new theory of how things work based on new evidence.
To think that it's unlikely that conservation of momentum will be discovered to have a loophole we didn't understand doesn't make you the 'religious shitreaded fanatic' [sic]. I also highly doubt that we'll find that loophole, even with this new discovery, and I feel that all the laws of physics have been fairly solidly proven thus far that they can be safely presumed to be a certainty. That said, I would not be so arrogant to say that if it were discovered that one of our laws was flawed that physics has been broken. I would only say that man's understanding of physics has been shown to be flawed and that we must come to understand that flaw so that we can rework a more complete understanding of the physics of our universe that correspond with this new information.
"And then they came for..." oh forget it.
Ok, what I've played of Minecraft on my roommate's X-Box 360, it's a decent concept but it is in no way worth the $20 that Microsoft wants for it. Looking at the site now, it's not even close to being worth the $27 that they want for the windows version. I swear I think they jacked the price up since the last time I looked (it was $21 or $22 then, if I remember correctly). Doesn't software depreciate in value? What the hell? At least with minetest I can get the minecraft experience and just periodically donate to celeron55 if I notice some innovative updates that have been made since last donation.
Doesn't injecting your own judgemental opinion into someone else's post and then re-broadcasting it make you a self-important wanker? or is that nullified by making sure you post as an AC?
Whether or not they were self-important wankers is a matter of opinion (one that I do agree with, but I was trying to keep my opinion out of my post). The fact is that, self-important wankers or not, they were slashdot users who felt they were justified in hijacking threads to ensure that an issue they felt important and being ignored was seen by the general slashdot population.
Basic Income... for someone to live on? Where? Your numbers are a grave underestimation even considering a rural Georgia community. When I was renting a (shitty)3 bedroom trailer for me and my wife, that was $600/month alone. That leaves $150 for...what? Weekly food that would give us the proper nutrition to live healthily was $100 by itself. If we wanted to live on junk food that would cause us to be bed-confined at 400 lbs each, $100 might get us 3 weeks worth. Electricity just to run a fridge and a couple of fans every night cost me $80 monthly on the low end. Fuel to get back and forth to work on (Republican town doesn't believe in public transit)? At that time it was $120 a month (couldn't afford to get my motorcycle yet). I was making $1200 a month working my ass off for RadioShack, and almost couldn't afford a pot to piss in on that! Internet? Local library once a week. TV? Built my own OTA antenna from scrap metal because getting one from RadioShack was $30 I couldn't afford to waste. With your numbers, I might as well have been homeless. At least I probably would have been healthier then with $750 going to fuel and food only.