at what point are the lines between vaporware, puffery and the Expected Fitness of the Product for a Particular Purpose (the definition of law used in negligence/torts involving warranties, no i'm not a lawyer, but i am the son of one, yes that does make me an asshole;)) drawn? i admit i didn't read the article but can you sue AOL because it doesn't really offer the best internet experience ever but they advertise it does? at what point is software complete enough to be considered warrantied for whatever purpose it's supposed to perform (if quickbooks fucks up my business's financial records do i have recourse against them? just an example)
there are lots of ISPs out there who claim their services are "100 times faster than dialup" (i'm looking at you timewarner) but i've never seen 560 KB/s downloads, is this false advertising?
what happens when the FBI comes knocking and wants to see some aim chat in real time and AOL, known for law enforcement cooperation, has to have a way of decrypting the messages right?
makes you wonder just how private it will be (or is)
$500? what does it do? my only interest in radio was back when you could listen to cell phone calls cause they weren't encrypted
what i've never been able to figure out is the attraction, so you can listen to various forms of radio from everywhere, so what? is air traffic control really that interseting? make me understand why this is worth $500 and realize i am totally ignorant of anything related to any form of ham/shortwave...
i've heard him repeatedly and even have several of those shows ripped to mp3 from the internet streams i listen to, he has some very good points and his nighttime IR photos of of the cydonia region of mars compared with downtown los angeles at night is what got my attention, it really does look like a martian city with the lights on under the space dust there..
an interesting point, too bad my mod points expired ysterday
certainly this is a valid one, i know that Indiana University in it's various forms is in bed with M$ and they get nearly free M$ w4r3z but at the steep price of not being able to use/teach anything else (unix?)
being that colleges are already monstrous, mideval fiefdoms with what amounts to totalitarian dictatorial rule maybe having corporations who are at least dealing with the spectre of law might be more inclined towards some degree of fairness with their internal proceedings, i would be opposed to some corporate sponsorship if it had any impact on the costs of colleges (ie making them lower); but of course that will never happen, they raise tution and tkae the kickbacks... hell IU's new president was complaining because he wasn't quite making $500,000 to be the new president of the college.. the local newspaper makes the man out to be a fucking messiah and the schools raise tuition yet again.. colleges that are run as businesses would most likely have nicer facilities and more to offer students, instead of hording the cash replacing nothing and having many facilities that your grandparents would recognize from when they went through... perhaps a bit of a rant but hey i just woke up
i have an emu and a rom a round here somewhere i'm sure this site has it...
the most annoying part was that i had a laser 128k (apple IIe clone) and it was supposed to run both apple and ibm software, but in fact ran neither very well, so i could play the game but after i lost all myl ives i had to cold boot the machine and reload the game because it would glitch at the highscore screen and lock up
isn't even being paid for by your tax dollars as a recruiting tool to make anxious teenagers chomp at the bit of romanticised killing made reality either... but then planet x is supposed to be here by uhm.. sunday.. according to the aliens from zeta reticula (www.zetatalk.com heh) so maybe you're right...
i don't think so, where is hussein? where are the WMD's? where is bin laden? you know they're slating up iran next.. and maybe syria.. bush will march our armies like rome as long as he's allowed..
i have had 30 days or so on my xp desktop but rarely, more often i get lockups as i push the machine, usually this happens when i'm say.. ripping an incoming internet audio stream to mp3 while listening to it and playing counterstrike
sometimes i can do this reliably for hours w/o any trouble, other times i get random lockups
granted i shorted the sound card recently by dropping a mushroom from teh pizza i was eating into the open case but i had these issues before, and it has never been a pleasant experience getting many new games to work
if i stay in userland and only view websites and listen to mp3s like a good little boy i have no issues with uptime.. is it windows? i'm guessing at least partially
although the blame goes to many of the application developers as well, the real question is why do operating systems still allow programs to crash them? that is more what i was getting at
you morons are rambling about rebuilding wireless networks for iraqis who are still starving packed small caves w/ their families trying to survive most likely
and we still dont' have bin laden or hussein and no one seems to notice or care
but we like the terrorism alert colours, they're alwyas fun...
it's interesting how employers can't "discriminate" based on skin color, gender, or religion, but it's okay to discriminate based on what people do in their freetime as well as age weight and various other things people are consistently and regularly discriminated against for..
this database is one more reason to move to canada and start signing up ashcroft for beastiality transexual midget porn
i regularly play on a hlguard protected server since amod it runs doesn't work with vac and i've personally caught 4 wallhack/aimbotters in the last 3 days just by spectating after people start to complain
upgrading your kernel is the linux equivalent of the lawn mower wars your dad (and probably many of you) have with your neighbor, whereby your neighbor's grass may not be shorter than yours and requires that people mow constantly so as to appear better.. although i haven't figuresd that one out yet myself. put simply it's all about "being the first kid on your block" with it.. in my experience it's mostly been used to flaunt your aptitude to either be first (first post) for the associated bragging rights (is it a right though?) and penis size correlation there of (first = bigger).
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at what point are the lines between vaporware, puffery and the Expected Fitness of the Product for a Particular Purpose (the definition of law used in negligence/torts involving warranties, no i'm not a lawyer, but i am the son of one, yes that does make me an asshole ;)) drawn? i admit i didn't read the article but can you sue AOL because it doesn't really offer the best internet experience ever but they advertise it does? at what point is software complete enough to be considered warrantied for whatever purpose it's supposed to perform (if quickbooks fucks up my business's financial records do i have recourse against them? just an example)
there are lots of ISPs out there who claim their services are "100 times faster than dialup" (i'm looking at you timewarner) but i've never seen 560 KB/s downloads, is this false advertising?
just some things to think about
i have a bigger question for you
what happens when the FBI comes knocking and wants to see some aim chat in real time and AOL, known for law enforcement cooperation, has to have a way of decrypting the messages right?
makes you wonder just how private it will be (or is)
$500? what does it do? my only interest in radio was back when you could listen to cell phone calls cause they weren't encrypted
what i've never been able to figure out is the attraction, so you can listen to various forms of radio from everywhere, so what? is air traffic control really that interseting? make me understand why this is worth $500 and realize i am totally ignorant of anything related to any form of ham/shortwave...
i've heard him repeatedly and even have several of those shows ripped to mp3 from the internet streams i listen to, he has some very good points and his nighttime IR photos of of the cydonia region of mars compared with downtown los angeles at night is what got my attention, it really does look like a martian city with the lights on under the space dust there..
an interesting point, too bad my mod points expired ysterday
certainly this is a valid one, i know that Indiana University in it's various forms is in bed with M$ and they get nearly free M$ w4r3z but at the steep price of not being able to use/teach anything else (unix?)
being that colleges are already monstrous, mideval fiefdoms with what amounts to totalitarian dictatorial rule maybe having corporations who are at least dealing with the spectre of law might be more inclined towards some degree of fairness with their internal proceedings, i would be opposed to some corporate sponsorship if it had any impact on the costs of colleges (ie making them lower); but of course that will never happen, they raise tution and tkae the kickbacks... hell IU's new president was complaining because he wasn't quite making $500,000 to be the new president of the college.. the local newspaper makes the man out to be a fucking messiah and the schools raise tuition yet again.. colleges that are run as businesses would most likely have nicer facilities and more to offer students, instead of hording the cash replacing nothing and having many facilities that your grandparents would recognize from when they went through... perhaps a bit of a rant but hey i just woke up
and contribute to the campaigns of those who tell those people w/ guns who kick down your door what to do ...
corporations don't have standing armies because they don't need them, they use ours
supports 128 bit encrypted messages between 2 trillian users, and it auto-establishes the session
it rocks in case you haven't heard of it
as we all know forging this "evidence" would be trivial
we all know children have no access to the anarchist's cookbook anymore now that libraries are filtered ;)
i have an emu and a rom a round here somewhere i'm sure this site has it...
the most annoying part was that i had a laser 128k (apple IIe clone) and it was supposed to run both apple and ibm software, but in fact ran neither very well, so i could play the game but after i lost all myl ives i had to cold boot the machine and reload the game because it would glitch at the highscore screen and lock up
it doesn't do that w/ the emulator i have now heh
isn't even being paid for by your tax dollars as a recruiting tool to make anxious teenagers chomp at the bit of romanticised killing made reality either... but then planet x is supposed to be here by uhm.. sunday.. according to the aliens from zeta reticula (www.zetatalk.com heh) so maybe you're right...
i don't think so, where is hussein? where are the WMD's? where is bin laden? you know they're slating up iran next.. and maybe syria.. bush will march our armies like rome as long as he's allowed..
suck1ng y0u n00b, y0u n33d m4d CS sk1llz t0 b3 l1k3 n30...
(CAUTION: preceding is sarcasm; post-disclaimer for the retarded)
How about ogg vorbis stories get their own filter so I don't have to read them anymore.
Some people are content with mp3s and don't care (or at least one doesn't).
i have had 30 days or so on my xp desktop but rarely, more often i get lockups as i push the machine, usually this happens when i'm say.. ripping an incoming internet audio stream to mp3 while listening to it and playing counterstrike
sometimes i can do this reliably for hours w/o any trouble, other times i get random lockups
granted i shorted the sound card recently by dropping a mushroom from teh pizza i was eating into the open case but i had these issues before, and it has never been a pleasant experience getting many new games to work
if i stay in userland and only view websites and listen to mp3s like a good little boy i have no issues with uptime.. is it windows? i'm guessing at least partially
although the blame goes to many of the application developers as well, the real question is why do operating systems still allow programs to crash them? that is more what i was getting at
we like to start wars for the economic benefit of those in power
if that is not corruption what is?
you morons are rambling about rebuilding wireless networks for iraqis who are still starving packed small caves w/ their families trying to survive most likely
and we still dont' have bin laden or hussein and no one seems to notice or care
but we like the terrorism alert colours, they're alwyas fun...
it's interesting how employers can't "discriminate" based on skin color, gender, or religion, but it's okay to discriminate based on what people do in their freetime as well as age weight and various other things people are consistently and regularly discriminated against for..
this database is one more reason to move to canada and start signing up ashcroft for beastiality transexual midget porn
they're not gamers at least not at school and neither are you presumably
tell me when your windows box reliably plays games and maintains more than a few days at best of uptime
try pushing hte machines.. word processing doesn't hurt anything, hell windows 95A could probably last 30 days if all it had on it was notepad open
it also doesn't work
i regularly play on a hlguard protected server since amod it runs doesn't work with vac and i've personally caught 4 wallhack/aimbotters in the last 3 days just by spectating after people start to complain
when that happened cause i got my account shutdown, as i had The Chronic (which i own) ripped into mp3 shared
;)
so yes Dre can in his own words "blow me"
how's that platinum plaque now buddy
upgrading your kernel is the linux equivalent of the lawn mower wars your dad (and probably many of you) have with your neighbor, whereby your neighbor's grass may not be shorter than yours and requires that people mow constantly so as to appear better.. although i haven't figuresd that one out yet myself. put simply it's all about "being the first kid on your block" with it.. in my experience it's mostly been used to flaunt your aptitude to either be first (first post) for the associated bragging rights (is it a right though?) and penis size correlation there of (first = bigger).
everyone knows that documents not published within the last 24 hours are not relevant to the world ..
i dunno where you come from but where i'm from people either a.) call the police or b.) threaten you and in some cases c.) start shooting
;)
if you're going to skulk around at night i suggest stealth
that in china they teach in public schools just exactly that
:P
no one in china believes we went to the moon
and i wouldn't be suprised if they got up there and didn't find a plaque or a flag for that matter