This whole "god vs evil" thing is a load of crap. I know a lot of people who work for MS and a lot of people who work for Google. On either side you have your good and your bad. Both are companies. Both are very tough companies with very unrealistic demands at times. Go with the one that offered you the best deal. From what I hear, MS pays better and treats their employees like gold. Google pays **** and gives you free food and a bunch of tshirts.
Oh yeah, there's one thing you'll get from Google that you won't from Microsoft. An inflated sense of self. Nothing makes you feel better than everyone else than working for a company that's the antithesis of evil, right?
Mods: i'd rather be called a troll for this than humerous. please don't rate it funny. i stand by every word.
With the current trend in battery explosions for laptops, I wonder how long until all laptops are considered explosive devices and aren't allowed to be used on planes. Perhaps we should start using things that are more stable. Like radioactive material or internal combustion engines. Ooh! Or we could all get neat little hand cranks!
What am I going to do on my flight to Germany now?
I drive a truck that gets, maybe, 14mpg. I drive a 1972 station wagon that probably gets less. I also have a bike that gets about 50mpg... if I'm not driving it. 35-40mpg when I am.
Why do I have these gas guzzlers? Because I love them. I don't drive them to get from point to point. I use them for that purpose, but I drive them because I love driving them. I love the way they sound. I love the way they feel. That doesn't make me an idiot. If I bought an ugly car with poor performance that saved gas and wasn't any fun for _me_ to drive, then I would be an idiot.
I don't complain about how many hours a day you probably spend on WoW... despite how much of a waste _I_ think it is. Perhaps you shouldn't complain about my hobbies.b
This is stupid. Plain and simple. The retarded hippie state that is California thinks way too highly of itself. I know, i live here and deal with these morons every day. (The weather keeps me here.) California is taking it upon itself to sue for a _global_ issue? For some reason some ****tards here think that they are empowered to make this claim? If it were up to the loudest of the environazis, we'd all be walking around barefoot, eating twigs and wearing hemp. I love my dyno powered vehicles. All four of them (not to mention the other two in my household).
If anyone's to blame, it's the consumer. Perhaps the next lawsuit will be us suing ourselves.
"How many red cars were on the road during your trip to work?"
What? What the hell are you talking about? How does this apply to anything? That's an actual question I've heard used as an example for these stupid puzzle tests. I've done a lot of IT related interviewing where I work and have flat out refused to ask these useless questions, despite the huge trend in this company towards these things. We've had a lot of really bad hires, in my opinion, that probably answered these questions perfectly. I've only had a hand in hiring one complete dud that I can think of and have never resorted to this. It's garbage. Ask me about what claim I know. Hell, you can even make up puzzles about what I claim to know. I'm creative when it comes to solving a real problem, but I have no idea how you want me to figure out how many of what color car was on the road with me today.
Does Google explicitly say that the licenses for the video codecs their using make it so they can't play them under Linux? Perhaps some of the large media providers they have deals with won't allow them to use a FOSS codec. Sure, the user uploaded files and things could probably be done that way, but I doubt the big studios want to make their videos completely open. For some, streaming is ok but downloading/copying/editing isn't and they might be trying to prevent that. But hell, you can almost always get codecs for your Linux box that will play the more proprietary formats anyway. (I don't know, I'm not much of a video watcher on my computer.)
I just added Birthdays for all my family and a couple of my friends and set them all to repeat yearly. There is definitely a repeating fnuction. Since you're importing your calendar, it might not group repeated events. Is there some special bit in the iCal format that notifies a calendar client that an object should be grouped as a repeated event?
For simplicity that looks good, I really like my Skagens. I have two of theirs (link goes to titanium... the steel one I have is discontinued).
For the geek factor, I just had to buy the Atari Fossil. I think it's really ugly, to be honest. And I don't really like leather bands (I prefer metal). But something about "limited edition Atari" blah blah blah... And who knows how long our beloved Atari is going to last.
For the punk rocker in me, I couldn't help but buy this Diesel watch (not the right color in the link). It's solid and heavy and is spikey. I really enjoy things with spikes...
A lot of people have suggested some really awesome watches. If money wasn't a consideration, there're definitely a few I'd go out and buy tomorrow. Since it is though, I've just gone for things that meet my functional requirement and I think look good (the Atari watch being an exception). They've all been under $200, keep great time and look good on my wrist. And let me tell you... it's a lot of fun to hit someone in a mosh pit when you're wearing 1/4 lb. of spiked black steel on your wrist.;)
It's not that you can't hide your idle time, it's that it doesn't allow you to choose what it uses to report idle time. Instead of giving you the report-idle-time-base-on options, it just uses your keyboard/mouse to determine how idle this you are. It used to also allow the option of reporting idle time based on gaim usage only (you could work on your computer all you want and it would consider you idle until you typed into a gaim chat window). If you don't want people to know whether your idle or ignoring them (don't debate it, you know you all use it to ignore people) then don't report your idle time at all. Or use idle maker like that one guy suggested...
I don't know why, but it makes me happy that a few bands are embracing the MP3 concept. First band I heard of doing this was Wizohttp://www.wizo.de/. You can get their "Stick-EP" here: http://tinyurl.com/az6el. I think I heard another band did this before them, but I can't remember who it was.
the choice of the uninformed.
"gimme my IBM back!"
"no... i enjoy your suffering and you need to learn to support apples"
-the next day-
"hey , i figured out how to make this thing useful. i'm installing linux on it."
"no! that's not why you have it! you're supposed to learn to support them!"
"i did. i just couldn't figure out how to make it a useful business appliance... until now."
seriously, this has been the worst computing experience of my life. i've never had a more useless laptop. the list of things i hate goes on and on. and then "based on BSD" lie isn't nearly enough to convince me to switch. especially since it's "based on BSD" like windows XP is "based on DOS." these last three months have actually made me appreciate windows more... which is sad, since i haven't owned a windows machine in years.
the apple nuts will no doubt flame me for this, but that's ok. i think differently than you do... or maybe it's just that i think at all.
I've got to say, Firefox is now the second most horrible looking web browser. I absolutely hate the way Firefox looks and feels and now Netscape has copied them and made it look worse.
To Mozilla developers: Please please please don't go this route. The look and feel of Mozilla is what I like. It's been the same since the early days of Netscape and I'm very comfortable with it. If I wanted something that was GUI as hell, I'd type with one hand... I mean, I'd use a Mac (or KDE/Gnome/E). Some of us like bare bones and clean.
and we should all jump over to one of the sites to check it out! that'll show those DDOS bastards! they can't push out nearly as much bandwidth as all of/.!
No idea how this got modded troll, but I'm a slackware user and find that fairly accurate. I've dropped numerous long term friends for one act of betrayal.
yeah, that's what i thought to myself when i read it a few hours ago on fark. great original content guys. might as well pull things a few hours after they get posted to the AP wire.
While you're not dead yet, with only 47 comments, you're not showing good signs. Took about 15s to start loading. Wait until the rest of the/. cult jumps up and hammers you. Good luck...
I grabbed all three about 30 minutes ago on one machine and now all the links are broken. Wonder if it sucks to be all the slow people who didn't get it or if it's about to suck to be one of the quick who did. Mozilla should have the bandwidth to sustain all of us. Wonder why they'd have done that.../me gets out box of tinfoil hats for sale i'm gonna make a killing!
i was going to reply with a long winded answer, but i realized something. you don't live here. you don't fully understand how great it is to live here. we're not blind to the way our politicians work. we know all about it. politics, like everything else, is a business. people tend to look at this as corruption, but it's not. we're a capitalist society, which is what makes us so strong. we have truckloads of money and aren't afraid to abuse it.
this isn't about helping others. help yourself. my car gets 8mpg, don't care about fuel economy. if we want to save the planet, let's startingfeeding vegans to the lions and cut off the air to the people who want to complain about it's poor quality. why can i say and advocate these things? because i'm american and i don't give two shits about what the rest of the world thinks. i can be as selish or as selfless as i want and there's nothing anyone can do about it.
and i don't know what everyone imagines is so wrong here. we have great health coverage, if you can afford it. if you can't, you're probably not contributing much and i sure as hell don't want to pay for it for you. i didn't work for 14 months, but i'm working now and have been for almost 9 months. sounds like a good economy to me.
are problems are obvious to the rest of the world because you all need to sit and have some good reason to hate us. how come your complete jealousy of our way of life is so obvious to us and you all seem to be so blind to it?
well shit, if you'll buy all that, i've got some swamp land and a bridge i think you might be interested in.
please do some actual research on these points, before you make your purchase though. you'd be amazed at how the facts look after just a little bit of digging.
my favorite ons is still the saudis being in the air prior to any other people being allowed to fly. that's been disproven all over the place (see the 9/11 comission report for the full details) if you really want to know the truth on hat one.
I'm agnostic I make a very meager wage Haven't had a chance to turn on the TV in weeks Doesn't Moore count as media? I don't believe a word out of his mouth.
Guess who I'm voting for?
Punk rock, giant holes in my ears, pierced eyebrow, snowboard, wakeboard, skateboard, ride a bicycle to work, wear shorts and a t-shirt on the job, live in Silicon Valley.
I'm voting Bush. Why? Because I'm not retarded. I may not like him, but I hate Kerry. And kids, there's no "Anyone but Bush" box on the ballot. I wish there was though, so you could all just throw away your votes. If you're not voting _for_ someone, you shouldn't vote at all.
i bet you didn't know that lots of people invest in oil. lots of people make money off of legal weapons trades. the bin ladens aren't bad people. there are a few who are evil, but the rest are well to do family with a lot of good business ventures. moore is profiting off this war pretty well to. i don't recall his movies being handed out for free. doesn't that make him a bad person too?
ps-i think moore is a horrible person, but not for making money
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This whole "god vs evil" thing is a load of crap. I know a lot of people who work for MS and a lot of people who work for Google. On either side you have your good and your bad. Both are companies. Both are very tough companies with very unrealistic demands at times. Go with the one that offered you the best deal. From what I hear, MS pays better and treats their employees like gold. Google pays **** and gives you free food and a bunch of tshirts.
Oh yeah, there's one thing you'll get from Google that you won't from Microsoft. An inflated sense of self. Nothing makes you feel better than everyone else than working for a company that's the antithesis of evil, right?
Mods: i'd rather be called a troll for this than humerous. please don't rate it funny. i stand by every word.
With the current trend in battery explosions for laptops, I wonder how long until all laptops are considered explosive devices and aren't allowed to be used on planes. Perhaps we should start using things that are more stable. Like radioactive material or internal combustion engines. Ooh! Or we could all get neat little hand cranks!
What am I going to do on my flight to Germany now?
I drive a truck that gets, maybe, 14mpg.
I drive a 1972 station wagon that probably gets less.
I also have a bike that gets about 50mpg... if I'm not driving it. 35-40mpg when I am.
Why do I have these gas guzzlers? Because I love them. I don't drive them to get from point to point. I use them for that purpose, but I drive them because I love driving them. I love the way they sound. I love the way they feel. That doesn't make me an idiot. If I bought an ugly car with poor performance that saved gas and wasn't any fun for _me_ to drive, then I would be an idiot.
I don't complain about how many hours a day you probably spend on WoW... despite how much of a waste _I_ think it is. Perhaps you shouldn't complain about my hobbies.b
This is stupid. Plain and simple. The retarded hippie state that is California thinks way too highly of itself. I know, i live here and deal with these morons every day. (The weather keeps me here.) California is taking it upon itself to sue for a _global_ issue? For some reason some ****tards here think that they are empowered to make this claim? If it were up to the loudest of the environazis, we'd all be walking around barefoot, eating twigs and wearing hemp. I love my dyno powered vehicles. All four of them (not to mention the other two in my household).
If anyone's to blame, it's the consumer. Perhaps the next lawsuit will be us suing ourselves.
"How many red cars were on the road during your trip to work?"
What? What the hell are you talking about? How does this apply to anything? That's an actual question I've heard used as an example for these stupid puzzle tests. I've done a lot of IT related interviewing where I work and have flat out refused to ask these useless questions, despite the huge trend in this company towards these things. We've had a lot of really bad hires, in my opinion, that probably answered these questions perfectly. I've only had a hand in hiring one complete dud that I can think of and have never resorted to this. It's garbage. Ask me about what claim I know. Hell, you can even make up puzzles about what I claim to know. I'm creative when it comes to solving a real problem, but I have no idea how you want me to figure out how many of what color car was on the road with me today.
Does Google explicitly say that the licenses for the video codecs their using make it so they can't play them under Linux? Perhaps some of the large media providers they have deals with won't allow them to use a FOSS codec. Sure, the user uploaded files and things could probably be done that way, but I doubt the big studios want to make their videos completely open. For some, streaming is ok but downloading/copying/editing isn't and they might be trying to prevent that. But hell, you can almost always get codecs for your Linux box that will play the more proprietary formats anyway. (I don't know, I'm not much of a video watcher on my computer.)
don't worry, it's not like it's working anyway. i tried to setup my cingular phone and haven't gotten anything for a passphrase yet.
I just added Birthdays for all my family and a couple of my friends and set them all to repeat yearly. There is definitely a repeating fnuction. Since you're importing your calendar, it might not group repeated events. Is there some special bit in the iCal format that notifies a calendar client that an object should be grouped as a repeated event?
For the geek factor, I just had to buy the Atari Fossil. I think it's really ugly, to be honest. And I don't really like leather bands (I prefer metal). But something about "limited edition Atari" blah blah blah... And who knows how long our beloved Atari is going to last.
For the punk rocker in me, I couldn't help but buy this Diesel watch (not the right color in the link). It's solid and heavy and is spikey. I really enjoy things with spikes...
A lot of people have suggested some really awesome watches. If money wasn't a consideration, there're definitely a few I'd go out and buy tomorrow. Since it is though, I've just gone for things that meet my functional requirement and I think look good (the Atari watch being an exception). They've all been under $200, keep great time and look good on my wrist. And let me tell you... it's a lot of fun to hit someone in a mosh pit when you're wearing 1/4 lb. of spiked black steel on your wrist. ;)
It's not that you can't hide your idle time, it's that it doesn't allow you to choose what it uses to report idle time. Instead of giving you the report-idle-time-base-on options, it just uses your keyboard/mouse to determine how idle this you are. It used to also allow the option of reporting idle time based on gaim usage only (you could work on your computer all you want and it would consider you idle until you typed into a gaim chat window). If you don't want people to know whether your idle or ignoring them (don't debate it, you know you all use it to ignore people) then don't report your idle time at all. Or use idle maker like that one guy suggested...
I don't know why, but it makes me happy that a few bands are embracing the MP3 concept. First band I heard of doing this was Wizohttp://www.wizo.de/. You can get their "Stick-EP" here: http://tinyurl.com/az6el. I think I heard another band did this before them, but I can't remember who it was.
damnit! and i wanted to be the first to tell /. about it. satellite imagery is awesome!
the choice of the uninformed. "gimme my IBM back!" "no... i enjoy your suffering and you need to learn to support apples" -the next day- "hey , i figured out how to make this thing useful. i'm installing linux on it." "no! that's not why you have it! you're supposed to learn to support them!" "i did. i just couldn't figure out how to make it a useful business appliance... until now." seriously, this has been the worst computing experience of my life. i've never had a more useless laptop. the list of things i hate goes on and on. and then "based on BSD" lie isn't nearly enough to convince me to switch. especially since it's "based on BSD" like windows XP is "based on DOS." these last three months have actually made me appreciate windows more... which is sad, since i haven't owned a windows machine in years. the apple nuts will no doubt flame me for this, but that's ok. i think differently than you do... or maybe it's just that i think at all.
Now we just need to get rid of KDE (and a few other bits) and slackware will fit back on a single CD.
I've got to say, Firefox is now the second most horrible looking web browser. I absolutely hate the way Firefox looks and feels and now Netscape has copied them and made it look worse.
To Mozilla developers: Please please please don't go this route. The look and feel of Mozilla is what I like. It's been the same since the early days of Netscape and I'm very comfortable with it. If I wanted something that was GUI as hell, I'd type with one hand... I mean, I'd use a Mac (or KDE/Gnome/E). Some of us like bare bones and clean.
and we should all jump over to one of the sites to check it out! that'll show those DDOS bastards! they can't push out nearly as much bandwidth as all of /.!
No idea how this got modded troll, but I'm a slackware user and find that fairly accurate. I've dropped numerous long term friends for one act of betrayal.
yeah, that's what i thought to myself when i read it a few hours ago on fark. great original content guys. might as well pull things a few hours after they get posted to the AP wire.
"There, that ought to stress-test my new server!"
/. cult jumps up and hammers you. Good luck...
While you're not dead yet, with only 47 comments, you're not showing good signs. Took about 15s to start loading. Wait until the rest of the
I grabbed all three about 30 minutes ago on one machine and now all the links are broken. Wonder if it sucks to be all the slow people who didn't get it or if it's about to suck to be one of the quick who did. Mozilla should have the bandwidth to sustain all of us. Wonder why they'd have done that... /me gets out box of tinfoil hats for sale
i'm gonna make a killing!
i was going to reply with a long winded answer, but i realized something. you don't live here. you don't fully understand how great it is to live here. we're not blind to the way our politicians work. we know all about it. politics, like everything else, is a business. people tend to look at this as corruption, but it's not. we're a capitalist society, which is what makes us so strong. we have truckloads of money and aren't afraid to abuse it.
this isn't about helping others. help yourself. my car gets 8mpg, don't care about fuel economy. if we want to save the planet, let's startingfeeding vegans to the lions and cut off the air to the people who want to complain about it's poor quality. why can i say and advocate these things? because i'm american and i don't give two shits about what the rest of the world thinks. i can be as selish or as selfless as i want and there's nothing anyone can do about it.
and i don't know what everyone imagines is so wrong here. we have great health coverage, if you can afford it. if you can't, you're probably not contributing much and i sure as hell don't want to pay for it for you. i didn't work for 14 months, but i'm working now and have been for almost 9 months. sounds like a good economy to me.
are problems are obvious to the rest of the world because you all need to sit and have some good reason to hate us. how come your complete jealousy of our way of life is so obvious to us and you all seem to be so blind to it?
well shit, if you'll buy all that, i've got some swamp land and a bridge i think you might be interested in.
please do some actual research on these points, before you make your purchase though. you'd be amazed at how the facts look after just a little bit of digging.
my favorite ons is still the saudis being in the air prior to any other people being allowed to fly. that's been disproven all over the place (see the 9/11 comission report for the full details) if you really want to know the truth on hat one.
I'm agnostic
I make a very meager wage
Haven't had a chance to turn on the TV in weeks
Doesn't Moore count as media? I don't believe a word out of his mouth.
Guess who I'm voting for?
Punk rock, giant holes in my ears, pierced eyebrow, snowboard, wakeboard, skateboard, ride a bicycle to work, wear shorts and a t-shirt on the job, live in Silicon Valley.
I'm voting Bush. Why? Because I'm not retarded. I may not like him, but I hate Kerry. And kids, there's no "Anyone but Bush" box on the ballot. I wish there was though, so you could all just throw away your votes. If you're not voting _for_ someone, you shouldn't vote at all.
http://www.zipperfish.com/free/yaafm9.html
'Nuff said.
i bet you didn't know that lots of people invest in oil. lots of people make money off of legal weapons trades. the bin ladens aren't bad people. there are a few who are evil, but the rest are well to do family with a lot of good business ventures. moore is profiting off this war pretty well to. i don't recall his movies being handed out for free. doesn't that make him a bad person too?
ps-i think moore is a horrible person, but not for making money