I bought a new gigabyte mobo about 18mo ago, and it has several issues I have had to just put up with - many of which are happily fixed by a firmware update. Only, it seems I need a 3.5" floppy drive to do that...and I haven't had one of those in at least 10 years.
very rarely does the cashier touch my card when I'm shopping - generally, I swipe it myself, then put in my pin if it was a debit card (with braille-enabled keypads) or sign if it was a credit card.
Sometimes people still have the behind-the-counter readers, but I very rarely see that these days.
VirtualBox was becoming increasingly useful as a server virtualization solution.
You must have had a lot of fun on 4/20 - you seem to still be under affects from that day.
VirtualBox is great for a 5 second "does this work for an XP user?" answer. There is no reasonable justification for using it to host a server of any sort of production value.
80% of the cash I use is used at gas stations that only take cash or ATM. Arco (a BP sub), etc. I never buy anything from a soda or candy vending machine.
"There's no good reason not to." - order? Ease of use? Having them all the same size makes them all line up, and not be in a mess. It makes the numbers line up too, so you can thumb through them fast to see how much of what you have. Do you have stacks of paper that are all disheveled on your desk? Probably - I do too. But when I want my desk to be neat, I take all the 8.5x11" papers in my hands, tap the stack on the bottom to line up that direction, tap on a side to line up in another direction, then viola! A nice, neat, stack of papers. This is only made possible because they're all the same size. Then I can staple them, bind them, etc. The edge of a stack of papers that are lined up is strong, less susceptible to damage; a stack that isn't lined up means the sheets that extend from the stack the furthest will almost certainly have their edges damaged. So on, so forth.
If you've ever done this to a stack of 8.5x11" paper, then you have absolutely no reason at all to say something silly like "There's no good reason not to [make them different sizes]" In fact, there are many, many reasons to not make them different sizes, and only one reason to do it - to help the visually impaired.
do you expect them to get violent and angry about people getting violent and angry in their name? If that's not actually how they are, then the "reaction" will be substantially more passive.
For my part, I saw an ad right after 9/11 for an outreach from the Muslims to demonstrate their faith and that they didn't want to kill white people. So I showed up, talked to a few guys for a long while. During the discussion I learned that if someone asks about their faith, then one of the core principles is that the person has to stop right then and there and explain it to them. Then I learned that the guy that was doing most of the talking had his wife sitting in the car for the 2 hours he had been in there with me - he seemed sensitive to the fact that this was the case, but...fact is, there was no where on the grounds that the wife was allowed to be other than in the car in the parking lot. Not that I was going to be converted anyway, but the fact that the wife wasn't even allowed in the building...or any other buildings on the ground...they can talk all they want about being the "religion of peace" but sorry, I have a bit too much respect for women for that.
Not at all similar - SCO wasn't doing something for which they were criminally liable, they were doing something for which they were civilly liable. There aren't sting operations put in place by law enforcement to try to catch SCO and their FUD; law enforcement knows exactly where the SCO offices are.
Also note that I prefaced it by saying I am only willing to offer them that benefit due to the fact that I haven't heard complaints about this sort of thing before. Note that Amazon has it in their best interests to not be associated with spam, as it would make businesses that use them for hosting lose gmail rankings - which is terribad for legit websites. Doing that for long will make Amazon lose their webhosting business very fast.
I still live in a community - have parties with my neighbors on a regular basis, even. But that doesn't mean I'm going to morbidly look in obituaries every day to see if one of them died - because, you know, I'm actually still *in touch* with my friends, so if one died I'd know about it...I wouldn't need to read about it in the paper.
no, I just have a lot of friends that are doctors, and I know how horrible their insurance premiums are now. And why? Because no matter how silly or frivolous a lawsuit might be, that doesn't preventing it from winning...like the various that Edwards won for his clients, despite every expert saying the cases were absurd.
But go ahead and attack me as a person because I think differently than you - it makes you stronger, better. It opens your horizons to endless possibilities, rivaled only by zombo.com
Had I been hearing of lots of this sort of thing, I'd be less interested in giving them the benefit of the doubt. Since I haven't, I'd like to point out that often the type of behavior that Amazon is displaying right now is due to them working with law enforcement to catch the person...versus just shutting down the instances.
Trial lawyers all but own the Democratic party, and they're the reason healthcare has becomes so expensive the last couple decades. People like Edwards are the cream of that disgusting crop. So if you think the very people causing the problem are going to create an honest solution for it...you're nuts.
Thank you for your open mind - a person that doesn't agree with you, obviously hasn't read about the subject.
Do you then disagree that Vietnam was rebelling against French rule? Do you disagree revolutionists timed this when they did because France was week, having been steamrolled by Germany? Do you disagree that it was UK troops sent in first to help France retain the area? No, instead you think that a revolutionary war after many decades of being a French colony was somehow, somehow, caused by the US.
Open your mind to the idea that you were brainwashed by a self-hating professor.
The vietnam war was an attempted revolution against French rule. Not against Eisenhower rule, French rule. And France had a plan to clean up the mess? Really? The only reason the revolution was started was because France was no longer able to assert control over the area; if they wanted to clean it up, all they had to do was relinquish their control of it.
So why were they unable to assert control over the area in the mid 50's? Oh, something called WW2. Not sure if your whack-job professor told you about that war, considering they convinced you that Eisenhower started Vietnam....or wait! I bet the US started WW2, too!
yaaaay revisionist history that they teach in schools now! Wooooot!
Yeah, nevermind that it was France in the war there for the first decade, it was their mess we were trying to clean up, and that they had been in that area since LOOOOOOONG before 1955. Funny that you pick that year of all the years of important events there, too - since Vietnam was a French colony from 1884 until 1954. In fact, the USSR, UK, and US in 1945 decided that the UK would help support French troops in the south, and that China would hold the north, due to a revolutionary trying to make a break for independence. That place was a contested, fought-for, embattled region since the mid 1800s. To think the US started ANYTHING there, and was doing ANYTHING other than trying to clean up France's mess when the US finally did go in (which yeah, it shouldn't have), is downright stupid. The problem was around long before the US involvement. Started by Eisenhower? Really?
2/5 of the country is pissed at another 2/5ths of the country, and vice-versa. It's how politicians get their power nowadays - anger. I completely disagree that having something cool, fun, and inspiring to come together on wouldn't help to solve the problem to which you're alluding - problem is, we're so trained to hate each other now, that anything one side thinks is a good idea, the other side immediately hates. Democrats announce that they like massages, Republicans immediately hold a press conference to announce that massages are the devil. Republicans announce that they like eating catfish, Democrats immediately hold a press conference to announce that eating catfish is the devil. We need leaders that not only don't cater to this (current leadership fosters/promotes it more than previous leadership did, imo), but that actually ignore it altogether. We're not going to get something like that from either party any time soon. We're not going to get something like that in our extreme-interaction democracy we've forged the last couple decades, from anyone.
That all said, there's a problem with leadership, and there's a problem with the citizens, and both could be inspired by things like a person on the moon - even if the person was from the EU.
Landing on the moon did an AMAZING amount to boost the morale of the country, cause people to dream, push themselves, open their minds to possibilities, etc. If it weren't for landing on the moon, the country (and thus the world) would be decades behind where we currently are.
I'd go so far as to say if we, or hell..anyone else, for that matter...could even just land on the moon again...the same thing would happen. Did it provide immediate benefits that justified the cost? No. What it did instead was inspire not three generations of people to dream, to reach for the stars, to explore, to innovate...
that is very rapidly changing. Managers didn't allow enough underlings to do it, which left the majority of the market with no ties to blackberry. Along came a better product, and...blackberry is losing market share rapidly, and will continue to do so as service contracts expire.
There's little to nothing the blackberry can do for a PHB that an iPhone can't do better.
no, it's consistent with their policy from the beginning - the one so many people have a problem with. Apple doesn't want anything running on the iPhone that they didn't sign off on. No matter how Flash tries to get around that, the purpose of Flash is still...to run code in a wide-scope, unprotected way. Instead of an app that will allow unapproved apps to be run, Apple just wants that flash app to be written in c# initially, and then that app submitted. Entirely consistent with the policy since the beginning.
How the hell can one company require another company to use their products? Apple wants only things written in a certain language, and that can't be used to re-execute additional code, etc etc, to be installed. Have we already forgotten/Launch from pdfs, a week later? And flash itself allows additional, non-Apple-approved, code to be run. That's the point...whether or not you or I like the policy, it's not as though Adobe is being singled out. They just feel like they are because they have such crap products that are near-monopolies themselves.
"How can you shut us out!!! We would have had our monopoly locked down if not for you...and now people are all abuzz about html5 instead! You bastards!" Yeah, I don't see how that's a legally binding thing. Ford can decide that they won't install Pioneer radios in their cars...what legal grounds would Pioneer have to suing them in to forcing them to use their product? Especially if Pioneer radios somehow broke a policy that Ford has (such as - no apps that can be used to write new apps that can be run).
there are 20 people in my office. 12 of them have iPhones. 3 have Andriods. Dunno what the others have...they're probably too ashamed to admit whatever it is;)
Not an accurate statistical sampling, but...I just don't see many blackberries and palms around anymore, except for in certain small niche' markets.
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I bought a new gigabyte mobo about 18mo ago, and it has several issues I have had to just put up with - many of which are happily fixed by a firmware update. Only, it seems I need a 3.5" floppy drive to do that...and I haven't had one of those in at least 10 years.
very rarely does the cashier touch my card when I'm shopping - generally, I swipe it myself, then put in my pin if it was a debit card (with braille-enabled keypads) or sign if it was a credit card.
Sometimes people still have the behind-the-counter readers, but I very rarely see that these days.
VirtualBox was becoming increasingly useful as a server virtualization solution.
You must have had a lot of fun on 4/20 - you seem to still be under affects from that day.
VirtualBox is great for a 5 second "does this work for an XP user?" answer. There is no reasonable justification for using it to host a server of any sort of production value.
80% of the cash I use is used at gas stations that only take cash or ATM. Arco (a BP sub), etc. I never buy anything from a soda or candy vending machine.
"There's no good reason not to." - order? Ease of use? Having them all the same size makes them all line up, and not be in a mess. It makes the numbers line up too, so you can thumb through them fast to see how much of what you have. Do you have stacks of paper that are all disheveled on your desk? Probably - I do too. But when I want my desk to be neat, I take all the 8.5x11" papers in my hands, tap the stack on the bottom to line up that direction, tap on a side to line up in another direction, then viola! A nice, neat, stack of papers. This is only made possible because they're all the same size. Then I can staple them, bind them, etc. The edge of a stack of papers that are lined up is strong, less susceptible to damage; a stack that isn't lined up means the sheets that extend from the stack the furthest will almost certainly have their edges damaged. So on, so forth.
If you've ever done this to a stack of 8.5x11" paper, then you have absolutely no reason at all to say something silly like "There's no good reason not to [make them different sizes]" In fact, there are many, many reasons to not make them different sizes, and only one reason to do it - to help the visually impaired.
do you expect them to get violent and angry about people getting violent and angry in their name? If that's not actually how they are, then the "reaction" will be substantially more passive.
For my part, I saw an ad right after 9/11 for an outreach from the Muslims to demonstrate their faith and that they didn't want to kill white people. So I showed up, talked to a few guys for a long while. During the discussion I learned that if someone asks about their faith, then one of the core principles is that the person has to stop right then and there and explain it to them. Then I learned that the guy that was doing most of the talking had his wife sitting in the car for the 2 hours he had been in there with me - he seemed sensitive to the fact that this was the case, but...fact is, there was no where on the grounds that the wife was allowed to be other than in the car in the parking lot. Not that I was going to be converted anyway, but the fact that the wife wasn't even allowed in the building...or any other buildings on the ground...they can talk all they want about being the "religion of peace" but sorry, I have a bit too much respect for women for that.
Ironically, I had never heard of this movie before this -- and now I want to watch it.
So now that they've done cease-and-desist orders against parody/humor vids, you want to reward them by watching the video? really?
and it's sad that such an established web co like netsol can't do better than someplace like mediatemple. :/
fake science papers are vetted - peer review here is intense.
Not at all similar - SCO wasn't doing something for which they were criminally liable, they were doing something for which they were civilly liable. There aren't sting operations put in place by law enforcement to try to catch SCO and their FUD; law enforcement knows exactly where the SCO offices are.
Also note that I prefaced it by saying I am only willing to offer them that benefit due to the fact that I haven't heard complaints about this sort of thing before. Note that Amazon has it in their best interests to not be associated with spam, as it would make businesses that use them for hosting lose gmail rankings - which is terribad for legit websites. Doing that for long will make Amazon lose their webhosting business very fast.
I still live in a community - have parties with my neighbors on a regular basis, even. But that doesn't mean I'm going to morbidly look in obituaries every day to see if one of them died - because, you know, I'm actually still *in touch* with my friends, so if one died I'd know about it...I wouldn't need to read about it in the paper.
no, I just have a lot of friends that are doctors, and I know how horrible their insurance premiums are now. And why? Because no matter how silly or frivolous a lawsuit might be, that doesn't preventing it from winning...like the various that Edwards won for his clients, despite every expert saying the cases were absurd.
But go ahead and attack me as a person because I think differently than you - it makes you stronger, better. It opens your horizons to endless possibilities, rivaled only by zombo.com
Had I been hearing of lots of this sort of thing, I'd be less interested in giving them the benefit of the doubt. Since I haven't, I'd like to point out that often the type of behavior that Amazon is displaying right now is due to them working with law enforcement to catch the person...versus just shutting down the instances.
Trial lawyers all but own the Democratic party, and they're the reason healthcare has becomes so expensive the last couple decades. People like Edwards are the cream of that disgusting crop. So if you think the very people causing the problem are going to create an honest solution for it...you're nuts.
Thank you for your open mind - a person that doesn't agree with you, obviously hasn't read about the subject.
Do you then disagree that Vietnam was rebelling against French rule? Do you disagree revolutionists timed this when they did because France was week, having been steamrolled by Germany? Do you disagree that it was UK troops sent in first to help France retain the area? No, instead you think that a revolutionary war after many decades of being a French colony was somehow, somehow, caused by the US.
Open your mind to the idea that you were brainwashed by a self-hating professor.
The vietnam war was an attempted revolution against French rule. Not against Eisenhower rule, French rule. And France had a plan to clean up the mess? Really? The only reason the revolution was started was because France was no longer able to assert control over the area; if they wanted to clean it up, all they had to do was relinquish their control of it.
So why were they unable to assert control over the area in the mid 50's? Oh, something called WW2. Not sure if your whack-job professor told you about that war, considering they convinced you that Eisenhower started Vietnam....or wait! I bet the US started WW2, too!
yaaaay revisionist history that they teach in schools now! Wooooot!
Yeah, nevermind that it was France in the war there for the first decade, it was their mess we were trying to clean up, and that they had been in that area since LOOOOOOONG before 1955. Funny that you pick that year of all the years of important events there, too - since Vietnam was a French colony from 1884 until 1954. In fact, the USSR, UK, and US in 1945 decided that the UK would help support French troops in the south, and that China would hold the north, due to a revolutionary trying to make a break for independence. That place was a contested, fought-for, embattled region since the mid 1800s. To think the US started ANYTHING there, and was doing ANYTHING other than trying to clean up France's mess when the US finally did go in (which yeah, it shouldn't have), is downright stupid. The problem was around long before the US involvement. Started by Eisenhower? Really?
So, they work 15hr days, 6-7 days a week? And they're 16? And they're students?
So what, school is only about 4 hours or so, leaving them 4 hours to sleep, eat, etc? Or is the suggestion that this is school for them?
2/5 of the country is pissed at another 2/5ths of the country, and vice-versa. It's how politicians get their power nowadays - anger. I completely disagree that having something cool, fun, and inspiring to come together on wouldn't help to solve the problem to which you're alluding - problem is, we're so trained to hate each other now, that anything one side thinks is a good idea, the other side immediately hates. Democrats announce that they like massages, Republicans immediately hold a press conference to announce that massages are the devil. Republicans announce that they like eating catfish, Democrats immediately hold a press conference to announce that eating catfish is the devil. We need leaders that not only don't cater to this (current leadership fosters/promotes it more than previous leadership did, imo), but that actually ignore it altogether. We're not going to get something like that from either party any time soon. We're not going to get something like that in our extreme-interaction democracy we've forged the last couple decades, from anyone.
That all said, there's a problem with leadership, and there's a problem with the citizens, and both could be inspired by things like a person on the moon - even if the person was from the EU.
because if I start doing research on something today, that means I'll have new product tomorrow! Woooot!
Landing on the moon did an AMAZING amount to boost the morale of the country, cause people to dream, push themselves, open their minds to possibilities, etc. If it weren't for landing on the moon, the country (and thus the world) would be decades behind where we currently are.
I'd go so far as to say if we, or hell..anyone else, for that matter...could even just land on the moon again...the same thing would happen. Did it provide immediate benefits that justified the cost? No. What it did instead was inspire not three generations of people to dream, to reach for the stars, to explore, to innovate...
"not accurate statistical samples."
Which is very similar to something I said...
that is very rapidly changing. Managers didn't allow enough underlings to do it, which left the majority of the market with no ties to blackberry. Along came a better product, and...blackberry is losing market share rapidly, and will continue to do so as service contracts expire.
There's little to nothing the blackberry can do for a PHB that an iPhone can't do better.
no, it's consistent with their policy from the beginning - the one so many people have a problem with. Apple doesn't want anything running on the iPhone that they didn't sign off on. No matter how Flash tries to get around that, the purpose of Flash is still...to run code in a wide-scope, unprotected way. Instead of an app that will allow unapproved apps to be run, Apple just wants that flash app to be written in c# initially, and then that app submitted. Entirely consistent with the policy since the beginning.
How the hell can one company require another company to use their products? Apple wants only things written in a certain language, and that can't be used to re-execute additional code, etc etc, to be installed. Have we already forgotten /Launch from pdfs, a week later? And flash itself allows additional, non-Apple-approved, code to be run. That's the point...whether or not you or I like the policy, it's not as though Adobe is being singled out. They just feel like they are because they have such crap products that are near-monopolies themselves.
"How can you shut us out!!! We would have had our monopoly locked down if not for you...and now people are all abuzz about html5 instead! You bastards!" Yeah, I don't see how that's a legally binding thing. Ford can decide that they won't install Pioneer radios in their cars...what legal grounds would Pioneer have to suing them in to forcing them to use their product? Especially if Pioneer radios somehow broke a policy that Ford has (such as - no apps that can be used to write new apps that can be run).
there are 20 people in my office. 12 of them have iPhones. 3 have Andriods. Dunno what the others have...they're probably too ashamed to admit whatever it is ;)
Not an accurate statistical sampling, but...I just don't see many blackberries and palms around anymore, except for in certain small niche' markets.