"Umm... can you give me an example of a software company that doesn't play hardball like MS? "
The way I see it, it's kind of like being in a demolition derby. Sure everyone is playing pretty hard trying to knock out all of the other competitors. It's just that Microsoft happens to be driving an M1 Abrams.
Aaah... Another one who demands 'give me my rights, but hold the responsibilities'.
Why have the right to vote, if you don't actually exercise it? Yes, it is your right not to vote, but if the process is such that you feel that your vote is worthless, what does your abstaining from the process achieve? It is the responsibility of everyone in a democratic society to participate in the democratic process. Non participation is a cop out. By not participating, it is *you* who have given up your rights. How does that make you feel???
BTW, I think the word you are after is 'compelled', not 'compulsed'.
IIRC, what the *British* navy were ordered to do was to get a hold of the code book (not the actual machine) used by the German Navy which gave the settings to be used for each day. The German Navy were a little more strict in this respect than the Wehrmacht, which allowed the operators to come up with their own settings. The Code Books were made using special paper (rice paper?) and special ink (rose water?) and the enigma operators were under orders to throw the book into the water if they were ever captured. The water would make the book unreadable. However in this case, the captain just told the operator to abandon the sub, and he did not have time to destroy the code books.
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Except that this is not real money, just monopoly money.
Frankly, I wouldn't take anything to anyone, regardless of experience or qualifications, who was going to break it. I would much rather take it to someone who would fix it, especially if it was the brakes on my Explorer.
Glad to see symantec is stepping up to the plate with its language translation technology to tackle the outragous number of blatently pornographic and otherwise offensive websites being written in Latin. I wish I had a dime for every website written in latin I visited which turned out to be just another porn site, enticing me to purchase pictures of the mosaics from the Pompeii brothels.
I remember seeing a story about some software that would do a 'reasonableness' check on a given text, and produce a rating based on how long you would need to go to school to be able to understand it. An example was one of Winston Churchill's speeches, where it came back with something equivalent to undergraduate university level. When they fed a fairly standard piece of legal text into it, it said you would need to have gone to school for about 100 years to be able to understand it.
And the truly amazing thing is that the hamburgers will be actually *delivered* via the internet. All you will need is the newly developed iBurger (TM) device (USB only) and Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT. Windows 2000 versions will be available 2Q/2000. The developers are investigating releasing drivers for Linux under a new 'open-source-like' license called the McDPL.
"For example, this article talks about the big Aussie gun-grab that happened back in September. Guess what? Criminals didn't turn in their guns, and the number of gun crimes actually rose within a year (in Victoria, for instance, homicides w/ firearms rose 300% - no, that is not a typo)." Hmmm. Firstly, an 'article' from the NRA is hardly what I would call objective. Lets take a closer look. My sources are the Australian Institute of Criminology and the Australian Bureau of Statistics, whom I find somewhat more authorative and objective on the subject of Australian criminal activity.
The combined number of deaths by murder or manslaughter (excluding vehicles) of any cause in Victoria in 1998 was 50. National figure was 333. The national murder rate fell 12% to 1.5 per 100000. The percentage of firearm related homocides in Australia was 16% (54 homocides involved a firearm). Assuming that was the same for Victoria, that makes 8 homocides due to firearms. An increase of 300% would be accounted for by a single Port Arthur (or Columbine) type event. By comparison, gun related homocides in the US make up 10,976 out of a total 16911 (65%!!) of which 8816 were caused by handguns (Source - US Bureau of Justice Statistics). So the US has a 4 times worse homocide rate than Australia (6 vs 1.5 / 100000), and a 16 times worse homocide rate by firearms than Australia (4 vs.25/100000).
In robberies, only 8% involved use of a firearm, vs 23% in the US (1997)
I may stand to be corrected, but typically the '$200 million per plane' in defence contracts is usually the cost of the plane plus all the spare parts and support infrastructure needed for that plane. More like the TCO rather than just the one off purchase price.
My car has a manual setting where you can specify a certain speed. When you excedd that speed, a warning beeper goes off. I typically set it at about 10-15kph above tha posted speed limit. The beeper only beeps a couple of time as you pass through the setting. Rather than actually stopping you from exceeding the posted limit, what they could do is have a loud, continuous beeper going off anytime you are exceeding the posted speed limit.
Bzzzzzt - Dame Judi Dench was never Moneypenny - that role has belonged to Lois Maxwell since Dr No up to View to a Kill. M, currently played by Judi Dench, was originally played by Bernard Lee, who played M up to Moonraker.
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Why, after reading this article, do I get a mental picture of the Jem Hadar lining up to get their ration of 'the white'?
"Umm... can you give me an example of a software company that doesn't play hardball like MS? "
The way I see it, it's kind of like being in a demolition derby. Sure everyone is playing pretty hard trying to knock out all of the other competitors. It's just that Microsoft happens to be driving an M1 Abrams.
"...I genuinely felt something cold and clammy run down my back ...."
I get that whenever I see Ralph Reed.
Of course, I get the impression that Ralph Reed is cold-and-clammy incarnate.
IIRC, Pam Dawber also did a Playboy/Penthouse shoot in the 70's/early 80's.
Or so I heard.....No, don't look in that box in the back of the closet....
Aaah... Another one who demands 'give me my rights, but hold the responsibilities'.
Why have the right to vote, if you don't actually exercise it? Yes, it is your right not to vote, but if the process is such that you feel that your vote is worthless, what does your abstaining from the process achieve? It is the responsibility of everyone in a democratic society to participate in the democratic process. Non participation is a cop out. By not participating, it is *you* who have given up your rights. How does that make you feel???
BTW, I think the word you are after is 'compelled', not 'compulsed'.
IIRC, what the *British* navy were ordered to do was to get a hold of the code book (not the actual machine) used by the German Navy which gave the settings to be used for each day. The German Navy were a little more strict in this respect than the Wehrmacht, which allowed the operators to come up with their own settings.
The Code Books were made using special paper (rice paper?) and special ink (rose water?) and the enigma operators were under orders to throw the book into the water if they were ever captured. The water would make the book unreadable. However in this case, the captain just told the operator to abandon the sub, and he did not have time to destroy the code books.
Except that this is not real money, just monopoly money.
You mean like X-Terminals?
Inspector Gadget.
don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to read
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Frankly, I wouldn't take anything to anyone, regardless of experience or qualifications, who was going to break it.
I would much rather take it to someone who would fix it, especially if it was the brakes on my Explorer.
Glad to see symantec is stepping up to the plate with its language translation technology to tackle the outragous number of blatently pornographic and otherwise offensive websites being written in Latin. I wish I had a dime for every website written in latin I visited which turned out to be just another porn site, enticing me to purchase pictures of the mosaics from the Pompeii brothels.
I remember seeing a story about some software that would do a 'reasonableness' check on a given text, and produce a rating based on how long you would need to go to school to be able to understand it. An example was one of Winston Churchill's speeches, where it came back with something equivalent to undergraduate university level. When they fed a fairly standard piece of legal text into it, it said you would need to have gone to school for about 100 years to be able to understand it.
And the truly amazing thing is that the hamburgers will be actually *delivered* via the internet. All you will need is the newly developed iBurger (TM) device (USB only) and Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT. Windows 2000 versions will be available 2Q/2000. The developers are investigating releasing drivers for Linux under a new 'open-source-like' license called the McDPL.
"For example, this article talks about the big Aussie gun-grab that happened back in September. Guess what? Criminals didn't turn in their guns, and the number of gun crimes actually rose within a year (in Victoria, for instance, homicides w/ firearms rose 300% - no, that is not a typo)."
.25 /100000).
Hmmm. Firstly, an 'article' from the NRA is hardly what I would call objective. Lets take a closer look. My sources are the Australian Institute of Criminology and the Australian Bureau of Statistics, whom I find somewhat more authorative and objective on the subject of Australian criminal activity.
The combined number of deaths by murder or manslaughter (excluding vehicles) of any cause in Victoria in 1998 was 50. National figure was 333. The national murder rate fell 12% to 1.5 per 100000. The percentage of firearm related homocides in Australia was 16% (54 homocides involved a firearm). Assuming that was the same for Victoria, that makes 8 homocides due to firearms. An increase of 300% would be accounted for by a single Port Arthur (or Columbine) type event.
By comparison, gun related homocides in the US make up 10,976 out of a total 16911 (65%!!) of which 8816 were caused by handguns (Source - US Bureau of Justice Statistics). So the US has a 4 times worse homocide rate than Australia (6 vs 1.5 / 100000), and a 16 times worse homocide rate by firearms than Australia (4 vs
In robberies, only 8% involved use of a firearm, vs 23% in the US (1997)
Be careful of whose 'facts' you choose to use.
Formed by a merger of the two major Australian record companies - Festival Records and Mushroom Records
That's not all they are spreading....
Of course, 2.1 reached triple digits
I knew a girl like that once....
'blessed are the cheesemakers...'
Hmmmm
Looks like your humour transplant didn't take.
I'd sue that quack for every dollar you can get.
How the f**k am I supposed to get those headphones into my inner ear? Does this mean you need to get a cochlea implant or something???
I may stand to be corrected, but typically the '$200 million per plane' in defence contracts is usually the cost of the plane plus all the spare parts and support infrastructure needed for that plane. More like the TCO rather than just the one off purchase price.
My car has a manual setting where you can specify a certain speed. When you excedd that speed, a warning beeper goes off. I typically set it at about 10-15kph above tha posted speed limit. The beeper only beeps a couple of time as you pass through the setting.
Rather than actually stopping you from exceeding the posted limit, what they could do is have a loud, continuous beeper going off anytime you are exceeding the posted speed limit.
Bzzzzzt - Dame Judi Dench was never Moneypenny - that role has belonged to Lois Maxwell since Dr No up to View to a Kill. M, currently played by Judi Dench, was originally played by Bernard Lee, who played M up to Moonraker.