I know I am supporting the MS empire but I can not help it. Have you played AC? It is incredibly fun and addictive. Also MS just runs the servers and distributed the the game. Turbine wrote it and they seem like a fine bunch of folks. D.
I would not say I was joking but more poking fun at what may happen. I have heard a mention in the news of a FAT tax, where they want to tax corporations for producing fattening foods. No matter how much you say you are taxing corporations in the end you are taxing the people. So if we just monitored what went in and out of the fridge for who, then tax it, we would at least have an honest tax instead of a false tax on corporations.
Honestly I hope none of it ever happens.
BTW, I ran the Fat Boy Club on my ship when I was in the Navy. This meant since I was in such good shape (I was a Search and Rescue Swimmer) I had to lead the fat boys in getting in shape. Many did not want to get kicked out of the Navy and listened (others thought I was a sick, sadistic Nazi). The only diet I saw work well was getting the people addicted to working out with free wieghts while watching what they ate. That simple. Hell it made them feel good, they were so big they were already strong, just had to show how to focus the energy. Do it 21 days in a row, feel the endorphines everyday, and you will love it also.
How about a FAT TAX. For every gram of fat listed on the box of the food you are going to consume a tax is taken to pay for the "impact on society" of you being a fat ass and the stress or potential stress you will place on our health system. Simply hook up all possible devices we can use to consume and track who eats what. "Well Debbie if you had not eaten all those HoHo's back on '01 you wouldn't have this problem would you? Hmm no it wouldn't be that way. Since obviously all corporations are forcing us to do horrible things like smoke cigarettes and eat fatty food all the taxes will come from the evil corporations. But wait since corporations only collect taxes we will still be stuck with the FAT ASS TAX.
Ahhh or how bout the pre sex machine. "here ya go babe, swipe that imprinted bar code on your arm across this scanner and lets check you out" Of course there will be a tax for this machine. A sex tax. Boy the goverments will get rich then huh. Well maybe not from this group.
I worked with the Bann product for about a year. We ran the sofotware on HP/UX. They did claim to be able to run on NT but I never heared a confirmed case. I know someone in the Atlanta area tried but failed miserably. This is close to a year ago now though and things may have changed. Sad really because I think Baan is a better product than SAP but they have not done as well.
IMO the next great ERP will be ( is being;> ) written in Java and whichever platform runs Java the best for the least cost is going to do the best in this market. (Hmmm sounds so simple) But I guess there can also be the "well we run Linux for everything else let's just use it for our ERP." That HP hardware we had was damn expensive.
I would love it if they would port it but I doubt they will. It is simply a wondefull game and the ONLY reason I ever switch to windows at home. But this is good because it remindes me how bad windows really is. The game is written by a MS controled comapny (not sure how but the MS name is plastered wherever there is space) and runs on thier OS, yet although I do not have to always I have gotten into the habit of rebooting between or after games. It is so challenging and addictive though I can not give it up.
Want a better nightmare.. Make the thing severel times bigger....give it claws to hold its prey while it struggles. Place a large syringe on it to take a blood sample. Do genetic testing on the sample. Sample does not meet genetic standards, throw them in fuel tank. Now put a large swastika on the beast and you get the idea.
That has crossed my mind also. I have concluded that it will make my most favorite fantasys come true(except the one about the blond).....we will have to find other places to live...fast. I see huge ships full of New Worlders heading out to all corners of this uni/multiverse. This is what we are here for...to see the continuation of ourselves. The only way we can do that is to get off of this single rock before it disappears. Overpopulation will quickly push us there. But I am not syaing anything a hundred fantasy scifi writers have said better and before I have.
Well when you think about it you may not have to worry about this at all. This stuff these folks are figuring may make the term "life time" less meeningfull. Combine nano with regrowing/cloneing and we may be looking at a few hundred years for each of us, maybe at least till we get sick of this world and want to move onto the next (if there is one, who is going to go check if they do not have to?) Personelly I think we may have a chance to see more then we can imagine or count on right now, and it is going to be one hellava ride. Glad I started ROGAIN now so I wont have to be bald for 200+ years.
I really did not find it all that immature. Why not have fun with it? What are they going to do?? He has not done anything and it will cost them in the long run if they persue this. Besides nobody likes to be slammed in the court of public opinion. I hope IDG has gotten wind that a small portion of the public is watching thier silly display. Life is to short to not have fun with stuff like this. Remember he did nothing wrong. What would be even more fun though is maybe not tell them those entitys are fictional so we can watch them chase thier tail but that might be pushing it. Relax and laugh a bit.
Do not delude your self thinkning that Democracy == Freedom. When the US was a republic we were much more free. Governement screws up almost anything they stick there smelly mitts in. Frankly nothing is going to turn me off faster then some big fat bloated government geting invoved and start saying "all software must be open source". Boy we will have problems then. The socialists are evrywhere and they want to force you into thier way of thinking. I am having trouble seeing your democracy argumnet...it does not seem like democracy...everyone is not voting for something and make that the standard...which would be horrible, no thanks no democratic software for me. I did not even like the idea when studying democratic software engineering teams.
I wonder if they are able to get this done and then some cops figure out the reason the kid up the street went on a rampage with a sick amount of firepower was because he had a bad gene that they owned...would they be liable. Maybe not but you know they would be sued....everybody sues. Or sue the parents, after all they put the genes together.
Yeah there is another way. End the friggin drug war (whatever that means). Quit pouring all our money into a dead end and use it to build new schools or fund better teachers. I work for living bud and I am sick of people asking for more of my money to pour into a bottomless hole. I used to think tax and spend was the way to go but then I got a real job.
Coolness...now I am trying to figure out how I can represent the objects in some of our apps in a virtual enviroment like this. Would be much more fun for the opertors then the field entry screens...hmmm interesting...need to change the state of a component blast it with this gun, change it back hit it with this gun...nothing new or revelutionary but this engine will surely make it easier for me to experiment with these ideas.
What is wrong with being simple? I think when we get to the bottom of all this we are going to find it is painfully simple and we were just overlooking the obvious. In fact I always taken note of how our greatest scientists have always tried to break problems down to thier most simple and understandable parts. Also in the Navy one of the best lessons I learned was KISS...(keep it simple, stupid) I try to apply this way of thinkning every day as I write code.
I wonder if this all ties in nicely with the "stings theroy" that I have heard about...it deals with >4 dimensions also.
Could this be what is affecting the speed of our deep space probes? (as posted on/. about a week ago) I would like this explanation much more than some of the other stuff I read like rethinking our basic physics.
I always thought Dragonlance was the story they would have chosen to make a movie about. It was already set up like a script. Put some of the Matrix effects in this one and it will be great but it sounds like they didn't spend the cash.
I hope good things do come to those that wait becouse I have been waiting for this for over 15 YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hurry up already would ya! sheeesh
Also now we will have literaly thousands of apps written in Delph that can now be made available for the Linux platform (good thing in of it's self). Now instead of starting form scratch a software shop can jump in the Linux sandbox.(A dephi shop I mean.) And I suspect slowly some of these apps will become Open Source, and as we suspect these will rise to the top.
I surely do not want my kids to go to a goverment re-education center to be tagged and labbeled. I am going to give up much cool stuff to save enough money to send my kids to private school.
Lets see, he served his country well, killing some socialist commie bastards along the way, was held as a prisoner of War, because his father was an Admiral he was released but would NOT leave becouse he cared about the rest of the men. And now it seems he is at least trying to understand and not hinder the advancment of modern commerce on the internet. Every time I hear about this guy I like him more.
And he likes to party and chase skirts (well at least he did in his younger days)....sounds like a good Man to me.
Atlanta Major accident today over the skys of Atlanta. Joey de Blowey was flying to work this fine smog filled morning when he sucked a large Canadian goose (yeah, got another Canadian, to bad it was a goose) into his fancy flying machine while cruising at 80mph. His emergency parachute immediatly deployed and he started to descend to earth when he happend to float down into the props of the poor fool who happened to be flying below him. Most of his body was mushed but he was able to be identified becouse his head flew in through the bedroom window of Mary Jane of Roswell. Americans for the Libertys of Geese are looking into the needless death of the fine bird.
The flag is completly out of line. Sure I feel they can do whatever they like with it, burn it, wipe thier bum with it, make love to it, whatever. But after serving in the worlds most powerfull military (and if you doubt that just try us) I do take notice of people doing something like this to something I care about and was willing to die for....and my father was willing to die for...and his father was willing to die for. Maybe if we had kept "Don't tread on me!" they would have gotten the point. Sure it is just a symbol...but what is it a symbol for....well when you are over seas its a symbol for everything you have, your family, yourhome, your church, your friends, your ISP.
Point? Yeah I have a point, just picture a big fella pointing a finger at you saying " I wouldn't touch that if I were you!" before you attempt to mess with the flag again.
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I know I am supporting the MS empire but I can not help it. Have you played AC? It is incredibly fun and addictive. Also MS just runs the servers and distributed the the game. Turbine wrote it and they seem like a fine bunch of folks.
D.
I would not say I was joking but more poking fun at what may happen. I have heard a mention in the news of a FAT tax, where they want to tax corporations for producing fattening foods. No matter how much you say you are taxing corporations in the end you are taxing the people. So if we just monitored what went in and out of the fridge for who, then tax it, we would at least have an honest tax instead of a false tax on corporations.
Honestly I hope none of it ever happens.
BTW, I ran the Fat Boy Club on my ship when I was in the Navy. This meant since I was in such good shape (I was a Search and Rescue Swimmer) I had to lead the fat boys in getting in shape. Many did not want to get kicked out of the Navy and listened (others thought I was a sick, sadistic Nazi). The only diet I saw work well was getting the people addicted to working out with free wieghts while watching what they ate. That simple. Hell it made them feel good, they were so big they were already strong, just had to show how to focus the energy. Do it 21 days in a row, feel the endorphines everyday, and you will love it also.
How about a FAT TAX. For every gram of fat listed on the box of the food you are going to consume a tax is taken to pay for the "impact on society" of you being a fat ass and the stress or potential stress you will place on our health system. Simply hook up all possible devices we can use to consume and track who eats what.
"Well Debbie if you had not eaten all those HoHo's back on '01 you wouldn't have this problem would you?
Hmm no it wouldn't be that way. Since obviously all corporations are forcing us to do horrible things like smoke cigarettes and eat fatty food all the taxes will come from the evil corporations. But wait since corporations only collect taxes we will still be stuck with the FAT ASS TAX.
Ahhh or how bout the pre sex machine.
"here ya go babe, swipe that imprinted bar code on your arm across this scanner and lets check you out"
Of course there will be a tax for this machine.
A sex tax. Boy the goverments will get rich then huh. Well maybe not from this group.
I worked with the Bann product for about a year. We ran the sofotware on HP/UX. They did claim to be able to run on NT but I never heared a confirmed case. I know someone in the Atlanta area tried but failed miserably. This is close to a year ago now though and things may have changed. Sad really because I think Baan is a better product than SAP but they have not done as well.
;> ) written in Java and whichever platform runs Java the best for the least cost is going to do the best in this market. (Hmmm sounds so simple)
IMO the next great ERP will be ( is being
But I guess there can also be the "well we run Linux for everything else let's just use it for our ERP."
That HP hardware we had was damn expensive.
Heh. But we are still here waiting aren't we. Kinda funny. But remember more bodies does not always mean faster or better.
Funny thing is that here in Atlanta I hardley see anybody driving and NOT talking on the phone.
I would love it if they would port it but I doubt they will. It is simply a wondefull game and the ONLY reason I ever switch to windows at home. But this is good because it remindes me how bad windows really is. The game is written by a MS controled comapny (not sure how but the MS name is plastered wherever there is space) and runs on thier OS, yet although I do not have to always I have gotten into the habit of rebooting between or after games. It is so challenging and addictive though I can not give it up.
Want a better nightmare..
Make the thing severel times bigger....give it claws to hold its prey while it struggles. Place a large syringe on it to take a blood sample. Do genetic testing on the sample. Sample does not meet genetic standards, throw them in fuel tank. Now put a large swastika on the beast and you get the idea.
That has crossed my mind also. I have concluded that it will make my most favorite fantasys come true(except the one about the blond).....we will have to find other places to live...fast. I see huge ships full of New Worlders heading out to all corners of this uni/multiverse. This is what we are here for...to see the continuation of ourselves. The only way we can do that is to get off of this single rock before it disappears. Overpopulation will quickly push us there. But I am not syaing anything a hundred fantasy scifi writers have said better and before I have.
It's fun just to think about.
Well when you think about it you may not have to worry about this at all. This stuff these folks are figuring may make the term "life time" less meeningfull. Combine nano with regrowing/cloneing and we may be looking at a few hundred years for each of us, maybe at least till we get sick of this world and want to move onto the next (if there is one, who is going to go check if they do not have to?)
Personelly I think we may have a chance to see more then we can imagine or count on right now, and it is going to be one hellava ride. Glad I started ROGAIN now so I wont have to be bald for 200+ years.
And I thought HDTV was cool.
I really did not find it all that immature. Why not have fun with it? What are they going to do?? He has not done anything and it will cost them in the long run if they persue this. Besides nobody likes to be slammed in the court of public opinion. I hope IDG has gotten wind that a small portion of the public is watching thier silly display. Life is to short to not have fun with stuff like this. Remember he did nothing wrong. What would be even more fun though is maybe not tell them those entitys are fictional so we can watch them chase thier tail but that might be pushing it. Relax and laugh a bit.
Meant what I said and said what I meant.
Do not delude your self thinkning that Democracy == Freedom. When the US was a republic we were much more free. Governement screws up almost anything they stick there smelly mitts in. Frankly nothing is going to turn me off faster then some big fat bloated government geting invoved and start saying "all software must be open source". Boy we will have problems then. The socialists are evrywhere and they want to force you into thier way of thinking. I am having trouble seeing your democracy argumnet...it does not seem like democracy...everyone is not voting for something and make that the standard...which would be horrible, no thanks no democratic software for me. I did not even like the idea when studying democratic software engineering teams.
I wonder if they are able to get this done and then some cops figure out the reason the kid up the street went on a rampage with a sick amount of firepower was because he had a bad gene that they owned...would they be liable. Maybe not but you know they would be sued....everybody sues. Or sue the parents, after all they put the genes together.
Yeah there is another way. End the friggin drug war (whatever that means). Quit pouring all our money into a dead end and use it to build new schools or fund better teachers. I work for living bud and I am sick of people asking for more of my money to pour into a bottomless hole. I used to think tax and spend was the way to go but then I got a real job.
Coolness...now I am trying to figure out how I can represent the objects in some of our apps in a virtual enviroment like this. Would be much more fun for the opertors then the field entry screens...hmmm interesting...need to change the state of a component blast it with this gun, change it back hit it with this gun...nothing new or revelutionary but this engine will surely make it easier for me to experiment with these ideas.
What is wrong with being simple? I think when we get to the bottom of all this we are going to find it is painfully simple and we were just overlooking the obvious. In fact I always taken note of how our greatest scientists have always tried to break problems down to thier most simple and understandable parts. Also in the Navy one of the best lessons I learned was KISS...(keep it simple, stupid) I try to apply this way of thinkning every day as I write code.
I wonder if this all ties in nicely with the "stings theroy" that I have heard about...it deals with >4 dimensions also.
Could this be what is affecting the speed of our deep space probes? (as posted on /. about a week ago) I would like this explanation much more than some of the other stuff I read like rethinking our basic physics.
I always thought Dragonlance was the story they would have chosen to make a movie about. It was already set up like a script. Put some of the Matrix effects in this one and it will be great but it sounds like they didn't spend the cash.
I hope good things do come to those that wait becouse I have been waiting for this for over 15 YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hurry up already would ya! sheeesh
Also now we will have literaly thousands of apps written in Delph that can now be made available for the Linux platform (good thing in of it's self). Now instead of starting form scratch a software shop can jump in the Linux sandbox.(A dephi shop I mean.) And I suspect slowly some of these apps will become Open Source, and as we suspect these will rise to the top.
What makes you think they are not already after us. You have already posted your libertarian ideas..now the socialists know who you are.
I surely do not want my kids to go to a goverment re-education center to be tagged and labbeled. I am going to give up much cool stuff to save enough money to send my kids to private school.
Lets see, he served his country well, killing some socialist commie bastards along the way, was held as a prisoner of War, because his father was an Admiral he was released but would NOT leave becouse he cared about the rest of the men. And now it seems he is at least trying to understand and not hinder the advancment of modern commerce on the internet. Every time I hear about this guy I like him more.
And he likes to party and chase skirts (well at least he did in his younger days)....sounds like a good Man to me.
Atlanta
Major accident today over the skys of Atlanta. Joey de Blowey was flying to work this fine smog filled morning when he sucked a large Canadian goose (yeah, got another Canadian, to bad it was a goose) into his fancy flying machine while cruising at 80mph. His emergency parachute immediatly deployed and he started to descend to earth when he happend to float down into the props of the poor fool who happened to be flying below him. Most of his body was mushed but he was able to be identified becouse his head flew in through the bedroom window of Mary Jane of Roswell. Americans for the Libertys of Geese are looking into the needless death of the fine bird.
The flag is completly out of line. Sure I feel they can do whatever they like with it, burn it, wipe thier bum with it, make love to it, whatever. But after serving in the worlds most powerfull military (and if you doubt that just try us) I do take notice of people doing something like this to something I care about and was willing to die for....and my father was willing to die for...and his father was willing to die for. Maybe if we had kept "Don't tread on me!" they would have gotten the point. Sure it is just a symbol...but what is it a symbol for....well when you are over seas its a symbol for everything you have, your family, yourhome, your church, your friends, your ISP.
Point? Yeah I have a point, just picture a big fella pointing a finger at you saying " I wouldn't touch that if I were you!" before you attempt to mess with the flag again.