You can do fun stuff with that. Why limit yourselves to empty envelopes or envelopes with their own stuff. Get creative! A real runny sauce, packaging penuts, or even a brick are great ways to mess with those envelopes.
Seriously though, I had a friend who wrote his name and address on a piece of paper and wrote something like "Please remove me from all of your solicitation lists" and sent them to the company using their envelopes. It seems to have worked.
It gets modded up because anything anti-ms automatically gets modded up, while anything anti-linux gets modded down. Its just part of the slashdot life.
Just a thought. The reason AOL dominates the IM market is because they include it with the AOL client. Sure, they will allow their users to use different services, but those clients aren't provided nor mentioned. So the "15 million" people who use AOL just default to AIM.
Maybe I am mixing something up, but isn't this exactly what everyone is rattling the cage about with Microsoft? Microsoft forces IE down Windows users' throats by bundling it with the browser, and barely, or even not, mentioning other browser options.
Someone please explain how these two things are different.
Did it not occur to them (and Microsoft will be smart to point this out) that the AOL Browser is built off of IE. The reason IE is so dominate is because most AOL users show up as IE. As soon as AOL switches over to Netscape, IE will see its 80%+ share of the browser market evaporate.
Ah, I just realized it isn't stupid of them. Try and destroy Microsoft by inflating the browser numbers, then, once that is done, switch over to Netscape. Very clever.
If there ever was a doubt in your mind that AOL isn't the most evil of them all, this should remedy that for you.
i think what katz was getting at in a round about way is that you have to appeal to the middle of the market, a la politics. the person who wins elections nationwide is not the person who is a way right republican or a way left democrat. its the person who can appeal to the moderates and centrists. that is who wins elections, and that is what katz is getting at. *nix is way right, mac is way left, and pc/windows is sitting right in the middle, a little of both to make the average consumer happy.
from playing simcity, you would know that the only risk is from it missing its target and blowing up a section of town, which is easy to stop by just unchecking "Disasters." DUH!
This doesn't mean that anyone with Carpel Tunnel can't be considered covered under the ADA, it means this specific case. As the article states, to fall under the ADA, you have to have a disability that limits all parts of your life, not just your work. Get a bad enough case where you can't open doors or some such, and the ADA would apply.
I do not have a degree. But I did go to college for five years, where I majored in Music Education and aquired about 130 hours. My GPA wasn't the greatest, but it was there. I didn't graduate because I had decided to move into computers, and, upon getting a great job with a lot of future, I didn't think it would be smart to quit so I could student teach. If I go by what you are saying, then I am good. I have, by all accounts, finished a long term goal.
But you know what? It doesn't matter, because all the management I have ever been under only sees one thing...that I don't have a piece of paper saying I graduated. I tell them upfront "I did not graduate, but I completed approximately 130 hours of course work at a major university." And we won't get in to the fact that I have demonstrated ability, have great experience at previous places, and have never once missed a deadline (I usually beat the deadline by a week or more). None of that matters, because, in the end, it is all about the paper.
i have a great idea...save some space in your car, and put all your crap you don't want broken in there! it works for me. tv, stereo, computer...they go in the car, with me. if you don't want it broken, take some personal responsibility for it, and move it yourself.
thats a dealbreaker right there. why go with a "calculator-style ABCDEFG" layout? odds are, anyone using a PDA is going to be familiar with normal sized computers, and normal sized computers usually have qwerty keyboards. i know personally that anything non-qwerty slows me down. sure, i could get used to it, but i am already used to qwerty, so why up the learning curve of the thing with something like that? just doesn't make sense
i loved mario64, i can't wait to play the new version. and zelda. but for me, it can be summed up in one, simple word
METROID
that alone is the main reason, if not the only reason, i plan to buy a cube. i love the other exlusive nintendo games, and they look like they will have some other great games, but for me, its all about Samus Aran! Lara Croft can go spit.
but i don't use linux at home, and neither does my job. this, along with the other ximian products look great, but i can't use them. and forcing the department of commerce to switch to linux isn't a viable option. the linux people tend to complain about all the windows software that they can't use on linux...well, now they have an opportunity to be the better people, and make something that is completely cross platform...linux, windows, mac. it would be a shame if this opportunity was passed up out of spite.
you guys are so slow. everyone knows that for that last few years, to break into any major computer system, you just hold down control and double click on the pi sign on the bottom right hand corner of your screen.
Slashdot Mirror
You know you are a geek when you ask someone to marry on on Slashdot.
Can we have a poll where we can vote on what her answer should be?
You can do fun stuff with that. Why limit yourselves to empty envelopes or envelopes with their own stuff. Get creative! A real runny sauce, packaging penuts, or even a brick are great ways to mess with those envelopes.
Seriously though, I had a friend who wrote his name and address on a piece of paper and wrote something like "Please remove me from all of your solicitation lists" and sent them to the company using their envelopes. It seems to have worked.
It gets modded up because anything anti-ms automatically gets modded up, while anything anti-linux gets modded down. Its just part of the slashdot life.
Open Source. Closed Minds. We are slashdot.
sort of like how anyone who praises linux over microsoft gets mod points. gets pretty annoying, doesn't it?
Just a thought. The reason AOL dominates the IM market is because they include it with the AOL client. Sure, they will allow their users to use different services, but those clients aren't provided nor mentioned. So the "15 million" people who use AOL just default to AIM.
Maybe I am mixing something up, but isn't this exactly what everyone is rattling the cage about with Microsoft? Microsoft forces IE down Windows users' throats by bundling it with the browser, and barely, or even not, mentioning other browser options.
Someone please explain how these two things are different.
Check out this picture. Obviously a desperate cry for help on the part of the Atari engineers. Poor guys.
What about...
Austin Powers: The Rash of Khan
Austin Powers: The Search for Shags
Austin Powers: The Voyage Back to Your Pad
Oh my bad, wrong set of films!
This is even better...Redmond Linux
Did it not occur to them (and Microsoft will be smart to point this out) that the AOL Browser is built off of IE. The reason IE is so dominate is because most AOL users show up as IE. As soon as AOL switches over to Netscape, IE will see its 80%+ share of the browser market evaporate.
Ah, I just realized it isn't stupid of them. Try and destroy Microsoft by inflating the browser numbers, then, once that is done, switch over to Netscape. Very clever.
If there ever was a doubt in your mind that AOL isn't the most evil of them all, this should remedy that for you.
Did it ever occur to you that perhaps he was using the Jupiter spelling vs the Mars spelling? DUH!
i think what katz was getting at in a round about way is that you have to appeal to the middle of the market, a la politics. the person who wins elections nationwide is not the person who is a way right republican or a way left democrat. its the person who can appeal to the moderates and centrists. that is who wins elections, and that is what katz is getting at. *nix is way right, mac is way left, and pc/windows is sitting right in the middle, a little of both to make the average consumer happy.
from playing simcity, you would know that the only risk is from it missing its target and blowing up a section of town, which is easy to stop by just unchecking "Disasters." DUH!
This doesn't mean that anyone with Carpel Tunnel can't be considered covered under the ADA, it means this specific case. As the article states, to fall under the ADA, you have to have a disability that limits all parts of your life, not just your work. Get a bad enough case where you can't open doors or some such, and the ADA would apply.
I do not have a degree. But I did go to college for five years, where I majored in Music Education and aquired about 130 hours. My GPA wasn't the greatest, but it was there. I didn't graduate because I had decided to move into computers, and, upon getting a great job with a lot of future, I didn't think it would be smart to quit so I could student teach. If I go by what you are saying, then I am good. I have, by all accounts, finished a long term goal.
But you know what? It doesn't matter, because all the management I have ever been under only sees one thing...that I don't have a piece of paper saying I graduated. I tell them upfront "I did not graduate, but I completed approximately 130 hours of course work at a major university." And we won't get in to the fact that I have demonstrated ability, have great experience at previous places, and have never once missed a deadline (I usually beat the deadline by a week or more). None of that matters, because, in the end, it is all about the paper.
everyone knows that the three most commonly used passwords are love, secret and sex, but not necessarily in that order.
oh, and don't forget god. system admins love to use that one, its the whole male ego thing.
and Lindows ends with dows, which is over half of the name Windows. What exactly is your point?
then i guess you are whining about the whining? when will the cycle end. make the madness stop!
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Abbreviate the World!
Looks like now is the time to invest in a Western Union franchise in Somalia.
i have a great idea...save some space in your car, and put all your crap you don't want broken in there! it works for me. tv, stereo, computer...they go in the car, with me. if you don't want it broken, take some personal responsibility for it, and move it yourself.
thats a dealbreaker right there. why go with a "calculator-style ABCDEFG" layout? odds are, anyone using a PDA is going to be familiar with normal sized computers, and normal sized computers usually have qwerty keyboards. i know personally that anything non-qwerty slows me down. sure, i could get used to it, but i am already used to qwerty, so why up the learning curve of the thing with something like that? just doesn't make sense
i loved mario64, i can't wait to play the new version. and zelda. but for me, it can be summed up in one, simple word
METROID
that alone is the main reason, if not the only reason, i plan to buy a cube. i love the other exlusive nintendo games, and they look like they will have some other great games, but for me, its all about Samus Aran! Lara Croft can go spit.
but i don't use linux at home, and neither does my job. this, along with the other ximian products look great, but i can't use them. and forcing the department of commerce to switch to linux isn't a viable option. the linux people tend to complain about all the windows software that they can't use on linux...well, now they have an opportunity to be the better people, and make something that is completely cross platform...linux, windows, mac. it would be a shame if this opportunity was passed up out of spite.
of course, it would be helpful if i could spell acoustic. Wait! another great name for a band!
Spell Checker rox u 2 hell!
You do not know how long I have been looking for a name for my band!
Accustic Kitty rox u 2 hell!
you guys are so slow. everyone knows that for that last few years, to break into any major computer system, you just hold down control and double click on the pi sign on the bottom right hand corner of your screen.