Yes, I live next door to our county library, in fact. The CD selection they have is absolutely pathetic. If I want John Denver's Greatest Hits or some Disney slop, I can go there.
The library has nowhere near the content of even a small record store.
When I lived in Japan, there were quite a few CD rental shops. I made SO MANY flippin tapes from CDs I rented, it wasn't even funny. They vanished before I moved back to the States in 1994, though.. Now, 1999 rolls around and mp3 is all the rage.
The CDs in the rental shops were plain ol' audio CDs. No DRM, no copy-bit, no need for a Sharpie. None of that crap.
Interesting to at least see part of that past come full circle..
"normal people" or some of these pathetic bags of shit that have 25 blogs & 3 webcams going 24/7? I took a nice vacation recently and really didn't miss the computers at all, but I can imagine that your average blogwhore 16yr old girl would absolutely freak out if there was no internet access for 2 weeks.
I'm using it on a dual 1.6ghz Xeon box with Gentoo here in the office - the box processes over 70,000 emails per day (spamassassin, amavisd-new and clamav/f-prot) and the load average barely goes above 0.02.
Your ISP just didn't want to take any time to actually learn about it.:)
"Free of rules and laws, yes, much more so than ordinary society, though less than the smaller Burning mans of the past."
MUCH less than the past.
"But free of Technology? What Burning Mans have you been to? Burning Man is crawling with technology, it's in love with technology, and has been the 7 times I have been."
It's been before that... before the thing turned into a frat boy $350/ticket money pit. Oh well.
funny how an impromptu "city" in the middle of nowhere that was supposed to be free of laws, rules, technology/etc..... is now giggling over a VoIP phone & WiFi. heh.
I just leave a big hungry Rottweiler with an attitude problem tied to my bike. It's great because nobody will steal the bike, and when I need that extra boost going up the hills, I yell "Chopper, sic balls!" and point at someone up the street.
Where I work, we have no Exchange Server, but a handful of Outlook users. They will NOT change because of the Calendar and that Notes feature.
Come on, sticky notes? I'm surprised that people haven't busted ass to try and mimic the features that people like about Outlook (cuz lemme tell ya, there's not a hell of of a lot that they really *like* about Outlook)
"Code it yourself" I've heard. Gee, sorry, I'm not a programmer.. just a frustrated IT guy that still has to support Outlook. heh.
No, damn it, you CANNOT just "switch to Thunderbird" - a lot of people can't anyway because the CALENDAR SUCKS ASS. Too many other cute features being added, but nobody seems to be paying attention to the fact that the calendar just blows ass compared to the Outlook one.
I've ranted about this before, yes - but guess what? Calendar still sucks. It can't use Outlook calendar invites. You can't just send a calendar item to another user and have them easily import it (it tries to open the calendar attachment in the browser.. seems that Sunbird has no friggin clue what its own calendar files are)
The calendar is what keeps a LOT of users (the ones I know) tied to Outlook - NOT the mail functions.
Man, if that was Oakland, either his laptop would have been stolen or the cops would have clubbed him like a baby seal and *then* arrested him.
This guy was just told to leave the area.
Besides, in this day & age, hanging out in front of pretty much any state/county/city facility during off-hours will get you the same treatment. Try it. Go sit around City Hall with your laptop. Same thing might happen to you.
Right here - "Chief executives at U.S. companies that shipped jobs overseas won a 46 percent pay hike last year, more than five times the average CEO raise, while ordinary workers' paychecks barely budged, a study showed on Tuesday."
I have no idea how they can find that the tech turnover rate has declined..
... but they get away with it. It's VERY hard to prove that they've continued to call (at least in my experience it has been)
I had creditors tell me that they'll call all they want and me telling them to not call is meaningless unless I put it in writing and include my home address and SSN in the letter.
Scumbags. I'm sorry, but shit shouldn't stay on a credit report for *7 years* - 3 years (like a traffic violation) should be sufficient, especially when stuff is paid off.
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Disappointed that the tit they showed was friggin *Janet Jackson* - couldn't they have at least sprung for Britney Spears or one of the Olsen Twins?
God. Jackson is kind of old and nasty.
Yes, I live next door to our county library, in fact. The CD selection they have is absolutely pathetic. If I want John Denver's Greatest Hits or some Disney slop, I can go there.
The library has nowhere near the content of even a small record store.
When I lived in Japan, there were quite a few CD rental shops. I made SO MANY flippin tapes from CDs I rented, it wasn't even funny.
They vanished before I moved back to the States in 1994, though..
Now, 1999 rolls around and mp3 is all the rage.
The CDs in the rental shops were plain ol' audio CDs. No DRM, no copy-bit, no need for a Sharpie. None of that crap.
Interesting to at least see part of that past come full circle..
Oracle Calendar?
Some assclown was waving one around and giggling like an idiot during "Lord of the Rings."
I say it's dangerous because I think he almost choked after I stuffed the laser pointer down his goddamn throat.
Laser pointers are bad for you, mmmkay?
I'll take the video card, thanks.
PARKING in my building alone is $350/mo
I wish that my housing only dinged me for $350. heh.
"normal people" or some of these pathetic bags of shit that have 25 blogs & 3 webcams going 24/7?
I took a nice vacation recently and really didn't miss the computers at all, but I can imagine that your average blogwhore 16yr old girl would absolutely freak out if there was no internet access for 2 weeks.
I'm using it on a dual 1.6ghz Xeon box with Gentoo here in the office - the box processes over 70,000 emails per day (spamassassin, amavisd-new and clamav/f-prot) and the load average barely goes above 0.02.
:)
Your ISP just didn't want to take any time to actually learn about it.
More toothless legislation.
Quite a lot of the spam I get these days can be traced back to registrars in India. How is this law going to to good in the US?
It's not. As usual.
"Free of rules and laws, yes, much more so than ordinary society, though less than the smaller Burning mans of the past."
MUCH less than the past.
"But free of Technology? What Burning Mans have you been to? Burning Man is crawling with technology, it's in love with technology, and has been the 7 times I have been."
It's been before that... before the thing turned into a frat boy $350/ticket money pit. Oh well.
funny how an impromptu "city" in the middle of nowhere that was supposed to be free of laws, rules, technology/etc.. ... is now giggling over a VoIP phone & WiFi. heh.
but someone found us up the bomb!!
I just leave a big hungry Rottweiler with an attitude problem tied to my bike. It's great because nobody will steal the bike, and when I need that extra boost going up the hills, I yell "Chopper, sic balls!" and point at someone up the street.
Ever leave a Dell Latitude cpx running too long with the lid closed?
Friend that worked at Netscape did.. she opened it up and found that the keys had melted. heh.
The maintenance people said that they were afraid I was a fire hazard!
Damn, I should have kept that apartment. Heh.
Where I work, we have no Exchange Server, but a handful of Outlook users. They will NOT change because of the Calendar and that Notes feature.
Come on, sticky notes? I'm surprised that people haven't busted ass to try and mimic the features that people like about Outlook (cuz lemme tell ya, there's not a hell of of a lot that they really *like* about Outlook)
"Code it yourself" I've heard. Gee, sorry, I'm not a programmer.. just a frustrated IT guy that still has to support Outlook. heh.
No, damn it, you CANNOT just "switch to Thunderbird" - a lot of people can't anyway because the CALENDAR SUCKS ASS.
Too many other cute features being added, but nobody seems to be paying attention to the fact that the calendar just blows ass compared to the Outlook one.
I've ranted about this before, yes - but guess what? Calendar still sucks. It can't use Outlook calendar invites. You can't just send a calendar item to another user and have them easily import it (it tries to open the calendar attachment in the browser.. seems that Sunbird has no friggin clue what its own calendar files are)
The calendar is what keeps a LOT of users (the ones I know) tied to Outlook - NOT the mail functions.
You know, NOT ONE of these "Corel links" has worked that I've seen.
:P
If you are going to post a mirror, post something that works, okay?
It's Saturday, the weather was nice, and someone was just having a really outrageous barbeque and it got out of hand.
:)
Happens all the time, I'm sure!
Man, if that was Oakland, either his laptop would have been stolen or the cops would have clubbed him like a baby seal and *then* arrested him.
This guy was just told to leave the area.
Besides, in this day & age, hanging out in front of pretty much any state/county/city facility during off-hours will get you the same treatment. Try it. Go sit around City Hall with your laptop. Same thing might happen to you.
Right here - "Chief executives at U.S. companies that shipped jobs overseas won a 46 percent pay hike last year, more than five times the average CEO raise, while ordinary workers' paychecks barely budged, a study showed on Tuesday."
I have no idea how they can find that the tech turnover rate has declined..
... but they get away with it. It's VERY hard to prove that they've continued to call (at least in my experience it has been)
I had creditors tell me that they'll call all they want and me telling them to not call is meaningless unless I put it in writing and include my home address and SSN in the letter.
Scumbags. I'm sorry, but shit shouldn't stay on a credit report for *7 years* - 3 years (like a traffic violation) should be sufficient, especially when stuff is paid off.
..was also in "The Blues Brothers"
:P
Dude, she chased them through a tunnel with an M-16. That was one of the funniest parts of the movie.
He got arrested. That sucks.
:P
But man, that thing is pretty darn cool! How did he set all of that up?
Notice the PowerBook, too.
Salmon Rushdie?
I think it was because of his OTHER controversial book: "Buddah, you fat fuck!"