They're forcing me to submit to it if I wish to enjoy my plans for the day.
If your plans involve a private establishment, you have to make room for their rules. Just like if someone comes over to your house, they have to come in under your rules.
There's no constitutional right for you to "enjoy your day". If that were the case, you could go bust into a private house and when the cops come to arrest you you could complain that they're preventing you from "enjoying your day".
"Hello, Police? Yes, I'm being forced to submit to an illegal search."
No one's "forcing" you to submit to a search. I've never seen a squad of pimply-faced teens restrain someone so their bag can be searched. If you don't want it, turn around and get a refund. Don't be a drama queen.
The theatre I go to here (in central Florida) used to ban all food and drink...
I worked in a movie theatre long ago. Yes, food prices suck, and I do indeed smuggle in food of my own, but that's where all the theatre's profits come from. Ticket sales JUST cover the cost of renting the film reel from the distributor. If people don't buy popcorn (5000% profit), the lights go dark.
Theatres around here have a big sign where the ticket checker stands stating that your bags are subject to search if you choose to enter the theatre.
Simple enough.
In the past it wasn't about piracy, but about keeping outside food and drinks out. (Ticket sales barely cover the cost of the film reel. The theatre's actual money comes from popcorn and drinks.)
But anyway, this is standard practice in many places. Go to any sort of club, and the bouncer will check your bag for alcohol. (MAJOR, MASSIVE liability reasons.) Don't like it? Don't go in.
Essentially, the Bush administration has twisted and perverted the term. "Spreading Democracy" now means "We're gonna invade your country and enforce our will."
Similarly, before Hitler adopted it for his own nefarious uses, the swastika was seen as a symbol of luck in the west.
"It's a beautiful day. Let's go rock climbing." "Hmm, sounds like fun, but I'd rather stay home and play with my Wii."
Well, let's think of densely populated metropolises like NYC and Tokyo, where access to rock climbing isn't quite available to everyone. In fact, where access to any outdoor activity is severely limited unless you get yourself out of the city and pollution.
I'm assuming that we're saying that this application can get 99% of the time-slices on an otherwise occupied system, starving other tasks for resources.
We already have that. They're called McAfee Automatic Update and Windows Automatic Update.
God dammit, I hate those things. I turn on my office computer in the morning, and just let it sit for ten minutes because it's otherwise useless. (I turned-off Windows Automatic Update, but McAfee was more than happy to fill its shoes in needless resource hogging.)
FTFA: Many other decisions were made that year, such as the disc diameter (115m)... The disc diameter was changed from 115m to 120mm to allow for 74 minutes of playback with the sampling rate and quality chosen.
Thank god. I'd hate to imagine the storage rack I'd need to keep those 115m discs.
My phone company is Fido. I can't use a non-Fido MP3 ringtone on my new Nokia 6300. (Well, there are workarounds...)
Yes, Nokia built that lockout capability into the phone, but Fido asked them to activate it. I confronted Fido about this, and they gave me a bullshit line about not wanting to promote piracy. (A dual front of label pressure and profits from ringtone sales.)
I imagine it's the same with the iPhone, and that AT&T gets a cut from iTunes ringtone sales.
Personally, I think it's absolutely ridiculous that ringtones ate a multi-billion dollar market. Who the fuck in their right mind would pay $3 for a tiny CLIP of a song?
Smart labels are doing something ingenious: Including a coupon for a free digital download when you buy the record on vinyl. That way you have your nice vinyl record AND a digital copy to put in your MP3 player.
Even *I* have a surge-suppressor on my expensive electronics at home...
This is a massive oversight. First, (I suppose) the Russians didn't have any sort of surge protection on their critical systems. Second, the NASA engineers didn't do their research and understand what effect plugging more power into the station would have. (It's Tool Time with Tim Allen...)
However, I've been holding my breath (metaphorically) for too many years, waiting for this show to go away. I feel like I finally have a chance to let my breath out and say, "THANK GOD!!!"
Wow, I really hope they find and arrest those people who strapped you to that chair and forced you to watch it!
A Clockwork Orange gave far too many people that bad idea!
"What the fuck are you talking about? The Chinaman is not the issue here, Dude. I'm talking about drawing a line in the sand, Dude. Across this line, you DO NOT... Also, Dude, Chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please."
Wow, that's a wonderful assumption, because according to my boss my time is worth 15 dollars an hour. Wasting a few hours trying to get a silly wireless card to work in Ubuntu is not what he wants to pay me for. He'd rather have me working on schematics and other material that make money for us, and I honesty didn't feel like bringing the laptop home and wasting my personal time on it.
A Mac is different hardware. (It's closer now, but still a bit different.)
Windows and Linux both run on the exact same hardware, so the average user is going to assume their card is going to work in both. And why shouldn't it? If you want someone to switch, you're going to have a harder time convincing them to switch if they have to buy new hardware.
Exactly. I had a actual paying job to do, and I didn't HAVE 4 hours to spend running around the net simply trying to configure a wireless card. My bosses would have seen that as an enormous waste of time and money.
Last week I installed Ubuntu on my boss' old laptop, and it installed pretty easily. I was having trouble getting the wireless going, so I looked-around online. I found a 14-step manual process (complete with command lines) to get it going, and thought that was simple enough...
Until one of the steps was a completely vague "now write a shell script to enable all the attributes".
At that point I gave up and walked-away, and remembered WHY I haven't personally used Linux in years.
I'm the go-to guy for computers for most people I know. I have a 4.93 GPA in the IT course I'm taking. But Linux... it's just a pain in the ass.
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They're forcing me to submit to it if I wish to enjoy my plans for the day.
If your plans involve a private establishment, you have to make room for their rules. Just like if someone comes over to your house, they have to come in under your rules.
There's no constitutional right for you to "enjoy your day". If that were the case, you could go bust into a private house and when the cops come to arrest you you could complain that they're preventing you from "enjoying your day".
"Hello, Police? Yes, I'm being forced to submit to an illegal search."
No one's "forcing" you to submit to a search. I've never seen a squad of pimply-faced teens restrain someone so their bag can be searched. If you don't want it, turn around and get a refund. Don't be a drama queen.
The theatre I go to here (in central Florida) used to ban all food and drink...
I worked in a movie theatre long ago. Yes, food prices suck, and I do indeed smuggle in food of my own, but that's where all the theatre's profits come from. Ticket sales JUST cover the cost of renting the film reel from the distributor. If people don't buy popcorn (5000% profit), the lights go dark.
Theatres around here have a big sign where the ticket checker stands stating that your bags are subject to search if you choose to enter the theatre.
Simple enough.
In the past it wasn't about piracy, but about keeping outside food and drinks out. (Ticket sales barely cover the cost of the film reel. The theatre's actual money comes from popcorn and drinks.)
But anyway, this is standard practice in many places. Go to any sort of club, and the bouncer will check your bag for alcohol. (MAJOR, MASSIVE liability reasons.) Don't like it? Don't go in.
Whats next for space news? a new discovery? or more paris hilton type shit?
Ah, just wait till the Russians show off their Lindsay Lohan type shit...
By the time Robert Palmer took over, it was not clear to anyone at the time that DEC would ever again be relevant.
But DEC was simply irresistible!
Send my love to WordPerfect 14, wherever she is!
Ottawa.
Essentially, the Bush administration has twisted and perverted the term. "Spreading Democracy" now means "We're gonna invade your country and enforce our will."
Similarly, before Hitler adopted it for his own nefarious uses, the swastika was seen as a symbol of luck in the west.
"It's a beautiful day. Let's go rock climbing." "Hmm, sounds like fun, but I'd rather stay home and play with my Wii."
Well, let's think of densely populated metropolises like NYC and Tokyo, where access to rock climbing isn't quite available to everyone. In fact, where access to any outdoor activity is severely limited unless you get yourself out of the city and pollution.
I'm assuming that we're saying that this application can get 99% of the time-slices on an otherwise occupied system, starving other tasks for resources.
We already have that. They're called McAfee Automatic Update and Windows Automatic Update.
God dammit, I hate those things. I turn on my office computer in the morning, and just let it sit for ten minutes because it's otherwise useless. (I turned-off Windows Automatic Update, but McAfee was more than happy to fill its shoes in needless resource hogging.)
FTFA: Many other decisions were made that year, such as the disc diameter (115m)...
The disc diameter was changed from 115m to 120mm to allow for 74 minutes of playback with the sampling rate and quality chosen.
Thank god. I'd hate to imagine the storage rack I'd need to keep those 115m discs.
My phone company is Fido. I can't use a non-Fido MP3 ringtone on my new Nokia 6300. (Well, there are workarounds...)
Yes, Nokia built that lockout capability into the phone, but Fido asked them to activate it. I confronted Fido about this, and they gave me a bullshit line about not wanting to promote piracy. (A dual front of label pressure and profits from ringtone sales.)
I imagine it's the same with the iPhone, and that AT&T gets a cut from iTunes ringtone sales.
Personally, I think it's absolutely ridiculous that ringtones ate a multi-billion dollar market. Who the fuck in their right mind would pay $3 for a tiny CLIP of a song?
Smart labels are doing something ingenious: Including a coupon for a free digital download when you buy the record on vinyl. That way you have your nice vinyl record AND a digital copy to put in your MP3 player.
Even *I* have a surge-suppressor on my expensive electronics at home...
This is a massive oversight. First, (I suppose) the Russians didn't have any sort of surge protection on their critical systems. Second, the NASA engineers didn't do their research and understand what effect plugging more power into the station would have. (It's Tool Time with Tim Allen...)
This seems like a really amateur mistake.
However, I've been holding my breath (metaphorically) for too many years, waiting for this show to go away. I feel like I finally have a chance to let my breath out and say, "THANK GOD!!!"
Wow, I really hope they find and arrest those people who strapped you to that chair and forced you to watch it!
A Clockwork Orange gave far too many people that bad idea!
That was a pretty good troll up until this point:
Any software not written by Apple will invariably suck.
Guess I shoulda explained the quote...
It's from The Big Lebowski, and anyone who has seen the movie would get it in an instant.
Well, this is what happens when your pit crew scoffs and tells you to "RTFM" when you pull-in for a pit stop.
"What the fuck are you talking about? The Chinaman is not the issue here, Dude. I'm talking about drawing a line in the sand, Dude. Across this line, you DO NOT... Also, Dude, Chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please."
They'll have to sacrifice a virgin.
Know any place they can get one?
YOUR time has ZERO monetary value.
Wow, that's a wonderful assumption, because according to my boss my time is worth 15 dollars an hour. Wasting a few hours trying to get a silly wireless card to work in Ubuntu is not what he wants to pay me for. He'd rather have me working on schematics and other material that make money for us, and I honesty didn't feel like bringing the laptop home and wasting my personal time on it.
A Mac is different hardware. (It's closer now, but still a bit different.)
Windows and Linux both run on the exact same hardware, so the average user is going to assume their card is going to work in both. And why shouldn't it? If you want someone to switch, you're going to have a harder time convincing them to switch if they have to buy new hardware.
Exactly. I had a actual paying job to do, and I didn't HAVE 4 hours to spend running around the net simply trying to configure a wireless card. My bosses would have seen that as an enormous waste of time and money.
I can't find the one I used before (the browsing history is on my boss' computer), but here's another I tried, and it didn't work either:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=5645
(Before anyone jumps down my throat, I meant to type 3.93 GPA.)
Last week I installed Ubuntu on my boss' old laptop, and it installed pretty easily. I was having trouble getting the wireless going, so I looked-around online. I found a 14-step manual process (complete with command lines) to get it going, and thought that was simple enough...
Until one of the steps was a completely vague "now write a shell script to enable all the attributes".
At that point I gave up and walked-away, and remembered WHY I haven't personally used Linux in years.
I'm the go-to guy for computers for most people I know. I have a 4.93 GPA in the IT course I'm taking. But Linux... it's just a pain in the ass.