that is why space shuttles are always having problems, they are design flaws. I wonder what it would have been like if they went for the best quality instead of the lowest price?
All I can think of was a Sci Fi TV show called "Salvage 1" where some Junkyard turned junk into a space ship and went to the Moon to salvage the equipment that NASA left there. That is when I think of NASA asking anyone to build a space ship.
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and must cut out features from Vista in order to ship it. There are too many features in Vista that Microsoft cannot make a release deadline unless they cut some features out of Vista. WinFS can be added in later, or be part of a service pack.
Actually Microsoft might have better luck with EXT2/EXT3/JFS etc file system support that is superior to NTFS/FAT16/FAT32 and the standards are already well published and should be easier for Microsoft to adopt than the WinFS system. Microsoft should look out because ReactOS is planning for EXT2/EXT3/JFS file system support and it is starting to run some Windows applications without problems (most Windows programs have issues, but ReactOS is slowly improving) and while ReactOS is not ready for Prime-Time, in a few years, who knows? Once it adds Windows driver support, DirectX support, sound card support, and other features, possibly by a 1.0 release (now in 0.30 RC1 release) it might steal some thunder from Microsoft Windows and Vista, if it runs on systems that Vista won't run on.
Vista is a resource hog anyway, it needs 512M of RAM just to run, and still the swap file keeps growing. You will find many effects will be disabled by some systems just to get a decent performance out of Vista. I think the public release Beta ISO was like almost 4 gigs in size, showing how huge Vista really is. I figure it is like Microsoft stuffing 15 pounds of manure into a 5 pound bag.
Me I am going to stick with Windows XP and ignore Vista until the service packs fix Vista to be stable enough on hardware I can afford to run it on. I'll use Linux until then as well. I am keeping my eye on ReactOS to see if it reaches XP level success, and then I might switch over to it.
are due to other factors. Like moving out of state for college or a new job. Getting married and not having time to spend with friends, which happened to me and many of my other friends. Losing a job, and my friends at the job only wanted to be my friends and dropped communication with me after I left the job or got terminated. There are others, like friends who borrowed money from me, and then stopped communicating with me after they refused to pay it back. Friends that got into drugs and other illicit things that I am not into, and they shut me out. After I graduated from college and had a good paying job, a lot of my friends that struggle with low paying jobs shut me out. I had friends who committed suicide as well. I also got really sick with physical and mental illnesses and a lot of friends turned on me after that happened and it ended up ruining my career when employers discriminated against me because of my illnesses.
Oh yeah I got Internet friends, but they are not the same as friends that I know in real life.
I am a loner by nature and I can get by without any friends. I see it now as having less people that can stab me in the back now, based on former experiences.
Arrrrrggggghhhh 10 year old mirrors are down!
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I looked at the Quake FTP Mirrors list, I could not find one that works. Downed servers, missing directories, no anonymous FTP access, etc.
Oddly enough, I got a Nintendo 64 version of Quake that I had bought for like $15 on sale when it was on clearence when a local store was going out of business.
Well I had management support for it because we needed something. There was no Intranet web server, and the owner wanted to do a a web site for support of the projects and wanted me to prototype it on my system before they would commit to an Intranet server. He ultimately wanted me to write a web version of some of the programs we had later.
I had told the Network Administrator about it before hand, and if he didn't know that a Wiki is something hosted on a web server from our conversation on it, that is his communication problem. In fact, he gave me administrator access to my system in order to install the web server. I couldn't have done it if he didn't give me access.
Bad Idea, Good Idea, at least I had ideas how to make things less stressful, more productive and more organized. If it was a bad idea, I was not told so until I was forced to take it down. I still feel like I was set up to fail.
The real reason why the PS3 will fail as a computer is the same reason why the Atari 400/800/1600, Commodore 64/128, Atari ST/TT/Falcon, and Commodore Amiga failed as computers. They were computers, but geared towards a gaming market, so that serious software like that developed for the Apple// and IBM PC and later Macintosh was not developed for the gaming computers, but they did have a lot of games.
The only way the PS3 can seriously compete with PCs and Macs is if it can run Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, *BSD Unix or some other popular OS that it can dual boot into (besides the PS3 OS that plays PS1/PS2/PS3 games) in order to run the software that people want to run on a computer. The PS3 uses a Cell PowerPC processor so Windows is out, Apple won't license OSX to OEMs so Mac OSX is out, which leaves Linux or *BSD Unix. If Sony does to the PS3 what it does to the PSP, it will make sure that the firmware won't allow homebrew applications and operating systems which leaves Linux and *BSD out unless Sony makes an official version. I doubt that they will. Most likely they will turn the PS3 OS into a computer OS with optional keyboard and mouse attachments, and use a hard drive or flash memory for secondary storage. Then try to control what software is developed for it via DRM, and only the game makers are interested in developing for it.
That in itself, is why the PS3 will fail as a computer.
Ironically for a little bit more, you can afford a Mac Mini and plug it into your old SVGA monitor. By the time you add on a hard drive, keyboard, mouse, etc to the PS3 you will most likely exceed the $599 Mac Mini price tag, and your typical generic $500 Windows PC systems. While they won't play PS1/PS2/PS3 games, without some emulator that is not 100% compatable, at least they have the software you need for a computer.
I tried to implement a Wiki at my last employer to keep track of changes in the software and database as they happened very quick and were hard to keep track of with a normal Word document. I would get emails from a coworker instead of a Word document and I kept all of my changes in a Word document so it would be easier to read and look up. I set up a web server on my laptop with a Wiki site after the owner advised me to find a better way to keep track of documentation. The network administrator saw that I had a web server and had me shut it down. It was only on a local Intranet and it gave me a better idea of how changes were being implemented. I had tried to use many tools like that to help bring order out of the chaos they had, but I guess they just wanted to make my job a lot harder so it would stress me out and force me to quit? I had a lot of ideas for the software and database that coworkers called me names over having those ideas. I see now that the web site for the company has all of my ideas as product features now, after they fired me for no reason given. I was only highed to migrate their database to SQL Server and fix the flaws and bugs and performance problems in their software and database, once I fixed all of that, I was unjustly fired. I guess they got what they wanted out of me, to take them to the next level and then they threw me away like a used tissue.
Ironically I used to make a living writing custom business applications which helped eliminate the errors caused by incorrectly using Spreadsheets. The programs were compared to the results of hand calculated results that where tripled checked for accuracy. I worked until the application's results matched the formulas used and the hand and calculator checked work.
Usually the evolution went something like this:
Excel -> Access -> Visual BASIC -> Active Server Pages.
Sometimes Access and Visual BASIC were skipped to go straight into an ASP developed Intranet. Sometimes the employer just wanted an Access based database with forums. Whenever they found someone using and Excel spreadsheet, they came up with an idea to make a Database out of it and a custom application using Access BASIC, Visual BASIC, or Active Server Pages.
Other languages and platforms can be used for the same results. Keep in mind that bugs can develop in custom applications that can yeild incorrect results. That bugs often come about when a rush is made to meet deadlines, or the programmer is told to skip the analysis and design cycles and start coding on day one. There is a proper way to do this to minimize bugs, and there is an improper way to do it which maximizes bugs.
eBay and Yahoo, or buy them out. Yahoo already has a good partnership with SBC/AT&T with DSL and Web Portals, and eBay has Paypal and Half.com as well as the main eBay auction site. Yahoo Mail can be merged with Hotmail, Yahoo Groups can be merged with MSN Groups, Yahoo search can be merged with MSN search. If Microsoft does not ally or buy them out, they will end up being enemies later on at the rate they are growing to any portal that Microsoft tries to make.
Then Microsoft can ally up with SBC/AT&T for the ISP service, yet imagine what would happen if Microsoft bought SBC/AT&T?
Well I agree, and Microsoft will shut out a lot of people, or force them to keep using Windows XP if not enough third party hardware is supported. Microsoft screwed Reveal before by refusing to support their hardware for Windows 95 and 98 and above. Lucky Reveal users could search by FCC-ID number to find the true makers of the hardware and obtain drivers for sound cards, ect for Windows 95 and above. I think Linux supports the Reveal hardware now, and Linux has a good track record of supporting older hardware.
Microsoft keeps changing the Windows driver model, and I think it is part of their business plan to do that to force people to use the latest and greatest hardware on the current version of Windows and shut out old hardware so they don't have to support it anymore.
Those worried about checking the HCL (Hardware Compatability List) of Vista can download an application from Microsoft to check your system to see if it is Vista ready. It will tell you what hardware is ready, and what is not supported. It will even tell you if you have enough memory (usually 512M is needed, but on systems that share System RAM with Video RAM and have 512M total and 448M free, the tool will complain about that shortcoming).
If people are shut out by old hardware they can switch to Linux, or try ReactOS when it reaches 1.0 in a few years or so, possibly after Vista has come out already. ReactOS has plans to support the WDM model and other older Windows driver models. I feel that ReactOS has a future, if they can pass that software audit, and reach the 1.0 milestone.
The Hardware Support List. Vista does not support all hardware and a lot of old hardware won't even be supported. Most of it will be driver issues and Microsoft will rely on third parties making drivers for Vista for OEM Hardware to be included in the retail version of Vista.
I got a sneak peak at Vista on my laptop, it supported my Ethernet adapter but not my Wireless adapter, it supported my video card (but said it did not meet standards) but not my audio adapter. My 512M of RAM was the minimum, but not enough to run it fast. Chances are I'll have to buy a new laptop to run Vista, possibly one with Vista pre-loaded on it. I think that is what Microsoft is trying to do, force a new hardware purchase to run Vista. Because they own stock in a lot of hardware companies.
Yeah he was caught saying "Dell is better!" or "Steve Jobs is gay!" and the security guards wrestled him to the ground and beat on him. The whole theft thing is a cover-up.
Bonzi Buddy "Hey Yogi, are you still hosting servers for that P2P filesharing network?"
Yogi Bearshare "Of course, Bonzi Buddy, how else can I afford to keep buying Picnic Baskets full of food? All I have to do is help people pirate music files and show advertising in their faces as they use my malware designed application."
Bonzi Buddy "But Yogi, Ranger RIAA won't like it."
Yogi Bearshare "Forget the Ranger, Bonzi Buddy, we are going to make a fortune."
Spiney Shyster "Excuse me, are you Yogi Bearshare?"
Yogi Bearshare "Of course, are you an advertiser who wants to advertise on my P2P file sharing network?"
Bonzi Buddy "Uh oh, I don't like the sound of this Yogi."
Yogi Bearshare "Nonsense, Bonzi Buddy, so whadda ya want Mack?"
Spiney Shyster "Here is a subpeona to appear in court, Ranger RIAA is suing you for $30 Million."
Uncyclopedia scoops everyone yet again. They have the truth on Windows Vista. Released on an odd year in the future sometime. 2007, 2009, 2011, who knows? More details if you click the link to the Uncyclopedia article on Windows Vista.
Yet in TOS Kirk and Spock met for the first time, without having memory of each other before. Kirk had taken over the Enterprise from Pike, and Spock had to introduce himself and both Kirk and Spock did not seem to know each other. If they had served in the academy and knew each other then, when they met on the Enterprise it wouldn't have been a first time thing. It would be a "I remember you from the Academy, Mr. Spock, nice to see you again." "Indeed, Captain Kirk, it has been 20 years since we last met during graduation."
Before a National ID is issued the person should be verified to be a US Citizen or registered Visa holder with no ties to terrorist networks (background check is needed). Instead of using a SSN, a National ID number should be used very much like using a Driver's License Number instead of the SSN, to prevent fraud of SSNs. There needs to be a holigram on the National ID card, to foil counterfets. It needs to be required for holding jobs to show a National ID card, in case of a Visa holder it should show the expiration date of the Visa on it. It should double as a driver's license and allow the smart chip part to store the driver's license number on it, along with proof of insurance. The National ID card can be keyed with credit card numbers so you can shop with it and provide biometric info (thumbprint) that you are the holder of the card, and it allows you to choose what bank account or credit card or debit card to charge for payments. Libraries should be able to use it for a library card. You can swipe it into a computer to verify your identity after a biometic scan of your thumb. There needs to be many uses for the National ID card to get people to carry it on them at all times.
Right now in the USA we have Driver's Licenses and State IDs which vary by the state. The 911 hijackers were able to use Driver's Licenses and one of them was caught by the Police for a traffic violation, but he was let go. Somehow he had a driver's license from a state that did not require checking and even gave them to illegal aliens, which causes problems in our system.
National ID cards I am for, putting a mark or chip on my forehead or hand or arm, I am not for. I don't want a mark of the beast to be used for ID.
I have an associates in IT and a bachelors in business management. That way if IT jobs go away, I can work for almost any business as a manager. I minored my bachelors in IT. Make sure you pick a good minor as well as a major.
My advice, go to a community college first and pick up some certificates and an associates and then move on to a bachelors and masters. A lot of the people out of work in the IT field lack the degrees. Companies want to hire degreed people with experience and many have the experience but lack the degree because they are self taught or dropped out of college. Don't drop out of college, that is a mistake. India, has free or discounted education for IT people so they can get a lot of the work offshored to their nation. Other nations offer free education as well. Too bad the USA does not offer free education except in cases of the lowest poverty.
One day I will go back for a masters degree and maybe a PHD. A high school diploma and associates no longer cuts it anymore in the modern work force, but they do help somewhat.
Discrimination by education is a legal form of discrimination because there is no law against it. My resume was thrown in the trash of many HR departments because it lacked at least a bachelors on it. Now that I graduated I am getting calls back.
they have a dollar section for older DVDs and $2.50 for newer DVDs for two days, one day for new releases. I find no need to own the DVD after I watched it already, unless it is a good movie or something and then I'd buy a copy. The rental store even can sell me a used copy of the DVD for $10 or less.
All I need do is wait for the movie to be released on DVD and then watch it at home, pop some microwave popcorn and drink a soda and save money from buying the DVD or seeing the movie in the theatre.
The $1.50 must be for China only, the only DVDs I see that sell for that or under that in the USA are old movies that lost their copyright and went public domain. The Dollar Stores usually sell them in a cardboard sleave.
Kirk is younger than Spock, Vulcans live longer than Humans. Spock was on Pike's crew before Kirk took over the Enterprise. Spock and Kirk first met on Enterprise, now they first met at the Academy? Spock graduated from the academy before Kirk attended. Now history is being rewritten.
Really brave of you not to leave your name. Try to take my lunch money and I'll give you a bloody nose. Try to attack me and I'll break your shoulderbone. You will learn a new definition of suffering after the victims learn how to fight back.
I am sure that is how the Columbine Shooters got started, or all of those workplace shootings. There was always some bully behind that which pushed them over the edge into evil.
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that is why space shuttles are always having problems, they are design flaws. I wonder what it would have been like if they went for the best quality instead of the lowest price?
All I can think of was a Sci Fi TV show called "Salvage 1" where some Junkyard turned junk into a space ship and went to the Moon to salvage the equipment that NASA left there. That is when I think of NASA asking anyone to build a space ship.
and must cut out features from Vista in order to ship it. There are too many features in Vista that Microsoft cannot make a release deadline unless they cut some features out of Vista. WinFS can be added in later, or be part of a service pack.
Actually Microsoft might have better luck with EXT2/EXT3/JFS etc file system support that is superior to NTFS/FAT16/FAT32 and the standards are already well published and should be easier for Microsoft to adopt than the WinFS system. Microsoft should look out because ReactOS is planning for EXT2/EXT3/JFS file system support and it is starting to run some Windows applications without problems (most Windows programs have issues, but ReactOS is slowly improving) and while ReactOS is not ready for Prime-Time, in a few years, who knows? Once it adds Windows driver support, DirectX support, sound card support, and other features, possibly by a 1.0 release (now in 0.30 RC1 release) it might steal some thunder from Microsoft Windows and Vista, if it runs on systems that Vista won't run on.
Vista is a resource hog anyway, it needs 512M of RAM just to run, and still the swap file keeps growing. You will find many effects will be disabled by some systems just to get a decent performance out of Vista. I think the public release Beta ISO was like almost 4 gigs in size, showing how huge Vista really is. I figure it is like Microsoft stuffing 15 pounds of manure into a 5 pound bag.
Me I am going to stick with Windows XP and ignore Vista until the service packs fix Vista to be stable enough on hardware I can afford to run it on. I'll use Linux until then as well. I am keeping my eye on ReactOS to see if it reaches XP level success, and then I might switch over to it.
are due to other factors. Like moving out of state for college or a new job. Getting married and not having time to spend with friends, which happened to me and many of my other friends. Losing a job, and my friends at the job only wanted to be my friends and dropped communication with me after I left the job or got terminated. There are others, like friends who borrowed money from me, and then stopped communicating with me after they refused to pay it back. Friends that got into drugs and other illicit things that I am not into, and they shut me out. After I graduated from college and had a good paying job, a lot of my friends that struggle with low paying jobs shut me out. I had friends who committed suicide as well. I also got really sick with physical and mental illnesses and a lot of friends turned on me after that happened and it ended up ruining my career when employers discriminated against me because of my illnesses.
Oh yeah I got Internet friends, but they are not the same as friends that I know in real life.
I am a loner by nature and I can get by without any friends. I see it now as having less people that can stab me in the back now, based on former experiences.
I looked at the Quake FTP Mirrors list, I could not find one that works. Downed servers, missing directories, no anonymous FTP access, etc.
Check out ID Software for the Shareware Demo Version if you really want to download and play the 10 year old Quake.
Oddly enough, I got a Nintendo 64 version of Quake that I had bought for like $15 on sale when it was on clearence when a local store was going out of business.
will the merger rename the Wii console to:
Mac Wii, iWii, WiiWii, Wii Mac, Apple Wii, Mario Mac, Mac Mario, Pokemac, Macemon, Donkey Mac, Mac Kong?
Will the name of the new company be:
Mactendo, Appletendo, NinApple, NinMac, NinTunes, iNintendo, WiiApple, Nintendtosh, Wiisoft, Wiihard?
Will that make Nintendo games playable on Macintosh systems?
Will that allow OSX to run on the Wii?
Well I had management support for it because we needed something. There was no Intranet web server, and the owner wanted to do a a web site for support of the projects and wanted me to prototype it on my system before they would commit to an Intranet server. He ultimately wanted me to write a web version of some of the programs we had later.
I had told the Network Administrator about it before hand, and if he didn't know that a Wiki is something hosted on a web server from our conversation on it, that is his communication problem. In fact, he gave me administrator access to my system in order to install the web server. I couldn't have done it if he didn't give me access.
Bad Idea, Good Idea, at least I had ideas how to make things less stressful, more productive and more organized. If it was a bad idea, I was not told so until I was forced to take it down. I still feel like I was set up to fail.
The real reason why the PS3 will fail as a computer is the same reason why the Atari 400/800/1600, Commodore 64/128, Atari ST/TT/Falcon, and Commodore Amiga failed as computers. They were computers, but geared towards a gaming market, so that serious software like that developed for the Apple // and IBM PC and later Macintosh was not developed for the gaming computers, but they did have a lot of games.
The only way the PS3 can seriously compete with PCs and Macs is if it can run Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, *BSD Unix or some other popular OS that it can dual boot into (besides the PS3 OS that plays PS1/PS2/PS3 games) in order to run the software that people want to run on a computer. The PS3 uses a Cell PowerPC processor so Windows is out, Apple won't license OSX to OEMs so Mac OSX is out, which leaves Linux or *BSD Unix. If Sony does to the PS3 what it does to the PSP, it will make sure that the firmware won't allow homebrew applications and operating systems which leaves Linux and *BSD out unless Sony makes an official version. I doubt that they will. Most likely they will turn the PS3 OS into a computer OS with optional keyboard and mouse attachments, and use a hard drive or flash memory for secondary storage. Then try to control what software is developed for it via DRM, and only the game makers are interested in developing for it.
That in itself, is why the PS3 will fail as a computer.
Ironically for a little bit more, you can afford a Mac Mini and plug it into your old SVGA monitor. By the time you add on a hard drive, keyboard, mouse, etc to the PS3 you will most likely exceed the $599 Mac Mini price tag, and your typical generic $500 Windows PC systems. While they won't play PS1/PS2/PS3 games, without some emulator that is not 100% compatable, at least they have the software you need for a computer.
I tried to implement a Wiki at my last employer to keep track of changes in the software and database as they happened very quick and were hard to keep track of with a normal Word document. I would get emails from a coworker instead of a Word document and I kept all of my changes in a Word document so it would be easier to read and look up. I set up a web server on my laptop with a Wiki site after the owner advised me to find a better way to keep track of documentation. The network administrator saw that I had a web server and had me shut it down. It was only on a local Intranet and it gave me a better idea of how changes were being implemented. I had tried to use many tools like that to help bring order out of the chaos they had, but I guess they just wanted to make my job a lot harder so it would stress me out and force me to quit? I had a lot of ideas for the software and database that coworkers called me names over having those ideas. I see now that the web site for the company has all of my ideas as product features now, after they fired me for no reason given. I was only highed to migrate their database to SQL Server and fix the flaws and bugs and performance problems in their software and database, once I fixed all of that, I was unjustly fired. I guess they got what they wanted out of me, to take them to the next level and then they threw me away like a used tissue.
Ironically I used to make a living writing custom business applications which helped eliminate the errors caused by incorrectly using Spreadsheets. The programs were compared to the results of hand calculated results that where tripled checked for accuracy. I worked until the application's results matched the formulas used and the hand and calculator checked work.
Usually the evolution went something like this:
Excel -> Access -> Visual BASIC -> Active Server Pages.
Sometimes Access and Visual BASIC were skipped to go straight into an ASP developed Intranet. Sometimes the employer just wanted an Access based database with forums. Whenever they found someone using and Excel spreadsheet, they came up with an idea to make a Database out of it and a custom application using Access BASIC, Visual BASIC, or Active Server Pages.
Other languages and platforms can be used for the same results. Keep in mind that bugs can develop in custom applications that can yeild incorrect results. That bugs often come about when a rush is made to meet deadlines, or the programmer is told to skip the analysis and design cycles and start coding on day one. There is a proper way to do this to minimize bugs, and there is an improper way to do it which maximizes bugs.
eBay and Yahoo, or buy them out. Yahoo already has a good partnership with SBC/AT&T with DSL and Web Portals, and eBay has Paypal and Half.com as well as the main eBay auction site. Yahoo Mail can be merged with Hotmail, Yahoo Groups can be merged with MSN Groups, Yahoo search can be merged with MSN search. If Microsoft does not ally or buy them out, they will end up being enemies later on at the rate they are growing to any portal that Microsoft tries to make.
Then Microsoft can ally up with SBC/AT&T for the ISP service, yet imagine what would happen if Microsoft bought SBC/AT&T?
Well I agree, and Microsoft will shut out a lot of people, or force them to keep using Windows XP if not enough third party hardware is supported. Microsoft screwed Reveal before by refusing to support their hardware for Windows 95 and 98 and above. Lucky Reveal users could search by FCC-ID number to find the true makers of the hardware and obtain drivers for sound cards, ect for Windows 95 and above. I think Linux supports the Reveal hardware now, and Linux has a good track record of supporting older hardware.
Microsoft keeps changing the Windows driver model, and I think it is part of their business plan to do that to force people to use the latest and greatest hardware on the current version of Windows and shut out old hardware so they don't have to support it anymore.
Those worried about checking the HCL (Hardware Compatability List) of Vista can download an application from Microsoft to check your system to see if it is Vista ready. It will tell you what hardware is ready, and what is not supported. It will even tell you if you have enough memory (usually 512M is needed, but on systems that share System RAM with Video RAM and have 512M total and 448M free, the tool will complain about that shortcoming).
If people are shut out by old hardware they can switch to Linux, or try ReactOS when it reaches 1.0 in a few years or so, possibly after Vista has come out already. ReactOS has plans to support the WDM model and other older Windows driver models. I feel that ReactOS has a future, if they can pass that software audit, and reach the 1.0 milestone.
The Hardware Support List. Vista does not support all hardware and a lot of old hardware won't even be supported. Most of it will be driver issues and Microsoft will rely on third parties making drivers for Vista for OEM Hardware to be included in the retail version of Vista.
I got a sneak peak at Vista on my laptop, it supported my Ethernet adapter but not my Wireless adapter, it supported my video card (but said it did not meet standards) but not my audio adapter. My 512M of RAM was the minimum, but not enough to run it fast. Chances are I'll have to buy a new laptop to run Vista, possibly one with Vista pre-loaded on it. I think that is what Microsoft is trying to do, force a new hardware purchase to run Vista. Because they own stock in a lot of hardware companies.
Yeah he was caught saying "Dell is better!" or "Steve Jobs is gay!" and the security guards wrestled him to the ground and beat on him. The whole theft thing is a cover-up.
Yesterday Apple Security Guards treated a customer like Rodney King today they close the source to OSX.
Bonzi Buddy "Hey Yogi, are you still hosting servers for that P2P filesharing network?"
Yogi Bearshare "Of course, Bonzi Buddy, how else can I afford to keep buying Picnic Baskets full of food? All I have to do is help people pirate music files and show advertising in their faces as they use my malware designed application."
Bonzi Buddy "But Yogi, Ranger RIAA won't like it."
Yogi Bearshare "Forget the Ranger, Bonzi Buddy, we are going to make a fortune."
Spiney Shyster "Excuse me, are you Yogi Bearshare?"
Yogi Bearshare "Of course, are you an advertiser who wants to advertise on my P2P file sharing network?"
Bonzi Buddy "Uh oh, I don't like the sound of this Yogi."
Yogi Bearshare "Nonsense, Bonzi Buddy, so whadda ya want Mack?"
Spiney Shyster "Here is a subpeona to appear in court, Ranger RIAA is suing you for $30 Million."
Uncyclopedia scoops everyone yet again. They have the truth on Windows Vista. Released on an odd year in the future sometime. 2007, 2009, 2011, who knows? More details if you click the link to the Uncyclopedia article on Windows Vista.
Yet in TOS Kirk and Spock met for the first time, without having memory of each other before. Kirk had taken over the Enterprise from Pike, and Spock had to introduce himself and both Kirk and Spock did not seem to know each other. If they had served in the academy and knew each other then, when they met on the Enterprise it wouldn't have been a first time thing. It would be a "I remember you from the Academy, Mr. Spock, nice to see you again." "Indeed, Captain Kirk, it has been 20 years since we last met during graduation."
Before a National ID is issued the person should be verified to be a US Citizen or registered Visa holder with no ties to terrorist networks (background check is needed). Instead of using a SSN, a National ID number should be used very much like using a Driver's License Number instead of the SSN, to prevent fraud of SSNs. There needs to be a holigram on the National ID card, to foil counterfets. It needs to be required for holding jobs to show a National ID card, in case of a Visa holder it should show the expiration date of the Visa on it. It should double as a driver's license and allow the smart chip part to store the driver's license number on it, along with proof of insurance. The National ID card can be keyed with credit card numbers so you can shop with it and provide biometric info (thumbprint) that you are the holder of the card, and it allows you to choose what bank account or credit card or debit card to charge for payments. Libraries should be able to use it for a library card. You can swipe it into a computer to verify your identity after a biometic scan of your thumb. There needs to be many uses for the National ID card to get people to carry it on them at all times.
Right now in the USA we have Driver's Licenses and State IDs which vary by the state. The 911 hijackers were able to use Driver's Licenses and one of them was caught by the Police for a traffic violation, but he was let go. Somehow he had a driver's license from a state that did not require checking and even gave them to illegal aliens, which causes problems in our system.
National ID cards I am for, putting a mark or chip on my forehead or hand or arm, I am not for. I don't want a mark of the beast to be used for ID.
I have an associates in IT and a bachelors in business management. That way if IT jobs go away, I can work for almost any business as a manager. I minored my bachelors in IT. Make sure you pick a good minor as well as a major.
My advice, go to a community college first and pick up some certificates and an associates and then move on to a bachelors and masters. A lot of the people out of work in the IT field lack the degrees. Companies want to hire degreed people with experience and many have the experience but lack the degree because they are self taught or dropped out of college. Don't drop out of college, that is a mistake. India, has free or discounted education for IT people so they can get a lot of the work offshored to their nation. Other nations offer free education as well. Too bad the USA does not offer free education except in cases of the lowest poverty.
One day I will go back for a masters degree and maybe a PHD. A high school diploma and associates no longer cuts it anymore in the modern work force, but they do help somewhat.
Discrimination by education is a legal form of discrimination because there is no law against it. My resume was thrown in the trash of many HR departments because it lacked at least a bachelors on it. Now that I graduated I am getting calls back.
they have a dollar section for older DVDs and $2.50 for newer DVDs for two days, one day for new releases. I find no need to own the DVD after I watched it already, unless it is a good movie or something and then I'd buy a copy. The rental store even can sell me a used copy of the DVD for $10 or less.
All I need do is wait for the movie to be released on DVD and then watch it at home, pop some microwave popcorn and drink a soda and save money from buying the DVD or seeing the movie in the theatre.
The $1.50 must be for China only, the only DVDs I see that sell for that or under that in the USA are old movies that lost their copyright and went public domain. The Dollar Stores usually sell them in a cardboard sleave.
Kirk is younger than Spock, Vulcans live longer than Humans. Spock was on Pike's crew before Kirk took over the Enterprise. Spock and Kirk first met on Enterprise, now they first met at the Academy? Spock graduated from the academy before Kirk attended. Now history is being rewritten.
Actually it was:
Debian
Knoppix
Kanotix
Unbuntu
Linspire was Debian based as well, which makes it five versions of Debian that were tried before the Fedora switch.
GNU/Oracle-Novell-SuSE Desktop Linux
GNU/ONS Desktop Linux?
Really brave of you not to leave your name. Try to take my lunch money and I'll give you a bloody nose. Try to attack me and I'll break your shoulderbone. You will learn a new definition of suffering after the victims learn how to fight back.
I am sure that is how the Columbine Shooters got started, or all of those workplace shootings. There was always some bully behind that which pushed them over the edge into evil.