Not the same caliber movie, but, along the same lines would be revealing whether the Total Recall thing was real or imagined. it's just not fun if you can't argue with your friends afterwards.
What better way to garner revenue from your banner advertisers? Bothering the few users who realize that this is annoying (read: geeks) is worth the droves of mindless users that obviously don't really think that much about their experience, anyway. They'll come back even if it's irritating.
And what are we going to do, anyway? Not use homedepot.com to find the closest store when we move into town? Doubt it.
Join me in increasing your intake of meat to make up for the waste that these evil vegetarians choose to leave. PETA's evil efforts should be thwarted to whatever degree you are able.
Basic Member - Doubles his or her intake of meat.
Flesh Warrior - Triples his or her intake of meat.
Carnage Lord - Only eats raw meat. Preferably, just takes bites out of live animals.
--------------- note: I'm actually a vegetarian myself. I just think that the "Vegan Avengers" concept is hilarious.
Since when are ink carts overpackaged? There's no need for "visual sale", there; you just get the kind you need for your model printer. There's no real decision involved. A small cache of such things makes sense to me. I was referring to things like software packages, printers, modems, keyboards, etc.
Also, I'm sure some are thinking "yeah, right. I can barely find someone to help me as it is" - Well, obviously there would need to be either more people stationed to call for what it is you need, or some sort of automated kiosk thing to tell someone "in the back" to bring up your order.
why don't they just do what should be done for "concise" displays, anyway?
Instead of having a pile of 20 copies of some piece of software, have one box on display (empty) and have a little tag that you tear off and have the checkout person call for from "the back room".
Toys R Us does it, and it works fine. makes it so you can have a clean looking display with 3 or 4 times the stuff.
of course, for big releases, it would be a good idea to just roll a big cartful of the new whiz-bang software out and keep those little hidden chips in the shrinkwrap to set off those door alarm rigs if someone tries to run off with a copy.
A company I contract at currently is co-lo'd at Exodus (I won't say what site, as I don't feel this is a fair impression of Exodus as a whole - I've had several good experiences elsewhere, and I don't want to taint anyone's impression of them). One of the other SysAdmins had to run down to do something or other to one of the machines at the co-lo and when he walked into the server room, he found the whole rack wrapped in a plastic tarp.
Apparently, they had been doing a bit of electrical work near the rack and didn't want to have any debris get in the machines. Well, apparently they either work really slowly or just forgot about it (how you can forget a big blue tarp is beyond me) as the machines were up to around 140 degrees (F) internally (90s externally).
Ouch
Yeah, so, onething you should look for is that not happening.
or should I say "why should we be so afraid?" (as I am not in the least).
The only thing that could come of this is this asinine company lining the pockets of a few lawyers who jump on the bandwagon (I don't blame the lawyers - wouldn't you take money from idiots like them?). This case can't possibly go anywhere but to dismissal. I just hope a precedent isn't set too quickly. The more time the company has to file suits, the more money they'll lose.
What, do you think the M$ legal team was just sitting on their hands until the decision was handed down? I'm sure they had all the paperwork ready to go, already addressed to the proper sympathetic ears.
Just because they're assholes doesn't mean they're stupid. Well, the M$ legal team tries really hard to look stupid for some reason, but...
There was no JarJar anywhere in the movie. Nor was there any images of Rosanne Barr/Arnold naked. Nor was there anyone from Oprah's book club. And no one peed on me. So, the way I'm looking at it is, don't think of how bad it is, but rather think of how bad it isn't.
The point of sending someone to jail for an inordinate amount of time (in your example 400 years) is to make it impossible for them to get parole. This is common practice in Ohio (where I'm originally from). See, parole is granted on a percentage-of-time-served basis. So, you serve 20% of your time, you get out. Even serving "Life" has an assumed lifespan deal, so you can get out after a certain time. But, if your sentence is 400 years , you get to parole (using the 20% number) after 80 years. Good luck with the Vitamins to increase your lifespan.
A German friend from high school (who spoke 5 languages to varying degrees of fluency) used to like to tell this joke:
What do you call someone who speaks three languages? Trilingual. What do you call someone who speaks two languages? Bilingual. What do you call someone who speaks one language? American. (badumpbump)
But, for whatever reason, almost everyone puts up with it. I'm American. I can speak American English fluently. I know snippets of Russian from high school. That's it. When I travel, I can almost always find someone to accomodate me. Quite often on newsgroups, mailing lists, bulletin boards, etc you find messages from [obviously] foreign users posting in broken English. I doubt that there are many Americans posting in broken German on c't's discussion threads.
Why are we allowed this "privledge"? I'm not going to project why that might be (mainly so as not to start a flame war), but it seems as though it is destined to stay this way (Americans, much to my embarassment, certainly aren't getting any smarter). The point isn't that Americans use more bandwidth or that a larger percentage of Americans are online. The point is that the Internet is set up and goverened pretty much however Americans (not that I mean to imply via popular vote) chose/choose.
I think it's pretty lame, myself. I don't like being the big, stupid bully.
Without Tesla, there would be no Violet Wand, one of the most fun kinky sex devices around.
For those of you not familiar, a Violet Wand is an old qucak medical device in which a Tesla coil charges a semi-vaccumed argon-filled glass tube (usually - there are other "extensions"). The electricity is transferred to the skin through the glass. They generally run about 30,000 to 40,000 volts. The one I have runs at 22 watts (though they can range from 8 to upwards of 60 watts!).
Thank you, Mr. Tesla.
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(*psst* get it? after Dec 31, 1999, the date becomes 1901...so, 2011 would be 1911...funny, huh?)
I registered fuck-you.org - just get a friend who can read spanish, and register through spain (or whatever) - it's not a curse word, there, so it goes right through!
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Most M$ sites are getting worse. Try looking at product comparisons in the electronics section of sidewalk.com with a Netscape browser - It/used/ to work fine, but they changed it to be/incorrectly/ tagged HTML in the tables. M$IE conveniently misinterprets it to where it looks okay, whereas Netscape "reads" it properly, thus producing a hideous page where you have to scroll sideways for several screens between columns of text.
I still can't figure out why they'd do that. It's not like people who use Netscape don't see the load of banner ads, too.
*sigh*
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Actually, Linus didn't call it Linux - He called it something like "Freeix", but the lab admin where he originally put the source thought that was a stupid name so he (the admin) changed it. Linus liked it, so it was kept (though, I believe he claimed some original embarassment, as he's not very egotistical) At least, that's how the legend goes....:)
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He ruined a great argument topic! Blegh.
Not the same caliber movie, but, along the same lines would be revealing whether the Total Recall thing was real or imagined. it's just not fun if you can't argue with your friends afterwards.
I think you'll adapt to the monumental 4-button interface. Humans can do that, these days.
And what are we going to do, anyway? Not use homedepot.com to find the closest store when we move into town? Doubt it.
...with the constant flamewars going on about "out" vs "oot" and "about" vs "aboot"...Or maybe that's just here in Slashdotland.
For instance, umm, okay, I'm not sure how that's useful.
But it's neat anyway. so there.
I read it as "see HASH", being that I program in existing languages that already "pronounce" that character properly.
- Basic Member - Doubles his or her intake of meat.
- Flesh Warrior - Triples his or her intake of meat.
- Carnage Lord - Only eats raw meat. Preferably, just takes bites out of live animals.
---------------note: I'm actually a vegetarian myself. I just think that the "Vegan Avengers" concept is hilarious.
Also, I'm sure some are thinking "yeah, right. I can barely find someone to help me as it is" - Well, obviously there would need to be either more people stationed to call for what it is you need, or some sort of automated kiosk thing to tell someone "in the back" to bring up your order.
Instead of having a pile of 20 copies of some piece of software, have one box on display (empty) and have a little tag that you tear off and have the checkout person call for from "the back room".
Toys R Us does it, and it works fine. makes it so you can have a clean looking display with 3 or 4 times the stuff.
of course, for big releases, it would be a good idea to just roll a big cartful of the new whiz-bang software out and keep those little hidden chips in the shrinkwrap to set off those door alarm rigs if someone tries to run off with a copy.
one hope I have is that Alien Skin will eventually port to GIMP. that would just be amazing.
Apparently, they had been doing a bit of electrical work near the rack and didn't want to have any debris get in the machines. Well, apparently they either work really slowly or just forgot about it (how you can forget a big blue tarp is beyond me) as the machines were up to around 140 degrees (F) internally (90s externally).
Ouch
Yeah, so, onething you should look for is that not happening.
The only thing that could come of this is this asinine company lining the pockets of a few lawyers who jump on the bandwagon (I don't blame the lawyers - wouldn't you take money from idiots like them?). This case can't possibly go anywhere but to dismissal. I just hope a precedent isn't set too quickly. The more time the company has to file suits, the more money they'll lose.
Don't act too quickly - idiocy takes time.
And then sue a few extra parties. Make sure at least one either grosses over a billion dollars a year, or at least have good VC backing.
Someone will settle out-of-court, just to be safe, and you'll get a few million out of it.
In fact, I think I'm going to go sue someone for making the traffic too congested this morning.
Just because they're assholes doesn't mean they're stupid. Well, the M$ legal team tries really hard to look stupid for some reason, but...
oh, nevermind.
actually, it's up,up,down,down,left,right,left,right,b,a,start (or select, start, for 2-player). I'm not sure why I remember that.
okay, so it's not software or open source. so sue me; it's what I thought of.
There was no JarJar anywhere in the movie. Nor was there any images of Rosanne Barr/Arnold naked. Nor was there anyone from Oprah's book club. And no one peed on me. So, the way I'm looking at it is, don't think of how bad it is, but rather think of how bad it isn't.
The point of sending someone to jail for an inordinate amount of time (in your example 400 years) is to make it impossible for them to get parole. This is common practice in Ohio (where I'm originally from). See, parole is granted on a percentage-of-time-served basis. So, you serve 20% of your time, you get out. Even serving "Life" has an assumed lifespan deal, so you can get out after a certain time. But, if your sentence is 400 years , you get to parole (using the 20% number) after 80 years. Good luck with the Vitamins to increase your lifespan.
What do you call someone who speaks three languages? Trilingual.
What do you call someone who speaks two languages? Bilingual.
What do you call someone who speaks one language? American. (badumpbump)
But, for whatever reason, almost everyone puts up with it. I'm American. I can speak American English fluently. I know snippets of Russian from high school. That's it. When I travel, I can almost always find someone to accomodate me. Quite often on newsgroups, mailing lists, bulletin boards, etc you find messages from [obviously] foreign users posting in broken English. I doubt that there are many Americans posting in broken German on c't's discussion threads.
Why are we allowed this "privledge"? I'm not going to project why that might be (mainly so as not to start a flame war), but it seems as though it is destined to stay this way (Americans, much to my embarassment, certainly aren't getting any smarter). The point isn't that Americans use more bandwidth or that a larger percentage of Americans are online. The point is that the Internet is set up and goverened pretty much however Americans (not that I mean to imply via popular vote) chose/choose.
I think it's pretty lame, myself. I don't like being the big, stupid bully.
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For those of you not familiar, a Violet Wand is an old qucak medical device in which a Tesla coil charges a semi-vaccumed argon-filled glass tube (usually - there are other "extensions"). The electricity is transferred to the skin through the glass. They generally run about 30,000 to 40,000 volts. The one I have runs at 22 watts (though they can range from 8 to upwards of 60 watts!).
Thank you, Mr. Tesla.
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1-1-2011
(*psst* get it? after Dec 31, 1999, the date becomes 1901...so, 2011 would be 1911...funny, huh?)
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It's too bad stupidity isn't painful"
I still can't figure out why they'd do that. It's not like people who use Netscape don't see the load of banner ads, too.
*sigh*
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It's too bad stupidity isn't painful"
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It's too bad stupidity isn't painful"
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It's too bad stupidity isn't painful"