And the jury will determine the winner based on things like who most likable. So if you can paint yourself as some poor schlub who got ripped off by MS, then the technical stuff really doesn't matter.
Contrawise, if Microsoft's army of lawyers can convince the jury that you're a greedy SoB just trying to rip off Microsoft, then the technical stuff really doesn't matter, either. Who has a better chance of which? Ultimately, the process seems fair, although you are right that the evidence presented is often only a medium for the real decision (i.e., we have two sides of a story; each party has a vested interest to spin the truth; who's more trustworthy).
It's fucking sad, but that's how it works.
Well, yeah, it sucks, but I still like the whole jury of one's peers thing - it seems to work out OK in the long run.
However, I wouldn't consider Irish-Americans any smarter than the white population in general in America.
OK! I am now offended! As a person of Irish descent, how can you say that the Irish aren't smarter! Who else has a holiday where you can go out and get drunk just because of your heritage, huh? And who invented the potato, after all? Damn it, I have half a mind to go out and get drunk now. Now stop insulting me and let me go get pissed.
I would buy an Intel Mac because I could put Windows AND my favorite Linux AND Mac all on the same dual-booting machine.
Even better would be if Apple put a workable hypervisor under OS X in their machines. That way, you could run OS X, Windows, and Linux simultaneously - but only with Apple hardware. It would be a key differentiating feature.
It really does rock. I have mine dual-booting Win2K and Fedora Core 2 (haven't taken the time to upgrade - my bad). Even found the necessary touchscreen and wifi drivers for Linux. I actually like it better for travelling than my IBM T41 (though I usually drag both of them along:-).
Nearly is the operative word. This user doen't want nearly trouble-free operation, he wants really trouble-free operation. As long as Windows (and Linux) aplogists make excuses about how "it just takes a little administration" and "you know getting sound to work isn't that important" and "as long as you use AdAware, everything will be all right", they will not get close. You have to take responsibility for the proper operation of the system - even in the face of a hostile environment - to get to trouble-free utility computing. And I say this as a person who (a) has not owned a Macintosh for the past ten years and (b) who rebuilds his own Linux kernels at home and (c) programs cutting edge ASP.NET applications at work and (d) is getting fed up with the amount of adminsitration it takes to keep his home network (including Windows and Linux boxes) reasonably secure. To bitch about this guy because he recognizes this as a shortcoming of the industry as it stands right now and is willing to pay a premium to deal with it is just tying the blinders on tighter.
Because this means that as all of us engineers starve to death due to outsourcing and more and more nurses are trained due to the increasing age of our population, there'll be more babes to get! Hey wait... I'll be dead. Or too old to care. Man, this sucks.
I have absolutely no problem with an extra pair of eyes checking to see if what I'm doing is legit. I suspect that many international students don't either.
Which means you've all missed the largest lesson that you should have learned when we let you into our country to study.
I think what's far scarier is that the country that Timothy McVeigh and Ted Kaczynski come from doesn't have this restriction. They're able to go to US universities without licenses.
Well, Kaczinski already has his doctorate, doesn't he? So unless he wants to get another one, that leaves him out. And, as far as I know, you do have to be living and breathing to be enrolled, so McVeigh's out, too. Anyone else I forgot?
The only restriction is that taxpayer funds cannot be used to support it.
Now if only such an enlightened approach could be taken on other activities that might be said to kill humans - you know, things like the Iraq War, the death penalty, and so on. I don't remember W restricting funds for those out of his or others "respect for life". But I guess consistency is the hobgoblin of a tiny mind.
This is the first time she's employeed the old body-part-in-her-food scam.
We should be praising her creativity in her chosen profession. I mean, if people did not try to defaud others, where would we as a society be? Prosecutors, defenders, detective, insurance companies, all gone! Not to mention the news and entertainment businesses. My God, think of the economy before you castigate the poor woman like the OP did!
The problem is that those other devices would have to drastically change how their services are being offered. I don't want to pay to transfer songs to my phone. I don't want to pay a monthly fee in order to keep my iPhone activated.
No, the real problem is that the batteries would have to drastically change the amount of service offered. I, for one, don't want to run down my phone's battery by listening to music. And if you don't understand this, you don't know how much of your phone's time and circuitry is spent in a low-power mode.
What evidence do you have that Gmail has "cleaned deck" vs Hotmail?
aaa@yahoo.com: A yahoo. bbb@msn.com: A spam-eating loser. ccc@hotmail.com: A spam-eating, but somewhat more cluefull loser. ddd@aol.com: Let's not go here, shall we? eee@gmail.com: Slightly less loserfull than any of the above, but still having the scent of loserness upon him/her.
As gmail has less of a smell of loserness about their losers, they have won. Real people have real ISPs (and the ones worth talking to usually have their own domains).
If she were to get a job with the National Enquirer and publish pictures of PJ next to Bigfoot, OK, fine.
You have your tabloids mixed up. The Enquirer no longer does Bigfoot photos. If we PJ put next to J Lo or even Wil Wheaton, they might publish the picture - but not Bigfoot. What you were searching for was the Weekly World News, still the home of the politician-endorsing space alien, Bat Boy, and other denizens of the amazing world in which we live.
I've seen others make this mistake, too. I hope it doesn't continue. Imagine the disappointment of someone wanting to read about Bat Boy, buying the Enquirer by mistake and only finding John Travolta and Tom Cruise. It would be tragic.
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OK, let's face it. Your father wanted Felicity Kendall. That's the only reason anyone could be corralled into watching that show.
Contrawise, if Microsoft's army of lawyers can convince the jury that you're a greedy SoB just trying to rip off Microsoft, then the technical stuff really doesn't matter, either. Who has a better chance of which? Ultimately, the process seems fair, although you are right that the evidence presented is often only a medium for the real decision (i.e., we have two sides of a story; each party has a vested interest to spin the truth; who's more trustworthy).
It's fucking sad, but that's how it works.
Well, yeah, it sucks, but I still like the whole jury of one's peers thing - it seems to work out OK in the long run.
OK! I am now offended! As a person of Irish descent, how can you say that the Irish aren't smarter! Who else has a holiday where you can go out and get drunk just because of your heritage, huh? And who invented the potato, after all? Damn it, I have half a mind to go out and get drunk now. Now stop insulting me and let me go get pissed.
Even better would be if Apple put a workable hypervisor under OS X in their machines. That way, you could run OS X, Windows, and Linux simultaneously - but only with Apple hardware. It would be a key differentiating feature.
It really does rock. I have mine dual-booting Win2K and Fedora Core 2 (haven't taken the time to upgrade - my bad). Even found the necessary touchscreen and wifi drivers for Linux. I actually like it better for travelling than my IBM T41 (though I usually drag both of them along :-).
Q: What's the difference between a paid blogger and a shill?
A: A shill can go home in the evening and keep quiet.
Damn straight. I'd go even further and extend the right to men, too. I saw that Alien movie, you know.
Remember you heard it here first!
Butt ugly *and* you can fry an egg on it!
Of course! That would explain the rest of UPN's programming, too.
And then she became a Scientologist, stopped doing coke, and got fat.
Oh wait... That's the other Saavik - the one without Sam Waterston's eyebrows. Never mind.
What a great rule! It works so well when applied to shooting yourself in the head, for instance.
Nearly is the operative word. This user doen't want nearly trouble-free operation, he wants really trouble-free operation. As long as Windows (and Linux) aplogists make excuses about how "it just takes a little administration" and "you know getting sound to work isn't that important" and "as long as you use AdAware, everything will be all right", they will not get close. You have to take responsibility for the proper operation of the system - even in the face of a hostile environment - to get to trouble-free utility computing. And I say this as a person who (a) has not owned a Macintosh for the past ten years and (b) who rebuilds his own Linux kernels at home and (c) programs cutting edge ASP.NET applications at work and (d) is getting fed up with the amount of adminsitration it takes to keep his home network (including Windows and Linux boxes) reasonably secure. To bitch about this guy because he recognizes this as a shortcoming of the industry as it stands right now and is willing to pay a premium to deal with it is just tying the blinders on tighter.
Because this means that as all of us engineers starve to death due to outsourcing and more and more nurses are trained due to the increasing age of our population, there'll be more babes to get! Hey wait... I'll be dead. Or too old to care. Man, this sucks.
Which means you've all missed the largest lesson that you should have learned when we let you into our country to study.
Well, Kaczinski already has his doctorate, doesn't he? So unless he wants to get another one, that leaves him out. And, as far as I know, you do have to be living and breathing to be enrolled, so McVeigh's out, too. Anyone else I forgot?
Now if only such an enlightened approach could be taken on other activities that might be said to kill humans - you know, things like the Iraq War, the death penalty, and so on. I don't remember W restricting funds for those out of his or others "respect for life". But I guess consistency is the hobgoblin of a tiny mind.
We should be praising her creativity in her chosen profession. I mean, if people did not try to defaud others, where would we as a society be? Prosecutors, defenders, detective, insurance companies, all gone! Not to mention the news and entertainment businesses. My God, think of the economy before you castigate the poor woman like the OP did!
Well, of course not. They have to spend all their money getting up into space where they can fu... Oh, that's not what you meant, was it. Never mind.
No, the real problem is that the batteries would have to drastically change the amount of service offered. I, for one, don't want to run down my phone's battery by listening to music. And if you don't understand this, you don't know how much of your phone's time and circuitry is spent in a low-power mode.
aaa@yahoo.com: A yahoo.
bbb@msn.com: A spam-eating loser.
ccc@hotmail.com: A spam-eating, but somewhat more cluefull loser.
ddd@aol.com: Let's not go here, shall we?
eee@gmail.com: Slightly less loserfull than any of the above, but still having the scent of loserness upon him/her.
As gmail has less of a smell of loserness about their losers, they have won. Real people have real ISPs (and the ones worth talking to usually have their own domains).
You have your tabloids mixed up. The Enquirer no longer does Bigfoot photos. If we PJ put next to J Lo or even Wil Wheaton, they might publish the picture - but not Bigfoot. What you were searching for was the Weekly World News, still the home of the politician-endorsing space alien, Bat Boy, and other denizens of the amazing world in which we live.
I've seen others make this mistake, too. I hope it doesn't continue. Imagine the disappointment of someone wanting to read about Bat Boy, buying the Enquirer by mistake and only finding John Travolta and Tom Cruise. It would be tragic.
... Microsoft Windows TE (Toaster Edition). Now with built-in MP3 player. Because, let's face it, when you converge, you gotta *really* converge.
I... don't know. But... it would... talk like... this!