In light of all these accounting scandals, thousands of layoffs and billions in retirement funds pissed away due to the Enron and Worldcom debacles, Arthur Andersen should take a page from MS's book and buy their *own* little piece of the NBC news machine to add their "unbiased" spin to everything. I can see the headlines already!
ArthurAndersenNBC: Arthur Andersen Assures Wall Street of Its Innocence in Recent Scandals
I, for one, think this is a great idea. A game console and digital VCR all in one. I'm *really* hoping that this will give us the ability to import actors from TV, movies and commercials into video games.
Afterall, why should Austin Powers be the only one lucky enough to beat Britney Spears to a pulp...now you can import her into the fighting game d'jeur and beat-in her talentless ass or import her into Halo and blast her to smithereens!
"...but found their love of computers using Dos and Win3.1"
Funny, when I got into computers back in 1991 I started with DOS and only began the love affair when I discovered OS/2.
Where would we be without MS? Imagine a best of breed OS that evolved from the best aspects of OS/2, BeOS and Linux, all three of which would have had mainstream support and decent marketshares years ago if the OEMs weren't scared shiteless of retaliation from MS.
If anyone has seen the DVD version of "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," you may remember in one of the deleted scenes, Hedwig's agent was actually using a cell phone implanted in her head! She had to touch her teeth with her tongue to dial numbers.
Well, if they're not terribly skilled with computers and save to the hard drive because it's the path of least resistance, make the fileserver into the path of least resistance.
Go around to each computer and go to the settings of each production level program that you use (ie Office for argument's sake). Set the default save directory to that of the mapped drive letter of your NT server. When they go to save files, the save dialogue will use your fileserver as the starting point.
The cheapest 640x480 digital camera I've found is the Polaroid Fun! 610. No flash or LCD. Holds about 15 pictures. It cost me $20 at Odd Job, which is one of those "closeout" stores. It was perfect for taking OK-ish pictures for selling stuff online. Here are some sample pics:
ArmyKnife let you do all you want - naming conventions, ID3 tags, etc. You can apply the changes to MP3s in all sorts of combinations and manners...of course you'll need BeOS to run it. Find it at www.bebits.com and drool:) However, the only thing it can't do is detect if a song is complete or not.
I don't mean to demean the mentally challenged people of the world, but is it just me or do you get the feeling Vin Diesel arrived at the awards in a short, yellow limo?
In my building, your wall jack is hooked up to an antenna on top of the building by default, when you subscribe to cable, only then will you be hooked up to the cable infrastructure.
Hmm...maybe it's time to write the landlord a letter about getting satellite TV on the roof as an alternative to cable. There are currently a few lucky souls with apartments that have the proper southwestern exposure and they have their own 18-inch dishes.
When I started this piece of the thread, I was not making direct comparisons and trying to align the causes of Napster users with Am. revolutionaries, abolitionists, etc. I was merely providing examples of people in the past who have bucked the system. This was in no way meant to provide any justification for the activities of Napster users.
I could have just the same not included any examples and simply said "history is made by those that follow their hearts rather than happily complying with the system." Apparently by including examples, certain people have misconstrued what I was trying to say.
I'm not making a comparison of the magnitudes of anyone's acts, just the point that history isn't made by those who happily fell in line. I was trying to cite examples that most people could recognize.
The Boston Tea Party was illegal and involved stealing.
The American Revolution was illegal and would be considered stealing from the king.
Freeing slaves through the Underground Railroad in the 1800s was also considered stealing and illegal.
See a pattern here? In the grand scheme of things, history has been determined by those who followed their hearts and did what they felt was right, rather than following the orders of another man.
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Sorry, meant to say Viewsonic!
Let's not forget the product placement!
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"(and there isn't a single marching digital Army, special effect, or marketing tie-in involved!)"
Yes, but there was what I perceived to be a major product placement in the movie. No, not the cars, because every movie has cars and in this particular case their brands weren't made prominent.
I am speaking of the one scene where Dormer is in the lobby of the lodge he's staying in and is talking to the lodgekeeper. She's typing up something on her computer and what do we see? The back of an LCD screen with a *HUGE* Proview logo on the back. It brought back memories of the OJ trial and Judge Ito's Thinkpad with the larger-than-normal IBM logo.
It's amazing that it still costs so much to go to the movies when they have so many sneaky adverts popping up everywhere.
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The same thing happened with Sugar Ray. Their first album, Lemonade and Brownies, was a really good hard rock uncompromising type of album.
Then Floored came out in 1997 and I was still impressed. "Fly," which probably became the song they're best known for, was in the second album. It was a gentler type of song, but it provided a nice break in the rest of the album, which was very hard still.
Sugar Ray's third album was their "sellout" album. I had my brother burn me a copy of his CD so I could check it out. I couldn't stomach more than 10 seconds of each track; they all sounded like bad knock-offs of "Fly" from the previous album. One "gentle" song amongst a hard rock album is fine, but ka-rist! this was too much. That burned CD was quickly microwaved.
Sugar Ray may or may not have had a fourth album come out...I wouldn't know because I stopped paying attention to them when they stopped being creative and sold out.
There already is a version of The Sims for Linux. If you buy the Mandrake Linux Gaming Edition, it comes with The Sims.
It's actually the Win32 version that has been modified a bit to work with Transgaming's WineX...so it will work under Linux with WINE, but not under Windows because the code has been changed too much. I'll sell you my copy if you want.
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In light of all these accounting scandals, thousands of layoffs and billions in retirement funds pissed away due to the Enron and Worldcom debacles, Arthur Andersen should take a page from MS's book and buy their *own* little piece of the NBC news machine to add their "unbiased" spin to everything. I can see the headlines already!
ArthurAndersenNBC: Arthur Andersen Assures Wall Street of Its Innocence in Recent Scandals
ArthurAndersenNBC: Poll Says Fortune 500 Execs Rate Andersen #1
In fact...we should also expect to see EnronNBC and WorldcomNBC pretty soon, too!
I, for one, think this is a great idea. A game console and digital VCR all in one. I'm *really* hoping that this will give us the ability to import actors from TV, movies and commercials into video games.
Afterall, why should Austin Powers be the only one lucky enough to beat Britney Spears to a pulp...now you can import her into the fighting game d'jeur and beat-in her talentless ass or import her into Halo and blast her to smithereens!
or just visiting relatives?
Ooh...you're right...definitely Amiga!
"...but found their love of computers using Dos and Win3.1"
Funny, when I got into computers back in 1991 I started with DOS and only began the love affair when I discovered OS/2.
Where would we be without MS? Imagine a best of breed OS that evolved from the best aspects of OS/2, BeOS and Linux, all three of which would have had mainstream support and decent marketshares years ago if the OEMs weren't scared shiteless of retaliation from MS.
"...would you rather stare Jamie Lee Curtis in the tooth, or..."
Uhm, neither. Sorry, I'm not into chicks born with d1cks.
If anyone has seen the DVD version of "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," you may remember in one of the deleted scenes, Hedwig's agent was actually using a cell phone implanted in her head! She had to touch her teeth with her tongue to dial numbers.
Pretty good movie and a great soundtrack, too!
Well, if they're not terribly skilled with computers and save to the hard drive because it's the path of least resistance, make the fileserver into the path of least resistance.
Go around to each computer and go to the settings of each production level program that you use (ie Office for argument's sake). Set the default save directory to that of the mapped drive letter of your NT server. When they go to save files, the save dialogue will use your fileserver as the starting point.
The cheapest 640x480 digital camera I've found is the Polaroid Fun! 610. No flash or LCD. Holds about 15 pictures. It cost me $20 at Odd Job, which is one of those "closeout" stores. It was perfect for taking OK-ish pictures for selling stuff online. Here are some sample pics:
t .org/hansel.html
http://valdot.org/turnipsale.html
http://valdo
No, none of the stuff there is available for sale any longer.
Afterall, don't you know what our new mantra around here is?
"Tough. Adapt or die."
How much do you think ADTI would charge to conduct another unbiased study that completely counters and argues against their original report?
ArmyKnife let you do all you want - naming conventions, ID3 tags, etc. You can apply the changes to MP3s in all sorts of combinations and manners...of course you'll need BeOS to run it. Find it at www.bebits.com and drool :) However, the only thing it can't do is detect if a song is complete or not.
I don't mean to demean the mentally challenged people of the world, but is it just me or do you get the feeling Vin Diesel arrived at the awards in a short, yellow limo?
Amazing how much of the stuff Public Enemy wrote in the late 80s/early 90s is starting to relate to all walks of life.
(For those that don't know, "Burn Hollywood Burn" was written by Public Enemy).
You can get Sager notebooks without an OS installed. www.powernotebooks.com has them. I believe RobLimo can attest to this.
I'm sure my landlord can afford it...do you have any links I could refer him to if I write a letter?
Thanks!
In my building, your wall jack is hooked up to an antenna on top of the building by default, when you subscribe to cable, only then will you be hooked up to the cable infrastructure.
Hmm...maybe it's time to write the landlord a letter about getting satellite TV on the roof as an alternative to cable. There are currently a few lucky souls with apartments that have the proper southwestern exposure and they have their own 18-inch dishes.
I'd just like to take a moment to clear the air.
When I started this piece of the thread, I was not making direct comparisons and trying to align the causes of Napster users with Am. revolutionaries, abolitionists, etc. I was merely providing examples of people in the past who have bucked the system. This was in no way meant to provide any justification for the activities of Napster users.
I could have just the same not included any examples and simply said "history is made by those that follow their hearts rather than happily complying with the system." Apparently by including examples, certain people have misconstrued what I was trying to say.
I'm not making a comparison of the magnitudes of anyone's acts, just the point that history isn't made by those who happily fell in line. I was trying to cite examples that most people could recognize.
Everything Jesus did was illegal.
The Boston Tea Party was illegal and involved stealing.
The American Revolution was illegal and would be considered stealing from the king.
Freeing slaves through the Underground Railroad in the 1800s was also considered stealing and illegal.
See a pattern here? In the grand scheme of things, history has been determined by those who followed their hearts and did what they felt was right, rather than following the orders of another man.
Sorry, meant to say Viewsonic!
"(and there isn't a single marching digital Army, special effect, or marketing tie-in involved!)"
Yes, but there was what I perceived to be a major product placement in the movie. No, not the cars, because every movie has cars and in this particular case their brands weren't made prominent.
I am speaking of the one scene where Dormer is in the lobby of the lodge he's staying in and is talking to the lodgekeeper. She's typing up something on her computer and what do we see? The back of an LCD screen with a *HUGE* Proview logo on the back. It brought back memories of the OJ trial and Judge Ito's Thinkpad with the larger-than-normal IBM logo.
It's amazing that it still costs so much to go to the movies when they have so many sneaky adverts popping up everywhere.
The same thing happened with Sugar Ray. Their first album, Lemonade and Brownies, was a really good hard rock uncompromising type of album.
Then Floored came out in 1997 and I was still impressed. "Fly," which probably became the song they're best known for, was in the second album. It was a gentler type of song, but it provided a nice break in the rest of the album, which was very hard still.
Sugar Ray's third album was their "sellout" album. I had my brother burn me a copy of his CD so I could check it out. I couldn't stomach more than 10 seconds of each track; they all sounded like bad knock-offs of "Fly" from the previous album. One "gentle" song amongst a hard rock album is fine, but ka-rist! this was too much. That burned CD was quickly microwaved.
Sugar Ray may or may not have had a fourth album come out...I wouldn't know because I stopped paying attention to them when they stopped being creative and sold out.
It's probably both cases then, because the game definitely won't run in Windows.
There already is a version of The Sims for Linux. If you buy the Mandrake Linux Gaming Edition, it comes with The Sims.
It's actually the Win32 version that has been modified a bit to work with Transgaming's WineX...so it will work under Linux with WINE, but not under Windows because the code has been changed too much. I'll sell you my copy if you want.