They need to go after the people who manufacture and sell the products being sold via Spam. Of course that won't address the 'Scam Spams', but if companies face serious penalties if their products are marketed via spam, it might make them look harder at who they are hiring to market said products.
You obviously missed the part about him being a shut in. Unless he misused the term, it usually refers to people who CAN'T just go out due to one sort of (usually physical) disability or another.
Whatever works for you, I say. I try not to tell anyone to 'get a life', because I realised a long time ago that everyone marches to a slightly different beat than everyone else. If this guy likes to pay $10/month to listen to music, and doesn't need to burn any tracks, who are any of us to judge?
Yes, you certainly shouldn't give a rat's ass about chemistry, or the atom, or the fact that without the scientific and technological advances brought about over the years by building upon the work of people like Dalton, you'd still be living in a cave and wouldn't be able to post as an Anonymous Asshat on Slashdot.
They are in the business to make money, not to provide anything as a public service. I am as big a Farscape fan as anyone, and yes I wrote letters and emails to try and save it. In the end though, business is business. It was losing them money so they cancelled it. Get over it.
Your mistake was asking professors anything about the real world...the vast majority have no clue as to what is really going on out there. Yes, Token Ring is on it's way out, but there is still a relatively large installed base out there.
Did you actually read the article? He first compared a rather OLD and technically (spec wise) inferior SCSI drive to an IDE drive. When the old SCSI was faster he decided to buy a newer SCSI drive, which was even faster.
No, it was not a very comprehensive comparison. I would have preferred more benchmarks with varying datasets. However, judging from your post you barely even read what was written.
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I for one welcome our new robotic monitoring overlords!
Well your stores have different equipment than mine then. Ours take change, bills, or plastic. Individual produce items are easy to check out. None of your objections, in fact, seem to apply.
That said, I won't use them until they give me a 2% discount for doing the work for them.
That wasn't even a very good troll. Try harder next time. Linux has all of the features you say it lacks, and there is no 'shareware' version. But of course, you know this. I highly doubt that you are a consultant of any kind. 'Kernel level' programming in VB? Please..
More likely you are just a wannabe slashtroll hiding in Mom's basement.
I know..don't feed the trolls. This one as so bad though that I couldn't resist. A good troll should at least sound plausible!
Even non-profits have to remove you if you specifically ask them to take you off of their list. They just don't have to follow the 'master' do not call lists.
First of all, Government doesn't solve problems. People do, specifically free people. Liberty and freedom are what generated the great wealth that the US and other free nations enjoy. Once people start relying on the Government to solve social ills, the long slow spiral to despotism begins.
Second, the space program costs us exactly zero dollars. There is SO much revenue generated by space technology both directly (comm sattelites, etc.) and indirectly ( enormously profitable advances in material science, engineering, computers, ad infinitum) that when taken as a whole the cost to the economy is nil. So many things that we take for granted, from instant beverages to those sweet foam mattresses to satellite TV and phone communication, were born out of the space program.
Now now, I never said I *agreed* with that perception. Personally I'm agnostic and use the tool that works at the time (Windows for most of my games, various *nixes for much of everything else). However, perception is what drives the market.
The fact is there are really no alternatives for most people. Macs are expensive, and it's hard to find a good x86 box with Linux preloaded. Until reliable, powerful PC's with alternate OSes and applications suites are easily obtainable, the unwashed masses will continue to buy MS. Sad, but true.
Speak for yourself. I don't want technology to bring people together. I simply want it to give me the means to become an Evil Overlord. You can beat the rush and send your tribute to me now, in the form of gold and virgin's if you don't mind.
I haven't read anything that could be taken as a shout. Then again, it's not a bad tactic to say 'I don't want to talk about it because you'll just shout me down'. Nobody has flamed you in this discussion yet. You just seem to not want to defend your points, at least not in this forum. I can respect that, but don't try to paint it as being shouted down.
(begin sarcasm) You're absolutely right, why would we want full DirectX compatability? We certainly wouldn't want transparant Win32 API's available so that Windows apps would run seamlessly with Linux. (end sarcasm)
Just because you don't like MS for 'religious' reasons doens't mean all of their code is worthless.
*hands head in shame* I never had one. I had a TRS-80 then skipped straight to Apples for awhile before going with Intel based boxes when they came out.
*turns in his geek badge and fades into the night*
Broadband has lower latency than dialup regardless of packet size. I agree however with your premise that this is of limited use. Still, it is kinda cool. I don't think I'll be running out and buying a used C64 anytime soon though...
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They need to go after the people who manufacture and sell the products being sold via Spam. Of course that won't address the 'Scam Spams', but if companies face serious penalties if their products are marketed via spam, it might make them look harder at who they are hiring to market said products.
You obviously missed the part about him being a shut in. Unless he misused the term, it usually refers to people who CAN'T just go out due to one sort of (usually physical) disability or another.
Whatever works for you, I say. I try not to tell anyone to 'get a life', because I realised a long time ago that everyone marches to a slightly different beat than everyone else. If this guy likes to pay $10/month to listen to music, and doesn't need to burn any tracks, who are any of us to judge?
It also only has an 80 mile range...
Yes, you certainly shouldn't give a rat's ass about chemistry, or the atom, or the fact that without the scientific and technological advances brought about over the years by building upon the work of people like Dalton, you'd still be living in a cave and wouldn't be able to post as an Anonymous Asshat on Slashdot.
No, nothing to care about at all.
They are in the business to make money, not to provide anything as a public service. I am as big a Farscape fan as anyone, and yes I wrote letters and emails to try and save it. In the end though, business is business. It was losing them money so they cancelled it. Get over it.
Your mistake was asking professors anything about the real world...the vast majority have no clue as to what is really going on out there. Yes, Token Ring is on it's way out, but there is still a relatively large installed base out there.
Did you actually read the article? He first compared a rather OLD and technically (spec wise) inferior SCSI drive to an IDE drive. When the old SCSI was faster he decided to buy a newer SCSI drive, which was even faster.
No, it was not a very comprehensive comparison. I would have preferred more benchmarks with varying datasets. However, judging from your post you barely even read what was written.
I for one welcome our new robotic monitoring overlords!
Well your stores have different equipment than mine then. Ours take change, bills, or plastic. Individual produce items are easy to check out. None of your objections, in fact, seem to apply.
That said, I won't use them until they give me a 2% discount for doing the work for them.
No, they killed the EV8 project. As to 'which company', I'm not sure what you mean. There is no more Compaq, it's totally owned by HP now.
Shouldn't post if I don't know everything about the subject I guess.
That's never stopped 99% of the posters here...
Loosely translated: 'You will go far in your career.'
That wasn't even a very good troll. Try harder next time. Linux has all of the features you say it lacks, and there is no 'shareware' version. But of course, you know this. I highly doubt that you are a consultant of any kind. 'Kernel level' programming in VB? Please..
More likely you are just a wannabe slashtroll hiding in Mom's basement.
I know..don't feed the trolls. This one as so bad though that I couldn't resist. A good troll should at least sound plausible!
Even non-profits have to remove you if you specifically ask them to take you off of their list. They just don't have to follow the 'master' do not call lists.
First of all, Government doesn't solve problems. People do, specifically free people. Liberty and freedom are what generated the great wealth that the US and other free nations enjoy. Once people start relying on the Government to solve social ills, the long slow spiral to despotism begins.
Second, the space program costs us exactly zero dollars. There is SO much revenue generated by space technology both directly (comm sattelites, etc.) and indirectly ( enormously profitable advances in material science, engineering, computers, ad infinitum) that when taken as a whole the cost to the economy is nil. So many things that we take for granted, from instant beverages to those sweet foam mattresses to satellite TV and phone communication, were born out of the space program.
It is one of the biggest scams around. Many pr0n sites are really just there to harvest CC info.
Screw them over how? By helping them defray their losses on the hardware by buying an Xbox? Heh. Talk about short sighted!
Since you only got smart ass replies, here you go: Bjarne Stroustrup was the creator of C++.
Now now, I never said I *agreed* with that perception. Personally I'm agnostic and use the tool that works at the time (Windows for most of my games, various *nixes for much of everything else). However, perception is what drives the market.
The fact is there are really no alternatives for most people. Macs are expensive, and it's hard to find a good x86 box with Linux preloaded. Until reliable, powerful PC's with alternate OSes and applications suites are easily obtainable, the unwashed masses will continue to buy MS. Sad, but true.
Speak for yourself. I don't want technology to bring people together. I simply want it to give me the means to become an Evil Overlord. You can beat the rush and send your tribute to me now, in the form of gold and virgin's if you don't mind.
I haven't read anything that could be taken as a shout. Then again, it's not a bad tactic to say 'I don't want to talk about it because you'll just shout me down'. Nobody has flamed you in this discussion yet. You just seem to not want to defend your points, at least not in this forum. I can respect that, but don't try to paint it as being shouted down.
(begin sarcasm) You're absolutely right, why would we want full DirectX compatability? We certainly wouldn't want transparant Win32 API's available so that Windows apps would run seamlessly with Linux. (end sarcasm)
Just because you don't like MS for 'religious' reasons doens't mean all of their code is worthless.
*hands head in shame* I never had one. I had a TRS-80 then skipped straight to Apples for awhile before going with Intel based boxes when they came out.
*turns in his geek badge and fades into the night*
Broadband has lower latency than dialup regardless of packet size. I agree however with your premise that this is of limited use. Still, it is kinda cool. I don't think I'll be running out and buying a used C64 anytime soon though...