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Our beloved President George W. Bush says that we'll never run out of oil, and since he has been appointed by God to save us from evil, it is truth from the mouth of God. Amen.
Milk is up 0.60 cent per gallor
Butter has went from 1.99 to 3.49
Ice Cream has increased in price by 35-45%
Store brand products are increasing in price by 5%-8%.
Namebrand products are increasing in price by 6%-7.5%
Since when?
That is important as to whether or not the mad cow disease outbreak in the UK have something to do with these insaine dairy product price increases!
Perhaps there is a correlation betwixt mad cow disease and fossil fuel usage? Save the cows to save gas prices! Down with this Mad Cow disease! Our cows need psychiatric help!
At least he used frames, so while his site slowly bogs down to tortise speeds, and eventually dies a horrible death, I can still look at the navigation.
I agree. I'm a web designer, and an elitest about it as well. Unfortunately, not every browser adheres to the W3C standards. That is why we say Mozilla is the most standards compliant, not Mozilla IS standards compliant. No one will ever be perfect. Until someone is, we'll have to do the occasional inelegant hack (a.k.a. Hacking apart standards) to make things cross-browser compatible in order to deliver content. We all do this "wrong, period," thing, just Microsoft is using it for its own supposed gain.
"you'd need the "club owners" to also own 98% of all TV, radio, newspapers, and magazines, and any other avenue of advertising"
I may be wrong, but I don't think Microsoft owns 98% of all advertising methods on the Internet. Microsoft doesn't own word of mouth, and they don't own, AFAIK, DoubleClick, or OSDN's ad system.
I don't really pay attention to ads very much anymore, but I don't recall seeing any MSN.com ads (or Yahoo for that matter) in a while.
"Hopefully you get the point why such a thing is bad? It has nothing to do with a business decision, it has to do with utilizing one monopolized market to control another. Losing money is irrelevant in this scenario, as soon your competition will shrivel up, not having their own monopoly to support them.
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I don't know if other people look at portals the way I do. Just because it is the first thing that pops up on my screen doesn't mean I'll use it. Unlike pre-bundled vs downloaded software, it doesn't take much, if any, effort to go to another site. If I really like Yahoo, I'm not going to use MSN.com. If someone says, "Check out this site." I more than likely will take a look at it. In that respect, it's probably easier to sway people away from MSN.Com than it would be to sway them from Bill Gates' Bar.
And I'm not sure if I should mention this since it may or may not be pertinite to the the great grandparent (I think)... At any rate, I think I may have skirted the issue. What it comes down to is: Is MSN.com (Bill Gates' Bar) worth changing your browser (identity) for? There are only a handful of browsers that charge for their product. The problem, I think, was that MSN.com locking out Opera would lead to lost revenue for Opera (otherwise, why sue, assuming they did?). Assuming I bought the browser and I got locked out of MSN, I'd use another portal, not stop supporting Opera. While MSN can take the hit, MSN loses the revenue, not Opera.
I've been debating this issue in my head for a long time. I even had a discussion with some tech journalist somewhere about it. But, basically, I don't see anything wrong with Microsoft blocking out whatever browser it choses. Here is my reasoning (at risk of someone telling me how my reasoning sucks by totally misconstruing it):
Lets pretend I run a club. While my club might be a really great, there are other clubs in the city, and they are really great, also.
I'm a bit of an elitest, so I only want people to come in that dress a certain way. So, I get my bouncers to stand outside and only let in the really attractive women in really nice cloths and guys that I think they might want hanging around them.
Well, it turns out that may be a good portion of the people that show up at my club, but I am still turning people away. These people go to other clubs since they can't get in mine.
Now, lets pretend that the pretty people don't spend as much money once they get past the door (some don't even get past the lobby), and the not-pretty people spend a good deal of money. My profits decline rapidly. I end up losing money in the end, but since I'm rich, I keep the place open. Other clubs are racking up dough.
Since I got tired of running my analogy about 1/2 way through, the quality of the analogy declined, but I'm sure everyone gets the point. If I am Bill Gates, and clubs are Internet Portals, and my club is MSN.com, and other clubs are other Internet Portals, and the bouncers are User Agent Detecting Scripts the point comes to light.
It's bad business to lock out people; but it is their business, and, assuming they aren't breaking any anti-discriminatory laws, they should be able to run it however they want. Sure you have a right to get pissed at them. But you also have a right to go somewhere else and tell everyone how shitty my bouncers are and how this other club does as good of a job anyway and has a better DJ. Make flyers and print stickers. Really stick it to me. You might even be able to convince some of the pretty people to start coming to the other club. You may even want to open your own club.
I'll admit that I'm ignoring that they have a monopoly and give out their browser home page set to MSN.com. If that is your complaint, don't bother replying. Otherwise, this is how I see it: A poor business decision.
Okay. I'll climb under my desk, unplug my nic, climb out, power on the machine, wait until everything is loaded, climb back under my desk, plug it back in, then climb out and be productive.
That is a great solution. Maybe Microsoft should make a KB article and send it to all the upperlevel business types in corperate America. I can see all the suits in their lavish office hundreds of feed above the city streets doing the Microsoft Shuffle. Now all they need is a catchy pop song to go with it and they'll be on Casey Kasem's Top 40.
It seems what happened is that we DID quit talking about them for at least several days. Now we are talking about how they aren't saying anything! I hate to see what SCO news is going to be like after they dissolve the company...
"SCO Still Closed
From the This-Is-The-365th-Time-We-Posted-This Dept."
It's something that one of my logic professors gave me. I've lost the paper since then, but, if memory serves, it is an expression that either has no solution or infinite solutions. There was some condition to that, but I don't remember what it was. It's been a year since I finished Logic.
I was aware of the reference, if you specifically informing me (not everyone). I just don't buy that the "mark of the beast" will be a physical mark, e.g. the 666 everyone loves so much. I interpret it as symbolism (e.g. the right hand is the "good hand", like the right hand of God; thus, it simply means that you must be "for the beast" to "buy or sell"; The forehead traditionally caries the "intellect" and / or the non-litereal "heart" of man, so you would believe the "philosophy" the beast sets up in order to "buy and sell"). Not that it matters, because I'm not Christian. So, the "blah blah about Revelations and yadda yadda yadda" was just my way of saying "all the stupid literal interpretations people have about Revelations that I don't agree with". And, yeah, I'll keep saying Revelations because those extra four syllables or 15ish characters take effort. I can't think of anyone who wouldn't know what I was talking about if I said Revelations but would if I said The Revelation of St. John. Kind of like Luke universally means the Gospel According to Luke. Kind of Like John universally means The Gospel According to John. Kind of like how RIAA universally means That Infuriating Lobbiest Group For Greedy Record Labels, which is what the acronym actually stands for. Sorry. I had to work that in somewhere.
Even though there is all the blah blah about Revelations and yadda yadda yadda, I think this would be pretty nice. Part of me wants to drop credit cards for implants because it would just be easy. Part of me is scared of that due to the whole My-Government-Really-Doesn't-Give-A-Toss-About-My- Privacy-And-They-Aren't-Afraid-To-Say-It (PATRIOT ACT, etc.) thing.
So, I was thinking maybe if they would make stylish jewlery instead of implants, it would be better. I hate wearing extra things on my person. I don't even wear a watch on my wrist. But, hey, if I were going out and I could conceal my credit card in, say, a ring or earing or bracelet or lapel pin, it'd be worth it. Can't get it pick-pocketed unless you are very careless, and you probably won't lose it as easily.
Then if you were worried about some RFID tracking, you could leave it at home and take cash / traditional credit cards.
They are outsourcing as many jobs to India as possible. They had to cut costs in some areas, such as "Programming" and "Public Relations", to push money into the "Frivolous Litigation" department. Now, though, they are going to outsource "Programming" departments from India to the Africa planes or the Mojave Desert. "Public Relations" was going to be handed to one of Sadam Hussein's sons, but since their deaths, they are contemplating outsourcing it to Donald Rumsfeild.
OMFG, add FTP write support in the Finder to that list. I'd be willing to upgrade for that alone (if iLife '04 came with it). I thought Panther would have it; I wept (silently to myself). If they are supporting SAMBA, etc., in the Finder, full FTP support should ALREADY BE THERE.
When I was debating on which to buy, I had resolved that I theoretically could get the smallest regular iPod available and only sync certain songs. It came to my attention that I don't like every song on every cd that I own. I can still keep them on my HDD, but I don't have to sync them, since I can chose to only sync, say, a smart playlist of ratings above 3. If I have a few songs that I might want to hear, but aren't 3+, I can make a playlist for them and sync it. instead of worrying, I just got a 20gig. That solved all my problems.
In your case, I'd make a smart playlist that picks the top 5 GB of most plays and add some sort of most recently played filter depending on listening habits incase you listen to tons of songs once (say on random). You could also throw in a rated 3+ to narrow it down. Don't "delete" them... just take advantage of smart playlists.
I know most of the people on here are joking, but you don't see women joking about similar situations happening to them.
Because most straight guys will never ever turn down sex, unless the woman is appalling (e.g. ugly, diseased, disfigured, but those are arguable for some) or their friends might make fun of them for not turning down the woman.
Well, except the lesbians, and they've already removed men from their society as much as possible.
In a culture where female bi-sexuality is the hottest new trend, I've watched many of my female friends go through binge / purge routines where sometimes they "never" want to look at a man again. It's quite disheartening. The fact that guys like to watch girl-on-girl action, I think, attempts to veil the insecurity you speak of. That or he wrongly thinks the two girls would like him to be involved.
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Our beloved President George W. Bush says that we'll never run out of oil, and since he has been appointed by God to save us from evil, it is truth from the mouth of God. Amen.
He also did cocain.
Milk is up 0.60 cent per gallor
Butter has went from 1.99 to 3.49
Ice Cream has increased in price by 35-45%
Store brand products are increasing in price by 5%-8%.
Namebrand products are increasing in price by 6%-7.5%
Since when?
That is important as to whether or not the mad cow disease outbreak in the UK have something to do with these insaine dairy product price increases!
Perhaps there is a correlation betwixt mad cow disease and fossil fuel usage? Save the cows to save gas prices! Down with this Mad Cow disease! Our cows need psychiatric help!
Well, we're 1/2 way there.
At least he used frames, so while his site slowly bogs down to tortise speeds, and eventually dies a horrible death, I can still look at the navigation.
I agree. I'm a web designer, and an elitest about it as well. Unfortunately, not every browser adheres to the W3C standards. That is why we say Mozilla is the most standards compliant, not Mozilla IS standards compliant. No one will ever be perfect. Until someone is, we'll have to do the occasional inelegant hack (a.k.a. Hacking apart standards) to make things cross-browser compatible in order to deliver content. We all do this "wrong, period," thing, just Microsoft is using it for its own supposed gain.
"you'd need the "club owners" to also own 98% of all TV, radio, newspapers, and magazines, and any other avenue of advertising"
I may be wrong, but I don't think Microsoft owns 98% of all advertising methods on the Internet. Microsoft doesn't own word of mouth, and they don't own, AFAIK, DoubleClick, or OSDN's ad system.
I don't really pay attention to ads very much anymore, but I don't recall seeing any MSN.com ads (or Yahoo for that matter) in a while.
"Hopefully you get the point why such a thing is bad? It has nothing to do with a business decision, it has to do with utilizing one monopolized market to control another. Losing money is irrelevant in this scenario, as soon your competition will shrivel up, not having their own monopoly to support them. "
I don't know if other people look at portals the way I do. Just because it is the first thing that pops up on my screen doesn't mean I'll use it. Unlike pre-bundled vs downloaded software, it doesn't take much, if any, effort to go to another site. If I really like Yahoo, I'm not going to use MSN.com. If someone says, "Check out this site." I more than likely will take a look at it. In that respect, it's probably easier to sway people away from MSN.Com than it would be to sway them from Bill Gates' Bar.
And I'm not sure if I should mention this since it may or may not be pertinite to the the great grandparent (I think)... At any rate, I think I may have skirted the issue. What it comes down to is: Is MSN.com (Bill Gates' Bar) worth changing your browser (identity) for? There are only a handful of browsers that charge for their product. The problem, I think, was that MSN.com locking out Opera would lead to lost revenue for Opera (otherwise, why sue, assuming they did?). Assuming I bought the browser and I got locked out of MSN, I'd use another portal, not stop supporting Opera. While MSN can take the hit, MSN loses the revenue, not Opera.
"lower prices to accentuate their advantages over Windows"
So, Microsoft raises it's prices to accentuate it's disadvantages over Linux?
Commercial distros, last time I checked, are still a hell of alot cheaper than Windows. Employees of Commercial Linux Distros still need to be paid.
I've been debating this issue in my head for a long time. I even had a discussion with some tech journalist somewhere about it. But, basically, I don't see anything wrong with Microsoft blocking out whatever browser it choses. Here is my reasoning (at risk of someone telling me how my reasoning sucks by totally misconstruing it):
Lets pretend I run a club. While my club might be a really great, there are other clubs in the city, and they are really great, also.
I'm a bit of an elitest, so I only want people to come in that dress a certain way. So, I get my bouncers to stand outside and only let in the really attractive women in really nice cloths and guys that I think they might want hanging around them.
Well, it turns out that may be a good portion of the people that show up at my club, but I am still turning people away. These people go to other clubs since they can't get in mine.
Now, lets pretend that the pretty people don't spend as much money once they get past the door (some don't even get past the lobby), and the not-pretty people spend a good deal of money. My profits decline rapidly. I end up losing money in the end, but since I'm rich, I keep the place open. Other clubs are racking up dough.
Since I got tired of running my analogy about 1/2 way through, the quality of the analogy declined, but I'm sure everyone gets the point. If I am Bill Gates, and clubs are Internet Portals, and my club is MSN.com, and other clubs are other Internet Portals, and the bouncers are User Agent Detecting Scripts the point comes to light.
It's bad business to lock out people; but it is their business, and, assuming they aren't breaking any anti-discriminatory laws, they should be able to run it however they want. Sure you have a right to get pissed at them. But you also have a right to go somewhere else and tell everyone how shitty my bouncers are and how this other club does as good of a job anyway and has a better DJ. Make flyers and print stickers. Really stick it to me. You might even be able to convince some of the pretty people to start coming to the other club. You may even want to open your own club.
I'll admit that I'm ignoring that they have a monopoly and give out their browser home page set to MSN.com. If that is your complaint, don't bother replying. Otherwise, this is how I see it: A poor business decision.
Okay. I'll climb under my desk, unplug my nic, climb out, power on the machine, wait until everything is loaded, climb back under my desk, plug it back in, then climb out and be productive.
That is a great solution. Maybe Microsoft should make a KB article and send it to all the upperlevel business types in corperate America. I can see all the suits in their lavish office hundreds of feed above the city streets doing the Microsoft Shuffle. Now all they need is a catchy pop song to go with it and they'll be on Casey Kasem's Top 40.
I'd rather just use my Mac.
It seems what happened is that we DID quit talking about them for at least several days. Now we are talking about how they aren't saying anything! I hate to see what SCO news is going to be like after they dissolve the company...
"SCO Still Closed
From the This-Is-The-365th-Time-We-Posted-This Dept."
just $200,000 and a grad student
Too late, man. What do you think they needed the grad student for?
It's something that one of my logic professors gave me. I've lost the paper since then, but, if memory serves, it is an expression that either has no solution or infinite solutions. There was some condition to that, but I don't remember what it was. It's been a year since I finished Logic.
just like you would think about what you eat or who you have sex with
Or who you eat and what you have sex with.
I was aware of the reference, if you specifically informing me (not everyone). I just don't buy that the "mark of the beast" will be a physical mark, e.g. the 666 everyone loves so much. I interpret it as symbolism (e.g. the right hand is the "good hand", like the right hand of God; thus, it simply means that you must be "for the beast" to "buy or sell"; The forehead traditionally caries the "intellect" and / or the non-litereal "heart" of man, so you would believe the "philosophy" the beast sets up in order to "buy and sell"). Not that it matters, because I'm not Christian. So, the "blah blah about Revelations and yadda yadda yadda" was just my way of saying "all the stupid literal interpretations people have about Revelations that I don't agree with". And, yeah, I'll keep saying Revelations because those extra four syllables or 15ish characters take effort. I can't think of anyone who wouldn't know what I was talking about if I said Revelations but would if I said The Revelation of St. John. Kind of like Luke universally means the Gospel According to Luke. Kind of Like John universally means The Gospel According to John. Kind of like how RIAA universally means That Infuriating Lobbiest Group For Greedy Record Labels, which is what the acronym actually stands for. Sorry. I had to work that in somewhere.
Even though there is all the blah blah about Revelations and yadda yadda yadda, I think this would be pretty nice. Part of me wants to drop credit cards for implants because it would just be easy. Part of me is scared of that due to the whole My-Government-Really-Doesn't-Give-A-Toss-About-My- Privacy-And-They-Aren't-Afraid-To-Say-It (PATRIOT ACT, etc.) thing.
So, I was thinking maybe if they would make stylish jewlery instead of implants, it would be better. I hate wearing extra things on my person. I don't even wear a watch on my wrist. But, hey, if I were going out and I could conceal my credit card in, say, a ring or earing or bracelet or lapel pin, it'd be worth it. Can't get it pick-pocketed unless you are very careless, and you probably won't lose it as easily.
Then if you were worried about some RFID tracking, you could leave it at home and take cash / traditional credit cards.
I guess a Mac version won't be too far behind if there will be a Linux version. Now... all I need is one of those new fangled G5s to play it on...
Does anyone know where system requierments might be found / when they will be announced?
And even still, you have to be careful about what you watch on Japanese television...
How scary is Longhorn for WINE / CO? What problems does it introduce, if any?
They are outsourcing as many jobs to India as possible. They had to cut costs in some areas, such as "Programming" and "Public Relations", to push money into the "Frivolous Litigation" department. Now, though, they are going to outsource "Programming" departments from India to the Africa planes or the Mojave Desert. "Public Relations" was going to be handed to one of Sadam Hussein's sons, but since their deaths, they are contemplating outsourcing it to Donald Rumsfeild.
OMFG, add FTP write support in the Finder to that list. I'd be willing to upgrade for that alone (if iLife '04 came with it). I thought Panther would have it; I wept (silently to myself). If they are supporting SAMBA, etc., in the Finder, full FTP support should ALREADY BE THERE.
but don't want or need all the features that ship with the latest version of Windows
Linux: The only OS that can get away with touting a lack of features as a feature.
The could be using code from ReactOS. While they are far from complete, they are getting close to an OSS version of Windows NT.
That is assuming it's not all a lie.
When I was debating on which to buy, I had resolved that I theoretically could get the smallest regular iPod available and only sync certain songs. It came to my attention that I don't like every song on every cd that I own. I can still keep them on my HDD, but I don't have to sync them, since I can chose to only sync, say, a smart playlist of ratings above 3. If I have a few songs that I might want to hear, but aren't 3+, I can make a playlist for them and sync it. instead of worrying, I just got a 20gig. That solved all my problems.
In your case, I'd make a smart playlist that picks the top 5 GB of most plays and add some sort of most recently played filter depending on listening habits incase you listen to tons of songs once (say on random). You could also throw in a rated 3+ to narrow it down. Don't "delete" them... just take advantage of smart playlists.
The OEM sample price is about $1,092 USD...but don't ask me what that means for consumers
It means not many will care to have one for a while. At least not until they are comperable to today's 2.5 inch drives (+/- a 100 USD).
I know most of the people on here are joking, but you don't see women joking about similar situations happening to them.
Because most straight guys will never ever turn down sex, unless the woman is appalling (e.g. ugly, diseased, disfigured, but those are arguable for some) or their friends might make fun of them for not turning down the woman.
Well, except the lesbians, and they've already removed men from their society as much as possible.
In a culture where female bi-sexuality is the hottest new trend, I've watched many of my female friends go through binge / purge routines where sometimes they "never" want to look at a man again. It's quite disheartening. The fact that guys like to watch girl-on-girl action, I think, attempts to veil the insecurity you speak of. That or he wrongly thinks the two girls would like him to be involved.