Also, I don't see how someone could kidnap my child if I was a good parent and actually parented the child at all times, as a parent should.
From what i've seen from your posts, you seem a relatively smart guy. So I can't understand this obviously ignorant statement. The MAJORITY of kidnappings are perpetrated BY A PARENT or other relative. How exactly does proper parenting protect against the PARENT snatching the child?
It's changed because before; the content was _entirely_ removed, only a few would ever know it existed. Now it is only _blocked_from_being_seen_by_Chinese_users_ but remains viewable by the rest of the world.
This is actually really bad for places like china... Now someone can post a blog/whatever with potential bad info about things happening in china, and no one in china can see it. BUT, the rest of the world will see it in all its glory, uncensored. Great for the revolutionaries, good for the rest of the world, bad for china, et al. It's like the head in the sand. China won't see it, and thus denies it exists. But the rest of the world will see it just fine. If this holds, expect to see even more posts about chinese atrocities from internal subversives, because now they won't be hidden from the outside world.
Except that MS brings in roughly 1 billion dollars in revenue every quarter... according to this Inquirer article a couple years ago; http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13350
According to a September BusinessWeek Article, MS has ~60000 employees. This company is 1/3 the size of the 100th largest city in the country. Microsoft also has more people than 70% of the counties in the US. The average county population is ~90000, microsoft is 2/3 of that.
According to Forbes, MS is the 47th largest company in the WORLD.
They're frickin BIG. No amount of money they spend is going to change that. In fact, the more they spend, the more it PROVES how big they are.
I love the final quote in that article; "They're a pretty coin, and they're backed by silver. It's a commodity that's going up in value, unlike the U.S. dollar."
Oooo it's PURTY!!! And going up in value? WTF? Silver is BARELY starting to recover from being at it's LOWEST value in nearly 600 YEARS (under $4 in 2002)!! As of today, 1 oz of silver is worth $9.02. And these SCHMUCKS pay $20 for one coin. Yeah.. that's a really good investment there, buddy.
I'm currently in a gaming clan where ages range from 15 to i think near 50. Most of us are in our upper 20's and lower 30's (I'm 31). We've got brothers and sisters, a father(40+) and son(15), and a father(45+) with son(19) and daughter(17). We stress maturity and comraderie over frag count. WE have no patience with whiny kids, of any age.
Yeah... cuz they couldn't use a frickin ROAD MAP to find the damn buildings just as easy. Hell, I bet every tourist brochure for the capital has the locations of every government building on them. Not to mention most of the images are at least 3+ years old. WTF good are they now? Bunch of hubbub over nothing.
do unnecessary steps may indicate a greater willingness on the part of humans to experiment,
Uhhhh what? How does imitating unnecessary steps translate to experimenting? Experimenting would be trying it DIFFERENT ways, which is what the CHIMPS were doing, not just rote imitation of what they were shown, which the HUMANS were doing.
Perhaps every piece of software and hardware could come with two different prices: A higher one that entitles the user to convenient, high quality customer service, for a limited period, and another that provides a cheaper product but with a lower quality of customer service.
They already do; it's called a warranty, or extended-warranty. But just as everywhere else, no one wants to pay more for it. Until the buying public understands that better service actually costs money, nothing will change.
When I was doing pc and printer repair, there was one company, I think it was Matsushita or panasonic, that actally let you CHOOSE the music you wanted to listen to while on hold. They had like 7 options, ranging from countyry, pop, classical, rock, easy listening, and i think "mood music".
You and the three posts below this are forgetting yet another simple fact of user-dom;
Joe Sixpack is NOT going to build his own computer!! So he is absolutely going to buy a preconfigured and overpriced gaming machine like a Dell XPS or a VoodooPC or an Alienware. Because he doesn't know any better. If it costs more, it must be better, right?
it's only stupid to you because you already have the infrastrcuture with which to play said PC games. IT's a lot different if you're coming ito it fresh.... Which would you buy your 14 yr old? $300 for a console and maybe another $100 on some games. Or $3000 on a new computer and then another $100 on some games.
There is your apples to apples.
For someone, such as yourself, who really likes computers and is already likely to have over $1000 worth of hardware in the house, then it does not make sense for you to purchase a separate unit for gaming. But for Joe Sixpack, who got his computer 3 years ago for $600 from Dell, and uses it for his email and Quicken, getting the kid a separate box for $300 makes a lot more sense than shelling out three grand for a new gaming computer.
Assuming a provider is offering 160 channels, say 145 channels of standard and 15 channels of HD, you can see that this would take 880Mbps of transport!
Except a customer will NEVER EVER come close to using this much transport. You can't tune a TV to 160 channels at the same time. And the most TV's i've seen on a customer acct(I work for cable company) is 10. Even if all of those TVs were on at the same time, plus someone on the digital phone, plus a couple kids using the digital Internet, they STILL wouldn't come close to using 880Mbps.
Now 160 different customers, all using their tvs and internet at the same time... THEN you've got some transport.. But considering this is already done all over the country and at many magnitudes higher; I think the cablecos and telcos already have plenty of transport/bandwidth in place. And are always expanding it.
Your statement is more sensationalist than it needs to be. Customers aren't going to need 880Mbps of transport to their houses.
On Windows, you usually have to give the full path, also a lot of programs need to be in the path (e.g. Visual Studio.Net wants at least 3 of its directories in the path, all of which start with C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio.Net 2003), and of course (at least on Win2k) the size of an environment variable is limited...
No... On Windows you click Start, click Programs, then click your application. And it runs. You don't have to do anything with paths, directories, or environment variables, no typing. You click a couple times, it runs. Until you can do this on Linux with 99.999% of programs like you can on Windows, you lose this argument.
Those things she mentions in the song are unfortunate
3. Situational Irony.
Situational irony defies logical cause/effect relationships and justifiable expectations. For example, if a greedy millionaire were to buy a lottery ticket and win additional millions, the irony would be situational because such a circumstance cannot be explained logically. Such a circumstance seems "unfair." This sense of being "unfair" or "unfortunate" is a trademark of situational irony. Because people cannot explain the unfairness, it causes them to question whether or not the world makes sense.
Just because you are ignorant to other types of irony, doesn't make the song wrong.
Slashdot Mirror
No...
The SENDER pays for the "privelege" of sending mail to AOL.
Also, I don't see how someone could kidnap my child if I was a good parent and actually parented the child at all times, as a parent should.
From what i've seen from your posts, you seem a relatively smart guy. So I can't understand this obviously ignorant statement.
The MAJORITY of kidnappings are perpetrated BY A PARENT or other relative. How exactly does proper parenting protect against the PARENT snatching the child?
It's changed because before; the content was _entirely_ removed, only a few would ever know it existed. Now it is only _blocked_from_being_seen_by_Chinese_users_ but remains viewable by the rest of the world.
A very important distinction.
This is actually really bad for places like china...
Now someone can post a blog/whatever with potential bad info about things happening in china, and no one in china can see it. BUT, the rest of the world will see it in all its glory, uncensored. Great for the revolutionaries, good for the rest of the world, bad for china, et al.
It's like the head in the sand. China won't see it, and thus denies it exists. But the rest of the world will see it just fine.
If this holds, expect to see even more posts about chinese atrocities from internal subversives, because now they won't be hidden from the outside world.
I am intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter...
Except that MS brings in roughly 1 billion dollars in revenue every quarter... according to this Inquirer article a couple years ago; http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13350
According to the US Census list of the top 100 largest cities; #100 is Arlington CDP, VA, with a population of 170,936. http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation /twps0027.html
According to a September BusinessWeek Article, MS has ~60000 employees.
This company is 1/3 the size of the 100th largest city in the country.
Microsoft also has more people than 70% of the counties in the US. The average county population is ~90000, microsoft is 2/3 of that.
According to Forbes, MS is the 47th largest company in the WORLD.
They're frickin BIG. No amount of money they spend is going to change that. In fact, the more they spend, the more it PROVES how big they are.
I love the final quote in that article;
"They're a pretty coin, and they're backed by silver. It's a commodity that's going up in value, unlike the U.S. dollar."
Oooo it's PURTY!!!
And going up in value? WTF? Silver is BARELY starting to recover from being at it's LOWEST value in nearly 600 YEARS (under $4 in 2002)!!
As of today, 1 oz of silver is worth $9.02. And these SCHMUCKS pay $20 for one coin. Yeah.. that's a really good investment there, buddy.
Rule against perpetuities??
Then how do you explain the f'ed up Copyright system??
Umm news flash...
Not every site has downloads! Hard to believe, but true!
I'm currently in a gaming clan where ages range from 15 to i think near 50. Most of us are in our upper 20's and lower 30's (I'm 31). We've got brothers and sisters, a father(40+) and son(15), and a father(45+) with son(19) and daughter(17).
We stress maturity and comraderie over frag count. WE have no patience with whiny kids, of any age.
Yeah... cuz they couldn't use a frickin ROAD MAP to find the damn buildings just as easy.
Hell, I bet every tourist brochure for the capital has the locations of every government building on them. Not to mention most of the images are at least 3+ years old. WTF good are they now?
Bunch of hubbub over nothing.
8.1Meg? huh?
The firefox download is 5 Meg.
Maybe you were thinking of Mozilla at 11 Meg?
Not that download size really matters that much in this day...
do unnecessary steps may indicate a greater willingness on the part of humans to experiment,
Uhhhh what?
How does imitating unnecessary steps translate to experimenting?
Experimenting would be trying it DIFFERENT ways, which is what the CHIMPS were doing, not just rote imitation of what they were shown, which the HUMANS were doing.
The people responsible for apologizing for the first apology have been sacked.
and thus "nu-klear" as well
;-)
no no... the proper pronunciation is "NUKE-you-lahr"
Perhaps every piece of software and hardware could come with two different prices: A higher one that entitles the user to convenient, high quality customer service, for a limited period, and another that provides a cheaper product but with a lower quality of customer service.
They already do; it's called a warranty, or extended-warranty.
But just as everywhere else, no one wants to pay more for it.
Until the buying public understands that better service actually costs money, nothing will change.
When I was doing pc and printer repair, there was one company, I think it was Matsushita or panasonic, that actally let you CHOOSE the music you wanted to listen to while on hold.
They had like 7 options, ranging from countyry, pop, classical, rock, easy listening, and i think "mood music".
I actually enjoyed being on hold with them.
You and the three posts below this are forgetting yet another simple fact of user-dom;
Joe Sixpack is NOT going to build his own computer!!
So he is absolutely going to buy a preconfigured and overpriced gaming machine like a Dell XPS or a VoodooPC or an Alienware.
Because he doesn't know any better. If it costs more, it must be better, right?
it's only stupid to you because you already have the infrastrcuture with which to play said PC games.
IT's a lot different if you're coming ito it fresh....
Which would you buy your 14 yr old? $300 for a console and maybe another $100 on some games. Or $3000 on a new computer and then another $100 on some games.
There is your apples to apples.
For someone, such as yourself, who really likes computers and is already likely to have over $1000 worth of hardware in the house, then it does not make sense for you to purchase a separate unit for gaming. But for Joe Sixpack, who got his computer 3 years ago for $600 from Dell, and uses it for his email and Quicken, getting the kid a separate box for $300 makes a lot more sense than shelling out three grand for a new gaming computer.
Assuming a provider is offering 160 channels, say 145 channels of standard and 15 channels of HD, you can see that this would take 880Mbps of transport!
Except a customer will NEVER EVER come close to using this much transport. You can't tune a TV to 160 channels at the same time. And the most TV's i've seen on a customer acct(I work for cable company) is 10. Even if all of those TVs were on at the same time, plus someone on the digital phone, plus a couple kids using the digital Internet, they STILL wouldn't come close to using 880Mbps.
Now 160 different customers, all using their tvs and internet at the same time... THEN you've got some transport.. But considering this is already done all over the country and at many magnitudes higher; I think the cablecos and telcos already have plenty of transport/bandwidth in place. And are always expanding it.
Your statement is more sensationalist than it needs to be. Customers aren't going to need 880Mbps of transport to their houses.
End of problem.
On Windows, you usually have to give the full path, also a lot of programs need to be in the path (e.g. Visual Studio.Net wants at least 3 of its directories in the path, all of which start with C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio.Net 2003), and of course (at least on Win2k) the size of an environment variable is limited...
No...
On Windows you click Start, click Programs, then click your application. And it runs.
You don't have to do anything with paths, directories, or environment variables, no typing.
You click a couple times, it runs.
Until you can do this on Linux with 99.999% of programs like you can on Windows, you lose this argument.
Who wants to set up the betting pool on this?
I bet the gambling websites would make a killing.
I got $20 that says it gets wacked in under a week.
Of course starting them out with a nice slashdotting probably doesn't help. heh
Those things she mentions in the song are unfortunate
3. Situational Irony.
Situational irony defies logical cause/effect relationships and justifiable expectations. For example, if a greedy millionaire were to buy a lottery ticket and win additional millions, the irony would be situational because such a circumstance cannot be explained logically. Such a circumstance seems "unfair." This sense of being "unfair" or "unfortunate" is a trademark of situational irony. Because people cannot explain the unfairness, it causes them to question whether or not the world makes sense.
Just because you are ignorant to other types of irony, doesn't make the song wrong.