I'm still waiting for the time when someone martyrs themselves over this. Imagine showing up to court with the goal of trying to get the biggest judgment possible against yourself. "Your honor, please fine me one billion dollars."
It would make the record industry look pretty stupid if someone was fined some ridiculous amount of money for sharing mp3s.
it does go pretty far. It should get you a decent house in a good neighborhood, a couple cars, a maid, plenty of free time, and left over money to travel overseas on vacation every year.
no so swell for the computer geek though. electronics are bloody expensive and outdated here (10Gb ipod $450), broadband is much slower and more expensive, if its even available.
actually $100k/yr would put you in the middle class bracket in the entire nation. Its just that you can save/invest a lot more living in Indiana than you can living in New York.
There is nothing ungood with your television. Do not attempt to time-shift the picture. We are now controlling the transmission. We control the on and the off buttons. We can deluge you with a thousand channels or repeat one single commercial to crystal clarity and beyond. We can shape your thinking to anything our imagination can conceive. For the next century we will control all that you see and hear. You are about to experience the shock and awe which reaches from the deepest pockets to the outer limits.
in all honesty though, I stopped watching tv a long time ago anyway. Except for those 3 hours everyday.
Harry Potter books seem to work the same way. Hell, even the film industry works the same way. You don't see advertisements for movies the exact second a script is approved. Films are always finished filming (heh) by the time advertisements come out. Sure, the trade magazines will let you know what is being made, but no promises are being made there.
It seems the general video game industry (with exceptions) announces a release date 2 minutes after getting a development team together. People should know better by now than to trust any geeks estimate on how long a project will take. Or at least trust that it will take at least double the quoted time.
This seems to be a problem in the programming industry. I wonder if its because geeks (myself included) can be more timid than the rest of the population (thats why we're here right?) and we're more likely to give the boss an optimistic appraisal of the situation in order to avoid any potentially unpleasant situation.
and its not only in the software world, physicists and mathematicians and all sorts of people working independently often come up with the same work at around the same time.
Its not FUD, you are making the assumption that all his speeding was done in washington, and that the police would even give him a ticket if he were to be pulled over.
assume for a moment that gates contributes to a police charity, this would guarantee that he would never ever get another ticket.
I know some people who donate to the 1911 foundation (a charity benefitting the families of dead cops). In return they get 1911 license plate frames, which allows them to do pretty much whatever the hell they'd like to do on the roads without worrying about any repercussions. Including passing cops at 90 mph.
in los angeles if you don't run a red light you will NEVER be able to make a left turn. Ok so I'm exaggerating a little bit, but if you are driving in traffic and there is no protected left turn signal, then you have to wait until it turns red before you turn. Usually 1 or 2 cars will follow you. The trick is to pull out in the intersection as far as possible while you wait, that way the maximum number of cars will be able to follow you through. I was once stuck behind someone trying to make a left turn, but didn't want to run the red. After the light turned red for the third time he finally just went, with 5 or 6 honking cars following on through.
Microsoft releases Office under the GPL
Steve Ballmer wins Nobel Price in physics
Former Enron executive Ken Lay goes to jail
Duke Nukem Forever released
the distance from the earth to mars, at its closest is more than 55 million kilometers (33 million miles). the article states that about 20 such rocks have been found on earth so far. It seems that Mar at some point must have undergone some pretty serious bombardment from asteroids, and big ones too it seems, if the impacts caused martian rock to leave its gravitational field, and come all the way to earth. It seems like trying to throw a dart at an ant from 100 yards
From the article it seemed that this guy didn't really do a whole lot for AOL. Sure they got winamp out of the deal but the article implies that he sat around all day and wrote code just to piss them off. AOL didn't want the "run with the little guy" image but yet they must have extracted at least some work out of him. Either way I have to wonder if his PHB has any hair left at all.
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my post was an attempt to use sarcasm to poke fun at the parent post. should have used the sarcasm tag.
The size of a persons bank account should be the metric by which we measure the value of a persons ideas.
Ipod therefore I am?
my favorite operation. I had a question though, why would an Itanium run code, consisting of mostly nops, faster than other cpus?
I'm still waiting for the time when someone martyrs themselves over this. Imagine showing up to court with the goal of trying to get the biggest judgment possible against yourself. "Your honor, please fine me one billion dollars."
It would make the record industry look pretty stupid if someone was fined some ridiculous amount of money for sharing mp3s.
it does go pretty far. It should get you a decent house in a good neighborhood, a couple cars, a maid, plenty of free time, and left over money to travel overseas on vacation every year. no so swell for the computer geek though. electronics are bloody expensive and outdated here (10Gb ipod $450), broadband is much slower and more expensive, if its even available.
actually $100k/yr would put you in the middle class bracket in the entire nation. Its just that you can save/invest a lot more living in Indiana than you can living in New York.
not a golfer you mean
I wouldn't agree with that sentiment, I've had 2 odd problems with my powerbook that I instantly solved after checking out the apple forums.
Once my airport card came loose and I didn't notice. The symptom was that whenever I picked up the laptop it crashed.
Another time I was having bluetooth problems that were quickly solved by checking the forums.
there are a ton of posts in those forums, you just have to sift through the threads.
What is another website I could use to troubleshoot problems with my mac?
There is nothing ungood with your television. Do not attempt to time-shift the picture. We are now controlling the transmission. We control the on and the off buttons. We can deluge you with a thousand channels or repeat one single commercial to crystal clarity and beyond. We can shape your thinking to anything our imagination can conceive. For the next century we will control all that you see and hear. You are about to experience the shock and awe which reaches from the deepest pockets to the outer limits.
in all honesty though, I stopped watching tv a long time ago anyway. Except for those 3 hours everyday.
its not only about smiling to yourself afterwards, its about having the customer smiling to himself as well. unless you don't want repeat business.
and it seems to me that they are protecting Japanese companies from alleged abuse on my Microsoft's part in contracts.
nothing sissy about that.
the airport base station is a wireless router, not a wireless access point.
Harry Potter books seem to work the same way. Hell, even the film industry works the same way. You don't see advertisements for movies the exact second a script is approved. Films are always finished filming (heh) by the time advertisements come out. Sure, the trade magazines will let you know what is being made, but no promises are being made there. It seems the general video game industry (with exceptions) announces a release date 2 minutes after getting a development team together. People should know better by now than to trust any geeks estimate on how long a project will take. Or at least trust that it will take at least double the quoted time. This seems to be a problem in the programming industry. I wonder if its because geeks (myself included) can be more timid than the rest of the population (thats why we're here right?) and we're more likely to give the boss an optimistic appraisal of the situation in order to avoid any potentially unpleasant situation.
and its not only in the software world, physicists and mathematicians and all sorts of people working independently often come up with the same work at around the same time.
its a trap!!!
oops wrong website
would answer your question before you even asked the question. google: 2,000,000 pages queried in -0.2 seconds
yeah but then you'd in the unfortunate situation of living in Berkeley
that would explain why we made it up first doesn't it.
Its not FUD, you are making the assumption that all his speeding was done in washington, and that the police would even give him a ticket if he were to be pulled over. assume for a moment that gates contributes to a police charity, this would guarantee that he would never ever get another ticket. I know some people who donate to the 1911 foundation (a charity benefitting the families of dead cops). In return they get 1911 license plate frames, which allows them to do pretty much whatever the hell they'd like to do on the roads without worrying about any repercussions. Including passing cops at 90 mph.
in los angeles if you don't run a red light you will NEVER be able to make a left turn. Ok so I'm exaggerating a little bit, but if you are driving in traffic and there is no protected left turn signal, then you have to wait until it turns red before you turn. Usually 1 or 2 cars will follow you. The trick is to pull out in the intersection as far as possible while you wait, that way the maximum number of cars will be able to follow you through. I was once stuck behind someone trying to make a left turn, but didn't want to run the red. After the light turned red for the third time he finally just went, with 5 or 6 honking cars following on through.
The one from the article was capable of running apache, judging from the current state of the site.
ah well, time to go hunt for a google cache
Microsoft releases Office under the GPL Steve Ballmer wins Nobel Price in physics Former Enron executive Ken Lay goes to jail Duke Nukem Forever released
the distance from the earth to mars, at its closest is more than 55 million kilometers (33 million miles). the article states that about 20 such rocks have been found on earth so far. It seems that Mar at some point must have undergone some pretty serious bombardment from asteroids, and big ones too it seems, if the impacts caused martian rock to leave its gravitational field, and come all the way to earth. It seems like trying to throw a dart at an ant from 100 yards
From the article it seemed that this guy didn't really do a whole lot for AOL. Sure they got winamp out of the deal but the article implies that he sat around all day and wrote code just to piss them off. AOL didn't want the "run with the little guy" image but yet they must have extracted at least some work out of him. Either way I have to wonder if his PHB has any hair left at all.