Dear Mr Hill
You are probably receiving a lot of grief generated by a discussion on Slashdot (www.slashdot.org). As you will see if you view the discussion some of the community have taken issue with the news report that you are refusing to support alternative software to Microsoft. That's a pity and it's probably going to bring you a lot of hassle.
I've had an idea that might resolve this for all parties. If you were to offer copy the disks for free you would not be breaking your MS agreement while supporting the communities of programmers out there and thus creating a more positive image than your company is currently getting.
Let the group know on Slashdot and hopefully it will bring you peace.
Just trying to help.
Good luck with your business.
Kind regards,
R.
Someone should tell him...
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Shuttle Politics
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More people die from the mistakes of politicians in one year than NASA could kill in the next 30 years of space exploration.
Sadly not in this case - over 1 million books are published each year so unlike films you will beed to be signed up to a number of bibliographic databases. These cost a stack of money to use for online purposes. Amazon subscribe to a number of these from different countries and get a reasonably complete list. You can build your own book database but it would be impractical to manually type in all the old book details and attempt to keep up with the new.
I remember someone describing the worst thing about a house fire is losing all your family photos - everything else is just stuff you can replace. As digital photography becomes more and more prevalent it subtly makes our photographic records less durable.
Support for people suffering any kind of loss is important, and if it reduces stress in the workplace then it's worth it.
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The Last Place
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No, what's sad is that the 'culture' is what the rest of the world subscribes to. It's market led so for people outside of the US to complain they are really complaining about the tastes of their own culture. I'm glad that the US has provided us with some excellent tv like the Simpsons and early X-Files. If I have any objection it's to the marketing of unhealthy food like McDonalds to children - that's harmful and underhand.
Thank god. As much as I enjoy Buffy it suffers from every episode having the same scooby do plot. Head would make a great Dr though, although I'd always hoped Richard O'Brian would take the role.
Of course it's backwards compatible. The more backwards you are - the more likely you'll fall for the latest desperate attempt to squeeze more money out of people.
This obviously renders WiFi useless for any mission critical networking. Any signal that can be interfered with that easily should not be adopted by businesses.
It's not the article that's interesting so much as the interest and reaction from/.ers. The reaction seems to be be a natural concern for the freedom of Chinese people instead of kneejerk racism. A good sign of changing opinion. We're seeing people as individuals instead of judging them by the actions of their governments.
But your games will be two years behind unless you throw the console away and buy another. With a PC you can upgrade by component (also the PC has a mouse which for fps is a must IMHO)
With you all the way on this one. We should overun the convention as Kirk (avatar in bad wig and corset to keep the fat gut in). ST is the worstdull colonialism is psace nonsense. If you develop a teleporter why not just teleport a bomb onto an enemy ship, or a spoon into their leader's head, or even the contents of the sewage tanks into their command deck.
Joan Collins visited make-up and asked "Who's the little fat bald guy?" and was told, "Oh, that's Captain Kirk."
The Man Who Fell to Earth. The depth of this film is amazing. Plot information is being passed to viewer is so many ways - music, dialogue, action, mythology, symbolism. There are scenes is this film that work on three levels, like when Newton and Bryce watch the tv commercial for Newtons instant camera and Bryce asks Newton why the actor looks like him. "He's a family man" Newton replies. This is because Newton is the only married person he knows on Earth but also by being in the advert holding the camera up he is showing his home planet (who know the Earth from picking up tv signals) how far he's got on his mission.
I started taking this film apart scene by scene and was amazed and how much is going on in there.
FP is a brave movie for its time when you realise that it's about incest. They hint strongly at this with the waffle about the monster being a creation of the father's id. So perhaps the movie is true sci-fi in that it takes the old notion of personal demons (or religious demons for that matter) and extends it into the future. Let's see if Matrix Reloaded can handle an incest plot? I think it stands up.
Basically you have two choices.
Either tv companies earn their money through adverts which cannot be skipped or...
They accept that ads will be skipped and start running them along the top or bottom of the screen during the program.
Which would you prefer?
This guy just gets lazier and lazier. Don't RIP Douglas, get up and possess a few people, give the channelers something worth writing. Just try and pick someone without writers block.
I decided a long time ago that if I could remember an ad for anything I wouldn't buy that product. It works great in supermarkets. Pick up item, remember advert (entertaining or not), put down product, find something else. It's good practice for keeping a free mind.
Another value of this is that people who own old copies of Windows can install those instead of getting pulled into MS latest cash cow. For the average user who is happy with MS it saves a lot of money and requires zero learning.
Slashdot Mirror
Dear Mr Hill
You are probably receiving a lot of grief generated by a discussion on Slashdot (www.slashdot.org). As you will see if you view the discussion some of the community have taken issue with the news report that you are refusing to support alternative software to Microsoft. That's a pity and it's probably going to bring you a lot of hassle.
I've had an idea that might resolve this for all parties. If you were to offer copy the disks for free you would not be breaking your MS agreement while supporting the communities of programmers out there and thus creating a more positive image than your company is currently getting.
Let the group know on Slashdot and hopefully it will bring you peace.
Just trying to help.
Good luck with your business.
Kind regards,
R.
More people die from the mistakes of politicians in one year than NASA could kill in the next 30 years of space exploration.
Sadly not in this case - over 1 million books are published each year so unlike films you will beed to be signed up to a number of bibliographic databases. These cost a stack of money to use for online purposes. Amazon subscribe to a number of these from different countries and get a reasonably complete list. You can build your own book database but it would be impractical to manually type in all the old book details and attempt to keep up with the new.
Support for people suffering any kind of loss is important, and if it reduces stress in the workplace then it's worth it.
No, what's sad is that the 'culture' is what the rest of the world subscribes to. It's market led so for people outside of the US to complain they are really complaining about the tastes of their own culture. I'm glad that the US has provided us with some excellent tv like the Simpsons and early X-Files. If I have any objection it's to the marketing of unhealthy food like McDonalds to children - that's harmful and underhand.
Thank god. As much as I enjoy Buffy it suffers from every episode having the same scooby do plot. Head would make a great Dr though, although I'd always hoped Richard O'Brian would take the role.
Of course it's backwards compatible. The more backwards you are - the more likely you'll fall for the latest desperate attempt to squeeze more money out of people.
geddit?
The da Vinci as shroud creator idea is utter nonsense. The shroud was recorded as existing a hundred years before da Vinci was born.
This obviously renders WiFi useless for any mission critical networking. Any signal that can be interfered with that easily should not be adopted by businesses.
It's not the article that's interesting so much as the interest and reaction from /.ers. The reaction seems to be be a natural concern for the freedom of Chinese people instead of kneejerk racism. A good sign of changing opinion. We're seeing people as individuals instead of judging them by the actions of their governments.
Please turn your webcam to the wall.
But your games will be two years behind unless you throw the console away and buy another. With a PC you can upgrade by component (also the PC has a mouse which for fps is a must IMHO)
"The corner stone that the builders left out is the corner stone on which I build my church." said the Man.
Joan Collins visited make-up and asked "Who's the little fat bald guy?" and was told, "Oh, that's Captain Kirk."
I started taking this film apart scene by scene and was amazed and how much is going on in there.
FP is a brave movie for its time when you realise that it's about incest. They hint strongly at this with the waffle about the monster being a creation of the father's id. So perhaps the movie is true sci-fi in that it takes the old notion of personal demons (or religious demons for that matter) and extends it into the future. Let's see if Matrix Reloaded can handle an incest plot? I think it stands up.
Basically you have two choices.
Either tv companies earn their money through adverts which cannot be skipped or...
They accept that ads will be skipped and start running them along the top or bottom of the screen during the program.
Which would you prefer?
This guy just gets lazier and lazier. Don't RIP Douglas, get up and possess a few people, give the channelers something worth writing. Just try and pick someone without writers block.
I decided a long time ago that if I could remember an ad for anything I wouldn't buy that product. It works great in supermarkets. Pick up item, remember advert (entertaining or not), put down product, find something else. It's good practice for keeping a free mind.
Another value of this is that people who own old copies of Windows can install those instead of getting pulled into MS latest cash cow. For the average user who is happy with MS it saves a lot of money and requires zero learning.
Not the "bread van that turns into a killer robot" again. I hate those toy tie-ins.
ITV digital in the UK has a great monkey going cheap.
Get called a spastic, tard, twat etc when seen riding one.
No wait - this is the answer. Tax Scientology to pay for NASA!