Is Adobe whining? -- Yes. Is Nikon shooting itself in the foot? -- Yes.
1. Adobe is whining because it doesn't really matter in the end (see #2).
2. Nikon is shooting itself in the foot because even though I'm not a professional I know enough gurus in the graphics field to know that they are insane product researchers, and won't come within 10 feet of a product that will produce less than optimal results with photoshop.
I would say you were spot on... BUT, the states already issue us licenses or state-ID's, and any other state can require we show them to conduct certain transactions, or be able to drive. I completely understand the tin foil hattery, because I don't trust our government as much as the next guy, but now that the national government has all of our drivers license information, what's the difference other than a centralized place to change ID numbers easily in case ours is stolen.
That, and I live in Texas, and trust my State asshats less than the Washington asshats.
Why is it if a company hires an advertising firm, and that advertising firm breaks the law it's ok?
If the law made a company liable for a percentage of the liability of their advertisements even if through a third person proxy wouldn't that make companies think twice about dealing with shifty scammers that could get the company being advertised in hot water?
Web definitions for Yo mamma: "The dozens" is an African American custom in which two competitors -- usually males -- go head to head in a competition of often ribald "trash talk." They take turns insulting -- "cracking" or "ranking" on -- one another, their adversary's mother or other family member until one of them has no comeback. This is called playing the dozens or doin' the dozens and sometimes dirty dozens. The dozens is a contest of personal power -- of wit, self-control, verbal ability, mental agility and mental t
I used to subscribe to that newsletter because it has some interesting stuff in it regarding the windows world sometimes, and I'd say that it is very pro windows, but not as anti-linux as you might think.
(In Texas) That's true, but getting insurance if you currently don't have any costs like 8X what keeping steady insurance does. My car engine was screwed up, and I let my insurance expire. Bad move because then I couldn't afford to get reinsured. From what the insurance company told me the state requires that they charge that much to keep people from just getting insurance to cheat the ticket system.
That's retarded of course because all you have to do is carry a fake insurance card to cheat the insurance/ticket system. Nobody I know actually checks that insurance cards are legit, and my insurance company just sends out ours on heavy stock printer paper.
I have been a Bank of America customer for a very long time. I love the customer service there, and I love being able to bank in almost any city I travel to, but I don't even open the mail anymore from them because it's always some scam they are trying to get people to respond to thinking it's something they have to do when it's really just some extra service that offers little, and costs a lot.
May I forward you to the Privateer Remake site. I have been burning off weeks playing it, and sure the animated heads are a bit cheesy, but the game still rules, and if a game like that released from an independent (minus the copyright issue of course) I would spend 30 bucks on it easy.
They pretend they do, and make a lot of loud grumbling, but they don't really care at all. If they did care they would invest a relatively small amount of capital and make this business a living hell for IGE. They could just buy items, and then when the item is delivered take the username, find the account it is bound to, then find the credit card information for that owner, and do a search and ban for every account owned by that credit card holder. Also they could find the ip blocks for those users and flag them suspicious, and do an ip based search of what users are loging in from those IP blocks and then check accounts with newbies with HUGE amounts of plat and if not ban them, then at least log those accounts for monitoring suspicious transactions. Heck you could even put warnings on accounts that transport plat to the suspicious accounts. Most of these guys have to buy the plat from regular players to resell at a higher rate, and that's against the TOS as well.
That method really wouldn't take much work at all and would squash these guys like cockroaches. Game licenses are expensive, monthly fees are expensive, and trying to avoid the game cops would be a real pain.
Dry up. If your company is breaking the law it should be punished. I've read stories of schools switching to linux because of being jacked up by the BSA. BSA isn't linux's friend, but it's a not an unuseful tool. It's much like tricking one bully to beat up the bully that has been stealing your lunch money.
Also to the person that is crying about the cartoonist believing that downsizing is good. After being purchased by a bloated company, I do too. The company I worked for was small, fast, and mean till it got bought out by a huge conglomerate. Now everyone spends all day in meetings instead of programming, there is no good direction, and hell they can't even get the toilet paper replaced in a timeful manner. It sucks that when we got purchased they made a few cuts at our company where they didn't need to be made, and left some of the deadweight laying around, but that's just part of the problem of being bloated in the first place. At a certain point your so fat you don't know where the fat ends and the meat begins.
Yep I love my treo, and use it's PDA functionality constantly. I was just like the folks that never had a pressing need for a handheld device before until this one. I use it to keep appointments, play some music (streaming off shoutcast over it's inet connection), look up phone numbers, read slashdot (front page only), etc. It's a great tool, and I'm sure that all of the other phone enabled PDA's get the same user rave reviews.
Get a cheap laptop with a broken monitor (no that isn't mine, just an example, there are tons of those usually on ebay), then get a cheap monitor. A keyboard with a cheap protectorwould be nice. And whatever 12 dollar laser mouse you can find. Boom, 200 dollar set up that is has a battery backup, wireless connectivity to your house, and any 1 part can be replaced at nominal charge. You can move the laptop indoors when it's inhospitable, and the cover will be enclosed so you shouldn't have too many problems with it.
Now pardon me, I have to go bring up Hitler on a usenet discussion that is showing too much civility.
Cept if 24 hours of being down will put you out of business you might want to make sure that hot backup server is in another data center in another town.
Other than that pla is right on.
I had a very nice guy at best buy listen carefully to the crazy problems I was having with my Athelon 64. He suggested a few fixes of which I had already tried, then he asked if I had tested my homes electrical system to make sure that it could handle the 2 routers, 2 monitors, laptop, two pc's and other assorted electronics in my office. When I said I hadn't he recommended getting the cheapest battery backup there since I didn't really need the battery backup, and see if having the power regulated helped. Sure enough, it fixed my problem, and made me feel like an idiot for not thinking of it myself. I would have offered that guy a position at my company if I hadn't filled all of my open positions, because he was friendlier, more resourceful, and generally helpful than most of the folks my boss has been digging up to hire.
Granted I agree that most of the computer guys there are know-nothings who have a pretty good line of bs to offer up, there are always a few gems if the dirt pile is large enough.
I personally like some of the shows on the home and garden channel because they give me good ideas on how to do things to my home. I also really enjoy some of the History channel shows, the monster series of shows on the discovery channel, and The Daily Show, with John Stewart. I work wierd hours so I seem to miss all of these, so I record them to mpeg with my 8500dv and watch them when I get home.
I'm sure a lot of folks would find shows that they miss that are off of the beaten path if they had the option to watch them any time they like. That's how I got to watching the Daily Show.
Granted the 8500dv was a pretty good video card when it came out, and I use it for a few other things as well:).
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Is Adobe whining? -- Yes.
Is Nikon shooting itself in the foot? -- Yes.
1. Adobe is whining because it doesn't really matter in the end (see #2).
2. Nikon is shooting itself in the foot because even though I'm not a professional I know enough gurus in the graphics field to know that they are insane product researchers, and won't come within 10 feet of a product that will produce less than optimal results with photoshop.
Ok, next topic. Refresh, refresh, refresh...
I would say you were spot on... BUT, the states already issue us licenses or state-ID's, and any other state can require we show them to conduct certain transactions, or be able to drive. I completely understand the tin foil hattery, because I don't trust our government as much as the next guy, but now that the national government has all of our drivers license information, what's the difference other than a centralized place to change ID numbers easily in case ours is stolen. That, and I live in Texas, and trust my State asshats less than the Washington asshats.
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Why is it if a company hires an advertising firm, and that advertising firm breaks the law it's ok?
If the law made a company liable for a percentage of the liability of their advertisements even if through a third person proxy wouldn't that make companies think twice about dealing with shifty scammers that could get the company being advertised in hot water?
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Web definitions for Yo mamma: "The dozens" is an African American custom in which two competitors -- usually males -- go head to head in a competition of often ribald "trash talk." They take turns insulting -- "cracking" or "ranking" on -- one another, their adversary's mother or other family member until one of them has no comeback. This is called playing the dozens or doin' the dozens and sometimes dirty dozens. The dozens is a contest of personal power -- of wit, self-control, verbal ability, mental agility and mental t
I used to subscribe to that newsletter because it has some interesting stuff in it regarding the windows world sometimes, and I'd say that it is very pro windows, but not as anti-linux as you might think.
(In Texas) That's true, but getting insurance if you currently don't have any costs like 8X what keeping steady insurance does. My car engine was screwed up, and I let my insurance expire. Bad move because then I couldn't afford to get reinsured. From what the insurance company told me the state requires that they charge that much to keep people from just getting insurance to cheat the ticket system.
That's retarded of course because all you have to do is carry a fake insurance card to cheat the insurance/ticket system. Nobody I know actually checks that insurance cards are legit, and my insurance company just sends out ours on heavy stock printer paper.
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I have been a Bank of America customer for a very long time. I love the customer service there, and I love being able to bank in almost any city I travel to, but I don't even open the mail anymore from them because it's always some scam they are trying to get people to respond to thinking it's something they have to do when it's really just some extra service that offers little, and costs a lot.
May I forward you to the Privateer Remake site. I have been burning off weeks playing it, and sure the animated heads are a bit cheesy, but the game still rules, and if a game like that released from an independent (minus the copyright issue of course) I would spend 30 bucks on it easy.
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It's not often I get to link porn to slashdot and be on topic!
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They pretend they do, and make a lot of loud grumbling, but they don't really care at all. If they did care they would invest a relatively small amount of capital and make this business a living hell for IGE. They could just buy items, and then when the item is delivered take the username, find the account it is bound to, then find the credit card information for that owner, and do a search and ban for every account owned by that credit card holder. Also they could find the ip blocks for those users and flag them suspicious, and do an ip based search of what users are loging in from those IP blocks and then check accounts with newbies with HUGE amounts of plat and if not ban them, then at least log those accounts for monitoring suspicious transactions. Heck you could even put warnings on accounts that transport plat to the suspicious accounts. Most of these guys have to buy the plat from regular players to resell at a higher rate, and that's against the TOS as well.
That method really wouldn't take much work at all and would squash these guys like cockroaches. Game licenses are expensive, monthly fees are expensive, and trying to avoid the game cops would be a real pain.
Dry up. If your company is breaking the law it should be punished. I've read stories of schools switching to linux because of being jacked up by the BSA. BSA isn't linux's friend, but it's a not an unuseful tool. It's much like tricking one bully to beat up the bully that has been stealing your lunch money.
Also to the person that is crying about the cartoonist believing that downsizing is good. After being purchased by a bloated company, I do too. The company I worked for was small, fast, and mean till it got bought out by a huge conglomerate. Now everyone spends all day in meetings instead of programming, there is no good direction, and hell they can't even get the toilet paper replaced in a timeful manner. It sucks that when we got purchased they made a few cuts at our company where they didn't need to be made, and left some of the deadweight laying around, but that's just part of the problem of being bloated in the first place. At a certain point your so fat you don't know where the fat ends and the meat begins.
Yep I love my treo, and use it's PDA functionality constantly. I was just like the folks that never had a pressing need for a handheld device before until this one. I use it to keep appointments, play some music (streaming off shoutcast over it's inet connection), look up phone numbers, read slashdot (front page only), etc. It's a great tool, and I'm sure that all of the other phone enabled PDA's get the same user rave reviews.
Nuff said.
Does it hang there in the sky, much in the way that bricks don't?
Now pardon me, I have to go bring up Hitler on a usenet discussion that is showing too much civility.
Cept if 24 hours of being down will put you out of business you might want to make sure that hot backup server is in another data center in another town. Other than that pla is right on.
I had a very nice guy at best buy listen carefully to the crazy problems I was having with my Athelon 64. He suggested a few fixes of which I had already tried, then he asked if I had tested my homes electrical system to make sure that it could handle the 2 routers, 2 monitors, laptop, two pc's and other assorted electronics in my office. When I said I hadn't he recommended getting the cheapest battery backup there since I didn't really need the battery backup, and see if having the power regulated helped. Sure enough, it fixed my problem, and made me feel like an idiot for not thinking of it myself. I would have offered that guy a position at my company if I hadn't filled all of my open positions, because he was friendlier, more resourceful, and generally helpful than most of the folks my boss has been digging up to hire. Granted I agree that most of the computer guys there are know-nothings who have a pretty good line of bs to offer up, there are always a few gems if the dirt pile is large enough.
I personally like some of the shows on the home and garden channel because they give me good ideas on how to do things to my home. I also really enjoy some of the History channel shows, the monster series of shows on the discovery channel, and The Daily Show, with John Stewart. I work wierd hours so I seem to miss all of these, so I record them to mpeg with my 8500dv and watch them when I get home.
:).
I'm sure a lot of folks would find shows that they miss that are off of the beaten path if they had the option to watch them any time they like. That's how I got to watching the Daily Show.
Granted the 8500dv was a pretty good video card when it came out, and I use it for a few other things as well
Germs, viruses, bacteria, and eventually worms are at the top of the food chain not us. They will assuredly get us in the end.
:).
Oh, and merry Christmas everyone