Ever Looked At the Current Job Requirements??
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Its like, must have 5+ years of experience in C++, PHP, HTML, Cobol, Java, Unix, be MSCE certified, have customer service experience, be able to lift 70+ pounds, wear blue shoes, drive red car, be exactly 5' 7" tall, talk with a slight Jamaican accent, be willing to commute to India 3+ weeks a month, all for 18,500 a year.
Now, the REAL kicker is the first part, where 90% of the job listings want unrealistic years of experience.
If I was picking my major, and saw that, I'd be like, fsck that too...
I think the first thing you'd have to do is arrange the episodes by ship. I'd probably start with NCC-1701 (no bloody A, B, C, or D) and work my way forward. Then you'd either go by episode, or maybe by how much of a factor ths ship played in the show. Like, it was really important in space battles and what not, or when it had to seperate, but sometimes it was more about the crew. Then I'd take the ones that stunk, like the ones that focued on that little bastard CleverNickN... err, Wesley Crusher and toss them, cause they mostly sucked.
I suppose you could probably catalouge the series based on when the ship blew up, because that happened quite a bit.
(btw, if you're reading this Clever, I don't really think your episodes sucked, except for maybe the last one you were in... I had always kinda hoped you'd come back, but NOOO, you had to go and do some stupid shuttle manuever and kill your bud, and then blame it on his dead body, blowing a WHOLE YEAR at the Academy! And why didnt they ever let you shack up with that hot engineer chick?! Huh?! Huh?!?))
Tux, the famed mascot on the Linux world, has been cast in the role of Penpen!
Also appearing, the BSD Devil will make a special guest shot as "the guy who sent the angels to destroy Earth!"
They're kidding, right? A live action NGE flick?
Things I'd like to see next:
Live action Dragon Ball Z. The movie would have to be about 19 hours long with frequent intermissions, and roughly 3 battles during that time in order to make it feel like the show.
Live action Tokyo Pig. What would be more exciting than a pig that can do magic, FILMED IN REAL LIFE! And that reporter chic is HOT!
Live action Dirty Pair. Okay, this isnt a joke. Remember Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft? Multiply that by two, add in tons of explosions and skimpy clothes, and BAM you got a winner!
Because all the "good guys" are stabbing each other in the back trying to be the one that fixes this problem.
I say we need to send the One (a large man with a nail bat) to the Source (the companies that PAY the spammers) and let him Disseminate the Code (splatter their heads against the wall).
Yeah, I saw Reloaded three times since last Wednesday... so sue me. =P
Re:So you'll pay for songs you don't like...
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Unlike some of you (and like many of you) I buy a limited amount of CD's, but only from artists that release albums that are (IMHO) mostly good. So if there are 10 songs on a CD and 8 are good, as far as I am concerned its a good CD. If 1/10 are good, then not only am I not going to buy the CD, but I sure as heck am not going to pay anyone for that one song, which was probably forced out by the record label.
I'm confused. If one song of ten on a CD is good, then why would you not pay for the song? If it is priced at one-tenth the price of a ten-CD album, you're actually paying less for that one song than if you purchased a $10 CD in order to listen to the eight songs you liked from that CD.
Plus, if the one song on the CD is good, what does it matter if the record label "forced out" the song. If it's good and you like it, it's worth listening to, right?
Yes. If I buy a movie that is 2 hours long, and I find 15 minutes of it boring after seeing it 4-5 times, I'd still consider the movie "good" and the purchase justified. If only 5 minutes of the movie is worth repeated viewing, then the movie is garbage and isnt worth paying for. How does this relate to a music CD? Well, the latest Tom Petty CD IMHO was a very good CD, and I personally enjoyed all but 1 or 2 of the songs, so it was a good CD. The last CD I bought (during the end of Napster rise of Audiogalaxy days) that had 1 good song (again, IMHO) was Staind. There was ONE song on there worth anything. As far as I am concerned, the artist failed to make something worth purchasing. They do not deserve my money. Why would I want to support an artist that I think sucks, but happened to get lucky with one song? If you can't perform your job as well as the next guy, he will probably make more than you. Sucks for you, doesnt it? Either get better, or deal with it.
As for the "well its less to download" if you buy 8/10 songs you like, true, but if the artist took the time to write and perform more than 1 song that doesnt suck, then the record company/artist deserve the money. I'd rather send a message saying "make a good CD and I will pay for it" as opposed to "write one good song and I'll pay for it". I dont buy movies for one scene, I sure as hell am NOT going to buy albums for one song.
As for the manner in which songs are purchased, you don't actually wind up with umpteen $1 purchases. You can either use a shopping cart approach to buy in batches, or you can buy individual songs. Either way, Apple sends you receipts for all the songs you purchased in a given period of time (several hours). I've purchased from the store on several different occasions, and never found the billing process annoying.
I get the feeling you've never tried the Apple Music Store. In many ways, it's one of those things where the combination of many small things done well adds up to a far better end result.
You're right. I believe I stated that I wasnt completely sure how it worked, because I don't use it. I don't have a mac, so I don't believe I could even if I was so inclined.
A buck a song may be absurd to you, but I love not having to buy an entire album in order to get the three or four songs I really enjoy. Basically Apple is offering me more choice than the record labels, and I'm not ripping anyone off. It's cheaper for me, the labels make money, the artists get exposure, and I don't have to watch out for spyware or spend all kinds of time searching for the right songs on P2P networks.
First, I've searched for songs on Kazaa and had them found and downloaded in I'd say an average of 3 minutes. If I downloaded from Apple, I'd get nothing different than from Kazaa. No physical copy, no lyrics, no CD case, no T Shirt, no nothing, at least I assume they give you none of those. Therefor, what exactly are we paying for? Fifty cents is the point where it becomes worth it for me, to log in, spend 10-20 bucks, and get 20-40 songs. I'm not paying for songs that I can record off the radio for fr
Because even though I read the title right, my brain decided that it should really be "Getting Head Inside Einsteins" (which for those of you who dont have one, is a bagel shop)...
Too bad, I would have loved to grab one on the way home... Bagel, that is...
Perverts.
=)
I Wanna Beat the Dead Horse Too!!
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Seriously though, I was thinking about the Apple thing the other day, and 99 cents for a song is too much. I'm sorry, but aside from the stuff I legally own on cassette tape that I want on MP3, the stuff I download is stuff they play on the radio, which if I really wanted to could tape *gasp* off the radio and still not buy the stupid CD.
Unlike some of you (and like many of you) I buy a limited amount of CD's, but only from artists that release albums that are (IMHO) mostly good. So if there are 10 songs on a CD and 8 are good, as far as I am concerned its a good CD. If 1/10 are good, then not only am I not going to buy the CD, but I sure as heck am not going to pay anyone for that one song, which was probably forced out by the record label.
Lets think about purchasing a movie on DVD (after all, CDs and DVDs are roughly in the same 15-25 price range). Not many people are going to buy a movie if only 15 minutes of it is worth watching. Why do these record companies think that we will pay for single songs when the rest of the album blows? That'd be like spending a buck to get the Qui-Gon Darth Maul fight at the end of Episode 1, which unlike the rest of the movie was pretty damn good.
Add to that fact that there is no reason to have CD prices of 10-20 year old albums in the 15-20 price range. Its rediculous. The majority of the costs are already covered, and all the only reason I can think of is that they dont want people listening to older less money making (no concerts of dead bands, or videos, or product placment, or whatever) from a band that rocked in the past but is now gone.
I'm sorry, 99 cents a song is absurd. I dont know how they charge you, but unless the price was 25 a download sold in 5 dollar increments (so you buy 20 songs at a time, which makes more sense than 1 for 1 {note, I am assuming that if I buy 1 song, they charge me 1 dollar, and if I come back 3 hours later and get 3 songs, they charge me 3 dollars} and umpteen 1.00 transactions, which is just plain annoying).
One last thing. Treat me as if I am a thief, and I will be a thief. If you already think I steal from you RIAA, then I will continue to steal from you. Its easier to fire up Kazaa than it is to search any database you currently have.
Well, thats my rant for the day, I apologize if its less than coherent at certain points, its early and the Dew hasnt kicked in yet... =)
Re:I don't like where this is headed
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If I post on Slashdot, yap at the (I wish we had one) water cooler about the previous nights events, oh just plain slept at my desk, nothing major would change in the world.
If a cop goofs off, people could be hurt or in certain cases die.
There is a huge difference in the line of work that most of "us" do and being a cop, and I would think that it takes a certain kind of person to dedicate their lives to serving and protecting the innocent.
Correct me if I am wrong, and I very well might be, but if I remember correctly, absolutely NO ONE but Lucas was allowed to make any kind of post Ep 6 Star Wars add-ons until the series was liscensed to Timothy Zahn, who wrote the "official" sequels, in Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, and "I cant remember the third book".
From what the flaps of the book said, this was the official "lucas sanctioned" sequel to RotJ. For anyone that is interested in SW, these books are awesome, and the story is light years ahead of the original trilogy, but thats probably because the books are easily 4 or 5 times as long.
If the original voices (as many as are available) came back to do an animated version of these, I'd see each one at least 5 or 6 times in the theatre.
Oh, and another thing, I dont think Lucas COULD pen 7-9 right now even if he wanted to. Just check out a local bookstore, there are TONS of post RotJ books... it would throw the whole thing out of whack...
" 'Microsoft's 2005 version of its Windows operating system, apes features that have been in Apple's OS X operating system since 2001.'"
Ironically, by 2005 software available on Windows in 2001 will still not run on the Mac, leaving users with a very colorful paperweight connected to a uni-button pointing device.
Oh well, maybe Duke Nukem Forever will run really nice on Longhorn... =)
This trilogy was one of my all time favorites, I can't even begin to count the number of times I've seen the Temple of Doom (my favorite of the three).
Of course, they arent replacing the Nazi's with ewoks, and the guns with walkie talkies, right?
but I always thought it was like the girls name "suzy" (soo-zee)
SuSE...::shrugs::
lets see what google says (note, I have no clue who these people in the thread are, so this isnt necessarily fact)
FROM: Frank Pawlak DATE: 01/30/1998 23:22:19 SUBJECT: RE: [S.u.S.E. Linux] SuSE History
On Jan 30, 9:32pm, Jonathan Markevich wrote: > Subject: Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] SuSE History > > > On 30-Jan-98 Frank Pawlak wrote: > > >> Can anyone tell us about the history of the SuSE company? How long has it > >> been in busness? What does SuSE mean? And so on. > > A good question, more importantly, though, how do you pronounce SuSE! I like > "Suzie", though someone else around here likes "Sooz". Ess-You-Ess-Eee has to > go.
Say like so: Sue-sa with a short a at the end. Like Sue-suh maybe. Regards Frank
A number of users have stated that the WiFi equipment doesnt interfere with anything on the plane. I cannot verify or dispute this, so I'll trust them. With that said, if I had a laptop and I could play games with other people in the plane, that would be cool.
As a side topic thats been going through here, I hope they keep cell phones banned on planes. I would despise being stuck next to someone have a conversation with Bille Joe for the entire flight.
Put down the phones people. No one really needs to know what aisle of the supermarket you're in. FWIW, i'm not against cell phones, they are very useful, and I had one for a while before deciding I could live without it. I'm against the use of cell phone users who treat their ear pieces as life support devices.
I've tried to explain the situation to various non-geeks if you will, and they all look at me like "huh?"...
If anyone has any standared email that they've sent to friends/coworkers regarding the upcoming boycott, it might help those of us not as skilled in legal talk to explain it to people, short of "big company fucked small guy, dont buy thier cards."
Ah we can dance if we want to, we can leave your friends behind Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance Well they're are no friends of mine I say, we can go where we want to, A place where they will never find And we can act like we come from out of this world Leave the real one far behind, and we can dance
We can dance if we want to, we can leave your friends behind Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance Well they're are no friends of mine I say, we can go where we want to a place where they will never find And we can act like we come from out of this world Leave the real one far behind and we can dance.
Francois!
Ah we can go when we want to the night is young and so am I And we can dress real neat from our hats to our feet and surprise 'em with the victory cry
I Say we can act if want to if we don't nobody will And you can act real rude and totally removed And i can act like an imbecile I say we can dance, we can dance everything out control We can dance, we can dance we're doing it wall to wall We can dance, we can dance everybody look at your hands We can dance, we can dance everybody takin' the chance Money dance Oh well the money dance Ah yes the money dance
Mmmm-Oooo-Nnnn-Eeee-Yyyy Money-Dance
We can dance if we want to, we've got all your life and mine As long as we abuse it, never gonna lose it Everything'll work out right I say, we can dance if we want to we can leave your friends behind Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance Well they're are no friends of mine I say we can dance, we can dance everything out control We can dance, we can dance we're doing it wall to wall We can dance, we can dance everybody look at your hands We can dance, we can dance everybody's takin' the chance Oh Well the money dance ah yes the money dance Oh well the money dance Oh well the money dance Oh yes the money dance Oh the money dance yeah Oh it's the money dance It's the money dance Well it's the money dance Oh it's the money dance Oh it's the money dance Oh it's the money dance Oh it's the money dance
Okay, I read the first few pages of the lawsuit, and then I couldnt stomach the legalese anymore... I'm not a lawyer, after all...
anyway, the way it sounds is that they are being sued because they sell products/list information that people use to stop the flow of "crap" from these companies. From what I read, they didnt attack these companies, they didnt DoS them, they merely provided tools that people could use to stop spammers from contacting them.
The people that are using these tools probably never would have purchased anything from them anyway, and if they are like most of us, the emails are blocked/auto deleted/instantly trashed when they do get through, so its a moot point anyway.
I think these people are just ticked off because their scummy business is being threatened by people who are intelligent enough to "work the internet", not just "use" it.
In response to your actions regarding the removal of a web comic done by Penny Arcade, our sales have quadrupled! I mean, check this out, we're raking it in! We havent seen this much money since Chirstmas 1999 when everyone thought it was the last one before the Apocolypse of 2000! Just this morning our Executive Accountant came in here and told us we should remodel our entire office and buy a new company jet! I mean, wow guys, you really pissed quite a few blokes off this time! We even got to fire our entire card writing division seeing as no one cares what they say anymore, because they buy them just to spite you!
Oh, and one more thing, that was a better picture of Strawberry Shortcake than your artists ever drew.
Pitched my tent more than the company bikini party, I'll tell you that.
Enclosed is a check for 100 dollars, pay your lawyers to piss someone else off, my secretary needs a new set of boobs!
While I dont have actual numbers, I would think that there are at the very least a hundred million people in the US (and I could be way low here, which I probably am, but thats not really the point), so if less than 1% of them complained, thats 1,000,000 people, and 46,000 of that is less than 1%, so we're talking less than.5% of the population feels a certain way, and the FTC is doing something.
I would say the gov't is most certainly doing its job.
The Dual Optical is perhaps the best mouse I have ever used. Its more comfortable than a standared mouse, as I have slightly large hands ands its a bit bigger than the normal mouse. Its very responsive, especially for RTS and FPS games.
But be warned, it doesnt exist according to the sales drones at Best Buy. (both my g/f and my mother went to best buys looking for one of these for me last X-mas, and both stores told each of them that there was no such thing)...
Slashdot Mirror
Its like, must have 5+ years of experience in C++, PHP, HTML, Cobol, Java, Unix, be MSCE certified, have customer service experience, be able to lift 70+ pounds, wear blue shoes, drive red car, be exactly 5' 7" tall, talk with a slight Jamaican accent, be willing to commute to India 3+ weeks a month, all for 18,500 a year.
Now, the REAL kicker is the first part, where 90% of the job listings want unrealistic years of experience.
If I was picking my major, and saw that, I'd be like, fsck that too...
I think the first thing you'd have to do is arrange the episodes by ship. I'd probably start with NCC-1701 (no bloody A, B, C, or D) and work my way forward. Then you'd either go by episode, or maybe by how much of a factor ths ship played in the show. Like, it was really important in space battles and what not, or when it had to seperate, but sometimes it was more about the crew. Then I'd take the ones that stunk, like the ones that focued on that little bastard CleverNickN... err, Wesley Crusher and toss them, cause they mostly sucked.
I suppose you could probably catalouge the series based on when the ship blew up, because that happened quite a bit.
(btw, if you're reading this Clever, I don't really think your episodes sucked, except for maybe the last one you were in... I had always kinda hoped you'd come back, but NOOO, you had to go and do some stupid shuttle manuever and kill your bud, and then blame it on his dead body, blowing a WHOLE YEAR at the Academy! And why didnt they ever let you shack up with that hot engineer chick?! Huh?! Huh?!?))
This just in.
Tux, the famed mascot on the Linux world, has been cast in the role of Penpen!
Also appearing, the BSD Devil will make a special guest shot as "the guy who sent the angels to destroy Earth!"
They're kidding, right? A live action NGE flick?
Things I'd like to see next:
Live action Dragon Ball Z. The movie would have to be about 19 hours long with frequent intermissions, and roughly 3 battles during that time in order to make it feel like the show.
Live action Tokyo Pig. What would be more exciting than a pig that can do magic, FILMED IN REAL LIFE! And that reporter chic is HOT!
Live action Dirty Pair. Okay, this isnt a joke. Remember Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft? Multiply that by two, add in tons of explosions and skimpy clothes, and BAM you got a winner!
I could go on all day, but I think I'll stop now!
Because all the "good guys" are stabbing each other in the back trying to be the one that fixes this problem.
I say we need to send the One (a large man with a nail bat) to the Source (the companies that PAY the spammers) and let him Disseminate the Code (splatter their heads against the wall).
Yeah, I saw Reloaded three times since last Wednesday... so sue me. =P
Unlike some of you (and like many of you) I buy a limited amount of CD's, but only from artists that release albums that are (IMHO) mostly good. So if there are 10 songs on a CD and 8 are good, as far as I am concerned its a good CD. If 1/10 are good, then not only am I not going to buy the CD, but I sure as heck am not going to pay anyone for that one song, which was probably forced out by the record label.
I'm confused. If one song of ten on a CD is good, then why would you not pay for the song? If it is priced at one-tenth the price of a ten-CD album, you're actually paying less for that one song than if you purchased a $10 CD in order to listen to the eight songs you liked from that CD.
Plus, if the one song on the CD is good, what does it matter if the record label "forced out" the song. If it's good and you like it, it's worth listening to, right?
Yes. If I buy a movie that is 2 hours long, and I find 15 minutes of it boring after seeing it 4-5 times, I'd still consider the movie "good" and the purchase justified. If only 5 minutes of the movie is worth repeated viewing, then the movie is garbage and isnt worth paying for. How does this relate to a music CD? Well, the latest Tom Petty CD IMHO was a very good CD, and I personally enjoyed all but 1 or 2 of the songs, so it was a good CD. The last CD I bought (during the end of Napster rise of Audiogalaxy days) that had 1 good song (again, IMHO) was Staind. There was ONE song on there worth anything. As far as I am concerned, the artist failed to make something worth purchasing. They do not deserve my money. Why would I want to support an artist that I think sucks, but happened to get lucky with one song? If you can't perform your job as well as the next guy, he will probably make more than you. Sucks for you, doesnt it? Either get better, or deal with it.
As for the "well its less to download" if you buy 8/10 songs you like, true, but if the artist took the time to write and perform more than 1 song that doesnt suck, then the record company/artist deserve the money. I'd rather send a message saying "make a good CD and I will pay for it" as opposed to "write one good song and I'll pay for it". I dont buy movies for one scene, I sure as hell am NOT going to buy albums for one song.
As for the manner in which songs are purchased, you don't actually wind up with umpteen $1 purchases. You can either use a shopping cart approach to buy in batches, or you can buy individual songs. Either way, Apple sends you receipts for all the songs you purchased in a given period of time (several hours). I've purchased from the store on several different occasions, and never found the billing process annoying.
I get the feeling you've never tried the Apple Music Store. In many ways, it's one of those things where the combination of many small things done well adds up to a far better end result.
You're right. I believe I stated that I wasnt completely sure how it worked, because I don't use it. I don't have a mac, so I don't believe I could even if I was so inclined.
A buck a song may be absurd to you, but I love not having to buy an entire album in order to get the three or four songs I really enjoy. Basically Apple is offering me more choice than the record labels, and I'm not ripping anyone off. It's cheaper for me, the labels make money, the artists get exposure, and I don't have to watch out for spyware or spend all kinds of time searching for the right songs on P2P networks.
First, I've searched for songs on Kazaa and had them found and downloaded in I'd say an average of 3 minutes. If I downloaded from Apple, I'd get nothing different than from Kazaa. No physical copy, no lyrics, no CD case, no T Shirt, no nothing, at least I assume they give you none of those. Therefor, what exactly are we paying for? Fifty cents is the point where it becomes worth it for me, to log in, spend 10-20 bucks, and get 20-40 songs. I'm not paying for songs that I can record off the radio for fr
I don't have time to ponder relativity...
I'm still trying to figure out if there's really a spoon...
Because even though I read the title right, my brain decided that it should really be "Getting Head Inside Einsteins" (which for those of you who dont have one, is a bagel shop)...
Too bad, I would have loved to grab one on the way home... Bagel, that is...
Perverts.
=)
Seriously though, I was thinking about the Apple thing the other day, and 99 cents for a song is too much. I'm sorry, but aside from the stuff I legally own on cassette tape that I want on MP3, the stuff I download is stuff they play on the radio, which if I really wanted to could tape *gasp* off the radio and still not buy the stupid CD.
Unlike some of you (and like many of you) I buy a limited amount of CD's, but only from artists that release albums that are (IMHO) mostly good. So if there are 10 songs on a CD and 8 are good, as far as I am concerned its a good CD. If 1/10 are good, then not only am I not going to buy the CD, but I sure as heck am not going to pay anyone for that one song, which was probably forced out by the record label.
Lets think about purchasing a movie on DVD (after all, CDs and DVDs are roughly in the same 15-25 price range). Not many people are going to buy a movie if only 15 minutes of it is worth watching. Why do these record companies think that we will pay for single songs when the rest of the album blows? That'd be like spending a buck to get the Qui-Gon Darth Maul fight at the end of Episode 1, which unlike the rest of the movie was pretty damn good.
Add to that fact that there is no reason to have CD prices of 10-20 year old albums in the 15-20 price range. Its rediculous. The majority of the costs are already covered, and all the only reason I can think of is that they dont want people listening to older less money making (no concerts of dead bands, or videos, or product placment, or whatever) from a band that rocked in the past but is now gone.
I'm sorry, 99 cents a song is absurd. I dont know how they charge you, but unless the price was 25 a download sold in 5 dollar increments (so you buy 20 songs at a time, which makes more sense than 1 for 1 {note, I am assuming that if I buy 1 song, they charge me 1 dollar, and if I come back 3 hours later and get 3 songs, they charge me 3 dollars} and umpteen 1.00 transactions, which is just plain annoying).
One last thing. Treat me as if I am a thief, and I will be a thief. If you already think I steal from you RIAA, then I will continue to steal from you. Its easier to fire up Kazaa than it is to search any database you currently have.
Well, thats my rant for the day, I apologize if its less than coherent at certain points, its early and the Dew hasnt kicked in yet... =)
If I post on Slashdot, yap at the (I wish we had one) water cooler about the previous nights events, oh just plain slept at my desk, nothing major would change in the world.
If a cop goofs off, people could be hurt or in certain cases die.
There is a huge difference in the line of work that most of "us" do and being a cop, and I would think that it takes a certain kind of person to dedicate their lives to serving and protecting the innocent.
Correct me if I am wrong, and I very well might be, but if I remember correctly, absolutely NO ONE but Lucas was allowed to make any kind of post Ep 6 Star Wars add-ons until the series was liscensed to Timothy Zahn, who wrote the "official" sequels, in Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, and "I cant remember the third book".
From what the flaps of the book said, this was the official "lucas sanctioned" sequel to RotJ. For anyone that is interested in SW, these books are awesome, and the story is light years ahead of the original trilogy, but thats probably because the books are easily 4 or 5 times as long.
If the original voices (as many as are available) came back to do an animated version of these, I'd see each one at least 5 or 6 times in the theatre.
Oh, and another thing, I dont think Lucas COULD pen 7-9 right now even if he wanted to. Just check out a local bookstore, there are TONS of post RotJ books... it would throw the whole thing out of whack...
" 'Microsoft's 2005 version of its Windows operating system, apes features that have been in Apple's OS X operating system since 2001.'"
Ironically, by 2005 software available on Windows in 2001 will still not run on the Mac, leaving users with a very colorful paperweight connected to a uni-button pointing device.
Oh well, maybe Duke Nukem Forever will run really nice on Longhorn... =)
This trilogy was one of my all time favorites, I can't even begin to count the number of times I've seen the Temple of Doom (my favorite of the three).
Of course, they arent replacing the Nazi's with ewoks, and the guns with walkie talkies, right?
but I always thought it was like the girls name "suzy" (soo-zee)
::shrugs::
SuSE...
lets see what google says (note, I have no clue who these people in the thread are, so this isnt necessarily fact)
FROM: Frank Pawlak
DATE: 01/30/1998 23:22:19
SUBJECT: RE: [S.u.S.E. Linux] SuSE History
On Jan 30, 9:32pm, Jonathan Markevich wrote:
> Subject: Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] SuSE History
>
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> On 30-Jan-98 Frank Pawlak wrote:
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> >> Can anyone tell us about the history of the SuSE company? How long has it
> >> been in busness? What does SuSE mean? And so on.
>
> A good question, more importantly, though, how do you pronounce SuSE! I like
> "Suzie", though someone else around here likes "Sooz". Ess-You-Ess-Eee has
to
> go.
Say like so: Sue-sa with a short a at the end. Like Sue-suh maybe.
Regards
Frank
A number of users have stated that the WiFi equipment doesnt interfere with anything on the plane. I cannot verify or dispute this, so I'll trust them. With that said, if I had a laptop and I could play games with other people in the plane, that would be cool.
As a side topic thats been going through here, I hope they keep cell phones banned on planes. I would despise being stuck next to someone have a conversation with Bille Joe for the entire flight.
Put down the phones people. No one really needs to know what aisle of the supermarket you're in. FWIW, i'm not against cell phones, they are very useful, and I had one for a while before deciding I could live without it. I'm against the use of cell phone users who treat their ear pieces as life support devices.
I've tried to explain the situation to various non-geeks if you will, and they all look at me like "huh?"...
If anyone has any standared email that they've sent to friends/coworkers regarding the upcoming boycott, it might help those of us not as skilled in legal talk to explain it to people, short of "big company fucked small guy, dont buy thier cards."
thanks guys.
...Anything like the "Safety Dance"?
Ah we can dance if we want to, we can leave your friends behind
Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance
Well they're are no friends of mine
I say, we can go where we want to, A place where they will never find
And we can act like we come from out of this world
Leave the real one far behind,
and we can dance
We can dance if we want to, we can leave your friends behind
Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance
Well they're are no friends of mine
I say, we can go where we want to a place where they will never find
And we can act like we come from out of this world
Leave the real one far behind
and we can dance.
Francois!
Ah we can go when we want to the night is young and so am I
And we can dress real neat from our hats to our feet
and surprise 'em with the victory cry
I Say we can act if want to if we don't nobody will
And you can act real rude and totally removed
And i can act like an imbecile
I say we can dance, we can dance everything out control
We can dance, we can dance we're doing it wall to wall
We can dance, we can dance everybody look at your hands
We can dance, we can dance everybody takin' the chance
Money dance
Oh well the money dance
Ah yes the money dance
Mmmm-Oooo-Nnnn-Eeee-Yyyy
Money-Dance
We can dance if we want to, we've got all your life and mine
As long as we abuse it, never gonna lose it
Everything'll work out right
I say, we can dance if we want to we can leave your friends behind
Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance
Well they're are no friends of mine
I say we can dance, we can dance everything out control
We can dance, we can dance we're doing it wall to wall
We can dance, we can dance everybody look at your hands
We can dance, we can dance everybody's takin' the chance
Oh Well the money dance
ah yes the money dance
Oh well the money dance
Oh well the money dance
Oh yes the money dance
Oh the money dance yeah
Oh it's the money dance
It's the money dance
Well it's the money dance
Oh it's the money dance
Oh it's the money dance
Oh it's the money dance
Oh it's the money dance
Everyone KNOWS that REAL gamers play on Macs. Only "n00bz" use linux as their gaming platform of choice.
Nothing says "l33t g4m3r" more than fragging someone using a one button arrow mover.
=)
Okay, I read the first few pages of the lawsuit, and then I couldnt stomach the legalese anymore... I'm not a lawyer, after all...
anyway, the way it sounds is that they are being sued because they sell products/list information that people use to stop the flow of "crap" from these companies. From what I read, they didnt attack these companies, they didnt DoS them, they merely provided tools that people could use to stop spammers from contacting them.
The people that are using these tools probably never would have purchased anything from them anyway, and if they are like most of us, the emails are blocked/auto deleted/instantly trashed when they do get through, so its a moot point anyway.
I think these people are just ticked off because their scummy business is being threatened by people who are intelligent enough to "work the internet", not just "use" it.
thats just my thoughts, I could be wrong...
Dear American Greetings,
In response to your actions regarding the removal of a web comic done by Penny Arcade, our sales have quadrupled!
I mean, check this out, we're raking it in! We havent seen this much money since Chirstmas 1999 when everyone thought it was the last one before the Apocolypse of 2000! Just this morning our Executive Accountant came in here and told us we should remodel our entire office and buy a new company jet! I mean, wow guys, you really pissed quite a few blokes off this time! We even got to fire our entire card writing division seeing as no one cares what they say anymore, because they buy them just to spite you!
Oh, and one more thing, that was a better picture of Strawberry Shortcake than your artists ever drew.
Pitched my tent more than the company bikini party, I'll tell you that.
Enclosed is a check for 100 dollars, pay your lawyers to piss someone else off, my secretary needs a new set of boobs!
Your Best Friend Ever,
CEO of Hallmark.
Dear Neophytus,
On behalf of the Netscape Development Team, I just want to say, you're welcome!
Happy Hunting!
The Netscape Development Team.
That the ship holds up under strain better than their webserver...
-- there's a really fine line between humor and trolling, isnt there...--
My PIN number is the same as a large cheese pizza and soft drink in 1999. 17.86. ::fast forward to a mock up of pizzaria where Fry is at the register::
Here is your large cheese pizza and soft drink, thats 17.86, the same as my PIN!
god I love that show (and yes, the number is probably off, I've only seen that one once!)
While I dont have actual numbers, I would think that there are at the very least a hundred million people in the US (and I could be way low here, which I probably am, but thats not really the point), so if less than 1% of them complained, thats 1,000,000 people, and 46,000 of that is less than 1%, so we're talking less than .5% of the population feels a certain way, and the FTC is doing something.
I would say the gov't is most certainly doing its job.
You're either...
Trolling.
Joking.
Have ham sized fists.
A complete moron.
The Dual Optical is perhaps the best mouse I have ever used. Its more comfortable than a standared mouse, as I have slightly large hands ands its a bit bigger than the normal mouse. Its very responsive, especially for RTS and FPS games.
But be warned, it doesnt exist according to the sales drones at Best Buy. (both my g/f and my mother went to best buys looking for one of these for me last X-mas, and both stores told each of them that there was no such thing)...
Liv Tyler