That really isn't true, I know that I've gotten at least six people to switch over in the course of this semester,
Both of my parents heard the buzz and PR off the internet, and are asking me to install it over thanksgiving for them.
My point exactly - you helped people switch, your parents want you to install it. Would those 6 people switch without your help? If you don't install it on Thanksgiving, will your parents be using IE until Christmas? Spring break? Next summer? Forever?
Don't you think that gaining so much in such short time is impressive?
Yeah, and look who they quote about switching to Firefox in the article - CS students and computer consultants. That one million downloads on the day it was released was 95% geeks most of which probably had a party to celebrate it afterwards (which was a follow up to the pre-release lan party they had the night before). You know what my wife does when the pop ups and spyware start annoying her (by which I mean making her laptop damn near unusable)? She unplugs the ethernet cable.
On 'linux, the new OS for the Desktop' articles in various local papers. However, I don't know any 'normal' person who has adopted it. People use what they use. I know people who still use NS4. Firefox is great and all, but you stiil have to force people to change. Otherwise, they will just use whatever browser is installed on their computer.
Is it really a story? Get this, an editor posted a story. Oh and if that is shocking enough, there won't be a first post...But somehow there will be comments.
Surely the OCR process could be recalibrated to identify a different typeface?
Oh, shit, you're right. I forgot that it was so easy. Hold on, okay, recalibrating....got it. Done. That's what you get when you go to the Hollywood Upstairs OCR Engineering College. You need those MIT types to point out the easy and obvious mistakes we need to correct.
I have not watched much of the show, but I don't much care for shows that wrap everything up in a neat little box and make people think that all crimes are solved in an hour, give or take commercials.
You should watch the show "The First 48" on A&E. It follows dectivees on two murders, from the minute they get the call to the end of the first 48 hours, then sometimes a follow up from days, months or years later. It's all unscripted and real. Sometimes they solve the crime, sometimes they don't. It's pretty fascinating. Kind of weird to think about the production crew sitting around a police station waiting for a murder to happen.
I watched the show twice. The first time, it was kind of cool, the second it was glaringly apparent that the show would always be some convoluted mystery.
As for the science, people would be better off watching The New Dectives/Cold Case Files/FBI Files/etc if they want to learn about the science of forensics.
As for Law & Order, the original - that show rocks, I have been watching it since day 1.
I believe any potential "lost sales" are from people who, on one hand, don't want to pay for the music, but on the other, want to enjoy that particular music.
I bought a New York steak at the store for $10.00. I ate it and enjoyed it quite a bit. However, at this point it is a worthless log floating somewhere in the sewer system. Should I have stolen the steak instead?
Most porn companies are more concerned with cooking up more ways to....
Aye, and, at least in the past (it's been 5 years since I worked in this industry), they push tech to the limits to separate you from your money.
There's a good reason the the credit card companies are cracking down hard on the porno dudes.
This has nothing to do with tech. Porn is about money, porn purveyors want your money, porn users don't want to pay for it. Never have I witnessed a more wretched hive of scum and villany.
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So, to answer the question - nothing.
CSI? Fake life imitating science detecting imitation art?
Not as long as I have my original, unLucasfuckedup Star Wars tapes.
That really isn't true, I know that I've gotten at least six people to switch over in the course of this semester,
Both of my parents heard the buzz and PR off the internet, and are asking me to install it over thanksgiving for them.
My point exactly - you helped people switch, your parents want you to install it. Would those 6 people switch without your help? If you don't install it on Thanksgiving, will your parents be using IE until Christmas? Spring break? Next summer? Forever?
Don't you think that gaining so much in such short time is impressive?
Yeah, and look who they quote about switching to Firefox in the article - CS students and computer consultants. That one million downloads on the day it was released was 95% geeks most of which probably had a party to celebrate it afterwards (which was a follow up to the pre-release lan party they had the night before). You know what my wife does when the pop ups and spyware start annoying her (by which I mean making her laptop damn near unusable)? She unplugs the ethernet cable.
On 'linux, the new OS for the Desktop' articles in various local papers. However, I don't know any 'normal' person who has adopted it. People use what they use. I know people who still use NS4. Firefox is great and all, but you stiil have to force people to change. Otherwise, they will just use whatever browser is installed on their computer.
It is now known as the GNU/GPL license.
Good code generators. Yeah, and AI that works too. And flying cars. Utopia is always around the corner. Oh, wait. We have code generators - in India.
Internet2 is the best part of college. Streaming movies on demand at only the price of your conscience.
And I think I can speak for the MPAA when they say, "Congrats, you guys are precisely the reason we are doing this."
-1 flamebait, but all Joel ever talks about is what a smart guy he is and how everyone else is an idiot and all companies, except fog creek, suck.
Some front page news we can all talk about.
Is it really a story? Get this, an editor posted a story. Oh and if that is shocking enough, there won't be a first post...But somehow there will be comments.
Surely the OCR process could be recalibrated to identify a different typeface?
Oh, shit, you're right. I forgot that it was so easy. Hold on, okay, recalibrating....got it. Done. That's what you get when you go to the Hollywood Upstairs OCR Engineering College. You need those MIT types to point out the easy and obvious mistakes we need to correct.
Sincerely,
The OCR engineering department.
They should make it shout, "Hey, I'm taking your picture."
I have not watched much of the show, but I don't much care for shows that wrap everything up in a neat little box and make people think that all crimes are solved in an hour, give or take commercials.
You should watch the show "The First 48" on A&E. It follows dectivees on two murders, from the minute they get the call to the end of the first 48 hours, then sometimes a follow up from days, months or years later. It's all unscripted and real. Sometimes they solve the crime, sometimes they don't. It's pretty fascinating. Kind of weird to think about the production crew sitting around a police station waiting for a murder to happen.
Um Forget It (Score:1, Informative)
by Anonymous Coward on 2004-11-17 13:48 (#10846624)
Jesus I'm stupid.
To bad you can't moderate moderations. I mod that one +5 funny.
I watched the show twice. The first time, it was kind of cool, the second it was glaringly apparent that the show would always be some convoluted mystery.
As for the science, people would be better off watching The New Dectives/Cold Case Files/FBI Files/etc if they want to learn about the science of forensics.
As for Law & Order, the original - that show rocks, I have been watching it since day 1.
Any distributed software needs to have the following requirements for me to install it on my system:
- open source
- free (as in beer)
- portable code, or multicode
- protected against buffer overflows etc. (managed code)
- signed updates of grid software, grid client software and working packages
- nice interface (including a good web server)
- only for use for non-profit organizations
- and I wan't to choose my projects
Bruce Perens called - He said, "Step off, bitch. I'm the biggest Open Source asshole on the 'net.".
Since their first scramjet, the A-1A, flew at 7 feet per second.
Proteins do.
I believe any potential "lost sales" are from people who, on one hand, don't want to pay for the music, but on the other, want to enjoy that particular music.
I bought a New York steak at the store for $10.00. I ate it and enjoyed it quite a bit. However, at this point it is a worthless log floating somewhere in the sewer system. Should I have stolen the steak instead?
Now, if they did that for all the albums they stole, we could end world hunger.
I offer you the following advice: 'Infringe' them off the internet.
This was news last year. More than a year ago he said he would resign after one term. article.
Most porn companies are more concerned with cooking up more ways to....
Aye, and, at least in the past (it's been 5 years since I worked in this
industry), they push tech to the limits to separate you from your money.
There's a good reason the the credit card companies are cracking down hard on
the porno dudes.
This has nothing to do with tech. Porn is about money, porn purveyors want your money, porn users don't want to pay for it. Never have I witnessed a more wretched hive of scum and villany.