I run an IM client that someone else wrote: gaim.
I think you'll find this is true of quite a lot of people.
Please forgive my ignorance on this one.. but I think EVERYBODY uses an IM client that comebody else wrote. Unless of course you actually wrote the whole thing yourself (and how many of those are there.. ?) Using an IM library doesnt count - any idiot can write a frontend.
The start of that comment remided me of the old "microsoft bashing poem" of old..
64 bit virus on 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.
I just read your journal.. Damn dude you are angry!
I have to admit that large corps rarely have anything human to say to their subscribers (paying or not), take eBay for instance, you can't even speak to a human, its all automated and the people behind it are locked away behind closed doors. Ever tried complaining to ebay? They closed my account for non payment of £1.12. They send emails out with "do not reply to this address" how on earth am I supposed to contact you then? Carrier pigeon? No I have to use the crappy contact system and go around in the endless loop of automated answers.
I have a theory - The bigger the company is, the bigger percentage of idiots working for said company. Read into that what you will.
There was talk a few years back about charging per TV, but as it stands, you are charged per household. Each household pays £125 per year (less any disability allowance) for as many TVs/receivers in the house. TV licenses cover recievers and not just the television, so Video recorders, Televisions, satelite recievers, etc.
Sure, as I said, I did this for just under 3 years when I was rarely even in the house at all. Money was tight and the extra £10 a month actually did come in useful. The licensing people are quite aware of people buying TVs just for consoles, and the person I spoke to was indeed human!:)
It annoys me that I have to pay even if i own a set, regardless of what i watch, even if I only use if to play my XBox.
If you do indeed only use your TV in the UK to play DVDS or consoles, you can apply to be EXEMPT from a TV license as I did for 3 years. When you get the letter advising you have not got an up to date Television license, simply call the number on the bottom of the form, and advise them that you use your TV for console and DVD use and they will add you to the exemption list.
Of course when they show up at your door or sit outside and see if your TV tuner is actively tuned to broadcasted television channels instead of playing the XBOX or watching DVDs then you can expect to get heavily fined and rightfully so.
So if it bothers you that much about paying £125 for quite easily the best broadcaster in the world, I'm sure you will find my advice useful.
I think it could be something to do with the Gene therapy! Whats happened is a million of these "super-monkeys" are sitting at a million terminals, all trying to create the works of Shakespeare on port 23....
CA will award five prizes totaling $1 million at CAWorld 2005 in Orlando, Fla., to individuals developing the best converters for moving customers from Oracle, Informix, DB2, SQL server, and Sybase databases to the Ingres database. The top prize could be worth as much as $500,000. Submissions will be accepted through Feb. 1.
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Or accidentally ticking the "Post Anonymously" checkbox? :)
I seem to recall research that cost £200,000,/a> into why cornflakes go soggy when they are submersed into milk.. Now we just need to spend a further £X,000,000 as to why Windows (next) is the most secure operating system in the known solar system (before launch), and just rake in those headlines!
About time they (standards council) did something useful with tax payers money.
I run an IM client that someone else wrote: gaim.
I think you'll find this is true of quite a lot of people.
Please forgive my ignorance on this one.. but I think EVERYBODY uses an IM client that comebody else wrote. Unless of course you actually wrote the whole thing yourself (and how many of those are there.. ?) Using an IM library doesnt count - any idiot can write a frontend.
The start of that comment remided me of the old "microsoft bashing poem" of old..
64 bit virus on 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.
I bet the code is something like this:
while(windows) {
infect();
}
Ah yes.. Still, it was a great excuse to say iToaster! :)
Apple has the nTunes thing going, take a couple of minutes and make up your own naming scheme.
Not to be pedantic, but surely you mean iSomething... such as iPod, iTunes, iMac, iToaster....I just read your journal.. Damn dude you are angry!
I have to admit that large corps rarely have anything human to say to their subscribers (paying or not), take eBay for instance, you can't even speak to a human, its all automated and the people behind it are locked away behind closed doors. Ever tried complaining to ebay? They closed my account for non payment of £1.12. They send emails out with "do not reply to this address" how on earth am I supposed to contact you then? Carrier pigeon? No I have to use the crappy contact system and go around in the endless loop of automated answers.
I have a theory - The bigger the company is, the bigger percentage of idiots working for said company. Read into that what you will.
Jabberwocky in actionscript.. What's next may I ask? Shakespeare in perl?
There was talk a few years back about charging per TV, but as it stands, you are charged per household. Each household pays £125 per year (less any disability allowance) for as many TVs/receivers in the house. TV licenses cover recievers and not just the television, so Video recorders, Televisions, satelite recievers, etc.
Sure, as I said, I did this for just under 3 years when I was rarely even in the house at all. Money was tight and the extra £10 a month actually did come in useful. The licensing people are quite aware of people buying TVs just for consoles, and the person I spoke to was indeed human! :)
It annoys me that I have to pay even if i own a set, regardless of what i watch, even if I only use if to play my XBox.
If you do indeed only use your TV in the UK to play DVDS or consoles, you can apply to be EXEMPT from a TV license as I did for 3 years. When you get the letter advising you have not got an up to date Television license, simply call the number on the bottom of the form, and advise them that you use your TV for console and DVD use and they will add you to the exemption list.
Of course when they show up at your door or sit outside and see if your TV tuner is actively tuned to broadcasted television channels instead of playing the XBOX or watching DVDs then you can expect to get heavily fined and rightfully so.
So if it bothers you that much about paying £125 for quite easily the best broadcaster in the world, I'm sure you will find my advice useful.
I think it could be something to do with the Gene therapy! Whats happened is a million of these "super-monkeys" are sitting at a million terminals, all trying to create the works of Shakespeare on port 23....
Prof Strickland added this comment:
"No Monkey every ammounted to anything in the history of Gene Therapy"..
Oh yeah? Well history is gonna change!
if MS decides to "nuke" IBMs Linux plans, trust me, IBM can "nuke" Windows as well.
With winuke.exe ?
As you wish, master
CA will award five prizes totaling $1 million at CAWorld 2005 in Orlando, Fla., to individuals developing the best converters for moving customers from Oracle, Informix, DB2, SQL server, and Sybase databases to the Ingres database. The top prize could be worth as much as $500,000. Submissions will be accepted through Feb. 1.
No No he meant Doom 3 (part II)
Who wants to be the first on their mailing list?
At times like this, you can always whore some karma by reposting some +5s :)
If we find out that Titan has a twin, and they collide.. we could indeed have a real-life "Clash of the Titans!"
Ah, I'm safe then, I'm using office 97
1. "Free as in beer" - The same as if you were given a beer to drink and you didnt pay for it.
:)
2. "Free as in speech" - This is when you pay for the beer, but its priceless to hear you talk when drunk
If you ever used windows ME, then you would know that to do anything useful really did take "forever"
They went to punch him in the face and when he flinched, they screamed "SUCCESS!"