King of the Hill is a cartoon, but it's treated like a standard sitcom. You could film it with real people and without rewriting the script. Compare that to the Simpsons or Family Guy - both will break away to show impossible things happening. The advantage of cartoons is that it's no harder to draw in a spoof of Home Alone 14 than it is to draw Homer eating donuts. With film and actors, that sort of thing doesn't happen -- though it could, Saturday night live, Mad TV, even late-night talk shows do it.
I was able to fuck one of the girls in chapter 1. The one that gave you the mission to kill some guy.
It took forever, just like real girls, all she wanted to do was talk. Just keep clicking on the "complain about being lonely" option for 5 minutes, and she'll let you fuck her. You gain experience points.
I happen to run a colo center. At least once a week I get a reuqest for a 100-1000 IPs for 1 month to run a targetted email campaign. Obviously, a lot of spammers don't tell their host that they're spammers, but there are also a lot of companies that turn their eyes for a fat paycheck.
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If it's a one-year contract, it wouldn't force you to re-sign the contract next year. Not that that invalidates any other reason doing so would be stupid.
this is interesting. Gateway has seen flat sales and quarterly losses recently. They've fired most of their workforce and have their PC building outsourced. They've recently bet the farm on flat-screen TVs.
VA Linux wasn't able to make a profit selling linux servers... I don't know why Gateway would. I think of Gateway as a PC for a first-time buyer, inexpensive, but higher quality than an HP, Compaq, or eMachines.
I think there's more to this story than is currently being revealed.
My credit union currently has a 36-month signature loan for 10.50%, 60 months for 11.50%.
For secured car loans, 100% (ie, you pay nothing up front) 24 months is 3.20%, 72 months is 5.40%.
Their credit card currently charges 10.9% apr - so it would be slightly more convenient and less expensive than an unsecured loan if you wanted to buy furniture, but would be stupid for a car (unless you're going to pay it off entirely the first month... in which case you might as well just write a check).
many stores will give cash discounts on large purchases. Yeah, you or I probably don't pay for new cars with cash (or a credit card), but even for a $1,000 stereo, it's easier to get extra off when paying cash. Of course, with internet shopping, you can probably buy it cheaper online.
That's not true. By law, if your credit card is stolen, your maximum liability is $50. There is no such limit with a debit card. Also, a debit card immediately draws money from your acount. A credit card is a monthly bill. If you dispute a credit transaction, you don't have to pay it until it is resolved. If you dispute a debit card transaction, it's already been paid.
Most banks will essentially set a liability limit of 0 for stolen credit and debit cards, but credit cards have the extra legal protection and extra protection of not yet having been paid.
A lot of companies pay good money for Lotus SameTime, an encrypted IM for use within intranets. Yahoo also offers business-class IM (with encryption, etc). Encrypted, auditable IMs are a selling point.
It's a slight convenience factor. Instead of you logging into other people's shared drives and searching for music, iTunes broadcasts the user's list of songs and provides them in a nice sorted order.
it's standard contract law. Both parties must enter into the contract freely and willingly, must be a legal subject matter, both parties must provide something of value (or perform some activity, or refrain from performing a activity they have a legal right to perform). There are also a handful of other restrictions, but those are the main ones.
The sig isn't entered into freely and willingly by the reader, and both parties aren't exchanging anything of value.
No offense, but I really doubt J Random Slashdot Reader, who knows jack shit about contracts, is going to formulate a new legal theory to invalidate EULAs.
Once upon a time, slashdot was entirely independent. Then they sold out to Andover.net. Andover was previously an unheard-of software company, but they had a change of focus and started buying up various computer-related websites. Then they did an IPO, and were bought out by VA Linux.
VA Linux original business model was to sell x86 hardware with linux pre-installed on it. When they IPO'd, thanks to IPO mania and some string pulling by Credit Suise First Boston (the underwriter, which was later investigated for IPO manipulation) the stock had a one-day jump from $15 a share up to $150 a share.
Anyhow, Slashdot and the OSDN network was bought by VA Linux. Then one of the VA employees developed sourceforge, which was originally GPLd. VA Linux decided that nobody wanted to buy overpriced commodity x86 hardware even if it did have linux on it, so they dropped the hardware division, and closed up (license-wise) sourceforge.
Today they run a handful of OSDN sites (newsforge, sourceforge, slashdot, and a couple others) and sell/support SourceForge Enterprise Edition.
VA Software hasn't had a quarterly profit ever, but they are, per SEC docs, reducing the quarterly losses, so they may be profitable one day. They also recently got $150 million in new financing.
The reason this version was not open source had more to do with the time it
would have taken to choose the correct license as well as getting all the
files together, registering for sourceforge, etc.
When did sourceforge become a requirement for OS development? They provide some convenient features, but quite frankly, their future is sketchy. Searching is down far too often, when you view CVS, you usually get a warning that it's running from backups, and they request donations. Nobody thought Red Hat would abandon the casual user, but they did. Does anyone think VA Linux/Research/Systems will keep on dumping money on sourceforge once they decide the cost is more than the goodwill and advertising?
SCO's making a lot of noise, and a lot of nuisance. They know they have no case, and it seems their tactics have gotten more and more outrageous as time has progressed. Why? If they announce something even more ridiculous, people (stock analysts, investors) don't have time to analyze the original case.
For those that aren't aware, the USA was set up with 3 branches of gov't - the legislative (congress), executive (President + cabinet), and Judicial (the courts). Since the 1930s, we've seen states rights all but disappear, but we've also seen the role of congress greatly diminished.
Congress was intended to write laws. But you'd be excused for not knowing that if you ever saw a Presidential or Presidential candidate speach. But congress has also limited their own powers by giving up authority to the FTC, FCC, and now even the RIAA and MPAA.
I won't even mention the judicial activists and nusiance lawsuits that attempt to accomplish through litigation what can't be accomplished through legislation...
The role of gov't is to ensure life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for the citizens. Conversely, only gov't, through an open procedure, can derive citizens of life, liberty, or purusing happiness (ie jail). It is irresponsible, and I would suggest unconstitutional, to deny those rights (via jail) for a tort-offense.
Once upon a time, Red Hat was a private concern. Then.coms and linux became valid business models and Red Hat had a wildly popular IPO.
Has being a public company altered your business decisions? Obviously, the infusion of cash allowed for greater growth, made it easy to buy other companies, and made unprofitability possible. But has meeting the streets demands adversly affected your business decisions?
exactly. I predict the future is CD/SACD hybrids. When DVD first came out, all the movies were widescreen format. That gave videophiles and other early adopters a reason to update their existing collections and start a new library.
For people that will shell out money, size isn't the issue (Look at laserdiscs). For music, smaller size can even be a problem (people are nostalgic for the large artwork on records).
Of course, I'm biased. Last night I got a set of 15 CD/SACD hybrids, and may get a SACD player in the future:)
I question whether they can regulate. Not the timeframe (don't you just love the sound of deadlines as they go whooshing by?), but constitutionally. Particularly recently since the Senate refused to block states from imposing net-access fees, and the Supreme Court has lately scoffed at "interstate commerce" as a justification for laws.
Everyone here would laugh if the US Gov't tried to regulate ftp, http, tcp, udp, ip, etc. They have no authority over VoIP either.
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King of the Hill is a cartoon, but it's treated like a standard sitcom. You could film it with real people and without rewriting the script. Compare that to the Simpsons or Family Guy - both will break away to show impossible things happening. The advantage of cartoons is that it's no harder to draw in a spoof of Home Alone 14 than it is to draw Homer eating donuts. With film and actors, that sort of thing doesn't happen -- though it could, Saturday night live, Mad TV, even late-night talk shows do it.
For all their talk of lawsuits, they only one they've filed is a constract violation against IBM.
It took forever, just like real girls, all she wanted to do was talk. Just keep clicking on the "complain about being lonely" option for 5 minutes, and she'll let you fuck her. You gain experience points.
I happen to run a colo center. At least once a week I get a reuqest for a 100-1000 IPs for 1 month to run a targetted email campaign. Obviously, a lot of spammers don't tell their host that they're spammers, but there are also a lot of companies that turn their eyes for a fat paycheck.
If it's a one-year contract, it wouldn't force you to re-sign the contract next year. Not that that invalidates any other reason doing so would be stupid.
VA Linux wasn't able to make a profit selling linux servers... I don't know why Gateway would. I think of Gateway as a PC for a first-time buyer, inexpensive, but higher quality than an HP, Compaq, or eMachines.
I think there's more to this story than is currently being revealed.
yeah... and halfway through you'll find an ascii-art picture of goatse
NB - France was not an ally.
For secured car loans, 100% (ie, you pay nothing up front) 24 months is 3.20%, 72 months is 5.40%.
Their credit card currently charges 10.9% apr - so it would be slightly more convenient and less expensive than an unsecured loan if you wanted to buy furniture, but would be stupid for a car (unless you're going to pay it off entirely the first month... in which case you might as well just write a check).
many stores will give cash discounts on large purchases. Yeah, you or I probably don't pay for new cars with cash (or a credit card), but even for a $1,000 stereo, it's easier to get extra off when paying cash. Of course, with internet shopping, you can probably buy it cheaper online.
Most banks will essentially set a liability limit of 0 for stolen credit and debit cards, but credit cards have the extra legal protection and extra protection of not yet having been paid.
A lot of companies pay good money for Lotus SameTime, an encrypted IM for use within intranets. Yahoo also offers business-class IM (with encryption, etc). Encrypted, auditable IMs are a selling point.
It's a slight convenience factor. Instead of you logging into other people's shared drives and searching for music, iTunes broadcasts the user's list of songs and provides them in a nice sorted order.
The sig isn't entered into freely and willingly by the reader, and both parties aren't exchanging anything of value.
No offense, but I really doubt J Random Slashdot Reader, who knows jack shit about contracts, is going to formulate a new legal theory to invalidate EULAs.
Once upon a time, slashdot was entirely independent. Then they sold out to Andover.net. Andover was previously an unheard-of software company, but they had a change of focus and started buying up various computer-related websites. Then they did an IPO, and were bought out by VA Linux.
VA Linux original business model was to sell x86 hardware with linux pre-installed on it. When they IPO'd, thanks to IPO mania and some string pulling by Credit Suise First Boston (the underwriter, which was later investigated for IPO manipulation) the stock had a one-day jump from $15 a share up to $150 a share.
Anyhow, Slashdot and the OSDN network was bought by VA Linux. Then one of the VA employees developed sourceforge, which was originally GPLd. VA Linux decided that nobody wanted to buy overpriced commodity x86 hardware even if it did have linux on it, so they dropped the hardware division, and closed up (license-wise) sourceforge.
Today they run a handful of OSDN sites (newsforge, sourceforge, slashdot, and a couple others) and sell/support SourceForge Enterprise Edition.
VA Software hasn't had a quarterly profit ever, but they are, per SEC docs, reducing the quarterly losses, so they may be profitable one day. They also recently got $150 million in new financing.
When did sourceforge become a requirement for OS development? They provide some convenient features, but quite frankly, their future is sketchy. Searching is down far too often, when you view CVS, you usually get a warning that it's running from backups, and they request donations. Nobody thought Red Hat would abandon the casual user, but they did. Does anyone think VA Linux/Research/Systems will keep on dumping money on sourceforge once they decide the cost is more than the goodwill and advertising?
SCO's making a lot of noise, and a lot of nuisance. They know they have no case, and it seems their tactics have gotten more and more outrageous as time has progressed. Why? If they announce something even more ridiculous, people (stock analysts, investors) don't have time to analyze the original case.
Congress was intended to write laws. But you'd be excused for not knowing that if you ever saw a Presidential or Presidential candidate speach. But congress has also limited their own powers by giving up authority to the FTC, FCC, and now even the RIAA and MPAA.
I won't even mention the judicial activists and nusiance lawsuits that attempt to accomplish through litigation what can't be accomplished through legislation...
The role of gov't is to ensure life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for the citizens. Conversely, only gov't, through an open procedure, can derive citizens of life, liberty, or purusing happiness (ie jail). It is irresponsible, and I would suggest unconstitutional, to deny those rights (via jail) for a tort-offense.
Has being a public company altered your business decisions? Obviously, the infusion of cash allowed for greater growth, made it easy to buy other companies, and made unprofitability possible. But has meeting the streets demands adversly affected your business decisions?
For people that will shell out money, size isn't the issue (Look at laserdiscs). For music, smaller size can even be a problem (people are nostalgic for the large artwork on records).
Of course, I'm biased. Last night I got a set of 15 CD/SACD hybrids, and may get a SACD player in the future
Seiko has a watch that runs based on your arm motions. Think Geek also sells a flashlight that recharges itself by jacking it off.
That description was from a discussion of the pre-emptive linux patches ("The Alternatives"), not MediaLinux.
Everyone here would laugh if the US Gov't tried to regulate ftp, http, tcp, udp, ip, etc. They have no authority over VoIP either.
Maybe you meant "Admin at company about to be slashdotted".