I thought such prudish tendencies were more a product of Western Puritanism. Eastern thoughts toward sex were supposed to be all about the Kama Sutra, good times in Thailand, young women in plaid school girl uniforms, and tentacle porn.
Can't China's Communist Party come up with their own hang-ups? Sexual frustration is the domain of the United States of America. USA! USA! USA!
I wonder if a good part of this tendency to forgive the faults of something received for free is due to the fact that we can give it a trial run before we commit to it. We can stand before our manager and state our confidence in what the solution can and can't do because we downloaded it and tried it out without having to pay ($Y * num_servers) + ($X * num_client_access_licenses).
Tangent: while a sysadmin for my college, I was infuriated when I discovered out that Microsoft charged for the right to have clients access one of their servers. What the hell were we paying for? But I was young and naive then.
Another reason to be more forgiving about a free solution is that the bugfix that resolves the problem isn't going to be packaged and sold as an upgrade.
I've been renting the episodes from Netflix. I'm making my way through the first season and, man, it's been rough. Forget the fact that they scrambled the order of the episodes on the DVDs so that end up watching them out of order. The plots just seem a bit generic -- plotlines that have been played out in older sci-fi with better style.
The show does have its moments and a fairly good sense of humor but, please, someone stop Crichton from talking to himself. It's irritating.
It's hard to justify the hype at this point. Just tell me it gets better.
I've always thought that a GNOME equivalent to ActiveScript
would prove useful. Imagine adding scripting capabilities to your application and allowing the user to choose whether they want to use ECMAScript, Ruby, Python, Perl or *gasp* VBScript.
Hmm...anyone know if this already exists for GNOME?
(whine)
But DAD! This is how ALL the cool calculus textbook writers are doing it these days!
(/whine)
That said, what calculus textbooks out there would you recommend? Would you recommend something different for the first-time student as opposed to someone trying to dust off their knowledge of calculus?
Maybe they watch TV at home, but at work I find many coworkers get their sports news, manage their sports fantasy teams, work their betting pools, etc via the web. One guy is in danger of getting the ESPN website banner burned into his monitor.
I think the confusion here is the implication that the DOJ is a part of the Judicial branch of government. It's not the same thing as the courts. In fact, it's the strong arm of the Executive branch, the one that brings cases to the courts on behalf of the Attorney General.
The Attorney General, in turn, answers to the President. So it's through this chain of command that legal action is brought against parties by the government. But if the AG decides against bringing legal action -- or dropping legal action -- that's his discretion. If this is done abusively, it's ultimately the President's job to bonk him on the head for it.
So, to answer your question, by appointing Ashcroft to head the DOJ, Bush is deemed responsible for the settlement with Microsoft.
Regrettably, they lacked the means to cut away the thick layers of packing tape that secured the box. A similar dilema occured with the complementary can of can openers.
Google needs to fine tune their code. Enter "goatse.cx" and clicking "I'm Feeling Lucky" brings you to their uptime page at Netcraft, not the horrible image we all know and cherish.
That's interesting. Let's give this a try...open up another browser tab...enter www.google.com...type in "goatse.cx"...and, finally, hit the lucky button....
AAARRGGGHHHHH!!!!
Oh, wait, nevermind. That's just the Netcraft page. Carry on.
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Damn you, fried cheese!
...your soul, your pants, and everything in between.
Is your soul currently lodged in your colon?
Or, better yet, mount it on one of those automated roving vacuum cleaners and you have a mobile sentry.
It's especially unfortunate then when that shapechaging alien life-form began overtaking those same Norwegians one-by-one.
I thought such prudish tendencies were more a product of Western Puritanism. Eastern thoughts toward sex were supposed to be all about the Kama Sutra, good times in Thailand, young women in plaid school girl uniforms, and tentacle porn.
Can't China's Communist Party come up with their own hang-ups? Sexual frustration is the domain of the United States of America. USA! USA! USA!
I wonder if a good part of this tendency to forgive the faults of something received for free is due to the fact that we can give it a trial run before we commit to it. We can stand before our manager and state our confidence in what the solution can and can't do because we downloaded it and tried it out without having to pay ($Y * num_servers) + ($X * num_client_access_licenses).
Tangent: while a sysadmin for my college, I was infuriated when I discovered out that Microsoft charged for the right to have clients access one of their servers. What the hell were we paying for? But I was young and naive then.
Another reason to be more forgiving about a free solution is that the bugfix that resolves the problem isn't going to be packaged and sold as an upgrade.
Facts:
1. Ewoks are mammals.
2. Ewoks fight ALL the time.
3. The purpose of the Ewok is to flip out and cook people.
I've been renting the episodes from Netflix. I'm making my way through the first season and, man, it's been rough. Forget the fact that they scrambled the order of the episodes on the DVDs so that end up watching them out of order. The plots just seem a bit generic -- plotlines that have been played out in older sci-fi with better style.
The show does have its moments and a fairly good sense of humor but, please, someone stop Crichton from talking to himself. It's irritating.
It's hard to justify the hype at this point. Just tell me it gets better.
Figures that no less than a day after he gets his liver that the following appears on his web site:
Todd Needs Fava Beans...And A Nice Chianti!
Yeah, isn't Doc Ock's ball'o'fusion at the bottom of the river now?
I've always thought that a GNOME equivalent to ActiveScript would prove useful. Imagine adding scripting capabilities to your application and allowing the user to choose whether they want to use ECMAScript, Ruby, Python, Perl or *gasp* VBScript.
Hmm...anyone know if this already exists for GNOME?
(whine)
But DAD! This is how ALL the cool calculus textbook writers are doing it these days!
(/whine)
That said, what calculus textbooks out there would you recommend? Would you recommend something different for the first-time student as opposed to someone trying to dust off their knowledge of calculus?
Someone mod the parent up. Please?
Baseball... moving? You do realize that most of baseball involves sitting still on a bench, or standing still in a field, right?
Don't forget all the adjusting of atheletic supporters.
Maybe they watch TV at home, but at work I find many coworkers get their sports news, manage their sports fantasy teams, work their betting pools, etc via the web. One guy is in danger of getting the ESPN website banner burned into his monitor.
The Attorney General, in turn, answers to the President. So it's through this chain of command that legal action is brought against parties by the government. But if the AG decides against bringing legal action -- or dropping legal action -- that's his discretion. If this is done abusively, it's ultimately the President's job to bonk him on the head for it.
So, to answer your question, by appointing Ashcroft to head the DOJ, Bush is deemed responsible for the settlement with Microsoft.
As God is my witness, I thought penguins could fly.
Meanwhile on the Millennium Falcon...
"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if a jibbering idiot suddenly squeeled in terror and was suddenly silenced."
Regrettably, they lacked the means to cut away the thick layers of packing tape that secured the box. A similar dilema occured with the complementary can of can openers.
Wow. One geek's legacy.
I tried it out and my whole system locked. It was as if it was petrified.
Linux has a stable kernel, that counts for something right?
However, the biggest obstacle is that Linux hasn't been ported to run on rubble.
Parent is not offtoptic. It's actually pretty funny, for those who've read Faulkner.
Google needs to fine tune their code. Enter "goatse.cx" and clicking "I'm Feeling Lucky" brings you to their uptime page at Netcraft, not the horrible image we all know and cherish.
That's interesting. Let's give this a try...open up another browser tab...enter www.google.com...type in "goatse.cx"...and, finally, hit the lucky button....
AAARRGGGHHHHH!!!!
Oh, wait, nevermind. That's just the Netcraft page. Carry on.
Chewvacca Offense? Is this some Slavic variation?