Just like Intel developed and implemented the Centrino spec which surrounds and supports the low-power Pentium M in order to compete in the wireless/ultraportable arena with products incorporating the Crusoe and the Efficieon, you can expect they'll have something up their sleeves with regards to this. I mean, it's not like they're just sittin' alone in their parents' basement watching Buffy reruns, and spanking it to naked Portman pictures.
I hope Compaq murders Monarch in the prebuilt arena. I bought a prebuilt from Monarch, and it was the worst ordeal I've ever had online.
They charged my card for the $1500 computer, but they didn't actually ship the system for 7.5 weeks. Each time I called, they'd give me some lame-ass excuse, like "we just moved to a new building", or "our computers were down"-- they even told me it had already shipped, on three separate occasions. There were two whole weeks where they wouldn't even email me back or return my phone calls.
When it came, it didn't turn on, much less boot.
The hard drive inside was unplugged (it was missing the IDE cable completely), and the wires for the front switches/LEDs were not connected. In addition, the case had a gnarly scratch on the front bezel, and one of the feet was missing.
Finally, I had to dispute the charge on my card, because they refused to take an RMA on the "prebuilt system" that was barely so.
So, the RIAA has argued that we merely have a license for one copy of the music when we buy a CD.
When the CD corrodes, does this mean we can turn in the rotted disc for a pristine one?
Australia, eh? Swim in the wrong place with this "Scuba-Doo" and a shark'll turn you into a nice "Scuba-Snack".
They need to privatize the IRS - the only solution
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Privatization has the potential to put a huge dent in big government and save taxpayers billions of dollars each year. Unfortunately, certain people have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo.
The relatively small number of people or institutions that benefit from a program, including federal employees and their unions, businesses that supply the program, and the communities in which buildings and operations are located always fight to preserve it.
The important thing is to get people to realize the wasteful nature of self-run government programs and overcome this opposition. For example, opposition to privatization could be significantly reduced by providing government workers and managers with shares of stock in the new private enterprise, either at a discounted price or at no cost at all. Generous severance packages and no-layoff policies also can diminish opposition among employees whose programs are privatization targets.
Conservatives *are* for free markets. Bush, Cheney and Asscroft aren't conservatives. They're right-wing radicals.. i.e. fascists.
For examples of other world leaders that have claimed to be something else, but were actually fascists, feel free to look up Mao, Stalin, or Kim Jong Il.
This fits with IBM's vision for spreading the 970. There's two groups: "Pervasive" and "Deep." IBM uses "pervasive" to describe a wide range wired and wireless devices powered by the 970 chips, (i.e. p2p sharing of naked petrified natalie portman pictures). "Deep" computing describes IBM's high performance technical computing products, like Blue Gene.
Opening the architecture swings the door for pervasive market penetration, indeed.
Yes, I think you did miss the release where they announced a product that allows you to stream your movies from a shared network resource.
Of course, you can only stream from a $1500 windows media center PC. It won't let you stream from a 500gb Raid V Samba share, or a NAS device.
I'm just saying that from Company X's point of view a free competing product is definitely going to do some damage.
I wouldn't exactly describe them as "competing products", considering the Media center PC marketshare is miniscule, compared to the number of people with a cheap linux fileserver.
With its current restrictions, Windows Media Center edition is for suckers and old people.
Seriously. No one calls "patent infringment" "patent, stealing", no one calls "trademark infringement" "trademark stealing".
Copyright infringement isn't stealing either, though they can both be independently illegal. The difference here is that the copyright holder doesn't lose his rights. His exclusivity is infringed upon, but nothing is taken.
If people are going to insist on analogizing it to something else, I would suggest TRESPASSING. If I put my foot in your yard, I've trespassed. But you still have your yard; you just aren't enjoying it exclusively.
Anyone who calls copyright infringement "stealing" has an agenda, and shouldn't be trusted.
Ok, great. so he's proposing all these programs, like hte Mars mission, ubiquitous broadband-- the thing is, he doesn't actually plan on coming through on any of them. It's called "starving the beast".
In bold print on the first page of the long-term conservative playbook is a tactic called "Starving The Beast". It goes like this:
* lower taxes (especially for your friends) to the point where a fiscal train wreck finally ensues.
*declare that "raising" taxes (returning them to a prior level) would destroy the economy, and that the only solution is to gut Social Security and other unwanted New Deal programs.
"Starving the beast" is no longer a hypothetical scenario -- it's happening as we speak. For decades, conservatives have sought tax cuts, not because they're affordable, but because they aren't. Tax cuts lead to budget deficits, and deficits offer an excuse to squeeze government spending.
Second, squeezing spending doesn't mean cutting back on wasteful programs nobody wants, like missile defense.
Finally, the right-wing corruption of our government system -- the partisan takeover of institutions that are supposed to be nonpolitical -- continues, and even extends to the Federal Reserve.
But yeah, ubiquitous broadband is a great idea, if he actually meant it.
I think any Apple engineer will tell you that Steve plays a direct role in many of Apple's high-profile products.
You could say that. Here's how it works:
Designer: Hey Mr. Jobs. Look at this new product idea I came up with! It's a small, off-white digital music player. It's stylish, matches any outfit, and fits in your pocket!
Steve Jobs: Hmm.. Change the color from "off-white", to "white". Oh, and don't forget to add my name to the patent application. Ciao. I've got a 12:30 facial.
Alpha works great in Photoshop 8.0
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You've obviously not used Photoshop 8.0 (Creative Suite). Alpha works great. It's been out for 6 months; the fact that you've not seen it casts serious doubt on your claim of being a
"porfessional" that produces live television graphics systems.
And to your comment about CMYK being only for prepress, I say this: If you plan on doing any sort of printed work (newsletter, flyers, posters, magazine graphics), GIMP is completely useless without CMYK.
Using GIMP instead of Photoshop to do print work is like being a Carpenter, and using your fist instead of a hammer. Yeah, it's "free", and you may eventually get some nails into the piece of wood, but is it really the best use of your time and energy?
Likewise, you could take RGB files to your Print Shop, and either be laughed out of the building, or have it end up looking like complete ass.
Gimp 2.0 may be a milestone, but it's by no means a complete, professional-level application by any stretch.
So either the whole thing is a hoax, or, more likely, the OS is looking at a damaged drive (damaged partition table, at least) and seeing the same partition in multiple ways. Try to write on that shiny new partition and you'll be overwriting data on the old one. Guaranteed.
Some drives are known to short stroke their platters. This raises the more serious problem of this idiocy... The problem is modern drives store important information on those hidden inner areas of their platters (firmware, disk information, reallocated bad sectors), who knows what you could be overwriting whenever you use that space. Put something down in the wrong place and the drive will never start again or corrupt data at certain sectors. It's a lottery ticket everytime you write data in that partition. That's not what I call useable capacity.
Don't believe me? Go ahead and try it. You'll lose all those Buffy episodes you've downloaded on KaZaA, and instead you'll have to spank it to the Portman pictures your mom doesn't know you have stashed under your bed.
When is "good enough" enough?... This introduces new bugs and abandons all the small fixes and tweaks that made the original version work so well. It also often introduces incompatibilities that break a sometimes huge existing userbase. Examples include IPv4 vs IPv6, Apache, Perl, Embperl, Netscape/Mozilla, HTML and Windows.
I don't get it. Windows 95 was a piece of crap. Are you saying they should have extended that codebase, instead of developing Windows NT onward, into WinXP? Basically, you're *complaining* that Microsoft acknowledged the crappy, unstable nature of Win95, and tried to create a better product?
What kind of fucked-up bizarro-world logic is that?
Apparently, it's not neccessary to be caught in the act.
She *was* caught in the act, by her idiot friend with the camera. How else do you think they got pictures?
If I post pictures of me killing someone, nobody would be surprised if there were legal action. How is this any different? Breaking the law is breaking the law. If you don't like it, move to Canada. Hippies.
I think this report is missing the fact that if someone really wanted to make a hoax book, they could simply translate any other book (even the bible) into a made up language.
Indeed. Lets examine the results when translating Melville's classic "Moby Dick" into ebonics:
"Call me Ishmael. Some years ago--neva' mind how long precisely-- havin' little o' no bre'd in mah' purse, and nodin' particular to interest me on sho'e, ah' dought ah' would sail about some little and see da damn boozey part uh de wo'ld. It be a way ah' have of drivin' off de spleen and regulatin' de circulashun. Wheneva' I find mah'self growin' grim about da damn moud; wheneva' it be a damp, drizzly Novemba' in mah' soul; wheneva' I find mah'self involuntarily pausin' befo'e coffin warecribs, and brin'in' down de rear uh every funeral ah' meet; and especially wheneva' my hypos dig such an downpuh' hand uh me, dat it requires some strong mo'al principle t'prevent me fum deliberately steppin' into de street, and medodically knockin' sucka's's hats off--den, ah' account it high time t'get t'sea as soon as ah' can.
'S coo', bro. Dis be my substitute fo' pistol and ball. Wid some philosophical flourish Cato drows himself downon his swo'd; I quietly snatch t'de ship. Jes hang loose, brud. Dere be nodin' surprisin' in dis. If dey but knowed it, mos' all dudes in deir degree, some time o' oder, cherish real nearly de same feelin's towards de ocean wid me. Dere now be yo' insular city uh de Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian isles by co'al reefs--commerce surrounds it wid ha' surf. Right and left, de streets snatch ya' boozeward. Its 'estreme waaay downtown is de battery, where dat noble mole be wuzhed by waves, and waaay coo'ed by breezes, which some few hours previous wuz out uh sight uh land. Look at da damn crowds uh booze-gazers dere. Circumambulate da damn city uh a dredat fine femahnaine ladee Sabbad afternoon. 'S coo', bro. Go fum Co'lears Hook t'Coenties Slip, and fum dence, by Honkyhall, no'dward.
Whut do ya' see?--Posted likes silent sentinels all around da damn town, stand dousands downon dousands uh mo'tal dudes fixed in ocean reveries. Some leanin' against da damn spiles; some seated downon de pier-haids; some lookin' upside de bulwarks glasses! Right on! uh ships fum China; some high aloft in de riggin', as if strivin' t'get some still betta' seaward peep. Jes hang loose, brud. But dese is all landsmen; uh week days pent down in lad and plaster-- tied t'counters, nailed t'benches, clinched t'desks. How den be dis? Are da damn green fields gone? Whut do dey here? But look! Right on! here mosey on down mo'e crowds, pacin' straight fo' de booze, and seemin'ly bound fo' some dive. Strange! Right on! Nodin' gots'ta content dem but da damn extremest limit uh de land; loiterin' unda' de shady lee uh yonda' warecribs gots'ta not suffice. No. 'S coo', bro. Dey gots'ta get plum as nigh de booze as dey possibly kin widout fallin' in. 'S coo', bro.
And dere dey stand--miles uh dem--leagues. Inlanders all, dey mosey on down from lanes and alleys, streets and avenues,-- no'd, east, soud, and west. Man! Yet here dey all unite. Tell me, duz de magnetic virtue uh de needles uh de compasses of all dose ships attract dem dider?"
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Just like Intel developed and implemented the Centrino spec which surrounds and supports the low-power Pentium M in order to compete in the wireless/ultraportable arena with products incorporating the Crusoe and the Efficieon, you can expect they'll have something up their sleeves with regards to this. I mean, it's not like they're just sittin' alone in their parents' basement watching Buffy reruns, and spanking it to naked Portman pictures.
I hope Compaq murders Monarch in the prebuilt arena. I bought a prebuilt from Monarch, and it was the worst ordeal I've ever had online.
They charged my card for the $1500 computer, but they didn't actually ship the system for 7.5 weeks. Each time I called, they'd give me some lame-ass excuse, like "we just moved to a new building", or "our computers were down"-- they even told me it had already shipped, on three separate occasions. There were two whole weeks where they wouldn't even email me back or return my phone calls.
When it came, it didn't turn on, much less boot.
The hard drive inside was unplugged (it was missing the IDE cable completely), and the wires for the front switches/LEDs were not connected. In addition, the case had a gnarly scratch on the front bezel, and one of the feet was missing.
Finally, I had to dispute the charge on my card, because they refused to take an RMA on the "prebuilt system" that was barely so.
My experience may not be *normal* for monarch, but from their resellerratings reviews, a lot of other people have had just as bad, or worse.
I don't understand how companies with such poor customer service stay in business.
So, the RIAA has argued that we merely have a license for one copy of the music when we buy a CD. When the CD corrodes, does this mean we can turn in the rotted disc for a pristine one?
it's somewhat unfortunate that the button size appears to be as small as possible. The 4-way rocker doesn't look like it'll be fun to manipulate.
Yes, much unlike the rocker that apparently *is* fun to manipulate.
When will they carry AMD? C'mon. This came out over a month ago.
1. XP Autopatcher
2. Firefox
3. does pr0n count as a program?
...not to mention that the only automatic option on Deloreans was a 3-speed automatic, not a 6-speed.
Australia, eh? Swim in the wrong place with this "Scuba-Doo" and a shark'll turn you into a nice "Scuba-Snack".
Privatization has the potential to put a huge dent in big government and save taxpayers billions of dollars each year. Unfortunately, certain people have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo.
The relatively small number of people or institutions that benefit from a program, including federal employees and their unions, businesses that supply the program, and the communities in which buildings and operations are located always fight to preserve it.
The important thing is to get people to realize the wasteful nature of self-run government programs and overcome this opposition. For example, opposition to privatization could be significantly reduced by providing government workers and managers with shares of stock in the new private enterprise, either at a discounted price or at no cost at all. Generous severance packages and no-layoff policies also can diminish opposition among employees whose programs are privatization targets.
Conservatives *are* for free markets. Bush, Cheney and Asscroft aren't conservatives. They're right-wing radicals.. i.e. fascists.
For examples of other world leaders that have claimed to be something else, but were actually fascists, feel free to look up Mao, Stalin, or Kim Jong Il.
Asscroft wasn't elected. He was appointed.
This from a man who is *so offended* by the statue of Justice in the Supreme Court building, he ordered it covered up.
Talk about a right-wing freako nutcase. This is our government, folks. Get used to 4 more years when Bush steals the election again in November.
With this, if you move out of the country (i.e. Canada, for all you bush-hating hippies), all your honestly-bought itunes won't become useless.
This fits with IBM's vision for spreading the 970. There's two groups: "Pervasive" and "Deep." IBM uses "pervasive" to describe a wide range wired and wireless devices powered by the 970 chips, (i.e. p2p sharing of naked petrified natalie portman pictures). "Deep" computing describes IBM's high performance technical computing products, like Blue Gene.
Opening the architecture swings the door for pervasive market penetration, indeed.
Yes, I think you did miss the release where they announced a product that allows you to stream your movies from a shared network resource.
Of course, you can only stream from a $1500 windows media center PC. It won't let you stream from a 500gb Raid V Samba share, or a NAS device.
I'm just saying that from Company X's point of view a free competing product is definitely going to do some damage.
I wouldn't exactly describe them as "competing products", considering the Media center PC marketshare is miniscule, compared to the number of people with a cheap linux fileserver.
With its current restrictions, Windows Media Center edition is for suckers and old people.
Damage industry revenue? I'm sorry, did I miss the press release where Microsoft started selling XBOX Media player in a retail package?
Screw games, watching movies from a shared network resource is what it's all about.
Seriously. No one calls "patent infringment" "patent, stealing", no one calls "trademark infringement" "trademark stealing".
Copyright infringement isn't stealing either, though they can both be independently illegal. The difference here is that the copyright holder doesn't lose his rights. His exclusivity is infringed upon, but nothing is taken.
If people are going to insist on analogizing it to something else, I would suggest TRESPASSING. If I put my foot in your yard, I've trespassed. But you still have your yard; you just aren't enjoying it exclusively.
Anyone who calls copyright infringement "stealing" has an agenda, and shouldn't be trusted.
Ok, great. so he's proposing all these programs, like hte Mars mission, ubiquitous broadband-- the thing is, he doesn't actually plan on coming through on any of them. It's called "starving the beast".
In bold print on the first page of the long-term conservative playbook is a tactic called "Starving The Beast". It goes like this:
* lower taxes (especially for your friends) to the point where a fiscal train wreck finally ensues.
*declare that "raising" taxes (returning them to a prior level) would destroy the economy, and that the only solution is to gut Social Security and other unwanted New Deal programs.
"Starving the beast" is no longer a hypothetical scenario -- it's happening as we speak. For decades, conservatives have sought tax cuts, not because they're affordable, but because they aren't. Tax cuts lead to budget deficits, and deficits offer an excuse to squeeze government spending.
Second, squeezing spending doesn't mean cutting back on wasteful programs nobody wants, like missile defense.
Finally, the right-wing corruption of our government system -- the partisan takeover of institutions that are supposed to be nonpolitical -- continues, and even extends to the Federal Reserve.
But yeah, ubiquitous broadband is a great idea, if he actually meant it.
I think any Apple engineer will tell you that Steve plays a direct role in many of Apple's high-profile products.
You could say that. Here's how it works:
Designer: Hey Mr. Jobs. Look at this new product idea I came up with! It's a small, off-white digital music player. It's stylish, matches any outfit, and fits in your pocket!
Steve Jobs: Hmm.. Change the color from "off-white", to "white". Oh, and don't forget to add my name to the patent application. Ciao. I've got a 12:30 facial.
You've obviously not used Photoshop 8.0 (Creative Suite). Alpha works great. It's been out for 6 months; the fact that you've not seen it casts serious doubt on your claim of being a "porfessional" that produces live television graphics systems.
And to your comment about CMYK being only for prepress, I say this: If you plan on doing any sort of printed work (newsletter, flyers, posters, magazine graphics), GIMP is completely useless without CMYK.
Using GIMP instead of Photoshop to do print work is like being a Carpenter, and using your fist instead of a hammer. Yeah, it's "free", and you may eventually get some nails into the piece of wood, but is it really the best use of your time and energy?
Likewise, you could take RGB files to your Print Shop, and either be laughed out of the building, or have it end up looking like complete ass.
Gimp 2.0 may be a milestone, but it's by no means a complete, professional-level application by any stretch.
Still no proper CMYK support? I'll keep my Photoshop.
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So either the whole thing is a hoax, or, more likely, the OS is looking at a damaged drive (damaged partition table, at least) and seeing the same partition in multiple ways. Try to write on that shiny new partition and you'll be overwriting data on the old one. Guaranteed.
Some drives are known to short stroke their platters. This raises the more serious problem of this idiocy... The problem is modern drives store important information on those hidden inner areas of their platters (firmware, disk information, reallocated bad sectors), who knows what you could be overwriting whenever you use that space. Put something down in the wrong place and the drive will never start again or corrupt data at certain sectors. It's a lottery ticket everytime you write data in that partition. That's not what I call useable capacity.
Don't believe me? Go ahead and try it. You'll lose all those Buffy episodes you've downloaded on KaZaA, and instead you'll have to spank it to the Portman pictures your mom doesn't know you have stashed under your bed.
When is "good enough" enough? ... This introduces new bugs and abandons all the small fixes and tweaks that made the original version work so well. It also often introduces incompatibilities that break a sometimes huge existing userbase. Examples include IPv4 vs IPv6, Apache, Perl, Embperl, Netscape/Mozilla, HTML and Windows.
I don't get it. Windows 95 was a piece of crap. Are you saying they should have extended that codebase, instead of developing Windows NT onward, into WinXP? Basically, you're *complaining* that Microsoft acknowledged the crappy, unstable nature of Win95, and tried to create a better product?
What kind of fucked-up bizarro-world logic is that?
Apparently, it's not neccessary to be caught in the act.
She *was* caught in the act, by her idiot friend with the camera. How else do you think they got pictures?
If I post pictures of me killing someone, nobody would be surprised if there were legal action. How is this any different? Breaking the law is breaking the law. If you don't like it, move to Canada. Hippies.
I think this report is missing the fact that if someone really wanted to make a hoax book, they could simply translate any other book (even the bible) into a made up language.
Indeed. Lets examine the results when translating Melville's classic "Moby Dick" into ebonics:
"Call me Ishmael. Some years ago--neva' mind how long precisely-- havin' little o' no bre'd in mah' purse, and nodin' particular to interest me on sho'e, ah' dought ah' would sail about some little and see da damn boozey part uh de wo'ld. It be a way ah' have of drivin' off de spleen and regulatin' de circulashun. Wheneva' I find mah'self growin' grim about da damn moud; wheneva' it be a damp, drizzly Novemba' in mah' soul; wheneva' I find mah'self involuntarily pausin' befo'e coffin warecribs, and brin'in' down de rear uh every funeral ah' meet; and especially wheneva' my hypos dig such an downpuh' hand uh me, dat it requires some strong mo'al principle t'prevent me fum deliberately steppin' into de street, and medodically knockin' sucka's's hats off--den, ah' account it high time t'get t'sea as soon as ah' can.
'S coo', bro. Dis be my substitute fo' pistol and ball. Wid some philosophical flourish Cato drows himself downon his swo'd; I quietly snatch t'de ship. Jes hang loose, brud. Dere be nodin' surprisin' in dis. If dey but knowed it, mos' all dudes in deir degree, some time o' oder, cherish real nearly de same feelin's towards de ocean wid me. Dere now be yo' insular city uh de Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian isles by co'al reefs--commerce surrounds it wid ha' surf. Right and left, de streets snatch ya' boozeward. Its 'estreme waaay downtown is de battery, where dat noble mole be wuzhed by waves, and waaay coo'ed by breezes, which some few hours previous wuz out uh sight uh land. Look at da damn crowds uh booze-gazers dere. Circumambulate da damn city uh a dredat fine femahnaine ladee Sabbad afternoon. 'S coo', bro. Go fum Co'lears Hook t'Coenties Slip, and fum dence, by Honkyhall, no'dward.
Whut do ya' see?--Posted likes silent sentinels all around da damn town, stand dousands downon dousands uh mo'tal dudes fixed in ocean reveries. Some leanin' against da damn spiles; some seated downon de pier-haids; some lookin' upside de bulwarks glasses! Right on! uh ships fum China; some high aloft in de riggin', as if strivin' t'get some still betta' seaward peep. Jes hang loose, brud. But dese is all landsmen; uh week days pent down in lad and plaster-- tied t'counters, nailed t'benches, clinched t'desks. How den be dis? Are da damn green fields gone? Whut do dey here? But look! Right on! here mosey on down mo'e crowds, pacin' straight fo' de booze, and seemin'ly bound fo' some dive. Strange! Right on! Nodin' gots'ta content dem but da damn extremest limit uh de land; loiterin' unda' de shady lee uh yonda' warecribs gots'ta not suffice. No. 'S coo', bro. Dey gots'ta get plum as nigh de booze as dey possibly kin widout fallin' in. 'S coo', bro.
And dere dey stand--miles uh dem--leagues. Inlanders all, dey mosey on down from lanes and alleys, streets and avenues,-- no'd, east, soud, and west. Man! Yet here dey all unite. Tell me, duz de magnetic virtue uh de needles uh de compasses of all dose ships attract dem dider?"