This is an example of two great big balls of suck combining to form a critical mass of suck the likes of which have never been seen. The sheer density of suckage will actually tear a hole in the internet.
The main problem is that the sites had names like drsmithfraud.com not medicalreviews.com. If someone has a site with a name like that it is probably not a dis-interested review, it is more like publishing a hit piece on the subject.
So in other words, you are thinking about an Angie's List for Doctors.
So in this case the sales increase is not necessarily based on the quality of the offering but on the convenience.
oh, and let's not forget the number of windows servers that run only one service. How many Linux/Unix servers are running more than one service? Another reason that there are so many windows servers out there is because when more then one service is running on a windows box, there tend to be conflicts. Administrators have to seperate services to one per server in order to resolve conflits.
The RIAA is bound to hate it, and drive themelves into seizures trying to regulate/kill it.
That's nothing. (I'm not sure on the point I am about to make, but) wouldn't a Federal department (on broadcasting) have a problem with this? With a 30 mile radius, the car is basically a mobile radio station... subject to regulation.
Or religious holidays. OK, I understand this one. Or the first "beach day" of summer. This one too. Or when Lynard Skynard/Rolling Stones comes to town... or any other band for that matter. Or hang-over day after cinco de mayo. You're preaching to the choir. Or April 20th. ???? OK, you lost me here. What is so special about April 20?
Yea, the joke is dated... but it may actually apply one day...
1. Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you'd have to buy a new car.
2. Occasionally your car would just die on the motorway for no reason, and you'd have to restart it. For some strange reason, you'd just accept this, restart and drive on.
3. Occasionally, executing a manoeuvre would cause your car to stop and fail to restart and you'd have to re-install the engine. For some strange reason, you'd just accept this too.
4. You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you bought a "Car 95" or a "Car NT". But then you'd have to buy more seats.
5. Amiga would make a car that was powered by the sun, was twice as reliable, five times as fast, twice as easy to drive - but it would only run on five percent of the roads.
6. Macintosh car owners would get expensive Microsoft upgrades to their cars which would make their cars go much slower.
7. The oil, engine, gas and alternator warning lights would be replaced with a single "General Car Fault" warning light.
8. People would get excited about the "new" features in Microsoft cars, forgetting completely that they had been available in other cars for many years.
9. We'd all have to switch to Microsoft gas and all auto fluids but the packaging would be superb.
10. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.
11. The airbag system would say "Are you sure?" before going off.
12. If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what happened.
13. They wouldn't build their own engines, but form a cartel with their engine suppliers. The latest engine would have 16 cylinders, multi-point fuel injection and 4 turbos, but it would be a side-valve design so you could use Model-T Ford parts on it.
14. There would be an "Engium Pro" with bigger turbos, but it would be slower on most existing roads.
15. Microsoft cars would have a special radio/cassette player which would only be able to listen to Microsoft FM, and play Microsoft Cassettes. Unless of course, you buy the upgrade to use existing stuff.
16. Microsoft would do so well, because even though they don't own any roads, all of the road manufacturers would give away Microsoft cars free, including IBM!
17. If you still ran old versions of car (ie. CarDOS 6.22/CarWIN 3.11), then you would be called old fashioned, but you would be able to drive much faster, and on more roads!
18. If you couldn't afford to buy a new car, then you could just borrow your friends, and then copy it.
19. Whenever you bought a car, you would have to reorganise the ignition for a few days before it worked.
20. You would need to buy an upgrade to run cars on a motorway next to each other.
So Americans are allowed to torture innocent people, provided they don't do it at home.
how did this get to be Insightful? It should have been moded Flamebait!
First off, The USofA is not torturing people there. What is happening there is similar to what the French are doing with suspected terriorist:They are detained.
Secondly, these people are not innocent. They were captured fighting for a terrorist cause on a battlefield.
I wonder what would happen if, say, Japan had imprisoned a bunch of innocent US citizens at an offshore location, held them there for several years, and tortured them, without even charging them, let alone any other due process?
this has already happened... about 65 or so years ago during WW 2.
According to the article, women made up 41% of the I.T workforce in 1996. That number dropped to 35% by 2002 and that "the downward spiral is gaining momentum." While this is certainly a concern, what are the overall effects of such a mass departure?"
-Less sexual harrassment law suits?
-Increased Internet p0rn usage?
-Men caring less about how they look at work?
-Women who are happier because they do not have men drooling over them at work?
Either she is a cylon and doesn't know it or she has a serious sleepwalking problem. A problem so bad that she plants explosives in the water holds of the Galatica.
What ever happen to the real story line? Back in the old days, the Cylons were actually a product of an alien race, not a creation of the human race.
actually, if you read the book, the cylons were an alien race (not a product of).
Starbuck was a cigar smoking, hard drinkin', womanizing warrior...
Well, so far, the new Starbuck still is a cigar smoking, hard drinkin' warrior. To make the show interesting, the new Starbuck could still be a womanizer.
Boomer was an African-American guy.
So Boomer is an Asian chic now. Big Deal! I don't have a problem with that. What I do have a problem with is she is a cylon. I can deal with changing the gender and/or race. But making one of the original characters into the enemy?... that is a little hard for me to swallow.
the yo-yo... has decided to produce a whipped, whacked-off at the knees, politically correct version of the story.
Actually, I believe that they just updated it to today's world. Politically correct?... if you count changing the gender of Starbuck, they you may be right. Then again, changing the gender of Starbuck allows for more interesting plot lines (remember the womanizing comment above).
Also, how is it politically correct that someone has a drinking problem, someone has cancer and several characters have yet to let go of the death of a bother/son/friend? the yoyo may have made the characters on the show more like you and me... complete with flaws.
What microsoft has to realize is that if they didn't market 95/98 so poorly and peddle these half baked programs and simply focus on a solid core OS.... they would be better off.
I both agree and disagree. I agree that they would be better off because they would have a more secure OS. However, I disagree because if they did follow your advice, they would not be half the size they are now. One of the reasons that MS became so big (well, besides being evil) is that they made the OS easier for the user to use it. The quickest way to make it easier for the user was to "integrate" everything... regardless if integrating everything meant less security.
However, if MS followed your advice, we would have arguments over which is better... OS/2 Warp or MS Winders?
I think it was George Washington who expressed his fear that the country should be divided not only along party lines, but also along geographical lines.
I fund this paragraph most interesting:
Two-thirds of the Address is devoted to domestic matters and the rise of political parties, and Washington set out his vision of what would make the United States a truly great nation. He called for men to put aside party and unite for the common good, an "American character" wholly free of foreign attachments. The United States must concentrate only on American interests, and while the country ought to be friendly and open its commerce to all nations, it should avoid becoming involved in foreign wars. Contrary to some opinion, Washington did not call for isolation, only the avoidance of entangling alliances. While he called for maintenance of the treaty with France signed during the American Revolution, the problems created by that treaty ought to be clear. The United States must "act for ourselves and not for others."
Many people were dismayed that Bill Gates, a college dropout with little knowledge of computer science, would receive the honor of having the computer science building named after him.
In my opinion, if a college/university is going to name a building after Gates, the building should house not the CS department, but the Marketing or business department.
Think about it... it is debatable on whether Windows and Office are good or bad. Oh wait, this is Slashdot... Everyone knows that Windows and Office sucks, but yet both still dominate in the business world. Why? Because of a combination of both the business and Marketing strategies of M$. If it was not for their business/marketing strategies, then we would all be complaining about how WordPerfect and OS/2 sucks.
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This is an example of two great big balls of suck combining to form a critical mass of suck the likes of which have never been seen. The sheer density of suckage will actually tear a hole in the internet.
So, in astronomy terms, is this a black hole?
The main problem is that the sites had names like drsmithfraud.com not medicalreviews.com. If someone has a site with a name like that it is probably not a dis-interested review, it is more like publishing a hit piece on the subject.
So in other words, you are thinking about an Angie's List for Doctors.
Sounds like a good idea to me. If you have never heard of Angie's list, goto http://www.angieslist.com/
Hasn't Linux for the desktop been 5 years away for the last 10 years?
It was only 3 years away 10 years ago.
Why is this thread beginning to sound like Windows Explorer reporting on how long it will take when copying a large number of files?
> Hasn't Linux for the desktop been 5 years away for the last 10 years?
It was only 3 years away 10 years ago.
Why is this thread beginning to sound like Windows Explorer reporting on how long it will take when copying a large amount of files?
SCO = SO COMPLETELY OWNED!
Close, but not cigar. SCO really stands for:
SCO = SCO Completely Owned.
They modeled their name after GNU (which stands for GNU is Not Unix). Even in name, SCO is stealing from FOSS. Where will it end?
I presume this is marketingspeak for "prosecuting more spammers to get more money just like this."
Interesting... Sounds a lot like SCO. The only difference is that MS actually won in court first.
So in this case the sales increase is not necessarily based on the quality of the offering but on the convenience.
oh, and let's not forget the number of windows servers that run only one service. How many Linux/Unix servers are running more than one service? Another reason that there are so many windows servers out there is because when more then one service is running on a windows box, there tend to be conflicts. Administrators have to seperate services to one per server in order to resolve conflits.
The RIAA is bound to hate it, and drive themelves into seizures trying to regulate/kill it.
That's nothing. (I'm not sure on the point I am about to make, but) wouldn't a Federal department (on broadcasting) have a problem with this? With a 30 mile radius, the car is basically a mobile radio station... subject to regulation.
just my $0.02
I can set up some cameras and pay a porn star $500 and cast myself as the leading man!
Yea... but who would spend money for a 30 second movie?
Or religious holidays. OK, I understand this one.
Or the first "beach day" of summer. This one too.
Or when Lynard Skynard/Rolling Stones comes to town... or any other band for that matter.
Or hang-over day after cinco de mayo. You're preaching to the choir.
Or April 20th. ???? OK, you lost me here. What is so special about April 20?
Yea, the joke is dated... but it may actually apply one day...
1. Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you'd have to buy a new car.
2. Occasionally your car would just die on the motorway for no reason, and you'd have to restart it. For some strange reason, you'd just accept this, restart and drive on.
3. Occasionally, executing a manoeuvre would cause your car to stop and fail to restart and you'd have to re-install the engine. For some strange reason, you'd just accept this too.
4. You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you bought a "Car 95" or a "Car NT". But then you'd have to buy more seats.
5. Amiga would make a car that was powered by the sun, was twice as reliable, five times as fast, twice as easy to drive - but it would only run on five percent of the roads.
6. Macintosh car owners would get expensive Microsoft upgrades to their cars which would make their cars go much slower.
7. The oil, engine, gas and alternator warning lights would be replaced with a single "General Car Fault" warning light.
8. People would get excited about the "new" features in Microsoft cars, forgetting completely that they had been available in other cars for many years.
9. We'd all have to switch to Microsoft gas and all auto fluids but the packaging would be superb.
10. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.
11. The airbag system would say "Are you sure?" before going off.
12. If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what happened.
13. They wouldn't build their own engines, but form a cartel with their engine suppliers. The latest engine would have 16 cylinders, multi-point fuel injection and 4 turbos, but it would be a side-valve design so you could use Model-T Ford parts on it.
14. There would be an "Engium Pro" with bigger turbos, but it would be slower on most existing roads.
15. Microsoft cars would have a special radio/cassette player which would only be able to listen to Microsoft FM, and play Microsoft Cassettes. Unless of course, you buy the upgrade to use existing stuff.
16. Microsoft would do so well, because even though they don't own any roads, all of the road manufacturers would give away Microsoft cars free, including IBM!
17. If you still ran old versions of car (ie. CarDOS 6.22/CarWIN 3.11), then you would be called old fashioned, but you would be able to drive much faster, and on more roads!
18. If you couldn't afford to buy a new car, then you could just borrow your friends, and then copy it.
19. Whenever you bought a car, you would have to reorganise the ignition for a few days before it worked.
20. You would need to buy an upgrade to run cars on a motorway next to each other.
There was a time every single news item on the case used to boost the value of SCO scocks. Not anymore;
You also have to take into consideration that most of the news items are not very favorable to SCO.
Just like any company, if that company receives favorable news, their stock will go up... unfavorable news, stock goes down.
Agent Smith? Since when did Agent Smith start talking like Captain Kirk?
Hopefully your self-esteem can handle it when she asks you, "aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?"
Or it could get worse! "she" could make a comment along the lines of:
I see that your schwarz is as big as mine!
oh! wait a minute... wrong movie! Sorry about that. Nothing to see here... move along... move along.
So Americans are allowed to torture innocent people, provided they don't do it at home.
how did this get to be Insightful? It should have been moded Flamebait!
First off, The USofA is not torturing people there. What is happening there is similar to what the French are doing with suspected terriorist:They are detained.
Secondly, these people are not innocent. They were captured fighting for a terrorist cause on a battlefield.
I wonder what would happen if, say, Japan had imprisoned a bunch of innocent US citizens at an offshore location, held them there for several years, and tortured them, without even charging them, let alone any other due process?
this has already happened... about 65 or so years ago during WW 2.
According to the article, women made up 41% of the I.T workforce in 1996. That number dropped to 35% by 2002 and that "the downward spiral is gaining momentum." While this is certainly a concern, what are the overall effects of such a mass departure?"
-Less sexual harrassment law suits?
-Increased Internet p0rn usage?
-Men caring less about how they look at work?
-Women who are happier because they do not have men drooling over them at work?
Bullies always pick on the weakest
hmmm... I think someone should have explained this to SCO a few years ago.
What I do have a problem with is she is a cylon.
Ah well, but is she?
Either she is a cylon and doesn't know it or she has a serious sleepwalking problem. A problem so bad that she plants explosives in the water holds of the Galatica.
What ever happen to the real story line? Back in the old days, the Cylons were actually a product of an alien race, not a creation of the human race.
actually, if you read the book, the cylons were an alien race (not a product of).
Starbuck was a cigar smoking, hard drinkin', womanizing warrior...
Well, so far, the new Starbuck still is a cigar smoking, hard drinkin' warrior. To make the show interesting, the new Starbuck could still be a womanizer.
Boomer was an African-American guy.
So Boomer is an Asian chic now. Big Deal! I don't have a problem with that. What I do have a problem with is she is a cylon. I can deal with changing the gender and/or race. But making one of the original characters into the enemy?... that is a little hard for me to swallow.
the yo-yo... has decided to produce a whipped, whacked-off at the knees, politically correct version of the story.
Actually, I believe that they just updated it to today's world. Politically correct?... if you count changing the gender of Starbuck, they you may be right. Then again, changing the gender of Starbuck allows for more interesting plot lines (remember the womanizing comment above).
Also, how is it politically correct that someone has a drinking problem, someone has cancer and several characters have yet to let go of the death of a bother/son/friend? the yoyo may have made the characters on the show more like you and me... complete with flaws.
What microsoft has to realize is that if they didn't market 95/98 so poorly and peddle these half baked programs and simply focus on a solid core OS.... they would be better off.
I both agree and disagree. I agree that they would be better off because they would have a more secure OS. However, I disagree because if they did follow your advice, they would not be half the size they are now. One of the reasons that MS became so big (well, besides being evil) is that they made the OS easier for the user to use it. The quickest way to make it easier for the user was to "integrate" everything... regardless if integrating everything meant less security.
However, if MS followed your advice, we would have arguments over which is better... OS/2 Warp or MS Winders?
I think it was George Washington who expressed his fear that the country should be divided not only along party lines, but also along geographical lines.
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Right you are. Take a look at this link for more information:
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democra
I fund this paragraph most interesting:
Two-thirds of the Address is devoted to domestic matters and the rise of political parties, and Washington set out his vision of what would make the United States a truly great nation. He called for men to put aside party and unite for the common good, an "American character" wholly free of foreign attachments. The United States must concentrate only on American interests, and while the country ought to be friendly and open its commerce to all nations, it should avoid becoming involved in foreign wars. Contrary to some opinion, Washington did not call for isolation, only the avoidance of entangling alliances. While he called for maintenance of the treaty with France signed during the American Revolution, the problems created by that treaty ought to be clear. The United States must "act for ourselves and not for others."
If Office were on Linux I could port all my end users to Linux without issue.
/Star/Koffice/whatever just aren't good enough
OOO
OOo, in my opinion, would be good enough if it just had a grammer checker.
Many people were dismayed that Bill Gates, a college dropout with little knowledge of computer science, would receive the honor of having the computer science building named after him.
In my opinion, if a college/university is going to name a building after Gates, the building should house not the CS department, but the Marketing or business department.
Think about it... it is debatable on whether Windows and Office are good or bad. Oh wait, this is Slashdot... Everyone knows that Windows and Office sucks, but yet both still dominate in the business world. Why? Because of a combination of both the business and Marketing strategies of M$. If it was not for their business/marketing strategies, then we would all be complaining about how WordPerfect and OS/2 sucks.
...or as a webmaster/designer for a porn site.
It's not all that bad. Think of the plus side: free porn.
Women. Lots of women.
f ord_ad%5B1%5D.html
here you go: http://www.610wtvn.com/staff/johncorby/newfolder/
There may be only two women, but there is a lot to each of them.
Rule of life: NEVER wish too hard for something... you might actually receive it!