That part at the end about everyone else hearing the voices telling them to post crap was your clue that the A.C. in question was being sarcastic and should be moderated up as funny.
IDE hard drive space is getting cheaper all the time (i.e. you get more Mb for the same 100+ dollars), and I suspect reliability is at least as good as,if not much better than, tape drives. (which would you want to let a kid with a fridge magnet get near, a tape cartridge or a sealed in metal hard drive?) Also, if your main hard drive crashes, your backup is on something that (if you set it up right)is bootable and can substitute for it.
When I moderated (positively) someone else's comment this one somehow got moderated negatively without any assistance from me, so I'm commenting to cause it to be undone. Somebody else will have to up-moderate that other post.
disclaimer: I hate malls. I find "the mall experience" exasperating. If they were turned inside out so that you could park in front of the store you wanted to go to and walk straight into that store's front door I'd be a lot happier about having to shop there.
The mall in St Louis (and all the other ones, AFAIK)gets, in addition to the monthly rent, a percentage of each store's gross income. That's *gross* sales, right off the top before the store covers *any* of their costs (inventory, payroll, utilities, taxes, anything), and whether the store itself turns a profit or not. If someone buys on-line from, just to use them as a handy example, J.C. Penny's, then Penny's gets the money but the mall doesn't get a piece of it even though the purchaser went to the Penny's in the mall in question to examine the merchandise before buying. Find a way for the malls to get the same cut from on-line sales as they do from in-store sales and they'll *force* tenants to bombard shoppers with URLs.
"A full version of MS-DOS 6.22 ran $30 in its time." You may have purchased it at that price, but I suspect that the official or "list" price was considerably higher.
The biggest joke is the suggestion that RMS can sing. There's another Microsoft and the Catholic church merger story floating around somewhere that isn't the one here because it's got a line about the churches centuries of experience with icons.
Years ago, Ziff-Davis published some good magazines, especially the original Popular Electronics (including Electronics World). Then they brought in new people, changed it to Computers & Electronics (basically telling readers interested in Ham radio, CB, Hi-Fi, Video, and several other subsets of electronics to go bleep themselves). It had just enough electronics to scare away the people that bought other computer mags and not nearly enough electronics for the previous readership (who might well have gone for an additional subscription to a separate electronics intensive computer magazine). A magazine that had been around for well over 20 years died in less than 2.
"Not that I have ever done anything like this ever." Obviously. The less than perfect situation (within stumbling reach of drunks with requests) is the rule, not the exception.
If goto.com hadn't sued Disney then eventually Disney would have sued them and their (goto.com's) failure to protect their trademark, copyright, whatever would have left them on the losing side of the Disney-initiated suit. Disney came up with the logo that goto.com should have perhaps, but that's a separate issue that has no real bearing on the suit as Disney didn't do it first.
The only way to get power chords all over the place is with an electric guitar, connected to an amplifier, which is connected to a wall socket with a power cord. But seriously, with regard to electricity and related stuff, the education of many of the posters here has been sorely neglected.
Judging by some of the posts here, there are some pretty strong feelings about the WTO gonna be unleashed in an atmosphere of "a whole bunch of big corporations have several billion dollars sunk into this thing already". Perhaps this explains why a Seattle cop freaked out over some skiers bad-mouthing each other in Usenet.
As I recall there wasn't exactly a consensus (as if there ever is around here)but many were skeptical, to put it charitably, and many other postings were along the lines of "fly-by-night", "bandwagon jumpers", "get rich quick schemes", and such, and few, if any, expressed any belief that one should risk one's money with them.
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Nowhere in article does it give the name of the judge or whether said judge is state or federal (county district court could mean anything). There should be a statement right up front that "Two Bhudda" and "Scott Abraham" are the same person and that he is "Assistant WebMaster" for the people publishing the page. Further, the article offers no explanation as to why someone accused of using a skiing forum for death threats and threats of physical violence is banned from posting to that forum anything about skiing, or what any of this has to do with a World Trade Congress summit.(is there such an organization?) After reading the article I feel as though I now know less about topic under discussion than I did before.
As I said in a post to the "What's an OS" story "I'm beginning to think Rob has 2 moderator teams, one composed of normal (for around here, that is)people and one composed of the truly troubled, and that he alternates between them. That would help to explain why moderation seems to come in alternating waves of reasonable and baffling. Of course since I was moderator a few days ago and the baffling brigade seems to be in place today some may question the objectivity of my theory. And since "those other guys" are the ones currently empowered, this post will probably be moderated down 'til I'm in negative karma land."
I'm beginning to think Rob has 2 moderator teams, one composed of normal (for around here, that is)people and one composed of the truly troubled, and that he alternates between them. That would help to explain why moderation seems to come in alternating waves of reasonable and baffling. Of course since I was moderator a few days ago and the baffling brigade seems to be in place today some may question the objectivity of my theory. And since "those other guys" are the ones currently empowered, this post will probably be moderated down 'til I'm in negative karma land.
When they bought DOS it already used frontslashes for switches, but they don't have that excuse with close boxes. I read somewhere that they did a survey while designing 95 and half of the subjects didn't want tochange and the other half didn't care. Now I know why they changed it anyway, but that still doesn't explain why they made it so easy to accidently close the window you're trying to maximize (unless they secretly despise their customers, now *that* would explain a lot!)
"Texas Instruments has dominated the market for digital signal processor chips for years. It looks like this is about to change big-time." Thought this would get a bunch of people grabbing up Intel shares first thing Friday morning but instead the price took a beating.
"Can you even imagine what the CPU world would be like with no AMD? We'd all be screwed." Nonsense. Microsoft would have had plenty of time to develop a lean, efficient follow-up to Windows 3.1 designed to take advantage of the soon to be released follow-up to the 486 (rumours of any need to call it something besides the 586 are just silly)which I hear will sell for less than $1,000 and that guy in Finland with the funny name (Snoopy or something like that)is really wringing every last drop of performance out of those 386's.
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The mall in St Louis (and all the other ones, AFAIK)gets, in addition to the monthly rent, a percentage of each store's gross income. That's *gross* sales, right off the top before the store covers *any* of their costs (inventory, payroll, utilities, taxes, anything), and whether the store itself turns a profit or not. If someone buys on-line from, just to use them as a handy example, J.C. Penny's, then Penny's gets the money but the mall doesn't get a piece of it even though the purchaser went to the Penny's in the mall in question to examine the merchandise before buying.
Find a way for the malls to get the same cut from on-line sales as they do from in-store sales and they'll *force* tenants to bombard shoppers with URLs.
"By accessing this page you have agreed to an enlistment in the United States Marine Corp."
More Kubrick coming true.
There's another Microsoft and the Catholic church merger story floating around somewhere that isn't the one here because it's got a line about the churches centuries of experience with icons.
Obviously. The less than perfect situation (within stumbling reach of drunks with requests) is the rule, not the exception.
Disney came up with the logo that goto.com should have perhaps, but that's a separate issue that has no real bearing on the suit as Disney didn't do it first.
But seriously, with regard to electricity and related stuff, the education of many of the posters here has been sorely neglected.
After reading the article I feel as though I now know less about topic under discussion than I did before.
As I said in a post to the "What's an OS" story
"I'm beginning to think Rob has 2 moderator teams, one composed of normal (for around here, that is)people and one composed of the truly troubled, and that he alternates between them. That would help to explain why moderation seems to come in alternating waves of reasonable and baffling. Of course since I was moderator a few days ago and the baffling brigade seems to be in place today some may question the objectivity of my theory. And since "those other guys" are the ones currently empowered, this post will probably be moderated down 'til I'm in negative karma land."
"Texas Instruments has dominated the market for digital signal processor chips for years. It looks like this is about to change big-time."
Thought this would get a bunch of people grabbing up Intel shares first thing Friday morning but instead the price took a beating.
Nonsense. Microsoft would have had plenty of time to develop a lean, efficient follow-up to Windows 3.1 designed to take advantage of the soon to be released follow-up to the 486 (rumours of any need to call it something besides the 586 are just silly)which I hear will sell for less than $1,000 and that guy in Finland with the funny name (Snoopy or something like that)is really wringing every last drop of performance out of those 386's.
WindozSux!
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