Never ending no-bid guaranteed price+profit contracts (with the price set by Halliburton at whatever they say it is) for providing food, transport, services to the Armed forces and fixing and administering the Iraqi oil wells.
Microsoft requires companies that license the protocols to be audited -- at their own expense, by a third-party auditor selected by Microsoft -- to ensure that they are only using them for appropriate purposes. This raises the possibility of the auditor learning about the company's new product and its source code, but companies say they have no information on how much the auditor could then pass on to Microsoft.
Wow! Paying someone to steal your intellectual property. Thank you Microsoft. Now I understand all that innovation.
At the urging of the Justice Department, Microsoft will now allow engineers from potential licensees to visit its headquarters to examine more technical data. But the rivals say the company is requiring the engineers to sign such strict confidentiality agreements that their ability to work on related products for their employers would be hampered.
"Basically, I'd have to shoot the engineers when they came back," said one irate company executive.
Wow! Paying Microsoft to make your employees unuseable. Thank you Microsoft. Useful employees were a burden anyway.
when I included Walken and Hopper in my list. While both can be exhibit restraint, (King of New York for Walken, Carried Away for Hopper), neither particularly wants to.
As for Oldman, he's not physically capable of not chewing scenery.
Michael Ironside is capable of a minimum of glaring and gruff commands in the same way that Gary Oldman, Christopher Walken and Dennis Hopper are capable of constrained, concise acting as needed.
"Manimal" and "Jason of Star Academy". But why stop there!
Bring back "Quark"! What's been happening to the garbage scow Quark and it's captain Adam Quark all these years? What about Betty I and Betty II, Andy the Android and The Head? The people want to know!
Here's a Java-based configurator for the Apple AirPort Base Station and Lucent RG-1000 wireless access points. It should run on any platform with a Java 1.2-compliant runtime environment installed, permitting the configuration of a base station from any host. The download for Unix/Windows consists of a zip file containing the software and HTML help file. The runnable is supplied as a "jar" file; run this in the usual way (double-clickable in Windows if using Sun's JRE 1.2 or higher runtime environment ; from command line in Unix). The download for the Macintosh expands into a folder containing a double-clickable application plus the help file; a download containing two necessary Java libraries from Sun is also available (see notes below).
I'm completely unwilling to come over to his house and configure his AirPort Extreme until he works on that attitude. Looking askance at hardware/software that just works: let him use solutions through his corporate overlord.
The scope of the complaint is exactly equal to whatever length they feel the need to go to extract the amount of money they feel they can get from Microsoft/IBM/anyone else. And since Microsoft is inclined to fund a long-term effort, tying the scope down would limit the payoff.
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the thicket of radio patents that entangled the baby radio industry, until the U.S. government voided many of them in the interest of accelerating radio technology during WWII
Wow! Now if only the U.S. government would do the same thing with computer patents, things would be grea...Oh, wait. I forgot that the U.S. government is now formally a subdivision of Microsoft/AOL/TW/Fox/MPAA/RIAA. Oh well. Nice while it lasted.
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And news reports show that media deregulation is nothing to be feared.
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whenever anyone counsels us not to panic, panic is in fact the best course of action. If you'll excuse me now, I'm going to run around the room, flailing my arms about and screaming at the top of my lungs. Well, more then I usually do.
Nothing to see here. Just move along. Ignore the smell of burning monkeys. Flood? What flood? Keep moving, you looky-loos.
admit that they have already implanted the tracking devices into our skulls, so that they already know where we are, what we're thinking and when we're spending too much time staring at the livestock, all of these "privacy" concerns would be eliminated.
I trust the functioning of independent third parties. I also believe in the functioning of independent outside board members. And I have faith in the functioning of independent tooth fairies.
I think past experience and my big pile of quarters show I'm right.
North Korea is last because we know they actually HAVE WMD and might be inclined to use them. And that's frustrating and extremely off-message. What were they thinking?
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Embarrassing current scandals, ongoing corruption, that's offtopic. I see. I see.
He's dead, Jim.
The engines can't take it.
KHANNNNNNNN!!!!!!!
What does ...God ...need with a...starship?
(And for you TNG'ers) Make it so.
Wow! Paying someone to steal your intellectual property. Thank you Microsoft. Now I understand all that innovation.
At the urging of the Justice Department, Microsoft will now allow engineers from potential licensees to visit its headquarters to examine more technical data. But the rivals say the company is requiring the engineers to sign such strict confidentiality agreements that their ability to work on related products for their employers would be hampered.
"Basically, I'd have to shoot the engineers when they came back," said one irate company executive.
Wow! Paying Microsoft to make your employees unuseable. Thank you Microsoft. Useful employees were a burden anyway.
"I'm Shocked! Shocked!"
It was 25 years ago. I'm lucky I remembered what I did.
As for Oldman, he's not physically capable of not chewing scenery.
Michael Ironside is capable of a minimum of glaring and gruff commands in the same way that Gary Oldman, Christopher Walken and Dennis Hopper are capable of constrained, concise acting as needed.
Bring back "Quark"! What's been happening to the garbage scow Quark and it's captain Adam Quark all these years? What about Betty I and Betty II, Andy the Android and The Head? The people want to know!
Does this help?
Here's a Java-based configurator for the Apple AirPort Base Station and Lucent RG-1000 wireless access points. It should run on any platform with a Java 1.2-compliant runtime environment installed, permitting the configuration of a base station from any host. The download for Unix/Windows consists of a zip file containing the software and HTML help file. The runnable is supplied as a "jar" file; run this in the usual way (double-clickable in Windows if using Sun's JRE 1.2 or higher runtime environment ; from command line in Unix). The download for the Macintosh expands into a folder containing a double-clickable application plus the help file; a download containing two necessary Java libraries from Sun is also available (see notes below).
I'm completely unwilling to come over to his house and configure his AirPort Extreme until he works on that attitude. Looking askance at hardware/software that just works: let him use solutions through his corporate overlord.
Enhanced "jail" management, allowing one server to provide many different "virtual machines" with reduced administrator workload.
I hadn't realized that "red" and "black" were so last week that they couldn't serve as product color descriptors.
Let me have a look at that tooth. Oh, you've got a cavity. Here let me ...
Aaaaaghhhhhh!!!!!!!
Now, is it safe?
The scope of the complaint is exactly equal to whatever length they feel the need to go to extract the amount of money they feel they can get from Microsoft/IBM/anyone else. And since Microsoft is inclined to fund a long-term effort, tying the scope down would limit the payoff.
Wow! Now if only the U.S. government would do the same thing with computer patents, things would be grea ...Oh, wait. I forgot that the U.S. government is now formally a subdivision of Microsoft/AOL/TW/Fox/MPAA/RIAA. Oh well. Nice while it lasted.
And news reports show that media deregulation is nothing to be feared.
Nothing to see here. Just move along. Ignore the smell of burning monkeys. Flood? What flood? Keep moving, you looky-loos.
Nuff said.
admit that they have already implanted the tracking devices into our skulls, so that they already know where we are, what we're thinking and when we're spending too much time staring at the livestock, all of these "privacy" concerns would be eliminated.
just before killing you.
I think past experience and my big pile of quarters show I'm right.
Reset and try again please.
North Korea is last because we know they actually HAVE WMD and might be inclined to use them. And that's frustrating and extremely off-message. What were they thinking?