(this is one instance where "Overrated" should actually be used)
This raises an interesting question: How does one meta-mod such a mod? Don't you have to know what the score was at the time the moderation was performed in order to moderate it? If I see a post moderated as "overrated", whether or not I consider that fair depends a WHOLE LOT on whether this mod was done when the score was +2 or when it was +5.
For example, maybe Maggie is just being silent to be silent, or maybe that silence could be interpreted as a social protest. Sartre would certainly think so, anyway.
You gonna pass that around or are you just gonna sit there and smoke the whole thing yourself?
Also, we figure this room will get warm, even in winter. How may we cool it while still keeping the rest of the house toasty warm on a cold Canadian night
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Yeah and if the network goes down at an inopportune moment, you'll be saying things to her like, "Your breasts are like pillows. Can I fluff your pillows?"
The article cites the example of a store having a sale, and then leaving a message right outside the door. I personally don't need to be hounded by advertisements anymore than I already am, and it's not like I can't read window signs either
Well, if they used slashcode to paint the comments, you could mod such comments down as redundant.
Sure, MS can be sued for negligence, just like they can be sued for antitrust violations. You may even win, if you can prove that you suffered actual harm from this. And then the judge will ask Microsoft what they think they should have to do to compensate you, and Microsoft will say that they should give you a sticker that you can stick on your monitor that says "Don't open files from their current location. Always save to disk!". So in the end, Microsoft will stick it to you.
Thats like buying a TV (just a normal TV) and having the salesmen tell me I am required to purchase a cable hookup on the spot. I have no choice, other then not buying the TV.
No, it's not like that. Rather, Dell sells a product in a standard configuration that they are willing to support because they have tested it in this configuration and are equipped with trained personnel to support this configuration. What you want is akin to walking into a Ford dealership and telling them you want a Camaro with the normal chassis and transmission and leather interior, but without the engine because you have a Toyota Supra engine at home that you intend to transplant into the Camaro, and insisting that they deduct the engine cost from the cost of the car.
as a studying mathematician, i do believe that we can proove and disprove things absolutely
As a studying mathematician, you should be familiar with Godel's Incompleteness Theorm, and realize that there are true statements within any consistent axiomatic system that can never be proven.
What's NTFS, but a second-class file system?
What's NTFS got to do with it.. got to do with it?
Who needs MS when MS can be broken?
(With apologies to Tina Turner.)
A solution to a strange problem:
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Let's see... I enjoy the exposure to the elements and the consumption-of-time that I get from walking, but my ass just isn't fat enough. How can I rid myself of all that unnecessary muscle-toning exercise? I know! I'll buy a Segway!
The two major actors -- Gene Hackman and Owen Wilson -- are terrific, balancing and complimenting one another.
Wilson: Gene, your rendition of a strong self-confident military commander was so... so "Patton-esque". You were absolutely brilliant.
Hackman: Why, thank you! But, Owen my boy, your portrayal of a solder with keen survival instincts reveals the Rambo hidden in every man. Inspiring, to say the least.
Maybe someone can beam the power into the machine with lasers or something, but I wouldn't want to have to reboot every time a cat runs under the desk!
Every time? I suspect each cat would only be able to do this once. How many cats do you have?
When someone tells me exactly what it is that *I* did that is wrong, then I'll accept some of the blame for myself. We already know what the criminal did wrong. If you're going to blame society, you're going to have to justify that somehow. I don't simply accept it as axiomatic that whenever a criminal commits a crime, anyone else ought to take any blame.
I still find it just as funny. I said at the beginning that I edited out some superfluous boilerplate. The mentioning of additional places to find phone numbers, such as a web site, falls into that category. It was funny because they yet again referred me to the "User's Guide", not because they didn't refer me to any place else. So I don't think any reasonable person would accuse me of quoting out of context.
BTW, how do you know about the unedited version of that email message? Is it just that you are so familiar with HP emamil support?
BTW, I love my DJ960 printer, despite the fact that I had to return the first one because it was defective and I had to return the defective power cable in the second one. Once you get one that works, they really produce superb output.
I guess that THIS IS NOT AS FUNNY as U think it might be since your 960 printer does not have a user's guide. It is clearly mentioned in the Quick Reference Guide that the user's guide is only available for the HP 990C series of printers.
Actually, it still is as funny as I think. First, that fact about the User's Guide should have been mentioned at the first place it was referred to. Second, the point has nothing to do with the correctness of the Quick Reference Guide. It was all about how the support person kept saying the same thing over and over without attempting to understand the nature of the problem.
I GUESS THAT YOU OUGHT TO BE SHAMEFUL 4 POSTING A MESSAGE ON A SITE AND BAD-MOUTHING HEWLETT-PACKARD
Maybe I should, but I'm not. How did I bad-mouth them? I didn't call them stupid. I didn't call them incompetant. All I did was quote an email conversation and indicate that I found it funny. And by the looks of the moderation score, it seems that others have agreed.
Ok, so you didn't find it funny. But I have to wonder why it is that you seem to be taking it so personally. (Is that you, Alex?)
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(this is one instance where "Overrated" should actually be used)
This raises an interesting question: How does one meta-mod such a mod? Don't you have to know what the score was at the time the moderation was performed in order to moderate it? If I see a post moderated as "overrated", whether or not I consider that fair depends a WHOLE LOT on whether this mod was done when the score was +2 or when it was +5.
Yeah, yeah, I know. But I couldn't resist.
I think not.
Therefore, you ARE not. Goodbye.
R. Decartes
For example, maybe Maggie is just being silent to be silent, or maybe that silence could be interpreted as a social protest. Sartre would certainly think so, anyway.
You gonna pass that around or are you just gonna sit there and smoke the whole thing yourself?
Also, we figure this room will get warm, even in winter. How may we cool it while still keeping the rest of the house toasty warm on a cold Canadian night
Just keep the server room door open.
Search a database for the best pick up line. Get constant advice through IRC on what to say and what to do.
Yeah and if the network goes down at an inopportune moment, you'll be saying things to her like, "Your breasts are like pillows. Can I fluff your pillows?"
The article cites the example of a store having a sale, and then leaving a message right outside the door. I personally don't need to be hounded by advertisements anymore than I already am, and it's not like I can't read window signs either
Well, if they used slashcode to paint the comments, you could mod such comments down as redundant.
Sure, MS can be sued for negligence, just like they can be sued for antitrust violations. You may even win, if you can prove that you suffered actual harm from this. And then the judge will ask Microsoft what they think they should have to do to compensate you, and Microsoft will say that they should give you a sticker that you can stick on your monitor that says "Don't open files from their current location. Always save to disk!". So in the end, Microsoft will stick it to you.
Thats like buying a TV (just a normal TV) and having the salesmen tell me I am required to purchase a cable hookup on the spot. I have no choice, other then not buying the TV.
No, it's not like that. Rather, Dell sells a product in a standard configuration that they are willing to support because they have tested it in this configuration and are equipped with trained personnel to support this configuration. What you want is akin to walking into a Ford dealership and telling them you want a Camaro with the normal chassis and transmission and leather interior, but without the engine because you have a Toyota Supra engine at home that you intend to transplant into the Camaro, and insisting that they deduct the engine cost from the cost of the car.
as a studying mathematician, i do believe that we can proove and disprove things absolutely
As a studying mathematician, you should be familiar with Godel's Incompleteness Theorm, and realize that there are true statements within any consistent axiomatic system that can never be proven.
What's NTFS, but a second-class file system?
What's NTFS got to do with it.. got to do with it?
Who needs MS when MS can be broken?
(With apologies to Tina Turner.)
Let's see... I enjoy the exposure to the elements and the consumption-of-time that I get from walking, but my ass just isn't fat enough. How can I rid myself of all that unnecessary muscle-toning exercise? I know! I'll buy a Segway!
The two major actors -- Gene Hackman and Owen Wilson -- are terrific, balancing and complimenting one another.
Wilson: Gene, your rendition of a strong self-confident military commander was so... so "Patton-esque". You were absolutely brilliant.
Hackman: Why, thank you! But, Owen my boy, your portrayal of a solder with keen survival instincts reveals the Rambo hidden in every man. Inspiring, to say the least.
Wilson: You are too kind, dear sir.
Maybe someone can beam the power into the machine with lasers or something, but I wouldn't want to have to reboot every time a cat runs under the desk!
Every time? I suspect each cat would only be able to do this once. How many cats do you have?
Perhaps. But he forgot to say to UPS, "then I'll take my business elsewhere, thank you".
>A better bet next time would be to write "Indestructable" or some such.
That's just asking for trouble. Calling your shipment indestructable is like calling your ship unsinkable.
Because it's funny, and it might just piss the author off even more!
XP? When you say "XP", what are you referring to? Word XP? Excel XP? Office XP
I think he means the "Athlon XP". Road-Runner only supports Intel chips from now on.
:)
Whoops! Thanks :).
Close, but you are still doing digital computing! Just because it's not binary doesn't mean it isn't digital.
Did anyone say it wasn't digital? Or did you confuse "variants of digital computing" with "alternatives to digital computing"?
Do you really think MS cares about slurring morons and dunces?
Ah! Thanks! Those were the words I was looking for.
but they took a literal beating about it for a few weeks way back
Really? a literal beating? I would have loved to have seen that. On Pay-Per-View, even.
When someone tells me exactly what it is that *I* did that is wrong, then I'll accept some of the blame for myself. We already know what the criminal did wrong. If you're going to blame society, you're going to have to justify that somehow. I don't simply accept it as axiomatic that whenever a criminal commits a crime, anyone else ought to take any blame.
I still find it just as funny. I said at the beginning that I edited out some superfluous boilerplate. The mentioning of additional places to find phone numbers, such as a web site, falls into that category. It was funny because they yet again referred me to the "User's Guide", not because they didn't refer me to any place else. So I don't think any reasonable person would accuse me of quoting out of context.
BTW, how do you know about the unedited version of that email message? Is it just that you are so familiar with HP emamil support?
BTW, I love my DJ960 printer, despite the fact that I had to return the first one because it was defective and I had to return the defective power cable in the second one. Once you get one that works, they really produce superb output.
I guess that THIS IS NOT AS FUNNY as U think it might be since your 960 printer does not have a user's guide. It is clearly mentioned in the Quick Reference Guide that the user's guide is only available for the HP 990C series of printers.
Actually, it still is as funny as I think. First, that fact about the User's Guide should have been mentioned at the first place it was referred to. Second, the point has nothing to do with the correctness of the Quick Reference Guide. It was all about how the support person kept saying the same thing over and over without attempting to understand the nature of the problem.
I GUESS THAT YOU OUGHT TO BE SHAMEFUL 4 POSTING A MESSAGE ON A SITE AND BAD-MOUTHING HEWLETT-PACKARD
Maybe I should, but I'm not. How did I bad-mouth them? I didn't call them stupid. I didn't call them incompetant. All I did was quote an email conversation and indicate that I found it funny. And by the looks of the moderation score, it seems that others have agreed.
Ok, so you didn't find it funny. But I have to wonder why it is that you seem to be taking it so personally. (Is that you, Alex?)