I find it highly suspicious that Incredifind and Lycos Sidesearch were left out.
I mean, c'mon, search "helpers" that install themselves automatically and lead me to fascinating products I never knew I needed deserve some mention, right???
Because I'm monitoring the poor quality of your equipment and the equipment you let Dell rebadge with their name.
And whenever my clients need a new printer, I make sure not to recommend you, and recommend Brother or HP instead.
About the way the person using the ipod worked that jog shuttle - I didn't know Lucas' final chapter in the trilogy could elicit such erotic feelings...
Not necessarily to get the fastest/latest, but to get a platform that's ready for the most current, and upcoming connectivity standards.
Example: When I ditched my old AT-style PC for a PII 350 with an ATX board and power supply, more PCI slots, USB, etc...
Freeze the scene in which Cpl. Hicks sets up one of the Sentry guns with an amber-screened laptop, and you'll get an idea of James Cameron's fanatical attention to (convincing) detail - the sentry guns have all sort of settings for "Interrogation modes" "IFF (identify friend or foe)", and an expected target profile, "Soft, Hard, semi-hard."
Very cool stuff, but the theatrical cut didn't suffer too badly without that and other scenes.
Two of my favorite films, Die Hard and Aliens were long (2.25 hrs apiece), but felt much shorter because of excellent writing, directing and a smoothly flowing storyline.
Out to about ten yards or so, the pattern of the shot is tight, and made deliberately so.
Taking down a group of people at a time with one blast - save that crap for John Woo films.
Sorry, not game humor, but I have to say it....
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In the film Maria Full of Grace, Maria's walking in front of a sign that says, "It's what's inside that counts."
Dialup is horribly slow, the cable and telcos are rolling out broadband aggressively, and AOL doesn't offer anything sufficiently compelling to make people stay with the service.
Their implementation of DSL is especially bad.
www.default-homepage-network.com will cause unprotected machines to immediately receive two or three adware/spyware installations.
No agreement was presented to me at all.
"A gun was purposely made visible to scare poll watchers..."
It's called Open Carry, and it's legal in PA, VA and VT, and many other states.
It does scare some folks, but it isn't meant that way - usually.
Whoever wins, we lose.
Both parties are taxers and spenders (at all levels, not just Executive - since Bush's tax cuts, my LOCAL taxes have risen to make up for lost federal subsidies).
Both parties pretend to be pro Second Amendment,
but will trade our gun rights away at the first cynical opportunity.
Both parties will gladly trade our freedom for security - witness the huge bipartisan support for the Patriot Act.
As usual, I'm voting for Libertarians and marijuana reformers.
Instead of expending time, effort and energy on this game, why not work overtime, scrimp and save, and make smart investments, and with the proceeds hop onboard a real spaceflight - it looks likely they'll be available for $250,000 or so by 2010 or sooner.
Don't laugh - it's amazing what people "expend" on unproductive leisure activities, cigarettes, alchohol, and huge CD/DVD collections.
I never liked how "the company" was treated in Alien 3 and Resurrection.
I thought it was a real innovation that it was a shadowy character itself, moving levers behind the scenes. The closest progenitor I can think of would be the mysterious organization in the Parallax View.
There was never a need to have its name on the walls in Alien 3, and dispensed with via the ridiculous line in Resurrection, "Walmart bought them out."
It's possible all manufacturers will sell directly to consumers one day.
I hope it happens gradually, because a lot of suddenly unemployed people in the middle and end of the supply chain would make for a huge economic disruption.
I did some spyware experiments of my own one day, to "ferret out" where some of this stuff came from.
I did a clean install of XP on a machine, and carefully documented what I did, and the resulting changes in cookies, commit charge, etc.
The results were interesting - I visited a lot of adult porn sites - literally just combining verbs and adjectives, and got very little in the way of spyware.
I went to a particularly vicious site - default-homepage-network.com, and instantly got hit with a bunch of popups and three items immediately went into add/remove programs.
Then I installed the "standard" kazaa - installing spyware programs was part of the initial installation!!!
Commit charge went from about 100 megs right after a bootup, to 212 after installing Kazaa.
Then, I wiped the machine out and installed XP and then SP2.
The first things I tried - porn sites and default-homepage-network, didn't do anything - only Kazaa resulted in spyware, because installing it yourself is part of the package.
When I clean out clients' PCs, I do the following:
1. Safe mode, command prompt - delete everything I recognize as a spyware.dll or.exe, and I rename anything I believe may be a system file.
2. Normal mode, uninstall any program with "rebates" "shopping" "bargain" etc...
3. Install and run Adaware, Spybot, Hijack This, CW Shredder, and Spyware Blaster.
4. Install SP2 if it's a recent machine - SP2 tends to crush PCs that have been running for a while.
5. Scold them for downloading music, and remind them that not only will they have to pay me if their internet habits cause reinfection, but the greedy RIAA bastards may even come knocking one day.
I agree that most 2004 and up versions of Symantec and McAfee include anti-spyware protection, as well.
Not too impressed with Webroot Spysweeper - it's a rather ponderous product.
Firefox is a damn good idea, too.
And of course, stay away from "Spyware Stormer"
With the surplus decommissioned missile silo I picked up for a pittance.
Next step: declaring my fully armed and operational missile silo sovereign territory. Surviving relatives of Randy Weaver, Ted Kaczinsky and David Koresh are welcome to stay with me.
>Yep that's working: so far two countried fucked up >and Iran's next
Oh, you mean the Afghanistan that was "fucked up" first by the Soviets and the Taliban? By "fucked up" do you mean removing the brutal oppression of women and everyone living in Afghanistan, and removing a safe haven for Al Queda?
Iraq wasn't necessary, but Iran definitely is about to join the nuclear club, and definitely DOES sponsor terrorism.
At my last company, I used to get in very early, before most everyone else got in.
I checked my Outlook inbox, and saw an announcement from our HR VP, with the name of an employee as the subject heading.
I was stunned by the contents: The person named in the email had "died suddenly" the night before. I had just reimaged a demo laptop for him a few days ago, working with him in my office GHOSTING a new image to it via the network.
Still in shock, I went up to his office - his laptop was still there, and on. IIRC, the office lights were on, too.
I came within a hair's breadth of going onto that laptop and composing an "out of office" message, something like, "Hi this is *** *** I am currently deceased and unable to answer emails - permanently. If you require assistance, please resend your note to my manager, ****."
Dark humor for a dark moment, but good sense prevailed, and I simply went back to my desk to continue with my work and with my life.
OK, stop blaming/crediting presidents for jobs...
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Presidents don't create jobs, unless it's a massive make-work program like the Civil Conservation Corps in the 1930s.
The real responsbility lies with the hundreds of CEOs who decide to lay off or add more workers. Period.
And it's been far more of the former, than the latter - and that's been the case for about the last 30 years or so.
Shedding workers is really a redistribution of wealth - from rank and file workers at the bottom, to the executive leadership at the top and the shareholders.
But this is something that a sitting US President has little control over - each of these business leaders indivudually decides, "I want fewer workers and therefore more money for myself" which adds up to a grisly collective result.
Since the early 90s I've read Business Week, Forbes and the Economist on a fairly regular basis, and I never once recalled reading about a specific economic policy of Clinton's that lead to the spectacular economic growth of that decade.
In fact, his tax increases shortly after he took office probably had the effect of dampening growth.
He was the lucky beneficiary of Greenspan's aggressive rate-lowering from 1990-1992, and a wave of IT investment and payoff.
Am I writing this to defend Bush? Perhaps a bit. But I sincerely believe that it's easier for people to blame a President than an amorphous mass of private sector executives for their economic woes.
Trust me, don't get caught up in the creativity of what is a very serious task - keeping bad guys away from your home.
Good lighting, unobstructed fields of view, an alarm system, and excellent locks are a good start.
An awareness mindset it important, too.
Last but not least, consider exercising your second amendment rights.
Move to a state like Vermont that not only has low crime, but has very reasonable gun control - ie essentially none. Buy a handgun, carry openly or concealed, and leave it in a gunsafe near the bed.
This is asymmetric warfare - don't try to repel criminal invaders with a "fake holographic Yeti" they'll just simply laugh, take your possessions (and possibly your life) and then leave.
Wrong lesson taught by this device...
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It's amazing - the better you are to a woman, often the worse they are to you.
Guys - don't fall into the trap of thinking that showering flowers, affection, etc will win the heart of a woman who's not interested, or only marginally interested.
Gifts and the like are really tokens of an existing, strong relationship.
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I find it highly suspicious that Incredifind and Lycos Sidesearch were left out. I mean, c'mon, search "helpers" that install themselves automatically and lead me to fascinating products I never knew I needed deserve some mention, right???
Because I'm monitoring the poor quality of your equipment and the equipment you let Dell rebadge with their name. And whenever my clients need a new printer, I make sure not to recommend you, and recommend Brother or HP instead.
About the way the person using the ipod worked that jog shuttle - I didn't know Lucas' final chapter in the trilogy could elicit such erotic feelings...
Not necessarily to get the fastest/latest, but to get a platform that's ready for the most current, and upcoming connectivity standards. Example: When I ditched my old AT-style PC for a PII 350 with an ATX board and power supply, more PCI slots, USB, etc...
Freeze the scene in which Cpl. Hicks sets up one of the Sentry guns with an amber-screened laptop, and you'll get an idea of James Cameron's fanatical attention to (convincing) detail - the sentry guns have all sort of settings for "Interrogation modes" "IFF (identify friend or foe)", and an expected target profile, "Soft, Hard, semi-hard." Very cool stuff, but the theatrical cut didn't suffer too badly without that and other scenes. Two of my favorite films, Die Hard and Aliens were long (2.25 hrs apiece), but felt much shorter because of excellent writing, directing and a smoothly flowing storyline.
Millions of people could have voted Libertarian, but didn't.
Out to about ten yards or so, the pattern of the shot is tight, and made deliberately so. Taking down a group of people at a time with one blast - save that crap for John Woo films.
In the film Maria Full of Grace, Maria's walking in front of a sign that says, "It's what's inside that counts."
Dialup is horribly slow, the cable and telcos are rolling out broadband aggressively, and AOL doesn't offer anything sufficiently compelling to make people stay with the service. Their implementation of DSL is especially bad.
www.default-homepage-network.com will cause unprotected machines to immediately receive two or three adware/spyware installations. No agreement was presented to me at all.
"A gun was purposely made visible to scare poll watchers..."
It's called Open Carry, and it's legal in PA, VA and VT, and many other states.
It does scare some folks, but it isn't meant that way - usually.
Whoever wins, we lose. Both parties are taxers and spenders (at all levels, not just Executive - since Bush's tax cuts, my LOCAL taxes have risen to make up for lost federal subsidies). Both parties pretend to be pro Second Amendment, but will trade our gun rights away at the first cynical opportunity. Both parties will gladly trade our freedom for security - witness the huge bipartisan support for the Patriot Act. As usual, I'm voting for Libertarians and marijuana reformers.
Instead of expending time, effort and energy on this game, why not work overtime, scrimp and save, and make smart investments, and with the proceeds hop onboard a real spaceflight - it looks likely they'll be available for $250,000 or so by 2010 or sooner.
Don't laugh - it's amazing what people "expend" on unproductive leisure activities, cigarettes, alchohol, and huge CD/DVD collections.
"Ummmm... these hypo-allergenic cats are yummy, and certainly worth the $3500 price tag."
I never liked how "the company" was treated in Alien 3 and Resurrection.
I thought it was a real innovation that it was a shadowy character itself, moving levers behind the scenes. The closest progenitor I can think of would be the mysterious organization in the Parallax View.
There was never a need to have its name on the walls in Alien 3, and dispensed with via the ridiculous line in Resurrection, "Walmart bought them out."
It's possible all manufacturers will sell directly to consumers one day. I hope it happens gradually, because a lot of suddenly unemployed people in the middle and end of the supply chain would make for a huge economic disruption.
Every sip is a waste of energy?
I did some spyware experiments of my own one day, to "ferret out" where some of this stuff came from. I did a clean install of XP on a machine, and carefully documented what I did, and the resulting changes in cookies, commit charge, etc. The results were interesting - I visited a lot of adult porn sites - literally just combining verbs and adjectives, and got very little in the way of spyware. I went to a particularly vicious site - default-homepage-network.com, and instantly got hit with a bunch of popups and three items immediately went into add/remove programs. Then I installed the "standard" kazaa - installing spyware programs was part of the initial installation!!! Commit charge went from about 100 megs right after a bootup, to 212 after installing Kazaa. Then, I wiped the machine out and installed XP and then SP2. The first things I tried - porn sites and default-homepage-network, didn't do anything - only Kazaa resulted in spyware, because installing it yourself is part of the package. When I clean out clients' PCs, I do the following: 1. Safe mode, command prompt - delete everything I recognize as a spyware .dll or .exe, and I rename anything I believe may be a system file.
2. Normal mode, uninstall any program with "rebates" "shopping" "bargain" etc...
3. Install and run Adaware, Spybot, Hijack This, CW Shredder, and Spyware Blaster.
4. Install SP2 if it's a recent machine - SP2 tends to crush PCs that have been running for a while.
5. Scold them for downloading music, and remind them that not only will they have to pay me if their internet habits cause reinfection, but the greedy RIAA bastards may even come knocking one day.
I agree that most 2004 and up versions of Symantec and McAfee include anti-spyware protection, as well.
Not too impressed with Webroot Spysweeper - it's a rather ponderous product.
Firefox is a damn good idea, too.
And of course, stay away from "Spyware Stormer"
With the surplus decommissioned missile silo I picked up for a pittance. Next step: declaring my fully armed and operational missile silo sovereign territory. Surviving relatives of Randy Weaver, Ted Kaczinsky and David Koresh are welcome to stay with me.
>Yep that's working: so far two countried fucked up >and Iran's next
Oh, you mean the Afghanistan that was "fucked up" first by the Soviets and the Taliban? By "fucked up" do you mean removing the brutal oppression of women and everyone living in Afghanistan, and removing a safe haven for Al Queda?
Iraq wasn't necessary, but Iran definitely is about to join the nuclear club, and definitely DOES sponsor terrorism.
At my last company, I used to get in very early, before most everyone else got in. I checked my Outlook inbox, and saw an announcement from our HR VP, with the name of an employee as the subject heading. I was stunned by the contents: The person named in the email had "died suddenly" the night before. I had just reimaged a demo laptop for him a few days ago, working with him in my office GHOSTING a new image to it via the network. Still in shock, I went up to his office - his laptop was still there, and on. IIRC, the office lights were on, too. I came within a hair's breadth of going onto that laptop and composing an "out of office" message, something like, "Hi this is *** *** I am currently deceased and unable to answer emails - permanently. If you require assistance, please resend your note to my manager, ****." Dark humor for a dark moment, but good sense prevailed, and I simply went back to my desk to continue with my work and with my life.
Presidents don't create jobs, unless it's a massive make-work program like the Civil Conservation Corps in the 1930s. The real responsbility lies with the hundreds of CEOs who decide to lay off or add more workers. Period. And it's been far more of the former, than the latter - and that's been the case for about the last 30 years or so. Shedding workers is really a redistribution of wealth - from rank and file workers at the bottom, to the executive leadership at the top and the shareholders. But this is something that a sitting US President has little control over - each of these business leaders indivudually decides, "I want fewer workers and therefore more money for myself" which adds up to a grisly collective result. Since the early 90s I've read Business Week, Forbes and the Economist on a fairly regular basis, and I never once recalled reading about a specific economic policy of Clinton's that lead to the spectacular economic growth of that decade. In fact, his tax increases shortly after he took office probably had the effect of dampening growth. He was the lucky beneficiary of Greenspan's aggressive rate-lowering from 1990-1992, and a wave of IT investment and payoff. Am I writing this to defend Bush? Perhaps a bit. But I sincerely believe that it's easier for people to blame a President than an amorphous mass of private sector executives for their economic woes.
Trust me, don't get caught up in the creativity of what is a very serious task - keeping bad guys away from your home. Good lighting, unobstructed fields of view, an alarm system, and excellent locks are a good start. An awareness mindset it important, too. Last but not least, consider exercising your second amendment rights. Move to a state like Vermont that not only has low crime, but has very reasonable gun control - ie essentially none. Buy a handgun, carry openly or concealed, and leave it in a gunsafe near the bed. This is asymmetric warfare - don't try to repel criminal invaders with a "fake holographic Yeti" they'll just simply laugh, take your possessions (and possibly your life) and then leave.
"Queen takes Bishop"
It's amazing - the better you are to a woman, often the worse they are to you. Guys - don't fall into the trap of thinking that showering flowers, affection, etc will win the heart of a woman who's not interested, or only marginally interested. Gifts and the like are really tokens of an existing, strong relationship.