who thought this was going to be "Monster House" meets "Extreme House Makeover"? Both of these are incredibly stupid American television shows in which a bunch of stupid Americans redo houses in order to "pimp them out."
Oddly, Americans seem to be anti-pimp but pro-pimp-out. What a horrible country.
I'm using Mozilla Firefox 1.0.1 with AdBlock and a customized list of regexes that let me filter the content I download.
Frankly, I thank you for continuing to use IE. I would absolutely hate it if the hoi polloi were to use my browser; then Joe Sixpack would look up from his "American football" game to see thousands of stupid-looking ads which he would click and make my browser less well-perceived than it is and Goddammit Americans get the fuck off my Internet
CS Monkey: Yes hello thankyou for caling comcast Seth: Hello, this is Seth Finklestein. I see you've raised my rates. This is not acceptable. I'm going to satellite. CS Monkey: no pls dont you will lose your grate local chanels and would u like to try comcast phone service Seth: Transfer me to your supervisor. (hold) Supervisor: yes hi this is the supervisor Seth: Roll back my rates to the 2004 levels or I'm switching to satellite TV. Supervisor: i cant do that but i can throw in free hbo for you sir Seth: I accept.
That's true. I know this because I'm an Everquest developer (or "Everquester," as I like to be called) and it is clearly spelled out in our employment agreement.
However, when I usually get the call to implement some "extra content" for such a player, I usually conjure up some level-150 Warjords. That will teach the players to leave the box I've built for them.
Apple makes iTunes and QuickTime Player look like brushed metal on Windows, because Apple wants to remind you of its core competency as part of a branding initiative.
Likewise, Winamp needs to have five-pixel-wide buttons for every control because tiny controls are part of Winamp's branding.
Frankly, Netscape's vision is admirable and shows highly contuitous formancy among the AOL subdivisions. I consider this a commendable watershed among software.
I know this might sound intolerant, but I refuse to work at any job where their software conflicts with my ideologies. To use Microsoft's closed-source, insecure, untrustworthy computing in this day and age is inexcusable. If the morons who made that choice aren't fired for their incompetude, then you don't deserve to work for them.
That's all.
Sincerely, Seth Finklestein Moral Champion of the People
This awards show is about as legitimate as the so-called "Spiky TV Video Game Awards." Halo 2 beating Katamari Damashii* for game of the year? I am outraged.
When you steal a banana, nobody else can buy the banana. The store loses money.
When I liberate a music, all the lusers can still buy the CD. The so-called "music store" can still sell that music to some idiot in a Republican state somewhere.
In conclusion, I don't buy musics but other people do.
The one-button mouse is always at risk of being an endangered gizmo, but Apple keeps reintroducing the species into the wild, where they are promptly eaten by 2-buttons and scroll wheels.
Look who underwrote the so-called "survey." It's a leading ERP "solution provider." I've dealt with these bullshit artists before, and trust me when I say that you cannot believe anything they say. They care only about big money, not about the quality of their software -- which 99% of the time is utter bilge. I've actually fixed errors in their products while they're in the middle of their sales pitch!
Don't believe any of this FUD. The open source ERP revolution is coming, and these assbastards are the first against the wall.
...so here's my list of the 10 worst moments in Apple history.
1. Apple creates the first-generation Newton. 2. Apple discontinues the second-generation Newton, just as it was getting good. 3. Pippin. Apple was trying to create a game console. Microsoft had gone nowhere with the MSX; who was Apple to even try?! 4. Yellow Box. What the hell was that? 5. Mac TV. Take the greatest invention of the 20th century and couple it with the worst invention of the 20th century. 6. The toilet-seat iBooks. I know, let's sell a computer that has absolutely no video out, but it has a handle! Even TV-watching idiots stayed away. 7. Discontinuing 1-800-SOS-APPL. Now if you want support you have to buy AppleCare for as much as $350 -- and even then you get treated like crap unless you buy ProCare for $100 more!! 8. The iPod Mini. You can get five times as much storage for only $50 more. 9. The hockey-puck mouse. I know: let's make our computers not only hard to use, let's make them downright PAINFUL!
And the tenth worst event in Apple history is:
10. Apple not buying Be. Honestly, NeXT has no business being on my desktop.
People who buy a Sony PSP are the same morons who buy a Sony PlayStation 2 just to play John Madden Football 2005. They are solely attracted to brand names and are not concerned with quality.
People who buy a Nintendo DS are clearly concerned with a wholistic gaming experience and are not swayed by so-called "innovations" such as discs that eject if you twist the console in a certain way or proprietary memory expansion technology.
So get VMWare. It doesn't cost you anything if you "liberate" it. That's how I do my taxes.
Then while I am in windows I have no routing for my neighborhood wireless I source... my wife gets pissed because she can't get to the ogg share drive for her music... and my Mythtv can't record any programs...
Yes I could get more computers... but then again a computer + a copy of windows + a tax program... you might as well have a CPA do it for you so you at least have the time free to do something else... the cost sure isn't gonna be different.
Remember... dual boot is only an option on a machine that is 100% a workstation... and when you have linux not many people treat their "workstations" like 100% workstations.
This article is fundamentally flawed. Google Desktop Search is still BETA and may not be reviewed just yet. Google hasn't even released their long-awaited Mac OS X version yet!
I'll only go if they offer Free (libre, not just gratis) wireless internet: 802.11g to start, eventually upgrading to 802.11n and.11i once they become available.
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who thought this was going to be "Monster House" meets "Extreme House Makeover"? Both of these are incredibly stupid American television shows in which a bunch of stupid Americans redo houses in order to "pimp them out."
Oddly, Americans seem to be anti-pimp but pro-pimp-out. What a horrible country.
I'm using Mozilla Firefox 1.0.1 with AdBlock and a customized list of regexes that let me filter the content I download.
Frankly, I thank you for continuing to use IE. I would absolutely hate it if the hoi polloi were to use my browser; then Joe Sixpack would look up from his "American football" game to see thousands of stupid-looking ads which he would click and make my browser less well-perceived than it is and Goddammit Americans get the fuck off my Internet
Just do what I do. Call them.
CS Monkey: Yes hello thankyou for caling comcast
Seth: Hello, this is Seth Finklestein. I see you've raised my rates. This is not acceptable. I'm going to satellite.
CS Monkey: no pls dont you will lose your grate local chanels and would u like to try comcast phone service
Seth: Transfer me to your supervisor.
(hold)
Supervisor: yes hi this is the supervisor
Seth: Roll back my rates to the 2004 levels or I'm switching to satellite TV.
Supervisor: i cant do that but i can throw in free hbo for you sir
Seth: I accept.
That's true. I know this because I'm an Everquest developer (or "Everquester," as I like to be called) and it is clearly spelled out in our employment agreement.
However, when I usually get the call to implement some "extra content" for such a player, I usually conjure up some level-150 Warjords. That will teach the players to leave the box I've built for them.
Sincerely,
Seth Finklestein
Everquester Level 54
I'll tell you what's wrong: branding.
Apple makes iTunes and QuickTime Player look like brushed metal on Windows, because Apple wants to remind you of its core competency as part of a branding initiative.
Likewise, Winamp needs to have five-pixel-wide buttons for every control because tiny controls are part of Winamp's branding.
Frankly, Netscape's vision is admirable and shows highly contuitous formancy among the AOL subdivisions. I consider this a commendable watershed among software.
Sincerely,
Seth Finklestein
Idea Incubatrix
Sadly, it doesn't. Furthermore, the Slashfix extension does not work with Netscape.
I'm afraid that I have no choice but to continue my boycotts of the Slashfix extension, Netscape 8 BETA, Firefox 1.0, and Slashdot.
Sincerely,
Seth Finklestein
I know this might sound intolerant, but I refuse to work at any job where their software conflicts with my ideologies. To use Microsoft's closed-source, insecure, untrustworthy computing in this day and age is inexcusable. If the morons who made that choice aren't fired for their incompetude, then you don't deserve to work for them.
That's all.
Sincerely,
Seth Finklestein
Moral Champion of the People
This awards show is about as legitimate as the so-called "Spiky TV Video Game Awards." Halo 2 beating Katamari Damashii* for game of the year? I am outraged.
* That's the correct spelling.
When you steal a banana, nobody else can buy the banana. The store loses money.
When I liberate a music, all the lusers can still buy the CD. The so-called "music store" can still sell that music to some idiot in a Republican state somewhere.
In conclusion, I don't buy musics but other people do.
I'm sorry, but it's too late. I and all my friends switched to Jabber last year. We say NO to proprietary standards, and we know you do too.
Just say NO to AIM and YES to JAB.
The one-button mouse is always at risk of being an endangered gizmo, but Apple keeps reintroducing the species into the wild, where they are promptly eaten by 2-buttons and scroll wheels.
Look who underwrote the so-called "survey." It's a leading ERP "solution provider." I've dealt with these bullshit artists before, and trust me when I say that you cannot believe anything they say. They care only about big money, not about the quality of their software -- which 99% of the time is utter bilge. I've actually fixed errors in their products while they're in the middle of their sales pitch!
Don't believe any of this FUD. The open source ERP revolution is coming, and these assbastards are the first against the wall.
Well, then I don't see why it wouldn't work in Safari. Safari supports valid XHTML, and valid XHTML supports Safari.
Clearly Google or Apple must be doing something evil if anything else is the case.
After Google makes a zillion dollars off its mapping tool, perhaps you will realize how little "open standards" matter.
Hey, I hear GNU/Map is starting. Quick, get in on the ground floor! Someone might develop a front-end in emacs by the year 2015!
...so here's my list of the 10 worst moments in Apple history.
1. Apple creates the first-generation Newton.
2. Apple discontinues the second-generation Newton, just as it was getting good.
3. Pippin. Apple was trying to create a game console. Microsoft had gone nowhere with the MSX; who was Apple to even try?!
4. Yellow Box. What the hell was that?
5. Mac TV. Take the greatest invention of the 20th century and couple it with the worst invention of the 20th century.
6. The toilet-seat iBooks. I know, let's sell a computer that has absolutely no video out, but it has a handle! Even TV-watching idiots stayed away.
7. Discontinuing 1-800-SOS-APPL. Now if you want support you have to buy AppleCare for as much as $350 -- and even then you get treated like crap unless you buy ProCare for $100 more!!
8. The iPod Mini. You can get five times as much storage for only $50 more.
9. The hockey-puck mouse. I know: let's make our computers not only hard to use, let's make them downright PAINFUL!
And the tenth worst event in Apple history is:
10. Apple not buying Be. Honestly, NeXT has no business being on my desktop.
Thank you, thank you. If you'd like to see more of these, please sign up with one of my valued partners. Once ten people do, I'll post again.
I warned you sheep not to buy into Valve's proprietary DRM, but you didn't listen.
I told you not to buy Half-Life 2, a single player game that requires a network connection to play.
I told you not to trust Valve.
And now I am sitting pretty at home, enjoying many superior Open Source and Abandonware games that I downloaded without any encumbrance whatsoever.
That's in the jokes section of the GNU web site?
I'd tell those unfunny idiots "don't quit your day jobs," but as GNU programmers they have no day jobs.
They're software companies that sell to other companies.
Therefore, they have absolutely nothing to do with the open source community and the open source community has absolutely nothing to do with them.
People who buy a Sony PSP are the same morons who buy a Sony PlayStation 2 just to play John Madden Football 2005. They are solely attracted to brand names and are not concerned with quality.
People who buy a Nintendo DS are clearly concerned with a wholistic gaming experience and are not swayed by so-called "innovations" such as discs that eject if you twist the console in a certain way or proprietary memory expansion technology.
Tax 0.1 for Octave
Open Tax Solver
There's two. Would you like more.
These are search engines designed to search your own computer, not just the web.
This article is fundamentally flawed. Google Desktop Search is still BETA and may not be reviewed just yet. Google hasn't even released their long-awaited Mac OS X version yet!
It's not that he didn't get the joke, but rather that the "joke" wasn't funny.
I'll only go if they offer Free (libre, not just gratis) wireless internet: 802.11g to start, eventually upgrading to 802.11n and .11i once they become available.