Perhaps - depends on how you look at it. And the way I look at it, anything taco says translates to "help me get money - blockhead".
What I think is funny is how the lingo has gone from "...worth a read", to a supposedly apologetic "...and is worth your time, assuming you have 20 minutes to see something really neat." Oh, 'really neat' - well, in that case... (next time try not dating yourself).
hey, LFTenan' taco: 20 should be twenty, except the whole thing, when it comes down to it, is just another way of pushing the well worn "worth a read". You see, the issue is that you have no idea what others consider worthy of being read, so it is just plain rude (presumptuous). Similar to "you have to admit". Makes you come off as a 2-D shrew.
The cell network is one of the more low-tech surveillance methods available to the US military/CIA...knock y'self out - the demand is perhaps more to inhibit local/individual freedoms/communications and insure continued fear-based controls more than it is a 'militia' concern.
Sorry, but until the Bush administration came along and started spinning science based on what the lobbyists paid them to promote (coal, nuke plants, logging, big oil, etc.), we didn't have the particular public 'he said/she said' imbalance/belief posture that seems so prevalent now.
It will take some time to change things back, but this isn't simply a case of generations old perceptions.
...the B & G Foundation/MS statistically donates less money than most all other US corporate behemoths. It acts more like a giant investment fund rather than a savior.
Quote from the LA Times, Jan, 2007:
"the Los Angeles Times looked into how the foundation invests some of the billions of dollars that are in the portfolio of the world's largest charity, and it found a number of instances -- perhaps 41 percent of that portfolio -- in which the foundation has invested in companies that have policies that actively undermine the social welfare goals of the foundation."
'formats' and 'competition' mean the same thing to a simple mind. Just the type of mind manufs. love to fuck with when they run out of original ideas and let 'new and improved' marketing babble take over.
Toshiba will think twice next time when it comes to forcing competing formats on consumers. Maybe other manufs. will also learn something and fight this stuff out in the labs rather than hope for luck by trying to confuse consumers again and again.
Now if we can convince England to use the euro and drive on the right side of the road we can at least pretend to be a modern civilization:)
"has nevertheless consistently lagged behind the West in terms of invention and innovation
Let's see - China had the sundial, sextant, gunpowder and circumnavigation of the planet under their belt long before the west stopped playing with dolls and you make a claim like that?
They were tossed back to the stone age during world war two, courtesy the Japanese, and basically left to rot by the West - they are just now regaining technical traction. The Chinese used to lead the planet in terms of innovation and they want that honor back. They will leapfrog the industrial revolution and plow headlong directly into the technological revolution while the rest of the world sits and watches.
Hi, Mac!
Hi PC.
What's new in your world?
Well, PC, this buffoon I'd normally expect to see mooning the likes of you, owns a Mac and has a burr under his saddle over some software issues and he's making a public plea for the 'ol reality-distortionist hisself to come to his aid. ...and...
Well, PC, there's this saying about how any publicity is good and good publicity is even better, but I'm not so sure it's a good thing to be associated with this wart-of-a-human, if you know what I mean.
Oh, sure, Mac...like the time my owner wanted to use me as a doorstop AND an umbrella holder at the same time just because I refused to boot. Turned out the wall switch was off and he never did apologize...humph. I faked a bad SIMM card for a weak just to get even. Maybe your demon will get bored and go away on his own...? Ya think?
PC, the only way for this to work out is for this demon to fall dead in his Cheerios and Vicodin.
If the internet were a limousine, Comcast would be a temporary spare...left to rot in a warehouse...in the dark. Without heat. Behind an unlocked door. Without an id tag. On a weekend. In New Jersey.
This update delivers several improvements for both PowerPC- and Intel-based Macs (as well as improvements provided in the Mac OS X 10.5.1 update.)
Active Directory
* Addresses issues which could hinder or prevent binding Mac OS X 10.5.x clients to Active Directory domains.
AirPort
* Improves connection reliability and stability
* Includes 802.1X improvements.
* Resolves certain kernel panics.
Back to my Mac
* Adds support for more third-party routers, as detailed in this article.
Dashboard
* Improves performance of certain Apple Dashboard widgets (such as Dictionary).
* Addresses an issue in which Dashboard widgets may no longer be accessible after switching to or from an account that has Parental Controls enabled.
Dock
* Updates Stacks with a List view option, a Folder view option, and an updated background for Grid view.
Desktop
* Addresses legibility issues with the menu bar with an option to turn off transparency in Desktop & Screen Saver preferences.
* Adjusts menus to be slightly-less translucent overall.
iCal
* Improves iCal so that it accurately reflects responses to recurring meetings.
* Addresses an issue in which a meeting may remain on the calendar after being cancelled.
* Addresses stability issues related to.Mac syncing of iCal calendars.
* Resolves an intermittent issue in which editing an event with attendees would cause the event to shrink and not register that the event was updated.
iChat
* Addresses an issue with simultaneously-logged in accounts in which iChat sounds generated from one account might be heard in another account.
* Fixes an issue in which iChat idle time is affected by Time Machine backups.
* Improves connectivity when running iChat behind a router that doesn't preserve ports.
* Enables logged chats from previous versions of iChat to open faster and more reliably.
* Addresses an issue with text chats in which users may be unable to receive messages from the sender.
* Addresses an issue that may prevent rejoining an AIM chat room without reopening iChat.
* Addresses video chat compatibility issues with AIM 6 and third-party routers.
* Fixes an issue with case-sensitivity of AIM handles.
iSync
* Adds support for Samsung D600E and D900i phones.
Finder
* Addresses an issue in which Finder could unexpectedly quit when displaying folder contents in Column view.
* Addresses an issue in which Finder could unexpectedly quit when accessing Users and Groups in a Get Info pane.
* Resolves an issue that prevented setting permissions on a folder alias.
* Resolves an issue in which the Eject command could write to a disc in the optical drive.
* Fixes an issue in which the scroll bar might disappear when deleting a file within a folder that includes files that are out of view.
* Fixes an issue in the Sharing & Permissions section of Get Info windows, in which the gear icon appears to be gray/disabled after authentication.
* Addresses an issue in which the Show Icon Preview preference might not be not sa
SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc.'s board has concluded Microsoft Corp.'s $44.6 billion takeover bid undervalues the slumping Internet pioneer and plans to reject the unsolicited offer, a person familiar with the situation said Saturday.
The decision, first reported by The Wall Street Journal on its Web site, could trigger a showdown involving two of the world's most prominent technology companies.
If it wants Yahoo badly enough, Microsoft could try to override Yahoo's board by taking its offer -- originally valued at $31 per share -- directly to the shareholders. If Microsoft pursued that risky route, it will likely have to nominate its slate of directors to supplant Yahoo's current 10-member board.
CNBC video: Microsoft's Yahoo strategy
Many analysts believe Microsoft is prepared to offer as much as $35 per share for Yahoo, which still boasts one of the Internet's largest audiences and most powerful advertising vehicles despite a prolonged slump that has hammered its stock.
Yahoo's board reached the decision after exploring a wide variety of alternatives during the past week, according to the person who spoke to The Associated Press. The person didn't want to be identified because the reasons for Yahoo's rebuff won't be officially spelled out until Monday morning.
"The trouble is that I frequently give my directories extremely long and descriptive names like (this is a real example) "Flash-Player-8.5.0.246-beta2.downloaded-2006-03-20-from-labs.macromedia.com" so that I can keep track of where and when I got each piece of downloaded software, in case I ever need to go back to a previous version that the software maker no longer makes available because they're trying to steer me away from it (ironically, "Vista syndrome")."
Who is this idiot and why is he ever allowed out in public? I'd say impersonating a high school student is the most challenging thing he should be allowed to attempt, and that would seem to be a stretch of his skills.
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./ has successfully climbed out of the social toilet and firmly landed in business sector muck - how common.
TED is short for:
/. to hilight 'media'. And we thought it was actual news...hahahhahahahah :)
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At least taco tells some truth, since he's using
Do you get paid by the word or something?
:)
Perhaps - depends on how you look at it. And the way I look at it, anything taco says translates to "help me get money - blockhead".
What I think is funny is how the lingo has gone from "...worth a read", to a supposedly apologetic "...and is worth your time, assuming you have 20 minutes to see something really neat." Oh, 'really neat' - well, in that case... (next time try not dating yourself).
hey, LFTenan' taco: 20 should be twenty, except the whole thing, when it comes down to it, is just another way of pushing the well worn "worth a read". You see, the issue is that you have no idea what others consider worthy of being read, so it is just plain rude (presumptuous). Similar to "you have to admit". Makes you come off as a 2-D shrew.
I live for karma bumps
I remember well when Tetris first appeared on the scene. The landscape was very different from what it is now...shift happens.
The cell network is one of the more low-tech surveillance methods available to the US military/CIA...knock y'self out - the demand is perhaps more to inhibit local/individual freedoms/communications and insure continued fear-based controls more than it is a 'militia' concern.
Living through some fourteen odd Presidents gives me a bit of a reference.
What' you got...?
"...Why should I expect them to change now?
Not now...but soon enough - try sometime after the Bush administration hears a flushing sound.
Remember...the Internet interprets a restriction as an outage and routes around it.
Even if it is FTTC.
Sorry, but until the Bush administration came along and started spinning science based on what the lobbyists paid them to promote (coal, nuke plants, logging, big oil, etc.), we didn't have the particular public 'he said/she said' imbalance/belief posture that seems so prevalent now.
It will take some time to change things back, but this isn't simply a case of generations old perceptions.
...the B & G Foundation/MS statistically donates less money than most all other US corporate behemoths. It acts more like a giant investment fund rather than a savior.
Quote from the LA Times, Jan, 2007: "the Los Angeles Times looked into how the foundation invests some of the billions of dollars that are in the portfolio of the world's largest charity, and it found a number of instances -- perhaps 41 percent of that portfolio -- in which the foundation has invested in companies that have policies that actively undermine the social welfare goals of the foundation."
Not...
This is simply an excuse to play tit-for-tat w/the Chinese over their all ready having demonstrated alacrity at blowing sats out of the ionosphere.
'formats' and 'competition' mean the same thing to a simple mind. Just the type of mind manufs. love to fuck with when they run out of original ideas and let 'new and improved' marketing babble take over.
Toshiba will think twice next time when it comes to forcing competing formats on consumers. Maybe other manufs. will also learn something and fight this stuff out in the labs rather than hope for luck by trying to confuse consumers again and again.
:)
Now if we can convince England to use the euro and drive on the right side of the road we can at least pretend to be a modern civilization
"has nevertheless consistently lagged behind the West in terms of invention and innovation
Let's see - China had the sundial, sextant, gunpowder and circumnavigation of the planet under their belt long before the west stopped playing with dolls and you make a claim like that?
They were tossed back to the stone age during world war two, courtesy the Japanese, and basically left to rot by the West - they are just now regaining technical traction. The Chinese used to lead the planet in terms of innovation and they want that honor back. They will leapfrog the industrial revolution and plow headlong directly into the technological revolution while the rest of the world sits and watches.
ordinary small plane.
Hardly - the plane he was using was an aerobatic Bellanca-built Super Decathlon Citabria, capable of inverted flight and frequently used for aerobatic training.
Hi, Mac!
...and...
Hi PC.
What's new in your world?
Well, PC, this buffoon I'd normally expect to see mooning the likes of you, owns a Mac and has a burr under his saddle over some software issues and he's making a public plea for the 'ol reality-distortionist hisself to come to his aid.
Well, PC, there's this saying about how any publicity is good and good publicity is even better, but I'm not so sure it's a good thing to be associated with this wart-of-a-human, if you know what I mean.
Oh, sure, Mac...like the time my owner wanted to use me as a doorstop AND an umbrella holder at the same time just because I refused to boot. Turned out the wall switch was off and he never did apologize...humph. I faked a bad SIMM card for a weak just to get even. Maybe your demon will get bored and go away on his own...? Ya think?
PC, the only way for this to work out is for this demon to fall dead in his Cheerios and Vicodin.
How's this?
If the internet were a limousine, Comcast would be a temporary spare...left to rot in a warehouse...in the dark. Without heat. Behind an unlocked door. Without an id tag. On a weekend. In New Jersey.
Feel better?
iTunes U has a bit of a lead, me thinks.
What's included?
.Mac syncing of iCal calendars.
This update delivers several improvements for both PowerPC- and Intel-based Macs (as well as improvements provided in the Mac OS X 10.5.1 update.)
Active Directory
* Addresses issues which could hinder or prevent binding Mac OS X 10.5.x clients to Active Directory domains.
AirPort
* Improves connection reliability and stability
* Includes 802.1X improvements.
* Resolves certain kernel panics.
Back to my Mac
* Adds support for more third-party routers, as detailed in this article.
Dashboard
* Improves performance of certain Apple Dashboard widgets (such as Dictionary).
* Addresses an issue in which Dashboard widgets may no longer be accessible after switching to or from an account that has Parental Controls enabled.
Dock
* Updates Stacks with a List view option, a Folder view option, and an updated background for Grid view.
Desktop
* Addresses legibility issues with the menu bar with an option to turn off transparency in Desktop & Screen Saver preferences.
* Adjusts menus to be slightly-less translucent overall.
iCal
* Improves iCal so that it accurately reflects responses to recurring meetings.
* Addresses an issue in which a meeting may remain on the calendar after being cancelled.
* Addresses stability issues related to
* Resolves an intermittent issue in which editing an event with attendees would cause the event to shrink and not register that the event was updated.
iChat
* Addresses an issue with simultaneously-logged in accounts in which iChat sounds generated from one account might be heard in another account.
* Fixes an issue in which iChat idle time is affected by Time Machine backups.
* Improves connectivity when running iChat behind a router that doesn't preserve ports.
* Enables logged chats from previous versions of iChat to open faster and more reliably.
* Addresses an issue with text chats in which users may be unable to receive messages from the sender.
* Addresses an issue that may prevent rejoining an AIM chat room without reopening iChat.
* Addresses video chat compatibility issues with AIM 6 and third-party routers.
* Fixes an issue with case-sensitivity of AIM handles.
iSync
* Adds support for Samsung D600E and D900i phones.
Finder
* Addresses an issue in which Finder could unexpectedly quit when displaying folder contents in Column view.
* Addresses an issue in which Finder could unexpectedly quit when accessing Users and Groups in a Get Info pane.
* Resolves an issue that prevented setting permissions on a folder alias.
* Resolves an issue in which the Eject command could write to a disc in the optical drive.
* Fixes an issue in which the scroll bar might disappear when deleting a file within a folder that includes files that are out of view.
* Fixes an issue in the Sharing & Permissions section of Get Info windows, in which the gear icon appears to be gray/disabled after authentication.
* Addresses an issue in which the Show Icon Preview preference might not be not sa
T-Mobile has been running a free six-month Hotspot campaign for PSP users since mid-2007...still in effect thru end of March I believe.
"Wenig made some good points about the end of the latency wars..."
/.'s 'editorial' habits :\
Mr. Wenig must not be all that familiar with
Oh. Oh, I see. Running away, eh? You yellow bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to you. I'll bite your legs off!
SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc.'s board has concluded Microsoft Corp.'s $44.6 billion takeover bid undervalues the slumping Internet pioneer and plans to reject the unsolicited offer, a person familiar with the situation said Saturday.
The decision, first reported by The Wall Street Journal on its Web site, could trigger a showdown involving two of the world's most prominent technology companies.
If it wants Yahoo badly enough, Microsoft could try to override Yahoo's board by taking its offer -- originally valued at $31 per share -- directly to the shareholders. If Microsoft pursued that risky route, it will likely have to nominate its slate of directors to supplant Yahoo's current 10-member board.
CNBC video: Microsoft's Yahoo strategy Many analysts believe Microsoft is prepared to offer as much as $35 per share for Yahoo, which still boasts one of the Internet's largest audiences and most powerful advertising vehicles despite a prolonged slump that has hammered its stock.
Yahoo's board reached the decision after exploring a wide variety of alternatives during the past week, according to the person who spoke to The Associated Press. The person didn't want to be identified because the reasons for Yahoo's rebuff won't be officially spelled out until Monday morning.
Microsoft and Yahoo declined to comment Saturday.
"The trouble is that I frequently give my directories extremely long and descriptive names like (this is a real example) "Flash-Player-8.5.0.246-beta2.downloaded-2006-03-20-from-labs.macromedia.com" so that I can keep track of where and when I got each piece of downloaded software, in case I ever need to go back to a previous version that the software maker no longer makes available because they're trying to steer me away from it (ironically, "Vista syndrome")."
/. filter link.....
Who is this idiot and why is he ever allowed out in public? I'd say impersonating a high school student is the most challenging thing he should be allowed to attempt, and that would seem to be a stretch of his skills.
Now, where is that