> Yeah, like spending your money on what they sell.
Um...I think I implied that I don't, or won't, do that. At least not Adobe products.
Now, as to the rest, Mr. Smarty-pants AC Troll: it just so happens I spend quite a bit of money on CDs, DVDs, cable TV, etc. And from what little I know, all those RIAA/MPAA member companies are making a profit, yes?
I'm not opposed to that at all. What I oppose is outright greed: the feeling on their part that it somehow robs them of profit they deserve if I happen to email an MP3 of a tune to my friend. And yes, I do consider that to be free advertising that benefits them, since I rarely send that MP3 with the admonishment "here's a band you should avoid...." I resent paying for a DVD then being unable to "legally" view it on the platform of my choice; of having my DVD player tell me I can't watch this program because it's from a differen "region" whatever the hell that is;
But mostly I oppose arrogant pricks like yourself coming to _our_ party and bashing _us_ for not agreeing with your robber baron philosophy of business. Go watch a commercial, OK?
I really hate companies that spend so much effort on trying to make me do stuff they know I don't want to do. These big media companies already have nearly every dollar that Bill Gates and Larry Ellison managed to miss; how come they need mine?
I have a similarly ancient Sony player, one which balks at a lot of discs -- won't play >4X DVD+Rs, won't play DVD+/-RWs, won't play PAL format, nor DivX, etc -- but it had no problems with Casino Royale. There's something someone's not telling us.
Users who call up a company they have no relation to in order to tell them their tech decisions are bad are complete morons. Linux is an OS, not a religion.
Just so we're clear here: you mean it is OK to call someone and criticize their religion? Because that sounds like more fun, actually.
If the instructor is sufficiently well-schooled in science and skepticism (a stretch, I'll admit), then any scifi book can be useful as a stimulus for investigations into whether the science is accurate or not.
I found it fairly easy, even as a 4th grader, to understand that faster-than-light travel was not feasible while still managing to enjoy Zip-zip Goes to Mars and other books. (Ok, so Mars is close enough that FTL speeds aren't needed, but you get the idea.)
My prediction: Donald Rumsfeld, possibly through a twisty maze of companies, all alike, will buy it up, and hire the same or worse neocon(vict)s to run it. Business as usual, just renamed as FairCountCo or the like. No money will be spent on fixes or even engineering, but a boatload of money will ago to newspaper editorial writers in redstate markets (Toledo, Lincoln, Butte, Bugtussle, etc.)
And Jeb Bush will come surprisingly close to defeat, but will pull off a "victory" due to the surprise results from Southern Illinois.
Rgds,
Jethro T. Cornhole
Cynic-at-large
Well, duh! (And I mean that in the nicest possible way.)
I think that was the entire point.
Macromedia's letter was a fairly entertaining, but ultimately content-free rebuke of Job's equally self-serving pronouncement.
.... therefore almost nothing referenced here makes any sense to me.
Someday lawyers will be forced to speak and write in NormalSpeak, preferably in English.
Until such time, I am at the mercy of people like Cokie Roberts to explain these legal doings. Could/. maybe hire her to boil this down for us mortals?
The day I see unsolicited ads on my cell phone is the day I shitcan my carrier for another one, and I won't care what it costs in termination fees. There's a limit to the amount of bullshit I can put up with.
If it was complicated but in the consumers' favor, I'd support it all day long.
As Goldwater said "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no sin."
But since they put us through all those hoops just so THEY can make a few more dollars,
I say fuck 'em. Fuck 'em again. And keep on fucking 'em until they get tired. And when
that happens, fuck 'em AGAIN.
First of all, consider the source: ABC News is quite capable of misinterpreting statistics just to fill a few minutes air time. And according to TFA, it's only in the "nation's largest 100 school districts." We all know how crappy big-city public schools can be, and how enticing the life of a big-city drug dealer (or other criminal role model of your choosing) can seem,especially to the well-honed decision making skills of today's teenager.
Mark my words: someday, Science will prove that wearing one's pants too low allows precious brainwaves to escape via the rear vent hole into the atmosphere, carrying with them all hope of a future. Mark my words and mark them well.
Contrary to popular belief, working for "the largest consulting firms" is not everyone's idea of a good job. I'd sooner crap my pants and fall back in it than do that for a living. (And recruiting for them must be even worse, yes?) Of course, that's just me.
You're assuming that getting a Good Job is the most important metric. But then, as a self-admitted "recent graduate" you labor under the same disadvantage as the OP: you've not experienced enough of life to realize that it's relatively easy to work your ass off to benefit some one else's company. The hard task is finding something that you love to do because you might be doing it for the next 50 years. Or perhaps the better lesson is that you can in fact try lots of different things and start over with relative ease as long as you're young enough. Oh, wait! I know!!! The lesson is that the time to fuck up and make mistakes and have fun and try stuff on for size is when you're (a) young enough to get away with the questionable choices, (b) strong enough to bounce back from the really terrible ones, and (c) stupid enough to not realize that life is more than fun and games.
Nope, I stand by my initial reply. Have fun, learn stuff, get high, fall down, read a novel, write a poem....The best thing you can do for your future is to build up a huge pile of memories of your misspent youth. Because by the time you meet your soul mate, get your good job, and have your brood of rug rats, you'll have fewer chances to do any of that stuff.
Go to college, take neat classes, be well rounded. Learn to read, learn to think, learn to write (English first, then C++/Python/Java, what-have you). All of that, plus enjoying these next few years of life is way way more important than an internship or being some Google-head's code slave for a summer. Plenty of time for work after you've had some fun.
And yes, I'm completely serious about this.
Why bother to torture yourself with the headaches presented by Linux gaming? Why should you continually not have the games you want to play? Why settle for half-assed solutions that might or might not run the games you crave so desperately?
I'm enticed by the new iMacs -- particularly that juicy looking 24" -- but it would appear that it's impossible to add hardware to those machines. Over the years, I've gotten used to extending the life of a PC by upgrading components like memory, vidcard, etc. I get the impression that few MacHeads do things that way.
I'm not sure I could get used to that way of life, since I love to tinker, and it's kept my last desktop machine usable since early 2002 and it's still my main workhorse.
I'm guessing that the Pro models are more upgradable, but those prices(!) keep me from making that jump.
Has anyone managed to open up a new imac and replace a hdd or the like?
This wouldn't have been a problem now if the DoJ had broken MS up into smaller units back when it had the chance. MS/OS division would have no incentive to favor MS/AV over any other.
I've often thought this myself. While they're at it they should request that Hurd be de-inducted from the Bay Area Business Council's Hall of Fame. Then they should fire themselves and give back the salaries they drew while serving on the board.
...most people purchasing server technology probably won't care about power consumption. It's not their budget being wasted on power, it's some other overhead account they don't have access to.
You have no idea what you're talking about. Power consumption is right up there with performance and footprint/rackspace in customer concerns. And the savings can be quite significant. It's a prime reason AMD is still in business.
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And they can pass the savings on to you!
> Yeah, like spending your money on what they sell. Um...I think I implied that I don't, or won't, do that. At least not Adobe products. Now, as to the rest, Mr. Smarty-pants AC Troll: it just so happens I spend quite a bit of money on CDs, DVDs, cable TV, etc. And from what little I know, all those RIAA/MPAA member companies are making a profit, yes? I'm not opposed to that at all. What I oppose is outright greed: the feeling on their part that it somehow robs them of profit they deserve if I happen to email an MP3 of a tune to my friend. And yes, I do consider that to be free advertising that benefits them, since I rarely send that MP3 with the admonishment "here's a band you should avoid...." I resent paying for a DVD then being unable to "legally" view it on the platform of my choice; of having my DVD player tell me I can't watch this program because it's from a differen "region" whatever the hell that is; But mostly I oppose arrogant pricks like yourself coming to _our_ party and bashing _us_ for not agreeing with your robber baron philosophy of business. Go watch a commercial, OK?
I really hate companies that spend so much effort on trying to make me do stuff they know I don't want to do. These big media companies already have nearly every dollar that Bill Gates and Larry Ellison managed to miss; how come they need mine?
I have a similarly ancient Sony player, one which balks at a lot of discs -- won't play >4X DVD+Rs, won't play DVD+/-RWs, won't play PAL format, nor DivX, etc -- but it had no problems with Casino Royale. There's something someone's not telling us.
I couldn't have said it better myself. Which is why I didn't.
I'm amazed to be reading stuff like tha parent post on /.
Just amazed.
If the instructor is sufficiently well-schooled in science and skepticism (a stretch, I'll admit), then any scifi book can be useful as a stimulus for investigations into whether the science is accurate or not. I found it fairly easy, even as a 4th grader, to understand that faster-than-light travel was not feasible while still managing to enjoy Zip-zip Goes to Mars and other books. (Ok, so Mars is close enough that FTL speeds aren't needed, but you get the idea.)
My prediction: Donald Rumsfeld, possibly through a twisty maze of companies, all alike, will buy it up, and hire the same or worse neocon(vict)s to run it. Business as usual, just renamed as FairCountCo or the like. No money will be spent on fixes or even engineering, but a boatload of money will ago to newspaper editorial writers in redstate markets (Toledo, Lincoln, Butte, Bugtussle, etc.) And Jeb Bush will come surprisingly close to defeat, but will pull off a "victory" due to the surprise results from Southern Illinois. Rgds, Jethro T. Cornhole Cynic-at-large
Well, duh! (And I mean that in the nicest possible way.) I think that was the entire point. Macromedia's letter was a fairly entertaining, but ultimately content-free rebuke of Job's equally self-serving pronouncement.
.... therefore almost nothing referenced here makes any sense to me. Someday lawyers will be forced to speak and write in NormalSpeak, preferably in English. Until such time, I am at the mercy of people like Cokie Roberts to explain these legal doings. Could /. maybe hire her to boil this down for us mortals?
The day I see unsolicited ads on my cell phone is the day I shitcan my carrier for another one, and I won't care what it costs in termination fees. There's a limit to the amount of bullshit I can put up with.
If it was complicated but in the consumers' favor, I'd support it all day long. As Goldwater said "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no sin." But since they put us through all those hoops just so THEY can make a few more dollars, I say fuck 'em. Fuck 'em again. And keep on fucking 'em until they get tired. And when that happens, fuck 'em AGAIN.
Mark my words: someday, Science will prove that wearing one's pants too low allows precious brainwaves to escape via the rear vent hole into the atmosphere, carrying with them all hope of a future. Mark my words and mark them well.
Man, some smells are just plain BAD, know what I mean?
Contrary to popular belief, working for "the largest consulting firms" is not everyone's idea of a good job. I'd sooner crap my pants and fall back in it than do that for a living. (And recruiting for them must be even worse, yes?) Of course, that's just me.
Nope, I stand by my initial reply. Have fun, learn stuff, get high, fall down, read a novel, write a poem....The best thing you can do for your future is to build up a huge pile of memories of your misspent youth. Because by the time you meet your soul mate, get your good job, and have your brood of rug rats, you'll have fewer chances to do any of that stuff.
Go to college, take neat classes, be well rounded. Learn to read, learn to think, learn to write (English first, then C++/Python/Java, what-have you). All of that, plus enjoying these next few years of life is way way more important than an internship or being some Google-head's code slave for a summer. Plenty of time for work after you've had some fun. And yes, I'm completely serious about this.
I'm enticed by the new iMacs -- particularly that juicy looking 24" -- but it would appear that it's impossible to add hardware to those machines. Over the years, I've gotten used to extending the life of a PC by upgrading components like memory, vidcard, etc. I get the impression that few MacHeads do things that way. I'm not sure I could get used to that way of life, since I love to tinker, and it's kept my last desktop machine usable since early 2002 and it's still my main workhorse. I'm guessing that the Pro models are more upgradable, but those prices(!) keep me from making that jump. Has anyone managed to open up a new imac and replace a hdd or the like?
This wouldn't have been a problem now if the DoJ had broken MS up into smaller units back when it had the chance. MS/OS division would have no incentive to favor MS/AV over any other.
I've often thought this myself. While they're at it they should request that Hurd be de-inducted from the Bay Area Business Council's Hall of Fame. Then they should fire themselves and give back the salaries they drew while serving on the board.
Where are my mod points when I need them?