...they are discovering that people who played games really aren't anti-social. They would much rather have fun with their family and friends rather than be locked in a room by themselves. You'd think that LAN parties would have been a hint.
Comedy Central took Futurama away from Adult Swim who faithfully aired it for years in syndication. Adult Swim fans were the sole reason Futurama was revived. Adult Swim doesn't seem to get one bit of gratitude from Comedy Central or Fox. I love Futurama, but I'm not going to turn my back on Adult Swim and reward Comedy Central by watching it anymore. If I get withdrawals, I'll just Netflix it.
Yes, the CIPA is what I'm referring to in regard to e-rate. Naturally, an entity wouldn't be subject to it if it wasn't applying for money. Like most schools, as you pointed out, ours does.
I hadn't realized that about the COPA. Thanks for the tip. This doesn't mean that someone won't try again though.
-...He's turning his back on the country that gave Ballmer opportunity to be where he is today.
If the country changes, then it is not the country that gave him any opportunity.
Industrialist Carnegie... would have never entertained the idea of moving factories to China for cheap labor.
If he was a smart businessman, he would have taken his business to the place that made the most sense. At the time, it was America.
Raising corporat taxes doesn't affect the consumer as badly as you believe. Yes some prices get raised, but increased taxation also leads to more cuts internally like plastic desks instead of mahogany, fewer free trips to Vegas, snd so on.
And you know this from... running a large corporation? I've never seen the internal operations of a large corporation first hand, so I'll have to take your word. I would think that office supplies are actually on the bottom of the list for cuts. When this economic crisis hit, I didn't hear a lot about companies selling their desks. I heard about job losses. Why would it be any different for a tax increase?
- If California's standard of living drops, then wages will drop, and eventually the factories will move back here because WE will be the cheaper labor than the Chinese.
Eventually they will come back? Why wait? Just cut to the chase and make it more enticing for businesses to operate in California from the get go?
Would someone at Google please post this for syousef? After all, I'm using Chrome so they are reading this and have all of that information on hand, right?
Actually it's more like I don't want them collecting data on me that they sell later for money without my express permission.
Fair enough. Do you avoid security cameras in stores as well?
So then you would be perfectly fine with your bank, for example, having you do transactions over unencrypted connections? I mean the internet is a public place, right?
If my bank required me to do that, then no, I would not be fine with it. I don't nail my deposits to the side of their building either. And I don't expect any sort of implied privacy when surfing the internet. If I want to do anything private, I'll keep as many hands and eyes off it as possible.
I'm not sure I buy into "usage tracking is an invasion of privacy" mantra. It seems to me this is a modern day "taking your photograph will steal your soul" sort of superstition. Is the internet not a public place? I'm not sure what kind of privacy people expect while using it.
The Internet ad said I was supposed to get a free PS3. I gave them my shipping address, credit card number, and the e-mail addresses of ten of my friends. What more do they want from me?! I've had enough. I'm visiting the local Best Buy and come inventory day they'll be short one PS3.
This is anecdotal, but after having recently spent a month in Ukraine (please, not THE Ukraine... it isn't plural) and witnessing first hand the rampant use of illegal versions of XP, I am not surprised by this discovery at all. The illegal versions (DVD eXtreme Edition, Fuck You Bill!) can't be subjected successfully to WGA and therefore cannot be fully patched. Blame who you want, but this is how it is there right now. The culture is such that they don't bat an eye at getting a burned DVD in a shiny official-looking case (with XP DVD! printed on it) for way less than what they'd pay for one from Microsoft. To be clear, this is the Ukrainians I'm talking about. I have no idea about the U.S. government buildings.
I find this entire debate most humorous. On the one side, you have the ID crowd trying to get a foot in the door. On the other, the Evo people don't even want to entertain any such notions. There is more debate on whether there should be a debate than there has been debate on the actual theories.
I am not a theologist. I'm not even religious. As I see it, intelligent design does not equal Creationism or religion. Why does design have to involve omnipotence or faith? Human, mortal scientists are working in labs at the nano level and beyond, creating new devices by design. Who knows how long it will take before they actually replicate life? But I do not doubt that it will happen.
Yet, when the evolutionists hear "intelligent design", they go on the attack. They took existence away from religion some hundred odd years ago and have been paranoid about religion taking it back ever since. They are so on edge that the mere mention (or the discussion of mentioning) of an alternative idea sends them into a frenzy. Is evolution such a unstable theory that they aren't willing to put it up against anything else for scrutiny?
Of course, ask an evolutionist this and it is preposterous. There is no need for discussion. Their theory has been proven time and time again. Just ask any scientist with half a brain! Of course, the amount of gray matter is directly proportional to the scientist's loyalty to evolution. And if you have to ask, you are just stupid anyway, right?
when the government tries to force the hand of the free market. They shouldn't be forcing digital broadcast on anyone (especially stations), but they are. So to say that they should be making converter boxes available to everyone is absurd. It is really amazing that anyone expected this program to go even remotely well and then to retort, "The government should have done it this way or that". What everyone needs is not a converter box, but rather for the government to butt the hell out and stick to building our roads and keeping us safe from enemies. We'll do the rest, thanks./rant
That's true of the smallest district as well. I'm the tech at a district of a little over 300 students.
I'm running NComputing, mostly to cut costs, but it is good PR to be green these days. NComputing claims to work on Linux (before you buy it), but all they have is a beta program that works on two distros with version numbers at least a year and a half old. I'm stuck without the support of the developers. And it is a catch 22 for them as well. Why should they put forth the time and resources when the demand is virtually nil?
Even if I gave training to both staff and students on OpenOffice.org, there are no OpenOffice teacher textbooks (from which then to teach) of which I'm aware. They are all Microsoft based. I have confidence that my computer apps teacher is smart enough to modify her curriculum to match, but why expect that of her? And then when the students go off to college, are they going to resent us when they have to relearn Word for their intro to computers classes?
As the lone tech guy, I could put all my effort into convincing the board and staff that the Linux desktop is little different than Windows and would save x amount of money. Then I could spend ungodly amounts of time, blood, sweat, and tears getting certain Windows-only programs to work (if I'm lucky) in WINE. And when all that was done, I'd be pulled a dozen ways answering the same question: Why doesn't [this] work like Windows did?
Perhaps this only speaks of my confidence in my ability to train, but I think it is closer to the literacy of my potential audience.
And then there is the State, who must be well invested or completely ignorant, as their Assessment application runs in only Windows or Mac. Likewise, there are grants that require specific applications that only run on the big two.
I'd like to help Linux out, really. But there is too much going against me.
Rather the solar storm will inexplicably only target poor planets. The Mercury, Venus, Mars will blame Earth for knowing about it all along yet doing nothing to prevent it. Saturn will blame her for actually perpetrating the entire thing. It will be a great cosmic conspiracy.
Talk about replacing memories. Now whenever I hear a song, I'm not thinking about where I was when I first heard it. I'm thinking about hitting those damn color buttons on time.
This explains why my MPC salesperson didn't bug the crap out of me like other salespersons. I faxed in a P.O. in September but never heard from her again. Perhaps she'd been laid off early or quit. I wasn't worried about it because there were more critical items I was dealing with at the time. There's one contact I'll be deleting on Monday after Christmas break.
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...we appear to be adapting to eating sugary, fried or other highly processed food...
I wouldn't consider epidemic rates of diabetes, cancer, heart disease and obesity "adaptation".
Not being Australian, I have to ask, "What does the Australian government have against business and tourism?"
...the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch?
...to faking video footage a la The Running Man.
...they are discovering that people who played games really aren't anti-social. They would much rather have fun with their family and friends rather than be locked in a room by themselves. You'd think that LAN parties would have been a hint.
Comedy Central took Futurama away from Adult Swim who faithfully aired it for years in syndication. Adult Swim fans were the sole reason Futurama was revived. Adult Swim doesn't seem to get one bit of gratitude from Comedy Central or Fox. I love Futurama, but I'm not going to turn my back on Adult Swim and reward Comedy Central by watching it anymore. If I get withdrawals, I'll just Netflix it.
Yes, the CIPA is what I'm referring to in regard to e-rate. Naturally, an entity wouldn't be subject to it if it wasn't applying for money. Like most schools, as you pointed out, ours does.
I hadn't realized that about the COPA. Thanks for the tip. This doesn't mean that someone won't try again though.
And I thought e-rate was bad. At least this kind of filtering in the U.S. is only mandated in the elementary schools and public libraries... so far.
That's one way of looking at it.
- ...He's turning his back on the country that gave Ballmer opportunity to be where he is today.
If the country changes, then it is not the country that gave him any opportunity.
Industrialist Carnegie... would have never entertained the idea of moving factories to China for cheap labor.
If he was a smart businessman, he would have taken his business to the place that made the most sense. At the time, it was America.
Raising corporat taxes doesn't affect the consumer as badly as you believe. Yes some prices get raised, but increased taxation also leads to more cuts internally like plastic desks instead of mahogany, fewer free trips to Vegas, snd so on.
And you know this from... running a large corporation? I've never seen the internal operations of a large corporation first hand, so I'll have to take your word. I would think that office supplies are actually on the bottom of the list for cuts. When this economic crisis hit, I didn't hear a lot about companies selling their desks. I heard about job losses. Why would it be any different for a tax increase?
- If California's standard of living drops, then wages will drop, and eventually the factories will move back here because WE will be the cheaper labor than the Chinese.
Eventually they will come back? Why wait? Just cut to the chase and make it more enticing for businesses to operate in California from the get go?
Would someone at Google please post this for syousef? After all, I'm using Chrome so they are reading this and have all of that information on hand, right?
Actually it's more like I don't want them collecting data on me that they sell later for money without my express permission.
Fair enough. Do you avoid security cameras in stores as well?
So then you would be perfectly fine with your bank, for example, having you do transactions over unencrypted connections? I mean the internet is a public place, right?
If my bank required me to do that, then no, I would not be fine with it. I don't nail my deposits to the side of their building either. And I don't expect any sort of implied privacy when surfing the internet. If I want to do anything private, I'll keep as many hands and eyes off it as possible.
I'm not sure I buy into "usage tracking is an invasion of privacy" mantra. It seems to me this is a modern day "taking your photograph will steal your soul" sort of superstition. Is the internet not a public place? I'm not sure what kind of privacy people expect while using it.
The Internet ad said I was supposed to get a free PS3. I gave them my shipping address, credit card number, and the e-mail addresses of ten of my friends. What more do they want from me?! I've had enough. I'm visiting the local Best Buy and come inventory day they'll be short one PS3.
This is anecdotal, but after having recently spent a month in Ukraine (please, not THE Ukraine... it isn't plural) and witnessing first hand the rampant use of illegal versions of XP, I am not surprised by this discovery at all. The illegal versions (DVD eXtreme Edition, Fuck You Bill!) can't be subjected successfully to WGA and therefore cannot be fully patched. Blame who you want, but this is how it is there right now. The culture is such that they don't bat an eye at getting a burned DVD in a shiny official-looking case (with XP DVD! printed on it) for way less than what they'd pay for one from Microsoft. To be clear, this is the Ukrainians I'm talking about. I have no idea about the U.S. government buildings.
I find this entire debate most humorous. On the one side, you have the ID crowd trying to get a foot in the door. On the other, the Evo people don't even want to entertain any such notions. There is more debate on whether there should be a debate than there has been debate on the actual theories.
I am not a theologist. I'm not even religious. As I see it, intelligent design does not equal Creationism or religion. Why does design have to involve omnipotence or faith? Human, mortal scientists are working in labs at the nano level and beyond, creating new devices by design. Who knows how long it will take before they actually replicate life? But I do not doubt that it will happen.
Yet, when the evolutionists hear "intelligent design", they go on the attack. They took existence away from religion some hundred odd years ago and have been paranoid about religion taking it back ever since. They are so on edge that the mere mention (or the discussion of mentioning) of an alternative idea sends them into a frenzy. Is evolution such a unstable theory that they aren't willing to put it up against anything else for scrutiny?
Of course, ask an evolutionist this and it is preposterous. There is no need for discussion. Their theory has been proven time and time again. Just ask any scientist with half a brain! Of course, the amount of gray matter is directly proportional to the scientist's loyalty to evolution. And if you have to ask, you are just stupid anyway, right?
If anything, it is all fun to watch!
Still no native DVD playback? Is this ever going to happen? If it does, I can finally disconnect my PS2...
>Chrome beat them to it.
Not on the Mac, they didn't.
http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/mac.html
when the government tries to force the hand of the free market. They shouldn't be forcing digital broadcast on anyone (especially stations), but they are. So to say that they should be making converter boxes available to everyone is absurd. It is really amazing that anyone expected this program to go even remotely well and then to retort, "The government should have done it this way or that". What everyone needs is not a converter box, but rather for the government to butt the hell out and stick to building our roads and keeping us safe from enemies. We'll do the rest, thanks. /rant
...the new and improved "Do Nothing" Congress... do nothing! Weeeee.
That's true of the smallest district as well. I'm the tech at a district of a little over 300 students.
I'm running NComputing, mostly to cut costs, but it is good PR to be green these days. NComputing claims to work on Linux (before you buy it), but all they have is a beta program that works on two distros with version numbers at least a year and a half old. I'm stuck without the support of the developers. And it is a catch 22 for them as well. Why should they put forth the time and resources when the demand is virtually nil?
Even if I gave training to both staff and students on OpenOffice.org, there are no OpenOffice teacher textbooks (from which then to teach) of which I'm aware. They are all Microsoft based. I have confidence that my computer apps teacher is smart enough to modify her curriculum to match, but why expect that of her? And then when the students go off to college, are they going to resent us when they have to relearn Word for their intro to computers classes?
As the lone tech guy, I could put all my effort into convincing the board and staff that the Linux desktop is little different than Windows and would save x amount of money. Then I could spend ungodly amounts of time, blood, sweat, and tears getting certain Windows-only programs to work (if I'm lucky) in WINE. And when all that was done, I'd be pulled a dozen ways answering the same question: Why doesn't [this] work like Windows did?
Perhaps this only speaks of my confidence in my ability to train, but I think it is closer to the literacy of my potential audience.
And then there is the State, who must be well invested or completely ignorant, as their Assessment application runs in only Windows or Mac. Likewise, there are grants that require specific applications that only run on the big two.
I'd like to help Linux out, really. But there is too much going against me.
California.
Rather the solar storm will inexplicably only target poor planets. The Mercury, Venus, Mars will blame Earth for knowing about it all along yet doing nothing to prevent it. Saturn will blame her for actually perpetrating the entire thing. It will be a great cosmic conspiracy.
...if they find any leather goddesses.
Talk about replacing memories. Now whenever I hear a song, I'm not thinking about where I was when I first heard it. I'm thinking about hitting those damn color buttons on time.
This explains why my MPC salesperson didn't bug the crap out of me like other salespersons. I faxed in a P.O. in September but never heard from her again. Perhaps she'd been laid off early or quit. I wasn't worried about it because there were more critical items I was dealing with at the time. There's one contact I'll be deleting on Monday after Christmas break.