We hereby note that the latter arguement should be changed to: Hell is where the police are German, the lovers Swiss, the machanics French, the chefs British, the spellers Slashdot readers, and it's all organsed by the Italians
I think I'll be going for GTL diesel. ChevronTexaco itself is heavily invested in Qatar (along with Royal Dutch/Shell, Exxon Mobil, and others), which has natural gas reserves somewhere on the order of 14% of the world supply.
GTL diesel is efficient, burns in unmodified diesel vehicles, and is less expensive than conventional diesel. Oh yeah, and it burns clean.
See the front page of Tuesday's Wall Street Journal for more info.:)
They used to make us play a game that developed your typing skills on the Apple IIe's. The program was called Paws, I think. After playing it normally for awhile, we learned that the typing speed was a calculated compromise between errors and total time.
The formula for that was quite poor, so we'd type the first half of the line as fast as possible, quickly slam both hands on the keyboard, and hit enter.
Most of us were typing at 1000+ wpm in elementary school.:)
It seems the good thing is we're now getting uncorroborated news stories from sites called "Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things". The BBC article makes no mention of lynx user-agent lines as the culprit.
Driving your competition out of the marketplace isn't a PERMANENT condition - if it took below-cost prices to take over the market, it'll take below-market prices to keep control of the market.
Someone should have told them that before the x-box.
I remember the walmans being pretty rugged. However, the rest is indeed junk.
You forgot one though, the VAIO. Sony makes probably the lowest quality laptops of any company I've had experience with.
They're so interested in putting stupid shit like ports for their BS gumstick memory, that they forget to make a machine that doesn't have all the parts falling off or breaking inside a week.
Absolutely right. I'm glad someone put it so well.
I get so irritated every time I hear this conversation. There's no chance of convincing John Q. Public that a hacker is a guy who takes things apart to find out how they work.
All they know is viruses, spyware, drone computers, losing their CC#'s while trying to buy pillowcases online, and all the various other stuff that DOES make news.
Just let the argument die, we lost a LONG time ago!
I guess I should have known better than to have ever bought a d-link product, but I still cant use the old dmp "mp3 player" I bought with linux. Damned imaginary formats.
You know, I hadn't thought about this, but perhaps AA has a method by which they can check your information with INS in the States. The rent-a-cop probably wanted the info written on a BS sheet of paper so he could read it to someone over the phone.
I'm just praying they don't go the direction of "magical moonbeam rays", like that crap turn the series took after the first film. I don't want to have to suffer through catching back up.
That's funny, but it's true. Everyone screams, "it's not IRC, it's the criminals!" But yeah, IRC has been a festering pit of illegal shit for YEARS. Sure, tons of it is good productive stuff. No,nobody could or will "shut down" IRC. But damn,a LOT of people would be less secure about their antisocial behavior if it weren't around.
'or using your companies internal web apps that require ActiveX untill the bigwigs can be pursuaded to allocate funds and manpower "to rebuild something that already works."'
+X Insightful.
That's a very good point. It has been my experience that it's hard convincing people to use something different when as far as they can tell, everything is fine the way it is. Particularly when it means big money out of the coffers.
This must have been much easier the during dot-com era when people were anxious to jump ship to other technologies every time public opinion swayed to something newer and/or better.
"I will not be buying any more PC's, ever. They don't seem to actually work."
PC's work. Windows often doesn't. There's a big difference.
I'm happy paying $300 for hardware and putting a "free as in beer" OS on it. I mean, you usually can't walk in to a store and find a machine with a good distro on it already, so there is a small tradeoff. But the spectrum of hardware available for PC's is massive, it's hard to make a blanket statement like "They don't seem to actually work".
While I'm not as pissy as most/.'ers about Windows nowadays, I can still mostly agree with you on that.
I'm just glad Microsoft is right on the bleeding edge of technological innovation. Clearly, they're pushing the envelope, with two fingers squarely on the pulse of the market.
Appreciate this post, I had to kill 200 pop-ups to use slashdot.
Somewhat agreed. However, your dumbass next door neighbor pot dealer doesn't go to jail for 20 years, becoming a hardened criminal and get released to rape and murder people. The guy that goes away for 20 years is the guy who shot at the cost guard from his cigarette boat trying to run tons of cocaine into the country.
Most small timers and users get bogus little charges with a fine. Some people just whine alot about getting caught doing what they know they weren't supposed to in the first place.
If they think it should be legal, than they can do what you do, try to make it legal. Not just deal/smoke/snort/inject [insert drug] anyways.
That's interesting. Now that you say that, everyone I know here in the Midwest just uses AIM by default. I use it because everyone I know uses it. Now that I know more people on the west coast though, I registered an msn account. Everyone I know out there uses MSN (many run both). Everyone I know on the east coast uses AIM. That's so bizarre... I wonder why that trend happened.
In my closer personal cirlces we all used ICQ back in the day, before it was AOL and they botched the client to hell.
I'm just glad people made multi-protocol clients. I use gaim or kaboodle, depending on what machine I'm on.
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We hereby note that the latter arguement should be changed to: Hell is where the police are German, the lovers Swiss, the machanics French, the chefs British, the spellers Slashdot readers, and it's all organsed by the Italians
o, rly?
I think I'll be going for GTL diesel. ChevronTexaco itself is heavily invested in Qatar (along with Royal Dutch/Shell, Exxon Mobil, and others), which has natural gas reserves somewhere on the order of 14% of the world supply.
:)
GTL diesel is efficient, burns in unmodified diesel vehicles, and is less expensive than conventional diesel. Oh yeah, and it burns clean.
See the front page of Tuesday's Wall Street Journal for more info.
Hate to do this since you're already angry about them, but...
The most recent news on their website doesn't say anything about the breakin. It says only this:
"01/26/2005 ChoicePoint® Reports Record Annual Revenue and Earnings per Share"
Hopefully that will change.
They used to make us play a game that developed your typing skills on the Apple IIe's. The program was called Paws, I think. After playing it normally for awhile, we learned that the typing speed was a calculated compromise between errors and total time.
The formula for that was quite poor, so we'd type the first half of the line as fast as possible, quickly slam both hands on the keyboard, and hit enter.
Most of us were typing at 1000+ wpm in elementary school.
It seems the good thing is we're now getting uncorroborated news stories from sites called "Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things". The BBC article makes no mention of lynx user-agent lines as the culprit.
Can we up the bar a LITTLE?
In similar news, "UK will match Gates vaccines cash" Article here
Driving your competition out of the marketplace isn't a PERMANENT condition - if it took below-cost prices to take over the market, it'll take below-market prices to keep control of the market.
Someone should have told them that before the x-box.
I remember the walmans being pretty rugged. However, the rest is indeed junk.
You forgot one though, the VAIO. Sony makes probably the lowest quality laptops of any company I've had experience with.
They're so interested in putting stupid shit like ports for their BS gumstick memory, that they forget to make a machine that doesn't have all the parts falling off or breaking inside a week.
Oh I hope you're right. If I every hear someone actually vocalize "lol" or "rofl", I'll punch them in the face.
Absolutely right. I'm glad someone put it so well.
I get so irritated every time I hear this conversation. There's no chance of convincing John Q. Public that a hacker is a guy who takes things apart to find out how they work.
All they know is viruses, spyware, drone computers, losing their CC#'s while trying to buy pillowcases online, and all the various other stuff that DOES make news.
Just let the argument die, we lost a LONG time ago!
I guess I should have known better than to have ever bought a d-link product, but I still cant use the old dmp "mp3 player" I bought with linux. Damned imaginary formats.
You know, I hadn't thought about this, but perhaps AA has a method by which they can check your information with INS in the States. The rent-a-cop probably wanted the info written on a BS sheet of paper so he could read it to someone over the phone.
I'm just praying they don't go the direction of "magical moonbeam rays", like that crap turn the series took after the first film. I don't want to have to suffer through catching back up.
That's funny, but it's true. Everyone screams, "it's not IRC, it's the criminals!" But yeah, IRC has been a festering pit of illegal shit for YEARS. Sure, tons of it is good productive stuff. No,nobody could or will "shut down" IRC. But damn,a LOT of people would be less secure about their antisocial behavior if it weren't around.
Yeah, and everything is fine until you need to start shipping things UPS from work.
And now he's a two term President of the United States. I'll take the Ivy League School then, if I can get it.
:)
I really don't care how care how goofy I can sound, if I can be the President.
+X Insightful.
That's a very good point. It has been my experience that it's hard convincing people to use something different when as far as they can tell, everything is fine the way it is. Particularly when it means big money out of the coffers.
This must have been much easier the during dot-com era when people were anxious to jump ship to other technologies every time public opinion swayed to something newer and/or better.
"I will not be buying any more PC's, ever. They don't seem to actually work."
/.'ers about Windows nowadays, I can still mostly agree with you on that.
PC's work. Windows often doesn't. There's a big difference.
I'm happy paying $300 for hardware and putting a "free as in beer" OS on it. I mean, you usually can't walk in to a store and find a machine with a good distro on it already, so there is a small tradeoff. But the spectrum of hardware available for PC's is massive, it's hard to make a blanket statement like "They don't seem to actually work".
While I'm not as pissy as most
Chill bud, it was sarcasm. Pop-up blockers are old news.
I run linux at home and browse with firefox... so I don't sweat internet garbage.
You do realize that we can't see you winking when you typed that message
:)
*wink*
Yeah, it appears some folks didn't get that.
So much for my legendary sense of humor.
Kopete, sorry.
I'm just glad Microsoft is right on the bleeding edge of technological innovation. Clearly, they're pushing the envelope, with two fingers squarely on the pulse of the market.
Appreciate this post, I had to kill 200 pop-ups to use slashdot.
Somewhat agreed. However, your dumbass next door neighbor pot dealer doesn't go to jail for 20 years, becoming a hardened criminal and get released to rape and murder people. The guy that goes away for 20 years is the guy who shot at the cost guard from his cigarette boat trying to run tons of cocaine into the country.
Most small timers and users get bogus little charges with a fine. Some people just whine alot about getting caught doing what they know they weren't supposed to in the first place.
If they think it should be legal, than they can do what you do, try to make it legal. Not just deal/smoke/snort/inject [insert drug] anyways.
That's interesting. Now that you say that, everyone I know here in the Midwest just uses AIM by default. I use it because everyone I know uses it. Now that I know more people on the west coast though, I registered an msn account. Everyone I know out there uses MSN (many run both). Everyone I know on the east coast uses AIM. That's so bizarre... I wonder why that trend happened.
In my closer personal cirlces we all used ICQ back in the day, before it was AOL and they botched the client to hell.
I'm just glad people made multi-protocol clients. I use gaim or kaboodle, depending on what machine I'm on.
Actually, Gaim has problems too. I'm not complaining, mind you. I'm runnin gaim on one machine and kaboodle on another. I like kaboodle better.