Nobody is twisting your arm to click on the dumb self-refferal link, any more than they're making you click on the homepage listing we're all allowed under our usernames.
Frankly, I could give a damn about the person who submitted the article. I'm interested in the article itself. If it's good or bad, I don't get pissed off at the submitter, or at Taco, I just move on. It's just not that big a deal.
Now if someone has an incredibly insightful comment, I may check their homepage, because they personally sound interesting, but that's about it.
First time the "Kissing Disease" has ever been accessable to geeks.
One the one hand, I'm all in favor of open source alternatives, and it adds a lot to linux to be able to run.Net apps, but I can't help but think we'd be better off with another language..Net is so freaking encumbered.
Still, it'd be nice to be able to host.Net apps on Linux servers...
So true. What the hell is wrong with people? The written word isn't SUPPOSED to have SHINY MOVING NOISY stuff. It's just supposed to SIT THERE. It is not supposed to READ ITSELF TO YOU if it senses you're having trouble.
Poland's big problem is that it sits in the middle of a big plain bordered by more warlike countries. Considering they're almost always greatly outnumbered by better equipped armies, they fight well, and bravely.
Historically the French were military badasses, though they definitely screwed the pooch in WWII.
George W. Bush was quick to point out that John Kerry had forgotten to list Poland as part of our "Alliance of the Willing"...Many people found this to be hilarious because of Poland's (largely undeserved) poor military reputation.
Otherwise sane systems which work fine in other countries would flop here...You don't understand how crazy our legal system is. It would become a tactical blackmail threat here..."Settle or we'll hire a zillion lawyers and make you pay all the legal costs!" Just look at how long the SCO case has drawn on, and they haven't put forth a single argument of merit yet.
It's not just Fox. I hate that about TV...A lot of times a good show targeted toward a niche viewership won't make it on a regular primetime network, but WILL make it on a network geared toward that niche. But networks camp on their rights to the show until its too late to make more. I always find that to be infuriating, especially since they kneejerk kill shows after two and three episodes these days.
I wasn't happy with Norton 2k4, but it was Norton 2k5 that really made me lose it. Resource hogging, constant badgering. I had the damn software running on a machine that was pretty well protected anyway, so the intrusiveness of it was infuriating.
I've noticed when people have the fancy Norton Security Suites installed, they tend to disable them because it makes it too annoying to browse the internet, for example. You get psychotic firewall notifications every few seconds, and it doesn't really remember what applications are safe, so it bothers you over and over for the same damn program.
It's that funny thing with security...The best security is so restrictive that people ignore it and disable it whereever possible...Like requiring 10 digit passwords, changed monthly...those damn things are always written on a sticky, stuck under the keyboard.
Yea, I got that too. Made me homicidal. Another lovely was when it started losing its license number so it had to connect to Live Update every day or so and get the key reauthorized.
I got completely fed up. Ripped that bitch outta my system, and am using AVG now. No complaints. I'll never use Norton or McAfee again.
This guy's kinda crazy, but he's right. The only one's who get rich off this system are the lawyers. They've set it up for their benefit, and they're reaping the rewards, like an arms dealer supplying both sides in a conflict.
I could see that. I'm completely in favor of giving the judge discretion on forcing one side to pay some legal costs, within rational limits, and not exceeding what they spent on the case...I think, especially in this case, SCO should be liable, not for Novell's legal costs, but for our legal costs.
As taxpayers, we're paying for their damn circus and I think they owe us for all the public money they've wasted on their stupid pump and dump scheme.
The problem arises when Joe Shmo tries to sue Microsoft for stealing his idea and driving his company out of business and gets buried under a 100,000 dollar a day legal team, which he then has to pay for.
I think we definitely should have more protections in place against frivolous and groundless lawsuits, but I don't think that dumping all the legal costs on the loser is the way to go about it.
Eh. What if the machine changes every 50th vote, so it's wrong even in the paper trail?
Either the process needs to be wholly transparent and heavily audited, or we need to move back to paper. I just flat out do not trust these companys who make the machines. Every damn one of them is crooked.
I'm all about e-voting, but the way it's shaped up, I'm going to have to agree with you. Everybody fills it out with a #2 pencil, fill in the WHOLE bubble Grandma, then put your thumbprint in the corner, and stuff it in the nice locked box.
Even that probably isn't truly secure in our system. The joker who picks up the boxes will lob a couple in the lake on the way to get them counted.
Ug. Can't use any of that tray crap. I get a nice wide desk, push the monitor back far enough that I can rest my elbows and forearms on the desktop, and I'm good to go. Anything else and I get wicked carpal.
All over this building, there are people who type less than me, who use the supposedly ergonomic stuff, the jelly pads, the trays, trackball mice, and they all have ten times the problems with carpal that I have. Not that I've got none, but I haven't needed surgery yet.
As for the crap console, they've been promising for years and not delivering...I imagine they just hang out at the beach and pay themselves (Sarasota's got nice beaches...you can see the ocean from their HQ). How many years in a row can you win the "Vaporware of the Year" award before your vaporware is too insubstantial to qualify? Phantom indeed.
The place where these would be really useful is in airfreight. Faster than a ship, can land anywhere. If they can lift serious cargo, then they'll do great even if no human besides the crew ever rides one.
Hydrogen, like a lot of flammable stuff, only burns well in an oxygen-rich environment. You could stand inside a hydrogen blimp with a magnesium flare and nothing significant would happen, the same way you can put out a match in a cup of gasoline, if there is some wind to carry away the vapor.
As someone mentioned above, the problem with the Hindenburg was the fact that the skin of the blimp was itself flammable...The hydrogen inside the blimp couldn't have exploded without the addition of a ton of pure oxygen. But the pictures of the Hindenburg pretty much associated Hydrogen and fiery death in everyone's minds, even to the point where many people have a knee-jerk fear reaction toward hydrogen cars, when petroleum is no less dangerous. It's a shame, because Hydrogen is much more efficient than Helium for lighter-than-air tranports.
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It's because, like most of us, he doesn't give a damn if the occasional spelling or grammar error occurs.
Nobody is twisting your arm to click on the dumb self-refferal link, any more than they're making you click on the homepage listing we're all allowed under our usernames.
Frankly, I could give a damn about the person who submitted the article. I'm interested in the article itself. If it's good or bad, I don't get pissed off at the submitter, or at Taco, I just move on. It's just not that big a deal.
Now if someone has an incredibly insightful comment, I may check their homepage, because they personally sound interesting, but that's about it.
Switch to? I've never worked anywhere that used anything else for real data stoarge. Tape is still the standard, if you're not a home user.
First time the "Kissing Disease" has ever been accessable to geeks.
.Net apps, but I can't help but think we'd be better off with another language. .Net is so freaking encumbered.
.Net apps on Linux servers...
One the one hand, I'm all in favor of open source alternatives, and it adds a lot to linux to be able to run
Still, it'd be nice to be able to host
So true. What the hell is wrong with people? The written word isn't SUPPOSED to have SHINY MOVING NOISY stuff. It's just supposed to SIT THERE. It is not supposed to READ ITSELF TO YOU if it senses you're having trouble.
Most of the whackjobs deny the idea of a trinity. That's Catholic Dogma.
Yea, you know you deserved it. *gets eaten by a stealthy druid*
Poland's big problem is that it sits in the middle of a big plain bordered by more warlike countries. Considering they're almost always greatly outnumbered by better equipped armies, they fight well, and bravely.
Historically the French were military badasses, though they definitely screwed the pooch in WWII.
George W. Bush was quick to point out that John Kerry had forgotten to list Poland as part of our "Alliance of the Willing"...Many people found this to be hilarious because of Poland's (largely undeserved) poor military reputation.
Otherwise sane systems which work fine in other countries would flop here...You don't understand how crazy our legal system is. It would become a tactical blackmail threat here..."Settle or we'll hire a zillion lawyers and make you pay all the legal costs!" Just look at how long the SCO case has drawn on, and they haven't put forth a single argument of merit yet.
Dead Like Me rocked. I was irate when they cancelled that. What the hell is the point of paid TV when they'll randomly cancel the decent shows?
It's not just Fox. I hate that about TV...A lot of times a good show targeted toward a niche viewership won't make it on a regular primetime network, but WILL make it on a network geared toward that niche. But networks camp on their rights to the show until its too late to make more. I always find that to be infuriating, especially since they kneejerk kill shows after two and three episodes these days.
My explosively expanding budget for backup tapes agrees with you. ...At night...I can hear their cries...
I wasn't happy with Norton 2k4, but it was Norton 2k5 that really made me lose it. Resource hogging, constant badgering. I had the damn software running on a machine that was pretty well protected anyway, so the intrusiveness of it was infuriating.
I've noticed when people have the fancy Norton Security Suites installed, they tend to disable them because it makes it too annoying to browse the internet, for example. You get psychotic firewall notifications every few seconds, and it doesn't really remember what applications are safe, so it bothers you over and over for the same damn program.
It's that funny thing with security...The best security is so restrictive that people ignore it and disable it whereever possible...Like requiring 10 digit passwords, changed monthly...those damn things are always written on a sticky, stuck under the keyboard.
Yea, I got that too. Made me homicidal. Another lovely was when it started losing its license number so it had to connect to Live Update every day or so and get the key reauthorized.
I got completely fed up. Ripped that bitch outta my system, and am using AVG now. No complaints. I'll never use Norton or McAfee again.
This guy's kinda crazy, but he's right. The only one's who get rich off this system are the lawyers. They've set it up for their benefit, and they're reaping the rewards, like an arms dealer supplying both sides in a conflict.
I could see that. I'm completely in favor of giving the judge discretion on forcing one side to pay some legal costs, within rational limits, and not exceeding what they spent on the case...I think, especially in this case, SCO should be liable, not for Novell's legal costs, but for our legal costs.
As taxpayers, we're paying for their damn circus and I think they owe us for all the public money they've wasted on their stupid pump and dump scheme.
The problem arises when Joe Shmo tries to sue Microsoft for stealing his idea and driving his company out of business and gets buried under a 100,000 dollar a day legal team, which he then has to pay for.
I think we definitely should have more protections in place against frivolous and groundless lawsuits, but I don't think that dumping all the legal costs on the loser is the way to go about it.
Eh. What if the machine changes every 50th vote, so it's wrong even in the paper trail?
Either the process needs to be wholly transparent and heavily audited, or we need to move back to paper. I just flat out do not trust these companys who make the machines. Every damn one of them is crooked.
I'm all about e-voting, but the way it's shaped up, I'm going to have to agree with you. Everybody fills it out with a #2 pencil, fill in the WHOLE bubble Grandma, then put your thumbprint in the corner, and stuff it in the nice locked box.
Even that probably isn't truly secure in our system. The joker who picks up the boxes will lob a couple in the lake on the way to get them counted.
Ug. Can't use any of that tray crap. I get a nice wide desk, push the monitor back far enough that I can rest my elbows and forearms on the desktop, and I'm good to go. Anything else and I get wicked carpal.
All over this building, there are people who type less than me, who use the supposedly ergonomic stuff, the jelly pads, the trays, trackball mice, and they all have ten times the problems with carpal that I have. Not that I've got none, but I haven't needed surgery yet.
As for the crap console, they've been promising for years and not delivering...I imagine they just hang out at the beach and pay themselves (Sarasota's got nice beaches...you can see the ocean from their HQ). How many years in a row can you win the "Vaporware of the Year" award before your vaporware is too insubstantial to qualify? Phantom indeed.
I think by "Informative" they meant "Too much information"
The place where these would be really useful is in airfreight. Faster than a ship, can land anywhere. If they can lift serious cargo, then they'll do great even if no human besides the crew ever rides one.
Hydrogen, like a lot of flammable stuff, only burns well in an oxygen-rich environment. You could stand inside a hydrogen blimp with a magnesium flare and nothing significant would happen, the same way you can put out a match in a cup of gasoline, if there is some wind to carry away the vapor.
As someone mentioned above, the problem with the Hindenburg was the fact that the skin of the blimp was itself flammable...The hydrogen inside the blimp couldn't have exploded without the addition of a ton of pure oxygen. But the pictures of the Hindenburg pretty much associated Hydrogen and fiery death in everyone's minds, even to the point where many people have a knee-jerk fear reaction toward hydrogen cars, when petroleum is no less dangerous. It's a shame, because Hydrogen is much more efficient than Helium for lighter-than-air tranports.
You like having a choice besides McDonalds, don't you?