. ..well, there was no message. There wasn't a coherent narrative, or a center of focus. There was just 'here's this thing which will do stuff. With music. Buy it. ..'
Actually, I think the message was, "I want to squirt you a picture of my kids."
I doubt I am alone in hoping for a revolution that reinstates the proper, democratically elected government in Burma.
Bah. There are plenty of 'democratically elected' governments/leaders around the world that are still totally illegitimate and fuck their population. Check out Zimbabwe and Egypt.
Now a company that only managed to get its start by being basically "a law firm with an antenna on the roof" is essentially using their army of lawyers to keep down their potential competitors.
By the way, that's the opposite of ironic; it's exactly what you'd expect to happen.
Then again, there're a lot of people who call themselves web developers while hustling for $25/hr to write crappy code.
Must be nice to be such a rich bastard. I'm currently earning about $20/hr in software development, and that's considered a very nice starting wage where I live (UK).
How about weaning yourself off that addiction? Seriously, it's bizarre how Americans can be so zealously anti-drug, and yet treat a caffeine addiction as 'just something that most people have'.
Microsoft could have solved this by lowering the price of XP for educators in russia enough so that it could have been meaningfully distributed around the country. But they didn't. Oh well.
Maybe they're making Vista available cheaper in the hopes that they'll upgrade later.
Trouble is, your devices COULD have concealed an explosive and been used as a bomb, if they were physically big enough. That's kind of the problem, there's no particularly good way to let people take electronic gadgets onto planes without potentially allowing bombs on.
Geeks do the same thing, just in reverse. The larger a woman's breasts or the nicer she looks seems to imply that her intelligence has plunged proportionally.
And just to disprove the ultra-sexist card you just played there, I have a fun and interesting IT job that involves none of that, and all employees are male.
(the latter is somewhat better here in Wales, where we actually have some fairly reasonable politicians).
Yeah, right. Such reasonable people who want to take tax money, and use it to force all children to learn a dead language that has no clear benefit to society at all when they could be learning a more widely-spoken second language.
If I invented a magical $3 device that allows a car to run on gasoline, I'd expect an automaker to pay me a HELL of a lot if they infringed on that patent.
I think you might have some trouble selling the novelty of that idea.
I've used Fedora... it just feels clumsy all the time, whereas Ubuntu doesn't.
Have to disagree with you there. I was pretty disappointed with how unpolished I found Ubuntu's interface to be, having just installed it on my mum's PC. I'm almost thinking of just recommending she goes back to Windows.
Probably my biggest bugbear is that it still automounts USB memory sticks *synchronously*. This means you can't do the intuative thing - put it in, copy to it, and pull it out - but you must first unmount it, an unnatural and unobvious thing to do. I find myself forgetting occasionally and losing data. It really sucks, makes no sense, and is something that Windows XP gets right. Why does even Ubuntu still have these basic failings?
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The message was. . .
.well, there was no message. There wasn't a coherent narrative, or a center of focus. There was just 'here's this thing which will do stuff. With music. Buy it. . .'
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Actually, I think the message was, "I want to squirt you a picture of my kids."
They did all that, they just did it in Iraq.
I doubt I am alone in hoping for a revolution that reinstates the proper, democratically elected government in Burma.
Bah. There are plenty of 'democratically elected' governments/leaders around the world that are still totally illegitimate and fuck their population. Check out Zimbabwe and Egypt.
No, it will probably be something more along the lines of "Eric is a fag and his face is punishable by law." ~~~~
Been posting on Wikipedia too much?
Now a company that only managed to get its start by being basically "a law firm with an antenna on the roof" is essentially using their army of lawyers to keep down their potential competitors.
By the way, that's the opposite of ironic; it's exactly what you'd expect to happen.
Perhaps the judges should run the courts.
Is there a chance the track could bend?
Don't you mean at&t?
Then again, there're a lot of people who call themselves web developers while hustling for $25/hr to write crappy code.
Must be nice to be such a rich bastard. I'm currently earning about $20/hr in software development, and that's considered a very nice starting wage where I live (UK).
How about weaning yourself off that addiction? Seriously, it's bizarre how Americans can be so zealously anti-drug, and yet treat a caffeine addiction as 'just something that most people have'.
I am fascinated by your idea of a modem without the modem part and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Local Area Data Service?
Also there is no explanation for the blue lines and the dotted line, what do these signify?
That anyone can upload an image to Wikipedia?
Microsoft could have solved this by lowering the price of XP for educators in russia enough so that it could have been meaningfully distributed around the country. But they didn't. Oh well.
Maybe they're making Vista available cheaper in the hopes that they'll upgrade later.
Open-source is succeeding.
:-)
So is Islamist terrorism.
Trouble is, your devices COULD have concealed an explosive and been used as a bomb, if they were physically big enough. That's kind of the problem, there's no particularly good way to let people take electronic gadgets onto planes without potentially allowing bombs on.
Geeks do the same thing, just in reverse. The larger a woman's breasts or the nicer she looks seems to imply that her intelligence has plunged proportionally.
:-)
Yeah, and we're right.
PS. It's a joke, I'm not really that sexist.
And just to disprove the ultra-sexist card you just played there, I have a fun and interesting IT job that involves none of that, and all employees are male.
(the latter is somewhat better here in Wales, where we actually have some fairly reasonable politicians).
Yeah, right. Such reasonable people who want to take tax money, and use it to force all children to learn a dead language that has no clear benefit to society at all when they could be learning a more widely-spoken second language.
If I invented a magical $3 device that allows a car to run on gasoline, I'd expect an automaker to pay me a HELL of a lot if they infringed on that patent.
I think you might have some trouble selling the novelty of that idea.
And, by *synchronously*, i meant *asynchronously*.
I've used Fedora... it just feels clumsy all the time, whereas Ubuntu doesn't.
Have to disagree with you there. I was pretty disappointed with how unpolished I found Ubuntu's interface to be, having just installed it on my mum's PC. I'm almost thinking of just recommending she goes back to Windows.
Probably my biggest bugbear is that it still automounts USB memory sticks *synchronously*. This means you can't do the intuative thing - put it in, copy to it, and pull it out - but you must first unmount it, an unnatural and unobvious thing to do. I find myself forgetting occasionally and losing data. It really sucks, makes no sense, and is something that Windows XP gets right. Why does even Ubuntu still have these basic failings?
2. This was a generally good idea, causing independent thinkers of both parties to vote "yea."
There are independent thinkers in the US Senate?