4. If someone spends money on having their books cut to size, properly bound, and printed on glossy paper, they're more likely to have spent the money on quality services necessary to produce a quality product.
You'd *think* this was true, but WotC always seems to skip one amazingly important step: PROOFREADING!
The book is lousy with typos. I'm sure the next printing will include the errata...
Hooray for geeks with way too much time on their hands.
Styx said it all:
Sitting on this barstool talking like a damn fool
Got the twelve oclock news blues
And Ive given up hope on the afternoon soaps
And a bottle of cold brew
Is it any wonder Im not crazy? is it any wonder Im sane at all
Well Im so tired of losing- I got nothing to do and all day to do it
I go out cruisin but Ive no place to go and all night to get there
Is it any wonder Im not a criminal?
Is it any wonder Im not in jail?
Is it any wonder Ive got
Too much time on my hands, its ticking away with my sanity
Ive got too much time on my hands, its hard to believe such a calamity
Ive got too much time on my hands and its ticking away from me
Too much time on my hands, too much time on my hands
Too much time on my hands
Well, Im a jet fuel genius - I can solve the worlds problems
Without even trying
I have dozens of friends and the fun never ends
That is, as long as Im buying
Is it any wonder Im not the president
(hes not the president)
Is it any wonder Im null and void?
Is it any wonder Ive got
Too much time on my hands, its ticking away at my sanity
Ive got too much time on my hands, its hard to believe such a calamity
Ive got too much time on my hands and its ticking away from me
Too much time on my hands, too much time on my hands
Too much time on my hands
ISPs *have* been prioritizing traffic for years -- usually based on packet content-type. I helped install a "packet shaper" when I worked at a mom-and-pop dialup shop in the early 2000s. The thing is, TFA missed a key point about Net Neutrality: proponents aren't fighting QoS type prioritization, they're fighting prioritization based on origin and destination. QoS services organize packets based on their content type -- if you wanted to cut down on illegal downloading but still provide a decent web experience, you would throttle down P2P type packets, but let http packets through. What big ISPs are trying to do is go to major websites and say "hey, we'll give you priority for $x/month. Oh, your competitors? We'll just throttle their bandwidth to nothing. But if they pay the big bucks and you don't, you're screwed." What TFA is complaining about (ignoring the VoIP/Fax compression issue already pointed out) is old-skool QoS, something we've had for years. Net Neutrality is about unfairly shutting out the competition.
Not only *that*, but making the program available for download makes it easily included in malware -- unprotecting a process is just a simple command line call, after all.
No, it's not the "too beaucoup" line. You're not the first to guess that, though.:)
The clue was in the (great?)grandparent post: "$10 Tijuana whore". It's from "Losin' It" starring Tom Cruse and Shelly Long. It was a funny little 80s Porky's wannabe... a bunch of teenage highschoolers go to Tijuana to whore it up. The full exchange goes something like:
Whore: Ten dolla. Dave: Come on! Whore: Ten dolla! Dave grabs the rolled-up sock in his pants showing off a huge bulge. Whore: *gasps* You are huge! Fifteen dolla!
It's also the name of the series, but good point. Here's a revised rejoinder:
That's like asking who would win in a fight: the Millenium Falcon, or a Constitution-class (or Galaxy-class, NX-class, Excelsior-class, Ambassador-class or Sovereign-class depending on series and/or movie) Federation Starship?
MS Office isn't installed on a new PC by default either.
Actually.... Dell *does* install MS Office on a new PC by default. How do I know? Because I recently bought a Dell. I asked for no productivity software, since I already had a copy of MS Office 2k7. I got Office 2003 pre-installed but disabled, requiring a license code purchased online. Just FYI. Dell is firmly in Microsoftland.
Not that I am of the opinion that that's necessarily a Bad Thing(tm). Although I like the price of OpenOffice.org, I like Office 2007 much much better, and I got it for the same price. Legally, even.
Given your.sig, I'd bet you were *quite* familiar with spamming modem disconnect strings. You probably dropped stealth-links to goatse and tubgirl, too.
About the consistency issues, you're right; rumor is that Apple is trying new things to find what people like the best, and once they find, they will use that style consistently in the next OSX.
You make that sound like a good thing. Were you to substitute Apple for Microsoft and OSX for Windows, you would get people up in arms about Microsoft inflicting beta code on people.
Documents should be stored in some sort of version control system (CVS, etc).
in my opinion, that would be a microsoft killer - no doubt about it. Think of how cool it would be if you never had to think about where a document was - it just existed. If you worked on it on your laptop and then went somewhere without connectivity, it was just there, magically, on your laptop. If you went to a portal or someone else's computer, (if they have connectivity) the document is just there, magically, over the network. Back on your laptop, you wander into a network and your laptop syncs your changes.</blockquote>
I'm pretty sure Microsoft already does this. It probably costs an arm and a leg, though.
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You'd *think* this was true, but WotC always seems to skip one amazingly important step: PROOFREADING!
The book is lousy with typos. I'm sure the next printing will include the errata...
Ironically, I'm wearing a pair of bell-bottom jeans right now.
:)
Thankfully, you can't see them.
... because I'd pick Pirates!
P.S. No Canadians were harmed during the making of this admittedly stupid joke.
... which has very few power consumption reduction features.
Just when inflation was getting bad enough to warrant a thousand-dollar bill, too. :D
hmmmmm.... sounds almost exactly like IA64, something Intel has had since the turn of the century.
ISPs *have* been prioritizing traffic for years -- usually based on packet content-type. I helped install a "packet shaper" when I worked at a mom-and-pop dialup shop in the early 2000s. The thing is, TFA missed a key point about Net Neutrality: proponents aren't fighting QoS type prioritization, they're fighting prioritization based on origin and destination. QoS services organize packets based on their content type -- if you wanted to cut down on illegal downloading but still provide a decent web experience, you would throttle down P2P type packets, but let http packets through. What big ISPs are trying to do is go to major websites and say "hey, we'll give you priority for $x/month. Oh, your competitors? We'll just throttle their bandwidth to nothing. But if they pay the big bucks and you don't, you're screwed." What TFA is complaining about (ignoring the VoIP/Fax compression issue already pointed out) is old-skool QoS, something we've had for years. Net Neutrality is about unfairly shutting out the competition.
Not only *that*, but making the program available for download makes it easily included in malware -- unprotecting a process is just a simple command line call, after all.
No, it's not the "too beaucoup" line. You're not the first to guess that, though. :)
The clue was in the (great?)grandparent post: "$10 Tijuana whore". It's from "Losin' It" starring Tom Cruse and Shelly Long. It was a funny little 80s Porky's wannabe... a bunch of teenage highschoolers go to Tijuana to whore it up. The full exchange goes something like:
Whore: Ten dolla.
Dave: Come on!
Whore: Ten dolla!
Dave grabs the rolled-up sock in his pants showing off a huge bulge.
Whore: *gasps* You are huge! Fifteen dolla!
Pssssst! This is Slashdot! You're supposed to be a drooling anti-MS linux fanboi. We have an image to maintain here!
kthxbye
You are huge! Fifteen dolla.
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Now the question becomes... who will get the reference?
That's like asking who would win in a fight: the Millenium Falcon, or a Constitution-class (or Galaxy-class, NX-class, Excelsior-class, Ambassador-class or Sovereign-class depending on series and/or movie) Federation Starship?
Better?
>Who would win in a fight, Firefly or Millenium Falcon
That's like asking who would win in a fight: the Millenium Falcon, or Star Trek?
How can the Internet have a seedy underbelly when the whole damn thing is seedy?
What better way to indoctrinate young girls into the ways of Rishathra?
*P.S. please take this post with a heavy dose of sarcasm.
Not that I am of the opinion that that's necessarily a Bad Thing(tm). Although I like the price of OpenOffice.org, I like Office 2007 much much better, and I got it for the same price. Legally, even.
Scientists *have* noticed a slight expanding at the sun's equator. I hear they recommended solar situps.