Not that this should be a great surprise to anyone, but Microsoft acts this way too. Microsoft has a good reputation for treating their employes well. Executives are well compensated, and the geeks get to have a lot of fun. Also, the level of sh!t they put their customers through is merely par for the course.
The thing that struck me about this Oracle book review was the "you better buy everything from us or you're out" quote. That is SO not the way to do business anymore. No one wants to be locked down to a particular company. It's costly and dangerous. People want to buy the best solutions and be able to fit them together.
I like Trading Spaces. It's a dumb, goofy show that you can watch with your girlfriend. And Paige Davis is cute as hell. It doesn't bother me that TLC has drifted away from Learning. I don't expect to learn from TV (except for the C-SPAN channels, which I'm addicted to).
...but is there anyone who associates Netscape with anything other than ugly bloatware? If you want to sell a product, is plastering the Netscape logo all over it the best way to go? When someone says "Netscape", images of "RealPlayer" and a bunch of crappy "Subscribe to AOL Now!" icons come to mind.
I think this will help push sales if customer's spend less time in line. There have \been times where I've been waiting in line and thought, "Y'know, I don't REALLY need this 25 pack of CD-R's right now. I'm going to put it back on the shelf."
Ray tracing is nice for quick-and-dirty demos. Not everyone can run a resource-intensive program like Maya. I remember we used PovRAY a lot in my computer graphics class. Also, weren't Wolfenstein and Doom based on Ray Tracing?
OK, it works like this: you go to the Mozilla site and download the source code. Then you add your own malicious code into the source. Then you host the source on your own site claiming to be a legimate mirror. A knowledgable user would download your source code / binaries and compare the checksum to the checksum of the real code. If you altered any code, they will not match.
I'll watch it, but I'm skeptical. I really don't like the idea of the enemies being replaced with hot babes. This whole trend toward making sexy females the antagonists (see Terminator 3) is getting so tiring. Giving me something scary, or disturbing. If I'm in the mood for porn, I'm not going to waste my time on basic cable.
The guy said he needed a subject that was relatively static. But shadows on a canyon wall are not static. He says it took him 13 minutes. I wonder if there was any noticeable movement in the shadows in that time?
One thing to keep in mind about those quaint old books in libraries is that many of them are older reference books full of incorrect or nearly-useless information.
Probably more "useless" than "incorrect." I'd endorse book burnings if I could toss on some copies of "Using Lotus Domino 3" or "AmiPro For Dummies." Nothing is more depressing than old tech guides for software you never liked in the first place.
2. Evolution is incomplete and still has problems that need to be worked out. It is not dogma to be blindly defended, but a theory that should be reworked or discarded as we learn more things about our world.
I agree. The sheer number of trees that have been sacrificed for Stephen J. Gould books bears this out.
It does not make sense that Science and Christianity should shun each other so absolutely over something as impossibly stupid and pointless as this Argument.
As someone who appreciates science, it infuriates me when religious radicals try to undermine real science. They are all for science when it comes to life-saving medicine or air conditioning for their churches. But god forbid anyone uses scientific methods to point out how baseless some of their beliefs are! The whole history of the mainstream religions consists of the systematic refutation of superstitions and illogical dogma. There is nothing admirable about "faith" when all you are faithful to is ignorance.
I'll take the fossil record over the bible any day.
There is no greater proof that science has won the Evolution VS. Creationism argument than the "Intelligent Design" theory. The religious right knows that they cannot win with a "faith based" argument in this day and age, so they've resorted to rhetorical jujitsu and created "Intelligent Design" theory. (Intelligence Design summary : the world is so gosh darn complex that SOME higher power must have created it, right?).
Because then someone can steal your watch. Granted, this would actually be better than having someone steal your finger.
Well, yeah. Thieves used to break into cars when the owner wasn't around because the underlying security mechanism was easier to bypass. Now that this isn't the case, the thieves simply wait for the owner to unlock the car and then steal it at gunpoint. Let them take my watch...they can already take my credit card if they really want to (C'mon, do you think the 17-year-old kid behind the register at Target is REALLY paying that much attention to whether the signatures match?)
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Not that this should be a great surprise to anyone, but Microsoft acts this way too.
Microsoft has a good reputation for treating their employes well. Executives are well compensated, and the geeks get to have a lot of fun. Also, the level of sh!t they put their customers through is merely par for the course.
The thing that struck me about this Oracle book review was the "you better buy everything from us or you're out" quote. That is SO not the way to do business anymore. No one wants to be locked down to a particular company. It's costly and dangerous. People want to buy the best solutions and be able to fit them together.
I like Trading Spaces. It's a dumb, goofy show that you can watch with your girlfriend. And Paige Davis is cute as hell. It doesn't bother me that TLC has drifted away from Learning. I don't expect to learn from TV (except for the C-SPAN channels, which I'm addicted to).
God, IE could really use some better CSS handling. I'm disappointed they didn't add any with this service pack.
...but is there anyone who associates Netscape with anything other than ugly bloatware? If you want to sell a product, is plastering the Netscape logo all over it the best way to go? When someone says "Netscape", images of "RealPlayer" and a bunch of crappy "Subscribe to AOL Now!" icons come to mind.
I think this will help push sales if customer's spend less time in line. There have \been times where I've been waiting in line and thought, "Y'know, I don't REALLY need this 25 pack of CD-R's right now. I'm going to put it back on the shelf."
Ray tracing is nice for quick-and-dirty demos. Not everyone can run a resource-intensive program like Maya. I remember we used PovRAY a lot in my computer graphics class. Also, weren't Wolfenstein and Doom based on Ray Tracing?
Ann Coulter has her typical bitchy take on the whole situation.
Hey guys, the trailer for the next Star Wars movie is RIGHT HERE!!!!.
OK, it works like this: you go to the Mozilla site and download the source code. Then you add your own malicious code into the source. Then you host the source on your own site claiming to be a legimate mirror. A knowledgable user would download your source code / binaries and compare the checksum to the checksum of the real code. If you altered any code, they will not match.
Notes is painful to use.
::thinks of Domino Designer and shudders::
If you think Lotus Notes is painful to use, you should try developing in it.
I'll bet if they used Ray Charles instead of BB King, more people would have bought them.
Hmmm... Would you perchance be a redhead ? :-)
:)
Actually, I'm blond
This post was marked as redundant, but I'd glad the joke got posted again. Reading it a second time, I finally get it.
I'll watch it, but I'm skeptical. I really don't like the idea of the enemies being replaced with hot babes. This whole trend toward making sexy females the antagonists (see Terminator 3) is getting so tiring. Giving me something scary, or disturbing. If I'm in the mood for porn, I'm not going to waste my time on basic cable.
The guy said he needed a subject that was relatively static. But shadows on a canyon wall are not static. He says it took him 13 minutes. I wonder if there was any noticeable movement in the shadows in that time?
Not that there's anything wrong with submitting links to your own stories.
One thing to keep in mind about those quaint old books in libraries is that many of them are older reference books full of incorrect or nearly-useless information.
Probably more "useless" than "incorrect." I'd endorse book burnings if I could toss on some copies of "Using Lotus Domino 3" or "AmiPro For Dummies." Nothing is more depressing than old tech guides for software you never liked in the first place.
I love it when people who don't even have the balls to post under a MEANINGLESS USERNAME make fun of other people's looks.
These strange creatures are called "women." Recent estimates say that they occupy about half the population these days.
2. Evolution is incomplete and still has problems that need to be worked out. It is not dogma to be blindly defended, but a theory that should be reworked or discarded as we learn more things about our world.
I agree. The sheer number of trees that have been sacrificed for Stephen J. Gould books bears this out.
It does not make sense that Science and Christianity should shun each other so absolutely over something as impossibly stupid and pointless as this Argument.
As someone who appreciates science, it infuriates me when religious radicals try to undermine real science. They are all for science when it comes to life-saving medicine or air conditioning for their churches. But god forbid anyone uses scientific methods to point out how baseless some of their beliefs are! The whole history of the mainstream religions consists of the systematic refutation of superstitions and illogical dogma. There is nothing admirable about "faith" when all you are faithful to is ignorance.
I'll take the fossil record over the bible any day.
There is no greater proof that science has won the Evolution VS. Creationism argument than the "Intelligent Design" theory. The religious right knows that they cannot win with a "faith based" argument in this day and age, so they've resorted to rhetorical jujitsu and created "Intelligent Design" theory. (Intelligence Design summary : the world is so gosh darn complex that SOME higher power must have created it, right?).
My thoughts exactly. That's really an impressive technology. Kinda creepy, too. All that information streaming through the dark sea bed.....
Because then someone can steal your watch. Granted, this would actually be better than having someone steal your finger.
Well, yeah. Thieves used to break into cars when the owner wasn't around because the underlying security mechanism was easier to bypass. Now that this isn't the case, the thieves simply wait for the owner to unlock the car and then steal it at gunpoint. Let them take my watch...they can already take my credit card if they really want to (C'mon, do you think the 17-year-old kid behind the register at Target is REALLY paying that much attention to whether the signatures match?)
Why not just put it in a watch or something?
In case anyone thinks Darl McBride is more clever than he actually is, the "drug users and computer users" joke is pretty old.