attempting to sell a device that would decrypt the satellite signals sent into everyone's homes.
Actually he attemted to sell a device that would trick an DirecTV or E* decoder into decrypting the satellite systems. The encryption itself wansn't cracked, the DirecTV tuner gets tricked into thinking a customer has the authorization to have certain channels decrypted.
Anyway, I love my DirecTV, and I'm happy to pay for it, and not give money to Comcast Cable!
It's a bizzare place where people drive SUVs with "Greenpeace" stickers on them. When I ask them how do they justify it, they say "We need 4wd when we go skiing"
People usually say folks in LA are shallow, but down there they drive their SUVs and won't try to rationalize it with lame excuses.
Anyway, all the women in Palo Alto are stupid "executive wives". That probably includes Mary Frances Callan.
1. YOU DIDN'T UNDERSTAND MY POINT. I guess you're stupid.
2. I have nothing against religion. I consider myself religious
3. No matter how "universal" the church of the Boy Scouts of America is, it's still a CHURCH, by your own admission.
4. If I went around wearing a priest's collar and chewing on wafers saying "MMMM...christ tastes good" Catholics would be offended. How come it's OK for the Boy Scouts to make fun of NATIVE AMERICAN religious ceremonies in a similar manner?
5. NO OTHER CHURCH gets million acre ranches in arizona subsidized by the government.
6. NO OTHER CHURCH gets access to recruit children in public schools.
What makes them immoral is that they DEMAND public money and special access to public schools. That's a lousy moral lesson to teach children.
The Boy Scouts of America is a CHURCH for BOYS. Plain and simple. Nothing wrong with that. I belong to a church, too. (actually a synagogue.)
But we don't take public money, nor do we demand access to children in publich schools, nor do we demand free land from the government, nor do we demand reduced rates and special treatment at national parks.
I believe that the Boy Scouts of America has the absolute right to exclude gays. I've never once questioned that. You shouldn't jump to conclusions.
What makes them immoral is that they DEMAND public money and special access to public schools.
The Boy Scouts of America is a CHURCH for BOYS. Plain and simple. Nothing wrong with that. I belong to a church, too. (actually a synagogue.)
But we don't take public money, nor do we demand access to children in publich schools, nor do we demand free land from the government, nor do we demand reduced rates and special treatment at national parks.
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And that 42-vold CIGARETTE LIGHTER will help the younger generation spark up their crank pipes while they're listening to Snoop Dog and watching a DVD in their car.
Couldn't men benefit from this, too? After all, I don't like be grabbed from behind either.
Why do women get all the tasers, pepper spray, and rape whistles, while the men get bubkis?
Researchers at MIT also say...
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Researchers at MIT also say...
Imagin[e] a future where biology and technology merge. We're now creating computer programs using the principles of natural selection and random mutation --- the basics of Darwinian evolution. We may grow telephones, but manufacture cabbage. -- Danny Hillis, MIT Media Lab
That kind of thinking got him fired from Disney R&D
SGI seems to be the lastest victim of the economic downturn. Today they announced an extensive 'restructuring,'
I don't think they are the victim of the economic downturn. People were wondering why they were still around even during the peak of the dot-com boom! In fact, several years prior, when they build that ugly "toon-town" building near the old Adobe HQ, people thought they were through.
Why don't you go suck my dick? Really now, getting your panties in a knot because other people, in the Democracy called/., deemed it necessary to mod me up.
No,I'm not a flamer. I'm a big fan of Apple, and use an OS-X machine for most "desktop" tasks.
But these Zealot Apple users do nothing to advance Apple's cause. If I report my experience (and frankly, I don't think having to reboot a couple of times a week is so bad), you call me a liar!
If you really want people to use Macintosh hardware and software, you may try by being nicer to them! Being a clique-ish cult is a bad start.
Of course, there's no need to mention Microsoft's inability to create a stable system My Windows XP box, which is my fileserver, has been up for 5 months so far.
My OS X box, which I use for web browsing and word processing, crashes about once every three days.
Now, I certainly have some bones to pick with Microsoft, but Apple is no better.
Well, you may be a former NextStep programmer, but I'm a current NextStep (aka OS-X cocoa) programmer.
You should feel a bit sorry for me.
In all seriousness, I think that OSX Cocoa would have a better acceptance rate if there were C++ APIs instead of Objective-C
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that's not elitism, it's true. if you can't figure out how to install a program as complex as mysql, which isn't that hard to install in osx, there's a good chance you can't use it.
The reviewer said " if you can't figure out how to install them from the documentation then you aren't smart enough to use them" (emphasis added). That surely is elitism of the worst sort. You can be very smart and still not have the knowledge and experience necessary to use MySQL. The word "smart" is horribly elitist in this context. If he had chosen to say "arent' yet knowledgeable enought to..." then it woldn't be an issue.
If I were a non-geek reading that review I would be offended. Hell as a geek who happens not to have learnt that much about administering databases I'm offended.
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attempting to sell a device that would decrypt the satellite signals sent into everyone's homes.
Actually he attemted to sell a device that would trick an DirecTV or E* decoder into decrypting the satellite systems. The encryption itself wansn't cracked, the DirecTV tuner gets tricked into thinking a customer has the authorization to have certain channels decrypted.
Anyway, I love my DirecTV, and I'm happy to pay for it, and not give money to Comcast Cable!
It's a bizzare place where people drive SUVs with "Greenpeace" stickers on them. When I ask them how do they justify it, they say "We need 4wd when we go skiing"
People usually say folks in LA are shallow, but down there they drive their SUVs and won't try to rationalize it with lame excuses.
Anyway, all the women in Palo Alto are stupid "executive wives". That probably includes Mary Frances Callan.
It's not Macintoshes I don't like, it's MAC USERS!
That's still true.
The problem with Linux is there's no standard distribution.
And since OS X is more bsd-like, BSD is more "compatible" with it.
2. I have nothing against religion. I consider myself religious
3. No matter how "universal" the church of the Boy Scouts of America is, it's still a CHURCH, by your own admission.
4. If I went around wearing a priest's collar and chewing on wafers saying "MMMM...christ tastes good" Catholics would be offended. How come it's OK for the Boy Scouts to make fun of NATIVE AMERICAN religious ceremonies in a similar manner?
5. NO OTHER CHURCH gets million acre ranches in arizona subsidized by the government.
6. NO OTHER CHURCH gets access to recruit children in public schools.
What makes them immoral is that they DEMAND public money and special access to public schools. That's a lousy moral lesson to teach children.
The Boy Scouts of America is a CHURCH for BOYS. Plain and simple. Nothing wrong with that. I belong to a church, too. (actually a synagogue.)
But we don't take public money, nor do we demand access to children in publich schools, nor do we demand free land from the government, nor do we demand reduced rates and special treatment at national parks.
I believe that the Boy Scouts of America has the absolute right to exclude gays. I've never once questioned that. You shouldn't jump to conclusions.
What makes them immoral is that they DEMAND public money and special access to public schools.
The Boy Scouts of America is a CHURCH for BOYS. Plain and simple. Nothing wrong with that. I belong to a church, too. (actually a synagogue.)
But we don't take public money, nor do we demand access to children in publich schools, nor do we demand free land from the government, nor do we demand reduced rates and special treatment at national parks.
HOWEVER, they are actually a CHURCH for BOYS. Nothing wrong with that, if they didn't ACCEPT PUBLIC MONEY and demand ACCESS to public schools.
The Church I belong to isn't allowed to do that. Why should the BSA?
This is a DEMOCRACY.
We don't need term limits. The people should have the right to ELECT whomever they want to.
MOVE TO CHINA, YOU FUCKING COMMUNIST, IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT.
Second of all, there is no organization MORE CORRUPT AND DISGUSTING than the Boy Scouts of America.
I don't agree with your point of view, and I share you frustration with words like "Gigabyte" that are almost always mispronounced.
But, the inventor of the format, Compuserve, declared it was to be pronounced like the thing choosy mothers choose: "JIF".
If they said it was to be pronounced "Mac Users Are Gay", I suppose that's what we'd be calling it, too.
Ths US Should Impose a TAX on INDIAN SOFTWARE/
And that 42-vold CIGARETTE LIGHTER will help the younger generation spark up their crank pipes while they're listening to Snoop Dog and watching a DVD in their car.
Quit! Let 'em hire some H1-B coolies to do the job on-the-cheap. They'll get what they pay for.
It can do a google image search, and present you with the answer.
Why do women get all the tasers, pepper spray, and rape whistles, while the men get bubkis?
Imagin[e] a future where biology and technology merge. We're now creating computer programs using the principles of natural selection and random mutation --- the basics of Darwinian evolution. We may grow telephones, but manufacture cabbage. -- Danny Hillis, MIT Media Lab
That kind of thinking got him fired from Disney R&D
I don't think they are the victim of the economic downturn. People were wondering why they were still around even during the peak of the dot-com boom! In fact, several years prior, when they build that ugly "toon-town" building near the old Adobe HQ, people thought they were through.
It's behind a firewall. NO ports are open to the outside world. It just serves files, runs my webcam, and streams MP3s in-house.
But these Zealot Apple users do nothing to advance Apple's cause. If I report my experience (and frankly, I don't think having to reboot a couple of times a week is so bad), you call me a liar!
If you really want people to use Macintosh hardware and software, you may try by being nicer to them! Being a clique-ish cult is a bad start.
My Windows XP box, which is my fileserver, has been up for 5 months so far.
My OS X box, which I use for web browsing and word processing, crashes about once every three days.
Now, I certainly have some bones to pick with Microsoft, but Apple is no better.
You should feel a bit sorry for me.
In all seriousness, I think that OSX Cocoa would have a better acceptance rate if there were C++ APIs instead of Objective-C
The reviewer said " if you can't figure out how to install them from the documentation then you aren't smart enough to use them" (emphasis added). That surely is elitism of the worst sort. You can be very smart and still not have the knowledge and experience necessary to use MySQL. The word "smart" is horribly elitist in this context. If he had chosen to say "arent' yet knowledgeable enought to..." then it woldn't be an issue.
If I were a non-geek reading that review I would be offended. Hell as a geek who happens not to have learnt that much about administering databases I'm offended.
It seems like Apple's "Objective C" is so irrelevant, it's not even on the list.