"bite me asshat"... now, is that a cockney slang version of the old British insult "Bite My Grasshat" or the Australian "Bite My Ass Shat"?
You know that both of those come from the ancient gaelic insult "Bìdeadh Buideal Mòr Sgruigean" which is first seen used by the famous (well, to Irish folks anyway...) Lord Cuchulain during the war between Ulster and Connacht (50 B.C or so)?
Purportedly he said it during an "honor meeting" as he faced off against Táin Bó Cualgne... historically it went like this,
Táin Bó Cualgne - "You are surrounded, your men are weak, you are outnumbered ten to one, you've no weapons left, you have neither water nor food... you have no hope. Surrender now and I will allow your men to return to their families, showing them the mercy that you have denied so many others." Lord Cuchulain - "Bite me, asshat."
Of course he actually said, "Bìdeadh Buideal Mòr Sgruigean." but you know that already.
I have tried out most of those and, of those you list, my favorite was WordPress. I always avoided MT because it is Perl based and I am only useful with PHP.
However, I found one that was even better than WordPress... Serendipity. This is an oddly unkown piece of blog software that is simple to set up (uses the same MySQL and PHP setups that most blogs use) simply rocks and is, of course, free.
Also, for an objective look at a huge range of free blog and portal software, check out Open Source CMS.
Comparing indentured servitude to participating in Google's gmail is, if not ridiculous, a stretch in more ways than one.
While what you say about most indentured servants is to a certain extent true (a fair number lived and died little better than slaves), it is also true that those servants often had no other option than to become indentured if they wished for a chance to better their lot in life. We felt that the moral cost was high because too many indentured servants were abused or starved or simply turned into slaves in all but name.
This is far from the case with Google's gmail. For a potential indentured servant (usually from the lower classes and without money), choosing not to become one would have resulted a life limited to undesirable, menial labor with most "professional" positions being forever out of reach. For a potential online email user, choosing not to use gmail results in no limitations of any sort at all and has no impact on one's email access/usage at all.
A long time Google fan, I was excited to use froogle to search for a Nintendo Gamecube console (I searched for "gamecube console"... no quotes). It did find the lowest price of any price comparison shopper however a trip to that merchant's site revealed that the froogle quote, $79.99, was wrong! The merchant was asking $94.15 (plus shipping). This could easily be the merchant gaming froogle but I have not had this problem elsewhere.
With that sort of an inaccuracy I will stick with shopper.com, mysimon.com and pricegrabber.com for the time being (I also like the shipping cost calculations of these other sites).
The problem that I have encountered is that you either get Rackspace's used car salesman style approach (irritating... if I want help, be ready when I ask for it) or you get a long wait that is just as bad as a phone call to customer support. Last night I needed to call Earthlink with a problem, I tried their Chat service which is billed as "Online Help in an INSTANT". Well, that "INSTANT" turned out to be 30 minutes of me waiting until I gave up in disgust. That has been my experience in general with retail/support live chat. It's just like all interaction with businesses... you want to give them money, they are on it 24/7... you need help or just have a question, "All reps are busy at this time. Please call back later".
I am a professional photo illustrator. I had an assignment recently that involved an illustration about the U.S. Secret Service and their role in combating counterfeiting. Had I been using CS (I was using PS 7) I would have been in a world of hurt.
According to the Secret Service, color reproductions of currency may be made as long as all of the following conditions are met:
the illustration is of a size less than three-fourths or more than one and one-half, in linear dimension, of each part of the item illustrated
the illustration is one-sided
all negatives, plates, positives, digitized storage medium, graphic files, magnetic medium, optical storage devices, and any other thing used in the making of the illustration that contain an image of the illustration or any part thereof are destroyed and/or deleted or erased after their final use.
So, if this rumor about Photoshop is indeed true, it is worrisome that Adobe would choose to censor it's users and prevent perfectly legal reproductions of currency.
That is a GOOD thing? Can you imagine your outrage if YOU "took it in the a**" because you had extended credit (or simply allowed deferred payments) to needy purchasers and they then filed for bankruptcy?
I used to work for a small online retailer. We lost enough money from overseas ripoffs, challenged credit card charges and destructive idiots (ex. spilling coke on a sensitive eletronic component and then sending it back with a threat to sue us for selling "crap") that enough companies giving it too us in the a** via bankruptcy would have been too much. Come on!
In my area (NE OHIO) we have Adelphia and Time Warner as the main carriers. Time Warner offers cable modem access for $45 month.... you know who provides that access?
Earthlink.
If you call Earthlink directly, you can get the same thing for $40 a month... installed by Time Warner. Isn't that a riot?
p.s. I had Adelphia Cable TV for a year... worst service I have ever had... kept me from trying their overpriced internet access. My Earthlink access, however, is consistent and a whopping 2000 kbps!
"are there two continents called "America" Uhm....no? There ARE two continents with "America" as part of their name, however. More importantly, there is only 1 place on either continent that uses "America" as part of it's official name. Thus the concept of "American dream" being in reference to ONLY the USA (where said concept was first defined) makes perfect sense. Think for yourself... Too many arguments and ideas start off in a noble direction only to be sidetracked and neutered by insufficient thought.
-CF
Ni hao Xiaodidi. Wo shi Gao Shan (you do speak Mandarin, right?). I actually have the MindStor...the generation that came after the original Digital Wallet. It can handle Firewire as well as USB and is reasonably fast. That said, I think waiting is a good idea. I have always wanted an iPod, but to lay out that kind of cash simply for music portability is just not worth it to me. Ideally, I want a reader that is smaller, cheaper AND faster than this Belkin device. I'll see what shakes out in the next few weeks and may well wait until the next gen card readers come out (can't be that long now).
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I am a professional photographer who shoots digital and I am often in remote/poor areas. I either have to lug a laptop (thief magnet) along in a backpack or carry a digital wallet (MindStor 20gb) that is old and from a company that went out of business. I was real excited about this reader because it was the one thing keeping me from buying an iPod. This slowness, however, is a deal killer for me. I have heaps of flash cards but I still like to back everything up as soon as a card fills (and I don't use huge cards...too risky to put so much in one place). My point? I'm disappointed. I WANT to buy an iPod...I know someone can make a card reader that is fast (enough) and cheaper than $99...Heck, the reader that works with my desktop cost $19 and is plenty fast. What is so hard about this? *sigh*
My machine wasn't really sleeping either...it just appeared to be (have it set for 3 hours and I was gone for less than that). Mine is also working fine now so I guess it's nothing to worry about...just not very Apple like, is it?
I was downloading the update this morning (via Software Update), left the room, came back a few minutes later and my screen was blank...as if the machine were sleeping. Nothing would rouse it, however. I ssh'd in and tried killing various processes but nothing worked...couldn't even reboot! Only thing that worked was a hard restart (holding down the power button) and then running fsck a couple of times. Everything is OK now but that was most un-Apple like.
The dam is projected to supply 10% of China's power needs at the current time...obviously that percentage will drop over time as need increases. Not a high percentage in relation to the vast number of people displaced, archaeological sites buried (around 4,000 to 5,000 KNOWN sites) and stunning scenery destroyed.
China relying heavily on nuclear power won't bother the US because, unlike N. Korea's situation, China already has plenty of nuclear weapons.
It's not like China is running out of electricity. Practically everybody has enough energy to power their lights and have heat (and computers and big screen TVs and air conditioners, etc).
Pump Tibet's natural gas? Why not...it's one of the provinces. Tibet became an official part of China many centuries before the US took Hawaii.
Most people in China hate the dam. They see it as a monument to the old guard's collective ego and are about as supportive as Americans would be of flooding the Grand Canyon.
So you think Euroseti's claims are a bit far-fetched? Perhaps just an attempt to cash in? Well, in a long ranging scientific analysis of the images obtained by euroseti, we at bobjonesuniversityseti have revealed the TRUE nature of the "UFO's" in the SOHO images. Here is the proof!
I travel to Shanghai (and beyond) fairly frequently. I have seen a number of movies that were available from street vendors prior to their cinematic release. Many of them appeared to be recorded off of the screen by a decent video camera (based on the relatively unpleasant quality of the recording), some of them were of higher quality but NONE of them were very good and I did not enjoy watching any of them because of this. It would be like downloading an awesome, not-yet-released recording by your favorite artist but getting it from an audio stream aimed at 14.4 modems...yuck! I have no doubt that the film was available from street vendors as stated (pirated material of all sorts is commonly available just about anywhere in China...Photoshop 7 is less than $1, an XL Northface gortex jacket with thermal liner is $35, etc...).
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"bite me asshat"... now, is that a cockney slang version of the old British insult "Bite My Grasshat" or the Australian "Bite My Ass Shat"?
You know that both of those come from the ancient gaelic insult "Bìdeadh Buideal Mòr Sgruigean" which is first seen used by the famous (well, to Irish folks anyway...) Lord Cuchulain during the war between Ulster and Connacht (50 B.C or so)?
Purportedly he said it during an "honor meeting" as he faced off against Táin Bó Cualgne... historically it went like this,
Táin Bó Cualgne - "You are surrounded, your men are weak, you are outnumbered ten to one, you've no weapons left, you have neither water nor food... you have no hope. Surrender now and I will allow your men to return to their families, showing them the mercy that you have denied so many others."
Lord Cuchulain - "Bite me, asshat."
Of course he actually said, "Bìdeadh Buideal Mòr Sgruigean." but you know that already.
-Cheers.
I have tried out most of those and, of those you list, my favorite was WordPress. I always avoided MT because it is Perl based and I am only useful with PHP.
However, I found one that was even better than WordPress... Serendipity. This is an oddly unkown piece of blog software that is simple to set up (uses the same MySQL and PHP setups that most blogs use) simply rocks and is, of course, free.
Also, for an objective look at a huge range of free blog and portal software, check out Open Source CMS.
Comparing indentured servitude to participating in Google's gmail is, if not ridiculous, a stretch in more ways than one. While what you say about most indentured servants is to a certain extent true (a fair number lived and died little better than slaves), it is also true that those servants often had no other option than to become indentured if they wished for a chance to better their lot in life. We felt that the moral cost was high because too many indentured servants were abused or starved or simply turned into slaves in all but name. This is far from the case with Google's gmail. For a potential indentured servant (usually from the lower classes and without money), choosing not to become one would have resulted a life limited to undesirable, menial labor with most "professional" positions being forever out of reach. For a potential online email user, choosing not to use gmail results in no limitations of any sort at all and has no impact on one's email access/usage at all.
A long time Google fan, I was excited to use froogle to search for a Nintendo Gamecube console (I searched for "gamecube console"... no quotes). It did find the lowest price of any price comparison shopper however a trip to that merchant's site revealed that the froogle quote, $79.99, was wrong! The merchant was asking $94.15 (plus shipping). This could easily be the merchant gaming froogle but I have not had this problem elsewhere.
With that sort of an inaccuracy I will stick with shopper.com, mysimon.com and pricegrabber.com for the time being (I also like the shipping cost calculations of these other sites).
The problem that I have encountered is that you either get Rackspace's used car salesman style approach (irritating... if I want help, be ready when I ask for it) or you get a long wait that is just as bad as a phone call to customer support. Last night I needed to call Earthlink with a problem, I tried their Chat service which is billed as "Online Help in an INSTANT". Well, that "INSTANT" turned out to be 30 minutes of me waiting until I gave up in disgust. That has been my experience in general with retail/support live chat. It's just like all interaction with businesses... you want to give them money, they are on it 24/7... you need help or just have a question, "All reps are busy at this time. Please call back later".
According to the Secret Service, color reproductions of currency may be made as long as all of the following conditions are met:
So, if this rumor about Photoshop is indeed true, it is worrisome that Adobe would choose to censor it's users and prevent perfectly legal reproductions of currency.
Capitalism is an economic system. :)
Gloating that your supplier "took it in the a**" is being an a**hole.
Understand yet?
But you missed my point. Bankruptcy is a part of business, true... gloating about how your suppliers "took it in the a**" is just stupid. Period.
I used to work for a small online retailer. We lost enough money from overseas ripoffs, challenged credit card charges and destructive idiots (ex. spilling coke on a sensitive eletronic component and then sending it back with a threat to sue us for selling "crap") that enough companies giving it too us in the a** via bankruptcy would have been too much. Come on!
Earthlink.
If you call Earthlink directly, you can get the same thing for $40 a month... installed by Time Warner. Isn't that a riot?
p.s. I had Adelphia Cable TV for a year... worst service I have ever had... kept me from trying their overpriced internet access. My Earthlink access, however, is consistent and a whopping 2000 kbps!
"are there two continents called "America"
Uhm....no? There ARE two continents with "America" as part of their name, however. More importantly, there is only 1 place on either continent that uses "America" as part of it's official name. Thus the concept of "American dream" being in reference to ONLY the USA (where said concept was first defined) makes perfect sense.
Think for yourself... Too many arguments and ideas start off in a noble direction only to be sidetracked and neutered by insufficient thought. -CF
Ni hao Xiaodidi. Wo shi Gao Shan (you do speak Mandarin, right?). I actually have the MindStor...the generation that came after the original Digital Wallet. It can handle Firewire as well as USB and is reasonably fast.
That said, I think waiting is a good idea. I have always wanted an iPod, but to lay out that kind of cash simply for music portability is just not worth it to me.
Ideally, I want a reader that is smaller, cheaper AND faster than this Belkin device. I'll see what shakes out in the next few weeks and may well wait until the next gen card readers come out (can't be that long now).
I am a professional photographer who shoots digital and I am often in remote/poor areas. I either have to lug a laptop (thief magnet) along in a backpack or carry a digital wallet (MindStor 20gb) that is old and from a company that went out of business.
I was real excited about this reader because it was the one thing keeping me from buying an iPod. This slowness, however, is a deal killer for me. I have heaps of flash cards but I still like to back everything up as soon as a card fills (and I don't use huge cards...too risky to put so much in one place).
My point? I'm disappointed. I WANT to buy an iPod...I know someone can make a card reader that is fast (enough) and cheaper than $99...Heck, the reader that works with my desktop cost $19 and is plenty fast. What is so hard about this? *sigh*
Ahem...the proper /. usage is pr0n...not p0rn. *sigh*
My machine wasn't really sleeping either...it just appeared to be (have it set for 3 hours and I was gone for less than that). Mine is also working fine now so I guess it's nothing to worry about...just not very Apple like, is it?
I was downloading the update this morning (via Software Update), left the room, came back a few minutes later and my screen was blank...as if the machine were sleeping. Nothing would rouse it, however.
I ssh'd in and tried killing various processes but nothing worked...couldn't even reboot!
Only thing that worked was a hard restart (holding down the power button) and then running fsck a couple of times.
Everything is OK now but that was most un-Apple like.
China relying heavily on nuclear power won't bother the US because, unlike N. Korea's situation, China already has plenty of nuclear weapons.
It's not like China is running out of electricity. Practically everybody has enough energy to power their lights and have heat (and computers and big screen TVs and air conditioners, etc).
Pump Tibet's natural gas? Why not...it's one of the provinces. Tibet became an official part of China many centuries before the US took Hawaii.
Most people in China hate the dam. They see it as a monument to the old guard's collective ego and are about as supportive as Americans would be of flooding the Grand Canyon.
-CF
So you think Euroseti's claims are a bit far-fetched? Perhaps just an attempt to cash in? Well, in a long ranging scientific analysis of the images obtained by euroseti, we at bobjonesuniversityseti have revealed the TRUE nature of the "UFO's" in the SOHO images. Here is the proof!
I travel to Shanghai (and beyond) fairly frequently. I have seen a number of movies that were available from street vendors prior to their cinematic release. Many of them appeared to be recorded off of the screen by a decent video camera (based on the relatively unpleasant quality of the recording), some of them were of higher quality but NONE of them were very good and I did not enjoy watching any of them because of this. It would be like downloading an awesome, not-yet-released recording by your favorite artist but getting it from an audio stream aimed at 14.4 modems...yuck! I have no doubt that the film was available from street vendors as stated (pirated material of all sorts is commonly available just about anywhere in China...Photoshop 7 is less than $1, an XL Northface gortex jacket with thermal liner is $35, etc...).