Rod Johnson?? Really?! Rod Johnson is easily one of the top 5 names of all time. Rod Johnson wins by name alone!!!! It's settled. Java is the best language. Suck it, other languages and your weakly named representatives!
I'm a PHP programmer more than anything... but I must concede to Rod Johnson. You can't make that name any better! Maybe if his middle name was 'Motherf***ing'.
I own a computer service/repair business mostly for residential customers... like geek squad, for lack of a better national example. There's lots of small businesses like me all over the US and I'm sure abroad...you get the point...
Anyway... One thing I can say for sure, is that IE8 has really changed things for Microsoft in the browser wars. It's horrible! It seriously crashes more than it gets closed normally, it is REDICULOUSLY slow, even compared to IE7! Hell... I long for the days of IE7 and when that came out it it was hard to explain to my non-technical residential customers what this new browser was...It takes SOOOO long to load, pages render slow, its just unusable.
I've never seen seen anything as bad as IE8... while FF, Opera, Chrome are all competing to make the fastest, most compliant browsers, Microsoft is STILL(?WTF?) doing it's own thing releasing a bigger, fatter, slower browser that have features that even technical people aren't asking for...
I think they've finally made the people who have no idea what a browser is to become so fed up as to say "This thing is going so slow, maybe I should try that firefox thing I heard about..."
I bet the numbers are right. I believe IE8 is THAT BAD
This would be a very good point, if it were actually correct. The uninstaller is most certainly resident, and uninstalls Norton from a computer when it works.
The Norton Removal Tool is for installations of Norton software that has become so inexplicably damaged that it's uninstaller wont work.
Ive had to use it plenty of times on installations of Norton that for whatever reason, wouldn't uninstall the normal way.
It's a fix that probably came from consumer demand as a result of so many hosed installations of Norton. It's not the uninstaller. But thank god it was available, becuase the alternative would probably be a reinstallation of Windows.
There may be truth to all of your reasons, but one of the primary reasons for the order of the keys on a QWERTY keyboard was to help typewriter salesmen sell them.
You can spell 'typewriter' using only keys on the top row.
The rest of the layout was done with frequency of use, and hammer jamming in mind.
Not sure if it's true, myth, or just coincidence, but its my favorite theory, at least.
I was looking into opening an indie game store last summer, found a great location (in a mall!!), had funding, everything... Then I went looking for distributors.
I had about $20k to spend on new titles. The cheapest I could find was 52.00 each (including shipping), for games I had to sell for 49.99! Yes, thats right... I'd lose 2.01 on each sale. Not exactly a profitable venture.
Even a $20k purchase didnt entitle you to a bulk discount. That just shows you what it costs to get into this retail market as a startup.
Broke my heart really... My love of games, and my 'dream business' died right there.
Directly from the source
"Though there are about a dozen games that have directly influenced Magic in one way or another, the game's most influential ancestor is a game for which I have no end of respect: Cosmic Encounter."
Richard Garfield, designer of Magic: The Gathering
Yep, we play the Eon version, which is the oldest. Little cardboard chits, nothing fancy, and up to 6 players (expansions can get you up to 8 players, but good luck finding them, or the Eon version for that matter)
The Avalon Hill version is the newest, with injection molded plastic pieces, but only about 1/2 of the options, and support for only 4 players... *sigh* why bother?
When me and my buddies want to play board games, its either:
1 RoboRally (with all the expansions, especially Armed and Dangerous), or
2. Cosmic Encounter, which was the inspiration for Richard Garfield to create Magic: The Gathering
Sorry, I was in a bad mood this morning. I had 3 beers at lunch and I feel better now. I've spent lots of time helping in #linux too... and was often quick to reply with "RTFM", but if I did help someone, I didn't chime in afterwards with "That wasn't hard..."
Does everyone who responds to a request for screenshots, mirrors, bittorrents, or whatever, have to always snidely remark "That wasn't very difficult!"
Yeah, it's the Internet... we know it's not difficult. So what if the guy wanted someone else to do the legwork.
Geeeeesh. After the millionth time, I guess I'm just getting a little tired of seeing that inevitable statement.
I realize they get royalties... but on average I watch about 10 movies a month. With Netflix that costs me 20 bucks a month. That used to cost me more than twice that much to rent the same amount of movies from Blockbuster. So, as I see it, less of my money is going to the entertainment industry.
Also, I do buy used dvds of movies that I want to own. But just because I want to watch a movie, that doesn't mean I want to own it!
I went legit about a year ago. I decided that downloading music was theft, and I felt morally obligated to do the right thing. I stopped downloading music illegally.
I have even bought some CDs in this last year! Not many. Not nearly as many as I used to, and not even as many as I was buying when I was downloading music illegally!!
It is disgusting to hear that they are suing a 12 year old girl. Its outrageous to hear them say they don't know any personal information about the people they are suing! I think that's bullshit damage control, but if it's true, I wouldn't be surprised if there are other minors on the list!! Man... put yourself in her position. Imagine you are 12 years old and being sued out of the blue (I doubt she keeps up with this fiasco on/.)
I can't stomach the idea of giving money to a company like that. I'd sooner buy Unix from SCO. And you know what, the movie industry is no better, and you can bet they are monitoring this closely to be sure when their time comes, they don't make the same mistakes.
Here's a simple, realistic plan for letting these businesses know how you feel:
1. If you must own music, buy used.
2. If you must own movies, buy used.
3. DON'T BUY FROM ITUNES, BUYMUSIC, or any other online service!!!
4. Don't rent movies from Blockbuster or Hollywood Video!!
5. Don't go to the movie theater, except when absolutely necessary (LOTR)
Don't waste your time with worthless online petitions, or stupid letters to the RIAA that make no difference. Hit em where it hurts, and do it legally. Amazon z-shops and Yahoo! stores are the best online sources for buying good quality used music and movies that I've found. They are fast and easy to use, and NOT ONE PENNY of your purchase goes to the record or music industry. Netflix is the best way I've found to rent movies. Going to the movies is almost always a frustraiting waste of time and money, and I am usually happy I waited to rent a movie that I considered seeing in the theater.
This is not an advertisement for any of these businesses. This is intended as a public service. But mostly, this is just me venting, and if I get modded down, so be it.
Isn't it asking a lot to expect today's point and click users, who are used to clicking on folders in MS Explorer (or to a lesser degree Konqueror/Nautilus) to suddenly start typing strings of search criteria to retrieve files?
For that matter, what in the world would this type of filesystem even look like in a file manager type window?
I just emailed my (few) MSN Messenger friends with a link to the article. I informed them that on the date that gaim no longer works with MSN Messenger protocol, I will no longer be able to communicate with them, unless they go with another protocol.
As far as I am concerned, since I have AOL, Y!, ICQ, and Sametime at work, there is no excuse for them not being able to communicate with me.
Goodbye MSN... if you want to close your network off thats fine with me. You bring nothing to the party, and offer nothing so great that I need you, your client, or your protocol. Bye bye. If my friends need to talk to me, they'll use one of the myriad of other methods.
Did anyone expect an organization like the Gartner Group to come out and recommend throwing caution to the wind?
I'm not surprised that they made this recommendation (Which I am ignoring, and in fact when I go into work tomorrow I am building a new RH7.3 server for internal webapps). I'm more surprised that this is even something the Gartner Group needs to take a position on?!
I work for a multi billion dollar company, which pays close attention to the careful analysis and insightful recommendations that the Gartner Group makes. You don't need to be careful or insightful to come to this conclusion if your sole purpose is to help businesses make decisions.
Not only would M$ happily make Flash an "IE only" component, they would also ensure that Linux never gets a Shockwave browser plugin too! (Why is there no Shockwave plugin!?)
And then they would wreck Dreamweaver, probably removing it's JSP support, and then what?
I really hope Macromedia tells them to go pound sand.
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Rod Johnson?? Really?! Rod Johnson is easily one of the top 5 names of all time. Rod Johnson wins by name alone!!!! It's settled. Java is the best language. Suck it, other languages and your weakly named representatives! I'm a PHP programmer more than anything... but I must concede to Rod Johnson. You can't make that name any better! Maybe if his middle name was 'Motherf***ing'.
I own a computer service/repair business mostly for residential customers... like geek squad, for lack of a better national example. There's lots of small businesses like me all over the US and I'm sure abroad...you get the point... Anyway... One thing I can say for sure, is that IE8 has really changed things for Microsoft in the browser wars. It's horrible! It seriously crashes more than it gets closed normally, it is REDICULOUSLY slow, even compared to IE7! Hell... I long for the days of IE7 and when that came out it it was hard to explain to my non-technical residential customers what this new browser was...It takes SOOOO long to load, pages render slow, its just unusable. I've never seen seen anything as bad as IE8... while FF, Opera, Chrome are all competing to make the fastest, most compliant browsers, Microsoft is STILL(?WTF?) doing it's own thing releasing a bigger, fatter, slower browser that have features that even technical people aren't asking for... I think they've finally made the people who have no idea what a browser is to become so fed up as to say "This thing is going so slow, maybe I should try that firefox thing I heard about..." I bet the numbers are right. I believe IE8 is THAT BAD
This would be a very good point, if it were actually correct. The uninstaller is most certainly resident, and uninstalls Norton from a computer when it works. The Norton Removal Tool is for installations of Norton software that has become so inexplicably damaged that it's uninstaller wont work. Ive had to use it plenty of times on installations of Norton that for whatever reason, wouldn't uninstall the normal way. It's a fix that probably came from consumer demand as a result of so many hosed installations of Norton. It's not the uninstaller. But thank god it was available, becuase the alternative would probably be a reinstallation of Windows.
There may be truth to all of your reasons, but one of the primary reasons for the order of the keys on a QWERTY keyboard was to help typewriter salesmen sell them.
You can spell 'typewriter' using only keys on the top row.
The rest of the layout was done with frequency of use, and hammer jamming in mind.
Not sure if it's true, myth, or just coincidence, but its my favorite theory, at least.
I was looking into opening an indie game store last summer, found a great location (in a mall!!), had funding, everything... Then I went looking for distributors.
I had about $20k to spend on new titles. The cheapest I could find was 52.00 each (including shipping), for games I had to sell for 49.99! Yes, thats right... I'd lose 2.01 on each sale. Not exactly a profitable venture.
Even a $20k purchase didnt entitle you to a bulk discount. That just shows you what it costs to get into this retail market as a startup.
Broke my heart really... My love of games, and my 'dream business' died right there.
WoW upside down is MoM, and MoM upside down is Dad's favorite thing!
ducks...
-- should I write 'farmonauts'? -- No... you should not. Some things can not be un-read.
Directly from the source "Though there are about a dozen games that have directly influenced Magic in one way or another, the game's most influential ancestor is a game for which I have no end of respect: Cosmic Encounter." Richard Garfield, designer of Magic: The Gathering
Now I remember why I rarely post on this site.
Yep, we play the Eon version, which is the oldest. Little cardboard chits, nothing fancy, and up to 6 players (expansions can get you up to 8 players, but good luck finding them, or the Eon version for that matter)
The Avalon Hill version is the newest, with injection molded plastic pieces, but only about 1/2 of the options, and support for only 4 players... *sigh* why bother?
When me and my buddies want to play board games, its either: 1 RoboRally (with all the expansions, especially Armed and Dangerous), or 2. Cosmic Encounter, which was the inspiration for Richard Garfield to create Magic: The Gathering
Sorry, I was in a bad mood this morning. I had 3 beers at lunch and I feel better now. I've spent lots of time helping in #linux too... and was often quick to reply with "RTFM", but if I did help someone, I didn't chime in afterwards with "That wasn't hard..."
Does everyone who responds to a request for screenshots, mirrors, bittorrents, or whatever, have to always snidely remark "That wasn't very difficult!"
Yeah, it's the Internet... we know it's not difficult. So what if the guy wanted someone else to do the legwork.
Geeeeesh. After the millionth time, I guess I'm just getting a little tired of seeing that inevitable statement.
I realize they get royalties... but on average I watch about 10 movies a month. With Netflix that costs me 20 bucks a month. That used to cost me more than twice that much to rent the same amount of movies from Blockbuster. So, as I see it, less of my money is going to the entertainment industry.
Also, I do buy used dvds of movies that I want to own. But just because I want to watch a movie, that doesn't mean I want to own it!
I went legit about a year ago. I decided that downloading music was theft, and I felt morally obligated to do the right thing. I stopped downloading music illegally.
/.)
I have even bought some CDs in this last year! Not many. Not nearly as many as I used to, and not even as many as I was buying when I was downloading music illegally!!
It is disgusting to hear that they are suing a 12 year old girl. Its outrageous to hear them say they don't know any personal information about the people they are suing! I think that's bullshit damage control, but if it's true, I wouldn't be surprised if there are other minors on the list!! Man... put yourself in her position. Imagine you are 12 years old and being sued out of the blue (I doubt she keeps up with this fiasco on
I can't stomach the idea of giving money to a company like that. I'd sooner buy Unix from SCO. And you know what, the movie industry is no better, and you can bet they are monitoring this closely to be sure when their time comes, they don't make the same mistakes.
Here's a simple, realistic plan for letting these businesses know how you feel:
1. If you must own music, buy used.
2. If you must own movies, buy used.
3. DON'T BUY FROM ITUNES, BUYMUSIC, or any other online service!!!
4. Don't rent movies from Blockbuster or Hollywood Video!!
5. Don't go to the movie theater, except when absolutely necessary (LOTR)
Don't waste your time with worthless online petitions, or stupid letters to the RIAA that make no difference. Hit em where it hurts, and do it legally. Amazon z-shops and Yahoo! stores are the best online sources for buying good quality used music and movies that I've found. They are fast and easy to use, and NOT ONE PENNY of your purchase goes to the record or music industry. Netflix is the best way I've found to rent movies. Going to the movies is almost always a frustraiting waste of time and money, and I am usually happy I waited to rent a movie that I considered seeing in the theater.
This is not an advertisement for any of these businesses. This is intended as a public service. But mostly, this is just me venting, and if I get modded down, so be it.
Isn't it asking a lot to expect today's point and click users, who are used to clicking on folders in MS Explorer (or to a lesser degree Konqueror/Nautilus) to suddenly start typing strings of search criteria to retrieve files? For that matter, what in the world would this type of filesystem even look like in a file manager type window?
I just emailed my (few) MSN Messenger friends with a link to the article. I informed them that on the date that gaim no longer works with MSN Messenger protocol, I will no longer be able to communicate with them, unless they go with another protocol. As far as I am concerned, since I have AOL, Y!, ICQ, and Sametime at work, there is no excuse for them not being able to communicate with me. Goodbye MSN... if you want to close your network off thats fine with me. You bring nothing to the party, and offer nothing so great that I need you, your client, or your protocol. Bye bye. If my friends need to talk to me, they'll use one of the myriad of other methods.
Did anyone expect an organization like the Gartner Group to come out and recommend throwing caution to the wind? I'm not surprised that they made this recommendation (Which I am ignoring, and in fact when I go into work tomorrow I am building a new RH7.3 server for internal webapps). I'm more surprised that this is even something the Gartner Group needs to take a position on?! I work for a multi billion dollar company, which pays close attention to the careful analysis and insightful recommendations that the Gartner Group makes. You don't need to be careful or insightful to come to this conclusion if your sole purpose is to help businesses make decisions.
Not only would M$ happily make Flash an "IE only" component, they would also ensure that Linux never gets a Shockwave browser plugin too! (Why is there no Shockwave plugin!?)
And then they would wreck Dreamweaver, probably removing it's JSP support, and then what?
I really hope Macromedia tells them to go pound sand.