The US practices capitalism about as much as the Soviet Union was communist.
US capitalism means your product/company is successful as long as you can buy more politicians and hire more or better lawyers to stomp out your competitors.
I don't know how other providers handle text, but here in Canada Telus mobility charges you only for the message you read, not the ones you receive, something like 5cents/message. That is some benefit since I don't pay for the ones I don't want, but I still get 5+ junk sms messages/day, which on a cell phone is much more of a PITA do delete than email. In the time it takes to delete 1 email message off my cell, I can delete 30 from my inbox, so if sms spam becomes as numerous as email spam then that will be a big problem and a larger irritant and people will demand something be done, something that works. Like a whitelist, and if someone msg's you that is not on it then their msg gets sent to limbo, without you being notified each time one is received.
Anyways, the few junk sms messages I got per day made me disable sms messaging completely. I find no use for it anyways-email, cell, work phone should be enough for anyone to contact me.
Remember, just because YOU don't like the music they put out nowadays doesn't mean that there aren't hundreds of millions of people who do
And just because YOU like the music they put out nowadays doesn't mean that there aren't hundreds of millions of people who DON'T!
Oddly enough- I can say the same thing about the first three seasons of TOS- which is probably why there WERE only three seasons of TOS
Since most shows last one season or less, three seasons of ST:TOS is quite a success, and considering it was made in the the era of Gunsmoke & Bonanza where lines like "Ya called me yella, them's fightin words" and "Mary Lou, you're almost as pretty as ma horse" and similar phrases were popular on TV back then, those three years seems like even more of a success and made TOS stand out above the rest.
Man you gotta get laid, quit drinking, or do something to loosen up. I'm so sick of people blaming SUV's for all the world's problems.
Look around your home. Everything is made from plastics nowadays, and plastics come from petrochemicals. Carpet, shoes, jacket, tv, CD's, DVD's, chairs, aspirin bottles, backpack, remote controls, lampshade, joystick, keyboard, mouse, just to name a few. Are you old enough to remember when softdrinks all came in glass botttles, or do you think they always used plastic?
Our demand for all things derived from crude oil has increased, not just gasoline. Even natural gas was burned off as a waste product 30 years ago, now it's used as a fuel and new supplies are required to keep up the demand.
If everything you own is a hand-me-down or a reused item, and you don't drive, heat your house with wood and not oil or gas, and you don't purchase any new plasticy consumer goods, then your preaching has merit. If not, and I suspect this is the case, stop being so ignorant and don't give me your higher and mightier than though SUV's-are-evil speech. You're contributing to the demand for petroleum products just as much as anyone else is.
On some logical level this argument makes sense, but in realitiy do you really think the shareholders would stand by while the CEO purposely pisses away 5% of the sales?
5% doesn't sound like much, but to a company the size of cisco it could end up costing large shareholders millions of $$. And as much as we'd like to think that certain companies 'are on our side', in reality these corporations exist to please the shareholders.
And as far as Canada being the loser, well, cisco isn't the only game in town.
Contrast this to ST:TNG; a show that my whole family sat down and watched That's because when TNG was on TV, Star Trek was cool and it was a good show. Many people who were not into scifi could watch it, just like anyone can watch the odd episode of Law & Order, 24, or CSI without being a fan and enjoying it. Star Trek was appealing because most episodes were self-contained.
OTOH, Bab 5 had a five year story arc and most episodes dealt with the past, present, and future. You get someone who has never seen B5 and they could be exposed to the Shadows, vorlons, Narn-Centauri war, Earth-Minbari war, The First Ones, Drazi, Psi-Corp, Bester, Marsies, Mars riots, Proxima, Orion 7, Jump Engines, Drahk, martial law on earth, bab5 separating from earth, the league of non-aligned worlds, and sheridan's wife all in one episode! As Neo would say, "Whoa!" For most people that's too much to put into their pipe and smoke in just one hour. They just want to sit back, watch a mystery be solved in 60 minutes, and then get on with their lives.
TV is too dumb right now for good Star Trek, if that is possible anymore. It needs a nice 10-15 year rest.
...because obviously you're too stupid to do it yourself.
You say you've been using Linux since 95, yet the obvious solution of using a firewall excapes you! If you're such a linux expert then where's your iptables firewall machine? Or even your $50 router/firewall. I have one for sale for $40 if you want. That's Cdn $$ too! Man, even installing sygate, zonealarm, or any other personal firewall right after winxp is installed would prevent the shit out there from getting onto your machine.
I've been using Linux since 95 too, but I know better to put any machine, Linux or Windows, directly on the net or in the DMZ unless that's my intention. Windows is much worse than other OS's, but I wouldn't even put a fresh linux install of any distribution on the net without doing some work on it first.
Don't expect to find the answers in others, look inside yourself for them.
You know what you like, what you dislike, and have an idea of what you want to do. Follow your heart; be your own person, meaning do the things you want to do, believe in the things you want to believe in. Don't do things because someone else does them and you think they are cool and you want to be like them. If you were really like that person then it would be you there instead of you looking at them. Look to others for advice, as mentors,for help, but in the end make your own decisions.
As far as you thinking that you are a genius but never get to show it, get over it. Everyone sometime in their life thinks they are special and it is their destiny to change the world and are just waiting for the right moment for their destiny to be fulfilled. For 99.9999% of the people on this planet it never happens or they never make it happen because they are preoccupied with finding out what they should do instead of just going out and doing it, and then end up settling for M-F, 9-5. Focus on what you like and what you want. This will make you happy. Enjoying life is the most important thing in life, and if you succeed at this then all the rest will fall into place.
Do people honestly use file selector windows and drag and drop, and find that more efficient than tab completing in a terminal window?
What do you mean by 'more efficient'. It takes less time? It takes less energy? Are you saying you get a stiffy because you you burn 1 less calorie every 10 minutes using tab completion compared to drag n drop? Please explain what you mean by 'more efficient'
Do I just need more practice? I think you need a life and a more open mind. Not everyone uses computers to be "efficient." Do you measure the worth of everything you have or do in your life by it's efficiency? If you do then I feel sorry for you.
I noticed Americans have been distancing themselves from Canadians since Canada said "No" to participating in the ousting of Saddam. Kinda like the way they felt about France, but not to the same degree.
We're all Americans. When Canadians say 'we're not Americans', it's not that we are saying that we're not "North Americans", but instead we're saying we're not United States AMERICANS. Not sure why, but Canadians have always made great effort to distance themselves from being American. Canadians take pride in not being Americans.
I was watching the Just for Laughs comedy festival in Montreal and some American comic came on stage. His skit was mainly comparing Canadians to Americans (Canadians love when Americans talk about us;), and one of the first things he said was "No other country takes so much pride in not being American as Canada does.";)
Oh god, after mentioning Keanu Reeves I am now imagining this fight as something from one of Bill & Ted's Adventures.
Obiwan:"You're most haneous Anakin" Anakin:"Shutup Obiwan" Obiwan"Your mom's hot Anakin" Anikin:"SHUTUP Obiwan!" Obiwan:"You fight like that short little French dude" Anakin:"SHUTUP OBIWAN!"
But seriously, when I read they will be fighting over lava on surfboards I thought "Oh God NO!" Is Lucas a big Marty McFly fan? I know we're jumping the gun big time here but from some scenes and characters in the last two movies, and changes to the original three (Greedo shooting first) it wouldn't suprise me that this much anticipated fight will end up being a real stinker.
I thought google's name was derived from ogle or oogle, and then they just put a G in front to make it Google.
Only recently have I heard about the number googol. I've heard the phrase "google" used many times, typically in a manner regarding looking at something, but not once referring to a number.
As much as I can relate to the problems he is experiencing, this article is nothing more than someone's ranting poorly disguised in a cloak of professionalism. Posting one of those "Why Linux sucks" or "Why windows sucks" posts from usenet would have not been less amateurish.
One I love is: "The product I downloaded turned out to be some pathetic crippleware, and I uninstalled it."
Who in their right mind downloads sw without doing at least a bit of research on on google to see if what other think of it, if it contains spyware, if it hijacks your browser, if it expires in 30 days, etc? Especially with something like a registry cleaner. Sheesh!
As far as large downloads are concerned it's not like linux updates are all smaller than 50K. Install Fedora core2 test and a full update takes a long time even over hi-speed.
There are tons of lifeforms and battles to be generated with 85% of the galaxy remaining.
The problem is that the new aliens and battles are the same old things just recycled in a different package-three nose ridges instead of two, two bone ridges instead of one. Enemy ship beating the heck out of your ship? Recalibrate the phaser frequency to penetrate their shields? Fleet losing the battle? At the last moment make the cavalry arrive and blast the enemy to spacedust. Ship hit by a torpedo? Have the bridge shake and sparks fly, mention a warp core breach is imminent, and have someone say "shields down 20%". Encounter aliens that are so advanced that you are powerless against? After a few episodes develop the character of the lifeform so they are not-all powerful, not invulnerable, and desire human-like emotions.
Seen it, seen it, seen it, seen it. Or, did I mention we've seen it before?
Think about all the historical development of the Federation we've heard about (especially in ST:TNG) that have yet to be shown on TV or in a film...
And as the great Mr. Spock once said (or will say, depending on your POV), "Having, is not always as pleasant, as wanting." (something like that)
They are accurate enough. We're not measuring time down to the millisecond here, or down to the second, or even to the minute. Put in your $1 for 60 minutes and you know you have 10-30 minutes of extra time until you get a ticket, so if the meter is off by a few minutes it is irrelevant.
You have to understand one difference here. Most of these pro-patent companies are trying to take something away from you, that is your freedom to write programs, functions, subroutines, algorithms, design websites, etc. without worry of legal reprisal. Redhat and Mandrake are trying to defend your freedom to do that.
Can you mention the make and model of that radio you have? I've been looking for a magical receiver that picks up droves of stations that play non-industry music and I've love to pick one up.
Not everybody lives in Metropolis with 50FM stations to choose from.
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The US practices capitalism about as much as the Soviet Union was communist. US capitalism means your product/company is successful as long as you can buy more politicians and hire more or better lawyers to stomp out your competitors.
That's exactly what I do-disable SMS.
I don't know how other providers handle text, but here in Canada Telus mobility charges you only for the message you read, not the ones you receive, something like 5cents/message. That is some benefit since I don't pay for the ones I don't want, but I still get 5+ junk sms messages/day, which on a cell phone is much more of a PITA do delete than email. In the time it takes to delete 1 email message off my cell, I can delete 30 from my inbox, so if sms spam becomes as numerous as email spam then that will be a big problem and a larger irritant and people will demand something be done, something that works. Like a whitelist, and if someone msg's you that is not on it then their msg gets sent to limbo, without you being notified each time one is received.
Anyways, the few junk sms messages I got per day made me disable sms messaging completely. I find no use for it anyways-email, cell, work phone should be enough for anyone to contact me.
Remember, just because YOU don't like the music they put out nowadays doesn't mean that there aren't hundreds of millions of people who do And just because YOU like the music they put out nowadays doesn't mean that there aren't hundreds of millions of people who DON'T!
Oddly enough- I can say the same thing about the first three seasons of TOS- which is probably why there WERE only three seasons of TOS
Since most shows last one season or less, three seasons of ST:TOS is quite a success, and considering it was made in the the era of Gunsmoke & Bonanza where lines like "Ya called me yella, them's fightin words" and "Mary Lou, you're almost as pretty as ma horse" and similar phrases were popular on TV back then, those three years seems like even more of a success and made TOS stand out above the rest.
I suggest trying firefox. It's tabbed browsing feature makes it easier to look at multiple pages of porn.
Man you gotta get laid, quit drinking, or do something to loosen up. I'm so sick of people blaming SUV's for all the world's problems.
Look around your home. Everything is made from plastics nowadays, and plastics come from petrochemicals. Carpet, shoes, jacket, tv, CD's, DVD's, chairs, aspirin bottles, backpack, remote controls, lampshade, joystick, keyboard, mouse, just to name a few. Are you old enough to remember when softdrinks all came in glass botttles, or do you think they always used plastic?
Our demand for all things derived from crude oil has increased, not just gasoline. Even natural gas was burned off as a waste product 30 years ago, now it's used as a fuel and new supplies are required to keep up the demand.
If everything you own is a hand-me-down or a reused item, and you don't drive, heat your house with wood and not oil or gas, and you don't purchase any new plasticy consumer goods, then your preaching has merit. If not, and I suspect this is the case, stop being so ignorant and don't give me your higher and mightier than though SUV's-are-evil speech. You're contributing to the demand for petroleum products just as much as anyone else is.
On some logical level this argument makes sense, but in realitiy do you really think the shareholders would stand by while the CEO purposely pisses away 5% of the sales?
5% doesn't sound like much, but to a company the size of cisco it could end up costing large shareholders millions of $$. And as much as we'd like to think that certain companies 'are on our side', in reality these corporations exist to please the shareholders.
And as far as Canada being the loser, well, cisco isn't the only game in town.
Contrast this to ST:TNG; a show that my whole family sat down and watched
That's because when TNG was on TV, Star Trek was cool and it was a good show. Many people who were not into scifi could watch it, just like anyone can watch the odd episode of Law & Order, 24, or CSI without being a fan and enjoying it. Star Trek was appealing because most episodes were self-contained.
OTOH, Bab 5 had a five year story arc and most episodes dealt with the past, present, and future. You get someone who has never seen B5 and they could be exposed to the Shadows, vorlons, Narn-Centauri war, Earth-Minbari war, The First Ones, Drazi, Psi-Corp, Bester, Marsies, Mars riots, Proxima, Orion 7, Jump Engines, Drahk, martial law on earth, bab5 separating from earth, the league of non-aligned worlds, and sheridan's wife all in one episode! As Neo would say, "Whoa!" For most people that's too much to put into their pipe and smoke in just one hour. They just want to sit back, watch a mystery be solved in 60 minutes, and then get on with their lives.
TV is too dumb right now for good Star Trek, if that is possible anymore. It needs a nice 10-15 year rest.
...because obviously you're too stupid to do it yourself.
You say you've been using Linux since 95, yet the obvious solution of using a firewall excapes you! If you're such a linux expert then where's your iptables firewall machine? Or even your $50 router/firewall. I have one for sale for $40 if you want. That's Cdn $$ too! Man, even installing sygate, zonealarm, or any other personal firewall right after winxp is installed would prevent the shit out there from getting onto your machine.
I've been using Linux since 95 too, but I know better to put any machine, Linux or Windows, directly on the net or in the DMZ unless that's my intention. Windows is much worse than other OS's, but I wouldn't even put a fresh linux install of any distribution on the net without doing some work on it first.
Funny how you had to be online to post that.
I can't see the skull either, and what I think is supposed to be George Washington looks to me like Bill Idol with his face blacked out.
I do see Jason's goalie mask near the south pole though. It's as if you're looking down at him, and only one eye is visible.
Don't expect to find the answers in others, look inside yourself for them.
You know what you like, what you dislike, and have an idea of what you want to do. Follow your heart; be your own person, meaning do the things you want to do, believe in the things you want to believe in. Don't do things because someone else does them and you think they are cool and you want to be like them. If you were really like that person then it would be you there instead of you looking at them. Look to others for advice, as mentors,for help, but in the end make your own decisions.
As far as you thinking that you are a genius but never get to show it, get over it. Everyone sometime in their life thinks they are special and it is their destiny to change the world and are just waiting for the right moment for their destiny to be fulfilled. For 99.9999% of the people on this planet it never happens or they never make it happen because they are preoccupied with finding out what they should do instead of just going out and doing it, and then end up settling for M-F, 9-5. Focus on what you like and what you want. This will make you happy. Enjoying life is the most important thing in life, and if you succeed at this then all the rest will fall into place.
Oh Oh, I think I smell an engineer here!
Do people honestly use file selector windows and drag and drop, and find that more efficient than tab completing in a terminal window?
What do you mean by 'more efficient'. It takes less time? It takes less energy? Are you saying you get a stiffy because you you burn 1 less calorie every 10 minutes using tab completion compared to drag n drop? Please explain what you mean by 'more efficient'
Do I just need more practice?
I think you need a life and a more open mind. Not everyone uses computers to be "efficient." Do you measure the worth of everything you have or do in your life by it's efficiency? If you do then I feel sorry for you.
I noticed Americans have been distancing themselves from Canadians since Canada said "No" to participating in the ousting of Saddam. Kinda like the way they felt about France, but not to the same degree.
;), and one of the first things he said was "No other country takes so much pride in not being American as Canada does." ;)
We're all Americans.
When Canadians say 'we're not Americans', it's not that we are saying that we're not "North Americans", but instead we're saying we're not United States AMERICANS. Not sure why, but Canadians have always made great effort to distance themselves from being American. Canadians take pride in not being Americans.
I was watching the Just for Laughs comedy festival in Montreal and some American comic came on stage. His skit was mainly comparing Canadians to Americans (Canadians love when Americans talk about us
Oh god, after mentioning Keanu Reeves I am now imagining this fight as something from one of Bill & Ted's Adventures.
Obiwan:"You're most haneous Anakin"
Anakin:"Shutup Obiwan"
Obiwan"Your mom's hot Anakin"
Anikin:"SHUTUP Obiwan!"
Obiwan:"You fight like that short little French dude"
Anakin:"SHUTUP OBIWAN!"
But seriously, when I read they will be fighting over lava on surfboards I thought "Oh God NO!" Is Lucas a big Marty McFly fan? I know we're jumping the gun big time here but from some scenes and characters in the last two movies, and changes to the original three (Greedo shooting first) it wouldn't suprise me that this much anticipated fight will end up being a real stinker.
At least it's better than Voyager's theme!
I thought google's name was derived from ogle or oogle, and then they just put a G in front to make it Google. Only recently have I heard about the number googol. I've heard the phrase "google" used many times, typically in a manner regarding looking at something, but not once referring to a number.
I agree in essence but not not so much in degree.
As much as I can relate to the problems he is experiencing, this article is nothing more than someone's ranting poorly disguised in a cloak of professionalism. Posting one of those "Why Linux sucks" or "Why windows sucks" posts from usenet would have not been less amateurish.
One I love is:
"The product I downloaded turned out to be some pathetic crippleware, and I uninstalled it."
Who in their right mind downloads sw without doing at least a bit of research on on google to see if what other think of it, if it contains spyware, if it hijacks your browser, if it expires in 30 days, etc? Especially with something like a registry cleaner. Sheesh!
As far as large downloads are concerned it's not like linux updates are all smaller than 50K. Install Fedora core2 test and a full update takes a long time even over hi-speed.
Since when does any car get the advertised estimated MPG?
There are tons of lifeforms and battles to be generated with 85% of the galaxy remaining.
The problem is that the new aliens and battles are the same old things just recycled in a different package-three nose ridges instead of two, two bone ridges instead of one. Enemy ship beating the heck out of your ship? Recalibrate the phaser frequency to penetrate their shields? Fleet losing the battle? At the last moment make the cavalry arrive and blast the enemy to spacedust. Ship hit by a torpedo? Have the bridge shake and sparks fly, mention a warp core breach is imminent, and have someone say "shields down 20%". Encounter aliens that are so advanced that you are powerless against? After a few episodes develop the character of the lifeform so they are not-all powerful, not invulnerable, and desire human-like emotions.
Seen it, seen it, seen it, seen it. Or, did I mention we've seen it before?
Think about all the historical development of the Federation we've heard about (especially in ST:TNG) that have yet to be shown on TV or in a film...
And as the great Mr. Spock once said (or will say, depending on your POV), "Having, is not always as pleasant, as wanting." (something like that)
They are accurate enough. We're not measuring time down to the millisecond here, or down to the second, or even to the minute. Put in your $1 for 60 minutes and you know you have 10-30 minutes of extra time until you get a ticket, so if the meter is off by a few minutes it is irrelevant.
You have to understand one difference here. Most of these pro-patent companies are trying to take something away from you, that is your freedom to write programs, functions, subroutines, algorithms, design websites, etc. without worry of legal reprisal. Redhat and Mandrake are trying to defend your freedom to do that.
At the end of the trailer it opens a browser and connects to http://spiderman.sonypictures.com/. That's a 'feature' I can do without.
Can you mention the make and model of that radio you have? I've been looking for a magical receiver that picks up droves of stations that play non-industry music and I've love to pick one up.
Not everybody lives in Metropolis with 50FM stations to choose from.
No need to worry-they're all using Epyx Fast Load cartridges.