Yes, we get it. X divided by 8 is not quite as much profit as X divided by 1. We can do simple math, or at least know how to use a calculator. Shut up about it already.
> I'm starting to wonder if MS is embarking on a long term surreptitious anti-DRM campaign.
I've been curious about that myself the last few days. Maybe they've found themselve TOO in bed with the media cartels and don't like the feeling of a noose around their neck. Perhaps they've realized the long term path of all this DRM Corruption - The way things are unfolding right now, eventually the media cartals will be running the show. Not only dictating how music and video files (and the software needed to play them) are constructed, but eventually how EVERY PIECE of software that is going to be signed as 'trusted' will have to have their approval as well, meaning every piece of software that Microsoft produces will incur an **AA tax that Microsoft will have to pay.
I'm betting that they've been so focused on getting proper approval from the media cartels on properly contaminating everything with DRM, that they have just recently started some long term strategizing on this new path and have realized that they have screwed themselves (Given up too much future freedom) in the long run, so they are now going to do some creative spin to make sure the general public rejects anything with DRM contamination and then Microsoft can go back to 'business as normal'.
You're right, you do not. But you see, we have to think about your privacy: letting anyone look at your stuff will make it much harder for you to keep your family safe, as someone who thinks he has a beef with you could then easily acquire the needed data to confront you. So, because of this reason people like you, as all the people should be except from such a mandatory sharing of personal data.
Messenger of fear in sight Dark deception kills the light
Hybrid children watch the sea Pray for father, roaming free
Fearless wretch Insanity He watches Lurking beneath the sea Great old one Forbidden site He searches Hunter of the shadows is rising Immortal In madness you dwell
Crawling chaos, underground Cult has summoned, twisted sound
Out from ruins once possessed Fallen city, living death
Fearless wretch Insanity He watches Lurking beneath the sea Timeless sleep Has been upset He awakens Hunter of the shadows is rising Immortal In madness you dwell
Not dead which eternal lie Stranger eons death may die
Drain you of your sanity Face the thing that should not be
Fearless wretch Insanity He watches Lurking beneath the sea Great old one Forbidden site He searches Hunter of the shadows is rising Immortal In madness you dwell.
1. Stand in front of robotics 2. Open access panel with screwdriver 3. Insert favorite appendage into access panel 4. You are now into robotics
On a more serious note, the Omron C200H programmable logic controller, which was several thousand $ when first released around 1990, is now available on ebay way cheap. These things are full scale industrial automation controllers (Can control pretty much anything with it, servomotors, lights, pneumatics, hydraulics, anything.) Can get these tiny 3/4 proximity detectors (think tiny metal detectors) that can sense metal moving within an inch or two. Photosensors. All kinds of stuff.
If you get one, make sure and get one that comes with a manual. The C200H manual is the best for explaining Ladder Logic (The language you program these things in, think something like Graphic Assembly language.) I got my first job in robotics by reading this manual. Took me about three days to learn enough to come up with a design to turn my car (Real car, not toy) into a remote controlled car. Never built it, but my plans got me the job.
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"How about we make euthanasia a viable option and let healthcare costs incurred before age 60 be covered by the public/insured. After age 60 the public coverage of healthcare expenses can be pro-rated until about age 75-80 when costs are completely covered by the patient. That way, if you want to keep Aunt Tilly around no problem, you pay. But don't expect me to pay and don't you dare expect children and young adults to compromise their medical access for your Aunt."
You're never going to sell that idea with the 'after age 60' part, since people born before 1970 (I think that's the year) have to work until they are 65, and people born after have to work till they are 67. Plus, pro-rating expenses on someone who no longer gets an income (Other than that shitty little retirement check each month) - that's just fucked up.
Hell, why don't we just make it like Logan's Run and kill everyone the night before their 31st birthday?
I've got a Dell Latitude D810 with a 1920x1200 resolution. (And non-exploding batteries) Note that the base model does not come with the 1920x1200 but they do offer it. 2 gigs RAM too, woohoo!:)
No, you are the one who is wrong here, or severely underskilled.
Years ago I myself made my living by writing VB.old code. Sure, I thought it was cool at the time. But these days I've moved on. I'd never even consider doing anything with VB.old, except deleting it. C# is infinitely better than the toy language known as VB.old.
But consider yourself free to suck nice warm steaming rat testicles all you want.
Like his father, who said "Know new taxes", but convinced everyone that he said "No new taxes", W has said "We are engaged in a Third World war", but convincing people that he said "We are engaged in a third World War"
"if we're not willing to use them on our own population, how are they acceptable to use on the battlefield?"
I don't understand this concept at all. Guns and bombs are used on the battlefield. Since when should be be willing to use them on our own population???
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Hmmm.... Maybe sell it as "Norton Antibacterial"?
I got one of the inverted versions. Mine put out great, UNTIL I put a ring on the finger. WTF?
And I'm an asshole, too.
My wife's bigger than your wife, so there!
Yes, we get it. X divided by 8 is not quite as much profit as X divided by 1. We can do simple math, or at least know how to use a calculator. Shut up about it already.
Once again: So what? Nobody cares? What's your point? Stop whining.
> I'm starting to wonder if MS is embarking on a long term surreptitious anti-DRM campaign.
I've been curious about that myself the last few days. Maybe they've found themselve TOO in bed with the media cartels and don't like the feeling of a noose around their neck. Perhaps they've realized the long term path of all this DRM Corruption - The way things are unfolding right now, eventually the media cartals will be running the show. Not only dictating how music and video files (and the software needed to play them) are constructed, but eventually how EVERY PIECE of software that is going to be signed as 'trusted' will have to have their approval as well, meaning every piece of software that Microsoft produces will incur an **AA tax that Microsoft will have to pay.
I'm betting that they've been so focused on getting proper approval from the media cartels on properly contaminating everything with DRM, that they have just recently started some long term strategizing on this new path and have realized that they have screwed themselves (Given up too much future freedom) in the long run, so they are now going to do some creative spin to make sure the general public rejects anything with DRM contamination and then Microsoft can go back to 'business as normal'.
Will be interesting to see.
I think you're saying:
You're right, you do not. But you see, we have to think about your privacy: letting anyone look at your stuff will make it much harder for you to keep your family safe, as someone who thinks he has a beef with you could then easily acquire the needed data to confront you. So, because of this reason people like you, as all the people should be except from such a mandatory sharing of personal data.
Metallica's 'Pirate' (aka Cthulthu) song
Messenger of fear in sight
Dark deception kills the light
Hybrid children watch the sea
Pray for father, roaming free
Fearless wretch
Insanity
He watches
Lurking beneath the sea
Great old one
Forbidden site
He searches
Hunter of the shadows is rising
Immortal
In madness you dwell
Crawling chaos, underground
Cult has summoned, twisted sound
Out from ruins once possessed
Fallen city, living death
Fearless wretch
Insanity
He watches
Lurking beneath the sea
Timeless sleep
Has been upset
He awakens
Hunter of the shadows is rising
Immortal
In madness you dwell
Not dead which eternal lie
Stranger eons death may die
Drain you of your sanity
Face the thing that should not be
Fearless wretch
Insanity
He watches
Lurking beneath the sea
Great old one
Forbidden site
He searches
Hunter of the shadows is rising
Immortal
In madness you dwell.
1. Stand in front of robotics
2. Open access panel with screwdriver
3. Insert favorite appendage into access panel
4. You are now into robotics
On a more serious note, the Omron C200H programmable logic controller, which was several thousand $ when first released around 1990, is now available on ebay way cheap. These things are full scale industrial automation controllers (Can control pretty much anything with it, servomotors, lights, pneumatics, hydraulics, anything.) Can get these tiny 3/4 proximity detectors (think tiny metal detectors) that can sense metal moving within an inch or two. Photosensors. All kinds of stuff.
If you get one, make sure and get one that comes with a manual. The C200H manual is the best for explaining Ladder Logic (The language you program these things in, think something like Graphic Assembly language.) I got my first job in robotics by reading this manual. Took me about three days to learn enough to come up with a design to turn my car (Real car, not toy) into a remote controlled car. Never built it, but my plans got me the job.
"How about we make euthanasia a viable option and let healthcare costs incurred before age 60 be covered by the public/insured. After age 60 the public coverage of healthcare expenses can be pro-rated until about age 75-80 when costs are completely covered by the patient. That way, if you want to keep Aunt Tilly around no problem, you pay. But don't expect me to pay and don't you dare expect children and young adults to compromise their medical access for your Aunt."
You're never going to sell that idea with the 'after age 60' part, since people born before 1970 (I think that's the year) have to work until they are 65, and people born after have to work till they are 67. Plus, pro-rating expenses on someone who no longer gets an income (Other than that shitty little retirement check each month) - that's just fucked up.
Hell, why don't we just make it like Logan's Run and kill everyone the night before their 31st birthday?
Never read "The Dangers of a Cashless Society", have you?
I've got a Dell Latitude D810 with a 1920x1200 resolution. (And non-exploding batteries) Note that the base model does not come with the 1920x1200 but they do offer it. 2 gigs RAM too, woohoo! :)
No, you are the one who is wrong here, or severely underskilled.
Years ago I myself made my living by writing VB.old code. Sure, I thought it was cool at the time. But these days I've moved on. I'd never even consider doing anything with VB.old, except deleting it. C# is infinitely better than the toy language known as VB.old.
But consider yourself free to suck nice warm steaming rat testicles all you want.
Dumb moderators, I was trying to ask what he meant by "No paychecks in the EU". How's that a flame?
Like his father, who said "Know new taxes", but convinced everyone that he said "No new taxes", W has said "We are engaged in a Third World war", but convincing people that he said "We are engaged in a third World War"
No, they're wandering the Internet, looking at Slashdot.
What? You all gone communist? Are you saying you don't get paid anymore? Or am I not following your meaning?
"I've hand wired vacuum tube bistable multivibrators." Is that what they call fluffers these days?
Kinda like a garbageman calling himself a 'Sanitation Engineer', isn't it?
So won't this be the same people already supporting Windows XP? (So no net gain in people)
Or are they saying that it's going to take 50,000 more people to support Vista than it did to support XP? Scary!
How do you compare VB.old and VB.net and come up with VB.old being somehow better?
VB.old sucked rat testicles. VB.net (Although pretty much just a gateway to C#) is infinitely better.
Please explain.
"if we're not willing to use them on our own population, how are they acceptable to use on the battlefield?"
I don't understand this concept at all. Guns and bombs are used on the battlefield. Since when should be be willing to use them on our own population???
Yah, uhuh, sure.
You can get an X360 AND the HD-DVD addon for the X360 for LESS than the price of a PS3. I'm gonna jump right up and buy that fucking PS3.
At least with the Xbox 360 you're buying (slightly) American.
Yes, the bullshit dream of global free trade is just a scam to get to to work for the same price as a 3rd world worker.
Eeewww, you blew Ray? Gross...
Like the robot on Buck Rogers says: BDBDBDBD SUCK my Roger.
Tagline's wrong, compression and encryption are two very different things!
And BTW, I got this same story rejected last week. Fuckers.
He said 'ass burger' Huh huhuhuh