Is that any different than people donating to create movies/albums/charitable efforts? People combining resources so they can pay other people to produce a product they want isn't that radical.
Read her actual response - she thinks homeopathy and alternative medicine should be evaluated like other medicines and shouldn't be able to skirt FDA regulation by claiming to be a "supplement". If you think she's anti-science, you've committed the fallacy of missing the point.
Looking at the 2012 electoral map, flipping Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, and Pennsylvania results in a win for the GOP. All 4 of these states took a swing right in 2012 - moving further right isn't crazy. Well, ignoring the Trump factor - I think that throws enough unpredictability into the mix that it renders prognostication fruitless until the debates. And as far as I know, Trump has never been trained in formal debate. That might make the debates worth watching.
40x in geography but only 5x in population. That just means there are a lot of last-mile customers getting the short-end due to living in a rural area.
Interesting? How about +1 Ridiculous? You'll always be able to practice your religion here in the US, no matter how irrelevant and pernicious your particular brand of superstition is.
The pie chart that tukkayoot posted a few comments down is hilarious. "Help! We're being oppressed!"
"All our beliefs are being challenged now, and rightfully so. They're stupid." - Bill Hicks
Uhhh yeah, there's no bookies in poker. I'm sure for you, playing poker is gambling as you don't understand how the game works. For those of us who do understand the game, it's an exercise in calculated risk taking.
The only way any of these companies can get my trust back (I used to play on full tilt a lot and I did quite well) is to release the source to their server and client. There is no harm to be done here, as all the game logic should be happening on the server and the only purpose the client serves is presenting the information to the user. As all of the client-server conversation is SSL encrypted (believe me I've checked) there is no danger here.
Am I crazy for thinking this?
Having used Vista personally, I can say that it is definitely the most secure OS offering from Microsoft thus far, aside from DOS. However, this security is obtained by a complete sacrifice of usability. I was greeted by ~12 different security prompts attempting to install WinAmp from a network share, even before I was greeted by the install interface. While I did feel secure (and a little paranoid), I was not impressed as I trust that WinAmp obtained from their site isn't going to hose my PC, install spyware/adware/etc.
My $0.02, half of that being a penny for your thoughts.
They'll want royalties from people singing (I typed sinking first - Freudian slip?) their songs at karaoke bars. And since the music contributes to people having a good time and buying more drinks, they should get a cut of the bartenders' tips as well.
I swore off this series and every hack-and-slash dungeon crawl. It's like crack. At the end of the night, you wonder "Man, what am I doing with my life?"
One night, my friends and I played into the wee hours of the morning. I went to sleep for 8 hours, woke up, and they were still there, crackin' out on Dungeon Siege. We have since renamed the game Dungeon Crack. They still use the stuff pretty heavily, but I swore it off.
Hey, I have a better idea. Let's make better business models for making money with Open Source.
I don't know about you, but providing Linux-based services has been a pretty good business model for me. Customer requests file server - I give them 2 bids - Microsoft-based and Linux-based. The $600 for the Small Business Server 2003 + 8 hours @ $45/hr ($960) loses every time to the $0 for the latest version of Slackware + 8 hours @ $45/hr ($360). The question they always ask is, "Why is this other bid almost $700 more?" My answer is "That is the cost of proprietary software. The less expensive bid does not have that cost as the software is non-proprietary and freely available."
I'm happy because I don't have to deal with the frustration of Microsoft's garbage software and my customer is happy because they don't know the difference. They click on the file server and their data is there.
It doesn't stop at file servers - firewalls, LDAP directory services, VPN appliances, workstations.
I get a big kick out of the fact that the free software sells itself!
"Dammit Jim, I'm a generalizing ignoramus, not a music critic!"
Yes, I would definitely file Rush and Tool in the "good" category of music. In a subfile under "Good" I have: "Sounds good", "Feels good", and "Is good AKA talent". Free-thinking musicians with thought provoking poetry, interesting time signatures and melodies, and two of the greatest rock drummers ever. Well, dammit Jim, I'd say they're good. As a bonus, if you're seeking intricate interesting artwork, look no further than Rush's "Signals" or "Grace Under Pressure" or Tool's "Lateralus" or "Ænima".
As far as cohesive albums go, I'm DEFINITELY looking forward to Tool's next release (late '05, supposedly). I enjoyed the focus and musicianship on their last album - once again, a cohesive work of art. It must be listened from start to finish.
The biggest problem I see with those darn teenagers nowadays is ATTENTION SPAN. I tried to get my younger brothers to sit through The Godfather and it was nearly impossible. "When does this get good? When do they start killing people?"... "Well kids, there's this thing called a 'plot' that must be established before we can start killing people." I got frustrated, replaced my Godfather DVD with the Matrix, and left the room.
As always, half of my $0.02 is a penny for your thoughts.
1. The capture of Osama Bin Laden Oct 21-23
2. The sharp decrease in the price of gasoline Oct 12->Nov 2
3. Funny business in California in 2004 like Florida in 2000. I don't think it will be the same funny business, but there will definitely be some kind of tomfoolery in the election process.
Kerry hasn't told you one thing that he is going to do. He has proffered nebulous lists, buzzwords, and catchy quotes, but nothing substantial or concrete. Most of you that are planning to vote for him have no other reasons in mind than he isn't Bush and he isn't a republican, and that is really pathetic.
Interesting you should say that... I went to the website Senator Kerry mentioned at the debate the other night and it had a lot of interesting information about national security and the economy. Maybe you should check it out and get yourself informed.
Am I the only person who thought Senator Kerry did an excellent job of addressing a primary concern of many young Americans in his closing statement: what kind of world am I going to be handing to my children?
I see John Kerry's biggest strength in his abilities as a diplomat and communicator - two areas where George W. Bush has failed miserably. The winds have changed in our world and we need a dynamic leader who is capable of adjusting the sails.
Like it or not, that's not the way we've decided to do things in the USA because we've decided that there are too many dangerous drugs to let the public have them willy-nilly without a doctor's supervision.
Au contrare. This is EXACTLY the way we've decided to do things in the US. By creating a black market for illegal drugs, we push dangerous drugs onto the street that, if they were regulated and distributed in a manner similar to other recreational substances (read: alcohol and tobacco) under a doctor's supervision, shouldn't be a health problem. Instead, we choose to force them out of the doctor's office and onto the street corner. Making things illegal doesn't make them any harder to obtain and certainly doesn't make them any safer.
Meanwhile, you and I, the average citizens, get raped at the doctor's office for prescription meds. Don't have insurance? I hope you have some vaseline or KY because you're going to get screwed. It is no wonder Boston and New Hampshire are going to Canada for cheap drugs - they're tired of their city and state employees paying huge bucks to pharmaceutical companies just so they (pharm. companies) can line the pockets of the Congressmen that serve their interests.
It surprises me that they didn't use the TIGER data, available from the US Census Bureau.
Klynas Engineering makes a great product called Streets-On-A-Disk that covers any mapping need you might have. I used it as the mapping backend for a custom automatic vehicle location package I wrote. The software has a nifty API interface for external control and works great. The tech support rocks too - Scott, the president of the company and the guy who wrote the program, has provided me with tons of useful info. I have no interest in the company, I'm just a very satisfied customer.
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Is that any different than people donating to create movies/albums/charitable efforts? People combining resources so they can pay other people to produce a product they want isn't that radical.
In Soviet Russia, intelligent life searches for you.
How do you check the size of the packet without decrypting the L2 frames?
The term you're looking for is "just war" and we haven't waged just war since Korea.
Read her actual response - she thinks homeopathy and alternative medicine should be evaluated like other medicines and shouldn't be able to skirt FDA regulation by claiming to be a "supplement". If you think she's anti-science, you've committed the fallacy of missing the point.
And that's the part I find most disturbing. The whole Trump phenomenon has turned Poe's Law on it's head.
Looking at the 2012 electoral map, flipping Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, and Pennsylvania results in a win for the GOP. All 4 of these states took a swing right in 2012 - moving further right isn't crazy. Well, ignoring the Trump factor - I think that throws enough unpredictability into the mix that it renders prognostication fruitless until the debates. And as far as I know, Trump has never been trained in formal debate. That might make the debates worth watching.
I call this the Charlie Sheen pattern: why do it in multiple lines when you can do it all in one?
Nice Polanski reference.
40x in geography but only 5x in population. That just means there are a lot of last-mile customers getting the short-end due to living in a rural area.
Do you test your moonshine by drinking it? Hell no. You give a jar to a friend and watch for symptoms of methanol poisoning.
Interesting? How about +1 Ridiculous? You'll always be able to practice your religion here in the US, no matter how irrelevant and pernicious your particular brand of superstition is. The pie chart that tukkayoot posted a few comments down is hilarious. "Help! We're being oppressed!" "All our beliefs are being challenged now, and rightfully so. They're stupid." - Bill Hicks
Uhhh yeah, there's no bookies in poker. I'm sure for you, playing poker is gambling as you don't understand how the game works. For those of us who do understand the game, it's an exercise in calculated risk taking.
The only way any of these companies can get my trust back (I used to play on full tilt a lot and I did quite well) is to release the source to their server and client. There is no harm to be done here, as all the game logic should be happening on the server and the only purpose the client serves is presenting the information to the user. As all of the client-server conversation is SSL encrypted (believe me I've checked) there is no danger here. Am I crazy for thinking this?
Having used Vista personally, I can say that it is definitely the most secure OS offering from Microsoft thus far, aside from DOS. However, this security is obtained by a complete sacrifice of usability. I was greeted by ~12 different security prompts attempting to install WinAmp from a network share, even before I was greeted by the install interface. While I did feel secure (and a little paranoid), I was not impressed as I trust that WinAmp obtained from their site isn't going to hose my PC, install spyware/adware/etc.
My $0.02, half of that being a penny for your thoughts.
Coming next from the RIAA...
They'll want royalties from people singing (I typed sinking first - Freudian slip?) their songs at karaoke bars. And since the music contributes to people having a good time and buying more drinks, they should get a cut of the bartenders' tips as well.
I swore off this series and every hack-and-slash dungeon crawl. It's like crack. At the end of the night, you wonder "Man, what am I doing with my life?"
One night, my friends and I played into the wee hours of the morning. I went to sleep for 8 hours, woke up, and they were still there, crackin' out on Dungeon Siege. We have since renamed the game Dungeon Crack. They still use the stuff pretty heavily, but I swore it off.
If your IT manager was as tech-oriented as you would like him to be, you would be out of a job.
Seriously, the reason he is an IT manager is because he knows who to hire to get the job done.
I don't know about you, but providing Linux-based services has been a pretty good business model for me. Customer requests file server - I give them 2 bids - Microsoft-based and Linux-based. The $600 for the Small Business Server 2003 + 8 hours @ $45/hr ($960) loses every time to the $0 for the latest version of Slackware + 8 hours @ $45/hr ($360). The question they always ask is, "Why is this other bid almost $700 more?" My answer is "That is the cost of proprietary software. The less expensive bid does not have that cost as the software is non-proprietary and freely available."
I'm happy because I don't have to deal with the frustration of Microsoft's garbage software and my customer is happy because they don't know the difference. They click on the file server and their data is there.
It doesn't stop at file servers - firewalls, LDAP directory services, VPN appliances, workstations.
I get a big kick out of the fact that the free software sells itself!
"Dammit Jim, I'm a generalizing ignoramus, not a music critic!"
Yes, I would definitely file Rush and Tool in the "good" category of music. In a subfile under "Good" I have: "Sounds good", "Feels good", and "Is good AKA talent". Free-thinking musicians with thought provoking poetry, interesting time signatures and melodies, and two of the greatest rock drummers ever. Well, dammit Jim, I'd say they're good. As a bonus, if you're seeking intricate interesting artwork, look no further than Rush's "Signals" or "Grace Under Pressure" or Tool's "Lateralus" or "Ænima".
As far as cohesive albums go, I'm DEFINITELY looking forward to Tool's next release (late '05, supposedly). I enjoyed the focus and musicianship on their last album - once again, a cohesive work of art. It must be listened from start to finish.
The biggest problem I see with those darn teenagers nowadays is ATTENTION SPAN. I tried to get my younger brothers to sit through The Godfather and it was nearly impossible. "When does this get good? When do they start killing people?"... "Well kids, there's this thing called a 'plot' that must be established before we can start killing people." I got frustrated, replaced my Godfather DVD with the Matrix, and left the room.
As always, half of my $0.02 is a penny for your thoughts.
1. The capture of Osama Bin Laden Oct 21-23
2. The sharp decrease in the price of gasoline Oct 12->Nov 2
3. Funny business in California in 2004 like Florida in 2000. I don't think it will be the same funny business, but there will definitely be some kind of tomfoolery in the election process.
Kerry hasn't told you one thing that he is going to do. He has proffered nebulous lists, buzzwords, and catchy quotes, but nothing substantial or concrete. Most of you that are planning to vote for him have no other reasons in mind than he isn't Bush and he isn't a republican, and that is really pathetic.
Interesting you should say that... I went to the website Senator Kerry mentioned at the debate the other night and it had a lot of interesting information about national security and the economy. Maybe you should check it out and get yourself informed.
Am I the only person who thought Senator Kerry did an excellent job of addressing a primary concern of many young Americans in his closing statement: what kind of world am I going to be handing to my children?
I see John Kerry's biggest strength in his abilities as a diplomat and communicator - two areas where George W. Bush has failed miserably. The winds have changed in our world and we need a dynamic leader who is capable of adjusting the sails.
Like it or not, that's not the way we've decided to do things in the USA because we've decided that there are too many dangerous drugs to let the public have them willy-nilly without a doctor's supervision.
Au contrare. This is EXACTLY the way we've decided to do things in the US. By creating a black market for illegal drugs, we push dangerous drugs onto the street that, if they were regulated and distributed in a manner similar to other recreational substances (read: alcohol and tobacco) under a doctor's supervision, shouldn't be a health problem. Instead, we choose to force them out of the doctor's office and onto the street corner. Making things illegal doesn't make them any harder to obtain and certainly doesn't make them any safer.
Meanwhile, you and I, the average citizens, get raped at the doctor's office for prescription meds. Don't have insurance? I hope you have some vaseline or KY because you're going to get screwed. It is no wonder Boston and New Hampshire are going to Canada for cheap drugs - they're tired of their city and state employees paying huge bucks to pharmaceutical companies just so they (pharm. companies) can line the pockets of the Congressmen that serve their interests.Last time I checked, it was Bill Gates donating the money (or Bill and Melinda), not Microsoft.
It surprises me that they didn't use the TIGER data, available from the US Census Bureau.
Klynas Engineering makes a great product called Streets-On-A-Disk that covers any mapping need you might have. I used it as the mapping backend for a custom automatic vehicle location package I wrote. The software has a nifty API interface for external control and works great. The tech support rocks too - Scott, the president of the company and the guy who wrote the program, has provided me with tons of useful info. I have no interest in the company, I'm just a very satisfied customer.