Better to say no right away and deal with a somewhat steep, but very short disappointment curve versus agreeing and not delivering which usually results in a gradually increasing, but very long disappointment curve.
It was my understanding that theaters backed away from this over liability concerns, not leagl issues surrounding whether or not they could legally xmit
Linux luminary Eric Raymond, who is the president of the Open Source Initiative (OSI), was sympathetic to Hafen's situation, saying that he had publicly called for an end to all DoS attacks on SCO.
Sounds a lot like what Arafat did with Hamas... hmm... has anybody ever seen Eric Raymond & Yasser Arafat in the same place at the same time?
How can AOL on the one hand claim they are a Common Carrier (i.e., '...we're merely a conduit and not responsible for what gets put through it...') and on the other hand, selectively block incoming traffic?
So, let's assume that Microsoft implements this functionality of "forced" automatic updates. What happens if they accidentally push out an update that messes up the ability to automatically update?
It's like the old joke:
What's the difference between a light bulb and a pregnant lady?
You can unscrew a light bulb.
MS had better make very sure their functionality is more like a light bulb than a pregnant lady.:)
For years, casinos have relied on pit bosses to personally watch the tables and do their best to manually figure out who was playing how much. But that process is extraordinarily imprecise, El Dorado's Mouchou said.
As one who has played blackjack as both a nickel-dimer ($5-$10 bets) and as a high roller, I have noticed that pit bosses have an uncanny ability to tell how much you are up or down. I often ask pit bosses to guess how much I am up or down. They can usually tell within about $100.
So, I have a hard time swallowing that this is a device to figure out how to comp players.
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Better to say no right away and deal with a somewhat steep, but very short disappointment curve versus agreeing and not delivering which usually results in a gradually increasing, but very long disappointment curve.
It was my understanding that theaters backed away from this over liability concerns, not leagl issues surrounding whether or not they could legally xmit
Sounds a lot like what Arafat did with Hamas... hmm... has anybody ever seen Eric Raymond & Yasser Arafat in the same place at the same time?
...but good luck touching my Bayesian filters.
2) My ratio of telemarketing calls / real calls is something on the order of 1/10. My ratio of spam / real email is something closer to 10/1.
While I don't necessarily agree with the author that the net is dying, I don't agree with your analogies either.
sounds like....
Flashback
get it?
Hold that thought.
There's a huge difference between correlation and causality.
If somebody wants to give me $50k/yr for the next 10 years, I'll be happy to expound upon how wonderful it would be to not have to earn a living
until year 11 that is...
Neither the bank that holds my mortgage nor the grocery store where I shop give me anything based on how clever I am (or not).
...can I get a check from IBM too? Anybody know what benefits I get once I'm on payroll? Medical? 401k? Do I Have to wear a tie?
Is that what they're calling jr high now down at the trailer park?
How clever. Now run along and finsh your homework... bed time soon.
"a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, adored by little statesment, philospohers and divines." - Emerson
huh? That's not analgous. I'm saying Fedex can't decide who they will or will not accept packages from and remain a common carrier.
I still hate spammers though.
I'm told the new touch tone dildos are much better.
See, I know they were bigots
I'll go along with "some of it sucks", or even "a lot of it sucks", but everything? I don't want to accuse you of ranting or anything, but...
not some zit-stain who just graduated from a 6-month MCSE course
not some fat, smelly dweeb who thinks Linux is epitome of operating system evolution
not some idiotic bigot who starts ranting about how everything from Redmond sucks anytime somebody mentions the word Microsoft
You really need to get out more often
It's like the old joke:
What's the difference between a light bulb and a pregnant lady?
You can unscrew a light bulb.
MS had better make very sure their functionality is more like a light bulb than a pregnant lady. :)
5 minutes til Wapner
As one who has played blackjack as both a nickel-dimer ($5-$10 bets) and as a high roller, I have noticed that pit bosses have an uncanny ability to tell how much you are up or down. I often ask pit bosses to guess how much I am up or down. They can usually tell within about $100.
So, I have a hard time swallowing that this is a device to figure out how to comp players.
Bzzzzt! Sorry, thanks for playing our game, but your backup process is flawed.
We do, however, have the home version of your homedir as a parting gift.