But, Bezos is on benzos - and for good reason:
Bezos's net worth:
* 1999 - $10.1 billion, ranked no. 19 * 2000 - $6.0 billion, ranked no. 23 * 2001 - $2.0 billion, ranked no. 234 * 2002 - $1.5 billion, ranked no. 293 * 2003 - $2.5 billion, ranked no. 147 * 2004 - $5.1 billion, ranked no. 82 * 2005 - $4.8 billion, ranked no. 41 * 2006 - $4.3 billion, ranked no. 147 (shared with others) * 2006 - $3.6 billion, ranked no. 70 (shared with 2 others) Poor frickin' bastard. And don't think it's "ok" because he has 3.6 thousand million dollars; it's not ok. Nothing could make it ok. Benzos for Bezos make it less not ok and that's a start.
*I personally have no idea whether Bezos uses benzodiazepines. In the same vein, I should say that I don't know whether he shoots heroin. And because there's no smoke where there could be a very hot fire, I should also point out that I have no knowledge of his crack-related habits - save his spontaneous aggression, grandiose scheming and oft-loquacious disposition. He might not actually smoke crack, though. And the bible says you shouldn't judge people, so don't.
We all know that Microsoft is going to play games with DirectX. And not the fun kind - the buy vista or go fuck yourself kind, wherein the next Halo and the next everything-not-based-on-an-ID-engine will only run on Vista.
You know how I know this? First, I imagine that I were a huge fucking prick. Then, I ponder how I could screw the world with my massive pricktitude. The logical answer is, make the next DirectX Vista-only. But, in the grand scheme of things, I'm glad that Microsoft will make this move. Windows users obviously need a dick to come out of the screen and smack them in the face daily, or they feel unloved. They are the Mister Garrison of users, I say.
But we all know how this works... you can never have enough law and order. Soon this will spread to the west coast, and when the west coast runs out of victims, they'll start a special victims offshoot..............
The way to win the software patent game is to not play it, don't participate. Not according to common corporate wisdom, where they often serve as the only defense against the baseless, overly broad, conceptual patents held by competitors. To wit, Intel and AMD cross license their patent portfolios (perhaps with some exclusions). Can you think of any rivalry more unrestrained, underhanded and unrelenting? Can you imagine the slice & dice that would occur if only one of them dropped all of its patents on the floor as it took a flying leap towards a pie in the sky?
It would be nice if they would step up and admit that the situation is expensive, and, what's more, bullshit. But, that would be patently smart, and considering the Itanium and the p4, I think that's one patent they aren't sharing. ^G
First off, you cannot use a PO Box, we had our application suspended until we supplied a real, physical, address. Say no more!
j/k. I was more going for comic relief than an airing of my issues with Microsoft's Windows Media Digital Rape Machine. It's nice that they do CRL checking for you. It's obviously more than I expected from them. My issues with Microsoft code signing originally stem from my experience with Windows Mobile, where it is just about as useless. Except to Verisign, who you ought to know issues you your signing cert and a set # of signing "events," for which you pay, pay, pay, pay, pay, pay, pay, pay, pay, pay, pay, pay, pay, pay, pay, pay, pay, pay, pay, pay, pay, pay. You pay each and every time you release a binary and don't want users to call you, worried over big nasty warning prompts. This detail is in-ex-fucking-scusable, I think. Profit motive aside, why force you to pay per signature, when all signatures are against the same cert? As far as I can divine, there isn't another reason. And, I think, that's really what this is all about - you pay per cert, per signature, per tech support call when their sig system fucks up, per breath of your software company. But I'm glad you like it. Anything to make the customer happy...
Right out of the gate, I have to ask why Microsoft decided that producers of DRMed content should be allowed to execute arbitrary code. I know, I know, MS would probably say something along the lines of:
It doesn't matter that they are perfectly capable of doing bad things with that code, and that a great many are strongly inclined to do exactly that. We'll eventually here about it (on the next business day or whenever) and submit a form 2731-43b to Verisign who will get around to adding the bad guy's cert to a CRL which you will probably download at some point. Once you have that CRL downloaded and installed, you'll be good to go - unless the spyware that we allowed onto your system mucks with CRL checking.
But anyway, look. Sure, we authorized Rapetech DickShove LLC and they totally screwed your system before we could stop them. But, I mean, is there any way we could have seen this thing coming? Certainly not unless we watch porn, which we don't.
OK, that wasn't very fair of us. Let me explain. Rapetech DickShove LLC's business PO Box checked out and someone answered the phone! Our lawyers thought they sounded nice enough!! What more could we have possibly done?! You clicked ok to the vista warning! Furthermore, spyware creators are just as capable of filling out stacks of forms and paying $500. And they'll get plenty of practice. Who is this masturbatory program meant to benefit? It doesn't even benefit masturbators!
Innovation itself and the future of recognition for it is at stake. Verizon spent many, many - a great many - years heavily investing in research that finally resulted in original, patented ideas. Why should Vonage just get to use Verizon's ideas? Because they thought of them, too? Because anyone implementing a commercial VOIP to POTS solution necessarily would? Hooey. Clearly, Verizon required an army of monkeys to spend thousands of monkey years working on these ideas, and at any rate, Vonage shouldn't just get to make money at Verizon's expense.
These are the actual claims Vonage has been infringing:
registering a wireless telephone terminal in a localized wireless gateway system;
transmitting registration data identifying the gateway system from the localized wireless gateway system to a home location register database through a public packet data communication network;
receiving a request from a calling computer coupled to the public packet data communication network for a call to the wireless telephone terminal;
in response to the request, accessing the home location register database and obtaining a packet data address for the localized wireless gateway system;
using the address to set up a voice communication through the public packet data communication network and the localized wireless gateway system between the calling computer and the wireless telephone terminal.
6. A method as in claim 1, wherein the public packet data communication network is a packet switched network.
7. A method as in claim 6, wherein the packet switched network comprises a system of interlinked data networks using TCP/IP protocol.
8. A method as in claim 7, wherein the system of interlinked data networks comprises the Internet.
I don't really know why, but [they] seem to crave a heavy handed goverment... Unfortunately, we really don't understand this phenomenon in the west. Russia has had their share of terrorist attacks, reprisals, reprisal attacks and Tough New Laws, crackdowns, etc, etc. Like us with our PATRIOT Act, wiretapping, threats against journalists, etc. Unfortunately, we should understand the situation all to well - it is much the same as ours, and both governments have lost the credibility to point this out about the other.
I'd like to add that, while Xerox machines are a pain to operate in comparison to a p2p app and therefore might seem to represent less of a threat to copyright holders, it is those limitations that make them insufficient in a publisher-less world.
(When I say publisher-less, I mean that we'd be without the dinosaurs that we call publishers today.)
from 2001 through the end of 2005... You will not see a whole lot of discussion about this on CNN or NBC... this is one that irks me the most since I'm a California resident I wonder if they don't have time to report on it because they are busy with Nancy Pelosi's visit to Iraq and also
Nancy Pelosi's visit to Iraq Nancy Pelosi's visit to Iraq Nancy Pelosi's visit to Iraq Nancy Pelosi's visit to Iraq Nancy Pelosi's visit to Iraq Nancy Pelosi's visit to Iraq Nancy Pelosi's visit to Iraq
It's a bad document. Word crashes. Life goes on. You're right, you know. And you're not just right about word - this design paradigm clearly extends across the entire Microsoft product line, from the most basic to the most mission-critical:
"If you understand computers, you know that a computer normally is immune to the character of the data it processes," he wrote in the June U.S. Naval Institute's Proceedings Magazine. "Your $2.95 calculator, for example, gives you a zero when you try to divide a number by zero, and does not stop executing the next set of instructions. It seems that the computers on the Yorktown were not designed to tolerate such a simple failure."
However, you'll see a lot more leniency when the comments are being made about someone in the democrat/leftist/liberal camp. Now you understand the double standard that exists in general when reporting political relationships depending on which political party you're referring to at the time. Would you care to elaborate on this? Do you think that only one of the parties has apologists?
The next time this scenario evolves, you ought to have already nipped it in the bud. Don't wait until the buying process initiates itself - at some point you will realize that you have already opened a browser and typed out amazon.com and pressed enter and clicked a product and clicked buy. Then it will be too late. Don't let that one click happen. Immediately, right now, you need to:
Turn off your computer and make sure it powers down Drop it in a 43-foot hole in the ground Bury it completely, rocks and boulders should be fine Then burn all the clothes you may have worn any time you were online
Bush on why Harriet Myers, who has never served as a judge, ought to be a justice of the US supreme court: "I've known Harriet for more than a decade, I know her heart." "She's a good woman."
Bush on why Bin Laden is not a priority: "Deep in my heart I know the man is on the run, if he's alive at all."
Bush naming his favorite philosopher: "Christ, because he changed my heart."
Bush on the Iraq debacle: "God told me to end the tyranny in Iraq."
Bush on himself: "Fool me once, shame on, shame on you. Fool me...you can't get fooled again."
Bush on Putin: "the more I get to know President Putin, the more I get to see his heart and soul..."
Putin on Bush's re-election 2004: "I can only feel joy the American people made the most sensible decision"
Putin on what Putin really thinks: "First and foremost it is worth acknowledging that the demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century."
Bush on Clinton: "Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is." (On Kosovo, Houston Chronicle; April 9, 1999)
Bush on what Bush really thinks: "Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness."
Namely, that, in the name of "harmonizing Canadian and American law," Canada will institute a fee schedule worse than ours? Because, then, in the name of "harmonizing Canadian and American law," we would - obviously - need to institute a fee schedule worse than Canada's.
It would be like an arms race where the participants only hurt themselves... or like the evolution of international copyright law, if you will. OK, yeah, I know what you're thinking. It would be exactly like the evolution of international copyright durations.
Oh, no, of course not... well, at least when it comes to the Holocaust. Ok, you get a check plus and a happy face for not denying the Holocaust. Congratulations.
But let's talk about global warming. What do you think about the careful opinions of these guys?
He has a list, you have a list. How very equanimous! Your list is random trash, but comprising his are a great many arguments that he has heard made emphatically.
So totally wrapped up in the idea that we have some sort of "right" to exist As opposed to what, exactly? The right to pollute without regard to the obvious consequences, including the flooding of a large percentage of the planet's inhabitable land-mass?
the world should always have been exactly as it was on June 17, 1931, in Passaic, NJ I think you ought to consider what you are saying - that argument is clearly irrational and this is the first I've heard it made. While others want to discuss pollution control strictly to reduce our rate of contribution to global warming, you concern yourself with absurdities. Why?
Have faith in our progress and our natures that we are not so bad as we would think and as others would posit. We have greatness unknown and unmatched simply waiting to be explored. There's a Russian proverb that fits this situation: "Pray, but don't stop rowing towards the shore."
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* 1999 - $10.1 billion, ranked no. 19
* 2000 - $6.0 billion, ranked no. 23
* 2001 - $2.0 billion, ranked no. 234
* 2002 - $1.5 billion, ranked no. 293
* 2003 - $2.5 billion, ranked no. 147
* 2004 - $5.1 billion, ranked no. 82
* 2005 - $4.8 billion, ranked no. 41
* 2006 - $4.3 billion, ranked no. 147 (shared with others)
* 2006 - $3.6 billion, ranked no. 70 (shared with 2 others) Poor frickin' bastard. And don't think it's "ok" because he has 3.6 thousand million dollars; it's not ok. Nothing could make it ok. Benzos for Bezos make it less not ok and that's a start.
*I personally have no idea whether Bezos uses benzodiazepines. In the same vein, I should say that I don't know whether he shoots heroin. And because there's no smoke where there could be a very hot fire, I should also point out that I have no knowledge of his crack-related habits - save his spontaneous aggression, grandiose scheming and oft-loquacious disposition. He might not actually smoke crack, though. And the bible says you shouldn't judge people, so don't.
We all know that Microsoft is going to play games with DirectX. And not the fun kind - the buy vista or go fuck yourself kind, wherein the next Halo and the next everything-not-based-on-an-ID-engine will only run on Vista.
You know how I know this? First, I imagine that I were a huge fucking prick. Then, I ponder how I could screw the world with my massive pricktitude. The logical answer is, make the next DirectX Vista-only. But, in the grand scheme of things, I'm glad that Microsoft will make this move. Windows users obviously need a dick to come out of the screen and smack them in the face daily, or they feel unloved. They are the Mister Garrison of users, I say.
I hope it passes.
.............
But we all know how this works... you can never have enough law and order. Soon this will spread to the west coast, and when the west coast runs out of victims, they'll start a special victims offshoot.
What? I was told that everything used in China was made in Rand McNally.
I was misinformed!
It would be nice if they would step up and admit that the situation is expensive, and, what's more, bullshit. But, that would be patently smart, and considering the Itanium and the p4, I think that's one patent they aren't sharing. ^G
j/k. I was more going for comic relief than an airing of my issues with Microsoft's Windows Media Digital Rape Machine. It's nice that they do CRL checking for you. It's obviously more than I expected from them. My issues with Microsoft code signing originally stem from my experience with Windows Mobile, where it is just about as useless. Except to Verisign, who you ought to know issues you your signing cert and a set # of signing "events," for which you pay, pay, pay, pay, pay, pay, pay, pay, pay, pay, pay, pay, pay, pay, pay, pay, pay, pay, pay, pay, pay, pay. You pay each and every time you release a binary and don't want users to call you, worried over big nasty warning prompts. This detail is in-ex-fucking-scusable, I think. Profit motive aside, why force you to pay per signature, when all signatures are against the same cert? As far as I can divine, there isn't another reason. And, I think, that's really what this is all about - you pay per cert, per signature, per tech support call when their sig system fucks up, per breath of your software company. But I'm glad you like it. Anything to make the customer happy...
But anyway, look. Sure, we authorized Rapetech DickShove LLC and they totally screwed your system before we could stop them. But, I mean, is there any way we could have seen this thing coming? Certainly not unless we watch porn, which we don't.
OK, that wasn't very fair of us. Let me explain. Rapetech DickShove LLC's business PO Box checked out and someone answered the phone! Our lawyers thought they sounded nice enough!! What more could we have possibly done?! You clicked ok to the vista warning! Furthermore, spyware creators are just as capable of filling out stacks of forms and paying $500. And they'll get plenty of practice. Who is this masturbatory program meant to benefit? It doesn't even benefit masturbators!
These are the actual claims Vonage has been infringing: registering a wireless telephone terminal in a localized wireless gateway system;
transmitting registration data identifying the gateway system from the localized wireless gateway system to a home location register database through a public packet data communication network;
receiving a request from a calling computer coupled to the public packet data communication network for a call to the wireless telephone terminal;
in response to the request, accessing the home location register database and obtaining a packet data address for the localized wireless gateway system;
using the address to set up a voice communication through the public packet data communication network and the localized wireless gateway system between the calling computer and the wireless telephone terminal.
6. A method as in claim 1, wherein the public packet data communication network is a packet switched network.
7. A method as in claim 6, wherein the packet switched network comprises a system of interlinked data networks using TCP/IP protocol.
8. A method as in claim 7, wherein the system of interlinked data networks comprises the Internet.
I'd like to add that, while Xerox machines are a pain to operate in comparison to a p2p app and therefore might seem to represent less of a threat to copyright holders, it is those limitations that make them insufficient in a publisher-less world.
(When I say publisher-less, I mean that we'd be without the dinosaurs that we call publishers today.)
If you're a whitehat, you get internet A.
If you're a blackhat, you get internet A.
If you're an asshat, you get internet B.
Read the linked article and then we can talk about insanity, OK?
Nancy Pelosi's visit to Iraq
Nancy Pelosi's visit to Iraq
Nancy Pelosi's visit to Iraq
Nancy Pelosi's visit to Iraq
Nancy Pelosi's visit to Iraq
Nancy Pelosi's visit to Iraq
Nancy Pelosi's visit to Iraq
(but less so with other, similar diplomatic non-events)
But I'm sure this unfair treatment of a politician by the media OUTRAGES you.
"If you understand computers, you know that a computer normally is immune to the character of the data it processes," he wrote in the June U.S. Naval Institute's Proceedings Magazine. "Your $2.95 calculator, for example, gives you a zero when you try to divide a number by zero, and does not stop executing the next set of instructions. It seems that the computers on the Yorktown were not designed to tolerate such a simple failure."
Microsoft running a warship? What could possibly go wrong? Oh yeah - absolutely everything, since Microsoft can't be bothered to sanity check input.
FYI, Microsoft screwed up here and it's difficult to defend them in this instance without coming off as a dunce yourself.
The next time this scenario evolves, you ought to have already nipped it in the bud. Don't wait until the buying process initiates itself - at some point you will realize that you have already opened a browser and typed out amazon.com and pressed enter and clicked a product and clicked buy. Then it will be too late. Don't let that one click happen. Immediately, right now, you need to:
Turn off your computer and make sure it powers down
Drop it in a 43-foot hole in the ground
Bury it completely, rocks and boulders should be fine
Then burn all the clothes you may have worn any time you were online
Bush on why Harriet Myers, who has never served as a judge, ought to be a justice of the US supreme court: "I've known Harriet for more than a decade, I know her heart." "She's a good woman."
Bush on why Bin Laden is not a priority: "Deep in my heart I know the man is on the run, if he's alive at all."
Bush naming his favorite philosopher: "Christ, because he changed my heart."
Bush on the Iraq debacle: "God told me to end the tyranny in Iraq."
Bush on himself: "Fool me once, shame on, shame on you. Fool me...you can't get fooled again."
Bush on Putin: "the more I get to know President Putin, the more I get to see his heart and soul..."
Putin on Bush's re-election 2004: "I can only feel joy the American people made the most sensible decision"
Putin on what Putin really thinks: "First and foremost it is worth acknowledging that the demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century."
Bush on Clinton: "Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is." (On Kosovo, Houston Chronicle; April 9, 1999)
Bush on what Bush really thinks: "Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness."
Namely, that, in the name of "harmonizing Canadian and American law," Canada will institute a fee schedule worse than ours? Because, then, in the name of "harmonizing Canadian and American law," we would - obviously - need to institute a fee schedule worse than Canada's.
It would be like an arms race where the participants only hurt themselves... or like the evolution of international copyright law, if you will. OK, yeah, I know what you're thinking. It would be exactly like the evolution of international copyright durations.
FUBAR.
I dunno, maybe for the deterrent effect?
, batman... those psychos!
Are you denying that you are a denier?
Oh, no, of course not... well, at least when it comes to the Holocaust. Ok, you get a check plus and a happy face for not denying the Holocaust. Congratulations.
But let's talk about global warming. What do you think about the careful opinions of these guys?
He has a list, you have a list. How very equanimous! Your list is random trash, but comprising his are a great many arguments that he has heard made emphatically.
Here's one that I've heard: science is not a vote.
It sounds good, right? You'd like that argument - if you hadn't heard of scientific consensus.
But anyway, you were just joking, since you know what scientific honesty means.
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