Grammar aside, doesn't saying "A Universe" (or "An Universe" for that matter) imply that there is more than one Universe. Shouldn't it be "The Universe?"
I'll write this and not respond again. These kind of arguements get me too friggin' mad and I have a bad heart.
I believe that an unborn fetus is part of a woman's body and therefore lives or dies my her will and at any time during her pregnancy.
Hitler was determining life or death to other distinct human individuals who were not part of his body.
I understand that you do not see the same distinction that I do, but you have to accept that given my beliefs of the nature of a fetus (which I believe are supported by biology just as easily as yours can) the distinction is clear.
That is why I won't participate any more. There is no way that we are going to agree and your point of view just makes me mad and I am not an outrage addict.
I've decided that there is a difference. You have decided that there is not. I won't argue about it. I just vote when it comes time to decide who will have the power to protect or eliminate a woman's right to choose.
I agree that it may have been total luck or a fluke, but I'm confused when you say "this year he was quickly ushered out of the tournament." This year he won the tournament, right (May, 2003)? Was he quickly ushered out after winning? What does that have to do with staying power?
You read the article, right? The guy who won the last World Series of Poker had previously only played on the internet. I think that may qualify him for "climbing the ranks." Or maybe he just went right to the top, so techincally did not climb.
That may not be the "true art of poker" but I'm sure he's not letting it bother him too much.
But the guy who won the World Series of Poker last May had never sate down at a poker table. He had only played on the internet. That's the point of the article.
It may not be as fun as in person, but the article pretty well disputes your statement that "it's all about bluffing and reading other people's bluffs."
I always got around this by telling them that the hard drive is like a big filing cabinet and that RAM is a measurement of how much you can pull out or put into the filing cabinet at once.
Slight variation that I've found helpful:
The harddrive is your filing cabinet and your RAM is your desk top. The more ram you have the more things you can fit on your desk and use before you have to take the things you're not using as often and put them in your desk drawer (swap file). You should defrag so that everything in your filing cabinet is alphabetical and you don't have to search around excessively for it.
Those are all pretty practial things for *most* average users to understand. There is no reason for them to know the more detailed technical aspecs of those things unless (maybe) they are upgrading, and even then you should be able to explain what they need to know in pretty simple terms. Years of tech support taught me that. Oh, and it also taught me to absolutely fear the sound of a ringing phone.
At least they stopped that trick during registration where they subscribe you to mailings by putting the prechecked selections below the scroll window.
That was the worst. My new annoyance with the RealOne player: It now takes a lot of effort to get rid of (can you even do it?) that horrible popup alerting you to new promotions or downloads available. I haven't looked into it much, but there is definitely no easy way to tell it to go away, and never come back.
This is totally fucked up. I've worked on a site for over five years that streams video using Real. The way they try to trick people into paying for a player is totally unethical. But check your facts. they do still offer a free player.
Here's the thing: You don't have to give your credit card number. If you were asked for a credit card number, they tricked you. You were trying to download the trial version of the full RealOne player, not the free version.
To download the free version, you need to click the [incredibly tiny] text link near the upper right corner of real.com and not the big orange button on the page that says "DOWNLOAD NOW - FREE" (read the fine print..."FREE 14 day trial."). Then is takes you to a second page where they try to trick you into downloading the trial version. Don't be fooled, click the text link at the lower left corner "Download the Free RealOne Player."
Believe it or not, this is an improvement! They have taken about three clicks out of the process.
The only info you need to give them is a [fake] email address, [fake] first name/lasname, [fake] gender (of course), bday and secret question.
I'm not a huge fan of the player, but it does pretty well and is very widely implimented. The company sucks eggs and I wish nothing but ill on them.
thebrain.com nav is OK. I mean, it's different, but I'm not really sure it's more usable than others.
1. I don't like having to drill back up the tree the get to the top again. It's not like it's hard or anything. I just like to be able to get back to the home page, or second level pages with a single click. I know there is a "home" link quicktab and the logo too, but there's no reason to not have them available in nav as well.
2. It's in frames...bleah. Browse back using your browser buttons and the navigation should change with the content.
There are ways around both of those issues which would make this a pretty cool navigation system in my book.
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We already accept that a techie's time is worth more than a laborer's, which is why they make more per hour.
You've got to be kidding me! We accept that a techie's time is more valuable that a laborers? Tell that to a $50/hr plumber, or a General Contractor making over $100K/year. The guys answering tech calls for Fortune 500 companies at the company I was with five years ago were lucky to break mid 20K/year.
I've got a deal. You learn how to build a house from the ground up and do it. I'll learn JAVA
(which I don't know squat about) and build...well something. Who do you think will finish first? You just can't break down labor and tech into skilled and unskilled like that. Both can take years of training and, more importantly: experience.
And what an elitist statement. Sheesh.
I see we're in agreement that everyone paid hourly should get overtime though.
That SCO also participated in Linux development is utterly irrelevant unless they themselves also put proprietary Unix code into Linux.
That's the part that has me interested. Even if they prove that their code ended up in Linux, I can't imagine how they could prove that it was IBM that did it, or that it was not SCO that did.
One Friday morning a few years back...
SCO Project Manager: "Sorry programmer geek-boy, we're going to have to let you go."
Programmer Geek-boy: CUT UNIX > PASTE LINUX. "Alright then, no hard feelings. It's been really great working for you. Bye now."
Sure, it probably didn't happen, but it could have....right? It might not be too hard to convince a judge of it.
This assumes that the only way to win the case is for SCO to have a "trump card." They might not have such a thing. Lots of people go to trial without a trump card and hope that what they do have is enough. It often is.
Also, if they really do have the irrefutable evidence that they claim to, they certainly wouldn't make it public. They don't care what we think (only that people are thinking about them at all...thus stock prices go up), they need to convince a judge. And supposedly, they want to keep the code private. If it is in fact proprietary, they have the legal right to do that, right? "The kind of game they have been playing" has resulted in their stock price skyrocketing.
I agree that they'll probably lose, but I'm starting to wonder whether they even care.
http://www.amontobin.com/ (listen online for free)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000003RZF/ 102-0168682-9455330
(Amazon usually has samples to listen to and here are some from Fluke's new disc)
Still sounds like pirating to hear new shit that you're going to but is a pretty weak argument. Like others said: Pirate if you're going to pirate (I sure as hell do) but don't delude yourself by saying that it's the only way to hear stuff.
Yeah, I'm having trouble seeing what's new about this.
SMIL (easily used with RealVideo as well as others) accomplishes what this screenshot seems to show, and you can always embed video in an HTML page with text hyperlinks to different timestamps in that video or different video entirely.
Are you trying to say that if I blow by a trooper at 115 mph, they won't pull me over? Can I have some of what's in your bowl? I know what you're saying about regulations regarding pursuit, but dangerous or high speed driving does not necessarily equal "high speed pursuit." It only becomes high speed pursuit if I refuse to pull over.
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Grammar aside, doesn't saying "A Universe" (or "An Universe" for that matter) imply that there is more than one Universe. Shouldn't it be "The Universe?"
And if anybody had tried to open so much as a single additional application on their desktop while it was calculating?
I believe that an unborn fetus is part of a woman's body and therefore lives or dies my her will and at any time during her pregnancy.
Hitler was determining life or death to other distinct human individuals who were not part of his body.
I understand that you do not see the same distinction that I do, but you have to accept that given my beliefs of the nature of a fetus (which I believe are supported by biology just as easily as yours can) the distinction is clear.
That is why I won't participate any more. There is no way that we are going to agree and your point of view just makes me mad and I am not an outrage addict.
Dependent on my automobile in the same way that someone is dependent on a life support system? Don't be stupid. Really.
I've decided that there is a difference. You have decided that there is not. I won't argue about it. I just vote when it comes time to decide who will have the power to protect or eliminate a woman's right to choose.
Wow. Cool. Do you have a link backing that up? From what I'd heard, they hadn't even started developing it yet. Nice scoop!!
Until you get to step 4 and "fast forward to catch up with live"
And starting a sentence with "Anyway," is some kind of new level of high-class?
Umm...I don't think so. ;)
Moneymaker won in 2003 (just two months ago) and it was his first tournament, what does the 2002 tournament have to do with him?
I agree that it may have been total luck or a fluke, but I'm confused when you say "this year he was quickly ushered out of the tournament." This year he won the tournament, right (May, 2003)? Was he quickly ushered out after winning? What does that have to do with staying power?
That may not be the "true art of poker" but I'm sure he's not letting it bother him too much.
It may not be as fun as in person, but the article pretty well disputes your statement that "it's all about bluffing and reading other people's bluffs."
Would that make Japan Darl McBride's next stop on his 2003 FUD World Tour?
Slight variation that I've found helpful:
The harddrive is your filing cabinet and your RAM is your desk top. The more ram you have the more things you can fit on your desk and use before you have to take the things you're not using as often and put them in your desk drawer (swap file). You should defrag so that everything in your filing cabinet is alphabetical and you don't have to search around excessively for it.
Those are all pretty practial things for *most* average users to understand. There is no reason for them to know the more detailed technical aspecs of those things unless (maybe) they are upgrading, and even then you should be able to explain what they need to know in pretty simple terms. Years of tech support taught me that. Oh, and it also taught me to absolutely fear the sound of a ringing phone.
That was the worst. My new annoyance with the RealOne player: It now takes a lot of effort to get rid of (can you even do it?) that horrible popup alerting you to new promotions or downloads available. I haven't looked into it much, but there is definitely no easy way to tell it to go away, and never come back.
Here's the thing: You don't have to give your credit card number. If you were asked for a credit card number, they tricked you. You were trying to download the trial version of the full RealOne player, not the free version.
To download the free version, you need to click the [incredibly tiny] text link near the upper right corner of real.com and not the big orange button on the page that says "DOWNLOAD NOW - FREE" (read the fine print..."FREE 14 day trial."). Then is takes you to a second page where they try to trick you into downloading the trial version. Don't be fooled, click the text link at the lower left corner "Download the Free RealOne Player."
Believe it or not, this is an improvement! They have taken about three clicks out of the process.
The only info you need to give them is a [fake] email address, [fake] first name/lasname, [fake] gender (of course), bday and secret question.
I'm not a huge fan of the player, but it does pretty well and is very widely implimented. The company sucks eggs and I wish nothing but ill on them.
1. I don't like having to drill back up the tree the get to the top again. It's not like it's hard or anything. I just like to be able to get back to the home page, or second level pages with a single click. I know there is a "home" link quicktab and the logo too, but there's no reason to not have them available in nav as well.
2. It's in frames...bleah. Browse back using your browser buttons and the navigation should change with the content.
There are ways around both of those issues which would make this a pretty cool navigation system in my book.
That's fucked up. But it's not ironic.
You've got to be kidding me! We accept that a techie's time is more valuable that a laborers? Tell that to a $50/hr plumber, or a General Contractor making over $100K/year. The guys answering tech calls for Fortune 500 companies at the company I was with five years ago were lucky to break mid 20K/year.
I've got a deal. You learn how to build a house from the ground up and do it. I'll learn JAVA (which I don't know squat about) and build...well something. Who do you think will finish first? You just can't break down labor and tech into skilled and unskilled like that. Both can take years of training and, more importantly: experience.
And what an elitist statement. Sheesh.
I see we're in agreement that everyone paid hourly should get overtime though.
That's the part that has me interested. Even if they prove that their code ended up in Linux, I can't imagine how they could prove that it was IBM that did it, or that it was not SCO that did.
One Friday morning a few years back...
SCO Project Manager: "Sorry programmer geek-boy, we're going to have to let you go."
Programmer Geek-boy: CUT UNIX > PASTE LINUX. "Alright then, no hard feelings. It's been really great working for you. Bye now."
Sure, it probably didn't happen, but it could have....right? It might not be too hard to convince a judge of it.
Also, if they really do have the irrefutable evidence that they claim to, they certainly wouldn't make it public. They don't care what we think (only that people are thinking about them at all...thus stock prices go up), they need to convince a judge. And supposedly, they want to keep the code private. If it is in fact proprietary, they have the legal right to do that, right? "The kind of game they have been playing" has resulted in their stock price skyrocketing.
I agree that they'll probably lose, but I'm starting to wonder whether they even care.
http://www.amontobin.com/ (listen online for free)
Fluke on Amazon.com (Amazon usually has samples to listen to and here are some from Fluke's new disc)
http://www.amontobin.com/ (listen online for free) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000003RZF/ 102-0168682-9455330
(Amazon usually has samples to listen to and here are some from Fluke's new disc)
Still sounds like pirating to hear new shit that you're going to but is a pretty weak argument. Like others said: Pirate if you're going to pirate (I sure as hell do) but don't delude yourself by saying that it's the only way to hear stuff.
SMIL (easily used with RealVideo as well as others) accomplishes what this screenshot seems to show, and you can always embed video in an HTML page with text hyperlinks to different timestamps in that video or different video entirely.
Are you trying to say that if I blow by a trooper at 115 mph, they won't pull me over? Can I have some of what's in your bowl? I know what you're saying about regulations regarding pursuit, but dangerous or high speed driving does not necessarily equal "high speed pursuit." It only becomes high speed pursuit if I refuse to pull over.