Yeah, lord knows proprietary software like MSIE has never had bugs or security issues.
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But being able to buy a 9 year old stock option when it has more than tripled in value is pretty sweet. Plus you tend to keep it then. This leads you to accumulate wealth rather than piss it away on the latest doodad or geegaw. So it is good for you and your company. You company benefits because it does change your outlook when you own a good sized portion of your company. Of course the down side is obvious. If the stock hasn't gone up since it was issued.... well you know. That sucks then.
I live in the rural midwest. When our local cable company started to offer internet cable service they had to advertise it as allowing people to still use their AOL account. Why people would pay for both is beyond me, but there are lots of people that think AOL is the internet. Thankfully that number is decreasing.
I am primarily a Linux user and do not want to see BSD die. I think more choice is better. I do think some Linux users are like football fans. They cheer for their team and do take pleasure when bad things happen to the other team.
I am surprised it isn't higher if they actually rely on the Best Buy "expert's" advice, at least in my experience. As an example, my last purchase there was a wireless card for my laptop. I asked which would be best with Linux. I got steered to the infamous Linksys WPC11 v.4. And no the consumer can not research the cards before buying them because the box does not reveal the v.4 or what chipset is on the card.
Making mention of Drudge as your main point is really sad. Drudge has a lot of funny stuff but you have to take most of it at face value. I certainly don't read it often mostly because it's fluff and bullshit. Perhaps this guy should have done some googling and found some valid political blog sites and then done his comparison.
I have to agree with you here. Since 95% of what Matt Drudge puts on his page are simply links to mainstream news sources (Washington Post, NY Times, etc.), it is bullshit and has to be taken at face value. The few times that he posts his own "scoops", he is usually just reporting what some of his old contacts in the mainstream media gives him. Like the Monica thing. It was one of those things some members of the news media knew about but didn't want to report on.
Unfortunately no one knows how most of the best laid plans are going to turn out. So having a bunch of kibitzers giving advice in an area that they have little if any training seems kind of questionable. The Democrats thought they had a good plan this time until Tuesday evening. It is kind of like John Kerry's comment toward the end of the campaign that the Iraq war would be a good idea if it turns out okay.
And how much difference is this than back 4 years ago when a county party chairman was discovered to have a box of blank punch cards and a voting machine in the trunk of his car. He could easily punch up as many ballots as he needs for his party to win.
We could equip all the soldiers with those cameras like on some of those TV shows. Assign a couple geeks that could talk to each soldier. Then if they see anything on the camera the soldier needs help with or advice, they could talk to him.
Let's face it. Most of us geeks are funny to each other but not so much to non-geeky public. Lots of game buyers would not appreciate the fine tuned wit produced by the geeky game designer. Add to that, most geeks do better with those off the cuff, spur of the moment type comments. Give us to much time to think about it and we would blow it.
As I recall when they were suing the other P2P users, they were using a formula that took the number of songs being shared by some dollar amount. That was why people with huge libraries that were being shared, were being sued for astronomical amounts. With torrent users, there is only the one song that the user is currently downloading that is easily discoverable. So for the average user, how will they generate the large damage figures.... oops I forgot, they can just make up a figure for damages.
9 years does seem like a long time. Remember the American that was publicly caned in Singapore in 1994.... perhaps that would be suitable for spammers:-)
Let's face it, as long as consumers keep looking for and buying strictly based upon price, the situation is going to continue. The company I work for has to replace hard drives in large numbers every year. But they bought cheap PCs to start with (lowest bid). So they got what they paid for.
So because there is no evidence or even allegation of wrongdoing, we must investigate to try and find some. I guess I miss the logic in that.
I see I have modded a troll for disagreeing with you, yet you are modded insightful. I guess I need to bash Americans and engage in name calling to up my score.
Or better yet donate money to the States that will have to comply with this request. No reason for the taxpayers to have to foot the bill when it seems this is a politically motivated action, given the fact that the Kerrry campaign and the DNC would have contested the election if there was any evidence of wrongdoing at all.
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and you have one minute to do it.
would that be wireless robots that carry shotguns?
NO, it will be one minute blurbs of pr0n, just in case you can't make it home with out a little shot ;-)
Yeah, lord knows proprietary software like MSIE has never had bugs or security issues.
But being able to buy a 9 year old stock option when it has more than tripled in value is pretty sweet. Plus you tend to keep it then. This leads you to accumulate wealth rather than piss it away on the latest doodad or geegaw. So it is good for you and your company. You company benefits because it does change your outlook when you own a good sized portion of your company. Of course the down side is obvious. If the stock hasn't gone up since it was issued.... well you know. That sucks then.
I live in the rural midwest. When our local cable company started to offer internet cable service they had to advertise it as allowing people to still use their AOL account. Why people would pay for both is beyond me, but there are lots of people that think AOL is the internet. Thankfully that number is decreasing.
When is the general public going to wake up and figure out all of this is just a very skilled pseudo scientific version of the Blair Witch?
I am primarily a Linux user and do not want to see BSD die. I think more choice is better. I do think some Linux users are like football fans. They cheer for their team and do take pleasure when bad things happen to the other team.
Yes, I could drive one hour one way to buy another card. But the point was, if you don't know, don't claim to know.
I am surprised it isn't higher if they actually rely on the Best Buy "expert's" advice, at least in my experience. As an example, my last purchase there was a wireless card for my laptop. I asked which would be best with Linux. I got steered to the infamous Linksys WPC11 v.4. And no the consumer can not research the cards before buying them because the box does not reveal the v.4 or what chipset is on the card.
Perhaps Novell is going to become the anti-SCO. They will sue Microsoft and SCO or any of that cabal for every time SCO sues the other side.
Unfortunately no one knows how most of the best laid plans are going to turn out. So having a bunch of kibitzers giving advice in an area that they have little if any training seems kind of questionable. The Democrats thought they had a good plan this time until Tuesday evening. It is kind of like John Kerry's comment toward the end of the campaign that the Iraq war would be a good idea if it turns out okay.
And how much difference is this than back 4 years ago when a county party chairman was discovered to have a box of blank punch cards and a voting machine in the trunk of his car. He could easily punch up as many ballots as he needs for his party to win.
I guess now we know that the Terminator shows the true future of mankind, not Asimov.
We could equip all the soldiers with those cameras like on some of those TV shows. Assign a couple geeks that could talk to each soldier. Then if they see anything on the camera the soldier needs help with or advice, they could talk to him.
Thanks for the link. I hadn't seen these before.
Let's face it. Most of us geeks are funny to each other but not so much to non-geeky public. Lots of game buyers would not appreciate the fine tuned wit produced by the geeky game designer. Add to that, most geeks do better with those off the cuff, spur of the moment type comments. Give us to much time to think about it and we would blow it.
As I recall when they were suing the other P2P users, they were using a formula that took the number of songs being shared by some dollar amount. That was why people with huge libraries that were being shared, were being sued for astronomical amounts. With torrent users, there is only the one song that the user is currently downloading that is easily discoverable. So for the average user, how will they generate the large damage figures.... oops I forgot, they can just make up a figure for damages.
Excellent an excuse for having porn on my computer.... the neighbors garage door opener did it :-)
9 years does seem like a long time. Remember the American that was publicly caned in Singapore in 1994.... perhaps that would be suitable for spammers :-)
Let's face it, as long as consumers keep looking for and buying strictly based upon price, the situation is going to continue. The company I work for has to replace hard drives in large numbers every year. But they bought cheap PCs to start with (lowest bid). So they got what they paid for.
But we do give jail time to thieves. The spammers are stealing a portion of the bandwidth that I am paying for.
So because there is no evidence or even allegation of wrongdoing, we must investigate to try and find some. I guess I miss the logic in that. I see I have modded a troll for disagreeing with you, yet you are modded insightful. I guess I need to bash Americans and engage in name calling to up my score.
Or better yet donate money to the States that will have to comply with this request. No reason for the taxpayers to have to foot the bill when it seems this is a politically motivated action, given the fact that the Kerrry campaign and the DNC would have contested the election if there was any evidence of wrongdoing at all.