Good point. In Smallville, when Lex Luthor offers to help Chloe rebuild the school paper's offices, all the colourful little iMacs get replaced by huge yellow Alienware boxen. Shortly thereafter, Lex makes Chloe betray Clark...
No, because I really don't need a message system, so I still haven't even used the voicemail. I just happened to have a known good (and fairly recent model) answering machine laying spare when I got Vonage, but it never "picked up" the calls, the phone just kept on ringing. Like I said, no big deal to me, but if it's possible, I hate to leave hardware to rot. Maybe I'll go poke around the forums this weekend, see what I can find out. Thanks for the reply.
The solution was simply to stop using Vonage's voice mail (which was klutzy anyway), and switch to using the answering machine that was already built into our phone anyway.
Really? I still haven't been able to use a regular answer machine with Vonage yet. Any special tricks?
Exactly. Who the hell is Vista marketed to anyway? Home users have XP, which, despite its numerous faults, just plain works. Granted Big corps will probably swallow up a ton of licenses without even blinking, but you still have the same problem: there's no killer app/functionality on Vista that you can't get from XP.
Time for MS to do what Apple did: bite the bullet and start from scratch, otherwise its diminishing returns from here on out.
Where did this sudden fear of germs come from in this country? Have you noticed this? The media constantly running stories about all the latest infections? Salmonella, E-coli, hanta virus, bird flu, and Americans will panic easily so everybody's running around scrubbing this and spraying that and overcooking their food and repeatedly washing their hands, trying to avoid all contact with germs. It's ridiculous and it goes to ridiculous lengths. In prisons, before they give you lethal injection, they swab your arm with ALCOHOL. Wouldn't want some guy to go to hell AND be sick.
Fear of germs, why these fuckin' pussies. You can't even get a decent hamburger anymore they cook the shit out of everything now 'cause everyone's afraid of FOOD POISONING! Hey, wheres you sense of adventure? Take a fuckin' chance will you? Hey you know how many people die of food poisoning in this country? Nine thousand, thats all, its a minor risk. Take a fuckin' chance bunch of goddamn pussies.
Besides, what d'ya think you have an immune system for? It's for killing germs! But it needs practice, it needs germs to practice on. So if you kill all the germs around you, and live a completely sterile life, then when germs do come along, you're not gonna be prepared. And never mind ordinary germs, what are you gonna do when some super virus comes along that turns your vital organs into liquid shit?! I'll tell you what your gonna do... you're gonna get sick. You're gonna die and your gonna deserve it because you're fucking weak and you got a fuckin' weak immune system!
Let me tell you a true story about immunization ok. When I was a little boy in New York city in the nineteen-forties, we swam in the Hudson river. And it was filled with raw sewage! OK? We swam in raw sewage, you know, to cool off. And at that time the big fear was polio. Thousands of kids died from polio every year. But you know something? In my neighborhood no one ever got polio. No one! EVER! You know why? Cause WE SWAM IN RAW SEWAGE! It strengthened our immune system, the polio never had a prayer. We were tempered in raw shit!
So personally I never take any precautions against germs. I don't shy away from people who sneeze and cough. I don't wipe off the telephone, I don't cover the toilet seat, and if I drop food on the floor I pick it up and eat it!
Even if I'm at side walk cafe!
IN CALCUTTA!
THE POOR SECTION!
ON NEW YEARS MORNING DURING A SOCCER RIOT!
And you know something? In spite of all the so called "risky behavior ".... I never get infections. I don't get em. I don't get colds, I don't get flu, I don't get headaches, I don't get upset stomach, And you know why? Cause I got a good strong immune system! And it gets a lot of practice!
My immune system is equipped with the biological equivalent of fully automatic military assault rifles, with night vision and laser scopes. And we have recently acquired phosphorous grenades, cluster bombs and anti personnel fragmentation mines. So, when my white blood cells are on patrol reconnoitering my blood stream seeking out strangers and other undesirables, and if they see any, ANY, suspicious looking germs of any kind, THEY DON'T. FUCK. AROUND. They whip out the weapons, they wax the motherfucker and deposit the unlucky fellow directly into my colon! Into my colon. There's no nonsense! There's no miranda warning, there's none of that three strikes and your out bullshit. First defense, BAM! Into the colon you go!
Because doing that gets you labeled as an appeaser and a traitor, which gets old and boring pretty fucking quick. Much more fun (for everyone!) to call him a goat-licking fuckhead.
2. The air carriers have more to do with the "selection" process than the TSA does. (I'm 90% certain of that) So take your bitches and complaints up with the airline...
Absolutely correct, they're the ones who mkae the notation on your boarding pass. Any airline employees care to comment?
Since 9/11, I have been 'ramdomly selected' pretty much every single time (upwards of 75% of the time at least by approximation). Which is fine. I'm scruffy, with facial hair. I'm born in country A, carry a passport from country B, and live in country C, none of which are the US.
My point is, I expect it. But random? Yeah, right.
Exactly. Most (if not all) of my TV viewing is done via the bittorrent->laptop->TV route. The quality is better, and I don't have to schedule my life around the networks. Best thing I've done in a while. When I have the cash and the time, I'll be building a dedicated media pc (probably go with a MythTV setup to get TIVO functinality and save some bandwidth).
If no other reason than the following sentences from his 'graph:
The cost of software licensing or subscriptions was zero - making it MUCH easier to get approval for. (And if it didn't work out, nobody was going to "force" me to keep trying to use a broken solution, just because we spent $$$'s on it already.)
Because that, in a nutshell, is how OSS is steadily worming its way into corporate IT.
The Firefox team is herded into a giant enclosure lined with sand. At the other end they see another gaggle of pasty-faced geeks, who, judging by their ID badges, appear to be the Microsoft IE team.
From up on high, a whiny, nasal voice, belonging to Microsoft Chairman Ballmer, rings out:
"Remember where you are - this is Thunderdome, and death is listening, and will take the first man that screams."
One of the IE guys flinches at this, while the others exhibit lifeless eyes, dulled from too much Caffeine and long coding jags.
Ballmer cuts through again, this time louder:
"Two teams enter, one team leaves!"
The cry is picked by the watching multitudes:
"TWO TEAMS ENTER! ONE TEAM LEAVES! TWO TEAMS ENTER! ONE TEAM LEAVES! TWO TEAMS ENTER! ONE TEAM LEAVES!"
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I'm tempted to call shenanigans unless you were running Q3 with everything off at 640x480. What kind of fps are you getting?
Mod Parent up please. That would definitely be the non-dick move, which is what we'd all like to expect from Google.
It's called gritty realism.
Good point. In Smallville, when Lex Luthor offers to help Chloe rebuild the school paper's offices, all the colourful little iMacs get replaced by huge yellow Alienware boxen. Shortly thereafter, Lex makes Chloe betray Clark...
No, because I really don't need a message system, so I still haven't even used the voicemail. I just happened to have a known good (and fairly recent model) answering machine laying spare when I got Vonage, but it never "picked up" the calls, the phone just kept on ringing. Like I said, no big deal to me, but if it's possible, I hate to leave hardware to rot. Maybe I'll go poke around the forums this weekend, see what I can find out. Thanks for the reply.
The solution was simply to stop using Vonage's voice mail (which was klutzy anyway), and switch to using the answering machine that was already built into our phone anyway.
Really? I still haven't been able to use a regular answer machine with Vonage yet. Any special tricks?
I did at first, but by the time I'd finished gussying up the post, its purpose...changed somewhat, so no. No point at all.
Funnily enough, that'd be a pretty great sig for you right there.
Sweet Vishnu on a fucking cracker, if ever there was a sentence that perfectly sums up the intellectual clusterfuck you are, that one is it!
Oh yeah, thanks for the new sig. No take backs!
Time for MS to do what Apple did: bite the bullet and start from scratch, otherwise its diminishing returns from here on out.
I only read the comments on this story to see how quickly somebody would post that very message. Cheers!
Burn!
Because doing that gets you labeled as an appeaser and a traitor, which gets old and boring pretty fucking quick. Much more fun (for everyone!) to call him a goat-licking fuckhead.
you just turn him into a martyr
Stop teasing me.
At least you have good taste.
Exactly, and now you know precisely why TV is full of crap.
Absolutely correct, they're the ones who mkae the notation on your boarding pass. Any airline employees care to comment?
My point is, I expect it. But random? Yeah, right.
Exactly. Most (if not all) of my TV viewing is done via the bittorrent->laptop->TV route. The quality is better, and I don't have to schedule my life around the networks. Best thing I've done in a while. When I have the cash and the time, I'll be building a dedicated media pc (probably go with a MythTV setup to get TIVO functinality and save some bandwidth).
Ctrl-W. I haven't clicked on a close tab button in a while...
Puh-leeze.
We'll get another Tupac album first.
The cost of software licensing or subscriptions was zero - making it MUCH easier to get approval for. (And if it didn't work out, nobody was going to "force" me to keep trying to use a broken solution, just because we spent $$$'s on it already.)
Because that, in a nutshell, is how OSS is steadily worming its way into corporate IT.
The Firefox team is herded into a giant enclosure lined with sand. At the other end they see another gaggle of pasty-faced geeks, who, judging by their ID badges, appear to be the Microsoft IE team.
From up on high, a whiny, nasal voice, belonging to Microsoft Chairman Ballmer, rings out:
"Remember where you are - this is Thunderdome, and death is listening, and will take the first man that screams."
One of the IE guys flinches at this, while the others exhibit lifeless eyes, dulled from too much Caffeine and long coding jags.
Ballmer cuts through again, this time louder:
"Two teams enter, one team leaves!"
The cry is picked by the watching multitudes:
"TWO TEAMS ENTER! ONE TEAM LEAVES! TWO TEAMS ENTER! ONE TEAM LEAVES! TWO TEAMS ENTER! ONE TEAM LEAVES!"
Judging from your UID, that would have been 3 or 4 years ago then?
You haven't watched a lot of Fox shows then? ;)
A second vote here for Spinrite. It may not be magic, but it's certainly made me more money than the 50 bucks I spent on it.