This was an isolated incident... of getting caught! Oh noes we got caught astroturfing! We're very sorry we got caught and we'll try to avoid having that happen again! We might even fire the guy who got caught as punishment for getting caught. Hopefully his replacement will learn these lessons well and not get caught!
That's not really reading between the lines...It's exactly what the weasel wrote.
How about an update that allows you to create an actual workout routine? Seems to me it currently takes longer to cycle through the menus than it does to actually do most of the workout activities...
There is an easy fix for the lack of routines: exercise in the nude with a partner to navigate the menus when it is your turn and vv. Guaranteed fun for all.
Let me have Bob Dylan sing out why I no longer use MS Windows.
How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man? Yes, n how many seas must a white dove sail Before she sleeps in the sand? Yes, n how many times must the cannon balls fly Before they're forever banned? The answer, my friend, is blowin in the wind, The answer is blowin in the wind.
How many times must a man look up Before he can see the sky? Yes, n how many ears must one man have Before he can hear people cry? Yes, n how many deaths will it take till he knows That too many people have died? The answer, my friend, is blowin in the wind, The answer is blowin in the wind.
How many years can a mountain exist Before its washed to the sea? Yes, n how many years can some people exist Before they're allowed to be free? Yes, n how many times can a man turn his head, Pretending he just doesn't see? The answer, my friend, is blowin in the wind, The answer is blowin in the wind.
Typical spin control: Make everything seem less bad than it really is. ie He only smoked one joint, your Honor. Ms. Spears only had two small drinks before she urinated in a secluded spot in front of the nightclub, your Honor.
Microsoft's D is "a new declarative programming language [...] that is expected to serve as a textual modeling language that will let business managers and non-technical stakeholders manipulate digital assets."
(http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/58675/)
If so, they should have thought of a better name, cause this letter is already taken:)
No worries, mate. Microsoft will just sue and then settle out of court for a pittance.
At my current place of employment we have a similar problem. Those damn Windows programs play havoc with our networks, letting viruses loose, attracting ad ware and other malware. Every day employees attempt to use personal Windows machines on our pristine net. Jeez, now some folks have personal phones that run Windows so we had to ban them as well.
Finally we laid down the law: No Windows machines in the head office or any satellite offices. No Windows CE, ME, NT, XP or Vista. Everything was going great until the CEO's trophy-wife tried to connect her Windows Mobile smart phone to our net. It seems she was still in his office when he came back from a very long lunch with his "important client", AKA his large-breasted secretary. Divorce proceedings are underway.
It was found that renaming quake.exe to quack.exe would affect performance. The reason is that the driver purposely degrades the quality for stuff that is used in benchmarks....
Just for the record ISTR only ATI tried this in 2001 on windows only and were outed by HardOCP.
Sign blindness is more of a real problem than the tiny amount of Gallium in LEDs. If you want to protect people, you can't deluge them with constant warnings. They eventually become sign blind and begin ignoring, or worse mocking warning labels. According to the labels, every can of paint in the hardware store causes cancer in California. But what I don't know is if paint A is going to make me infertile the moment I look at it, or if paint B is just a problem if I drink 5 gallons of it. The labels don't have any kind of granularity.
That reminds me of "Crazy" Cornelius, purveyor of doom and gloom and his gonzo method of bug severity classification. Everything was "critical." If it didn't get merged into the next build he was convinced we would be out of business in two weeks. Fortunately, I brought sanity into the classification and was able to downgrade the severity of most bugs.
Each person gets a ticket with a barcode in it, and each device (keyboard, mouse, monitor and so on) gets a sticker with the barcode. Sticker can be on the mouse/keyboard cable for example.
Place 1-2 guys at the door with barcode readers checking everything that exists the building.
How does that prevent stuff going out in people's pockets or under their coats?
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Good luck trying to find Linux drivers for ATI based video chipsets that work in 3-D without crashing, tearing or otherwise displaying incorrectly.
So, if you don't agree with the 10% pay cut does that mean you get a 100% pay cut and an escort out of the building?
This was an isolated incident... of getting caught! Oh noes we got caught astroturfing! We're very sorry we got caught and we'll try to avoid having that happen again! We might even fire the guy who got caught as punishment for getting caught. Hopefully his replacement will learn these lessons well and not get caught!
That's not really reading between the lines...It's exactly what the weasel wrote.
Maybe Greedo shooting first.
How about an update that allows you to create an actual workout routine? Seems to me it currently takes longer to cycle through the menus than it does to actually do most of the workout activities...
There is an easy fix for the lack of routines: exercise in the nude with a partner to navigate the menus when it is your turn and vv. Guaranteed fun for all.
Here's a news story about Clippy: http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s8i23456
It's great to move forward with new innovations, but let's not forget our roots here.
15 is legal in some states.
What about in Japan?
In Soviet Russia, 6 petabytes sort YOU in ONE hour.
In Soviet Russia, jokes are allowed to die after being repeated endlessly.
I se that piningforthefjords is one of the keywords for this article.
PINING for the FJORDS? What kind of talk is that?
Let me have Bob Dylan sing out why I no longer use MS Windows.
How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
Yes, n how many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, n how many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they're forever banned?
The answer, my friend, is blowin in the wind,
The answer is blowin in the wind.
How many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky?
Yes, n how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, n how many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died?
The answer, my friend, is blowin in the wind,
The answer is blowin in the wind.
How many years can a mountain exist
Before its washed to the sea?
Yes, n how many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free?
Yes, n how many times can a man turn his head,
Pretending he just doesn't see?
The answer, my friend, is blowin in the wind,
The answer is blowin in the wind.
Next: Joan Baez sings against closed-source.
the problem only affects SOME, not all, units.
Yes, and we trust EA on that one, right?
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Typical spin control: Make everything seem less bad than it really is. ie He only smoked one joint, your Honor. Ms. Spears only had two small drinks before she urinated in a secluded spot in front of the nightclub, your Honor.
[...]
MS Press release (interestly enough, it plans linux as a supported platform)
If the Linux version ever comes out, I predict it will cause random crashes and Microsoft will blame it on Linux and open source.
Moonlight is hardly a solution. It is complex, incompatible, slow, and will lag waaaaaay behind any current development.[,,,]
Knowing Microsoft, Silverlight 2.0 will be the same. But how can...?
I have never danced with Ballmer. I have only been screwed by Microsoft (it hurt). [...]
That's what you get for skipping foreplay.
That's a different D.
Microsoft's D is "a new declarative programming language [...] that is expected to serve as a textual modeling language that will let business managers and non-technical stakeholders manipulate digital assets."
(http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/58675/)
If so, they should have thought of a better name, cause this letter is already taken :)
No worries, mate. Microsoft will just sue and then settle out of court for a pittance.
At my current place of employment we have a similar problem. Those damn Windows programs play havoc with our networks, letting viruses loose, attracting ad ware and other malware. Every day employees attempt to use personal Windows machines on our pristine net. Jeez, now some folks have personal phones that run Windows so we had to ban them as well.
Finally we laid down the law: No Windows machines in the head office or any satellite offices. No Windows CE, ME, NT, XP or Vista. Everything was going great until the CEO's trophy-wife tried to connect her Windows Mobile smart phone to our net. It seems she was still in his office when he came back from a very long lunch with his "important client", AKA his large-breasted secretary. Divorce proceedings are underway.
It was found that renaming quake.exe to quack.exe
would affect performance. The reason is that the
driver purposely degrades the quality for stuff
that is used in benchmarks....
Just for the record ISTR only ATI tried this in 2001 on windows only and were outed by HardOCP.
See http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTEx for more info.
We have had problems with "Dark Matter" being found in the alleyway behind our house. A "wino" particle is the prime suspect.
So, google has this for employees, and microsoft gives away wristbands? .
Microsoft should give away armbands instead.
Sign blindness is more of a real problem than the tiny amount of Gallium in LEDs. If you want to protect people, you can't deluge them with constant warnings. They eventually become sign blind and begin ignoring, or worse mocking warning labels. According to the labels, every can of paint in the hardware store causes cancer in California. But what I don't know is if paint A is going to make me infertile the moment I look at it, or if paint B is just a problem if I drink 5 gallons of it. The labels don't have any kind of granularity.
That reminds me of "Crazy" Cornelius, purveyor of doom and gloom and his gonzo method of bug severity classification. Everything was "critical." If it didn't get merged into the next build he was convinced we would be out of business in two weeks. Fortunately, I brought sanity into the classification and was able to downgrade the severity of most bugs.
Each person gets a ticket with a barcode in it, and each device (keyboard, mouse, monitor and so on) gets a sticker with the barcode. Sticker can be on the mouse/keyboard cable for example.
Place 1-2 guys at the door with barcode readers checking everything that exists the building.
How does that prevent stuff going out in people's pockets or under their coats?
Thats why you enforce a strict ratio of 50:1 females to males.
In thy dreams. Y'all will be lucky if you get one female in 50 to show, unless you host a Sims death match.
If your read TFA you see that it's not about why people pirate games in general but about people who pirate Cliff Harris' games.
Since all games on his site have a demo lack of demos is not a legitimate argument.
No, but there was some concern about the demos being too short so Cliff promised to make the demo longer for his next game.
I always thought an apple a day kept the Doctor away. Perhaps that's not one of his god's condiments. Titty-boom!
And a newish VIA mini-ITX board costs how much?
Look, it seems most people here would just like to see the guy get a new computer, so why not chip in and send him a crisp twenty.
Okay, I chipped in and sent him twenty crisps. Do I win a prize?