Hmmm, so Intel jacks up its prices to pay for the litigation, and AMD doesn't flood the market to cut market share? Or vice versa? That's more credit than is given to even the oil companies for high gas prices.
They will if someone else does this first. They could pass import laws preventing the subscription for foreign signals, or they can innovate and beat everyone else to the gate. I'm glad that they went for option #2.
I certainly hope that they are taking it seriously. I'd love to be able to subscribe to their programs, instead of waiting to have them come out on Bittorrent.
Any BBC'ers out there have some good series suggestions? I've got Little Britain, and the new Doctor Who. What else should I be looking for?
Most hackers/crackers/ass-clowns-like-this posess a maturity level (though in this case not the moral sense) well beyond their age in years.
As noted by the pr3v4l3nc3 0f 1337 sp34k, 4w3s0m3 k0d1ng style, and liberal use of the word fag. They are only outmatched in their maturity by the aimbotting n00bs that keep appearing on Enemy Territory and Counterstrike.
I say try them as two adults, they're that mature!
if it is a performance issue, then simply counting the keystrokes per minute would be enough, without actually catching the keys. But, by the same token, just checking daily output would be easier.
* Outsourcer of jobs to overseas, according to CNN's Lou Dobbs, at a time when huge numbers of US tech workers are unemployed.
Ooooh, that's a huge misdeed, and I trust Lou Dobbs with my life!
And from the same link: "The purpose of the new capitalism is to shoot the wounded."
Andy Grove, Intel Chairman
[leading to monopolies? to cartels? to fascism?]
* Class-action suit alleging that the Pentium IV is slower than the Pentium III despite Intel's marketing hype. Info here
* Supported California Proposition 64, which prevents many just lawsuits against corporate criminals. info
* Theft of $1.969 billion as "tax breaks" from US Taxpayers between 2001-2003, thanks to legally-bribed politicians. Information here.
* Intel received $300 million in tax breaks from localities over 30 years ending 1993 despite being a major polluter. More information here.
* Intel was caught in a $600 billion tax-evasion scheme. Info.
* Intel tried to have an ex-employee Kenneth Hamidi prosecuted for trespassing when he sent emails to former ex-coworkers at their work email addresses. His emails contained criticism of the company. Intel ultimately failed. More info here and here.
* Intel is currently polluting at Corrales, New Mexico
The player is cast as a visiting longtime friend of Grace and Trip, a couple in their early thirties, and ends up in a verbal crossfire resulting from their failing marriage.
If the AI is advanced enough, maybe I can seduce Grace, talk her into killing Trip, and then turn her in for the virtual reward!
Nope, it leads to a picture of some insecure girl with big tatters looking to validate her life through the intarweb. (Kind of like what I do here, but without the boobs)
I'm not sure, but it's a planet where profitable==successful. Unfortunately, I'm lead to believe that the sky is blue there. Let me check... (looks out window) Yep, still blue.
Someone has to come up with a formula for success that doesn't equate directly to a ledger line.
And hopefully up-to-date information. Last month I was waching dateline or some similar program, and they did a big expose on....
wait for it..
PORN DIALERS!
C'mon, this was relevant what, seven years ago? That's eons in Internet years. I haven't used a modem in five years or so, and where I live isn't exactly bleeding edge. Maybe they'll do a big story on the Melissa virus next.
Here's something for you. Have you tried the stumbleupon toolbar? You supply a username and password, sign up for categories, and when you press a button, it brings up a random webpage. They don't know too much about me, they don't profile me, and I get ads in the form of webpages from them. I like it, I give up a little bit of privacy for a little bit of gain.
Why doesn't the advertizing agency create something similar? Give up a little bit of privacy for relevant ads? It's because they don't know when to say when. They want more and more and more. They think of clever little schemes to track you and see what you do, what you like, for the sole purpose of making money off of you. If they can come up with a way to imbed an RFID chip in your skull that will broadcast itself everytime you pick up an item on a shelf and show a little bit of interest, then guess what they're going to do? They're going to give away free toothbrushes to the first six billion meat popsicles that sign up for this mostly harmless brain jewellrey. Firefox and adblock is how I give them the collective finger. Swapping my air-miles card with the person next in line at the grocery store is how I give them the finger. Taking their god awful surveys at work for a chance to be quoted in some on-line publication and give them completely ridiculous answers like "We only have one mainframe, it's an IBM thinkpad 370 running Plan 9, and everyone else is using Commodore 128's (not 64's, no horsepower in those babies) as dumb terminals", then waiting on hold while they try to figure out which item on their list matches my answers, is the way I give them the collective finger.
Everyone is predicting the end of the free Internet, and that my ilk are the ones doing it. I'm not. I'm getting rid of the worst forms of advertizing making it unprofitable, and rewarding the responsible marketers. Any of this "In your face!" bullshit simply don't wash with me. I'll cut out commercials, call businesses that air shitty commercials and let them know that their commercials are shitty, and call up companies that have good commercials and let them know. Of course, my liberal use of the word "fuck" (as noted in posts to this topic) generally gets a hangup, but calling up the local pizza place that puts out a great commercial and telling them "Brilliant! That's a fooking brilliant commercial you got yourself there" makes most people chuckle and know that they're doing something right.
The Malibu Rum commercials (the Jamaican saying "Hurry up! My fish is sick!" on the bus, and the one where the family is trying to park the boat, getting a ticket, and the lady telling the cop "Is your mother proud of you?") make me laugh out loud, to this day. And to reward them, I threw the Captain overboard, and sent their company an e-mail saying that "Well, the captain was here too, and he ain't welcome back! Malibu Rum kicked your ass in the commercials, and they just had a bunch of islanders, whereas you had models with red beards scribbled on them.
Wow, this post has gotten way too long. I'll shorten my sig to make up for it. And now, in closing, Drink Malibu Rum, eat Little Caesars pizza, and any advertizers that try that "in your face" crap, hold them down and give them crap in their face. See how they like it.
This is, of course the reason why their strategies stop working, and they have to come up with new ones. There are always a few who will abuse the system (much like the mod that gave you the offtopic. Arse.) Why the companies keep coming out and saying, "This is what we did, this is what we found, it worked, and we'll be doing it again"
I think, as well as the size and type of ad ( I blocked ads from freshmeat because they were using flash animations with sound. Freshmeat is great, but the ads that they had were very intrusive), is the targetting of the ad. I would have no problem if google served me an ad based on my geographic location. I would have no problem if they serve me ads based on my current search terms. I would have a problem with google gathering my search terms and building a profile on my habits and serving me ads based on that (primarily because I share an IP with my wife, and we both use google, and the ads she'd get would end up costing me my house, and secondarily the whole privacy/big brother/ gubment doesn't need to know that I have a midget-viking-horse porn fetish), and I would switch my allegiances very quickly.
Doubleclick wants to get rid of the free as in beer internet as well as the free-as-in-Mel Gibson painted blue internet. If they had their way, they would track every single person on the internet and their shopping habits, eating habits, and any other thing that they could figure out how to track, and sell it all to the highest bidder.
Fuck you double-click! If people weren't trying every single underhanded trick to make money on the Internet, the place would be better. Fuck you, fuck your adware-hocking buddies, and fuck Roland Pipsqueakalli for their desperate attempts to make a buck off of my back.
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Hmmm, so Intel jacks up its prices to pay for the litigation, and AMD doesn't flood the market to cut market share? Or vice versa? That's more credit than is given to even the oil companies for high gas prices.
Lets just hope they do to it what the lawyers did to CSS, and put it in public record. That'll learn'em!
Which episode did you miss? I have them all.
Personally, I call them Disgruntled terran co-habitators, or Snuggle-umpkins. It makes them sound less fierce.
They will if someone else does this first. They could pass import laws preventing the subscription for foreign signals, or they can innovate and beat everyone else to the gate. I'm glad that they went for option #2.
I certainly hope that they are taking it seriously. I'd love to be able to subscribe to their programs, instead of waiting to have them come out on Bittorrent.
Any BBC'ers out there have some good series suggestions? I've got Little Britain, and the new Doctor Who. What else should I be looking for?
Nazi.
Then why not gov.us?
Most hackers/crackers/ass-clowns-like-this posess a maturity level (though in this case not the moral sense) well beyond their age in years.
As noted by the pr3v4l3nc3 0f 1337 sp34k, 4w3s0m3 k0d1ng style, and liberal use of the word fag. They are only outmatched in their maturity by the aimbotting n00bs that keep appearing on Enemy Territory and Counterstrike.
I say try them as two adults, they're that mature!
if it is a performance issue, then simply counting the keystrokes per minute would be enough, without actually catching the keys. But, by the same token, just checking daily output would be easier.
AMD
* Outsourcer of jobs to overseas, according to CNN's Lou Dobbs, at a time when huge numbers of US tech workers are unemployed.
Ooooh, that's a huge misdeed, and I trust Lou Dobbs with my life!
And from the same link:
"The purpose of the new capitalism is to shoot the wounded."
Andy Grove, Intel Chairman
[leading to monopolies? to cartels? to fascism?]
* Class-action suit alleging that the Pentium IV is slower than the Pentium III despite Intel's marketing hype. Info here
* Supported California Proposition 64, which prevents many just lawsuits against corporate criminals. info
* Theft of $1.969 billion as "tax breaks" from US Taxpayers between 2001-2003, thanks to legally-bribed politicians. Information here.
* Intel received $300 million in tax breaks from localities over 30 years ending 1993 despite being a major polluter. More information here.
* Intel was caught in a $600 billion tax-evasion scheme. Info.
* Intel tried to have an ex-employee Kenneth Hamidi prosecuted for trespassing when he sent emails to former ex-coworkers at their work email addresses. His emails contained criticism of the company. Intel ultimately failed. More info here and here.
* Intel is currently polluting at Corrales, New Mexico
And how would you spell pedantic asshole?
The player is cast as a visiting longtime friend of Grace and Trip, a couple in their early thirties, and ends up in a verbal crossfire resulting from their failing marriage.
If the AI is advanced enough, maybe I can seduce Grace, talk her into killing Trip, and then turn her in for the virtual reward!
Nope, it leads to a picture of some insecure girl with big tatters looking to validate her life through the intarweb.
(Kind of like what I do here, but without the boobs)
It sounds like a johnny mnemonic style future.
Hit me!
Pirate the ones that the MPAA are unwilling to admit to making, and you're safe!
Nobody ever got arrested for pirating 'Gigli'
copying a folder of lolita child porn to your hard drive, mucking with the dates, and sending a tipoff to the FBI?
I'd rather have the worms than Hepatitis and UPIAs in the shower.
I'm not sure, but it's a planet where profitable==successful. Unfortunately, I'm lead to believe that the sky is blue there. Let me check... (looks out window) Yep, still blue.
Someone has to come up with a formula for success that doesn't equate directly to a ledger line.
try this one on: Copy and Corrupt.
And hopefully up-to-date information. Last month I was waching dateline or some similar program, and they did a big expose on....
wait for it..
PORN DIALERS!
C'mon, this was relevant what, seven years ago? That's eons in Internet years. I haven't used a modem in five years or so, and where I live isn't exactly bleeding edge. Maybe they'll do a big story on the Melissa virus next.
The problem is how much is a bit?
Here's something for you. Have you tried the stumbleupon toolbar? You supply a username and password, sign up for categories, and when you press a button, it brings up a random webpage. They don't know too much about me, they don't profile me, and I get ads in the form of webpages from them. I like it, I give up a little bit of privacy for a little bit of gain.
Why doesn't the advertizing agency create something similar? Give up a little bit of privacy for relevant ads? It's because they don't know when to say when. They want more and more and more. They think of clever little schemes to track you and see what you do, what you like, for the sole purpose of making money off of you. If they can come up with a way to imbed an RFID chip in your skull that will broadcast itself everytime you pick up an item on a shelf and show a little bit of interest, then guess what they're going to do? They're going to give away free toothbrushes to the first six billion meat popsicles that sign up for this mostly harmless brain jewellrey. Firefox and adblock is how I give them the collective finger. Swapping my air-miles card with the person next in line at the grocery store is how I give them the finger. Taking their god awful surveys at work for a chance to be quoted in some on-line publication and give them completely ridiculous answers like "We only have one mainframe, it's an IBM thinkpad 370 running Plan 9, and everyone else is using Commodore 128's (not 64's, no horsepower in those babies) as dumb terminals", then waiting on hold while they try to figure out which item on their list matches my answers, is the way I give them the collective finger.
Everyone is predicting the end of the free Internet, and that my ilk are the ones doing it. I'm not. I'm getting rid of the worst forms of advertizing making it unprofitable, and rewarding the responsible marketers. Any of this "In your face!" bullshit simply don't wash with me. I'll cut out commercials, call businesses that air shitty commercials and let them know that their commercials are shitty, and call up companies that have good commercials and let them know. Of course, my liberal use of the word "fuck" (as noted in posts to this topic) generally gets a hangup, but calling up the local pizza place that puts out a great commercial and telling them "Brilliant! That's a fooking brilliant commercial you got yourself there" makes most people chuckle and know that they're doing something right.
The Malibu Rum commercials (the Jamaican saying "Hurry up! My fish is sick!" on the bus, and the one where the family is trying to park the boat, getting a ticket, and the lady telling the cop "Is your mother proud of you?") make me laugh out loud, to this day. And to reward them, I threw the Captain overboard, and sent their company an e-mail saying that "Well, the captain was here too, and he ain't welcome back! Malibu Rum kicked your ass in the commercials, and they just had a bunch of islanders, whereas you had models with red beards scribbled on them.
Wow, this post has gotten way too long. I'll shorten my sig to make up for it. And now, in closing, Drink Malibu Rum, eat Little Caesars pizza, and any advertizers that try that "in your face" crap, hold them down and give them crap in their face. See how they like it.
This is, of course the reason why their strategies stop working, and they have to come up with new ones. There are always a few who will abuse the system (much like the mod that gave you the offtopic. Arse.) Why the companies keep coming out and saying, "This is what we did, this is what we found, it worked, and we'll be doing it again"
What can I say? I've got charm.
I think, as well as the size and type of ad ( I blocked ads from freshmeat because they were using flash animations with sound. Freshmeat is great, but the ads that they had were very intrusive), is the targetting of the ad. I would have no problem if google served me an ad based on my geographic location. I would have no problem if they serve me ads based on my current search terms. I would have a problem with google gathering my search terms and building a profile on my habits and serving me ads based on that (primarily because I share an IP with my wife, and we both use google, and the ads she'd get would end up costing me my house, and secondarily the whole privacy/big brother/ gubment doesn't need to know that I have a midget-viking-horse porn fetish), and I would switch my allegiances very quickly.
Not capitalism, idiocy.
Doubleclick wants to get rid of the free as in beer internet as well as the free-as-in-Mel Gibson painted blue internet. If they had their way, they would track every single person on the internet and their shopping habits, eating habits, and any other thing that they could figure out how to track, and sell it all to the highest bidder.
Fuck you double-click! If people weren't trying every single underhanded trick to make money on the Internet, the place would be better. Fuck you, fuck your adware-hocking buddies, and fuck Roland Pipsqueakalli for their desperate attempts to make a buck off of my back.