A million dollars and thus millionaire status is very attainable. Consequently, a million wont buy a hell of a lot now adays. But having said that, selling your soul into the worst field imaginable (advertising/marketing) is kind of like getting a million dollars for randomly stabbing people in the eyes. I would agree with bill hicks in encouraging him to kill himself.
I know several millionaires as well. All also have rosey, self made stories. In fact, I have never met a rich person who didn't come from "da streets". I would submit that time glosses over the luck and masages the ego into thinking life was really hard back in the day. For example, if I ever got rich, I could easily look back to a time in my early twenties when I ate canned soup every day for months completely missing the part where I had 3 square meals throughout my entire childhood.
"MY guess is that he did indeed switch it on occasionally."
I dunno about you, but when my phone wants to go on the internet it very clearly asks me. Id be very upset if my phone just randomly connected to whatever network at whatever rate without so much as a warning.
Strange, Apple's UI people are usually pretty good. But if you really can have a phone that looks like it's switched off but isn't, and it really does require a counter-intuitive and confusing alternative action by the user to switch it off fully, then they dropped the ball big time
Not really. The ipod has no "off" switch. My ipod dies in 3 days on a full charge whether im using it 24x7 or its sitting on the desk "off". Apple cant design off buttons. Anyone who has an ipod can easily see this. And when I mean not using it I mean not using it AT ALL. I can disconnect it from the PC and hold down the pause button (off), even set the hardswitch keylock and that ipod will be dead in 2-3 days. Im not sure, maybe apple just hates idle batteries.
exact reason I quit. Wow is unsustainable unless they keep raising the level bar and dumping gear in with +1 better somethings. Its the same trap UO fell into once it killed off its pvp.
Yeah, and people like you are the ones who have to make 4 different phone calls while in line at the bank, disturbing everyone with their noise, instead of just quietly waiting their turn.
you see them standing in line you watch them going insane because they're wasting their time While they're waiting in vain
Mythbusters drives me insane. Before every commercial break they tell you what they are going to do, then after the break they tell you what they just did, and what they are going to do... AGAIN!. Easily half of mythbusters, while a greatly entertaining show, is mythbusters talking in the third person about mythbusters. I got pretty good now at knowing exactly when new content will start so that I can fast forward properly, but hey are sneaky and always word the recap a bit differently with different footage after the breaks.
Its like they are making that show for stoners who cannot store a memory for the two minutes that a commerical is on. What was I watching again?
I would assume they are talking about newer more invasive television. In the 1950s (i assume thats when you grew up with brady bunch and all that) marketing and PR were new concepts and barely just taking off. Nowadays babies are programmed to want things before they can even speak. Ive watched TV with my friends kids and the comercials are mindblowingly, dare I say criminally, coercive.
Its easy to see this result with the young pups on instant messengers. They'll send a bunch of one word messages as sort of a heart beat, rather than sending a paragraph or few lines of text. It is not just growing up with instant messengers either, as I used ICQ back in 97 and do not have this disorder.
WGA is cracked by several different methods. You would just need to obtain a crack.
The other option is what valve "claims" that they will do with steam in this event, which is to issue one final update that removes the activation checking.
"Would WW2 have been lost (apart from a few million more casualties in the invasion of Japan"
The japanese emperor was ready to surrender. He wanted to do it on his own terms in order to save face. The americans nuking of japan was an atrocity and cannot be defended.
Really? Mine always fail in batches. Like one month there will be 30 or 40 dead hard drives, whereas the previous month there was 2 or 3. When you look at the date, they are always 3 years and one or two months from date of manufacture. Funny how that happens but it happens reliably, year after year.
You clearly don't have to support other peoples computers and their myriad of installed programs and configurations. Your what, 6 computers, all dell, and your maybe 10 apps, support vista? woop dee doo. I am currently typing this on a vista machine thats been scaled down to xp config (no aero no stupid superfetch, uac, etc) and it runs like a gamy dog. Simple software like, oh anything that writes to a floppy drive, doesnt work. All with absolutely ZERO benefit over XP. I also had to buy new licenses or upgrade; norton, emc backup, cd burning software of various sorts, all avaya apps, zone alarm (not that I personally use that trash), camera control software and a bunch of other little programs.
Obviously I dont have games on my work machine, but I would imagine that it would be hit and miss as well. The bottom line - Windows Vista Compatability, if you're lucky, your vendor has a patch. (if your real lucky its a free patch)
If the customer monitored his own bandwidth with something like netlimiter (for windows), then he would be absolutely sure he was in the right and would have had numbers to back him up. So
"Probably too good for you, if you don't care about movies. Or if you have anything less than a 60" screen,"
Good movies can be watched on a 12inch black and white tv and still be good. Bad movies need a 60 inch screen and thousands of dollars of home audio/video equipment to maybe reach a 'watchable' level. High definition graphics are the least important part of films, and quite often the most heavily marketed part.
Do you work for a newspapers classified section or something? Ive done literally hundreds of craigslist deals and the worst you get is flakey people who hum and haw wasting time, or ask stupid questions. Cheque scams? Ive never had anyone even offer to pay with anything but cash...
The majority of items in my apt were purchased off of craigslist. Not to mention my car, my current job and the apt iteself.
These people are stealing my time by forcing me to look at materialist crap. I mean the audacity of them to claim that I owe their business model a right to profit. Its sickening. I have often thought of billing people that send me snail mail spam for my time shredding it. 49.99 per incident should do nicely. I benefit not a lick from advertising, the vultures that make money off of my eyes, polluting my brain can eat a dick.
Make no mistake, advertising is pollution.
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At least he had the courage to post under his own username.
How are those peaceful protests working out for you anyway? Weed is still illegal, the war in iraq went on, and the disparity between the rich and poor is stronger than ever. If one person throws a brick, hes a vandal, if a hundred thousand do it, its a revolution. Thats actually my main problem with protests, their peaceful nature. Its almost like the people just want a shell of a protest to look "cool" while in reality risking nothing of substance for the cause they are fighting for.
Thats also why I admire martyrs but now i've just gone and marked myself as an offtopic troll.
I dunno dude, granted my linux server at home is mostly personal use but one of the first things I do is change the ssh port. Its not like http where your going to have dumb clients that ports are hard to change in. Its as easy to put an IP in as a port using putty. I find it hard to believe that you are giving your parents a secure shell (with all the knowledge required to use it) and they are incapable of changing a port. I use to have relentless attacks on ssh before I changed the port. At work, all RDP ports that are through the firewall get a random high numbered port. Would you run RDP on its default ports as well?
It doesnt really matter of course as you have a script based solution in place, but the bots that scan peoples machines are programmed for specific ports. I have never, not once, had a dictionary type attack on my ssh running on unstandard ports, and I use logwatch daily.
Well you dont hear about the hundreds of millions of secured data protection events everyday because they wouldn't be newsworthy. If a corporation or org successfully repels a threat, why would it make the frontpage of slashdot?
The simple fact is that there is more and more data in the world so more and more breaches will happen. Its inevitable. Just try not to be the one asleep at the switch.
Well personally, I didnt start watching it till long after it went off the air. When it came out I remember thinking that groeing was abandoning the simpsons to do some other show and at the time felt betrayed. So I never watched it untill it came out on dvd rips. Its easily way better than the simpsons but at the time it just seemed like a simpsons rip off.
"Honda because my hybrid Accord has a whole array of non-user-replaceable batteries?"
Actually Id be pretty pissed if I couldnt change out the battery in my car without taking it to the dealership. If that wasnt mentioned to me at the point of sale, I might have a case to sue. Especially considering 99% of other cars have user serviceable batteries.
[crafting was] nothing but a grind, and even less engaging in general due to the extremely repetitive nature of the activity and general lack of threat
I guess you didnt have uo assist and a macroing program.
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My god that was hilarious. I laughed for a solid five minutes.
A million dollars and thus millionaire status is very attainable. Consequently, a million wont buy a hell of a lot now adays. But having said that, selling your soul into the worst field imaginable (advertising/marketing) is kind of like getting a million dollars for randomly stabbing people in the eyes. I would agree with bill hicks in encouraging him to kill himself.
I know several millionaires as well. All also have rosey, self made stories. In fact, I have never met a rich person who didn't come from "da streets". I would submit that time glosses over the luck and masages the ego into thinking life was really hard back in the day. For example, if I ever got rich, I could easily look back to a time in my early twenties when I ate canned soup every day for months completely missing the part where I had 3 square meals throughout my entire childhood.
I dunno about you, but when my phone wants to go on the internet it very clearly asks me. Id be very upset if my phone just randomly connected to whatever network at whatever rate without so much as a warning.
Not really. The ipod has no "off" switch. My ipod dies in 3 days on a full charge whether im using it 24x7 or its sitting on the desk "off". Apple cant design off buttons. Anyone who has an ipod can easily see this. And when I mean not using it I mean not using it AT ALL. I can disconnect it from the PC and hold down the pause button (off), even set the hardswitch keylock and that ipod will be dead in 2-3 days. Im not sure, maybe apple just hates idle batteries.
exact reason I quit. Wow is unsustainable unless they keep raising the level bar and dumping gear in with +1 better somethings. Its the same trap UO fell into once it killed off its pvp.
AMEN to that!
Mythbusters drives me insane. Before every commercial break they tell you what they are going to do, then after the break they tell you what they just did, and what they are going to do... AGAIN!. Easily half of mythbusters, while a greatly entertaining show, is mythbusters talking in the third person about mythbusters. I got pretty good now at knowing exactly when new content will start so that I can fast forward properly, but hey are sneaky and always word the recap a bit differently with different footage after the breaks.
Its like they are making that show for stoners who cannot store a memory for the two minutes that a commerical is on. What was I watching again?
I would assume they are talking about newer more invasive television. In the 1950s (i assume thats when you grew up with brady bunch and all that) marketing and PR were new concepts and barely just taking off. Nowadays babies are programmed to want things before they can even speak. Ive watched TV with my friends kids and the comercials are mindblowingly, dare I say criminally, coercive.
Its easy to see this result with the young pups on instant messengers. They'll send a bunch of one word messages as sort of a heart beat, rather than sending a paragraph or few lines of text. It is not just growing up with instant messengers either, as I used ICQ back in 97 and do not have this disorder.
WGA is cracked by several different methods. You would just need to obtain a crack.
The other option is what valve "claims" that they will do with steam in this event, which is to issue one final update that removes the activation checking.
The japanese emperor was ready to surrender. He wanted to do it on his own terms in order to save face. The americans nuking of japan was an atrocity and cannot be defended.
Really? Mine always fail in batches. Like one month there will be 30 or 40 dead hard drives, whereas the previous month there was 2 or 3. When you look at the date, they are always 3 years and one or two months from date of manufacture. Funny how that happens but it happens reliably, year after year.
You clearly don't have to support other peoples computers and their myriad of installed programs and configurations. Your what, 6 computers, all dell, and your maybe 10 apps, support vista? woop dee doo. I am currently typing this on a vista machine thats been scaled down to xp config (no aero no stupid superfetch, uac, etc) and it runs like a gamy dog. Simple software like, oh anything that writes to a floppy drive, doesnt work. All with absolutely ZERO benefit over XP. I also had to buy new licenses or upgrade; norton, emc backup, cd burning software of various sorts, all avaya apps, zone alarm (not that I personally use that trash), camera control software and a bunch of other little programs.
Obviously I dont have games on my work machine, but I would imagine that it would be hit and miss as well. The bottom line - Windows Vista Compatability, if you're lucky, your vendor has a patch. (if your real lucky its a free patch)
If the customer monitored his own bandwidth with something like netlimiter (for windows), then he would be absolutely sure he was in the right and would have had numbers to back him up. So
Good movies can be watched on a 12inch black and white tv and still be good. Bad movies need a 60 inch screen and thousands of dollars of home audio/video equipment to maybe reach a 'watchable' level. High definition graphics are the least important part of films, and quite often the most heavily marketed part.
Mexican shark with oversized sombrero moves into google?
/pats parents head
Hmm not sure what the meaning behind that symbolism is, but at least its creative.
Do you work for a newspapers classified section or something? Ive done literally hundreds of craigslist deals and the worst you get is flakey people who hum and haw wasting time, or ask stupid questions. Cheque scams? Ive never had anyone even offer to pay with anything but cash...
The majority of items in my apt were purchased off of craigslist. Not to mention my car, my current job and the apt iteself.
These people are stealing my time by forcing me to look at materialist crap. I mean the audacity of them to claim that I owe their business model a right to profit. Its sickening. I have often thought of billing people that send me snail mail spam for my time shredding it. 49.99 per incident should do nicely. I benefit not a lick from advertising, the vultures that make money off of my eyes, polluting my brain can eat a dick.
Make no mistake, advertising is pollution.
At least he had the courage to post under his own username.
How are those peaceful protests working out for you anyway? Weed is still illegal, the war in iraq went on, and the disparity between the rich and poor is stronger than ever. If one person throws a brick, hes a vandal, if a hundred thousand do it, its a revolution. Thats actually my main problem with protests, their peaceful nature. Its almost like the people just want a shell of a protest to look "cool" while in reality risking nothing of substance for the cause they are fighting for.
Thats also why I admire martyrs but now i've just gone and marked myself as an offtopic troll.
I dunno dude, granted my linux server at home is mostly personal use but one of the first things I do is change the ssh port. Its not like http where your going to have dumb clients that ports are hard to change in. Its as easy to put an IP in as a port using putty. I find it hard to believe that you are giving your parents a secure shell (with all the knowledge required to use it) and they are incapable of changing a port. I use to have relentless attacks on ssh before I changed the port. At work, all RDP ports that are through the firewall get a random high numbered port. Would you run RDP on its default ports as well?
It doesnt really matter of course as you have a script based solution in place, but the bots that scan peoples machines are programmed for specific ports. I have never, not once, had a dictionary type attack on my ssh running on unstandard ports, and I use logwatch daily.
So wait, colbert is mcdonalds? or is he the hamburger? roger? Viacom is the hamburgler outfit, right?
Jesus man thats the most confusing analogy ive EVER read...
Well you dont hear about the hundreds of millions of secured data protection events everyday because they wouldn't be newsworthy. If a corporation or org successfully repels a threat, why would it make the frontpage of slashdot?
The simple fact is that there is more and more data in the world so more and more breaches will happen. Its inevitable. Just try not to be the one asleep at the switch.
Well personally, I didnt start watching it till long after it went off the air. When it came out I remember thinking that groeing was abandoning the simpsons to do some other show and at the time felt betrayed. So I never watched it untill it came out on dvd rips. Its easily way better than the simpsons but at the time it just seemed like a simpsons rip off.
I guess you didnt have uo assist and a macroing program.
All off the shelf routers are cheap. Pfsense is always the better option.