Half your students lacked some common sense; not because they should be suspicious of something that happens only to a tiny fraction of the population (mail bombs), but because they should be suspicious of something that happens to practically everyone (email bombs).
How are the musicians getting paid? Are they doing this project on spec? For $5,000 they'd have to be. That amount barely gets you recording time and a so-so engineer.
GP has it right. Projects with any momentum take at least 10K units sold to come close to breaking even.
Spam used to be a big problem for me until I stopped using Outlook and started using Thunderbird. Dealing with spam used to take minutes, now only seconds. Really, just about 10-30 seconds to identify the bad mail that Thunderbird's filter didn't catch.
Is it not the same for you?
I'm not defending, or apologizing for this guy. I'm just saying that you seem to be making a very big deal about something that, for most of us, isn't taking more than a minute a day to deal with.
By your sentencing formula, shouldn't hackers, virus writers and script kiddies be getting a lot more time than they are now? I mean, how many productivity hours are lost every year due to a virus?
I empathize with you. I'll never forgive George Lucas for the two hours of my life wasted watching SWI.
Iran and Venezeula getting very interesting, and still an ever growing pile of bodies in Iraq, it's disgusting what fails to make our mainstream media.
What possible reason would you have for expecting better? Are you 20 years old?
This is sad. A geek who's been completely isolated from women for so long, that he doesn't even recognize them when he sees them. To him, everyone looks like a male.
I wonder what the percentage is of Mac users who also have a Wintel box for the primary purpose of gaming? I'm one. Although I do end up using some other apps in Windows since I'm already there, when I quit a game or before starting one.
If windows has all the apps a user requires, spending extra money on a Mac (or, indeed, installing Linux) is essentially pointless.
You then disprove this in the very next sentence:
The only true benefit non-windows systems have to most users is the lack of spyware
Also, you sound like a person who hasn't actually used OSX. As countless posters have pointed out in many many threads, the experience is different, and to many, different in a better way than Windows or Linux.
You'd think that someone who seems this smart would be able to earn a little bit more $ and get both a Wintel and Mac box. (Maybe he's a broke student. Mommy and daddy won't pay for more than one box.)
The fee is only $1.00 at my library. Can keep for a week. But the selection if small, very small. Tried both Netflix and BlockBuster online services: the turn-around time is bad for both, worse for BB.
Now I use the BB in-store service, 2 at a time for $20/month. New movies come out on Tuesdays, and you've got to be there early, otherwise they're gone.
I think Netflix's days are numbered, unless they start offering other services. BB will eventually work out their shipping woes. Also, they plan on integrating their brick and mortars with their online service, so you can get movies by mail, return them to a store, and visa versa.
The movie rental business has never been better, for me as a customer.
That's more like something you'd do to someone you hate.
Exactly! And why he'd get a punch in the face if it was me, or most anyone I knew at 18 years old.
Seriously, I hope Meets takes some of the responses he's gotten here as a warning of what will probably happen if he turns in friends with any frequency. Turning in friends (who you should more technically now call enemies) is a very dangerous thing.
If I was that friend, you could expect a punch in the face.
I would like you enough, that I would take it upon myself to teach you a lesson: that friends don't snitch on their friends.
Snitching is what your enemy does to you. Don't worry, though. I'm not your enemy. I'm your friend, and I'm only hitting you a couple of times. Just to make the lesson stick. If I wasn't such a good friend, then I'd be your enemy, and your beating would be much more severe.
I can only assume that you don't have any brothers or sisters, and that you've never had a serious friendship. Acting like a five year old couldn't be helping this.
Do do deny that fork-tongued Imams exist and that they are a problem?
Dr. Cole seems to think there are, and that they are a problem. He writes, using a hardware(terrorist)/software(bad ideology) metaphor:
The Imam says, a person who was really committed could change everything. He could save the Muslim Ummma from destruction.
The software is fatally one-sided. It also exaggerates. The Muslim world is not in danger of being destroyed, least of all by the United States, a warm friend of most Muslim countries.
I don't know how many of this type of Imam exist. But I do know that in American main stream media, all effort is made by Christian clergy to challenge any doctrinal approval of violence by extremists, and to distance themselves from those who espouse such approval.
I don't and can't know how many of these radical Imams exist. MEMRI is only a tool that has helped expose them. Of course MEMRI is selective, and of course they are biased. That doesn't necessarily invalidate their translations. Can you point to any instance of mis-translation?
I don't see the primacy as knowing the numbers, but rather what's being done by Islamists to keep Islamism pure of violent extremists.
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Not completely different. That's probably why people mix them up, don't you think?
Half your students lacked some common sense; not because they should be suspicious of something that happens only to a tiny fraction of the population (mail bombs), but because they should be suspicious of something that happens to practically everyone (email bombs).
No, this is how wars are fought.
Planes end up knocking down buildings when Islamic extremists can't resist the call of 72 virgins from heaven.
No. Most armies are not like the one from your country.
BTW: your English is very good for a Congolese.
Are you an ex CIA agent? Ex military? Law enforcement? Did you used to be a judge?
No?
Then you are stupid for being suspicious of strange boxes showing up at your door.
(Unless badness has been sent to you in a brown box in the past, why would you be suspicious?)
Let's just chalk this one up as another geek analogy bites the dust.
So tell us again: how are the musicians getting paid???
How are the musicians getting paid? Are they doing this project on spec? For $5,000 they'd have to be. That amount barely gets you recording time and a so-so engineer.
GP has it right. Projects with any momentum take at least 10K units sold to come close to breaking even.
LOL
How true!!!
You are hereby crowned Lord Geek of CSS. Protect thy kingdom and do no evil!
Spam used to be a big problem for me until I stopped using Outlook and started using Thunderbird. Dealing with spam used to take minutes, now only seconds. Really, just about 10-30 seconds to identify the bad mail that Thunderbird's filter didn't catch.
Is it not the same for you?
I'm not defending, or apologizing for this guy. I'm just saying that you seem to be making a very big deal about something that, for most of us, isn't taking more than a minute a day to deal with.
By your sentencing formula, shouldn't hackers, virus writers and script kiddies be getting a lot more time than they are now? I mean, how many productivity hours are lost every year due to a virus?
I empathize with you. I'll never forgive George Lucas for the two hours of my life wasted watching SWI.
Iran and Venezeula getting very interesting, and still an ever growing pile of bodies in Iraq, it's disgusting what fails to make our mainstream media.
What possible reason would you have for expecting better? Are you 20 years old?
Go away. Go back to watching the Simpsons.
This is sad. A geek who's been completely isolated from women for so long, that he doesn't even recognize them when he sees them. To him, everyone looks like a male.
LOL
Major crash'n burn...after pulling off a couple loops and rolls.
I wonder what the percentage is of Mac users who also have a Wintel box for the primary purpose of gaming? I'm one. Although I do end up using some other apps in Windows since I'm already there, when I quit a game or before starting one.
Apple "controlling" their hardware market is unfortunately limiting your choices for no good reason.
Unless, by "no good reason" you mean not having any problems with drivers or updates.
If windows has all the apps a user requires, spending extra money on a Mac (or, indeed, installing Linux) is essentially pointless.
You then disprove this in the very next sentence:
The only true benefit non-windows systems have to most users is the lack of spyware
Also, you sound like a person who hasn't actually used OSX. As countless posters have pointed out in many many threads, the experience is different, and to many, different in a better way than Windows or Linux.
You'd think that someone who seems this smart would be able to earn a little bit more $ and get both a Wintel and Mac box. (Maybe he's a broke student. Mommy and daddy won't pay for more than one box.)
The fee is only $1.00 at my library. Can keep for a week. But the selection if small, very small. Tried both Netflix and BlockBuster online services: the turn-around time is bad for both, worse for BB.
Now I use the BB in-store service, 2 at a time for $20/month. New movies come out on Tuesdays, and you've got to be there early, otherwise they're gone.
I think Netflix's days are numbered, unless they start offering other services. BB will eventually work out their shipping woes. Also, they plan on integrating their brick and mortars with their online service, so you can get movies by mail, return them to a store, and visa versa.
The movie rental business has never been better, for me as a customer.
Coward
Seriously, I hope Meets takes some of the responses he's gotten here as a warning of what will probably happen if he turns in friends with any frequency. Turning in friends (who you should more technically now call enemies) is a very dangerous thing.
You two should start a support group.
If I was that friend, you could expect a punch in the face.
I would like you enough, that I would take it upon myself to teach you a lesson: that friends don't snitch on their friends.
Snitching is what your enemy does to you. Don't worry, though. I'm not your enemy. I'm your friend, and I'm only hitting you a couple of times. Just to make the lesson stick. If I wasn't such a good friend, then I'd be your enemy, and your beating would be much more severe.
I can only assume that you don't have any brothers or sisters, and that you've never had a serious friendship. Acting like a five year old couldn't be helping this.
Desires != needs
Dr. Cole seems to think there are, and that they are a problem. He writes, using a hardware(terrorist)/software(bad ideology) metaphor: I don't know how many of this type of Imam exist. But I do know that in American main stream media, all effort is made by Christian clergy to challenge any doctrinal approval of violence by extremists, and to distance themselves from those who espouse such approval.
I don't and can't know how many of these radical Imams exist. MEMRI is only a tool that has helped expose them. Of course MEMRI is selective, and of course they are biased. That doesn't necessarily invalidate their translations. Can you point to any instance of mis-translation?
I don't see the primacy as knowing the numbers, but rather what's being done by Islamists to keep Islamism pure of violent extremists.