Unfortunately they can at best be described as gay.
Then it seems to be your problem that you can't describe stuff well, neh? Maybe you should learn some more vocabulary beyond kindergarten playground insults (and hopefully some FACTS while you're at it) before attempting to ascribe a lifestyle preference to..uh..computer cases.
One can only hope that Apple throw in the towel
Key word: one. Just one. Namely you. Everyone else at least recognizes Apple's worth.
Although I do appreciate your correct use of the subjunctive...oh, wait, you think "Apple" is plural for whatever reason. Curses. I was hoping to be able to find something good in your post.
to the newly released Pentium II processor, we recommend that you use Microsoft Windows Millenium Edition
I'm not surprised it won't run on the PIII and P4 - I'm just surprised it runs on the PII. Oh, and it's probably telling of its quality that you think the PII is "new"? Quite slow Web browsing there....
Ken Jennings was my roomate freshman year at Brigham Young University.
We had both drank a lot - Ken said on the show he is a teetotaler.
-- I worked for NASA for 8 years straight out of MIT undergrad.
I'm an editor for Tom's Hardware Guide
I worked for a particular company that denied another company a lucrative contract just because that company's CTO had bullied my company's CEO when he was in high school
I have TWO friends who work at Bungie
I work on LAMP software and deploy to customer's websites.
I obtained a preview release [of GIMP 2.0]
I'm sorry, but I've got to call your bluff here. You've claimed to do to much stuff and to know too many people. If all this is true, it's quite impressive and you have a life history to be proud of; if not, you need to stop claiming to be so many different things if you want people to take you seriously.
Besides, unless you're claiming that Ken got more moral after leaving BYU - a Mormon institution - you're attributing behaviors to him that the KenJen of the brief show interviews would not have done.
I doubt he'll do his own taxes any more. In a nice ironic twist. H&R Block offered him free tax and investment services for life. (Maybe they think he hadn't heard of them enough?)
No. IM has two important features that set it apart from e-mail: presence and instantaneity. First, I can see if someone's online and willing to accept messages. If they're offline I can try calling them; if they're away, I know they're not available. Logging on through an IM-to-mail gateway will broadcast a false presence. It also removes the realtime aspect. I use IM when I want a quick answer from someone, or when I want to hold a conversation. I use e-mail when I need to write something longer or more formal, and I feel it's okay to wait a few days for a reply.
Don't hope for an IM-to-mail gateway. Use e-mail as it's intended to, because it's purpose is entirely different from IM. I'm sure you could use SMTP as [IM popped up right here in the sentence, I answered, window's minimized] an IM transport protocol, but the client would have to be as intrusive in order for it to work as true IM. I would of course support an e-mail service, e.g., screenname@email.aim.com, that's uses your IM user name, and is for when you're offline or you need to send longer messages. But this will not be "IM".
As I spend more and more time online writing quick messages, I find that my writing skills are slowly degrading.
Call me nerdy, but I tend to find that IM helps me pay attention to grammar. One of my friends is a grammar stickler who'll correct anything slightly wrong that I type, from missing commas to misused words, and it's a lot easier to proofread IMs than, say, conversations, because the text stays there in a written form. And the entry box gives me the opportunity to rephrase or correct a mistyped sentence.
I'm American. I use IM for normal Internet communication with my peers. The majority of my e-mail inbox (not spam) is stuff for the state executive board of math club (I'm webmaster). I just looked at my inbox; other than mailing lists and the aforementioned math-club e-mails, I can't find a "normal" e-mail since after about early October.
The nature of e-mail is such that it lends itself to longer, infomative messages. "Chatting" - that is, discussion or talking - is much more suited for IM.
Re:This is a marriage made in heaven :-)
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Skype + Kazaa = ?
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Kazaa get the respectability it seeks
I'm afraid it'll go the other way; the illegal piracy associated with Kazaa will taint the name of Skype, and the latter using a peer-to-peer network setup can only worsen its image (consider the claim "see, all P2P is the same and illegal...even this phone software is included with music-swapping software").
First, how about if you sign something at Blockbuster allowing it?
So you should have to consent to Blockbuster asking for late rentals back? Apart from the sheer lack of necessity of this, Blockbuster will simply include a line stating as such in their receipt, where you do sign and give a copy back.
I don't want to have to opt out of it.
Then don't worry - you can't opt out of it. To use a more extreme example, there isn't any way to "opt out" of creditors or repoers coming after you, is there?
once you've established it, it's there until you're dead.
I do disagree with this. This shouldn't be allowed, at least after n weeks, or if it is allowed, calls must concern the business relationship itself. The company can ask about the merchandise you received years ago, but can't advertise any other products.
This provision needs to be there...otherwise, the "stretching" could go the other way to prevent Blockbuster from calling me and reminding me that Halo 2 is overdue. That's valid, and they should be allowed to do that even through we're on do-not-call. If it's not, someone will find a way to abuse it so that no commercial entity can call them legally...heh, easy way to get back at credit collectors: sue them under do-not-call and give them the money you win. This seems to me like the greater evil.
I'm not sure how "established business relationship" can be abused, since a former relationship doesn't exist anymore and shouldn't be allowed to justify calling me now. Of course, we'll have to see how the law is worded....
It's not very different from FTP; it's just done using HTTP. This may be easier for the user. This is the converse of using FTP in a browser to download an HTML page, which shows in the browser as if HTTP were the protocol.
Actually, it has the benefit of allowing more access controls than traditional FTP - hence the name, "authoring and versioning".
a great deal of Microsoft's monopoly has been achieved because people have pirated their software
That's why they're switching tactics now - they have a monopoly already. They don't need to create a market share, they just need to exploit it at this point. Even if OSS eventually wins, they'll still have made more profit this way than by trying to get the last few percent of the market without taking advantage of what they've already got.
having a competent programmer look at the source code is the only way ever to make it less buggy and crash-prone.
Microsoft has some of the most competent programmers in the world, and I question the assertion that open-source hobbyist programmers will be able to fix Windows. Perhaps the problem with Windows is more fundamental than programmer skill; remember that XP still has code from the 16-bit days, needs to support a mmuch larger range of software and drivers, and is subject to a lot more external and nonportable code than Linux.
Also, Windows XP is considerably less crash-prone than previous versions. I got a crash two days ago from a driver incompatibility (ironically, the driver was invoked by an open-source application). Before that, the last serious crash (STOP error) was several months ago, if not over a year.
Our school team got either first or second place in a statewide programming contest, so each team member got a copy of Windows XP and a copy of VS.NET. I don't doubt these copies are illegal; they were probably obtained through an educational agreement from Microsoft. (Right now I'm tinkering with installing said XP on MacBochs, seeing as I have XP already on my PC.)
So, you can get legal, first-hand copies from Microsoft for reasonable prices.
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As that old Negro spiritual goes, "[Tibet,]free at last! [Buddha] all mighty! Free at last!"
I would say you're smoking something, but any plant strong enough to make you come up with that would have poisoned itself first and not grown.
Unfortunately they can at best be described as gay.
Then it seems to be your problem that you can't describe stuff well, neh? Maybe you should learn some more vocabulary beyond kindergarten playground insults (and hopefully some FACTS while you're at it) before attempting to ascribe a lifestyle preference to..uh..computer cases.
One can only hope that Apple throw in the towel
Key word: one. Just one. Namely you. Everyone else at least recognizes Apple's worth.
Although I do appreciate your correct use of the subjunctive...oh, wait, you think "Apple" is plural for whatever reason. Curses. I was hoping to be able to find something good in your post.
to the newly released Pentium II processor, we recommend that you use Microsoft Windows Millenium Edition
I'm not surprised it won't run on the PIII and P4 - I'm just surprised it runs on the PII. Oh, and it's probably telling of its quality that you think the PII is "new"? Quite slow Web browsing there....
Conspicuous Consumption
As in telltale tuberculosis?
Ken Jennings was my roomate freshman year at Brigham Young University.
We had both drank a lot - Ken said on the show he is a teetotaler.
--
I worked for NASA for 8 years straight out of MIT undergrad.
I'm an editor for Tom's Hardware Guide
I worked for a particular company that denied another company a lucrative contract just because that company's CTO had bullied my company's CEO when he was in high school
I have TWO friends who work at Bungie
I work on LAMP software and deploy to customer's websites.
I obtained a preview release [of GIMP 2.0]
I'm sorry, but I've got to call your bluff here. You've claimed to do to much stuff and to know too many people. If all this is true, it's quite impressive and you have a life history to be proud of; if not, you need to stop claiming to be so many different things if you want people to take you seriously.
Besides, unless you're claiming that Ken got more moral after leaving BYU - a Mormon institution - you're attributing behaviors to him that the KenJen of the brief show interviews would not have done.
I doubt he'll do his own taxes any more. In a nice ironic twist. H&R Block offered him free tax and investment services for life. (Maybe they think he hadn't heard of them enough?)
The American version of Katamari Damacy.
How are they going to make a sequel to this game? Katamultiplayer (either timed competition or FFA snowball fight)?
What's next, McDonald's Happy Meal tieins: "Get your ball started with this goop, and add random household objects and Chicken McNuggets!"?
No, blogs are for young people, e-mail and no blogs are for old people. Didn't you read the story summary that inspired this joke?
Although I am glad to see the joke actually used.
an IM2mail gateway
No. IM has two important features that set it apart from e-mail: presence and instantaneity. First, I can see if someone's online and willing to accept messages. If they're offline I can try calling them; if they're away, I know they're not available. Logging on through an IM-to-mail gateway will broadcast a false presence. It also removes the realtime aspect. I use IM when I want a quick answer from someone, or when I want to hold a conversation. I use e-mail when I need to write something longer or more formal, and I feel it's okay to wait a few days for a reply.
Don't hope for an IM-to-mail gateway. Use e-mail as it's intended to, because it's purpose is entirely different from IM. I'm sure you could use SMTP as [IM popped up right here in the sentence, I answered, window's minimized] an IM transport protocol, but the client would have to be as intrusive in order for it to work as true IM. I would of course support an e-mail service, e.g., screenname@email.aim.com, that's uses your IM user name, and is for when you're offline or you need to send longer messages. But this will not be "IM".
As I spend more and more time online writing quick messages, I find that my writing skills are slowly degrading.
Call me nerdy, but I tend to find that IM helps me pay attention to grammar. One of my friends is a grammar stickler who'll correct anything slightly wrong that I type, from missing commas to misused words, and it's a lot easier to proofread IMs than, say, conversations, because the text stays there in a written form. And the entry box gives me the opportunity to rephrase or correct a mistyped sentence.
Can we combine both memes? Here goes:
In North Korea, only old people design nuclear bombs to kill YOU!
I'm American. I use IM for normal Internet communication with my peers. The majority of my e-mail inbox (not spam) is stuff for the state executive board of math club (I'm webmaster). I just looked at my inbox; other than mailing lists and the aforementioned math-club e-mails, I can't find a "normal" e-mail since after about early October.
The nature of e-mail is such that it lends itself to longer, infomative messages. "Chatting" - that is, discussion or talking - is much more suited for IM.
Phase Shifting or Changing Modulation?
+1 Funny
-1 Overrated
Sounds more like changing moderation to me....
Hey! It's Wesley Crusher!
Kazaa get the respectability it seeks
I'm afraid it'll go the other way; the illegal piracy associated with Kazaa will taint the name of Skype, and the latter using a peer-to-peer network setup can only worsen its image (consider the claim "see, all P2P is the same and illegal...even this phone software is included with music-swapping software").
First, how about if you sign something at Blockbuster allowing it?
So you should have to consent to Blockbuster asking for late rentals back? Apart from the sheer lack of necessity of this, Blockbuster will simply include a line stating as such in their receipt, where you do sign and give a copy back.
I don't want to have to opt out of it.
Then don't worry - you can't opt out of it. To use a more extreme example, there isn't any way to "opt out" of creditors or repoers coming after you, is there?
once you've established it, it's there until you're dead.
I do disagree with this. This shouldn't be allowed, at least after n weeks, or if it is allowed, calls must concern the business relationship itself. The company can ask about the merchandise you received years ago, but can't advertise any other products.
This provision needs to be there...otherwise, the "stretching" could go the other way to prevent Blockbuster from calling me and reminding me that Halo 2 is overdue. That's valid, and they should be allowed to do that even through we're on do-not-call. If it's not, someone will find a way to abuse it so that no commercial entity can call them legally...heh, easy way to get back at credit collectors: sue them under do-not-call and give them the money you win. This seems to me like the greater evil.
I'm not sure how "established business relationship" can be abused, since a former relationship doesn't exist anymore and shouldn't be allowed to justify calling me now. Of course, we'll have to see how the law is worded....
No.
You'll risk your job trying something sneaky like that.
Simply configue Firefox to address his security complaints and bring up the issue again.
The second link should be "upcoming GameCube games". The A-tag has two double-quotes by accident, causing browsers to read it as A HREF=""....
It's not very different from FTP; it's just done using HTTP. This may be easier for the user. This is the converse of using FTP in a browser to download an HTML page, which shows in the browser as if HTTP were the protocol.
Actually, it has the benefit of allowing more access controls than traditional FTP - hence the name, "authoring and versioning".
a great deal of Microsoft's monopoly has been achieved because people have pirated their software
That's why they're switching tactics now - they have a monopoly already. They don't need to create a market share, they just need to exploit it at this point. Even if OSS eventually wins, they'll still have made more profit this way than by trying to get the last few percent of the market without taking advantage of what they've already got.
having a competent programmer look at the source code is the only way ever to make it less buggy and crash-prone.
Microsoft has some of the most competent programmers in the world, and I question the assertion that open-source hobbyist programmers will be able to fix Windows. Perhaps the problem with Windows is more fundamental than programmer skill; remember that XP still has code from the 16-bit days, needs to support a mmuch larger range of software and drivers, and is subject to a lot more external and nonportable code than Linux.
Also, Windows XP is considerably less crash-prone than previous versions. I got a crash two days ago from a driver incompatibility (ironically, the driver was invoked by an open-source application). Before that, the last serious crash (STOP error) was several months ago, if not over a year.
Not really.
Our school team got either first or second place in a statewide programming contest, so each team member got a copy of Windows XP and a copy of VS.NET. I don't doubt these copies are illegal; they were probably obtained through an educational agreement from Microsoft. (Right now I'm tinkering with installing said XP on MacBochs, seeing as I have XP already on my PC.)
So, you can get legal, first-hand copies from Microsoft for reasonable prices.
The War on Terra.
As in Final Fantasy III?
Thanks. That increases my Japanese vocabulary to...about 3 words.
I wonder if the Japanese district of Mobile, AL, is called Keitai?
Unfortunately, the cache seems to have picked up on the "Account Suspended" notice and dropped the original article....