I don't know what the big deal with everyone is always bashing Microsoft. Anybody that wants to go out and write a better operating system, provide support for it and maintain updates for it are free to do so. Like it or not, Microsoft is number one for a reason. I try to give the various flavors of linux a try, but without a lot of work, I can never get it to work as well as my XP out of the box. When linux can give me an out of the box solution like Microsoft does now, maybe I'll give it a more serious look. The last straw for me was when Redhat pulled the plug on their users. No Thanks!
When will people learn eh? There's already people living on the moon, and probably Mars as well. They're more advanced than us. They have a technology called warp drive which allows them to travel very very fast. Why don't we just aim the hubble telescope towards the moon or mars and send them a radio signal and tell them that we'd like to get a pickup. I'm not sure what you use to tip a moon man cabbie or the space bus driver from Mars, but I'm pretty sure we could figure something out. It would probably be a lot cheaper than building our own ships and warp drive, etc. That's my opinion, not yours!
When I bought my Tivo for direct tv, my wife said "why are you wasting your money on that crap, what's wrong with just watching tv?" Now, guess who uses it most of all? Tivo is the most incredible technology for those who watch tv. It records all of my favorite show so I don't have to interupt whatever I'm doing and I can watch TV when I choose. I can also fast forward through the commercials, which is what the networks REALLY hate. Gives me more time to work on my cartoon drawing: Comics
A very irritated user from www.cgff.net had the following very angry response to Ms. Fiorina. Due to the graphic language of this very irritated fella, I'll supply the link, you can read it if you like.
http://www.cgff.net/nuke1/modules.php?name=News&fi le=article&sid=17
I do agree with him though. This outsourcing is crap. Clueless project managers that are shipping coding projects overseas will not necessarily have the time or expertise to review code coming back from other nations to ensure there are no secuity holes or malicious hacks placed into the code. When I look at some of the managers around here who couldn't explain what goes on if their life depended on it, if they got code back from someplace else, it would never get looked at provided it met the requirements. Dangerous game I would say.
I recently switched from one ISP (sympatico in canada) to another (local cable company). The main reason was I didn't like the 10 gigabyte transfer limit per month. A friend of mine got an extra $25 charge one month for going 2 gigs over the limit. When I called to cancel, a very nice french person (all sympatico customer service reps are french), told me sympatico did not have any such restriction. I wonder if they bill people and only retract the policy when people threaten to change, like I did. I would suggest that anybody who gets any sort of letter from their ISP call and cancel their service and switch to another provider. Most areas have at least two or three providers, and you can bet at least one of them will offer no transfer limits just to piss off the ones that do enforce limits. I wanted to run my website (www.cgff.net) from home prior to switching, but got a webhost instead because I didn't like sympatico's policies. Cable is better anyway.
Hope that helps.
Now would be a good time to put together a petition and send it to the various candidates and demand that there be some restrictions to all the tech jobs going overseas. I for one am tired of talking to people who can't speak english when I have to call to get a PC repaired.
I'm sick of getting hit with bill-rate cut after bill-rate cut because the tech industry is in the toilet, and now what jobs are left are going overseas where they can pay 4 people what they pay 1 person here!
I'm going to create a petition on my site this afternoon and leave it up for the next few weeks. If you want to sign it before I send it off, or have anybody in particular you want a copy to go to, just let me know and I'll take care of it.
Pablo
I'm endlessly amused by scientific studies stating that something is good or bad for you. It changes every other week. My favorite example was the whole metabolife (and other diet pills) scandals which were going on and on about people taking metabolife were having higher than usual percentage of strokes. Hello folks! Look at the people taking metabolife! They're the same ones putting back two or three whoppers and a big mac or two every week! They already weighed 600 pounds, and they were going to have a stroke anyway. They'd have probably had a stroke if they climbed on an excercise bike and got their meaty heart rate up over 120. What is this world coming to? I'm having starting to think John Titor is right. I can't take it no more!
Pablo
Let's face it, you and I both know the only reason Yahoo went with google in the first place was because they were getting their rears kicked in the search engine business. Using google allowed them to put some proper research into it, take their time, and use their own good engine once they had it built. Thanks a lot google! I finished with you baby, your money's on the dresser!
Pablo
I bought this game for my brother in law a few months back at his request, and though I was highly amused running over everybody on the sidewalks. It's not so much the violence in and of itself that surprised me, I grew up on games like Ultima and whatnot where there was plenty of skull bashing, but the violence in these games is very crude (though amusing) such as running people over on sidewalks, killing people on the street for no reason, etc.
Mind you, I don't mind stupid violence or stupidity in general, as you can no doubt see from my own website, but these games are definately exploring the limits of what parents and less tolerant people will accept. Bottom line, if you don't like it, don't play it, or don't let your children play it.
Take it and like it!
Pablo
I don't know, but I just gave it a try and it already had my website posted in it: http://www.cgff.net listing all of my comic drawings and what not. I don't know how old it is, but it certainly has impressed me. I love the way it organizes everything. I'm so sick of google posting 5000 crappy pages above anything useful.
Cheers
http://www.cgff.net/comics.html
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I don't know what the big deal with everyone is always bashing Microsoft. Anybody that wants to go out and write a better operating system, provide support for it and maintain updates for it are free to do so. Like it or not, Microsoft is number one for a reason. I try to give the various flavors of linux a try, but without a lot of work, I can never get it to work as well as my XP out of the box. When linux can give me an out of the box solution like Microsoft does now, maybe I'll give it a more serious look. The last straw for me was when Redhat pulled the plug on their users. No Thanks!
When I bought my Tivo for direct tv, my wife said "why are you wasting your money on that crap, what's wrong with just watching tv?" Now, guess who uses it most of all? Tivo is the most incredible technology for those who watch tv. It records all of my favorite show so I don't have to interupt whatever I'm doing and I can watch TV when I choose. I can also fast forward through the commercials, which is what the networks REALLY hate. Gives me more time to work on my cartoon drawing: Comics
A very irritated user from www.cgff.net had the following very angry response to Ms. Fiorina. Due to the graphic language of this very irritated fella, I'll supply the link, you can read it if you like. http://www.cgff.net/nuke1/modules.php?name=News&fi le=article&sid=17
I do agree with him though. This outsourcing is crap. Clueless project managers that are shipping coding projects overseas will not necessarily have the time or expertise to review code coming back from other nations to ensure there are no secuity holes or malicious hacks placed into the code. When I look at some of the managers around here who couldn't explain what goes on if their life depended on it, if they got code back from someplace else, it would never get looked at provided it met the requirements. Dangerous game I would say.
I recently switched from one ISP (sympatico in canada) to another (local cable company). The main reason was I didn't like the 10 gigabyte transfer limit per month. A friend of mine got an extra $25 charge one month for going 2 gigs over the limit. When I called to cancel, a very nice french person (all sympatico customer service reps are french), told me sympatico did not have any such restriction. I wonder if they bill people and only retract the policy when people threaten to change, like I did. I would suggest that anybody who gets any sort of letter from their ISP call and cancel their service and switch to another provider. Most areas have at least two or three providers, and you can bet at least one of them will offer no transfer limits just to piss off the ones that do enforce limits. I wanted to run my website (www.cgff.net) from home prior to switching, but got a webhost instead because I didn't like sympatico's policies. Cable is better anyway. Hope that helps.
Now would be a good time to put together a petition and send it to the various candidates and demand that there be some restrictions to all the tech jobs going overseas. I for one am tired of talking to people who can't speak english when I have to call to get a PC repaired. I'm sick of getting hit with bill-rate cut after bill-rate cut because the tech industry is in the toilet, and now what jobs are left are going overseas where they can pay 4 people what they pay 1 person here! I'm going to create a petition on my site this afternoon and leave it up for the next few weeks. If you want to sign it before I send it off, or have anybody in particular you want a copy to go to, just let me know and I'll take care of it. Pablo
I'm endlessly amused by scientific studies stating that something is good or bad for you. It changes every other week. My favorite example was the whole metabolife (and other diet pills) scandals which were going on and on about people taking metabolife were having higher than usual percentage of strokes. Hello folks! Look at the people taking metabolife! They're the same ones putting back two or three whoppers and a big mac or two every week! They already weighed 600 pounds, and they were going to have a stroke anyway. They'd have probably had a stroke if they climbed on an excercise bike and got their meaty heart rate up over 120. What is this world coming to? I'm having starting to think John Titor is right. I can't take it no more! Pablo
Let's face it, you and I both know the only reason Yahoo went with google in the first place was because they were getting their rears kicked in the search engine business. Using google allowed them to put some proper research into it, take their time, and use their own good engine once they had it built. Thanks a lot google! I finished with you baby, your money's on the dresser! Pablo
I bought this game for my brother in law a few months back at his request, and though I was highly amused running over everybody on the sidewalks. It's not so much the violence in and of itself that surprised me, I grew up on games like Ultima and whatnot where there was plenty of skull bashing, but the violence in these games is very crude (though amusing) such as running people over on sidewalks, killing people on the street for no reason, etc. Mind you, I don't mind stupid violence or stupidity in general, as you can no doubt see from my own website, but these games are definately exploring the limits of what parents and less tolerant people will accept. Bottom line, if you don't like it, don't play it, or don't let your children play it. Take it and like it! Pablo
I don't know, but I just gave it a try and it already had my website posted in it: http://www.cgff.net listing all of my comic drawings and what not. I don't know how old it is, but it certainly has impressed me. I love the way it organizes everything. I'm so sick of google posting 5000 crappy pages above anything useful. Cheers http://www.cgff.net/comics.html