On a related firearms note, they always f*** with the depiction of double action revolvers. When the actor checks to see if it's loaded, they release the catch and swing the cylinder out. They always spin it, and they always dub in the clicking sound of spinning the cylinder of a single action revolver (think cowboy Colt Peacemaker, where the cylinder doesn't swing out). In real life, they don't make any sound when you do that.
Google: $50.00/machine/year x 28 machines = $1400.00/year
Microsoft: $180.00/machine/year x 28 machines = $5400.00/year
At that cost from Microsoft, it takes 2.78 years to amortize the cost of a full version of Office 2007 Pro. We don't upgrade anywhere near that often. However, the cost from Google is a lot more reasonable. Add in that most of our people don't use anywhere near the full range of features in Office, the Google option makes sense.
WRT sticking their noses in other people's business, both France and Spain have a long and bloody history of mucking about in (Islamic) north Africa on the one hand and squashing the Basque between them on the other. The Netherlands have their history in the east Indies, but I can't see that Holland is a big terrorist target these days. Random nut-cases aside, of course.
Actually, squids have ten tentacles, or eight arms and two tentacles, depending on your choice of terminology. Either way, accuracy is better than pissing off anything that big.
"This movie was shot in 3B - three beers - and it looks good, eh?" - Bob McKenzie
"And I'd like to point out that these tapes have not been faked, or altered in any way. In fact they have time coding, which is very hard to fake." - Claude Elsinore
"We hope you enjoyed the beer, oh, like I mean the movie, eh." - Doug McKenzie
The hoser hordes are about to bring down the entire American movie industry, eh?
>Yes, I could have fixed it, but that's not the point. The point is, I couldn't be bothered, and I'm a fairly experienced linux admin - the distribution is, after all supposed to be the "so easy, your grandma could do it" distro. If i have to fuck with it to get it to work i may as well go back to something like slackware/freebsd (which is surprisingly easy to set up these days really).
Now they're removing support for closed drivers? Way to go....
From TFA: "the decision to exclude proprietary drivers for now should satisfy at least some members of the Ubuntu Community."
Really, why would I want my fucking video card to work? It's better to be pure? I decided to try Dapper Drake and then Edgy Eft. I had serious headaches with both, although I did get both configured. I couldn't get either to even install on my stepson's machine, which is a pretty vanilla box. Back to Mandriva for me. It loaded first time and found every card on his box too.
Of course, no company like Lycos ever makes money on said free email accounts. They don't get any revenue from advertisements or anything, so driving customers aways like they're bubonic rats won't have any effect on corporate revenue. Aggressive reduction of your customer base is always a good business model.
That said, Lycos is pretty currently pretty out front about the need to check mail every 30 days. I don't know if that was true when the subject of this signed up.
The security advice is "A user can turn off their computer speakers..." before playing an audio file. We can also solve the problem of porn getting into our school network by unplugging the monitors. I didn't realize this security stuff was so easy.
>And what do you think would have happened if these things had been bombs, disguised as creepy little advertisements, and the police ignored them? Never mind the damage and loss of life, people would be bitching to high heaven about police and government incompetence.
You can hide a much bigger bomb in a shopping cart draped with dirty clothes and empty aluminum cans. Those suckers are everywhere and usually carry a notice that unauthorized use is a crime. Somehow I never see the police checking them for explosives.
I agree with most of the comments of the parent. I also agree with another poster's comment that the AI in TA is "dumber than a sack of rocks." Unfortunately, so is the AI in SC. Having played both, I found I had a preference for TA. One other thing that added to the game, but ultimately caused its first downfall was the ability to add units. When Cavedog was releasing its unit of the month, it was cool. Unfortunately, third-party add-ins resulted in destroying the balance of the game. It seemed to turn into an arms race to see who could create the nastiest Death-Star-On-Treads. Strategy took a back seat to nuking the site from orbit. You could and still can find matches that allowed only the original set or some closed variant, but the damage was done.
According to TFA, in South Africa, 3.5 inch floppies are called stiffies. In the same vein, it is worth noting that the 5.25 inch floppy was developed at Wang.
It sounds like you are talking about punctuated equilibrium or punctuated equilibria. The theory was developed by Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould. You wrote that:
>"The idea is that basically, instead of species evolving slowly over time into new species, speciation can occur rapidly (on a geological time scale) and then the new species will remain relatively stable until the next quick burst of change."
That is a good summary. Your other comments are rather off the mark, particularly the idea that there is no advantage to a "half-fin half-leg" and so on. Given that you don't have a background in biology, that's understandable. A good explaination of the theory is here at the talk.origins newsgroup site. A less techinical one is here at the Wikipedia site.
Hu Jintao today announced the intent to leverage the economic potential of the web while seeking to "purify the internet environment". He proposes to do this by maintaining "the initiative in opinion" on the internet and to "raise the level guidance on the internet," thus civilizing and purifying the internet environment. [and also] "Ensure that one hand grasps development while one hand grasps administration,"
For those unfamiliar with this sort of rhetoric, I offer this translation from Politburospeak to English:
Hu: seeking to "purify the internet environment
English: Pr0n is for Politburo members and senior Party officials only.
Hu: leverage the economic potential of the web
English: Profit
Hu: maintaining "the initiative in opinion"
English: Crushing censorship
Hu: raise the level guidance on the internet
English: Crushing censorship plus jail time for trying to evade it.
Hu: civilizing and purifying the internet environment
English: Anbiguous; could mean either, crushing censorship, pr0n is for Politburo members and senior Party officials only, or both.
Hu: Ensure that one hand grasps development
English: Profit
Hu: while one hand grasps administration
English: pr0n is for Politburo members and senior Party officials only
>most (CIO's) are smart, hardworking, supremely aware of how the business works and increasingly savvy regarding the workings of external customers' minds
Christ on a crutch. Sun is giving away a current/recent version of their OS and you lot are going on and on about pissing on them for it. It works. It's rock steady. Besides which, it's the first *nix version I learned.
I think this is an excellent idea. Any input by Jack Thompson will be so over-the-top loony that it will be doomed from the start. Getting him involved with anything pretty much guarantees failure.
It used to be pretty routine to have special DOS boot floppies that loaded stripped down version of the OS with finely tweaked memory parameters for your various games. Maybe we're heading back in that direction.
>"We were the first to thermoform polycarbonate (PCEE); we invented the locking "clamshell" package and continue to serve up unique, custom solutions to your packaging needs."
Unless your needs happen to include having your customers actually get at your product without serious injury and/or bloodloss. These people should die the death of a thousand thermoform polycarbonate cuts, preferably administered by Sadam's executioners.
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On a related firearms note, they always f*** with the depiction of double action revolvers. When the actor checks to see if it's loaded, they release the catch and swing the cylinder out. They always spin it, and they always dub in the clicking sound of spinning the cylinder of a single action revolver (think cowboy Colt Peacemaker, where the cylinder doesn't swing out). In real life, they don't make any sound when you do that.
>No one knows what color the sky is, a giant pie with "DRM" inscribed on it blocks all from viewing.
Color of sky Prussian blueScarlet fleece changes hue
Crimson ball sinks from view
Color sky Havana lake
Color sky rose carmethene
Alizarian crimson
--Donovan Leitch said that
If you take enough of the right drugs, you can see through the pie.
--I said that.
Microsoft: $180.00/machine/year x 28 machines = $5400.00/year
At that cost from Microsoft, it takes 2.78 years to amortize the cost of a full version of Office 2007 Pro. We don't upgrade anywhere near that often. However, the cost from Google is a lot more reasonable. Add in that most of our people don't use anywhere near the full range of features in Office, the Google option makes sense.
>Check France, Holland, or Spain recently?
WRT sticking their noses in other people's business, both France and Spain have a long and bloody history of mucking about in (Islamic) north Africa on the one hand and squashing the Basque between them on the other. The Netherlands have their history in the east Indies, but I can't see that Holland is a big terrorist target these days. Random nut-cases aside, of course.>eight tentacled
Actually, squids have ten tentacles, or eight arms and two tentacles, depending on your choice of terminology. Either way, accuracy is better than pissing off anything that big.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
"This movie was shot in 3B - three beers - and it looks good, eh?" - Bob McKenzie
"And I'd like to point out that these tapes have not been faked, or altered in any way. In fact they have time coding, which is very hard to fake." - Claude Elsinore
"We hope you enjoyed the beer, oh, like I mean the movie, eh." - Doug McKenzie
The hoser hordes are about to bring down the entire American movie industry, eh?
>Yes, I could have fixed it, but that's not the point. The point is, I couldn't be bothered, and I'm a fairly experienced linux admin - the distribution is, after all supposed to be the "so easy, your grandma could do it" distro. If i have to fuck with it to get it to work i may as well go back to something like slackware/freebsd (which is surprisingly easy to set up these days really). Now they're removing support for closed drivers? Way to go....
From TFA: "the decision to exclude proprietary drivers for now should satisfy at least some members of the Ubuntu Community."
Really, why would I want my fucking video card to work? It's better to be pure? I decided to try Dapper Drake and then Edgy Eft. I had serious headaches with both, although I did get both configured. I couldn't get either to even install on my stepson's machine, which is a pretty vanilla box. Back to Mandriva for me. It loaded first time and found every card on his box too.
>The judge did warn against 'wholesale surveillance' of the population, though, so ... that's some comfort.
No. It's not!Of course, no company like Lycos ever makes money on said free email accounts. They don't get any revenue from advertisements or anything, so driving customers aways like they're bubonic rats won't have any effect on corporate revenue. Aggressive reduction of your customer base is always a good business model.
That said, Lycos is pretty currently pretty out front about the need to check mail every 30 days. I don't know if that was true when the subject of this signed up.
During my university career, my fellow students and I freed quite a bit of "good stuff" from our labs... ethanol, useful glassware, etc.
The security advice is "A user can turn off their computer speakers..." before playing an audio file. We can also solve the problem of porn getting into our school network by unplugging the monitors. I didn't realize this security stuff was so easy.
>And what do you think would have happened if these things had been bombs, disguised as creepy little advertisements, and the police ignored them? Never mind the damage and loss of life, people would be bitching to high heaven about police and government incompetence.
You can hide a much bigger bomb in a shopping cart draped with dirty clothes and empty aluminum cans. Those suckers are everywhere and usually carry a notice that unauthorized use is a crime. Somehow I never see the police checking them for explosives.I agree with most of the comments of the parent. I also agree with another poster's comment that the AI in TA is "dumber than a sack of rocks." Unfortunately, so is the AI in SC. Having played both, I found I had a preference for TA. One other thing that added to the game, but ultimately caused its first downfall was the ability to add units. When Cavedog was releasing its unit of the month, it was cool. Unfortunately, third-party add-ins resulted in destroying the balance of the game. It seemed to turn into an arms race to see who could create the nastiest Death-Star-On-Treads. Strategy took a back seat to nuking the site from orbit. You could and still can find matches that allowed only the original set or some closed variant, but the damage was done.
According to TFA, in South Africa, 3.5 inch floppies are called stiffies. In the same vein, it is worth noting that the 5.25 inch floppy was developed at Wang.
>"The idea is that basically, instead of species evolving slowly over time into new species, speciation can occur rapidly (on a geological time scale) and then the new species will remain relatively stable until the next quick burst of change."
That is a good summary. Your other comments are rather off the mark, particularly the idea that there is no advantage to a "half-fin half-leg" and so on. Given that you don't have a background in biology, that's understandable. A good explaination of the theory is here at the talk.origins newsgroup site. A less techinical one is here at the Wikipedia site.
They provided the unlock code for my Razr V3 and were polite and friendly while doing it.
For those unfamiliar with this sort of rhetoric, I offer this translation from Politburospeak to English:
Hu: seeking to "purify the internet environment
English: Pr0n is for Politburo members and senior Party officials only.
Hu: leverage the economic potential of the web
English: Profit
Hu: maintaining "the initiative in opinion"
English: Crushing censorship
Hu: raise the level guidance on the internet
English: Crushing censorship plus jail time for trying to evade it.
Hu: civilizing and purifying the internet environment
English: Anbiguous; could mean either, crushing censorship, pr0n is for Politburo members and senior Party officials only, or both.
Hu: Ensure that one hand grasps development
English: Profit
Hu: while one hand grasps administration
English: pr0n is for Politburo members and senior Party officials only
>most (CIO's) are smart, hardworking, supremely aware of how the business works and increasingly savvy regarding the workings of external customers' minds
WTF does any of that have to do with being a CEO?>They'll unionize & all your research will be useless and futile against their nano-unions.
Gives new meaning to the phrase, "All your base (pairs) are belong to us."Christ on a crutch. Sun is giving away a current/recent version of their OS and you lot are going on and on about pissing on them for it. It works. It's rock steady. Besides which, it's the first *nix version I learned.
I modded your post and then canceled the mod by posting this to tell you that I did it. I'll leave it to you to guess what mod points I gave you.
I think this is an excellent idea. Any input by Jack Thompson will be so over-the-top loony that it will be doomed from the start. Getting him involved with anything pretty much guarantees failure.
It used to be pretty routine to have special DOS boot floppies that loaded stripped down version of the OS with finely tweaked memory parameters for your various games. Maybe we're heading back in that direction.
>"We were the first to thermoform polycarbonate (PCEE); we invented the locking "clamshell" package and continue to serve up unique, custom solutions to your packaging needs."
Unless your needs happen to include having your customers actually get at your product without serious injury and/or bloodloss. These people should die the death of a thousand thermoform polycarbonate cuts, preferably administered by Sadam's executioners.