Oh, I'm a troll, I'm a troll! Heavens to Mergatroid! What will I do! Did I strike a nerve? Do you have trouble spelling your own name correctly? Aw! That's so pathetic! Let me just empathize with you! Would you like me to hold your hand?
Was there something in the newly extended Patriot Act that allowed local dildo sheriffs to make up the law as they go along? Just make sure you don't run when some bozo dressed like an insurance salesman pulls out a big gun and tells you to stop because he's the police.
You may very well be right about folks who read technical manuals not understanding the other functions of language. As for your 2), I often click on ads on the Google search page, though NEVER on those on webpages. And no, I do not mistake them for actual results, though they have gotten harder to distinguish since they started putting them in the same column. "BAD Google!"
And is their stock overpriced and highly bubblized and have they lost track of their original focus to the point where I might expect them next to create a porn search feature? Yes, indeedy. But that seems to be a function of the current tone in Washington that seems to think it's alright for a corporation to do anything that improves their bottom line, no matter how nefarious and underhanded and just plain immoral. But that's a matter for the ballot box and, like everything evil, will eventually pass and we will all kick ourselves and ask how it could possibly have happened.
As part of English speaking society you are expected to follow the rules of spoken and written English. Those include using capitals in the appropriate places. Kindly try not to be such a hypocrite.
Actually, I found it an interesting site. In plain English, I enjoyed reading it. THAT is what counts in writing, not necessarily how informative it is, though that's always nice.
I noticed this kind of thing in Baltimore. I had MSN and Google up at the same time, mainly to see who had the better resolution, and I realized there were huge changes between the two images. What *is* interesting, though Google has the better imaging for large cities, the MS product has much better images of small towns. Compare, for example, Ramona, South Dakota, on the two sites. Google has a distant image of a lot of farmland. MS actually lets you see the city and the buildings, though the roadmap overlay is out of register.
Bottom Line: I am not going to buy a game I learn contains advertisements. I no longer watch TV. Do these bozos think I will make an exception for their pathetic little games? If their games aren't good enough to make a profit the old way, they aren't worth playing. These damned advertisers need to learn that it's the quality of their product that drives sales, not how many times they tell me how wonderful it is. I am perfectly capable of determining whether their product is wonderful all by myself. Did I mention how much I hate these folks?
And all of this in the face of ZERO evidence that it will save oil. In fact, there's no guarantee folks won't use the extra daylight to drive to the local shopping mall in their 4 mpg SUV. Remember, image is everything. As long as these bozoids can LOOK like they are doing something, it doesn't matter what the consequences actually are.
And then there's the woman whose sole goal in life is to find the next cool sound effect for the group PC. She has just gone from a telephone ringing everytime she hits [enter] to a god forsaken emergency klaxon (I kid you not!), and this in a lab environment where there really are warning and emergency buzzers and bells. URRRNT! URRRNT! URRRNT! Someone restrain me before I have at her with a large hammer. No, this isn't about technology, it's about damned unthinking nitwits.
Do you suppose you could get back in your time machine and go back to the Stone Age where you came from? We all know that the profusion of traffic laws and "police," i.e., armed tax collectors, are there for only one reason, and that is not to make our roads "safer." How many times have you seen some bozo cop with his butt hanging out in the road impeding the smooth flow of traffic? No, the purpose of these laws is simple. It's to improve the revenue stream of the locality where they are operating. Like everything else in the "land of the free," it's about money. All bow down to the almighty dollar!
Actually, my mother used to do that, but not in a sandbox, fortunately.
NEWSFLASH: SCO today denied reports that they think the world is flat. In a statement issued by CEO Daryl Whats-his-face, the company suggested that they had only meant to say that there were certain parts of it that appeared to be flat. "This is fully within the parameters of linguistic theory," said Daryl. "We never meant to imply that it's ALL flat." Daryl refused to elaborate on which areas of the world he thought "looked" flat.
I said nothing about reproducing the book. My point was that these characters want to sell you the right to USE something without giving you the full rights of ownership. Have you installed a video game or other piece of software lately?
Why not just put the keyboard on a touchscreen display and avoid all the stupid problems with wiring keys and the like? The Russians were always good at building better versions of old technology, like bigger A-bombs after the H-bomb was invented.
And if you printed out the site, would they want to sue you for "reproducing" that site? Along the same lines, would someone want to sue you because you kept a book you bought 10 years ago and the author had written a new version? This all smacks of this "on demand" nonsense and self-destructing media and even shades of Orwell's 1984 where the Ministry of Truth modifies ancient history when it suits their purposes. This is all part of an attempt of corporations with the complicity of the legal establishment to place absolute control of all media in the hands of said corporations. Which all leads to the fact that it's time for the Congress to enact a Corporation Control Act that would finally put a leash on these rabid idiots.
I used to look at Wired when I was babysitting my brother's cat, and for the life of me I couldn't figure out why anyone would read the idiot magazine. My general impression was that it was just good for leaving around to tell everyone that you were a really tech-savvy guy, which, of course, he wasn't.
Excellent analysis. I never quite thought of it that way, but M$ *is* just a marketing company. They don't give a hoot about the quality/usability of the product. Now I understand why none of their stuff ever seems to be anything other than just barely marginal drek. They literally don't care.
Why do these toolbars always insist on using an ENTIRE line of my browser? Considering they don't normally take up an entire line, it would be highly useful if I could cram two of them together on the same line. I have ALREADY uninstalled this PoG. The built-in search function is perfectly usable and only uses a little tiny bit of desktop real estate. Many more toolbars like this and I will have to get a desktop switcher just to see webpages.
As legal representative of the Cease & Desist Corporation and its owner, Mr Bernard Dickman, I must remind you that "cease and desist" is a legally registered trademark of said corporation and that your use of the term creates a serious danger of confusion of your company with said corporation in that their business operations are essentially identical to yours, that is, the badgering of companies large and small into paying money for the use of plain English words that have been trademarked. Kindly cease and desist (TM) immediately and we will forego any legal action against you and your company.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Emily Flywheel Flywheel, Shyster, Flywheel and Camshaft, Attorneys at Law
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Oh, I'm a troll, I'm a troll! Heavens to Mergatroid! What will I do! Did I strike a nerve? Do you have trouble spelling your own name correctly? Aw! That's so pathetic! Let me just empathize with you! Would you like me to hold your hand?
Dick head....
Was there something in the newly extended Patriot Act that allowed local dildo sheriffs to make up the law as they go along? Just make sure you don't run when some bozo dressed like an insurance salesman pulls out a big gun and tells you to stop because he's the police.
You may very well be right about folks who read technical manuals not understanding the other functions of language. As for your 2), I often click on ads on the Google search page, though NEVER on those on webpages. And no, I do not mistake them for actual results, though they have gotten harder to distinguish since they started putting them in the same column. "BAD Google!"
And is their stock overpriced and highly bubblized and have they lost track of their original focus to the point where I might expect them next to create a porn search feature? Yes, indeedy. But that seems to be a function of the current tone in Washington that seems to think it's alright for a corporation to do anything that improves their bottom line, no matter how nefarious and underhanded and just plain immoral. But that's a matter for the ballot box and, like everything evil, will eventually pass and we will all kick ourselves and ask how it could possibly have happened.
As part of English speaking society you are expected to follow the rules of spoken and written English. Those include using capitals in the appropriate places. Kindly try not to be such a hypocrite.
Actually, I found it an interesting site. In plain English, I enjoyed reading it. THAT is what counts in writing, not necessarily how informative it is, though that's always nice.
I noticed this kind of thing in Baltimore. I had MSN and Google up at the same time, mainly to see who had the better resolution, and I realized there were huge changes between the two images. What *is* interesting, though Google has the better imaging for large cities, the MS product has much better images of small towns. Compare, for example, Ramona, South Dakota, on the two sites. Google has a distant image of a lot of farmland. MS actually lets you see the city and the buildings, though the roadmap overlay is out of register.
Bottom Line: I am not going to buy a game I learn contains advertisements. I no longer watch TV. Do these bozos think I will make an exception for their pathetic little games? If their games aren't good enough to make a profit the old way, they aren't worth playing. These damned advertisers need to learn that it's the quality of their product that drives sales, not how many times they tell me how wonderful it is. I am perfectly capable of determining whether their product is wonderful all by myself. Did I mention how much I hate these folks?
You, Nazi Boy, need to be lobotomized, institutionalized,and kept away from human beings.
They died because George Bush and Tony Blair LIED their way into an endless morass called Iraq.
And all of this in the face of ZERO evidence that it will save oil. In fact, there's no guarantee folks won't use the extra daylight to drive to the local shopping mall in their 4 mpg SUV. Remember, image is everything. As long as these bozoids can LOOK like they are doing something, it doesn't matter what the consequences actually are.
And then there's the woman whose sole goal in life is to find the next cool sound effect for the group PC. She has just gone from a telephone ringing everytime she hits [enter] to a god forsaken emergency klaxon (I kid you not!), and this in a lab environment where there really are warning and emergency buzzers and bells. URRRNT! URRRNT! URRRNT! Someone restrain me before I have at her with a large hammer. No, this isn't about technology, it's about damned unthinking nitwits.
Do you suppose you could get back in your time machine and go back to the Stone Age where you came from? We all know that the profusion of traffic laws and "police," i.e., armed tax collectors, are there for only one reason, and that is not to make our roads "safer." How many times have you seen some bozo cop with his butt hanging out in the road impeding the smooth flow of traffic? No, the purpose of these laws is simple. It's to improve the revenue stream of the locality where they are operating. Like everything else in the "land of the free," it's about money. All bow down to the almighty dollar!
There's a radio interview with McDonough here: http://www.aarp.org/fun/radio/pt_radio/sustainable _architecture.html
You may want to listen to it before you go off the deep end. The guy's pretty rational and amazingly farsighted.
Sorry, guys. I just couldn't remember the guy's name and had a major lazy attack.
Actually, my mother used to do that, but not in a sandbox, fortunately.
NEWSFLASH: SCO today denied reports that they think the world is flat. In a statement issued by CEO Daryl Whats-his-face, the company suggested that they had only meant to say that there were certain parts of it that appeared to be flat. "This is fully within the parameters of linguistic theory," said Daryl. "We never meant to imply that it's ALL flat." Daryl refused to elaborate on which areas of the world he thought "looked" flat.
Wait till some idiot tries to hang it with thumbtacks.
Yeah, the whole idea does seem to be a l-i-t-t-l-e.......NUTS!
I said nothing about reproducing the book. My point was that these characters want to sell you the right to USE something without giving you the full rights of ownership. Have you installed a video game or other piece of software lately?
Why not just put the keyboard on a touchscreen display and avoid all the stupid problems with wiring keys and the like? The Russians were always good at building better versions of old technology, like bigger A-bombs after the H-bomb was invented.
And if you printed out the site, would they want to sue you for "reproducing" that site? Along the same lines, would someone want to sue you because you kept a book you bought 10 years ago and the author had written a new version? This all smacks of this "on demand" nonsense and self-destructing media and even shades of Orwell's 1984 where the Ministry of Truth modifies ancient history when it suits their purposes. This is all part of an attempt of corporations with the complicity of the legal establishment to place absolute control of all media in the hands of said corporations. Which all leads to the fact that it's time for the Congress to enact a Corporation Control Act that would finally put a leash on these rabid idiots.
I used to look at Wired when I was babysitting my brother's cat, and for the life of me I couldn't figure out why anyone would read the idiot magazine. My general impression was that it was just good for leaving around to tell everyone that you were a really tech-savvy guy, which, of course, he wasn't.
Excellent analysis. I never quite thought of it that way, but M$ *is* just a marketing company. They don't give a hoot about the quality/usability of the product. Now I understand why none of their stuff ever seems to be anything other than just barely marginal drek. They literally don't care.
Good point. This is exactly why there is no statute of limitations on counterfeiting in the US. It's a crime that keeps on giving....
Why do these toolbars always insist on using an ENTIRE line of my browser? Considering they don't normally take up an entire line, it would be highly useful if I could cram two of them together on the same line. I have ALREADY uninstalled this PoG. The built-in search function is perfectly usable and only uses a little tiny bit of desktop real estate. Many more toolbars like this and I will have to get a desktop switcher just to see webpages.
Like my technical writing instructor said, "Learn how to edit your work!" You write like you're having a hallway conversation.
As legal representative of the Cease & Desist Corporation and its owner, Mr Bernard Dickman, I must remind you that "cease and desist" is a legally registered trademark of said corporation and that your use of the term creates a serious danger of confusion of your company with said corporation in that their business operations are essentially identical to yours, that is, the badgering of companies large and small into paying money for the use of plain English words that have been trademarked. Kindly cease and desist (TM) immediately and we will forego any legal action against you and your company.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Emily Flywheel
Flywheel, Shyster, Flywheel and Camshaft, Attorneys at Law