...and you essentially kill modding of the most moddable (is that a word?)...
You're looking for 'modifiable'. Of course, no one owns the IP rights to American English, so you're free to improvise without worrying about Copyright or Patent infringement.
Yes, there is a possibility that Google might release a browser. Do these hires point to that likelihood? No. They point to a company that wants to know as much as possible about the platforms on which their tools can be run.
How many ex-Ford-engineers took jobs at GM over the years? Was that because GM wanted to make Ford-like cars? Or because maybe GM thought these guys had a different outlook, and might bring something totally new to the table? (This example could be totally off, but then again could apply to any given set of competitors.)
I swear on pain of a slashdot mob that I will not make a dime off this link - no referral money for me. But maybe this guy can help you figure out why the nice guy routine doesn't work.
Alternatively, look for "Double Your Dating" or "David DeAngelo" on the P2P networks. His e-books are good, but the audio stuff is better.
There is no way that a device which has as its primary purpose time shifting can be contributory negligence unless the entire premise of Sony vs Universal is overturned by another supreme court ruling (which would be a travesty).
Except that in the ruling you cite, the Court stated rather specifically that Congress could change the whole game on a whim. Since the Constitution explicitly grants Congress domain over copyright, they can do whatever the hell they want. (Don't believe me? Define "...a limited time...").
Most of these spammers profit from people purchasing their product - whether thats some viagra tablets or whatever, the gullible fools who buy from them are using credit cards.
No, most spammers profit by re-selling their spamming services. Spam is a remarkably low-hit, low-margin, and very unreliable advertising vehicle.
Where the real spammers make their money is in creating the *illusion* that you, too, can make your fortune by paying them to send out 1,000,000 emails. In a way, spammers are like the online equivalent of those huckster-like classified ads in the backs of tabloid papers. They aren't selling any product themselves... they are selling an advertising service to normal people operating under the pretenses that there is money to be made.
In fairness, I'm sure there are citable examples of spammers who made money selling product. I'm just willing to bet that those are the exception, not the rule.
Explanation: I'd rather see the words Democrat and Republican made into dirty words. See, I'm still a conservative, but I am in no way a Republican. Here's why:
1. I don't give a shit if gays can marry or not.
2. I don't give a shit whether or not you have an abortion (not my problem).
3. I think 'affirmative action' is just racism pointed at a different race.
4. I don't want a national religion - or any semblance of it in an authoritative forum, such as courthouses and Senate buildings.
5. I think over-regulating the economy is what adds 'drag' - and that drag costs us jobs and prosperity.
6. I think free markets really can work, if people would get their damned fingers out of the machinery and let it work.
7. Welfare should be a temporary solution to disaster-proportion incidents, not a constant state of survival.
All this comes from someone who was once a devout Christian/conservative/Republican. I have changed, like all people do. Now I'm more of a socially-liberal fiscally-conservative kinda guy. You can call me a libertarian.
Spout your rhetoric all you want, you can never make me despise the Republicans any more than I already do. Same for the Demoncrats, you right-wing readers. Your left-right applecart will one day be upset... when most of us have figured out that there are really more than two directions to choose from.
You never played Theme Hospital, did you? If you did, you'd know that not watering your plants enough just makes your patients angry... which can lead to all kinds of Bad Things(TM).
It could be. But it could also be someone who is comfortable with all of the 'extras' Firefox offers in comparison to other browsers. I know many people who refuse to use Firefox because IE hasn't let them down yet.;)
To wit, those 'extras': built-in popup blocking; built-in google search; being free and Free; Extensions; Tabbed Browsing; about:config.
And how about not having to deal with bloat if you want to avoid it? You can keep FF very trim, and still take maximum advantage of its best features. Try that with IE.-
There is a really beautiful recursiveness to what you have just done. You spouted a phrase that as of now returns exactly Zero google results. In a week or so (just guessing), google will return a result, pointing at this slashdot page.
Not only do we get that nugget, but you have now paved the way for anyone else to find someone else who thinks the same thing about SCO, while at the same time directing them to Slashdot, where they will most certainly find fellow SCO-haters.
Three recursively-active threads to follow, from one simple post. I applaud you.
Jay: Holy hell, is that monkey waving at us? Oh shit. It understood us. Maybe it's some kind of super monkey. What if there's more supermonkeys up at that lab? WHAT IF THEY'RE CREATING AN ARMY OF THEM? Holy shit. It must be a conspiracy like in the X-Files... ROSWELL style. This little monkey could be the fuckin' damn dirty ape responsible for the fall of the human race. In this world gone mad, we won't spank the monkey- the monkey will spank us. And after the fall of man, these monkey fucks'll start wearing our clothes and rebuilding the world in their image. OH and only those as super smart as me will be left alive to bitterly cry - DAMN YOUS. Goddamn yous all to hell.
I call BS. How come I can't play Black & White on my XP-Home desktop? Because it wasn't written for XP. Yes, some people have managed to make it work, and others have been lucky enough that it kludged thru for them. I spent hours trying to make it work. You know there isn't a patch available to fix it? And B&W isn't the only glitchy game XP doesn't like. Even with 'compatibility mode' some things are just unstable when run on XP.
Damn it, I saw this post and had to decide between moderating and posting... but I really had to point something out:
4. It is extremely difficult and time concuming to archive digital files for very long periods of time.
No shit? Enlighten me on how I can archive my files for long periods of time without the time consumption part. If you can achieve this, be sure to let the world know, there are many problems that could no doubt be fixed when we figure out how to stretch, warp, or alter time.
"The crucial part of Licensing 6 is the bit relating to upgrades. Called 'Software Assurance' it requires businesses to pay 29% of the full price annually in return for which they get to upgrade to new software versions during the contract period." (http://www.ibgames.net/alan/society/licensing.htm l)
The expectation was that companies who upgraded every 3 years or so would wash out, those who upgraded more often would come out ahead, and those who upgraded every four or five years would actually lose out.
From win 3.11 to WinME, we had a new OS released...*drum roll, please* roughly every 3 years. That means that if I had signed up for MS licensing, I could anticipate that my license for XP might allow me the next upgrade, based on historical release dates. (yeah, I know... history is no indicator of future performance. I've seen those commercials, too.)
MS pushing the Longhorn release back to 2007 means they'll have had users pay 29% of XP's licensing cost - for 5 years. 150%. Read that twice if you need to, then get back to me on why customers might be unhappy about MS delaying product launch.
PS - A google search reveals that about 40% of MS Licensing revenue comes from major corporate accounts. That's some serious dough we're talking about here. The moral of the story is that no matter what MS does, there will always be someone unhappy with it - and for good reason!
"...so that it can do everything frontpage can do."
You mean like crashing every time I try to save my local files to my remote web server?*
*Yes, this happens all the time. I started using FTP, even though the official word is that FTP is a no-no in conjunction with FP sites... just so I could actually update my pages without having to force a reboot.
Coming from a US Citizen (born, raised, and indoctrinated)... this makes you an ass. I'd give more credence to your opinions and skills if you weren't an AC. Or a troll.
Me v The Casino Industry, Round One
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Geeks and Poker?
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· Score: 3, Interesting
My casino philosophy has kept me on the winning side of the
equation for some time now.
My lifetime up-to-down ratio is something like 4:1, and here's
why:
When I walk into the casino, I have already planned to spend $100.
I think of it the same way I would going on any kind of night out: an
expense. This money is already mentally written off (ie, I expect to
lose it).
If at any point during the evening my gambling fund is double or
more than my initial fund amount, half my gambling fund goes into my
wallet. Say I win $250 on a lucky call, having $50 still on me. I'm
at $300, so now I drop $150 in my pocket. No matter what happens, no
matter how bad the gods hate me, I will only gamble out of the fund,
and not dig into wallet cash. In this example, I made $50, plus I got
the night for free, because I got my $100 expense fund back. And I
got to keep gambling from $150.:D
The rule changes after that...but this is all instinct derived. I
wouldn't be surprised if someone could produce a formula that
squeezes high efficiency out of this, but it won't be me. For me, I
just work off doubles for any one visit. At the $200, $400, and $800
points I split the gambling fund in half and put half away. After
that, every $1,000. And so on, and so on, choosing whatever numbers
suit your income and desire to bet.
At some point, I might have $4000 set back, and just decide to let
the gambling pot do whatever it will. Regardless of what happens, I
can walk at any point, and have paid for the trip, the time, and
still have cash to cover toys and taxes. And still come home with
that $100 in my pocket.
It could be that I just got lucky a couple of times, larger wins
wiped out the small losses since I don't gamble a lot. I average one
trip every couple of years, but as long as you keep your head it's
not bad. Usually the problem comes when people gamble what they can't
afford to lose, so they gamble more to win it all, and wind up
screwed.
Best rule ever: Always be prepared to lose just decide
beforehand how much to lose, and stick to it.
What's stopping developers from designing specially-crafted HTML pages that act as a front end for their compiled executables?
Especially in the open-source realm, it would be free and easy to interact with FireFox or Mozilla... they could include custom skins that mold FF/M to fit their vision of the application.
Not to mention the raw number of highly talented Web developers out there who could use Application UI design to pad their portfolios.
Or the fact that it would be stable, fast, and might introduce a few more people to Mozilla?
In summary, why aren't more projects seeing the possibilities of web-derived methods? HTML was designed to be efficient, fast, low bandwidth, low processing... What part of the picture am I missing?
Not addresses in messages, dude. E-mail addresses included in the headers of posts.
My chief google frustration is...
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In Google We Trust
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· Score: 2, Interesting
I keep getting e-mails with subject lines identical to my searches. So either A. they're selling my information to the highest bidder or B. many people are taking advantage of the referring link to try and invade my mailbox.
I wish google would stop passing the search words along with the URL when I click on a link. That's a privacy invasion.
What's worse, now I've started to receive spam that's addressed as 'from' people whose names I've looked up.
Other than that, I could worship at the temple of google happily. Except that they're planning to go public. Could someone please send me a list of other good engines? I want a couple backup places to check when google starts to suck.
Slashdot Mirror
You're looking for 'modifiable'. Of course, no one owns the IP rights to American English, so you're free to improvise without worrying about Copyright or Patent infringement.
Yes, there is a possibility that Google might release a browser. Do these hires point to that likelihood? No. They point to a company that wants to know as much as possible about the platforms on which their tools can be run. How many ex-Ford-engineers took jobs at GM over the years? Was that because GM wanted to make Ford-like cars? Or because maybe GM thought these guys had a different outlook, and might bring something totally new to the table? (This example could be totally off, but then again could apply to any given set of competitors.)
I swear on pain of a slashdot mob that I will not make a dime off this link - no referral money for me. But maybe this guy can help you figure out why the nice guy routine doesn't work.
Alternatively, look for "Double Your Dating" or "David DeAngelo" on the P2P networks. His e-books are good, but the audio stuff is better.
For another perspective: Click Here
Fair Disclosure: I was a nice guy, too. Now I know better.
How free is speech no one hears? How free is speech when the designated zone for protest is a half mile from the event being protested?
Except that in the ruling you cite, the Court stated rather specifically that Congress could change the whole game on a whim. Since the Constitution explicitly grants Congress domain over copyright, they can do whatever the hell they want. (Don't believe me? Define "...a limited time...").
No, most spammers profit by re-selling their spamming services. Spam is a remarkably low-hit, low-margin, and very unreliable advertising vehicle.
Where the real spammers make their money is in creating the *illusion* that you, too, can make your fortune by paying them to send out 1,000,000 emails. In a way, spammers are like the online equivalent of those huckster-like classified ads in the backs of tabloid papers. They aren't selling any product themselves... they are selling an advertising service to normal people operating under the pretenses that there is money to be made.
In fairness, I'm sure there are citable examples of spammers who made money selling product. I'm just willing to bet that those are the exception, not the rule.
Two words: Fuck You.
Explanation: I'd rather see the words Democrat and Republican made into dirty words. See, I'm still a conservative, but I am in no way a Republican. Here's why:
1. I don't give a shit if gays can marry or not.
2. I don't give a shit whether or not you have an abortion (not my problem).
3. I think 'affirmative action' is just racism pointed at a different race.
4. I don't want a national religion - or any semblance of it in an authoritative forum, such as courthouses and Senate buildings.
5. I think over-regulating the economy is what adds 'drag' - and that drag costs us jobs and prosperity.
6. I think free markets really can work, if people would get their damned fingers out of the machinery and let it work.
7. Welfare should be a temporary solution to disaster-proportion incidents, not a constant state of survival.
All this comes from someone who was once a devout Christian/conservative/Republican. I have changed, like all people do. Now I'm more of a socially-liberal fiscally-conservative kinda guy. You can call me a libertarian.
Spout your rhetoric all you want, you can never make me despise the Republicans any more than I already do. Same for the Demoncrats, you right-wing readers. Your left-right applecart will one day be upset... when most of us have figured out that there are really more than two directions to choose from.
You never played Theme Hospital, did you? If you did, you'd know that not watering your plants enough just makes your patients angry... which can lead to all kinds of Bad Things(TM).
To wit, those 'extras': built-in popup blocking; built-in google search; being free and Free; Extensions; Tabbed Browsing; about:config.
And how about not having to deal with bloat if you want to avoid it? You can keep FF very trim, and still take maximum advantage of its best features. Try that with IE.-
Not only do we get that nugget, but you have now paved the way for anyone else to find someone else who thinks the same thing about SCO, while at the same time directing them to Slashdot, where they will most certainly find fellow SCO-haters.
Three recursively-active threads to follow, from one simple post. I applaud you.
Jay: Holy hell, is that monkey waving at us? Oh shit. It understood us. Maybe it's some kind of super monkey. What if there's more supermonkeys up at that lab? WHAT IF THEY'RE CREATING AN ARMY OF THEM? Holy shit. It must be a conspiracy like in the X-Files... ROSWELL style. This little monkey could be the fuckin' damn dirty ape responsible for the fall of the human race. In this world gone mad, we won't spank the monkey- the monkey will spank us. And after the fall of man, these monkey fucks'll start wearing our clothes and rebuilding the world in their image. OH and only those as super smart as me will be left alive to bitterly cry - DAMN YOUS. Goddamn yous all to hell.
I'd wager you're wrong. The vast majority of criminals in the United States are drug users... and are notorious for their love of video games.
I call BS. How come I can't play Black & White on my XP-Home desktop? Because it wasn't written for XP. Yes, some people have managed to make it work, and others have been lucky enough that it kludged thru for them. I spent hours trying to make it work. You know there isn't a patch available to fix it? And B&W isn't the only glitchy game XP doesn't like. Even with 'compatibility mode' some things are just unstable when run on XP.
4. It is extremely difficult and time concuming to archive digital files for very long periods of time.
No shit? Enlighten me on how I can archive my files for long periods of time without the time consumption part. If you can achieve this, be sure to let the world know, there are many problems that could no doubt be fixed when we figure out how to stretch, warp, or alter time.
The expectation was that companies who upgraded every 3 years or so would wash out, those who upgraded more often would come out ahead, and those who upgraded every four or five years would actually lose out.
From win 3.11 to WinME, we had a new OS released...*drum roll, please* roughly every 3 years. That means that if I had signed up for MS licensing, I could anticipate that my license for XP might allow me the next upgrade, based on historical release dates. (yeah, I know... history is no indicator of future performance. I've seen those commercials, too.)
MS pushing the Longhorn release back to 2007 means they'll have had users pay 29% of XP's licensing cost - for 5 years. 150%. Read that twice if you need to, then get back to me on why customers might be unhappy about MS delaying product launch.
PS - A google search reveals that about 40% of MS Licensing revenue comes from major corporate accounts. That's some serious dough we're talking about here. The moral of the story is that no matter what MS does, there will always be someone unhappy with it - and for good reason!
You mean like crashing every time I try to save my local files to my remote web server?*
*Yes, this happens all the time. I started using FTP, even though the official word is that FTP is a no-no in conjunction with FP sites... just so I could actually update my pages without having to force a reboot.
Coming from a US Citizen (born, raised, and indoctrinated)... this makes you an ass. I'd give more credence to your opinions and skills if you weren't an AC. Or a troll.
My casino philosophy has kept me on the winning side of the equation for some time now.
My lifetime up-to-down ratio is something like 4:1, and here's why:
When I walk into the casino, I have already planned to spend $100. I think of it the same way I would going on any kind of night out: an expense. This money is already mentally written off (ie, I expect to lose it).
If at any point during the evening my gambling fund is double or more than my initial fund amount, half my gambling fund goes into my wallet. Say I win $250 on a lucky call, having $50 still on me. I'm at $300, so now I drop $150 in my pocket. No matter what happens, no matter how bad the gods hate me, I will only gamble out of the fund, and not dig into wallet cash. In this example, I made $50, plus I got the night for free, because I got my $100 expense fund back. And I got to keep gambling from $150. :D
The rule changes after that...but this is all instinct derived. I wouldn't be surprised if someone could produce a formula that squeezes high efficiency out of this, but it won't be me. For me, I just work off doubles for any one visit. At the $200, $400, and $800 points I split the gambling fund in half and put half away. After that, every $1,000. And so on, and so on, choosing whatever numbers suit your income and desire to bet.
At some point, I might have $4000 set back, and just decide to let the gambling pot do whatever it will. Regardless of what happens, I can walk at any point, and have paid for the trip, the time, and still have cash to cover toys and taxes. And still come home with that $100 in my pocket.
It could be that I just got lucky a couple of times, larger wins wiped out the small losses since I don't gamble a lot. I average one trip every couple of years, but as long as you keep your head it's not bad. Usually the problem comes when people gamble what they can't afford to lose, so they gamble more to win it all, and wind up screwed.
Best rule ever: Always be prepared to lose just decide beforehand how much to lose, and stick to it.
Especially in the open-source realm, it would be free and easy to interact with FireFox or Mozilla... they could include custom skins that mold FF/M to fit their vision of the application.
Not to mention the raw number of highly talented Web developers out there who could use Application UI design to pad their portfolios.
Or the fact that it would be stable, fast, and might introduce a few more people to Mozilla?
In summary, why aren't more projects seeing the possibilities of web-derived methods? HTML was designed to be efficient, fast, low bandwidth, low processing... What part of the picture am I missing?
This already exists
1. Get free Nigerian Money.
2. There is no other step.
3. Profit.
Not addresses in messages, dude. E-mail addresses included in the headers of posts.
I wish google would stop passing the search words along with the URL when I click on a link. That's a privacy invasion.
What's worse, now I've started to receive spam that's addressed as 'from' people whose names I've looked up.
Other than that, I could worship at the temple of google happily. Except that they're planning to go public. Could someone please send me a list of other good engines? I want a couple backup places to check when google starts to suck.