The complete lack of empathy on KatieT's part, the fact that her own lawyer seems to be involved, the memory of Kaycee scams and the like, had already got me thinking that probably KatieT is a vicious, money-grubbing little shit who has grown up in a life of privilege, and doesn't much care who she hurts on the way to fame and fortune.
But, hey, I'm just especially cynical. She may be the most wonderful person on earth. Uh-huh.
Ever read a teenie's MSN chatter? Good christ, what a frightful and discouraging lack of writing skills. Spelling? Abysmal. Grammar? None. Coherent thoughts? As if!
Indeed! I was about to post the same: there are enough corpse flowers in captivity that we get at least two blooming every year. Might as well publish big news about how the roses in my backyard have bloomed, OMG! WTF! ROX3RS!
...should develop an open-source competitor, then. Make the money on installation, maintenance, and customization contracts. Anyone in any reasonably large city, say 100k+ population, would be able to make a decent living just providing the tech support.
Instead of one company making tens of millions, you'd have hundreds of people making a good living.
...like when that little shit with the subwoofers goes blaring past my windows at 2AM. Goddamn, will it feel good to press the "disassemble" button on my remote control!
They then shook these proteins until they resembled the tangled structure of an unhealthy prion.
Right. Won't catch me dead on this protein-shaking carnie ride, then: The Zipper+Roller Coaster. Sweet jesus, you'd be sure to develop mad cow disease!
I had no idea that my medical and financial records might be accessible to the US spy agencies. There's nothing I particularly need to hide from anyone, but, dammit, I value my rights, and my right to privacy is a biggie.
I do so wish the USA would go back inside its own borders and leave the rest of us alone.
I write/publish our technical documents using the reStructured Text markup conventions. These are processed by Docutils to XML. The XML is handled by Saxon and an XSL:FO transformation. The XML:FO is then rendered to PDF using XEP.
The documents are CVSed, so that I can claw back time and so that I can have multiple authors without too much worry about them stomping all over one anothers' work; and the publishing system is run automatically every night.
The advantages are significant: reST is easy to read as a plaintext file, while XML is a mess of tagging; we can use our own favourite text editors; and the output is thoroughly professional, pretty much on-par with Framemaker for most of our purposes. Plus I can easily repurpose the content, rendering out to HTML or LaTex or CHM help files.
Basically, reST is to XML as C is to assembly language.
Virii may not be a word, but it is fun. And it's a little bit viral, too, because the more people use "virii," the closer it comes to being standard English. Which, as you must surely know, is choc-a-bloc full of mangled words.
Think back over the games that really immersed you... was it the graphics or the aural environment?
For me, sound makes a huge, *huge* difference to immersion. The tension of hearing an unknown bump in the night, the thrum of big machinery, the startling screech of something nearby, a ricochet shot that just missed my head... these add a lot more to my game experience than a more-accurately rendered face viewed from 100 feet away...
Much to my amusement, there's an "Alan Smithee Restaurant" in one of Edmonton's cineplexs... a diner so bad, the chef demanded the removal of his name!
You have remarkably low expectation of your employer, then.
"Treats me with respect"... bloody hell, you find that a bonus? It shouldn't ever even be an item for discussion: the employer should be treating you with respect, period.
Pays for your software, pays you a fair wage, has a pleasant atmosphere? Once again, why on earth would you ever expect anything but that?
Basically, the only tangible benefit your employer is giving you is overtime. Whoohoo.
"Go figure. *shrug*" is exactly what's gone wrong in the workforce.
Will you *shrug* your way to 60 hour work weeks, pay increases that don't keep up with the cost of living, purchasing your own software, paying for any equipment repairs?
Will you *shrug* your way back into the conditions that made unionism necessary in the first place?
...post the IP address here, and I'm quite certain your worst fears will be so perfectly confirmed that your boss will have no choice but to admit you were right!
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The complete lack of empathy on KatieT's part, the fact that her own lawyer seems to be involved, the memory of Kaycee scams and the like, had already got me thinking that probably KatieT is a vicious, money-grubbing little shit who has grown up in a life of privilege, and doesn't much care who she hurts on the way to fame and fortune.
But, hey, I'm just especially cynical. She may be the most wonderful person on earth. Uh-huh.
There is a BIG difference between patenting a drug that cures a disease, and patenting the disease itself.
I think the latter is where we're heading.
Ever read a teenie's MSN chatter? Good christ, what a frightful and discouraging lack of writing skills. Spelling? Abysmal. Grammar? None. Coherent thoughts? As if!
Typing quickly is the least of their problems.
Indeed! I was about to post the same: there are enough corpse flowers in captivity that we get at least two blooming every year. Might as well publish big news about how the roses in my backyard have bloomed, OMG! WTF! ROX3RS!
...should develop an open-source competitor, then. Make the money on installation, maintenance, and customization contracts. Anyone in any reasonably large city, say 100k+ population, would be able to make a decent living just providing the tech support.
Instead of one company making tens of millions, you'd have hundreds of people making a good living.
It's extremely hard for MS to find any new areas that can get significant enough to impact their bottom line.
Which is when they will become truly sociopathic, and start to destroy stuff that benefits most of humanity, ie. open source and free software.
Microsoft's mandate as a corporation is to benefit its shareholders. Period. It does not exist to benefit humanity.
Expect it to hurt you if you stand in the way of its profits.
...like when that little shit with the subwoofers goes blaring past my windows at 2AM. Goddamn, will it feel good to press the "disassemble" button on my remote control!
(Unless, of course, you invite the governors over for a big party, and get to bend their ear directly and with their deferral to your ideas.)
They then shook these proteins until they resembled the tangled structure of an unhealthy prion.
Right. Won't catch me dead on this protein-shaking carnie ride, then: The Zipper+Roller Coaster. Sweet jesus, you'd be sure to develop mad cow disease!
I had no idea that my medical and financial records might be accessible to the US spy agencies. There's nothing I particularly need to hide from anyone, but, dammit, I value my rights, and my right to privacy is a biggie.
I do so wish the USA would go back inside its own borders and leave the rest of us alone.
I write/publish our technical documents using the reStructured Text markup conventions. These are processed by Docutils to XML. The XML is handled by Saxon and an XSL:FO transformation. The XML:FO is then rendered to PDF using XEP.
The documents are CVSed, so that I can claw back time and so that I can have multiple authors without too much worry about them stomping all over one anothers' work; and the publishing system is run automatically every night.
The advantages are significant: reST is easy to read as a plaintext file, while XML is a mess of tagging; we can use our own favourite text editors; and the output is thoroughly professional, pretty much on-par with Framemaker for most of our purposes. Plus I can easily repurpose the content, rendering out to HTML or LaTex or CHM help files.
Basically, reST is to XML as C is to assembly language.
Virii may not be a word, but it is fun. And it's a little bit viral, too, because the more people use "virii," the closer it comes to being standard English. Which, as you must surely know, is choc-a-bloc full of mangled words.
Virii: don't pass on it, pass it on!
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the possibilities are nigh endless...
Think back over the games that really immersed you... was it the graphics or the aural environment?
For me, sound makes a huge, *huge* difference to immersion. The tension of hearing an unknown bump in the night, the thrum of big machinery, the startling screech of something nearby, a ricochet shot that just missed my head... these add a lot more to my game experience than a more-accurately rendered face viewed from 100 feet away...
Ditto Canada. And, I'm quite sure, ditto for all state-run lotteries in the USA.
Much to my amusement, there's an "Alan Smithee Restaurant" in one of Edmonton's cineplexs... a diner so bad, the chef demanded the removal of his name!
You have remarkably low expectation of your employer, then.
... bloody hell, you find that a bonus? It shouldn't ever even be an item for discussion: the employer should be treating you with respect, period.
"Treats me with respect"
Pays for your software, pays you a fair wage, has a pleasant atmosphere? Once again, why on earth would you ever expect anything but that?
Basically, the only tangible benefit your employer is giving you is overtime. Whoohoo.
"Go figure. *shrug*" is exactly what's gone wrong in the workforce.
Will you *shrug* your way to 60 hour work weeks, pay increases that don't keep up with the cost of living, purchasing your own software, paying for any equipment repairs?
Will you *shrug* your way back into the conditions that made unionism necessary in the first place?
...Christ!
...post the IP address here, and I'm quite certain your worst fears will be so perfectly confirmed that your boss will have no choice but to admit you were right!
Crack is a little too classy for SCO. I'm sticking to the huffing hypothesis.
What's the matter with the old plausible reason: they've been huffing leaded gasoline?
Brain damage explains all.
a weird nickel and phosphorus compound...
Definitely would be a hard one...
Etcetera. Sigh.
I really wonder how Microsoft will respond to the recent movement in the browser market.
Microsoft failed to gain control of the Internet, so they've walked away from it.
They're far more focused on DRM now, and it looks like there's a chance they're actually going to take over that market. Gah.