I feel for you, this has been one of my pet peeves for years now.
But, look at the bright side, our (USA) sports celebrities are the highest paid in the world. (Just overlook the fact that academically we are falling behind faster every year)
Have you not seen some of the political discussions running amuck here?
Even with the mod system, the filtering in "pref's", and the karma system, most political battles^Wdiscussions resemble fireworks on the 4th of July, only with nukes, WMD's, and hookers...er, what was we talking about?
BTW, sorry I don't have something more positive, but good luck with that anyway- it should be an interesting experience!
Clearly it is broken. I support laws that enable the public at large to admin a kick to the testicles of anyone proposing to patent any software. To support ERA, give the offenders a choice between the public kick in the nads, or a double-bit axe shoved up teh *ss. This software patent insanity needs to stop and just go away. Copyright reg's and laws already cover software code- we don't need to overburden the patent system with this shite!
"If you hold the moral value that the community is important, you should not rest until every American can vote as easily as you can vote. If any American is being dumped on, then we are ALL being dumped on. We must hang together, or we will all surely hang separately."
Well said! Now the only problem is to get "teh masses" to see this...Im at a loss there, but you're spot on.
Wish I had mod points to give you. That was truly a subtle, yet insightful post. IANAC (I am not a christian), but am familiar with the Bible (some interesting stories there)and your reference summed it up rather succinctly!
"The number of possible ideas to patent is quite literally infinite." and "The current system needs to go."
Spot on....'cause to end it all, I'm filing for a patent on "teh method/implementation of filing a patent on a seemingly novel idea"- in other words...All your patents are belong to me!
All joking/sarcasm aside, I expect the "end of the world as we know it" (ie: post-apocalyptic type sci-fi scenario) will be caused by economics/corporations instead of nuclear war/strife. It would not surprise me to see worldwide economic collapse at the hands of the major corp's the way things are going now.
Hope I'm wrong, and I could very well be, but I am losing faith more every day...probably played too much Cyberpunk for my own good!
Thanks for allowing me to actually find out whether I can swallow my false teeth. The experience was not as bad as I had imagined it though, but I am REALLY not looking forward to "passing" them in a day or so, but that will give me something to ponder as I clean the coffee from my keyboard and monitor.
LOL! Thanks for starting my day off with a good laugh!:-)
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"I just don't see any reason to use up 2 USB ports while draining my laptop's battery even faster then it's already discharging."
You're missing the point- plug in all yer USB batteries to yer Dell, and start a cahin reaction to destroy teh world!!
All joking aside, I don't see these as anything other than Another Useless USB Toy (tm) for all the clueless USB Toy Fanboi crowd.
I agree. It seems funny I was reading the Sept. 2006 edition of Reader's Digest this morning, and was drawn to an column "Turning Point" featuring Bob Newhart this month and he had something along those lines to say also. The article is titled "Finding My Funny Bone", by Bob Newhart.
He was talking about two of his recordings : "The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart", and it's sequel, "The Button-Down Mid Strikes Back". The first went to #1 on the Billboard charts, and got between the two recordings, got him three Grammy's that year. He goes on to say that he just recently started getting royalties on the recordings (they came out in 1960), and: "Lately I have begun to receive royalties on the albums on a quarterly basis. Even as a trained accountant, I'm no exactly sure how they calculate these royalties without all of the financial records and contracts that burned up in The Great Warner's Office Fire of '73. But they apparently have a formula. Just last week, I received a check for $1.18."
Or better yet, FTA: "Louise Bradley said she arrived at her polling station after the electronic cards had been delivered, but her card did not work properly. When she got to the section of the ballot listing candidates for the Democratic central committee, it was already filled out. Bradley said she had to remove the computer's choices and insert her own."
You left out the part where WGA gets installed automagically during the IE7 install, even if you uncheck the box for "check for updates" at the beginning of the install.
I watched that happen on one of my boxes at home- unplugged the cat5, and the install claimed it couldnt finish without internet connection. And that's after you go through the validation process just so you can download IE7 from MS.
Be warned- if you don't want WGA, be careful trying to install IE7.
Part of the reason for me to play games is a little healthy escape from the real world. I'll be damned before I pay $50-$60 to get commercials and spammed in game. I was looking forward to BF2142, now all I can say is EA positively lost a sale of teh game to me! The way it's shaping up, I'm gonna add that 10 GB HDD I had laying around, load Win98 on it, and Hello XCom-again! Screw the advertising market- spam in the inbox, spam on TV, now spam in the games...not for me.
My hair is getting bad sectors too! Does this mean I'm gonna die soon also?
*quickly shaves from head to toes to eliminate bad sectors* Whew, that was close, I'm fine now, but afraid to go out in teh sunshine now! Costs too much for all the sunblock it would take to cover this fatboy geek body...Hell, who am I kidding- I never leave the basement anyhow!:-)
You got it! I'm not enough of a writer/wordsmith to do the subject justice, but I hope I somewhat was getting my point across- there just is nothing like experiencing a launch first-hand. I agree about the lump in the throat sentiment of yours, if something like that can't get through a person's jaded mentality and help create a bit of awe for the scope of accomplishment for mankind, then I don't want to be around that person as you stated. We've came a LONG ways from wearing skins and making fire with two sticks, this is a prime example IMHO!
Hear! Hear! You said it. Having a decent view of a live rocket ( of any size, but especially the shuttle) is an awesome experience! You can see it well, you can hear it really well, and what you CANNOT get from the TV is: you can FEEL it launch. Your best home media solution with massive subwoofers can't even com close to the rumble you can feel from the soles of your feet thru the top of your hair! You can't fully appreciate the power these things unleash in controlled fury until you've actuall went and seen one.
To the parent LWATCDR replied to above: do all that is in your means/power to get your kid to see the launch. Plan on spending a few days, the launch could get delayed 12-24 hours, if it goes on schedule, then there is a lot of NASA related stuff to do and see around the area- if your kid enjoys that type of thing, then it's a fairly fool-proof way to get "way cool Dad" and "hero" points from the kid, in return you get to give him/her an experience they will never forget!
My Dad worked for NASA both at Wallops Island,Va., and also at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. when I was groing up. At Wallops Island it seemed there was a launch a week (I was in kindergarden and First grade there so I doubt it was even close to one a week! LOL! )But I probably saw over a hundred launches before I was in 5th grade- never got tired of them- all were exciting! So, Pop....get on the stick get that kid out there for the launch- you may be influencing the next Veil Armstrong, or W. Braum!
That's already getting worn thin, but I still crack up every time I hear/read the "tubes" post. LOL! I guess it's good for me that it still amuses me because that is just to classic (already) to just go away. Good timing, BTW. Perfect spot for the tubes reply.:-)
LOL!!! Best chuckle I've had all day here! Thanks for that, and since you done me a good turn....I've got some oceanfront real estate here in Oklahoma I'll make you a real sweet deal on!
Good point. After using Windows only since 3.1 days, last month I had to reinstall XP due to HDD failure. No problem, I have been good about back-ups, etc., so would just be an afternoon's task, right? Uhmm...I fell victim to that WGA crap this time around-kept telling me I had pirated software. My copies of XP Pro (all three of them) are legit retail versions- still have the sales slips.
I have fought with MS many times in the past- I'm a gamer, and frequently format and reinstall the OS (on average about twice a year)to keep the PC running smooth - I've spent a lot of time learning how to set up a secure, but speedy XP setup so I can get good performance from my games.
To make this short, I have had it with MS's draconian activation/verification schemes lately, and WGA was the last straw...went to the store, got a copy of "Linux For Dummies" with Fedora Core 5 (and other distros) on DVD, and installed FC5. (yes y'all can laough at me all you want, but it WORKED!)
So now I have a tri-boot PC : Win 98se for my games and PlayStation emulator that won't run on XP, XP for my more modern games, and for when I'm not actively gaming, FC5.
It did take a little more work to get full multimedia going on FC5, but by no means involved arcane/messy hacks (Google for "installing Linux on a dead badger"! LOL!), but now I can watch all of my DVD's, listen to my cd's and mp3's in 5.1 surround...all is good.
My point is (agreeing with you) that I, a complete n00b had no trouble, even with multimedia setup in *nix. The only fly in the ointment is learning how to set/change permissions so I can mount all of my storage drives in FC5- they're all ntfs, and when I try to mount get "you don't have permission to do that" message, but I found the documentation to take care of that, so....
I have found that Linux is a little different trying to do some things, but most are so similar that it's easy to figure out, actually easier to find out what is going in Linux than it is to find out what is going on in Windows!
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I feel for you, this has been one of my pet peeves for years now.
But, look at the bright side, our (USA) sports celebrities are the highest paid in the world.
(Just overlook the fact that academically we are falling behind faster every year)
But it DOESN'T run on Linux! :-)
HeHeHEHe!
Have you not seen some of the political discussions running amuck here?
Even with the mod system, the filtering in "pref's", and the karma system, most political battles^Wdiscussions resemble fireworks on the 4th of July, only with nukes, WMD's, and hookers...er, what was we talking about?
BTW, sorry I don't have something more positive, but good luck with that anyway- it should be an interesting experience!
Clearly it is broken.
I support laws that enable the public at large to admin a kick to the testicles of anyone proposing to patent any software. To support ERA, give the offenders a choice between the public kick in the nads, or a double-bit axe shoved up teh *ss.
This software patent insanity needs to stop and just go away. Copyright reg's and laws already cover software code- we don't need to overburden the patent system with this shite!
Why this was modded +funny instead of +insightful, I'll probably never understand...I don't find it so funny, but I do see it happening all the time.
If you were trying for funny, KUDOS!- it is in a sad way, but how true anymore.
"If you hold the moral value that the community is important, you should not rest until every American can vote as easily as you can vote. If any American is being dumped on, then we are ALL being dumped on. We must hang together, or we will all surely hang separately."
Well said!
Now the only problem is to get "teh masses" to see this...Im at a loss there, but you're spot on.
Wish I had mod points to give you.
That was truly a subtle, yet insightful post.
IANAC (I am not a christian), but am familiar with the Bible (some interesting stories there)and your reference summed it up rather succinctly!
"The number of possible ideas to patent is quite literally infinite." and "The current system needs to go."
Spot on....'cause to end it all, I'm filing for a patent on "teh method/implementation of filing a patent on a seemingly novel idea"- in other words...All your patents are belong to me!
All joking/sarcasm aside, I expect the "end of the world as we know it" (ie: post-apocalyptic type sci-fi scenario) will be caused by economics/corporations instead of nuclear war/strife. It would not surprise me to see worldwide economic collapse at the hands of the major corp's the way things are going now.
Hope I'm wrong, and I could very well be, but I am losing faith more every day...probably played too much Cyberpunk for my own good!
Thanks for allowing me to actually find out whether I can swallow my false teeth. The experience was not as bad as I had imagined it though, but I am REALLY not looking forward to "passing" them in a day or so, but that will give me something to ponder as I clean the coffee from my keyboard and monitor.
:-)
LOL! Thanks for starting my day off with a good laugh!
"I just don't see any reason to use up 2 USB ports while draining my laptop's battery even faster then it's already discharging."
You're missing the point- plug in all yer USB batteries to yer Dell, and start a cahin reaction to destroy teh world!!
All joking aside, I don't see these as anything other than Another Useless USB Toy (tm) for all the clueless USB Toy Fanboi crowd.
Try wearing pants next time! ;)
Just kidding, could not let this one pass!
Can I be in charge of vice...er, I mean vice-president?
Pretty please!
I agree.
It seems funny I was reading the Sept. 2006 edition of Reader's Digest this morning, and was drawn to an column "Turning Point" featuring Bob Newhart this month and he had something along those lines to say also.
The article is titled "Finding My Funny Bone", by Bob Newhart.
He was talking about two of his recordings : "The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart", and it's sequel, "The Button-Down Mid Strikes Back". The first went to #1 on the Billboard charts, and got between the two recordings, got him three Grammy's that year. He goes on to say that he just recently started getting royalties on the recordings (they came out in 1960), and:
"Lately I have begun to receive royalties on the albums on a quarterly basis. Even as a trained accountant, I'm no exactly sure how they calculate these royalties without all of the financial records and contracts that burned up in The Great Warner's Office Fire of '73. But they apparently have a formula. Just last week, I received a check for $1.18."
Or better yet, FTA:
"Louise Bradley said she arrived at her polling station after the electronic cards had been delivered, but her card did not work properly. When she got to the section of the ballot listing candidates for the Democratic central committee, it was already filled out. Bradley said she had to remove the computer's choices and insert her own."
Hal, STOP trying to vote for me, dammit!
I'm sorry Dave, but I can't let you do that.
You left out the part where WGA gets installed automagically during the IE7 install, even if you uncheck the box for "check for updates" at the beginning of the install.
I watched that happen on one of my boxes at home- unplugged the cat5, and the install claimed it couldnt finish without internet connection. And that's after you go through the validation process just so you can download IE7 from MS.
Be warned- if you don't want WGA, be careful trying to install IE7.
Part of the reason for me to play games is a little healthy escape from the real world.
I'll be damned before I pay $50-$60 to get commercials and spammed in game.
I was looking forward to BF2142, now all I can say is EA positively lost a sale of teh game to me!
The way it's shaping up, I'm gonna add that 10 GB HDD I had laying around, load Win98 on it, and Hello XCom-again!
Screw the advertising market- spam in the inbox, spam on TV, now spam in the games...not for me.
My hair is getting bad sectors too! Does this mean I'm gonna die soon also?
:-)
*quickly shaves from head to toes to eliminate bad sectors*
Whew, that was close, I'm fine now, but afraid to go out in teh sunshine now! Costs too much for all the sunblock it would take to cover this fatboy geek body...Hell, who am I kidding- I never leave the basement anyhow!
You got it!
I'm not enough of a writer/wordsmith to do the subject justice, but I hope I somewhat was getting my point across- there just is nothing like experiencing a launch first-hand.
I agree about the lump in the throat sentiment of yours, if something like that can't get through a person's jaded mentality and help create a bit of awe for the scope of accomplishment for mankind, then I don't want to be around that person as you stated.
We've came a LONG ways from wearing skins and making fire with two sticks, this is a prime example IMHO!
If I hadn't used the last of mine on the UK vilent porn ban a few minutes ago, I would give him +1 for that.
So anyone with mod points, please do as kunwon1 suggests and give parent some karmic joy! That was a good post!
Hear! Hear!
You said it. Having a decent view of a live rocket ( of any size, but especially the shuttle) is an awesome experience! You can see it well, you can hear it really well, and what you CANNOT get from the TV is: you can FEEL it launch. Your best home media solution with massive subwoofers can't even com close to the rumble you can feel from the soles of your feet thru the top of your hair!
You can't fully appreciate the power these things unleash in controlled fury until you've actuall went and seen one.
To the parent LWATCDR replied to above: do all that is in your means/power to get your kid to see the launch.
Plan on spending a few days, the launch could get delayed 12-24 hours, if it goes on schedule, then there is a lot of NASA related stuff to do and see around the area- if your kid enjoys that type of thing, then it's a fairly fool-proof way to get "way cool Dad" and "hero" points from the kid, in return you get to give him/her an experience they will never forget!
My Dad worked for NASA both at Wallops Island,Va., and also at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. when I was groing up.
At Wallops Island it seemed there was a launch a week (I was in kindergarden and First grade there so I doubt it was even close to one a week! LOL! )But I probably saw over a hundred launches before I was in 5th grade- never got tired of them- all were exciting!
So, Pop....get on the stick get that kid out there for the launch- you may be influencing the next Veil Armstrong, or W. Braum!
That's already getting worn thin, but I still crack up every time I hear/read the "tubes" post. LOL! :-)
I guess it's good for me that it still amuses me because that is just to classic (already) to just go away.
Good timing, BTW. Perfect spot for the tubes reply.
LOL!!!
Best chuckle I've had all day here! Thanks for that, and since you done me a good turn....I've got some oceanfront real estate here in Oklahoma I'll make you a real sweet deal on!
I agree.
Why ban usefull software, just ban the useless software patents. IP=Imaginative Property
Good point.
After using Windows only since 3.1 days, last month I had to reinstall XP due to HDD failure.
No problem, I have been good about back-ups, etc., so would just be an afternoon's task, right?
Uhmm...I fell victim to that WGA crap this time around-kept telling me I had pirated software.
My copies of XP Pro (all three of them) are legit retail versions- still have the sales slips.
I have fought with MS many times in the past- I'm a gamer, and frequently format and reinstall the OS (on average about twice a year)to keep the PC running smooth - I've spent a lot of time learning how to set up a secure, but speedy XP setup so I can get good performance from my games.
To make this short, I have had it with MS's draconian activation/verification schemes lately, and WGA was the last straw...went to the store, got a copy of "Linux For Dummies" with Fedora Core 5 (and other distros) on DVD, and installed FC5. (yes y'all can laough at me all you want, but it WORKED!)
So now I have a tri-boot PC : Win 98se for my games and PlayStation emulator that won't run on XP, XP for my more modern games, and for when I'm not actively gaming, FC5.
It did take a little more work to get full multimedia going on FC5, but by no means involved arcane/messy hacks (Google for "installing Linux on a dead badger"! LOL!), but now I can watch all of my DVD's, listen to my cd's and mp3's in 5.1 surround...all is good.
My point is (agreeing with you) that I, a complete n00b had no trouble, even with multimedia setup in *nix. The only fly in the ointment is learning how to set/change permissions so I can mount all of my storage drives in FC5- they're all ntfs, and when I try to mount get "you don't have permission to do that" message, but I found the documentation to take care of that, so....
I have found that Linux is a little different trying to do some things, but most are so similar that it's easy to figure out, actually easier to find out what is going in Linux than it is to find out what is going on in Windows!