Is bragging that their "Whole Country" is wireless?
There are cities that have that much wireless capacity just from their coffee shops! Add in the hotels, and the all-too-prevelant open APs, and you see that that's nothing to brag on.
Seriously, I never have to boot up to see what there is to do next, (some times she gives me the boot to get me going!), and she has this knack of being able to track me down and remind me of things no matter how far I am from a computer.
I suppose some of you have a secretary that does the same, but the beauty I married is a beast when it comes to reminders, and I'll bet there's none better!
Don't just unsuscribe if you have a subscription, unsuscribe _even_if_you_don't_ have one.
You think it will drive them crazy finding you and deleting you (on the phone, of course) when you exist in their records, what about if you don't?
YOU: I'd like to unsuscribe to your publication because of the M. O. article it published.
OPERATOR: What's your name and address?
YOU: Bob Baker, 123 Main, Anytown, USA
OPERATOR: I don't have a listing under that name, sir.
YOU: OH! Check under my Wife's name, Betty Baker.
OPERATOR: There's no listing under that name either, sir!
YOU: Well that's just screwed up! I don't want you people to get away with not refunding my money for the rest of the suscription! Let me talk to your supervisor!
OPERATOR: I'll connect you.
SUPERVISOR: Mr Baker, we have no record of you in our system.
YOU: What? Maybe you ought to get M.O. on the case. She can seem to find anybody's information out!...and so on, for as long as you can keep them on the phone.....
Of course, then you'll have to try it again under a different name and address!
At least then they'll know that even non-suscribers don't like what they did.
My alarm clock's snooze button only works if you get up and make her a bottle. By that time you're wide awake, but after you feed her SHE goes back to sleep!
Have we forgotten what the LAST component was that made open source Unix (GNU/Linux) possible?
It was the KERNEL!
Getting people to run GNU apps on "real" Unix came first. Perhaps we can get people to run good apps and a good desktop on Windoze, then bring them over to Linux.
And even if we don't we open up a whole new area for the superior, Open Source apps!
Why oh why did we have to do this? We put our Earth microbes contaminated landing craft on Titan, and no one thought of the effect this would have on the Titans?
Did no one ever read the "War of the Worlds"? We have surely wiped out their kind forever! Couldn't we just stay home and trash our own planet? Oh the horror, the horror!
We place large satellites in space with many square miles of solar collectors. They produce clean power which is beamed down to Earth to replace "dirty" power sources.
As an added benefit, they reduce the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth, reducing the amount of warming. In effect, our clean power producers also regulate the Earth's temperature!
Some 32 years ago, as a young teen, I went down to Huntsville to help out after a tornado had swept thru the town. We passed by NASA's center and saw the rocket standing there. Truly incredible.
I was wondering if they were still up. I may have to take another trip, this time to show my kids.
Quit Trespassing on my Kingdom!
No, not the Artic, the Antartic. Hey, if one's melting, the other can't be far behind!
My Great-great grandfather, Oscar the Lost, found Antartica on one of his voyages and claimed it for our family. Dan Rather even verified that our documents are real!
I figure that by the time the Antartic melts, you'll see the price of crude up around $250-350 barrel, and I want my cut. Sure. I'll use some of it to build a high speed train accross the continent to cut shipping times and costs between Chile and New Zealand, but mostly it'll go to pay for my summer palace in Hawaii.
All Hail HexaByte, King of Antartica!
Another distro. I only have so much time, people, to keep trying all these new distros. STOP IT!!!
Who many times can I reformat a HD before I do something that totally destroys it? (No, not by installing distros, by smashing the HD in frustration after something goes arwy.)
I like 'em slow. That way I can go get a cup of coffee, talk to my co-workers, etc., and just tell the boss "It's still booting" or "I'm running a large spreadsheet".
Remember the old days when we didn't expect a computer to be as fast as lightning?
Slow down and listen to the sound of the files being saved to floppy.
It's good for the economy! Poor people will be hit the hardest, except for the mega-rich and thier beachfront properties, of course. That means with more of the poor wiped out, less welfare to pay. Which will be good, because the tax base will shrink, too.
Then they'll also be all the work to clean up, bury the bodies, rebuild, etc. No more unemployment! At that point, will be asking the surviving Mexicans to wade the Rio Grande to help out!
And just think of all the ways we can rebuild those antiquated, overcrowded, old costal cities into vibrant, new, spacious cities!
So the question becomes one of: Can I cluster these things and get more horsepower? Will that make me get to the end of my route faster than the guy who's still running a PII at 60MPH?
The OpenCD is a CD compilation of various Open Source software for WinDo$e. It's a great way to introduce people to what open source has to offer, and the software included is also usefull and of good quality.
When your friend is telling you they're about to plunk down $350 for MS Office, you can hand them an OpenCD and tell them that the office suite on there reads and writes to MS Office formats, but cost $0!
Using a Windows based OS for your RC equipment?
That will bring a whole new meaning to Crash Landing you plane!
I'd only use it on the boats, since I can always row out and retrieve them. The planes, however, might come down a little unexpectedly.
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Ah! But you're not forward thinking!
Someone is sure to come up with alternative video input hacks, so that you can hit the "I'm sick" button, and insert a video of you looking like death warmed over. Or perhaps the "I'm in Beruda" button, so you can fool your friends into thinking that you're in the Carribean, when you really stayed home this vacation to paint the house.
Let's not forget the "I'm working at home" hack, that shows you intently slaving away at your desk, and plays a message saying "I'm too busy to talk now, as you can see." That'll fool the boss!
The person who contributes the most stable code get to be CTO, the one who got the most companies to pony up $$$ is CFO, and the one who can listen to the most complaints without going crazy becomes CEO!
Will the cell phone companies soon be over-spectrumed, just like the landline people are now pipelined? Maybe that will cut the costs down to $15/mo for cell phones.
Now I can pay $10 a month to crappify my already bad cell connection!
With already getting free calls to everyone on the network, and free long distance, I may actually want to pay exta dollars to get worse quality, just in case I need to make a 16 hour call to someone off-network!
Who's the brain surgeon who came up with this one?
They don't really care if you watch the commercials or not. They must SELL the commercials to make money, but there really is no direct correlation between the number of people who watch commercials and the amount of sales that company X makes.
There is a PERCIEVED relationship, but how many of you switched from Bud Lite to Miller Lite just because of the "Catfight" commercial? If you had, there would be an equal number of women who would quit drinking it because they were offended by it.
There are, of course, those commercials for new products that help us to become aware that we "need" that hot item, and those commodity items that company X has on sale for a better price than company Y, but that's small potatoes.
Most people will not go out and buy a new Dodge Hemi truck because it looks cool on the ad, when they've already decided that they need a mini-van to fit the new twins.
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Is bragging that their "Whole Country" is wireless?
There are cities that have that much wireless capacity just from their coffee shops! Add in the hotels, and the all-too-prevelant open APs, and you see that that's nothing to brag on.
I share her with my 2 daughters and soon will also share her with the as-yet-unknown-what-it-is child arriving this December.
Certain pleasures of hers, of course, I share with no one!
Seriously, I never have to boot up to see what there is to do next, (some times she gives me the boot to get me going!), and she has this knack of being able to track me down and remind me of things no matter how far I am from a computer.
I suppose some of you have a secretary that does the same, but the beauty I married is a beast when it comes to reminders, and I'll bet there's none better!
Don't just unsuscribe if you have a subscription, unsuscribe _even_if_you_don't_ have one.
...and so on, for as long as you can keep them on the phone.....
You think it will drive them crazy finding you and deleting you (on the phone, of course) when you exist in their records, what about if you don't?
YOU: I'd like to unsuscribe to your publication because of the M. O. article it published.
OPERATOR: What's your name and address?
YOU: Bob Baker, 123 Main, Anytown, USA
OPERATOR: I don't have a listing under that name, sir.
YOU: OH! Check under my Wife's name, Betty Baker.
OPERATOR: There's no listing under that name either, sir!
YOU: Well that's just screwed up! I don't want you people to get away with not refunding my money for the rest of the suscription! Let me talk to your supervisor!
OPERATOR: I'll connect you.
SUPERVISOR: Mr Baker, we have no record of you in our system.
YOU: What? Maybe you ought to get M.O. on the case. She can seem to find anybody's information out!
Of course, then you'll have to try it again under a different name and address!
At least then they'll know that even non-suscribers don't like what they did.
I HAVE eaten vulture, and no, it does NOT taste like chicken!
Perhaps because they eat carrion, but besides being tough, they taste HORRIBLE!
My alarm clock's snooze button only works if you get up and make her a bottle. By that time you're wide awake, but after you feed her SHE goes back to sleep!
Have we forgotten what the LAST component was that made open source Unix (GNU/Linux) possible?
It was the KERNEL!
Getting people to run GNU apps on "real" Unix came first. Perhaps we can get people to run good apps and a good desktop on Windoze, then bring them over to Linux.
And even if we don't we open up a whole new area for the superior, Open Source apps!
"By posting that link, you slashdotted the probe in Uranus."
:->
Ouch! That's gotta hurt!
Why oh why did we have to do this? We put our Earth microbes contaminated landing craft on Titan, and no one thought of the effect this would have on the Titans?
Did no one ever read the "War of the Worlds"? We have surely wiped out their kind forever! Couldn't we just stay home and trash our own planet? Oh the horror, the horror!
On the bright side, cool pics are expected!
The solution seems simple, though expensive.
We place large satellites in space with many square miles of solar collectors. They produce clean power which is beamed down to Earth to replace "dirty" power sources.
As an added benefit, they reduce the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth, reducing the amount of warming. In effect, our clean power producers also regulate the Earth's temperature!
Now to pay for it all...
The Saturn V's are *AWESOME*
Some 32 years ago, as a young teen, I went down to Huntsville to help out after a tornado had swept thru the town. We passed by NASA's center and saw the rocket standing there. Truly incredible.
I was wondering if they were still up. I may have to take another trip, this time to show my kids.
Quit Trespassing on my Kingdom! No, not the Artic, the Antartic. Hey, if one's melting, the other can't be far behind! My Great-great grandfather, Oscar the Lost, found Antartica on one of his voyages and claimed it for our family. Dan Rather even verified that our documents are real! I figure that by the time the Antartic melts, you'll see the price of crude up around $250-350 barrel, and I want my cut. Sure. I'll use some of it to build a high speed train accross the continent to cut shipping times and costs between Chile and New Zealand, but mostly it'll go to pay for my summer palace in Hawaii. All Hail HexaByte, King of Antartica!
Another distro. I only have so much time, people, to keep trying all these new distros. STOP IT!!!
Who many times can I reformat a HD before I do something that totally destroys it? (No, not by installing distros, by smashing the HD in frustration after something goes arwy.)
Unless I've been asleap for 10 years, it's only 2005, so they've still got ten years to please you!
I like 'em slow. That way I can go get a cup of coffee, talk to my co-workers, etc., and just tell the boss "It's still booting" or "I'm running a large spreadsheet".
Remember the old days when we didn't expect a computer to be as fast as lightning?
Slow down and listen to the sound of the files being saved to floppy.
It's good for the economy! Poor people will be hit the hardest, except for the mega-rich and thier beachfront properties, of course. That means with more of the poor wiped out, less welfare to pay. Which will be good, because the tax base will shrink, too.
Then they'll also be all the work to clean up, bury the bodies, rebuild, etc. No more unemployment! At that point, will be asking the surviving Mexicans to wade the Rio Grande to help out!
And just think of all the ways we can rebuild those antiquated, overcrowded, old costal cities into vibrant, new, spacious cities!
Did I mention I'm in real estate?
So the question becomes one of: Can I cluster these things and get more horsepower? Will that make me get to the end of my route faster than the guy who's still running a PII at 60MPH?
The OpenCD is a CD compilation of various Open Source software for WinDo$e. It's a great way to introduce people to what open source has to offer, and the software included is also usefull and of good quality.
When your friend is telling you they're about to plunk down $350 for MS Office, you can hand them an OpenCD and tell them that the office suite on there reads and writes to MS Office formats, but cost $0!
Using a Windows based OS for your RC equipment? That will bring a whole new meaning to Crash Landing you plane! I'd only use it on the boats, since I can always row out and retrieve them. The planes, however, might come down a little unexpectedly.
Ah! But you're not forward thinking!
Someone is sure to come up with alternative video input hacks, so that you can hit the "I'm sick" button, and insert a video of you looking like death warmed over. Or perhaps the "I'm in Beruda" button, so you can fool your friends into thinking that you're in the Carribean, when you really stayed home this vacation to paint the house.
Let's not forget the "I'm working at home" hack, that shows you intently slaving away at your desk, and plays a message saying "I'm too busy to talk now, as you can see." That'll fool the boss!
Calling George Jettson!
Finally, the things I've lived so long waiting to see are becoming reality!
Now, if we just had those flying cars....
They're having elections? Why not _selections_?
The person who contributes the most stable code get to be CTO, the one who got the most companies to pony up $$$ is CFO, and the one who can listen to the most complaints without going crazy becomes CEO!
Just my vote!
Will the cell phone companies soon be over-spectrumed, just like the landline people are now pipelined? Maybe that will cut the costs down to $15/mo for cell phones.
Then, MAYBE I'll get one.
Now I can pay $10 a month to crappify my already bad cell connection!
With already getting free calls to everyone on the network, and free long distance, I may actually want to pay exta dollars to get worse quality, just in case I need to make a 16 hour call to someone off-network!
Who's the brain surgeon who came up with this one?
They don't really care if you watch the commercials or not. They must SELL the commercials to make money, but there really is no direct correlation between the number of people who watch commercials and the amount of sales that company X makes.
There is a PERCIEVED relationship, but how many of you switched from Bud Lite to Miller Lite just because of the "Catfight" commercial? If you had, there would be an equal number of women who would quit drinking it because they were offended by it.
There are, of course, those commercials for new products that help us to become aware that we "need" that hot item, and those commodity items that company X has on sale for a better price than company Y, but that's small potatoes.
Most people will not go out and buy a new Dodge Hemi truck because it looks cool on the ad, when they've already decided that they need a mini-van to fit the new twins.