Studies have shown that boys can be very agressive which has a negative affect on girls in school. So the idea of a computer camp for girls sounds kinda cool to me.
It works both ways. Besides, an all girl tech camp, while it sounds like a great plot for an eighties comedy, probably isn't the best route - what's wrong with coed? I recently played on a coed soccer team, and the girls on the other team were amazing (I'm in real good shape myself!) It makes me think that its better to mix everyone together, rather than try the "separate but equal" education systems taht have persisted for so long. But then again, its 2am and there's no girls working in this office, so maybe that's wishful thinking on my part...;)
Yeah, women aren't as masochistic as us guys... they have childbirth and that's enough pain without having to stare at high-radiation monitors all day trying to find that one missing semi-colon.
BOO! What kind of men are you going after? Dumb girls really turn me off, I can't walk into a bar and keep up a conversation about the weather or about how tight pants should be without feeling the urge to vomit. Where are all the smart girls? Playing dumb gets you frat guys, then single and pregnant, in that order. I dig a girl who can match me intellectually or bitch at my sloppy code or kick my ass in quake iii. They're few and far in between.
I don't know if ignore is the right word... more likely they take one look get scared, or the BO keeps them at bay (nothing like 4am BO after a long, strenous marathon of Quake 3)... lol
A motherboard or power supply problem? Strange mix of components... what exactly does a power supply do now-a-days? It didn't share the processing load, last time I checked... maybe some weird voltage regulating thing?
Great, that's just what I need, a cybernetic mouse-like creature that I'm going to have to palm for hours at I time! What about those of us allergic to them? Do they come in a hairless model??
Who says that web addresses are a protected form of speech? Is the address of your house a protected form of speech? If you make a parody using the exact same name as an organization, that breeds incredible confusion because people will just go there thinking it is the organization's site. Of course, when they get there, they will know that they've been misdirected, but the point is that there's no way of telling from just the url that it will not be the organization you are looking for.
There is no real clear definition of what is and what isn't a form of expression in this country. I would argue that almost everything we do is basically some form of communicating, and thus even the places we choose to live in should be protected. Some people would argue that protecting all speech would be complete anarchy, but I think it would force us to develop more sophistaicated (and necessary) methods of filtering information.
I took the wines course at the Cornell University Hotel school, we had tasings from all over, and guest speakers from France, Germany, etc., and they all highly regarded NY wines. Goose Watch, Loch Sheldrake, Salmon Run... all medal winners, and Hosmer makes the best Chardonnay I have ever tasted (1998 reserver, gold medal winner). First of all, what the heck kind of title is a Master of Wines, and why would your friend rip on NY State wines? They make plenty of cheap, crappy wine in Italy and California too.
But you gotta admit, for a looser, he gets really hot women. Call it the Seinfeld Syndrome - even in a comedy about two men who are pathetic in relationships, all of their dates have to be hot. I mean, why would we can if they got dumped by ugly women?...now I'm starting to see the difference between the Americas and England...
Man, you just opened up a can of worms with that one... but thanks, I already own all the novels, so having them in digital format on my Visor is great! And it's legal, right???
Hey, what about upstate New York? Some of the best breweries in the world are here, like Saranac (FX Matts Brewery) in Utica. Saranac beats the pants off most "international" beers. Plus, we have some of the best wineries in the world around the finger lakes. We rock!
I think it's interesting that a good writer like Douglas Adams) answers questions in less words than a musician (Lars).
To paraphrase John Byrne, I think it was, (the great comic book artist), once said that drawing was not about making a lot of marks and lines to create something, but to use only those absolutely necessary to make it recognizeable. The art is in knowing what not to draw, or say.
Alright, this may sound stupid, and it probably is, but what's the difference between vector and pixel graphics, besides the obvious fact that one uses vectors and the other pixels? I mean, how does using vectors make life easier? I've been using pixels forever (I just got used to it), why should I switch? And good url references?
Are you kidding? The way that Adobe sees software piracy as "all of our fault," I think it would be a cold day in hell before they opened up their source. They make incredible programs that they base all of their revenue streams on - why would they go open source, anyway? I'd like to hear a discussion on that topic.
Yeah, and what is up with the price-controlled regions built into DVDs? This can't be legal - this is blatantly artificial price-controlling on an international scale. How can they say that the same movie that I buy in Japan shouldn't work on my home played in the USA? So if I take my portable DVD player to Japan and buy a new movie, I have the buy that same movie again when I get back to the US??? We NEED this DeCSS to protect our rights as consumers! Entertainment companies are sidestepping international economic laws and copyright issues, and we're supposed to sit by and smile as our personal property becomes nothing more than a digital copy of a something that someone else owns and licenses to us? NO!
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Wait a minute... this Bruce Perens doesn't have a period after his name. Is this some kind of mind trick? And not a jedi mind trick, although I'm thinking that Natalie Portman is probably involved somehow...
HUH? I just looked at online stores this morning, and Athlons are EXACTLY the same price as their Intel counterpart chips (where they exist). I don't see any big discounts. If you do, PLEASE let me know, I deperately need a new 900 MHz Athlon:)
See, the whole reason that monopolies are bad is that they impede innovation. Innovation, as defined in a business sense, where the industry is supposed to proceed to reinvent itself at a certain rate, until this monopoly comes along and throws a big fat monkey (or 600lb. gorrilla) wrench into the whole process.
I think that you're absolutely right - breaking up microsoft will eventually turn out huge for stockholders, like it did for the baby bells. But that's the whole point - there enviroment exists that is favorable to innovation and change, and the weight of all of the defensive procedures that microsoft had stored up had heled grind that innovative process to a halt (or at least slowed it). Think about it - Netscape, browser plug-ins, and probably even Java have been materially harmed by MS's defensive attacks. The irony is that if MS could have been in a more competitive position, i.e., smaller and more product focused as opposed to large, defensive, and concentrated on futile and borg-like cross-compatibility (MS-incest), it probably could have done a lot better.
Even with my one semester of trademark law, we learned that you can trademark anything. There was a even a case where a manufacturer successfully defended a trademark on the COLOR of its product (I forget exactly what that product was, though - some kind of machine). You just can't trademark anything vital to the operation of a product or service, because that would be the same as patenting something, and trademarks are for life so it would be like one hell of a patent.
Anything that distiguishes your company from others putting out the same products or services can potentially be trademarked. Trademarks are easy to register, the hard part might be defending them because registering a trademark doesn't necessarily mean that someone else didn't use it before or in the same context, and thus might have a legitimate claim to it over yours. The Hard Rock Cafe got into a suit with a small restaurant in New Mexico (i think) over the right to use that name, and it was decided that for the little town that this restaurant had been in for the past like 20 years, they were allowed to continue using that name.
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Studies have shown that boys can be very agressive which has a negative affect on girls in school. So the idea of a computer camp for girls sounds kinda cool to me.
It works both ways. Besides, an all girl tech camp, while it sounds like a great plot for an eighties comedy, probably isn't the best route - what's wrong with coed? I recently played on a coed soccer team, and the girls on the other team were amazing (I'm in real good shape myself!) It makes me think that its better to mix everyone together, rather than try the "separate but equal" education systems taht have persisted for so long. But then again, its 2am and there's no girls working in this office, so maybe that's wishful thinking on my part...But I kid ;)
BOO! What kind of men are you going after? Dumb girls really turn me off, I can't walk into a bar and keep up a conversation about the weather or about how tight pants should be without feeling the urge to vomit. Where are all the smart girls? Playing dumb gets you frat guys, then single and pregnant, in that order. I dig a girl who can match me intellectually or bitch at my sloppy code or kick my ass in quake iii. They're few and far in between.
I don't know if ignore is the right word... more likely they take one look get scared, or the BO keeps them at bay (nothing like 4am BO after a long, strenous marathon of Quake 3)... lol
A motherboard or power supply problem? Strange mix of components... what exactly does a power supply do now-a-days? It didn't share the processing load, last time I checked... maybe some weird voltage regulating thing?
Great, that's just what I need, a cybernetic mouse-like creature that I'm going to have to palm for hours at I time! What about those of us allergic to them? Do they come in a hairless model??
They make good pucks, but that darn USB cable always gets stuck in the net after the shot ;)
It's a new paradyne - "Capitalism thru Communism." Or may be "Capitalism thru Equitable Socialism." Strange bedfellows.
Who says that web addresses are a protected form of speech? Is the address of your house a protected form of speech? If you make a parody using the exact same name as an organization, that breeds incredible confusion because people will just go there thinking it is the organization's site. Of course, when they get there, they will know that they've been misdirected, but the point is that there's no way of telling from just the url that it will not be the organization you are looking for.
There is no real clear definition of what is and what isn't a form of expression in this country. I would argue that almost everything we do is basically some form of communicating, and thus even the places we choose to live in should be protected. Some people would argue that protecting all speech would be complete anarchy, but I think it would force us to develop more sophistaicated (and necessary) methods of filtering information.
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I took the wines course at the Cornell University Hotel school, we had tasings from all over, and guest speakers from France, Germany, etc., and they all highly regarded NY wines. Goose Watch, Loch Sheldrake, Salmon Run... all medal winners, and Hosmer makes the best Chardonnay I have ever tasted (1998 reserver, gold medal winner). First of all, what the heck kind of title is a Master of Wines, and why would your friend rip on NY State wines? They make plenty of cheap, crappy wine in Italy and California too.
But you gotta admit, for a looser, he gets really hot women. Call it the Seinfeld Syndrome - even in a comedy about two men who are pathetic in relationships, all of their dates have to be hot. I mean, why would we can if they got dumped by ugly women? ...now I'm starting to see the difference between the Americas and England...
Man, you just opened up a can of worms with that one... but thanks, I already own all the novels, so having them in digital format on my Visor is great! And it's legal, right???
Hey, what about upstate New York? Some of the best breweries in the world are here, like Saranac (FX Matts Brewery) in Utica. Saranac beats the pants off most "international" beers. Plus, we have some of the best wineries in the world around the finger lakes. We rock!
I think it's interesting that a good writer like Douglas Adams) answers questions in less words than a musician (Lars).
To paraphrase John Byrne, I think it was, (the great comic book artist), once said that drawing was not about making a lot of marks and lines to create something, but to use only those absolutely necessary to make it recognizeable. The art is in knowing what not to draw, or say.
In conclusion, that's why metallica sucks.
Alright, this may sound stupid, and it probably is, but what's the difference between vector and pixel graphics, besides the obvious fact that one uses vectors and the other pixels? I mean, how does using vectors make life easier? I've been using pixels forever (I just got used to it), why should I switch? And good url references?
Are you kidding? The way that Adobe sees software piracy as "all of our fault," I think it would be a cold day in hell before they opened up their source. They make incredible programs that they base all of their revenue streams on - why would they go open source, anyway? I'd like to hear a discussion on that topic.
When did Sarah Michele Gellar say that?!!
Yeah, and what is up with the price-controlled regions built into DVDs? This can't be legal - this is blatantly artificial price-controlling on an international scale. How can they say that the same movie that I buy in Japan shouldn't work on my home played in the USA? So if I take my portable DVD player to Japan and buy a new movie, I have the buy that same movie again when I get back to the US???
We NEED this DeCSS to protect our rights as consumers! Entertainment companies are sidestepping international economic laws and copyright issues, and we're supposed to sit by and smile as our personal property becomes nothing more than a digital copy of a something that someone else owns and licenses to us? NO!
Wait a minute... this Bruce Perens doesn't have a period after his name. Is this some kind of mind trick? And not a jedi mind trick, although I'm thinking that Natalie Portman is probably involved somehow...
HUH? I just looked at online stores this morning, and Athlons are EXACTLY the same price as their Intel counterpart chips (where they exist). I don't see any big discounts. If you do, PLEASE let me know, I deperately need a new 900 MHz Athlon :)
See, the whole reason that monopolies are bad is that they impede innovation. Innovation, as defined in a business sense, where the industry is supposed to proceed to reinvent itself at a certain rate, until this monopoly comes along and throws a big fat monkey (or 600lb. gorrilla) wrench into the whole process.
I think that you're absolutely right - breaking up microsoft will eventually turn out huge for stockholders, like it did for the baby bells. But that's the whole point - there enviroment exists that is favorable to innovation and change, and the weight of all of the defensive procedures that microsoft had stored up had heled grind that innovative process to a halt (or at least slowed it). Think about it - Netscape, browser plug-ins, and probably even Java have been materially harmed by MS's defensive attacks. The irony is that if MS could have been in a more competitive position, i.e., smaller and more product focused as opposed to large, defensive, and concentrated on futile and borg-like cross-compatibility (MS-incest), it probably could have done a lot better.
you only think those are mobile "phones"... how can you be sure who you're really talking to?
So when does Kurt get his own weekely column, "Inside Slashdot?"
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So does the fact that you have a hotmail address mean that you are also contributing to their conglomorate "evil" in some way? Hmm....
Even with my one semester of trademark law, we learned that you can trademark anything. There was a even a case where a manufacturer successfully defended a trademark on the COLOR of its product (I forget exactly what that product was, though - some kind of machine). You just can't trademark anything vital to the operation of a product or service, because that would be the same as patenting something, and trademarks are for life so it would be like one hell of a patent.
Anything that distiguishes your company from others putting out the same products or services can potentially be trademarked. Trademarks are easy to register, the hard part might be defending them because registering a trademark doesn't necessarily mean that someone else didn't use it before or in the same context, and thus might have a legitimate claim to it over yours.
The Hard Rock Cafe got into a suit with a small restaurant in New Mexico (i think) over the right to use that name, and it was decided that for the little town that this restaurant had been in for the past like 20 years, they were allowed to continue using that name.