So, microsoft is essentially a financial institution? Then what is being discussed would have to be considered a run on the bank, er, stock. You think microsoft's brand value is going to be worth more than the lint in my belly button if everyone decides to sell? Hell, with that type of scenario the thirty bln looks like just enough to maintain plausible deniability. I mean the big difference here is that enron had *something* tangible (energy), microsoft has all those vista licenses everyone is clamoring after, that's got to be worth something right? Not necessarily, if the market turns on MS then they have support for software currently installed and whatever they can sell of the new stuff. This is valuable, but not nearly as valuable as Microsoft's brand.
I know you're trying to be sarcastic here, but you're so off base. Do you realize that women love this shit, maybe not all of them, but a good number of them look at this crap and think "ok, win every argument we ever get into...check".
My sympathies for the poor bastard that asks slashdot for dating advice...
Sadly girls almost never played this game...not even the ones that liked math...
I put that in bold. Dude should go dressed as his favorite number. Bring some booze, a smile, and some jokes about math. Some of that "Study Girls" advice up there could be put to good use also, but seriously if this guy's going after a girl that's throwing the party she's (likely) going to fall for someone that makes her party more like a part and less like a damn study group. DO NOT alienate the girls friends that aren't good at math.
I think the big thing here in driver support is going to be for things like printers. PRINTER SUPPORT PLEASE!
I'll assume the schools will go with HP carefully selected printers, because they're really the best supported printers out there, but they can still use a bit of work. Last I looked you were lucky if the software could tell you how much ink was left and a lot of the lower end networked printers weren't reported as working at all in Linux. I'd just like a $200-$300 laser printer on the network, from the printer compatibility lists I've found there isn't one.
Of course intelligence of the readership that draws conclusions from the headline of an article, can be debated. In fact in a round about way I've called myself an idiot, which isn't likely fair. Actually, I would say she was rather intelligent and articulate also.
He did do an acceptable job, as well as the environmentalist, but I wouldn't say that it's an unwritten rule that journalists shouldn't omit relevant facts from an already published story (which is not what happened).
bah, it's all bullshit. After reading the emails, I'm beginning to think that it has been blown far out of proportion. She was an idiot speaking on behalf of idiots and he made minimal changes in presentation to appease her.
You're completely right, there's no such thing as "Ethics in Journalism", because it's a self regulated entity. Therefore, politicians, lawyers, big businesses, and even crackpot little environmentalists should be able to email and threaten journalists, every single fucking time a story is published that people don't like. What's more, is the story should be changed, rewritten in a manner that is more politically aesthetic for future generations. You're right. Fuck the truth.
Nah, I think it will be the richest folks that live the longest. Just another way for the man to keep you down. The rich folks will also be a lot less likely to fall off of ladders and such, so while the 400 years is probably an accurate age for the current average human, I don't think it reflects the typical ages of someone that can hire poor people to do dangerous things like cross the street and go to the store for them.
So, is his job is to report the news? Or, is he an agent for an environmental organization?
My god, I hope neither of my kids become such chicken shit weasels that they back down after a few meaningless threats. Yes, there's a point where you back off and go back to making your living, but to fold under virtually no pressure? Spineless. Beyond this, there's also a point of integrity where you walk away from the job and tell your kids that they may need to help out a little (getting a job, spending less etc), because your old job was EVIL.
A good campaign is about character creation and developing a storyline. The player should be allowed to develop their characters in a way that is meaningful to their original vision of their characters. I used to use wish lists, where the players could write down certain things they wanted from a campaign and I could weave them in. Another often forgotten practice in being a dungeon master is that you should ALWAYS work off a copy of the character sheets when making your own adventures. Then again seeing as it's a roleplaying game, what's wrong with playing out the squeamish diplomat that screams every time a spider stoops from the dungeon ceiling.
So, you've dedicated a good portion of you're life learning how to speak neanderthal, excellent, what language do I have to learn if I want to speak human?
listening to iron man as I read this post, I'm placing my aluminum foil hat on and avoiding slashdot for the rest of the summer. I'll wear Birkenstock's, grow my hair long, finally move out of my mom's basement, and preach the wonders of communist styled free software while I hitchhike across the states.
That was the one with the steam powered pendulum gear system, before the math on the pressure ranges had been done, caused problems for a lot of people. (actually, I wonder what a mechanical computer look like today?)
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holy crap, maybe it's a slashdot induced psychosis. Multiple personalities locked in perpetual sock puppet flame wars. symptoms include compulsive posting and fanatical fanboyism
sounds expensive...
puts tinfoil hat on...
So, microsoft is essentially a financial institution? Then what is being discussed would have to be considered a run on the bank, er, stock. You think microsoft's brand value is going to be worth more than the lint in my belly button if everyone decides to sell? Hell, with that type of scenario the thirty bln looks like just enough to maintain plausible deniability. I mean the big difference here is that enron had *something* tangible (energy), microsoft has all those vista licenses everyone is clamoring after, that's got to be worth something right? Not necessarily, if the market turns on MS then they have support for software currently installed and whatever they can sell of the new stuff. This is valuable, but not nearly as valuable as Microsoft's brand.
I know you're trying to be sarcastic here, but you're so off base. Do you realize that women love this shit, maybe not all of them, but a good number of them look at this crap and think "ok, win every argument we ever get into ...check".
My sympathies for the poor bastard that asks slashdot for dating advice...
1. Condoms Rock!!
2. This attitude will never get you laid.
I put that in bold. Dude should go dressed as his favorite number. Bring some booze, a smile, and some jokes about math. Some of that "Study Girls" advice up there could be put to good use also, but seriously if this guy's going after a girl that's throwing the party she's (likely) going to fall for someone that makes her party more like a part and less like a damn study group. DO NOT alienate the girls friends that aren't good at math.
Ok, I went back today, specifically to the HPLIP site. I guess my problem was going to shopping.hp.com and then looking them up on HPLIP.
Check out http://hplip.sourceforge.net/models/laserjet/hp_laserjet_p1505.html compared to http://hplip.sourceforge.net/models/laserjet/hp_laserjet_p1505n.html, two models where the only difference is networking, and networking is not functional. When shopping for printers on the HP site I had figured that a Networked printer that was supported, would be supported on the network. Yes there's drivers out there, but there are a lot of printers that don't meet up with their intended use.
"...networked printers weren't reported as working on the network at all in Linux"
I think the big thing here in driver support is going to be for things like printers. PRINTER SUPPORT PLEASE!
I'll assume the schools will go with HP carefully selected printers, because they're really the best supported printers out there, but they can still use a bit of work. Last I looked you were lucky if the software could tell you how much ink was left and a lot of the lower end networked printers weren't reported as working at all in Linux. I'd just like a $200-$300 laser printer on the network, from the printer compatibility lists I've found there isn't one.
Example: Red Hat, Unbreakable Linux, and CentOS.
Tesco disagrees with home gardening, they think people should be able to charge for their vegetables.
Of course intelligence of the readership that draws conclusions from the headline of an article, can be debated. In fact in a round about way I've called myself an idiot, which isn't likely fair. Actually, I would say she was rather intelligent and articulate also.
He did do an acceptable job, as well as the environmentalist, but I wouldn't say that it's an unwritten rule that journalists shouldn't omit relevant facts from an already published story (which is not what happened).
bah, it's all bullshit. After reading the emails, I'm beginning to think that it has been blown far out of proportion. She was an idiot speaking on behalf of idiots and he made minimal changes in presentation to appease her.
You're completely right, there's no such thing as "Ethics in Journalism", because it's a self regulated entity. Therefore, politicians, lawyers, big businesses, and even crackpot little environmentalists should be able to email and threaten journalists, every single fucking time a story is published that people don't like. What's more, is the story should be changed, rewritten in a manner that is more politically aesthetic for future generations. You're right. Fuck the truth.
Nah, I think it will be the richest folks that live the longest. Just another way for the man to keep you down. The rich folks will also be a lot less likely to fall off of ladders and such, so while the 400 years is probably an accurate age for the current average human, I don't think it reflects the typical ages of someone that can hire poor people to do dangerous things like cross the street and go to the store for them.
My god, I hope neither of my kids become such chicken shit weasels that they back down after a few meaningless threats. Yes, there's a point where you back off and go back to making your living, but to fold under virtually no pressure? Spineless. Beyond this, there's also a point of integrity where you walk away from the job and tell your kids that they may need to help out a little (getting a job, spending less etc), because your old job was EVIL.
A good campaign is about character creation and developing a storyline. The player should be allowed to develop their characters in a way that is meaningful to their original vision of their characters. I used to use wish lists, where the players could write down certain things they wanted from a campaign and I could weave them in. Another often forgotten practice in being a dungeon master is that you should ALWAYS work off a copy of the character sheets when making your own adventures. Then again seeing as it's a roleplaying game, what's wrong with playing out the squeamish diplomat that screams every time a spider stoops from the dungeon ceiling.
So, you've dedicated a good portion of you're life learning how to speak neanderthal, excellent, what language do I have to learn if I want to speak human?
(obligatory princess bride ref)
...
Anyone using a MAPP?
"No more rhymes now I mean it!"
"Anyone got a peanut?"
listening to iron man as I read this post, I'm placing my aluminum foil hat on and avoiding slashdot for the rest of the summer. I'll wear Birkenstock's, grow my hair long, finally move out of my mom's basement, and preach the wonders of communist styled free software while I hitchhike across the states.
That was the one with the steam powered pendulum gear system, before the math on the pressure ranges had been done, caused problems for a lot of people. (actually, I wonder what a mechanical computer look like today?)
no, I would just say it's "oddly inappropriate"
were you expecting 1.9? I don't think they used the opensource versioning conventions en vogue today.