I don't know about you but my guess is that Georgia's too busy sitting on their front porches proclaiming that people "git off ma property befo' I shoot yo ___".
So I guess no one has learned from the wise ways of Penny Arcade's ad campaign.
On another note, if you get a bad review, you should take it. Crying like a baby only emphasizes the ratings. You may get sales from a small fraction of people who play it to verify that it sucks, but sooner or later all the review sites will say the game sucks and it will only make the situation worse. The whole "bad publicity is good publicity" paradigm is long dead in this age of gamers.
Well, there's no issue if you're actually using or have plans for the domain, but when it's obvious that a domain is parked with a "For Sale by Squatter" sign and advertising then I have an issue. That is what happened to a friend of mine who wasn't thinking when it expired. Just goes to show that if you want to continue using a domain in the future then you have to keep paying for it until you're 100% done with it.
I just want to see those spammy squatters get a punch in the face one of these days so I can help a friend buy his domain back. There should be a fee imposed on perpetually parked domains. The whole practice of buying expired domains and then holding them ransom for years is so irritating, almost as much as front-running.
Perhaps Swedish nanopaper could solve the disintegration problem. The use of high quality photo color ink may allow you to store a number of bits in a single color pixel. You might be surprised at the bytes per inch you can achieve with such a scheme.
Me? I'd probably go with hologram data storage which has far smaller latency times in comparison to re-scanning and translating color blocks on paper.
Compare how they are now with the nimble competitor they were when Gates was at the helm. I wouldn't be surprised if much of the difference comes from a change in philosophy between Gates and the current management. They always say that companies change when people change.
This is also where no one RTFMs before building or installing anything, so everyone lives on a "Oh, I didn't know that could do that" basis or a "What does this button do" basis.
The age old Windows repair solution. Format the Patent and Trademark system and start over. Maybe switch to Linux while they're at it. Any PTO officer who can handle using that may actually have the elusive quality of common sense.
If the gov't wants us to send them a list of all our transactions, then they should start sending every citizen a list of all legislations and spendings like an rss feed of how our tax dollars are being used and who to call if we want to complain.
So Microsoft seems to have a new tactic of admitting defeat. First the fall-through on the Yahoo deal. Now the battle for ISO OOXML. Vista may be next. Does Microsoft have something up its sleeve? All this open defeat is not normal Microsoft behavior. In fact China's correction of the fake anti-trust report among other reports makes it seem like the clown is getting pulled off stage. Where's Microsoft's plan for the future? Are they putting all their money on "Windows 7"?
Dual-booting is like being bi. You get the best of both worlds until your boyfriend finds out that you have a girlfriend and forces you to dump her. And then you're just gay.
I host for a few friends of mine, and I don't really snoop unless their disk space crosses threshold. Then I ask if they'd reduce application XYZ's data footprint because it's encroaching on other users backup space.
In non-shared, it's more often snooping of port activity for security audits. Hey, you don't need that derelict FTP server running. Mind shutting it off so we can get VISA certification?
I was thinking the Intrepid was the "Fastest in the World", but actually it's the fastest for open science. The DoE owns the top three on the list. Why do they need so many? If you're protecting the nation's energy, why not set and example and use less of it?
I wonder though, who would invent the "lock picks" of today's high-tech. Did thieves invent lock picks to break in, or did locksmiths invent them to assist their absent-minded clients? I would imagine a bit of both. Case in point: Mass Effect. Their DRM was overzealous, so they "fixed" it. Now they've made a stupid validation scheme that has even more terrible problems which I suspect they will also fix. Will we see a day when the industry will embrace the market of cracks and hacks to assist their clients who find themselves unable to get into and use their legally purchased products?
No wonder people say Console killed the PC game star -- "Alright, got my hardware list done. Time to order. Oh, look what just came out, guess I'll wait for prices to drop. Alright, they dropped! No wait, a new processor is out, think I'll wait. Sweet, think I can order now. No, nevermind, Crysis just came out, I'll have to wait until I can afford the current bleeding edge. Awesome, I can afford it now! No, a new GPU just came out that runs the game better. Oh, SATA 600 is coming out. Ah, forget this, I'm buying an Xbox."
Anyone with spare time at work and a sense of duty will spend that spare time throwing in extra comments and writing up lengthy documentation to boot. I don't know about you, but in all the jobs I've worked, deadlines result in minimal code comments and even less documentation. I'm a big documentation advocate, but even I can be found cutting corners when the rubber meets the road.
This observation by so-call VP may have overlooked sexism. Perhaps the real problem is that men treat women like little children in the work place. Like saying, "Step aside little lady. Let the men handle this heavy lifting(coding)." If that age-old analogy still rings true (which it still does in many situations) then perhaps male programmers are taking on the bulk of the work and giving female programmers smaller or fewer projects to fill their time. I could totally see that happening and it would completely explain things. Perhaps men are even trying to show off to the ladies by seeing how obfuscated their code can be to complete a task ("Check out my programming muscles"). Then again, women are fans of beautifying, so perhaps comments are like flowers.
Actually, they're hacking American systems to find out the real secret behind our big penises. Obviously the guinea pigs they get for their enlargement pill experiments are not showing the promised results they expected while attempting to perfect their own pills.
While I applaud these German scientists for their efforts in reducing spit, I don't see where spit is a huge problem. This just sounds like another scheme to sell people on something that inevitably will not work.
I don't know about you, but just cost alone shows how spitting is not the best way to advertise. Why spend a huge amount on servers/telemarketing personnel just to get some small number of actual sales? Instead you can spend your budget on a large data pipe, an email list, and one large server to send out shloads of spam to the gullible idiots who let their email out to the lists in the first place.
The Do Not Call lists work pretty well, and additionally the hate that many telemarketers receive just goes to show that it's a dying breed. People yell and swear at the humans making the sales calls, and soon those humans quit because of stress, then they get replaced by VOIP servers and then people swear at the phone company and the servers get shut down since VOIP is pretty easy to trace right now. I can only see spitting being a problem from foreign countries, but even then it's easy to trace in comparison to today's botnets. So how can spitting ever be worse than spamming? Are people hacking the phone companies to hide their call origins?
It may reduce spit temporarily until spitters catch on, but imagine the number of annoyances you'll get from friends who meet you and say your phone is disconnected because they heard those tones and instantly hung up thinking the number didn't work. This does give me new ideas for funny answering messages though...
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I don't know about you but my guess is that Georgia's too busy sitting on their front porches proclaiming that people "git off ma property befo' I shoot yo ___".
So I guess no one has learned from the wise ways of Penny Arcade's ad campaign.
On another note, if you get a bad review, you should take it. Crying like a baby only emphasizes the ratings. You may get sales from a small fraction of people who play it to verify that it sucks, but sooner or later all the review sites will say the game sucks and it will only make the situation worse. The whole "bad publicity is good publicity" paradigm is long dead in this age of gamers.
Well, there's no issue if you're actually using or have plans for the domain, but when it's obvious that a domain is parked with a "For Sale by Squatter" sign and advertising then I have an issue. That is what happened to a friend of mine who wasn't thinking when it expired. Just goes to show that if you want to continue using a domain in the future then you have to keep paying for it until you're 100% done with it.
I just want to see those spammy squatters get a punch in the face one of these days so I can help a friend buy his domain back. There should be a fee imposed on perpetually parked domains. The whole practice of buying expired domains and then holding them ransom for years is so irritating, almost as much as front-running.
Chuck Norris always wins in a rock/paper/scissors/tiger-hand contest.
Perhaps Swedish nanopaper could solve the disintegration problem. The use of high quality photo color ink may allow you to store a number of bits in a single color pixel. You might be surprised at the bytes per inch you can achieve with such a scheme.
Me? I'd probably go with hologram data storage which has far smaller latency times in comparison to re-scanning and translating color blocks on paper.
Compare how they are now with the nimble competitor they were when Gates was at the helm. I wouldn't be surprised if much of the difference comes from a change in philosophy between Gates and the current management. They always say that companies change when people change.
This is also where no one RTFMs before building or installing anything, so everyone lives on a "Oh, I didn't know that could do that" basis or a "What does this button do" basis.
Now that Microsoft is starting to tumble... NOW you give us your secret key.
Why do you think that the Red Hat mascot looks strikingly like MJ from the 80s? If it was a full body representation, he'd be doing the moonwalk.
The age old Windows repair solution. Format the Patent and Trademark system and start over. Maybe switch to Linux while they're at it. Any PTO officer who can handle using that may actually have the elusive quality of common sense.
If the gov't wants us to send them a list of all our transactions, then they should start sending every citizen a list of all legislations and spendings like an rss feed of how our tax dollars are being used and who to call if we want to complain.
So Microsoft seems to have a new tactic of admitting defeat. First the fall-through on the Yahoo deal. Now the battle for ISO OOXML. Vista may be next. Does Microsoft have something up its sleeve? All this open defeat is not normal Microsoft behavior. In fact China's correction of the fake anti-trust report among other reports makes it seem like the clown is getting pulled off stage. Where's Microsoft's plan for the future? Are they putting all their money on "Windows 7"?
Dual-booting is like being bi. You get the best of both worlds until your boyfriend finds out that you have a girlfriend and forces you to dump her. And then you're just gay.
I host for a few friends of mine, and I don't really snoop unless their disk space crosses threshold. Then I ask if they'd reduce application XYZ's data footprint because it's encroaching on other users backup space.
In non-shared, it's more often snooping of port activity for security audits. Hey, you don't need that derelict FTP server running. Mind shutting it off so we can get VISA certification?
I was thinking the Intrepid was the "Fastest in the World", but actually it's the fastest for open science. The DoE owns the top three on the list. Why do they need so many? If you're protecting the nation's energy, why not set and example and use less of it?
I wonder though, who would invent the "lock picks" of today's high-tech. Did thieves invent lock picks to break in, or did locksmiths invent them to assist their absent-minded clients? I would imagine a bit of both. Case in point: Mass Effect. Their DRM was overzealous, so they "fixed" it. Now they've made a stupid validation scheme that has even more terrible problems which I suspect they will also fix. Will we see a day when the industry will embrace the market of cracks and hacks to assist their clients who find themselves unable to get into and use their legally purchased products?
No wonder people say Console killed the PC game star -- "Alright, got my hardware list done. Time to order. Oh, look what just came out, guess I'll wait for prices to drop. Alright, they dropped! No wait, a new processor is out, think I'll wait. Sweet, think I can order now. No, nevermind, Crysis just came out, I'll have to wait until I can afford the current bleeding edge. Awesome, I can afford it now! No, a new GPU just came out that runs the game better. Oh, SATA 600 is coming out. Ah, forget this, I'm buying an Xbox."
So are you saying that McGrattan obfuscated her slashvertisement to get attention focused on "GirlsinOpenSource"?
Anyone with spare time at work and a sense of duty will spend that spare time throwing in extra comments and writing up lengthy documentation to boot. I don't know about you, but in all the jobs I've worked, deadlines result in minimal code comments and even less documentation. I'm a big documentation advocate, but even I can be found cutting corners when the rubber meets the road.
This observation by so-call VP may have overlooked sexism. Perhaps the real problem is that men treat women like little children in the work place. Like saying, "Step aside little lady. Let the men handle this heavy lifting(coding)." If that age-old analogy still rings true (which it still does in many situations) then perhaps male programmers are taking on the bulk of the work and giving female programmers smaller or fewer projects to fill their time. I could totally see that happening and it would completely explain things. Perhaps men are even trying to show off to the ladies by seeing how obfuscated their code can be to complete a task ("Check out my programming muscles"). Then again, women are fans of beautifying, so perhaps comments are like flowers.
Actually, they're hacking American systems to find out the real secret behind our big penises. Obviously the guinea pigs they get for their enlargement pill experiments are not showing the promised results they expected while attempting to perfect their own pills.
While I applaud these German scientists for their efforts in reducing spit, I don't see where spit is a huge problem. This just sounds like another scheme to sell people on something that inevitably will not work.
I don't know about you, but just cost alone shows how spitting is not the best way to advertise. Why spend a huge amount on servers/telemarketing personnel just to get some small number of actual sales? Instead you can spend your budget on a large data pipe, an email list, and one large server to send out shloads of spam to the gullible idiots who let their email out to the lists in the first place.
The Do Not Call lists work pretty well, and additionally the hate that many telemarketers receive just goes to show that it's a dying breed. People yell and swear at the humans making the sales calls, and soon those humans quit because of stress, then they get replaced by VOIP servers and then people swear at the phone company and the servers get shut down since VOIP is pretty easy to trace right now. I can only see spitting being a problem from foreign countries, but even then it's easy to trace in comparison to today's botnets. So how can spitting ever be worse than spamming? Are people hacking the phone companies to hide their call origins?
It may reduce spit temporarily until spitters catch on, but imagine the number of annoyances you'll get from friends who meet you and say your phone is disconnected because they heard those tones and instantly hung up thinking the number didn't work. This does give me new ideas for funny answering messages though...