You spend all day ducking brown things that roll on down to you from management, and then once you get to the top of the nearest ladder, you have to start all over again at the next level.
User will be required to supply their own vaseline, and will receive neither a kiss nor a call the next morning.
User agrees to transmit any virus as required by the Program, including, but not limited to, SoBig, MyDoom, Gator, Realplayer, MS Windows, AIDS, and bubonic plague.
User agrees toi call the writer of this program "Big Daddy."
Let Google completely remove the listing for Louis Vuitton or any other company that sued them from their search engine. Or, for that matter, all the websites of the French government, or even every.fr domain. After all, it's a private company, not a public utility. Despite that, they've become so ubiqitous that I suspect both France and the company's suing them would change their tune rather quickly...
Crow T. Trollbot
More interesting is the 5 Cent Listing Fee Drop
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To my mind, the more significant change is the 5 cent drop in listing fees. Given that I've listed over 100 items (most SF/F/H paperbacks) in one week, such a small change quickly begins to add up. Of course, that only partially offsets other eBay nickle-and-dime-to-death fee hikes in recent years, including a hike announced just last month for Buy It Now fees.
But it still may not be sufficient. Sell-through rate in eBay has been steadily declining for the last 18 months. If I can't make money on eBay, I'll just stop listing there.
"The United States and other western countries all have very incompatable world views when it comes countries like China."
Freedom is not an incompatable world view.
Democracy is not an incompatable world view.
Human rights are not an incompatable world view.
Equality under the law is not an incompatable world view.
All of these are basic rights for all human beings. The fact that the Communist government of China has refused to recognize them is not due to "an incompatable world view," its due to a small nomenklatura of Communist elites denying these rights to their people. The ideas themselves are no more alien to China than they were alien to Japan in 1945.
Of course, I don't expect the rest of you tree-hugging pinko communist dupes to agree with me. If you were amenable to reason, you would have long ago seen that gun control doesn't work, outsourcing is inevitable, Iraq was a threat to the free world, the McDonald's coffee lawsuit was a travesty of trail lawyers gone amuck, CBS forged the National Guard memos, and that Presidnet George W. Bush won the last election fair and square. The fact that some of you have failed to come around to these obvious truths just goes to show you how deluded and/or stupid you are. Perhaps you should give up your hopeless crusade against Windows, stop stealing the RIAA's music, read some Ayn Rand, and get a clue.
Why, I bet some of you are still using Vi rather than Emacs, which is obviously the superior choice.
Of course, what do you expect from people who treat their enemies just like Hitler treated the Jews?
In Greg Egan'sDiaspora, uploaded post-human intelligences find out that a huge gamma-ray burster is going to go off in the middle of the galaxy, and make plans to migrate to a higher geometry of spacetime. The novel stretches from a few centuries hence all the way to 90000 trillion (IIRC) subjective years in the future, after the protagonists have automated the process of migrating to other spacetime geometries, and only have the consciousness awakened every 1000th translation or so...
Not Egan's best (though it does include the brilliant "Wang's Carpets"), but worth reading.
"Legacy Amiga applications, such as games, that were written to access the old custom chipset hardware directly, will not run in OS4.0."
Oh, joy. Well, it's not like games were ever a strongpoint on the Amiga, is it?
The only reason the Amiga, with it's sub-Mac standard GUI and inferior hardware, ever developed the following it did was because of games. For a few years in the late 1980s, thanks to superior sound and color than that on competing platforms, the Amiga was the machine to own to play (and program) games on.
Now they're promising an Amiga that will run an almost-modern, not-even-remotely-as-polished-as-OS-X OS on hardware that's two Mac-generations behind (the G3, with G4 "coming soon"), and it won't run any of the classic games? And any but the hardest of hardcore Amgia fans would buy it why?
As an insanely challenging uber-geek project, this is fine, but it's not anything anyone is ever going to make a viable business out of.
Remember? It was called "QuikProtect."
- Crow T. Trollbot
Remember when Japan would rule the world?
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Remember some 15 years ago how everyone talked about how ascendent Japan was, and how they were buying up flashing property (Rockefeller Center, movie studios) left and right? Remember how everyone predicted that Japan would soon eclipse the US?
Didn't happen, did it?
You can't predict the future 15 years out. Hell, you can't even do it five out. Even predicting 2004 from 2000 can't be done, because there's no way any futurist could "predict" 9/11.
Thus these predictions will be every bit as flawed. In particular, predictions about Chinese ascension (which ignoring their inflation and money supply problems) will probably look just ase baseless 15 years from now as those stories about Japan ruling the world look now.
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No, no, no, you phrased it wrong! Try:
"Purchase Request
Item Name: 60 GB External Firewire HD
Description: To be used as an external bootable storage device for diagnosing and recovering PC's with failed hard-disks."
See how much easier that description goes down with your IT department?
Crow T. Trollbot
Crow T. Trollbot
- User will be required to supply their own vaseline, and will receive neither a kiss nor a call the next morning.
- User agrees to transmit any virus as required by the Program, including, but not limited to, SoBig, MyDoom, Gator, Realplayer, MS Windows, AIDS, and bubonic plague.
- User agrees toi call the writer of this program "Big Daddy."
- All your base are belong to us.
- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.
- Crow T. Trollbot"Love Is" and "Rex Morgan" are better comics that "Bloom County" or "Calvin & Hobbs."
- Crow T. Trollbot
For example, how about turning off domains for Korea and China? In my experience, that would eliminate more than half the problem right there...
- Crow T. Trollbot
Crow T. Trollbot
But it still may not be sufficient. Sell-through rate in eBay has been steadily declining for the last 18 months. If I can't make money on eBay, I'll just stop listing there.
Well, you'll never get a job at CBS with THAT attitude, young man!
1. All three will be using processors from IBM.
2. All three will be as small or smaller than existing systems.
3. All three will have advanced graphics and sound capabilities, and will be able to function as digital entertainment hubs.
4. They will all retail for under $500.
Conclusion: All three of the next generation gaming consoles will actually be Mac minis.
Freedom is not an incompatable world view.
Democracy is not an incompatable world view.
Human rights are not an incompatable world view.
Equality under the law is not an incompatable world view.
All of these are basic rights for all human beings. The fact that the Communist government of China has refused to recognize them is not due to "an incompatable world view," its due to a small nomenklatura of Communist elites denying these rights to their people. The ideas themselves are no more alien to China than they were alien to Japan in 1945.
- Crow T. Trollbot
Why, I bet some of you are still using Vi rather than Emacs, which is obviously the superior choice.
Of course, what do you expect from people who treat their enemies just like Hitler treated the Jews?
(Did I cover everything?)
- Crow T. Trollbot
Not Egan's best (though it does include the brilliant "Wang's Carpets"), but worth reading.
- Crow T. Trollbot
Oh, joy. Well, it's not like games were ever a strongpoint on the Amiga, is it?
The only reason the Amiga, with it's sub-Mac standard GUI and inferior hardware, ever developed the following it did was because of games. For a few years in the late 1980s, thanks to superior sound and color than that on competing platforms, the Amiga was the machine to own to play (and program) games on.
Now they're promising an Amiga that will run an almost-modern, not-even-remotely-as-polished-as-OS-X OS on hardware that's two Mac-generations behind (the G3, with G4 "coming soon"), and it won't run any of the classic games? And any but the hardest of hardcore Amgia fans would buy it why?
As an insanely challenging uber-geek project, this is fine, but it's not anything anyone is ever going to make a viable business out of.
- Crow T. Trollbot
Remember? It was called "QuikProtect." - Crow T. Trollbot
Didn't happen, did it?
You can't predict the future 15 years out. Hell, you can't even do it five out. Even predicting 2004 from 2000 can't be done, because there's no way any futurist could "predict" 9/11.
Thus these predictions will be every bit as flawed. In particular, predictions about Chinese ascension (which ignoring their inflation and money supply problems) will probably look just ase baseless 15 years from now as those stories about Japan ruling the world look now.
- Crow T. Trollbot
The real challange is to see which sucks more, this or the movie version of Watchman.
- Crow T. Trollbot