Ah. Very illuminating. I guess if you have a discussion without facts, there's no way that you might have to re-evaluate your position. A straw man without the straw or man, quite efficient.
Shit. First I get left out of the White Man's conspiracy (no dark rooms, cigars or manipulation for me) and now I find out I got screwed out of the raping and pilaging. I mean just last week, another barge of free Iraqi oil, war spoils and virgins came into port and I didn't get any. Oh wait, that never happened, did it.
America's got problems, but if you believe that shit, your problems are worse.
Of course a few hundred years ago, I would have been born, lived and died within a 100 mile radius. Probably not have been able to read or even be exposed to an idea that wasn't promoted by the Church or my Lord. Unless I was lucky enough to get an apprenticeship with a local artisan, I would likely have no other option but to do whatever my father and his father before him did. Subsistance agriculture. I would then marry a woman who also was trapped in the same little bubble as I was and breed up some more workers for the farm.
I'd be too damn busy and tired to notice that I was miserable, or even wonder if there was any other way to be.
I'll take my slot in the rat race, thank-you-very-much.
I can't exactly say why, but taking an imprint of my finger doesn't seem like a big deal where taking my blood and analyzing my DNA seems a bit invasive.
Maybe they had the same debate back when the line was between taking down a physical description and taking an imprint of my finger. We all know how that one worked out.
If you're really having problems with people scheduling out of Exchange/Outlook, either stop publishing your free/busy data, or add an all day recurring meeting where your availablity is 'busy'.
Finding a company where Sales and Marketing aren't at the top of the pile will be much more difficult.
I'd disagree. Right after you start the drift, maybe, but usually it's just really wrong. At least with a stopped clock, you know it's not working.
Plus the original reply had nothing to do with the comment I made. A Mac Magazine saying that Mac is on the comeback/on the rise/dominating the market is as informative as a stopped clock. Why? It always says the same thing and when it's right it's just luck.
Uh, a clock that lost a minute each day would be wrong almost all the time.
As soon as you start the clock, it instantly becomes wrong; slowing dragging behind the real time. I think it would then be wrong for the follwing 720 days, where it would only again be correct for one second.
Run the Add/Remove Programs control panel applet as your admin account. Then use add new programs to run the installer. The other benefit is that the installer is running as admin, so you can browse to installs out on the network that live in places users can't reach.
Yea, with each of these articles on Bill Gates my opinion of MS stays the same, but I like him more. I think Balmer is really the problem at the head of MS these days.
Except that they didn't divide themselves up that way. When they were given shelters that wouldn't fit all of them (which they figured out before they crammed in) they split up into multiple groups, but kept the group size as large as possible and even. When they were given multiple shelters that could fit them all they all stayed together.
I'm sure that it all boils down to a biological analog of a script, but couldn't the same be said of a lot of human behavior?
You'll also need to note that the grandparent I replied to had the assumption that ODF programs had started to "crowd out your use of Word". That's when MS co-opts the format. "See you can open the ODF files and word, why switch?" (of course it'll try to change it to a word document when you save, but hey).
If it really got to that point, and ODF is really a standard (meaning that each program using it really writes a similar file), then when wouldn't Microsoft add ODF capabilites to Office?
Then business users can keep using word and for people who are sending ODF documents they can still open the files from them.
The new Ghost Recon has on-line co-op modes where it's the human players versus bots. That's one of the reasons I bought it. I'm tired of running around shooting my friends (we've been doing it since doom). I'd like to play with my friends instead of against them.
Sales stay low? Low as in they sell every single unit they get on the shelves?
Also, I'm not sure how 'wide spread' this problem is as no one I know with a 360 has ever had it happend and no-one I see complaining about it on-line has either. It's always a friend of a friend, or I hear that...
Uh, maybe MS left the HD-DVD off the Xbox360 because it's expensive and no one wants one. Just like no one wants a blu-ray player. It's not needed for the games, and I don't think there's really a market for the 'next gen' DVD.
I like my 360, but there's no way I'd have paid even $100 more for a DVD player in a format that doens't exist yet (the encryption scheme is still awaiting confirmation) that has DRM-only content and negligable (I have 720p, but the 480p DVDs are just fine with me) quality improvements.
Sony is scared shitless that the people holding out for a PS3 will stop waiting and buy a 360.
There are good reasons to think the PS3 will be a 2007 release in a giant box at $1000 (the PS3 is a Blu-ray player and more, how's it going to be half the size and half the price of a Blu-ray player alone?) so Sony keeps making sure little blurbs about how awesome they are and that the PS3 is just around the corner. Of course the fact that no one has seen one, and that they aren't even showing demos, but only pre-rendered cut scenes is getting hard to ignore.
Where I work we have a Windows environment for all the desktops and a Unix environment for one specialize app. Last year they replaced the Unix server, replacing that one box cost more than my 3 racks of Windows servers. Hell, the annual maintenance from HP cost more than all my servers.
The real killer is that Cameron thought AvP was good.
"Ridley [Scott] and I talked about doing another Alien film, and I said to 20th Century Fox that I would develop a 5th Alien film. I started working on a story, I was working with another writer and Fox came back to me and said, 'We've got this really good script for Alien vs Predator,' and I got pretty upset. I said, 'You do that you're going to kill the validity of the franchise in my mind,' because to me, that was Frankenstein Meets Werewolf. It was Universal just taking their assets and starting to play them off against each other.
"So, I stopped work. Then I saw Alien vs Predator and it was actually pretty good. (laughs) I think of the 5 [sic] Alien films, I'd rate it 3rd."
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Ah. Very illuminating. I guess if you have a discussion without facts, there's no way that you might have to re-evaluate your position. A straw man without the straw or man, quite efficient.
Shit. First I get left out of the White Man's conspiracy (no dark rooms, cigars or manipulation for me) and now I find out I got screwed out of the raping and pilaging. I mean just last week, another barge of free Iraqi oil, war spoils and virgins came into port and I didn't get any. Oh wait, that never happened, did it.
America's got problems, but if you believe that shit, your problems are worse.
Of course a few hundred years ago, I would have been born, lived and died within a 100 mile radius. Probably not have been able to read or even be exposed to an idea that wasn't promoted by the Church or my Lord. Unless I was lucky enough to get an apprenticeship with a local artisan, I would likely have no other option but to do whatever my father and his father before him did. Subsistance agriculture. I would then marry a woman who also was trapped in the same little bubble as I was and breed up some more workers for the farm.
I'd be too damn busy and tired to notice that I was miserable, or even wonder if there was any other way to be.
I'll take my slot in the rat race, thank-you-very-much.
I'm not so sure Apple wants a setup where in a user's mind they use Apple software for the drudgery and Windows for all the fun stuff.
I can't exactly say why, but taking an imprint of my finger doesn't seem like a big deal where taking my blood and analyzing my DNA seems a bit invasive.
Maybe they had the same debate back when the line was between taking down a physical description and taking an imprint of my finger. We all know how that one worked out.
If you're really having problems with people scheduling out of Exchange/Outlook, either stop publishing your free/busy data, or add an all day recurring meeting where your availablity is 'busy'.
Finding a company where Sales and Marketing aren't at the top of the pile will be much more difficult.
The content provider sets their price, not MS. Blame Bethesda software for the stupid horse armor.
Really? I always thought of Sony as having the drunk frat demographic. I mean the PS* was built on sports games.
The replier may deny it, but the grandparent definately had Orbital running around the head as he typed.
I'd disagree. Right after you start the drift, maybe, but usually it's just really wrong. At least with a stopped clock, you know it's not working.
Plus the original reply had nothing to do with the comment I made. A Mac Magazine saying that Mac is on the comeback/on the rise/dominating the market is as informative as a stopped clock. Why? It always says the same thing and when it's right it's just luck.
Uh, a clock that lost a minute each day would be wrong almost all the time.
As soon as you start the clock, it instantly becomes wrong; slowing dragging behind the real time. I think it would then be wrong for the follwing 720 days, where it would only again be correct for one second.
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
No, just think harder.
Run the Add/Remove Programs control panel applet as your admin account. Then use add new programs to run the installer. The other benefit is that the installer is running as admin, so you can browse to installs out on the network that live in places users can't reach.
Yea, with each of these articles on Bill Gates my opinion of MS stays the same, but I like him more. I think Balmer is really the problem at the head of MS these days.
Except that they didn't divide themselves up that way. When they were given shelters that wouldn't fit all of them (which they figured out before they crammed in) they split up into multiple groups, but kept the group size as large as possible and even. When they were given multiple shelters that could fit them all they all stayed together.
I'm sure that it all boils down to a biological analog of a script, but couldn't the same be said of a lot of human behavior?
You'll also need to note that the grandparent I replied to had the assumption that ODF programs had started to "crowd out your use of Word". That's when MS co-opts the format. "See you can open the ODF files and word, why switch?" (of course it'll try to change it to a word document when you save, but hey).
If it really got to that point, and ODF is really a standard (meaning that each program using it really writes a similar file), then when wouldn't Microsoft add ODF capabilites to Office?
Then business users can keep using word and for people who are sending ODF documents they can still open the files from them.
The new Ghost Recon has on-line co-op modes where it's the human players versus bots. That's one of the reasons I bought it. I'm tired of running around shooting my friends (we've been doing it since doom). I'd like to play with my friends instead of against them.
Sales stay low? Low as in they sell every single unit they get on the shelves?
Also, I'm not sure how 'wide spread' this problem is as no one I know with a 360 has ever had it happend and no-one I see complaining about it on-line has either. It's always a friend of a friend, or I hear that...
Uh, maybe MS left the HD-DVD off the Xbox360 because it's expensive and no one wants one. Just like no one wants a blu-ray player. It's not needed for the games, and I don't think there's really a market for the 'next gen' DVD.
I like my 360, but there's no way I'd have paid even $100 more for a DVD player in a format that doens't exist yet (the encryption scheme is still awaiting confirmation) that has DRM-only content and negligable (I have 720p, but the 480p DVDs are just fine with me) quality improvements.
Sony is scared shitless that the people holding out for a PS3 will stop waiting and buy a 360.
There are good reasons to think the PS3 will be a 2007 release in a giant box at $1000 (the PS3 is a Blu-ray player and more, how's it going to be half the size and half the price of a Blu-ray player alone?) so Sony keeps making sure little blurbs about how awesome they are and that the PS3 is just around the corner. Of course the fact that no one has seen one, and that they aren't even showing demos, but only pre-rendered cut scenes is getting hard to ignore.
I wish that's all it was. I don't think you can eat anything that appears in a food commercial.
Where I work we have a Windows environment for all the desktops and a Unix environment for one specialize app. Last year they replaced the Unix server, replacing that one box cost more than my 3 racks of Windows servers. Hell, the annual maintenance from HP cost more than all my servers.
Unix, not Linux, is very expensive.
Latter-Day Church of Scientology ;)
The real killer is that Cameron thought AvP was good.
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"Ridley [Scott] and I talked about doing another Alien film, and I said to 20th Century Fox that I would develop a 5th Alien film. I started working on a story, I was working with another writer and Fox came back to me and said, 'We've got this really good script for Alien vs Predator,' and I got pretty upset. I said, 'You do that you're going to kill the validity of the franchise in my mind,' because to me, that was Frankenstein Meets Werewolf. It was Universal just taking their assets and starting to play them off against each other.
"So, I stopped work. Then I saw Alien vs Predator and it was actually pretty good. (laughs) I think of the 5 [sic] Alien films, I'd rate it 3rd."
http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/686/686746p1.ht