At this point...do the states appeal the decision? Microsoft stated that it would appeal a decision going against them, why can't the states?
And what about the numerous other lawsuits (such as from Sun or AOL or what not)?
Just because the judge said the settlement is ok, I wouldn't expect it to end here. Numerous other lawsuits are still out there and Microsoft will undoubtly be back in court as a competitor sues them for breaking details in this settlement (espically that withholding information for security purposes).
When I worked at a University I was a member of a union (I didnt want to be, but they took dues out of your check weither you wanted to be one or not). It wasn't just for tech heads, it was all campus workers.
There was a time when the union came in handy. Our boss (anti union) wished to put two union workers under a non union boss (demotion) and change work hours (for some reason you made more pay if you worked second shift/overnight shift) without changing pay rate. Also an increase in hours, on call times, yada yada, plenty more I wont go into . Overall the union did a fine job keeping a boss from abusing his employees.
However, the same union rules prevented us from accomplishing things as well (no unapproved overtime, so when a project ran long, we HAD to go home, even if we wanted to stay and fix the problem so that several hundred users would be operating okay).
They're sometimes useful, but more often then not, they're an annoying hassle.
I dont play DAOC, dunno these people and I dont know any reason why they would lie/fake this, but it's a touching and thoughtful thing to do.
Some years ago I played on a MU* (Shadowrun Seattle) and the head of the mux was Darrian. She had stated throughout her time that she had some disease (cancer...something else? Don't recall the details on it). Anyhow, at one poitn she got sick and took some time off, then stepped down from being in charge. DUring her time up there she did a good number of things, even talking to someone who's brother was going thruogh a similar thing.
Then a message from our new 'leader' who stated that Darrian had passed away. Lots of emotion, people feeling sorry. A virtual memorial was created where people put up lots of postings, memoriable stories and so on and so forth. And Darrians girlfriend came online (yes girlfriend, shoulda been hint #1), asked for us all to send emails to her account of words of memberance and so forth. Those would be printed out, burned and the ashes spread on her coffin at the funeral.
I think it was half a year later that the leader of our mux finally admitted that there was no Darrian. 'Darrian', our glorious leader hadn't been a female with a fatal disease, instead she was a overweight computer geek of course. So everyone went pretty pissed off and so forth. And then...to top things off...'she' returned as another character on the game, and attempted to start playing again.
And you thought flames here were bad:)
(I dont have any real moral to the story, but it's sad to see people taking advantage of ya that way. Course, even sadder that we fell for it (hindsight is 20/20).
Hollywood does some strange things for movies. The movie Field of Dreams was filmed in my hometown of Dubuque Iowa, and the field is but 26 miles away.For teh final scene fo the movie they wanted to have a line of cars, at night with lights on, stretching as far as possible. So, for a few hours, they had shutdown a rural road (not a big deal), half of one highway and half of another highway.
All for a snaking line of cars at dusk with headlights on. Tell me computers couldn't have done that:)
Where I live (the middle of no freaking where) I can get two radio stations. Therefore, Internet radio is a huge blessing to me. One of my favorite stations is an anime music one, so I listen to that constnatly. When this CARP stuff came to my attention it wa the first time I have ever written to a congressman.
I for one am glad that this got shot down and hopefully something more sensible comes up.
For the record: With internet radio I've tuned into a number of different anime shows and bought some DVDs and I am activly seeking out some of the shows dvds. Without internet radio i'd never have had the ability to get exposed to hard to find music and therefore couldn't buy anything. :)
Tribes 2 is another one of those games that's pulled this off nicely. There's dozens of mods, and the game was made for those in mind (too bad Dynamix went out).
Anyhow, one of the mods, base++ apparently is going to become the official competition mod for T2. There's a new release coming out (Tribes Fast Attack?) but I can't seem to find the link I had earlier with more info....
Now this is cool, I noticed that I've been getting a ton of messages in my bulk mail portion of my yahoo account, so I just deleted them. I'll betcha they were sending me these news letters or offers and then deleting them.
Thank you yahoo, for sending me spam AND getting rid of it!:)
I work for Adelphia...and I've yet to see anyone get cut off for this (unless tehy were abusing it). Everyone in my department has a router and multiple PCs....so it's not a big deal:)
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72 Terabytes of Data. Not bad.
But they really should compare it to some people's MP3 collections.....
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I tried this..but couldn't seem to grab anything. What line did you use, adn what apt-get request did you use to grab it? (kdebase, or something else?).
I'm compiling them now....but it'd be much easier with packages:)
THanks, Jon:)
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I am, as I type this, compiling KDE 2.1.1. I'm not a power user (developer or anything), but I'm curious:
Is it worth stopping this compile, grabbing 2.2 and compiling that instead? Or are the changes small enough that I could wait until packages are avaiable for Debian?
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I dunno, the waiter at lunch was pretty dense....three times for the order.....
At this point...do the states appeal the decision? Microsoft stated that it would appeal a decision going against them, why can't the states?
And what about the numerous other lawsuits (such as from Sun or AOL or what not)?
Just because the judge said the settlement is ok, I wouldn't expect it to end here. Numerous other lawsuits are still out there and Microsoft will undoubtly be back in court as a competitor sues them for breaking details in this settlement (espically that withholding information for security purposes).
There was a time when the union came in handy. Our boss (anti union) wished to put two union workers under a non union boss (demotion) and change work hours (for some reason you made more pay if you worked second shift/overnight shift) without changing pay rate. Also an increase in hours, on call times, yada yada, plenty more I wont go into . Overall the union did a fine job keeping a boss from abusing his employees.
However, the same union rules prevented us from accomplishing things as well (no unapproved overtime, so when a project ran long, we HAD to go home, even if we wanted to stay and fix the problem so that several hundred users would be operating okay).
They're sometimes useful, but more often then not, they're an annoying hassle.
Wow, I'm pretty thankful I can't add any tales of Managers managing my company to death....
cuz that'd require something resembling management...
Okay everyone, off your butts. If we lose 2 pounds apiece I'm sure we can get under 80%........
But at least this explains why I can't get any leg room on the plane.
I'd pay for that...but I have a lot more then 40 enemies.....
Oh, wait, the people have parachutes? *sigh* There goes that idea.
I think your term is spot on, although if you look at it, it's Managing our Rights (managing them right out the window...)
I dont play DAOC, dunno these people and I dont know any reason why they would lie/fake this, but it's a touching and thoughtful thing to do.
Some years ago I played on a MU* (Shadowrun Seattle) and the head of the mux was Darrian. She had stated throughout her time that she had some disease (cancer...something else? Don't recall the details on it). Anyhow, at one poitn she got sick and took some time off, then stepped down from being in charge. DUring her time up there she did a good number of things, even talking to someone who's brother was going thruogh a similar thing.
Then a message from our new 'leader' who stated that Darrian had passed away. Lots of emotion, people feeling sorry. A virtual memorial was created where people put up lots of postings, memoriable stories and so on and so forth. And Darrians girlfriend came online (yes girlfriend, shoulda been hint #1), asked for us all to send emails to her account of words of memberance and so forth. Those would be printed out, burned and the ashes spread on her coffin at the funeral.
I think it was half a year later that the leader of our mux finally admitted that there was no Darrian. 'Darrian', our glorious leader hadn't been a female with a fatal disease, instead she was a overweight computer geek of course. So everyone went pretty pissed off and so forth. And then...to top things off...'she' returned as another character on the game, and attempted to start playing again.
And you thought flames here were bad:)
(I dont have any real moral to the story, but it's sad to see people taking advantage of ya that way. Course, even sadder that we fell for it (hindsight is 20/20).
So...whom does one have to contac tto opt out of these? The phone companies? navigating their phone service is like hell:)
Since this is mostly all I listen to on the internet radio, does anyone know how this type of music would be affected?
Is it licensed by the RIAA or do they have any way to claim this?
IE, if I played a station of totally non RIAA owned music, do I have to pay any fees?
well, that certain explains that (why for some reason did I think that movie was made later...huh. The evils of work.
Hollywood does some strange things for movies. The movie Field of Dreams was filmed in my hometown of Dubuque Iowa, and the field is but 26 miles away.For teh final scene fo the movie they wanted to have a line of cars, at night with lights on, stretching as far as possible. So, for a few hours, they had shutdown a rural road (not a big deal), half of one highway and half of another highway.
All for a snaking line of cars at dusk with headlights on.
Tell me computers couldn't have done that:)
>>seeking out some of the shows dvds.
that should be cds.
I kin typ, relly!
Where I live (the middle of no freaking where) I can get two radio stations. Therefore, Internet radio is a huge blessing to me. One of my favorite stations is an anime music one, so I listen to that constnatly. When this CARP stuff came to my attention it wa the first time I have ever written to a congressman.
I for one am glad that this got shot down and hopefully something more sensible comes up.
For the record: With internet radio I've tuned into a number of different anime shows and bought some DVDs and I am activly seeking out some of the shows dvds.
Without internet radio i'd never have had the ability to get exposed to hard to find music and therefore couldn't buy anything.
:)
Augh, attack of the clones?
Okay, that was a bad one...:)
Tribes 2 is another one of those games that's pulled this off nicely. There's dozens of mods, and the game was made for those in mind (too bad Dynamix went out).
Anyhow, one of the mods, base++ apparently is going to become the official competition mod for T2. There's a new release coming out (Tribes Fast Attack?) but I can't seem to find the link I had earlier with more info....
Now this is cool, I noticed that I've been getting a ton of messages in my bulk mail portion of my yahoo account, so I just deleted them. I'll betcha they were sending me these news letters or offers and then deleting them.
:)
Thank you yahoo, for sending me spam AND getting rid of it!
They obviously haven't examined the employee suggestion box here at work...;)
Token Ring?
(explain THAT to your non geek parents)
I just checked my KDE 2.2 download, half way done. Hit refresh on my browser and I see "KDE 3.0 out".
Man, talk about timing...
(yeah, probably off topic but wish to answer this person).
Adelphia has a large problem with spammers and open relays and such, not to mention their mail servers are in serious need of upgrading:/
But chances are, that's why the ports are blocked, I've several times had to put people on antirelay lists
I work for Adelphia...and I've yet to see anyone get cut off for this (unless tehy were abusing it). Everyone in my department has a router and multiple PCs....so it's not a big deal:)
72 Terabytes of Data. Not bad.
But they really should compare it to some people's MP3 collections.....
I tried this..but couldn't seem to grab anything. What line did you use, adn what apt-get request did you use to grab it? (kdebase, or something else?).
I'm compiling them now....but it'd be much easier with packages:)
THanks, Jon:)
I am, as I type this, compiling KDE 2.1.1. I'm not a power user (developer or anything), but I'm curious:
Is it worth stopping this compile, grabbing 2.2 and compiling that instead? Or are the changes small enough that I could wait until packages are avaiable for Debian?