I can't remember the last time I listened to the radio for music. With an MP3 library that can play for over 30 days 24/7 without repeating (started buying CDs in '86) and the Internet, radio music is so 20th century. The only reason I even turn on a radio is to listen to the news or talk.
Radio music is dead. You can tell by the ratings of FM stations. They pick up their biggest audience when the kings of fart jokes and naked chicks hit the air, i.e., Shock Jock Talk Radio. Howard Stern, Opie & Andy and their moronic minions of copycats are the only ratings FM stations are getting these days. Its no wonder that Clear Channel and Inifinity are looking outside of shoving ads into their customer's ears for revenue.
If your S.O. is wasting money, tell them. Put a price tag on each card, at various densiites of ink, and show some differnent ways to get the same effect. (Heck, get the price for custom-printed cards at Hallmark or Officemax.)
Well, the problem is, my definition of waste and hers in this situation. She sees it as her fun activity which makes her friends happy. A Good Thing according to Martha Stewart. The last thing I am going to do is start a fight with a women that is a cock rancher.
As with all things in marriage, it gets solved by talking about it, not ignoring it. So if it's an issue, tell her. If it's not--well, then don't post on/. about it.
It was an article about women and ink jets. I was relaying my experience with my woman and ink jets. Guess you miss the point, women love these things because of all the colorful, creative things can do with them. Its the needlepoint of the new century.
I've tried a few times to explain these economics to her, but have since learned it's a futile persuit.
So far you are the only person that understands women that has responded to my post. If you can't explain something about computers/mechanics to them the first time, you never will.
Or do what I do: Just set the printer default to 'draft' and 'black/white' printing only. The s/o can override - but in practice won't. Haven't had to replace a color cartridge in two years.
Then can I give my fiancé your number when she is prevented from printing in "High Quality"? Because I certainly do not want to hear her bitch about it.
Most likely what I am going to do in the future. You are right about pictures though. My $300 HP 970 Cse is better at printing pictures for framing than my companies $50,000 Mita color laser printer.
May I suggest asking *her* to buy the next batch of paper and ink, since she's apparently using far more of it than you are?
I assume you have never been married. Once they get the diamond on the finger, they own your bank account. So it doesn't matter if she buys it or I do, I still will pay for it in the end. Plus $100 is a cheaper than a marriage counselor.
The case earlier this month just established that MonsterHut are in the wrong, and let their ISP pull the plug on them. Now we need to assign a suitable punishment, and make sure that we send the message clear and loud: spam is not legitimate, and if you do it, you will pay for it.
This will do nothing to stop SPAM in your mailbox. How is Spitzer going to go after btamail.net.cn? China is going to tell him to take a long walk off a short pier. This is fine if you want revenge but it will not do anything to reduce the flow of SPAM or cause other people to fear doing it.
Geez, I guess the moderators today are Spitzer Democrats.:)
Every month I end up having to head over to Staples and plop down nearly 100 bucks for a black & white and color cartridges. My fiancé goes through them fast on our HP 970cse ($299 when I bought it) making stupid cards for her friends. Of course she has to use high quality mode so the ink is thick on the paper. We have had our ink jet now for about two years and in that time, I probably could have bought one of HP's nice Color LaserJet printer for the price of those cartridges.
The whole ink jet printer industry reminds me of the razor/blade industry. They sell you the printer cheap, then screw you hard for the inks making sure you run out fast on the first set of cartridges just like the razor folks only give you one or two "starter" blades. But then again, Carly didn't put a gun to my head and forced me to buy the printer. It works well but is expensive to operate in the long run.
1) NY State Attorney Elliot Spitzer is nothing more than a "Look At Me" political hack that will sue any organization that will get his mug on NY television. He is essentially a shakedown artist that uses the post of AG to harass companies that are not popular with the Democratic Party. Not to say that SPAMMERS are popular with Republicans (at least not with this one). One of his more outrageous shakedowns was when he was suing adoption agencies that did not offer abortion services in order to pander to pro-choice voters. Why would an adoption agency want to kill babies?
2) This case will have no effect on the SPAM that is currently coming into your e-mail box. Monsterhut is already kaput.
3) NY State has no real SPAM laws so Spitzer is mangling current law to go after a defunct SPAM house.
4) Do you really think that Spitzer is going to get $500 a pop for 500 million e-mails from a defunct SPAM house? Or do you think he will waste thousands, if not millions, of tax payer dollars promoting his "high-tech savvy" trying to squeeze blood from a rock?
5) How can the AG of NY State sue a company that "violated the rights of consumers" in other states? Wouldn't that be the job of the US AG or the Federal Trade Commission?
Unfortunately, the time and money wasted by Spitzer in this "Look At Me" case would have been better spent in the State Legislature crafting an anti-SPAM bill that goes after all spammers instead of one high profile SPAM house. Also, this will do nothing about the likes of btamail.net.cn. What is Spitzer going to do about them?
Jon, please stop trying to find some thread of importance in something that is completely unimportant. The only people that could give a damn that Spirderman is making more money at the box office than Star Wars are washed up journalists that do not have the talent to hold a real job. Even worse is someone whose only current writing credit is producing articles on Slashdot. God, what's next? Enigma didn't make as much at the box office as Pi so geeks are more into math than encryption?
Stop pretending to be a geek, pick up a copy of UNIX for Dumbasses and learn something. Jesus, can you get any more vapid? Spider-man vs. Star Wars? Fat ass Comic Book Store owners are now laughing at you.
Gee, this is something that you would hear Linux Zealots bashing Mac Zealots for. Sure it isn't Mandrake, SuSE or Slackware doing the dirty deed. Like the frog in the frying pan, this is the first notch on the burner. Profit for these sort of companies relies on them being able to differentiate themselves from their competition. Staking down differences with patents is a common step for "Evil Closed Source OS" companies. Apple and Microsoft do it all the time. RedHat is following their path.
Welcome to the club, RedHat. Don't worry, I still love ya on my cheap x86 servers. Your ISOs power my lot. I would hate to waste my Macs for the same job. However, the Xserve is an appealing option for the future. Rack 'n Roll!
While this is a welcomed change for Microsoft to open up their operating system and play nice with third party companies, what has Microsoft done with the EULA for SP1? That is the real reason not to use XP -- not because it doesn't play nice with RealAudio. The XP EULA is affront to an individual's right to cpu privacy.
We, as human beings, are pretty good at making stuff that will really, really hurt some jerk we don't like. In the past, our technology required us to get up close and personal with the jerk we don't like. Now that we have all become fat, lazy, high advanced, couch potatoes, we have modified our form of killing other humans so we can do it from the luxury of a climate controlled bunker, thousands of miles away from the jerk we don't like. Ain't progress grand?!?!?!
The US Navy "Smart Ship" Yorktown was outfitted completely with Windows NT to run the ship's systems. Because of a Divide By Zero bug, the Aegis missile cruiser became dead in the water in 1997 and had to be towed back to dock. Windows NT had frozen the propulsion systems.
At least with an open source system, they could have patched the code and moved on. But with the closed source Windows NT system, the USS Yorktown had to be towed into harbor and let the boys from Redmond check under the hood.
Give me your business name and location. I will call the BSA to perform a free audit of your company. I am sure after the friendly BSA auditors finish, your boss will see the reduction of cost moving to Linux will be. Don't worry about paying my consultancy fee for assisting you in this matter, I am sure the BSA will kick back some bucks to me because, without a doubt, your finance guys forgot to pay for every license for every software package on your company's computers.
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And then again, my sympathies to you for losing your job to that "use-one-of-the-above" indian programmer.:)
Aw, no biggie. There is always opportunity in America for people that want to work. Thanks for all the wonderful Hindi profanity. I will have to test it out next time I call a Large Corporation to see if I got a midwest Hillbilly or an Indian on the line.
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The customer service rep you might be speaking with could be in India (Third Story). As Americans shun low wages for public assistance, American Businesses have been outsourcing their customer service operations to India where people speak English fairly well and they study American pop-culture so they can be like Joey, Chandler, Ross, Rachel, Phoebe and Monica.
The best part of this for Business is that they get happy, clueless employees that don't mind sub-US minimum wage and can handle extremely rude, self-righteous (and more than likely correct) American callers with a smile on their faces. So next time you want to curse out a company via their customer service learn some nasty words in Hindi to get your point across. Maybe the Indian programmer that took away my last job a few years ago could help us out with a few creative Hindi dirty words.
According to a press agent for Microsoft, MIT's project "ThinkCycle" is nothing more than a smoke screen for anti-capitalistic "Viral Thinking". Microsoft has long established thinking is best done for multinational corporations that are engaged in the accumulation of capital. Thinking outside of the confines of a corporation with a group is nothing more than anti-capitalism. Projects seeking to provide clean water and the treatment of cholera are just pretty window dressing of this Anti-American activity.
I'd like to know if anyone has succeeded in porting a Free operating system to the Xbox.
Uh, having you been reading Slashdot lately? According to M$, it is a violation of law for a user to substitute the OS of computer for another that was not sold with the computer. Since the xBox is nothing more than a computer squished into a home entertainment unit, this should hold true as well.
Be safe. Be good. Be right. Never use a viral operating system on a computer that was originally sold with a Microsoft OS. You are not buying a computer but permission from Microsoft to use a computer which they can revoke at anytime according to the EULA.
Unless the night crew starts to drop trouser and rubs their butts on my keyboard, I am going to keep working at my desk instead of relocating my computer to the toilet seat. Hey, I'm a risk taker. While the scientists found germs around the workstation, they most likely are not the ones found on a toilet seat. Ew! Those are "icky" germs. More likely to cause disease and suffering than the food born germs festering in the crumb-piles of the keyboard. Those are just "gross" germs. More than likely not to cause a disease that you don't discuss in polite conversation with friends and neighbors. Just cause a stink and may make you sniffle a little. Nothing that a B Ark Telephone Sanitizer couldn't fix.
Plus shouldn't that electromagnetic radiation from the CRT monitors the Swedes are always warning us about be killing these buggers?
Geez, don't get your panties in a bunch there girlfriend. She is referred to as "Hillary Rodham Clinton". "Dubya" isn't President Bush's middle name either in the post I was replying too.
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Radio music is dead. You can tell by the ratings of FM stations. They pick up their biggest audience when the kings of fart jokes and naked chicks hit the air, i.e., Shock Jock Talk Radio. Howard Stern, Opie & Andy and their moronic minions of copycats are the only ratings FM stations are getting these days. Its no wonder that Clear Channel and Inifinity are looking outside of shoving ads into their customer's ears for revenue.
Well, the problem is, my definition of waste and hers in this situation. She sees it as her fun activity which makes her friends happy. A Good Thing according to Martha Stewart. The last thing I am going to do is start a fight with a women that is a cock rancher.
As with all things in marriage, it gets solved by talking about it, not ignoring it. So if it's an issue, tell her. If it's not--well, then don't post on /. about it.
It was an article about women and ink jets. I was relaying my experience with my woman and ink jets. Guess you miss the point, women love these things because of all the colorful, creative things can do with them. Its the needlepoint of the new century.
So far you are the only person that understands women that has responded to my post. If you can't explain something about computers/mechanics to them the first time, you never will.
Then can I give my fiancé your number when she is prevented from printing in "High Quality"? Because I certainly do not want to hear her bitch about it.
Most likely what I am going to do in the future. You are right about pictures though. My $300 HP 970 Cse is better at printing pictures for framing than my companies $50,000 Mita color laser printer.
I assume you have never been married. Once they get the diamond on the finger, they own your bank account. So it doesn't matter if she buys it or I do, I still will pay for it in the end. Plus $100 is a cheaper than a marriage counselor.
This will do nothing to stop SPAM in your mailbox. How is Spitzer going to go after btamail.net.cn? China is going to tell him to take a long walk off a short pier. This is fine if you want revenge but it will not do anything to reduce the flow of SPAM or cause other people to fear doing it.
Geez, I guess the moderators today are Spitzer Democrats. :)
The whole ink jet printer industry reminds me of the razor/blade industry. They sell you the printer cheap, then screw you hard for the inks making sure you run out fast on the first set of cartridges just like the razor folks only give you one or two "starter" blades. But then again, Carly didn't put a gun to my head and forced me to buy the printer. It works well but is expensive to operate in the long run.
2) This case will have no effect on the SPAM that is currently coming into your e-mail box. Monsterhut is already kaput.
3) NY State has no real SPAM laws so Spitzer is mangling current law to go after a defunct SPAM house.
4) Do you really think that Spitzer is going to get $500 a pop for 500 million e-mails from a defunct SPAM house? Or do you think he will waste thousands, if not millions, of tax payer dollars promoting his "high-tech savvy" trying to squeeze blood from a rock?
5) How can the AG of NY State sue a company that "violated the rights of consumers" in other states? Wouldn't that be the job of the US AG or the Federal Trade Commission?
Unfortunately, the time and money wasted by Spitzer in this "Look At Me" case would have been better spent in the State Legislature crafting an anti-SPAM bill that goes after all spammers instead of one high profile SPAM house. Also, this will do nothing about the likes of btamail.net.cn. What is Spitzer going to do about them?
Stop pretending to be a geek, pick up a copy of UNIX for Dumbasses and learn something. Jesus, can you get any more vapid? Spider-man vs. Star Wars? Fat ass Comic Book Store owners are now laughing at you.
Welcome to the club, RedHat. Don't worry, I still love ya on my cheap x86 servers. Your ISOs power my lot. I would hate to waste my Macs for the same job. However, the Xserve is an appealing option for the future. Rack 'n Roll!
Thats why I use MacOS X!
While this is a welcomed change for Microsoft to open up their operating system and play nice with third party companies, what has Microsoft done with the EULA for SP1? That is the real reason not to use XP -- not because it doesn't play nice with RealAudio. The XP EULA is affront to an individual's right to cpu privacy.
We, as human beings, are pretty good at making stuff that will really, really hurt some jerk we don't like. In the past, our technology required us to get up close and personal with the jerk we don't like. Now that we have all become fat, lazy, high advanced, couch potatoes, we have modified our form of killing other humans so we can do it from the luxury of a climate controlled bunker, thousands of miles away from the jerk we don't like. Ain't progress grand?!?!?!
At least with an open source system, they could have patched the code and moved on. But with the closed source Windows NT system, the USS Yorktown had to be towed into harbor and let the boys from Redmond check under the hood.
Thank God it was peacetime..
The Java client works well in Mac OS X too. Use it everyday to manage legacy NT servers which I will shoot once we are finished with them.
Give me your business name and location. I will call the BSA to perform a free audit of your company. I am sure after the friendly BSA auditors finish, your boss will see the reduction of cost moving to Linux will be. Don't worry about paying my consultancy fee for assisting you in this matter, I am sure the BSA will kick back some bucks to me because, without a doubt, your finance guys forgot to pay for every license for every software package on your company's computers.
Aw, no biggie. There is always opportunity in America for people that want to work. Thanks for all the wonderful Hindi profanity. I will have to test it out next time I call a Large Corporation to see if I got a midwest Hillbilly or an Indian on the line.
The best part of this for Business is that they get happy, clueless employees that don't mind sub-US minimum wage and can handle extremely rude, self-righteous (and more than likely correct) American callers with a smile on their faces. So next time you want to curse out a company via their customer service learn some nasty words in Hindi to get your point across. Maybe the Indian programmer that took away my last job a few years ago could help us out with a few creative Hindi dirty words.
According to a press agent for Microsoft, MIT's project "ThinkCycle" is nothing more than a smoke screen for anti-capitalistic "Viral Thinking". Microsoft has long established thinking is best done for multinational corporations that are engaged in the accumulation of capital. Thinking outside of the confines of a corporation with a group is nothing more than anti-capitalism. Projects seeking to provide clean water and the treatment of cholera are just pretty window dressing of this Anti-American activity.
Uh, having you been reading Slashdot lately? According to M$, it is a violation of law for a user to substitute the OS of computer for another that was not sold with the computer. Since the xBox is nothing more than a computer squished into a home entertainment unit, this should hold true as well.
Be safe. Be good. Be right. Never use a viral operating system on a computer that was originally sold with a Microsoft OS. You are not buying a computer but permission from Microsoft to use a computer which they can revoke at anytime according to the EULA.
Plus shouldn't that electromagnetic radiation from the CRT monitors the Swedes are always warning us about be killing these buggers?
Just post a sign with the goatse guy on it. That should scare away most any intelligent being.
Man you feminists are really a touchy sort.
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