The crime here is not that DS9 was left off the list-- as there are plenty of valid arguments, which have been made already--, but that Voyager was on it at all.
That's better than I thought. I know that (and the initial investment) had a big role in keeping me on my CD player over any kind of mp3 player.
Length of time playing isn't a huge issue right now while I'm in school, but the last job I had, the only thing to break the monotony of it was playing music. So I'd have the CD player on for nearly 7 and a half hours a day, and still change batteries every day, or almost.
And that was still better than any of the mp3 players I looked at (noting, mind, that I won't bother with anything under 512 megs, as my mp3s tend to be a little on the large side).
But 14 hours, though... that, I can work with.
It's not a matter of not bothering. It's a matter of not being allowed. And, a lot of the time, they don't even have physical phones there, so they can't press anything.
While I can't speak for sales companies, I used to work surveys (and they are substantially different; there are a lot of different rules), and we were allowed to terminate a call at any time. We just couldn't disconnect, but we could end a call in such a fashion that the person on the other end would hang up first.
You do realize, of course, that outbound call centre workers tend to be told to just code anything like that as an answering machine and go on, right? You probably wouldn't get many bites.
I know MSN is really big at my school. Of course, this probably has a lot to do with the school network blocking the ports used by, you know, every other instant messenger service.
I just tunnel out, use Trillian anyway. Screw my classmates; if they want to hear something from me, they can turn around and yell at me.
I didn't think people actually used auto-updaters. I know the absolute most I've ever used is something that'll tell me if there's updates, and then ask me if it wants to get them.
I don't find the drawing of conventionally attractive women demeaning at all. Nor do I feel that it says that all strong women fit into that sort of description. Just that these women do.
It's a comic book, for chrissakes. It's silly to expect any character therein to look particularly like a real person. Just like TV. There are no ugly people on TV, and the people who -are- are "TV ugly, not ugly ugly".
Besides, unsexy women don't sell. Not to geeks, not to any majour aspect of the buying public. Particularly not in a visual medium.
Speaking as a fat chick, I don't want to read comics about fat chicks.
I don't necessarily think it's something that needs to be cured.
That would be very clever if only for the fact that win2k is still pretty widely used. Higher up in the thread, someone cited 60% of offices use it. There's several hundred computers, at the very least, at my workplace, and they all run win2k.
That doesn't count how many people use it for personal use (and I know I do, at least, and a lot of other people here have mentioned using it).
So no, they shouldn't be forced to support every version of Windows they've ever released. However, they -should- support the ones that are still commonly used.
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... where are the ponies that are being OMGed over? I want my motherfucking ponies.
The crime here is not that DS9 was left off the list-- as there are plenty of valid arguments, which have been made already--, but that Voyager was on it at all.
That's better than I thought. I know that (and the initial investment) had a big role in keeping me on my CD player over any kind of mp3 player. Length of time playing isn't a huge issue right now while I'm in school, but the last job I had, the only thing to break the monotony of it was playing music. So I'd have the CD player on for nearly 7 and a half hours a day, and still change batteries every day, or almost. And that was still better than any of the mp3 players I looked at (noting, mind, that I won't bother with anything under 512 megs, as my mp3s tend to be a little on the large side). But 14 hours, though... that, I can work with.
Yeah, the way FFIV ended with everyone becoming kings... brings a tear to my eye.
No, the stat that made no difference was evade. Mevade was the one that did for everything.
What's the battery life on these things like, anyway?
It's not a matter of not bothering. It's a matter of not being allowed. And, a lot of the time, they don't even have physical phones there, so they can't press anything.
While I can't speak for sales companies, I used to work surveys (and they are substantially different; there are a lot of different rules), and we were allowed to terminate a call at any time. We just couldn't disconnect, but we could end a call in such a fashion that the person on the other end would hang up first.
You do realize, of course, that outbound call centre workers tend to be told to just code anything like that as an answering machine and go on, right? You probably wouldn't get many bites.
I know MSN is really big at my school. Of course, this probably has a lot to do with the school network blocking the ports used by, you know, every other instant messenger service. I just tunnel out, use Trillian anyway. Screw my classmates; if they want to hear something from me, they can turn around and yell at me.
I didn't think people actually used auto-updaters. I know the absolute most I've ever used is something that'll tell me if there's updates, and then ask me if it wants to get them.
You know, something tells me that the majority of gay men are not named Bruce.
Horses can't talk.
I don't find the drawing of conventionally attractive women demeaning at all. Nor do I feel that it says that all strong women fit into that sort of description. Just that these women do. It's a comic book, for chrissakes. It's silly to expect any character therein to look particularly like a real person. Just like TV. There are no ugly people on TV, and the people who -are- are "TV ugly, not ugly ugly". Besides, unsexy women don't sell. Not to geeks, not to any majour aspect of the buying public. Particularly not in a visual medium. Speaking as a fat chick, I don't want to read comics about fat chicks. I don't necessarily think it's something that needs to be cured.
Jesus saves and takes half damage, of course.
You say 'meanspirited' like it's a bad thing.
That would be very clever if only for the fact that win2k is still pretty widely used. Higher up in the thread, someone cited 60% of offices use it. There's several hundred computers, at the very least, at my workplace, and they all run win2k. That doesn't count how many people use it for personal use (and I know I do, at least, and a lot of other people here have mentioned using it). So no, they shouldn't be forced to support every version of Windows they've ever released. However, they -should- support the ones that are still commonly used.
Well, at least I won't have to change anything in the way I normally kidnap small children.
Poor pwn. Nobody loves pwn. It is the finest verb that ever verbed a verb.
There's porn that isn't free?