Anyone remember the Bone Phone from the late '70s and early '80s. It draped around your shoulders like a towel. Everything old is new again. I can't wait for the new Sinclair ZX82 kit.
Google should not work with ChiComs. Instead, if they want to provide information to the oppressed peoples, they should be working to punch through the blocks. As for Yahoo, the story was about Google.
Google, read "Absolute Evil", can't get their product on their competitor's web site, Boo-fricking-hoo. Google plumbs the depths of evil for their cooperation with China. Best they were never born.
Any geek, or normal person who is for freedom of expression, free society, freedom from oppression should be actively boycotting Google until they eschew any relationship with RED China.
I also love the "cooling is a sign of warming" argument. Basically, any evidence that points to the opposite is an indication that the opposite is actually happening.
...that most of the global warming crap is just that, crap. Junk science. Once they, anti-capitalist, couldn't sell the global cooling idea in the early 70's (most of you probably don't remember that), they switched to global warming. The idea is to impact the American, or capitalist way of life. WATERMELON is apropo
The Canada Free Press just ran a very interesting article refuting the junk science prefered by the likes of Al Gore.
I got F*CKed royally by eCharge in the bad old days of 2000. The day my wife was closing on the sale of our house in Boise, eCharge, who recruited me only a few months ahead of time with tons of evidence of financial health, had me in a conference room tell me and others that the doors had been shuttered retroactivly to the day we all left on Christmas vacation.
Still live in the area, but still can't go to 5th and Union without spitting on the building.
Those that say the U.S. is not practicing what it preaches, in regard to Iran and proliferation, need to remember that Iran is not like the U.S.
Think of it as Columbine.
The other students that may or may not have tormented Dylan and Klebold had access to weapons just as D&K. However, they had the a modicum of thought, maturity, ability to control themselves against shooting others, where D&K did not. Combine that with D&K's persecution complex and their woes, real and imagined, then give D&K access to firearms.
The U.S., Britain, Russia, and France, and to a lesser degree, India and China, all have a certain level of checks and balances and mature statecraft that will prevent them from using the nukes. The same cannot be said about the likes of North Korea, Iran, Pakistan, and any other government in flux.
Google is now evil. Censorship, providing access to the secret police so they can find the dissidents, and etc. is as much as breaking their vow of "Don't be evil" as a doctor taking the vow, "First, do no harm," and then providing genocidal services. It is as bad as Dow Chemical providing the means of extermination. But, Google goes in with eyes WIDE OPEN and experience knowing this is what they are doing.
Ludicrous, simply ludicrous.
Got to love that word, "ludicrous".
Everyone, find a situation and use it in your conversation today and report back. Extra points if you used WHILST talking with your employer.
Ludicrously yours,
Me
1. Linux geek support. As a user you have two choises: a)RTFM you windoze lamer or b)just plain sneering ridicule.
2. You buy cool hardware, you spend weeks trying to get it to work.
3. Your nephews halls his game DVD to the family gathering only to find YOU have linux. Now you have to deal with the little shit interrupting the adults all the time with the fact he's bored.
4. The solution to number 3 involves jumping through countless hoops to get the game to run under WINE, or dual booting Windows, or shooting the nephew.
Sorry, until Linux becomes a system with WIDE SPREAD support and easy point-click-install-"IT-RUNS!" the vast majority of the computer public will not adopt.
Also, you have to keep todays crop of Linux geeks away from the public microphone when you are trying to sell linux.
It is a fact that the quest for high performance and competition spurs the research that ultimately benefits the consumer.
Host national, red-neck accessible, honest-to-god races, with electric or other alternavehicles, get the speeds up to 200 MPH, and endurance up above 300 miles and watch the masses flock to it. Then, let the masses power the drive towards consumer versions of the next generation.
The argument from the "Information Wants to Be Free" nuts regarding IP is that a recording or text should be freely distributed, and that it is the value-add of performance that should cost. (OS's should be free, support should cost).
Now, we download music like mad, they bands and their companies can't recoup from that, damned right they are going to charge extra for a concert.
You see an act like David Bowie, The Moody Blues, or Fleetwood "The-Fat-Lady-Has-Sung-And-Her-Name-Is-Stevie" Mac, don't be upset that you will be hearing their older stuff.
Or, do you "Information Wants to Be Free" nuts want free concerts as well?
...but, had I not had the ABS, I probably would have stopped sooner. It was a dry, high desert winter night in southeast Oregon. The deer couldn't decide to jump right or left so it jumped left (good idea) then decided to jump BACK into the path of the car. On the good side, I was driving a '90 Volvo 970. The box design did what it was supposed to do, it killed the-ever-living-frack out of Bambi, and my wife and I were able to make it down the road to check for repairs and send a reservation trooper after the carcas. We continued our trip.
Now, don't get me started with Volvo rounding the frame of their new cars. Nothing beats 300 pound livestock like a square nose.
Sorry to tell you, but this story is almost 50 years old. It is told with the "Missouri", "Enterprise", "Nimitz", "Carl Vinson", and now the "Lincoln". This is the first time I heard it with a Canadian LH keeper. Usually its told as if it were on the east coast with a peon Seaman LH keeper telling the big ship driver to alter course.
My computer is routinely hacked by Microsoft, should I call. It happens at least once a month, sometimes weekly.
I have another one that is hacked by commies, I know they are commies, they use GPL.
I am sorry, and I am apologizing up front and will probably have my karma slammed, but I do have to comment.
I really have to question the legitimacy of this 'Ask Slashdot' article, and am wondering how the editors let it slip through. The article is either a fake, or the person submitting it is a piss-poor tester.
How hard would it have been to install the IE7 beta on a single machine to check the rendering of AJAX elements?
I have IE7 installed on a test machine that we use to test web apps. I also use it for much of my daily browsing. As a result, I have a list of items that IE7 just won't work with, chief among them are SharePoint event calendar rendering, and Microsoft Producer. It has not broken against AJAX that I've run into, and I use Pageflakes as my homepage on that machine.
So, the poster is faking a "my-company-wanted-to-use-the-latest-greatest-but- we-are-afraid-MS-will-break" article, or his company is paying him much too much for his perceived skills.
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Anyone remember the Bone Phone from the late '70s and early '80s. It draped around your shoulders like a towel. Everything old is new again. I can't wait for the new Sinclair ZX82 kit.
Google should not work with ChiComs. Instead, if they want to provide information to the oppressed peoples, they should be working to punch through the blocks. As for Yahoo, the story was about Google.
Operative word, "Seems". Spam control, chum.
Google, read "Absolute Evil", can't get their product on their competitor's web site, Boo-fricking-hoo. Google plumbs the depths of evil for their cooperation with China. Best they were never born.
...otherwise known as IP v11. Exploding drummers and all.
Both of them are evil. Both assist the evil Red Chinese government.
...alternatives would be nice.
Any geek, or normal person who is for freedom of expression, free society, freedom from oppression should be actively boycotting Google until they eschew any relationship with RED China.
FREE TIBET
Re-establish recognition of Taiwan.
Punish Google and Yahoo! (especially Yahoo!)
I also love the "cooling is a sign of warming" argument. Basically, any evidence that points to the opposite is an indication that the opposite is actually happening.
...that most of the global warming crap is just that, crap. Junk science. Once they, anti-capitalist, couldn't sell the global cooling idea in the early 70's (most of you probably don't remember that), they switched to global warming. The idea is to impact the American, or capitalist way of life. WATERMELON is apropo
The Canada Free Press just ran a very interesting article refuting the junk science prefered by the likes of Al Gore.
I got F*CKed royally by eCharge in the bad old days of 2000. The day my wife was closing on the sale of our house in Boise, eCharge, who recruited me only a few months ahead of time with tons of evidence of financial health, had me in a conference room tell me and others that the doors had been shuttered retroactivly to the day we all left on Christmas vacation.
Still live in the area, but still can't go to 5th and Union without spitting on the building.
Those that say the U.S. is not practicing what it preaches, in regard to Iran and proliferation, need to remember that Iran is not like the U.S.
Think of it as Columbine.
The other students that may or may not have tormented Dylan and Klebold had access to weapons just as D&K. However, they had the a modicum of thought, maturity, ability to control themselves against shooting others, where D&K did not. Combine that with D&K's persecution complex and their woes, real and imagined, then give D&K access to firearms.
The U.S., Britain, Russia, and France, and to a lesser degree, India and China, all have a certain level of checks and balances and mature statecraft that will prevent them from using the nukes. The same cannot be said about the likes of North Korea, Iran, Pakistan, and any other government in flux.
Once he was embedment he was enbiggened and she was...
Google is now evil. Censorship, providing access to the secret police so they can find the dissidents, and etc. is as much as breaking their vow of "Don't be evil" as a doctor taking the vow, "First, do no harm," and then providing genocidal services. It is as bad as Dow Chemical providing the means of extermination. But, Google goes in with eyes WIDE OPEN and experience knowing this is what they are doing.
Ludicrous, simply ludicrous. Got to love that word, "ludicrous". Everyone, find a situation and use it in your conversation today and report back. Extra points if you used WHILST talking with your employer. Ludicrously yours, Me
You got to love CHOICE.
The primary problems are:
1. Linux geek support. As a user you have two choises: a)RTFM you windoze lamer or b)just plain sneering ridicule.
2. You buy cool hardware, you spend weeks trying to get it to work.
3. Your nephews halls his game DVD to the family gathering only to find YOU have linux. Now you have to deal with the little shit interrupting the adults all the time with the fact he's bored.
4. The solution to number 3 involves jumping through countless hoops to get the game to run under WINE, or dual booting Windows, or shooting the nephew.
Sorry, until Linux becomes a system with WIDE SPREAD support and easy point-click-install-"IT-RUNS!" the vast majority of the computer public will not adopt.
Also, you have to keep todays crop of Linux geeks away from the public microphone when you are trying to sell linux.
It is a fact that the quest for high performance and competition spurs the research that ultimately benefits the consumer. Host national, red-neck accessible, honest-to-god races, with electric or other alternavehicles, get the speeds up to 200 MPH, and endurance up above 300 miles and watch the masses flock to it. Then, let the masses power the drive towards consumer versions of the next generation.
Invisibility is too hard to maintain. Its the "Somebody Else's Problem Field" that allows most things to go unnoticed.
And, knowing CSI, I bet they can tell what color with which the victim was dyed.
The argument from the "Information Wants to Be Free" nuts regarding IP is that a recording or text should be freely distributed, and that it is the value-add of performance that should cost. (OS's should be free, support should cost). Now, we download music like mad, they bands and their companies can't recoup from that, damned right they are going to charge extra for a concert. You see an act like David Bowie, The Moody Blues, or Fleetwood "The-Fat-Lady-Has-Sung-And-Her-Name-Is-Stevie" Mac, don't be upset that you will be hearing their older stuff. Or, do you "Information Wants to Be Free" nuts want free concerts as well?
...but, had I not had the ABS, I probably would have stopped sooner. It was a dry, high desert winter night in southeast Oregon. The deer couldn't decide to jump right or left so it jumped left (good idea) then decided to jump BACK into the path of the car. On the good side, I was driving a '90 Volvo 970. The box design did what it was supposed to do, it killed the-ever-living-frack out of Bambi, and my wife and I were able to make it down the road to check for repairs and send a reservation trooper after the carcas. We continued our trip.
Now, don't get me started with Volvo rounding the frame of their new cars. Nothing beats 300 pound livestock like a square nose.
I think I might love this idea being fully explored. Add some more IA, a social conscience. The I-5 and I-405 will get much nicer.
Or,
Or,
To be honest, I still want control of my car. I'll drive, thank you. (Still don't trust ABS since I hit that deer.)
Sorry to tell you, but this story is almost 50 years old. It is told with the "Missouri", "Enterprise", "Nimitz", "Carl Vinson", and now the "Lincoln". This is the first time I heard it with a Canadian LH keeper. Usually its told as if it were on the east coast with a peon Seaman LH keeper telling the big ship driver to alter course.
My computer is routinely hacked by Microsoft, should I call. It happens at least once a month, sometimes weekly. I have another one that is hacked by commies, I know they are commies, they use GPL.
I am sorry, and I am apologizing up front and will probably have my karma slammed, but I do have to comment.
I really have to question the legitimacy of this 'Ask Slashdot' article, and am wondering how the editors let it slip through. The article is either a fake, or the person submitting it is a piss-poor tester.
How hard would it have been to install the IE7 beta on a single machine to check the rendering of AJAX elements?
I have IE7 installed on a test machine that we use to test web apps. I also use it for much of my daily browsing. As a result, I have a list of items that IE7 just won't work with, chief among them are SharePoint event calendar rendering, and Microsoft Producer. It has not broken against AJAX that I've run into, and I use Pageflakes as my homepage on that machine.
So, the poster is faking a "my-company-wanted-to-use-the-latest-greatest-but- we-are-afraid-MS-will-break" article, or his company is paying him much too much for his perceived skills.
Really, editors, you should have caught this.