And meanwhile, thousands of IT professionals rejoice that they won't be again exposed to strange strains of viruses that their immune system can't handle.
Wait... are you implying that there's some sort of biological analog to computer viruses, that can be transmitted between people?
What bugs me is credit cards with annual fees. None of mine do, but one or two of my wife's do. One of these days I need to get around to threatening to close that card if they don't stop charging us a fee for the privilege of lending us money. That usually works, even if you have to do it once a year (some credit card companies will switch you over to permanent no-fee status, but usually they just credit you for that particular year's fee).
Fine print does indeed suck. I'm glad that I'm anal about reading it:
I've had a Fleet credit card for several years. Last year they were bought by Bank of America, also known as Bank of Customer Service Nightmares. (I don't have any other accounts with BoA, but I have a lot of friends who do/did and regret/regretted it.) Well, they didn't hassle me too much, until I got a mailer from them a couple of weeks ago saying that my card had been given Premium status (I think it was called), and all I needed to do to continue it (because it was renewed annually, according to the mailer) was sign this form and sent it back in the included envelope. Premium status would give me all sorts of benefits and bonuses. Several of them sounded interesting, but then I read the fine, fine print on the back of the form...
...which informed me that the annual Premium fee of $49 would be automatically charged to my Fleet (BoA) card annually. Needless to say, I ripped up the form. The "benefits" were of no use to someone who spends as little on that card as I do.
It's no coincidence that they're taking off four days before Episode III premieres. They don't want to risk being killed in the Nerd Riots of '05 should Lucas screw the pooch once again.
Both sentences can be parsed in either of two ways: Time(noun) flies(verb) like an arrow, or Time(adjective) flies(noun) like an arrow. Don't ask me what a time fly is. It might be some sort of time-travelling insect that's out to destroy us all.
There's a third interpretation: Time (verb) flies (noun) like (in the manner of) an arrow. So you should get your stopwatch out, and time the flies; but do it the way an arrow would.
I see it all the time in slashdot. Google returns about 945,000 hits for "grammer". I mean, seriously. I am not an English speaker, and I cannot understand where this error comes from.
I think you'll find that the frequency of this misspelling has skyrocketed since Frasier came on the air.
I'm pretty sure TMNT wasn't a Cerebus spin-off, even if there was a crossover at some point. Cerebus was created by Dave Sim in 1977, and TMNT were invented by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird in 1984. There might be some shared parentage in the sense that they were both satire (although Cerebus was much closer to parody).
If we're hoping for (relatively) obscure comics to be made into movies, then how about Cerebus? (The early, good parts, not the latter, mysoginistic, navel-gazing wastes of time.)
Fellowship! The Musical Parody of "The Fellowship of the Ring." Playing in Hollywood for only another week or two, unfortunately, but hopefully they'll continue it somewhere down the line. We've seen it twice, and it's damn hilarious.
Ahmed Best is listed in the IMDB credits for Episode III, but Jar-Jar wasn't in the trailer. With any luck, that means Jar-Jar is barely in it at all, and with lots of luck, he gets violently killed. Preferably by Anakin.
The employees stole and disclosed company trade secrets. The broke the law and are criminals, they should be treated as criminals.
The people that published this material are accessories to a crime and should also be treated as criminals.
Not quite. The problem is that before the identities of the sources are revealed, there's no way to know whether those sources broke the law in acquiring the information. "But the only way the information could have gotten out is if someone at Apple deliberately leaked it!" is your obvious response, but it's not true. Information can leak from a company due to incompetence as well as malice, and if it does, you're SOL as far as trade secrets are concerned.
So in other words, let's say that the judge forces the bloggers to reveal their sources... and the sources turn out not to be Apple employees, and committed no crime in acquiring the information. Whoops! If there were any evidence that a crime had been committed, then the judge would be (both legally and morally) justified in forcing the reveal. But since no crime has been reported, he can't rightfully force the reveal.
Man, getting Dell to take me off their mailing list for catalogs was nearly a nightmare. I had to explain to the (I believe) Indian phone rep that I didn't want to be subscribed, I wanted to not be subscribed. Then he thought I was talking about an email list, rather than the physical magazine-style catalog, and told me I just had to click the 'unsubscribe' link. He kept asking for my customer number and I kept explaining that I didn't have one. Eventually he seemed to figure it out, though it's only been two weeks since the monthly catalog came, so we'll find out in another couple weeks whether he actually managed to get me off the list.
Whatever happened to the days where companies stood or fell on their own terms, and not propped up by the handouts of some third party such as the gov't?
Yeah, those days were great. Only, they never happened. Corporations have always lobbied or bribed government officials to pass laws that would benefit them.
That's what I said the first time I heard the name of the show, and I live in the very same Orange County in which the show is set. Because of the people my brothers hang out with, I know people from a fairly wide age and geographic range, and prior to this show coming along, no one I knew had ever heard of, let alone used, the term "the O.C." to refer to the area. We'd sometimes say we were "in OC," or "heading back to OC," but putting that particular article in front of it was completely new to us.
That's okay. Up here in L.A., we just refer to you as "behind the Orange Curtain."
I was under the impression that business school applicants already have bachelor's degrees, and sometimes other advanced degrees. I don't think any of the people involved were 18 years old. Harvard Business School's admission requirements page lists "Self-reported transcripts from all undergraduate and graduate academic institutions attended (full- or part-time)". The implication of this and other statements is that you're expected to have prior degrees or work experience, or both. I doubt anyone is going to HBS right out of high school.
Unlike most lefties who use mice with our left hands, I don't switch the buttons. When I got my first mouse, I put it on the left side, but it didn't occur to me to switch the buttons, so I didn't.
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Wait a minute -- how is a Slashdot geek going to have grandchildren? :)
Settle down, Beavis. It was a joke.
What bugs me is credit cards with annual fees. None of mine do, but one or two of my wife's do. One of these days I need to get around to threatening to close that card if they don't stop charging us a fee for the privilege of lending us money. That usually works, even if you have to do it once a year (some credit card companies will switch you over to permanent no-fee status, but usually they just credit you for that particular year's fee).
I've had a Fleet credit card for several years. Last year they were bought by Bank of America, also known as Bank of Customer Service Nightmares. (I don't have any other accounts with BoA, but I have a lot of friends who do/did and regret/regretted it.) Well, they didn't hassle me too much, until I got a mailer from them a couple of weeks ago saying that my card had been given Premium status (I think it was called), and all I needed to do to continue it (because it was renewed annually, according to the mailer) was sign this form and sent it back in the included envelope. Premium status would give me all sorts of benefits and bonuses. Several of them sounded interesting, but then I read the fine, fine print on the back of the form...
It's no coincidence that they're taking off four days before Episode III premieres. They don't want to risk being killed in the Nerd Riots of '05 should Lucas screw the pooch once again.
I'm pretty sure TMNT wasn't a Cerebus spin-off, even if there was a crossover at some point. Cerebus was created by Dave Sim in 1977, and TMNT were invented by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird in 1984. There might be some shared parentage in the sense that they were both satire (although Cerebus was much closer to parody).
If we're hoping for (relatively) obscure comics to be made into movies, then how about Cerebus? (The early, good parts, not the latter, mysoginistic, navel-gazing wastes of time.)
Fellowship! The Musical Parody of "The Fellowship of the Ring." Playing in Hollywood for only another week or two, unfortunately, but hopefully they'll continue it somewhere down the line. We've seen it twice, and it's damn hilarious.
*** POTENTIAL SPOILERS AHEAD ***
Ahmed Best is listed in the IMDB credits for Episode III, but Jar-Jar wasn't in the trailer. With any luck, that means Jar-Jar is barely in it at all, and with lots of luck, he gets violently killed. Preferably by Anakin.
It wouldn't. However I said nothing of the sort, so what are you talking about?
So in other words, let's say that the judge forces the bloggers to reveal their sources... and the sources turn out not to be Apple employees, and committed no crime in acquiring the information. Whoops! If there were any evidence that a crime had been committed, then the judge would be (both legally and morally) justified in forcing the reveal. But since no crime has been reported, he can't rightfully force the reveal.
The judge made a bad call.
Man, getting Dell to take me off their mailing list for catalogs was nearly a nightmare. I had to explain to the (I believe) Indian phone rep that I didn't want to be subscribed, I wanted to not be subscribed. Then he thought I was talking about an email list, rather than the physical magazine-style catalog, and told me I just had to click the 'unsubscribe' link. He kept asking for my customer number and I kept explaining that I didn't have one. Eventually he seemed to figure it out, though it's only been two weeks since the monthly catalog came, so we'll find out in another couple weeks whether he actually managed to get me off the list.
I was under the impression that business school applicants already have bachelor's degrees, and sometimes other advanced degrees. I don't think any of the people involved were 18 years old. Harvard Business School's admission requirements page lists "Self-reported transcripts from all undergraduate and graduate academic institutions attended (full- or part-time)". The implication of this and other statements is that you're expected to have prior degrees or work experience, or both. I doubt anyone is going to HBS right out of high school.
Just a clarification.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=luxury
HTH.
Unlike most lefties who use mice with our left hands, I don't switch the buttons. When I got my first mouse, I put it on the left side, but it didn't occur to me to switch the buttons, so I didn't.