It means that they're totally and entirely market driven. No matter if it's good or not, if it's what the masses want, we'll give it to 'em. (And make a pretty penny on the stupiduty of the majority)
It's because we've grown stupid and ignorant. We don't care what the government does enough anymore to do anything about it. A quote from good old Ben Frenklin:
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 1759! that's a long time ago, and the only thing that's changed is us Americans. It's very sad. (Don't worry, I'm an American too)
When MS called EBay to tell them to take down the auction, it probably sounded like this BOFH quote:
"Two seconds later the red phone goes. I pick it up, it's the boss. He mumbles the username of the person I was just talking to, mentions something about a nasty mail message, and utters the words "You know what to do...", with the dots and everything."
--Acercanto
Hmm, But there certainly shouldn't be lemurs in Borneo.
I wonder how hot the lemur black market is? What are the chances it's just an escaped pet lemur?
If you go with Deep Freeze, for the love of God, don't do what the sysadmin at my old college did and just "freeze" it immediately after you've made any modifications. Make sure to acknowledge all the baloons (XP), allow all the regular programs (Zone Labs Firewall), view full path in the address bar (Explorer). Basically, use it for a few minutes to make sure you get all the kinks out before you go and image a bunch of public computers. Your users will love you for it.
But oursupercomputer, System X is the top supercomputer in academia!:-D
(Man, it's already been slashdotted!)
-Acercanto
You can have only two of the following
three qualities when developing a product:
cheap, fast or good. You can produce something
cheap and fast, but it won't be good,
good and fast, but it won't be cheap,
good and cheap, but it won't be fast.
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In Soviet Russia, you sign up for servi.... waait. Suddenly, Russia isn't looking too bad. ;-)
I swear, every time I read that name, my brain reads it British Pr0nographic Institute. Every time. Maybe I need to get my mind out of the gutter..
It means that they're totally and entirely market driven. No matter if it's good or not, if it's what the masses want, we'll give it to 'em. (And make a pretty penny on the stupiduty of the majority)
It's because we've grown stupid and ignorant. We don't care what the government does enough anymore to do anything about it. A quote from good old Ben Frenklin:
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
1759! that's a long time ago, and the only thing that's changed is us Americans. It's very sad. (Don't worry, I'm an American too)
Hard choice there. The title actually talks about killing skin cancer cells as well as prostrate cancer cells...
Just don't use this ethernet jack. :-)
I got some better ones!
Bill in college
1985 ad for MS
any chance this one would get in?
--Acercanto
When MS called EBay to tell them to take down the auction, it probably sounded like this BOFH quote:
"Two seconds later the red phone goes. I pick it up, it's the boss. He mumbles the username of the person I was just talking to, mentions something about a nasty mail message, and utters the words "You know what to do...", with the dots and everything."
--Acercanto
Hmm, But there certainly shouldn't be lemurs in Borneo.
I wonder how hot the lemur black market is? What are the chances it's just an escaped pet lemur?
It would seem that they're working on that... ;-)
If you go with Deep Freeze, for the love of God, don't do what the sysadmin at my old college did and just "freeze" it immediately after you've made any modifications. Make sure to acknowledge all the baloons (XP), allow all the regular programs (Zone Labs Firewall), view full path in the address bar (Explorer). Basically, use it for a few minutes to make sure you get all the kinks out before you go and image a bunch of public computers. Your users will love you for it.
But our supercomputer, System X is the top supercomputer in academia! :-D
(Man, it's already been slashdotted!)
-Acercanto
You can have only two of the following
three qualities when developing a product:
cheap, fast or good. You can produce something
cheap and fast, but it won't be good,
good and fast, but it won't be cheap,
good and cheap, but it won't be fast.