since no one has seemingly bothered yet...
"It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop..."
The rules make sense, since if a corporation could be the sole donator to a tax-exempt organisation then every corp would just set up a foundation that received all of its profit, pay no tax, and have the foundation own all of its assets.
You mean kind of like the relationship the Cleveland Clinic has to the Cleveland Clinic Foundation? This happens all the time, it's just that now it involves companies that are all caught up in the intarwebs, as opposed to the medical-industrial (I refuse to call it "healthcare") complex.
"Google and Mozilla are part of a 'you scratch my back, I'll pay your bills' sort of agreement, with a customizable, extensible search bar firmly placed in the toolbar, and on the default homepage."
AT&T, if you manage to get U-Verse into my neighborhood in the near future, and do it RIGHT (i.e., unmetered, unfettered, gimme-all-the-freakin'-bandwidth-I-want), you will nail me down solid as a customer... throw in the availability of the HTC Touch Pro as my new cell phone, and I may just kneel down and orally pleasure an AT&T exec (only if she's young, blond, & genetically female)
The headline should be "China to Use Silver Iodide & Dry Ice to Modify the Weather", since "Control" implies that they actually know what the outcome will be (fat friggin' chance o' that). Anybody know the Chinese translation of "hubris"? I'm laying 2:1 odds that these idiots wind up creating a tornado somewhere...
Hey, I've got an idea... Iraq is so full of criminals and terrorists, we must destroy it and build a new one... the bombing will begin in five minutes...
you're running that fucking bloatware abortion of an OS known as Vista... screw that, where's my Ubuntu CD? Solid-state drives reformat as easily as conventional disks...
What happens when you try "surprise modeling" on a "probabilistic chip"-based system? I'm thinking the uncertainty of the calculations, which are based on somewhat imprecise or unknown inputs, might lead to less-than-ideal results; not exactly "garbage in, garbage out", but close...
Personally, I found this list to be a rehash of so many old things with new names as to be pretty much worthless....
If you don't have flash, they don't want your business. (At least, that seem to be the opinion of the web Marketing staff, I haven't contacted IT to see if they agree with that assessment).
Bullshit. The time I spent waiting for XP to do something, or figuring out how to do something in XP (which usually consisted of, "where's that damn function again?"), or rebooting XP (yes, all of these experiences were with Windows XP, which I actually LIKE) was bloody expensive. Time that I spend in Ubuntu doing any kind of research into how to accomplish something is actually productive time (it's called LEARNING, you might want to try it sometime), and it's normally orders of magnitude smaller.
I have recently started doing some DVD ripping/remixing for an academic friend of mine (and before you cry RIAA, it's fair-use snippets of copyrighted works being presented for educational purposes). I've ripped and encoded multiple chapters from numerous commercial DVDs, while still unable to figure out why I can't accomplish the same thing effectively (or at all) in XP. I long for the day when I've forgotten how to use Windows (of course, forgetting the basics will probably never happen, since the XWindows UI in *nix was around long before M$, and is what they based Windows on).
neither one of them got thrown out of their high-rise laboratory window by a robot claiming it "did not murder him"... nothing to see here, move along...
somebody is full of shit. I tried running through a bogus domain name more than two hours ago. Added the.com,.net, and.org variants to my order, did everything but log in to process the order, then closed the tab with the NetSol page loaded. Went over to godaddy.com repeatedly since then, and the domain name in question still shows as available.
Personally, I see this as little more than an extended "shopping cart". While I'm not a fan of NetSol allowing someone to poach items from my cart for a price, they are a money-making enterprise. Since I've already expressed an interest in a domain name by starting the ordering process, I've opened up the competitive can of worms. However, it does raise (!beg) the question of what happens when I return and later want to purchase the name, i.e., how do I prove that I'm the same person whose actions prompted them to put the hold on the name, so that I'm not competing against myself?
All in all, it looks like many plans I've seen come out of Marketing departments that didn't bring sufficient understanding of technical issues to the table -- well intentioned, horribly executed.
From my perspective, servers ARE machines, therefore server noise == machine noise. Anything less than complete separation of server room and office space is insane. Shop floors have offices for their foremen, and you are the "foreman" of the network.
I'd sooner take interest in the pool that forecasts the length of time between this plan being executed and someone in Microsoft's Marketing department being executed... what a freakin' crock o' stink
disclaimer: I've been using Ubuntu exclusively at home for about 9 months now, and am currently burning an ISO of 7.10 that I'll use to carve out a Linux partition on my work PC (I love my PC support folks, they let me set up my environment any way I want); this has now become a crusade -- screw you Mssrs. Gates, Ballmer, et al...
Since there are only 16 residences in the entire building, this likely will not be a tremendous concern. Also, at these prices, it's doubtful any of the residents will be the 9-5 lunchpail crowd, so their schedules should offer plenty of flexibility for coming and going...
Amen to that, brother -- I never owned a car in the eighteen years I lived just outside there (albeit those were the first eighteen years of my life), but those formative years have led me to never own a car in my 38+ years of existence in 3 different cities, one of which had a horrible transit system, the other of which was just voted North America's #1 large-city transit system for 2007.
Back on topic, the elevators look like an interesting concept, and there's little reason to not do it. Removing even one surface-level parking space is a good thing. If we're going to grow upward, let's grow everything upward. Of course, I always liked the concept of freight elevators converted for passenger use in old loft-style buildings... and once we all get our flying cars, it's a simple matter to kick out the back wall of your suite-level garage and have sky-accessible 30th floor parking:-).
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"To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee"
or, if that's a little too cultured for you, let me just say, "fuck off, asshole"
since no one has seemingly bothered yet... "It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop..."
You mean kind of like the relationship the Cleveland Clinic has to the Cleveland Clinic Foundation? This happens all the time, it's just that now it involves companies that are all caught up in the intarwebs, as opposed to the medical-industrial (I refuse to call it "healthcare") complex.
FTFY...
FOADIAF
AT&T, if you manage to get U-Verse into my neighborhood in the near future, and do it RIGHT (i.e., unmetered, unfettered, gimme-all-the-freakin'-bandwidth-I-want), you will nail me down solid as a customer... throw in the availability of the HTC Touch Pro as my new cell phone, and I may just kneel down and orally pleasure an AT&T exec (only if she's young, blond, & genetically female)
The headline should be "China to Use Silver Iodide & Dry Ice to Modify the Weather", since "Control" implies that they actually know what the outcome will be (fat friggin' chance o' that). Anybody know the Chinese translation of "hubris"? I'm laying 2:1 odds that these idiots wind up creating a tornado somewhere...
next question??
Hey, I've got an idea... Iraq is so full of criminals and terrorists, we must destroy it and build a new one... the bombing will begin in five minutes...
you're running that fucking bloatware abortion of an OS known as Vista... screw that, where's my Ubuntu CD? Solid-state drives reformat as easily as conventional disks...
What happens when you try "surprise modeling" on a "probabilistic chip"-based system? I'm thinking the uncertainty of the calculations, which are based on somewhat imprecise or unknown inputs, might lead to less-than-ideal results; not exactly "garbage in, garbage out", but close...
Personally, I found this list to be a rehash of so many old things with new names as to be pretty much worthless....
If you don't have flash, they don't want your business. (At least, that seem to be the opinion of the web Marketing staff, I haven't contacted IT to see if they agree with that assessment).
There, fixed that for ya...
the problem wasn't that we didn't know about the terrorists before 9-11, the problem was those who knew CHOSE not to act on what they knew...
So, instead of arising from the primordial soup, we arose from the primordial slushie? Damn, that must explain my taste for Sno-Cones....
Bullshit. The time I spent waiting for XP to do something, or figuring out how to do something in XP (which usually consisted of, "where's that damn function again?"), or rebooting XP (yes, all of these experiences were with Windows XP, which I actually LIKE) was bloody expensive. Time that I spend in Ubuntu doing any kind of research into how to accomplish something is actually productive time (it's called LEARNING, you might want to try it sometime), and it's normally orders of magnitude smaller.
I have recently started doing some DVD ripping/remixing for an academic friend of mine (and before you cry RIAA, it's fair-use snippets of copyrighted works being presented for educational purposes). I've ripped and encoded multiple chapters from numerous commercial DVDs, while still unable to figure out why I can't accomplish the same thing effectively (or at all) in XP. I long for the day when I've forgotten how to use Windows (of course, forgetting the basics will probably never happen, since the XWindows UI in *nix was around long before M$, and is what they based Windows on).
neither one of them got thrown out of their high-rise laboratory window by a robot claiming it "did not murder him"... nothing to see here, move along...
can I put an RFID tag on a pallet filled with boxes of tin foil?
somebody is full of shit. I tried running through a bogus domain name more than two hours ago. Added the .com, .net, and .org variants to my order, did everything but log in to process the order, then closed the tab with the NetSol page loaded. Went over to godaddy.com repeatedly since then, and the domain name in question still shows as available.
Personally, I see this as little more than an extended "shopping cart". While I'm not a fan of NetSol allowing someone to poach items from my cart for a price, they are a money-making enterprise. Since I've already expressed an interest in a domain name by starting the ordering process, I've opened up the competitive can of worms. However, it does raise (!beg) the question of what happens when I return and later want to purchase the name, i.e., how do I prove that I'm the same person whose actions prompted them to put the hold on the name, so that I'm not competing against myself?
All in all, it looks like many plans I've seen come out of Marketing departments that didn't bring sufficient understanding of technical issues to the table -- well intentioned, horribly executed.
From my perspective, servers ARE machines, therefore server noise == machine noise. Anything less than complete separation of server room and office space is insane. Shop floors have offices for their foremen, and you are the "foreman" of the network.
I'd sooner take interest in the pool that forecasts the length of time between this plan being executed and someone in Microsoft's Marketing department being executed... what a freakin' crock o' stink
disclaimer: I've been using Ubuntu exclusively at home for about 9 months now, and am currently burning an ISO of 7.10 that I'll use to carve out a Linux partition on my work PC (I love my PC support folks, they let me set up my environment any way I want); this has now become a crusade -- screw you Mssrs. Gates, Ballmer, et al...
I believe the word you were reaching for was "disingenuous".....
Since there are only 16 residences in the entire building, this likely will not be a tremendous concern. Also, at these prices, it's doubtful any of the residents will be the 9-5 lunchpail crowd, so their schedules should offer plenty of flexibility for coming and going...
Amen to that, brother -- I never owned a car in the eighteen years I lived just outside there (albeit those were the first eighteen years of my life), but those formative years have led me to never own a car in my 38+ years of existence in 3 different cities, one of which had a horrible transit system, the other of which was just voted North America's #1 large-city transit system for 2007. Back on topic, the elevators look like an interesting concept, and there's little reason to not do it. Removing even one surface-level parking space is a good thing. If we're going to grow upward, let's grow everything upward. Of course, I always liked the concept of freight elevators converted for passenger use in old loft-style buildings... and once we all get our flying cars, it's a simple matter to kick out the back wall of your suite-level garage and have sky-accessible 30th floor parking :-).
Dude, the first line of your reply just became my new sig file!
approximately 80% of all statistics are at least 50% bullshit... nothing to see here, move along...
from the depths of space, a voice more horrifying than ever before...
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I live...
I hunger...
I... am Sinistar!
Run, humans, run.... AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGH
Bring back any memories for anyone?
jury nullification...