Well, it obviously wasn't a jury of their peers. You have to be 18 to be selected for jury duty. If it were a jury full of 16 year olds they would have said not guilty and then asked the guy if the girl looked good naked.
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Well the new UI fits better with vista and for the lower end users of word, you know the ones that could never afford to buy it anyway, everything they need is right there in the shortcuts. My problem with word is that it has too many damned retarded features that will make me strangle a man with his own tie if I ever see him using them in a business report.
My schools business college requires I take a fundamentals of the PC class, which is actually a class dedicated to microsoft products. Word,Power point, and excel, I figure I can pass this no problem so I go to take the test and it wants me to tell it how to put a specific type of word art in the paper or how to add embellishment to the letters. Why in gods name would I ever use word art in a business report? Do I work for fucking kindergarteners?
I know where the word art is, it's hard to miss. But I don't know the names of them and I don't ever want to know the names of them.
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Well the new UI fits better with vista and for the lower end users of word, you know the ones that could never afford to buy it anyway, everything they need is right there in the shortcuts.
My problem with word is that it has too many damned retarded features that will make me strangle a man with his own tie if I ever see him using them in a business report.
My schools business college requires I take a fundamentals of the PC class, which is actually a class dedicated to microsoft products. Word,Power point, and excel, I figure I can pass this no problem so I go to take the test and it wants me to tell it how to put a specific type of word art in the paper or how to add embellishment to the letters. Why in gods name would I ever use word art in a business report? Do I work for fucking kindergarteners?
I know where the word art is, it's hard to miss. But I don't know the names of them and I don't ever want to know the names of them.
It would average out if you did the reply because it's two messages. So it would still be 20 cents to do the whole thing. However, most married couples use the same provider for cell phone service which nullifies any charges for the call, unless you have one of the few carriers that still doesn't give free calling if it's the same company.
Also add into the cost the fact that the windows machine comes with a monitor/speakers/keyboard/mouse and it's about $500 cheaper on top of the visual price difference.
That's exactly the groups point though. The article points out that it's easy to do it in a non-infringing way or get the chips from broadcom. Since the companies wouldn't do either of those they are filing a suit.
Exactly, and the lowered supply could infact be what is making the interest in the wii go up. So the "genuine demand" of the wii isn't because people want the wii any more than they want the ps3, it's because it's a substitute for the PS3.
Ah that was good...*goes to find my fair lady just to watch him insult people*
On topic though, I think we should nuke NZ. Any person or country that condones text-talk doesn't derserve to be around. Hell when I write a text message on my phone,which only happens rarely because if I need to talk to someone I'll just call them, I still use full words instead of "b4","CU" etc.
I mean seriously, how bloody hard is it to write Y-O-U, I don't care if it makes the same sound as U, they aren't the same and people need to be hit hard when they use it.
I haven't had any stability problems either.
As for people suggesting that FF has a huge memory leak, I don't notice one, FF is currently using 40mb after 20 min of running and I start IE7 and it stats at 42mb and jumps to 60 on sites other than msn. FF also doesn't use cpu comstantly,averages a whole 2% for 1 second then 0, if I have IE selected it's constatly at 30-60% of my cpu cycles.
As for Opera, I haven't used it in a while because I didn't like the way it looked or ran. It was too pretty and not to bash Macs, but it had an OSX look to it and I can't stand OSX.
M$ had a cdkey retention assocaited with my email address. I got the beta before they made it pay $1.50 to get it and had a crash and I'm not going to pay them so I can test a product that I should already have a legit key for..
What I'm wondering is why aren't they suing Nvidia?
Or for that matter any company that makes graphics chips that are capable of this? Macs didn't use ATI/Nvidia for graphics in the past but they probably had GPUs that could do this as well.
The lawsuit has to be focused based on the fact that AMD is buying them for so much.
The crime in cocaine,meth and heroin are that when making them the gasses released into the air don't stay in the place you're making it. If some cracked out person is brewing meth in an apartment bathtub chances of the chemicals going through the ventilation system and damaging other people is extremely high.
Also, when making Meth you need high amounts of electricity,alteast according to the police who say they locate potential meth labs by power spikes on grids and then looking for a 3rdparty rig onto the power line. Thus stealing power which is a crime. And Lastly the high probability of an explosion that could harm innocent people either for my first point or flying pieces of a house hitting a little kid on a bike.
This was the case in GATACA. The genetically engineered were allowed to do anything while natural born people were considered inferior and could only be janitors and the like.
That's about right. My computer forensics class had the head of one of the largest private forensics companies come in and give a presentation on these things last year. The chips don't store anything outside of ram for more than 30 seconds and when something happens, like the airbag deploying or some other sensor indicates that there's been a collision of some sort,it burns in on the chip so that it can't have anything happen to it short of the chip being destroyed.This gets overwritten later on if something else happens to cause it to burn in again. They hook it up to a computer and read the data,which usually includes speed,pressure on the breaks,if the headlights were on, which systems in the car had a warning light on(if any) prior to the accident,pretty much anything useful to find out what happened during the accident.
Insurance companies or any other company for that matter, hardly use these because the guy that came in said that his company charges something like fifty thousand to get the information off of it, only in extreme cases will this be used. Extreme being the insurance company being close to handing out atleast double the amount it would cost, so that they can prove my customer wasn't liable and I don't have to pay.
The thing about Phishing scams and such is that, for me atleast, you can't transfer money out of my bank account via the internet. You can go from one account to another that's in my name and attached to the others, but you have to actually go to the bank or write a check,both of which they can't do, to take large amounts out.
Actually, you can make it autorun off of a thumb drive...windows just loves the autorun.ini file. You set them to hidden on there and the employees don't see it, but windows will run it.
The idea is great though, would make for a great test, also good for when you need to do house keeping and aren't really sure who's the biggest idiot around the office.
Otherwise, your so-called democracy is nothing but a mask, and you're living in a bipartisan dictatorship.
Otherwise? We're already there. We haven't had democracy since World War I.
In the fast paced world of online communication, you don't ponder over the absolutely correct phrase.
There shouldn't be a need to ponder over the correct words to use. It takes all of half of a second to think of a word if you don't like the original thought. If we were properly trained in using the English Language we would still have instant transmission of our thoughts to people but it would be better worded and there wouldn't be any ambiguity in our meanings because each word would have the meaning it was meant to have because the words around it would help convey the meaning.
As far as my Linguistics classes and my Langues Across Cultures class go, yes this is normal for language. The fact that english is changing so much and the rules of grammar are being destroyed in America is very troubling though. From old english upto the mid 1950's English changed quite a bit but it was in small parts. When we invented IM our language started on a downward spiral fueled by convenience, saying this like "dis b" or one that really chaps my hide is "where are you at"....I even know someone that says "where was you/at". When our language falls that much that the very basics of grammar don't matter it's a sad time, we aren't even taught proper grammar in school which is also fueling this,our text books show proper grammar and all of the excersizes deal with proper use of prepositions but what kind of signal does it send to the kids when your english teacher asks a student "where were you at?" it completely nullifies what the book just said because the teacher is the rolemodel of how to use it in life.
On the topic of rote process or simple repetetive problem solving. That's what our secondary school systems are teaching us. There's a number of essays written about this by Benjamin Barber,Anyon, Gatto. They deal with our literacy and how it's declining. Gatto makes a point of the schools aren't broken like everyone wants to think. They do exactly what they were made to do....create a manageable workforce and a society that doesn't question authority, the very few elite children of our country are taught to continue and uphold the tradition of keeping people only educated enough to do the job that their parents do as to not disturb the status quo. We are products of a capitalistic nominally democratic society and because we don't exercise Democracy more our children are and will continue paying for our mistakes.
I got a bit off topic but it's very troubling that our language is "evolving" in this way.
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Well, it obviously wasn't a jury of their peers. You have to be 18 to be selected for jury duty. If it were a jury full of 16 year olds they would have said not guilty and then asked the guy if the girl looked good naked.
Thank you preview for screwing up and showing me the line breaks but not actually posting it that way...
Well the new UI fits better with vista and for the lower end users of word, you know the ones that could never afford to buy it anyway, everything they need is right there in the shortcuts. My problem with word is that it has too many damned retarded features that will make me strangle a man with his own tie if I ever see him using them in a business report.
My schools business college requires I take a fundamentals of the PC class, which is actually a class dedicated to microsoft products. Word,Power point, and excel, I figure I can pass this no problem so I go to take the test and it wants me to tell it how to put a specific type of word art in the paper or how to add embellishment to the letters. Why in gods name would I ever use word art in a business report? Do I work for fucking kindergarteners?
I know where the word art is, it's hard to miss. But I don't know the names of them and I don't ever want to know the names of them.
Well the new UI fits better with vista and for the lower end users of word, you know the ones that could never afford to buy it anyway, everything they need is right there in the shortcuts. My problem with word is that it has too many damned retarded features that will make me strangle a man with his own tie if I ever see him using them in a business report. My schools business college requires I take a fundamentals of the PC class, which is actually a class dedicated to microsoft products. Word,Power point, and excel, I figure I can pass this no problem so I go to take the test and it wants me to tell it how to put a specific type of word art in the paper or how to add embellishment to the letters. Why in gods name would I ever use word art in a business report? Do I work for fucking kindergarteners? I know where the word art is, it's hard to miss. But I don't know the names of them and I don't ever want to know the names of them.
It would average out if you did the reply because it's two messages. So it would still be 20 cents to do the whole thing. However, most married couples use the same provider for cell phone service which nullifies any charges for the call, unless you have one of the few carriers that still doesn't give free calling if it's the same company.
But didn't we already solve this problem with the phones that open up and have a full keyboard set up in qwerty?
Also add into the cost the fact that the windows machine comes with a monitor/speakers/keyboard/mouse and it's about $500 cheaper on top of the visual price difference.
That's exactly the groups point though. The article points out that it's easy to do it in a non-infringing way or get the chips from broadcom. Since the companies wouldn't do either of those they are filing a suit.
Exactly, and the lowered supply could infact be what is making the interest in the wii go up. So the "genuine demand" of the wii isn't because people want the wii any more than they want the ps3, it's because it's a substitute for the PS3.
Ah that was good...*goes to find my fair lady just to watch him insult people* On topic though, I think we should nuke NZ. Any person or country that condones text-talk doesn't derserve to be around. Hell when I write a text message on my phone,which only happens rarely because if I need to talk to someone I'll just call them, I still use full words instead of "b4","CU" etc. I mean seriously, how bloody hard is it to write Y-O-U, I don't care if it makes the same sound as U, they aren't the same and people need to be hit hard when they use it.
I haven't had any stability problems either. As for people suggesting that FF has a huge memory leak, I don't notice one, FF is currently using 40mb after 20 min of running and I start IE7 and it stats at 42mb and jumps to 60 on sites other than msn. FF also doesn't use cpu comstantly,averages a whole 2% for 1 second then 0, if I have IE selected it's constatly at 30-60% of my cpu cycles. As for Opera, I haven't used it in a while because I didn't like the way it looked or ran. It was too pretty and not to bash Macs, but it had an OSX look to it and I can't stand OSX.
Quality of the clips.
You can get a low quality audio/video for free or a high quality for $1 or whatever iTunes offers them for.
M$ had a cdkey retention assocaited with my email address. I got the beta before they made it pay $1.50 to get it and had a crash and I'm not going to pay them so I can test a product that I should already have a legit key for..
What I'm wondering is why aren't they suing Nvidia?
Or for that matter any company that makes graphics chips that are capable of this?
Macs didn't use ATI/Nvidia for graphics in the past but they probably had GPUs that could do this as well.
The lawsuit has to be focused based on the fact that AMD is buying them for so much.
The crime in cocaine,meth and heroin are that when making them the gasses released into the air don't stay in the place you're making it. If some cracked out person is brewing meth in an apartment bathtub chances of the chemicals going through the ventilation system and damaging other people is extremely high. Also, when making Meth you need high amounts of electricity,alteast according to the police who say they locate potential meth labs by power spikes on grids and then looking for a 3rdparty rig onto the power line. Thus stealing power which is a crime. And Lastly the high probability of an explosion that could harm innocent people either for my first point or flying pieces of a house hitting a little kid on a bike.
This was the case in GATACA. The genetically engineered were allowed to do anything while natural born people were considered inferior and could only be janitors and the like.
That's about right. My computer forensics class had the head of one of the largest private forensics companies come in and give a presentation on these things last year. The chips don't store anything outside of ram for more than 30 seconds and when something happens, like the airbag deploying or some other sensor indicates that there's been a collision of some sort,it burns in on the chip so that it can't have anything happen to it short of the chip being destroyed.This gets overwritten later on if something else happens to cause it to burn in again. They hook it up to a computer and read the data,which usually includes speed,pressure on the breaks,if the headlights were on, which systems in the car had a warning light on(if any) prior to the accident,pretty much anything useful to find out what happened during the accident. Insurance companies or any other company for that matter, hardly use these because the guy that came in said that his company charges something like fifty thousand to get the information off of it, only in extreme cases will this be used. Extreme being the insurance company being close to handing out atleast double the amount it would cost, so that they can prove my customer wasn't liable and I don't have to pay.
The thing about Phishing scams and such is that, for me atleast, you can't transfer money out of my bank account via the internet. You can go from one account to another that's in my name and attached to the others, but you have to actually go to the bank or write a check,both of which they can't do, to take large amounts out.
Actually, you can make it autorun off of a thumb drive...windows just loves the autorun.ini file. You set them to hidden on there and the employees don't see it, but windows will run it.
The idea is great though, would make for a great test, also good for when you need to do house keeping and aren't really sure who's the biggest idiot around the office.
Indeed I don't think he would. He might make the people not want to check the logs though.
Otherwise, your so-called democracy is nothing but a mask, and you're living in a bipartisan dictatorship. Otherwise? We're already there. We haven't had democracy since World War I.
UGH, wth did my keyboard do.... All I have to say is they should have looked at patents before upping this...as reported last night on techdirt and today on /. a company has patented exactly this. Along with a few other interesting things if you read the entire patent.h tml
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/23/01 59230&from=rss
http://techdirt.com/articles/20060222/1644208_F.s
All I have to say is they shou'd have looked at patents before upping this...as reported last night on techdirt and today on /. a copy has patented exactly this.
http://techdirt.com/articles/20060222/1644208_F.sh tml
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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/23/0
In the fast paced world of online communication, you don't ponder over the absolutely correct phrase. There shouldn't be a need to ponder over the correct words to use. It takes all of half of a second to think of a word if you don't like the original thought. If we were properly trained in using the English Language we would still have instant transmission of our thoughts to people but it would be better worded and there wouldn't be any ambiguity in our meanings because each word would have the meaning it was meant to have because the words around it would help convey the meaning.
As far as my Linguistics classes and my Langues Across Cultures class go, yes this is normal for language. The fact that english is changing so much and the rules of grammar are being destroyed in America is very troubling though. From old english upto the mid 1950's English changed quite a bit but it was in small parts. When we invented IM our language started on a downward spiral fueled by convenience, saying this like "dis b" or one that really chaps my hide is "where are you at"....I even know someone that says "where was you/at". When our language falls that much that the very basics of grammar don't matter it's a sad time, we aren't even taught proper grammar in school which is also fueling this,our text books show proper grammar and all of the excersizes deal with proper use of prepositions but what kind of signal does it send to the kids when your english teacher asks a student "where were you at?" it completely nullifies what the book just said because the teacher is the rolemodel of how to use it in life.
On the topic of rote process or simple repetetive problem solving. That's what our secondary school systems are teaching us. There's a number of essays written about this by Benjamin Barber,Anyon, Gatto. They deal with our literacy and how it's declining. Gatto makes a point of the schools aren't broken like everyone wants to think. They do exactly what they were made to do....create a manageable workforce and a society that doesn't question authority, the very few elite children of our country are taught to continue and uphold the tradition of keeping people only educated enough to do the job that their parents do as to not disturb the status quo. We are products of a capitalistic nominally democratic society and because we don't exercise Democracy more our children are and will continue paying for our mistakes.
I got a bit off topic but it's very troubling that our language is "evolving" in this way.