Right, just like george carlin says, we'll all be better off once we've all had babies with different races such that everyone's one color... we'll all be better off once we've all had babies with different sexes such that everyone's the same sex.. Er wait.
Besides I'd wager that over half of the "females" on the net might be male. You're really going out on a limb there with that wager! You should join #girls and see, there really are quite a lot of real women on the net!:-)
I got my sister into BBSing in the late 80s.. On a chatboard in chicago she met a guy named "Shorty". She ended up meeting him, married him 7 years later and 3 days ago they had their first child, a boy. My sister's 5'2, white. He's 6'10, black. The child is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen:-)
Not sure why i'm sharing this.. just so darn proud of my nephew, and wanted to agree with you that yes, I think people generally assume everyone they meet online is a white male.
I'm guessing they wrote it as a loan in the first place so that people would be willing to do it since they get the money off *at* the store. Rebates can take 2-3 months to get your money back.
...You don't think that microsoft noticed the number of signups and immediate cancellations and realized that indeed, people *were* taking advantage of their offer? That's not even a teensy tiny possibility in your eye?
I believe the existence of two completely different contracts in the beginning proves that microsoft was well aware of the details and their consequences, but they had faith that people wouldn't abuse it (silly people). All they ever had to do was say "offer void in california and oregon", or make it a rebate.
Yeah, and there's no sales tax in oregon, so if you live in washington on the border and shop in oregon, whoo-ee!. Except then you have to live on the border between oregon and washington.
Oh, and the primary indication would be where you file your taxes.
...Except that when I moved from illinois to washington a couple of years ago, I ended up paying taxes in both states. You pay state taxes for whatever state you earn money in.
One end of british columbia to the other, or one end of the USA to another? C'mon, hurry up and answer, I have to decide whether or not to buy tonight..
I agree that such violence so early in the movie could potentially turn off a large portion of the audience from what it really meant. I think there are a lot of things that movie makers can do too much of, too early, that turns people off of movies - "gross" things come to mind.
One movie that comes to mind that had a lot of violence but managed to portray it in a meaningful way was Braveheart. As for a movie that had too much of something that turned me off of it - how about Beloved. There were several scenes that just didn't help the movie along, like watching how beloved ate so closely, yum yum.
Whatever happened to doing something nice just for its own sake?
It went out the window along with "I'll write programs for free, give out the source, and people will just pay me to code because they know I code well.":-)
I think microsoft should send him a complimentary copy of win2k. Then he can post about their generosity (I'm assuming it will retail for a touch more than $35), and slashdotters can use it as an excuse to rip it apart! It will be great fun.
Well, thank goodness! For a minute there, I thought I was going to make it through 4 screenfulls of slashdot without hearing the name of the evil empire! Thank *you* AC for being there to save me from such certain doom.
What were you expecting? Have you ever worked in a large company? Have you read the articles lately about how much business amazon is getting over the holiday that their workers (the people who respond to customer emails) are extremely overworked.
I've worked with amazon's customer support on an email basis and I was extremely impressed.. a few years ago I used amazon with one email address, and then later I forgot about that account and signed up with a new one. I recently remembered the old account and emailed them asking them if it was possible to merge the two accounts.. They took care of it within a week. The email I received was from an individual person who was very nice, I wish i'd had a way of mailing their manager and telling them how impressed I was.
I'm with you on this one.. If the report was that amazon was eating its babies, yeah i'd probably boycott it. But you don't go from user-friendly-large-site to evil-monopolistic-microsoft-type-company overnight. Along with that, there's no black and white in the industry, just many shades of gray..
I think a letter writing campaign (it's sooo much easier when it's email:-) would be more effective in announcing to amazon that we think they're being really dumb. I think they are concerned enough about their image with the techie crowd that they *might* listen.
Since when have linux advocates been in to "satisfying 90% of the people is good enough"? Do you guys consider yourselves part of that 90%, or are you the 10% that always wants more more more out of your kernel, USB, SMP, WINE, more features more functionality more stability?
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Right, just like george carlin says, we'll all be better off once we've all had babies with different races such that everyone's one color... we'll all be better off once we've all had babies with different sexes such that everyone's the same sex.. Er wait.
:-)
Besides I'd wager that over half of the "females" on the net might be male.
You're really going out on a limb there with that wager! You should join #girls and see, there really are quite a lot of real women on the net!
I got my sister into BBSing in the late 80s.. On a chatboard in chicago she met a guy named "Shorty". She ended up meeting him, married him 7 years later and 3 days ago they had their first child, a boy. My sister's 5'2, white. He's 6'10, black. The child is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen :-)
Not sure why i'm sharing this.. just so darn proud of my nephew, and wanted to agree with you that yes, I think people generally assume everyone they meet online is a white male.
Don't you mean "I'm LuVRGrl69 from #teenchat" "I thought you were like 13" "Most pervs do" :-)
Hell, screw post-graduation, you can get a great job in a CS field without even graduating :-)
..*cough* not speaking from experience, of course i stuck it out the full 4 years, yeah baby yeah.
Oh i'm sure he's got that down.. He's had a lot of practice. "Don't worry, hillary is out of town, she won't find out."
I'm going to go make myself useful by recompiling the kernel on my GNU/Linux system!
*grin*
I'm guessing they wrote it as a loan in the first place so that people would be willing to do it since they get the money off *at* the store. Rebates can take 2-3 months to get your money back.
...You don't think that microsoft noticed the number of signups and immediate cancellations and realized that indeed, people *were* taking advantage of their offer? That's not even a teensy tiny possibility in your eye?
I believe the existence of two completely different contracts in the beginning proves that microsoft was well aware of the details and their consequences, but they had faith that people wouldn't abuse it (silly people). All they ever had to do was say "offer void in california and oregon", or make it a rebate.
Yeah, and there's no sales tax in oregon, so if you live in washington on the border and shop in oregon, whoo-ee!. Except then you have to live on the border between oregon and washington.
Hrm, nevermind. Now that I think back to it, I think I got a rebate on the tax I'd had withheld in illinois. My bad.
Oh, and the primary indication would be where you file your taxes.
...Except that when I moved from illinois to washington a couple of years ago, I ended up paying taxes in both states. You pay state taxes for whatever state you earn money in.
One end of british columbia to the other, or one end of the USA to another? C'mon, hurry up and answer, I have to decide whether or not to buy tonight..
I agree that such violence so early in the movie could potentially turn off a large portion of the audience from what it really meant. I think there are a lot of things that movie makers can do too much of, too early, that turns people off of movies - "gross" things come to mind.
One movie that comes to mind that had a lot of violence but managed to portray it in a meaningful way was Braveheart. As for a movie that had too much of something that turned me off of it - how about Beloved. There were several scenes that just didn't help the movie along, like watching how beloved ate so closely, yum yum.
Which also explains why we have such lovely commands as 'umount' - because that n was just *too* much :-)
Whatever happened to doing something nice just for its own sake?
:-)
It went out the window along with "I'll write programs for free, give out the source, and people will just pay me to code because they know I code well."
I think microsoft should send him a complimentary copy of win2k. Then he can post about their generosity (I'm assuming it will retail for a touch more than $35), and slashdotters can use it as an excuse to rip it apart! It will be great fun.
Here's what I think people mean when they talk about an example of a standard UI:
Office2k, IE and Explorer all have all of the above, and it makes it much easier for everybody's grandparents to use computers if that's true.
Wow you're a geek. His was much funnier. :-)
Well, thank goodness! For a minute there, I thought I was going to make it through 4 screenfulls of slashdot without hearing the name of the evil empire! Thank *you* AC for being there to save me from such certain doom.
Nobody likes a math geek, scully.
What were you expecting? Have you ever worked in a large company? Have you read the articles lately about how much business amazon is getting over the holiday that their workers (the people who respond to customer emails) are extremely overworked.
I've worked with amazon's customer support on an email basis and I was extremely impressed.. a few years ago I used amazon with one email address, and then later I forgot about that account and signed up with a new one. I recently remembered the old account and emailed them asking them if it was possible to merge the two accounts.. They took care of it within a week. The email I received was from an individual person who was very nice, I wish i'd had a way of mailing their manager and telling them how impressed I was.
I'm with you on this one.. If the report was that amazon was eating its babies, yeah i'd probably boycott it. But you don't go from user-friendly-large-site to evil-monopolistic-microsoft-type-company overnight. Along with that, there's no black and white in the industry, just many shades of gray..
:-) would be more effective in announcing to amazon that we think they're being really dumb. I think they are concerned enough about their image with the techie crowd that they *might* listen.
I think a letter writing campaign (it's sooo much easier when it's email
I have a hand-painted ceramic penguin on my desk at work, about 8 or 9 inches tall. Check your local ceramics workshops, roll your own tux!
Oh wow, so it's people at your school that came up with that? way to go creative juices!
Since when have linux advocates been in to "satisfying 90% of the people is good enough"? Do you guys consider yourselves part of that 90%, or are you the 10% that always wants more more more out of your kernel, USB, SMP, WINE, more features more functionality more stability?