They'd have meetings about meetings, meetings to discuss the meaning of prior meetings, meetings to plan upcoming meetings, cost analysis meetings to discuss waste in their companies while they drink $5 bottles of fancy water, etc.
And nobody foresaw the dot-com bust... wow that makes government look efficient by comparison.
I always liked the term "steering committe". I picture a bus with a whole bunch of people at the wheel (or in that case it whould be WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEL!)
That's true, and even then it can be abused. I guess anything can be abused. There was the guy named Mike Rowe who registered MikeRoweSoft.com and if memory serves correctly (and probably doesn't) he got in a bit of a tussle with Microsoft and IIRC wound up working for them.
And there was the US Army Staff Sergent, whose name I can't remember, who registered his name. There was a famous guy with the same name who sued, I also don't remember the outcome of that one but IIRC money talked and sgt. whatsisname walked.
I tried to register SteveMcGrew.com years ago but the other Steve McGrew (or rather, one of the other Stve McGrews, the semifamous one) already had it. I tried to register mcgrew.com but some spamming asshat squatter company had it and wanted to sell the email address (yourfirst name)@(your last name).com
Anything can be abused. In fact I'm going to need rehab for kitten huffing.
If true, it's pretty pathetic that they need to do that in order to make money.
There are only two activities I know of that needs that kind of ready cash. From Uncyclopedia:
So why yo be lookin up crack when yo can take it, huh? What yo wan' look up Crack for? Look, yo just check out this free blast! You no be redding this piece of shit no morl afta this blast. Yo be coming back for mor' right? A dollar fo' blast, or a bump for $5! Am I right? No shit, man, you get the best high with my crack. Its like no like any other shit on this motherfucking planet! I gonna rip yo off man, ya gonna be on a $200 day habit, that bad you wan' my crack shit! Oh, never mind, go on, read on...
The other is oh shit somebody took out the article about huffing kittens! Oh wait, here it is. Man those orange ones are GREAT man...
Excessive huffing has been known to produce undesirable side effects, including addiction, damaged sinuses, corrupted brains, which may lead to someone thinking they're something they aren't, and, in some cases, death. It is a general rule of thumb that anyone who huffs more than 3 kittens a day is an addict. Veteran huffers often caution against huffing more than a couple kittens per day as overdosing can be very unpleasant and quite dangerous.
FUCK I'm up to three GROWN CATS per day. Where can I go for rehab! Oooh look something shiney... what were we talking about again?
Hey, we're rolling, hey.. Go home, go home Squatter go home Go home, go home Squatter go home I think I hear your Mommy callin' On your cellular phone She said your dad wants his car back So you'd better come home Squatter go home Squatter go home Squatter go home Squatter go home Go home, go home Squatter go home Go home, go home Squatter go home
You got no money for the punk rock show It's delagated for a beer and a ho Spitting, pissing, cumming, and shitting So you have cool clothes
Squatter go home Squatter go home Squatter go home Squatter go home
I see you sitting on the boulevard with your tired and pissed off stare Tellin' everyone your hard luck story, and what landed you here You think of mommy and daddy out in their safe suburban home And you know that's where you're gonna be when you start to feel the cold I'm saying poser go home Poser squatter go home Summer squatter go home Poser squatter go home Squatter go home Squatter go home Squatter go home Squatter go home Squatter go home Squatter go home Summer squatter go home
In the past, I've seen cases where customers have searched for a domain, found it to be available, and by the time they had a meeting the next morning to discuss buying it have it be registered by someone else
You have meetings to decide wether to buy something that cost two fucking dollars??? You must work for the government!
may the person who first coined "blog" rot in hell
I've finally become comfortable with "blog" after realising exactly what the word "blog" sounds like. "The name's Blog. Ralph Blog. Shaken, not OWWWW!"
Ralph Blog is, of course, the god you pray to at the porcelin alter. Considering the content of most blogs, it's a fitting term.
OTOH whatever dipshit first said "blogsphere" should be bitchslapped.
finally the FBI, CIA, NSA, MADD, and AARP will all be called out, and the spam problem will finally be brought to an end.
Are you kidding? The AARP is sending me spam! Well, not over the internet of course, geezers don't do the internet. They send meatspace spam over the US Postal system.
But the worst thing is, I'm not retired! Damn their insensitivity, that's like sending a coupon for ten cents off a prime rib dinner at a five star restaraunt to some guy in Somalia!
The fiends!
MAAD? I'm a member of DAMM -- Drunks Against Mad Mothers.
actually it's not a dupe, i went to submit this article but then checked two days later this was posted by someone else. I think i got article tasted:(
Two days later (after checking with my client) I went to register it
Why would you wait to days and check with your client when you can register a domain for about two bucks? I'm a cheapass but man, you have me beat. You can't even buy a single beer in a bar for two bucks!
You should have gone ahead and registered it as soon as you thought of it without doing any whois lookup, THEN checked with your client. If he didn't want it you were out two bucks. If he did then you could have transferred it anywhere, to your servers or your host.
I didn't RTFA (I must not be new here and besides, it's a PDF) but the summary is pretty confusing.
'Every time you do a whois search with any service, you run a risk of losing your domain,'
So if I do a whois search on mcgrew.info I risk losing my domain? That hardly seems likely! But if I hadn't registered it it wouldn't be mine, now would it? You cannot steal imaginary property, and if it's only in your head it's by definition imaginary.
And why would one do a whois search to look up a domain one wanted? I'd go to my registrar and try to register the damned thing! If it was already registered it wouldn't cost me anything. This seems a silly non-issue and I'd like someone to enlighten me.
Here is how domain name research theft crimes can occur
So there is a law against "stealing" someone's idea? What law? In what country? And how could such a law actually solve anything? It isn't a crime if it's not against the law, now is it?
Please don't od this insightful because the summary has me feeling so damned ignorant I just may (gasp) RTFM.
And don't get me wrong and start flaming. IMO this is a shady shoddy practice but no law could fix it, since the internet is global and laws are country-specific. It sems ICAAN is the only one who could do something, and they seem lately to be just another arm of the corporate cartel that runs the world's governments. Since it's most likely the corporates doing this sleaze, I don't see anybody's government or ICAAN doing jack about it.
When someone says "you get what you pay for" hang on to your wallet, because he's about to take you to the cleaners. The fact is that you often DON'T get what you pay for. Scammers never give you what you pay for.
You usually pay for what you get, but even then, not always.
How much did that air you're breathing cost?
In fact, most of those old sayings are utter balderdash. How about "money doesn't grow on trees", tell that to someone who owns an orchard. And I guess whoever says "there's no such thing as a free lunch" never had a grandmother.
In fact, the only one I've ever heard that has always been accurate I only heard one place, from my dad. He said "don't believe anything you hear, and only half of what you see."
Dell doesn't even sell anything that cheap, and their cheap stuff is pretty crappy
My friend Mike's wife bought a Dell about 3 or 4 years ago and paid almost two grand for it, it's now bricked. So I'm not too damned impressed with their expensive stuff, either.
It may be a 1.5 rating compared to a new whizbang box (that sells for $1800) but at $200, a lot of people felt it was a 4.0 rating
BINGO! They're comparing a Chevy to a Lexus. For what most people need a computer for, especially someone who has never owned a computer before, this computer is ideal. Hell, it would suit many of my own needs.
In fact, a non-nerd friend of mine has a Dell that somehow got bricked (something happened to the BIOS) and I was suggesting he get a bare-bones case/mb/RAM/power supply from JDR, but I think I'll suggest this box instead.
You're saying that people who spend hundreds of dollars for a machine to play a game that costs sixty dollars and is actually digital crackaren't retards?
I will grant you that Guitar Hero is pretty fucking cool. And I admit to being addicted to Quake way back in the last century. And Road Rash. And...
Yes, but the way the single click is implimented is as dumb as the doubleclick. It's just copying the way hyperlinks work, with, as you say, often disasterous results. With that, clicking any icon once executes it. The first click should highlight. Clicking a highlighted item should execute.
Number one, the RIAA doesn't need to crush competition that way. They can do it the usual way, by marketing, pandering to popular tastes, and sneakily circumventing payola laws
If they're so sucessful at their marketing then why are they crying about lost sales and lost revinue?
Number two, revenue lost to piracy is greater than revenue lost to indie artists
You assume that piracy loses revinue. That has not only never been proven, but all evidence suggests the opposite. Rather than costing sales, piracy increases it. Is it purely coincidence that CD sales started falling shortly AFTER the RIAA sued Napster to oblivion? Or that studies show that P2P usere spend more money on music than non-P2P users?
Heve you heard of Roger McGuinn, front man for the 1960s band "The Byrds"? His career was in the toilet, and he credits the old outlawed Napster for bringing his music to a whole new generation and revitalizing his career.
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They'd have meetings about meetings, meetings to discuss the meaning of prior meetings, meetings to plan upcoming meetings, cost analysis meetings to discuss waste in their companies while they drink $5 bottles of fancy water, etc.
And nobody foresaw the dot-com bust... wow that makes government look efficient by comparison.
I always liked the term "steering committe". I picture a bus with a whole bunch of people at the wheel (or in that case it whould be WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEL!)
That's true, and even then it can be abused. I guess anything can be abused. There was the guy named Mike Rowe who registered MikeRoweSoft.com and if memory serves correctly (and probably doesn't) he got in a bit of a tussle with Microsoft and IIRC wound up working for them.
And there was the US Army Staff Sergent, whose name I can't remember, who registered his name. There was a famous guy with the same name who sued, I also don't remember the outcome of that one but IIRC money talked and sgt. whatsisname walked.
I tried to register SteveMcGrew.com years ago but the other Steve McGrew (or rather, one of the other Stve McGrews, the semifamous one) already had it. I tried to register mcgrew.com but some spamming asshat squatter company had it and wanted to sell the email address (yourfirst name)@(your last name).com
Anything can be abused. In fact I'm going to need rehab for kitten huffing.
-mcgrew
I can't breach a contract I never signed.
Welcome to the 21st century.
I don't need cred and can't afford it anyway. I just like music excessively.
Google is your friend
Hmm, they probably did use 2.0 or later, as you had to have the OD on a floppy. The used XT I got later had 3.1.
Never used a mac in my life. Where are the fucking mods when you need somnebody modded "flamebait?"
Neither of those speaker systems qualify as anything close to high end audio
That's true. If you do have high end audio the difference would be even more pronounced. And yes, good headphones are indeed cheap.
But you're not going to convince me that red is really green.
There are only two activities I know of that needs that kind of ready cash. From Uncyclopedia: The other is oh shit somebody took out the article about huffing kittens! Oh wait, here it is. Man those orange ones are GREAT man...FUCK I'm up to three GROWN CATS per day. Where can I go for rehab! Oooh look something shiney... what were we talking about again?
Hey, we're rolling, hey..
Go home, go home Squatter go home
Go home, go home Squatter go home
I think I hear your Mommy callin' On your cellular phone
She said your dad wants his car back So you'd better come home
Squatter go home
Squatter go home
Squatter go home
Squatter go home
Go home, go home
Squatter go home
Go home, go home
Squatter go home
You got no money for the punk rock show
It's delagated for a beer and a ho
Spitting, pissing, cumming, and shitting So you have cool clothes
Squatter go home
Squatter go home
Squatter go home
Squatter go home
I see you sitting on the boulevard with your tired and pissed off stare
Tellin' everyone your hard luck story, and what landed you here
You think of mommy and daddy out in their safe suburban home
And you know that's where you're gonna be when you start to feel the cold
I'm saying poser go home
Poser squatter go home
Summer squatter go home
Poser squatter go home
Squatter go home
Squatter go home
Squatter go home
Squatter go home
Squatter go home
Squatter go home
Summer squatter go home
In the past, I've seen cases where customers have searched for a domain, found it to be available, and by the time they had a meeting the next morning to discuss buying it have it be registered by someone else
You have meetings to decide wether to buy something that cost two fucking dollars??? You must work for the government!
may the person who first coined "blog" rot in hell
I've finally become comfortable with "blog" after realising exactly what the word "blog" sounds like. "The name's Blog. Ralph Blog. Shaken, not OWWWW!"
Ralph Blog is, of course, the god you pray to at the porcelin alter. Considering the content of most blogs, it's a fitting term.
OTOH whatever dipshit first said "blogsphere" should be bitchslapped.
TLD (top level domain for non-geeks)
Sir, Have you seen this site's masthead? Do you have any idea where you are?
finally the FBI, CIA, NSA, MADD, and AARP will all be called out, and the spam problem will finally be brought to an end.
Are you kidding? The AARP is sending me spam! Well, not over the internet of course, geezers don't do the internet. They send meatspace spam over the US Postal system.
But the worst thing is, I'm not retired! Damn their insensitivity, that's like sending a coupon for ten cents off a prime rib dinner at a five star restaraunt to some guy in Somalia!
The fiends!
MAAD? I'm a member of DAMM -- Drunks Against Mad Mothers.
actually it's not a dupe, i went to submit this article but then checked two days later this was posted by someone else. I think i got article tasted :(
Don't tasted me bro!
Two days later (after checking with my client) I went to register it
Why would you wait to days and check with your client when you can register a domain for about two bucks? I'm a cheapass but man, you have me beat. You can't even buy a single beer in a bar for two bucks!
You should have gone ahead and registered it as soon as you thought of it without doing any whois lookup, THEN checked with your client. If he didn't want it you were out two bucks. If he did then you could have transferred it anywhere, to your servers or your host.
I didn't RTFA (I must not be new here and besides, it's a PDF) but the summary is pretty confusing.
'Every time you do a whois search with any service, you run a risk of losing your domain,'
So if I do a whois search on mcgrew.info I risk losing my domain? That hardly seems likely! But if I hadn't registered it it wouldn't be mine, now would it? You cannot steal imaginary property, and if it's only in your head it's by definition imaginary.
And why would one do a whois search to look up a domain one wanted? I'd go to my registrar and try to register the damned thing! If it was already registered it wouldn't cost me anything. This seems a silly non-issue and I'd like someone to enlighten me.
Here is how domain name research theft crimes can occur
So there is a law against "stealing" someone's idea? What law? In what country? And how could such a law actually solve anything? It isn't a crime if it's not against the law, now is it?
Please don't od this insightful because the summary has me feeling so damned ignorant I just may (gasp) RTFM.
And don't get me wrong and start flaming. IMO this is a shady shoddy practice but no law could fix it, since the internet is global and laws are country-specific. It sems ICAAN is the only one who could do something, and they seem lately to be just another arm of the corporate cartel that runs the world's governments. Since it's most likely the corporates doing this sleaze, I don't see anybody's government or ICAAN doing jack about it.
When someone says "you get what you pay for" hang on to your wallet, because he's about to take you to the cleaners. The fact is that you often DON'T get what you pay for. Scammers never give you what you pay for.
You usually pay for what you get, but even then, not always.
How much did that air you're breathing cost?
In fact, most of those old sayings are utter balderdash. How about "money doesn't grow on trees", tell that to someone who owns an orchard. And I guess whoever says "there's no such thing as a free lunch" never had a grandmother.
In fact, the only one I've ever heard that has always been accurate I only heard one place, from my dad. He said "don't believe anything you hear, and only half of what you see."
-mcgrew
Dell doesn't even sell anything that cheap, and their cheap stuff is pretty crappy
My friend Mike's wife bought a Dell about 3 or 4 years ago and paid almost two grand for it, it's now bricked. So I'm not too damned impressed with their expensive stuff, either.
Anything I would say would be redundant...
;)
Me too.
It may be a 1.5 rating compared to a new whizbang box (that sells for $1800) but at $200, a lot of people felt it was a 4.0 rating
BINGO! They're comparing a Chevy to a Lexus. For what most people need a computer for, especially someone who has never owned a computer before, this computer is ideal. Hell, it would suit many of my own needs.
In fact, a non-nerd friend of mine has a Dell that somehow got bricked (something happened to the BIOS) and I was suggesting he get a bare-bones case/mb/RAM/power supply from JDR, but I think I'll suggest this box instead.
You're saying that people who spend hundreds of dollars for a machine to play a game that costs sixty dollars and is actually digital crack aren't retards?
I will grant you that Guitar Hero is pretty fucking cool. And I admit to being addicted to Quake way back in the last century. And Road Rash. And...
Oh hell I'm a retard.
Some of my best friends are whores, you insensitive clod! Comparing PC magazine to whores does a great disservice to prostitutes all over the world.
Prostitutes provide a needed service, unlike PC Mag. Prostitutes bring people happines, unlike PC Mag.
Some prostitutes, unlike PC Mag, even run Linux!
Yes, but the way the single click is implimented is as dumb as the doubleclick. It's just copying the way hyperlinks work, with, as you say, often disasterous results. With that, clicking any icon once executes it. The first click should highlight. Clicking a highlighted item should execute.
Number one, the RIAA doesn't need to crush competition that way. They can do it the usual way, by marketing, pandering to popular tastes, and sneakily circumventing payola laws
If they're so sucessful at their marketing then why are they crying about lost sales and lost revinue?
Number two, revenue lost to piracy is greater than revenue lost to indie artists
You assume that piracy loses revinue. That has not only never been proven, but all evidence suggests the opposite. Rather than costing sales, piracy increases it. Is it purely coincidence that CD sales started falling shortly AFTER the RIAA sued Napster to oblivion? Or that studies show that P2P usere spend more money on music than non-P2P users?
Heve you heard of Roger McGuinn, front man for the 1960s band "The Byrds"? His career was in the toilet, and he credits the old outlawed Napster for bringing his music to a whole new generation and revitalizing his career.