I HATE voice-mail because almost no one knows how to leave a message CORRECTLY.
I don't even have voice mail set up on my phone, and I don't leave voicemail unless I know the person doesn't have caller ID (rare these days). If I can't answer the phone I don't need a message; I'll call you back. I'll assume that if you see I tried to call you'll call me back.
As usual, the headline is bass-ackwards. It's kind of hard to leave a voicemail without talking to them, now isn't it? What the headline should say is Call Someone - Without Having To listen To Them.
This feature would probably be most useful if you know the person can't be disturbed (ie. they're in a meeting). You could just slydial them and leave a nice descriptive message
Or you could text or email them. There are times I could have used this service; for instance, when I want to impart information without getting into an argument.
Of course I did. It would be pretty damned irresponsible to metamoderate without reading the faq, which is linked from the page you're sent to when you metamoderate.
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I know of at least one that is considered to be a munition
IINM Back in the 1980s, it was illegal to export dBase for pretty much the same reason.
As to "cloud computing", I think it's a terrible name. It's akin to back when the clueless called DOS "doss" without even knowing what an operating system was or what DOS stood for. Database admins didn't coin the term, their pointy haired bosses did.
I metamoderate daily, troll, I know what's on topic and what isn't. This comment isn't, and neither is yours, although my original comment IS. I'm modding myself down with the "no karma bonus" box and if the mods want to mod it down even further I have no complaint about it. I'll let the mods take care of your offtopic flamebait. Keep it up and your comments will never see the light of day.
You mean CmdrTaco. "Taco" is a Mexican guy here in Springfield who is surely having a far worse day than CmdrTaco. He just got out of the hospital; he was in a taxi that got T-boned by an SUV. Broke a lot of bones and had a lot of internal injuries. The guys down at the Blue Grouch tell me he's using a walker.
You are correct, I had a huge brain fart on that one. The wiki article on Gorshin has a photo of hem with the Riddler costume, and I had just looked Gorshin up before posting.
I don't do Mondays well, Monday is to me like Thursday is to Arthur Dent.
So.. you're saying I should have accepted the surprise pay 'cut', and avoided my civic duty to report a crime?;)
I'm saying you should have accepted the layoff like I and so many others have done. I never took vengeance on any company for laying me off. Waiting until they laid you off was cowardly.
Autoplay was turned off. My daughter trusted Sony and ran the program deliberately. I was not onlt rooted but trojaned.
"Oh, my suburban rich lifestyle is soooo hard... booo hooo".
Not suburban; I'm in a small city very close to the ghetto. And I'm far from rich. My life isn't hard, just lonely (despite a wealth of friends).
you've always got your hot hooker-married-to-a-politician friend to rely on
I don't do married women whether or not they're sluts or hookers. Thanks for reading the journals though, hope you enjoy them.
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Although I think he (and the other responders to your comment, especially the one who said you were trolling) completely missed your (and Dawson's) point, I see no difference between the 3,000 victims of Bin Laden and the thousands upon thousands of other murder victims and their survivors.
Why were we able to catch and kill Saddam Hussein, who never attacked the USA, but we can't bring Bin Laden to justice? Someone is terribly incompetent, and I think it's the entire government of the US.
Perhaps, but he never wore a football helmet on a motorcycle before being axe murdered after smoking pot woth Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda. The other joker did!
Oddly, I watched Twelve Monkeys for the umpteenth time a few days ago. It featured Frank Gorshin as a psychaitrist. Gorshin, who was also in an episode of Star Trek played "the Joker" in the 1960s Batman TV series. Gorshin played in a lot of nerd shows.
Gorshin died in 1995. Is there a "curse of the Batman Villian?"
In the last NSFW mcgrew journal, Lucy Furr burned in hell (story starts here) and Linda and I went and shot pool.
I wan't going to even journal about the Batman chronicle, but dammit somebody had to post this Batman story to slashdot's front page. So here you go. I'll try to keep this SFW...
Linda just got out of prison last February, she'd been in there for a nonviolent drug charge and is on parole. AFAICT she's been obeying the law to the letter, as she doesn't want to go back to Dwight. The forty eight year old Linda's "an item" with Charlie's thirty year old brother.
Charlie's brother just got out of prison for Grand Thieft Auto (no shit). Charlie's a good friend; she owes me money but she'll get it paid back eventually. Her brother, otoh, is a stupid asshole.
He's back in Statesville; he violated parole by being at Ralph's, where Linda lives. Tami (AKA "Lucy Furr") was probably behind the whole deal, but at any rate the neighbors called the cops because of the noise of the fighting, and they hauled Charlie's brother off to jail. As Linda is a felon on parole he's not supposed to be over there.
Linda keeps trying to talk me into letting Charlie's brother use my address as his home address so he can be paroled again. No f... sorry, sfw, no damned way.
I'd mashed my hand last Monday, and Tami had second degree burns over most of her body from being blond and falling asleep in the sun by the pool without sunscreen. I was afraid the stupid fat bitch would mow my lawn to get back in my good graces (and back in my house).
Linda had promised to take Charlie's nephew to the Batman movie. I kind of wanted to see it myself. Linda offered to mow my yard for money to take the kid to see Batman, and as my hand was sore as hell I agreed to take her and the kid.
Patty called from Cincinnati; she's my youngest daughter, just turned drinking age this year, and manages a GameStop store (and sells Grand Thieft Auto, of course). She worries about her lonely old dad.
I'd taken sixty five bucks out of the bank to do me the weekend, done a little grocery shopping, gone to the bar (of course); pitchers are only $3.50 at the Blue Grouch on Saturdays. Smurf had growled at me for closing the door too hard. "Sorry, man", I told the blue fellow who owns the place.
"I'm going to see Batman with Linda and a ten year old kid", I told my daughter. "Oh wow, I want to see that!" she exclaimed. "We were supposed to go last night but Paul had to work." He manages a different GameStop. "Is it Linda's kid?"
"No," I told her, "It's Charlie's nephew." We chatted a while, and I left to pick up Linda.
They got in the car and we went to the theater. The parking lot was packed. It was hot as blazes, and humid as hell, even though it was almost dark. We went in to buy the tickets, I opened my wallet... and only had twelve dollars left. Tickets were five bucks each.
I gave Linda my money and told her to call when the movie was over.
For example, a small engineering firm probably doesn't need a Computational Fluid Dynamics package the whole time, but when they're designing a product it's useful to rent some use of one.
Except that the training required to learn this software is more expensive than the software. It would be cheaper to hire an engineer who had his own tools.
It's like when your car breaks - it's cheaper to hire a mechanic than to rent diagnostic computers and other tools the mechanic has and learn about internal combustion engines and how to use the tools you rented.
Remember, the term "cloud computing" was coined by the clueless who didn't understand the chart's meaning, or he would have simply said "distributed computing".
Today's forecaset: cloudy. This afternoon, continued cloudy with occasional periods of distributed computing.
Tonight: Dark, with periods of light toward morning.
Tomorrow: Ignorant, with occasional words coined by the ignorant used by the knowledgable. May be occasional clouds in the afternoon. In case of tornado, stay in your basement.
Currency, such as the US dollar can also be copied pretty easily due to technology (and technology will only get better). Should we allow this too?
A dollar's only value is as a placeholder. It has no intrinsic value of its own. A copy of a dollar isn't a dollar and has no value whatever. Any percieved value to a counterfeit dollar is a lie, meant to decieve.
A copy of photoshop can be used exactly like the original it was copied from.
I agree with you that #2 is likely to be the paradigm of the future. You don't get support for counterfeit software. Perhaps in the future the software will be free, but learning to use it will cost.
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I HATE voice-mail because almost no one knows how to leave a message CORRECTLY.
I don't even have voice mail set up on my phone, and I don't leave voicemail unless I know the person doesn't have caller ID (rare these days). If I can't answer the phone I don't need a message; I'll call you back. I'll assume that if you see I tried to call you'll call me back.
In soviet Russia, people avoid listening to YOU!
As usual, the headline is bass-ackwards. It's kind of hard to leave a voicemail without talking to them, now isn't it? What the headline should say is Call Someone - Without Having To listen To Them.
This feature would probably be most useful if you know the person can't be disturbed (ie. they're in a meeting). You could just slydial them and leave a nice descriptive message
Or you could text or email them. There are times I could have used this service; for instance, when I want to impart information without getting into an argument.
I test all links, troll. Anybody that clicks one will see you're a liar. Now shoo.
Of course I did. It would be pretty damned irresponsible to metamoderate without reading the faq, which is linked from the page you're sent to when you metamoderate.
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I know of at least one that is considered to be a munition
IINM Back in the 1980s, it was illegal to export dBase for pretty much the same reason.
As to "cloud computing", I think it's a terrible name. It's akin to back when the clueless called DOS "doss" without even knowing what an operating system was or what DOS stood for. Database admins didn't coin the term, their pointy haired bosses did.
I did in fact add two lines to the entry on slashdot.
They actually stayed without anybody messing with them. I thought for sure someone would change "yuo" to "you", but was happily surprised.
I metamoderate daily, troll, I know what's on topic and what isn't. This comment isn't, and neither is yours, although my original comment IS. I'm modding myself down with the "no karma bonus" box and if the mods want to mod it down even further I have no complaint about it. I'll let the mods take care of your offtopic flamebait. Keep it up and your comments will never see the light of day.
Just to let you know, I'm done biting. Bye bye.
Those guys who put robots on Mars rock
Agreed.
Corporate developers dating their users! More at 11.
Carbon dating or more modern methods of determining age?
Taco's having a bad day it seems
You mean CmdrTaco. "Taco" is a Mexican guy here in Springfield who is surely having a far worse day than CmdrTaco. He just got out of the hospital; he was in a taxi that got T-boned by an SUV. Broke a lot of bones and had a lot of internal injuries. The guys down at the Blue Grouch tell me he's using a walker.
Worse, his girlfriend's butt ugly, too.
Give me a break, I'm trying to eat lunch here!
You are correct, I had a huge brain fart on that one. The wiki article on Gorshin has a photo of hem with the Riddler costume, and I had just looked Gorshin up before posting.
I don't do Mondays well, Monday is to me like Thursday is to Arthur Dent.
So.. you're saying I should have accepted the surprise pay 'cut', and avoided my civic duty to report a crime? ;)
I'm saying you should have accepted the layoff like I and so many others have done. I never took vengeance on any company for laying me off. Waiting until they laid you off was cowardly.
Autoplay was turned off. My daughter trusted Sony and ran the program deliberately. I was not onlt rooted but trojaned.
"Oh, my suburban rich lifestyle is soooo hard... booo hooo".
Not suburban; I'm in a small city very close to the ghetto. And I'm far from rich. My life isn't hard, just lonely (despite a wealth of friends).
you've always got your hot hooker-married-to-a-politician friend to rely on
I don't do married women whether or not they're sluts or hookers. Thanks for reading the journals though, hope you enjoy them.
Although I think he (and the other responders to your comment, especially the one who said you were trolling) completely missed your (and Dawson's) point, I see no difference between the 3,000 victims of Bin Laden and the thousands upon thousands of other murder victims and their survivors.
The difference is, the other victims and survivors weren't exploited for political gain nearly as much.
Why were we able to catch and kill Saddam Hussein, who never attacked the USA, but we can't bring Bin Laden to justice? Someone is terribly incompetent, and I think it's the entire government of the US.
Perhaps, but he never wore a football helmet on a motorcycle before being axe murdered after smoking pot woth Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda. The other joker did!
I imagine they'll use someone else from the Batman universe, but who? My guess is the Riddler.
If they want a REAL nerd villian they'll use the Penguin!
Oddly, I watched Twelve Monkeys for the umpteenth time a few days ago. It featured Frank Gorshin as a psychaitrist. Gorshin, who was also in an episode of Star Trek played "the Joker" in the 1960s Batman TV series. Gorshin played in a lot of nerd shows.
Gorshin died in 1995. Is there a "curse of the Batman Villian?"
No, slashdot's been around since 1997.
I thought "us" was the good guys? Isn't "us" always the good guys? And isn't "them" always the bad guys?
And after all, we're only ordinary men. Me and you, God only knows it's not what we would choose to do. -Pink Floyd
We'll save you the trouble of asking and just get off your lawn.
In the last NSFW mcgrew journal, Lucy Furr burned in hell (story starts here) and Linda and I went and shot pool.
I wan't going to even journal about the Batman chronicle, but dammit somebody had to post this Batman story to slashdot's front page. So here you go. I'll try to keep this SFW...
Linda just got out of prison last February, she'd been in there for a nonviolent drug charge and is on parole. AFAICT she's been obeying the law to the letter, as she doesn't want to go back to Dwight. The forty eight year old Linda's "an item" with Charlie's thirty year old brother.
Charlie's brother just got out of prison for Grand Thieft Auto (no shit). Charlie's a good friend; she owes me money but she'll get it paid back eventually. Her brother, otoh, is a stupid asshole.
He's back in Statesville; he violated parole by being at Ralph's, where Linda lives. Tami (AKA "Lucy Furr") was probably behind the whole deal, but at any rate the neighbors called the cops because of the noise of the fighting, and they hauled Charlie's brother off to jail. As Linda is a felon on parole he's not supposed to be over there.
Linda keeps trying to talk me into letting Charlie's brother use my address as his home address so he can be paroled again. No f... sorry, sfw, no damned way.
I'd mashed my hand last Monday, and Tami had second degree burns over most of her body from being blond and falling asleep in the sun by the pool without sunscreen. I was afraid the stupid fat bitch would mow my lawn to get back in my good graces (and back in my house).
Linda had promised to take Charlie's nephew to the Batman movie. I kind of wanted to see it myself. Linda offered to mow my yard for money to take the kid to see Batman, and as my hand was sore as hell I agreed to take her and the kid.
Patty called from Cincinnati; she's my youngest daughter, just turned drinking age this year, and manages a GameStop store (and sells Grand Thieft Auto, of course). She worries about her lonely old dad.
I'd taken sixty five bucks out of the bank to do me the weekend, done a little grocery shopping, gone to the bar (of course); pitchers are only $3.50 at the Blue Grouch on Saturdays. Smurf had growled at me for closing the door too hard. "Sorry, man", I told the blue fellow who owns the place.
"I'm going to see Batman with Linda and a ten year old kid", I told my daughter. "Oh wow, I want to see that!" she exclaimed. "We were supposed to go last night but Paul had to work." He manages a different GameStop. "Is it Linda's kid?"
"No," I told her, "It's Charlie's nephew." We chatted a while, and I left to pick up Linda.
They got in the car and we went to the theater. The parking lot was packed. It was hot as blazes, and humid as hell, even though it was almost dark. We went in to buy the tickets, I opened my wallet... and only had twelve dollars left. Tickets were five bucks each.
I gave Linda my money and told her to call when the movie was over.
I can't win.
For example, a small engineering firm probably doesn't need a Computational Fluid Dynamics package the whole time, but when they're designing a product it's useful to rent some use of one.
Except that the training required to learn this software is more expensive than the software. It would be cheaper to hire an engineer who had his own tools.
It's like when your car breaks - it's cheaper to hire a mechanic than to rent diagnostic computers and other tools the mechanic has and learn about internal combustion engines and how to use the tools you rented.
Remember, the term "cloud computing" was coined by the clueless who didn't understand the chart's meaning, or he would have simply said "distributed computing".
Today's forecaset: cloudy. This afternoon, continued cloudy with occasional periods of distributed computing.
Tonight: Dark, with periods of light toward morning.
Tomorrow: Ignorant, with occasional words coined by the ignorant used by the knowledgable. May be occasional clouds in the afternoon. In case of tornado, stay in your basement.
Currency, such as the US dollar can also be copied pretty easily due to technology (and technology will only get better). Should we allow this too?
A dollar's only value is as a placeholder. It has no intrinsic value of its own. A copy of a dollar isn't a dollar and has no value whatever. Any percieved value to a counterfeit dollar is a lie, meant to decieve.
A copy of photoshop can be used exactly like the original it was copied from.
I agree with you that #2 is likely to be the paradigm of the future. You don't get support for counterfeit software. Perhaps in the future the software will be free, but learning to use it will cost.
Microsoft software is luxurious? Hang on a sec... where'd I put my dictionary?...
Here, I borrowed it. Or actually them.
If you look up dictionary in the dictionary do you get an endless loop? And what's another word for "thesaurus?"