Damn straight, it's our duty to boldly split infinities wherever they occur. Grammar should describe language, not dictate it. For example, I think prepositions are a good thing to end a sentence with. And often start sentences with a conjunction. Never put statements in the positive form. Verbs don't have to agree with their subjects. A writer may shift your point of view. Writing carefully, dangling participles may be used.
Not the real thing, and of course, the easiest solution to any computing problem is "Buy what Msft has" - and if they don't use any Win9X/ME it'll be good enough. But they're sure to run into 'issues and limitations' that'll require regular payments to Msft in the future, but by then the ACTING CIO will likely be outta there. Remember that when you go to your favorite national park and have to pay $22 to get in, a fraction of that is guarenteed Msft income, and they own the digital rights to the sunset too.
My favorite stand in govt official is "Acting Assistant Deputy Secretary" - that actually exists!
Last time I watched STOS on DVD, obviously from the original film (not vidtape), there was TOO MUCH detail! You could actually see that the 'display panel' behind the transporter was somebody moving a painted piece of cardboard back and forth, and not too smoothly at that. That never showed up on NTSC tv from across the room;))
whether it's 'sign on' or 'sign in' (or 'log'), conversly 'sign off' or 'sign out' (or 'log') - only once that's settled can the issue of single sign-xx be seriously tackled.
It quadraphonic too;)) Enjoy it over and over (but only in mere stereo, no quad decoder:(), pokes fun at UFO's, Carlos Castenada, drugs, Evil Kneivel, Uri Geller, the 6 o'clock news, the Air Force, etc - yes, recommended.
Aribtrary, unenforcable laws passed at the behest of big industry (and big tax revenue in their districts) are hardly 'civilized' - rather, they're barbaric, blunt, heavy handed solutions to a technology problem. The point of the discussion is: putting your private conversation in cleartext voice thru the public airwaves and making it a crime to intercept (from the public airwaves, in your house, with a device as simple as an old tv set) is a ludacris solution, just as having publically accessible wireless networks on the street and making it a crime to utilize it is. The correct solution is to digitize or encrypt your conversation, and turn on some kind of security for your access points. If they have to crack your security, then it's a crime. If they just enable DHCP you're pretty much asking for interlopers. A sherrif w/ a shotgun rounding up kids on the street with notebooks is not a 'civilized' answer to wireless admins who don't know what they're doing, just so Nokia can push more boxes.
Well, when Msft comes out with.NET for Solaris;)) they'll consider it. Unfortunately, if anyone wants to get a software product out to a large market, you pretty much have to compete on Windows, and that's where the 'unfair' part of this sham 'competition' comes in where 'lousy products' are 'jammed' on people. That's the part I can't stand, really raggedy stuff like Outlook gets used all over just because it was so easy to fall for, just clike the button on your Officebar, and I constantly get hasseled over it's shortcomings. Sometimes I just want to shout at people, "JEBUS, I DONT KNOW *WHY* OUTLOOK DOES THAT - WHY DONT YOU JUST GET A FRIGGIN QUALITY PIM IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!!"
I dont know why that was mod'd 'flamebait' but it certainly is true. You can't be guilty of abusing a monopoly position if you don't have a monopoly. Like I've been quoting from here, Gates admits of plotting to use "corporate presence" to "jam" products on people, get them to use it - which is the very antithesis of "consumer choice" if you ask me.
Notice the phrasing: "jam it on people and get people to use it" - if lapses like that from the top don't put the STFU on Msft apologist crying that they got their dominance from free market choice of consumers I don't know what will.
'Crime' is basically whatever those bozos in congress say it is - for instance, tuning into and listening to analog cell phone conversations that come thru the wall of your house by using an old tv uhf tuner is a crime, because the US law says so. The law says so because the cell phone industry lobbied congress to make it so, so they could tell their customers, "Your conversations a re completely private, as guarenteed by federal law".
Good lord, you won't believe what people talk about when they *think* they're having a private conversation - drug deals, endless babblings about relationships. I actually heard this yahoo call his wife from the truck and say, "Honey, I'm in desperate need of a blow job".
Certainly not to Europe, where bombings are just a normal part of everyday life. "Look Marge, another van just blew up killing 20 innocent bystanders! Pass me the crumpets please".
Whad'ya expect from a land that kissed Hitler's ass untill the US had to go over there and save their butts once again.
Yeah, but the alternative is to have MegaDrive, UltraDrive, ExtraHappyDrive, FuckingIncredibleDrive, etc
This is the problem of the superlatives and hyperbole that mktng always gets themselves into. Anything described as "Ultimate" is soon surpassed. BTW, The "Happy drive" was a 3rd party add on (chip mod) to the Atari 1050 floppy disk for extra speed and for copying protected disks;)
Multiplan tanked, basically, because it ran too slow. The world went from Visicalc to 1-2-3. You can read the Billster say so himself here
BTW, everyone check out the rest of that interview, lots of interesting stuff, like "School Experiences: BG: 'We were kind of desperate to get free computer time one way or another. ' " and "Writing An Altair BASIC: 'I was fairly self-confident in those days. We didn't know how long it would take us. And it was kind of funny because we were sort of acting like we had it already.'".
Can't you just see the global super-villian of the future - instead of having a planet destroying laser/particle beam of immense proportions, s/he'll have built the ultimate quantum computer, with a cadre of white frocked genius hacks slithering around coding decryption algorithms, holding clipboards and turning dials on outdated 9-track tape units. "See, with this ultimate weapon, Bond, I'll be able to penetrate the defenses of even your highly vaunted NSA/CIA defense complex, muhahahahah!".
Same deal with real estate people - if interest rates are %22 they will demand you sign now befor they go up anymore. If the rates are 3.5% they'll demand you sign now before they start going up.
My guess is late spring, early summer - after the mandatory gotta-have-a-school-PC* and compulsive holiday gotta-buy-George-a-new-PC price gouging is over.
[* PC here means generic personal computer, not just that wintel thing]
Is it just me, or does this sound too good to be true?
That's the cost of production (and behold the wonderous miracle of the No Windows Tax) - the cost to the consumer is "How much are you willing to pay?" - everything inbetween is profit.
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One of my faves Captain Marvel - and his firesign friends, The Caped Madman, Rocket Jock, Spy Swatter, Sleeve Coat, and Spike in J-Men Forever!
Damn straight, it's our duty to boldly split infinities wherever they occur. Grammar should describe language, not dictate it. For example, I think prepositions are a good thing to end a sentence with. And often start sentences with a conjunction. Never put statements in the positive form. Verbs don't have to agree with their subjects. A writer may shift your point of view. Writing carefully, dangling participles may be used.
Gee, now you did it, you went and hurt his feelings !!
Not the real thing, and of course, the easiest solution to any computing problem is "Buy what Msft has" - and if they don't use any Win9X/ME it'll be good enough. But they're sure to run into 'issues and limitations' that'll require regular payments to Msft in the future, but by then the ACTING CIO will likely be outta there. Remember that when you go to your favorite national park and have to pay $22 to get in, a fraction of that is guarenteed Msft income, and they own the digital rights to the sunset too.
My favorite stand in govt official is "Acting Assistant Deputy Secretary" - that actually exists!
everyone knows that Star Trek is the real future.
;))
Last time I watched STOS on DVD, obviously from the original film (not vidtape), there was TOO MUCH detail! You could actually see that the 'display panel' behind the transporter was somebody moving a painted piece of cardboard back and forth, and not too smoothly at that. That never showed up on NTSC tv from across the room
whether it's 'sign on' or 'sign in' (or 'log'), conversly 'sign off' or 'sign out' (or 'log') - only once that's settled can the issue of single sign-xx be seriously tackled.
It quadraphonic too ;)) Enjoy it over and over (but only in mere stereo, no quad decoder :(), pokes fun at UFO's, Carlos Castenada, drugs, Evil Kneivel, Uri Geller, the 6 o'clock news, the Air Force, etc - yes, recommended.
What utter stereotyping hogwash - good lord man, everything you posted is completely wrong!!! You don't know shit. EOD.
Aribtrary, unenforcable laws passed at the behest of big industry (and big tax revenue in their districts) are hardly 'civilized' - rather, they're barbaric, blunt, heavy handed solutions to a technology problem. The point of the discussion is: putting your private conversation in cleartext voice thru the public airwaves and making it a crime to intercept (from the public airwaves, in your house, with a device as simple as an old tv set) is a ludacris solution, just as having publically accessible wireless networks on the street and making it a crime to utilize it is. The correct solution is to digitize or encrypt your conversation, and turn on some kind of security for your access points. If they have to crack your security, then it's a crime. If they just enable DHCP you're pretty much asking for interlopers. A sherrif w/ a shotgun rounding up kids on the street with notebooks is not a 'civilized' answer to wireless admins who don't know what they're doing, just so Nokia can push more boxes.
I think Solaris shouldn't ship with Java
.NET for Solaris ;)) they'll consider it. Unfortunately, if anyone wants to get a software product out to a large market, you pretty much have to compete on Windows, and that's where the 'unfair' part of this sham 'competition' comes in where 'lousy products' are 'jammed' on people. That's the part I can't stand, really raggedy stuff like Outlook gets used all over just because it was so easy to fall for, just clike the button on your Officebar, and I constantly get hasseled
Well, when Msft comes out with
over it's shortcomings. Sometimes I just want to shout at people, "JEBUS, I DONT KNOW *WHY* OUTLOOK DOES THAT - WHY DONT YOU JUST GET A FRIGGIN QUALITY PIM IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!!"
I dont know why that was mod'd 'flamebait' but it certainly is true. You can't be guilty of abusing a monopoly position if you don't have a monopoly. Like I've been quoting from here, Gates admits of plotting to use "corporate presence" to "jam" products on people, get them to use it - which is the very antithesis of "consumer choice" if you ask me.
Just look at this statement Gates made during an interview:
[discussing their partnership w/ IBM for OS/2 development] "I mean we had thought that IBM with their corporate presence could really jam it on people and get people to use it. "
Notice the phrasing: "jam it on people and get people to use it" - if lapses like that from the top don't put the STFU on Msft apologist crying that they got their dominance from free market choice of consumers I don't know what will.
sounds like a good bizarro world anti-headline.
'Crime' is basically whatever those bozos in congress say it is - for instance, tuning into and listening to analog cell phone conversations that come thru the wall of your house by using an old tv uhf tuner is a crime, because the US law says so. The law says so because the cell phone industry lobbied congress to make it so, so they could tell their customers, "Your conversations a re completely private, as guarenteed by federal law".
Good lord, you won't believe what people talk about when they *think* they're having a private conversation - drug deals, endless babblings about relationships. I actually heard this yahoo call his wife from the truck and say, "Honey, I'm in desperate need of a blow job".
This guy probably hasn't been outside Texas
Certainly not to Europe, where bombings are just a normal part of everyday life. "Look Marge, another van just blew up killing 20 innocent bystanders! Pass me the crumpets please".
Whad'ya expect from a land that kissed Hitler's ass untill the US had to go over there and save their butts once again.
a scientist is gloating that she's just produced 50,000 atoms of hydrogen.
Is anti-helium next? If they get up to anti-oxygen can they make trace amounts of anti-water??
Yeah, but the alternative is to have MegaDrive, UltraDrive, ExtraHappyDrive, FuckingIncredibleDrive, etc
;)
This is the problem of the superlatives and hyperbole that mktng always gets themselves into. Anything described as "Ultimate" is soon surpassed. BTW, The "Happy drive" was a 3rd party add on (chip mod) to the Atari 1050 floppy disk for extra speed and for copying protected disks
that nobody's linked this yet.
Ah, all they have to do is say something about restricting free speech and all the angry ballbats go limp. Spamassassin: works for me.
Multiplan tanked, basically, because it ran too slow. The world went from Visicalc to 1-2-3. You can read the Billster say so himself here
BTW, everyone check out the rest of that interview, lots of interesting stuff, like "School Experiences: BG: 'We were kind of desperate to get free computer time one way or another. ' " and "Writing An Altair BASIC:
'I was fairly self-confident in those days. We didn't know how long it would take us. And it was kind of funny because we were sort of acting like we had it already.'".
Hey, national Talk like a Pirate Day is the 19th, you're 2 days early.
Can't you just see the global super-villian of the future - instead of having a planet destroying laser/particle beam of immense proportions, s/he'll have built the ultimate quantum computer, with a cadre of white frocked genius hacks slithering around coding decryption algorithms, holding clipboards and turning dials on outdated 9-track tape units. "See, with this ultimate weapon, Bond, I'll be able to penetrate the defenses of even your highly vaunted NSA/CIA defense complex, muhahahahah!".
And all bets are definitely off when quantum computers arrive on the scene.
couldn't these be described as "weapons of mass decryption"? [visions of 'sneakers' all over again]
Same deal with real estate people - if interest rates are %22 they will demand you sign now befor they go up anymore. If the rates are 3.5% they'll demand you sign now before they start going up.
My guess is late spring, early summer - after the mandatory gotta-have-a-school-PC* and compulsive holiday gotta-buy-George-a-new-PC price gouging is over.
[* PC here means generic personal computer, not just that wintel thing]
You mean like this ??
Is it just me, or does this sound too good to be true?
That's the cost of production (and behold the wonderous miracle of the No Windows Tax) - the cost to the consumer is "How much are you willing to pay?" - everything inbetween is profit.