Here's my favorite self serving claptrap
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called Inside Out : Microsoft--In Our Own Words with fascinating tid bits of trivia like, "One rule I've learned in this business is that you cannot be successful in marketing a bad product.", from Brad Chase, a brief history of Bob, and best of all, "There's a little debate that swirls endlessly out there and it goes something like this: Is Microsoft a great software company or a great marketing company? The answer, of course, is both." (TeeHee)
I don't know much about DOM,COM,SOAP,.NET,C#, but I'm sure if it's Microsoft it's
1) A new, improved & innovative implementation of something someone else created 15 years ago
2) A new, improved & innovative implementation with lots of fresh undebugged code that nobody is responsible for, least of all Microsoft
3) A new, improved & innovative scheme to ensure that each cpu is running licensed code by 'phoning home' to central control, somewhat like a grand global version of the old Netware "there another server with my serial #" alarm (Office is already starting to do this, with a "you MUST electronically register this product, or it will cease to run after 50 times")
4) The usual code to "detect and complain" about foreign, non-Microsoft products via complex, baffling error messages to give the impression that the OTHER code is at fault and how wonderful everying would be if you would only use genuine, interlocking, Msft products.
is because all the highly trained planatary research scientists would otherwise have to retool their careers, get the McSE and find work maintaining server farms at "Big Al's Streaming Porno Palace".
I mean, he's even bitching that Mac's are too difficult to use. Seriously, there are some people who just shouldn't use a computer, period, and just like some folks have chaffeurs to drive their limo's, they should have a 'computer operator' on the staff to delegate all that nasty technical obstruction-to-getting-work-done stuff like figuring out how to eject a CD. He wants to show up a 10, dictate a memo to the staff, make a lunch appointment, hit the golf course by 2 and be home before the rush hour to catch up on the latest 'Fortune' mag and call it a day.
but there's a lot of idle cpu's out there with nothing to do - and even then only a small % are connected to SETI@home. And investors are wondering why PC sales are tanking.
Congress is in bed with big biz because it creates jobs, growth, employment, paychecks, wealth, taxes & keeps away ranks of unemployed marching around w/ placards demanding "down w/ the govt." Isn't that worth giving up all your little individual freedoms for????
but you can rearrange the letters in "Church of Satanism" to spell "Chum of Christians" which seems to indicate some kind of divine conspiracy going on.
I'll bite - here is a web site about the nuke a short distance up the river from my house - it's been in operation since 1972 and you can see straightaway the spent fuel storage cask is a relatively small facility dwarfed by the actual plant itself - also notice no plumes of coal smoke or other emissions. One thing I do hope these experiments provide is real, valid data on the actual costs of running a plant, including spent fuel storage & decomissioning, made publically available. One of the many problems the former SU had was (just like many capitalist companies actually) trying to 'whitewash' various problems, hiding issues, etc. That's not good science, eventually undermines public confidence ("they lied to us once, how can we trust them about anything!") - and nuke power may not be well enough understood for private, profit oriented companies to undertake safely (like various phone companies, who always lie about service problems, but fortunately it doesn't hurt anyone). Hopefully the US regulatory commission (NRC) stays on top of these things.
Maybe a local peak but certainly not an absolute one - just like the stock market 'peaked' last March or so and and is off that peak, that does not mean the stock market is finished and done for like it's doomed and everyone is going to pull all their cash out and stuff it in their bed. Off peak periods are great opportunities to use the lull in business to polish up the interface and user experience, and build up lots of server capacity, fault tolerance and get ready for another wave (hint about public retail: "they all come at once", or as Yogi Berra put it, "that place (restuarant) is so busy nobody goes there anymore").
Why yes - you only have to type a game into an Atari once before realizing, "Damn, I need to get a mass storage device".
Next question: Anyone ever seen a vinyl record with software on it? I remember a few ads for records that you could feed into an audio in jack (where the cassette normally goes) - sure would like to find one of those. (they were not for Atari tho - some other format that could use a std. el-cheapo audio cassette deck - Atari used their own special tape deck.)
Hear the loud alarum bells -
Brazen bells!
What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!
In the startled ear of night
How they scream out their affright!
Too much horrified to speak,
They can only shriek, shriek,
Out of tune,
In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire,
In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire,
Leaping higher, higher, higher,
With a desperate desire,
And a resolute endeavor
Now - now to sit, or never,
By the side of the pale - faced moon.
Oh, the bells, bells, bells!
What a tale their terror tells
Of Despair!
How they clang, and clash and roar!
What a horror they outpour
On the bosom of the palpitating air!
Yet the ear, it fully knows,
By the twanging,
And the clanging,
How the danger ebbs and flows;
Yet the ear distinctly tells,
In the jangling,
And the wrangling,
How the danger sinks and swells,
By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells -
Of the bells -
Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells -
In the clamor and the clanging of the bells!
Seems I recally that the 70's skylab had an incident when the astronaughts (funny speeling on purpose) went on strike and refusted to do what ground control asked, felt they we're being pushed too hard. Too lazy to look up referances... ok, here's an easy referance right here.
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called Inside Out : Microsoft--In Our Own Words with fascinating tid bits of trivia like, "One rule I've learned in this business is that you cannot be successful in marketing a bad product.", from Brad Chase, a brief history of Bob, and best of all, "There's a little debate that swirls endlessly out there and it goes something like this: Is Microsoft a great software company or a great marketing company? The answer, of course, is both." (TeeHee)
I don't know much about DOM,COM,SOAP,.NET,C#, but I'm sure if it's Microsoft it's
1) A new, improved & innovative implementation of something someone else created 15 years ago
2) A new, improved & innovative implementation with lots of fresh undebugged code that nobody is responsible for, least of all Microsoft
3) A new, improved & innovative scheme to ensure that each cpu is running licensed code by 'phoning home' to central control, somewhat like a grand global version of the old Netware "there another server with my serial #" alarm (Office is already starting to do this, with a "you MUST electronically register this product, or it will cease to run after 50 times")
4) The usual code to "detect and complain" about foreign, non-Microsoft products via complex, baffling error messages to give the impression that the OTHER code is at fault and how wonderful everying would be if you would only use genuine, interlocking, Msft products.
It's not winter everywhere either - summer solstice down under.
Musicians are always at the end of the food chain in the music business. It has never been easy making money.
and check out the movie 'Bird' about Charlie Parker sometime to see a good example of this.
is because all the highly trained planatary research scientists would otherwise have to retool their careers, get the McSE and find work maintaining server farms at "Big Al's Streaming Porno Palace".
I mean, he's even bitching that Mac's are too difficult to use. Seriously, there are some people who just shouldn't use a computer, period, and just like some folks have chaffeurs to drive their limo's, they should have a 'computer operator' on the staff to delegate all that nasty technical obstruction-to-getting-work-done stuff like figuring out how to eject a CD. He wants to show up a 10, dictate a memo to the staff, make a lunch appointment, hit the golf course by 2 and be home before the rush hour to catch up on the latest 'Fortune' mag and call it a day.
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but there's a lot of idle cpu's out there with nothing to do - and even then only a small % are connected to SETI@home. And investors are wondering why PC sales are tanking.
Can anyone say, "Market Saturation" ?
Descartes would love it.
Congress is in bed with big biz because it creates jobs, growth, employment, paychecks, wealth, taxes & keeps away ranks of unemployed marching around w/ placards demanding "down w/ the govt." Isn't that worth giving up all your little individual freedoms for????
that's "Church of SatInism"... actually "Church of SatAnism" scrambles to "Chum of anarchists" - sorry.
but you can rearrange the letters in "Church of Satanism" to spell "Chum of Christians" which seems to indicate some kind of divine conspiracy going on.
Right on the mark about DATs as well - I just bought 8 for backups. Sure hope Madonna appreciates the extra bucks.
I'll bite - here is a web site about the nuke a short distance up the river from my house - it's been in operation since 1972 and you can see straightaway the spent fuel storage cask is a relatively small facility dwarfed by the actual plant itself - also notice no plumes of coal smoke or other emissions. One thing I do hope these experiments provide is real, valid data on the actual costs of running a plant, including spent fuel storage & decomissioning, made publically available. One of the many problems the former SU had was (just like many capitalist companies actually) trying to 'whitewash' various problems, hiding issues, etc. That's not good science, eventually undermines public confidence ("they lied to us once, how can we trust them about anything!") - and nuke power may not be well enough understood for private, profit oriented companies to undertake safely (like various phone companies, who always lie about service problems, but fortunately it doesn't hurt anyone). Hopefully the US regulatory commission (NRC) stays on top of these things.
details.
"Slow down cowboy!
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Slashdot requires you to wait 1 minute between each submission of
It's been 60 seconds since your last submission!"
Last I heard, 60 seconds WAS 1 minute, heheh.
because ub 'one click shopping', your clicking on a hyperlink, eh?
Maybe a local peak but certainly not an absolute one - just like the stock market 'peaked' last March or so and and is off that peak, that does not mean the stock market is finished and done for like it's doomed and everyone is going to pull all their cash out and stuff it in their bed. Off peak periods are great opportunities to use the lull in business to polish up the interface and user experience, and build up lots of server capacity, fault tolerance and get ready for another wave (hint about public retail: "they all come at once", or as Yogi Berra put it, "that place (restuarant) is so busy nobody goes there anymore").
I'd love to see Pinball make a comeback!
that you can rearrange the letters in "overclocker" to spell "clever crook"?
Why yes - you only have to type a game into an Atari once before realizing, "Damn, I need to get a mass storage device".
Next question: Anyone ever seen a vinyl record with software on it? I remember a few ads for records that you could feed into an audio in jack (where the cassette normally goes) - sure would like to find one of those. (they were not for Atari tho - some other format that could use a std. el-cheapo audio cassette deck - Atari used their own special tape deck.)
Pioneer 6 has orbited the Sun since its launch
Nice for space.com to hyperlink SUN for everyone who doesn't know what it is.
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Hear the loud alarum bells -
Brazen bells!
What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!
In the startled ear of night
How they scream out their affright!
Too much horrified to speak,
They can only shriek, shriek,
Out of tune,
In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire,
In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire,
Leaping higher, higher, higher,
With a desperate desire,
And a resolute endeavor
Now - now to sit, or never,
By the side of the pale - faced moon.
Oh, the bells, bells, bells!
What a tale their terror tells
Of Despair!
How they clang, and clash and roar!
What a horror they outpour
On the bosom of the palpitating air!
Yet the ear, it fully knows,
By the twanging,
And the clanging,
How the danger ebbs and flows;
Yet the ear distinctly tells,
In the jangling,
And the wrangling,
How the danger sinks and swells,
By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells -
Of the bells -
Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells -
In the clamor and the clanging of the bells!
Thank you.
You want $$ back??? Haha! Kind of reminds me of an old joke about a consumer product:
"If, for any reason you are unsatisfied, just return the unused portion of the product and we will return the unused portion of your money."
Seems I recally that the 70's skylab had an incident when the astronaughts (funny speeling on purpose) went on strike and refusted to do what ground control asked, felt they we're being pushed too hard. Too lazy to look up referances ... ok, here's an easy referance right here.