How dare you speak to me like that. After all, I am the original # 3, I just forgot my password. And I would like to point out that my current UID is only 6 digits smartypants!
I also noticed you conveniently sidestepped my question - who does pay for your web site to be running ad free? Yourself, or the magical leprechauns who only exist to have ad-free internet sites? Or did the entire internet turn socialist when I wasn't looking, and now the majority of sites don't have ad revenue to keep them afloat? Your move, Professor.
I do sleep very well. Are there free magazines with no ads? Are there free newspapers with no ads? Are there free movies with no ads? Are there free television shows with no ads? Go ahead, list a few if they are so common. (and even if you could come up with a bare minimum of exceptions to the rule, that is exactly what they are, exceptions.) One way or another, whoever puts up the money for tv shows, magazines, newspapers etc. need to get paid. Whether you pay flat out or have ads generate your income, nobody does those kinds of things for free, out of the goodness of their little hearts. So you can pretend all you want that nobody in tv, film, or printed media wants to make a profit, but please don't try to blow that smoke up my ass, because it is patently false. Douche.
Can't use dimmer switches with CF bulbs either. Some of them I have seen put out an acceptable spectrum, where some are the least "warm" light I have ever seen. That said i absolutely hate most fluorescent lights (standard office kind) and refuse to ever use my overhead light at work. Usually the glow of my LCD monitor is sufficient (and I have a big window) or if really dark I have a small desk lamp. Now that they are not glaring off CRT monitors it is a little better, but staring at an old computer monitor all day with fluorescent lights glaring off it is a serious headache inducer for me.
Wait, Michael and Janet were actually two different people?? So does that mean Janet is still alive (well, except her career)? Does that mean Diana Ross is a separate entity also?? (Beside the fact that the Jacksons all share her nose) I am so confused...
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Can I raise a practical question at this point? Are we gonna do Stonehenge tonight?
With regards to IBM, they have been making business machines the entire time (after all it is right there in their name). Before computers, most business was conducted on typewriters. Now computers are used. You could also call "punch card readers" by their other name - computers, which IBM is still very much in the business of producing. Things have changed less than you think.
I think those innovations have more with the lawsuit brought by CarterPhone in 1968 more than the breakup of Ma Bell. Until the lawsuit, you couldn't attach any devices not approved by Bell to any phone lines, or even own any phones (they were all "leased" from Ma Bell indefinitely). The Bell breakup wasn't until 1984, and there were plenty of cordless phones, answering machines etc. around before then.
Soliciting protection from the government, bankruptcy, and fighting to your last breath aren't very productive solutions.
By "not productive solutions" I assume you are talking about the public who ends up financing these. They seem to be very productive for the corporations asking for them these days...
And just as soon as we stop handing them out, the corporations will stop asking for them. But until then, what would be their incentive?
They probably wouldn't know that the cute blond with the luxurious hair is Farrah Fawcett either. Or that she was once married to the Six Million Dollar Man....
Next time try Save As instead of Run and that won't happen. (BTW the file was most likely still in your TEMP folder, just named something unrecognizable. But recovery would have been possible most likely.)
So you don't pay to have your website up? Now I call bullshit. The reason you don't have ads is you pay out of pocket. Not every site on the internet is like your site, and some follow different models. Happy you can afford to pay for you're own site, but not everyone is that fortunate. Has nothing to do with your strawmen about how I sleep at night (very well thank you) or whether or not "marketing types" lie (no big surprise, everyone knows they do) - I stated my own opinion given of my free will and not coerced by any "marketing types". Oh, i hope you are not too fond of magazines, newspapers, movies, television shows, etc. because they are still around because of advertising revenue also. Sorry to add some gray to your black and white world.
No kiddie fondling was ever proven. Can't you give him a break in death?
"Proven in court" and "actually took place" are two different things. Just because something isn't proven doesn't mean it didn't happen. Just ask O.J. I don't look down on Michael Jackson for being a weirdo, that is his right. But I don't share the same feeling on his interactions with children. And no, I can't pretend those things didn't happen just because he isn't alive now. Those kids are still alive, and "giving him a break" would be pretty insulting to them.
A few of my friends are photographers of things like sports or music shows where there is a lot of action/movement. Sometimes you don't have the time to perfectly frame every shot before you take it. Shooting thousands of action shots allows them to go through them later, and pick out the really good ones, and ditch the rest. Would be cost prohibitive if they were not shooting digital. (Taking still life pictures could be another discussion.) I also think taking "bad" shots is a great way for amateur photographers to learn what makes a good shot. And if you can do it at virtually no cost, all the better.
And then when your basement floods/house burns down/fill in disaster you lose the one single physical copy your have. The advantage to digital photos are it is very cheap to make copies of them, and/or you can store them online so you will never truly "lose" your pictures. Plus I can fit 5,000 pictures in my pocket on a thumb drive without having to carry 500 lbs. of photo albums over to someone's house to look at them. Digital photos also do not degrade with the passage of time.
Wow, I am shocked. I got 2/3 of the way down this page before someone tried to blame Obama for this. Come on Slashdot, you can do better than that!
Just think of what the situation would be if Hilary would have gotten the VP slot - the right-wingers would be positively foaming at the mouth that they could rip into Obama AND a Clinton at the same time!
Yep. Bill could really drive and Hillary has quite a throwing arm, from what I hear. You badmouth the Clintons and you believe a drive by rock throwing is headed your way.
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How dare you speak to me like that. After all, I am the original # 3, I just forgot my password. And I would like to point out that my current UID is only 6 digits smartypants!
I also noticed you conveniently sidestepped my question - who does pay for your web site to be running ad free? Yourself, or the magical leprechauns who only exist to have ad-free internet sites? Or did the entire internet turn socialist when I wasn't looking, and now the majority of sites don't have ad revenue to keep them afloat? Your move, Professor.
I do sleep very well. Are there free magazines with no ads? Are there free newspapers with no ads? Are there free movies with no ads? Are there free television shows with no ads? Go ahead, list a few if they are so common. (and even if you could come up with a bare minimum of exceptions to the rule, that is exactly what they are, exceptions.) One way or another, whoever puts up the money for tv shows, magazines, newspapers etc. need to get paid. Whether you pay flat out or have ads generate your income, nobody does those kinds of things for free, out of the goodness of their little hearts. So you can pretend all you want that nobody in tv, film, or printed media wants to make a profit, but please don't try to blow that smoke up my ass, because it is patently false. Douche.
And if you had enough glow-in-the-dark stickers, they could be used to make nuclear warheads too.
Can't use dimmer switches with CF bulbs either. Some of them I have seen put out an acceptable spectrum, where some are the least "warm" light I have ever seen. That said i absolutely hate most fluorescent lights (standard office kind) and refuse to ever use my overhead light at work. Usually the glow of my LCD monitor is sufficient (and I have a big window) or if really dark I have a small desk lamp. Now that they are not glaring off CRT monitors it is a little better, but staring at an old computer monitor all day with fluorescent lights glaring off it is a serious headache inducer for me.
Wait, Michael and Janet were actually two different people?? So does that mean Janet is still alive (well, except her career)? Does that mean Diana Ross is a separate entity also?? (Beside the fact that the Jacksons all share her nose) I am so confused...
Can I raise a practical question at this point? Are we gonna do Stonehenge tonight?
With regards to IBM, they have been making business machines the entire time (after all it is right there in their name). Before computers, most business was conducted on typewriters. Now computers are used. You could also call "punch card readers" by their other name - computers, which IBM is still very much in the business of producing. Things have changed less than you think.
I think those innovations have more with the lawsuit brought by CarterPhone in 1968 more than the breakup of Ma Bell. Until the lawsuit, you couldn't attach any devices not approved by Bell to any phone lines, or even own any phones (they were all "leased" from Ma Bell indefinitely). The Bell breakup wasn't until 1984, and there were plenty of cordless phones, answering machines etc. around before then.
Soliciting protection from the government, bankruptcy, and fighting to your last breath aren't very productive solutions.
By "not productive solutions" I assume you are talking about the public who ends up financing these. They seem to be very productive for the corporations asking for them these days...
And just as soon as we stop handing them out, the corporations will stop asking for them. But until then, what would be their incentive?
Here is a copy of the code in it's entirety -
Buy Low
Sell High
They probably wouldn't know that the cute blond with the luxurious hair is Farrah Fawcett either. Or that she was once married to the Six Million Dollar Man....
Real programmers code in machine assembly language.
Next time try Save As instead of Run and that won't happen. (BTW the file was most likely still in your TEMP folder, just named something unrecognizable. But recovery would have been possible most likely.)
So you don't pay to have your website up? Now I call bullshit. The reason you don't have ads is you pay out of pocket. Not every site on the internet is like your site, and some follow different models. Happy you can afford to pay for you're own site, but not everyone is that fortunate. Has nothing to do with your strawmen about how I sleep at night (very well thank you) or whether or not "marketing types" lie (no big surprise, everyone knows they do) - I stated my own opinion given of my free will and not coerced by any "marketing types". Oh, i hope you are not too fond of magazines, newspapers, movies, television shows, etc. because they are still around because of advertising revenue also. Sorry to add some gray to your black and white world.
The fact that all the sites that are not pay sites are that way because of advertising.
No kiddie fondling was ever proven. Can't you give him a break in death?
"Proven in court" and "actually took place" are two different things. Just because something isn't proven doesn't mean it didn't happen. Just ask O.J. I don't look down on Michael Jackson for being a weirdo, that is his right. But I don't share the same feeling on his interactions with children. And no, I can't pretend those things didn't happen just because he isn't alive now. Those kids are still alive, and "giving him a break" would be pretty insulting to them.
Or by it's "unofficial" name - Lance Bass.
Besides, where would we have entered it from?
Sarah Palin's house.
A few of my friends are photographers of things like sports or music shows where there is a lot of action/movement. Sometimes you don't have the time to perfectly frame every shot before you take it. Shooting thousands of action shots allows them to go through them later, and pick out the really good ones, and ditch the rest. Would be cost prohibitive if they were not shooting digital. (Taking still life pictures could be another discussion.) I also think taking "bad" shots is a great way for amateur photographers to learn what makes a good shot. And if you can do it at virtually no cost, all the better.
And if you aren't smuggling heroin up your ass, you won't mind an anal probe every single day from the DEA, right?
It is called "delete" - look into it. You don't have to save every picture you take.
And then when your basement floods/house burns down/fill in disaster you lose the one single physical copy your have. The advantage to digital photos are it is very cheap to make copies of them, and/or you can store them online so you will never truly "lose" your pictures. Plus I can fit 5,000 pictures in my pocket on a thumb drive without having to carry 500 lbs. of photo albums over to someone's house to look at them. Digital photos also do not degrade with the passage of time.
Wow, I am shocked. I got 2/3 of the way down this page before someone tried to blame Obama for this. Come on Slashdot, you can do better than that!
Just think of what the situation would be if Hilary would have gotten the VP slot - the right-wingers would be positively foaming at the mouth that they could rip into Obama AND a Clinton at the same time!
Yep. Bill could really drive and Hillary has quite a throwing arm, from what I hear. You badmouth the Clintons and you believe a drive by rock throwing is headed your way.