I don't know why, but Lieberman reminds me of the dad on that old TV show ALF. I can even imagine an entire episode devoted to the wrongness of playing Grand Theft Auto III.
I remember trying this back in the days of Windows 95. I said, "Microsoft, you either release Windows 95 for free, or I will give away a secret code, 111-1111111, which will render your 'key-code' security invalid and allow everyone to pirate your OS."
This is great news! Just the other day, my boss discovered the worlds smallest game of pocket pool. If I bought him one of these pinball machines, he could have his own private arcade.
The only issue that I'm aware of in regards to BYU "losing its accreditation" is with regards to evolution. However, they do teach about evolution, so the loss of accreditation was never really an issue (although some tried to make it one). You have to keep in mind, BYU is a privately owned *religious* school and is therefore entitled to teach their theological concepts with more ferver than they do secular concepts. Wouldn't you agree?
Your "Mormon Culture" comment is simply wrong, and if you really live here you know that is the case.
As for SCO, I work across the parking lot from them and have several friends that work/worked there. The employees are NOT happy with SCO and haven't been for a very long time. Before the law suit frenzy, they were upset that their CTO forced them to replace all of their internal Linux servers with Windows 2000 servers. Pay scales have been another issue for them. The killing of their only good product, Volution, was another thing that irritated them, so your "they're all Mormons so they must be happy to pay their tithing to Daryl McBride" comment is inaccurate to the extreme.
To a lot of people, environmentalism is nothing more than a front to gain political power. When it comes down to it, they want to keep their cabins, SUVs, boats, planes, views, etc. They just don't want you to have them. The environment is really the furthest thing from their minds. It is about money, power, influence, and control.
This ongoing story is riddled with absurdity, however, my favorite quote of the day has to be McBride's remark in Reuters' article.
Quoted from Reuters, "McBride said SCO's Unix intellectual property had been previously under-utilized by the company: 'We've spent the last couple of quarters waking the sleeping giant.'"
Yeah, I guess you could call suing IBM for a billion dollars "waking the sleeping giant."
I attended the University of Phoenix at the request of an employer before. I attended several of their 5 week courses related to business and technology. My impression of the school was that there was a lot of reading and a lot of Power Point presentations (a presentation was required every week during class time).
To me, the UoP seemed like a two year course on Power Point using a smattering of topics to keep things somewhat interesting.
Is this really all the school has to offer, or do things get better later on in the degree programs?
I have owned several Zaurus machines (both the English SL-5500 as well as several Japanese versions). I have also owned an iPaq and several Palm devices from both Palm and Handspring.
The Zaurus line is by far my favorite. I have really enjoyed the functionality of the SL-5500 and the flexibility of the Japanese versions I owned. I especially like the expansion modules available for my DBII machine.
The Zaurus machines seem a lot more sturdy to me as well. I was a bit concerned regarding the SL-5500's sliding keyboard cover before I purchased it, but it has proven to be sturdy and well made.
I really like the looks of this new offering from Sharp and look forward to using one.
I don't like the looks of that at all. Before long, my address will be PV8DC 795CX BFB65 QV4NX PDPWV. It will be useful to send me letters, AND I can use it to install Windows and MS Office.
I'm an avid scuba diver, but I have never been keen on using the dive computer for this very reason; rather I go for the manual method even though you supposedly cut your dive time down.
Having worked in software for many years, I have yet to see a perfect program, and I have never wanted to trust my life and/or health to the programming and testing skills of someone else.
A revamping of the email technology is what needs to take place. Not an internet tax (good crap we are taxed enough already). Along those lines (better technology instead of more bureaucracy) two great technologies that already exist, that help in the email realm, are GnuPG and Bogofilter.
From the article: He has not been unable to get a full refund from either company, said Anthony Lee, his attorney.
So, am I to understand that he was able to not get the refund, or wasn't he able to not get the refund?
Or perhaps it wasn't that he was not unable to not get either company to refuse to refrain from not giving him the full refund which he wasn't supposed to not get in the first place.
I've never seen such a thing. I must admit that they are well done dolls, very realistic, but somehow I imagine it would be like diddling a dead person; which seems a little sick to me.
I loved OS/2 (although I never tried Warp 4) back in the day. I stopped using it only when it was apparent that it was dead; but I have always had it in my mind that it was a really great OS (and compared to what was available at the time, it really was).
I installed eCS recently to revel in the computing bliss that was OS/2, only to find out that what was cool 8 years ago, isn't all that cool anymore. Oh well.
I view email the same as I view verbal communication. It is just a medium that one can use to express and share ideas.
As I live my life, there are many times when somebody strikes up a conversation with me regarding things that I am not interested in hearing (most particularly Amway or some other MLM scheme). My options are to excuse myself and leave, tell them to bugger off, or to humor them by hiding my apathy and pretending to listen. Whichever way I choose to deal with the situation, the information is most often disregarded and forgotten within minutes.
It is the same with email. People are going send you email offers to lengthen your iPud via an online college degree in computer science, or offer you low-cost information on how to make money working from home selling goldfish polishing kits. Your options are the same as they are with verbal communication.
Personally, I ignore spam; although I imagine enough of the world listens or those who send it wouldn't bother. If you are like me and have adopted an across-the-board ignore policy, there are several good programs available to automate the ignore process for you so it is not that big a deal.
I cannot disagree enough with the idea of an email tax. It is artificial and benefits nobody but the government. I personally view this idea with the same level of incredulity I would if the government tried to tax verbal communication because some people want to talk incessantly about Amway. It is absolutely ludicrous.
In fact, even if you totally disregard email coming from other countries outside the US, evidence that an email tax would not stop spam is more than apparent in the mail delivered to your mailbox on a daily basis. How much of it is spam; or rather junk mail? For me, it is usually one piece of legitimate mail per five pieces of junk mail, which is about the same ratio I see in my email inbox. The only difference between electronic junk mail and tangible junk mail is that the senders have to pay to send the latter.
No, the only one's benefiting from an email tax would be the bureaucracy that instigated it. The only thing that would change would be the addition of a bunch of government piranhas viciously snapping at every penny they could get. It is a very dumb and poorly conceived idea, in my opinion.
Actually, my grammar and my spelling were both wrong on purpose. It was a subtle part of the overall package (i.e. mispell instead of misspell, mispelled instead of misspelled, double negative, etc.)
So, if I understand this correctly, I can power my cell phone via surrounding vibrations. So there is a benefit to tossing on the small boss after all.
The solution is in front of their faces.
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I don't know why the retarded record companies can't look out the window and see as plain as day what they have to do.
If the major record labels and a few minor ones would just get together and offer a reasonably priced (I'm talking $5 - $10 per month) subscription-based Napster-like service, they would make more money.
I prefer downloading music. I don't have to drive to the store, I don't have to buy 12 lame songs to get the one that I like, and I can mix my own CDs for my driving pleasure.
This would be good for artists as well. They wouldn't have to work so hard to release an "album". They could just release one or two songs and everybody would be happy. Or, instead of waiting until they have cobbled together a list of 12 - 15 songs (most of which will be lame anyway), they could release 3 - 4 good songs and forget all the crap songs (of course they'd have to come up with a bunch of crap songs if they wanted to go on tour I guess).
Anyway, online subscription-based services are the answer, not paying extra money for stupid encryption schemes that will be broken within minutes of being released.
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I don't know why, but Lieberman reminds me of the dad on that old TV show ALF. I can even imagine an entire episode devoted to the wrongness of playing Grand Theft Auto III.
I remember trying this back in the days of Windows 95. I said, "Microsoft, you either release Windows 95 for free, or I will give away a secret code, 111-1111111, which will render your 'key-code' security invalid and allow everyone to pirate your OS."
They didn't listen, so I released it.
I hate spam just as much as the next person, but I must admit, without it I wouldn't be the horse-sized love stud that I am. Thanks spam.
This is great news! Just the other day, my boss discovered the worlds smallest game of pocket pool. If I bought him one of these pinball machines, he could have his own private arcade.
It would take too long to explain, but your quotes are out of context and/or incomplete.
The only issue that I'm aware of in regards to BYU "losing its accreditation" is with regards to evolution. However, they do teach about evolution, so the loss of accreditation was never really an issue (although some tried to make it one). You have to keep in mind, BYU is a privately owned *religious* school and is therefore entitled to teach their theological concepts with more ferver than they do secular concepts. Wouldn't you agree?
Your "Mormon Culture" comment is simply wrong, and if you really live here you know that is the case.
As for SCO, I work across the parking lot from them and have several friends that work/worked there. The employees are NOT happy with SCO and haven't been for a very long time. Before the law suit frenzy, they were upset that their CTO forced them to replace all of their internal Linux servers with Windows 2000 servers. Pay scales have been another issue for them. The killing of their only good product, Volution, was another thing that irritated them, so your "they're all Mormons so they must be happy to pay their tithing to Daryl McBride" comment is inaccurate to the extreme.
To a lot of people, environmentalism is nothing more than a front to gain political power. When it comes down to it, they want to keep their cabins, SUVs, boats, planes, views, etc. They just don't want you to have them. The environment is really the furthest thing from their minds. It is about money, power, influence, and control.
This ongoing story is riddled with absurdity, however, my favorite quote of the day has to be McBride's remark in Reuters' article.
Quoted from Reuters, "McBride said SCO's Unix intellectual property had been previously under-utilized by the company: 'We've spent the last couple of quarters waking the sleeping giant.'"
Yeah, I guess you could call suing IBM for a billion dollars "waking the sleeping giant."
I attended the University of Phoenix at the request of an employer before. I attended several of their 5 week courses related to business and technology. My impression of the school was that there was a lot of reading and a lot of Power Point presentations (a presentation was required every week during class time).
To me, the UoP seemed like a two year course on Power Point using a smattering of topics to keep things somewhat interesting.
Is this really all the school has to offer, or do things get better later on in the degree programs?
I have owned several Zaurus machines (both the English SL-5500 as well as several Japanese versions). I have also owned an iPaq and several Palm devices from both Palm and Handspring.
The Zaurus line is by far my favorite. I have really enjoyed the functionality of the SL-5500 and the flexibility of the Japanese versions I owned. I especially like the expansion modules available for my DBII machine.
The Zaurus machines seem a lot more sturdy to me as well. I was a bit concerned regarding the SL-5500's sliding keyboard cover before I purchased it, but it has proven to be sturdy and well made.
I really like the looks of this new offering from Sharp and look forward to using one.
I don't like the looks of that at all. Before long, my address will be PV8DC 795CX BFB65 QV4NX PDPWV. It will be useful to send me letters, AND I can use it to install Windows and MS Office.
Actually, there are shows like that in nearly every country I've been in (Japan, India, US, Canada, Australia, Singapore, etc.)
The US has not cornered the market on ignorance. It is pretty even around the world.
I'm an avid scuba diver, but I have never been keen on using the dive computer for this very reason; rather I go for the manual method even though you supposedly cut your dive time down.
Having worked in software for many years, I have yet to see a perfect program, and I have never wanted to trust my life and/or health to the programming and testing skills of someone else.
A revamping of the email technology is what needs to take place. Not an internet tax (good crap we are taxed enough already). Along those lines (better technology instead of more bureaucracy) two great technologies that already exist, that help in the email realm, are GnuPG and Bogofilter.
From the article: He has not been unable to get a full refund from either company, said Anthony Lee, his attorney.
So, am I to understand that he was able to not get the refund, or wasn't he able to not get the refund?
Or perhaps it wasn't that he was not unable to not get either company to refuse to refrain from not giving him the full refund which he wasn't supposed to not get in the first place.
When I read your post, that Knack song My Sharona popped into my head. At least it sounds catchy.
I've never seen such a thing. I must admit that they are well done dolls, very realistic, but somehow I imagine it would be like diddling a dead person; which seems a little sick to me.
To each their own.
I can't imagine Microsoft allowing themselves to be second billed, but the name does sound better.
That's too bad because WinRusoe sounds pretty dumb.
I loved OS/2 (although I never tried Warp 4) back in the day. I stopped using it only when it was apparent that it was dead; but I have always had it in my mind that it was a really great OS (and compared to what was available at the time, it really was).
I installed eCS recently to revel in the computing bliss that was OS/2, only to find out that what was cool 8 years ago, isn't all that cool anymore. Oh well.
I view email the same as I view verbal communication. It is just a medium that one can use to express and share ideas.
As I live my life, there are many times when somebody strikes up a conversation with me regarding things that I am not interested in hearing (most particularly Amway or some other MLM scheme). My options are to excuse myself and leave, tell them to bugger off, or to humor them by hiding my apathy and pretending to listen. Whichever way I choose to deal with the situation, the information is most often disregarded and forgotten within minutes.
It is the same with email. People are going send you email offers to lengthen your iPud via an online college degree in computer science, or offer you low-cost information on how to make money working from home selling goldfish polishing kits. Your options are the same as they are with verbal communication.
Personally, I ignore spam; although I imagine enough of the world listens or those who send it wouldn't bother. If you are like me and have adopted an across-the-board ignore policy, there are several good programs available to automate the ignore process for you so it is not that big a deal.
I cannot disagree enough with the idea of an email tax. It is artificial and benefits nobody but the government. I personally view this idea with the same level of incredulity I would if the government tried to tax verbal communication because some people want to talk incessantly about Amway. It is absolutely ludicrous.
In fact, even if you totally disregard email coming from other countries outside the US, evidence that an email tax would not stop spam is more than apparent in the mail delivered to your mailbox on a daily basis. How much of it is spam; or rather junk mail? For me, it is usually one piece of legitimate mail per five pieces of junk mail, which is about the same ratio I see in my email inbox. The only difference between electronic junk mail and tangible junk mail is that the senders have to pay to send the latter.
No, the only one's benefiting from an email tax would be the bureaucracy that instigated it. The only thing that would change would be the addition of a bunch of government piranhas viciously snapping at every penny they could get. It is a very dumb and poorly conceived idea, in my opinion.
Actually, my grammar and my spelling were both wrong on purpose. It was a subtle part of the overall package (i.e. mispell instead of misspell, mispelled instead of misspelled, double negative, etc.)
Oh, I've been calling "Soooooossss", all slow and exaggerated out like that. I feel like a freaking idiot.
Thanks for the acronym and pronunciation information.
However, I don't feel ALL dumb because at least I didn't mispell the word proNUNciation (although I probably mispelled others).
Okay, now I feel like a pud again for spontaneously turning into a grammar officer.
Dammit SuSE! Why couldn't you have been easy to pronounce in the first place and saved me all this shame?
So, if I understand this correctly, I can power my cell phone via surrounding vibrations. So there is a benefit to tossing on the small boss after all.
I don't know why the retarded record companies can't look out the window and see as plain as day what they have to do.
If the major record labels and a few minor ones would just get together and offer a reasonably priced (I'm talking $5 - $10 per month) subscription-based Napster-like service, they would make more money.
I prefer downloading music. I don't have to drive to the store, I don't have to buy 12 lame songs to get the one that I like, and I can mix my own CDs for my driving pleasure.
This would be good for artists as well. They wouldn't have to work so hard to release an "album". They could just release one or two songs and everybody would be happy. Or, instead of waiting until they have cobbled together a list of 12 - 15 songs (most of which will be lame anyway), they could release 3 - 4 good songs and forget all the crap songs (of course they'd have to come up with a bunch of crap songs if they wanted to go on tour I guess).
Anyway, online subscription-based services are the answer, not paying extra money for stupid encryption schemes that will be broken within minutes of being released.