Don't worry, that's just Apple sabotaging all of the tech that isn't theirs. They managed to partially duplicate Steve's reality-distortion field and incorporated it into the iPhone. Honestly, Apple's general plan is "Thou Shalt Only Use Apple Products".
With regards to spy invisibility, I've never had too much trouble seeing the ripple effect a spy gives when they're invisible. Then again, I play the engineer class the most and we get paranoid like that.
...an Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, who invented a chemical weapon that when dropped causes heterosexual men to become attracted to each other... Am I one of the few people wondering about the specifics of that weapon? Or why the Navy isn't developing it?
They may be working towards an online advertising monopoly, but unlike Microsoft's PC monopoly (built on Windows and Office) anyone who wants to take a shot at eating into Google's market share merely has to make a better web site. That assertion is a fallacy. Google's strength shifted some time ago from their neat search engine to their own name and PR. Their "Don't be Evil" motto (whether or not they actually follow it completely at this point is moot) was an effective transfer function for this. Any competing product would have to be greater than what Google has built up to the point and Google would have to actively disgruntle its customer base (that is, cause a large portion of its customers to be disgruntled).
In other words, in order for your theoretical "better web site" to work, Google itself would have to exhibit symptoms of failure. In addition, Google would have to have become even more entrenched in failure (this more of a matter of idiotic pride) and not make the effort of acquiring your "better" site and underlying technology for its own benefit.
Openness and monopoly, curiously enough, are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
Even I have no clue how that absurd sentence got posted. Selective blindness, perhaps?
Ms. Clinton has always struck me as the kind of person who, if presented with a pistol and a note (that stated if she killed the people on said list she'd be president), she'd be out the door before she had even checked the ammunition. Yay for nested dependent clauses.
Clinton Will Pander To Whomever Her Focus Groups Tell Her Fixed that for you.
Honestly, I doubt that H. Clinton gives one whit about games. But her focus groups tell her it'll get her a couple points with the "Think Of The Children" voting segment, so she'll say she's "against violent video games." She'll say whatever'll get the voters off to get elected (the same can be said of many politicians).
On a somewhat related note, Ms. Clinton has always struck me as the kind of person who, if presented with a pistol and a note from that stated if she killed the people on the attached list, she'd be out the door, gun in hand, before checking that the thing was even loaded.
I know many non-IT folks who use Thunderbird specifically for it's excellent mail filtering abilities. Its spamfilter heuristics seem to leave something to be desired, at least in my experience. Somewhat scary when Vista's built-in mail app tended to get the better coverage compared to Tbird (ran the two over the same set of emails). Also wouldn't mind being able to filter on an arbitary set of conditions--right now seems to be a AND or OR relationship, good luck when you'd like to do something like (subject = "amspam" OR subject = "spamspam" OR subject contains my username) AND (sender is not on my address book).
Yes, this is something I've wanted to do; I tend to get the same kinds of spam on a given POP3 account I have and the username is not related to my real name, so any email that tries to go "Hello XXX, you've got a great stock tip!" or "for XXX" I know immediately that it's bogus.
So what charity gets the money? Is it the usual suspects--sick kids and Africa? Why not the EFF, or FSF? Why not Wikipedia? It seems that often a charity needs to be identified in order to get rid of money. ThinkOfTheChildren usually results. You inconsiderate clod, do you honestly think I would trust Wikipediawith money?
For my WM5 PDA, I've always used uBook Reader. Fairly fast with a decent set of parsers and scrolling options, fonts, colorations, etc. Inexpensive, too.
My university's Comp. Sci department offers a Web Application Development (CS350) course (couldn't find anything web-specific in the art department, although there is plenty of computer-related stuff).
(See the course catalog)
Vista Business x86 has run fairly decently for me (once I got the fscking issues with driver incompatibility and chipset hell handled). It does what I tell it to do. I shut off UAC (cancel or allow?), left Aero on, and run with 2GB of RAM and a X2 5200+. As it stands, it hasn't pissed me off enough to warrant going through the pain+aggravation of reinstalling (still looking for a decent, free, VM server for Linuxy things and to use as a home for a XP install, just in case). The one thing I did like about it was that they finally used sensible names for the user's home folder. I actually hosed my laptop's XP install a couple times trying to get the folders like that.
My Thinkpad T42 runs WinXP, and (other than copy times), I've not honestly seen much difference between the two, responsiveness-wise (again, I didn't see much of a responsiveness difference when both were running XP).
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Saddam had a reason to make everyone think he had WMDs, and it starts with "I" and rhymes with "bran".
Don't worry, that's just Apple sabotaging all of the tech that isn't theirs. They managed to partially duplicate Steve's reality-distortion field and incorporated it into the iPhone.
Honestly, Apple's general plan is "Thou Shalt Only Use Apple Products".
Nothing to see here, move along...
With regards to spy invisibility, I've never had too much trouble seeing the ripple effect a spy gives when they're invisible. Then again, I play the engineer class the most and we get paranoid like that.
...an Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, who invented a chemical weapon that when dropped causes heterosexual men to become attracted to each other... Am I one of the few people wondering about the specifics of that weapon? Or why the Navy isn't developing it?Hrm.. found a few links here and here. Cache of Ignoble's page as it's currently under
The trick is, of course, getting to the Patent Office in time.
In other words, in order for your theoretical "better web site" to work, Google itself would have to exhibit symptoms of failure. In addition, Google would have to have become even more entrenched in failure (this more of a matter of idiotic pride) and not make the effort of acquiring your "better" site and underlying technology for its own benefit.
Openness and monopoly, curiously enough, are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
I was wondering (off and on, never really tried it) how to do that. Maybe it's finally time to install an Ubuntu virtual image.
Slackware will forgive me, won't it?
Fixed that for you.
Honestly, I doubt that H. Clinton gives one whit about games. But her focus groups tell her it'll get her a couple points with the "Think Of The Children" voting segment, so she'll say she's "against violent video games." She'll say whatever'll get the voters off to get elected (the same can be said of many politicians).
On a somewhat related note, Ms. Clinton has always struck me as the kind of person who, if presented with a pistol and a note from that stated if she killed the people on the attached list, she'd be out the door, gun in hand, before checking that the thing was even loaded.
I feel spoiled, my first box was a TRS-80 Model 4 with 64k of memory. Then came the 286, then dropping in the 486 board, etc.
While I liked Sonic Rush myself (kicked the tar out of any of the fscking GBA games), I'm not as sure what I think about Sonic Rush Adventure.
That being said, the "Extra" Stage in Sonic Rush was a great throwback to Sonic 3 & Knuckles.
Yes, this is something I've wanted to do; I tend to get the same kinds of spam on a given POP3 account I have and the username is not related to my real name, so any email that tries to go "Hello XXX, you've got a great stock tip!" or "for XXX" I know immediately that it's bogus.
For my WM5 PDA, I've always used uBook Reader. Fairly fast with a decent set of parsers and scrolling options, fonts, colorations, etc. Inexpensive, too.
My university's Comp. Sci department offers a Web Application Development (CS350) course (couldn't find anything web-specific in the art department, although there is plenty of computer-related stuff). (See the course catalog)
Pinheads, drones, and more drones? (cymbal crash)
I'm here all week, ladies and gentlemen.
Vista Business x86 has run fairly decently for me (once I got the fscking issues with driver incompatibility and chipset hell handled). It does what I tell it to do. I shut off UAC (cancel or allow?), left Aero on, and run with 2GB of RAM and a X2 5200+. As it stands, it hasn't pissed me off enough to warrant going through the pain+aggravation of reinstalling (still looking for a decent, free, VM server for Linuxy things and to use as a home for a XP install, just in case). The one thing I did like about it was that they finally used sensible names for the user's home folder. I actually hosed my laptop's XP install a couple times trying to get the folders like that.
My Thinkpad T42 runs WinXP, and (other than copy times), I've not honestly seen much difference between the two, responsiveness-wise (again, I didn't see much of a responsiveness difference when both were running XP).
Oh, good. The first thing that came to mind for me was dada21 here at /..
The whole article on one page.
How many of the original devs that did WoW are still on WoW?
Try following a few simple instructions and you may not get your ass kicked by the police.
This is, of course, why we put three or four drill bits through the thing first.
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