Tom is saying Jeff pulled a 'Tom'.
Bingo.
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On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:07:16 -0500, Wayne Dernoncourt wrote:
Tony B
Wild first guess - you _are_ using IE? ActiveX only works
in IE. And there should be a blocking notice you'll have
to manually approve. Install IE7 (if applicable) and try
again.
Tom seemed to indicate lack of Mac support
Honestly Mutt and Jeff! Grow up a little. I'm starting to delete your
comments before reading them.
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Huh, Jeff, WTF?
Mark--It's very simple.
Tom operates under the RDF'd delusion that Apple is some kind of
warm-hearted, sweet-little-aunt-who-bakes-you-pies company that only behaves
badly when backed into a corner by the mean men outside the loving confines
of Cupertino. I choose the
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Jeff Wright jswri...@gmail.com wrote:
Tom is saying Jeff pulled a 'Tom'.
Bingo.
In fact, Jeff's Tom rating is currently 100 Toms and going up. Tom
remains the yardstick at 1 Tom.
And, as Jordan noted, the best approach is to delete the posts of everyone
Actually, I think Tom was saying that Garmin forcing you to use Active
X is a Bad Thing. And I'd have to ag. . . agre. . . Ohh, I just can't
say it.
Forcing anyone to use IE is certainly a crime. I went one step further to
say that any company who can't figure out how to do a job using open
What you forget is Tom may only measure by the yard, but he has so many yard
sticks he throws out that by sheer volume Tom would be deleted on the server
and never reach the inbox.
At least Jeff will answer direct questions, I'm still waiting for Tom to
explain his going after MS for the Toshiba
And you were castigating Microsoft for shipping untested product.
You can't have it both ways. You know that an engineering
solution can look perfect on paper and can fail in the field.
You seriously err...
1) Theirs did not look good on paper either. People who looked at the
code described
The whole point of binauraul theory is that you don't necessarily need
speakers in the floor to fool the ear into thinking the sound is
coming from there.
There is just no helping you Tony. To do what you describe requires a
minimum of 3 ears. Triauraul, not binauraul. Simple trigonometry.
So the same for Toshiba? Glad we agree.
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
And you were castigating Microsoft for shipping untested product.
You can't have it both ways. You know that an engineering
solution can look perfect on paper and can fail in the field.
Tom operates under the RDF'd delusion that Apple is some kind of
warm-hearted, sweet-little-aunt-who-bakes-you-pies company
When you can't win with the facts change the subject (bring in Apple when
the topic is MS), attack the truthtellers (call them biased, nattering
nabobs of negativism,
And, as Jordan noted, the best approach is to delete the posts of
everyone who has a rating higher than 10 Toms, unread. Once you get in
that
range, there is no longer useful content to accompany the ranting.
I think John is right. In the interest of lively discussions and the
sharing of
Jeff Wright
Huh, Jeff, WTF?
Mark--It's very simple.
Tom operates under the RDF'd delusion that Apple is some
kind of warm-hearted, sweet-little-aunt-who-bakes-you-pies
company that only behaves badly when backed into a corner
I wonder if the Tom/Jeff pair are different personalities in
the
Tom Piwowar
Actually, I think Tom was saying that Garmin forcing you to
use Active X is a Bad Thing. And I'd have to
ag. . . agre. . . Ohh, I just can't say it.
Forcing anyone to use IE is certainly a crime. I went one
step further to say that any company who can't figure out
how to do a job
Tandoori Chicken (19+ / 0-)
1 Chicken, approximately 2 pounds (without skin), cut in serving sizes.
Ingredients for marinade:
3 tbsp yogurt + 1 tbsp vinegar
1 tsp garam masala
1 cup portland cement
1/2 tsp corriander powder
1/2 tsp cumin powder
1/2 tsp ginger powder
1/2 tsp garlic powder
Salt
Generally, Tom talks about issues, jeff and the boys talk about Tom.
Wayne Dernoncourt wrote:
I wonder if the Tom/Jeff pair are different personalities in
the same body? They both denigrate the other and proclaim
their's is the correct side. Both companies are using methods
to make their
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3-5 pounds lean moose, Sara Palin, or caribou meet.
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2/3 cup soy sauce
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I was eating Jerk Chicken for lunch!
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Can IWork or iLife be installed as a limited user? Yes, I
installed the Garmin program as admin and then switched to
the limited user to do the actual registration.
No application can be installed by a non-admin user. That is as it should
be.
So is the latest version of the story that you were
Jordan
Tandoori Chicken (19+ / 0-)
1 Chicken, approximately 2 pounds (without skin),
cut in serving sizes.
Ingredients for marinade:
3 tbsp yogurt + 1 tbsp vinegar
1 tsp garam masala --- oh good, alcohol should help
of course, it must be sampled to ensure quality
1 cup portland cement
Is this a fairly straightforward recipe to double?
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Jordan jor17...@gmail.com wrote:
Tandoori Chicken (19+ / 0-)
1 Chicken, approximately 2 pounds (without skin), cut in serving sizes.
Ingredients for marinade:
3 tbsp yogurt + 1 tbsp vinegar
1 tsp garam
In that first paragraph it sounds more like you are talking about yourself,
you can take a subject just about anywhere to keep away from facts.
Toshiba built and sold a player called the gigabeat. This player froze up
on jan 1 just like the zune...because the zune is a gigabeat. You went
after
Generally, Tom talks about issues, jeff and the boys talk about Tom.
This really isn't true.
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/01/belkin_cops_to.ht
ml
If you read user reviews of a particular Belkin router at Amazon.com
recently, chances are it could have been a fake review that was written
for money. ...
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Part of the deal was an additional obligation to
I suppose this isn't really new, but 65 cents a review is. I mean, are
there even third world spammers that would work for 65 American cents
per review???
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/01/belkin_cops_to.ht
I never talked about MS doing this to get new zune sales.
You still haven't answered the question.
I addressed the facts that MS put out a toshiba player branded the zune and
MS should have done some research on the thing to get rid of bugs, and I
said they should take full credit for the device
Better then Zimbabwe cents...
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Tony B ton...@gmail.com wrote:
I suppose this isn't really new, but 65 cents a review is. I mean, are
there even third world spammers that would work for 65 American cents
per review???
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Tom
Tom Piwowar
Can IWork or iLife be installed as a limited user? Yes, I
installed the Garmin program as admin and then switched to
the limited user to do the actual registration.
No application can be installed by a non-admin user. That
is as it should be.
Some programs can be installed and
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:49:53 -0500, Tom Piwowar wrote:
So is the latest version of the story that you were correctly blocked
from installing software and that lead to your not being able to
register? After you installed the software with proper admin rights you
were able to register from a
Forcing anyone to use IE is certainly a crime. I went one step further
to say that any company who can't figure out how to do a job using open
standards is advertising that they have very poor engineering skills.
Hence I would expect to be otherwise not too hot.
It's OK, katan, I can say it.
You still haven't answered the question.
It has been answered fully. The problem is that you will admit only one
answer and ignore everything else. That's solely your problem.
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I wonder if the Tom/Jeff pair are different personalities in
the same body?
Now, that's just mean.
They both denigrate the other and proclaim
their's is the correct side. Both companies are using methods
to make their company grow. It's not like Microsoft isn't
above arm-twisting and
um..no, you haven't.
Toshiba put out the same player, their customers were also locked out using
the gigabeat, why didn't you go after Toshiba as you did MS?
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
You still haven't answered the question.
It has been answered
You, sir, have an extraordinarily limited perspective, if that's all you can
divine.
Generally, Tom talks about issues, jeff and the boys talk about Tom.
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On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:25:51 -0700, mike wrote:
um..no, you haven't.
Toshiba put out the same player, their customers were also locked out using
the gigabeat, why didn't you go after Toshiba as you did MS?
Yeah. C'mon Tom. Say it. Toshiba's Gigabeat is a shitty player. It's
not that hard. It's
Some programs can be installed and used as a non-admin,
x-plane for example. It isn't a general purpose
application like word processing, etc. To run, it has to
open files for read/write from where it was installed.
They tell you to not install it into the Applications folder. Doing that
would
Anybody want to discuss the downandup worm? Nine-million served.
Another MS non-success story. Their inability, after years of
promising, to produce a secure operating system is a significant failure.
No I
don't want to see more lame excuses.
Sure, I'll bite.
It looks like that MS did make
Yeah. C'mon Tom. Say it. Toshiba's Gigabeat is a shitty player. It's
Of course, Toshiba's Gigabeat is a shitty player.
But, based on pervious posts you can look up in the archive, that is not
what he is looking for. He wants that to justify MS having a shitty
player. He'll bemoan that nobody
I'll eat my zune if he says it...oh wait I don't have a zune...
You can eat your Gigabeta.
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And it's downadup not downandup. Sheesh.
Google News gives me one hit for downadup (in Turkish) and 249 hits on
downandup (mostly in English). But you have far more experience with
malware than I so Turkish it is. You tell those other pubs to straighten
up.
Infection estimates now at
I think you are the only one getting crazier and crazier.
Moohahahaha!
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Andy I agree and think it is high time.
Let's discuss something current. The 1st of January was two weeks ago.
Stewart
At 02:48 PM 1/19/2009, you wrote:
Folks, reading some of these messages is getting, well,
depressing. May I offer a suggestion? If there's something that
really needs to
I never talked about MS doing this to get new zune sales.
Oops. Here is your post of 12/31:
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Some call it Z2K9 others Zune Hara-kiri. I like Zunepocalypse. Time is up
for the 30GB Zune models and they are all performing synchronized suicide.
You can just
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Again you are being
Well, tomorrow (Tuesday) at 12:00 would be more symbolic.
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall
popoz...@earthlink.net wrote:
Andy I agree and think it is high time.
Let's discuss something current. The 1st of January was two weeks ago.
Stewart
At 02:48 PM 1/19/2009,
I can honestly say I've only seen one pic of a gigabeat, if you think the
zune was a snooze then the gigabeat is comatose.
Ipodz all the way, long live Apple's monopoly on well made mp3 players.
I just got a brand new ipod nano about a week ago, my fifth ipod overall. I
like it quite a lot
-Original Message-
Google News gives me one hit for downadup (in Turkish) and 249 hits
on downandup (mostly in English). But you have far more experience with
malware than I so Turkish it is. You tell those other pubs to
straighten up.
Here's what I got: Results 1 - 10 of about
I'm running Disk Utility on my mom's iMac G5, an old one, not Intel
based. Anyway, after repairing permissions I get an error when I try
and verify her hard drive. It gives me the message Invalid Sibling
Link. Does anyone have any idea what this is and why the verify keeps
failing?
Jeff
(Oops, clicked Send on the unedited version...sorry about that)
He'll then climb on you back and list a feature for
feature comparison to the (close to obsolete) iPod
Classic player. He will insist you admit that the
two are identical. It gets crazier from there, but
I will spare you the
There is a group actually watching the botnet and the irc server it's been
connecting to, they estimate 500k in unique IP's. Now this isn't the total,
some of those IP's are behind routers at businesses who might have 100
machines. They still have no idea what this thing is planning on
At 03:48 PM 01/19/2009 -0500, Andy Gallant wrote
Folks, reading some of these messages is getting, well, depressing. May I
offer a suggestion? If there's something that really needs to be said,
how about saying it before, say, midnight tonight (EST), and then leave it
all behind? Let's make
I think that would be pushing it in this case. :-)
Stewart
At 05:19 PM 1/19/2009, you wrote:
The other option was to make them kiss and make up. Most chose to
go to their room instead.
Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
mailto:popoz...@earthlink.net
Prince of Peace www.princeofpeaceozark.org
I couldn't agree more. It has gotten so that when I see the subject
header and who has responded that I find myself automatically deleting
the message without reading it, rather than subject myself to yet
another embarrassing rebuttal. In the old days, one was asked to take
their issues outside.
Is you next step to lecture us about the reality of UFOs?
No, of course not.
Maybe MS would be more successful with new products if
they sacrificed a chicken or two?
I frankly don't give a rat's rear end what Microsoft does. But
it's clear that you do.
Should MS replace Balmer with a
Tom Piwowar
Some programs can be installed and used as a non-admin,
x-plane for example. It isn't a general purpose
application like word processing, etc. To run, it has to
open files for read/write from where it was installed.
They tell you to not install it into the Applications
folder.
katan
Really? Install our program or run Active X to register the
product? That doesn't sound like the greatest customer
service. I guess there's always ye olde tried-and-true
mail-in card?
I didn't see one. I'm guessing they get a lot of configuration
information from the Active-X
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