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I know where this is going.

I know he'll steal from the company, so I'm going to leave $50 by his desk. And if that doesn't work, I'll leave $1,000. And if that doesn't work, I'll leave $50,000, but dammit, I'm going to prove he's a criminal.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Apr 1, 2008 -> 11:44 AM) That's exactly it - the right tools for the job. I started doing serious Macromedia Director authoring and Adobe Premier editing around 1992, and for those apps you needed to have enough real estate to have a half-dozen tool windows and pallets open as well as your main project window. With a single monitor you'd spend half your day opening/closing and shuffling windows and you wouldn't get anything done. And for the dozens and dozens of users like yourself, a dream was realized!

You walk into a neighborhood and there are drug dealers, hookers, bookies, and child pornographers, does crime go up or down? Now what if they all are cops? When cops commit crimes we should be very wary. No matter who they are trying to arrest. There are enough people committing crimes to arrest without creating a few more.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Apr 1, 2008 -> 11:39 AM) Any chance the PTBNL is Cain or Lincecum, if people perform? No chance, guaranteed. I'd bet anything.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Apr 1, 2008 -> 11:15 AM) When did child exploitation or websites and forums that work on that become legal? Decoys have been used in police work for all sorts of crimes, why not electronic. No one entices a person to look at child pornography. You make an active choice to look at it. So why not arrest them for being on the illegal websites?

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Apr 1, 2008 -> 11:15 AM) Creaper?? You would have paid $10K for a single VGA monitor that gave you anything close to the real estate of two of the standard 640x480s of the day. My point was I didn't need two monitors. Still do not. My 17' laptop display is just fine. I've played with a second monitor and so far, just didn't need the clutter on my desktop. So I guess for those that needed that much real estate, Mac was the way to go.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Apr 1, 2008 -> 10:52 AM) Your computer work needs apparently never required the use of extended mode multiple-monitors, because that's certainly not something Windows caught up to Apple on in a couple months. Multiple monitors were first supported as a standard feature on the Mac II way back in 1987. It became a standard feature on Windows as of Windows 98. The Mac II was released on March 2 1987, and Win98 was released on June 25th 1998, so by my calculations that is 135 months' lag time, Bro. Nope, I was busy using the bigger and cheaper PC monitors at the time.

Only this classic from Kong

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 31, 2008 -> 09:46 PM) I loved the Konerko commercial. It made me want to take a "run Hillary run" sign to the ballpark.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Apr 1, 2008 -> 10:38 AM) Fields hit 23 home runs last season in less than 400 ab's. The talent is obvious and I think most people at this point just believe Josh is the better baseball player. Right now, Crede has just as much to prove, if not more than Fields does. They both have the same to prove, can they play like a healthy Crede for a full season at the MLB level. Can Crede do it again, can Fields do it once. I believe they both can.

QUOTE(Phil McKrevice @ Mar 31, 2008 -> 09:17 PM) Any chance the clock on the server could be fixed? It's about 20 minutes fast, and I keep freaking out when I read times on people's posts becuase I think I'm late for something. Efforting. Now if I could get stock prices twenty minutes earlier . . .

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Apr 1, 2008 -> 10:27 AM) If we had real cheap potential, we would be discussing how great Miguel Cabreras first game would be for us. Remember young good cheap prospects under control for a long time are the new currency of the MLB. Long term contracts are evil around here plus we then trade prospects at exactly the right time to win now.

QUOTE(BigEdWalsh @ Apr 1, 2008 -> 10:20 AM) Bravo! I'm puzzled too by all the Crede hatred/Fields worship. The Uribe hatred: well deserved. Oh, hatred is the wrong word, but I've had it with Uribe's weak stick. With the addition of Cabrera (and Alexi) I thought Juan was as good as gone. There is no need for him. Cheap potential is God around here.

QUOTE(lostfan @ Mar 31, 2008 -> 07:36 PM) I actually don't use a computer for an internet connection, I actually just sit down with a sharpened Ethernet cable and stick it into my vein. When I'm done, I take it out and swab it with alcohol. QUOTE(CanOfCorn @ Mar 31, 2008 -> 08:29 PM) Y'know, you should swab it with alcohol BEFORE you stick it into your vein...lest you get a virus. Alright, I'll boo myself...BOOOOOO!!!

QUOTE(CanOfCorn @ Mar 31, 2008 -> 08:29 PM) Y'know, you should swab it with alcohol BEFORE you stick it into your vein...lest you get a virus. Alright, I'll boo myself...BOOOOOO!!!

Based on history, we will see every imaginable lineup before April is history.

QUOTE(StrangeSox @ Apr 1, 2008 -> 10:10 AM) I might consider OSX if I could run it on decent hardware that didn't cost me twice as much as a comparable PC. Until that day, I won't be buying any overpriced Mac products. Twice the price may be a stretch, but they do cost more and I honestly do not see any advantage in quaility between my son's Mac and my Dell. Now I have never used a bottom tier Wintel laptop, but I'm guessing I would see a difference in quality, but then there would also be a difference with my Dell.

I use both. My son has a MacBook and on campus I stop into whatever computer lab is closest. Both work. I have never seen an advantage for either that lasted moe than a couple months, and it is a lot quicker for the PC world to catch up that the Mac world. And they both jump ahead at times.

It does say a lot that there was demand for Macs that run Vista but not PCs that run Mac OS?

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Apr 1, 2008 -> 09:49 AM) How could you be against something that can lure . To stop (fill in the blank) the government is going to promote it. They are creating a crime scene and convincing someone to commit the crime. They cannot arrest them in the websites and forums they are visiting, because those, at the present time, are legal. So they convince them to commit a crime. That's dangerous territory there. It could be argues that if the FBI was not there with that site these people may never have committed a crime. I don't believe the government should be working out ways to get people to commit crimes. This is successful if they make it so enticing that people decide to commit child pornography.

Funny, this little gem from Esquire just hit my in basket Five Reasons Why PCs Are Better Than Macs

They all even out by the end of the season. I stopped losing sleep over it a long time ago. Players earning $15,000,000 per season makes errors. Managers make errors. GMs make errors. Umpires make errors. They are part of the game, and I actually think they add to the game, rather then have some computer somewhere making the calls.

QUOTE(Jenks Heat @ Mar 19, 2008 -> 09:50 AM) I really lose all respect for the dopes that backed the war and then just feel we should up and leave. We made our bed now we need to lie in it. I love the hindsite being 20/20 of these morons. If you leave Iraq in shambles, it becomes hot bed for terrorism as there is no governemnt in place. That is the intent of the attcks now. You can not just up and leave and let the place fester. Fools. I love the people that would rather keep making the same mistake over and over again, even in the face of new information. Look around the globe, there are so many countries that harbor terrorists it would actually be beneficial if they all concentrated in one. Look around the globe, there are bigger threats. Unstable countries with nuclear weapons. There are festering countries all over the globe. But just keep your head down and pounding into that same brick wall, with the same methods.

QUOTE(Y2HH @ Apr 1, 2008 -> 08:35 AM) The article says he only received 10,000 + the Air, not 20,000. I believe the prize money dwindles as the days go on, the that's the total prize money available, which doesn't all go to the first winner. But yes, the concensus amongst the hackers at the convention said why bother with the Linux machine...it's even in the story I linked. I know what was in the article, but I wonder how accurate that was. Ehh, why bother for $20,000 (the first day challenge) or even $10,000 or $5,000? So on day two the choices were $10,000 + Mac $10,000 + Vista machine $10,000 + Linux machine And they decided to pick the Mac, just because it was the most valuable? Again, the difference is $10,000 or $13,000, and I don't buy they picked their target based on that. What is more plausible to me, is the randomness of people and talents at the show. To be successful, the hacker would have to have a decent knowledge of that platform. So the Mac guy walked by before the PC guy and there may not have been but a handful of Linux guys walking the show. In other words, a PC guy in all likelihood would not decide to hack the Mac and vice versa.