Clearly you do not understand the concept of 'Net neutrality then. If restriction of content you don't want to see doesn't bother your sensibilities, then the big Internet business will assume that you won't mind when they come for Slashdot.
Guess how much Disney I consume. None. This outrages me because if Disney content can be restricted in this way, ANY content can be restricted in this way.
Your attitude will kill net neutrality. 'Net neutrality goes both ways. If you want your cable company to let you look at whatever YOU want, regardless of how much of a "good deal" they can get on providing it for you, you need to fucking hunker down and support the tards who want to look at Disney content.
Microsoft has acknowledged it has been breaking the law by bundling IE into Windows
There have always been plenty of issues that pissed me off about Microsoft, and I have always resented them for having a closed source rendering engine in their browser, full of flaws, that ultimately ruined 90%+ of the HTML on the Internet.
But the statement above scares the shit out of me. A software vendor is not allowed to bundle its products? WTF?? The government has waaaay too much power when they can tell a company that bundling its products is not legal. Microsoft's actions were highly anti-competitive when they made IE an integral part of the Windows operating system. That was obvious to everybody. They are on two completely different levels of functionality.
But a software manufacturer has every right (IMHO) to encourage the use of ALL of its products.
Really, I've kinda lost my faith in the diagnostic abilities of a lot of doctors
Yep. I have no trust in any doctors. There have been so many times I have received conflicting information from different doctors, for just information that doesn't make sense to me from individual doctors. For a long time, I blindly trusted them and just assumed that medical conditions and their symptoms were supposed to be confusing and seemingly illogical.
Of course, it turns out: if you're able to investigate any issue in the physical world with even a remote degree of aptitude, then you're probably able to get a pretty good handle on what ailments you have or DON'T have. NEVER take anything a doctor says at face value. They have a lot of patients, and they need to get you out of their office so they can get to the next one.
Um. This was a demo that simply shows that there is a one to one correlation between your human skeleton's movements, and natal's in-game skeleton that represents you.
Nobody said that all games will require you to dance around a 20ftX20ft space in order to hit dodge balls. You CAN do that with the technology. That doesn't mean a game can't be calibrated to make your game much more sensitive to small movements...
Cardboard box? You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt.
What's being done, however, is a bunch of probably-harmless losers getting their lives ruined and then forced to live on the public dime in jail. It's ridiculous. Even more so when we're talking about cartoon people.
Yeah I mean the thought of a cartoon person in jail is a bit much for me to believe.
Yes, I can imagine how that would be true if Wolfram Alpha were COMPETING WITH GOOGLE. Except it's not. Not as a search engine at least. Jesus. Why don't you try a few typical searches on WA before you say stupid crap that ill-informed modmins will mod up?
Try "cheap plane tickets", or "what are pennies made of" in WA. Look at the results. There are none. That's because WA does not do what Google Search does. It wasn't meant to. You know what else it doesn't do? What ebay does. That's right, you can't buy and trade anything with Wolfram Alpha. It's like Wolfram Alpha is this steaming pile of crap that doesn't do anything but what it was designed to do!
Wolfram Alpha is a super calculator with some databases that it references. You can't search the web with it. You can't buy movie tickets with it. You can't order tires with it. You can only use it in the way it was intended.
Correct. Gone are the days when a company could make a game that was actually appealing enough that the vast number of honest gamers out there willing to pay full price offset the lost sales at the hands of pirates. In order pull off something like that, a company would have to:
-care about its customers -actually have an original idea BEFORE deciding to make the game -know what makes a fun game and actually care enough to work toward creating one
But that's completely unheard of. Gamespot should really give the shitty companies the money they couldn't entice consumers to give them in the first place. I mean really, come on gamestop, stop support a culture that actually demands a worthy product, and hop on the gravy train to mediocrity.
Well technically, what you're describing *IS* marketing. Creating buzz through advertizing and branding are but one facet of the big picture of marketing.
MS is better at marketing in the opposite direction. They sneak their products in under your nose so that all you know is their products. When this strategy is not an option, they try to do the whole branding thing, and fail miserably at that.
I'm not sure it matters either way though. I hate when companies get too much selling power through any marketing techniques, be it MS, Apple, or Google.
What seems more important to me, though, is that Bing is supposed to be a 'decision engine'. I feel like Google's search is so successful because they largely keep it simple in terms of 'making decisions' for the user. I think a huge flaw in a lot of the design of MS products is that they tend to insult the user by making a lot of decisions for him. Windows does it all the time by hiding known extensions, hiding system files, etc. I think they might be headed in the wrong direction if they think they can help users use search engines better than they have been for the past 10 years. I think we know how to find what we need.
The idea behind this latest government sponsored group being set up is simple: Try and get a group to come out with some findings that are not immediately rubbished by the side that the disagree with.
I like how you just completely overlook the fact that once a board is created, the people on that board might have a slight interest in keeping their jobs, and that just *might* involve exaggerating the need for the board. Oh, and let's not forget the fact that there is a 100% chance that the board will contract work out to some company that does climate-related work.
Hm. Seems like that might create a bit of an industry based around the need to watch the climate! And there is no way that said industry will do ANYTHING unethical or dishonest to keep itself afloat. The words "conflict of interest" come to mind...
Halliburton, Enron and Total have only 1 objective: their bottom line.
It's funny that you should say this because the whole reason why corporations as legal entities exist is because of the belief that corporate self-interest ultimately helps society thrive. The reasoning behind them is that if all businesses' liability were placed on the individuals running them, the incentives of making profits would be prohibitively outweighed by the dangers of individual liability for damage done by the business.
With a corporation, you can run it into the ground, accidentally destroy public property, etc., and you the business owner are protected because the corporation has its own legal identity, independent of its owner. Then when you have to fold that company, you can start a new one up the next day and with the hopes of not failing so miserably. And the generally accepted principal is that enough businesses will be created that people will always be able to get jobs because entrepreneurs will be less afraid that starting company will bankrupt them. That's how I understand it anyway.
So you can act like that "bottom line" is going to be the end of us all, but your government believes that the bottom line is what keeps food on the table for you and everyone you know
By treating the term retard as offensive, you are only feeding into its offensiveness. Retard means slow. If retard has any negative connotation at all, it is because being mentally slow is something that is inherently undesirable, and no matter what window dressing you do to it, the window dressing will always become an insult.
If you had any depth to you, you would be more focused on trying to emphasize to as many people as possible that being a retard is not something worthy of being hated or abused. The word retard is not harmful at all, and it never will be. It is how people react to people who are retarded. When you focus on something as shallow as a word, you are hurting retards worldwide by misdirecting public attention from their cause.
The 'Hobbits' are retards. And so are you for getting butthurt over the word retard.
You can patent "a single online store that sells games, media, and video"?????
Help me out here. How the hell is this something that needs to be patented? Selling shit at a store seems like a pretty easily conceived/implemented idea. I'm pretty sure Amazon is doing this already.
When are you and the population in general going to learn that that's the whole point?
Never.
Really, the level of naivete and downright stupidity on the part of the ruled (not the governed) regarding these basic things is pathetic and shameful.
That's right! They like it. The people as a whole like it when you take their rights away and screw them. The first thing the general public does when you even the playing field is falls on its face, and then it begs for somebody to come and protect it from itself. Then any oppressor that wants to can just rape them all to hell.
I'm so sick of it. Everybody is so happy to put tons of laws in place that restrict them from doing anything. So you know what? You can't let them decide. Democracy does not work. We gave it a good run, but it really turns out that the world population would really be better off with warlords running around hacking off limbs. At least then, even the very stupid can tell when their leaders are doing something wrong. Because it physically hurts.
As sarcastic as it sounds, I'm serious. People really really don't seem to want to make any decisions for themselves, or make any effort to watch their own backs. Every time any kind of personal responsibility or vigilance is required, people let their guard down and get screwed, and then demand that somebody else help them. So you know what I say? Take advantage of all the helpless losers while you can before the entire world is baby-proofed. They will screw *you* by voting all your rights out the window.
Why is your sxs folder growing? Isn't that just from installing various com applications that use different versions of the com dlls? If so, are you really installing that many apps like that? Also, I thought that sxs was like way older than Vista (I know it's at least present in XP/2003).
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Clearly you do not understand the concept of 'Net neutrality then. If restriction of content you don't want to see doesn't bother your sensibilities, then the big Internet business will assume that you won't mind when they come for Slashdot.
Guess how much Disney I consume. None. This outrages me because if Disney content can be restricted in this way, ANY content can be restricted in this way.
Your attitude will kill net neutrality. 'Net neutrality goes both ways. If you want your cable company to let you look at whatever YOU want, regardless of how much of a "good deal" they can get on providing it for you, you need to fucking hunker down and support the tards who want to look at Disney content.
Jayzus...
Why did the CIA kill JFK?
Microsoft has acknowledged it has been breaking the law by bundling IE into Windows
There have always been plenty of issues that pissed me off about Microsoft, and I have always resented them for having a closed source rendering engine in their browser, full of flaws, that ultimately ruined 90%+ of the HTML on the Internet.
But the statement above scares the shit out of me. A software vendor is not allowed to bundle its products? WTF?? The government has waaaay too much power when they can tell a company that bundling its products is not legal. Microsoft's actions were highly anti-competitive when they made IE an integral part of the Windows operating system. That was obvious to everybody. They are on two completely different levels of functionality.
But a software manufacturer has every right (IMHO) to encourage the use of ALL of its products.
Really, I've kinda lost my faith in the diagnostic abilities of a lot of doctors
Yep. I have no trust in any doctors. There have been so many times I have received conflicting information from different doctors, for just information that doesn't make sense to me from individual doctors. For a long time, I blindly trusted them and just assumed that medical conditions and their symptoms were supposed to be confusing and seemingly illogical.
Of course, it turns out: if you're able to investigate any issue in the physical world with even a remote degree of aptitude, then you're probably able to get a pretty good handle on what ailments you have or DON'T have. NEVER take anything a doctor says at face value. They have a lot of patients, and they need to get you out of their office so they can get to the next one.
Um. This was a demo that simply shows that there is a one to one correlation between your human skeleton's movements, and natal's in-game skeleton that represents you.
Nobody said that all games will require you to dance around a 20ftX20ft space in order to hit dodge balls. You CAN do that with the technology. That doesn't mean a game can't be calibrated to make your game much more sensitive to small movements...
MS got rid of the tie between Windows Explorer and IE with Windows Vista
Eh I'm pretty sure they got rid of the tie with IE 7, not Vista. So if you have IE 7 or greater on XP, you don't have that tie either.
Cardboard box? You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt.
What's being done, however, is a bunch of probably-harmless losers getting their lives ruined and then forced to live on the public dime in jail. It's ridiculous. Even more so when we're talking about cartoon people.
Yeah I mean the thought of a cartoon person in jail is a bit much for me to believe.
Yes, I can imagine how that would be true if Wolfram Alpha were COMPETING WITH GOOGLE. Except it's not. Not as a search engine at least. Jesus. Why don't you try a few typical searches on WA before you say stupid crap that ill-informed modmins will mod up?
Try "cheap plane tickets", or "what are pennies made of" in WA. Look at the results. There are none. That's because WA does not do what Google Search does. It wasn't meant to. You know what else it doesn't do? What ebay does. That's right, you can't buy and trade anything with Wolfram Alpha. It's like Wolfram Alpha is this steaming pile of crap that doesn't do anything but what it was designed to do!
Wolfram Alpha is a super calculator with some databases that it references. You can't search the web with it. You can't buy movie tickets with it. You can't order tires with it. You can only use it in the way it was intended.
all they can do is whine and lobby
Correct. Gone are the days when a company could make a game that was actually appealing enough that the vast number of honest gamers out there willing to pay full price offset the lost sales at the hands of pirates. In order pull off something like that, a company would have to:
-care about its customers
-actually have an original idea BEFORE deciding to make the game
-know what makes a fun game and actually care enough to work toward creating one
But that's completely unheard of. Gamespot should really give the shitty companies the money they couldn't entice consumers to give them in the first place. I mean really, come on gamestop, stop support a culture that actually demands a worthy product, and hop on the gravy train to mediocrity.
yeah when i figured out how easily you can tune the results, i was pretty impressed.
It is of course a little clumsy and lacking in features, but when they get this cleaned up, it will be a very useful tool.
Uh... because then you have more of a chance of completely missing letters like i and numbers like 1 entirely...
This matter is overly confusing for far too many people...
Whoa epic reply. What level OT do you have to be to pull off something like that?
Well technically, what you're describing *IS* marketing. Creating buzz through advertizing and branding are but one facet of the big picture of marketing.
MS is better at marketing in the opposite direction. They sneak their products in under your nose so that all you know is their products. When this strategy is not an option, they try to do the whole branding thing, and fail miserably at that.
I'm not sure it matters either way though. I hate when companies get too much selling power through any marketing techniques, be it MS, Apple, or Google.
What seems more important to me, though, is that Bing is supposed to be a 'decision engine'. I feel like Google's search is so successful because they largely keep it simple in terms of 'making decisions' for the user. I think a huge flaw in a lot of the design of MS products is that they tend to insult the user by making a lot of decisions for him. Windows does it all the time by hiding known extensions, hiding system files, etc. I think they might be headed in the wrong direction if they think they can help users use search engines better than they have been for the past 10 years. I think we know how to find what we need.
I wonder if you can use it to search for Holy Grails?
The idea behind this latest government sponsored group being set up is simple: Try and get a group to come out with some findings that are not immediately rubbished by the side that the disagree with.
I like how you just completely overlook the fact that once a board is created, the people on that board might have a slight interest in keeping their jobs, and that just *might* involve exaggerating the need for the board. Oh, and let's not forget the fact that there is a 100% chance that the board will contract work out to some company that does climate-related work.
Hm. Seems like that might create a bit of an industry based around the need to watch the climate! And there is no way that said industry will do ANYTHING unethical or dishonest to keep itself afloat. The words "conflict of interest" come to mind...
Halliburton, Enron and Total have only 1 objective: their bottom line.
It's funny that you should say this because the whole reason why corporations as legal entities exist is because of the belief that corporate self-interest ultimately helps society thrive. The reasoning behind them is that if all businesses' liability were placed on the individuals running them, the incentives of making profits would be prohibitively outweighed by the dangers of individual liability for damage done by the business.
With a corporation, you can run it into the ground, accidentally destroy public property, etc., and you the business owner are protected because the corporation has its own legal identity, independent of its owner. Then when you have to fold that company, you can start a new one up the next day and with the hopes of not failing so miserably. And the generally accepted principal is that enough businesses will be created that people will always be able to get jobs because entrepreneurs will be less afraid that starting company will bankrupt them. That's how I understand it anyway.
So you can act like that "bottom line" is going to be the end of us all, but your government believes that the bottom line is what keeps food on the table for you and everyone you know
I strongly object to the term "retards".
By treating the term retard as offensive, you are only feeding into its offensiveness. Retard means slow. If retard has any negative connotation at all, it is because being mentally slow is something that is inherently undesirable, and no matter what window dressing you do to it, the window dressing will always become an insult.
If you had any depth to you, you would be more focused on trying to emphasize to as many people as possible that being a retard is not something worthy of being hated or abused. The word retard is not harmful at all, and it never will be. It is how people react to people who are retarded. When you focus on something as shallow as a word, you are hurting retards worldwide by misdirecting public attention from their cause.
The 'Hobbits' are retards. And so are you for getting butthurt over the word retard.
You can patent "a single online store that sells games, media, and video"?????
Help me out here. How the hell is this something that needs to be patented? Selling shit at a store seems like a pretty easily conceived/implemented idea. I'm pretty sure Amazon is doing this already.
I'm already on the iFork mailing list for pre-order updates!
When are you and the population in general going to learn that that's the whole point?
Never.
Really, the level of naivete and downright stupidity on the part of the ruled (not the governed) regarding these basic things is pathetic and shameful.
That's right! They like it. The people as a whole like it when you take their rights away and screw them. The first thing the general public does when you even the playing field is falls on its face, and then it begs for somebody to come and protect it from itself. Then any oppressor that wants to can just rape them all to hell.
I'm so sick of it. Everybody is so happy to put tons of laws in place that restrict them from doing anything. So you know what? You can't let them decide. Democracy does not work. We gave it a good run, but it really turns out that the world population would really be better off with warlords running around hacking off limbs. At least then, even the very stupid can tell when their leaders are doing something wrong. Because it physically hurts.
As sarcastic as it sounds, I'm serious. People really really don't seem to want to make any decisions for themselves, or make any effort to watch their own backs. Every time any kind of personal responsibility or vigilance is required, people let their guard down and get screwed, and then demand that somebody else help them. So you know what I say? Take advantage of all the helpless losers while you can before the entire world is baby-proofed. They will screw *you* by voting all your rights out the window.
Yeah it's virae. Or was that viren...
That word... I do not think it means what you think it means...
Why is your sxs folder growing? Isn't that just from installing various com applications that use different versions of the com dlls? If so, are you really installing that many apps like that? Also, I thought that sxs was like way older than Vista (I know it's at least present in XP/2003).
For me I lost Abobe Acrobat 6 when i went to Vista and it isn't like Win7 will now rescue that for me (though maybe with the VM...)
So yeah don't you think that the vm of xp will, in fact, rescue that? I mean shouldn't it?