...but why hasn't the military just employed a hundred or so programmers that just make a custom-built OS that the US military uses all accross the board? That would make communications and data integration much easier, amongst other positives...
Too expensive? Time consuming? Difficult? Why haven't they just done that...?
I don't mind, I know it costs a lot to run a GameStop/EB Games, and I also know that they don't make very much money on each sale...I like konwing that I can go buy a MASSIVE library of Xbox games for under 20 dollars each (many under 10) and it's only a coupl eminute drive away.
Sure, of course I prefer the mom-and-pop game stores, but those are nearly non-existant nowadays. While I am aware that Gamestop is one of the reasons WHY they went away, there are still some great deals there
Had one, started freezing. Took it back to gamestop, got an all new one. That started freezing. Took it back and got a third one.
Running solid for two weeks so far::crosses fingers::
In an open space with good airflow (I have an old switched-AT power supply with two fans hooked up to it...one pushing air in, one sucking it out the back...both laying up against the box, so no I have not opened any of the ones that I have.)
::shrug:: I know people complain about it all the time, but i've never once had a technical issue with either Ebay or PayPal, and I use both of them regularly (i.e. I buy at least 2-3 things off Ebay a week)
However, since neither you, me, or any other individual are not the end all be all judges of quality, the fact that you don't like Apple products really doesn't say ANYTHING about Apples products other than they don't appeal to you. If you think any differently then you really need to wake up and realize that not everyone has the same set of priorities as you do.
Tell that to the moron's that modded my other post's in this topic as flamebait and troll.
Microsoft thought if it draped its turd in blue and green it could pass it off as an intuitive interface.
You mean just like how Apple thought if it draped it's turd in shiny plastic it could pass it off as a worthwhile MP3 player?
See what I did right there? It's called an opinion...and like an asshole, everyone has one.
I actually prefer the XP interface over both Linux AND OSX. And no noob accusations, I've had a massive computer hobby since back when the TRS-80 was considered bleeding edge.
Yes, I have used Mac's many times, and I have used iPods many times...hell, I even bought a PowerBook in an attempt to give it a shot...
Don't get me wrong, OSX is a decent operating system in terms of functionality...however, I cannot fucking STAND the interface, and more than that I couldn't stand the way the laptop felt or looked. I had it for a good 6 months and ended up just selling it.
Forgive me for not falling into the marketing trap. Apple products are complete shit.
You know, Hitler was fairly popular amongst Nazi's...
I'm not trolling, my point is that just because something is popular does not mean that it instantly becomes good.
Apple does sell crap products. Come on. Making plastic shiny doesn't suddenly make a product ten times better. Yesyesyes, I know I am just one person, but I absolutely despise the way the iPod looks, controls, and feels. Being used as a music player, I see absolutely NOTHING and I mean NOTHING that the iPod offers that you can't get elsewhere for cheaper and better. Not to mention the idea of controlling my music player with a mutilated nipple is a little...well, unsettling.
As far as Macs go, the only thing I could see as being a good reason to get one is for the operating system. The systems themselves (again, in my opinion) are hairy-ass ugly, and frankly FEEL cheap (ditto for the iPod.) Every time I put my hand on that whole-click mouse, I feel I am going to break it. Yes I know you can swap it out, I'm talking about the Apple mouse specifically though.
I've said it many times, and I will say it again: Apple is EXACTLY as bad as Microsoft in terms of being power hungry and money hungry...they are just better at getting you to ignore that fact.
Funny. People have no problem supporting money-vampyres as long as they provide a colorful interface. At least with windows (or linux, for that matter) I can customize my box to the absolute full extent and install it on any system I damn well please, as opposed to having to buy Apple's forced hardware.
To sum it up in one short sentence:
Putting sugar on shit doesn't make it anything other than shit.
...rather than integrating everything into a smooth GUI. Apple's interface alone will sell millions, and people will pay the price.
So wait, let me get this straight. Microsoft releases an OS that many people say looks too candy and toy like (XP). Apple releases (pictures of) a phone whose interface is just as candy and toylike (albiet a bit more colorful), and people drool over it.
Fanboys. You do realize that Apple is just as greedy as Microsoft is, yes? The only difference is Microsoft KNOWS that they are and don't give a shit, whereas Apple tries to make you think otherwise (which their insanely annoying but quite successful marketing somehow accomplishes)
So step up to the plate, critics. Either you like things looking plasticy and like toys or you don't. Which is it?
I agree with you for the most part, although in the two years since I obtained my X800xt, it has become basically useless for new games...hell, even in the past year PC hardware (namely, video cards) have come a LONG LONG way...eventually though (and likely not too far ahead), we are going to hit the proverbial ceiling until the next big innovation comes around that changes everything...
I myself have been playing video games both on consoles and on the PC since the commodore 64. If there is one thing I have learned as an avid PC gamer, it's this:
Never expect your top of the line system to be top of the line the day after you buy it.
Technology advances. Things change. New releases are let out, and people buy them because they are better. See, Nintendo released their product, heard what the public did and did not like about it, and are going to change it according to what the CONSUMERS say.
I don't care if you test something for five years with 10,000 different people doing the testing. Until you truly release your product to the (somewhat ignorant) masses, you will never know exactly what is and is not wrong with something, ESPECIALLY a gaming system.
Granted, some things such as noise, heat, etc. should be discovered fairly easily in testing...but there are really REALLY stupid people out there (yes, I'm looking at the Wii owners with broken TV's) that testers cannot possibly fathom. They can anticipate a lot, they can't anticipate the level of stupidity that some of their customers have achieved.
Don't be mad at them for trying to listen to their customers.
::shrug:: even though you are likely correct, are you honestly saying you would rather destroy ourselves on this planet without even ATTEMPTING to secure a future for our species?
Judging by your post, you seem to think we are all alone in this universe...
If you do believe that, don't you think that enables us to spread out amongst it just a little bit easier? I'm not saying it is gonna happen overnight, but again...why would you NOT want the future of the human species to be in the stars rather than in the dirt?
Because we still need to be alive and have enough resources and technology intact to repair the earth.
I'm not talking about terraforming mars in the next 10, 20, or even 50 years (hell the process alone could take a hundred years, if not more)
I'm talking about getting shit on the moon set up and moving outward from there...again, we need to start SOMETIME.
Besides, you know as well as I do that we are much more likely to destroy ourselves than for some massive global event...and if some massive global event does happen (either from nature or from humans) chances are we will be too thinned out and depleted to have the manpower or the resources to rebuild and repair ANYWAY.
What would you rather do, potentially kill off the entire planet with 200 years due to our stupidity, or concentrate on being able to freely travel the galaxie within 500 years?
Damn straight. Why have the biggest economy in the world if you're just going to blast all the money into space, to no better end than to do something that's already been done (conspiracy theories aside)?
OK, I'll bite. Because one day we WILL use up the resources on this planet...and by the looks of things, that day is not that far in the future.
True, it won't happen tomorrow, or even for a number of generations, but guess what. We won't just suddenly have the ability to colonize another planet. We need to start someplace, sometime. Why not do it now? There is no advantage in waiting...the advantage in starting it now is that it will be done sooner. So what if we never see the fruits of our labor? Not like it won't be the first time in history that has happend...
much authority does a school have to monitor, regulate and punish activities occurring inside a student's home
They shouldn't have any authority as to what goes on inside a student's home. In fact, they shouldn't have any authority what goes on outside of their campus.
Home? That should be the parents domain. Now, if the parents go and actually ask the school for help, well that's different...same thing goes with the student, if he asks for the school's help then they should help.
Unless they are asked for their assistance, school's should have ZERO input on what goes on OUTSIDE of their campus. The only time I would disagree with that is if something is happening, the parents are unaware, and the child wont tell them.
The majority understand what CDDB is...if nothing else, you should at least be able to figure out what it STANDS for. Just to help you out, I'll break it down for you:
If that's true, that is completely ass-backwords. It would be cheaper (in the long run, of course) to install a system in the ground that has two transmitter/receivers on each yard line...a guy types in which yard they want the line to appear into a program and it displays it automatically...a little expensive up front, but it would work great if done properly...
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I'll give you that they aren't smokey and slow. But I'm sorry, youa re dead wrong: a Diesel Engine is WAY louder than a gas engine. Why?
Can you say 18:1 compression?
...but why hasn't the military just employed a hundred or so programmers that just make a custom-built OS that the US military uses all accross the board? That would make communications and data integration much easier, amongst other positives...
Too expensive? Time consuming? Difficult? Why haven't they just done that...?
I don't mind, I know it costs a lot to run a GameStop/EB Games, and I also know that they don't make very much money on each sale...I like konwing that I can go buy a MASSIVE library of Xbox games for under 20 dollars each (many under 10) and it's only a coupl eminute drive away.
Sure, of course I prefer the mom-and-pop game stores, but those are nearly non-existant nowadays. While I am aware that Gamestop is one of the reasons WHY they went away, there are still some great deals there
Had one, started freezing. Took it back to gamestop, got an all new one. That started freezing. Took it back and got a third one.
::crosses fingers::
Running solid for two weeks so far
In an open space with good airflow (I have an old switched-AT power supply with two fans hooked up to it...one pushing air in, one sucking it out the back...both laying up against the box, so no I have not opened any of the ones that I have.)
::shrug:: I know people complain about it all the time, but i've never once had a technical issue with either Ebay or PayPal, and I use both of them regularly (i.e. I buy at least 2-3 things off Ebay a week)
Perhaps it's because I only buy and don't sell?
Brainless, eh?
I can comprehend what you are writing and am able to form a response.
Brainless, indeed.
Tell that to the moron's that modded my other post's in this topic as flamebait and troll.
You mean just like how Apple thought if it draped it's turd in shiny plastic it could pass it off as a worthwhile MP3 player?
See what I did right there? It's called an opinion...and like an asshole, everyone has one.
I actually prefer the XP interface over both Linux AND OSX. And no noob accusations, I've had a massive computer hobby since back when the TRS-80 was considered bleeding edge.
Yes, I have used Mac's many times, and I have used iPods many times...hell, I even bought a PowerBook in an attempt to give it a shot...
Don't get me wrong, OSX is a decent operating system in terms of functionality...however, I cannot fucking STAND the interface, and more than that I couldn't stand the way the laptop felt or looked. I had it for a good 6 months and ended up just selling it.
Forgive me for not falling into the marketing trap. Apple products are complete shit.
Fuck the fanboys. You know they modded me down? Because they were either
A. Too chickenshit to respond properly
or
B. Know that I am right and can't think of something to respond with that won't sound as stupid as this response.
You know, Hitler was fairly popular amongst Nazi's...
I'm not trolling, my point is that just because something is popular does not mean that it instantly becomes good.
Apple does sell crap products. Come on. Making plastic shiny doesn't suddenly make a product ten times better. Yesyesyes, I know I am just one person, but I absolutely despise the way the iPod looks, controls, and feels. Being used as a music player, I see absolutely NOTHING and I mean NOTHING that the iPod offers that you can't get elsewhere for cheaper and better. Not to mention the idea of controlling my music player with a mutilated nipple is a little...well, unsettling.
As far as Macs go, the only thing I could see as being a good reason to get one is for the operating system. The systems themselves (again, in my opinion) are hairy-ass ugly, and frankly FEEL cheap (ditto for the iPod.) Every time I put my hand on that whole-click mouse, I feel I am going to break it. Yes I know you can swap it out, I'm talking about the Apple mouse specifically though.
I've said it many times, and I will say it again: Apple is EXACTLY as bad as Microsoft in terms of being power hungry and money hungry...they are just better at getting you to ignore that fact.
Funny. People have no problem supporting money-vampyres as long as they provide a colorful interface. At least with windows (or linux, for that matter) I can customize my box to the absolute full extent and install it on any system I damn well please, as opposed to having to buy Apple's forced hardware.
To sum it up in one short sentence:
Putting sugar on shit doesn't make it anything other than shit.
I agree with you for the most part, although in the two years since I obtained my X800xt, it has become basically useless for new games...hell, even in the past year PC hardware (namely, video cards) have come a LONG LONG way...eventually though (and likely not too far ahead), we are going to hit the proverbial ceiling until the next big innovation comes around that changes everything...
Welcome to the world of PC gamers.
I myself have been playing video games both on consoles and on the PC since the commodore 64. If there is one thing I have learned as an avid PC gamer, it's this:
Never expect your top of the line system to be top of the line the day after you buy it.
Technology advances. Things change. New releases are let out, and people buy them because they are better. See, Nintendo released their product, heard what the public did and did not like about it, and are going to change it according to what the CONSUMERS say.
I don't care if you test something for five years with 10,000 different people doing the testing. Until you truly release your product to the (somewhat ignorant) masses, you will never know exactly what is and is not wrong with something, ESPECIALLY a gaming system.
Granted, some things such as noise, heat, etc. should be discovered fairly easily in testing...but there are really REALLY stupid people out there (yes, I'm looking at the Wii owners with broken TV's) that testers cannot possibly fathom. They can anticipate a lot, they can't anticipate the level of stupidity that some of their customers have achieved.
Don't be mad at them for trying to listen to their customers.
::shrug:: even though you are likely correct, are you honestly saying you would rather destroy ourselves on this planet without even ATTEMPTING to secure a future for our species?
Judging by your post, you seem to think we are all alone in this universe...
If you do believe that, don't you think that enables us to spread out amongst it just a little bit easier? I'm not saying it is gonna happen overnight, but again...why would you NOT want the future of the human species to be in the stars rather than in the dirt?
I'm more concerned with the fact that we are going to destroy our entire species by sitting on this rock.
You don't shit where you eat. Especially when where you eat is the only room you currently can survive in.
Of course, you contributing to the gene pool won't help. I recommend castration.
Because we still need to be alive and have enough resources and technology intact to repair the earth.
I'm not talking about terraforming mars in the next 10, 20, or even 50 years (hell the process alone could take a hundred years, if not more)
I'm talking about getting shit on the moon set up and moving outward from there...again, we need to start SOMETIME.
Besides, you know as well as I do that we are much more likely to destroy ourselves than for some massive global event...and if some massive global event does happen (either from nature or from humans) chances are we will be too thinned out and depleted to have the manpower or the resources to rebuild and repair ANYWAY.
What would you rather do, potentially kill off the entire planet with 200 years due to our stupidity, or concentrate on being able to freely travel the galaxie within 500 years?
500 years sounds like a long time. It isn't.
One could argue that by setting a goal and actively pursuing it, we will be more inclined to advance technology to the point of making it easier...
Hell, we've done that with every single war this country has been in, why not do it with helping to ensure the future survival of our entire species?
OK, I'll bite. Because one day we WILL use up the resources on this planet...and by the looks of things, that day is not that far in the future.
True, it won't happen tomorrow, or even for a number of generations, but guess what. We won't just suddenly have the ability to colonize another planet. We need to start someplace, sometime. Why not do it now? There is no advantage in waiting...the advantage in starting it now is that it will be done sooner. So what if we never see the fruits of our labor? Not like it won't be the first time in history that has happend...
Oh I know that they already do (unfortunately)...I'm simply saying that they shouldn't be able to.
How does some fat lonely bully making fun of a kid over AIM prevent the child from getting an education?
Now, if he threatens to beat him up at school tomorrow, then the school should intervene because ***gasp*** it's at school.
You calling me a bitch on the phone doesn't stop me from going to trig class.
They shouldn't have any authority as to what goes on inside a student's home. In fact, they shouldn't have any authority what goes on outside of their campus.
Home? That should be the parents domain. Now, if the parents go and actually ask the school for help, well that's different...same thing goes with the student, if he asks for the school's help then they should help.
Unless they are asked for their assistance, school's should have ZERO input on what goes on OUTSIDE of their campus. The only time I would disagree with that is if something is happening, the parents are unaware, and the child wont tell them.
...this is /.
The majority understand what CDDB is...if nothing else, you should at least be able to figure out what it STANDS for. Just to help you out, I'll break it down for you:
CD. DB.
Need further assistance?
True, but it would work in stadiums that exclusively hold football games.
Or they could just do what they already do.
Doesn't matter to me...hockey is better anwyay;-) GO CAPS!
If that's true, that is completely ass-backwords. It would be cheaper (in the long run, of course) to install a system in the ground that has two transmitter/receivers on each yard line...a guy types in which yard they want the line to appear into a program and it displays it automatically...a little expensive up front, but it would work great if done properly...