Encourage economic prosperity which in turn reduces the number of new children born.
People who have more money have less kids because they have less kids and people who have more kids have less money because they have more kids...oddly circular.
What good is a large economy if you are running in the red (California)? Isn't this like saying Dell is better than Apple because Dell sells 1 million computers at $1 profit, whereas Apple sells 10,000 computers at $100 profit?
Except for, unlike California, Texas actually is affordable and (in Austin at least) full of high tech jobs. I'll take my $65k salary in the software industry every day over the $90k I'd earn in California. I'm not sure you could get 1/2 the house I have in Texas on a $90k salary in California.
For whatever technical reasons, the Bing image search results return more relevant and quality imagery than google. I haven't actually switched over for text based searches yet though, but I might just out of laziness. Maybe that was the Bing guys' plan..make a really good image search (read: porn) engine in hopes that people will over look the relatively weak text search functions.
I used to think "just have them buy a Mac" would make my family stop asking me for help. Instead, they ask for even MORE help since it's such a weird, foreign landscape for them. Think of it this way...people who suck with computers and have spent 15 years getting dangerously competent with Windows now have to basically start over. It's not starting over for any tech savvy person to switch to a Mac, but for computer morons like my family, it just opens more, NEW questions. Thankfully though very few of the questions deal with technical things I can't figure out, or I don't have the patience for.
If he couldn't afford to buy them in the first place, that means he wouldn't have bought them in the first place, which means the game company is not out of any money, because the guy couldn't afford to buy the game in the first place. Seems pretty simple to me?
I'm always amazed at how much breath is wasted in here about the supposed levels of smugness of random person at Starbucks using a MacBook. As if I care what you think about my MacBook?
I'm not at Starbucks to show off my MacBook to a bunch of other MacBook users...I'm there to get some (mostly overpriced) coffee and check my email on the way to work. Is this really that odd?
Anyone who thinks speed traps are useful for anything other than revenue generation are fooling themselves. For example, heading INTO downtown Austin this morning on my morning commute on I-35, with the thousands of other cars going that direction, what do we see? Revenue Generation in the Southbound lanes (driving away from downtown...i.e. nobody but a few stragglers). Cops giving speeding tickets to people who are driving probably 72 in the 65.
If the cops are here to protect us, they'd be on the other side of the highway where all the traffic is, and enforcing safety by ticketing tailgaters and illegal lane changers, not picking on the one or two guys going the other direction, endangering nobody.
While I agree about the revenue generation as it applies to useless speed enforcement, I disagree about red-light cameras. Failure-to-yield (i.e. running a red light) is the #1 cause of collisions (not speed, as most people think). So a guy going 68 down the 55 is of very little danger to others, but the guy who runs through the red light because they are a self-important jack-ass is a real threat to the rest of us on the road.
Apple makes money on Hardware and software as a bundle.
Hackintoshes threaten this money making opportunity.
If I've learned one thing in my years wasted here on slashdot, it's that people who hack things and grab stuff of torrents weren't going to buy the legitimate version in the first place, so there is no threat to the money making opportunity. If anything, a Hackintosh person might really learn to like OSX, then when they grow up and get big-boy jobs, they won't have a problem dropping $1200 on an Apple branded OSX computer.
I like how Jon Stewart also dug up the birth announcement from the local paper...as if Obama's scheme was so well thought out that 40 some years ago, they had the foresight to put a birth announcement in the paper, so that when he became President in 40 some years, he'd have built in proof of his citizenship.
I've lived in Germany and in England, and they (like most Western societies) have their versions of Glen Beck. Once you wiki him, you know his ilk. Granted, Beck is a particularly nasty strain of illogical buffoon, but here in America, we go all out!
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Encourage economic prosperity which in turn reduces the number of new children born.
People who have more money have less kids because they have less kids and people who have more kids have less money because they have more kids...oddly circular.
This guy wasn't recently killed by having sex with his horse, by chance?
Hey, just because my dumbass Governor and Senator think Texas should and can secede, doesn't mean the majority of Texans are stupid...
What good is a large economy if you are running in the red (California)? Isn't this like saying Dell is better than Apple because Dell sells 1 million computers at $1 profit, whereas Apple sells 10,000 computers at $100 profit?
Except for, unlike California, Texas actually is affordable and (in Austin at least) full of high tech jobs. I'll take my $65k salary in the software industry every day over the $90k I'd earn in California. I'm not sure you could get 1/2 the house I have in Texas on a $90k salary in California.
Yes, and raise tuition by $2500 with no notice and see how long your great University of California system lasts...
Browser level spell check? Why not an OS-wide spell check, like OSX?
For whatever technical reasons, the Bing image search results return more relevant and quality imagery than google. I haven't actually switched over for text based searches yet though, but I might just out of laziness. Maybe that was the Bing guys' plan..make a really good image search (read: porn) engine in hopes that people will over look the relatively weak text search functions.
So a guy who wants to play a 15 year old game is somehow way above using a CRT to do so? Hmmm....
I do recall, however, that Microsoft had to say File -> Exit, because MacOS already used File -> Quit.
Yes, because Aero is nothing like Aqua, and Gadgets are nothing like Widgets...shall I continue?
Then they'll just pester you with REALLY dumb questions, like "why doesn't this file called runme.exe work on my computer?".
I used to think "just have them buy a Mac" would make my family stop asking me for help. Instead, they ask for even MORE help since it's such a weird, foreign landscape for them. Think of it this way...people who suck with computers and have spent 15 years getting dangerously competent with Windows now have to basically start over. It's not starting over for any tech savvy person to switch to a Mac, but for computer morons like my family, it just opens more, NEW questions. Thankfully though very few of the questions deal with technical things I can't figure out, or I don't have the patience for.
Paying $230 to break a 2-year contract after one year is far cheaper than keeping the phone for another year at $120+ per month...just sayin'.
With all the money these guys have saved on pirated games, they can just go out and buy a new Xbox.
If he couldn't afford to buy them in the first place, that means he wouldn't have bought them in the first place, which means the game company is not out of any money, because the guy couldn't afford to buy the game in the first place. Seems pretty simple to me?
I'm always amazed at how much breath is wasted in here about the supposed levels of smugness of random person at Starbucks using a MacBook. As if I care what you think about my MacBook?
I'm not at Starbucks to show off my MacBook to a bunch of other MacBook users...I'm there to get some (mostly overpriced) coffee and check my email on the way to work. Is this really that odd?
Oh God how I wish you would have gotten a ticket. People who think the rules don't apply to them are the only people who should ever get tickets.
Anyone who thinks speed traps are useful for anything other than revenue generation are fooling themselves. For example, heading INTO downtown Austin this morning on my morning commute on I-35, with the thousands of other cars going that direction, what do we see? Revenue Generation in the Southbound lanes (driving away from downtown...i.e. nobody but a few stragglers). Cops giving speeding tickets to people who are driving probably 72 in the 65.
If the cops are here to protect us, they'd be on the other side of the highway where all the traffic is, and enforcing safety by ticketing tailgaters and illegal lane changers, not picking on the one or two guys going the other direction, endangering nobody.
While I agree about the revenue generation as it applies to useless speed enforcement, I disagree about red-light cameras. Failure-to-yield (i.e. running a red light) is the #1 cause of collisions (not speed, as most people think). So a guy going 68 down the 55 is of very little danger to others, but the guy who runs through the red light because they are a self-important jack-ass is a real threat to the rest of us on the road.
They sell an experience.
They sell placation of the buyers ego.
They sell products so basement nerds can come on slashdot and project their own insecurities about what hardware other people like.
Apple makes money on Hardware and software as a bundle.
Hackintoshes threaten this money making opportunity.
If I've learned one thing in my years wasted here on slashdot, it's that people who hack things and grab stuff of torrents weren't going to buy the legitimate version in the first place, so there is no threat to the money making opportunity. If anything, a Hackintosh person might really learn to like OSX, then when they grow up and get big-boy jobs, they won't have a problem dropping $1200 on an Apple branded OSX computer.
I like how Jon Stewart also dug up the birth announcement from the local paper...as if Obama's scheme was so well thought out that 40 some years ago, they had the foresight to put a birth announcement in the paper, so that when he became President in 40 some years, he'd have built in proof of his citizenship.
I've lived in Germany and in England, and they (like most Western societies) have their versions of Glen Beck. Once you wiki him, you know his ilk. Granted, Beck is a particularly nasty strain of illogical buffoon, but here in America, we go all out!
People say outrageous things, and then use "out of context" like a magic wand, without ever explaining what the context is.
If you think I killed and raped a girl , then you are wrong.
The italics are the context, and the non italics are the "out-of" part.