I'm trying to search for "Pirates" because I want to pay for the Johnny Depp trilogy, but I'm not getting any results...screw it, I'll just download it.
I don't think that I have put a sound card in a game rig in the past 5-8 years. Does anyone still use them besides people who have some some special need for them?
A cheap discrete sound card is one way to extend the gaming life of an outdated system. When your system is starting to lag, depending on the game, taking the load of sound processing off of the cpu can be just enough to make a game playable. Same thing goes for high resolution video playback. However, it's only a band-aid, and the requirements of new software will outrun your aging hardware usually within the following year.
If it can't handle a Starcraft 2, 8 player, full army of all zerglings rush without choking with max settings at a 1080p resolution, it's not a supercomputer.
If you're planning your finances with the expectation that your means are going to be consistent and stable, you're an idiot. Building a debt (a few costly items or many many cheap ones) that will take ten years to pay off is foolish at best. You scale up your standard of living when you get a raise. When your income drops, your standard of living needs to drop accordingly. How many people will ignore a bill collector, yet not cancel their $100 a month cable TV package?
Posting as AC adds to it. "tiny minority" needs some proof behind it. As well, before the economic downturn, people COULD get huge lines of credit without a regular or huge income. They are the ones now being targeted by debt collectors.
Being unexpectedly out of work for a few months shouldn't destroy your credit if you've planned properly. Most people don't. Their abuse of credit cards proves this. Being out of work for 6 months or more is another matter altogether as unemployment and rainy day savings are exhausted.
I agree that it's not strictly limited to people living beyond their means, and medical bills and insurance are greatly inflated. However if you have a drop in "means", then you have to adjust your standard of living accordingly. Many don't, choosing instead to put things on credit to "keep the party going". That's the type of people that the OP was referring to, and I couldn't agree more with him.
The debt collectors and repo men perform a valuable service. If they don't collect then the costs get passed on to the honest consumer.
It's the AHOLES who run up the thousands on their credit card to eat out every night or buy stupid stuff like clothes and the latest cell phone or cars they can't afford.
Certainly collectors can be rude, but it's even more rude to buy something knowing you can't afford it and then complain when somebody wants their money back.
Whoever modded this "Troll" either blindly hates debt collectors, or feels entitled to spend more then they make. While the collectors and repo men frequently use tactics that turn the stomach, how many people really respond to a "please pay" request when they are in over their heads? Living within your means just seems to have fallen "out of style", and that is a large contributor to the economic mess that prevails today.
Quicktime is integrated into OS X. Neither Quicktime player or iTunes such on OS X. They are not that bad either on windows unless if you have a crap load of stuff installed and running in the background.
Unfortunately, that crap load of stuff comes WITH the iTunes/Quicktime windows installer. I was surprised to find all these little extra apps linked to itunes when I had to troubleshoot a corrupted itunes installation.
What do we do to find the law to be 'monstrous and shocking'? What is the process for finding the legislature and DoJ to be 'monstrous and shocking'? For finding that they do not derive their just powers from the will of the governed and have violated their sworn duty to The Constitution in favor of their sponsors' will-to-power?
You need to have more money then the collective companies that hide behind the RIAA. In a quote from the movie Taken..."Good luck".
And the top people in these corporations hide the majority of their income under the corporations. They use all sorts of legal tomfoolery to avoid paying taxes at all.
Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones...or particulates.
Cracked or shattered glass on the back of the iPhone is a serious issue. Anyone who's been cut by glass can relate. Understanding that this hasn't happened yet, one could easily see why Apple is working to head this off. "Gushing blood caused by iPhone" isn't something Steve can explain away with "He was holding it wrong".
All things considered, if that's the publicly available consumer model, the FBI most likely has one that is smaller and stronger. How about a good old spoonful of paranoia? Perhaps Afifi found the device that he was meant to find?
Oh wait, 24 isn't on any more, I guess Jack Bauer isn't tracking him...
The finder of a thing usually seems to have to make a reasonable attempt at finding the owner of an item (and "reasonable" varies quite a lot from place to place), and if it is unclaimed after 30 days, then they are entitled to keep it.
Then again, if it's an unmarked black box, how are you supposed to know who it belongs to? I'd be tempted to stick it to the underside of a garbage truck. Either they raid a landfill, or some poor agent gets to crawl under a few garbage trucks looking for their expensive doohickey.
Why would you spend the enormous amount of money to retool your applications into Cocoa when Apple is advertising 64-Bit Carbon?
When Apple did their 180 and pulled the rug out from under not only Adobe, but many other developers, it's their that they were expecting what was advertised? They spent money towards that Carbon 64-bit, and Apple screwed them. Seeing how Apple has been treating Flash like a dirty condom, I can't help but wonder if Apple planned it this way. Final Cut vs Premiere. Aperture vs Lightroom. Maybe this was a planned move to try to get market share away from Adobe.
Either way, what I was disputing with Final Cut, is that if Cocoa was 1: the way to go, and 1: ready, why didn't Apple get their FCP people programming in Cocoa long ago? According to all the fanbois, Adobe should have switched to Cocoa long ago, yet here's Apple's own FCP, one of Apple's software that could most benefit from a 64-bit edition. No moves there? Whats the hurry then?
Adobe is still catching up after Apple yanked 64-bit Carbon support out from under them.
Boo-freakin-hoo! Apple told developers ten years ago that Carbon was just a bridge to the new OS and that Cocoa was the way to go. Adobe knew full well that sooner or later, carbon applications were going to be second-class citizens; and spent the last ten years with their heads in the sand about it.
I've seen this argument before, and research shows it doesn't hold any water. Besides, if this switch to Cocoa was so absolutely going to be required, why did Apple even suggest that 64-bit Carbon was going to happen? Why is Final Cut Pro, Apple's own software, still in Carbon? The Boo is on you sir.
The same thing that is happening now.
Adobe products on the mac aren't all that great anymore.
You can blame Apple and their constantly changing direction for that. How can you add in new features if you have to rewrite the core of the software just to account for Apple's newest platform changes? Adobe is still catching up after Apple yanked 64-bit Carbon support out from under them.
If your county is too poor to pay for their own fire department, they should be paying that nearest municipality. The guy is paying taxes, where is that money going?
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Now whats going to wake me up when I fall asleep on the couch? An Infomercial?
What you didn't account for was the number of slashdotters who missed the poll. They were watching T.V. so they didn't vote.
Now if we only had smart consumers.
Good thing we don't have smart boxers or briefs though. After you spend, it shrinks...could be painful.
I'm trying to search for "Pirates" because I want to pay for the Johnny Depp trilogy, but I'm not getting any results...screw it, I'll just download it.
I don't think that I have put a sound card in a game rig in the past 5-8 years. Does anyone still use them besides people who have some some special need for them?
A cheap discrete sound card is one way to extend the gaming life of an outdated system. When your system is starting to lag, depending on the game, taking the load of sound processing off of the cpu can be just enough to make a game playable. Same thing goes for high resolution video playback.
However, it's only a band-aid, and the requirements of new software will outrun your aging hardware usually within the following year.
If it can't handle a Starcraft 2, 8 player, full army of all zerglings rush without choking with max settings at a 1080p resolution, it's not a supercomputer.
Because if we don't finish it in the first rental period, we aren't very likely to pay for another week.
you know, sometime someones means change.
If you're planning your finances with the expectation that your means are going to be consistent and stable, you're an idiot. Building a debt (a few costly items or many many cheap ones) that will take ten years to pay off is foolish at best. You scale up your standard of living when you get a raise. When your income drops, your standard of living needs to drop accordingly. How many people will ignore a bill collector, yet not cancel their $100 a month cable TV package? Posting as AC adds to it. "tiny minority" needs some proof behind it. As well, before the economic downturn, people COULD get huge lines of credit without a regular or huge income. They are the ones now being targeted by debt collectors. Being unexpectedly out of work for a few months shouldn't destroy your credit if you've planned properly. Most people don't. Their abuse of credit cards proves this. Being out of work for 6 months or more is another matter altogether as unemployment and rainy day savings are exhausted.
I agree that it's not strictly limited to people living beyond their means, and medical bills and insurance are greatly inflated. However if you have a drop in "means", then you have to adjust your standard of living accordingly. Many don't, choosing instead to put things on credit to "keep the party going". That's the type of people that the OP was referring to, and I couldn't agree more with him.
The debt collectors and repo men perform a valuable service. If they don't collect then the costs get passed on to the honest consumer.
It's the AHOLES who run up the thousands on their credit card to eat out every night or buy stupid stuff like clothes and the latest cell phone or cars they can't afford.
Certainly collectors can be rude, but it's even more rude to buy something knowing you can't afford it and then complain when somebody wants their money back.
Whoever modded this "Troll" either blindly hates debt collectors, or feels entitled to spend more then they make. While the collectors and repo men frequently use tactics that turn the stomach, how many people really respond to a "please pay" request when they are in over their heads? Living within your means just seems to have fallen "out of style", and that is a large contributor to the economic mess that prevails today.
Doesn't she own a restaurant?
No, but these comments are going down a rabbit hole...
Quite snappy provided you have a small catalog of music, and a less then 3 year old machine. Annoyingly sluggish otherwise.
Quicktime is integrated into OS X. Neither Quicktime player or iTunes such on OS X. They are not that bad either on windows unless if you have a crap load of stuff installed and running in the background.
Unfortunately, that crap load of stuff comes WITH the iTunes/Quicktime windows installer. I was surprised to find all these little extra apps linked to itunes when I had to troubleshoot a corrupted itunes installation.
What do we do to find the law to be 'monstrous and shocking'? What is the process for finding the legislature and DoJ to be 'monstrous and shocking'? For finding that they do not derive their just powers from the will of the governed and have violated their sworn duty to The Constitution in favor of their sponsors' will-to-power?
You need to have more money then the collective companies that hide behind the RIAA. In a quote from the movie Taken..."Good luck".
I for one, welcome our netflixian overlords...
But corporations are people!
And the top people in these corporations hide the majority of their income under the corporations. They use all sorts of legal tomfoolery to avoid paying taxes at all.
Now, a sign on the front door of the McDonald's prominently warns potential thieves of the spray's presence: "You Steal, You're Marked."
But, nothing tastes quite as good as the McRib you make yourself for free!
Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones...or particulates.
Cracked or shattered glass on the back of the iPhone is a serious issue. Anyone who's been cut by glass can relate. Understanding that this hasn't happened yet, one could easily see why Apple is working to head this off. "Gushing blood caused by iPhone" isn't something Steve can explain away with "He was holding it wrong".
All things considered, if that's the publicly available consumer model, the FBI most likely has one that is smaller and stronger. How about a good old spoonful of paranoia? Perhaps Afifi found the device that he was meant to find?
Oh wait, 24 isn't on any more, I guess Jack Bauer isn't tracking him...
Recall the recent "found" iPhone 4 debacle:
The finder of a thing usually seems to have to make a reasonable attempt at finding the owner of an item (and "reasonable" varies quite a lot from place to place), and if it is unclaimed after 30 days, then they are entitled to keep it.
Then again, if it's an unmarked black box, how are you supposed to know who it belongs to? I'd be tempted to stick it to the underside of a garbage truck. Either they raid a landfill, or some poor agent gets to crawl under a few garbage trucks looking for their expensive doohickey.
Why would you spend the enormous amount of money to retool your applications into Cocoa when Apple is advertising 64-Bit Carbon?
When Apple did their 180 and pulled the rug out from under not only Adobe, but many other developers, it's their that they were expecting what was advertised? They spent money towards that Carbon 64-bit, and Apple screwed them. Seeing how Apple has been treating Flash like a dirty condom, I can't help but wonder if Apple planned it this way. Final Cut vs Premiere. Aperture vs Lightroom. Maybe this was a planned move to try to get market share away from Adobe.
Either way, what I was disputing with Final Cut, is that if Cocoa was 1: the way to go, and 1: ready, why didn't Apple get their FCP people programming in Cocoa long ago? According to all the fanbois, Adobe should have switched to Cocoa long ago, yet here's Apple's own FCP, one of Apple's software that could most benefit from a 64-bit edition. No moves there? Whats the hurry then?
How about a little known guy named "Steve Jobs"? He can do math too.
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Even better, check the endgadget coverage of the 2006 WWDC. IT'S RIGHT ON THE BIG SCREEN. Article
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If you think Adobe was the only large company to get screwed by Apple's change, read a Nokia technician's perspective on this: link
Boo-freakin-hoo! Apple told developers ten years ago that Carbon was just a bridge to the new OS and that Cocoa was the way to go. Adobe knew full well that sooner or later, carbon applications were going to be second-class citizens; and spent the last ten years with their heads in the sand about it.
I've seen this argument before, and research shows it doesn't hold any water. Besides, if this switch to Cocoa was so absolutely going to be required, why did Apple even suggest that 64-bit Carbon was going to happen? Why is Final Cut Pro, Apple's own software, still in Carbon? The Boo is on you sir.
The same thing that is happening now. Adobe products on the mac aren't all that great anymore.
You can blame Apple and their constantly changing direction for that. How can you add in new features if you have to rewrite the core of the software just to account for Apple's newest platform changes? Adobe is still catching up after Apple yanked 64-bit Carbon support out from under them.
If your county is too poor to pay for their own fire department, they should be paying that nearest municipality. The guy is paying taxes, where is that money going?