...otherwise hardware vendors would fail. By us here I mean the folks who assemble computers from individual parts because the stuff sold pre-assembled is garbage hardware with garbage bloatware pre-installed. So I don't see how 90% of the PC market will ever be portable platforms, let alone netbooks.
Nationalism doesn't count for nearly as much as it did during the Cold War. Big business owns government, big business is multinational, and big business is connected with big business. If India or China put a permanent settlement on the moon before the US it'll be only because big business found a cheaper, more desperate labor pool there.
Private firms can probably get a LOT more manned launches done per year for the same cost, but they'll be a little riskier. More astronauts will be killed. I don't see this as a problem : there's 6 billion people on the planet, and I for one if faced between possibly dying during a trip to space or dying from old age would choose the former.
And it's a great way to cull excess population without the social stigma of war...
As far as I can recall from when I tried version 4 a long while ago, Bibble doesn't allow for much pixel pushing. Has this changed in 5? Was it always there and I had just missed it? Without these fine adjustments it doesn't matter how well Bibble handles the raw file because you still have to use another image editor in the end and that leads you to GIMP and loss of nearly half your bits.
I'd mod up parent post if I had the points. It's great seeing a case like this take one small step forward, but unfortunately it's a bit like skipping through a minefield where the mines are politicians and public officials whose pockets are lined with MAFIAA money and the minefield ends miles away. I don't think we're gonna make it.
So after churning out a decade's worth of craptastic software somebody more or less important finally caught on to their scam? This only a few short years after the general public caught onto their scam, causing a drop in sales and consequently bringing on cries of, "Oh noes! PC gaming is coming to an end!" and, invariably, "OMG PIRATES!" I'm guessing we'll see a few more years of EA squandering its IPs, putting out bug-ridden, graphically intense, empty gaming rehashes of previously successful games before all of its investors and high level crooks move on to start the cycle over again somewhere else.
There are still very large workplaces that have Windows 2000 as the OS for the majority of their machines, my very large workplace included. I personally still use XP at home. I've played with 7, looked over its specs, and what I'm still left wondering is - why would I bother with it?
Google gets a fair amount of/. bashing just because it's grown as large as it has and sometimes they may even deserve it, but here we have an example of Google doing a good thing. You don't see many megacorporations taking a stand against internet censorship. Even if Google profits from this in some way and it isn't entirely a selfless act it's nice to see them doing something that benefits us little people too.
You assume they actually plan on having something to show for their efforts besides a new high score in Minesweeper. Getting a one month extension makes it easier to get another month extension later and before you know it, it's time to pass the buck to the next administration.
Adobe has made PDFs more accessible while WC3 has made HTML and other web programming less accessible. As a result web programmers get to keep their jobs, which I'm guessing was the point of obfuscating web programming to the point that most non-geeks don't want to deal with it, and non-geeks that need to make forms will go with an Adobe product because it "just works."
That trillion dollars wasn't used to 'fight terrorism,' it was used to create jobs. Terrorism was just the excuse used to create those jobs. War is a great way to motivate people when there's nothing meaningful left for them to do. I'd hate to imagine how much worse the current recession would have been if we weren't involved in all these conflicts around the world.
Oh, I am pretty sure those two things are universally exclusive.
Not really. Fat people just fuck other fat people producing many small fat people. If fat people didn't fuck that'd solve the whole problem, wouldn't it?
Big game publishers can't risk change and hobbyists can't quit their day jobs so expect any progress to be very slow. On the bright side, this should mean you haven't had to buy any new RPGs in the last five years or so.
First - no, you won't. Second - even if you did, why should the FCC care? No, really, think about it. Do you think any government agency is going to purposely put thousands of people out of jobs, cause stocks to drop even lower, and send a great big Fuck You to the corporate bosses who pay their paychecks all to make a couple thousand disgruntled geeks happy? When those disgruntled geeks are just going to go away if they're ignored for a while?
I feel your pain. I don't have a smart phone, but broadband is in the same boat. Just bend over and take it like a good consumer whore. The only people who can change this system are the people running it and I don't think they have any intention of changing it in our favor.
Linux developers can arbitrarily stop supporting whatever they damn well don't feel like supporting any longer so they can go program extra functions into their USB foam dart cannon. Just sayin'.
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...otherwise hardware vendors would fail. By us here I mean the folks who assemble computers from individual parts because the stuff sold pre-assembled is garbage hardware with garbage bloatware pre-installed. So I don't see how 90% of the PC market will ever be portable platforms, let alone netbooks.
Nationalism doesn't count for nearly as much as it did during the Cold War. Big business owns government, big business is multinational, and big business is connected with big business. If India or China put a permanent settlement on the moon before the US it'll be only because big business found a cheaper, more desperate labor pool there.
Private firms can probably get a LOT more manned launches done per year for the same cost, but they'll be a little riskier. More astronauts will be killed. I don't see this as a problem : there's 6 billion people on the planet, and I for one if faced between possibly dying during a trip to space or dying from old age would choose the former.
And it's a great way to cull excess population without the social stigma of war...
Back in my day we strapped our TI-82s to our hairy forearms with duct tape and we liked it!
As far as I can recall from when I tried version 4 a long while ago, Bibble doesn't allow for much pixel pushing. Has this changed in 5? Was it always there and I had just missed it? Without these fine adjustments it doesn't matter how well Bibble handles the raw file because you still have to use another image editor in the end and that leads you to GIMP and loss of nearly half your bits.
The judge in that trial was owned by corporate interests. Probably not so in this one.
I'd mod up parent post if I had the points. It's great seeing a case like this take one small step forward, but unfortunately it's a bit like skipping through a minefield where the mines are politicians and public officials whose pockets are lined with MAFIAA money and the minefield ends miles away. I don't think we're gonna make it.
So after churning out a decade's worth of craptastic software somebody more or less important finally caught on to their scam? This only a few short years after the general public caught onto their scam, causing a drop in sales and consequently bringing on cries of, "Oh noes! PC gaming is coming to an end!" and, invariably, "OMG PIRATES!" I'm guessing we'll see a few more years of EA squandering its IPs, putting out bug-ridden, graphically intense, empty gaming rehashes of previously successful games before all of its investors and high level crooks move on to start the cycle over again somewhere else.
Uh huh, the mushroom cloud.
I'm guessing this is the part right before Kodak goes belly up.
I don't think anyone could have realistically expected China to respond differently.
As for security, ...
Security is largely a PEBKAC issue.
There are still very large workplaces that have Windows 2000 as the OS for the majority of their machines, my very large workplace included. I personally still use XP at home. I've played with 7, looked over its specs, and what I'm still left wondering is - why would I bother with it?
Google gets a fair amount of /. bashing just because it's grown as large as it has and sometimes they may even deserve it, but here we have an example of Google doing a good thing. You don't see many megacorporations taking a stand against internet censorship. Even if Google profits from this in some way and it isn't entirely a selfless act it's nice to see them doing something that benefits us little people too.
I'm guessing they got more for turning the guests in than they would have for cleaning the rooms for a couple of days.
You assume they actually plan on having something to show for their efforts besides a new high score in Minesweeper. Getting a one month extension makes it easier to get another month extension later and before you know it, it's time to pass the buck to the next administration.
Err... so what's all this paper crap between the covers? Oh, I get it, that's so it doesn't fall over. Very clever.
Adobe has made PDFs more accessible while WC3 has made HTML and other web programming less accessible. As a result web programmers get to keep their jobs, which I'm guessing was the point of obfuscating web programming to the point that most non-geeks don't want to deal with it, and non-geeks that need to make forms will go with an Adobe product because it "just works."
That trillion dollars wasn't used to 'fight terrorism,' it was used to create jobs. Terrorism was just the excuse used to create those jobs. War is a great way to motivate people when there's nothing meaningful left for them to do. I'd hate to imagine how much worse the current recession would have been if we weren't involved in all these conflicts around the world.
Considering you can get legit hardware in a netbook now for around $200, getting what is essentially a bag o' crap for half that isn't much of deal.
Oh, I am pretty sure those two things are universally exclusive.
Not really. Fat people just fuck other fat people producing many small fat people. If fat people didn't fuck that'd solve the whole problem, wouldn't it?
Big game publishers can't risk change and hobbyists can't quit their day jobs so expect any progress to be very slow. On the bright side, this should mean you haven't had to buy any new RPGs in the last five years or so.
First - no, you won't.
Second - even if you did, why should the FCC care? No, really, think about it. Do you think any government agency is going to purposely put thousands of people out of jobs, cause stocks to drop even lower, and send a great big Fuck You to the corporate bosses who pay their paychecks all to make a couple thousand disgruntled geeks happy? When those disgruntled geeks are just going to go away if they're ignored for a while?
I feel your pain. I don't have a smart phone, but broadband is in the same boat. Just bend over and take it like a good consumer whore. The only people who can change this system are the people running it and I don't think they have any intention of changing it in our favor.
how can the amount of effort expended in creating spam compare to the amount of money they receive from suckers who click on "V1AGRA!11!!" links?
You're saying you don't know anybody who clicks on ads because they read "Click Here" ?
Linux developers can arbitrarily stop supporting whatever they damn well don't feel like supporting any longer so they can go program extra functions into their USB foam dart cannon. Just sayin'.