If that area is sufficiently important (note: I'm not saying that is, just saying it's possible for something to be this important), then yes, it does.
Right on! I have a fair amount of hope that the senator I wrote to will be willing to help fight this (if he reads the letter in time), Feingold has stood up for our rights many times in the past. He's one of very few of our elected representatives that I can say I'm proud to have pulling for us.
He's still a better alternative than the republicans.
No. He's really, really not. That's the kind of thinking that keeps us locked into this damned system where we have to choose between a douche and a turd (as South Park put it). Once you reach a certain level of evil, it doesn't matter how much more evil your opponent is (unless he's openly promising to run a second Holocaust or some shit like that): neither one is preferable to the other at that point.
Quite right. There are very few people who I'll do tech support for (and all of them are so important that they get it for free, but that's another topic). My parents are two such people. They fed, clothed, and raised me for 18 years without any real benefit to themselves. The least I can do is help them out when they can use a hand. I won't destroy my life just to give my parents a bit of help, but I'll inconvenience myself to very great extents to help them out. Anything less is selfish.
MP3 players: I don't know why but I like my mp3 player better than my phone for mp3 purposes. Maybe that's just me, since I can't really rationalise this one.
Not just you. The best one out there is the iPhone, and it still sucks, as it only recently got up to an acceptable level of storage (anything less than 32 GB is completely unacceptable to me). And any other music player blows it out of the water in terms of storage. Hell, even the iPod Touch has 64 GB nowadays.
Don't have an iPhone, do you? I have a lot of friends addicted to iPhone games, and there are even a few I have played more than I would like to admit.
He may or may not, but I have an iPod Touch, which is effectively the same. Gaming on it is awful for anything more complex than Bejeweled or solitaire. The phone will not replace portable gaming consoles any time soon, and my money is on never, simply because the interface necessary for a good gaming device is not conducive to a good phone.
Yeah, so will codpieces, it doesn't mean they are still useful.
Yeah, but watches are still useful, and always will be. My watch is on my wrist. I can look at it, with barely any effort, in a half-second. My phone is in my pocket, and takes more effort to look at (considerably more, if I'm sitting in a position which makes it awkward to get my phone out from my pocket). It's also impossible to discreetly look at your phone for the time. With a watch, it's tricky, but possible. The phone will never replace the watch.
Yet Apple released the iphone, because they realised that people weren't going to carry around an ipod and a phone.
Yet I still carry around an iPod and a phone. Granted, it's not an iPhone, but it plays MP3s, and has a SD card slot, so there's nothing stopping me from using just my phone. One could argue that it's because I prefer the iPod's media interface, but even if I had an iPhone, I'd STILL carry both, because the iPod has twice as much storage space as the iPhone. And that's only if I limit myself to the iPod Touch. If I were carrying a normal iPod, the iPhone can't even begin to compete with it in terms of storage space.
Watches are just jewellery nowadays.
No. People wear, and use, watches all the time. Just because you don't use a thing doesn't make it obsolete for most of the world.
I'd rather stick with SCIENCE fiction, with emphasis on the science and making it not violate known universal laws/theories.
You're in the minority, so you're probably going to be out of luck (in the realm of TV and movies, at least, where a high production cost necessitates mass appeal). Most people (including myself) find a devotion to the laws of science to be soul-crushingly boring. That's not fiction any more, that's real life. I can look around and soak up my surroundings if I want to get that.
WTF? Most companies don't release nightly builds of their software. Why on earth are we singling out Microsoft, and only one of their products at that? Infrequent releases are the norm, not the exception, and while you may argue that it should change, it's ludicrous to single out one program among thousands for following the standard practice.
So... when there's a "feature" you like in the abstract, but never actually use, and it gets removed, you quit using the program? That's your right, of course, but I'm not going to mince words... it's really damn silly to stop using software because they removed an aspect that you never took advantage of in the first place.
And if you ask the standard interpretation of the English language, MS is right, not the people who coined the term. That means that the term itself is wrong, as it's misusing the language for no real benefit.
I'm all for using terms the way they were meant to be used, but when the original term is a perversion of language, it's not very logical to protest its "misuse".
Yes, that's all well and good. But when you are writing an article for some media outlet (be that newspaper, magazine, blog site, whatever), it is hardly onerous to expect that it be written properly according to the rules of the target language. If my Chinese coworker sends me an e-mail with some grammatical errors, that's fine. If he writes an article for the NY Times which has those same errors, that's not fine. He (my theoretical coworker) should at least have had the humility to admit that his English skills aren't as good as he'd like, and seek some editing help before publishing said article.
So your point, while accurate in another context, is completely out of place in this one.
Easily countered by the added convenience of not having to have one... not to mention that you then don't have to spend $30 on an adapter.
VGA is a damn-near universal connector for display devices, and honestly, anyone that makes a computer without it (or without including a couple of adapters, at least) should be shot.
Mostly, I wish the difficulty wasn't so punishing. I'm by no means bad at RPGs, but I get my ass handed to me on a regular basis. I spent an hour dying to one particular room in Denerim (the capital city) where two mages and their assorted henchmen killed me over and over and over. I never even got close, and this was on normal difficulty! I finally said "fuck this", and turned it down to easy for the remainder of that dungeon. I then turned it back up after downloading 1.01 (which makes normal a bit easier), and picking up a heal spell for Morrigan. It's been better since then, but I still run into some seriously cheap battles periodically, which I only get through on luck at times.
I've heard that there's a healer character you can pick up, which might make things much better for me, but if you really need her to progress well, how did they allow such a crucial character to be avoided while you pursue other forks in the main quest line? I appreciate challenge in a game (and even expect it to an extent), but Dragon Age definitely has been regularly crossing the line from "challenging" into "cheap and frustrating" on a regular basis for me.
Well, I would say that Apple's evils with the iPhone are at least as great as Verizon's evils mentioned in TFS. But even so, I don't really think that "lesser of two evils" applies when you're specifically jumping ship because of evil.
I should have expected that Verizon would come up with an 'unlimited' but capped at 5 GB plan. Guess it'll be the iPhone after all.
So you don't want to get the Droid, because Verizon is evil and calls their plan unlimited when it's really 5 GB/month. Fair enough. Then, you decide to turn to the iPhone, where Apple pulls apps because they dare to compete with AT&T? I hate to be the one to tell you, but you're trading one evil master for another, not getting a better situation.
I make that amount of money in half a day, but I'm not about to just throw something away that it took me half a day to earn. That's a somewhat significant amount of labor.
Also, comparing income levels like you are is misleading at best. I make $35k/year, which I've heard people refer to as being fairly poor, but due to the low cost of living in this area, it's a respectable salary. Looking at the absolute numbers doesn't give you the whole picture.
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If that area is sufficiently important (note: I'm not saying that is, just saying it's possible for something to be this important), then yes, it does.
Right on! I have a fair amount of hope that the senator I wrote to will be willing to help fight this (if he reads the letter in time), Feingold has stood up for our rights many times in the past. He's one of very few of our elected representatives that I can say I'm proud to have pulling for us.
He's still a better alternative than the republicans.
No. He's really, really not. That's the kind of thinking that keeps us locked into this damned system where we have to choose between a douche and a turd (as South Park put it). Once you reach a certain level of evil, it doesn't matter how much more evil your opponent is (unless he's openly promising to run a second Holocaust or some shit like that): neither one is preferable to the other at that point.
I just wrote to my senator urging him to help these men fight this injustice. Write to yours, too.
Quite right. There are very few people who I'll do tech support for (and all of them are so important that they get it for free, but that's another topic). My parents are two such people. They fed, clothed, and raised me for 18 years without any real benefit to themselves. The least I can do is help them out when they can use a hand. I won't destroy my life just to give my parents a bit of help, but I'll inconvenience myself to very great extents to help them out. Anything less is selfish.
Then you would have forbidden them from buying a PC, and required they buy a mac
He said he liked his family. :P
MP3 players: I don't know why but I like my mp3 player better than my phone for mp3 purposes. Maybe that's just me, since I can't really rationalise this one.
Not just you. The best one out there is the iPhone, and it still sucks, as it only recently got up to an acceptable level of storage (anything less than 32 GB is completely unacceptable to me). And any other music player blows it out of the water in terms of storage. Hell, even the iPod Touch has 64 GB nowadays.
Don't have an iPhone, do you? I have a lot of friends addicted to iPhone games, and there are even a few I have played more than I would like to admit.
He may or may not, but I have an iPod Touch, which is effectively the same. Gaming on it is awful for anything more complex than Bejeweled or solitaire. The phone will not replace portable gaming consoles any time soon, and my money is on never, simply because the interface necessary for a good gaming device is not conducive to a good phone.
Yeah, so will codpieces, it doesn't mean they are still useful.
Yeah, but watches are still useful, and always will be. My watch is on my wrist. I can look at it, with barely any effort, in a half-second. My phone is in my pocket, and takes more effort to look at (considerably more, if I'm sitting in a position which makes it awkward to get my phone out from my pocket). It's also impossible to discreetly look at your phone for the time. With a watch, it's tricky, but possible. The phone will never replace the watch.
Yet Apple released the iphone, because they realised that people weren't going to carry around an ipod and a phone.
Yet I still carry around an iPod and a phone. Granted, it's not an iPhone, but it plays MP3s, and has a SD card slot, so there's nothing stopping me from using just my phone. One could argue that it's because I prefer the iPod's media interface, but even if I had an iPhone, I'd STILL carry both, because the iPod has twice as much storage space as the iPhone. And that's only if I limit myself to the iPod Touch. If I were carrying a normal iPod, the iPhone can't even begin to compete with it in terms of storage space.
Watches are just jewellery nowadays.
No. People wear, and use, watches all the time. Just because you don't use a thing doesn't make it obsolete for most of the world.
I'd rather stick with SCIENCE fiction, with emphasis on the science and making it not violate known universal laws/theories.
You're in the minority, so you're probably going to be out of luck (in the realm of TV and movies, at least, where a high production cost necessitates mass appeal). Most people (including myself) find a devotion to the laws of science to be soul-crushingly boring. That's not fiction any more, that's real life. I can look around and soak up my surroundings if I want to get that.
WTF? Most companies don't release nightly builds of their software. Why on earth are we singling out Microsoft, and only one of their products at that? Infrequent releases are the norm, not the exception, and while you may argue that it should change, it's ludicrous to single out one program among thousands for following the standard practice.
So... when there's a "feature" you like in the abstract, but never actually use, and it gets removed, you quit using the program? That's your right, of course, but I'm not going to mince words... it's really damn silly to stop using software because they removed an aspect that you never took advantage of in the first place.
Using a clone of a library which was originally written by Microsoft does not make software "Microsoft-designed".
And if you ask the standard interpretation of the English language, MS is right, not the people who coined the term. That means that the term itself is wrong, as it's misusing the language for no real benefit.
I'm all for using terms the way they were meant to be used, but when the original term is a perversion of language, it's not very logical to protest its "misuse".
Yes, that's all well and good. But when you are writing an article for some media outlet (be that newspaper, magazine, blog site, whatever), it is hardly onerous to expect that it be written properly according to the rules of the target language. If my Chinese coworker sends me an e-mail with some grammatical errors, that's fine. If he writes an article for the NY Times which has those same errors, that's not fine. He (my theoretical coworker) should at least have had the humility to admit that his English skills aren't as good as he'd like, and seek some editing help before publishing said article.
So your point, while accurate in another context, is completely out of place in this one.
Yeah. The original article was profound bullshit, and I imagine this one is too.
Easily countered by the added convenience of not having to have one... not to mention that you then don't have to spend $30 on an adapter.
VGA is a damn-near universal connector for display devices, and honestly, anyone that makes a computer without it (or without including a couple of adapters, at least) should be shot.
Mostly, I wish the difficulty wasn't so punishing. I'm by no means bad at RPGs, but I get my ass handed to me on a regular basis. I spent an hour dying to one particular room in Denerim (the capital city) where two mages and their assorted henchmen killed me over and over and over. I never even got close, and this was on normal difficulty! I finally said "fuck this", and turned it down to easy for the remainder of that dungeon. I then turned it back up after downloading 1.01 (which makes normal a bit easier), and picking up a heal spell for Morrigan. It's been better since then, but I still run into some seriously cheap battles periodically, which I only get through on luck at times.
I've heard that there's a healer character you can pick up, which might make things much better for me, but if you really need her to progress well, how did they allow such a crucial character to be avoided while you pursue other forks in the main quest line? I appreciate challenge in a game (and even expect it to an extent), but Dragon Age definitely has been regularly crossing the line from "challenging" into "cheap and frustrating" on a regular basis for me.
But weren't you supposed to pay $50 for a fantastic game when you bought it?
He did.
Well, I would say that Apple's evils with the iPhone are at least as great as Verizon's evils mentioned in TFS. But even so, I don't really think that "lesser of two evils" applies when you're specifically jumping ship because of evil.
Not at all. I'm just saying it doesn't make sense to reject one thing on the basis of evil, and then go to another thing which is just as evil.
A battery cover that falls off? A physical keyboard that "peels" off?
Huh? I own a Droid, and I can tell you that neither of those is true. The author of your article is either very unlucky or a raging liar.
I should have expected that Verizon would come up with an 'unlimited' but capped at 5 GB plan. Guess it'll be the iPhone after all.
So you don't want to get the Droid, because Verizon is evil and calls their plan unlimited when it's really 5 GB/month. Fair enough. Then, you decide to turn to the iPhone, where Apple pulls apps because they dare to compete with AT&T? I hate to be the one to tell you, but you're trading one evil master for another, not getting a better situation.
Your "in your face" message might be more effective if you delivered it to your co-workers, rather than the internet. :P
I make that amount of money in half a day, but I'm not about to just throw something away that it took me half a day to earn. That's a somewhat significant amount of labor.
Also, comparing income levels like you are is misleading at best. I make $35k/year, which I've heard people refer to as being fairly poor, but due to the low cost of living in this area, it's a respectable salary. Looking at the absolute numbers doesn't give you the whole picture.