Seriously though, the days where I used a full email client for personal email are long gone. I have Thunderbird installed here somewhere, I think, and every so often I use it to download and save my gmail messages, but really... webmail has long been the choice for people who are not especially paranoid. (Including businesses, which have to be paranoid for legal reasons, plus there's the bonus of having somebody to fire when something goes wrong with the email.) (I actually am a little paranoid, hence the Thunderbird-downloading-saving, but not enough to forgo the convenience of webmail.)
I can tell that this will be a useful discussion. Once I'm finished reading the insightful and intelligent posts here, I think I'll go to the blog of The Economist or the Wall Street Journal and ask them about the latest Ubuntu release!
Personally, I give Blu-Ray an automatic 25% edge in the market over HD-DVD because Blu-Ray sounds cooler, and "HD-DVD" has a sort of legacy sound to it. Seriously. I think that, to the average consumer, the name would have more bearing on their purchase than any technical aspects.
I agree with you about the importance of the name, but came to the opposite conclusion... "Blu-Ray" sounds stupid, and nobody knows what it means, whereas everyone knows what a DVD is, and, hey, this HD stuff is supposed to be important, so HD-DVD sounds exactly right.
Last I checked, D2 did not have the "flat" display mode. I want to load up all replies to an article and be able to read them without doing anything else. (I am still annoyed at the change several years ago when the maximum number of replies on a page was limited.)
On April 7, 2003, Al-Sahaf claimed that there were no American troops in Baghdad, and that the Americans were committing suicide by the hundreds at the city's gates. At that time, American tanks were patrolling the streets only a few hundred yards from the location where the press conference was held. His last public appearance as Information Minister was on April 8, 2003, when he said that the Americans "are going to surrender or be burned in their tanks. They will surrender, it is they who will surrender".
Sony denies this charge and said that the company has a dedicated team working with Rockstar on "GTA IV." They say they're not that worried about the delay and would prefer that Rockstar take the time it needs to perfect the game. "We'd love to have [it] out as soon as possible," said Sony spokesperson Dave Karakker. "But we've never had a single game make or break any of our platforms. That's not how we built 100 million sales of [the] PlayStation 2, and that's not how we'll build 100 million in sales of [the] PlayStation 3."'
-- TFS
Sure, whatever you say, Sony. I'm sure all those units are going to get sold real soon now.
Marketers will be able to find out just how effective their ads are. When the answer turns out to be "not at all", they'll all lose their jobs, and we'll live in an advertising-free world.
(And while I'm dreaming, I'd like a free moon pony.)
There is also the small problem of these being "seperate but equal" institutions, an oxymoron if ever there were one that I had thought we dispensed with many years ago.
Indeed, many of the buildings I go into have "separate but equal" bathrooms! You know, one for women, one for men. Crazy. It's almost as if gender is actually a difference that might require separate institutions.
I thought RSS stood for Really Simple Syndication, did I wake up in a parallel universe this morning?
Or is it like PHP where they threw out the original meaning (Personal Home Page) and replaced it with a shiny new recursive one (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor) once it became popular?
Did you even read the Wikipedia article you linked to? "Really Simple Syndication" is the shiny new marketing-speak meaning. RSS is really "RDF Site Summary". When it stopped using RDF, the R changed to "Rich" instead of "RDF".
No, it doesn't. Don't use phrases if you don't know what they mean.
what makes it less of a standard than some other competing standard?
It might not be "less of a standard", but it might be a less useful standard standard anyway, due to restrictions placed on its use (see JPEG2000); Microsoft specifically has a record of trying to pull crap like that.
"We try to be fair and reasonable in resolving these cases," said RIAA spokeswoman Cara Duckworth. "Our aim is not to be in court, but to seek appropriate retribution for the damage done to the industry."
Duckworth then resumed dusting and polishing each gold coin in the RIAA's money bin.
This is why I convert all incoming emails into plain text. Outlook (which I have to use at work) has this option and also makes it very easy to un-convert it if there's formatting that you need to see for some reason.
I don't think I'll ever play Civ 3 again -- if I want the classic experience, there's the original, if I want the classic experience with a little bit more, there's Civ 2... but Civ 3 is a big leap from Civ 2, so I fit 3 in with the 'new' Civ experience, but without all the good parts of 4.
IOW, Civ 3 is entirely superseded by Civ 4, whereas the original and Civ 2 have unique features that might make me play them again. (And have; I played the original Civ for a little while just a few months ago.)
Though I can't help you if it gives you motion sickness... if 4 made me sick then maybe I'd go back to 3 too.:)
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If I have to buy a games cores features to play on top of buying the game in the first place
Why is no one reading even the summary? The point is that the game is FREE, and you pay for extras. You're not "buying the game in the first place".
Anyone who's gone through a failure without any backups
Full stop.
As John Wayne said, life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid.
I heard it as:
When fins brush by your heel
That's not just an eel
That's a moray
When you feel teeth bite down
And you're starting to drown
That's a moray
Huh. I remember Eudora.
*goes back to gmail*
Seriously though, the days where I used a full email client for personal email are long gone. I have Thunderbird installed here somewhere, I think, and every so often I use it to download and save my gmail messages, but really... webmail has long been the choice for people who are not especially paranoid. (Including businesses, which have to be paranoid for legal reasons, plus there's the bonus of having somebody to fire when something goes wrong with the email.) (I actually am a little paranoid, hence the Thunderbird-downloading-saving, but not enough to forgo the convenience of webmail.)
The bio cell, which measures 39 millimeters cubed, delivers 50mW -- a world record for such a cell, according to the company.
The real question is, how much force does it create when it explodes?
A lot of people have bought HD-DVD versions of movies and then complained when they could not play it on their DVD players connected to their HDTVs
Ah, good point, I can see where people who don't follow this stuff could get confused. Hadn't thought of it like that before.
I can tell that this will be a useful discussion. Once I'm finished reading the insightful and intelligent posts here, I think I'll go to the blog of The Economist or the Wall Street Journal and ask them about the latest Ubuntu release!
haha, thank you.
:P
Or really, just club Ann and leave it at that, it'd make parts of the subsequent mission less tedious.
Personally, I give Blu-Ray an automatic 25% edge in the market over HD-DVD because Blu-Ray sounds cooler, and "HD-DVD" has a sort of legacy sound to it. Seriously. I think that, to the average consumer, the name would have more bearing on their purchase than any technical aspects.
I agree with you about the importance of the name, but came to the opposite conclusion... "Blu-Ray" sounds stupid, and nobody knows what it means, whereas everyone knows what a DVD is, and, hey, this HD stuff is supposed to be important, so HD-DVD sounds exactly right.
...Halo 2 sold alright, and it was only like 85% complete...
Last I checked, D2 did not have the "flat" display mode. I want to load up all replies to an article and be able to read them without doing anything else. (I am still annoyed at the change several years ago when the maximum number of replies on a page was limited.)
On April 7, 2003, Al-Sahaf claimed that there were no American troops in Baghdad, and that the Americans were committing suicide by the hundreds at the city's gates. At that time, American tanks were patrolling the streets only a few hundred yards from the location where the press conference was held. His last public appearance as Information Minister was on April 8, 2003, when he said that the Americans "are going to surrender or be burned in their tanks. They will surrender, it is they who will surrender".
h haf
-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Saeed_al-Sa
Sony denies this charge and said that the company has a dedicated team working with Rockstar on "GTA IV." They say they're not that worried about the delay and would prefer that Rockstar take the time it needs to perfect the game. "We'd love to have [it] out as soon as possible," said Sony spokesperson Dave Karakker. "But we've never had a single game make or break any of our platforms. That's not how we built 100 million sales of [the] PlayStation 2, and that's not how we'll build 100 million in sales of [the] PlayStation 3."'
-- TFS
Sure, whatever you say, Sony. I'm sure all those units are going to get sold real soon now.
Marketers will be able to find out just how effective their ads are. When the answer turns out to be "not at all", they'll all lose their jobs, and we'll live in an advertising-free world.
(And while I'm dreaming, I'd like a free moon pony.)
There is also the small problem of these being "seperate but equal" institutions, an oxymoron if ever there were one that I had thought we dispensed with many years ago.
Indeed, many of the buildings I go into have "separate but equal" bathrooms! You know, one for women, one for men. Crazy. It's almost as if gender is actually a difference that might require separate institutions.
In nickels (4.5g), the dollar is about 5 bucks per pound. If you use quarters (5.67g), you get about 20 bucks.
I love that this is modded 'informative'.
I thought RSS stood for Really Simple Syndication, did I wake up in a parallel universe this morning?
Or is it like PHP where they threw out the original meaning (Personal Home Page) and replaced it with a shiny new recursive one (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor) once it became popular?
Did you even read the Wikipedia article you linked to? "Really Simple Syndication" is the shiny new marketing-speak meaning. RSS is really "RDF Site Summary". When it stopped using RDF, the R changed to "Rich" instead of "RDF".
Lighten up on the rhetoric, you sound like a crazy-person. ...
Listen, in these days of the Bush administration, the ONLY thing that stands between him and autocracy is the media.
Mr. Kettle, there's a pot over there wishing to speak with you. Something about colors.
So I guess this begs the question
No, it doesn't. Don't use phrases if you don't know what they mean.
what makes it less of a standard than some other competing standard?
It might not be "less of a standard", but it might be a less useful standard standard anyway, due to restrictions placed on its use (see JPEG2000); Microsoft specifically has a record of trying to pull crap like that.
when's the last time you saw a story of a non-Mac-fanboi ditching their Blackberry for an iPhone
I assume "never", since according to you anyone who did ditch their Blackberry for an iPhone would, by definition, be a "Mac-fanboi".
No true Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge.
"We try to be fair and reasonable in resolving these cases," said RIAA spokeswoman Cara Duckworth. "Our aim is not to be in court, but to seek appropriate retribution for the damage done to the industry."
Duckworth then resumed dusting and polishing each gold coin in the RIAA's money bin.
QUACK, Ms. Duckworth. QUACK QUACK QUACK QUACK QUACK Ms. Duckworth.
This is why I convert all incoming emails into plain text. Outlook (which I have to use at work) has this option and also makes it very easy to un-convert it if there's formatting that you need to see for some reason.
Remember, they're universal! They can play in your PSP made by Sony, and also can play in...
um...
well, an entirely different PSP, also made by Sony!
Universal!
"Of course, the software has to be installed by the owner of the Blackberry"
I guess this is opposed to something running Windows, where software needs to be installed by the pwner of the device?
I don't think I'll ever play Civ 3 again -- if I want the classic experience, there's the original, if I want the classic experience with a little bit more, there's Civ 2... but Civ 3 is a big leap from Civ 2, so I fit 3 in with the 'new' Civ experience, but without all the good parts of 4.
:)
IOW, Civ 3 is entirely superseded by Civ 4, whereas the original and Civ 2 have unique features that might make me play them again. (And have; I played the original Civ for a little while just a few months ago.)
Though I can't help you if it gives you motion sickness... if 4 made me sick then maybe I'd go back to 3 too.
For those who don't RTFA, they don't specify which consoles... just a generic "next generation consoles and handhelds".
"streamlined" or not, a Civ-style game seems like a good fit for the Wii remote, so I'm hoping for that. (Same for the DS in the handheld version.)