The problem is though, that XP would be much, much more useful to teach young kids than the absolute horror story which was the OLPC flavor of Linux.
Not only was the OLPC OS an atrocity, but frankly -- if you were a poor kid in some Rio favela -- what would you rather know: Some obscure flavor of Linux which looks something like Microsoft BOB, or a global standard?
Ok, I'll bite. Try making the desktop fonts bigger. Or for that matter, try changing the system font.
How about a window-maximize button that actually *always* maximizes the window to the full screen-size?
How about mouse accelleration?
Oh why bother... you're only going to tell me that Apple reviewed all the options and chose the best one for me. It's a religious argument. I like complete control
That having been said, I have both Macs and PC's...
"an iPhone user is more than twice as likely to experience an iPhone failure due to accidental damage than through a handset malfunction."
Because when you drop the Blackberry your company bought for you, you claim it "just broke". When you drop the iPhone you paid for yourself, you're comfortable admitting that you dropped it.
Think ad-blocking is a problem now? Just wait until every kilobyte of traffic actually costs users money.
Charging for traffic is a surefire way to tank Google's (or anyone else who depends on ad revenue) stock. IMHO the entire advertising-based model of the Internet is predicated on free, unlimited bandwidth.
And hopefully they'll return to the creativity of Morrowind, and not succumb to the mediocrity of tudor houses, butterflies, stereotypical european looking knights, uninteresting vegetation, and dialogue full of "thee's" "thou's" and "milady's".
Morrowind was a shot of brilliant originality and amazing art-direction into what had become a tired genre. Oblivion was full of stock concepts and unoriginal ideas -- yeah, yeah, I know "but that's Cyrodil"... whatever...
> "The reason is to get recurring revenue (monthly fees) for the game rather than a one shot deal."
Which would be okay, if every month you were actually getting $20 of new content. But think about it: A standalone game costing $50 bucks has an immense amount of content. Are you getting proportionally the same amount of content every month with a MMO?
The problem isn't just that they're milking you for money, it's that they're giving you much much less. At the end of a year, you've spent $200+ on the average MMO and you often have far *less* content than you would in a standalone game.
Is this going to be one of those "Look the tide just went out further than it's ever gone before!" things?
Could marveling at our wonderfully spotless sun be sort of like saying, "Let's all skip down on to the beach and pick up the pretty fish!"
Maybe I'm just a doom-and-gloom type, but when the source of all life on Earth suddenly changes it's behavior in some very perceptible way... I think that's maybe, you know... 'bad'.
Thank you. This is an issue that always amazes me. So many people here seem to think that Ad Blocking is "cool", not realizing that widespread use of it will seriously hurt an enormous number of small/independent website operators who are trying to work full time at their sites.
AdBlock in FF is still a relatively unheard of plugin for a browser that's still in the minority. (I'm not counting the/. crowd... of course we all know about it).
Microsoft is trying to break into the advertising world at the same time that they're hurting it... Nice move MSFT.
"What is unique about the iPhone is the way Apple decides what you are allowed to use it for."
Well... if only that were just an Apple phenomenon. I have a Nokia N61 -- which has fantastic VOIP and WiFi capabilities. But don't look for it in the USA, because it was released here as the N61i and it was crippled to make the phone co's happy.
Exactly. These kinds of workarounds are temporary at best. Data could be padded (increasing the overall data throughput) which would defeat the overall goal of the ISP's anyway.
Ultimately traffic shaping -- like copy protection -- is a losing battle. Ultimately the cost of throttling, in bandwidth and CPU time will make the practice ineffective.
Seriously. Why do we care what the primitives do or think? We're talking about an archaic entity which demonstrates a perpetual inability to think logically or to reason. I'm sure some Bantu medicine-man is also prepared to accept that his gods put life in space. Do we care?
Let the primitives paint themselves in mud, or dip their kids in a basin of water. Who gives a crap? History made them irrelevant long ago.
Unless you're a member of the world's poor -- in which case the church keeps you poor, dumb, uneducated and pregnant -- if it hasn't already helped you get AIDS.
I'm sure this will start a flame war, but it really isn't intended to. I've seen Spore videos, and read Spore reviews -- and from what I can see, the game "may" be decent, and "may" not be.
I can't understand all these people who are so certain that it's going to be the greatest thing ever. Do they not realize that they're just re-spouting the hype that's being fed to them by a multimillion dollar hype machine?
I'm not flaming the game. I hope it's great. But come on people... it's not out yet, and we all know how this industry works.
I just removed AdBlock from my system for exactly this reason. One can't bitch about draconian efforts to extract money from consumers, and then circumvent the one last option left to content producers: ad revenue.
Saying that the "Tree of Life" was first used by Darwin to describe evolutionary relationships should be taken with a grain of salt. The use of a "tree" to describe decendants and family relationships dates back to (at the very least) pre-Roman times. Paintings depicting lineage were long adorned with leaves and fruit. There is a reason that the Bible used a "tree" to signify life -- because the symbolism of a trunk, limbs, shoots and offshoots was well established by mankind long before the Bible was even written. Norse mythology also used the concept of a "Tree of Life" to describe the relationships of one generation to the next: The Gods at the trunk, the more recently 'evolved' mankind at the branch tips. (And the Runes at the roots).
I'm a big fan of Darwin. But let's not give him credit for applying some of mankind's oldest and most widely used symbols to the very thing it typically symbolized.
So my email from a.co.uk email address to a colleague at a.br address is going to be searchable by the US?... We'll see what our governments have to say about that.
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The problem is though, that XP would be much, much more useful to teach young kids than the absolute horror story which was the OLPC flavor of Linux.
Not only was the OLPC OS an atrocity, but frankly -- if you were a poor kid in some Rio favela -- what would you rather know: Some obscure flavor of Linux which looks something like Microsoft BOB, or a global standard?
Ok, I'll bite. Try making the desktop fonts bigger. Or for that matter, try changing the system font.
How about a window-maximize button that actually *always* maximizes the window to the full screen-size?
How about mouse accelleration?
Oh why bother... you're only going to tell me that Apple reviewed all the options and chose the best one for me. It's a religious argument. I like complete control
That having been said, I have both Macs and PC's...
"an iPhone user is more than twice as likely to experience an iPhone failure due to accidental damage than through a handset malfunction."
Because when you drop the Blackberry your company bought for you, you claim it "just broke". When you drop the iPhone you paid for yourself, you're comfortable admitting that you dropped it.
...not only that, but it would put an end to 'video' ads, and return us to the era of the 10k GIF ad.
Think ad-blocking is a problem now? Just wait until every kilobyte of traffic actually costs users money.
Charging for traffic is a surefire way to tank Google's (or anyone else who depends on ad revenue) stock. IMHO the entire advertising-based model of the Internet is predicated on free, unlimited bandwidth.
And hopefully they'll return to the creativity of Morrowind, and not succumb to the mediocrity of tudor houses, butterflies, stereotypical european looking knights, uninteresting vegetation, and dialogue full of "thee's" "thou's" and "milady's".
Morrowind was a shot of brilliant originality and amazing art-direction into what had become a tired genre. Oblivion was full of stock concepts and unoriginal ideas -- yeah, yeah, I know "but that's Cyrodil"... whatever...
Which is why most MMO's suck.
Centuries of fiction have taught us one thing: People like heroes.
The MMO concept tries to convince us all that it's cool to be an average joe.
No thanks, I've pretty much got that experience down...
> "The reason is to get recurring revenue (monthly fees) for the game rather than a one shot deal."
Which would be okay, if every month you were actually getting $20 of new content. But think about it: A standalone game costing $50 bucks has an immense amount of content. Are you getting proportionally the same amount of content every month with a MMO?
The problem isn't just that they're milking you for money, it's that they're giving you much much less. At the end of a year, you've spent $200+ on the average MMO and you often have far *less* content than you would in a standalone game.
Does this mean we can refer to our new banking oligarchs as "The Dark Flow"?
I for one welcome our invisible, viscous, extra-galactic overlords.
Is this going to be one of those "Look the tide just went out further than it's ever gone before!" things?
Could marveling at our wonderfully spotless sun be sort of like saying, "Let's all skip down on to the beach and pick up the pretty fish!"
Maybe I'm just a doom-and-gloom type, but when the source of all life on Earth suddenly changes it's behavior in some very perceptible way... I think that's maybe, you know... 'bad'.
People want free software. Microsoft fights piracy tooth and nail.
People want ad-free websites. Microsoft obliges.
See the double standard?
Thank you. This is an issue that always amazes me. So many people here seem to think that Ad Blocking is "cool", not realizing that widespread use of it will seriously hurt an enormous number of small/independent website operators who are trying to work full time at their sites.
AdBlock in FF is still a relatively unheard of plugin for a browser that's still in the minority. (I'm not counting the /. crowd... of course we all know about it).
Microsoft is trying to break into the advertising world at the same time that they're hurting it... Nice move MSFT.
"What is unique about the iPhone is the way Apple decides what you are allowed to use it for."
Well... if only that were just an Apple phenomenon. I have a Nokia N61 -- which has fantastic VOIP and WiFi capabilities. But don't look for it in the USA, because it was released here as the N61i and it was crippled to make the phone co's happy.
There are 1000's of examples like this...
Exactly. These kinds of workarounds are temporary at best. Data could be padded (increasing the overall data throughput) which would defeat the overall goal of the ISP's anyway.
Ultimately traffic shaping -- like copy protection -- is a losing battle. Ultimately the cost of throttling, in bandwidth and CPU time will make the practice ineffective.
Seriously. Why do we care what the primitives do or think? We're talking about an archaic entity which demonstrates a perpetual inability to think logically or to reason. I'm sure some Bantu medicine-man is also prepared to accept that his gods put life in space. Do we care?
Let the primitives paint themselves in mud, or dip their kids in a basin of water. Who gives a crap? History made them irrelevant long ago.
Unless you're a member of the world's poor -- in which case the church keeps you poor, dumb, uneducated and pregnant -- if it hasn't already helped you get AIDS.
Nice work boys.
I'm sure this will start a flame war, but it really isn't intended to. I've seen Spore videos, and read Spore reviews -- and from what I can see, the game "may" be decent, and "may" not be.
I can't understand all these people who are so certain that it's going to be the greatest thing ever. Do they not realize that they're just re-spouting the hype that's being fed to them by a multimillion dollar hype machine?
I'm not flaming the game. I hope it's great. But come on people... it's not out yet, and we all know how this industry works.
Until someone develops an AdBlock for eBooks.
I just removed AdBlock from my system for exactly this reason. One can't bitch about draconian efforts to extract money from consumers, and then circumvent the one last option left to content producers: ad revenue.
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Saying that the "Tree of Life" was first used by Darwin to describe evolutionary relationships should be taken with a grain of salt. The use of a "tree" to describe decendants and family relationships dates back to (at the very least) pre-Roman times. Paintings depicting lineage were long adorned with leaves and fruit. There is a reason that the Bible used a "tree" to signify life -- because the symbolism of a trunk, limbs, shoots and offshoots was well established by mankind long before the Bible was even written. Norse mythology also used the concept of a "Tree of Life" to describe the relationships of one generation to the next: The Gods at the trunk, the more recently 'evolved' mankind at the branch tips. (And the Runes at the roots).
I'm a big fan of Darwin. But let's not give him credit for applying some of mankind's oldest and most widely used symbols to the very thing it typically symbolized.
So my email from a .co.uk email address to a colleague at a .br address is going to be searchable by the US? ... We'll see what our governments have to say about that.
...androgynous japanime heroes with long hair, dapper clothes and swords the size of a small car?
I'm looking at you Square/Enix
Stop supporting the RIAA: Don't buy music. When you buy music you are voting with your dollars to support the RIAA.
I'll start buying music again when the RIAA is either gone, or has given up.
The modern nation of Egypt has no IP claim over something made 5000 years ago by slaves.
Modded "Redundant"?
Salesmen.