I call BULLSHIT on this. It wouldn't matter if gas was $.01 or $10.00 @ gallon, I still have to drive to work, shop and do several other chores. I don't drive any more or less then when I was able to buy gas for $.89 @ gallon. The only difference is that it just costs me much more to do said chores. No surprise there. A half-century of enormous highway subsidies has made America more dependent on the automobile than anyone else. It's critically important to break that dependency by improving mass transit and densifying our cities so we aren't dependent on the Middle East's whims.
Not necessarily. KOTOR 2 was bug-ridden and had missing plot-lines because LucasArts wanted to rush it out the door in time for Christmas. The Obsidian team left the data files for a much more complete version of KOTOR 2 on the XBox disc, and a group of modders calling themselves Team Gizka http://team-gizka.org/ are trying to restore the lost content. They seem pretty close to completion.
It's a simple, idiot-proof way to keep my bookmarks synced when I dual-boot my Thinkpad. That way, when I have to pop into Windows I get my Firefox bookmarks.
And by "only in America", you must have meant "Only in America, England, Canada, Australia, and every other English speaking nation in the world", right?:)
It would be nice if Opera came with alternate keyboard setups mimicking the Firefox and/or IE shortcuts so people wouldn't have to retrain their fingers or manually change all the keybindings.
It should be something like "half of all Japanese OS upgrades were Leopard," not "Leopard claims half the Japanese OS Market." Because seriously, there's a reason for OS X users to upgrade-- and little to none for XP users to do so. Why should this surprise anyone?
Really, nobody wants to use web based apps. They suck. They're clunky, they're slow, they put your data elsewhere. Some of them have ads. As a user, anything web based is just horrible.
"Latin is more complex than french or spanish. Then, were the ancestors of latin (indogermanic) super-complex? This is odd, as I guess that prehistoric societies were more primitiv and there was no literature, so why would they have had such complex languages?"
Classical Latin is not more complex, per se, than Portuguese or Spanish--it's that the areas of complexity have changed over time. In Classical Latin, for instance, word order matters a lot less than in, say, Spanish, because Latin's system of affixes enables you to flip around the words without changing the meaning or making the sentence nonsensical, as in Spanish or Portuguese.
So, comparatively:
Latin: "Marcus ferit Corneliam" is exactly equivalent to "Corneliam Marcus ferit." (EN: Marcus hits Cornelia.)
Spanish: "Marco golpea Cornelia" is NOT equivalent to "Cornelia golpea Marco." The first means "Marco hits Cornelia," the second means "Cornelia hits Marco."
So it's not that the complexity has been reduced, it's that the type of complexit has changed.
Maybe because there isn't enough motivation to have "one more e-mail client" on the market. In basic functionality, all e-mail programs do the same thing, and Joe User is easy enough to satisfy. With browsers it's different. There actually is a fairly large disparity between the functionality of Firefox, Opera and IE that Joe User can appreciate.
Microsoft made a big mistake when creating Windows, though not one most of us would have foreseen in the early '90s-- they made Windows 3.1 a single-user OS and thanks to their dedication to backwards-compatibility ended up being stuck with it. Now this poor guy has to figure out a way to make Microsoft software secure by default, even though they have 1) lots of idiots in their customer base to deal with and 2) too many legacy applications expecting root privileges to break backwards compatibility and set the OS up with Unix-style permissions.
It's more than just "cooler" or "hipper," it's that language follows power. If the language of commerce and government is Mandarin, you'll get shut out of a lot of society if you only speak a minor dialect, no matter how talented you are. The rest follows logically-- parents will encourage their kids to learn Mandarin over (insert dialect here) and the language's usefulness gradually goes down. The same thing happened in the United States, as new immigrants gradually dropped the languages of their ancestors for English.
Well, yes, the music does suck, but it's not like music overall has gotten better or worse over the years. Remember the old rule, "95% of everything is crap?" It was true 50 years ago when the record labels were making out like gangbusters and it's still true today. The only difference now is that no one remembers lousy bubble-gum pop bands from the early 1960s like "The Archies." "The music sucks" isn't a real problem-- it's code for "get off my lawn."
Apple is fundamentally a hardware company, not a software company, and their job is to get you to buy physical devices, not to sell you services. I doubt they'll care about iPhone unlocking for the same reason they encourage putting Windows on a Mac-- it encourages sales.
Between the iPod and the Zune, that's a good, what, 90% of the music market? Great thinking, Universal! Way to make people want to download your stuff!
I know there's no shortage of Microsoft bashing here, but can we please stop modding the "ZOMG MICRO$OFT WANTS TO SELL YOU ADS ON YOUR DRMED VISTA LOLZ" trolls insightful? If Microsoft starts forcing ads on you, THEN it makes sense to start screaming and bitching and moaning about evil plans. Until then, it's just one more patent.
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What planet are you from? The California energy crisis only started AFTER the electricity market was deregulated. Look at the timeline. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_energy_crisis
Um, Microsoft has released a patch that allows Office 2000-2003 users to read .docx files:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=941b3470-3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466&displaylang=en
Not necessarily. KOTOR 2 was bug-ridden and had missing plot-lines because LucasArts wanted to rush it out the door in time for Christmas. The Obsidian team left the data files for a much more complete version of KOTOR 2 on the XBox disc, and a group of modders calling themselves Team Gizka http://team-gizka.org/ are trying to restore the lost content. They seem pretty close to completion.
It's a simple, idiot-proof way to keep my bookmarks synced when I dual-boot my Thinkpad. That way, when I have to pop into Windows I get my Firefox bookmarks.
You forgot about Soviet Russia.
Who the hell would mod the parent insightful?
It would be nice if Opera came with alternate keyboard setups mimicking the Firefox and/or IE shortcuts so people wouldn't have to retrain their fingers or manually change all the keybindings.
The Veteran's Administration, not VA Linux.
It should be something like "half of all Japanese OS upgrades were Leopard," not "Leopard claims half the Japanese OS Market." Because seriously, there's a reason for OS X users to upgrade-- and little to none for XP users to do so. Why should this surprise anyone?
...I was expecting crazy conspiracy-theory fiction, not reality.
From TFA: "According to the institute, it uses about 10 percent less power than existing streetcars."
Remember the 3DO?
"Latin is more complex than french or spanish. Then, were the ancestors of latin (indogermanic) super-complex? This is odd, as I guess that prehistoric societies were more primitiv and there was no literature, so why would they have had such complex languages?"
Classical Latin is not more complex, per se, than Portuguese or Spanish--it's that the areas of complexity have changed over time. In Classical Latin, for instance, word order matters a lot less than in, say, Spanish, because Latin's system of affixes enables you to flip around the words without changing the meaning or making the sentence nonsensical, as in Spanish or Portuguese.
So, comparatively:
Latin: "Marcus ferit Corneliam" is exactly equivalent to "Corneliam Marcus ferit." (EN: Marcus hits Cornelia.)
Spanish: "Marco golpea Cornelia" is NOT equivalent to "Cornelia golpea Marco." The first means "Marco hits Cornelia," the second means "Cornelia hits Marco."
So it's not that the complexity has been reduced, it's that the type of complexit has changed.
Maybe because there isn't enough motivation to have "one more e-mail client" on the market. In basic functionality, all e-mail programs do the same thing, and Joe User is easy enough to satisfy. With browsers it's different. There actually is a fairly large disparity between the functionality of Firefox, Opera and IE that Joe User can appreciate.
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Microsoft made a big mistake when creating Windows, though not one most of us would have foreseen in the early '90s-- they made Windows 3.1 a single-user OS and thanks to their dedication to backwards-compatibility ended up being stuck with it. Now this poor guy has to figure out a way to make Microsoft software secure by default, even though they have 1) lots of idiots in their customer base to deal with and 2) too many legacy applications expecting root privileges to break backwards compatibility and set the OS up with Unix-style permissions.
It's more than just "cooler" or "hipper," it's that language follows power. If the language of commerce and government is Mandarin, you'll get shut out of a lot of society if you only speak a minor dialect, no matter how talented you are. The rest follows logically-- parents will encourage their kids to learn Mandarin over (insert dialect here) and the language's usefulness gradually goes down. The same thing happened in the United States, as new immigrants gradually dropped the languages of their ancestors for English.
> the music sucks
Well, yes, the music does suck, but it's not like music overall has gotten better or worse over the years. Remember the old rule, "95% of everything is crap?" It was true 50 years ago when the record labels were making out like gangbusters and it's still true today. The only difference now is that no one remembers lousy bubble-gum pop bands from the early 1960s like "The Archies." "The music sucks" isn't a real problem-- it's code for "get off my lawn."
Apple is fundamentally a hardware company, not a software company, and their job is to get you to buy physical devices, not to sell you services. I doubt they'll care about iPhone unlocking for the same reason they encourage putting Windows on a Mac-- it encourages sales.
Between the iPod and the Zune, that's a good, what, 90% of the music market? Great thinking, Universal! Way to make people want to download your stuff!
Is George Lucas' legacy shot because of Episodes I-III?
I know there's no shortage of Microsoft bashing here, but can we please stop modding the "ZOMG MICRO$OFT WANTS TO SELL YOU ADS ON YOUR DRMED VISTA LOLZ" trolls insightful? If Microsoft starts forcing ads on you, THEN it makes sense to start screaming and bitching and moaning about evil plans. Until then, it's just one more patent.
But how does it compare to similar vessels? Is there anyone with marine experience that can chime in?