When the summary explicitly mentions only XP, then obviously all others after that are fine.
Sure, if this was "Gramps weekly Gramps-thing" papyrus gazette, that for some reason had a story about these new drives, then yes, a clarification that Vista and so forth work ok (and an explanation about what the heck a hard drive is in the first place) would be in order.
What silly idiot comes modding this a troll? Shouldn't you be modding comments that matter and comments people will actually read? Well. I'm glad I can keep one bad mod occupied down here in the dungeons. Mod this down too, I dare you. It means you won't get to touch as many comments that might matter.
Well, that's just plain wrong, isn't it? The verve obviously made that song. If the other band should get *all* the money, people would go buy their song, right? (i realize there are subtleties)
...or was that a sample/reference? I guess we'll just have to debate every instance of sampling/plagiarism/reference/whatever. I'm sure we'll straighten it all out. Seriously.
But where do you draw the line? Should we explicitly credit whomever in the writing staff for the simpsons that came up with the I for one... overlords bit?
Sampling could also mean that you distort the sample enough to give it you own twist.
I didn't rtfa either, but you shan't just claim you said what someone else actually said. On the other hand. I might splurge around the words "we were put on this earth to fart around and don't let anyone tell you any different" (without the quotes, and in fact I don't know if that's a direct quote) and, expecting the in-the-know to get the reference. I foresee these discussions being messier in the near future.
I'm trying to click the parent button again and again, but I don't seem to find my way to the post you are referring to. I do have a recollection of saying just that, though. Link? (ps. If this bothers you, don't read this.)
disregard. I just couldn't make any sense of this comment, but then I realized it may be due to my blood alcohol level and not due to the the comment being incomprehensible.
Swearing?! Oh, that's right. There was. I didn't notice. Anyway. This puts me right into giggly twelve year old mode. LOL. Some adult can't cope with letters arranged to form the common idiom "piece of shit"!?!?!
I'm more inclined to believe the modder is the 12-year old here and can't stand his beloved game/studio criticized. Anyway. Whatever. Peace.
This is why free markets are so great. While there's great debate whether the iPad is good or bad, the destiny of the iPad is solely in the consumer's hands.
Hmmm... I think I just won a future Nobel peace price in economics. Since the consumers ultimately run the show, all businesses that spend all that money on advertising could save trillions!!!!
Interesting about the spirit of software freedom... I'm very much into all of this "linux stuff" for the freedom. Though, not to the point of going for Openmoko instead of the n900.
Also, the N900 is a transitional device; when Mameo goes from GTK+ to Qt, it will become incompatible with all newer Maemo devices that will be released by Nokia. That made me a bit reluctant to get it as well, I've been stung already by Nokia's tendency to make their devices obsolete.
I haven't followed Maemo 6 development or "N920" rumours much, but maybe the n900 and maemo 5 is just the right kind of device for me. Maybe the upcoming devices and OS will be more mainstream, dumbed down and tivoized...
Or maybe maemo 6 can be used on the n900, save for multi-touch and whatever other new features the new HW will have. I hope they make the extra effort for backwards compatability for the sake of not getting bad-will. I don't think nokia has said anything about it yet.
I also have an n800, on which I plan to install mer, the community effort to rescue the n8x0:s from obsoleteness. http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer
Really, although Android has Linux, among the Linux-based phone OSs, it is probably the most closed.
Yes and no. While I wouldn't have gotten anything but the n900, for precisely the fact that Maemo is more like a regular (gnu/)linux distro compared to Android and WebOS, I hear that for example Android is indeed as much open as far as licences on code goes.
Apparently they side with Android (but partly because there are more hardware vendors to choose from, I hear).
But, again. I prefer maemo 5 on the n900, because I want an open "linux distro" on my phone, not just an open "linux based newfangled mobile phone OS" (or whatchamacallit, I realize one might technically call Android or WebOS "distros", but you know what I mean).
One could look at the sitcoms from the perspective that it's ok for a man to be a fat, stupid slob. He'll still get the beautiful and smart woman. Women on the other hand must work on being fit, beautiful, smart and successful and they should go for the fat, silly, but lovable slob. So, maybe it's still the woman being repressed after all...
(Actually I think commercial culture peddlers like sitcoms, clothes- and toy manufacturers and what-have you, do their best to oppress and dupe everyone. For some reason theres money in distinct gender roles (even if they change, they're still distinct).
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When the summary explicitly mentions only XP, then obviously all others after that are fine.
Sure, if this was "Gramps weekly Gramps-thing" papyrus gazette, that for some reason had a story about these new drives, then yes, a clarification that Vista and so forth work ok (and an explanation about what the heck a hard drive is in the first place) would be in order.
Haha! Made you waste a mod-point!
What silly idiot comes modding this a troll? Shouldn't you be modding comments that matter and comments people will actually read? Well. I'm glad I can keep one bad mod occupied down here in the dungeons. Mod this down too, I dare you. It means you won't get to touch as many comments that might matter.
Well, that's just plain wrong, isn't it? The verve obviously made that song. If the other band should get *all* the money, people would go buy their song, right? (i realize there are subtleties)
...or was that a sample/reference? I guess we'll just have to debate every instance of sampling/plagiarism/reference/whatever. I'm sure we'll straighten it all out. Seriously.
But where do you draw the line? Should we explicitly credit whomever in the writing staff for the simpsons that came up with the I for one ... overlords bit?
Sampling could also mean that you distort the sample enough to give it you own twist.
I didn't rtfa either, but you shan't just claim you said what someone else actually said. On the other hand. I might splurge around the words "we were put on this earth to fart around and don't let anyone tell you any different" (without the quotes, and in fact I don't know if that's a direct quote) and, expecting the in-the-know to get the reference. I foresee these discussions being messier in the near future.
Haha. If it wasn't for you, anonymous, I'd hardly ever even heard about alcoholics.
"We are put on this earth to fart around and don't let anybody tell you any different."
I must have talked about being drunk in another thread.
I'm trying to click the parent button again and again, but I don't seem to find my way to the post you are referring to. I do have a recollection of saying just that, though. Link? (ps. If this bothers you, don't read this.)
this claimer: I should not be posting anything at the moment.
disregard. I just couldn't make any sense of this comment, but then I realized it may be due to my blood alcohol level and not due to the the comment being incomprehensible.
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Wifi on sim? Before you know it, you will get Sy-Fy in Vim.
In reality, they probably just wanted to land at the beginning of the phonebook.
Swearing?! Oh, that's right. There was. I didn't notice. Anyway. This puts me right into giggly twelve year old mode. LOL. Some adult can't cope with letters arranged to form the common idiom "piece of shit"!?!?!
I'm more inclined to believe the modder is the 12-year old here and can't stand his beloved game/studio criticized. Anyway. Whatever. Peace.
Hmmm... I think I just won a future Nobel peace price in economics. Since the consumers ultimately run the show, all businesses that spend all that money on advertising could save trillions!!!!
Interesting about the spirit of software freedom... I'm very much into all of this "linux stuff" for the freedom. Though, not to the point of going for Openmoko instead of the n900.
I haven't followed Maemo 6 development or "N920" rumours much, but maybe the n900 and maemo 5 is just the right kind of device for me. Maybe the upcoming devices and OS will be more mainstream, dumbed down and tivoized...
Or maybe maemo 6 can be used on the n900, save for multi-touch and whatever other new features the new HW will have. I hope they make the extra effort for backwards compatability for the sake of not getting bad-will. I don't think nokia has said anything about it yet.
I also have an n800, on which I plan to install mer, the community effort to rescue the n8x0:s from obsoleteness. http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer
...sorry forgot to clarify how I agree with you:
Yes, if the carriers can tivoize (would that term apply here?) Android in this way, that is obviously one hell of a big reduction of the "openness".
Yes and no. While I wouldn't have gotten anything but the n900, for precisely the fact that Maemo is more like a regular (gnu/)linux distro compared to Android and WebOS, I hear that for example Android is indeed as much open as far as licences on code goes.
I havern't listened yet, but the software freedom law show talks about mobile software freedom in a recent podcast: http://www.softwarefreedom.org/podcast/2010/jan/19/0x1F/
Apparently they side with Android (but partly because there are more hardware vendors to choose from, I hear).
But, again. I prefer maemo 5 on the n900, because I want an open "linux distro" on my phone, not just an open "linux based newfangled mobile phone OS" (or whatchamacallit, I realize one might technically call Android or WebOS "distros", but you know what I mean).
One could look at the sitcoms from the perspective that it's ok for a man to be a fat, stupid slob. He'll still get the beautiful and smart woman. Women on the other hand must work on being fit, beautiful, smart and successful and they should go for the fat, silly, but lovable slob. So, maybe it's still the woman being repressed after all...
(Actually I think commercial culture peddlers like sitcoms, clothes- and toy manufacturers and what-have you, do their best to oppress and dupe everyone. For some reason theres money in distinct gender roles (even if they change, they're still distinct).
I wouldn't buy anything from Microsoft with a ten foot pole, even if they were on fire.
Thank you, Microsoft, for popping by and allowing us to pay every time we play a game. It's so nice of you to help us be nostalgic this way.
Yeah. Whomever. The real question is: What are we going to do about it?