Yes but how many people use solar energy. Is it even 1% of those who use gas? More to the point how much energy is produced by those subsidies? Yes these questions are rhetorical but I welcome actual responses with real figures.
A nuclear meltdown isn't necessarily explosive. To be honest it would surprise me if most cars had a lower than 1% failure rate especially among cars still running designed and manufactured before 1980 as most nuclear plants are. What I find most inconvenient about facts is how the media distorts them.
I was reading Louis CK personal appeal asking people not to pirate the other day and I realized something. DRM is not to prevent piracy the publishers could not possibly be that detached from their own industry it's blatantly obvious it doesn't work. DRM is about trying to prevent artist from publishing their own work. It's so when artist says I want to distribute work on my own they can say "without DRM the piracy will be atrocious". See it's not about controlling content it's about controlling artist.
Quick pass PROTECTIP or SOPA and then we can catch these companies pirating content then shut them down for a felony pirating offense since Company=Person=IP address.
I've witnessed the same thing you have. I'm the only one of my friends who hasn't gotten a hardware failure on my original style Xbox 360. However I do a lot of pre-emptive things to prevent failure I install all my games to the HD, I keep it on a mesh metal rack, I always have a fan near it when it's running, I keep it well dusted and, I don't keep it inside of a media center cabinet. I shouldn't have to do all these things just to prevent hardware failure.
Not that the rest of your point isn't valid but if you say that Inferior is subjective (even though it's kind of true). You haven't taken the time to compare the codecs. If you want to distribute media over the internet in higher than 480p H.264 is your only real option.
They'd do at least a good job as the TSA, cost less, and as an added bonus airports might be more enjoyable. And they don't infringe on civil liberties. And they don't pretend to effect powers they do not really have. And they will not unionize.
You forgot to mention a pet rock will only sexually assault you if you want it to.
So that's the newest "Blame Obama" thing? The president had nothing to do with it. Both versions (SOPA and PROTECTIP) were introduced by Republicans. Though both have co-sponsors from both parties.
Really because according to the wiki PROTECTIP was introduced by Patrick Leahy a Democrat. Defiantly not saying Bush was an awesome president but he was regularly blamed for stuff much further from his control than this. If Obama was really against this bill it's only one veto away.
Isn't that essentially what Libertarian Party members are running on? I'm not a Libertarian, and I'm not pimping for them here, but doesn't that essentially boil down to their whole party platform?
Yes that's what the Libertarian Party stands for when you boil it down. When you boil down the Republican party it stands for "vote for us if you hate poor people". If you boil down the Democratic Party platform it's "If you vote for us we'll give you free money". Isn't it fun to over simplify complex political ideas even though it's ultimately what's destroying this country.
Mod parent down it translates multiple words of the German version of the joke if you're not quick enough to realize whats happening you may have to spend several weeks in the hospital.
The reason for this is simple too. Microsoft may be many things, but they have always respected privacy. In fact, they have never really cared about personal data the way Google does. All they want to do is sell you the software and be done with it.
How exactly do you think they're eventually going to make money off of Bing?
That day will mark the death of the optical media, except perhaps for long term archival, stuff i never want to see again but can't get myself to delete i burn on a dvd and throw the dvd into the basement.:)
Even for that external hard drives are more convenient, reliable, and cheaper.
The only reason you can't do this on every PC hardware platform is because Apple goes out of their way to prevent everyone else from running OSX on non-Apple hardware. They are the only player in the game that has ever done this and it's the most underhanded anti-geek thing there is. What if every OS was keyed to a specific hardware platform?
As a Hackintosh user I can tell you they don't "go way out of their way to prevent other hardware from being run" there's a very small amount of copy protection on OS X compared to what it could be. I can remember having to tinker more to get my first windows install working then my first Hackintosh. They mainly just don't support 3rd party hardware. They still support their software on that hardware through the software update.
That's one of the reasons I kind of hope it does pass initially it will cause a lot of problems (technical and otherwise). But we'll have to come up with solutions to those problems and when they really want to censor us it will be a lot more difficult. Where as if it doesn't pass it will likely be replaced shortly by more reasonable and enforceable means of censorship. At least right now we have some big players (like Google) who's interest happen to align with the people. Then again maybe I'm just a being cynical.
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I'm now starting the Occupy "Occupy "Occupy"" movement we don't need a bunch of nerdy/.ers telling us hipsters how to use the word "Occupy".
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the end of the world is a week after it's release. It's only fair that I'll be watching it when the world ends.
I'll already have seen that I'll be watching Judd Atapows movie which comes out the night of the apocalypse.
Yes but how many people use solar energy. Is it even 1% of those who use gas? More to the point how much energy is produced by those subsidies? Yes these questions are rhetorical but I welcome actual responses with real figures.
A nuclear meltdown isn't necessarily explosive. To be honest it would surprise me if most cars had a lower than 1% failure rate especially among cars still running designed and manufactured before 1980 as most nuclear plants are. What I find most inconvenient about facts is how the media distorts them.
I agree it's all just the evil republicans thinking of politics as a team sport. GO DEMS!!!
I was reading Louis CK personal appeal asking people not to pirate the other day and I realized something. DRM is not to prevent piracy the publishers could not possibly be that detached from their own industry it's blatantly obvious it doesn't work. DRM is about trying to prevent artist from publishing their own work. It's so when artist says I want to distribute work on my own they can say "without DRM the piracy will be atrocious". See it's not about controlling content it's about controlling artist.
Quick pass PROTECTIP or SOPA and then we can catch these companies pirating content then shut them down for a felony pirating offense since Company=Person=IP address.
I've witnessed the same thing you have. I'm the only one of my friends who hasn't gotten a hardware failure on my original style Xbox 360. However I do a lot of pre-emptive things to prevent failure I install all my games to the HD, I keep it on a mesh metal rack, I always have a fan near it when it's running, I keep it well dusted and, I don't keep it inside of a media center cabinet. I shouldn't have to do all these things just to prevent hardware failure.
They should have had a control group wearing tin-foil hats.
We're whalers on the moon we carry a harpoon but there ain't no whales so we tell tall tales and sing a whaling tune.
"Inferior" is subjective
Not that the rest of your point isn't valid but if you say that Inferior is subjective (even though it's kind of true). You haven't taken the time to compare the codecs. If you want to distribute media over the internet in higher than 480p H.264 is your only real option.
Is that a word (still) ?
Not in reference to a (highly) flattened eliptical orbit surely.
Why wouldn't it be? Oblong is a perfectly cromulent word.
They'd do at least a good job as the TSA, cost less, and as an added bonus airports might be more enjoyable. And they don't infringe on civil liberties. And they don't pretend to effect powers they do not really have. And they will not unionize.
You forgot to mention a pet rock will only sexually assault you if you want it to.
So that's the newest "Blame Obama" thing? The president had nothing to do with it. Both versions (SOPA and PROTECTIP) were introduced by Republicans. Though both have co-sponsors from both parties.
Really because according to the wiki PROTECTIP was introduced by Patrick Leahy a Democrat. Defiantly not saying Bush was an awesome president but he was regularly blamed for stuff much further from his control than this. If Obama was really against this bill it's only one veto away.
Isn't that essentially what Libertarian Party members are running on? I'm not a Libertarian, and I'm not pimping for them here, but doesn't that essentially boil down to their whole party platform?
Yes that's what the Libertarian Party stands for when you boil it down. When you boil down the Republican party it stands for "vote for us if you hate poor people". If you boil down the Democratic Party platform it's "If you vote for us we'll give you free money". Isn't it fun to over simplify complex political ideas even though it's ultimately what's destroying this country.
I personally don't use it (because I like my Firefox plugins) but Iron is chrome without Google.
Mod parent down it translates multiple words of the German version of the joke if you're not quick enough to realize whats happening you may have to spend several weeks in the hospital.
The reason for this is simple too. Microsoft may be many things, but they have always respected privacy. In fact, they have never really cared about personal data the way Google does. All they want to do is sell you the software and be done with it.
How exactly do you think they're eventually going to make money off of Bing?
That day will mark the death of the optical media, except perhaps for long term archival, stuff i never want to see again but can't get myself to delete i burn on a dvd and throw the dvd into the basement. :)
Even for that external hard drives are more convenient, reliable, and cheaper.
The only reason you can't do this on every PC hardware platform is because Apple goes out of their way to prevent everyone else from running OSX on non-Apple hardware. They are the only player in the game that has ever done this and it's the most underhanded anti-geek thing there is. What if every OS was keyed to a specific hardware platform?
As a Hackintosh user I can tell you they don't "go way out of their way to prevent other hardware from being run" there's a very small amount of copy protection on OS X compared to what it could be. I can remember having to tinker more to get my first windows install working then my first Hackintosh. They mainly just don't support 3rd party hardware. They still support their software on that hardware through the software update.
That's one of the reasons I kind of hope it does pass initially it will cause a lot of problems (technical and otherwise). But we'll have to come up with solutions to those problems and when they really want to censor us it will be a lot more difficult. Where as if it doesn't pass it will likely be replaced shortly by more reasonable and enforceable means of censorship. At least right now we have some big players (like Google) who's interest happen to align with the people. Then again maybe I'm just a being cynical.
I'm now starting the Occupy "Occupy "Occupy"" movement we don't need a bunch of nerdy /.ers telling us hipsters how to use the word "Occupy".
I'm disagreeing with you I'm just pointing out that outsourcing manufacturing isn't our biggest problem.
Contrary to popular belief the U.S. Government does not owe most of its debt to china it owes it to U.S. businesses.
Relax man its a joke.
I for one support our omnipotent taxi monitoring overlords.