I agree. Crack heads take the shortest perceived route between them and their next fix. Sometimes that route involves prostituting themselves or robbing someone. If all they have to do is drag their ass down to a "crack store" you better believe they're going to do it.
The problem, however, isn't just that these people are desperate for these drugs, it's that some of these drugs make you insanely strong and insanely crazy. Basically you end up with a bunch of miniature incredible hulks running around high out of their minds f'ing people up. I agree that the drug war is a joke, and that we need to come up with a new solution. Just handing out drugs isn't though. DUI's and the like will skyrocket and then those people will just end up in jail anyway (for crimes other than drug possession).
Maybe we should just deport them all to Mexico? Maybe we can work out an exchange. We ignore 5 illegals for every 1 addict we deport there. (FYI to angry people - that's a joke)
This is awful, now everyone is going to know how all of the dead people voted. Just because Milton's been dead for half a century doesn't mean it's all right for everyone to know that he voted Bush... posthumously.
'Cause of the blue laser. For a while people were buying up Blu-Ray players, pulling the laser outta there, putting it in a laser pointer and then selling it for $2500 to crazy people. The blue lasers are *spendy*.
Also, it's true that this is a completely different battle than mini-disc. There are more studios making blu-ray movies, Blockbuster is all Blu-Ray and there are more companies making Blu-Ray players / drives. I don't understand how / why HD-DVD is still around... is Microsoft paying these people off? This is nuts. I hate format wars. ugh.
PS - I didn't know about the TrueHD thing on HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray, that's a bummer.
You don't need girls running around topless or guys screwing each other for a game to be any good. Some of the most addicting games I've ever played have been incredibly simple graphically (16/32 bit 2D). Don't get me wrong - I love good graphics; maxing out HL2 and drooling over the facial detail they've got in that game is awesome, but... it'd all be pointless if the rest of the game was lame. These guys need to stop trying to "push the envelope" of decency and get back to making interesting games.
If I'm going to spend $50 on a game then I expect to be able to play that game over and over and still enjoy it. Novelty garbage like naked women and maggots crawling outta people's heads isn't what makes a game replayable. A compelling story line, unique weapons, unique environment, interesting missions, multiplayer - those are the things that keep players interested. The movie analogy doesn't hold - there are plenty of good action flicks with no token topless scene or token homosexual guy. Ever seen a John Wayne movie?
This just in - people are addicted to WoW. There is no graphic nudity and no excessive violence - yet people keep playing! That's crazy! OMGWTF! (Disclaimer - I don't play WOW).
Everyone always asks the same of Cell networks too. The answer is simple - Geography. In case you hadn't notice, Japan is about the size of California, and Korea's not exactly huge either. Europe's individual countries are much smaller than the US as well. If you were an ISP and all you had to do to upgarde your entire network was to lay fiber in a densely populated area the size of California - it'd be easy. Everywhere you go with it you're covering gobs of users, new and existing. But that's not the way America is. If you want to link LA to New York you've got to cross 3,000 miles of mountains, desert and sparsely populated areas. Look at Alaska, it alone is the size of 2/3's of the rest of the US. You think there's a lot of money in running fiber all over the freaking woods up there? I've never seen a grizzly pay for broadband. In America it takes -
A lot more money
A lot more time
And the ROI for running fiber / broadband through rural areas is next to nothing
Don't get me wrong, I hate having a crappy Internet connection, but the reasons are pretty obvious. We live in a huge freaking country and a lot of it is pretty thinly populated.
Additionally, the quality of YouTube videos is AWFUL. It's like the anti-HD. I only watch YouTube when I want to see goofy clips of old movies that I haven't seen in ages. I don't think there's much else on there worth watching.
Yeah... and, as far as I know, Microsoft is still bleeding money on the Xbox's...
Office is Microsoft's bread and butter. If you think they work hard to get into new markets, you better believe they'll fight like a rabid dog to protect their Office dominance.
Resharper is awesome. I love JetBrains. I still think that IntelliJ is the best IDE I've ever used... Even before they had built-in form building tools I still thought it was light-years ahead of Visual Studio. You still have to manually add references to standard classes in VS - ugh. Oh well, I'm stuck working with VB6 these days anyway. *vomit*.
This is good news, as the primary fear I've heard from developers is that Silverlight will be locked to Microsoft platforms and products
That's bull. Silverlight - even in alpha / beta has always been meant to be cross-platform. I've been following it for for a long time now and it's always used a cross-platform cross-browser compatible plug-in. The first time I used it I installed the plug-in in FireFox. I'm sick of people ignoring facts and just jumping on the anit-Microsoft bandwagon. I'm no blind Microsoft follower, I'm just sick of hearing garbage presented as fact.
Or anything other than a tree-hugging, Nader voting, spotted owl saving environmentalist...
ok, so that's only some of us, but man they're a noisy bunch.
-An Oregonian
I've had the same experience. I was a hardcore google maps user until a few weeks ago when a friend of mine pointed out Live Maps... the resolution is MUCH better - especially in rural areas. Before I'm called a "traitor" I must admit that I'm a sucker for a good satellite photo... and when you see Live Maps, you'll understand.
ROFL - Who marked this insightful? This is clearly a joke. He / She can't be serious. Read the last sentence people - it's sarcasm. I love all the angry replies though... comedy.
I'm a musician and I think MP3's suck too. Am I getting paid big bucks to say that? Absolutely not. When you play guitar every day, you know what a guitar should sound like. I always buy CD's and then rip them using a lossless codec to my computer. When I first heard MP3's about 11 years ago I thought - this is like having my own radio. The quality is about the same. When I hear a song on the radio, it's all right... but if I really know the song, it always makes me wish I was listening to the CD instead (or better yet, live). (Yes, vinyl is great, but too few albums are released to it, so I've never bothered)
As for people that can't tell the difference - stop with the earbuds - if you chop off the ultra-high and ultra-low frequencies and then muffle the crap outta what's left of the bass everything you listen to sounds like crap!
I do agree, however, that very few musicians are artists - far more of them are talented singers / guitarists playing crap written by other people to appeal to the tone-deaf masses. Will that ever change??? Sadly, I doubt it. For the people that don't know the difference - Britney's boobs will always look better than even the best musician sounds. So trying to change it is painfully futile.:(
That's the first thing I thought of. I've called numbers in the yellow pages that don't exist - and that thing is updated semi-annually. I can't imagine that the businesses (already annoyed by all the broke people coming around trying to get google money) will take the time to tell Google when they've changed their hours, rates, etc. Any future attempts by similar groups of people to get updates out of these businesses after the initial contact will probably be met with a "buy something or leave my store". People that realize the value of Google are already in there, everyone else doesn't care.
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I agree. Crack heads take the shortest perceived route between them and their next fix. Sometimes that route involves prostituting themselves or robbing someone. If all they have to do is drag their ass down to a "crack store" you better believe they're going to do it.
The problem, however, isn't just that these people are desperate for these drugs, it's that some of these drugs make you insanely strong and insanely crazy. Basically you end up with a bunch of miniature incredible hulks running around high out of their minds f'ing people up. I agree that the drug war is a joke, and that we need to come up with a new solution. Just handing out drugs isn't though. DUI's and the like will skyrocket and then those people will just end up in jail anyway (for crimes other than drug possession).
Maybe we should just deport them all to Mexico? Maybe we can work out an exchange. We ignore 5 illegals for every 1 addict we deport there. (FYI to angry people - that's a joke)
This is awful, now everyone is going to know how all of the dead people voted. Just because Milton's been dead for half a century doesn't mean it's all right for everyone to know that he voted Bush... posthumously.
'Cause of the blue laser. For a while people were buying up Blu-Ray players, pulling the laser outta there, putting it in a laser pointer and then selling it for $2500 to crazy people. The blue lasers are *spendy*.
Also, it's true that this is a completely different battle than mini-disc. There are more studios making blu-ray movies, Blockbuster is all Blu-Ray and there are more companies making Blu-Ray players / drives. I don't understand how / why HD-DVD is still around... is Microsoft paying these people off? This is nuts. I hate format wars. ugh.
PS - I didn't know about the TrueHD thing on HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray, that's a bummer.
You don't need girls running around topless or guys screwing each other for a game to be any good. Some of the most addicting games I've ever played have been incredibly simple graphically (16/32 bit 2D). Don't get me wrong - I love good graphics; maxing out HL2 and drooling over the facial detail they've got in that game is awesome, but... it'd all be pointless if the rest of the game was lame. These guys need to stop trying to "push the envelope" of decency and get back to making interesting games.
If I'm going to spend $50 on a game then I expect to be able to play that game over and over and still enjoy it. Novelty garbage like naked women and maggots crawling outta people's heads isn't what makes a game replayable. A compelling story line, unique weapons, unique environment, interesting missions, multiplayer - those are the things that keep players interested. The movie analogy doesn't hold - there are plenty of good action flicks with no token topless scene or token homosexual guy. Ever seen a John Wayne movie?
This just in - people are addicted to WoW. There is no graphic nudity and no excessive violence - yet people keep playing! That's crazy! OMGWTF! (Disclaimer - I don't play WOW).
Everyone always asks the same of Cell networks too. The answer is simple - Geography. In case you hadn't notice, Japan is about the size of California, and Korea's not exactly huge either. Europe's individual countries are much smaller than the US as well. If you were an ISP and all you had to do to upgarde your entire network was to lay fiber in a densely populated area the size of California - it'd be easy. Everywhere you go with it you're covering gobs of users, new and existing. But that's not the way America is. If you want to link LA to New York you've got to cross 3,000 miles of mountains, desert and sparsely populated areas. Look at Alaska, it alone is the size of 2/3's of the rest of the US. You think there's a lot of money in running fiber all over the freaking woods up there? I've never seen a grizzly pay for broadband. In America it takes -
A lot more money
A lot more time
And the ROI for running fiber / broadband through rural areas is next to nothing
Don't get me wrong, I hate having a crappy Internet connection, but the reasons are pretty obvious. We live in a huge freaking country and a lot of it is pretty thinly populated.
Additionally, the quality of YouTube videos is AWFUL. It's like the anti-HD. I only watch YouTube when I want to see goofy clips of old movies that I haven't seen in ages. I don't think there's much else on there worth watching.
You can have my anti-bacterial soap when you pry it from my clean, bacteria free hands!
Yeah... and, as far as I know, Microsoft is still bleeding money on the Xbox's...
Office is Microsoft's bread and butter. If you think they work hard to get into new markets, you better believe they'll fight like a rabid dog to protect their Office dominance.
Resharper is awesome. I love JetBrains. I still think that IntelliJ is the best IDE I've ever used... Even before they had built-in form building tools I still thought it was light-years ahead of Visual Studio. You still have to manually add references to standard classes in VS - ugh. Oh well, I'm stuck working with VB6 these days anyway. *vomit*.
That's bull. Silverlight - even in alpha / beta has always been meant to be cross-platform. I've been following it for for a long time now and it's always used a cross-platform cross-browser compatible plug-in. The first time I used it I installed the plug-in in FireFox. I'm sick of people ignoring facts and just jumping on the anit-Microsoft bandwagon. I'm no blind Microsoft follower, I'm just sick of hearing garbage presented as fact.
Or anything other than a tree-hugging, Nader voting, spotted owl saving environmentalist... ok, so that's only some of us, but man they're a noisy bunch. -An Oregonian
I've had the same experience. I was a hardcore google maps user until a few weeks ago when a friend of mine pointed out Live Maps... the resolution is MUCH better - especially in rural areas. Before I'm called a "traitor" I must admit that I'm a sucker for a good satellite photo... and when you see Live Maps, you'll understand.
The earth is flat and the sun orbits around the earth!
ROFL - Who marked this insightful? This is clearly a joke. He / She can't be serious. Read the last sentence people - it's sarcasm. I love all the angry replies though... comedy.
I'm a musician and I think MP3's suck too. Am I getting paid big bucks to say that? Absolutely not. When you play guitar every day, you know what a guitar should sound like. I always buy CD's and then rip them using a lossless codec to my computer. When I first heard MP3's about 11 years ago I thought - this is like having my own radio. The quality is about the same. When I hear a song on the radio, it's all right... but if I really know the song, it always makes me wish I was listening to the CD instead (or better yet, live). (Yes, vinyl is great, but too few albums are released to it, so I've never bothered) As for people that can't tell the difference - stop with the earbuds - if you chop off the ultra-high and ultra-low frequencies and then muffle the crap outta what's left of the bass everything you listen to sounds like crap! I do agree, however, that very few musicians are artists - far more of them are talented singers / guitarists playing crap written by other people to appeal to the tone-deaf masses. Will that ever change??? Sadly, I doubt it. For the people that don't know the difference - Britney's boobs will always look better than even the best musician sounds. So trying to change it is painfully futile. :(
That's the first thing I thought of. I've called numbers in the yellow pages that don't exist - and that thing is updated semi-annually. I can't imagine that the businesses (already annoyed by all the broke people coming around trying to get google money) will take the time to tell Google when they've changed their hours, rates, etc. Any future attempts by similar groups of people to get updates out of these businesses after the initial contact will probably be met with a "buy something or leave my store". People that realize the value of Google are already in there, everyone else doesn't care.
No, it's probably got the same level of "useful detail" as the 300 page long iPhone bills.