MS has painted themselves into a corner. They want the court to think there is competition, and the consumer to think there is only one real choice. The only thing I find strange is that unlike other aspects of the trial they aren't talking out of both sides of thier mouth on this one. I would have expected them to say something like "70,000 programs run on Windows, but only 10,000 depend on it".
I waited quite a while before seeing ep1, and I heard that it sucked. So I lowered my expectations, and tried to prepare myself for the annoying characters and the crappy story. But I was still disappointed because of the crappy effects. I had assumed that if ILM was using CGI, it would be good enough that I wouldn't notice it was CGI.
This reminds me of the disclaimers at the end of drug commercials, particularly the one for an antacid which listed as possible side-effects diarhea and upset stomach. Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease, and definitely worse than a sane reaction. Basically because people would rather pop a pill than deal with the actual problem.
I'm starting to think more and more that my girlfriend is right when she says all kids should be raised in creches by licensed parents. The ones who are doing it now really aren't qualified and lack commitment.
In a lot of cases, children who are now diagnosed with ADHD and ADD and put on drugs, twenty years ago would've been called "energetic" by everyone. I read a quote from one doctor who doesn't think ADHD is a medical condition at all. For the most part, Ritalin is prescibed for the good of the parents and teachers, not the child.
It's already happened. Government never talks about citizens, all you hear is that they have a responsibility to "taxpayers". As if we hold shares in this company masquerading as a country based on how much tax we pay.
I don't know, on the one hand I can see your point, but on the other hand I like albums. I almost never go to concerts. If the band doesn't have a serious incentive to put out albums regularly and instead just records maybe three singles for the radio to hype their tour... that would suck.
Hey, that's an idea for a cool web app. You build this tree and put all the companies and who owns them, and then you could do a search on a company and find out which mega-corp it is a part of, and how many degrees of separation it has.
If you live near the border, try picking up the CBC broadcast. While there is some slant toward events involving Canadians, it's nowhere near as one-dimensioal as NBC. If I recall correctly, NBC won't show the medal round of an event if there are no Americans involved.
This is going to fail on a number of levels.
1 - the clothes look stupid
2 - the components aren't modular
3 - the clothes are bulky and look uncomfortable
I vastly prefer the idea that was posted a couple weeks back of making clothes with extra pockets for phones, pda's, and discmen.
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I don't remember who, but I read a while back that somebody was developing that technology. So you could exchange virtual business cards and such.
Someday, maybe around version 2.2, they will realize that when you're trying to get people to pay for something they can get for free, your product has to be better. The audio equivilent of nag screens does not accomplish this.
Umm... you don't need a computer to drive the I-5 in real time, you need a car. The whole point of games is to do something you can't do in real life. That's why Need For Speed was popular, even though it's a driving game.
Maybe. I think that's part of it. But what it all comes down to is that games are successful when they are fun. Thief was fun because of its story, Quake and clones are fun because of multiplay. Lemmings was an incredibly fun game, with neither of the above. The problem is the commercialization of the industry, and the predominance of MBAs in decision-making roles. MBAs love formulas. "We're going to make an RTS and set it in a cyberpunk metropolis." "We're going to make a sequel to our successful game and change just enough to make people buy it." It's all well and good to say "We're going to make a fun game", but there isn't any tried and true method of getting there.
No. I don't like Napster as a company, but unfortunately they have the largest userbase and therefor the best selection. With all the free solutions out there, I don't need to pay for the right to steal.
They made mention of this in the Inside article, how Napster wants you to go to a store, buy a cd by one of the 22 artists who have supported them, and tell them Napster sent you. I suppose they have to try, but this just seems smarmy to me. Here they are, an incorporated company whose whole business is built around alowing people to swap music, copyrighted or not, and presumably at some point making money off of this. And when they get in trouble, they try to get their users to go out and spend $15 for a cd they probably wouldn't've bought otherwise, so that Napster the company can say "see, we're driving traffic for you; we're leveraging our user base; we're good for the existing monopoly." Somehow, that just isn't the type of cause I will donate to.
Ever since they moved production to California, the show has pretty much sucked. I used to be a fan, but without everything being dark and wet and foggy, it lost its creepy-cool ambiance. It's funny that Duchovny is leaving the show, after he kicked and whined to make them move the production and basically killed it.
Of course, the show has sucked for other reasons too. I think probably the only episodes worse than the FPS one were the "celebrity" writer episodes, including Duchovny's own self-referential brain fart.
It's important to point out that while fuel cells themselves are enviro-friendly, they require electricity to 'charge'. Generating this electricity may actually be more damaging than driving a gas-powered car.
Can it do layers? Because when I used it for Windows a little while back it couldn't, and using it quickly became very aggrevating. It's nice that it's free, but it still may not be worth the download.
If it weren't for the Sun people spouting off about how Java doesn't use pointers, this wouldn't be such a big deal. Much better to say Java always uses pointers, except for primitives. And if you want you can use an object instead of a primitive. Once I was able to figure out what was going on (without the benefit of any lectures) it's very consistent. Same with the String thing. On one hand it would be nice to treat them more like primitives, but on the other hand you're always using the methods to manipulate them and it would be a major wierdness to have methods associated with a primitive.
Not a command line, a natural language command line. So instead of typing "cd files" you can type "take me to where I saved my spreadsheet". And then the intelligent app will say "which spreadsheet" and eventually you may actually get taken to the directory. Now that's progress.
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I'm starting to think more and more that my girlfriend is right when she says all kids should be raised in creches by licensed parents. The ones who are doing it now really aren't qualified and lack commitment.
If you live near the border, try picking up the CBC broadcast. While there is some slant toward events involving Canadians, it's nowhere near as one-dimensioal as NBC. If I recall correctly, NBC won't show the medal round of an event if there are no Americans involved.
Maybe not in the same way, but it's my experience that you can write crash happy code in any language.
Of course, the show has sucked for other reasons too. I think probably the only episodes worse than the FPS one were the "celebrity" writer episodes, including Duchovny's own self-referential brain fart.
Old Man Murray Reading thier "walkthrough" of Deus Ex was the funniest thing I've seen in months.