Pretty easy to say on the internet on slashdot. I've never shot a gun, but from what I've seen (been around people who shot for a living in the military), shooting a gun takes a good deal of skill, but shooting it accurately, in a stressful situation takes not only skill but a good bit of skill plus calm nerves. I haven't read up on this story (never really heard anything about it until now) but if anyone thinks that it's as easy as they make it look on the movies, then I can tell you just from personal observation of people who've done it for years it definitely doesn't look easy IRL.
Beat me to it. In many states, transportation of a newly purchased vehicle is usually adequate reason to drive a vehicle with out of date registration, as long as registration is obtained within a reasonable period of time. In many cases if a ticket is given, updating the registration within a set period of time (in my state, 10 days) would adjudicate the ticket, as long as proof is brought to the courthouse along with the ticket.
Very likely a cop in a domestic violence arrest would probably end up being fired anyways. One thing that even most dirty cops don't like is beating up your wife.
This may apply to the Police, but certainly not to the military. My father worked for a time as a First Shirt in the Air Force (think of it as like a Counselor) and from what I got to see of his job, the Military is not very lenient on crime from any of their members, even the higher ups, although obvious an O-8 or E-9 is going to get a little more consideration than an O-1 or E-3. That being said, the Military cares a lot about its image, and sometimes actually goes overboard in prosecuting on offenses that might get a little more than a slap on the wrist in the civilian world. Just ask anyone who has served 30 days in the brig and lost a full rank (and likely the chance to promote anymore) over floating checks that bounced.
Do you really remember how bad the graphics were in D2? I loved the game, but even for the time the graphics were average at best. And to be quite frank, the armor was as much over the top in D2 as it appears to be in D3, I think your memory is just fuzzy.
Wouldn't it be the judicial branch v. legislative branch, not executive v. legislative? Executive branch has nothing to do with prosecutors, that would be more like the Mayor/Governor/President making the proclamation, not the prosecutor.
You mean the money that belonged to the countries they pillaged? And what about all of the money we funneled back into the country after the war to build them back into the prosperous country they are today? Or I suppose Japan and Germany are still war torn wastelands today...
Well, it's the logic that Microsoft has to follow, as they are deemed to have a monopoly with their OS. So you are saying MS has a monopoly with Windows, but Apple doesn't with Mac OS X?
We're talking about running said OS on any compatible piece of hardware that you want, not cracking it or using it for illegal purposes. Steve Jobs, that you?
I've never lost or broken one yet, but all of my experiences with Netflix have made me say goodbye to blockbuster long ago. And their customer service is prompt (in that you don't wait on hold for 10 minutes before talking to someone) and courteous.
I got this email as well. And it's the only problem I've had with Netflix in an entire year. I wasn't even upset when I got the email, but was pleased to see they are proactive when it comes to pleasing their customers. Just goes to show that Netflix knows customer service, and I have been a happy customer with them for this reason. Anyone using blockbuster's online service would do well to give them a trial run. Me and my wife did a little over a year ago and never looked back.
Since when? Democrats are the ones who want larger and more expensive wellfare programs, more expensive, government mandated healthcare, more money to implement more environmental acts to protect more poor helpless, defenseless trees, blah blah blah. You lost me at politicians.
You are comparing apples and oranges. Mac OSX is sitting on store shelves (in the few places that actually sell apple software) but they are discriminatory in who they allow to run it. What you are referring to with the Samsung and Apple thing is a technology patent, completely different situation. But thanks for playing, tell him what his consolation prize is...
Very true as well, but blame the manufacturer who put together said craptop, not MS. They were very clear to manufacturers on the system requirements of Vista, but some manufacturers, in the name of profit and competition, decided to ignore this and put together these underpowered systems with Vista without opting for the Basic version or going with XP, which was still available at the time. Now, most laptops, even cheap ones, are capable of handling even vista ultimate.
Most of the "Vista sux" backlash is from people who tried to upgrade to Vista on five year old hardware. Haven't had one damn issue on my less than a year old gaming laptop with Vista Home Premium. Not that I wouldn't mind dual booting Linux, just haven't gotten around to upgrading the hard drive yet. (only have a 250GB HDD and believe it or not that's not nearly enough for me, the gaming addict)
Faulty logic. Just because Apple makes their own OS shouldn't allow them the right to squash anyone who wants to license Apple's OS and sell their own hardware. Apple has locked their hardware for ages and it's one of the reasons they have a very small market share in the home computer market. And if Psystar wins, this is a victory for open market competition, not an Armageddon for the computer industry.
I had a chance to get the Mac Book Pro and for a while was really leaning towards it. After getting a chance to test drive it (from a friend) I opted instead for a Gateway FX Series laptop. It has more memory, much better performance on games and applications that I most used, better looking screen, full sized keyboard (including number pad), better graphics card, and it was about $1200 less. On top of that, it went on sale a week after I bought it and I ended up getting an extra $500 discount.
Oh yeah, it does have Vista, no, it hasn't crashed on me once, and yes, it has run flawless. Most issues with Vista reside on computers that are upgraded to Vista rather than computers that are shipped with Vista, or those that have poor specs and should quite frankly be shipped with Linux or Windows XP instead of Vista, which is a resource hog.
Or Apple's reputation of "just working" will go down the tubes because they no longer have total control over the hardware.
This argument is ridiculous. People who buy a Mac clone won't blame system problems on Apple if Apple hardware doesn't suffer from the same ailment.
The only problem with Apple's reputation is that we can't trust them anymore because the company is over 30 years old.
Here's the fallacy of your argument. You assert that people won't blame system problems of clones on Apple, when in fact that's not what the parent was implying. He was implying that the myth that Mac OSX is bulletproof will go down the tubes, because it would prove without a shadow of a doubt that the reason Macs are so reliable is that Apple heavily controls what can and can't be used on a Mac, and absolutely controls what can be used AS a Mac (in terms of hardware). Not hard to control a platform when you have a very fixed idea of the hardware involved. Yeah, you can swap out memory modules, graphics cards, and hard drives, but can you put in a different motherboard or use an AMD chip instead of an Intel one? Major hardware changes like this can and do introduce issues that can cause stability problems and/or hardware conflicts.
OS X supports quite nearly as much hardware as Windows. It's a matter of getting good drivers written.
There's a conflicting statement if I ever saw one. It supports nearly as much hardware as Windows, but the drivers don't exist. That would imply that it doesn't support the hardware.
Gamespot's review of Kane & Lynch (which got the reviewer fired) highlights this. It is heavily rumored that his scathing review was blasted by Eidos to the management at CNET, which was the reason he was let go. Now, granted, I am not an employee of CNET and don't know how it went down, but after seeing other sites also give the game average to poor reviews, I'd say this is possible. Also, the week before his review came out, the entire site was pasted with huge background ads for Kane & Lynch.
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Dude, take a prozac. Seriously, it must suck to be your girlfriend/mother/friend.
Pretty easy to say on the internet on slashdot. I've never shot a gun, but from what I've seen (been around people who shot for a living in the military), shooting a gun takes a good deal of skill, but shooting it accurately, in a stressful situation takes not only skill but a good bit of skill plus calm nerves. I haven't read up on this story (never really heard anything about it until now) but if anyone thinks that it's as easy as they make it look on the movies, then I can tell you just from personal observation of people who've done it for years it definitely doesn't look easy IRL.
Beat me to it. In many states, transportation of a newly purchased vehicle is usually adequate reason to drive a vehicle with out of date registration, as long as registration is obtained within a reasonable period of time. In many cases if a ticket is given, updating the registration within a set period of time (in my state, 10 days) would adjudicate the ticket, as long as proof is brought to the courthouse along with the ticket.
Very likely a cop in a domestic violence arrest would probably end up being fired anyways. One thing that even most dirty cops don't like is beating up your wife.
I'd mod you up if I had the points, great post.
This may apply to the Police, but certainly not to the military. My father worked for a time as a First Shirt in the Air Force (think of it as like a Counselor) and from what I got to see of his job, the Military is not very lenient on crime from any of their members, even the higher ups, although obvious an O-8 or E-9 is going to get a little more consideration than an O-1 or E-3. That being said, the Military cares a lot about its image, and sometimes actually goes overboard in prosecuting on offenses that might get a little more than a slap on the wrist in the civilian world. Just ask anyone who has served 30 days in the brig and lost a full rank (and likely the chance to promote anymore) over floating checks that bounced.
Not sure what's offtopic about responding to an inaccurate post...
Do you really remember how bad the graphics were in D2? I loved the game, but even for the time the graphics were average at best. And to be quite frank, the armor was as much over the top in D2 as it appears to be in D3, I think your memory is just fuzzy.
It's called money and time. Welcome to the real world :)
Wouldn't it be the judicial branch v. legislative branch, not executive v. legislative? Executive branch has nothing to do with prosecutors, that would be more like the Mayor/Governor/President making the proclamation, not the prosecutor.
You mean the money that belonged to the countries they pillaged? And what about all of the money we funneled back into the country after the war to build them back into the prosperous country they are today? Or I suppose Japan and Germany are still war torn wastelands today...
Well, it's the logic that Microsoft has to follow, as they are deemed to have a monopoly with their OS. So you are saying MS has a monopoly with Windows, but Apple doesn't with Mac OS X?
We're talking about running said OS on any compatible piece of hardware that you want, not cracking it or using it for illegal purposes. Steve Jobs, that you?
I've never lost or broken one yet, but all of my experiences with Netflix have made me say goodbye to blockbuster long ago. And their customer service is prompt (in that you don't wait on hold for 10 minutes before talking to someone) and courteous.
I got this email as well. And it's the only problem I've had with Netflix in an entire year. I wasn't even upset when I got the email, but was pleased to see they are proactive when it comes to pleasing their customers. Just goes to show that Netflix knows customer service, and I have been a happy customer with them for this reason. Anyone using blockbuster's online service would do well to give them a trial run. Me and my wife did a little over a year ago and never looked back.
Since when? Democrats are the ones who want larger and more expensive wellfare programs, more expensive, government mandated healthcare, more money to implement more environmental acts to protect more poor helpless, defenseless trees, blah blah blah. You lost me at politicians.
You are comparing apples and oranges. Mac OSX is sitting on store shelves (in the few places that actually sell apple software) but they are discriminatory in who they allow to run it. What you are referring to with the Samsung and Apple thing is a technology patent, completely different situation. But thanks for playing, tell him what his consolation prize is...
Very true as well, but blame the manufacturer who put together said craptop, not MS. They were very clear to manufacturers on the system requirements of Vista, but some manufacturers, in the name of profit and competition, decided to ignore this and put together these underpowered systems with Vista without opting for the Basic version or going with XP, which was still available at the time. Now, most laptops, even cheap ones, are capable of handling even vista ultimate.
Most of the "Vista sux" backlash is from people who tried to upgrade to Vista on five year old hardware. Haven't had one damn issue on my less than a year old gaming laptop with Vista Home Premium. Not that I wouldn't mind dual booting Linux, just haven't gotten around to upgrading the hard drive yet. (only have a 250GB HDD and believe it or not that's not nearly enough for me, the gaming addict)
Faulty logic. Just because Apple makes their own OS shouldn't allow them the right to squash anyone who wants to license Apple's OS and sell their own hardware. Apple has locked their hardware for ages and it's one of the reasons they have a very small market share in the home computer market. And if Psystar wins, this is a victory for open market competition, not an Armageddon for the computer industry.
I had a chance to get the Mac Book Pro and for a while was really leaning towards it. After getting a chance to test drive it (from a friend) I opted instead for a Gateway FX Series laptop. It has more memory, much better performance on games and applications that I most used, better looking screen, full sized keyboard (including number pad), better graphics card, and it was about $1200 less. On top of that, it went on sale a week after I bought it and I ended up getting an extra $500 discount. Oh yeah, it does have Vista, no, it hasn't crashed on me once, and yes, it has run flawless. Most issues with Vista reside on computers that are upgraded to Vista rather than computers that are shipped with Vista, or those that have poor specs and should quite frankly be shipped with Linux or Windows XP instead of Vista, which is a resource hog.
Or Apple's reputation of "just working" will go down the tubes because they no longer have total control over the hardware.
This argument is ridiculous. People who buy a Mac clone won't blame system problems on Apple if Apple hardware doesn't suffer from the same ailment.
The only problem with Apple's reputation is that we can't trust them anymore because the company is over 30 years old.
Here's the fallacy of your argument. You assert that people won't blame system problems of clones on Apple, when in fact that's not what the parent was implying. He was implying that the myth that Mac OSX is bulletproof will go down the tubes, because it would prove without a shadow of a doubt that the reason Macs are so reliable is that Apple heavily controls what can and can't be used on a Mac, and absolutely controls what can be used AS a Mac (in terms of hardware). Not hard to control a platform when you have a very fixed idea of the hardware involved. Yeah, you can swap out memory modules, graphics cards, and hard drives, but can you put in a different motherboard or use an AMD chip instead of an Intel one? Major hardware changes like this can and do introduce issues that can cause stability problems and/or hardware conflicts.
OS X supports quite nearly as much hardware as Windows. It's a matter of getting good drivers written.
There's a conflicting statement if I ever saw one. It supports nearly as much hardware as Windows, but the drivers don't exist. That would imply that it doesn't support the hardware.
The timing of the firing, the ads on the site, and the review just make the whole thing stink. And frankly, the game was horrible, just like he said.
Gamespot's review of Kane & Lynch (which got the reviewer fired) highlights this. It is heavily rumored that his scathing review was blasted by Eidos to the management at CNET, which was the reason he was let go. Now, granted, I am not an employee of CNET and don't know how it went down, but after seeing other sites also give the game average to poor reviews, I'd say this is possible. Also, the week before his review came out, the entire site was pasted with huge background ads for Kane & Lynch.