I think you're confusing the stock market with arguments about the stability of the value of the US dollar vs stability of the value of a Bitcoin. Stock prices have always been volatile and subject to the panicked reaction of idiots whenever there's bad news.
Or if you have a gun, perhaps you should be worried that you will die because of that gun (98%+ of all domestic deaths are caused by a gun in the house, not by external gun).
I'm in favor of gun control laws, but Jesus Christ that's a stupid claim to make.
Perhaps you meant that 98% of firearm related deaths are due to the homeowner's firearm? Once again, no. Out of the 11,078 homicides in 2010, you're claiming that 10,855 were committed with the homeowner's gun and only 223 involved a gun owned by someone else.
That is an insane claim to make and there is absolutely no evidence to back it up.
Absolutely. Anything that would cause a sound in an atmosphere will still cause that sound to propagate through the wood. You just wouldn't be able to hear it unless your head was pressed against the true due to the lack of an atmosphere to transmit the sound to your years.
first version of MSE was released 8 years after XP, and after the release of Windows 7...
MSE was released in September 29th of 2009. Windows 7 was released in October 22nd of 2009.
If September comes before October on your calendar, you need to buy a new one.
If you'd said Vista, you might have something, but historical sales figures show that virtually nobody upgraded from XP to Vista and nobody in their right mind would use the release date of an OS as unpopular as Vista as a reference point.
Things often get banned in response to being pervasive and problematic
And then there's the TSA, who ban inconsequential, commonplace things to make it look like they're doing something. 12 ounce bottle of water? Terrorist! 4 small 3 ounce bottles of water in a plastic bag? Patriot!
The NRA does tell lies... just like every other political action group in the US including those who support gun control legislation. Calling them out on it hardly makes you a 14 year old.
My point is that the windows, icons, menus and mouse pointer that make up Windows' interface couldn't have been copied from Linux because Windows was released before Linux.
Why do you think that one being a full operating system and the other being a graphical shell makes any difference to that point?
No. Your statement is only true if you assume that everyone who buys a tablet is throwing away the computer they already own. That's an incredibly foolish assumption.
Windows predates Linux. The actual 'theft' would be from Xerox PARC, Apple and others who predate Windows.
But the ideas aren't stolen. They were freely available for everyone to use because they were developed before we reached the level of intellectual property idiocy that allows rounded corners and other moronically simple design elements to be patented and copyrighted.
Do you see cost over-runs, no incentives to keep costs down, no incentive to make availability or improve usability, no incentives for all the other stuff in the shoes market?
Now imagine that employers screen your resume by the type of shoe that you're wearing even if the shoes aren't relevant to the job. Wear the wrong shoes and your resume goes in the garbage, so you have an incentive to wear the more expensive ones that employers like. The manufacturers will then have an incentive to produce ever pricier shoes that people will buy in order to better their chances in the job market.
Schools should be private of-course, just like shoes should be private and there should be no taxes going towards schools just like there are no taxes going towards shoes.
Because fuck the children of poor families who can't afford a private school, right? They'll never amount to anything anyway, so they don't deserve even a basic education. They can slave away at part time jobs for minimum wave and sleep in a box in an alleyway.
You're an elitist douchebag who thinks that familial wealth somehow equates to the potential value of a person.
The/. filter is an algorithm, not a mod. The mods modded him up to +5 Funny, so they clearly have no problem with yelling online as long as there's a reason for it..
Taking pleasure only in the end results of your work != thought. Taking pleasure in your work != ignorance.
There is always far more work than there are end results. If you enjoy your work, you will be far happier than you will be if you only enjoy the end results.
The same reason they ooh and ahh over a canvas painted white or a plain, unmodified urinal hanging in an art gallery: Some people are dumb enough to believe whatever bullshit the 'artist' comes up with and will delude themselves into thinking it's great art.
No need. The prophecies will be so vague that they could match anything. The only inaccuracies are in the people who obviously misinterpreted the prophecy.
Just like the world abandoned Microsoft when they produced Windows ME, Microsoft BOB, Kin, PlaysForSure, Mira, Clippy...
Microsoft has made a lot of products that people hated. This is just the latest round of failures, but 90% of all business computers are some flavor of Windows. The OS is so entrenched that there is no chance of MS going going away becoming unprofitable.
Until they change the shortcut to allow the program to run in compatibility mode for XP, at which point Windows 7 will use a virtual copy of XP to host the application.
And yet I ran Windows XP for 11 years without a single infection.
It's amazing what you can accomplish with a decent firewall, a bit of care to ensure that you don't run anything that could be infected and a refusal to allow flash, java and javascript from untrusted sites.
Trusting the OS and taking no other precautions whatsoever is what makes you a sitting duck. That's just as true on Windows 7, OS X and Linux as it was on Windows XP. Unfortunately, that's what most users do.
There is a difference between a good game with lots of playability and a game that can't be played anymore when the DRM servers are turned off.
I believe you're confusing "lots of playability" with "can always be played." Those two are mutually exclusive.
You can have a good game with lots of playability that relies on servers (World of Warcraft, for example) which will eventually be shut down. You can also have a game with limited game play and no replay value which doesn't rely on servers (like Braid) which will always be available for you to play even though you'll most likely never do it.
Compared to today's games, Tetris has incredibly bad graphics and sound, there's no writing and nothing about it is amazing at first glance... yet there are versions of it for virtually anything you can possibly play a game on and everyone has played it. The quality of a game cannot be measured by the quality of the graphics and sound.
In addition, I would say that the Monkey Island games are still some of the best written adventure games ever made. I shared the the two special edition remakes with a friend's kids and they found the jokes just as hilarious as I remember them being when I was still a kid.
Unfortunately, we're all doomed to grow up. When we go back and look at the things we enjoyed as children, the magic of youth is gone. The jokes we laughed at seem simplistic and dumb. The graphics are worse than we remember because it's not fresh and our imaginations aren't supplementing them. For the most part, only the people who don't go back and re-watch and replay can remember the magic that was there... but that doesn't mean it isn't there for the next generation to find.
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I think you're confusing the stock market with arguments about the stability of the value of the US dollar vs stability of the value of a Bitcoin. Stock prices have always been volatile and subject to the panicked reaction of idiots whenever there's bad news.
Or if you have a gun, perhaps you should be worried that you will die because of that gun (98%+ of all domestic deaths are caused by a gun in the house, not by external gun).
I'm in favor of gun control laws, but Jesus Christ that's a stupid claim to make.
Here are the real statistics for cause of death and suicide is the most common cause of firearm related death., but suicide is only the tenth most common cause of death and makes up only 2% of the most common deaths and firearm related sucides are only about half of that, so that would put them around 1%
Perhaps you meant that 98% of firearm related deaths are due to the homeowner's firearm? Once again, no. Out of the 11,078 homicides in 2010, you're claiming that 10,855 were committed with the homeowner's gun and only 223 involved a gun owned by someone else.
That is an insane claim to make and there is absolutely no evidence to back it up.
Absolutely. Anything that would cause a sound in an atmosphere will still cause that sound to propagate through the wood. You just wouldn't be able to hear it unless your head was pressed against the true due to the lack of an atmosphere to transmit the sound to your years.
first version of MSE was released 8 years after XP, and after the release of Windows 7...
MSE was released in September 29th of 2009. Windows 7 was released in October 22nd of 2009.
If September comes before October on your calendar, you need to buy a new one.
If you'd said Vista, you might have something, but historical sales figures show that virtually nobody upgraded from XP to Vista and nobody in their right mind would use the release date of an OS as unpopular as Vista as a reference point.
Oh yes. Let's have Twitter start distributing 140 byte executables. What could possibly go wrong?
Things often get banned in response to being pervasive and problematic
And then there's the TSA, who ban inconsequential, commonplace things to make it look like they're doing something. 12 ounce bottle of water? Terrorist! 4 small 3 ounce bottles of water in a plastic bag? Patriot!
http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/04/17/17797311-nra-gets-caught-lying-again
The NRA does tell lies... just like every other political action group in the US including those who support gun control legislation. Calling them out on it hardly makes you a 14 year old.
I'm fairly sure the President of the USA is not a 14 year old tweeter.
My point is that the windows, icons, menus and mouse pointer that make up Windows' interface couldn't have been copied from Linux because Windows was released before Linux.
Why do you think that one being a full operating system and the other being a graphical shell makes any difference to that point?
No. Your statement is only true if you assume that everyone who buys a tablet is throwing away the computer they already own. That's an incredibly foolish assumption.
Windows predates Linux. The actual 'theft' would be from Xerox PARC, Apple and others who predate Windows.
But the ideas aren't stolen. They were freely available for everyone to use because they were developed before we reached the level of intellectual property idiocy that allows rounded corners and other moronically simple design elements to be patented and copyrighted.
I can't tell whether you're an incredibly subtle troll or you're just dumb.
Do you see cost over-runs, no incentives to keep costs down, no incentive to make availability or improve usability, no incentives for all the other stuff in the shoes market?
Yes.
Now imagine that employers screen your resume by the type of shoe that you're wearing even if the shoes aren't relevant to the job. Wear the wrong shoes and your resume goes in the garbage, so you have an incentive to wear the more expensive ones that employers like. The manufacturers will then have an incentive to produce ever pricier shoes that people will buy in order to better their chances in the job market.
Schools should be private of-course, just like shoes should be private and there should be no taxes going towards schools just like there are no taxes going towards shoes.
Because fuck the children of poor families who can't afford a private school, right? They'll never amount to anything anyway, so they don't deserve even a basic education. They can slave away at part time jobs for minimum wave and sleep in a box in an alleyway.
You're an elitist douchebag who thinks that familial wealth somehow equates to the potential value of a person.
The /. filter is an algorithm, not a mod. The mods modded him up to +5 Funny, so they clearly have no problem with yelling online as long as there's a reason for it..
Taking pleasure only in the end results of your work != thought.
Taking pleasure in your work != ignorance.
There is always far more work than there are end results. If you enjoy your work, you will be far happier than you will be if you only enjoy the end results.
Except they aren't. Yandex returned twice as much malware as Bing.
The same reason they ooh and ahh over a canvas painted white or a plain, unmodified urinal hanging in an art gallery: Some people are dumb enough to believe whatever bullshit the 'artist' comes up with and will delude themselves into thinking it's great art.
No need. The prophecies will be so vague that they could match anything. The only inaccuracies are in the people who obviously misinterpreted the prophecy.
Just like the world abandoned Microsoft when they produced Windows ME, Microsoft BOB, Kin, PlaysForSure, Mira, Clippy...
Microsoft has made a lot of products that people hated. This is just the latest round of failures, but 90% of all business computers are some flavor of Windows. The OS is so entrenched that there is no chance of MS going going away becoming unprofitable.
Until they change the shortcut to allow the program to run in compatibility mode for XP, at which point Windows 7 will use a virtual copy of XP to host the application.
And yet I ran Windows XP for 11 years without a single infection.
It's amazing what you can accomplish with a decent firewall, a bit of care to ensure that you don't run anything that could be infected and a refusal to allow flash, java and javascript from untrusted sites.
Trusting the OS and taking no other precautions whatsoever is what makes you a sitting duck. That's just as true on Windows 7, OS X and Linux as it was on Windows XP. Unfortunately, that's what most users do.
"Those two are mutually exclusive." should have been "Those two are not mutually exclusive."
There is a difference between a good game with lots of playability and a game that can't be played anymore when the DRM servers are turned off.
I believe you're confusing "lots of playability" with "can always be played." Those two are mutually exclusive.
You can have a good game with lots of playability that relies on servers (World of Warcraft, for example) which will eventually be shut down. You can also have a game with limited game play and no replay value which doesn't rely on servers (like Braid) which will always be available for you to play even though you'll most likely never do it.
Compared to today's games, Tetris has incredibly bad graphics and sound, there's no writing and nothing about it is amazing at first glance... yet there are versions of it for virtually anything you can possibly play a game on and everyone has played it. The quality of a game cannot be measured by the quality of the graphics and sound.
In addition, I would say that the Monkey Island games are still some of the best written adventure games ever made. I shared the the two special edition remakes with a friend's kids and they found the jokes just as hilarious as I remember them being when I was still a kid.
Unfortunately, we're all doomed to grow up. When we go back and look at the things we enjoyed as children, the magic of youth is gone. The jokes we laughed at seem simplistic and dumb. The graphics are worse than we remember because it's not fresh and our imaginations aren't supplementing them. For the most part, only the people who don't go back and re-watch and replay can remember the magic that was there... but that doesn't mean it isn't there for the next generation to find.
Eight sentences is a wall of text? You'll probably have a stroke and die if you ever pick up a book.