If you watch the 10% of Fox news that is just straight new reporting than it's not too bad but 90% of it is opinion disguised as news. If you can sit there and say that Bill O'Reilly and Hannity or Glenn Beck are in any way reporting fact then you're smoking crack.
Sorry but as a real conservative, I find Fox news highly offensive. More so the left leaning news. At least left leaning news doesn't reflect badly on me. A huge chunk of it is pure and utter bullshit.
I don't think people should let Microsoft get away with the evil things they have done nor should they necessarily forget what MS has done when they do something new that sounds a bit fishy but blind hate makes Linux users look bad and that energy spent on hate can be better spent on advancing Linux.
Oh, I'd agree, I've opted for an iPod because there isn't much else worth considering, imo. But there are a lot of cheap players out there which arguably would suit most people's needs. But I think the iPod has the most going for it despite the fact it doesn't support some formats I'd like it to support (FLAC, OGG) but in reality 98% of my music is in MP3 format, the iPod works flawlessly with Amarok, the iPod looks nice and works perfectly so I'm pleased.
Perhaps we would be better off without the giant new industry and instead rely on people spreading free information amongst each other.
What has the growth of the news industry given us? We now have 24 hour news that knows full well there is not enough news to fill 24 hours so they repeat the same stories making a mountain out of a mole hill just to fill the time and get viewers watching and Fox news-like content that tries to pass highly biased opinion as fact.
The news industry is screwing up society. We could do with some of these companies going out of business.
Java is a good language to teach someone how to program and it is harder to write really unsafe code, like PHP (which is easy to learn but also easy to fall into bad habits) and if you get them the right books to accompany it, then they'll write superior code and learn algorithms.
Effective Java and beginning Algorithms are two useful books but they'll need to know some Java before delving into those books.
For learning Java, Core Java 1 & 2 are excellent. If you don't want to spend money to start with then you can start with The Java tutorial as that book is also available for free in html form on the sun site.
Sticking expensive software on your computer doesn't make the computer any better. Just as if an F1 driver were to drive a shitty old Ford, it would still be a shitty old Ford.
Macs are premium computers. They go the extra step (ie two sensors that make backlighting work just that extra bit better than other computers) and whack up the price to make people appreciate it.
PCs will always be cheap. PCs have always been mainly for businesses. Businesses don't really care what it looks like. That's why Windows was never really that pretty and PCs were beige boxes.
PCs tried to cater to gamers, but everything about pretty gaming PCs just screams cheap. They look like cheap riced up cars and even graphics cards appeal to the lowest common denominator with their monster truck-like names.
Then, to cut prices further they put a lot of shit software onto the PC, for which they get paid for. Plus, all this software reduces the performance. Most people don't realise why their computer is so slow and just go out and buy another "cheap" computer in a year or two purely because most people trust the business to sell them something decent and don't realise they need to remove all that free shit.
A lot of my friends / family have moaned about their PC. Then you take a few minutes to look at it, uninstall all the pre-installed shit and give them CCleaner and tell them to use it on a regular basis and they're generally impressed that it does actually run better than they think while at the same time being un-impressed with the what the manufacturer gave them.
Which is why people have realised if they spend a bit more on a Mac it will look nice and more importantly it's not bogged down in shit pre-installed software so it runs better and therefore leaves the impression that it's a much better piece of hardware.
I think PC manufacturers have realised this and are trying harder to imitate Macs and MS is trying to imitate OSX. But again, the cost cutting shows. Vista is similar to OSX but still doesn't feel as nice or look quite as nice and that is why they're not premium computers.
Of course technical people who can build their own computer will have a superior computer to anyone else (minus the OS that still looks a bit shit if it's Windows) but then again if you have an architect design a custom house you'll have something nicer than most, if you make your own clothes they'll be unique and nicer (or at least closer to your taste) and if you could build your own car it will do exactly what you want and probably better than something off a factory line but in all those instances, like custom built PCs, are something most people won't or can't do.
You'll probably pay for accelerometers anyway. My 3 year old IBM has them. Then again IBM laptops are a bit better (at least pre-Lenovo ones but will buy a Lenovo one once this is past its prime) than most and cost a bit more than some cheap-o acer or dell laptop.
You know what, I really, truly hope that MS would pull out of the EU. Considering most countries outside of the EU and north American probably pirate windows quite heavily, I would like to see MS efectively give up 50% of their sales. I want to see them say that then crawl back asking someone to have them.
To be fair his version of free software is more honest and better for society than stealing software. While you may not technically be taking a physical item from someone that can't be replaced, you are depriving people of physical income and gaining an experience you aren't technically allowed to have without paying for it and you're taking freedom away honest people when you steal because publishers have proven that they'll do dumb things to stop piracy.
So while, in the strictest sense, it's not theft, I do consider it stealing and it's counter productive to computing. The same can not be said about open source software.
That doesn't mean I loved WinMe. I only had it because I was skint when I came to the UK and had to use a 2nd hand computer that had WinMe. I learned with very careful management it wasn't that bad and it at least looked like Win 98 so I could pretend I had Win 98.
Vista moved too many things around, tried to look like Mac in a typical PC "too nerdy to get style" way and it was bloated. What's there to like about that?
I've just been buying music from Amazon. It's DRM-free, good quality and the pricing is generally just right. If they want to stop piracy just make everything available to everyone in this sort of format.
This whole idea of things being available in certain territories is outdated and makes no sense on the internet but as long as it's around then people will just steal what they can't buy.
I know this is a bit sexist and yes women can do whatever men can do (in IT) but it's rare to see a woman that does this sort of thing. I'd tap pay to tap someone like Joanna Rutkowska.
It's that way in a lot of area and countries and forgetting the fact it's biased and the rules shouldn't be that way (assuming the male was drunk as well) but drunk people have sex all the time. The idea is not to pick the one so drunk that she'll be freaked out the next day.
Like anything else, it requires using a bit of common sense.
Microsoft's primary goal is to produce profit, it's secondary goal is providing a good service to it's users. The latter can of course effect the former. But here's the real problem, publish indie games for the sake of publishing indies games purely so indies get a fair share of the market regardless of equality fails in both respects - it means less profit, and a worse selection of games for users if better games by big publishers are pushed back to make way for lower quality games by indies.
Their primary goal should be providing a good service because, as you pointed out, it will lead to profit.
As far as flooding the market with junk indie titles. Fair enough, that can cause problems but the same can be said about the publisher's titles and in fact you can argue that the amount of crap being produced by publishers now is causing problems.
Of course MS can do what Nintendo did in the past and put some tough limits on publishers in an attempt to keep quality higher but then publishers will complain.
MS shouldn't limit either. But, have an unfiltered section on the market place and then a "best of" sort of area where the crap is filtered out for those that don't want to sift through it. That's enough. Otherwise, hopefully the others will have the sense to cater to the indie developers.
I've considered using it because time-wise, it would be ideal. The problem is everyone more or less says the same cliche crap and, more so with the advent of MySpace, people clearly spend ages taking pictures that make them looking better than they really do which wouldn't matter if the profiles were honest but they're not.
Meeting drunk women is the best way. Their guard is down so they're honest and as a bonus you may just get laid after the first meeting. The only catch is remembering if she's a keeper or not the next day.
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Uwe Boll. It only sounds like a v because he's German.
If you watch the 10% of Fox news that is just straight new reporting than it's not too bad but 90% of it is opinion disguised as news. If you can sit there and say that Bill O'Reilly and Hannity or Glenn Beck are in any way reporting fact then you're smoking crack.
Oh, like what about that piece they did that ties national healthcare with terrorism? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMu6wCqdeyQ
Sorry but as a real conservative, I find Fox news highly offensive. More so the left leaning news. At least left leaning news doesn't reflect badly on me. A huge chunk of it is pure and utter bullshit.
I don't think people should let Microsoft get away with the evil things they have done nor should they necessarily forget what MS has done when they do something new that sounds a bit fishy but blind hate makes Linux users look bad and that energy spent on hate can be better spent on advancing Linux.
Oh, I'd agree, I've opted for an iPod because there isn't much else worth considering, imo. But there are a lot of cheap players out there which arguably would suit most people's needs. But I think the iPod has the most going for it despite the fact it doesn't support some formats I'd like it to support (FLAC, OGG) but in reality 98% of my music is in MP3 format, the iPod works flawlessly with Amarok, the iPod looks nice and works perfectly so I'm pleased.
Perhaps we would be better off without the giant new industry and instead rely on people spreading free information amongst each other.
What has the growth of the news industry given us? We now have 24 hour news that knows full well there is not enough news to fill 24 hours so they repeat the same stories making a mountain out of a mole hill just to fill the time and get viewers watching and Fox news-like content that tries to pass highly biased opinion as fact.
The news industry is screwing up society. We could do with some of these companies going out of business.
Java is a good language to teach someone how to program and it is harder to write really unsafe code, like PHP (which is easy to learn but also easy to fall into bad habits) and if you get them the right books to accompany it, then they'll write superior code and learn algorithms.
Effective Java and beginning Algorithms are two useful books but they'll need to know some Java before delving into those books.
For learning Java, Core Java 1 & 2 are excellent. If you don't want to spend money to start with then you can start with The Java tutorial as that book is also available for free in html form on the sun site.
Sticking expensive software on your computer doesn't make the computer any better. Just as if an F1 driver were to drive a shitty old Ford, it would still be a shitty old Ford.
Macs are premium computers. They go the extra step (ie two sensors that make backlighting work just that extra bit better than other computers) and whack up the price to make people appreciate it.
PCs will always be cheap. PCs have always been mainly for businesses. Businesses don't really care what it looks like. That's why Windows was never really that pretty and PCs were beige boxes.
PCs tried to cater to gamers, but everything about pretty gaming PCs just screams cheap. They look like cheap riced up cars and even graphics cards appeal to the lowest common denominator with their monster truck-like names.
Then, to cut prices further they put a lot of shit software onto the PC, for which they get paid for. Plus, all this software reduces the performance. Most people don't realise why their computer is so slow and just go out and buy another "cheap" computer in a year or two purely because most people trust the business to sell them something decent and don't realise they need to remove all that free shit.
A lot of my friends / family have moaned about their PC. Then you take a few minutes to look at it, uninstall all the pre-installed shit and give them CCleaner and tell them to use it on a regular basis and they're generally impressed that it does actually run better than they think while at the same time being un-impressed with the what the manufacturer gave them.
Which is why people have realised if they spend a bit more on a Mac it will look nice and more importantly it's not bogged down in shit pre-installed software so it runs better and therefore leaves the impression that it's a much better piece of hardware.
I think PC manufacturers have realised this and are trying harder to imitate Macs and MS is trying to imitate OSX. But again, the cost cutting shows. Vista is similar to OSX but still doesn't feel as nice or look quite as nice and that is why they're not premium computers.
Of course technical people who can build their own computer will have a superior computer to anyone else (minus the OS that still looks a bit shit if it's Windows) but then again if you have an architect design a custom house you'll have something nicer than most, if you make your own clothes they'll be unique and nicer (or at least closer to your taste) and if you could build your own car it will do exactly what you want and probably better than something off a factory line but in all those instances, like custom built PCs, are something most people won't or can't do.
But even then, in general, iPods cost more than the their competition.
You'll probably pay for accelerometers anyway. My 3 year old IBM has them. Then again IBM laptops are a bit better (at least pre-Lenovo ones but will buy a Lenovo one once this is past its prime) than most and cost a bit more than some cheap-o acer or dell laptop.
No one said you need to have knowledge of something to comment on it. This is the internet. You should know better by now.
You know what, I really, truly hope that MS would pull out of the EU. Considering most countries outside of the EU and north American probably pirate windows quite heavily, I would like to see MS efectively give up 50% of their sales. I want to see them say that then crawl back asking someone to have them.
Apple servers, lol.
To be fair his version of free software is more honest and better for society than stealing software. While you may not technically be taking a physical item from someone that can't be replaced, you are depriving people of physical income and gaining an experience you aren't technically allowed to have without paying for it and you're taking freedom away honest people when you steal because publishers have proven that they'll do dumb things to stop piracy.
So while, in the strictest sense, it's not theft, I do consider it stealing and it's counter productive to computing. The same can not be said about open source software.
That doesn't mean I loved WinMe. I only had it because I was skint when I came to the UK and had to use a 2nd hand computer that had WinMe. I learned with very careful management it wasn't that bad and it at least looked like Win 98 so I could pretend I had Win 98.
Vista moved too many things around, tried to look like Mac in a typical PC "too nerdy to get style" way and it was bloated. What's there to like about that?
The point is, how many apps are good. 49,999 people replicating some tutorial app and uploading it would be meaningless.
Of course! Where do you think all the pro-MS comments come from?
I'm getting 14 years out of some of my discs. Of course I treat them like records so they're never touched by anywhere but on the edge.
I've just been buying music from Amazon. It's DRM-free, good quality and the pricing is generally just right. If they want to stop piracy just make everything available to everyone in this sort of format.
This whole idea of things being available in certain territories is outdated and makes no sense on the internet but as long as it's around then people will just steal what they can't buy.
I know this is a bit sexist and yes women can do whatever men can do (in IT) but it's rare to see a woman that does this sort of thing. I'd tap pay to tap someone like Joanna Rutkowska.
No, I get it and I stand by my comment.
It's that way in a lot of area and countries and forgetting the fact it's biased and the rules shouldn't be that way (assuming the male was drunk as well) but drunk people have sex all the time. The idea is not to pick the one so drunk that she'll be freaked out the next day.
Like anything else, it requires using a bit of common sense.
Microsoft's primary goal is to produce profit, it's secondary goal is providing a good service to it's users. The latter can of course effect the former. But here's the real problem, publish indie games for the sake of publishing indies games purely so indies get a fair share of the market regardless of equality fails in both respects - it means less profit, and a worse selection of games for users if better games by big publishers are pushed back to make way for lower quality games by indies.
Their primary goal should be providing a good service because, as you pointed out, it will lead to profit.
As far as flooding the market with junk indie titles. Fair enough, that can cause problems but the same can be said about the publisher's titles and in fact you can argue that the amount of crap being produced by publishers now is causing problems.
Of course MS can do what Nintendo did in the past and put some tough limits on publishers in an attempt to keep quality higher but then publishers will complain.
MS shouldn't limit either. But, have an unfiltered section on the market place and then a "best of" sort of area where the crap is filtered out for those that don't want to sift through it. That's enough. Otherwise, hopefully the others will have the sense to cater to the indie developers.
I've considered using it because time-wise, it would be ideal. The problem is everyone more or less says the same cliche crap and, more so with the advent of MySpace, people clearly spend ages taking pictures that make them looking better than they really do which wouldn't matter if the profiles were honest but they're not.
Meeting drunk women is the best way. Their guard is down so they're honest and as a bonus you may just get laid after the first meeting. The only catch is remembering if she's a keeper or not the next day.
Some people need to get one life before worrying about a second one.
I'm sure they'd tell the fans it's just a job and they're only doing it for the money.