...and one reason only; the name Microsoft is on it. If this were the Sega xbox, it would be kicking the ever loving shit out of the PS2 in sales in the US, Eurpoe and Japan.
"Yeah, mistakes were made, so let's own up to them and learn something so we don't do it again."
By admitting any wrong doing people can open themselves up to enormous lawsuits, that's whay many times teh injured parties or those seeking redress often have to seek the truth on their own with little to no assistance on the accused. Look at Enron and Andersen for a godo example of this.
The Enron and Andersen officials aren't being unhelpful because they want to be a pain in the ass, they are being inhelpful because they risk jailtime and possibly enormous fines. By not admitting to anything the jobis that much tougher to bring civil and/or criminal charges against them.
Like it or not, it's unconstitutional to force people to incriminate themselves.
...Joe Simpson and Skip Caray(the Atlanta Braves baseball announcers on TBS) mentioned they felt an earthquake during the SF Giants and Atlanta Braves game last night. Out of nowhere the two started talking about feeling the tremors and joking about the crew in the mobile prodction studio truck.
I'm not sure how software code works but as a graphic designer I most certainly own the copyright to my work unless otherwise stated in the contract. Contract does not mean work for hire. If it did then the company would be responsible for paying me benefits as top of my fee.
If I design a logo for a company I state up front in the contract what they can do with the logo. For instance if they were going to just use the logo on a web site I would charge accordingly. However, if this logo is to become the company's entire identity system I charge a dfferent, more lucrative (for me) fee. I can't turn around and sell this logo to another company but as I own the copyrights to the logo, I can include it in my portfolio without the company's approval.
People who pirate movies like SpiderMan and Star Wars: Episode II (to name tow recent ones) only undermine the efforts of the EFF and groups like them to reign in copyright protection. Even if copyright were returned to 14/14 like the copyright act of 1902, these would still be gross violations of intellectual property rights. Think before you download this movie REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT YOU ARE GOING TO SEE IT IN THE THEATERS!!! By downloading this movie or engaging in file sharing of copyrighted material you are spitting in the face of those in the EFF who are trying to protect our rights.
Not really. The US Constitution grants all men and women equality through the law. Yes, the Declaration of Independence begins with the all men being created equal blurb but the US Constitution actually makes this happen.
The entire Constitution is an abstraction of one form or another. The general rights we are granted go against the laws of nature and survival of the fittest. The idea that all men are created equal, for instance, is refuted by the concepts of the alpha male in many animal groups. I could go on and on but I think you get the point. We can't pick and choose which abstractions we like or not, at least not on a personal level, we must decide on a much larger level hence our government being structured as a republic with democratic ideas at its base instead of a democracy where everyone has their individual say.
He forgot to demonstrate what happens when his average Wal-Mart user decides to install that flashy game they just bought only to find that it only works in Windows.
This is all fine and wel, and to a certain extent I agree with you. However, many on the internet are removing ANY reasonable limited terms and are violating the copyright holders IP by distributing content which is not even a month old and in some cases, movies for instance, are distributing them before the content holders have even been given the chance. Should copyright terms be less than they are now? Perhaps, but not by much. Should people be allowed to distribute content that has not yet reached even the original terms established by copyright law? Absolutely not.
"Are people just so arrogant as to not be able to admit, or perhaps even afraid to admit, that there are just some things that have not been explained yet? Things that are just beyond our current grasp, but not necessarily beyond our potential grasp?"
It's not as simple as that. Mankind has been defining the unknown as supernatural for as long as we have existed. What you are asking is like suggesting we just drop our fight or flight responses or for women to ignore their nurturing instincts. Why not just ask mankind to quit evolving while you're at it? Eventually science will catch up but until it does mankind will rely on religion, the supernatural and their fear and mistrust of the unknown. I'm hoping this will get the scientists motivated to solve things a lot quicker.
Idiot. Both problems have been addressed already. Try again."
His point was, and this goes for the window manager as well, is there is no single, standard solution for these problems. Different toolkits exist for KDE and GNOME making Adobe's job harder. Do they build Photoshop using the toolkits available for KDE and force GNOME users to install the proper libraries for the app to run?
Whle there is a font solution in Linux/UNIX, once again, it's not standard across the different Window Managers. KDE places fonts in one place and GNOME in another.
In contrast, Apple has built a standard solution based on UNIX. They have one solution for handling fonts and they even support OpenType (not sure if Linux does this yet).
As for the color management, if Adobe is truly considering releasing a Linux version of Photoshop, I think they will create binaries for handling this. I doubt they will be OpenSource but Linux will have Color Management if they install Photoshop. The rest is up to the OSS community.
This is a quote from one of the Adobe Photoshop programmers concerning Photoshop on Linux:
"Adobe is keeping an open mind. And we're keeping an eye on Linux.
But right now, most Linux users aren't willing to pay for commercial software.
And the lack of a viable window manager (X-Windows does NOT count), printing solution, font solution, color management solution, etc. make Linux a WHOLE lot less attractive.
OSX and Linux only have command line utilities and a few concepts in the kernel in common. That's less than 1% of what's needed for application compatibility."
I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for Photoshop on Linux because not a lot has happened in the UI front since this comment was written.
It seems that your plan not only failed to properly compute the circumferance of the moon, as othera have already pointed out, you also forgot that one side of the moon is always in darkness, meaning it receives no sunlight and therefore would not be of much use to solar collectors. I can't believe people mod up idiots like you.
How the hell did this moron get +5, Interesting? Microsoft makes theirmoney on CORPORATE accounts. The xbox is not a threat in teh business world as most companies don't put game machines in the cubicles for their workers.
Unless I really need the software I avoid registration processes such as those that you require. I do not like to give out personal informaiton, including e-mail addresses, just evaluate software. Not only am I concerned about spam, I abhor receiving e-mails from the sales staff of the company, especially if I state that I do not want to receive e-mail from the company if that option is available. If you want people to evaluate the software and purchase it after the evaluation period is through, provide a warning at the end of the eval which links the user to the comany website where they can purchase the software. If they truly want to buy it they will. Also, offer a link in the help menu which directs the user to the web storefront where they can buy the software should they decide to do so before the eval period is up.
Nope, I like the xbox gamepad too. I find the PS2 gamepad far too small for my hands and hey get sore after half an hour or playing. However, I notice that after a few hours of playing Halo my arms get a bit tired. Probably a good thing as it forces me to put down the gamepad and take a break for a while:)
My pet peeve is everyone's obsession about the size of the xbox. Who cares? My xbox fits comfortably on a shelf next to the TV so does it matter that it is half again as big as the PS2? Not really. I even brought the xbox with me on a recent skiing trip and I found that it wasn't all that bulky to bring along and it made for great entertainment relaxing and watching DVDs after skiing all day. I'm sure many of you geeks have heard this before so get used to it, "size doesn't matter".
(By the way, the megalomaniac Bill Gates isn't fit to view his grave.)
I know it's chic to bash Bill Gates and Microsoft on/. but Bill Gates has donated more money to fight disease and suffering in third world countries than any single indivudual. I think Gates and Carnegie deserver graves side by side personally.
Star Wars: Kinghts of the Old Republic does. It's a RPG developed by Bioware and based on the Neverwinter Nights engine, due out this fall or winter.
As for Halo not being a GTA3, you're right. These are two wholy different genres of game. Halo is a FPS whild GTA3 is a racing game. However, Rallisport Challenge was just released and this game competes with GTA3 quite nicely, and in fact has been praised by some game reviewers as being better than GTA3 (though only slightly by some).
It's all personal preference really. I thought Munches Oddeyssee was a great game. I have been playing Halo on and off since I bought the game despite my beating it numerous times. I'm going back and trying the two hardest levels. I'm waiting anxiously for Morrowind to be released as well as Baldur's Gate. Don't forget that Doom 3 will be, to the console market anyway, exclusive to the xbox and there is a good possibility that Quake 4 will be as well. I'm pretty excited about these games myself but I know others who are fans of the console games might not be. Keep in mind that Everquest is going to require the sale of an add-on piece of hardware. The xbox comes with an ethernet port built in so building up a stable of multiplayer online games will be a lot easier for Microsoft.
I wouldn't read too much into these sales figures yet. Everyone knew the xbox was going to be a tough sell and the fact that Microsoft didn't meet high er expectations they set for themselves doesn't spell the end for this console.
I think you'll find you're wrong. Open both side by side and scroll through the MSNBC article. You'll find they have the exact same sections which are exactly the same length and both end on the "Absolutely Fab" section. The ONLY difference I found in content was in the subtitle. The Red Herring article contained a semicolon followed by a qualitative comment about everything prior. The MSNBC article only contained the subtitle leading up to but not including the semicolon and qualitative comment.
Actually making a copy for a friend is NOT fair use. You can only make copies for personal use which means you would have to be with your friend everytime they listened to the copy of the album or song you gave them.
The stories are identical except you didn't have to keep clicking "next" to read the entire article on MSNBC. Nice attempt to discredit the article because of the association between Microsoft and NBC (MSNBC). I can't believe the moderators gave this troll +1, informative.
The RIAA and MPAA are NOT governmental agencies, they are industry watch groups (RIAA - recording industry, MPAA - motion pictures). Their members comprise those in their respective industries (Sony, Warner Bros., Dreamworks, etc.) The RIAA and MPAA lobby on behalf their members but that is the extent of their governmental connections.
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...and one reason only; the name Microsoft is on it. If this were the Sega xbox, it would be kicking the ever loving shit out of the PS2 in sales in the US, Eurpoe and Japan.
By admitting any wrong doing people can open themselves up to enormous lawsuits, that's whay many times teh injured parties or those seeking redress often have to seek the truth on their own with little to no assistance on the accused. Look at Enron and Andersen for a godo example of this.
The Enron and Andersen officials aren't being unhelpful because they want to be a pain in the ass, they are being inhelpful because they risk jailtime and possibly enormous fines. By not admitting to anything the jobis that much tougher to bring civil and/or criminal charges against them.
Like it or not, it's unconstitutional to force people to incriminate themselves.
...Joe Simpson and Skip Caray(the Atlanta Braves baseball announcers on TBS) mentioned they felt an earthquake during the SF Giants and Atlanta Braves game last night. Out of nowhere the two started talking about feeling the tremors and joking about the crew in the mobile prodction studio truck.
I'm not sure how software code works but as a graphic designer I most certainly own the copyright to my work unless otherwise stated in the contract. Contract does not mean work for hire. If it did then the company would be responsible for paying me benefits as top of my fee.
If I design a logo for a company I state up front in the contract what they can do with the logo. For instance if they were going to just use the logo on a web site I would charge accordingly. However, if this logo is to become the company's entire identity system I charge a dfferent, more lucrative (for me) fee. I can't turn around and sell this logo to another company but as I own the copyrights to the logo, I can include it in my portfolio without the company's approval.
People who pirate movies like SpiderMan and Star Wars: Episode II (to name tow recent ones) only undermine the efforts of the EFF and groups like them to reign in copyright protection. Even if copyright were returned to 14/14 like the copyright act of 1902, these would still be gross violations of intellectual property rights. Think before you download this movie REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT YOU ARE GOING TO SEE IT IN THE THEATERS!!! By downloading this movie or engaging in file sharing of copyrighted material you are spitting in the face of those in the EFF who are trying to protect our rights.
That wasn't from deleting e-mails, it was from your viewing too much pr0n.
Not really. The US Constitution grants all men and women equality through the law. Yes, the Declaration of Independence begins with the all men being created equal blurb but the US Constitution actually makes this happen.
The entire Constitution is an abstraction of one form or another. The general rights we are granted go against the laws of nature and survival of the fittest. The idea that all men are created equal, for instance, is refuted by the concepts of the alpha male in many animal groups. I could go on and on but I think you get the point. We can't pick and choose which abstractions we like or not, at least not on a personal level, we must decide on a much larger level hence our government being structured as a republic with democratic ideas at its base instead of a democracy where everyone has their individual say.
He forgot to demonstrate what happens when his average Wal-Mart user decides to install that flashy game they just bought only to find that it only works in Windows.
This is all fine and wel, and to a certain extent I agree with you. However, many on the internet are removing ANY reasonable limited terms and are violating the copyright holders IP by distributing content which is not even a month old and in some cases, movies for instance, are distributing them before the content holders have even been given the chance. Should copyright terms be less than they are now? Perhaps, but not by much. Should people be allowed to distribute content that has not yet reached even the original terms established by copyright law? Absolutely not.
It's not as simple as that. Mankind has been defining the unknown as supernatural for as long as we have existed. What you are asking is like suggesting we just drop our fight or flight responses or for women to ignore their nurturing instincts. Why not just ask mankind to quit evolving while you're at it? Eventually science will catch up but until it does mankind will rely on religion, the supernatural and their fear and mistrust of the unknown. I'm hoping this will get the scientists motivated to solve things a lot quicker.
His point was, and this goes for the window manager as well, is there is no single, standard solution for these problems. Different toolkits exist for KDE and GNOME making Adobe's job harder. Do they build Photoshop using the toolkits available for KDE and force GNOME users to install the proper libraries for the app to run?
Whle there is a font solution in Linux/UNIX, once again, it's not standard across the different Window Managers. KDE places fonts in one place and GNOME in another.
In contrast, Apple has built a standard solution based on UNIX. They have one solution for handling fonts and they even support OpenType (not sure if Linux does this yet).
As for the color management, if Adobe is truly considering releasing a Linux version of Photoshop, I think they will create binaries for handling this. I doubt they will be OpenSource but Linux will have Color Management if they install Photoshop. The rest is up to the OSS community.
I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for Photoshop on Linux because not a lot has happened in the UI front since this comment was written.
It seems that your plan not only failed to properly compute the circumferance of the moon, as othera have already pointed out, you also forgot that one side of the moon is always in darkness, meaning it receives no sunlight and therefore would not be of much use to solar collectors. I can't believe people mod up idiots like you.
How the hell did this moron get +5, Interesting? Microsoft makes theirmoney on CORPORATE accounts. The xbox is not a threat in teh business world as most companies don't put game machines in the cubicles for their workers.
Unless I really need the software I avoid registration processes such as those that you require. I do not like to give out personal informaiton, including e-mail addresses, just evaluate software. Not only am I concerned about spam, I abhor receiving e-mails from the sales staff of the company, especially if I state that I do not want to receive e-mail from the company if that option is available. If you want people to evaluate the software and purchase it after the evaluation period is through, provide a warning at the end of the eval which links the user to the comany website where they can purchase the software. If they truly want to buy it they will. Also, offer a link in the help menu which directs the user to the web storefront where they can buy the software should they decide to do so before the eval period is up.
If you write a contract which violates the law the entire contract can be declared void and unenforcable.
Nope, I like the xbox gamepad too. I find the PS2 gamepad far too small for my hands and hey get sore after half an hour or playing. However, I notice that after a few hours of playing Halo my arms get a bit tired. Probably a good thing as it forces me to put down the gamepad and take a break for a while :)
My pet peeve is everyone's obsession about the size of the xbox. Who cares? My xbox fits comfortably on a shelf next to the TV so does it matter that it is half again as big as the PS2? Not really. I even brought the xbox with me on a recent skiing trip and I found that it wasn't all that bulky to bring along and it made for great entertainment relaxing and watching DVDs after skiing all day. I'm sure many of you geeks have heard this before so get used to it, "size doesn't matter".
Actually Longhorn is a bar at the ski resort histler. Their latest names have come from this area; Whistler, Longhorn and Blackcomb.
(By the way, the megalomaniac Bill Gates isn't fit to view his grave.)
/. but Bill Gates has donated more money to fight disease and suffering in third world countries than any single indivudual. I think Gates and Carnegie deserver graves side by side personally.
I know it's chic to bash Bill Gates and Microsoft on
Star Wars: Kinghts of the Old Republic does. It's a RPG developed by Bioware and based on the Neverwinter Nights engine, due out this fall or winter.
As for Halo not being a GTA3, you're right. These are two wholy different genres of game. Halo is a FPS whild GTA3 is a racing game. However, Rallisport Challenge was just released and this game competes with GTA3 quite nicely, and in fact has been praised by some game reviewers as being better than GTA3 (though only slightly by some).
It's all personal preference really. I thought Munches Oddeyssee was a great game. I have been playing Halo on and off since I bought the game despite my beating it numerous times. I'm going back and trying the two hardest levels. I'm waiting anxiously for Morrowind to be released as well as Baldur's Gate. Don't forget that Doom 3 will be, to the console market anyway, exclusive to the xbox and there is a good possibility that Quake 4 will be as well. I'm pretty excited about these games myself but I know others who are fans of the console games might not be. Keep in mind that Everquest is going to require the sale of an add-on piece of hardware. The xbox comes with an ethernet port built in so building up a stable of multiplayer online games will be a lot easier for Microsoft.
I wouldn't read too much into these sales figures yet. Everyone knew the xbox was going to be a tough sell and the fact that Microsoft didn't meet high er expectations they set for themselves doesn't spell the end for this console.
I think you'll find you're wrong. Open both side by side and scroll through the MSNBC article. You'll find they have the exact same sections which are exactly the same length and both end on the "Absolutely Fab" section. The ONLY difference I found in content was in the subtitle. The Red Herring article contained a semicolon followed by a qualitative comment about everything prior. The MSNBC article only contained the subtitle leading up to but not including the semicolon and qualitative comment.
Actually making a copy for a friend is NOT fair use. You can only make copies for personal use which means you would have to be with your friend everytime they listened to the copy of the album or song you gave them.
The stories are identical except you didn't have to keep clicking "next" to read the entire article on MSNBC. Nice attempt to discredit the article because of the association between Microsoft and NBC (MSNBC). I can't believe the moderators gave this troll +1, informative.
The RIAA and MPAA are NOT governmental agencies, they are industry watch groups (RIAA - recording industry, MPAA - motion pictures). Their members comprise those in their respective industries (Sony, Warner Bros., Dreamworks, etc.) The RIAA and MPAA lobby on behalf their members but that is the extent of their governmental connections.