The original Xbox was a success? The Xbox sold about as much as the Gamecube, and about as fifth as many as the PS2. The gamecube made Nintendo a few hundred million dollars, while the Xbox lost microsoft a few billion dollars. The only success there is that it made Microsoft a legitimate name in console gaming, providing footing for the Xbox 360.
And Microsoft has only lost 1 billion dollars on that so far.
I've said it before but the ribbon breaks the way that I use an application. Whenever I open a new application, I first go through all the menus to make myself familiar with what is available. I then go through the preferences to see what options I have.
The ribbon breaks the first of these and makes me feel claustrophobic. It took me a little while using the ribbon interface before i figured out why I hated it so much. There was no way to quickly scan my available options.
What I would like to know is which Chinese manufacturers are doing this. If an American manufacturer put hazardous materials in children's products, you'd bet that we would all know which manufacturers were doing this. By making the names of the companies that are doing this well known, it would give the other ones a chance to stand apart from the "OMG Chinese manufacturer..." stereotype you are painting them all with.
Just so you know, China is a big place with a lot of people. I'm pretty sure that to lump them all into the same category is unfair to at least some of them.
- The Gamecube: everything about it. A nasty, tacky piece of junk with no games worth looking at that was put out with the intention of being a serious contender and rightly consigned to third place.
The Gamecube sold 22 million units and the original XBox only sold 24 million. Nintendo made money off of every single unit sold. I wouldn't call it a failure.
Seriously, if a Movie wounded your inner child and destroyed your hopes and dreams, you had a very sad life. Most normal Star Wars fan just didn't watch the movie again and that's it. Personally, it was the 3rd movie that turned me off completely. Anakin's turn to the darkside felt so rushed and didn't seem to work with the character at all (one minute he's a goodie 2 shoes that's going to turn Sidius in, 30 seconds later he's bowing to his new master... wtf ?).
One way to make the fries edible is to sit there until they make a fresh batch (warning: this might take a long time) and ask for fries before they put salt on.
Why 100% pure beef. At least, some of them contain 100% pure beef. Which is kind of like saying that they are not 100% pure beef since even the most diluted mixture contains 100% of whatever is being diluted.
I would argue that big Government is the problem here. If you take an individual country the size of Sweden or Canada it's more probable that it will be responsive to the concerns and needs of it's citizens. Take a large bloated government like the US Federal Government or EU and it seems to be more probable that it gets bought off by a combination of machine politics and special interests.
As a Canadian I would argue that our government is owned entirely by corporations. My vote goes to the politician who has sold his soul to the Canadian corporations.
There are plenty of downsides to this approach, but my anecdotal evidence tells me that this would cut down on public health-care costs, because everyone I know that has no health insurance is a heavy smoker and/or drinker. One thing would have to go - either their consumption (well, it'd be harder to purchase, but not harder to consume), or their dependence on the public assistance - both of which would likely lower taxpayer costs.
You also might want to factor in the amount of tax that the government charges on cigarettes. At least in Canada here, the tax on cigarettes is very high. I doubt that it is high enough though to recuperate the public health care costs and a quick trip to Google didn't give me any answers..
because if you send a million spam mails you only need a handful of people to actually buy anything, I'm talking a few dozen, to cover your costs.
And if the spam includes a link to a website which is ad-based the user doesn't even need to hand over his credit card number to make the spam worthwhile.
In fact, almost everyone on the net is a spammer. It's kind of a secret club, where you have to pass a secret trial, to gain your secret right of entry. It's so secret, I shouldn't even be divulging this secret information. If the secret spammers found out, I could get
And let's not forget that one of them sits near your balls, which means I am willing to pay a little extra to make sure it doesn't leak or explode.[...]
For sure. You wouldn't want anything to leak onto your laptop battery so you'd better have everything tested so they don't explode and leak everywhere.
The fact is, there should be a "standard" set of standard "sizes" available, like we have for regular batteries (A, AA, AAA, C, D, 9v, etc).
Which come to think about, is a very dumb naming standard. Where's B? How does having two A's represent a smaller form factor? I guess I should be glad that Unix developers didn't name the batteries. We would have a battery called pg and then the next one called more (because it stores more power) and then one called less (because it requires less space). And then someone would make a battery and name it after their favourite household pet (we're going to ignore most). So I'm going to stop complaining.
AND... what's at stake here is companies' non-compliance with GPL i.e. their refusal to release the sources for their software. It has yet to be demonstrated in any meaningful way that GPL compliance in these particular cases would do anything to undercut the companies' bottom line.
It could be the fact that one company has done all kinds of optimizations to the code which allows them to ship the tv with cheaper chipsets undercutting their competition's tvs.
But you are right in saying that it has not yet been demonstrated that it will undercut these specific companies to release the source code but I'm pretty sure that it won't be demonstrated until the source code is available.
But I'm guessing that whoever made the decision to use GPL didn't properly understand the responsibilities that came with its use.
Or it could be that each of the 14 companies is with-holding their modifications of the source code until the other 13 companies comply and release their source. It isn't hard to imagine a situation where each company would be reluctant to give their competitors any potential advantage.
Yes it is dying along with driving cars. GM lost a lot of money and so we know that people just aren't into driving cars anymore.
And I'm pretty sure that Sony and Microsoft both lost a lot of money in the format war that went on between Blueray and HD DVD. It seems to me that Sony won that war because of the PS3.
I'm sorry, I might be a bit behind the times but... does anybody above the age of 16 actually use Facebook?! I'm 27, and Facebook has been around for quite some time now, and I still cannot find what the appeal is.
If you want to know what someone is doing, why not ask them?! You *DO* have their phone number don't you? They ARE your friend aren't they?..
At any rate, what could possibly be *fun* for a grown educated adult like a judge on Facebook? Can anyone enlighten me?
Both of my parents have Facebook. My family has become quite scattered geographically and we have a family "thread" where we post quick random updates quite frequently which I find meaningful. I'm not going to call up my whole family to tell them whether or not I liked the latest movie that I watched but I am very likely to post it in this thread. Little, seemingly trivial updates keep me up to date on how my family is doing.
Also, I would like to add that Facebook provides a nice way to share pictures. Especially if it isn't easy to get together with the people you would like to share the pictures with.
I am not saying that everyone will find Facebook has as much value to them as I find that it has for me but I do not find it a stretch of the imagination to think of real grown-up judges finding value in a social-networking site.
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Clearly there aren't enough buzzwords, if we had more of those people could understand what's going on and we could get this done by next quarter max.
They should have tried iHyper-cloud fusion with nano carbon-fiber rods. That would have worked.
The original Xbox was a success? The Xbox sold about as much as the Gamecube, and about as fifth as many as the PS2. The gamecube made Nintendo a few hundred million dollars, while the Xbox lost microsoft a few billion dollars. The only success there is that it made Microsoft a legitimate name in console gaming, providing footing for the Xbox 360.
And Microsoft has only lost 1 billion dollars on that so far.
I've said it before but the ribbon breaks the way that I use an application. Whenever I open a new application, I first go through all the menus to make myself familiar with what is available. I then go through the preferences to see what options I have.
The ribbon breaks the first of these and makes me feel claustrophobic. It took me a little while using the ribbon interface before i figured out why I hated it so much. There was no way to quickly scan my available options.
XP--Nobody actually knows what this stands for, but you can call it Windows 5.1 if that makes you feel better.
Straight from the horse's mouth found via Wikipedia: The XP name is short for "experience," symbolizing the rich and extended user experiences Windows and Office can offer by embracing Web services that span a broad range of devices.
In that case I am not moving to Windows 7! I want a rich experience and according to my research, only XP can provide that.
They should have called iding because we want to know who is doing the dinging.
Replace Adobe Acrobat Reader with Foxit Reader, and turn off Java. Yay. Hopefully you don't need Java (most people really don't).
Except that Java is used by Facebook for their photo uploader so any Facebook user that uploads photos from in their browser needs Java.
What I would like to know is which Chinese manufacturers are doing this. If an American manufacturer put hazardous materials in children's products, you'd bet that we would all know which manufacturers were doing this. By making the names of the companies that are doing this well known, it would give the other ones a chance to stand apart from the "OMG Chinese manufacturer..." stereotype you are painting them all with.
Just so you know, China is a big place with a lot of people. I'm pretty sure that to lump them all into the same category is unfair to at least some of them.
OpenOffice.org is your TEXT EDITOR? Oh boy.
Well at least he can do his own custom syntax highlighting without messing around in the "Preferences".
- The Gamecube: everything about it. A nasty, tacky piece of junk with no games worth looking at that was put out with the intention of being a serious contender and rightly consigned to third place.
The Gamecube sold 22 million units and the original XBox only sold 24 million. Nintendo made money off of every single unit sold. I wouldn't call it a failure.
Seriously, if a Movie wounded your inner child and destroyed your hopes and dreams, you had a very sad life. Most normal Star Wars fan just didn't watch the movie again and that's it. Personally, it was the 3rd movie that turned me off completely. Anakin's turn to the darkside felt so rushed and didn't seem to work with the character at all (one minute he's a goodie 2 shoes that's going to turn Sidius in, 30 seconds later he's bowing to his new master... wtf ?).
Do not underestimate the power of the Dark Side.
You just ruined all the fun we were having making fun of Micro$ofat.
Try their apple cider sometime and ask for extra caramel drizzle. It really is delicious.
One way to make the fries edible is to sit there until they make a fresh batch (warning: this might take a long time) and ask for fries before they put salt on.
What's in them dollar burgers anyhow? McD's?
Why 100% pure beef. At least, some of them contain 100% pure beef. Which is kind of like saying that they are not 100% pure beef since even the most diluted mixture contains 100% of whatever is being diluted.
I would argue that big Government is the problem here. If you take an individual country the size of Sweden or Canada it's more probable that it will be responsive to the concerns and needs of it's citizens. Take a large bloated government like the US Federal Government or EU and it seems to be more probable that it gets bought off by a combination of machine politics and special interests.
As a Canadian I would argue that our government is owned entirely by corporations. My vote goes to the politician who has sold his soul to the Canadian corporations.
Since when is a tilde a negation? Isn't it supposed to be an exclamation point?
In Prolog it's a tilde. Also, Prolog is a dumb language to program anything in.
But there ain't no whales! So what do the whalers do, then? Tell tall tales? Sing their whaling tune? Tell me that, smart guy.
Actually, the lack of whales in space is a piece of evidence supporting the theory that there are whalers in space.
There are plenty of downsides to this approach, but my anecdotal evidence tells me that this would cut down on public health-care costs, because everyone I know that has no health insurance is a heavy smoker and/or drinker. One thing would have to go - either their consumption (well, it'd be harder to purchase, but not harder to consume), or their dependence on the public assistance - both of which would likely lower taxpayer costs.
You also might want to factor in the amount of tax that the government charges on cigarettes. At least in Canada here, the tax on cigarettes is very high. I doubt that it is high enough though to recuperate the public health care costs and a quick trip to Google didn't give me any answers..
because if you send a million spam mails you only need a handful of people to actually buy anything, I'm talking a few dozen, to cover your costs.
And if the spam includes a link to a website which is ad-based the user doesn't even need to hand over his credit card number to make the spam worthwhile.
And thats only the ones they've caught.
In fact, almost everyone on the net is a spammer. It's kind of a secret club, where you have to pass a secret trial, to gain your secret right of entry. It's so secret, I shouldn't even be divulging this secret information. If the secret spammers found out, I could get
NO CARRIER?
And let's not forget that one of them sits near your balls, which means I am willing to pay a little extra to make sure it doesn't leak or explode.[...]
For sure. You wouldn't want anything to leak onto your laptop battery so you'd better have everything tested so they don't explode and leak everywhere.
The fact is, there should be a "standard" set of standard "sizes" available, like we have for regular batteries (A, AA, AAA, C, D, 9v, etc).
Which come to think about, is a very dumb naming standard. Where's B? How does having two A's represent a smaller form factor? I guess I should be glad that Unix developers didn't name the batteries. We would have a battery called pg and then the next one called more (because it stores more power) and then one called less (because it requires less space). And then someone would make a battery and name it after their favourite household pet (we're going to ignore most). So I'm going to stop complaining.
AND... what's at stake here is companies' non-compliance with GPL i.e. their refusal to release the sources for their software. It has yet to be demonstrated in any meaningful way that GPL compliance in these particular cases would do anything to undercut the companies' bottom line.
It could be the fact that one company has done all kinds of optimizations to the code which allows them to ship the tv with cheaper chipsets undercutting their competition's tvs.
But you are right in saying that it has not yet been demonstrated that it will undercut these specific companies to release the source code but I'm pretty sure that it won't be demonstrated until the source code is available.
But I'm guessing that whoever made the decision to use GPL didn't properly understand the responsibilities that came with its use.
Or it could be that each of the 14 companies is with-holding their modifications of the source code until the other 13 companies comply and release their source. It isn't hard to imagine a situation where each company would be reluctant to give their competitors any potential advantage.
Yes it is dying along with driving cars. GM lost a lot of money and so we know that people just aren't into driving cars anymore.
And I'm pretty sure that Sony and Microsoft both lost a lot of money in the format war that went on between Blueray and HD DVD. It seems to me that Sony won that war because of the PS3.
I'm sorry, I might be a bit behind the times but... does anybody above the age of 16 actually use Facebook?! I'm 27, and Facebook has been around for quite some time now, and I still cannot find what the appeal is. If you want to know what someone is doing, why not ask them?! You *DO* have their phone number don't you? They ARE your friend aren't they?.. At any rate, what could possibly be *fun* for a grown educated adult like a judge on Facebook? Can anyone enlighten me?
Both of my parents have Facebook. My family has become quite scattered geographically and we have a family "thread" where we post quick random updates quite frequently which I find meaningful. I'm not going to call up my whole family to tell them whether or not I liked the latest movie that I watched but I am very likely to post it in this thread. Little, seemingly trivial updates keep me up to date on how my family is doing.
Also, I would like to add that Facebook provides a nice way to share pictures. Especially if it isn't easy to get together with the people you would like to share the pictures with.
I am not saying that everyone will find Facebook has as much value to them as I find that it has for me but I do not find it a stretch of the imagination to think of real grown-up judges finding value in a social-networking site.