Without it, you couldn't write one sentence thanking god for conservative bias in textbooks, and in the next asking what is wrong with just teaching historical fact.
Yeah who cares if everyone else in society gets a shit education, as long as you got yours, right? It's not like your fellow countrymen can affect your life at all. You are an island!
" Li insisted the government needs to censor Internet content to protect the rights of the country and its people."
Censor to protect rights?
Someone remind me why we're even dealing with these people? Oh yeah, wait. Lots of money.
It's pretty amazing how some people fear "socialism" here in the U.S. but are perfectly willing to do business with communists.
If Pink Floyd were merely in it for the money, they could have been a pop band this entire time. Even when they didn't have their fortunes they were releasing albums with no pop music appeal.
I know it's hard for some to imagine, but some musicians do what they do, because they need to do it. Not as a get rich quick scheme.
Protecting their artistic integrity is evil? Get real. Pink Floyd isn't the only band that doesn't allow their albums to be butchered and sold like pop music happy meals.
You mean without GPS satellites we won't have RADAR?
This is what I love about militaristic people. You always assume we're under imminent threat. You have more chances of being hit by a falling GPS satellite than someone taking one out.
It's not realistic, but it can be a very demanding game, especially when raiding with 24 other people, and a room full of boss spells going off at once.
Oddly enough, I played World of Warcraft and Fallout 3 quite a bit since upgrading to these drivers, and my performance has been much better than the previous win7 64x driver. I hear the fan ramping up like it should, and the card hasn't gotten close to overheating. Maybe it's only affecting certain models. I have an 8800ultra.
I think you need to think about this for more than two seconds. You're basically asking MS to review, and approve of, any 3rd party application update. That's the only way they could implement a system like that, and no one in their right mind should want that...
Well as I suggested, the only way a system like that could work at all, is if MS actually had an approval process for patches submitted to them.
...And I think it's clear what the reaction to that would be. I don't want my PC turning into the iPhone app store, where the huge corporation keeps the keys to the kingdom. I don't think other developers would want that either.
Oh, so you can't give me an example of Windows Update breaking something on your machine? A google search is useless, because out of millions of machines with Windows installed there are bound to be people having issues. I'm talking about you personally. I only ask because I've been using Windows for a long time, and I've never had WinUpdate break something on my machine.
So you actually think MS should be responsible for pushing out 3rd party application updates? Unreasonable indeed...
On the up side it would give the haters something else to bitch and moan about. Then we could read articles about MS's "gestapo patch review process", or something similar. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
You gave it up long enough ago that you weren't around for most modern games being designed with Xbox360/PS3 specs in mind anyway, thus ensuring that any graphics card bought in the lifetime of those systems will cover every game out there sans Crysis.
The last graphics card I bought was two and a half years ago, and it sill plays every new game at a solid 60fps with everything turned on high. This is one advantage to having consoles being powerful. It doesn't make pc gaming a constant horse race as it was in the early 2000's.
His complete dismissal of Linux as a gaming platform really disappoints me. I'm one of those people that still use Windows simply because of gaming. If Linux had support for the games I want to play, I would have been a full time Linux user years ago.
I'm not unreasonable either. I have a decent understanding of the challenges involved in making that happen on Linux, but to hear this guy just totally dismiss the thought isn't what I was hoping for. It will take time and effort to make Linux a gaming platform, and it will never happen when people like this just flat out give up on it. He tries to say that gaming is all moving over to consoles, but that is an utter falsehood, as there are still millions of us that use a PC as a primary gaming platform.
All in all the most amazing thing about this Q&A is how he readily admits that he really has only used Ubuntu for his primary OS for a few weeks now. The thought that someone as ignorant as me, about the internals on Linux, has used Ubuntu more than its new COO is just stunning.
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Hey braintrust - The liberals did vote. No one abstained from voting.
Cognitive Dissonance is an amazing thing.
Without it, you couldn't write one sentence thanking god for conservative bias in textbooks, and in the next asking what is wrong with just teaching historical fact.
I say we give him what he wants.
It would be a lot easier for the GOP to do that if they hadn't spent the past 35 years embracing the "Southern Strategy".
"Liberals and other anti-Christians"
I hate to break it to you, pal, but the vast majority of liberals in this country are also Christians.
It's pretty pathetic seeing the right-wing talk about 'states rights', when they only care about that concept when it suits them.
Yeah who cares if everyone else in society gets a shit education, as long as you got yours, right? It's not like your fellow countrymen can affect your life at all. You are an island!
That's rich! Zealous Republicans want to add right-wing propaganda to textbooks, and you blame liberals for it.
Yeah because in high school that's what they teach. How totally awesome Che Guevara was!
It's funny seeing how conservatives react to this, as if it's some sort of game of revenge.
You set up a strawman about Che Guevara and then argue in favor of revisionist history, as long as it supports your political views.
" Li insisted the government needs to censor Internet content to protect the rights of the country and its people."
Censor to protect rights?
Someone remind me why we're even dealing with these people? Oh yeah, wait. Lots of money. It's pretty amazing how some people fear "socialism" here in the U.S. but are perfectly willing to do business with communists.
If Pink Floyd were merely in it for the money, they could have been a pop band this entire time. Even when they didn't have their fortunes they were releasing albums with no pop music appeal.
I know it's hard for some to imagine, but some musicians do what they do, because they need to do it. Not as a get rich quick scheme.
Protecting their artistic integrity is evil? Get real. Pink Floyd isn't the only band that doesn't allow their albums to be butchered and sold like pop music happy meals.
Hell if you're going to treat us like livestock, just go all out! How about microchips and ear tags! Maybe the company logo branded on your body.
If I had a boss that tried to make his workers use something like this, I'd quit my job.
You mean without GPS satellites we won't have RADAR?
This is what I love about militaristic people. You always assume we're under imminent threat. You have more chances of being hit by a falling GPS satellite than someone taking one out.
It's not realistic, but it can be a very demanding game, especially when raiding with 24 other people, and a room full of boss spells going off at once.
Oddly enough, I played World of Warcraft and Fallout 3 quite a bit since upgrading to these drivers, and my performance has been much better than the previous win7 64x driver. I hear the fan ramping up like it should, and the card hasn't gotten close to overheating. Maybe it's only affecting certain models. I have an 8800ultra.
I think you need to think about this for more than two seconds. You're basically asking MS to review, and approve of, any 3rd party application update. That's the only way they could implement a system like that, and no one in their right mind should want that...
Well as I suggested, the only way a system like that could work at all, is if MS actually had an approval process for patches submitted to them.
...And I think it's clear what the reaction to that would be. I don't want my PC turning into the iPhone app store, where the huge corporation keeps the keys to the kingdom. I don't think other developers would want that either.
Oh, so you can't give me an example of Windows Update breaking something on your machine? A google search is useless, because out of millions of machines with Windows installed there are bound to be people having issues. I'm talking about you personally. I only ask because I've been using Windows for a long time, and I've never had WinUpdate break something on my machine.
Then don't complain about how slow things download. You can get reasonably fast internet for 15.00 a month in a lot of areas these days.
So you actually think MS should be responsible for pushing out 3rd party application updates? Unreasonable indeed...
On the up side it would give the haters something else to bitch and moan about. Then we could read articles about MS's "gestapo patch review process", or something similar. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Have any examples of a Windows Update "breaking things"?
If only we had automatic updates on Windows.
You gave it up long enough ago that you weren't around for most modern games being designed with Xbox360/PS3 specs in mind anyway, thus ensuring that any graphics card bought in the lifetime of those systems will cover every game out there sans Crysis.
The last graphics card I bought was two and a half years ago, and it sill plays every new game at a solid 60fps with everything turned on high. This is one advantage to having consoles being powerful. It doesn't make pc gaming a constant horse race as it was in the early 2000's.
The only problem with that is that not all the good games are on consoles.
His complete dismissal of Linux as a gaming platform really disappoints me. I'm one of those people that still use Windows simply because of gaming. If Linux had support for the games I want to play, I would have been a full time Linux user years ago.
I'm not unreasonable either. I have a decent understanding of the challenges involved in making that happen on Linux, but to hear this guy just totally dismiss the thought isn't what I was hoping for. It will take time and effort to make Linux a gaming platform, and it will never happen when people like this just flat out give up on it. He tries to say that gaming is all moving over to consoles, but that is an utter falsehood, as there are still millions of us that use a PC as a primary gaming platform.
All in all the most amazing thing about this Q&A is how he readily admits that he really has only used Ubuntu for his primary OS for a few weeks now. The thought that someone as ignorant as me, about the internals on Linux, has used Ubuntu more than its new COO is just stunning.