Translation:
I didn't do my due diligence by verifying that the upgrade would allow me to run my business in the way that I've been running it.
Huh. I typically expect new versions of programs to add functionality, not arbitrarily remove it. Or is it considered common practice now before updating to go over a checklist of every feature of every app you use, to make sure it hasn't disappeared?
Do you check to make sure each update to the iPhone still lets you make calls?
The ONLY reason I got into watching (American) football was because my MythTV setup allowed me to skip the commercials. Without commercials and delays, football is exciting. With commercials, plus the tedious announcers and the multitude of delays between every down, the game just drags on way too long.
ESPN should be frightened, because I doubt this is limited to a single sport: It's simply not worth watching a sport on TV anymore without the ability to skip the commercials and the boring bits.
Indeed, I doubt a human in free-fall would feel a thing when crossing the event horizon of a supermassive black hole, it's the little ones you have to watch out for.
Well, yes, that too. The bigger reason a human would never feel a thing when crossing the event horizon is that the neurons in his brain that were closer to the black hole would be unable to send signals to the neurons further away.
I would love to play, for instance, StarCraft 2 against people of my own social circle. Unfortunately, none of them are in the least interested in playing. (I used to regularly play WarCraft 2 with a group of my high school friends, but they have since all gone off who knows where, and we didn't really keep in touch at all.)
Thus, I play on the ladder, against people I don't know, and try my best to improve my skill that way.
Dan Aris
I really dislike ladder-style multiplayer: you're always playing to win and advance to more difficult opponents, and after a point that just stops being fun. Whereas, when playing with my friends, we can do fun stuff like "everybody build up for 10 minutes, then our armies face off in the middle of the map".
Similarly, when I played Halo 2 on XBox Live against strangers, I became too experienced. After a while, I was so much better than my friends that playing the game with them stopped being fun for anyone.
Ah, WoW, afaik, still has the largest userbase of any MMO, or very near the largest. There's lots of smaller games that survive and even thrive on the freemium model. I don't think Blizzard has anything to fear from going F2P if they haven't already. As you said, they would be better suited to make it up in bulk.
I'd add "and talk to Valve about how Team Fortress 2 is doing if you're still not sure", but I don't think the folks at Valve would be able to hear you. Not over the sound of all that money pouring in.
I'd like to live forever I think..or at least...have my choice in when I go....
If the vampire thing worked, and I could live forever the way I am now...age, looks..etc...I'd do it.
Not even the Universe will live forever. Consider what living forever actually means in that context: you have a relatively brief period of activity here on Earth and (eventually) in space, followed by an infinite amount of time floating through an infinitely large, absolute-zero temperature, absolutely dark and empty void.
And if an infinity trapped in the ultimate sensory deprivation chamber weren't enough, odds are good that at some earlier point you will have fallen into a black hole, and experienced what being crushed by a gravitational singularity for 15 trillion years feels like.
Not to mention, neutrinos created won't have any specific frequency like with radio and other wireless communications. That means no easy way to filter out everyone else's noise to get your signal. If neutrino communication actually works, it'll be interesting to see what happens when the level of communications hits the "fifty wireless routers in an apartment building" point.
A lot of people just don't want to be part of the xbox experience because it's expensive and offers nothing new.
Funny thing. After all these years, I was finally considering buying an XBox 360, because the indie games sounded appealing. Then I sat down with one for the first time in a while and experienced their new UI for the first time. Utterly disastrous. Where the hell did all the GAMES go, and how do I navigate past all the ads to get to them?!
I'm not sure your worries are any more realistic than anyone else's. Imagine some company tried to control the food market. Then all the farmers would have to use seeds from 20 years ago. How bad would that really be?
Then that company (*cough*Monsanto*cough*) would do what they usually do: pay someone under the table to fling a few GM seeds into the farmers' fields, and then sue the farmers into oblivion. So, to answer your question, it'd be pretty bad.
Just a reminder libreoffice runs docx too. Unless you use an INSANE amount of formating, or have really special needs, libreoffice runs faster and works better.
Well, sadly that's not quite the case, especially with long documents produced by people not used to writing long documents. Case in point: my dad tried to open a docx from one of his students. The student apparently couldn't figure out automating the table of contents, so he kept the page numbering consistent by... inserting a freaking manual page break at the end of every page. In a 200-page document.
When that monstrosity was opened in LibreOffice, small differences in font size/rendering/whatever caused the pages to go ever so slightly out of alignment, pushing the page break to the next page, resulting in a 400-page document with a completely inaccurate table of contents,
But the bus analogy is still wrong, because the entire point of the article is that the mosquito is not smashed by the raindrop. Instead the mosquito simply merges into and falls with the drop, then escapes before the raindrop hits the ground.
So, it's more like phasing through the front of an oncoming bus, landing comfortably in one of the seats, then escaping out the rear before the bus plows into a concrete wall.
"Human beings are made of flesh and dreams. Our dream is that of a humanity free from every form of slavery, that grows in harmony with nature.[...]"
Obviously, they slept/texted through biology class.
Harmony with nature? HAHAHAHAHA!
Kill or be killed. Survival of the fittest. Earthquakes. Floods. Hurricanes. Tornadoes. Tsunami. Competition among/against species for survival....etc.
Mankind has fought 'nature' for survival for eons.
Nature is not empathic, sympathetic, nor caring...it just IS.
Seriously. Take some of those nuts and drop 'em in the middle of the rainforest, see how well they "grow in harmony with nature".
...also, I'm pretty sure the "free from every form of slavery" bit just translates to "I am incapable of holding down a job".
You want to play games at high bandwidth? Have at it. But expect to pay for it at the end of the month, just as someone who keeps their thermostat real cool in the summer and very warm in the winter will pay for it.
Or, like most people, you're only a casual computer user. You have your computer on, but most of the time it's just sitting there, and you lack the technical skills to determine when something is going amiss with it. At some point, your PC gets infected due to a malicious ad that got onto a normally trusted site. You then get to find out that your PC has been turned into one of the millions of spam-spewing bots out there on the net via an unpayably high bill at the end of the month.
PC gaming seems to be on the decline, so rather than Steam, I'd say the biggest obstacles to widespread Ubuntu (and Linux in general) usage are the lack of iTunes and Netflix streaming.
So they claim, after they destroyed any evidence that could support that claim.
If bin Laden were alive, he'd have released a video by now mocking the Americans' claim. This is one of those rare times when the government is saying something, and there's no evidence, and the government is actually telling the truth.
Oh, yes. I'm sure George Bush and his cronies were just aching for some excuse to invade Afghanistan and get their hands on its bountiful supply of goats.
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Translation: I didn't do my due diligence by verifying that the upgrade would allow me to run my business in the way that I've been running it.
Huh. I typically expect new versions of programs to add functionality, not arbitrarily remove it. Or is it considered common practice now before updating to go over a checklist of every feature of every app you use, to make sure it hasn't disappeared?
Do you check to make sure each update to the iPhone still lets you make calls?
A spider expert has discovered nine new species of arboreal tarantulas ...
... in his socks.
The ONLY reason I got into watching (American) football was because my MythTV setup allowed me to skip the commercials. Without commercials and delays, football is exciting. With commercials, plus the tedious announcers and the multitude of delays between every down, the game just drags on way too long.
ESPN should be frightened, because I doubt this is limited to a single sport: It's simply not worth watching a sport on TV anymore without the ability to skip the commercials and the boring bits.
Indeed, I doubt a human in free-fall would feel a thing when crossing the event horizon of a supermassive black hole, it's the little ones you have to watch out for.
Well, yes, that too. The bigger reason a human would never feel a thing when crossing the event horizon is that the neurons in his brain that were closer to the black hole would be unable to send signals to the neurons further away.
I've been using VirtualBox over several versions of Ubuntu (I'm currently using 12.04), and I've never noticed any problems.
I would love to play, for instance, StarCraft 2 against people of my own social circle. Unfortunately, none of them are in the least interested in playing. (I used to regularly play WarCraft 2 with a group of my high school friends, but they have since all gone off who knows where, and we didn't really keep in touch at all.)
Thus, I play on the ladder, against people I don't know, and try my best to improve my skill that way.
Dan Aris
I really dislike ladder-style multiplayer: you're always playing to win and advance to more difficult opponents, and after a point that just stops being fun. Whereas, when playing with my friends, we can do fun stuff like "everybody build up for 10 minutes, then our armies face off in the middle of the map".
Similarly, when I played Halo 2 on XBox Live against strangers, I became too experienced. After a while, I was so much better than my friends that playing the game with them stopped being fun for anyone.
Ah, WoW, afaik, still has the largest userbase of any MMO, or very near the largest. There's lots of smaller games that survive and even thrive on the freemium model. I don't think Blizzard has anything to fear from going F2P if they haven't already. As you said, they would be better suited to make it up in bulk.
I'd add "and talk to Valve about how Team Fortress 2 is doing if you're still not sure", but I don't think the folks at Valve would be able to hear you. Not over the sound of all that money pouring in.
I'd like to live forever I think..or at least...have my choice in when I go....
If the vampire thing worked, and I could live forever the way I am now...age, looks..etc...I'd do it.
Not even the Universe will live forever. Consider what living forever actually means in that context: you have a relatively brief period of activity here on Earth and (eventually) in space, followed by an infinite amount of time floating through an infinitely large, absolute-zero temperature, absolutely dark and empty void.
And if an infinity trapped in the ultimate sensory deprivation chamber weren't enough, odds are good that at some earlier point you will have fallen into a black hole, and experienced what being crushed by a gravitational singularity for 15 trillion years feels like.
Not to mention, neutrinos created won't have any specific frequency like with radio and other wireless communications. That means no easy way to filter out everyone else's noise to get your signal. If neutrino communication actually works, it'll be interesting to see what happens when the level of communications hits the "fifty wireless routers in an apartment building" point.
A lot of people just don't want to be part of the xbox experience because it's expensive and offers nothing new.
Funny thing. After all these years, I was finally considering buying an XBox 360, because the indie games sounded appealing. Then I sat down with one for the first time in a while and experienced their new UI for the first time. Utterly disastrous. Where the hell did all the GAMES go, and how do I navigate past all the ads to get to them?!
So, yeah, I won't be buying a 360, ever.
I'm not sure your worries are any more realistic than anyone else's. Imagine some company tried to control the food market. Then all the farmers would have to use seeds from 20 years ago. How bad would that really be?
Then that company (*cough*Monsanto*cough*) would do what they usually do: pay someone under the table to fling a few GM seeds into the farmers' fields, and then sue the farmers into oblivion. So, to answer your question, it'd be pretty bad.
Just a reminder libreoffice runs docx too. Unless you use an INSANE amount of formating, or have really special needs, libreoffice runs faster and works better.
Well, sadly that's not quite the case, especially with long documents produced by people not used to writing long documents. Case in point: my dad tried to open a docx from one of his students. The student apparently couldn't figure out automating the table of contents, so he kept the page numbering consistent by... inserting a freaking manual page break at the end of every page. In a 200-page document.
When that monstrosity was opened in LibreOffice, small differences in font size/rendering/whatever caused the pages to go ever so slightly out of alignment, pushing the page break to the next page, resulting in a 400-page document with a completely inaccurate table of contents,
But the bus analogy is still wrong, because the entire point of the article is that the mosquito is not smashed by the raindrop. Instead the mosquito simply merges into and falls with the drop, then escapes before the raindrop hits the ground.
So, it's more like phasing through the front of an oncoming bus, landing comfortably in one of the seats, then escaping out the rear before the bus plows into a concrete wall.
You all kept saying that nobody could mishandle the Internet worse than the US, and the UN took it as a challenge!
Seriously. I can't understand how any work gets done in cubicles, much less a bullpen setup.
I share an office with one other guy. We sit in opposite corners, we work quietly, and we get shit done
"Human beings are made of flesh and dreams. Our dream is that of a humanity free from every form of slavery, that grows in harmony with nature.[...]"
Obviously, they slept/texted through biology class.
Harmony with nature? HAHAHAHAHA!
Kill or be killed. Survival of the fittest. Earthquakes. Floods. Hurricanes. Tornadoes. Tsunami. Competition among/against species for survival....etc.
Mankind has fought 'nature' for survival for eons.
Nature is not empathic, sympathetic, nor caring...it just IS.
Seriously. Take some of those nuts and drop 'em in the middle of the rainforest, see how well they "grow in harmony with nature".
...also, I'm pretty sure the "free from every form of slavery" bit just translates to "I am incapable of holding down a job".
You want to play games at high bandwidth? Have at it. But expect to pay for it at the end of the month, just as someone who keeps their thermostat real cool in the summer and very warm in the winter will pay for it.
Or, like most people, you're only a casual computer user. You have your computer on, but most of the time it's just sitting there, and you lack the technical skills to determine when something is going amiss with it. At some point, your PC gets infected due to a malicious ad that got onto a normally trusted site. You then get to find out that your PC has been turned into one of the millions of spam-spewing bots out there on the net via an unpayably high bill at the end of the month.
You don't need it for music playback, but it can become noticeable when playing games.
...that is, it will become noticeable when playing games in the distant future, when Linux actually has games.
PC gaming seems to be on the decline, so rather than Steam, I'd say the biggest obstacles to widespread Ubuntu (and Linux in general) usage are the lack of iTunes and Netflix streaming.
.. and bin Laden is dead,...
So they claim, after they destroyed any evidence that could support that claim.
If bin Laden were alive, he'd have released a video by now mocking the Americans' claim. This is one of those rare times when the government is saying something, and there's no evidence, and the government is actually telling the truth.
Also, we haven't been able to get the government to fork over 4 billion dollars to host the world's biggest video game competition.
Last I checked, their mass was thought to be somewhere between 0.25 and 3 eV. Which is amazingly small, considering electrons weigh in at 0.5 MeV.
"Afghanistan was a response to 9/11"
More like 9/11 was an excuse for Afghanistan.
Oh, yes. I'm sure George Bush and his cronies were just aching for some excuse to invade Afghanistan and get their hands on its bountiful supply of goats.
Next up: Germany uses the "right to be forgotten" on all events between 1939 and 1945.
Among other things, it shows an explaination for the mass lossage. The mass might be feeding the smaller star or the white dwarf.
Ooh, if it's sending matter onto a white dwarf, we can hope to see an awesome Type 1a supernova in that part of the sky sooner or later.