Personally I liked it. But there wasn't that much to it; there were like 3 sets, and a handful of characters other than the crew? The problem with the franchise is the movies should try to create an epic feel, but the creators seem dead set against it.
Sure, if you're not that well-known distributing your music as MP3s can increase sales. But large RIAA acts don't have the problem; they rely on radio and music videos to let people listen to their music. If you'd downloading Britney Spears latest mp3, it's probably not because you're curious as to what it sounds like. You're most likely doing it because you don't want to pay for the album.
First off, how can it be OS independent and have a list of compatible OS's? If it's a hardware-based solution, then how can some OS's not work with it?
I had gotten a Saturn, then a few years later grabbed a PS when they lowered the price. I was surprised at how much better the Saturn's graphics were than the PS; best example is VF2. No PS game then or even later could compare.
Hahaha..offtopic. In other words, "I don't like that because it weakens my position when I whine about taxes".
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If you don't like seeing companies leave to US, why do you not spend more time considering the role of higher taxes in forcing companies to make the exodus?
They're not higher. Companies pay less taxes now than they paid back in the 50s.
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Only most of the rest of the world has much less friendly immigration laws than us.
or to one of your local muck-raking news reporters looking to do a human interest story.
Yeah, that would be a ratings grabber. "Is your laptop battery going to malfunction in a shorter time period than one might expect? Full report at 10; it might just save your life!"
I don't have much of a problem with plaintext, thought something with better formatting would be preferable. What annoys me are the pages and pages of copyright and Project Gutenberg information they put at the beginning of each file.
Right, it always annoys me hearing people insist that computers will never really be able to always beat us, because of intuition/experience/unpredictability/etc. Eventually there will be a computer that can crush any human player through pure computational ability, without having to be specifically programmed for that opponent (like Deep Blue was).
"Working on" can mean anything. I'm sure Nintendo's engineers are constantly coming up with next generation console ideas. The point is Nintendo doesn't actually seriously start developing a new console until the very last minute.
I must admit I'm a little surprised by this. Nintendo is notorious for hating to develop new consoles; they prefer to rake in the profits through licensing rather than actually spend all that money on R&D.
Their usual strategy is to wait until their competitor is about to launch their new console, then announce that they (Nintendo) are coming out with one too. That way they can cut into the potential market for their competitor's console, as a sizeable chunk of gamers (especially the younger ones with a lot less disposable income) decide to wait for the Nintendo offering.
A mom-and-pop general store that got to the top by strong-arming developers and retail stores into exclusivity contracts. They're an enormous corporation that has played as dirty as Microsoft, and undeserving of sympathy.
Nomadic, the answer to your confusion is in your very statements. It's too late for anybody to deal with North Korea the way we're dealing with Iraq for the reason that N. Korea already has nuclear weapons.
In other words he's been outmaneuvered by North Korea. Suffice it to say lumping North Korea in with Iran and Iraq as part of the "Axis of Evil" was a stupid thing to do, eh? That is the point of the conversation, which you've seem to have forgotten.
Ah, that that were true. That would be a good idea since the top 1% pays most of the taxes anyway. Tax cuts for the top 1% would be more beneficial for the economy than tax cuts for any other percentile. The more money that is in consumer's hands, the better the economy.
Doesn't work that way. If someone making $700,000 a year gets another $10,000 or $20,000 off their taxes, it doesn't change their lifestyle. They don't consume much. If instead of giving $20,000 to one wealthy person, you gave $5,000 to 4 middle class people, you'll get more spending.
Of course, it's not truly scientific since we can't control the countless external variables, but tax cuts have worked in every configuration of variables they've been tried. The probability of producing higher revenue for both the government and citizens is very high and beyond reasonable doubt.
Wrong, they haven't. The last tax cut has failed miserably.
As the other person eloquently debunked your ideas on Russia, I won't say anything about it, beyond responding to this:
It's incredible, even Russian Communists now understand capitalism better than American and Western European liberals.
Russia is an incredible failure in capitalism; hell, people were starting to support Communist politicians. Do you know how bad things have to be for someone to remember fondly a brutal, totalitarian state?
The guy thinks Dubya is up there doing "leadership"?
Are you referring to me? Because I most certainly didn't say "leadership". I said "power".
No doubt we're going to invade Iraq to free their people and bring them democracy, right? And clamping the international price of petroleum forever has nothing to do with it, right? And funneling several hundred billion dollars through the defense industry while ignoring the growing crowds of unemployed has nothing to do with it, right? And giving the top 5% income bracket lots of new tax breaks and only giving the rest of us a few hundred bucks has nothing to do with it, right? And imposing the Christian version of the Taliban on us has nothing to do with it, right? And suspending our rights to privacy and due process so we don't get in their way has nothing to do with it, right? And, and...
And being able to do these things is an expression of...
(drum roll please)
POWER.
Note that power is a value-neutral thing. It means simply the ability to do certain things, and does not imply any morality or lack thereof. I assure you, however little you think of the current US president, I think even less.
More like the idea that Iraq is more dangerous than North Korea because Iraq may develop nuclear weapons and may use them to attack the US. Meanwhile North Korea HAS nuclear weapons and has THREATENED us with them explicitly, but that's apparently no big deal.
What other idiotic things has he thought up? Ah, how about trying to fix the economy with massive tax cuts for the top 1% of the economic ladder? And note to slashdot posters: You are not in this 1%. Yes, I know you're proud of your paycheck, and convinced that you are part of this 1%, but you're not.
Except when the president is an idiot. Or an actor with alzheimers. Or some damned cowboy more interested in his ranch than his republic. Am I repeating myself? Sorry.
Listen, I -wish- the current President was more of a figurehead nowadays, but it's just not true. He gets these fool notions in his head, and he acts on them. That's power.
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Personally I liked it. But there wasn't that much to it; there were like 3 sets, and a handful of characters other than the crew? The problem with the franchise is the movies should try to create an epic feel, but the creators seem dead set against it.
Sane people: "Someone just invented a laborious system of sending simple text messages? Why not just use e-mail?"
Sure, if you're not that well-known distributing your music as MP3s can increase sales. But large RIAA acts don't have the problem; they rely on radio and music videos to let people listen to their music. If you'd downloading Britney Spears latest mp3, it's probably not because you're curious as to what it sounds like. You're most likely doing it because you don't want to pay for the album.
I don't think that's the problem; weak architecture or no, if people use it a free alternative is a good idea.
The problem with an NT workalike is that soon very few people will actually be using NT. It's kind of like those ambitious DOS projects.
In other words, the worm iterations are like tribbles...
First off, how can it be OS independent and have a list of compatible OS's? If it's a hardware-based solution, then how can some OS's not work with it?
Maybe because those OSes don't support USB.
I had gotten a Saturn, then a few years later grabbed a PS when they lowered the price. I was surprised at how much better the Saturn's graphics were than the PS; best example is VF2. No PS game then or even later could compare.
Hahaha..offtopic. In other words, "I don't like that because it weakens my position when I whine about taxes".
If you don't like seeing companies leave to US, why do you not spend more time considering the role of higher taxes in forcing companies to make the exodus?
They're not higher. Companies pay less taxes now than they paid back in the 50s.
Only most of the rest of the world has much less friendly immigration laws than us.
or to one of your local muck-raking news reporters looking to do a human interest story.
Yeah, that would be a ratings grabber. "Is your laptop battery going to malfunction in a shorter time period than one might expect? Full report at 10; it might just save your life!"
Between wrist pain and DEATH? Yes, there IS much of a difference.
Kuro5hin is full of unbelievably pretentious people just *burning* to let each other know how intellectual they are.
And slashdot isn't? Oh, it's only pretentious if it's politics or literature or history, but never technology, right? Heh.
Some of their works ARE in HTML.
I don't have much of a problem with plaintext, thought something with better formatting would be preferable. What annoys me are the pages and pages of copyright and Project Gutenberg information they put at the beginning of each file.
Plus their hard-hitting coverage can't be beat.
Right, it always annoys me hearing people insist that computers will never really be able to always beat us, because of intuition/experience/unpredictability/etc. Eventually there will be a computer that can crush any human player through pure computational ability, without having to be specifically programmed for that opponent (like Deep Blue was).
Let me be certain I see this clearly: Post the leftist view and +5 your karma. Post something conservative, and get modded down.
Oh give me a break. 90% of slashdot posters are raving conservative right-wing libertarians.
You're in the majority here, but you'd hate to admit that because you want to be considered the underdog.
"Working on" can mean anything. I'm sure Nintendo's engineers are constantly coming up with next generation console ideas. The point is Nintendo doesn't actually seriously start developing a new console until the very last minute.
I must admit I'm a little surprised by this. Nintendo is notorious for hating to develop new consoles; they prefer to rake in the profits through licensing rather than actually spend all that money on R&D.
Their usual strategy is to wait until their competitor is about to launch their new console, then announce that they (Nintendo) are coming out with one too. That way they can cut into the potential market for their competitor's console, as a sizeable chunk of gamers (especially the younger ones with a lot less disposable income) decide to wait for the Nintendo offering.
A mom-and-pop general store that got to the top by strong-arming developers and retail stores into exclusivity contracts. They're an enormous corporation that has played as dirty as Microsoft, and undeserving of sympathy.
Nomadic, the answer to your confusion is in your very statements. It's too late for anybody to deal with North Korea the way we're dealing with Iraq for the reason that N. Korea already has nuclear weapons.
In other words he's been outmaneuvered by North Korea. Suffice it to say lumping North Korea in with Iran and Iraq as part of the "Axis of Evil" was a stupid thing to do, eh? That is the point of the conversation, which you've seem to have forgotten.
Ah, that that were true. That would be a good idea since the top 1% pays most of the taxes anyway. Tax cuts for the top 1% would be more beneficial for the economy than tax cuts for any other percentile. The more money that is in consumer's hands, the better the economy.
Doesn't work that way. If someone making $700,000 a year gets another $10,000 or $20,000 off their taxes, it doesn't change their lifestyle. They don't consume much. If instead of giving $20,000 to one wealthy person, you gave $5,000 to 4 middle class people, you'll get more spending.
Of course, it's not truly scientific since we can't control the countless external variables, but tax cuts have worked in every configuration of variables they've been tried. The probability of producing higher revenue for both the government and citizens is very high and beyond reasonable doubt.
Wrong, they haven't. The last tax cut has failed miserably.
As the other person eloquently debunked your ideas on Russia, I won't say anything about it, beyond responding to this:
It's incredible, even Russian Communists now understand capitalism better than American and Western European liberals.
Russia is an incredible failure in capitalism; hell, people were starting to support Communist politicians. Do you know how bad things have to be for someone to remember fondly a brutal, totalitarian state?
The guy thinks Dubya is up there doing "leadership"?
Are you referring to me? Because I most certainly didn't say "leadership". I said "power".
No doubt we're going to invade Iraq to free their people and bring them democracy, right? And clamping the international price of petroleum forever has nothing to do with it, right? And funneling several hundred billion dollars through the defense industry while ignoring the growing crowds of unemployed has nothing to do with it, right? And giving the top 5% income bracket lots of new tax breaks and only giving the rest of us a few hundred bucks has nothing to do with it, right? And imposing the Christian version of the Taliban on us has nothing to do with it, right? And suspending our rights to privacy and due process so we don't get in their way has nothing to do with it, right? And, and...
And being able to do these things is an expression of...
(drum roll please)
POWER.
Note that power is a value-neutral thing. It means simply the ability to do certain things, and does not imply any morality or lack thereof. I assure you, however little you think of the current US president, I think even less.
More like the idea that Iraq is more dangerous than North Korea because Iraq may develop nuclear weapons and may use them to attack the US. Meanwhile North Korea HAS nuclear weapons and has THREATENED us with them explicitly, but that's apparently no big deal.
What other idiotic things has he thought up? Ah, how about trying to fix the economy with massive tax cuts for the top 1% of the economic ladder? And note to slashdot posters: You are not in this 1%. Yes, I know you're proud of your paycheck, and convinced that you are part of this 1%, but you're not.
Except when the president is an idiot. Or an actor with alzheimers. Or some damned cowboy more interested in his ranch than his republic. Am I repeating myself? Sorry.
Listen, I -wish- the current President was more of a figurehead nowadays, but it's just not true. He gets these fool notions in his head, and he acts on them. That's power.
A large one. Anyone who thinks the President doens't have real power hasn't been reading the news lately. Or ever.