Totalitarian governments could give a shit if outsiders criticize them. What they'd like to prevent (or at least make very difficult) is their own citizens doing so.
I think it already is. At least it seems to be losing its cachet among teeners, tweeners and college-age kids. I doubt Facebook and its advertisers care much though, as "old people" are a much more lucrative potential market.
I really don't think that's it. The more likely culprit is the fact that it's not enough to just do the task. You have to have meetings about it, endless meetings where each layer of management gets to show how indispensable it is by commenting and quibbling about every detail. You also have to complete documentation and timekeeping tasks, which usually have the sole purpose of giving upper management pretty charts and spreadsheets to look at. With all that, it's a wonder that anything ever gets done.
Change the characters' names and you've just described the plot of nearly every episode of nearly every sitcom going all the way back to Ozzie and Harriet.
Why are you laying this at the President's feet? The bill is sponsored by Susan Collins, a Republican, and Joe Lieberman, independent (and former Democrat in name only).
Obama has done plenty that I disagree with, but he's not responsible for everything that's wrong in Washington.
I haven't tried Office 2010 yet, but when I switched from Office 2003 to 2007, I learned to enjoy the 5-7 second lag when Excel or Word loads. It's kind of a forced mini-break.
"Mattel, the makers of the game, hope the changes made for a new edition, released this July, will "add a new dimension" to Scrabble and "dumb the game down so it can be enjoyed by a generation of near-illiterates". "
> In linux, the Cell rips DVDs much faster than a conventional CPU can.
I think you can understand why Sony would not want to support this kind of functionality, no matter how popular it is with PS3 owners.
Here's a walkthrough, if anyone is interested (doubtful, I know).
From that page: "The game was acquired and produced by Don Daglow and published by EA in 1986 for the Commodore 64,
Apple II and PC."
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How is this a troll?! Seriously, someone please explain it to me. I can accept Off Topic, but Troll?
I've already got a name for such roads: slaveways (as opposed to freeways).
Okay, okay, so I stole it from Greg Bear.
Like me. I feel like I'm the only /.er who's never seen any ST except TOS.
Totalitarian governments could give a shit if outsiders criticize them. What they'd like to prevent (or at least make very difficult) is their own citizens doing so.
I think it already is. At least it seems to be losing its cachet among teeners, tweeners and college-age kids. I doubt Facebook and its advertisers care much though, as "old people" are a much more lucrative potential market.
I really don't think that's it. The more likely culprit is the fact that it's not enough to just do the task. You have to have meetings about it, endless meetings where each layer of management gets to show how indispensable it is by commenting and quibbling about every detail. You also have to complete documentation and timekeeping tasks, which usually have the sole purpose of giving upper management pretty charts and spreadsheets to look at. With all that, it's a wonder that anything ever gets done.
I thought this was going to be an article about the guy who raises hookworms in his own body and sells them on the Internet.
for keeping our electricity rates down.
She's no Harriet Miers, that's for certain.
They're the single most effective burglary deterrent. They're not exactly cheap to maintain, but probably cheaper than a monitored alarm system.
I can't be the only one who immediately thought "how did they recreate a classic 'surfer rock' song from the 60s using a radio-controlled car?"
I love that guy!. I never knew he used to be a /. editor though.
Change the characters' names and you've just described the plot of nearly every episode of nearly every sitcom going all the way back to Ozzie and Harriet.
Wha?! It has a lack of features and simultaneously it may never have that lack of features?
Mods take note: last time I looked, flamebait wasn't spelled i-n-s-i-g-h-t-f-u-l.
Why are you laying this at the President's feet? The bill is sponsored by Susan Collins, a Republican, and Joe Lieberman, independent (and former Democrat in name only). Obama has done plenty that I disagree with, but he's not responsible for everything that's wrong in Washington.
I haven't tried Office 2010 yet, but when I switched from Office 2003 to 2007, I learned to enjoy the 5-7 second lag when Excel or Word loads. It's kind of a forced mini-break.
Cheesecake != porn.
> a two way line of communication that doesn't save every letter we type to each other..
As far as you know.
"Mattel, the makers of the game, hope the changes made for a new edition, released this July, will "add a new dimension" to Scrabble and "dumb the game down so it can be enjoyed by a generation of near-illiterates". "
While I am wary of Chrome, there's a very simple reason this warning is coming from Microsoft.
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> If you publicly embarrass somebody for acting stupidly. They often think twice before acting stupidly again.
If this was true there'd be no such thing as reality TV shows.
> In linux, the Cell rips DVDs much faster than a conventional CPU can. I think you can understand why Sony would not want to support this kind of functionality, no matter how popular it is with PS3 owners.
Here's a walkthrough, if anyone is interested (doubtful, I know). From that page: "The game was acquired and produced by Don Daglow and published by EA in 1986 for the Commodore 64, Apple II and PC."