It's only silly if your definition of a "gamer" necessarily involves "graphics whore," a lot of disposable income, and only playing the latest games. Which I'd suggest is a silly definition.
I have a laptop with a Core i5-450M and a GeForce 310M. Far from cutting edge even when I bought it, but I play plenty of games on it. It handled New Vegas fine. Definitely not at top-level graphics, bushes were visible at a mile instead of ten miles or whatever. But for my budget, it works better than the 360.
They only use the net long enough to set up a trade on a back alley board which according to my friend there is ZERO chance of a cop infiltrating because the entrance fee is video of you molesting a kid with an object of their choosing and they don't give enough time to fake the video.
Is telling someone to molest a kid and send the video to you not illegal? Seems like there are so many laws justified as protecting the kids that you'd think legislators would have made that massively illegal long ago. Or is it that even if cops saw the request and it was illegal, they'd be unable to track the requester down to arrest them?
That's not how the game of hegemony is played though. We say one thing, they say another and point out that we do it to, we say what exactly? That we are the good guys so it's okay when we do it? That we promise we only do it to rogue nations?
When we refuse to bow down to any higher authority, we take the risk that someone else is going to do mean things to us, and we'll need to either declare war on them, do mean things back, or find other ways to try to convince them not to.
Look, it's right in the name: BEST buy. It's the best place to buy from. You're suggesting they didn't EARN that title? How dare you sir? How dare you?
This planet-sized diamond is actually an ultra-rare form of diamond? This just keeps getting better and better!
Serious question from someone with only college physics: if one were to somehow extract this liquid carbon from the white dwarf, would it cool off/ depressurize/decondense to form diamond? Graphite? Or is that so theoretical that no one has a good idea?
I'm a little skeptical that it has to do with battery life because, as I mentioned, I don't use itunes, and MP3 players that support drag and drop don't seem to have terrible problems with battery life compared to the iphone.
As far as viral synching, just because some would abuse it is pretty shitty justification to not allow ANYONE to use that feature. To me, that's just as bad as forcing you to use itunes so that you'll be more likely to buy through itunes.
And my point also seems to have gone over your head.
idevices could easily support drag-and-drop AND synching with itunes. I could do it the old way, finding it more straightforward and easy, and other people could use itunes. They're not mutually exclusive.
I realized there was a dig in there to the effect of "why would you want to do things the old way, it's such a hassle." I already mentioned why I wanted to do it that way. The only reason I can see for itunes being the ONLY way to add data to your idevice is to encourage you to use the itunes store and ultimately give more money to apple. Which is not a good reason to me.
Fortunately, there are alternatives. Copytransmanager allows one to add MP3s to ones own device from any computer without many headaches.
The big message: AVOID ALL OXIDIZING MATERIALS! If you cannot and must work around it, be SURE to visit a reputable Chiropractor and explain that you work around oxidizers. The Doctor will be able to focus his treatments accordingly.
Fact: Chiropractors are funded by the shadowy oxidizing lobby. When they give you an expensive massage, doing nothing to treat your ailments, they are secretly rubbing in oxidizing agents.
So you have to use an intermediary program to load content on your iDevice. It isn't fucking rocket science here people.
Well then I take back the part of my post where I said it was fucking rocket science to use itunes.
The issue is that it should and could be simpler. I want my mp3 player to work like a USB drive, I can add music from my computer, I can add music from my laptop, I can add music from my wife's computer without fucking around with authorizing computers in itunes, or installing itunes on all of them in the first place, or making sure it doesn't erase all the music currently on the device that's not on every one of those computers.
Making itunes the only way to manipulate mp3s on the device also is likely the reason one can't delete individual mp3s off of one's own device without the cable and a computer: it would get undone ever time you synched to add new music to it.
And on the same line, do you know how many people have come to me pissed off because their not-iDevice has broken and all their files are on the fucking MP3 player itself, NOT on their PC? Speaking only for myself, that number is a couple of orders of magnitude greater than people who have fucked up on iTunes.
Which mp3 player would that be? My nomad jukebox a decade ago did function as an external hard drive. When I changed computers, I simply plugged the nomad in and copied the mp3s from the nomad to the new computer. Is it that simple with an idevice?
Why should she have to learn a new way of washing clothes? It's ridiculous.
Because her washing machine could not easily give her the option of doing it her way, it's a physical object. This is a software issue, and you can, in fact, have it both ways.
Most people like being able to sync by only plugging in a cable.
Good for most people. They should have that option. That maybe should even be the default. There is, however, no reason why drag-and-drop should NOT be an option if you want it.
The agency alleges the data is held by Facebook for two years, and wants website owners in the state to remove links to Facebook by the end of next month or possibly face a fine."
I recognize there is a big difference between the "like" button and a simple link, but the article says "link." To be fair, I suspect it was the article's mistake. Still, I wouldn't trust that a government official knew the difference between javascript and a link.
Moreover, my concerns are not completely assuaged. Facebook's like buttons are still a far cry from child porn and warez. It seems to me that this is still an escalation in what governments can ban on the internet.
No, you know you're screwed when the only sensible voice is the Greens, AND you're in the US, where the Greens are less likely to be part of the government than an oil company is.
Unfortunately, the only hypothetical part of that is the Greens being sensible, and even without that part, you're still screwed.
A government fining websites that -link- to facebook would be a pretty scary step. Banning linking to -legal- websites now, just because we don't like it? Geez. I thought the progression from banning child porn and copyrighted music was going to take longer than a few years, but apparently not. We can expect that linking to news and blogs not approved by the ministry of the internet will be punishable by death within 4 years, right?
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Yeah, that's not really the type of drag and drop that people mean. I mean you can't plug your ipod into your computer, and an icon pops up in your operating system, and you drag the MP3s to it like a USB drive and you drag off the ones you don't want. You have to open up itunes and use the itunes interface rather than something simple like windows.
I said I worked there. The customers who gamestop made most of their money off of WERE dumb: they would trade ten games back for $10 apiece towards a new game.
You're not dumb to shop there for buying a new game that you want right then and there, you're dumb if you trade there because they'll give you a pittance for your year-old games.
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and implying that it is somehow linked to the unAmerican-ness of the company that allowed such a terrible thing to happen.
I've never seen anyone imply that. Ever. Ya paranoid limey bugger...
It's only silly if your definition of a "gamer" necessarily involves "graphics whore," a lot of disposable income, and only playing the latest games. Which I'd suggest is a silly definition.
I have a laptop with a Core i5-450M and a GeForce 310M. Far from cutting edge even when I bought it, but I play plenty of games on it. It handled New Vegas fine. Definitely not at top-level graphics, bushes were visible at a mile instead of ten miles or whatever. But for my budget, it works better than the 360.
Are you saying that's the null hypothesis they will be testing (pedantic) or are you merely saying they won't find a connection (unscientific)?
They only use the net long enough to set up a trade on a back alley board which according to my friend there is ZERO chance of a cop infiltrating because the entrance fee is video of you molesting a kid with an object of their choosing and they don't give enough time to fake the video.
Is telling someone to molest a kid and send the video to you not illegal? Seems like there are so many laws justified as protecting the kids that you'd think legislators would have made that massively illegal long ago. Or is it that even if cops saw the request and it was illegal, they'd be unable to track the requester down to arrest them?
caught the supernova within hours of its explosion
Plus 21 million years!
Plus the supernova wasn't actually "caught", it would be hard to find a baseball glove big enough...
That's not how the game of hegemony is played though. We say one thing, they say another and point out that we do it to, we say what exactly? That we are the good guys so it's okay when we do it? That we promise we only do it to rogue nations?
When we refuse to bow down to any higher authority, we take the risk that someone else is going to do mean things to us, and we'll need to either declare war on them, do mean things back, or find other ways to try to convince them not to.
Look, it's right in the name: BEST buy. It's the best place to buy from. You're suggesting they didn't EARN that title? How dare you sir? How dare you?
This planet-sized diamond is actually an ultra-rare form of diamond? This just keeps getting better and better!
/decondense to form diamond? Graphite? Or is that so theoretical that no one has a good idea?
Serious question from someone with only college physics: if one were to somehow extract this liquid carbon from the white dwarf, would it cool off/ depressurize
I imagine it would *catastrophically* decompress if you could teleport a chunk of it back to earth.
It's cool, we'll teleport it first to some other country, and then pay off the government in the form of space-diamonds.
Well?!? What do your calculations reveal?
I call dibs on it. It's mine. As soon as someone finds a way to get there, I'll let them have half the diamond they can carry back.
I'm a little skeptical that it has to do with battery life because, as I mentioned, I don't use itunes, and MP3 players that support drag and drop don't seem to have terrible problems with battery life compared to the iphone.
As far as viral synching, just because some would abuse it is pretty shitty justification to not allow ANYONE to use that feature. To me, that's just as bad as forcing you to use itunes so that you'll be more likely to buy through itunes.
And my point also seems to have gone over your head.
idevices could easily support drag-and-drop AND synching with itunes. I could do it the old way, finding it more straightforward and easy, and other people could use itunes. They're not mutually exclusive.
I realized there was a dig in there to the effect of "why would you want to do things the old way, it's such a hassle." I already mentioned why I wanted to do it that way. The only reason I can see for itunes being the ONLY way to add data to your idevice is to encourage you to use the itunes store and ultimately give more money to apple. Which is not a good reason to me.
Fortunately, there are alternatives. Copytransmanager allows one to add MP3s to ones own device from any computer without many headaches.
The big message: AVOID ALL OXIDIZING MATERIALS! If you cannot and must work around it, be SURE to visit a reputable Chiropractor and explain that you work around oxidizers. The Doctor will be able to focus his treatments accordingly.
Fact: Chiropractors are funded by the shadowy oxidizing lobby. When they give you an expensive massage, doing nothing to treat your ailments, they are secretly rubbing in oxidizing agents.
So you have to use an intermediary program to load content on your iDevice. It isn't fucking rocket science here people.
Well then I take back the part of my post where I said it was fucking rocket science to use itunes.
The issue is that it should and could be simpler. I want my mp3 player to work like a USB drive, I can add music from my computer, I can add music from my laptop, I can add music from my wife's computer without fucking around with authorizing computers in itunes, or installing itunes on all of them in the first place, or making sure it doesn't erase all the music currently on the device that's not on every one of those computers.
Making itunes the only way to manipulate mp3s on the device also is likely the reason one can't delete individual mp3s off of one's own device without the cable and a computer: it would get undone ever time you synched to add new music to it.
And on the same line, do you know how many people have come to me pissed off because their not-iDevice has broken and all their files are on the fucking MP3 player itself, NOT on their PC? Speaking only for myself, that number is a couple of orders of magnitude greater than people who have fucked up on iTunes.
Which mp3 player would that be? My nomad jukebox a decade ago did function as an external hard drive. When I changed computers, I simply plugged the nomad in and copied the mp3s from the nomad to the new computer. Is it that simple with an idevice?
Why should she have to learn a new way of washing clothes? It's ridiculous.
Because her washing machine could not easily give her the option of doing it her way, it's a physical object. This is a software issue, and you can, in fact, have it both ways.
Most people like being able to sync by only plugging in a cable.
Good for most people. They should have that option. That maybe should even be the default. There is, however, no reason why drag-and-drop should NOT be an option if you want it.
It gets you girls!?! Well, I gotta get in on this!
Username: whoop
Password: password
No... hmm...
Username: whoop
Password: 12345
Damn! This might take a while...
Doubt in science has likely been around a lot longer than global warming.
The agency alleges the data is held by Facebook for two years, and wants website owners in the state to remove links to Facebook by the end of next month or possibly face a fine."
I recognize there is a big difference between the "like" button and a simple link, but the article says "link." To be fair, I suspect it was the article's mistake. Still, I wouldn't trust that a government official knew the difference between javascript and a link.
Moreover, my concerns are not completely assuaged. Facebook's like buttons are still a far cry from child porn and warez. It seems to me that this is still an escalation in what governments can ban on the internet.
No, you know you're screwed when the only sensible voice is the Greens, AND you're in the US, where the Greens are less likely to be part of the government than an oil company is.
Unfortunately, the only hypothetical part of that is the Greens being sensible, and even without that part, you're still screwed.
A government fining websites that -link- to facebook would be a pretty scary step. Banning linking to -legal- websites now, just because we don't like it? Geez. I thought the progression from banning child porn and copyrighted music was going to take longer than a few years, but apparently not. We can expect that linking to news and blogs not approved by the ministry of the internet will be punishable by death within 4 years, right?
This citizen enjoyed the Internet for the brief time it existed.
Yeah, that's not really the type of drag and drop that people mean. I mean you can't plug your ipod into your computer, and an icon pops up in your operating system, and you drag the MP3s to it like a USB drive and you drag off the ones you don't want. You have to open up itunes and use the itunes interface rather than something simple like windows.
I said I worked there. The customers who gamestop made most of their money off of WERE dumb: they would trade ten games back for $10 apiece towards a new game.
You're not dumb to shop there for buying a new game that you want right then and there, you're dumb if you trade there because they'll give you a pittance for your year-old games.