The people who are too dumb to understand which folder's contents are being shared aren't using bittorrent, they are using something like LimeWire. Inadvertent sharing isn't really a problem with torrents, but it can be with older protocols like Gnutella.
It seems that 'geeks', 'gamers' and 'youths' generally can't seem to understand that when you complain rudely, the powers-that-be aren't going to listen.
Many of us hear on/. feel that all complaints are ignored by politicians unless they are complaints linked to an politician's income source. Whether the complaint is kindly worded or not makes absolutely no difference. Rational discussion appears to have little place in modern politics.
There is an attempt on/. to make a meme out of complaints in the form of "As a $X year old lesbian/feminist grandmother and $Y programmer of $Z years, I find this offensive".
Bear in mind it only shows IE8 equitably. Even Microsoft would prefer to see people upgrade off IE6 or IE7. That's pretty big in and of itself, no? (ok, for security concerns obviously it's a great idea, but to pretty well force everyone to take notice that they should be running something other than IE6 or IE7...)
This ballot screen is for Windows 7, and neither IE6 nor IE7 have ever been available for this OS.
If age was a more significant factor than experience, wouldn't we have raised the driving age?
That would be too sensible for the USA to do. We should allow drinking alcohol at age 16/18 and driving at age 21.
The main obstacle to this more sane policy is the fact that those 16,17, and 18 year olds need a car to get to their job at the fast food place. Business trumps all other considerations, of course.
The original name of the colony was a variant of "North Fork", but accounts differ on the exact name: "Northfork", "Nor'fork", and "Nordfork" are all suggested. The name was submitted to federal postal authorities, and at some point was transmuted to "Norfolk". The pronunciation "Norfork" is still used by many Nebraskans.
They should change the spelling to match the pronunciation.
I've been a PC gamer for my whole life and I just bought a PS3 last month and I'm actually quite happy with it overall. Sure, I'd rather have a mouse to control stuff with, but that's kind of negligible.
The stupid thing is that there is no good reason why there isn't mouse/keyboard support in PS3 games. The hardware certainly supports it.
It seems like everyone has decided it is more profitable to have rabid, emotionally driven dichotomies to sell "news" rather than just strong, objective, fact-based journalism.
This "objective journalism" you pine for never existed.
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The people who are too dumb to understand which folder's contents are being shared aren't using bittorrent, they are using something like LimeWire. Inadvertent sharing isn't really a problem with torrents, but it can be with older protocols like Gnutella.
The PC version had a much better script translation, too.
It seems that 'geeks', 'gamers' and 'youths' generally can't seem to understand that when you complain rudely, the powers-that-be aren't going to listen.
Many of us hear on /. feel that all complaints are ignored by politicians unless they are complaints linked to an politician's income source. Whether the complaint is kindly worded or not makes absolutely no difference. Rational discussion appears to have little place in modern politics.
GP said it was a (positive) feature that the iPad can't run Flash. Reading comprehension FTW.
Hey jackass, how many people do we have trying to identify new elements anywhere else besides Earth?
Actually, Helium was discovered not on Earth, but the Sun.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium
Firefox and Opera both support Windows 2000 with their latest versions.
Who's that I hear walking under my bridge?
FTFY
These guys must work for low pay in order to make such a scheme profitable.
There is an attempt on /. to make a meme out of complaints in the form of "As a $X year old lesbian/feminist grandmother and $Y programmer of $Z years, I find this offensive".
Grandparent post is just trolling.
Where Americans use 100,000.00, some other countries use 100.000,00.
Bear in mind it only shows IE8 equitably. Even Microsoft would prefer to see people upgrade off IE6 or IE7. That's pretty big in and of itself, no? (ok, for security concerns obviously it's a great idea, but to pretty well force everyone to take notice that they should be running something other than IE6 or IE7 ...)
This ballot screen is for Windows 7, and neither IE6 nor IE7 have ever been available for this OS.
Windows update has been separate from IE since Vista's launch.
I agree. Why the hell am I prompted to install some freaking Firefox addon just to download Adobe Flash? Ridiculous.
Kudos for the well-played troll! You are my hero.
If age was a more significant factor than experience, wouldn't we have raised the driving age?
That would be too sensible for the USA to do. We should allow drinking alcohol at age 16/18 and driving at age 21.
The main obstacle to this more sane policy is the fact that those 16,17, and 18 year olds need a car to get to their job at the fast food place. Business trumps all other considerations, of course.
The new memory models in recent OS's try to utilize all the available RAM (as they should) to speed up things otherwise.
BeOS and Haiku did/do this, but I don't think any other OS has implemented total RAM usage to such a degree.
That town's name was mangled due to miscommunication.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norfolk,_Nebraska
The original name of the colony was a variant of "North Fork", but accounts differ on the exact name: "Northfork", "Nor'fork", and "Nordfork" are all suggested. The name was submitted to federal postal authorities, and at some point was transmuted to "Norfolk". The pronunciation "Norfork" is still used by many Nebraskans.
They should change the spelling to match the pronunciation.
Wine isn't in Ubuntu by default.
I've been a PC gamer for my whole life and I just bought a PS3 last month and I'm actually quite happy with it overall. Sure, I'd rather have a mouse to control stuff with, but that's kind of negligible.
The stupid thing is that there is no good reason why there isn't mouse/keyboard support in PS3 games. The hardware certainly supports it.
You are correct... I didn't know about that directory. Thanks.
Well played!
You may want to have a look at Safe-mail. It has a nice clean interface like Gmail does.
(ducks and prepares to lose her Karma)
Fishing for a /. Valentine, are we? :)
It seems like everyone has decided it is more profitable to have rabid, emotionally driven dichotomies to sell "news" rather than just strong, objective, fact-based journalism.
This "objective journalism" you pine for never existed.
IBM
Revenue: US$ 95.757 billion (2009)
Operating income: US$ 17.012 billion (2009)
Net income: US$ 13.425 billion (2009)
Total assets: US$ 109.023 billion (2009)
Total equity: US$ 22.637 billion (2009)
Microsoft
Revenue: US$ 58.437 billion (2009)
Operating income: US$ 20.363 billion (2009)
Net income: US$ 14.569 billion (2009)
Total assets: US$ 77.888 billion (2009)
Total equity: US$ 39.558 billion (2009)
Pretty evenly matched, actually.