The domains were registered in late March, indicating the company made the decision even before WinHEC gave developers their first taste of Longhorn in over a year.
All that registering the domain in late March tells you is that the name was considered a possibility at that time, not that a final decision had been made to use it. I wouldn't be surprised if they tossed around several names and registered all of them as soon as they thought of them.
Gold can only buy so much; the best items in the game bind to your character as soon as you pick them up off the ground, so you can't trade them or sell them for money.
Gold can buy enchants, some pretty good items, and help speed up the levelling process, but it's really not going to help you much more than anyone else.
Anyway, after a certain level, money is easy enough to come by that you don't have to stress about it endlessly. I don't think I ever once had to pass up buying something I really needed.
One could argue that it also costs money to receive a call on a landline phone. Just because I pay a flat rate doesn't mean that rate isn't affected by call volume.
They are an agency which is given power from Congress to pass and enforce regulations. So they can make "law" so long as it is within the restrictions Congress has placed on them.
I think you're confused, or perhaps couldn't draw the connection between the comment I responded to and my response.
The parent stated something along the lines of never hearing about people migrating from Linux to Windows. So, my response was that you don't hear about it, because there are so few people using Linux in the first place, there aren't that many of them that could migrate to Windows if they wanted to.
I made no comment about the quality of either product.
Advertising has little to do with dogma. A dogma is a belief that is held to be absolutely true without proof.
So, relating that to Linux, you have a number of people who believe that Linux is better than Windows will always will be. But, they believe such in a way quite similar to many people believe in a religion. They don't even have to look at Windows because "they know it isn't any better." Or Windows and Bill Gates are inherently "evil."
So what we are seeing is Microsoft just taking that approach, turning it around and using it against Linux.
My first reaction to the article when I saw it posted was maybe Microsoft had hired Karl Rove to work for them.
nowhere do you hear of anyone migrating from Linux to Windows
Maybe because there are so few Linux users to begin with, and they're so dogmatic about their use of it that getting them to change would be like getting the Pope to convert to Islam.
The guy in the cube next to me takes at least 1 smokebreak every hour; so I take one "non-smokebreak" every hour and screw off at my desk. If they're going to pay him to increase the companies health costs, they might as well pay me to go on Slashdot and complain about it.
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You made the wrong connection. My point was the ability to overcome a shameful past, not that the Crusades and the Holocaust were somehow similar in their purpose and design.
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Fact: the Crusades were a response to Muslim harassment of Christian pilgrims in the holy lands.
Most of the early Crusades were attempts to get the Holy Land back from the Muslims. Several of them had nothing to do with Muslims; and quite a few were also against Jews and other Christians.
Crusade is just the Christian word for "Jihad." Your attempts to minimalize and rationalize the Crusades is pretty pathetic. (It's kind of interesting actually, to most Westerners, a "crusade" is any worthy pursuit, and a "jihad" is a misguided narrow-minded slaughter of innocents. To Muslims, the opposite connotations hold true.)
Take it for what it really is: a shameful part of Christian past for which we are still answering today. Germany has managed to shake its history of Nazism and anti-semitism through an incredible campaign. Certain Christian groups can't seem to admit that their ancestors were wrong to have the Crusades, and therefore we all continue to suffer.
One of many causes of significant problems we face today.
Think of how different Muslim/Christian relations (and hence terrorism) would be if we didn't have the Crusades. However, you can't change the past, but we ought to stand up and denounce it more publicly.
copyright gives you *no* rights to copy except fair use
Fair use is not a right bestowed upon the public, it is a limitation on the rights granted to the copyright holder. There is a significant difference here in that the right as issue is never your right to fair use, but whether the copyright holder's rights extend to a certain point or not.
You can produce works, copyright them, distribute them, license them, share them, etc. without needing Creative Commons or a lawyer.
I know it's difficult to grasp this concept, but you see, copyright exists without Creative Commons, and all they do is provide a fancy way to license your work. They're not giving you anything you don't already have. Copyright takes care of all of this, they just found a little way to sneak their foot in the middle of something and get publicity for themselves.
As the FA points out, Creative Commons doesn't give you any bonus rights that copyright doesn't. Copyright gives you the exclusive right to control distribution, sales, etc.
Please tell me what Creative Commons can you give you that Copyright can't?
What is with all of you single-issue-minded voters? It is quite simple, you will never find a candidate you agree with 100%, so you pick and choose that which is most important to you and find the candidate you find the most agreeable.
Completely dismissing a candidate because of their view on one particular subject is how we got into this current mess.
For example, candidate A has said that he is not opposed to abortion in certain cases. Suddenly, candidate B comes out and says that everyone who opposes abortion must vote for him, because his opponent supports it. Thousands of mindless voters now vote for candidate B, because nothing is more important to this nation that a candidate's view on abortion.
Please, get over it. All of you. There is a lot more to our country than a few issues that get your panties in a bind. Please vote with ALL OF THEM in mind.
A lot of times the problem isn't that the doctors are giving vague advice, it's that people aren't comfortable asking questions of their doctor, or they aren't comfortable answering their doctor's questions. However, they have no trouble asking strangers online, or a search engine these same questions.
A doctor can only do so much with the information given, and out of embarassment, a lot of people don't provide all the details they really should (like that extra little pain in your abdomen that is probably gas and you don't need to mention). A lot of you probably don't even realize you are like this, but think about all of your symptoms and then how many you revealed to the doctor the last time you visited and how many you didn't mention because you assumed they were unrelated.
I just did a quick survey a few articles on the subject and that seemed to be the general consensus. The problem is that these large cities just happen to be right in the middle of some major migratory routes.
Also, it's not like the birds explode on impact. Some of the might die instantly and fall to the ground, while others are just injured badly enough that they'll find somewhere else to die.
To put it in perspective you could look at birds getting killed running into smokestacks from your nearest coal-fired energy plant or residential/office high-rise buildings. Even cats are more deadly than turbines.
About 100,000,000 or so birds die each year from collisions with buildings. Some cities, like Chicago are taking steps to turn off a number of lights on their skyscrapers during migration seasons in order to reduce problems. (The bright lights and reflections apparently are very disorienting and distracting to the birds).
I imagine that turning all of the forests east of the Mississippi into farmland probably had a pretty drastic impact on the climate as well. Compared to that, what's one windmill, let alone thousands?
It's in the public interest, like banning leaded gasoline, spark-gap radio transmitters, and the burning of trash.
So, analog TV pollutes? I'm confused.
Please explain how this is in the public interest? Just because it's "better technology" doesn't mean it's going to improve anyone's quality of life except those that stand to profit from the changeover (not consumers).
when I can get a DTV to ATV tuner for $99.00 then I'll agree that it's a good time to switch.
For most people, that price is going to be more like $5-10. Anything more than that and I begin to wonder why we are being forced to change something that isn't broken.
But you have to agree that as a data storage device the floppy is pretty much useless. It might be used to house a few key tools, but who keeps data on them?
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The domains were registered in late March, indicating the company made the decision even before WinHEC gave developers their first taste of Longhorn in over a year.
All that registering the domain in late March tells you is that the name was considered a possibility at that time, not that a final decision had been made to use it. I wouldn't be surprised if they tossed around several names and registered all of them as soon as they thought of them.
Sometimes the logic here is astounding.
Gold can only buy so much; the best items in the game bind to your character as soon as you pick them up off the ground, so you can't trade them or sell them for money.
Gold can buy enchants, some pretty good items, and help speed up the levelling process, but it's really not going to help you much more than anyone else.
Anyway, after a certain level, money is easy enough to come by that you don't have to stress about it endlessly. I don't think I ever once had to pass up buying something I really needed.
One could argue that it also costs money to receive a call on a landline phone. Just because I pay a flat rate doesn't mean that rate isn't affected by call volume.
The FCC is NOT a law-making entity.
They are an agency which is given power from Congress to pass and enforce regulations. So they can make "law" so long as it is within the restrictions Congress has placed on them.
There has to be quite a few paying subscribers, because someone has to feeding the farmers.
The farmers wouldn't exist without a market for them, as they would stop making money instantly.
Overgeneralizations are a precursor to racism.
Just because a lot of people that are in jail are black doesn't mean that all black people are criminals.
However, when you say something like that enough, you start to believe it.
I think you're confused, or perhaps couldn't draw the connection between the comment I responded to and my response.
The parent stated something along the lines of never hearing about people migrating from Linux to Windows. So, my response was that you don't hear about it, because there are so few people using Linux in the first place, there aren't that many of them that could migrate to Windows if they wanted to.
I made no comment about the quality of either product.
Advertising has little to do with dogma. A dogma is a belief that is held to be absolutely true without proof.
So, relating that to Linux, you have a number of people who believe that Linux is better than Windows will always will be. But, they believe such in a way quite similar to many people believe in a religion. They don't even have to look at Windows because "they know it isn't any better." Or Windows and Bill Gates are inherently "evil."
So what we are seeing is Microsoft just taking that approach, turning it around and using it against Linux.
My first reaction to the article when I saw it posted was maybe Microsoft had hired Karl Rove to work for them.
nowhere do you hear of anyone migrating from Linux to Windows
Maybe because there are so few Linux users to begin with, and they're so dogmatic about their use of it that getting them to change would be like getting the Pope to convert to Islam.
The guy in the cube next to me takes at least 1 smokebreak every hour; so I take one "non-smokebreak" every hour and screw off at my desk. If they're going to pay him to increase the companies health costs, they might as well pay me to go on Slashdot and complain about it.
You made the wrong connection. My point was the ability to overcome a shameful past, not that the Crusades and the Holocaust were somehow similar in their purpose and design.
Fact: the Crusades were a response to Muslim harassment of Christian pilgrims in the holy lands.
Most of the early Crusades were attempts to get the Holy Land back from the Muslims. Several of them had nothing to do with Muslims; and quite a few were also against Jews and other Christians.
Crusade is just the Christian word for "Jihad." Your attempts to minimalize and rationalize the Crusades is pretty pathetic. (It's kind of interesting actually, to most Westerners, a "crusade" is any worthy pursuit, and a "jihad" is a misguided narrow-minded slaughter of innocents. To Muslims, the opposite connotations hold true.)
Take it for what it really is: a shameful part of Christian past for which we are still answering today. Germany has managed to shake its history of Nazism and anti-semitism through an incredible campaign. Certain Christian groups can't seem to admit that their ancestors were wrong to have the Crusades, and therefore we all continue to suffer.
One of many causes of significant problems we face today.
Think of how different Muslim/Christian relations (and hence terrorism) would be if we didn't have the Crusades. However, you can't change the past, but we ought to stand up and denounce it more publicly.
it also allows you to dedicate it to the public domain etc.
Wow, that's amazing. I didn't know I needed CC to do that.
Here watch this:
Everything contained in this comment is given to the public domain by its author.
Wow. That was difficult.
copyright gives you *no* rights to copy except fair use
Fair use is not a right bestowed upon the public, it is a limitation on the rights granted to the copyright holder. There is a significant difference here in that the right as issue is never your right to fair use, but whether the copyright holder's rights extend to a certain point or not.
Newsflash:
You can produce works, copyright them, distribute them, license them, share them, etc. without needing Creative Commons or a lawyer.
I know it's difficult to grasp this concept, but you see, copyright exists without Creative Commons, and all they do is provide a fancy way to license your work. They're not giving you anything you don't already have. Copyright takes care of all of this, they just found a little way to sneak their foot in the middle of something and get publicity for themselves.
As the FA points out, Creative Commons doesn't give you any bonus rights that copyright doesn't. Copyright gives you the exclusive right to control distribution, sales, etc.
Please tell me what Creative Commons can you give you that Copyright can't?
What is with all of you single-issue-minded voters? It is quite simple, you will never find a candidate you agree with 100%, so you pick and choose that which is most important to you and find the candidate you find the most agreeable.
Completely dismissing a candidate because of their view on one particular subject is how we got into this current mess.
For example, candidate A has said that he is not opposed to abortion in certain cases. Suddenly, candidate B comes out and says that everyone who opposes abortion must vote for him, because his opponent supports it. Thousands of mindless voters now vote for candidate B, because nothing is more important to this nation that a candidate's view on abortion.
Please, get over it. All of you. There is a lot more to our country than a few issues that get your panties in a bind. Please vote with ALL OF THEM in mind.
A lot of times the problem isn't that the doctors are giving vague advice, it's that people aren't comfortable asking questions of their doctor, or they aren't comfortable answering their doctor's questions. However, they have no trouble asking strangers online, or a search engine these same questions.
A doctor can only do so much with the information given, and out of embarassment, a lot of people don't provide all the details they really should (like that extra little pain in your abdomen that is probably gas and you don't need to mention). A lot of you probably don't even realize you are like this, but think about all of your symptoms and then how many you revealed to the doctor the last time you visited and how many you didn't mention because you assumed they were unrelated.
You might be right; I do know other states do not include the violence requirement.
I just did a quick survey a few articles on the subject and that seemed to be the general consensus. The problem is that these large cities just happen to be right in the middle of some major migratory routes.
Also, it's not like the birds explode on impact. Some of the might die instantly and fall to the ground, while others are just injured badly enough that they'll find somewhere else to die.
To put it in perspective you could look at birds getting killed running into smokestacks from your nearest coal-fired energy plant or residential/office high-rise buildings. Even cats are more deadly than turbines.
About 100,000,000 or so birds die each year from collisions with buildings. Some cities, like Chicago are taking steps to turn off a number of lights on their skyscrapers during migration seasons in order to reduce problems. (The bright lights and reflections apparently are very disorienting and distracting to the birds).
I imagine that turning all of the forests east of the Mississippi into farmland probably had a pretty drastic impact on the climate as well. Compared to that, what's one windmill, let alone thousands?
Why is there no point in visiting Mars? Do you know something that no one else does?
It's in the public interest, like banning leaded gasoline, spark-gap radio transmitters, and the burning of trash.
So, analog TV pollutes? I'm confused.
Please explain how this is in the public interest? Just because it's "better technology" doesn't mean it's going to improve anyone's quality of life except those that stand to profit from the changeover (not consumers).
when I can get a DTV to ATV tuner for $99.00 then I'll agree that it's a good time to switch.
For most people, that price is going to be more like $5-10. Anything more than that and I begin to wonder why we are being forced to change something that isn't broken.
But you have to agree that as a data storage device the floppy is pretty much useless. It might be used to house a few key tools, but who keeps data on them?