The problem is that you need jailbroken iphone, which wont be so easy for average joe. There wont be final resolution before Apple also learns that restricting so much is a bad decision.
Well its kind of badass to be the sole purpose some of the world's largest websites got beaten offline.. Aww who am I kidding, the jerk from high school still wins.
These kind of comments are just total bullshit. If you check statistics, google has around 70% marketshare. Bing+Yahoo together has around 25%. If you think a little that is millions, even billions of dollars with the amount of visitors they get and what the ad clicks make them. Instead of just trolling, maybe get your facts straight before posting.
Weeeell, I meant staying outside the booth and have her come out when she's decent, but your way is fun too, though against store policy:)
For the shoes: Comments on how it shapes her leg and affects her posture are considered constructive.
Oh thats a good comment for shoes. Just need to learn to see which ones of them look good - I notice when its absolutely great looking, but anything in between looks quite same heh.
I wonder if that is actually against store policy here, I mean the saleswomen have been walking past when going in the booth and even bringing other clothes to try while I'm in too and commenting etc. Maybe culture differences a bit too.
The traditional way to do this is to get bored out of your skull while the girl stays in the booth. No fun. Ask, nay, tell her to show you what she tries on so you can interact, and you'll enjoy it too.
Yeah, I do this and go with her to the booth aswell (which admittedly felt a bit weird at the first times specially if someone looked what they're doing, but ohwell). High heels and shoes and such is hard to comment, other clothing easier tho. But seeing some boobies in the booth helps make the time more enjoyable:)
Yeah that was my point aswell:) Just the nerdy way of thinking speed increase as cpu actually doing something faster, instead of seeming to make it faster by increasing responsiveness (which actually is really important)
Just to note here before the bitching starts, 360 version costs because MS wants it. Good that Valve gives it for free for PC users.
This sounds nice and comes nicely before Left4Dead2. Also shows that Valve continues to support their existing games, even for free. Same thing as with TF2. Most other companies would just had forgetten about it after release, maybe done a few bug fixes. Or asked $20 per more major update.
Nice work, and L4D was (and still is) my favourite game on end of last year and this year.
Yep, and if nothing else, trying to understand the other one and talk about stuff, without getting mad, is important. And yeah it takes a lot work sometimes.
Also dont let it get boring, even if it easily goes into that. Do stuff together, even if it doesn't interest you. My gf likes it when I do stuff I dont really like with her (those damn freaking clothing stores argh), and I love it when she tries stuff I like. For example she sometimes play games I like and I drink beer and watch her. She didn't like GTA IV, but Vice City was fun. From FPS games she tried left4dead and liked being infected in versus mode, cos you hided and then suddenly attacked the other team. And for me it was nice watching her play and drink a few beers while on it.
I'm not married but in an years long relationship with her, and I've kinda noticed I've let stuff like that slip and more starting to take it for granted. Pretty much forgot lots of presents and happenings too, or was too busy with other stuff and the relationship has gone a bit down. Luckily not too much tho. But its good to keep things like that around. Stuff you did when you had just met and fell in love, and not just take it granted and start being boring:)
I'm one of those with double height taskbars in windows classic mode. I find it faster to be able to directly click on a taskbar item to select any of the 30+ windows open, than to click one of 6 items, then click again to select one of 5 items. I don't care how cluttered or messy it makes it look.
I agree here, I've always used atleast double height on taskbar and I hate it when the programs stack. It's just extra clicks and you dont see it just by looking at it - you have to click first and then look again. This is especially true when you keep your pc on 24/7 and you have lots of ssh/scp windows open, chat windows, notepads (yeah I tried using tabbed notepad++, but it has basically the same issue with extra clicks). I also like to run almost everything full screen (well, not the IM windows, but else) so the trick of showing the window when hovering isn't going to improve it so much.
However I haven't yet tried Windows 7, so maybe and hopefully it works way better than stacking in Vista and XP.
Seriously.... they claimed all this same stuff for vista. and we all found out they were full of crap.
7 might be better than vista. but i still dont believe it's the fastest ever or any of their other bs.
This isn't news. it's an ad.
You might like to actually test it, people have been telling good things about Windows 7, and the interface and updates do look quite nice. Personally I'm using Vista as I never bothered to replace it with XP, so I should notice it even more.
Judging from the article and what I've read before, they've spend time on making sure interface and the system responsiveness improves a lot. That is what people usually consider as "fast", even if its fake-fast it looks faster. Its pretty much the only thing OS can do to appear faster anyways - You cant magically get more CPU power.
You could say the same about twitter aswell. They're not bringing *anything* back in revenue yet, just building their base. However spotify is still bringing back about $100 000 a month back, and they have some resourceful companies backing them up. Recently with internet times and investations you dont really need to bring anything back just the right away, but build the market and userbase which will benefit you later. Like Google ran for years too (it was 4-5 years later when they started monetarizing with ads, and you see where they are now)
You might like to come live in the current world. Like everything else in entertainment (movies, games, comics whatever), music is entertainment and professionally made. It requires time, effort and money. Just as stupid RIAA's lawsuits against studenst are, pirates reasoning to get content for free are too. Music *IS* industry.
Heh, honestly. If some random guy in the internet can provide your costumers with a copy of your product that has exactly the same (or thanks to DRM even more) quality than your product for FREE! then you are probably doing something wrong. The record industry may pull as many tantrums as they'd like, but it is their business that allows piracy to kill them.
So you are pretty much saying that because copying electronic content is possible, its free to do?
As in, people are free to make money from pirated copies by selling those on the street?
You might actually like to give a read to my later posts on this story before modding me troll as "music industry troll". Both this and this we're really good comments trying to get a line between music industry and pirates. But seems for the latter ones anything isn't enough in slashdot, so they got buried as "troll".
I know this. But lets face it; if you know the people, you have more feelings toward them and think its good. I mean, I *love* when my gf sings to me and I think its cute and lovely. But I have the feelings that make it. It wouldn't stand against commercially produced music.
I've also listened to friends and friends of friends playing music and they seem good. But the relationships come in to play in that. When it gets larger, its not gonna help but the music has to be good quality and something liked. And I do enjoy demo songs and such, but I want to listen to professionally made music too.
No, you dont need big labels for quality. But lets face it; most starting bands are low on money, do it part time and if you've ever listened to demo's they suck. Well they dont if you like the band, but at that point you approciate them with different view. Just because a few musicians with their own money to support them can get studio time doesn't mean all the starting bands can.
As much as I know this is heated topic in slashdot -- and i probably get modded down for it -- the big label records AREN'T there to fuck everyone over. They're just best at making everything that work (what i mentioned in earlier post and other). I mean, I like smaller records. Since my teenage years Drive-Thru Records have been my favourite one. They're a small, somewhat known record label thats just luckily stayed on positive balance. I've tried to support them when I can.
Besides the label issues, see my later posts -- I support Spotify and methods for people for free to listen to music legitly. But I think record labels are needed to support the artists.
You're answering to my post about spotify and such services, but have you actually test it? Its free, but it still supports artists and its legal. Pretty much everyone I know have converted from illegally downloading music to spotify because its just so convenient and gives everything you need. There hasn't been really a reason to use torrents etc after spotify came out, because it does actually pwn them. Yeah, I'm still surprised even after an year. But its a GREAT service.
You forget that in free with ads/premium supported service you get way more listeners, and when you make it more convenient you also stop warez (yes, i know what it means but it can be meant for all of that).
The usual arguement with pirates have been that good music will survive anyways because those who do it for their love will get support. Well, these free streaming help a great amount in that. Someone likes their music and he just pastes link to their friends and suddenly theres a lot more listeners, who also can spread it further. And if you have lots of listeners, you'll also have more revenue.
The words 'music' and 'industry' were never meant to go together. Music should come from the heart, not the wallet. This idea that you can become wealthy by being a musician is a new one and we've suffered for it.
You might like to come live in the current world. Like everything else in entertainment (movies, games, comics whatever), music is entertainment and professionally made. It requires time, effort and money. Just as stupid RIAA's lawsuits against studenst are, pirates reasoning to get content for free are too. Music *IS* industry. You dont get around that as much as you'd like to deny it. Or well, if you like to, stop listening to commercially produced music and go listen in the streets; they're nice sometimes and you can tip those who you think are good. But if you're against commercial music, the answer isn't to pirate it. Answer is not to listen to it all. You're just being hypocrisy and making excuses for pirating if you still listen to them.
And now besides the point, record labels aren't there just to rip people off. Artists actually need them. They actually find the artists that could be something, provide them studio time and sponsor them so they can get their job done, help making the music videos, doing promotion, making sure the actual product is somewhat quality (yeah, quality can be argued!) to actually delivering the products to retailers, tv and radio stations and whatever other places. Lots of times people forget that record labels do lots of other work too and sponsor the bands, and they're not there just to collect money forgefully.
This is why I think the record labels will continue to exist and will be used by artists. Yes, I said used. Its not necessary for artists to use them, noone force's them to. But lets face it, all that usually needs lots of money and time and work. Not a single person can usually do so much, but go work with record labels so they can handle all the other stuff and artists can spend the time on their core thing -- making music.
Free music IS NOT the way to go. Warez IS NOT the way to go.
However, streaming music services certainly ARE. Spotify has been around for an year in europe now and its getting close to US launch soon. Everyone I know has stopped pirating music because of it, and personally me and my friends paste spotify links to listen to good new music. And same thing is with my gf, specially because she's been away at her home town this summer. But we like the same kind of music so we paste those link on facebook. Easy and convenient.
I'm actually happy record labels have started to support these things. Great respect for them for that, because thats exactly what we need and want in these days. And they still get the compensation in ad revenue or premium membership. We cant buy every album, because theres just certain amount every person can spend on music per month. But we can listen to them with flat rates or ads. And everyone benefits, including record labels.
I would mod you up if I didn't already post. Great amount of programs indeed seem to rely on IE's rendering engine. Probably most obvious is RSS readers and MMO games in their launchers.
And hell, they'd broke the "web browser" I made as a kid too, which obviously used IE's OLE component:)
Because the market share itself has always been made biased by Microsoft's actions. The same ones we are discussing about. (however that was just minor sidecomment, I dont really care that much and I doubt the ordering will cause any problems)
It seems to me that this enables manufacturer to choose:
1) Install "IE", which by default asks user which browser to install 2) Install another browser by default 3) Dont install any browser at all (the Windows 7 E route)
What makes me wonder tho, is the IE removed after installing another browser?
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The problem is that you need jailbroken iphone, which wont be so easy for average joe. There wont be final resolution before Apple also learns that restricting so much is a bad decision.
Well its kind of badass to be the sole purpose some of the world's largest websites got beaten offline.. Aww who am I kidding, the jerk from high school still wins.
These kind of comments are just total bullshit. If you check statistics, google has around 70% marketshare. Bing+Yahoo together has around 25%. If you think a little that is millions, even billions of dollars with the amount of visitors they get and what the ad clicks make them. Instead of just trolling, maybe get your facts straight before posting.
Weeeell, I meant staying outside the booth and have her come out when she's decent, but your way is fun too, though against store policy :)
For the shoes: Comments on how it shapes her leg and affects her posture are considered constructive.
Oh thats a good comment for shoes. Just need to learn to see which ones of them look good - I notice when its absolutely great looking, but anything in between looks quite same heh.
I wonder if that is actually against store policy here, I mean the saleswomen have been walking past when going in the booth and even bringing other clothes to try while I'm in too and commenting etc. Maybe culture differences a bit too.
The traditional way to do this is to get bored out of your skull while the girl stays in the booth. No fun. Ask, nay, tell her to show you what she tries on so you can interact, and you'll enjoy it too.
Yeah, I do this and go with her to the booth aswell (which admittedly felt a bit weird at the first times specially if someone looked what they're doing, but ohwell). High heels and shoes and such is hard to comment, other clothing easier tho. But seeing some boobies in the booth helps make the time more enjoyable :)
Yeah that was my point aswell :) Just the nerdy way of thinking speed increase as cpu actually doing something faster, instead of seeming to make it faster by increasing responsiveness (which actually is really important)
Just to note here before the bitching starts, 360 version costs because MS wants it. Good that Valve gives it for free for PC users.
This sounds nice and comes nicely before Left4Dead2. Also shows that Valve continues to support their existing games, even for free. Same thing as with TF2. Most other companies would just had forgetten about it after release, maybe done a few bug fixes. Or asked $20 per more major update.
Nice work, and L4D was (and still is) my favourite game on end of last year and this year.
Yep, and if nothing else, trying to understand the other one and talk about stuff, without getting mad, is important. And yeah it takes a lot work sometimes.
Also dont let it get boring, even if it easily goes into that. Do stuff together, even if it doesn't interest you. My gf likes it when I do stuff I dont really like with her (those damn freaking clothing stores argh), and I love it when she tries stuff I like. For example she sometimes play games I like and I drink beer and watch her. She didn't like GTA IV, but Vice City was fun. From FPS games she tried left4dead and liked being infected in versus mode, cos you hided and then suddenly attacked the other team. And for me it was nice watching her play and drink a few beers while on it.
I'm not married but in an years long relationship with her, and I've kinda noticed I've let stuff like that slip and more starting to take it for granted. Pretty much forgot lots of presents and happenings too, or was too busy with other stuff and the relationship has gone a bit down. Luckily not too much tho. But its good to keep things like that around. Stuff you did when you had just met and fell in love, and not just take it granted and start being boring :)
I'm one of those with double height taskbars in windows classic mode. I find it faster to be able to directly click on a taskbar item to select any of the 30+ windows open, than to click one of 6 items, then click again to select one of 5 items. I don't care how cluttered or messy it makes it look.
I agree here, I've always used atleast double height on taskbar and I hate it when the programs stack. It's just extra clicks and you dont see it just by looking at it - you have to click first and then look again. This is especially true when you keep your pc on 24/7 and you have lots of ssh/scp windows open, chat windows, notepads (yeah I tried using tabbed notepad++, but it has basically the same issue with extra clicks). I also like to run almost everything full screen (well, not the IM windows, but else) so the trick of showing the window when hovering isn't going to improve it so much.
However I haven't yet tried Windows 7, so maybe and hopefully it works way better than stacking in Vista and XP.
Pull the plug!
Seriously.... they claimed all this same stuff for vista. and we all found out they were full of crap.
7 might be better than vista. but i still dont believe it's the fastest ever or any of their other bs.
This isn't news. it's an ad.
You might like to actually test it, people have been telling good things about Windows 7, and the interface and updates do look quite nice. Personally I'm using Vista as I never bothered to replace it with XP, so I should notice it even more.
Judging from the article and what I've read before, they've spend time on making sure interface and the system responsiveness improves a lot. That is what people usually consider as "fast", even if its fake-fast it looks faster. Its pretty much the only thing OS can do to appear faster anyways - You cant magically get more CPU power.
You could say the same about twitter aswell. They're not bringing *anything* back in revenue yet, just building their base. However spotify is still bringing back about $100 000 a month back, and they have some resourceful companies backing them up. Recently with internet times and investations you dont really need to bring anything back just the right away, but build the market and userbase which will benefit you later. Like Google ran for years too (it was 4-5 years later when they started monetarizing with ads, and you see where they are now)
And what is your point? Promotion is always better than no promotion. Where would they get without that?
Heh, honestly. If some random guy in the internet can provide your costumers with a copy of your product that has exactly the same (or thanks to DRM even more) quality than your product for FREE! then you are probably doing something wrong. The record industry may pull as many tantrums as they'd like, but it is their business that allows piracy to kill them.
So you are pretty much saying that because copying electronic content is possible, its free to do?
As in, people are free to make money from pirated copies by selling those on the street?
You might actually like to give a read to my later posts on this story before modding me troll as "music industry troll". Both this and this we're really good comments trying to get a line between music industry and pirates. But seems for the latter ones anything isn't enough in slashdot, so they got buried as "troll".
I love it how the previous comment got moderated down as troll to hide opinions that actually reflect reality :)
I know this. But lets face it; if you know the people, you have more feelings toward them and think its good. I mean, I *love* when my gf sings to me and I think its cute and lovely. But I have the feelings that make it. It wouldn't stand against commercially produced music.
I've also listened to friends and friends of friends playing music and they seem good. But the relationships come in to play in that. When it gets larger, its not gonna help but the music has to be good quality and something liked. And I do enjoy demo songs and such, but I want to listen to professionally made music too.
No, you dont need big labels for quality. But lets face it; most starting bands are low on money, do it part time and if you've ever listened to demo's they suck. Well they dont if you like the band, but at that point you approciate them with different view. Just because a few musicians with their own money to support them can get studio time doesn't mean all the starting bands can.
As much as I know this is heated topic in slashdot -- and i probably get modded down for it -- the big label records AREN'T there to fuck everyone over. They're just best at making everything that work (what i mentioned in earlier post and other). I mean, I like smaller records. Since my teenage years Drive-Thru Records have been my favourite one. They're a small, somewhat known record label thats just luckily stayed on positive balance. I've tried to support them when I can.
Besides the label issues, see my later posts -- I support Spotify and methods for people for free to listen to music legitly. But I think record labels are needed to support the artists.
You're answering to my post about spotify and such services, but have you actually test it? Its free, but it still supports artists and its legal. Pretty much everyone I know have converted from illegally downloading music to spotify because its just so convenient and gives everything you need. There hasn't been really a reason to use torrents etc after spotify came out, because it does actually pwn them. Yeah, I'm still surprised even after an year. But its a GREAT service.
You forget that in free with ads/premium supported service you get way more listeners, and when you make it more convenient you also stop warez (yes, i know what it means but it can be meant for all of that).
The usual arguement with pirates have been that good music will survive anyways because those who do it for their love will get support. Well, these free streaming help a great amount in that. Someone likes their music and he just pastes link to their friends and suddenly theres a lot more listeners, who also can spread it further. And if you have lots of listeners, you'll also have more revenue.
The words 'music' and 'industry' were never meant to go together. Music should come from the heart, not the wallet. This idea that you can become wealthy by being a musician is a new one and we've suffered for it.
You might like to come live in the current world. Like everything else in entertainment (movies, games, comics whatever), music is entertainment and professionally made. It requires time, effort and money. Just as stupid RIAA's lawsuits against studenst are, pirates reasoning to get content for free are too. Music *IS* industry. You dont get around that as much as you'd like to deny it. Or well, if you like to, stop listening to commercially produced music and go listen in the streets; they're nice sometimes and you can tip those who you think are good. But if you're against commercial music, the answer isn't to pirate it. Answer is not to listen to it all. You're just being hypocrisy and making excuses for pirating if you still listen to them.
And now besides the point, record labels aren't there just to rip people off. Artists actually need them. They actually find the artists that could be something, provide them studio time and sponsor them so they can get their job done, help making the music videos, doing promotion, making sure the actual product is somewhat quality (yeah, quality can be argued!) to actually delivering the products to retailers, tv and radio stations and whatever other places. Lots of times people forget that record labels do lots of other work too and sponsor the bands, and they're not there just to collect money forgefully.
This is why I think the record labels will continue to exist and will be used by artists. Yes, I said used. Its not necessary for artists to use them, noone force's them to. But lets face it, all that usually needs lots of money and time and work. Not a single person can usually do so much, but go work with record labels so they can handle all the other stuff and artists can spend the time on their core thing -- making music.
Free music IS NOT the way to go. Warez IS NOT the way to go.
However, streaming music services certainly ARE. Spotify has been around for an year in europe now and its getting close to US launch soon. Everyone I know has stopped pirating music because of it, and personally me and my friends paste spotify links to listen to good new music. And same thing is with my gf, specially because she's been away at her home town this summer. But we like the same kind of music so we paste those link on facebook. Easy and convenient.
I'm actually happy record labels have started to support these things. Great respect for them for that, because thats exactly what we need and want in these days. And they still get the compensation in ad revenue or premium membership. We cant buy every album, because theres just certain amount every person can spend on music per month. But we can listen to them with flat rates or ads. And everyone benefits, including record labels.
I would mod you up if I didn't already post. Great amount of programs indeed seem to rely on IE's rendering engine. Probably most obvious is RSS readers and MMO games in their launchers.
And hell, they'd broke the "web browser" I made as a kid too, which obviously used IE's OLE component :)
Here's how much it would cost to send CmdrTaco to orbit earth:
1 pound = 0.45359237 kilograms
0.45359237 / 2 = 0.22679685
90kg / 0.22679685 = 396.830908
396.830908 * $8000 = 3174647.26
Result is $3 174 647
Anyone know if they allow that as a whole package or if you need it as 227g chunks? That might cause problems. :)
Because the market share itself has always been made biased by Microsoft's actions. The same ones we are discussing about. (however that was just minor sidecomment, I dont really care that much and I doubt the ordering will cause any problems)
It seems to me that this enables manufacturer to choose:
1) Install "IE", which by default asks user which browser to install
2) Install another browser by default
3) Dont install any browser at all (the Windows 7 E route)
What makes me wonder tho, is the IE removed after installing another browser?