Exactly. Why is Obama once again getting blamed for something Congress is trying to do?
Because it's naive to think that the president has zero influence on the proposing of bills in Congress? Secondly, do you think that he's actually going to veto this? HAHAHAHAHA, yeah right.
Probably, but I was hoping to give them the benefit of the doubt that they were just misinformed. To think that Nintendo, Microsoft or Sony are even remotely comparable to this no-name internet company is laughable.
Nintendo wasn't a huge multinational company when they entered the video game market.
But they were also not a no-name company. They were a 90 year old company when they moved into the electronic gaming market. Before then they were well-known company in Japan who made card games and all sorts of toys. So while not a multinational company like Sony or Microsoft they weren't a no-name like EVO. Secondly, by the time they had come out with their first gaming console, they had built up a reputation in arcade games both in Japan and America. So unlike this company, Nintendo actually had it's name out their long before they released the Famicom/NES.
anything more than that should require congressional approval.
Which will be about as worthless as the requirement that Congress is the only body that can declare war. They will just sign over any oversight they have to the president and be a bunch of rubber-stamping pantywaists.
You mean like the VDPAU support that it got as soon as nVIDIA released the patches? mplayer also supports xMBC as well. So what exactly are you talking about?
This is an improvement, but it's hardly a compatible license with most other licenses.
Sorry, but this isn't true. That it isn't compatible with the GPL doesn't mean it's incompatible with most other licenses. It's perfectly compatible with the BSD/Apache2/X11/Zlib/etc permissive licenses. You're spreading nonsense.
That Microsoft Shared Source License is open source, but not free software.
This isn't the Shared Source License. It's the Microsoft Public License which is accepted as a free software license by both the OSI and the FSF. You seem to be ranting about something completely unrelated to this article.
in both cases they want the release to occur on Friday night and get all weekend.
April 29th falls on the same day of the week in the US as it does in the UK... which means they get it on Wednesday not Friday. You do know we have the same calender on both sides of the Atlantic, right?
No, it works it just seems to be buggy. What you have to do is after you choose that style from the "default style" drop down, choose another one and it will fill in all the sections below to have OMG!!! PONIES!!! Otherwise you have to select it for each individual style for the sections.
It might not put out enough waste that its immediately noticable, but what happens if this gets loose in someone with a weak immune system?
I'm pretty sure anyone who has one of these things is probably going to get routine checkups from their physician to make sure the device is functioning alright. It's not as if they are just going to stick this in you and then just forget about it.
They might ferment to death.
No, they wouldn't. The amount of glucose a yeast cell consumes is extremely small and the amount of ethanol produced is as well (and would be metabolized faster than it could build up). We'd have to be talking about many magnitudes more yeast cells than are going to be in this battery to survive in your body for quite some time to actually have any detrimental effect.
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Or when certain editors *cough*kdawson*cough* insert their own crappily written text into the original submission.
To improve story quality they just need to get rid of kdawson and ScuttleMonkey. That'll improve quality at least 5000%.
Exactly. Why is Obama once again getting blamed for something Congress is trying to do?
Because it's naive to think that the president has zero influence on the proposing of bills in Congress? Secondly, do you think that he's actually going to veto this? HAHAHAHAHA, yeah right.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pantywaist
You mean like how we've seen all those terrorist attacks on our outshore oil drilling platforms? Oh wait...
YHBT.
Probably, but I was hoping to give them the benefit of the doubt that they were just misinformed. To think that Nintendo, Microsoft or Sony are even remotely comparable to this no-name internet company is laughable.
Nintendo wasn't a huge multinational company when they entered the video game market.
But they were also not a no-name company. They were a 90 year old company when they moved into the electronic gaming market. Before then they were well-known company in Japan who made card games and all sorts of toys. So while not a multinational company like Sony or Microsoft they weren't a no-name like EVO. Secondly, by the time they had come out with their first gaming console, they had built up a reputation in arcade games both in Japan and America. So unlike this company, Nintendo actually had it's name out their long before they released the Famicom/NES.
So basically your comparing huge multinational corporations who entered the gaming markets with some no name company? Yeah, that's totally analogous!
anything more than that should require congressional approval.
Which will be about as worthless as the requirement that Congress is the only body that can declare war. They will just sign over any oversight they have to the president and be a bunch of rubber-stamping pantywaists.
I know. "Change" we can all definitely believe in.
That's what you get for posting from an EVO Linux Gaming Console.
You mean like the VDPAU support that it got as soon as nVIDIA released the patches? mplayer also supports xMBC as well. So what exactly are you talking about?
And don't we all owe them something for keeping openoffice alive and well?
Why would we owe them something for keeping alive a bloated, slow piece of shit?
This is an improvement, but it's hardly a compatible license with most other licenses.
Sorry, but this isn't true. That it isn't compatible with the GPL doesn't mean it's incompatible with most other licenses. It's perfectly compatible with the BSD/Apache2/X11/Zlib/etc permissive licenses. You're spreading nonsense.
Hardly open source
How so? It's accepted as a free software license not only by the OSI but by the FSF as well.
This is an improvement, but it's hardly a compatible license with most other licenses.
The GPL is incompatible with a ton of other free software licenses. Does that make it "hardly open source" as well?
That Microsoft Shared Source License is open source, but not free software.
This isn't the Shared Source License. It's the Microsoft Public License which is accepted as a free software license by both the OSI and the FSF. You seem to be ranting about something completely unrelated to this article.
in both cases they want the release to occur on Friday night and get all weekend.
April 29th falls on the same day of the week in the US as it does in the UK... which means they get it on Wednesday not Friday. You do know we have the same calender on both sides of the Atlantic, right?
What whoosh? Torvalds is Swedish even if he is a Finnish citizen.
To all of those that can't stand one day of media humor:
We can stand humor, but none of these "joke" stories have been funny in the least bit.
Can you explain then why Lincoln only freed the slaves in the southern states?
Because they were the only states that had slaves? Where else in the United States would Lincoln had been able to free the slaves?
WHOOSH?
But what about the "frosty piss" achievement?
No, it works it just seems to be buggy. What you have to do is after you choose that style from the "default style" drop down, choose another one and it will fill in all the sections below to have OMG!!! PONIES!!! Otherwise you have to select it for each individual style for the sections.
Derp derp, another unfunny April Fools Day "joke".
It might not put out enough waste that its immediately noticable, but what happens if this gets loose in someone with a weak immune system?
I'm pretty sure anyone who has one of these things is probably going to get routine checkups from their physician to make sure the device is functioning alright. It's not as if they are just going to stick this in you and then just forget about it.
They might ferment to death.
No, they wouldn't. The amount of glucose a yeast cell consumes is extremely small and the amount of ethanol produced is as well (and would be metabolized faster than it could build up). We'd have to be talking about many magnitudes more yeast cells than are going to be in this battery to survive in your body for quite some time to actually have any detrimental effect.