One mistake is understandable, but this many is stupid and distracting... Even for those who don't care quite enough to comment. If you typed on a computer with a spell checker, just use it. Please.
Seriously though, why doesn't Portland have any notable high tech industry like CA or Seattle? Because people didn't notice and start moving to Oregon until the mid 80's?
Then we must work to prevent tyrannical socialsm just as we work to prevent fascism or extreme libertarianism.
The USA already has lots of social programs and wealth transfers, right down to your local fire and police departments. For the most part they work much better than the pay-per-use alternatives. Or would you like your downstairs neighbor to try and put a grease fire out himself because he doesn't want a $500 fire department bill for calling them? 50% odds he fails and the delay spreads the fire, possibly burning your stuff too.
Nice, so when you're wrong about some of the points you just ignore them like you were never wrong in the first place.
About the power situation, I acknowledged that mistakes were made, but the companies were at fault also.
Funny thing about illegal immigration, the voters passed prop 209, which was very anti-illegal immigrant, but the courts struck it down. The Border Patrol is the Federal government's job. I blame them. Liberals tend to be compassionate, but even many of them realize one state can't afford to provide benefits to wave after wave of illegals coming from all over Central America.
As for immigration into Oregon, I have some interesting statistics. First of all, have you looked at the net migration numbers lately? Immigration into Oregon slowed from 53,700 in 1993 to 18,833 in 2002. It's also predicted to stay below 33,000 through 2011. Also, while in 1994 Californians accounted for 80% of the net migration, in 1995 they were 55% and just 45% in 1996. I'd certainly like to see more recent numbers in case lots of the migration is actually coming from states other than California.
Frankly I find it sad that you're so upset that someone else found a slice of paradise and wants in but you don't want to share. It's like ultimate NIMBY isn't it? Regardless of whether the migration is from CA, NY, or TX.
What's with hiding behind the patriot shield? Are you saying it's unpatriotic to migrate around the country? Did being a patriot make you ignorant and wrong about so many of the points?
The state has had more Republican governors lately, but the legislature has has made the state's laws most definitely liberal. Arnold's approval has declined to 30-something percent. Califonia went to Gore in 2000. The power companies illegally exploited the poor wording of CA's power deregulation. CA didn't have a negative net domestic immigration rate until 1990. Frankly I think the influx of illegal immigrants has played a large part in causing that.
When BART struck and the trains stopped, traffic on the freeways became far worse. Rush hour started an hour earlier and stayed backed up or slow until an hour after it usually does. So the transit system most certainly does put a dent in the problem.
How did you manage to be wrong about so many points? Are you blinded by hate? Oh wait, you can't see up your own ass.
If you're taking a jab at Californians for the liberal politics, I'll point out that while LA is known for it's web of freeways, the Bay Area has some of the best public transportation in the country. LA finally built the Metro when they realized it'll only cost more if they wait. If they double or triple it's reach, they just might be able to have busses fill in the gaps and have adequate transportation with fewer cars.
People who don't use folders correctly aren't going to use this correctly either, so for them there is no difference.
People who use folders will instead of spending 10 seconds navigating to the right folder, spend 10 seconds clicking and typing keywords. Once a keyword is entered, it can be remembered so the Save dialog box can have multiple checkboxes for freqently used words. If I select "hardcore", several more boxes to check could appear such as "asian" "blowjob" and "threesome". Adult words could also be hidden in several ways to keep kids from stumbling upon them.
Just as IE currently remembers the folder files were saved to, for a batch of pictures or movies, the same checkboxes could show up to speed things up.
Anyway, how descriptive the metadata gets is up to the users. Just like in iTunes people can add Grouping data to supplement the single Genre tag.
Except that the NES was originally $300 according to the list. I'm fairly sure the Sega Genesis was $300 too until the SNES gave it competition. Those are $500 and $400 prices in today's dollars. But today's videogame market is much larger, no doubt in part thanks to declining console prices.
In 1990 vending machines sold Coke for fifty cents. Was it even less in 1982? Movie ticket prices have more than doubled. Car prices kinda have, but perhaps the quality and durability of them have doubled?
Let me, an advanced user who knows a damn thing about computers and interfaces, change the weighting of the stars. I don't want my 5-star songs to play just twice as often as 2-star songs. I want them to 6 times as often. I want 4-stars to play 4 times, 3-stars to play 3 times, and no-stars to play 2 times.
Why no-stars? Because that way the majority of the collection is unrated. Stared songs really stand out in a playlist. 1 and 2 star songs play less often than no-stars, while 3, 4, and 5 play more often. But I want my favorites to play much more often than your arbitrary algorithm.
Because I didn't see anyone explicitly saying so in the other replies:
Hi-MD came out too late to draw enough folks away from hard drive based players. Back then Sonicstage was buggy and more restrictive than today. There's also a lot of techy folks who don't like Sony being a proprietary dick with stuff like Memory Sticks and so refuse to buy their cameras, and some extend that to boycotting all their electronics.
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Then let's hurry up and get a system where e-mail costs half a cent to send to strangers, and free to people who are on each-others' white lists, or just simply waive the charge.
SF is not silicon valley unless you're looking at the whole bay area region as SV. If you've been here 10 years you know perfectly well San Jose is 80+ degrees most of the summer. Move down there.
Do you have a price for the subtle psychological benefit most people get from working in a nice looking building and campus instead of a boring office building with multiple companies on different floors or wings?
No the base model is 300. 400 with the hard drive. Don't need a memory card once I have the hard drive. If I get my friends to buy a 360 so we can game over Live, they can bring their own controller over for when we do co-op.
You may have psychological issues with the number 250, but I assure you a $200 SNES in 1991 adjusted for inflation would be $250 today.
Someone with enough skill to program this chose fame on/. over adding to his or her portfolio of game mods. One is a basically useless gimmick. The other could actually be worth a damn and people would enjoy using it.
If you wanted to buy a video card for yourself or a niece, you could compare cards in the same price range and pick the one with the higher numbers. Yeah it would be nice if you knew what they meant and which numbers mattered more, but them's the breaks.
So that's why the CDs are $30 or 35, because people rented and ripped them to minidisc and then mp3? Good deal I guess for the people, but the artists are getting screwed. Guess that means any real money has to come from touring. I considered importing a few CDs, but never went through with it when I saw the prices. If Apple ever gets cross-continent deals worked out with those labels, there are a few artists I'd like to finally pay.
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One mistake is understandable, but this many is stupid and distracting... Even for those who don't care quite enough to comment. If you typed on a computer with a spell checker, just use it. Please.
Seriously though, why doesn't Portland have any notable high tech industry like CA or Seattle? Because people didn't notice and start moving to Oregon until the mid 80's?
Then we must work to prevent tyrannical socialsm just as we work to prevent fascism or extreme libertarianism.
The USA already has lots of social programs and wealth transfers, right down to your local fire and police departments. For the most part they work much better than the pay-per-use alternatives. Or would you like your downstairs neighbor to try and put a grease fire out himself because he doesn't want a $500 fire department bill for calling them? 50% odds he fails and the delay spreads the fire, possibly burning your stuff too.
Hmm, actually, how about the South goes ahead and seceds now if it still wants to.
Nice, so when you're wrong about some of the points you just ignore them like you were never wrong in the first place.
About the power situation, I acknowledged that mistakes were made, but the companies were at fault also.
Funny thing about illegal immigration, the voters passed prop 209, which was very anti-illegal immigrant, but the courts struck it down. The Border Patrol is the Federal government's job. I blame them. Liberals tend to be compassionate, but even many of them realize one state can't afford to provide benefits to wave after wave of illegals coming from all over Central America.
As for immigration into Oregon, I have some interesting statistics. First of all, have you looked at the net migration numbers lately? Immigration into Oregon slowed from 53,700 in 1993 to 18,833 in 2002. It's also predicted to stay below 33,000 through 2011. Also, while in 1994 Californians accounted for 80% of the net migration, in 1995 they were 55% and just 45% in 1996. I'd certainly like to see more recent numbers in case lots of the migration is actually coming from states other than California.
Frankly I find it sad that you're so upset that someone else found a slice of paradise and wants in but you don't want to share. It's like ultimate NIMBY isn't it? Regardless of whether the migration is from CA, NY, or TX.
What's with hiding behind the patriot shield? Are you saying it's unpatriotic to migrate around the country? Did being a patriot make you ignorant and wrong about so many of the points?
The state has had more Republican governors lately, but the legislature has has made the state's laws most definitely liberal.
Arnold's approval has declined to 30-something percent.
Califonia went to Gore in 2000.
The power companies illegally exploited the poor wording of CA's power deregulation.
CA didn't have a negative net domestic immigration rate until 1990. Frankly I think the influx of illegal immigrants has played a large part in causing that.
When BART struck and the trains stopped, traffic on the freeways became far worse. Rush hour started an hour earlier and stayed backed up or slow until an hour after it usually does. So the transit system most certainly does put a dent in the problem.
How did you manage to be wrong about so many points? Are you blinded by hate? Oh wait, you can't see up your own ass.
If you're taking a jab at Californians for the liberal politics, I'll point out that while LA is known for it's web of freeways, the Bay Area has some of the best public transportation in the country. LA finally built the Metro when they realized it'll only cost more if they wait. If they double or triple it's reach, they just might be able to have busses fill in the gaps and have adequate transportation with fewer cars.
People who don't use folders correctly aren't going to use this correctly either, so for them there is no difference.
People who use folders will instead of spending 10 seconds navigating to the right folder, spend 10 seconds clicking and typing keywords. Once a keyword is entered, it can be remembered so the Save dialog box can have multiple checkboxes for freqently used words. If I select "hardcore", several more boxes to check could appear such as "asian" "blowjob" and "threesome". Adult words could also be hidden in several ways to keep kids from stumbling upon them.
Just as IE currently remembers the folder files were saved to, for a batch of pictures or movies, the same checkboxes could show up to speed things up.
Anyway, how descriptive the metadata gets is up to the users. Just like in iTunes people can add Grouping data to supplement the single Genre tag.
Except that the NES was originally $300 according to the list. I'm fairly sure the Sega Genesis was $300 too until the SNES gave it competition. Those are $500 and $400 prices in today's dollars. But today's videogame market is much larger, no doubt in part thanks to declining console prices.
In 1990 vending machines sold Coke for fifty cents. Was it even less in 1982? Movie ticket prices have more than doubled. Car prices kinda have, but perhaps the quality and durability of them have doubled?
Let me, an advanced user who knows a damn thing about computers and interfaces, change the weighting of the stars. I don't want my 5-star songs to play just twice as often as 2-star songs. I want them to 6 times as often. I want 4-stars to play 4 times, 3-stars to play 3 times, and no-stars to play 2 times.
Why no-stars? Because that way the majority of the collection is unrated. Stared songs really stand out in a playlist. 1 and 2 star songs play less often than no-stars, while 3, 4, and 5 play more often. But I want my favorites to play much more often than your arbitrary algorithm.
Because I didn't see anyone explicitly saying so in the other replies:
Hi-MD came out too late to draw enough folks away from hard drive based players. Back then Sonicstage was buggy and more restrictive than today. There's also a lot of techy folks who don't like Sony being a proprietary dick with stuff like Memory Sticks and so refuse to buy their cameras, and some extend that to boycotting all their electronics.
Then let's hurry up and get a system where e-mail costs half a cent to send to strangers, and free to people who are on each-others' white lists, or just simply waive the charge.
SF is not silicon valley unless you're looking at the whole bay area region as SV. If you've been here 10 years you know perfectly well San Jose is 80+ degrees most of the summer. Move down there.
Do you have a price for the subtle psychological benefit most people get from working in a nice looking building and campus instead of a boring office building with multiple companies on different floors or wings?
No the base model is 300. 400 with the hard drive. Don't need a memory card once I have the hard drive. If I get my friends to buy a 360 so we can game over Live, they can bring their own controller over for when we do co-op.
You may have psychological issues with the number 250, but I assure you a $200 SNES in 1991 adjusted for inflation would be $250 today.
NEXT DAY AIR INTERNATIONAL. Or 2-day international morning delivery.
Costs a hell of a lot, but there's a market for it.
Someone with enough skill to program this chose fame on /. over adding to his or her portfolio of game mods. One is a basically useless gimmick. The other could actually be worth a damn and people would enjoy using it.
PONG ya troll.
Soccer is more boring and less strategic. Football is a very deep game for those who take the time to scratch the surface.
If you wanted to buy a video card for yourself or a niece, you could compare cards in the same price range and pick the one with the higher numbers. Yeah it would be nice if you knew what they meant and which numbers mattered more, but them's the breaks.
Right because it's so easy to buy a Dell or eMachines for 400 bucks with 3 3.2GHz PPC chips inside, plus the latest generation video card.
Of course the rider will let go when crashing. If not immediately, then when the leg starts getting worn away.
Everyone was happy when the contract was signed
Bull-shit
Everyone appeared willing to follow the terms of the contract, even if they weren't happy with it. Perhaps they found it satisfactory.
So that's why the CDs are $30 or 35, because people rented and ripped them to minidisc and then mp3? Good deal I guess for the people, but the artists are getting screwed. Guess that means any real money has to come from touring. I considered importing a few CDs, but never went through with it when I saw the prices. If Apple ever gets cross-continent deals worked out with those labels, there are a few artists I'd like to finally pay.