If you look at Gimp's website, the creators admit it isn't as full featured as Adobe's. I don't know if it has all the features of JASC's paint program. If it doesn't and the kid needs those features, then yes the warez copy is possibly costing JASC a sale.
An AC said this already but I'll say it louder. Adobe doesn't lose $500, but JASC loses $90 on Paint Shop Pro the kid could have bought. If the kid pirates something by Norton, Panda which sells comparable software for less, looses a potential sale because the kid could have afforded theirs.
About your.sig. You should create a yahoo.com e-mail account so people can discuss the topic with you. Unless you don't want to discuss the topic for the thousandth time and only want people to go to the linked site? Its a shame there aren't more sites devoted to offering facts and both sides of the issue. Reading a pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian site isn't good enough. The two sides offer such radically different views that its almost impossible to understand what is actually happening.
I liken it to reading a voter pamphlet last year. About a particular ballot measure the Pro side said: This measure will not cost one cent. The Con side said: This measure will cost 50,000,000 dollars. Well one of them was definitely lying or confusing the truth, but the pamphlet didn't tell me who or how.
The front page of electronicintifada.org is misleading. It opens saying: Against the Israeli Machine When you find yourself sending tanks into refugee camps, perhaps it's time to consider where terror begins.
The picture shows a young Palestinian child throwing a rock at a giant tank. I find this highly interesting. I cannot see the face of the child, I cannot tell his feelings. My first thought was the caption implied the military presence in the camp was terrorizing the people there into fighting back. Then I thought perhaps since this child is fearless and stupid enough to throw a rock at a tank, he is the problem. If he didn't want to kill Israelis now because of sermons like these, perhaps he won't grow up to try and blow himself and others to bits. So its the camps where the terrorists are hiding, and thats why the miltary is there, to capture them.
Not quite. If there's 8 poll slots and four manufacturers: Maxtor, Western Digital, IBM, Seagate, the question can be posed as Which Hard Drives Fail On You Most Often? M+WD M+I M+S WD+I WD+S S+I If the IBM choices get the least votes then that's the most reliable. Option 7 can be: Samsung drives fail me all the time you insensitive clod. Option 8: Cowboy Neal carries my glorious Samsung drives for me.
If you have the money for all that, build a wooden enclosure for the system. Have a hinged door on the front for access, and cut a four or five inch hole on the bottom of the door. Run a five inch wide flexible hose to the next room over, or outside. Wrap the hose in foam to block the sound. At the end of the hose, attach a blower powerful enough for your needs. In the back of the case use more wood and insulated tubing. Cut a hole out for the cables. Pack that opening with foam.
Of course if you've been dealing with your vacuuum cleaner this long it doesn't sound like you're about to try this.
Unless/. runs a poll to get a meaningful sample size, all the yammering about what device failed on who is pointless. I had no troubles with Verbatim CDRs about a year ago. I have had a WD HD for a year now with no problems. You should go back and try Verbatim again. The AC bitching about WD should shut up.
It depends on the game. In racing games I want as much clarity as possible. I hate squinting trying to figure out which direction the next turn is going when the resolution is only 640x480. For Resident Evil and other slower games I generally like hiding some of the pixelization with blur.
The dreamcast VGA picture is outstanding. Every pixel is as sharp as my ViewSonic PF790 can make it. The only downside it there's no longer any bluring, so I can see the pixelated edges of circles, and see the separate colors in the 16-bit color palate. Not having to squint anymore playing racing games makes it all worth it.
I don't know how you figure that. If that guy balloned around the world in 30 days or close to it, any change in Europe will be felt within months over Canada and North Dakota. Air currents are connected too.
Do you think the Earth's systems are so forgiving that we can do whatever we want and the climate will remain the same? Surely if every tree were cut down and power plants released as much pollution as possible, there should be some effects. There may not be solid evidence humanity caused or contributed to the rise in temperatures across the world, but it certainly sounds logical. If volcanoes can produce enough soot to change weather, and land-policies in China contribute to desert sandstorms, and contrails may lower weather temperatures, worrying about humanities effects on global warming sounds reasonable to me.
At least in wealthier nations, I would expect bans on some polutants to go out the window. Coal burning would rise dramatically to generate heat and electricity. Assuming nations could still buy oil at sane rates, millions would turn their dead or dying backyards into greenhouses using plastic. burn some coal in there would warm the place and generate CO2, great for plants. True there'd be massive malnutrition, but at least people would get some fruits and vegetables.
NTSC TV resolution is 525 lines. What we see is 640x480. There should be enough resolution that from my viewing distance ~8 feet, that I can not see the individual pixels anymore. If the image looks like a window into another world, then I'll be satisfied for resolution. Granted if I had a 13inch set and not 26 from 8 feet I couldn't see the pixels anymore. I'm just saying the resolution isn't high enough yet for most big TVs.
A less powerful nVidia card shouldn't have better visual effects than a top ATI card.
What if the less powerful card is based on an earlier generation chip? Y'know, like the GeForce MX line? A GF4 MX doesn't have a GF4 powering it. It doesn't do complete DirectX 8 compatibility, so the ATI card will some effects not found in lower end cards.
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What would be really great is if reporting would cover the who, what, when, where, why, and how of stories like they're supposed to, of all the sides or parties involved. Articles are so cropped to fit more ads and articles into the same page that journalistic principles get cut too. Another problem is owner or newsroom biases. An example is the Palestinian-Israel conflict. Some newspapers almost only feature crying palestinian mothers and children, but not the families of Israeli civilians or soldiers. Often all that gets shown of the carnage is the bombed wreckage of a bus or building. It seems that since the Palestinians are getting killed almost every day by soldiers before they can blow themsleves up, that doesn't make the pages. When Isreal retaliates for a successful bombing, that goes on the front page of the World section and those without a clue wonder why Israel killed two and injured forty bystanders in an attempt on the top Hamas bombmaker.
TV is worse of course, by condensing everything into sound bites it rarely covers the five W's like it should.
To all of you replying that the PS2 and GC have better software - YOU AREN'T READING THE PARENT PROPERLY. Cloudscout was clearly talking about the PLATFORM, that means the HARDWARE.
and you will be losing out because Shenmue II is a fantastic game coming to xbox in October. I know how good it is because I imported the UK Dreamcast version.
Napster only existed to share music. Kazaa allows file sharing of any file type. So if I write an e-book and want everyone to copy it, with Kazaa they can find it easily. Kazaa has more legal uses than Napster.
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The SNES took two or three years to hit $99 from $200. Did you have fun waiting while your friends could play theirs any time they wanted, but you had to go over to their house? Once you had your own SNES, did you pay $50 for Donkey Kong? Or did you wait until everyone was playing DK2 and then you picked up DK for $30? You aren't wise, you're cheap. Used furniture makes sense because it sometimes works just as well as new furniture. Used video games are usually behind the technology curve and aren't as fun to play compared to the new games. Sure there's a bunch of classics that are still fun, but how often do you actually play DK anymore? Cheeeeaaaap.
I would add that generally Japanese men spend far more than 40 hours a week on the job. It is expected they sacrifice for the company. After a 50 or 60 hour week what time is left might be spent drinking at a bar with co-workers. Only then might men go home to their wives who have been taking care of the children on his salary. That's a gross generalization and its less true today than it used to be. More companies also used to offer employment for life. That kind of committment from employees and employers would explain the Rav4. This sort of committment runs through the Japanese idea of what a family should be, also how one should feel about the country. It is important to committ oneself to family, including the extended family, work, and the rulers of the country.
What do you hope to accomplish or say with your.sig? That reducing taxes will increase revenue? I appreciate your.sig because it caused me to research some facts I otherwise wouldn't have. Do you support a flat tax? Would you have the income tax abolished, but leave other taxes in place? Could you help me out? I really, really tried to find out what percentage of the US budget comes from income taxes. If taxes are reduces the money has to get back to the government some other way if current levels of services are going to be supported.
If you can't tell the noob with the pumped character apart from the veteran who earned her character without talking to them, your fun isn't being impacted. You're just bummed people can skip the crap you went through for so little money.
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If you look at Gimp's website, the creators admit it isn't as full featured as Adobe's. I don't know if it has all the features of JASC's paint program. If it doesn't and the kid needs those features, then yes the warez copy is possibly costing JASC a sale.
An AC said this already but I'll say it louder. Adobe doesn't lose $500, but JASC loses $90 on Paint Shop Pro the kid could have bought. If the kid pirates something by Norton, Panda which sells comparable software for less, looses a potential sale because the kid could have afforded theirs.
About your .sig. You should create a yahoo.com e-mail account so people can discuss the topic with you. Unless you don't want to discuss the topic for the thousandth time and only want people to go to the linked site? Its a shame there aren't more sites devoted to offering facts and both sides of the issue. Reading a pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian site isn't good enough. The two sides offer such radically different views that its almost impossible to understand what is actually happening.
I liken it to reading a voter pamphlet last year. About a particular ballot measure the Pro side said: This measure will not cost one cent. The Con side said: This measure will cost 50,000,000 dollars. Well one of them was definitely lying or confusing the truth, but the pamphlet didn't tell me who or how.
The front page of electronicintifada.org is misleading. It opens saying:
Against the Israeli Machine
When you find yourself sending tanks into refugee camps, perhaps it's time to consider where terror begins.
The picture shows a young Palestinian child throwing a rock at a giant tank. I find this highly interesting. I cannot see the face of the child, I cannot tell his feelings. My first thought was the caption implied the military presence in the camp was terrorizing the people there into fighting back. Then I thought perhaps since this child is fearless and stupid enough to throw a rock at a tank, he is the problem. If he didn't want to kill Israelis now because of sermons like these, perhaps he won't grow up to try and blow himself and others to bits. So its the camps where the terrorists are hiding, and thats why the miltary is there, to capture them.
Not quite. If there's 8 poll slots and four manufacturers: Maxtor, Western Digital, IBM, Seagate, the question can be posed as Which Hard Drives Fail On You Most Often?
M+WD
M+I
M+S
WD+I
WD+S
S+I
If the IBM choices get the least votes then that's the most reliable. Option 7 can be: Samsung drives fail me all the time you insensitive clod. Option 8: Cowboy Neal carries my glorious Samsung drives for me.
If you have the money for all that, build a wooden enclosure for the system. Have a hinged door on the front for access, and cut a four or five inch hole on the bottom of the door. Run a five inch wide flexible hose to the next room over, or outside. Wrap the hose in foam to block the sound. At the end of the hose, attach a blower powerful enough for your needs. In the back of the case use more wood and insulated tubing. Cut a hole out for the cables. Pack that opening with foam.
Of course if you've been dealing with your vacuuum cleaner this long it doesn't sound like you're about to try this.
What? Do you watch DVDs while holding the PS2 up to your ear? It really isn't that loud.
Unless /. runs a poll to get a meaningful sample size, all the yammering about what device failed on who is pointless. I had no troubles with Verbatim CDRs about a year ago. I have had a WD HD for a year now with no problems. You should go back and try Verbatim again. The AC bitching about WD should shut up.
It depends on the game. In racing games I want as much clarity as possible. I hate squinting trying to figure out which direction the next turn is going when the resolution is only 640x480. For Resident Evil and other slower games I generally like hiding some of the pixelization with blur.
The dreamcast VGA picture is outstanding. Every pixel is as sharp as my ViewSonic PF790 can make it. The only downside it there's no longer any bluring, so I can see the pixelated edges of circles, and see the separate colors in the 16-bit color palate. Not having to squint anymore playing racing games makes it all worth it.
I don't know how you figure that. If that guy balloned around the world in 30 days or close to it, any change in Europe will be felt within months over Canada and North Dakota. Air currents are connected too.
Do you think the Earth's systems are so forgiving that we can do whatever we want and the climate will remain the same? Surely if every tree were cut down and power plants released as much pollution as possible, there should be some effects. There may not be solid evidence humanity caused or contributed to the rise in temperatures across the world, but it certainly sounds logical. If volcanoes can produce enough soot to change weather, and land-policies in China contribute to desert sandstorms, and contrails may lower weather temperatures, worrying about humanities effects on global warming sounds reasonable to me.
At least in wealthier nations, I would expect bans on some polutants to go out the window. Coal burning would rise dramatically to generate heat and electricity. Assuming nations could still buy oil at sane rates, millions would turn their dead or dying backyards into greenhouses using plastic. burn some coal in there would warm the place and generate CO2, great for plants. True there'd be massive malnutrition, but at least people would get some fruits and vegetables.
NTSC TV resolution is 525 lines. What we see is 640x480. There should be enough resolution that from my viewing distance ~8 feet, that I can not see the individual pixels anymore. If the image looks like a window into another world, then I'll be satisfied for resolution. Granted if I had a 13inch set and not 26 from 8 feet I couldn't see the pixels anymore. I'm just saying the resolution isn't high enough yet for most big TVs.
A less powerful nVidia card shouldn't have better visual effects than a top ATI card.
What if the less powerful card is based on an earlier generation chip? Y'know, like the GeForce MX line? A GF4 MX doesn't have a GF4 powering it. It doesn't do complete DirectX 8 compatibility, so the ATI card will some effects not found in lower end cards.
What would be really great is if reporting would cover the who, what, when, where, why, and how of stories like they're supposed to, of all the sides or parties involved. Articles are so cropped to fit more ads and articles into the same page that journalistic principles get cut too. Another problem is owner or newsroom biases. An example is the Palestinian-Israel conflict. Some newspapers almost only feature crying palestinian mothers and children, but not the families of Israeli civilians or soldiers. Often all that gets shown of the carnage is the bombed wreckage of a bus or building. It seems that since the Palestinians are getting killed almost every day by soldiers before they can blow themsleves up, that doesn't make the pages. When Isreal retaliates for a successful bombing, that goes on the front page of the World section and those without a clue wonder why Israel killed two and injured forty bystanders in an attempt on the top Hamas bombmaker.
TV is worse of course, by condensing everything into sound bites it rarely covers the five W's like it should.
To all of you replying that the PS2 and GC have better software - YOU AREN'T READING THE PARENT PROPERLY. Cloudscout was clearly talking about the PLATFORM, that means the HARDWARE.
and you will be losing out because Shenmue II is a fantastic game coming to xbox in October. I know how good it is because I imported the UK Dreamcast version.
Napster only existed to share music. Kazaa allows file sharing of any file type. So if I write an e-book and want everyone to copy it, with Kazaa they can find it easily. Kazaa has more legal uses than Napster.
Don't be sorry, you put it very well.
The SNES took two or three years to hit $99 from $200. Did you have fun waiting while your friends could play theirs any time they wanted, but you had to go over to their house? Once you had your own SNES, did you pay $50 for Donkey Kong? Or did you wait until everyone was playing DK2 and then you picked up DK for $30? You aren't wise, you're cheap. Used furniture makes sense because it sometimes works just as well as new furniture. Used video games are usually behind the technology curve and aren't as fun to play compared to the new games. Sure there's a bunch of classics that are still fun, but how often do you actually play DK anymore? Cheeeeaaaap.
I would add that generally Japanese men spend far more than 40 hours a week on the job. It is expected they sacrifice for the company. After a 50 or 60 hour week what time is left might be spent drinking at a bar with co-workers. Only then might men go home to their wives who have been taking care of the children on his salary. That's a gross generalization and its less true today than it used to be. More companies also used to offer employment for life. That kind of committment from employees and employers would explain the Rav4. This sort of committment runs through the Japanese idea of what a family should be, also how one should feel about the country. It is important to committ oneself to family, including the extended family, work, and the rulers of the country.
kinda like cutting up a credit card or breaking a CD
What do you hope to accomplish or say with your .sig? That reducing taxes will increase revenue? I appreciate your .sig because it caused me to research some facts I otherwise wouldn't have. Do you support a flat tax? Would you have the income tax abolished, but leave other taxes in place? Could you help me out? I really, really tried to find out what percentage of the US budget comes from income taxes. If taxes are reduces the money has to get back to the government some other way if current levels of services are going to be supported.
If you can't tell the noob with the pumped character apart from the veteran who earned her character without talking to them, your fun isn't being impacted. You're just bummed people can skip the crap you went through for so little money.
frustration: finding out for the first time that you can't do it the second time
panic: finding out for the second time that you can't do it the first time