Never mind that anyone who had the tools to read 350000 pages off a 2 inch disk would probably already have a pretty good grasp of mathematics, or would at least know somone who did.
English today and english 500 years ago aren't comparable in this context because they didn't diverge. (I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm saying that's a bad example) Anyhow, what is the criterion for determinining if it's a language or a dialect? Mutual comprehensibility? (kinda like the EASY definition of a species)
5 minutes to boot win2000 *IS* bad. I haven't timed it, but I *KNOW* it didn't take 5 minutes on my supervisor's P233 with 64 megs. What else have you got loading on that thing?
Yes, I expect software that expensive to come in a big box. But I also expect that box to be full of big manuals! Unfortunately that is less and less often the case:/
What's sick about that, is that Disney et al are probably spending more on getting copyrights extended than they would EVER make on materials that would be expiring. It's not even about money, it's about VANITY. Mickey mouse wouldn't have become public domain...the "steamboat willie" mickey mouse would have been. And he'd STILL have trademark protection. The more I hear about disney's antics, the more of disney's intellectual property that I see, the more sickened I am by the company's existance.
Yahoo last year changed their terms of service for Geocities pages to give them non-exclusive rights to do anything they wanted with any content anyone put onto a geocities page. The outcry (despite their protests that "we aren't claiming ownership!") forced them to revise the TOS to give them more limited rights. Here's one story on the incident: http://www.internetnews.com/wd-news/article/0,2171 ,10_148971,00.html And another: http://209.52.189.2/article.cfm/writing_on_Web_Sit e/22295 (this one is more to the point)
But at the same time, they can say that you're too stupid to spend your money on things that are actually SUPERIOR. $40,000+ cars, for instance, are generally more capable than $20,000 ones (unless they're SUVs, in which case you'd usually be better off buying an all-wheel-drive wagon).
The idea of a third company with IE made some sense to me...that would be kind of analogous to AOL, if it was paired up with MSN (And they could put microsoft's share of MSNBC in there with it).
Daily Radar sucks. But regardless, if you want import game news from a source that actually has reasons to take it seriously, check the what's new section on NCSX.com. They've confirmed the problems, they're considering halting sales of the console.
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Never mind that anyone who had the tools to read 350000 pages off a 2 inch disk would probably already have a pretty good grasp of mathematics, or would at least know somone who did.
English today and english 500 years ago aren't comparable in this context because they didn't diverge. (I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm saying that's a bad example) Anyhow, what is the criterion for determinining if it's a language or a dialect? Mutual comprehensibility? (kinda like the EASY definition of a species)
5 minutes to boot win2000 *IS* bad. I haven't timed it, but I *KNOW* it didn't take 5 minutes on my supervisor's P233 with 64 megs. What else have you got loading on that thing?
Yes, I expect software that expensive to come in a big box. But I also expect that box to be full of big manuals! Unfortunately that is less and less often the case :/
What's sick about that, is that Disney et al are probably spending more on getting copyrights extended than they would EVER make on materials that would be expiring. It's not even about money, it's about VANITY. Mickey mouse wouldn't have become public domain...the "steamboat willie" mickey mouse would have been. And he'd STILL have trademark protection. The more I hear about disney's antics, the more of disney's intellectual property that I see, the more sickened I am by the company's existance.
Yahoo last year changed their terms of service for Geocities pages to give them non-exclusive rights to do anything they wanted with any content anyone put onto a geocities page. The outcry (despite their protests that "we aren't claiming ownership!") forced them to revise the TOS to give them more limited rights. Here's one story on the incident: http://www.internetnews.com/wd-news/article/0,2171 ,10_148971,00.html And another: http://209.52.189.2/article.cfm/writing_on_Web_Sit e/22295 (this one is more to the point)
But at the same time, they can say that you're too stupid to spend your money on things that are actually SUPERIOR. $40,000+ cars, for instance, are generally more capable than $20,000 ones (unless they're SUVs, in which case you'd usually be better off buying an all-wheel-drive wagon).
The idea of a third company with IE made some sense to me...that would be kind of analogous to AOL, if it was paired up with MSN (And they could put microsoft's share of MSNBC in there with it).
Daily Radar sucks. But regardless, if you want import game news from a source that actually has reasons to take it seriously, check the what's new section on NCSX.com. They've confirmed the problems, they're considering halting sales of the console.