Frankly, I thought the music was the best part.. which is frequently what makes or breaks a show/movie/etc.
I'll tune in for first episode, but frankly, it will take a bit to keep me around past the opening credits.. (never can watch Enterprise unless I happily come in late;)
umm, since it will probably be about two years before you would be buying such a system, what's the problem? Did you not expect to get a new video card by then anyways?
I don't use ethernet, and if/when I do, I can pay the $40 then.
Hi-Def? I don't have it. Nice feature, but only a selling point to a tiny portion of their audience.
I can add a hard drive if I need one, but again, I haven't needed one, yet.
Fact is, PS3 will have all that. The Xbox came out a YEAR after PS2 did, and I think the option of adding on to the system ('cept for real HD) is a great compromise.
Why does MS CHARGE for Xbox live? I can spend $40 on a controller that does BOTH ethernet and modem (remember that not everyone have broadband) and not pay a penny more.
Individual in a highly legal sense. As in, paying taxes, able to be sued, etc. The coporate "entity" can not, however, run for office as it is not a citizen, over the minimum age requirements (25 for mayor usually, 35 for president)
XBOX live from the getgo was understoon as a broadband service only.
Microsoft will have a 3 year lead in broadband services over the PS3 when it supposedly launches in 2005/2006. That is a HUGE leap in i nfrastructure, technology and know-how.
Riiiight. During that time, PS2 will have the ability to support both broadband and less fat connections. What you are saying is tantamount to "Microsoft supports bigger hard drives, and can thus be a step ahead of the competition because it will have more experience writing bloated code."
Errr... Haven't you seen the original? Didn't it already explain that having a Utopia didn't work? That basically, they had to recreate the boring "real world"?
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Don't forget the appeal of the grand ole wooden rollercoasters. The creaking and shaking made it much more exciting. Especially to the people in front of you when you talk about the 25 people that had died on a wooden roller coaster just like this one, but last year, some place you never heard of;)
This is just saying that there should be a method of tracking. They would be able to say from a position of authority that something had or hadn't been modified.
What is being talked about in the article is not tampering per se, but merely a method of enhancing. If a cop can't see a perp because of glare, can't he wear sunglasses? And if an image is too dark, can't he change the contrast? The DMR mentioned would be a safeguard that tracked any change made to evidence, so that later you can be SURE (to a large extent) that tampering was not done.
The grandparent is independent of the parent. The proposition of the parent is predicated on Microsoft fighting the torrent of spam beplaguing the hapless Hotmail users.
As you indicate, the parent is predicated on [what the grandparent says, i.e. ms fighting SPAM]. The GP is not independent:)
What I was trying to say was not that your original post wasn't perfectly valid, just that it didn't particularly make sense in the thread that you posted it. The thread was discussing the beautious world in which MS would do the right thing for once in a while via a hypothetical, and you interjected with a "but that can't be true" which is, of course, not the point of that conversation.
Put it this way, I read the thread as analogous to:
1) If bob were an herbivore, would you feed him grass?
2) I don't particularly like bob, but feeding him grass would be good for the environment so it would be a Good Thing.
You) But, Bob is a carnivore! I saw him kill a gazelle! That is decidedly not a Good Thing!
Also, I disagree with your argument as it is unsupported. There are plenty of possibilities for why hotmail accounts get bombarded, not just that MS is selling customer lists: insecure platform, BOFH employees, suggested user names are easy to guess (ALPHANAMENUMERALNUMERAL@hotmail.com), etc. I think a better conclusion to draw would be that the decidedly not a Good Thing is that Microsoft hasn't done a damn thing to prevent the torrent. I don't think it a particularly likely scenario that MS with it's buttload (yes, a highly technical term) of cash would sell hotmail usernames. It makes their service look like crap, and the dollar amount wouldn't be motivating.
Reread the parent, and the grandparent. Notice the key words "If" and "would". Then reread your post and realize you missed to point, bucko. It's called a hypothetical.
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You are also using logic. That's just weird. It's like you read the article. Must be because you didn't have to click on a link this time.
Isn't it obvious?!
I see you've never hosted a poorly written dymanic site. Good for you!
I'll tune in for first episode, but frankly, it will take a bit to keep me around past the opening credits.. (never can watch Enterprise unless I happily come in late ;)
Please don't do that when I'm drinking hot coffee. . . .
umm, since it will probably be about two years before you would be buying such a system, what's the problem? Did you not expect to get a new video card by then anyways?
Less typo/spelling error and more Freud, I think. ;)
I don't use ethernet, and if/when I do, I can pay the $40 then.
Hi-Def? I don't have it. Nice feature, but only a selling point to a tiny portion of their audience.
I can add a hard drive if I need one, but again, I haven't needed one, yet.
Fact is, PS3 will have all that. The Xbox came out a YEAR after PS2 did, and I think the option of adding on to the system ('cept for real HD) is a great compromise.
Why does MS CHARGE for Xbox live? I can spend $40 on a controller that does BOTH ethernet and modem (remember that not everyone have broadband) and not pay a penny more.
Individual in a highly legal sense. As in, paying taxes, able to be sued, etc. The coporate "entity" can not, however, run for office as it is not a citizen, over the minimum age requirements (25 for mayor usually, 35 for president)
Well, can't let you correct someone who is right. Try here, or even better here
"All you organisms that don't want to be squashed, please raise your hands... uh huh, I see..."
Yeah?!? I've got a performance with a digit.. need I disclose exactly which finger? :)
Of course, I agree with you on the cool application of designer printing papers..
Hey, I know a guy named James, and he's a bastard! That'll show him!
"HUGE" leap in technology? I think not.
Errr... Haven't you seen the original? Didn't it already explain that having a Utopia didn't work? That basically, they had to recreate the boring "real world"?
Don't forget the appeal of the grand ole wooden rollercoasters. The creaking and shaking made it much more exciting. Especially to the people in front of you when you talk about the 25 people that had died on a wooden roller coaster just like this one, but last year, some place you never heard of ;)
What is being talked about in the article is not tampering per se, but merely a method of enhancing. If a cop can't see a perp because of glare, can't he wear sunglasses? And if an image is too dark, can't he change the contrast? The DMR mentioned would be a safeguard that tracked any change made to evidence, so that later you can be SURE (to a large extent) that tampering was not done.
Surprisingly enough, it would be even slower than RFC 1149, I imagine. . . .
... or maybe some secretly hidden sequence of key presses?
Recent references to that oh so clever comedian were on King of the Hill about a month ago. Bobby was paid $10 for a "In Soviet Russia. . ." joke.
What I was trying to say was not that your original post wasn't perfectly valid, just that it didn't particularly make sense in the thread that you posted it. The thread was discussing the beautious world in which MS would do the right thing for once in a while via a hypothetical, and you interjected with a "but that can't be true" which is, of course, not the point of that conversation.
Put it this way, I read the thread as analogous to:
1) If bob were an herbivore, would you feed him grass?
2) I don't particularly like bob, but feeding him grass would be good for the environment so it would be a Good Thing.
You) But, Bob is a carnivore! I saw him kill a gazelle! That is decidedly not a Good Thing!
Also, I disagree with your argument as it is unsupported. There are plenty of possibilities for why hotmail accounts get bombarded, not just that MS is selling customer lists: insecure platform, BOFH employees, suggested user names are easy to guess (ALPHANAMENUMERALNUMERAL@hotmail.com), etc. I think a better conclusion to draw would be that the decidedly not a Good Thing is that Microsoft hasn't done a damn thing to prevent the torrent. I don't think it a particularly likely scenario that MS with it's buttload (yes, a highly technical term) of cash would sell hotmail usernames. It makes their service look like crap, and the dollar amount wouldn't be motivating.
Reread the parent, and the grandparent. Notice the key words "If" and "would". Then reread your post and realize you missed to point, bucko. It's called a hypothetical.
Lemme guess, YANAL?