Actually, the "Windows Tax" gets offset by vendors paying the manufacturers to install all kinds of demo crap on the Windows computers they sell. Remove the Windows Tax, and you also remove the Windows Tax Credit... A PC with a free OS will prolly cost more than the one with Windows on it.
I don't care much about the distinction between "terrorists" and "insurgents", but I'd like the FCC to step in and slap silly any broadcaster that insists on pronouncing "negotiations" as if it were spelled, "negociations".
I'd watch that clip, except that when I go there, instead of being offered the flash stream, I get a link to "get flash".
I already have a Flash plugin, but apparently I don't have the latest version 9. Nor can I have the latest, since Flash 7 is what's available for Linux.
Why do website operators refuse to serve their content just because they've detected that you don't have the tool that THEY want you to use to view the content with?
I'm pretty sure I could view it with MPlayer, if they'd let me...
If we're not ever allowed to view the high quality media in it's full glory because all outputs have to be degraded or disabled, what's the point of distributing high quality media in the first place?
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I been through Las Cruces several times. Lots of new housing going up right now.
There must be a city ordinance that everyone has to have a rock wall around their property...
You'd think that "Spaceport America" would be located somewhere in the United States!
They've invented Reconfigurable Computing!
What a novel idea....
Looks like T plus 29 seconds???
WTF?
You just have to make up a nonsense name nowadays. You know, like VONGO.COM or BAMZU.COM or some such.
Here's one that's not taken yet: FUMPO.COM
Go Daddy, Go!
Not quite.
Actually, the "Windows Tax" gets offset by vendors paying the manufacturers to install all kinds of demo crap on the Windows computers they sell. Remove the Windows Tax, and you also remove the Windows Tax Credit... A PC with a free OS will prolly cost more than the one with Windows on it.
... breed discontent among teachers.
It will blow up into a big ol' envy-fest
The teachers' unions will make sure of that.
... wasa patriot!
Please translate.
Does it have something to do with telephones?
In other news, it has been found that nearly 100% of Heroin Addicts started out drinking milk.
So... You work for Microsoft?
... Marty, we won't NEED roads!
Hey, I didn't know you could use Windows with a "dumb terminal"! I guess it's time to dig out the ol' TV Typewriter!
... and we all know that government censorship is double plus ungood.
You get to unwind when you get home?
Buddy, you must not have a wife and kids!
They're more demanding than the work environment.
My office is my sanctuary.
In Soviet newsmedia, YOU report, WE decide!
I don't care much about the distinction between "terrorists" and "insurgents", but I'd like the FCC to step in and slap silly any broadcaster that insists on pronouncing "negotiations" as if it were spelled, "negociations".
That just drives me nuts!
Why do they do that?
> I'm not going to buy HD-DVD or Blu-Ray until it's clear there's a winner.
Heh. Reminds me of the AM radio stereo encoding method wars of last century.
Hopefully this'll turn out better.
Oh, thanks.
That's more like it.
I'd watch that clip, except that when I go there, instead of being offered the flash stream, I get a link to "get flash".
I already have a Flash plugin, but apparently I don't have the latest version 9. Nor can I have the latest, since Flash 7 is what's available for Linux.
Why do website operators refuse to serve their content just because they've detected that you don't have the tool that THEY want you to use to view the content with?
I'm pretty sure I could view it with MPlayer, if they'd let me...
What would be the point?
Everybody knows that "chemicals" are dangerous.....
...ground up and stored in the freezer.
If we're not ever allowed to view the high quality media in it's full glory because all outputs have to be degraded or disabled, what's the point of distributing high quality media in the first place?
I just don't get it.
Forget the Hallows, let's put this one on the gallows.
Ballmer: "Can you squeal like a pig?"