"My name is Ballmer. Just...Ballmer. From God, to Gates, to Ballmer. I am his right hand, and I have a task for you. This is Stallman. He has caused the Corporation much grief. His views do not coincide with ours, and that makes him dangerous. Silence him."
No cost? You're not the one who would have to patch all our systems not to do DST any more. Personally, I wish they'd just quit fiddling with the damn thing.
There was a time when the leaders didn't "send" soldiers off to war, they "led" them.
And yet, that never seemed to deter them. In fact, many of them appeared to have enjoyed it immensely. Note that even in that era, the leader would have the best armor, the best weapons, and be surrounded by a unit of his most elite troops. Getting yourself killed or seriously injured was not completely unknown, but was pretty rare.
War hasn't been a "last resort" for a very long time.
War has never been a "last resort". I'd argue that it's actually as a general rule less lightly entered into today than at any time before in history. Although one can certainly say that there are a lot of people who still find it the preferred option.
You've contradicted yourself. Having a poor signal-to-noise ratio *does* compromise your data. That's why you don't want it. Your data gets drowned out by the spam. Data integrity is not only about preserving the data you want. It's also about keeping bad data from contaminating it.
Of course CAPTCHAs are a security feature. Unless you have some irrational hatred of robots that inspires you to bar them from your websites, you're trying to keep them out for security reasons.
This confuses a lot of people in the US because of how it was released. In the US, it came out on the PC first and on the PS2 about six months later. But it was released in Japan about a year and a half before the US PC release--and came out first for the PS2, with the JP PC release coming some time later. FFXI was developed for the PS2 and then ported to the PC.
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f you add a keyboard and mouse, and the ability to check email, surf the web, etc, then the whole idea of a "console" is gone. It's just become another PC platform that happens to have good game support.
No, because you miss the most central point of the console: control of the hardware. A given console has only one possible set of video hardware, not dozens (or hundreds). One processor type. One motherboard. It's all the same, for everybody who uses it. And console makers leverage that control of the hardware to have control of the software, too. Console makers would LOVE their stuff to become "just another PC platform that happens to have good game support" because it would massively open up their market while they retain control of the hardware and software and they would make piles of money. The problem has been that that control limits the range of what the platform is capable of and also limits the range of what software is available, which has kept consoles just playing games.
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I guess in your case, you *can't* dance if you want to.
If you believe that the Beagle 2 found aliens, then you must perforce also believe that the Beagle 2 *was* a NASA probe.
"My name is Ballmer. Just...Ballmer. From God, to Gates, to Ballmer. I am his right hand, and I have a task for you. This is Stallman. He has caused the Corporation much grief. His views do not coincide with ours, and that makes him dangerous. Silence him."
Remember how they used to say that if IBM marketed Kentucky Fried Chicken, they would have called it "Warm Dead Birds".
No cost? You're not the one who would have to patch all our systems not to do DST any more. Personally, I wish they'd just quit fiddling with the damn thing.
And yet, that never seemed to deter them. In fact, many of them appeared to have enjoyed it immensely. Note that even in that era, the leader would have the best armor, the best weapons, and be surrounded by a unit of his most elite troops. Getting yourself killed or seriously injured was not completely unknown, but was pretty rare.
War has never been a "last resort". I'd argue that it's actually as a general rule less lightly entered into today than at any time before in history. Although one can certainly say that there are a lot of people who still find it the preferred option.
Bard's Tale? A newcomer. How about this?
When do I get my own flashy-little-memory-messer-upper-thing?
"You die, and we all move up in karma!"
Of course General Public has uniforms. He's a general, fer cryin' out loud!
What does the Robotech Defense Force have to do with this? Are you Rick Hunter in disguise?
I can't recall seeing any *young* astronauts lately. Or haven't you been paying attention on who NASA's been sending into space these days?
The people who actually owned the tea?
You've contradicted yourself. Having a poor signal-to-noise ratio *does* compromise your data. That's why you don't want it. Your data gets drowned out by the spam. Data integrity is not only about preserving the data you want. It's also about keeping bad data from contaminating it.
Exactly. Those are both security functions.
Of course CAPTCHAs are a security feature. Unless you have some irrational hatred of robots that inspires you to bar them from your websites, you're trying to keep them out for security reasons.
Solaris 1, Solaris 2, Solaris 7. Huh?
So version 4 is actually version 3 while version 3 is both version 1 and 2? Makes perfect sense...in Microsoft land.
Fixed that for you.
Sure. We got this. See why some of us prefer anime?
...the Cisco Kid.
"Oh, Pancho!"
"Oh, Cisco!"
This confuses a lot of people in the US because of how it was released. In the US, it came out on the PC first and on the PS2 about six months later. But it was released in Japan about a year and a half before the US PC release--and came out first for the PS2, with the JP PC release coming some time later. FFXI was developed for the PS2 and then ported to the PC.
Geez, how many people are this ignorant? YOU CAN HAVE A FREAKING KEYBOARD!
No, because you miss the most central point of the console: control of the hardware. A given console has only one possible set of video hardware, not dozens (or hundreds). One processor type. One motherboard. It's all the same, for everybody who uses it. And console makers leverage that control of the hardware to have control of the software, too. Console makers would LOVE their stuff to become "just another PC platform that happens to have good game support" because it would massively open up their market while they retain control of the hardware and software and they would make piles of money. The problem has been that that control limits the range of what the platform is capable of and also limits the range of what software is available, which has kept consoles just playing games.