How can you bittorrent a file that will only play on one machine? Why would people volunteer to share bandwidth and hosting of a file that will not play on THEIR machine? Won't all machines involved in the bittorrent hosting need/want to be able to playback the file? Why should WB expect us to help bear the costs in bandwidth and storage if they're not going to discount the sale to reflect the reduced delivery costs?
I bought a used laserdisc player and the complete trilogy (not the prequels!) for my birthday last year. Lucas, you won't be getting any more of my money. It's nice that you've seen the light finally (though more likely it's just that you've finally realized how many dollars you were turning down in the name of your idiotic "artistic vision and integrity". Sure, I may have to change disks in the middle of each movie, but at least I have the films as I remember them and without making your wallet even fatter.
Crippled would be if the functionality were not present, or so badly broken that it does not work properly. Including the functionality but not enabling it by default is not crippling. Microsoft has a long history of enabling wide-open security settings by default, so this is really nothing new, if anything it's halfway to an improvement.
This just opens the door for the small scale studios to produce games that the Big Corporate Game Companies won't dare to produce.
Who the fuck needs fucking Wal-Mart to distribute video games? For fuck's sake, we've had an internet for the better part of 40 years now. You can advertise and distribute games on the internet, and never touch Wal Mart. Games are data. Financial transactions are data. You don't fucking need fucking Warl Mart if you're a fucking video game developer.
Every time I read some religious person trying to put a religious spin on a science discovery or story, it makes me think of the sci-fi geeks as typified by the Simpson's Comic Book Shop Guy, who hound their favorite authors with continuity problems and science and math gaffes.
Since what's been produced in print (or video, as the case may be) is canonical, we cannot deny what we have seen or read, but must either re-interpret it in the light of hard scientific objections to the possibility of what was depicted, or else come to a different understanding of science.
Because, obviously, the fundamental foundation of all human experience is storytelling, not physics. I've never understood this.
As Shatner said in a Saturday Night Live skit many years ago, "It's not real; it's just a story! Get a life!"
I'd love it if we could see scientists' work being used by Classics scholars to "prove" that the River Styx really does cause people to become invulnerable when dipped in it, or that man-bull genetic hybirds would have extraordinary senses and memory which would serve them in keeping their bearings in mazes.
Waitaminute, I thought that the FUD against using FOSS was that if something went wrong, there'd be no one to sue. Who exactly is Ballmer going to sue?
I bet the reason for not letting in 18 year olds has to do with their status as minors and the amount of legal protections afforded minors. If a minor breaks an NDA, the recourse options available to the company is probably not so good.
Well, keep in mind that a single Unix server can likely handle a load that 4 or more bloaty Windows servers have to be used to handle on the same hardware. So in a sense, less is more.
The thing is, though, you might as well use rigid armor on the places that are not meant to flex. The flexibility is only useful for articulated joints that normally need to remain movable. Everywhere else, you can probably do better with rigid armor.
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How can you bittorrent a file that will only play on one machine? Why would people volunteer to share bandwidth and hosting of a file that will not play on THEIR machine? Won't all machines involved in the bittorrent hosting need/want to be able to playback the file? Why should WB expect us to help bear the costs in bandwidth and storage if they're not going to discount the sale to reflect the reduced delivery costs?
I bought a used laserdisc player and the complete trilogy (not the prequels!) for my birthday last year. Lucas, you won't be getting any more of my money. It's nice that you've seen the light finally (though more likely it's just that you've finally realized how many dollars you were turning down in the name of your idiotic "artistic vision and integrity". Sure, I may have to change disks in the middle of each movie, but at least I have the films as I remember them and without making your wallet even fatter.
Kudos to the heroes who painstakingly reinserted the missing parenthesis!
Then, by extension, doesn't that mean that Windows users are crippled?
Crippled would be if the functionality were not present, or so badly broken that it does not work properly. Including the functionality but not enabling it by default is not crippling. Microsoft has a long history of enabling wide-open security settings by default, so this is really nothing new, if anything it's halfway to an improvement.
Open the corporate firewall to allow pr0n, and the employees wrists will get enough of a workout to counteract the effects of RSI.
An intelligent designer!
Ministry of Love = Department of Justice
Ministry of Truth = Department of Mind Control
Ministry of Peace = Department of War
Sounds like someone bought up all the Itaniums that Intel ever managed to sell, and put them into one system.
Is this more or less like a beowulf cluster on a chip?
No, seriously, I'm having trouble envisioning it.
Silent? Deadly? I don't know, but they sure stink.
And the equivalent to the storage for all those old paper suggestion box slips is /dev/null
Have you ever finished first in life? First in line is next to go.
This just opens the door for the small scale studios to produce games that the Big Corporate Game Companies won't dare to produce.
Who the fuck needs fucking Wal-Mart to distribute video games? For fuck's sake, we've had an internet for the better part of 40 years now. You can advertise and distribute games on the internet, and never touch Wal Mart. Games are data. Financial transactions are data. You don't fucking need fucking Warl Mart if you're a fucking video game developer.
Every time I read some religious person trying to put a religious spin on a science discovery or story, it makes me think of the sci-fi geeks as typified by the Simpson's Comic Book Shop Guy, who hound their favorite authors with continuity problems and science and math gaffes.
Since what's been produced in print (or video, as the case may be) is canonical, we cannot deny what we have seen or read, but must either re-interpret it in the light of hard scientific objections to the possibility of what was depicted, or else come to a different understanding of science.
Because, obviously, the fundamental foundation of all human experience is storytelling, not physics. I've never understood this.
As Shatner said in a Saturday Night Live skit many years ago, "It's not real; it's just a story! Get a life!"
I'd love it if we could see scientists' work being used by Classics scholars to "prove" that the River Styx really does cause people to become invulnerable when dipped in it, or that man-bull genetic hybirds would have extraordinary senses and memory which would serve them in keeping their bearings in mazes.
Apple's Steve throws frisbees, not chairs.
Waitaminute, I thought that the FUD against using FOSS was that if something went wrong, there'd be no one to sue. Who exactly is Ballmer going to sue?
The sentate wants its pr0n, ICANN! Hurry up and tell them how to use Google before they force this .xxx nonsense down everyone's throat!
I bet the reason for not letting in 18 year olds has to do with their status as minors and the amount of legal protections afforded minors. If a minor breaks an NDA, the recourse options available to the company is probably not so good.
I am totally going to paint my bedroom with this stuff.
Well, keep in mind that a single Unix server can likely handle a load that 4 or more bloaty Windows servers have to be used to handle on the same hardware. So in a sense, less is more.
The thing is, though, you might as well use rigid armor on the places that are not meant to flex. The flexibility is only useful for articulated joints that normally need to remain movable. Everywhere else, you can probably do better with rigid armor.
Gates: "It puts the shackles on its wrist, or it gets the hose again."
Ballmer: Put the fucking shackles on your wrists! Or I'll fucking kill you!!! (Throws chair.)
I can't get into a deep sleep when someone jabs a USB plug into one of my ports, either. Apparently I'm hot, I'm pluggable, but I'm not hot-pluggable.
E = mc^2 and sometimes Y.