Speaking as a foreign observer, the Liberal Dems are the real liberals, Labour's so mealy mouth centerist it hurts, and the Tories are fucking useless.
The real Good Guys(tm) are obvious. the Official Monster Raving Loony party.
I had a friend who was adamant on staying on dialup despite the fact that $localCableCo finally lowered the price of their broadband and basic cable package to below the cost of her dialup and 2nd line. Bizarre to say the least.
Any number of congenital diseases can take you out instantly with out warning, and with out regular check ups it's impossible to even know you have them. Take Three's Company's John Ritter. Took care of himself, died at 50 because an aortic dissection took his heart out with no real warning.
If you feel like crap for MONTHS, then die, that's not your fault for taking care of yourself. It might be your fault if you had health coverage and you refused to use it, but it's not you abusing your own body with improper diet or lack of exercise.
The Government only becomes a necessary evil when people who are necessarily evil are running it. Who the hell remembers who James Lee Witt is? Yet we know who Michael Brown is because of how insanely inept he is.
Or Superfund, or Rural Electrification. Or the post office. Or the FDA. Or the CDC. Or the NOAA/NWS. Or the FCC, who may be evil for censoring the airwaves but not evil for the fact that I can have a WiMAX modem talking to my wifi router talking to my ps3 that talks to my Bluetooth DualShock3 and headset, all with out interference.
you know what I love? opinions that make clearly verifiable claims, like, "The fed is inept, period. No matter which country you talk about" yet have no desire to actually verify that claim.
Every game I've played with DLC has had incremental bug fixes free. I'm pretty sure I'd take up pitchforks to any game dev that wanted cash to fix bugs they made.
After having to reboot because a few stray processes decided to eat up a shitload of ram while I was trying to do a bit of business, I'm convinced this isn't so much a feature as trying to shoe horn the desktop concept on the mobile platform.
You sort of invalidate yourself, but yet you want to be taken with a degree of seriousness.
Regular users don't even know that they can't have multiple apps running at the same time.
The only people that need, want or even aware of what background apps are tend to be tech savvy nerds. I don't understand the huge hype about being able to run apps in the background, only because i treasure my battery life. Even if I wasn't an iPhone user, it's pretty ridiculous to tell me that carrying around spare batteries is a solution.
The only app I can think of wanting to run in the background is maybe an ssh app in case I'm asked to fix something while I'm on the go. But given my hand size, I would absolutely hate life if my lively hood was determined by how well I can type on the Pre's mobile keyboard. Sure there's tethering but that's an other point all together.
That being said, it's pretty clear that unless Apple has a complete meltdown with the next gen iPhone, the Pre is no threat to the iPhone. As bad as the AT&T network is and as good as the Pre is(it IS a decent phone, but no iPhone killer), Sprint can't seem to retain customers or float a profit. The real flaws with the iPhone have nothing to do with background apps or a puzzling app store rejection policy, it has everything to do with everyday foibles that most of us iPhonites have just put up with. Palm hasn't solved those problems either. Palm going up against Apple in terms of usability is a complete joke. Unless the next few versions of the OS change dramatically.
Eventually fissile material will cease being fissile and yet still be dangerous. FBRs are a stop gap and it also allows us to make more out of a given sample of fissile material, but, it doesn't solve the waste problem, it just puts more stops before a given sample of material will become a problem.
I'm mad at GM for the volt and I'm mad at them for the bailout for really the same reasons.
GM was the #1 car manufacturer world wide for how long, and they had to have a bail out? How do you be #1 and still need a fucking bailout? The Volt may indeed get 230 real world MPG, but what is it going to be like to drive on a day to day basis when GM's got to cut costs to pay for back creditors and pull a profit? What about reliability, handling or features?
GM's a lot of talk but nothin' in the sack. Nissan's touting a 300+ mpg Leaf but Nissan hasn't blown hot air up my ass like GM has, so I'm willing to listen.
Why are some of these features optional though? It made sense, in 1998 to make the hard drive optional. in 2001, it made sense to mandate the harddrive on the xbox. Why is it now suddenly an "option?"
You can't even have a decent selection of XBLA games or *any* disc installs with out a hard drive even with the onboard Flash. So one of the major features of the machine is now moot with out forking up big bucks for an out dated, undersized hard drive that uses a proprietary enclosure to even operate with the console.
What I'm saying is, there's a reason why sometimes you're not allowed to to do as you please with your own equipment. Perhaps I didn't make that part abundantly clear.
Final Fantasy has never been about a consistent story through out the games, each game is a standalone.
I would reboot Final Fantasy and make many of the characters less cheesy. I would also make the subject matter a bit darker and the interactions more free form. I think it would also be nice to have a non-turn-based combat option.
Final Fantasy X had pretty decent non cheesy characters and it was incredibly dark. FF IV got rid of turn based combat, replacing it with an active time battle system, even deeper, FFXII replaced *that* with an Muhmorpugher style fighting system. Final Fantasy II believe it or not, had a conversation system where you learned key words that spurred conversation on with other characters to learn new key words.
When you're dealing with the fallout of various microsoft tech failures at work around you, buggy worm ridden OS, buggy worm ridden web server, buggy non compliant browser, etc. it's hard to remain professional. It was OK to mess with DOM implementations in IE4's day but not IE7. >/
Going from a currency who's value was backed by rocks who's value was backed by faith, we moved to a currency who skips the middle man and goes right to faith.
It's worked pretty well since the 70's, even a gold standard would've tanked after GWB's reign.
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Speaking as a foreign observer, the Liberal Dems are the real liberals, Labour's so mealy mouth centerist it hurts, and the Tories are fucking useless.
The real Good Guys(tm) are obvious. the Official Monster Raving Loony party.
I had a friend who was adamant on staying on dialup despite the fact that $localCableCo finally lowered the price of their broadband and basic cable package to below the cost of her dialup and 2nd line. Bizarre to say the least.
Any number of congenital diseases can take you out instantly with out warning, and with out regular check ups it's impossible to even know you have them. Take Three's Company's John Ritter. Took care of himself, died at 50 because an aortic dissection took his heart out with no real warning.
If you feel like crap for MONTHS, then die, that's not your fault for taking care of yourself. It might be your fault if you had health coverage and you refused to use it, but it's not you abusing your own body with improper diet or lack of exercise.
No, it's yet another proprietary Sony format that Sony is going to try to force on consumers.
RIOT AGAINST SONY AND THEIR "FLOPPY" DISKS! PROPRIETARY I SAY!
The Government only becomes a necessary evil when people who are necessarily evil are running it. Who the hell remembers who James Lee Witt is? Yet we know who Michael Brown is because of how insanely inept he is.
Or Superfund, or Rural Electrification. Or the post office. Or the FDA. Or the CDC. Or the NOAA/NWS. Or the FCC, who may be evil for censoring the airwaves but not evil for the fact that I can have a WiMAX modem talking to my wifi router talking to my ps3 that talks to my Bluetooth DualShock3 and headset, all with out interference.
you know what I love? opinions that make clearly verifiable claims, like, "The fed is inept, period. No matter which country you talk about" yet have no desire to actually verify that claim.
Every game I've played with DLC has had incremental bug fixes free. I'm pretty sure I'd take up pitchforks to any game dev that wanted cash to fix bugs they made.
I've owned several WinMo devices.
After having to reboot because a few stray processes decided to eat up a shitload of ram while I was trying to do a bit of business, I'm convinced this isn't so much a feature as trying to shoe horn the desktop concept on the mobile platform.
You sort of invalidate yourself, but yet you want to be taken with a degree of seriousness.
Regular users don't even know that they can't have multiple apps running at the same time.
The only people that need, want or even aware of what background apps are tend to be tech savvy nerds. I don't understand the huge hype about being able to run apps in the background, only because i treasure my battery life. Even if I wasn't an iPhone user, it's pretty ridiculous to tell me that carrying around spare batteries is a solution.
The only app I can think of wanting to run in the background is maybe an ssh app in case I'm asked to fix something while I'm on the go. But given my hand size, I would absolutely hate life if my lively hood was determined by how well I can type on the Pre's mobile keyboard. Sure there's tethering but that's an other point all together.
That being said, it's pretty clear that unless Apple has a complete meltdown with the next gen iPhone, the Pre is no threat to the iPhone. As bad as the AT&T network is and as good as the Pre is(it IS a decent phone, but no iPhone killer), Sprint can't seem to retain customers or float a profit. The real flaws with the iPhone have nothing to do with background apps or a puzzling app store rejection policy, it has everything to do with everyday foibles that most of us iPhonites have just put up with. Palm hasn't solved those problems either. Palm going up against Apple in terms of usability is a complete joke. Unless the next few versions of the OS change dramatically.
handful of apps get rejected from the app store and suddenly Apple's the gestapo now?
I know the GV thing was just fucking stupid but...
Eventually fissile material will cease being fissile and yet still be dangerous. FBRs are a stop gap and it also allows us to make more out of a given sample of fissile material, but, it doesn't solve the waste problem, it just puts more stops before a given sample of material will become a problem.
I'm mad at GM for the volt and I'm mad at them for the bailout for really the same reasons.
GM was the #1 car manufacturer world wide for how long, and they had to have a bail out? How do you be #1 and still need a fucking bailout? The Volt may indeed get 230 real world MPG, but what is it going to be like to drive on a day to day basis when GM's got to cut costs to pay for back creditors and pull a profit? What about reliability, handling or features?
GM's a lot of talk but nothin' in the sack. Nissan's touting a 300+ mpg Leaf but Nissan hasn't blown hot air up my ass like GM has, so I'm willing to listen.
is that you, APK?
Did you read what was written in that article? Macs do not fully support ASLR, therefore they're less secure, which is a ridiculous statement.
Besides, Snow Leopard *will* support ASLR.
Play him off, Keyboard Cat.
Why are some of these features optional though? It made sense, in 1998 to make the hard drive optional. in 2001, it made sense to mandate the harddrive on the xbox. Why is it now suddenly an "option?"
You can't even have a decent selection of XBLA games or *any* disc installs with out a hard drive even with the onboard Flash. So one of the major features of the machine is now moot with out forking up big bucks for an out dated, undersized hard drive that uses a proprietary enclosure to even operate with the console.
What I'm saying is, there's a reason why sometimes you're not allowed to to do as you please with your own equipment. Perhaps I didn't make that part abundantly clear.
Try modifying your FM transmitter to transmit more powerful signals and just wait until you see how much the FCC gives a damn.
I'm not sure how normal that is in the bay area. To see some guy in a DeCSS tshirt hooking an O-scope to a parking meter.
Seriously, how did they achieve *that*? Flat ribbon cable between the card and the meter?
Final Fantasy has never been about a consistent story through out the games, each game is a standalone.
I would reboot Final Fantasy and make many of the characters less cheesy. I would also make the subject matter a bit darker and the interactions more free form. I think it would also be nice to have a non-turn-based combat option.
Final Fantasy X had pretty decent non cheesy characters and it was incredibly dark. FF IV got rid of turn based combat, replacing it with an active time battle system, even deeper, FFXII replaced *that* with an Muhmorpugher style fighting system. Final Fantasy II believe it or not, had a conversation system where you learned key words that spurred conversation on with other characters to learn new key words.
Too bad FFII sucked.
there are so many external benefits to going green beyond global warming it's not even funny.
Living in a valley it's always disturbing to see a nice haze of brown over the town i live in during the dusky hours.
Air quality, cars that run on obscenely small amounts of fuel, etc. It's absurd to dig in and drag ass on something so important.
When you're dealing with the fallout of various microsoft tech failures at work around you, buggy worm ridden OS, buggy worm ridden web server, buggy non compliant browser, etc. it's hard to remain professional. It was OK to mess with DOM implementations in IE4's day but not IE7. >/
If they wanted to rip off apple, they'd bring Windows 7 down to two OS products, Normal and Server and not charge 300 bucks for the upgrade at retail.
OS and Software.
Apple isn't even supporting Power with 10.6.
Some other vendor's going to have to fill that role.
Correlation is not causation.
Federal Reserve was founded in 1913, and the GD started 16 years later.
Consequently, Pancho Villa died in 1926, and WW2 started 16 years later.
Notice how silly your statement now sounds?
Going from a currency who's value was backed by rocks who's value was backed by faith, we moved to a currency who skips the middle man and goes right to faith.
It's worked pretty well since the 70's, even a gold standard would've tanked after GWB's reign.