Thanks for giving clarity. If we went by popularity, we'd all be listening to Rihanna or Gotye (both hit #1) or watching FOX (#1 on cable, #2 on broadcast) or reading Alex Jones infowars.com (routinely 1 or 2 in the webnews index). Popularity is interesting to note but doesn't mean much otherwise.
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Don't you mean the "daddy" of OS X? I thought OS X *is* the Next OS but overlaid with the Mac desktop.
Also why is it called iOS Objective C? Is objective-C only available through Apple?
Too high. My car cost me $19,000 spread-out over 20 years (with many more years left). Add fifty per year for oil changes. That's only $80/month. Just like almost-everything else, it's cheaper to buy the item then to rent it.
My car insurance doesn't cover any of that. My insurance covers the other guy, and his car, and that's it. I will be taken to the hospital and my car will go to the junkyard. That's why my car insurance is only $110. So if cars did become self-driving, thereby eliminating car-on-car accidents, I could just drop my insurance completely.
ALSO: If cars did become self-driving, we former drivers could sit in the backseat where it's safer and more survivable (in the event of hitting a cow or deer or whatever).
You can track U.S. Post Office mail to Canada. It's called Global Express and lets you know when the item has been delivered. I started using that after a number of Canadians started claiming "I never got the item". Now that I use tracking, the complaints have disappeared. Hmmm.
They are more interested in protecting their jobs, than making changes that help the students (such as firing bad teachers, or eliminating permanent employment via tenure). You can see the excellent ABC 20/20 documentary called "Stupid in America" on youtube. There's also a sequel produced for FOX which updates the older 20/20 report. And then a "part 3" sequel to the sequel.
I don't recall FOX having to apologize because they edited the Trayvon/Zimmerman audio to make the gunman look like a racist. I don't recall FOX deliberately looping a video to make a black gunman look like a white gunman (they did it by hiding his head), and then label him a "racist who might attack Obama". I don't recall FOX having to apologize for calling Ron Paul a former KKK member (never happened).
And it wasn't FOX that falsely-accused Mitt Romney of beating-up a gay man in high school. And it was not FOX that called our current president a "dick" on live news; how disrespectful and biased. I've seen NBC reporters caught in these kinds of lies & twisting of the news & blatant bad judgment more often than FOX reporters.
>>>Local play was replaced by internet play because it was seen as more profitable by the games industry to enforce DRM online.
-1 Not insightful.
Internet (or direct-dial) gaming with long-distance players has existed since the 80s. I used to play an 80s game called Populous with people I met through the BBS or school. Since we couldn't be in the same house, we competed over the network..... long before the term DRM existed.
As for older games, the central servers were dropped because of lack of interest. Nobody wants to play old games when newer games w/ better graphics have arrived on the scene. It's just like how old consoles (example: PS1) gradually drop from $600 to $25 in the bargain bin, as people lose interest in old graphics.
>>>So.....riots, burning cars, smashed business windows, beatings, people crushed under mob feet, broken stadiums, and temporary marshall law are "good-hearted" sports?
And racism (one black guy quit because he was sick of being called names). Search youtube for soccer and racism and watch the vids. Good ole Europeans... they are just sooooo much more polite than those hateful americans (not).
I can see states like Mississippi, Alabama doing poorly because they are run by Republicans and republicans hate spending money on kids. (Yes I just heard a guy on MSNBC say that last night.) But California is a Democrat-run state. Their students should be the best and brightest and most well-funded. Like Democrat-run Maryland. Hmmmm.
(Note: I'm being sarcastic. I think Democrats suck just as badly as Republicans. None of them know how to run anything.... not the schools, not the MVA, not the Amtrak, nor the post office.)
Why waste time watching EU football or US football or AU football when the world is literally falling-apart all around you with banks on the brink of collapse & governments stripping-away the freedom of expression. All watching sports does is enrich the corporations. Maybe it's "escapism" but frankly I'd rather be like the Greeks (trying to solve the problems), and let the sports wait for better times (2020s or 2030s).
Oh and to comment on the "toughness" of the sport. I don't see EU football players developing Alzheimer-like symptoms at age 40/50, as we frequently see in U.S. football. The american football is so violent the players are literally shortening their lives. It is not a "sissy" sport. In fact it should probably be banned (along with the other athlete-killer: boxing).
Precisely. Also in America we don't have a "repair cafe" but we have something better: Ebay. When something I own breaks, I just list it on ebay as "for parts or repair". There's always some American that enjoys tearing apart broken items. They benefit and I benefit (~$10 cash). It's basically recycling rather than trashing.
Besides my actual neighbors have NOTHING in common with me. I don't socialize with them because frankly I don't want to. The internet provides a way to connect to people who are miles distant..... sometimes they are close enough to meet in person (Computer User Groups), but most times they are not so I "friend" them online.
Speaking from an environmental view this is actually a GOOD thing because it's more efficient to connect virtually, rather than burn gallons of gasoline driving to meet up. We should do more of this (example: telecommuting to work) not less in order to reduce our carbon footprint.
I don't mind the advent of CFL and LED bulbs to save money. I object to being forced by the EU Parliament and US Congress to buy the technology when, in my opinion, it has serious flaws (every bulb I've tried died as quickly as an incandescent). I am never an advocate of forcing people to do something, especially when it's wasting my money on burned-out $3.50 CFLs.
This does not benefit me. Nor does it benefit the environment (those dead mercury-filled bulbs have to be shipped to China for recycling).
>>>Microsoft has never been convicted of anti-competitive behavior in the U.S
Yeah actually they were. The judge's decision was overturned about nine months later, but nevertheless Microsoft WAS convicted by that judge of violating the Sherman Antitrust Act.
>>>I think a notification/warning would be nice prior to purging it from the system.
You have no more right to be notified when Old Flash is being purged from your computer then to not be vaccinated from disease. This is a proactive measure from the state (or the megacorp acting for the state) to protect the internet from bad programs. We can't allow your diseased computer (or body) to be spreading these bots/viruses to other people.
Most of the money being transferred from the Democrat states to the Republican states is simply corporate welfare for Monsanto, ADM, and other farming megacorps. Also there's a ton of spending on military bases, nature preserves which are often located in the rural states.
Eliminate the corporate welfare for Big agriculture, and the balance between the D and R states will be restored again.
I don't recall saying kids should be raped. I said possession of an image should not be a crime, just a possession of marijuana should not be a crime, and possession of a machine gun should not be a crime. It is the ACT of hurting someone else that is the crime, not the possession of murder photos, a plant, or a gun.
You mean the jump from 10.6 to 10.7? Yes that is equivalent to a Windows jump from XP-SP2 to XP-SP3. The differences are major..... oftentimes you'll be required to have the latest 10.7 or SP3 for certain programs to be installed.
Well that's a nifty site. Play games without the bother of installing an emulator or downloading ROMs. I wish there was something like that for the Commodore 64 (since its hardware is 5 years more advanced then the Apple 2) and Amiga.
Someone mentioned speech. The most primitive computer or console I ever heard speaking was the 1977 Atari VCS/2600. The sound chip was a noise generator and was never meant to play music or voices, but the programmers managed to squeeze it into an 8 kilobyte program.
guess you never played Final Fantasy on the NES or it various ports. Cutscenes have existed a long time... earliest I can recall is Turrican. Or even Pacman.
Was there a game that came before Return To Castle Wolfenstein. ÂAnd was it ever ported to a more advanced machine than the Apple II (like Atari or Comodore)?
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Thanks for giving clarity. If we went by popularity, we'd all be listening to Rihanna or Gotye (both hit #1) or watching FOX (#1 on cable, #2 on broadcast) or reading Alex Jones infowars.com (routinely 1 or 2 in the webnews index). Popularity is interesting to note but doesn't mean much otherwise.
Don't you mean the "daddy" of OS X? I thought OS X *is* the Next OS but overlaid with the Mac desktop.
Also why is it called iOS Objective C? Is objective-C only available through Apple?
>>> paying a couple hundred bucks a month
Too high. My car cost me $19,000 spread-out over 20 years (with many more years left). Add fifty per year for oil changes. That's only $80/month. Just like almost-everything else, it's cheaper to buy the item then to rent it.
My car insurance doesn't cover any of that. My insurance covers the other guy, and his car, and that's it. I will be taken to the hospital and my car will go to the junkyard. That's why my car insurance is only $110. So if cars did become self-driving, thereby eliminating car-on-car accidents, I could just drop my insurance completely.
ALSO: If cars did become self-driving, we former drivers could sit in the backseat where it's safer and more survivable (in the event of hitting a cow or deer or whatever).
A slashdotter told me a week ago that Li-Ion battery is "safe", and no longer spontaneously releases stored energy. Is that no longer the case?
You can track U.S. Post Office mail to Canada. It's called Global Express and lets you know when the item has been delivered. I started using that after a number of Canadians started claiming "I never got the item". Now that I use tracking, the complaints have disappeared. Hmmm.
The Unions are the problem that stop advancement.
They are more interested in protecting their jobs, than making changes that help the students (such as firing bad teachers, or eliminating permanent employment via tenure). You can see the excellent ABC 20/20 documentary called "Stupid in America" on youtube. There's also a sequel produced for FOX which updates the older 20/20 report. And then a "part 3" sequel to the sequel.
Oh here we go.....
I don't recall FOX having to apologize because they edited the Trayvon/Zimmerman audio to make the gunman look like a racist. I don't recall FOX deliberately looping a video to make a black gunman look like a white gunman (they did it by hiding his head), and then label him a "racist who might attack Obama". I don't recall FOX having to apologize for calling Ron Paul a former KKK member (never happened).
And it wasn't FOX that falsely-accused Mitt Romney of beating-up a gay man in high school. And it was not FOX that called our current president a "dick" on live news; how disrespectful and biased. I've seen NBC reporters caught in these kinds of lies & twisting of the news & blatant bad judgment more often than FOX reporters.
But... but... MSNBC isn't lying scum like Faux News. We can trust the MSNBC news! /sarcasm. LOL
>>>Local play was replaced by internet play because it was seen as more profitable by the games industry to enforce DRM online.
-1 Not insightful.
Internet (or direct-dial) gaming with long-distance players has existed since the 80s. I used to play an 80s game called Populous with people I met through the BBS or school. Since we couldn't be in the same house, we competed over the network..... long before the term DRM existed.
As for older games, the central servers were dropped because of lack of interest. Nobody wants to play old games when newer games w/ better graphics have arrived on the scene. It's just like how old consoles (example: PS1) gradually drop from $600 to $25 in the bargain bin, as people lose interest in old graphics.
>>>So.....riots, burning cars, smashed business windows, beatings, people crushed under mob feet, broken stadiums, and temporary marshall law are "good-hearted" sports?
And racism (one black guy quit because he was sick of being called names).
Search youtube for soccer and racism and watch the vids.
Good ole Europeans... they are just sooooo much more polite than those hateful americans (not).
I can see states like Mississippi, Alabama doing poorly because they are run by Republicans and republicans hate spending money on kids. (Yes I just heard a guy on MSNBC say that last night.) But California is a Democrat-run state. Their students should be the best and brightest and most well-funded. Like Democrat-run Maryland. Hmmmm.
(Note: I'm being sarcastic. I think Democrats suck just as badly as Republicans. None of them know how to run anything.... not the schools, not the MVA, not the Amtrak, nor the post office.)
Why waste time watching EU football or US football or AU football when the world is literally falling-apart all around you with banks on the brink of collapse & governments stripping-away the freedom of expression. All watching sports does is enrich the corporations. Maybe it's "escapism" but frankly I'd rather be like the Greeks (trying to solve the problems), and let the sports wait for better times (2020s or 2030s).
Oh and to comment on the "toughness" of the sport. I don't see EU football players developing Alzheimer-like symptoms at age 40/50, as we frequently see in U.S. football. The american football is so violent the players are literally shortening their lives. It is not a "sissy" sport. In fact it should probably be banned (along with the other athlete-killer: boxing).
Precisely. Also in America we don't have a "repair cafe" but we have something better: Ebay. When something I own breaks, I just list it on ebay as "for parts or repair". There's always some American that enjoys tearing apart broken items. They benefit and I benefit (~$10 cash). It's basically recycling rather than trashing.
Besides my actual neighbors have NOTHING in common with me. I don't socialize with them because frankly I don't want to. The internet provides a way to connect to people who are miles distant..... sometimes they are close enough to meet in person (Computer User Groups), but most times they are not so I "friend" them online.
Speaking from an environmental view this is actually a GOOD thing because it's more efficient to connect virtually, rather than burn gallons of gasoline driving to meet up. We should do more of this (example: telecommuting to work) not less in order to reduce our carbon footprint.
I don't mind the advent of CFL and LED bulbs to save money.
I object to being forced by the EU Parliament and US Congress to buy the technology when, in my opinion, it has serious flaws (every bulb I've tried died as quickly as an incandescent). I am never an advocate of forcing people to do something, especially when it's wasting my money on burned-out $3.50 CFLs.
This does not benefit me. Nor does it benefit the environment (those dead mercury-filled bulbs have to be shipped to China for recycling).
>>>Microsoft has never been convicted of anti-competitive behavior in the U.S
Yeah actually they were. The judge's decision was overturned about nine months later, but nevertheless Microsoft WAS convicted by that judge of violating the Sherman Antitrust Act.
Do I earn more than 350,000 dollars? No. Then I'm not part of the 1%. Are you?
>>>I think a notification/warning would be nice prior to purging it from the system.
You have no more right to be notified when Old Flash is being purged from your computer then to not be vaccinated from disease. This is a proactive measure from the state (or the megacorp acting for the state) to protect the internet from bad programs. We can't allow your diseased computer (or body) to be spreading these bots/viruses to other people.
Most of the money being transferred from the Democrat states to the Republican states is simply corporate welfare for Monsanto, ADM, and other farming megacorps. Also there's a ton of spending on military bases, nature preserves which are often located in the rural states.
Eliminate the corporate welfare for Big agriculture, and the balance between the D and R states will be restored again.
I don't recall saying kids should be raped. I said possession of an image should not be a crime, just a possession of marijuana should not be a crime, and possession of a machine gun should not be a crime. It is the ACT of hurting someone else that is the crime, not the possession of murder photos, a plant, or a gun.
You mean the jump from 10.6 to 10.7? Yes that is equivalent to a Windows jump from XP-SP2 to XP-SP3. The differences are major..... oftentimes you'll be required to have the latest 10.7 or SP3 for certain programs to be installed.
Well that's a nifty site. Play games without the bother of installing an emulator or downloading ROMs. I wish there was something like that for the Commodore 64 (since its hardware is 5 years more advanced then the Apple 2) and Amiga.
Someone mentioned speech. The most primitive computer or console I ever heard speaking was the 1977 Atari VCS/2600. The sound chip was a noise generator and was never meant to play music or voices, but the programmers managed to squeeze it into an 8 kilobyte program.
Of corse. The Commodore was five years more advanced in technology than Apple II....... I wonder if there was an Amiga port of Wolfenstein.
guess you never played Final Fantasy on the NES or it various ports. Cutscenes have existed a long time... earliest I can recall is Turrican. Or even Pacman.
Was there a game that came before Return To Castle Wolfenstein. ÂAnd was it ever ported to a more advanced machine than the Apple II (like Atari or Comodore)?