I mean, this obviously wasn't newsworthy when my state's law on this went into effect nearly a year ago, or when those other 19 states' laws did. But 20! That's perfect. Wouldn't want to jump the gun and report before anyone else, but you don't want to look like you're just on the bandwagon either. Brilliant!
There are already spam packages that do this, at least the collaborative part. Vipul's Razor (which is under the Artistic license) at the personal level and Brightmail (which is closed and not free) at the enterprise/ISP level, off the top of my head.
Well, when you start going through the Bill of Rights and comparing Canada already loses just atthe first two. No reason for me to go any further after that.
After Punk'd, I would never speak with anyone remotely appearing to give me a hard time over anything whatsoever. I'd just walk away.
Of course, MTV also has a show called Boiling Points in which the idea is to see how long people will put up with ridiculous crap. If they make it through the pre-established time limit without threatening violence or calling the cops they win $100.
Were you actually confused as to who was the creator of the site or are you just bitching like an asshole about their style?
Neither. My thought when I started reading the FAQ was "wait, I thought this was a Lindows promotion." I then checked the footers and saw that it was, and that they were just slimy pricks. Had I not known it was a Lindows promotion I probably wouldn't have cared enough anout the site to read that closely.
If it's the latter, you're an asshole. If it's the former, you're stupid.
More like neither one but it would appear the tiniest bit of gray in your life is entirely too much for you to handle.
Either way, I'm done reading your posts. Have a shitty life.
Shrug. Much like real acidic diarrhea, I'd be overjoyed if you never graced my life with your presence.
I want them to stop writing as if Lindows/Linspire is someone besides them. I pointed out that message in my original post. Doesn't change what they're doing on the rest of the site. If they're not trying to hide it, stop referring to Lindows as "them" and the site as "we" like they're two different entities. Also don't list some crap about why they chose to include Lindows as one of the three. They chose it because they are Lindows, not because they did some "evaluation" of it.
That was my point. They write the site as if they are not the company. They refer to Lindows as a separate entity from themselves and present the site as an objective third party evaluating Linux distros. That's not advertising and "puffing" (which is perfectly legal), that's outright lying.
The grammar police will track you down in the end, you know!
Doubtful, since I made no grammatical errors.
"We" is actually first person plural, not third person. Third person would be 'he', 'she' or 'it'.
Indeed, but that's an irrelevant comment in the context of what I said. The sentence reads along the lines of '"We" chose to include Lindows because'. The "we" is first person and "Lindows" is third person. That deliberately implies that "we" and "Lindows" are separate entities because no one would refer to themselves in the third person about choosing to include their own product.
They refer to Lindows in the third person throughout the site, in the same way they refer to Mandrake and Fedora. There's a small copyright notice at the bottom, and of course when you get to the store it's Linspire.com, but the site reads like an objective third party site. "We chose Lindows because..." Well, you chose it because you're selling it. Then there's support and referring to "their [Lindows] forums." They're not "their" forums, they're your forums.
Then there's the supposed comparisons in their "shootout", which are just opinion in the top section, while the middle and bottom section are just outright lies.
Well that's great but the TiVo is a fairly low powered machine (The Series2 has a 200Mhz MIPS CPU). It relies on hardware for its MPEG decoding. For any other video format it would have to do it in software, and there's just no way that's happening real time.
You should have just asked. I live in an area that took a while to build out to. T-Mobile, Cingular and, yes, SprintPCS never had a problem with me "borrowing" a phone to check signal.
I would never, ever consider moving somewhere where I couldn't. It just demonstrates a government's utter contempt for its citizenry. I guess we'll never be neighbors.
As an aside, do you know how often concealed carry permit holders commit crimes compared to the rest of the population? Hardly ever. While there's not much data on actual firearms crimes committed by CCW permit holders, there is data on revocation percentages. Since permits are revoked upon conviction for any violent crime, with or without a firearm, as well as many other reasons firearms crimes are merely a subset of that already small percentage. That percentage?.5%. One half of one percent. (Accoring to this article)
I don't think they actually use the words "mission critical". What they say (paraphrased) is that it should not be used in situations where lives would be on the line. Emergency services systems, hospital equipment, air traffic control, things like that. This is really just common sense (and ofen the law).
I know in the case of air traffic control the FAA must certify all systems, and with hospitals the various professional specialty organizations certify software within their fields.
in cox.internet.discussion.email for a few weeks (months?) now. The spam filter and virus filter were tolerable though they would silently throw away mail that was a hit, even a false one (incoming and outgoing). Now the mail servers just randomly throw away mail, again both incoming and outgoing, with no apparent rhyme or reason. If Cox didn't block outgoing port 25 it would be less of a problem. As it stands they've basically funneled all outgoing mail through their servers, and then refuse to run them properly.
It's a shame, considering how top notch their news admins are you'd think they'd hire the same level of email admin.
I'd like to know when Fire Emblem is going to make it over here. I saw a blurb in a gaming mag a couple months ago that said it was coming, but that's about it. There's not very many turn-based strategy or RPGs on consoles, especially the Cube (the only one I have). Besides Gladius, which rocks, I don't know of much else.
Let the MPAA bring back the X, which everyone understands, for porno and establish a useful adults-only rating for films that are not pornography but are simply unsuitable for children.
That's what NC-17 was supposed to be (I believe it was introduced first with Last Tango in Paris). And it works pretty well. The reason that most theaters don't run NC-17 films has nothing to do with it being "irretrievably associated with pornograhy" (because it simply is not) but rather a matter of simple economics. The under-18 demographic makes up a huge chunk of moviegoers. No theater in their right mind is going to turn away paying customers when they could just carry one of many other films where they wouldn't have to. It's not like there's a shortage of R and lower films to run. The "adults only" film market is a niche one, served (generally well) by smaller independent movie houses.
Roger Ebert, of all people, should know this. His comments utterly astound and baffle me.
I've never seen a laptop without two "expansion slots" (by which I assume you mean PCMCIA/Cardbus bays) and I supported corporate systems for 7 years through 486 Thinkpads to PII Dells Latitudes with some Compaq Armadas and HPs in there too. And while I haven't done it in a while so maybe one bay is the rule now, I would be hard pressed to believe that anyone with any IT experience at all has never seen what was the de facto standard hardware configuration throughout the 90's.
Both. One game I was watching recently was Freedom Fighters. Looking now, it turns out to be a bad example, though. It started out $10 cheaper than the console version, as you say, but the PC version dropped very quickly to $20. The console versions dropped to $40 after a couple months, but they stayed there for a very long time. I say it's a bad example because in checking for this reply I noticed that BestBuy actually dropped FF to $20 for Gamecube. That was really surprising. Good for me, though.:)
PC games tend to always hit the bargain bin, no matter what they are. Many console games never do. You could be right about the royalty factor making it uneconomical to drop the price, but I still don't think that's it. There are plenty of places that are perfectly willing to work on razor thin margins, if not even as loss leaders. And while games have lower than typical retail margins there's still room to play. I think the publishers just have too tight a hold on the market.
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You do understand that certs are for far more than online shopping, right? Verified email, for example.
It's not down. They made a small change to protect themselves most likely. You'll have to manually alter links, but you can browse the site fine.
The part where saying, "I'm right, as long as you ignore the things that prove me wrong" became a valid method of debate.
I mean, this obviously wasn't newsworthy when my state's law on this went into effect nearly a year ago, or when those other 19 states' laws did. But 20! That's perfect. Wouldn't want to jump the gun and report before anyone else, but you don't want to look like you're just on the bandwagon either. Brilliant!
There are already spam packages that do this, at least the collaborative part. Vipul's Razor (which is under the Artistic license) at the personal level and Brightmail (which is closed and not free) at the enterprise/ISP level, off the top of my head.
Well, when you start going through the Bill of Rights and comparing Canada already loses just atthe first two. No reason for me to go any further after that.
Of course, MTV also has a show called Boiling Points in which the idea is to see how long people will put up with ridiculous crap. If they make it through the pre-established time limit without threatening violence or calling the cops they win $100.
Neither. My thought when I started reading the FAQ was "wait, I thought this was a Lindows promotion." I then checked the footers and saw that it was, and that they were just slimy pricks. Had I not known it was a Lindows promotion I probably wouldn't have cared enough anout the site to read that closely.
If it's the latter, you're an asshole. If it's the former, you're stupid.
More like neither one but it would appear the tiniest bit of gray in your life is entirely too much for you to handle.
Either way, I'm done reading your posts. Have a shitty life.
Shrug. Much like real acidic diarrhea, I'd be overjoyed if you never graced my life with your presence.
I want them to stop writing as if Lindows/Linspire is someone besides them. I pointed out that message in my original post. Doesn't change what they're doing on the rest of the site. If they're not trying to hide it, stop referring to Lindows as "them" and the site as "we" like they're two different entities. Also don't list some crap about why they chose to include Lindows as one of the three. They chose it because they are Lindows, not because they did some "evaluation" of it.
That was my point. They write the site as if they are not the company. They refer to Lindows as a separate entity from themselves and present the site as an objective third party evaluating Linux distros. That's not advertising and "puffing" (which is perfectly legal), that's outright lying.
Doubtful, since I made no grammatical errors.
"We" is actually first person plural, not third person. Third person would be 'he', 'she' or 'it'.
Indeed, but that's an irrelevant comment in the context of what I said. The sentence reads along the lines of '"We" chose to include Lindows because'. The "we" is first person and "Lindows" is third person. That deliberately implies that "we" and "Lindows" are separate entities because no one would refer to themselves in the third person about choosing to include their own product.
Then there's the supposed comparisons in their "shootout", which are just opinion in the top section, while the middle and bottom section are just outright lies.
Kinda scummy, in my opinion.
Well that's great but the TiVo is a fairly low powered machine (The Series2 has a 200Mhz MIPS CPU). It relies on hardware for its MPEG decoding. For any other video format it would have to do it in software, and there's just no way that's happening real time.
Or you could, you know, maybe stop playing UT for the six minutes it takes to burn a DVD at that speed.
You should have just asked. I live in an area that took a while to build out to. T-Mobile, Cingular and, yes, SprintPCS never had a problem with me "borrowing" a phone to check signal.
As an aside, do you know how often concealed carry permit holders commit crimes compared to the rest of the population? Hardly ever. While there's not much data on actual firearms crimes committed by CCW permit holders, there is data on revocation percentages. Since permits are revoked upon conviction for any violent crime, with or without a firearm, as well as many other reasons firearms crimes are merely a subset of that already small percentage. That percentage? .5%. One half of one percent. (Accoring to this article)
Sure, but that's irrelevant. The post that started the thread asked "are you sure this is in England?"
It states he went to the University of Kent, which is a very well known university located in Canterbury, England.
I know in the case of air traffic control the FAA must certify all systems, and with hospitals the various professional specialty organizations certify software within their fields.
It's a shame, considering how top notch their news admins are you'd think they'd hire the same level of email admin.
I know reading the articles is often too much to ask, but really, is reading the entire submission such a chore too?
I'd like to know when Fire Emblem is going to make it over here. I saw a blurb in a gaming mag a couple months ago that said it was coming, but that's about it. There's not very many turn-based strategy or RPGs on consoles, especially the Cube (the only one I have). Besides Gladius, which rocks, I don't know of much else.
That's what NC-17 was supposed to be (I believe it was introduced first with Last Tango in Paris). And it works pretty well. The reason that most theaters don't run NC-17 films has nothing to do with it being "irretrievably associated with pornograhy" (because it simply is not) but rather a matter of simple economics. The under-18 demographic makes up a huge chunk of moviegoers. No theater in their right mind is going to turn away paying customers when they could just carry one of many other films where they wouldn't have to. It's not like there's a shortage of R and lower films to run. The "adults only" film market is a niche one, served (generally well) by smaller independent movie houses.
Roger Ebert, of all people, should know this. His comments utterly astound and baffle me.
I've never seen a laptop without two "expansion slots" (by which I assume you mean PCMCIA/Cardbus bays) and I supported corporate systems for 7 years through 486 Thinkpads to PII Dells Latitudes with some Compaq Armadas and HPs in there too. And while I haven't done it in a while so maybe one bay is the rule now, I would be hard pressed to believe that anyone with any IT experience at all has never seen what was the de facto standard hardware configuration throughout the 90's.
Both. One game I was watching recently was Freedom Fighters. Looking now, it turns out to be a bad example, though. It started out $10 cheaper than the console version, as you say, but the PC version dropped very quickly to $20. The console versions dropped to $40 after a couple months, but they stayed there for a very long time. I say it's a bad example because in checking for this reply I noticed that BestBuy actually dropped FF to $20 for Gamecube. That was really surprising. Good for me, though. :)
PC games tend to always hit the bargain bin, no matter what they are. Many console games never do. You could be right about the royalty factor making it uneconomical to drop the price, but I still don't think that's it. There are plenty of places that are perfectly willing to work on razor thin margins, if not even as loss leaders. And while games have lower than typical retail margins there's still room to play. I think the publishers just have too tight a hold on the market.