1. Dupe: you made the list (or you would if I cared enough to add it).
2. It's not going to be as good as Revolution: I'd given up on consoles (I'm not spending over 60hrs walking around some rpg fantasy land, slowly) - but the revolution allowing me to download old snes games from my past sealed the deal.
3. I would like to pass my condolences to CowboyNeal (aka. da honk) for being shot yesterday at 2.47am while running his pimp service on the streets of Harlem, and wish his right arm a speedy recovery. I will avenge you, or die tryin'.
Really, if it worked for you, than does newer technology have anything more to offer a kid?
I've seen many POPULAR new toys: they're tacky, colourful, not particularly intellectually stimulating and just feature lots of things that will attract any kid (watch the Barney Show, if you don't already). In my opinion, lots of modern toys are patronising (technology is just as new to the parents as it is to the kids - in your day, you actually needed some skillz / dedication to setup a game/box - how many kids with psps do you see wanting to start programming some apps compared to people who used to play tron/whatever off a cartridge?). The poster above was right - don't spoil them, old hardware will do - you're not being a harsh parent, you're being responsible. Developements in modern computing will seem more exciting if they've stuck with it from basic to advanced (why does every computing course still keep hardware/assembly fundamentals?). You're evidently a tech. guy - you're knowlegeable enough to not have to rely on playskool to provide $50 handheld digital etchasketch with melody playing capabilities. Keep it old school. Older 2d games required dexterity and intellect to make them interesting : software based on pretty graphics just seems to sell itself for looking advanced.
+ As a bonus you'll have some enthusiasm for reliving the games of your past (will you get ever that chance again?), and you'll get to see the same joy in your kids which you can relate to (or maybe you won't - and then you'll know that computing isn't really for them - but at least you'll know, from the personal experiences of what got you going as a kid).
Upgrading may not just be unecessary, it maybe worse. But it's your call at end of the day - just use your judgement.
Great link So from what I understand, the main reason there will be 3 version for the home user. The first will limit the number of running windows allowed to 3 (*wow*. the reason behind this? Oh yeah, to intentionally cripple it), the second will not feature the main reason the typical reason why the average XP user would want to upgrade: the aero interface, & the third has a transparency look (pretty sure e17 is going to have this for free), and a bunch of applications similar to existing freeware tools distributed on the cd.
I'd love to know the costs of these products: I find the whole thing hilarious. But at the same time I'm going to have serious words with my family members to not waste their money for little reason. I don't think feeble upgrades like this (scaring people by stressing their work is less secure and open to virus attacks unless they upgrade) show much respect to their consumer base. Get some third party virus protection for xp and be done with MS.
Around the point of flac discussion, I switched to talking about how I wouldn't use alac encoding, which has a closed source encoding process (http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Los sless_comparison#ALAC_CONS), which was my point of protest since I found it difficult to support use of the format using a non-Apple/MS operating system.
But thanks for the info on MP4/AAC, and I appreciate that it was a pretty misinformed post.
That's a pretty major mp3 retailer: and windows users have been encouraged to use that by various magazine/online sources.
Not to mention that there are loads of mp3 players on the market, so I don't see it going away. The commercial market always seems to linger behind for a while - mp3 players are relatively new. They'll keep it alive.
Although I do protest naive ipod users being locked into a manufacturers format - when DRM becomes mandatory, they'll be wondering what's going on. Some people just trust the manufacturer default settings (it's not their fault, they assume it's the best - non-geeks have mp3 players now). Personally I'm going to switch to flac format (I just discovered it) for ripping my favourite albums - I wouldn't use alac (although I'm sure many ipod users do) because it's closed, and can see the DRM restriction problem become an issue in the future for closed source media.
So in summary, you guys might as well do it.. because you'll grow old waiting before anyone in that region of the world rises up to fight them.
And just why is that exactly, the lack of strength in numbers?
Before I start this, I'm not trying to say this as a personal attack or anything like that - please don't take offence.
Just so you know, the fact that you have stated yourself as a Muslim means absoloutely nothing to me. It's not something I find should affect my opinion at all. I've seen the political broadcasts with a smiling coloured person at republican conventions, which the camera just can't seem to get off, and the specific effort to get interviews from positive Muslims, just so a few people can leave the audience and say, "well you know, I have Muslim friends, and I've seen Muslims, and they agree with it, so you know must be ok" - that doesn't win any points with me. I think such broad stereotyping is tantamount to racism.
But the fact is, that the option is to either flee (which is completely acceptable - integrate yourself to a culture that represents you - that's why many people leave their hometowns to find somewhere that suits them) or standup and fight. Iraqi Muslims do have enough non-fanatic people to say NO against the Government (and if they don't then I guess the democracy IS in effect). If the majority of people disagrees with the act of a minority, then it has enough people to backlash and start a war of its own - it's called a political movement, a peoples' army - it's happened in history before. Hell, I'm amazed the blacks managed to do it personally because there were far fewer of them in America than there were whites (but I guess there were more tolerant whites than racists). I do not condone encouraging people to sit there and wait, and neither do I accept the suggestion that the war is acceptable because their masses never will do it themselves. You might point me to the example of the Nazis - that was something exceptional, and even in that case there were far fewer Jews than than Germans. But the truth is, this intolerance has been going on been going on for years - it takes public revolt to make a difference - not being bailed out - I know I'm not the only one who gets the impression the New government of Iraq will be in the pocket of the American Government for years to come because the Americans bailed them out (hmm, Riotxix, how could you think such a thing? They have such an honest track record!). The opinion of one person (for all I know you could be a whitehouse spokesman - please don't be offended, I don't think you are!) - who just so happens to go out of his way to state him/herself as a Muslim (ok, I appreciate you did this for an acceptable reason, and not to get public sympathy/bias), saying an international illegal war is kind of acceptable, and some guy below him getting modded insightful for saying how this has affected his view on Muslim culture, just doesn't do it for me - I need more, I need the majority (and not yours by the way - you're an American now - the people in the country getting bombed). I agree with you though, put up, or leave, OR fight (don't expect others fight/speak on behalf of you - because you see, I don't think that rightous people who diagreed with torture and that nazi bastard Saddam were the minority).
Another thing I'd just like to add to that is that if a politician in the UK had the nerve to suggest falehood/propoganda was the way forward, there would be severe repercussions, investigations by the opposite part, impeachment - I'm afraid you'll just have to take my word for that. I'm sure it's true in many other European countries aswell. Passing off major mistakes/wrong doing is just not as accceptable. I just can't figure out why this doesn't happen in the US . Is it because the voice of the people/opposing parties just don't hold that much power? Do opposite parties not have significant influence to have memebers of parliament removed? I'm not trying to flamebait, it's a serious concern. Don't forget, this war in causing deaths of people/racism against Muslims in other countries too (the ones that offered their soldiers, and the 'arbitrary civilian casualties'), - this IS a worldwide issue, and has been for sometime. We want answers from your Government too, we just can't get them because we can't hassle your politicians like we can ours.
Fighting propoganda with propoganda is always a constant... it seems totally obvious that we use propoganda in the short-to-medium term in exchange. To me, it makes complete sense to use propoganda in certain parts of the world.
Yeah that's the difference between people who see the way you do and the people who see the way I do: doing the wrong thing shouldn't be an accepted necessity: the truth should be significantly apparent to speak for itself. If Americans weren't killing so excess civilians ("oh, well you know, that's the price of war") each day and being caught torturing prisoners and posing like a bunch of fucking idiots, perhaps lies wouldn't be needed to cover up innocent people's deaths (and no, not just a number caused by 11 hijackers on a plane, the number caused by the body of the US/UK army in full force). You're meant to be the good guys: following the example of the wrong doers just because they did it first seems to be acceptable rhetoric with more and more people (I've heard it so many times).
The existence of propoganda suggests that poeple wouldn't be buying the truth unless it was falsely embellished. Both sides can learn from that.
Surely this argument could be applied to any company depending on a third party in it's solution - I'd say you have a better chance with opensource though, because on the chances of a buyout your'e
a) going to be left with a fork of hackers/coders who still maintain the product (probably more likely than a commerical solution, since it's roots were in open source to begin), or b) the code for the old program regardless (it's not going to disappear), which should be sufficient anyway (who invests such dependence of their business on the future evolution of a third party product?).
Better than relying on a company that stops because it has gone bankrupt (and chances are remains closed), or is bought out buy a firm that wants to integrate the codebase with another closed source product, so that it's no longer usable.
I'd just like to take this opportunity to say Mad props to the edita Kru, Cowboy, Zonk - keeping the pimp scene alive on the streets of harlem. Peace.
er..only in every circustance you mentioned it's been an attempt to stop a group (nation's army) that was using force to impose their terms on another country's soil: no quite the same 11 or so people hijacking a passenger aircraft.
You should learn to differentiate between a single person, or even a group of people, who behaves badly and a whole class of individuals
This comment isn't a personal attack on you (I don't know who you are or who you root for), but on a note it's ironic how it was a small group of terrorist bombing a few buildings that 'declared war' in the first place. I have a hard time believing a bunch of of people who defend their homeland while it's being invaded by foreign soldiers bombing the fck out of their women and children are now 'terrorist insurgents' because they are showing acts of violence towards Americans. If only the Government had taken your advice...
The screen shots have pictures of soldiers being greeted by men in villas and asking for food in local stores. Are the scenarios where the iraqis tell the soldiers to get bent? It sounds like software that would better be suited to showing kids how to handle an exhange trip to Europe.
As cool as it sounds, I doubt it has more use than a phrase book, other than it's a bit easier for people who can't be bothered to learn. At least they can take the book to a warzone (or do all soldiers have a laptop?). Nice tech. demo though.
Against:
I can use third part applications to emulate these features (and if I used windows, I would have them already setup). It's not worth $150 (europe) to me every 3/4 years. Serious point: wtf is MS bundling DVD writing/photo organisation software in their OS? They've already sold the OS before release - it's not like they have any commerical x86 OS competition: why are they so actively taking away profits from smaller software firms? It is not necessary AT ALL. It's not like IE7 is the killer app that's going to force people to upgrade or anything.
For: The knowledge that MS does and will continue to give a bucketload of cash to charity: I don't mind stealing from the rich to give to the poor, I just hope it continues to give - the company has enough money to make a serious difference in the world - it's in a very unique / lucky position - the richest company in the history of makind (probably). Use the money for good!!!
Yeah, actually I appreciate the work they've done on linux for the ps2 - it's cool (even if it costs about $200 in Europe and is no longer available in the US). But sony is a split up company. PS2 techeads might not be the same people trying to stop you from using your computer transfer Sony camcorders, mp3 players + other peripheral devices so it doesn't get cracked in 6 months instead of 12. And that's optimistic - 4 years on Sony net-mindisc players + walkmen (old or new) still can't transfer mp3 files under linux.
That's because it's a laptop, made up of non-sony components. & from the sounds of it, the one drm specific sony piece of hardware it has doesn't work, and is probably illegal to reverse engineer.
As much as that sounds like a troll, I'd have to agree with you. I use to be a loyal follower of Sony - basically for no other reason than I figured that they made superior products, and you'd pay a bit more for them but it was worth it. But two things have annoyed me significantly to arrange my own little boycott (and I know this is true for many others):
Sony BMG. the whole rootkit fiasco
Sony Hardware -but more significantly, they make disposable crap. My minidisc player just died because of the blankdisc error - an inevitable ribbon cable snap (which everyone will require eventually) due to opening/closing 'too many times'. An almost $400 'walkman' inevitably requiring a $100 fixed rate repair a few years later. The new mp3 walkman don't have backlit screens (what happens at night?), and they're bigger than cheaper 3rd party ones.
Linux: Their hardware is unlikely to ever support my os, because (perhaps because they're a giant popular corporation) they like to keep it all closed up.
They definitely aren't the company I perceived them as (many are realising this) - I hope they get what they deserve for treating consumers like dirt. But they'll still rule the hardware market I figure (because of history, and the perception than paying more means better products).
Quite right. Whenever people try to hype up an old OS because of lack of viruses, I get the impression they're shooting themselves. Software will always have bugs : good review/verification schemes (like the linux kernel has) are great, but you're never going to get that on every single piece of software. It's probably the lack of people writing the viruses that makes them statistically more secure.
You may not know this, but pimps beat their women. It is part of the profession of prostitution. If you can't get the message, then fuck off and troll in some politics lobby on yahoo. Dickhead.
Yeah, and at I no point have I suggested this. Don't fucking accuse me of suscribing to any source of religious lifestyle - & I'm not for defence of legal daftness either. I'm saying that a professionals that make prostitution (statically an inherently violent illegal profession) a more conceivable to little girls should be taking a better look at the example they're setting. Even if I was religious (and Christian for that matter), I'd likely be pro-prostitution given the profession of a certain someone's mother. You just stereotype people who share a similar viewpoint into the types of people you already know (in this case, religious zealots).
Yeah but in many countries, isn't prostitution a viable and realised option for many young girls? In countries where prostitution is illegal (I assume the countries where these girls are protesting from), their existence as lawbreakers does make seem their career seem more of a realistic alternative - regardless of age. I agree that law breakers should be the people to critize a perceived bad influence.
Kind of - think about it: 1 + 2 = 3. The mouse travelling at the speed of a horse under its control will always outrun a sleepy-cat. It's the only option the mouse had looking at the circumstances, and given Oracle must be the mouse in the story, it's in the winning situation.
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1. Dupe: you made the list (or you would if I cared enough to add it).
2. It's not going to be as good as Revolution: I'd given up on consoles (I'm not spending over 60hrs walking around some rpg fantasy land, slowly) - but the revolution allowing me to download old snes games from my past sealed the deal.
3. I would like to pass my condolences to CowboyNeal (aka. da honk) for being shot yesterday at 2.47am while running his pimp service on the streets of Harlem, and wish his right arm a speedy recovery. I will avenge you, or die tryin'.
Really, if it worked for you, than does newer technology have anything more to offer a kid?
I've seen many POPULAR new toys: they're tacky, colourful, not particularly intellectually stimulating and just feature lots of things that will attract any kid (watch the Barney Show, if you don't already). In my opinion, lots of modern toys are patronising (technology is just as new to the parents as it is to the kids - in your day, you actually needed some skillz / dedication to setup a game/box - how many kids with psps do you see wanting to start programming some apps compared to people who used to play tron/whatever off a cartridge?). The poster above was right - don't spoil them, old hardware will do - you're not being a harsh parent, you're being responsible. Developements in modern computing will seem more exciting if they've stuck with it from basic to advanced (why does every computing course still keep hardware/assembly fundamentals?). You're evidently a tech. guy - you're knowlegeable enough to not have to rely on playskool to provide $50 handheld digital etchasketch with melody playing capabilities. Keep it old school. Older 2d games required dexterity and intellect to make them interesting : software based on pretty graphics just seems to sell itself for looking advanced.
+ As a bonus you'll have some enthusiasm for reliving the games of your past (will you get ever that chance again?), and you'll get to see the same joy in your kids which you can relate to (or maybe you won't - and then you'll know that computing isn't really for them - but at least you'll know, from the personal experiences of what got you going as a kid).
Upgrading may not just be unecessary, it maybe worse. But it's your call at end of the day - just use your judgement.
Great link So from what I understand, the main reason there will be 3 version for the home user. The first will limit the number of running windows allowed to 3 (*wow*. the reason behind this? Oh yeah, to intentionally cripple it), the second will not feature the main reason the typical reason why the average XP user would want to upgrade: the aero interface, & the third has a transparency look (pretty sure e17 is going to have this for free), and a bunch of applications similar to existing freeware tools distributed on the cd.
I'd love to know the costs of these products: I find the whole thing hilarious. But at the same time I'm going to have serious words with my family members to not waste their money for little reason. I don't think feeble upgrades like this (scaring people by stressing their work is less secure and open to virus attacks unless they upgrade) show much respect to their consumer base. Get some third party virus protection for xp and be done with MS.
Around the point of flac discussion, I switched to talking about how I wouldn't use alac encoding, which has a closed source encoding process (http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Los sless_comparison#ALAC_CONS), which was my point of protest since I found it difficult to support use of the format using a non-Apple/MS operating system.
But thanks for the info on MP4/AAC, and I appreciate that it was a pretty misinformed post.
That's a pretty major mp3 retailer: and windows users have been encouraged to use that by various magazine/online sources.
Not to mention that there are loads of mp3 players on the market, so I don't see it going away. The commercial market always seems to linger behind for a while - mp3 players are relatively new. They'll keep it alive.
Although I do protest naive ipod users being locked into a manufacturers format - when DRM becomes mandatory, they'll be wondering what's going on. Some people just trust the manufacturer default settings (it's not their fault, they assume it's the best - non-geeks have mp3 players now). Personally I'm going to switch to flac format (I just discovered it) for ripping my favourite albums - I wouldn't use alac (although I'm sure many ipod users do) because it's closed, and can see the DRM restriction problem become an issue in the future for closed source media.
This is the first time I've ever wanted to read the source code of a program.
Huzzah for open source!
So in summary, you guys might as well do it.. because you'll grow old waiting before anyone in that region of the world rises up to fight them.
And just why is that exactly, the lack of strength in numbers?
Before I start this, I'm not trying to say this as a personal attack or anything like that - please don't take offence.
Just so you know, the fact that you have stated yourself as a Muslim means absoloutely nothing to me. It's not something I find should affect my opinion at all. I've seen the political broadcasts with a smiling coloured person at republican conventions, which the camera just can't seem to get off, and the specific effort to get interviews from positive Muslims, just so a few people can leave the audience and say, "well you know, I have Muslim friends, and I've seen Muslims, and they agree with it, so you know must be ok" - that doesn't win any points with me. I think such broad stereotyping is tantamount to racism.
But the fact is, that the option is to either flee (which is completely acceptable - integrate yourself to a culture that represents you - that's why many people leave their hometowns to find somewhere that suits them) or standup and fight. Iraqi Muslims do have enough non-fanatic people to say NO against the Government (and if they don't then I guess the democracy IS in effect). If the majority of people disagrees with the act of a minority, then it has enough people to backlash and start a war of its own - it's called a political movement, a peoples' army - it's happened in history before. Hell, I'm amazed the blacks managed to do it personally because there were far fewer of them in America than there were whites (but I guess there were more tolerant whites than racists). I do not condone encouraging people to sit there and wait, and neither do I accept the suggestion that the war is acceptable because their masses never will do it themselves. You might point me to the example of the Nazis - that was something exceptional, and even in that case there were far fewer Jews than than Germans. But the truth is, this intolerance has been going on been going on for years - it takes public revolt to make a difference - not being bailed out - I know I'm not the only one who gets the impression the New government of Iraq will be in the pocket of the American Government for years to come because the Americans bailed them out (hmm, Riotxix, how could you think such a thing? They have such an honest track record!).
The opinion of one person (for all I know you could be a whitehouse spokesman - please don't be offended, I don't think you are!) - who just so happens to go out of his way to state him/herself as a Muslim (ok, I appreciate you did this for an acceptable reason, and not to get public sympathy/bias), saying an international illegal war is kind of acceptable, and some guy below him getting modded insightful for saying how this has affected his view on Muslim culture, just doesn't do it for me - I need more, I need the majority (and not yours by the way - you're an American now - the people in the country getting bombed). I agree with you though, put up, or leave, OR fight (don't expect others fight/speak on behalf of you - because you see, I don't think that rightous people who diagreed with torture and that nazi bastard Saddam were the minority).
Another thing I'd just like to add to that is that if a politician in the UK had the nerve to suggest falehood/propoganda was the way forward, there would be severe repercussions, investigations by the opposite part, impeachment - I'm afraid you'll just have to take my word for that. I'm sure it's true in many other European countries aswell. Passing off major mistakes/wrong doing is just not as accceptable. I just can't figure out why this doesn't happen in the US . Is it because the voice of the people/opposing parties just don't hold that much power? Do opposite parties not have significant influence to have memebers of parliament removed? I'm not trying to flamebait, it's a serious concern. Don't forget, this war in causing deaths of people/racism against Muslims in other countries too (the ones that offered their soldiers, and the 'arbitrary civilian casualties'), - this IS a worldwide issue, and has been for sometime. We want answers from your Government too, we just can't get them because we can't hassle your politicians like we can ours.
Fighting propoganda with propoganda is always a constant. ..
it seems totally obvious that we use propoganda in the short-to-medium term in exchange. To me, it makes complete sense to use propoganda in certain parts of the world.
Yeah that's the difference between people who see the way you do and the people who see the way I do: doing the wrong thing shouldn't be an accepted necessity: the truth should be significantly apparent to speak for itself. If Americans weren't killing so excess civilians ("oh, well you know, that's the price of war") each day and being caught torturing prisoners and posing like a bunch of fucking idiots, perhaps lies wouldn't be needed to cover up innocent people's deaths (and no, not just a number caused by 11 hijackers on a plane, the number caused by the body of the US/UK army in full force). You're meant to be the good guys: following the example of the wrong doers just because they did it first seems to be acceptable rhetoric with more and more people (I've heard it so many times).
The existence of propoganda suggests that poeple wouldn't be buying the truth unless it was falsely embellished. Both sides can learn from that.
Surely this argument could be applied to any company depending on a third party in it's solution - I'd say you have a better chance with opensource though, because on the chances of a buyout your'e
a) going to be left with a fork of hackers/coders who still maintain the product (probably more likely than a commerical solution, since it's roots were in open source to begin), or
b) the code for the old program regardless (it's not going to disappear), which should be sufficient anyway (who invests such dependence of their business on the future evolution of a third party product?).
Better than relying on a company that stops because it has gone bankrupt (and chances are remains closed), or is bought out buy a firm that wants to integrate the codebase with another closed source product, so that it's no longer usable.
I'd just like to take this opportunity to say Mad props to the edita Kru, Cowboy, Zonk - keeping the pimp scene alive on the streets of harlem. Peace.
er..only in every circustance you mentioned it's been an attempt to stop a group (nation's army) that was using force to impose their terms on another country's soil: no quite the same 11 or so people hijacking a passenger aircraft.
You should learn to differentiate between a single person, or even a group of people, who behaves badly and a whole class of individuals
This comment isn't a personal attack on you (I don't know who you are or who you root for), but on a note it's ironic how it was a small group of terrorist bombing a few buildings that 'declared war' in the first place. I have a hard time believing a bunch of of people who defend their homeland while it's being invaded by foreign soldiers bombing the fck out of their women and children are now 'terrorist insurgents' because they are showing acts of violence towards Americans. If only the Government had taken your advice...
I bet this was originally designed as dating software.
The screen shots have pictures of soldiers being greeted by men in villas and asking for food in local stores. Are the scenarios where the iraqis tell the soldiers to get bent? It sounds like software that would better be suited to showing kids how to handle an exhange trip to Europe.
As cool as it sounds, I doubt it has more use than a phrase book, other than it's a bit easier for people who can't be bothered to learn. At least they can take the book to a warzone (or do all soldiers have a laptop?). Nice tech. demo though.
Against:
I can use third part applications to emulate these features (and if I used windows, I would have them already setup). It's not worth $150 (europe) to me every 3/4 years. Serious point: wtf is MS bundling DVD writing/photo organisation software in their OS? They've already sold the OS before release - it's not like they have any commerical x86 OS competition: why are they so actively taking away profits from smaller software firms? It is not necessary AT ALL. It's not like IE7 is the killer app that's going to force people to upgrade or anything.
For:
The knowledge that MS does and will continue to give a bucketload of cash to charity: I don't mind stealing from the rich to give to the poor, I just hope it continues to give - the company has enough money to make a serious difference in the world - it's in a very unique / lucky position - the richest company in the history of makind (probably). Use the money for good!!!
Yeah, actually I appreciate the work they've done on linux for the ps2 - it's cool (even if it costs about $200 in Europe and is no longer available in the US). But sony is a split up company. PS2 techeads might not be the same people trying to stop you from using your computer transfer Sony camcorders, mp3 players + other peripheral devices so it doesn't get cracked in 6 months instead of 12. And that's optimistic - 4 years on Sony net-mindisc players + walkmen (old or new) still can't transfer mp3 files under linux.
That's because it's a laptop, made up of non-sony components. & from the sounds of it, the one drm specific sony piece of hardware it has doesn't work, and is probably illegal to reverse engineer.
Warning: personal rant.
As much as that sounds like a troll, I'd have to agree with you. I use to be a loyal follower of Sony - basically for no other reason than I figured that they made superior products, and you'd pay a bit more for them but it was worth it. But two things have annoyed me significantly to arrange my own little boycott (and I know this is true for many others):
Sony BMG.
the whole rootkit fiasco
Sony Hardware
-but more significantly, they make disposable crap. My minidisc player just died because of the blankdisc error - an inevitable ribbon cable snap (which everyone will require eventually) due to opening/closing 'too many times'. An almost $400 'walkman' inevitably requiring a $100 fixed rate repair a few years later. The new mp3 walkman don't have backlit screens (what happens at night?), and they're bigger than cheaper 3rd party ones.
Linux:
Their hardware is unlikely to ever support my os, because (perhaps because they're a giant popular corporation) they like to keep it all closed up.
They definitely aren't the company I perceived them as (many are realising this) - I hope they get what they deserve for treating consumers like dirt. But they'll still rule the hardware market I figure (because of history, and the perception than paying more means better products).
Quite right. Whenever people try to hype up an old OS because of lack of viruses, I get the impression they're shooting themselves. Software will always have bugs : good review/verification schemes (like the linux kernel has) are great, but you're never going to get that on every single piece of software. It's probably the lack of people writing the viruses that makes them statistically more secure.
You may not know this, but pimps beat their women. It is part of the profession of prostitution. If you can't get the message, then fuck off and troll in some politics lobby on yahoo. Dickhead.
Yeah, and at I no point have I suggested this. Don't fucking accuse me of suscribing to any source of religious lifestyle - & I'm not for defence of legal daftness either. I'm saying that a professionals that make prostitution (statically an inherently violent illegal profession) a more conceivable to little girls should be taking a better look at the example they're setting. Even if I was religious (and Christian for that matter), I'd likely be pro-prostitution given the profession of a certain someone's mother. You just stereotype people who share a similar viewpoint into the types of people you already know (in this case, religious zealots).
I keep doing these major annoying typos: that should be, law breakers should be the last people to criticize a perceived bad influence.
Yeah but in many countries, isn't prostitution a viable and realised option for many young girls? In countries where prostitution is illegal (I assume the countries where these girls are protesting from), their existence as lawbreakers does make seem their career seem more of a realistic alternative - regardless of age. I agree that law breakers should be the people to critize a perceived bad influence.
Kind of - think about it: 1 + 2 = 3. The mouse travelling at the speed of a horse under its control will always outrun a sleepy-cat. It's the only option the mouse had looking at the circumstances, and given Oracle must be the mouse in the story, it's in the winning situation.
It's just like the parable of the mouse and the blind horse - in the end, it all came together from nowhere.