I am curious. Whom do they support? Should they tell the user that they support WOW only on paticular brands of Linux? Or should tbey just throw Linux versions out there on "best of luck"?
Sorry, but Linux is not gaining as much popularity and many of you believe. I think its along the same line of "everyone I know is quitting wow, soon they won't have anyone" type quotes.
WOW works fine on Mac and Windows. Both of those platforms offer two things the Linux platform does not, support and consistency.
As with any government endeavour they hired scientist, computer experts, and a slew of other specialities. Do you think those people are come back with data that doesn't support their continued existance?
Government driven research leads to one thing, more government driven research usually by the same groups. When you don't have to show a profit from your results you return what best profits you.
I think the reason to keep the "Tesla" off the chart is this simple, anyone can make an unaffordable solution. They key to success there is marketing it properly.
The "automakers" work under the constraint that its affordable to the majority of the drivers out there (think 12-25k), its cheap to maintain (think just change the oil and rotate tires), and its reliable (we don't want it back 15 times).
Of course some are going as far as looking down the road "Will we be liable for the technology in this if someone deems is a threat in the future?" (think asbestos)
you have never even looked into the subject of school funding. Let alone looked at why some schools do better than others. I have as many others here have.
Guess what, it isn't money that makes a school better. If so you could not have systems that spend 10k doing worse than those spending 6k per student by your logic.
The only good point you had was getting the feds out of education. Everything they touch turns into a mess. You must also get the unions out of education. The various teacher unions must not have the control they do over schools. Don't think they do? Your only fooling yourself. Most changes that occur are because of the unions. The DoE in your county and state? Most likely union members or so indebted to them that their decisions are basically bought.
Oh, lets dispell one more myth. CORPORATIONS PAY NO TAXES.
Its an indirect tax on you and me. Tell me, just where does the money that GM, IBM, or Amazon, gets to pay their taxes comes from? Huh? Please? Do they have a magical machine that prints out money just for taxes? Oh, but I forget its so much easier to assign the "burden" to someone else, especially "eveel" corporations. Moron. "We the people" pay ALL the damn taxes. "We the people" are constantly shafted by politicians because of idiots like you who bought into the idea that "corporations are eveel and not paying their fair share"
Shit, don't ask for a better education system when you don't use the education you were provided.
Anyone who sponsors the idea of using "carbon offsets" is doing nothing but transfering wealth from one entity to another. It has nothing to do with protecting the environment and should be laughed at when mentioned.
both forms of voting suffer from the same major issue, no one knows for sure that the person voting is allowed to vote at the time they cast their vote. Are they legal resident? Are they a felon? Have they voted elsewhere?
Plus in this election there were sites that ran out of paper ballots. Paper ballots also only have one form of retention. A digital vote can be transmitted off to multiple locations all at one time, printed out at the site and remotely all at one time, and even locked down with encryption so that if the vote is altered it does not decrypt properly.
Electronic voting is key but so is verifying that person voting is allowed too. This includes picture ID.
If anything paper voting will allow the fraud that exist to continue unabated. Sorry, that vote 2 years ago in Washington was about as perfect example of why paper ballots are horrid. Votes showing up out of nowhere, etc.
Paper has to go. We can't trust the vote until as many people are taking out of the handling of votes as possible.
Upper management would get it but they send the auditors to talk to middle management who doesn't get it. As such auditors decide that a company needs X because garbage in is garbage out.
Many of the upper management people I talk to know more about what we should be doing compared to what we are doing. The problem they have in overriding the auditors is the threat of the government and the shareholders. If they take the safe route the keep their jobs and stay out of jail. Actually the fear of the government is far worse that fearing the shareholders. (thanks to wonderful overreactions by Congress we get even more doing a whole lotta about nothing that ends up preventing us from doing what we should)
because there are things that no amount of money will solve.
The same problem exists in many developed countries. There are just people who either don't want the help or cannot be helped. There are many people in the US who we classify as being below the poverty line that are happy and content with their lives. The problem is that we assign our standards of happiness to them and cannot contemplate how they can be in a state other than misery.
India suffers further complications because of class differences that are more important to their society than ours. They also have logistics, religious, and other issues. Sure the money could be used to try and fix these problems but money cannot buy the time needed. Only so much can be spent before your wasting it. A moonshot helps all of Inida, both directly and indirectly. It gives hope. If India can land people on the moon then people can see that yes, one day their children's lives will be better because what they see as an impossible situation really isn't. After all, landing on the moon certainly looked impossible but India will do it.
To all the people making snide remarks about feeding their people first, skip your lattes and such and donate yourself. Why ask others to do what you will not?
oh, thats right, its far easier to assign guilt than to acknowledge it
I am not a scientist either and I used to rely on peer reviewed scientific journals. Yet sometime in the 80s they took a change for the worse. Suddenly it became apparent that making claims that always required further research were more important than coming up with sound judgement. I think computer modeling has opened a new door where self perpetuating studies and "sciences" can breed like rats. In a subject with very few absolutes (the weather) this is actually very easy. Throw out some sensational headlines through indirect sources; you never say so yourself but you just happened to be available for that interview; and you can generate up public interest. Make it threatening to the "children" and its nearly a lock.
I guess what I am saying is that I sometimes find it hard to tell the difference between the newspapers and the "papers". The nice thing about science is that for the most part we can still have episodes where age-old knowledge, previously thought unassailable, gets debunked or futher enforced. The problem with "global warming" is that it in itself covers too many areas. Its far too easy to fit both the truth and the far fetched under that umbrella. Combine with many "authoritative" sounding names of groups that are nothing more special interest groups and confusion is easy. Its still a day where we most of us are confused we turn toward religion or science to find our way. I just don't want science to take on the same aura as religion. Some of it already has, and its not pretty.
why is the method of voting, the operation of government, only a problem when Republicans win?
I mean, c'mon now, the old voting systems were nearly always rigged. It became so common place people joked about it. Government has ALWAYS been about who had the money.
Ever since the Big Deal, when we started being more concerned having the government look after us, instead of us watching the government it does not matter who is in power. People are apathetic because they cannot see how they can do anything.
Got to love it, my friend who teaches has been told to vote for specific people by her UNION. All of course not official but they do it anyway. It isn't that people who associate with one party that don't think for themselves its just that most people would rather blame a bad vote on someone else.
I already ditched FF2 and went back to the previous version.
What is up with the developer team? Were they just so horny to get a "2.0" out before the end of the year that it was "ok" to release this thing?
You are right, there is a double standard. MS is an easy target as negative comments are expected and encouraged by the moderation system here.
Firefox is no longer Firefox most of us want. Sorry, its nearing the point where we will need to clamour for that slim browser that we had when Firefox first came out (well before the naming hassles).
As for the Netscape 4.xx title, remember the days when IE was better than Netscape? Netscape was great until the 4.xx series, you could never tell which version would work.
Any system can be slanted to suit a paticular view.
aside from the parrot wmd jab, why are our intelligence services so political anymore? When did this start? the late 60s and early 70s perhaps (vietnam etc) or did it become so after the mccarthy era?
then again, if any of the contributers to intellipedia read and post on/. the number of WMD will be zero.
America averages 30B in private donations per year for foreign concerns. That was in 2002, by 2004 the numbers may have doubled.
The key issue he is, how many people actually know about this program and how many of those are already comitted elsewhere?
Me, I don't care for the project. I already donate to specific local charities as I can see the effects of my donations. I don't have to worry about bleed off by the local governments (overseas ones where this money and possibly the laptops would go)
The land of the free is also the land of the giving freely. While it may be PC to portray America otherwise no one can stand in the way of the facts.
That part of the proposal will probably get the focus from the naysayers so they can continue on the with the current methods and ideas they have.
While reuse is nice; it rarely is as easy as pdf's make it out to be. As for the weight, that is a great part of the proposal. Too bad the costs associated put it outside of a non-government group. Would be nice to see a private company built around the concept of putting stuff into space on a large scale.
In the US try putting panels on the backs of or mounted elsewhere on billboard signs.
Also, the signage on bridges could be used for power generation as well.
The only problem, if the stuff is recyclable someone will steal the materials.
All rest areas should have solar powered facilities, or at least augmented.
I think you are using the right of way that freeways have incorrectly. We could use that same right of way to put panels on poles down the centers of freeways or on the sides. The only issues are causing distraction, but that would amend itself as people would become accustomed to them. The other problem is accidents. Poles tend to do a lot of damage.
Essentially competition scrabble is tiered like similar games (chess, checkers). Hence you have an elitist group that looks down on others and seems to have no problem dismissing the accomplishments of others. Basically the old "we're much smarter than them, its just a fluke, DUMB luck". In other words, how can they give any credit to their accomplishment as they would never associate with the likes of those "people"
Two guys both out playing to win, just not playing to win by rules established by the high brows. Of course they could take risks, they are more concerned with the fun aspects than the competitve ones. That alone puts them higher up in the scrabble echelon for me as they remember one of the most important parts of gaming; having fun
Yeah I know, the astronauts know the risks involved. Yet the risk is bigger to who manned space program should something go wrong, especially something going wrong on a mission that is "largely" optional.
The still do not need access to the text of the email.
Sorry, but here are quite a number of methods by which the admin could track down an errant email or such without knowing its contents.
Its like passwords, your argument has been used before by people who defend systems in which the password is retrievable. The only way for me to know a user's password in my systems is if I set it myself or they tell me. There is not a method to recover them. The same can be done for the text and such of the mail.
It is typical of people who post on these online sites to bitch about something and never do anything to correct the problem. A million and one excuses will come up as to why can't actually do what they claim they will do/should do.
Move to another country? Hell no. Regardless of what Administration is running this country there isn't another I would rather live in. Hell for all the talk about how bad its here, and only because of who's in office - gotta love that hidden angle - why are people from all these countries that supposedly hate Bush/USA still coming?
If all you can do is bitch please don't have children. Hell we'd still be British.
more innovation and web integration isn't going to develop Firefox any more pentetration into IE's market share. Why? Because for the most part people just don't care.
I love firefox, use it daily. Even put up with the bugs that were "ignored" for a long time (like memory leaks, having your bookmarks vanish for no reason, etc). Yet reading the review it is still clear that too many miss the point.
It doesn't matter how much better you are than IE, you have to give people a real, tangible reason to switch and then you have to make it so exceedingly easy that there is next to no effort involved. That second part is more important than the first. I like many others here can come up with many "tanglible" reasons for people to switch, I still can't get them to download it or install it.
Penetration comes with getting someone that people trust to distribute the software along side their product. May I suggest Quicken (all that tax software coming out can easily accomodate FF). Hell, get a game manufacturer to provide the browser as part of the install process. With a good windows installer it can be made a seamless part of experience.
is how this change in release dates will affect the release dates of other MMORPGs?
By pushing back to January this could allow another MMORPG or two some vital time to get in during the holiday crush and make a good impression. Pushing back also treads on some Q1 predicted releases as well, would they move forward or back to avoid Blizzard? (LOTR may still be on path for Q1 release)
Regardless WOW didn't get where it is by allowing crap to get out. If anything the time invested shows, both to the players and owners in Blizzard (stock or otherwise).
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I am curious. Whom do they support? Should they tell the user that they support WOW only on paticular brands of Linux? Or should tbey just throw Linux versions out there on "best of luck"?
Sorry, but Linux is not gaining as much popularity and many of you believe. I think its along the same line of "everyone I know is quitting wow, soon they won't have anyone" type quotes.
WOW works fine on Mac and Windows. Both of those platforms offer two things the Linux platform does not, support and consistency.
As with any government endeavour they hired scientist, computer experts, and a slew of other specialities. Do you think those people are come back with data that doesn't support their continued existance?
Government driven research leads to one thing, more government driven research usually by the same groups. When you don't have to show a profit from your results you return what best profits you.
I think the reason to keep the "Tesla" off the chart is this simple, anyone can make an unaffordable solution. They key to success there is marketing it properly.
The "automakers" work under the constraint that its affordable to the majority of the drivers out there (think 12-25k), its cheap to maintain (think just change the oil and rotate tires), and its reliable (we don't want it back 15 times).
Of course some are going as far as looking down the road "Will we be liable for the technology in this if someone deems is a threat in the future?" (think asbestos)
you have never even looked into the subject of school funding. Let alone looked at why some schools do better than others. I have as many others here have.
Guess what, it isn't money that makes a school better. If so you could not have systems that spend 10k doing worse than those spending 6k per student by your logic.
The only good point you had was getting the feds out of education. Everything they touch turns into a mess. You must also get the unions out of education. The various teacher unions must not have the control they do over schools. Don't think they do? Your only fooling yourself. Most changes that occur are because of the unions. The DoE in your county and state? Most likely union members or so indebted to them that their decisions are basically bought.
Oh, lets dispell one more myth. CORPORATIONS PAY NO TAXES.
Its an indirect tax on you and me. Tell me, just where does the money that GM, IBM, or Amazon, gets to pay their taxes comes from? Huh? Please? Do they have a magical machine that prints out money just for taxes? Oh, but I forget its so much easier to assign the "burden" to someone else, especially "eveel" corporations. Moron. "We the people" pay ALL the damn taxes. "We the people" are constantly shafted by politicians because of idiots like you who bought into the idea that "corporations are eveel and not paying their fair share"
Shit, don't ask for a better education system when you don't use the education you were provided.
Offsets are crap.
Anyone who sponsors the idea of using "carbon offsets" is doing nothing but transfering wealth from one entity to another. It has nothing to do with protecting the environment and should be laughed at when mentioned.
both forms of voting suffer from the same major issue, no one knows for sure that the person voting is allowed to vote at the time they cast their vote. Are they legal resident? Are they a felon? Have they voted elsewhere?
Plus in this election there were sites that ran out of paper ballots. Paper ballots also only have one form of retention. A digital vote can be transmitted off to multiple locations all at one time, printed out at the site and remotely all at one time, and even locked down with encryption so that if the vote is altered it does not decrypt properly.
Electronic voting is key but so is verifying that person voting is allowed too. This includes picture ID.
If anything paper voting will allow the fraud that exist to continue unabated. Sorry, that vote 2 years ago in Washington was about as perfect example of why paper ballots are horrid. Votes showing up out of nowhere, etc.
Paper has to go. We can't trust the vote until as many people are taking out of the handling of votes as possible.
Upper management would get it but they send the auditors to talk to middle management who doesn't get it. As such auditors decide that a company needs X because garbage in is garbage out.
Many of the upper management people I talk to know more about what we should be doing compared to what we are doing. The problem they have in overriding the auditors is the threat of the government and the shareholders. If they take the safe route the keep their jobs and stay out of jail. Actually the fear of the government is far worse that fearing the shareholders. (thanks to wonderful overreactions by Congress we get even more doing a whole lotta about nothing that ends up preventing us from doing what we should)
because there are things that no amount of money will solve.
The same problem exists in many developed countries. There are just people who either don't want the help or cannot be helped. There are many people in the US who we classify as being below the poverty line that are happy and content with their lives. The problem is that we assign our standards of happiness to them and cannot contemplate how they can be in a state other than misery.
India suffers further complications because of class differences that are more important to their society than ours. They also have logistics, religious, and other issues. Sure the money could be used to try and fix these problems but money cannot buy the time needed. Only so much can be spent before your wasting it. A moonshot helps all of Inida, both directly and indirectly. It gives hope. If India can land people on the moon then people can see that yes, one day their children's lives will be better because what they see as an impossible situation really isn't. After all, landing on the moon certainly looked impossible but India will do it.
To all the people making snide remarks about feeding their people first, skip your lattes and such and donate yourself. Why ask others to do what you will not?
oh, thats right, its far easier to assign guilt than to acknowledge it
we already have them, I think they are called managers
I am not a scientist either and I used to rely on peer reviewed scientific journals. Yet sometime in the 80s they took a change for the worse. Suddenly it became apparent that making claims that always required further research were more important than coming up with sound judgement. I think computer modeling has opened a new door where self perpetuating studies and "sciences" can breed like rats. In a subject with very few absolutes (the weather) this is actually very easy. Throw out some sensational headlines through indirect sources; you never say so yourself but you just happened to be available for that interview; and you can generate up public interest. Make it threatening to the "children" and its nearly a lock.
I guess what I am saying is that I sometimes find it hard to tell the difference between the newspapers and the "papers". The nice thing about science is that for the most part we can still have episodes where age-old knowledge, previously thought unassailable, gets debunked or futher enforced. The problem with "global warming" is that it in itself covers too many areas. Its far too easy to fit both the truth and the far fetched under that umbrella. Combine with many "authoritative" sounding names of groups that are nothing more special interest groups and confusion is easy. Its still a day where we most of us are confused we turn toward religion or science to find our way. I just don't want science to take on the same aura as religion. Some of it already has, and its not pretty.
why is the method of voting, the operation of government, only a problem when Republicans win?
I mean, c'mon now, the old voting systems were nearly always rigged. It became so common place people joked about it. Government has ALWAYS been about who had the money.
Ever since the Big Deal, when we started being more concerned having the government look after us, instead of us watching the government it does not matter who is in power. People are apathetic because they cannot see how they can do anything.
Got to love it, my friend who teaches has been told to vote for specific people by her UNION. All of course not official but they do it anyway. It isn't that people who associate with one party that don't think for themselves its just that most people would rather blame a bad vote on someone else.
it would target him too! :)
I already ditched FF2 and went back to the previous version.
What is up with the developer team? Were they just so horny to get a "2.0" out before the end of the year that it was "ok" to release this thing?
You are right, there is a double standard. MS is an easy target as negative comments are expected and encouraged by the moderation system here.
Firefox is no longer Firefox most of us want. Sorry, its nearing the point where we will need to clamour for that slim browser that we had when Firefox first came out (well before the naming hassles).
As for the Netscape 4.xx title, remember the days when IE was better than Netscape? Netscape was great until the 4.xx series, you could never tell which version would work.
Any system can be slanted to suit a paticular view.
/. the number of WMD will be zero.
aside from the parrot wmd jab, why are our intelligence services so political anymore? When did this start? the late 60s and early 70s perhaps (vietnam etc) or did it become so after the mccarthy era?
then again, if any of the contributers to intellipedia read and post on
America averages 30B in private donations per year for foreign concerns. That was in 2002, by 2004 the numbers may have doubled.
The key issue he is, how many people actually know about this program and how many of those are already comitted elsewhere?
Me, I don't care for the project. I already donate to specific local charities as I can see the effects of my donations. I don't have to worry about bleed off by the local governments (overseas ones where this money and possibly the laptops would go)
The land of the free is also the land of the giving freely. While it may be PC to portray America otherwise no one can stand in the way of the facts.
That part of the proposal will probably get the focus from the naysayers so they can continue on the with the current methods and ideas they have.
While reuse is nice; it rarely is as easy as pdf's make it out to be. As for the weight, that is a great part of the proposal. Too bad the costs associated put it outside of a non-government group. Would be nice to see a private company built around the concept of putting stuff into space on a large scale.
In the US try putting panels on the backs of or mounted elsewhere on billboard signs.
Also, the signage on bridges could be used for power generation as well.
The only problem, if the stuff is recyclable someone will steal the materials.
All rest areas should have solar powered facilities, or at least augmented.
I think you are using the right of way that freeways have incorrectly. We could use that same right of way to put panels on poles down the centers of freeways or on the sides. The only issues are causing distraction, but that would amend itself as people would become accustomed to them. The other problem is accidents. Poles tend to do a lot of damage.
Essentially competition scrabble is tiered like similar games (chess, checkers). Hence you have an elitist group that looks down on others and seems to have no problem dismissing the accomplishments of others. Basically the old "we're much smarter than them, its just a fluke, DUMB luck". In other words, how can they give any credit to their accomplishment as they would never associate with the likes of those "people"
Two guys both out playing to win, just not playing to win by rules established by the high brows. Of course they could take risks, they are more concerned with the fun aspects than the competitve ones. That alone puts them higher up in the scrabble echelon for me as they remember one of the most important parts of gaming; having fun
Don't.
Yeah I know, the astronauts know the risks involved. Yet the risk is bigger to who manned space program should something go wrong, especially something going wrong on a mission that is "largely" optional.
The still do not need access to the text of the email.
Sorry, but here are quite a number of methods by which the admin could track down an errant email or such without knowing its contents.
Its like passwords, your argument has been used before by people who defend systems in which the password is retrievable. The only way for me to know a user's password in my systems is if I set it myself or they tell me. There is not a method to recover them. The same can be done for the text and such of the mail.
Get real.
It is typical of people who post on these online sites to bitch about something and never do anything to correct the problem. A million and one excuses will come up as to why can't actually do what they claim they will do/should do.
Move to another country? Hell no. Regardless of what Administration is running this country there isn't another I would rather live in. Hell for all the talk about how bad its here, and only because of who's in office - gotta love that hidden angle - why are people from all these countries that supposedly hate Bush/USA still coming?
If all you can do is bitch please don't have children. Hell we'd still be British.
more innovation and web integration isn't going to develop Firefox any more pentetration into IE's market share. Why? Because for the most part people just don't care.
I love firefox, use it daily. Even put up with the bugs that were "ignored" for a long time (like memory leaks, having your bookmarks vanish for no reason, etc). Yet reading the review it is still clear that too many miss the point.
It doesn't matter how much better you are than IE, you have to give people a real, tangible reason to switch and then you have to make it so exceedingly easy that there is next to no effort involved. That second part is more important than the first. I like many others here can come up with many "tanglible" reasons for people to switch, I still can't get them to download it or install it.
Penetration comes with getting someone that people trust to distribute the software along side their product. May I suggest Quicken (all that tax software coming out can easily accomodate FF). Hell, get a game manufacturer to provide the browser as part of the install process. With a good windows installer it can be made a seamless part of experience.
is how this change in release dates will affect the release dates of other MMORPGs?
By pushing back to January this could allow another MMORPG or two some vital time to get in during the holiday crush and make a good impression. Pushing back also treads on some Q1 predicted releases as well, would they move forward or back to avoid Blizzard? (LOTR may still be on path for Q1 release)
Regardless WOW didn't get where it is by allowing crap to get out. If anything the time invested shows, both to the players and owners in Blizzard (stock or otherwise).
you must be one those "explosives planted by the government brought down the towers" types eh?
on a side note, Apple's excuse for a virus on some video iPods was given a pass....
People always want to blame something other that themselves.
Which goes hand in hand with wanting to be part of a victim class so they can feel absolved of actually having to do anything to correct the problem.