Here you make the assumption that "new" and "improved" describe the same aspects of the subject. It is improved compared to the Internet, but only new in the sense that it is different and younger.
Actually the argument isn't "fix it yourself", but rather "fix it yourself or pay someone to do it for you".
We sound like arrogant pricks because we got users like you demanding (requesting) we do this and that, without anything more than a thanks and some karma.
Offtopic as this is, I just have to say that what you *really* should blame is our planet as it only deemed it nessesary to provide us with a limited supply of oil.
For anyone going to an university I highly recommend taking an introductionary course to astronomy. It was definitly the most interesting course I've taken, and one I'll remember for a long time.
There are (well reasoned) theories that the spirals are caused by earlier collisions. Thus this future collision will actually help produce new spirals. It is considered possible that the rotation of the galaxy will wind up the spirals so much they will disappear over time.
Other interesting aspects of the spirals is that they do not actually contain much more mass, 5% more iirc, than the space between the spirals. There is a larger number of new stars being formed in the spirals, thus the bright but shortlived stars make them visible.
These star births are caused by the compression of cold molecular clouds. Thus when another smaller galaxy collides it may cause shockwaves to travel through the galaxy compressing the molecular clouds.
Although i agree with part of your argument, that google can improve IM as they have web-mail, but they are not entirely analogous. Web-mail relies on a standarized protocol which can communicate with everyone no matter what client they use.
IM could really need some kind of standarization, preferably not relying on a single entity to act as the hub. I think that what we need is a system like that used for email, with the features of IM. (With spam protection;)
Actually, gas prices will continue to soar. We are at, or have already passed, peak oil production. The remaining oil reserviors will be more expensive to extract, demand will keep rising as production plumets.
You can have as big a party as you want, it won't solve the problem. About patents?... Dunno... Seems to me those with capital are getting more and more political power as regular people keep watching Idol.
All those evil scientist making their research publicly available are destroying revenue streams!!! We must stop them, think of the revenue streams, they are defenseless.
What's that, increased overall efficiency? Better standards of living... My... Those don't matter, they arn't revenue streams.
The embryo is part of the species homo sapiens. But it is *not* entirely the same as a sentient creature we usually think of when using the word "human".
Most people would be against killing the latter for the benefit of others. The former? That isn't so clear, but in any case don't mix those togheter when discussing stem cell research.
Here we have a dispute over territory between two fairly civilized and democractic countries, and military action extremely impropable.
There's no way the US can come claim it harbors terrorists or evil dictators. So why can't we just leave the US out of this? The countries involved are Canada and Denmark...
Because it's way overpriced, few are going to buy thousands of songs at $1 a piece. One could claim that if you don't have enough cash to spend, then you won't have thousands of songs available for listening at any time.
Some might look at it as freeloading, stealing or worse... I see it as competition, and currently iTunes is too expensive and restrictive.
Oh, you're completely right. Here I though they had just patented something that would be obvious to anyone with some experience in programming.
When you add the word "arbitary" the situation changes completely. Using such innovative techniques as customizeable font sets, transfer of image files over a network and using a file cache.
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Why do people always assume letters from lawyers must be threatening? Can't they ever be just informative messages and polite inquires?
No jury in their right mind would convict someone who downloads Britney Spears and 50 Cents.
They better make sure they don't leave out anything else from their newly released Beta software, or i'll be very very angry.
Here you make the assumption that "new" and "improved" describe the same aspects of the subject. It is improved compared to the Internet, but only new in the sense that it is different and younger.
Actually the argument isn't "fix it yourself", but rather "fix it yourself or pay someone to do it for you".
We sound like arrogant pricks because we got users like you demanding (requesting) we do this and that, without anything more than a thanks and some karma.
Offtopic as this is, I just have to say that what you *really* should blame is our planet as it only deemed it nessesary to provide us with a limited supply of oil.
You know, that's a great idea. Don't allow the user to download the captcha image so they can't cheat. Ingenious.
I have an anniversary *every* year, people even give me things for no specific reason!!!
Visiting places like http://www.google.com/ig it's quite clear that it isn't a gmail account you got, but rather a Google account.
Not to mention it uses 374.553% more energy to open than a regular sliding door.
Although hanging vinyl slats have been around for a long time, as a customer I wouldn't want to walk through those.
All your games a...
Errr, sorry.
For anyone going to an university I highly recommend taking an introductionary course to astronomy. It was definitly the most interesting course I've taken, and one I'll remember for a long time.
There are (well reasoned) theories that the spirals are caused by earlier collisions. Thus this future collision will actually help produce new spirals. It is considered possible that the rotation of the galaxy will wind up the spirals so much they will disappear over time.
Other interesting aspects of the spirals is that they do not actually contain much more mass, 5% more iirc, than the space between the spirals. There is a larger number of new stars being formed in the spirals, thus the bright but shortlived stars make them visible.
These star births are caused by the compression of cold molecular clouds. Thus when another smaller galaxy collides it may cause shockwaves to travel through the galaxy compressing the molecular clouds.
You think you are being smart now, but you overlook another possiblity.
Non-bar spiral galaxies are just a special case of the barred spiral with a bar length of less than epsilon.
And when you get old enough, you'll realize you've wasted your life at a job you didn't really like. Just for some extra cash.
Although i agree with part of your argument, that google can improve IM as they have web-mail, but they are not entirely analogous. Web-mail relies on a standarized protocol which can communicate with everyone no matter what client they use.
IM could really need some kind of standarization, preferably not relying on a single entity to act as the hub. I think that what we need is a system like that used for email, with the features of IM. (With spam protection;)
Actually, gas prices will continue to soar. We are at, or have already passed, peak oil production. The remaining oil reserviors will be more expensive to extract, demand will keep rising as production plumets.
You can have as big a party as you want, it won't solve the problem. About patents?... Dunno... Seems to me those with capital are getting more and more political power as regular people keep watching Idol.
You are obviously quite delusional. Emacs is the superior IDE, not xemacs.
All those evil scientist making their research publicly available are destroying revenue streams!!! We must stop them, think of the revenue streams, they are defenseless.
What's that, increased overall efficiency? Better standards of living... My... Those don't matter, they arn't revenue streams.
The embryo is part of the species homo sapiens. But it is *not* entirely the same as a sentient creature we usually think of when using the word "human".
Most people would be against killing the latter for the benefit of others. The former? That isn't so clear, but in any case don't mix those togheter when discussing stem cell research.
Here we have a dispute over territory between two fairly civilized and democractic countries, and military action extremely impropable.
There's no way the US can come claim it harbors terrorists or evil dictators. So why can't we just leave the US out of this? The countries involved are Canada and Denmark...
Thanks for the notice, the /. editors should change the headline to say its been downloaded by only 74,999,989 users.
Ofcourse, they'll need to modify this number if more people speak up about them having been a source of statistical error.
Because it's way overpriced, few are going to buy thousands of songs at $1 a piece. One could claim that if you don't have enough cash to spend, then you won't have thousands of songs available for listening at any time.
Some might look at it as freeloading, stealing or worse... I see it as competition, and currently iTunes is too expensive and restrictive.
I belive that is the standard MicroSoft product development cycle, not something that is specific to Windows ME.
Oh, you're completely right. Here I though they had just patented something that would be obvious to anyone with some experience in programming.
When you add the word "arbitary" the situation changes completely. Using such innovative techniques as customizeable font sets, transfer of image files over a network and using a file cache.