He reminds me of the cheesy TV stations back in the 70's that would show cartoons formatted for movie screens squeezed to fit the TV screen aspect ratio.
I liked Frasier a lot, but it wasn't intellectual at all. It was _about_ intellectuals, but that doesn't make it intellectual. That's a big difference.
Yeah, they were found guilty of being a monopoly, but lucky for them the government switched parties in power.
New Republican Justice Dept: What's that, you ruled that MS is a monopoly? Old Democrat Justice Dept: Yeah, they've been strongarming OEM's and basically abusing the hell out of people for years. New Republican Justice Dept: Don't worry we'll take care of it.
New DoJ*: OK, MS. Now [wink] don't do this any more [wink] or we'll have to say something [wink] really stern to you. MS: We won't. We promise.[wink]
It seems to me MS could have preconfigured nailed-down-tight installation of Windows 2000 and distribute it as a VirtualPC image with a version of VirtualPC like VMPlayer to allow completely safe browsing, with a special function to persist your bookmarks to your "real" system. If you end up trashing your VM, but just reload it from CD and v-ee-oh-la, everything's fixed. Of course, knowing MS, they'll allow some way to use a bookmark as a vehicle for a virus.
Of course, peoeple do use the Web for downloading and other activities that this would make inconvenient, but after 13 years or so of browsing the Internet I've never had a virus/trojan/etc and I download stuff all the time. This would be a solution for people who can't otherwise maintain their security. Just boot a hermetically-sealed VM and browse away.
Intellectually humorous? You have GOT to be kidding. I watched it a few times and the only thing I found funny was stuff they totally ripped off from "The Simpsons". Sometimes literally the same gags. I found the characters other than Homer, er, Peter to be completely predictable and uninteresting.
Nothing against you if like the show... I like Gilligan... but it's hardly "intellectual".
The Family Guy came back because of the demand of the fans. Futurama can do it too!
Yeah, and Futurama doesn't suck, so there's that much more reason to bring it back.
Seriously though, Fox will put themselves out of buisness with this mentality. Oh, wait. No they won't. Only a small percentage of people actually like these cancelled shows, no matter how good they are. Everyone else is watching whatever goatspew fills the other 6 nights of their schedule. I don't imagine Fox regularly pre-empts most of its shows for football.
Yes, I hate when dialog boxes wear big hats, preside over canonizations and issue papal bulls.
What I hate even more (yes, Microsoft I'm talking to YOU) is that "OK" and "Cancel" are not synonymous with "Yes" and "No".
Do you wish to abort this operation?
OK Cancel
It's just stupid. Or even worse is the 7 (or so) lines of text Paint Shop Pro gives you describing the effects of leaving lots of data on the clipboard before you exit the program, followed by "Yes" and "No" buttons. I have to read the damn thing every time because I can't recall if it asks you to leave the data on the clipboard or delete it...
How about naming the buttons "Leave on Clipboard" or "Delete" so I don't have to wade through several lines of text when I already know what you're frickin' asking, but can't remember how you worded the sentence.
I think programmers too lazy to write message boxes with buttons other than "OK" and "Cancel" are just another reason why I'm convinced most software developers (especially at Microsoft) simply hate users. Microsoft gives you an error message, "You can't do X unless you do Y." If they cared, you could press a button on the message box to do Y, or at least being up the Y dialog (which is buried in some arbitrary configuration area that randoomly changes every time there's a new version of Windows, but that would require 1.) The high school interns who implement Windows UI to get off the foozball table and 2.) Microsoft to have something other than complete indifference if not outright hostility to the people who use their software. It'll never happen.
That and small dialog boxes with long lists that can't be resized. There's a special circle of Hell for people that do that and there's already a whole section roped off just for MS.
Of course, everything started going to hell when "chrome" began to be equated with "usability" about 8-10 years ago... and now every hack who's barely literate with Photoshop considers himself (and worse, IS considered) a usability expert.
Most UI is no better than it was in 1990, and any good ideas we've seen since then were probably on the NeXT or even on the Xerox PARC software. Extrapolating Windows Media Player to the year 2010, the actual viewable size of the screen will be the size of postage stamp, and there will be 31 different skins to let you make it look like different parts of the body and full-screen view will have ad banners on the top and bottom. But that's just a guess...
I thought Qubit was that little fuzzy with feet and a nose like an anteater that said something backwards when you made him jump off the edge of the level.
So you're saying that just because MS is an easy and inviting target that means they _weren't_ a monopoly and abusing that status?
Since you've offered nothing to back up the fact that MS was unfairly persecuted your argument reduces to a mere non sequitur, which by the rules of logic can be dismissed with a wave of my hand.
Bah!
Microsoft was convicted of being a monopoly because they are a monopoly. Of course, the whole browser-bundling thing was irrelevant and a red herring, but MS was competing unfairly since the late 80's if not earlier. The final result of this conviction was nothing anyway, so I wouldn't lose any sleep even if MS was being set up.
All they got, in effect, was a firm warning, "We're warning you: Don't do that again or we'll warn you again."... straight out of the U.N.'s playbook. The DoJ will get bored shortly, if it already hasn't, and MS will go back to business as usual.
Tell me about it. Thing is, the power cord thingy looks kinda plausible. (The is unless you actually read it). But the other one is goofy in the extreme... a magic chip (which looks like plastic dummy SD chip that shipped inside my camera (the real one being in a little case in the box) that fixes your CDs when you place it on the CD player while it's spinning the disc. The power of quantum mechanics. Seriously. Go back and look.
There's even a link to a review by someone who clearly buys into the psuedo-technical claptrap. You almost couldn't make up stuff this bizarre.
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Schroedinger's cat was always in the box.
Whether it was alive or not is another question.
Please discuss.
.. he looks like a Ken doll with grey hair.
He reminds me of the cheesy TV stations back in the 70's that would show cartoons formatted for movie screens squeezed to fit the TV screen aspect ratio.
I liked Frasier a lot, but it wasn't intellectual at all. It was _about_ intellectuals, but that doesn't make it intellectual. That's a big difference.
Funny? Yes. Intellectual? Hardly.
Yeah, they were found guilty of being a monopoly, but lucky for them the government switched parties in power.
New Republican Justice Dept: What's that, you ruled that MS is a monopoly?
Old Democrat Justice Dept: Yeah, they've been strongarming OEM's and basically abusing the hell out of people for years.
New Republican Justice Dept: Don't worry we'll take care of it.
New DoJ*: OK, MS. Now [wink] don't do this any more [wink] or we'll have to say something [wink] really stern to you.
MS: We won't. We promise.[wink]
* Reading from U.N. playbook
Are you saying that because they're American, MS are above the law of the countries outside the US that they operate in?
No, he's saying that because MS is above the law in the U.S., it's reasonable to assume they can be above the law elsewhere.
Yeah, when I browse... I'd rather be FOXED.
It seems to me MS could have preconfigured nailed-down-tight installation of Windows 2000 and distribute it as a VirtualPC image with a version of VirtualPC like VMPlayer to allow completely safe browsing, with a special function to persist your bookmarks to your "real" system. If you end up trashing your VM, but just reload it from CD and v-ee-oh-la, everything's fixed. Of course, knowing MS, they'll allow some way to use a bookmark as a vehicle for a virus.
Of course, peoeple do use the Web for downloading and other activities that this would make inconvenient, but after 13 years or so of browsing the Internet I've never had a virus/trojan/etc and I download stuff all the time. This would be a solution for people who can't otherwise maintain their security. Just boot a hermetically-sealed VM and browse away.
Intellectually humorous? You have GOT to be kidding. I watched it a few times and the only thing I found funny was stuff they totally ripped off from "The Simpsons". Sometimes literally the same gags. I found the characters other than Homer, er, Peter to be completely predictable and uninteresting.
Nothing against you if like the show... I like Gilligan... but it's hardly "intellectual".
The Family Guy came back because of the demand of the fans. Futurama can do it too!
Yeah, and Futurama doesn't suck, so there's that much more reason to bring it back.
Seriously though, Fox will put themselves out of buisness with this mentality. Oh, wait. No they won't. Only a small percentage of people actually like these cancelled shows, no matter how good they are. Everyone else is watching whatever goatspew fills the other 6 nights of their schedule. I don't imagine Fox regularly pre-empts most of its shows for football.
How many division does the Pope have?
:-)
I dunno, but his Boss once claimed He could summon 12 legions of angels if He wanted.
Should I be more embarrassed that...
Probably you should be most embarrassed at considering how large a magic missile you could roll. I know I did.
What I hate even more (yes, Microsoft I'm talking to YOU) is that "OK" and "Cancel" are not synonymous with "Yes" and "No".
It's just stupid. Or even worse is the 7 (or so) lines of text Paint Shop Pro gives you describing the effects of leaving lots of data on the clipboard before you exit the program, followed by "Yes" and "No" buttons. I have to read the damn thing every time because I can't recall if it asks you to leave the data on the clipboard or delete it...
How about naming the buttons "Leave on Clipboard" or "Delete" so I don't have to wade through several lines of text when I already know what you're frickin' asking, but can't remember how you worded the sentence.
I think programmers too lazy to write message boxes with buttons other than "OK" and "Cancel" are just another reason why I'm convinced most software developers (especially at Microsoft) simply hate users. Microsoft gives you an error message, "You can't do X unless you do Y." If they cared, you could press a button on the message box to do Y, or at least being up the Y dialog (which is buried in some arbitrary configuration area that randoomly changes every time there's a new version of Windows, but that would require 1.) The high school interns who implement Windows UI to get off the foozball table and 2.) Microsoft to have something other than complete indifference if not outright hostility to the people who use their software. It'll never happen.
That and small dialog boxes with long lists that can't be resized. There's a special circle of Hell for people that do that and there's already a whole section roped off just for MS.
Of course, everything started going to hell when "chrome" began to be equated with "usability" about 8-10 years ago... and now every hack who's barely literate with Photoshop considers himself (and worse, IS considered) a usability expert.
Most UI is no better than it was in 1990, and any good ideas we've seen since then were probably on the NeXT or even on the Xerox PARC software. Extrapolating Windows Media Player to the year 2010, the actual viewable size of the screen will be the size of postage stamp, and there will be 31 different skins to let you make it look like different parts of the body and full-screen view will have ad banners on the top and bottom. But that's just a guess...
Well, sunlight and happiness that can turn you into the Incredible Hulk.
Oh, and a few other types of radiation too (alpha and beta particles).
Bonhomie Snoutintroff is odds on to be the next "Defense Against The Dark Arts" master at Hogwarts...
Sounds more like a Senator on the short list for a majority/minority leader position.
You must be new around here.
/. have a high proportion of pathetically ignorant (or pathetically bigoted) comments.
I'm sorry to say that most discussions of religion on
Why is it that naive, idealistic comments get modded up, but harsh realistic comments get modded down?
/. than conservatives?
Because there are many more liberals on
I think MrSnooty has listened to any real music, or he wouldn't have made such a silly comment.
I thought Qubit was that little fuzzy with feet and a nose like an anteater that said something backwards when you made him jump off the edge of the level.
So you're saying that just because MS is an easy and inviting target that means they _weren't_ a monopoly and abusing that status?
Since you've offered nothing to back up the fact that MS was unfairly persecuted your argument reduces to a mere non sequitur, which by the rules of logic can be dismissed with a wave of my hand.
Bah!
Microsoft was convicted of being a monopoly because they are a monopoly. Of course, the whole browser-bundling thing was irrelevant and a red herring, but MS was competing unfairly since the late 80's if not earlier. The final result of this conviction was nothing anyway, so I wouldn't lose any sleep even if MS was being set up.
All they got, in effect, was a firm warning, "We're warning you: Don't do that again or we'll warn you again."... straight out of the U.N.'s playbook. The DoJ will get bored shortly, if it already hasn't, and MS will go back to business as usual.
I'm clearly in the wrong line of work
Tell me about it. Thing is, the power cord thingy looks kinda plausible. (The is unless you actually read it). But the other one is goofy in the extreme... a magic chip (which looks like plastic dummy SD chip that shipped inside my camera (the real one being in a little case in the box) that fixes your CDs when you place it on the CD player while it's spinning the disc. The power of quantum mechanics. Seriously. Go back and look.
There's even a link to a review by someone who clearly buys into the psuedo-technical claptrap. You almost couldn't make up stuff this bizarre.
You need to turn your friend on to these fine products:
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http://www.dhcones.com/otheracc.html
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Maybe because it's also a powerful laxative? ;-)
What happens if you don't consider binary content?
I wouldn't be surprised if it really is smaller now.
Calling this racist is just trying to start a conflict where one doesn't exist.
That's what 95% of use of the word 'racism' is, But don't tell anyone... it's a secret.
The biggest secret that noone is comfortable to talk about yet is that pirates do not harm anyone (or the harm is very limited).
You must be new here.