For rich content on the web, Silverlight is not a bad technology. It's better than Flash in a lot of ways.
But not in the one way that matters to me. Flash is on Linux. In every other respect, Silverlight being better than Flash would be no great accomplishment because Flash is awful.
My tipping point was several years ago. I stopped DirecTV for several months to save money and discovered I didn't miss it. This was before Netflix streaming and Hulu. Now I can't imagine paying for cable/satellite when I can get 90% of what I want from those two services for a small fraction of the price (free in the case of Hulu).
You couldn't be more wrong. XP is Microsoft's best OS ever. 7 is fine if you have the hardware to throw at it, but having used 7 at work for about half a year, I honestly can't say there's anything about it I prefer to XP (although unlike Vista, it has only a few things that bug me).
If I could no longer run XP on my netbook, I'd switch to Linux, like my other machines. In fact, the only reason I don't is for games because the netbook doesn't have the horsepower to run them in a VM. However, I'm sure I'll be able to use XP as long as the machine lasts.
You know it's probable that tulcod has been here for quite a few years, and is therefore enough of an old-timer to make such jokes. I tried to find out when the millionth UID was issued, since his or her UID is very close to that (closer still to the "binary million" (2^10)), but my google-fu failed me. I do know it's been a while.
Imagine if we started calling all Germans Nazis instead of Germans. A descriptivist would call this evolution of language, but it would be applying the label of a group that committed horrific crimes against humanity to people who did not. It would eventually rob the word Nazi of it horror and add that horror to the innocent.
Congratulations, you just described American politicians... except they call each other Nazis instead of the Germans. The sad thing is sometimes some of them do some of the things that the Nazis did, but that's almost always orthogonal to what people who compare others to Nazis are thinking or claiming.
I don't know about you but it sounds like it's worth a few bucks to play with, and even if I wouldn't get much value out of it, I know my kids will. They eat up any kind of sandbox game or anything with a level editor. I'm definitely going to check it out.
Indeed. What the U.S. accomplished in those 4 years constantly amazes me, especially since we couldn't do a tenth of that today from lack of manufacturing capabilities, lack of national will and a spirit of sacrifice, not having leaders who are actually capable of leading and host of other declines of the past half century.
It seems to me today we couldn't get that kind of effort _started_ in 4 years.
I love alternate history stories, but Turtledove books always seem have obvious anachronisms in the artwork on their covers (i.e., modern weapons in the Civil War era) the idea of which always turned me off.
Newt Gingrich, being a history teacher of some reknown, coauthored a novel called 1945 that posited an alternate timeline where, IIRC, Hitler got sick for a short period at some key moment and failed to make some particularly bad decision he made in real life, which ended up changing the war significantly in favor of the Germans. I don't recall a lot of detail from it now, but it was pretty interesting. It ended in a cliff-hanger for an obivous sequel, but I never followed up on it.
You forgot to mention the 66th Amendment that would have allowed Schwarzenegger to be President. I'd go into more detail, but I've got a reservation at Taco Bell, and I don't want to be late for a nice place like that.
Oh, that kind of stufff only exists in spy movies. Those CIA types are really cool: They eVen sent me a fre3 videp gaeme calllled "Polybius"! i;ts reallty COool.
That's a good idea. I wouldn't mind connecting if I saw what it was all about and wanted to make something, but requiring FB just to view makes it look like a fake site to lure people in so it can spam their FB accounts.
I am a FB user, but I avoid the apps; too many of them are evil.
Slashdot Mirror
Or spelling. :-/
Probably the kind of person who just goes around vandalizing everything by writing his name on it.
For rich content on the web, Silverlight is not a bad technology. It's better than Flash in a lot of ways.
But not in the one way that matters to me. Flash is on Linux. In every other respect, Silverlight being better than Flash would be no great accomplishment because Flash is awful.
Heroes episodes were on Netflix like 3 days after they were on TV
Maybe it's just that "Heroes" was so repetitive and nonsensical that the OP only thought they were new episodes.
My tipping point was several years ago. I stopped DirecTV for several months to save money and discovered I didn't miss it. This was before Netflix streaming and Hulu. Now I can't imagine paying for cable/satellite when I can get 90% of what I want from those two services for a small fraction of the price (free in the case of Hulu).
You couldn't be more wrong. XP is Microsoft's best OS ever. 7 is fine if you have the hardware to throw at it, but having used 7 at work for about half a year, I honestly can't say there's anything about it I prefer to XP (although unlike Vista, it has only a few things that bug me).
If I could no longer run XP on my netbook, I'd switch to Linux, like my other machines. In fact, the only reason I don't is for games because the netbook doesn't have the horsepower to run them in a VM. However, I'm sure I'll be able to use XP as long as the machine lasts.
Let's get 'im, guys!
You know it's probable that tulcod has been here for quite a few years, and is therefore enough of an old-timer to make such jokes. I tried to find out when the millionth UID was issued, since his or her UID is very close to that (closer still to the "binary million" (2^10)), but my google-fu failed me. I do know it's been a while.
Marketing has been dishonest since marketing has existed
See, I don't think most marketing people are smart enough to _deliberately_ be dishonest. It's just the way they see the world.
I used to pal around with Firefox 6 when we were in high school.
Why not just take the best of both worlds and go with the short and sweet name: Office
Imagine if we started calling all Germans Nazis instead of Germans. A descriptivist would call this evolution of language, but it would be applying the label of a group that committed horrific crimes against humanity to people who did not. It would eventually rob the word Nazi of it horror and add that horror to the innocent.
Congratulations, you just described American politicians... except they call each other Nazis instead of the Germans. The sad thing is sometimes some of them do some of the things that the Nazis did, but that's almost always orthogonal to what people who compare others to Nazis are thinking or claiming.
You got 1.2.3.1? All I got was an archive of Whoopi Goldberg jpegs.
I don't know about you but it sounds like it's worth a few bucks to play with, and even if I wouldn't get much value out of it, I know my kids will. They eat up any kind of sandbox game or anything with a level editor. I'm definitely going to check it out.
In my experience, Tcl was everything Java should have been.
Indeed. What the U.S. accomplished in those 4 years constantly amazes me, especially since we couldn't do a tenth of that today from lack of manufacturing capabilities, lack of national will and a spirit of sacrifice, not having leaders who are actually capable of leading and host of other declines of the past half century.
It seems to me today we couldn't get that kind of effort _started_ in 4 years.
I love alternate history stories, but Turtledove books always seem have obvious anachronisms in the artwork on their covers (i.e., modern weapons in the Civil War era) the idea of which always turned me off.
Newt Gingrich, being a history teacher of some reknown, coauthored a novel called 1945 that posited an alternate timeline where, IIRC, Hitler got sick for a short period at some key moment and failed to make some particularly bad decision he made in real life, which ended up changing the war significantly in favor of the Germans. I don't recall a lot of detail from it now, but it was pretty interesting. It ended in a cliff-hanger for an obivous sequel, but I never followed up on it.
You forgot to mention the 66th Amendment that would have allowed Schwarzenegger to be President. I'd go into more detail, but I've got a reservation at Taco Bell, and I don't want to be late for a nice place like that.
Agreed. Detroit might be a slice of third-world wasteland today, but it used to be the economic engine of America.
Oh, that kind of stufff only exists in spy movies. Those CIA types are really cool: They eVen sent me a fre3 videp gaeme calllled "Polybius"! i;ts reallty COool.
That would explain a lot. I mean what human would admit he eats arugula?
I have friends. My Mom said so and I believe her.
I always thought that seen with Stewey in "Freaked" was pretty accurate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zcDH5PZ9gQ
That's a good idea. I wouldn't mind connecting if I saw what it was all about and wanted to make something, but requiring FB just to view makes it look like a fake site to lure people in so it can spam their FB accounts.
I am a FB user, but I avoid the apps; too many of them are evil.
Why else would you need to give them access to that information of they're not going to use it.
Making this thing a Facebook app is a giant slice of FAIL.