Why is releasing something just before a holiday bad? You have a lot fewer users that would be affected by any issues, and you'd have staff (hopefully, at least!) to check for any issues from users that *are* still using the app, and you have all the time in the world to fix said issues before most of the users come back. Though they might still need to install the fix, you'd at least get a jump on fixing it.
Firefox didn't come from nowhere. How many years have we had topics on/. about it passing IE in market share.
It is Chrome that came out of nowhere, but I'd bet that the adoption rate -- as compared to Opera -- has a lot to do with Google's reach into most parts of everyone's every day usage (gmail, calendars, etc, etc). Feature wise, it's probably on par with Opera, but I don't use Chrome to say anything insightful about a direct comparison.
So you'll damn the browser because you're too lazy to do 3 minutes' worth of googling. Aren't most things a PITA on Linux? I'm surprised you even chose it as a desktop if you don't want to deal with minor annoyances like that.
You know what happened. Gaming has become a big industry. Like music, this attracted a lot more people. Not the dev types. The MBA types. They all have their mouths in the troth. So they're all now trying to figure out how they can feed all these mouths. So they come up with these silly gimmicks. They can't be happy with a gaming company being of certain size because it now has all these dependent PHBs, who really add no value, but want a Mercedes and a big house from their fancy title. No different than all the "managers" in music that all of a sudden price a single track at $275k.
Trees are our best renewable resource, and I believe that we have more trees today than in the past, though I don't have a citation.
But just because the rain forest is being razed, don't damn the whole industry of making use of wood. Prevent the rain forest from being razed instead. What else would you build the frame of your house out of? Metal? Plastics? Which are more environmentally damaging? Digging up 6 tons of boxite to make 1 ton of aluminum, or cutting down and processing a tree, with two being planted in it's place? Or plastics, that can only be ground up into other, low quality, plastic products or as energy sources for burning.
Trees are an awesome resource. Biodegradable, renewable, and they clean the air as they grow.
True, but the insinuation of the title/summary/article is that the game prepares you somehow, where in reality, it was more the involvement with a real race promotion.
Good for him but I don't know that I'd pick Gran Turismo as my top choice for a sim. Plenty of stuff on the PC, like anything from Papyrus, iRacing. I think Forza is even better. But good on him, nonetheless.
Hot having to hold pages so that they aren't blown around by the wind.
Being able to lay the reader on a picnic table and not have the pages fly around.
Not having to deal with pounds upon pounds of books when I move.
Being able to have a newspaper and a novel with me on the train to match whatever mood I'm in and whatever I feel like reading at the moment without the extra weight.
Being able to fit my reader in the back pocket of my jeans, so that I can take it anywhere, and any time I find myself with empty time, I can read something instead of stare at the wall.
Charging the reader once a month is nice too.
There are other benefits. Are there downsides? Obviously. eReaders are tools that excel at certain tasks, but not others. Use the tool that's right for the job.
I think that eBooks are still in their infancy. Publishers don't really know what to do with them, how to price them, whether to enforce DRM. I think that they will become cheaper in the future and possibly the DRM will be removed or relaxed so that they can be lent, etc.
So in the short term, you might be giving a vote for DRM by stripping it from your legally purchased books, but people's buying habits at this early stage in the industry wouldn't propel the companies into any sort of action yet, so I wouldn't see stripping DRM as supporting it.
I think that it will be an eventuality that more publishers will remove DRM, so in the meantime, while this all plays out, you can enjoy your book as if you actually bought it.
Or buy the paper version and pirate the eBook. When you sell the dead tree version, delete the eBook. That way, publishers' stats won't show eBooks and DRM as a raving success.
Of all the movies you can pirate, can you imagine getting sued for watching that turd? The viewers should be the ones suing the studio -- to get their money back!
C'mon, you don't get your license suspended and pay thousands in fines without doing something wrong. Just own up to it. They got you. It's over and move on.
The sea level won't rise to dangerous levels overnight. There would be plenty of time to move the material to another site. The positive aspect of this site (if there's anything positive about the whole situation) is that it's already contaminated, will have no civilian occupation, and will be swarming with trained staff.
I was livid when LCD producers stopped making 4:3 screens, forcing me into a bulbous 15" widescreen behemoth. Now, having forced us into these widescreen laptops, they're bitching that there isn't enough realestate. Well, gee whiz! You think that a widescreen display has a really wide horizontal spread (wasted on an oversized and mostly empty address bar) and less vertical space?
That's what happens in motorsports, when they air F1 on broadcast tv. The commentators sound like they're speaking for 2nd graders: not commentating on the sport and what's happening, but repeatedly explaining nuances that anyone would have been able to pick up after watching a few races. So if someone can't put in the minimal effort it takes to lean the basics, why should they be pandered to, which would only reinforce their ignorance for everything.
We're already at the stage where people use an email client for 4 years and have no idea what a subfolder or a filter are, toss up their hands and yell "but it worked yesterday!" and demand something be fixed, like preschoolers.
C'mon, how silly can you be, honestly. You can distill the issue down to your every last breath. I take a train to work, I don't drive. I own a 4 cylinder car, not a V12 Aston martin. I drive to go on vacation. I don't take a helicopter.
LOL, right, some imaginary barter economy that somehow makes co2 disappear. Well, the global warming problem is solved the! Whew. It was close there for a sec...
And how do you know the OP doesn't take the bus/train? Or how do you know transport options available to him.
Difference is that we KNOW that there are first class options to fly to Tahiti, just as there is an option for someone to drive a car 40 miles, rather than taking a helicopter.
I'm sure that if you were crossing the US border, your movement would be logged and saved somewhere just the same. And after 9/11, where jets were used in attacks, how is it a surprise that the government is keeping tabs on their movements and the passengers inside?
But everyone in the world uses animals, either for meat, the milk, or for labor, from a US city to the most remote Mongolian village. SUV drivers account for a small fraction of said population. So how can you draw any sort of a meaningful comparison?
How does giving someone some money erase the hundreds of thousands of jet fuel burned exactly?
Right, so you buy some carbon allowance from some poor shlub from Kenya who wouldn't have emitted any CO2 if he tried. Well, he might work hard enough to own a donkey, which could then fart some... but that's neither here nor there. It's a sham. If you're concerned about the environment, it pains you to turn on the car, let alone fly on some weekend getaway halfway across the globe.
And it isn't the WSJ passing judgement. It's simply analyzing flight and fuel usage. You make your own conclusions.
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Why is releasing something just before a holiday bad? You have a lot fewer users that would be affected by any issues, and you'd have staff (hopefully, at least!) to check for any issues from users that *are* still using the app, and you have all the time in the world to fix said issues before most of the users come back. Though they might still need to install the fix, you'd at least get a jump on fixing it.
Firefox didn't come from nowhere. How many years have we had topics on /. about it passing IE in market share.
It is Chrome that came out of nowhere, but I'd bet that the adoption rate -- as compared to Opera -- has a lot to do with Google's reach into most parts of everyone's every day usage (gmail, calendars, etc, etc). Feature wise, it's probably on par with Opera, but I don't use Chrome to say anything insightful about a direct comparison.
So you'll damn the browser because you're too lazy to do 3 minutes' worth of googling. Aren't most things a PITA on Linux? I'm surprised you even chose it as a desktop if you don't want to deal with minor annoyances like that.
You know what happened. Gaming has become a big industry. Like music, this attracted a lot more people. Not the dev types. The MBA types. They all have their mouths in the troth. So they're all now trying to figure out how they can feed all these mouths. So they come up with these silly gimmicks. They can't be happy with a gaming company being of certain size because it now has all these dependent PHBs, who really add no value, but want a Mercedes and a big house from their fancy title. No different than all the "managers" in music that all of a sudden price a single track at $275k.
Oh c'mon. Obama has been in office since 2009. At what point does he run this country?
And your "us versus them" crap isn't really helping anything, other than to stir up a war of words.
Trees are our best renewable resource, and I believe that we have more trees today than in the past, though I don't have a citation.
But just because the rain forest is being razed, don't damn the whole industry of making use of wood. Prevent the rain forest from being razed instead. What else would you build the frame of your house out of? Metal? Plastics? Which are more environmentally damaging? Digging up 6 tons of boxite to make 1 ton of aluminum, or cutting down and processing a tree, with two being planted in it's place? Or plastics, that can only be ground up into other, low quality, plastic products or as energy sources for burning.
Trees are an awesome resource. Biodegradable, renewable, and they clean the air as they grow.
30 years is probably a fraction of the timeframe that the people hoarding these books are talking about.
Right, and they don't already have their own music player. More likely they're taking advantage of an opportunity to get a fancy new player gratis.
Heh, all of a sudden, living outside of the US is some sort of a badge of honor. If you raise your nose any higher, you'll be looking backwards!
Robert Kubica and his pop were pretty piss poor and made it to F1 so money isn't the single factor, though it does play a large role.
True, but the insinuation of the title/summary/article is that the game prepares you somehow, where in reality, it was more the involvement with a real race promotion.
Good for him but I don't know that I'd pick Gran Turismo as my top choice for a sim. Plenty of stuff on the PC, like anything from Papyrus, iRacing. I think Forza is even better. But good on him, nonetheless.
Hot having to hold pages so that they aren't blown around by the wind.
Being able to lay the reader on a picnic table and not have the pages fly around.
Not having to deal with pounds upon pounds of books when I move.
Being able to have a newspaper and a novel with me on the train to match whatever mood I'm in and whatever I feel like reading at the moment without the extra weight.
Being able to fit my reader in the back pocket of my jeans, so that I can take it anywhere, and any time I find myself with empty time, I can read something instead of stare at the wall.
Charging the reader once a month is nice too.
There are other benefits. Are there downsides? Obviously. eReaders are tools that excel at certain tasks, but not others. Use the tool that's right for the job.
I think that eBooks are still in their infancy. Publishers don't really know what to do with them, how to price them, whether to enforce DRM. I think that they will become cheaper in the future and possibly the DRM will be removed or relaxed so that they can be lent, etc.
So in the short term, you might be giving a vote for DRM by stripping it from your legally purchased books, but people's buying habits at this early stage in the industry wouldn't propel the companies into any sort of action yet, so I wouldn't see stripping DRM as supporting it.
I think that it will be an eventuality that more publishers will remove DRM, so in the meantime, while this all plays out, you can enjoy your book as if you actually bought it.
Or buy the paper version and pirate the eBook. When you sell the dead tree version, delete the eBook. That way, publishers' stats won't show eBooks and DRM as a raving success.
Of all the movies you can pirate, can you imagine getting sued for watching that turd? The viewers should be the ones suing the studio -- to get their money back!
C'mon, you don't get your license suspended and pay thousands in fines without doing something wrong. Just own up to it. They got you. It's over and move on.
The sea level won't rise to dangerous levels overnight. There would be plenty of time to move the material to another site. The positive aspect of this site (if there's anything positive about the whole situation) is that it's already contaminated, will have no civilian occupation, and will be swarming with trained staff.
I was livid when LCD producers stopped making 4:3 screens, forcing me into a bulbous 15" widescreen behemoth. Now, having forced us into these widescreen laptops, they're bitching that there isn't enough realestate. Well, gee whiz! You think that a widescreen display has a really wide horizontal spread (wasted on an oversized and mostly empty address bar) and less vertical space?
That's what happens in motorsports, when they air F1 on broadcast tv. The commentators sound like they're speaking for 2nd graders: not commentating on the sport and what's happening, but repeatedly explaining nuances that anyone would have been able to pick up after watching a few races. So if someone can't put in the minimal effort it takes to lean the basics, why should they be pandered to, which would only reinforce their ignorance for everything.
We're already at the stage where people use an email client for 4 years and have no idea what a subfolder or a filter are, toss up their hands and yell "but it worked yesterday!" and demand something be fixed, like preschoolers.
C'mon, how silly can you be, honestly. You can distill the issue down to your every last breath. I take a train to work, I don't drive. I own a 4 cylinder car, not a V12 Aston martin. I drive to go on vacation. I don't take a helicopter.
LOL, right, some imaginary barter economy that somehow makes co2 disappear. Well, the global warming problem is solved the! Whew. It was close there for a sec...
And how do you know the OP doesn't take the bus/train? Or how do you know transport options available to him.
Difference is that we KNOW that there are first class options to fly to Tahiti, just as there is an option for someone to drive a car 40 miles, rather than taking a helicopter.
I'm sure that if you were crossing the US border, your movement would be logged and saved somewhere just the same. And after 9/11, where jets were used in attacks, how is it a surprise that the government is keeping tabs on their movements and the passengers inside?
But everyone in the world uses animals, either for meat, the milk, or for labor, from a US city to the most remote Mongolian village. SUV drivers account for a small fraction of said population. So how can you draw any sort of a meaningful comparison?
How does giving someone some money erase the hundreds of thousands of jet fuel burned exactly?
Right, so you buy some carbon allowance from some poor shlub from Kenya who wouldn't have emitted any CO2 if he tried. Well, he might work hard enough to own a donkey, which could then fart some... but that's neither here nor there. It's a sham. If you're concerned about the environment, it pains you to turn on the car, let alone fly on some weekend getaway halfway across the globe.
And it isn't the WSJ passing judgement. It's simply analyzing flight and fuel usage. You make your own conclusions.