The only people who had trips that bad were the ones who ABUSED it heavily, did more than they should have or just tripped in the wrong setting or had underlying psychological disorders to begin with, in which case they needed a controlled dose and not a dose from some dude off the street.
As for FDA approval.. have you EVER watched a commercial for an FDA approved drug? Nice, harmless side-effects like cancer, organ failure, Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, blindness, heart failure, brain damage, impotency, birth defects, peripheral neuropathy, weight gain, weight loss, coma, death.
Yeah... you keep counting on those corrupt assholes in the FDA. I will take my chances with the shady looking guy on the corner.
Does this mean piracy really ISN'T that damaging? They could simply make up their "lost profits" (note the quotation marks) by offering virtual perks for real-world cash?
Honest question and sorry if it is redundant, but I don't have the 45 minutes necessary to read everything here as some of these posts read like a kid writing a novel in crayon.
Really? I think the Windows 7 Start Menu is a considerable improvement over XP. I'll admit I was sceptical at first, but now I find that whenever I'm stuck on an XP box I really miss it.
I'm sure I'll get used to most of Windows 8's new conventions too, but as it stands I'm still not convinced that they're all a good idea - especially this idea of having to have both Metro and Regular versions of half your programs.
I completely agree. The Windows 7 start menu is perfect. Everything you need to do is right there either a click away, or a little bit of typing away. It's what the start menu should have always been. To me, it's so much nicer than XP's start menu that I feel like I've gone back to WFW 3.1 when I sit at an XP machine these days.
However, I've been kicking Windows 8 around since public release. While it performs decently, it is very cumbersome, awkward and unnatural to use on a desktop. I can see it will absolutely ROCK the touch screen world, but with the vast majority of desktops not having touch hardware... it's pointless to force it on those particular users.
I mostly use Linux these days anyhow, so this won't really affect me and it also means I will not be purchasing Windows 8 when it is officially released. Give that they have added another 4 flavors to their release cycle, that kills interest for me even more. Then you don't even NEED to ask about price. I am sure any "Ultimate" version (which I always have to have, just my choice) will cost close to $400 in a terrible economy and either increase piracy of their product or just force people to pay a bigger up-front cost for a Mac to get the cheaper (and usually free?) OS updates to save money in the long run.
I'll never go with an Apple product, but I will be damned if I buy Windows 8.
AT&T have been good for things like this forever. They've always either assholed themselves out of markets somehow, or they've priced themselves out of it, or they've simple fed too many people too much terrible customer service out of it.
With any luck, this will make AT&T shrink and possibly go away someday. Leave us with T-Mobile, MetroPCS, Verizon and Boost. All of which are better services (yes, even boost and MetroPCS) with better customer service (though Verizon isn't that much better in customer service) and better phones.
It is "bald-faced", not "bold-faced". You're just as wrong as he is.
That would mean you have a bald face. A bald face is what? We don't consider men (or some women) "bald" when they are lacking facial hair. We consider them barefaced.
Seriously... BOLD-FACED meaning that you show no emotion or no hint of a lie when you speak that untruth. In either case, both are technically wrong... but "bald-faced" just sounds completely stupid. It should be "barefaced" lie if you really want to be absolute. But if you want to NOT sound like an idiot, bold-faced is better.
If you're bringing people over from the Windows world, please encourage KDE. It's a pretty good take on the "taskbar w/ a start button" GUI-style and will be immediately familiar to most folks. One word of advice: "Classic Menu Style" for the launcher will help keep things much more traditional.
Why so much hate for the terminal? It's easy to use, hard to look at and drives you insane. All of the things you NEED to be a good developer.
Somehow, I imagined about 3,000 posts telling Obama where he can get "cheapest WoW goldz and Diablo III beta invites with special pet!" and lots of replies like "ni hao" and such.
The entire point is that none of it should be shared unless an individual WANTS it shared. The whole problem which causes the need for this type of legislation is that companies sell it all off haphazardly to anyone willing to pay a penny for it. In doing so, it opens it up to both good entities as well as bad.
What a lot of people call "privacy" can very well BE privacy, if laws are enacted to ensure that it remains so (private) if the individual wants it to be kept secret after having shared it with a corporation.
It's cute when people who disagree with you have mod points and mod you down as flambait for posting factual statements.
I am sorry, whoever you are, if you were hurt by the fact that you drank the kool-aid and are all glassy-eyed anytime Obama utters the words "change" and "hope" and "the rich are evil, but we overlook the fact that Warren Buffet owes large sums of money in taxes."
Then again, I expect nothing less from the/. crowd. Sadly, a lot of people who post here these days are whiny little bitches who mod everything "troll" if it's something that forces them to face reality for a change.
Which is why people want to mandate EVERY LAST DETAIL. How would you mandate people respect privacy? Would you throw people in jail for violations, even if accidental/innocent? If someone "poor" violated the mandate (law), would you fine them, jail them if they couldn't pay, ignore them?
The problem isn't with the goal (protect privacy), it is always with implementation, and how it never fixes the problem it intends to.
I am pretty sure that the vast majority of "privacy violations" have nothing to do with individuals selling your personal information. It is typically with corporations, who CAN be fined for their actions. However, the fines mean nothing if they are meager amounts like $50,000 fines going to, say, Google for leaking your home address, phone number, date of birth and the size shoe you wear.
FTFA:
February 23, 2012, 12:59 PM — At hastily arranged call-in conference last night, the Obama White House and the FTC announced something privacy advocates have demanded for decades: a declaration that we, the people, own the data that is collected about us.
The FTC doesn't play watchdog on individuals, as far as I know, and the article says that this is aimed toward corporations and not necessarily individuals, as you seem to think. Again... this isn't "progress" in the least. It's just a smoke and mirrors show for them to make it look like they are looking out for the little guy's best interests.
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hehehe... thanks, man. That was a good chuckle, which I desperately needed today.
/. doesn't like to let me hand them out.
I'd give you internet points, but
Misinformation.
The only people who had trips that bad were the ones who ABUSED it heavily, did more than they should have or just tripped in the wrong setting or had underlying psychological disorders to begin with, in which case they needed a controlled dose and not a dose from some dude off the street.
As for FDA approval.. have you EVER watched a commercial for an FDA approved drug? Nice, harmless side-effects like cancer, organ failure, Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, blindness, heart failure, brain damage, impotency, birth defects, peripheral neuropathy, weight gain, weight loss, coma, death.
Yeah... you keep counting on those corrupt assholes in the FDA. I will take my chances with the shady looking guy on the corner.
Does this mean piracy really ISN'T that damaging? They could simply make up their "lost profits" (note the quotation marks) by offering virtual perks for real-world cash?
Honest question and sorry if it is redundant, but I don't have the 45 minutes necessary to read everything here as some of these posts read like a kid writing a novel in crayon.
Really? I think the Windows 7 Start Menu is a considerable improvement over XP. I'll admit I was sceptical at first, but now I find that whenever I'm stuck on an XP box I really miss it.
I'm sure I'll get used to most of Windows 8's new conventions too, but as it stands I'm still not convinced that they're all a good idea - especially this idea of having to have both Metro and Regular versions of half your programs.
I completely agree. The Windows 7 start menu is perfect. Everything you need to do is right there either a click away, or a little bit of typing away. It's what the start menu should have always been. To me, it's so much nicer than XP's start menu that I feel like I've gone back to WFW 3.1 when I sit at an XP machine these days.
However, I've been kicking Windows 8 around since public release. While it performs decently, it is very cumbersome, awkward and unnatural to use on a desktop. I can see it will absolutely ROCK the touch screen world, but with the vast majority of desktops not having touch hardware... it's pointless to force it on those particular users.
I mostly use Linux these days anyhow, so this won't really affect me and it also means I will not be purchasing Windows 8 when it is officially released. Give that they have added another 4 flavors to their release cycle, that kills interest for me even more. Then you don't even NEED to ask about price. I am sure any "Ultimate" version (which I always have to have, just my choice) will cost close to $400 in a terrible economy and either increase piracy of their product or just force people to pay a bigger up-front cost for a Mac to get the cheaper (and usually free?) OS updates to save money in the long run.
I'll never go with an Apple product, but I will be damned if I buy Windows 8.
Nah... this time around, they're Steve Jobs' retinas.
He was the only man with bright enough sight to propel Apple into the spot it's in today, so his retinas are clearly the only ones they could use.
Fuck who ever moderated this as troll. It was a joke. Grow a sense of humor you anonymous moron.
You want flies with that?
They are talking about spiders, not Chinese restaurant order takers.
AT&T have been good for things like this forever. They've always either assholed themselves out of markets somehow, or they've priced themselves out of it, or they've simple fed too many people too much terrible customer service out of it.
With any luck, this will make AT&T shrink and possibly go away someday. Leave us with T-Mobile, MetroPCS, Verizon and Boost. All of which are better services (yes, even boost and MetroPCS) with better customer service (though Verizon isn't that much better in customer service) and better phones.
It is "bald-faced", not "bold-faced". You're just as wrong as he is.
That would mean you have a bald face. A bald face is what? We don't consider men (or some women) "bald" when they are lacking facial hair. We consider them barefaced.
Seriously... BOLD-FACED meaning that you show no emotion or no hint of a lie when you speak that untruth. In either case, both are technically wrong... but "bald-faced" just sounds completely stupid. It should be "barefaced" lie if you really want to be absolute. But if you want to NOT sound like an idiot, bold-faced is better.
better not have the same SHIT DRM that the last game had.
You speak as though Ubisoft are able to learn their lesson.
OpenSUSE has really become a terrible, bloated thing since they decided to go with The Colonel instead of a Linux Kernel.
If you're bringing people over from the Windows world, please encourage KDE. It's a pretty good take on the "taskbar w/ a start button" GUI-style and will be immediately familiar to most folks. One word of advice: "Classic Menu Style" for the launcher will help keep things much more traditional.
Why so much hate for the terminal? It's easy to use, hard to look at and drives you insane. All of the things you NEED to be a good developer.
Why must you lie?
"All content owners have reviewed your video and confirmed their claims to some or all of its content."
Complete bold-faced lie.
I just want to thank you for not saying "bald-faced lie" like most people often do. You, sir, are awesome.
Somehow, I imagined about 3,000 posts telling Obama where he can get "cheapest WoW goldz and Diablo III beta invites with special pet!" and lots of replies like "ni hao" and such.
I was very disappointed in not seeing those.
Sounds like you got the basic iMac.
I am so tired of these April Fool's jokes when it isn't even April yet.
Everyone knows Macs don't get trojans or viruses and that this story originated from The Onion!
The entire point is that none of it should be shared unless an individual WANTS it shared. The whole problem which causes the need for this type of legislation is that companies sell it all off haphazardly to anyone willing to pay a penny for it. In doing so, it opens it up to both good entities as well as bad.
What a lot of people call "privacy" can very well BE privacy, if laws are enacted to ensure that it remains so (private) if the individual wants it to be kept secret after having shared it with a corporation.
It's cute when people who disagree with you have mod points and mod you down as flambait for posting factual statements.
/. crowd. Sadly, a lot of people who post here these days are whiny little bitches who mod everything "troll" if it's something that forces them to face reality for a change.
I am sorry, whoever you are, if you were hurt by the fact that you drank the kool-aid and are all glassy-eyed anytime Obama utters the words "change" and "hope" and "the rich are evil, but we overlook the fact that Warren Buffet owes large sums of money in taxes."
Then again, I expect nothing less from the
Which is why people want to mandate EVERY LAST DETAIL. How would you mandate people respect privacy? Would you throw people in jail for violations, even if accidental/innocent? If someone "poor" violated the mandate (law), would you fine them, jail them if they couldn't pay, ignore them?
The problem isn't with the goal (protect privacy), it is always with implementation, and how it never fixes the problem it intends to.
I am pretty sure that the vast majority of "privacy violations" have nothing to do with individuals selling your personal information. It is typically with corporations, who CAN be fined for their actions. However, the fines mean nothing if they are meager amounts like $50,000 fines going to, say, Google for leaking your home address, phone number, date of birth and the size shoe you wear.
FTFA:
The FTC doesn't play watchdog on individuals, as far as I know, and the article says that this is aimed toward corporations and not necessarily individuals, as you seem to think. Again... this isn't "progress" in the least. It's just a smoke and mirrors show for them to make it look like they are looking out for the little guy's best interests.
Unless he wants to waste his "Executive Order" powerup!
A wild US Citizen Appears!
Obama uses Kool-Aid!
It's super effective!
In this country, that's progress.
How is NOT moving forward considered progress again?
If they don't have to respect the suggested "rules", then it isn't doing ANYONE a favor. At all. Period.
Sounds like just another law coming around that will have tons of back doors in it, allowing them to say that pretty much anything is bad.
This needs to be shot down before it can take its first breath.
Just watching the videos and reading comments on them. Wow... this SERIOUSLY looks like it is backfiring for Microsloth.
in the mean time , i have a radion 300 chipset, looks like I'm switching to Awesome window manager.
Is the "Radion 300 chipset" that you have some sort of cheap, Chinese knockoff version of the real thing?