Documents obtained under the Access to Information Act by Prof Michael Geist reveal that government officials recognized that the funding established a bad precedent, yet they still plan to pay big bucks until 2008.
So that's the year when authorities will start suing Canadians for real. They got me wondering there when they'd start.:-p
It's kind of funny. A sport where most parts of the field is just green grass and people shooting a ball is pushed to for HD quality and attempts to sell sets that way. Are they ridiculing human intelligence or just stupid?:-) What exactly do I wish to see in HD quality? The sweat on mens foreheads? Hairy legs? Seriously, movies with special effects would make much more sense and I'd be more interested if more channels started advertising their movies in HD here. Some dedicated pay-per-view movie channels do, but that's not a good way to reach the masses IMHO.
GoogleDesktopDisplay.exe has not been widely reported to cause any problems with popups despite its wide use, so your problem likely lies elsewhere, like in Internet Explorer.
Btw, it should maybe be added that with HL2 I refer to CS: Source gaming, which is often bundled, and in that $36 price too that I got from Newegg. I don't expect players to be nuts about its solo campaign for two years.;-)
Not to dispute some of your claim but look at it this way:
10 hours of Half Life 2: 50 usd 10 hours of WOW (if that's how much you play a week) : 4-5 usd
???
How did you come to this conclusion? Do you for example not even include the retail box cost for WoW, while you do for HL2? Also, what's saying someone purchased HL2 during these 10 hours you compare them with? You don't keep purchasing HL2 while you play it, but you do keep playing fixed monthly fees for WoW as long as you play it, regardless how much you play it.
A more fair comparison looks to me like this: - Half-Life 2 played during two years => $36. - WoW played during two years => $37 (box cost @ Newegg) + $12 * 12 * 2 = $325.
WoW about 9 times more expensive during this period.
Two years seem to me a pretty reasonable time before become bored over games better than average.
I believe both HL2 and WoW is played even longer by many.
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While I applaud it, I remember the resurrection of Ren & Stimpy and how it just wasn't quite the same anymore. The making of a popular series can often rest on the frenzy of creating the episodes and the chemistry of those at work on it. Add an interruption, time for other projects and influences, what will become of pulling the team back together? Will it be the same, or will it be like, "well, Bender saying, 'bite my shiny metal asee' doesn't totally suck, but it's just, you know, different now."
Hmm, I dunno... I have no big problems with Family Guy because of this.
Given how many problems with IPv4 this new revision solves and that a thorough look was taken at the protocol in its entirety, of all things, I'm surprised *geeks* usually just try to find reasons to not like it. Sure, admins may need to retrain, and there'll be infrastructure costs, but since when did geeks stop looking at positive evolution as being bigger than these things?
There's also always a lot of FUD spread around this matter, and one can find it even in this topic, for example IPv6 increasing routing complexity. IPv6 uses hierarchical address ranges *and* is modularized so there's not just less complexity, but even less *traffic* to route unless using more advanced features of IPv6. After the transition, IPv6 is better for your routers.
NAT's also seem to be a common enough argument against IPv6 that someone should have written a damn "Why NAT's won't solve address space issues" FAQ to uninformed people already. There is something similar enough for that though.
Anyway, instead of just ranting, here's a document about some of the changes IPv6 makes. Maybe especially this part is educative to some.
Wow, I didn't know Ubuntu almost used as much RAM as Vista.:-S (for the record, I had ~700 MB at startup post Vista instlal and a basic app or two running).
(although I'm not sure the topic at hand -- levies -- may be such a good idea as it's hard to efficiently distribute fairly among the proper copyright holders along with it couldn't be a general levy due to all who don't file share)
Ballmer is talked about so often here without telling the uninformed who he is, where you can coincidentally delve further into the mysterious BallmerSweat if you are so inclined.;-)
Take a look at where Microsoft is going with their new Live initiative as an important move for them to expand better into the online business. Windows Live current and upcoming services. Right. The lack of direction there makes even Google's services look coordinated. Microsoft seem to be going from everywhere between instant messaging to mail to... shopping... to music services, to well, ridiculous retries at their MSN Passport idea perhaps. At least Google is simply focusing on search and information. Heck, even Picasa is related to that, as it indexes and aids you in finding your right personal images.
Microsoft wants to be Google, Apple (not just music services; they even try "trendy" hardware with Origami), Yahoo, and more: all at once!
That's confusing at least to me, and shows me a company lacking direction. We've had multibusiness online hardly defined "things" before, especially during the dot com bubble, and basically all but Yahoo survived. Now the bubble is burst, and the survivors or new startups that are successful are quite strong in the area. THEN Microsoft tries to come, and they have no OEM and bundling support this time around.
Hmm, if they make a half assed effort on many services (and from the looks, they may end up doing just that), the fierce online service competition could spell real bad news for them. Look at MSN Search for a half assed product for example. It has what, 10% market share as a search engine? That's still plenty of users of course, but the problem for MS is that online services may largely be the future for them. Unless they want to keep struggling with heavy monolithic operating systems and complex software suites, and miss out on tasty online ad revenues and become one of those "cool online businesses", they want to move not only move to online services, but dominate the field. Microsoft's immense size probably almost *requires* them to if they're going to make a major focus shift to not fall in stock and company value, and that could trigger a negative spiral.
I was surprised how weak as a service "Live" was/is. (to be fair, there are still plenty of Live services in development)
For those not in the latest-Microsoft-brand loop, Live is set to replace MSN as Microsoft's new online initiative to integrate windows services with Windows. And in these days, since Microsoft is facing fierce competition in the online business from Google, Yahoo! (and not just Yahoo! search, but their Flickr, etc), you'd expect a rather massive and impressive effort from the software giant. If you haven't looked at some of their past products, that is.;-)
And for such an important initiative in these days when MS probably need to expand their software market from an increasingly complex monolithic OS and Office suite, what do we get?
Well, the most visible ones that are at least available today: - Windows Live Search, a competitor to Google and Yahoo at best. - Windows Live Mail, a rebranded Hotmail that's less compatibile than Gmail and many other services. - Windows Live Local, a rather poor Google Maps competitor, especially if you're looking for *global* coverage. - Windows Live Messenger, their proprietary IM application in the forest of IM applications. - Windows Live OneCare, a service where Microsoft have the guts to charge users for basic protection not aimed for the corporate sector, i.e. something other services supply for free. (AdAware / Search & Destroy / AntiVir / AVG / Avast, the list goes on...)
Simply put, I think execs may be looking to leave because working for Microsoft: - Isn't cool. - Doesn't make cool stuff.
Opera's User JS is just equivalent to the particular Firefox Greasemonkey extension, not an extension system on its own. You can "only" add site specialized Javascript functionality with User JS, not change chrome, and so on up to providing complete application extensions like DownThemAll.
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Not an SD floppy.
So that's the year when authorities will start suing Canadians for real. They got me wondering there when they'd start.
Record vinyl from any external audio source.
:-)
Or, if you're lazy and don't want your mp3's as vinyls, just use a Winamp plugin?
It's kind of funny. A sport where most parts of the field is just green grass and people shooting a ball is pushed to for HD quality and attempts to sell sets that way. Are they ridiculing human intelligence or just stupid? :-) What exactly do I wish to see in HD quality? The sweat on mens foreheads? Hairy legs? Seriously, movies with special effects would make much more sense and I'd be more interested if more channels started advertising their movies in HD here. Some dedicated pay-per-view movie channels do, but that's not a good way to reach the masses IMHO.
HD floppies didn't fail. ;-)
Heck, the bastards stick around to this day.
Floppy disks are the media format parallel to Paris Hilton.
They simply refuse to get impopular despite how crappy they are.
The thing is, even if one bids the absolute maximum one can pay, 10 cents more is still just 10 cents more.
Unless you happened to bid your entire economy on an item, you'll always be able to afford 10 cents more with no problem whatsoever.
GoogleDesktopDisplay.exe has not been widely reported to cause any problems with popups despite its wide use, so your problem likely lies elsewhere, like in Internet Explorer.
Btw, it should maybe be added that with HL2 I refer to CS: Source gaming, which is often bundled, and in that $36 price too that I got from Newegg. I don't expect players to be nuts about its solo campaign for two years. ;-)
Not to dispute some of your claim but look at it this way:
10 hours of Half Life 2: 50 usd
10 hours of WOW (if that's how much you play a week) : 4-5 usd
???
How did you come to this conclusion? Do you for example not even include the retail box cost for WoW, while you do for HL2? Also, what's saying someone purchased HL2 during these 10 hours you compare them with? You don't keep purchasing HL2 while you play it, but you do keep playing fixed monthly fees for WoW as long as you play it, regardless how much you play it.
A more fair comparison looks to me like this:
- Half-Life 2 played during two years => $36.
- WoW played during two years => $37 (box cost @ Newegg) + $12 * 12 * 2 = $325.
WoW about 9 times more expensive during this period.
Two years seem to me a pretty reasonable time before become bored over games better than average.
I believe both HL2 and WoW is played even longer by many.
Hmm, I dunno... I have no big problems with Family Guy because of this.
Some of us believe we have a responsibility to our offspring and nature.
Given how many problems with IPv4 this new revision solves and that a thorough look was taken at the protocol in its entirety, of all things, I'm surprised *geeks* usually just try to find reasons to not like it. Sure, admins may need to retrain, and there'll be infrastructure costs, but since when did geeks stop looking at positive evolution as being bigger than these things?
There's also always a lot of FUD spread around this matter, and one can find it even in this topic, for example IPv6 increasing routing complexity. IPv6 uses hierarchical address ranges *and* is modularized so there's not just less complexity, but even less *traffic* to route unless using more advanced features of IPv6. After the transition, IPv6 is better for your routers.
NAT's also seem to be a common enough argument against IPv6 that someone should have written a damn "Why NAT's won't solve address space issues" FAQ to uninformed people already. There is something similar enough for that though.
Anyway, instead of just ranting, here's a document about some of the changes IPv6 makes. Maybe especially this part is educative to some.
Yes, it was simply renamed.
And the copyright notice on the website is from 1999, which sounds about right to me.
CNET has been smoking something good in this case.
Wow, I didn't know Ubuntu almost used as much RAM as Vista. :-S
(for the record, I had ~700 MB at startup post Vista instlal and a basic app or two running).
Hehe... Copulation Kids... That sounds like a new movie introducing Michael Jackson. :-p
... and people think Tom Cruise jumping in a sofa at Oprah was a big deal and nutty. :-p
Agreed, speaking of our corresponding party in Sweden, we would hardly have a debate now on a political level without them.
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See also here for example:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/06/18/business/l
(although I'm not sure the topic at hand -- levies -- may be such a good idea as it's hard to efficiently distribute fairly among the proper copyright holders along with it couldn't be a general levy due to all who don't file share)
Send in a picture of a burnt penis as proof and check? ;-p
Ballmer is talked about so often here without telling the uninformed who he is, where you can coincidentally delve further into the mysterious BallmerSweat if you are so inclined. ;-)
Well, it is a pretty big deal because Microsoft's new online services he were related to are influental and a big deal.
No wait...
basically all but Yahoo survived
:-p
:-)
NONE but... Grr, you're looking for bad spelling and let these slip by.
Where's the "fix logical errors" Firefox extension?
Take a look at where Microsoft is going with their new Live initiative as an important move for them to expand better into the online business. Windows Live current and upcoming services. Right. The lack of direction there makes even Google's services look coordinated. Microsoft seem to be going from everywhere between instant messaging to mail to... shopping... to music services, to well, ridiculous retries at their MSN Passport idea perhaps. At least Google is simply focusing on search and information. Heck, even Picasa is related to that, as it indexes and aids you in finding your right personal images.
Microsoft wants to be Google, Apple (not just music services; they even try "trendy" hardware with Origami), Yahoo, and more: all at once!
That's confusing at least to me, and shows me a company lacking direction. We've had multibusiness online hardly defined "things" before, especially during the dot com bubble, and basically all but Yahoo survived. Now the bubble is burst, and the survivors or new startups that are successful are quite strong in the area. THEN Microsoft tries to come, and they have no OEM and bundling support this time around.
Hmm, if they make a half assed effort on many services (and from the looks, they may end up doing just that), the fierce online service competition could spell real bad news for them. Look at MSN Search for a half assed product for example. It has what, 10% market share as a search engine? That's still plenty of users of course, but the problem for MS is that online services may largely be the future for them. Unless they want to keep struggling with heavy monolithic operating systems and complex software suites, and miss out on tasty online ad revenues and become one of those "cool online businesses", they want to move not only move to online services, but dominate the field. Microsoft's immense size probably almost *requires* them to if they're going to make a major focus shift to not fall in stock and company value, and that could trigger a negative spiral.
I was surprised how weak as a service "Live" was/is.
;-)
(to be fair, there are still plenty of Live services in development)
For those not in the latest-Microsoft-brand loop, Live is set to replace MSN as Microsoft's new online initiative to integrate windows services with Windows. And in these days, since Microsoft is facing fierce competition in the online business from Google, Yahoo! (and not just Yahoo! search, but their Flickr, etc), you'd expect a rather massive and impressive effort from the software giant. If you haven't looked at some of their past products, that is.
And for such an important initiative in these days when MS probably need to expand their software market from an increasingly complex monolithic OS and Office suite, what do we get?
Well, the most visible ones that are at least available today:
- Windows Live Search, a competitor to Google and Yahoo at best.
- Windows Live Mail, a rebranded Hotmail that's less compatibile than Gmail and many other services.
- Windows Live Local, a rather poor Google Maps competitor, especially if you're looking for *global* coverage.
- Windows Live Messenger, their proprietary IM application in the forest of IM applications.
- Windows Live OneCare, a service where Microsoft have the guts to charge users for basic protection not aimed for the corporate sector, i.e. something other services supply for free. (AdAware / Search & Destroy / AntiVir / AVG / Avast, the list goes on...)
Simply put, I think execs may be looking to leave because working for Microsoft:
- Isn't cool.
- Doesn't make cool stuff.
Opera's User JS is just equivalent to the particular Firefox Greasemonkey extension, not an extension system on its own. You can "only" add site specialized Javascript functionality with User JS, not change chrome, and so on up to providing complete application extensions like DownThemAll.
Are you so sure Opera tried to replace your old BT client with this feature?