(I am particularly upset about the ridiculousness of the Republican walkout today. You're lucky I didn't pull a Howard Dean. Should have just gone to bed.)
You're right that they didn't go after Bill for the sex. The impeached Clinton out of pure spite, because they've hated that family ever since Hillary was legal council to the committee for the impeachment of Nixon. Any other partisan explanation you might have is completely baseless... Kenneth Starr was trying to nail Bill for anything he could get his hands on for the entirety of his administration because he was a partisan hack with a revenge motive.
Dick Cheney doesn't care about the Presidential Records Act. That's the least of our problems. He doesn't care about any of his legal responsibilities, or even the constitution. He will chalk all of this illegal behavior up to "his interpretation of the rules," and he has consolidated so much power in the executive brand nobody can touch him (and of course, Mr. Bush). These documents will be destroyed years before the Democratic congress can repair the damage that has been done by this administration, but hopefully lessons were learned and this will never happen again.
This is what happens when there's a Republican Congress and a Republican President. Congress lets him run free and completely ignores their oversight responsibilities, acting like lords and barons in a monarchy, knowing they'll get kick-backs from the king. Don't believe me? Guess how many times in six years the Republican-controlled Congress subpoenaed the Bush administration for potential executive abuses? Yeah, zero. In contrast, Clinton's administration was subpoenaed over 1000 times.
Our government is completely broken... worrying about emails with a blow-by-blow description about how the system of checks and balances in this country got destroyed is a waste of time; We need to look at these last eight years on a macro level and make sure through legislation that this disaster never happens again.
I'm not saying PC gaming is dead. But I would submit to you if Microsoft (and maybe the other players) wanted to kill it by seriously marketing a wireless keyboard and mouse for their consoles, they probably more or less could. And I would say that the killer app for PC gaming is more or less dead--when was the last time you had to upgrade your machine just to play a game (Doom)? But still we keep dumping cash into our boxes just to get that frame rate improvement, and given that you can play Oblivion (for instance) on your 360 with virtually the same experience, I think the console is truly at the cusp of ridding us of the money pit problem altogether. PC gaming will still be around for games with low-resource requirements, but the console will likely dominate elsewhere.
So anyway, maybe it's anecdotal (or maybe I'm just another futurist tool), but my friends and I have already flipped that switch... and I think it will start to happen in droves soon. Especially with guys like us getting older, getting married, having kids, paying for college courses, and generally having to be more prudent in how we spend those entertainment funds. Not to mention the fact that kids these days are better at shooters on the console than they are with a mouse, which is truly mind boggling and probably indicative of how they will respond to the market going forward. We love our mice--they are pretty indifferent, at best. Seems to me that everything is reaching a critical mass.
Isn't Spore DirectX-based? That should make the transition to the 360 trivial. Can't imagine why these platforms haven't jumped all over this... maybe this is anecdotal, but myself and many of my friends have resolved to quit gaming on the PC now that the consoles have more or less caught up. No reason to continue falling deeper into the gaming PC money pit.
I suppose so. I bet we can take this game further:
Developing a broken operating system on a broken operating system with broken developers operating in a broken company. I am too scared to go any deeper.:)
Uh, no. What you've got is a $2100 PC that runs just dandy with Windows XP. You know, what you were using before Vista slowed it to a crawl. These guys are buffoons.
Actually, I meant on average 90% of the content on an individual CD blows. There are so many one-hit wonder albums out there. Very rarely do I find a CD that has 3 or more songs on it that I like, and even more rarely do I find myself liking an entire album. The latter probably equates to the 50 CDs you're referring to.
If I can't purchase a song off of iTunes, I ain't buyin' it. Convenience trumps everything, especially when 90% of most CD content blows. Buh-bye, Universal. I'll take my dollars elsewhere.
I put Vista on my box at home and 24 hours later my video card was completely hosed. Thinking coincidence, I ordered a replacement and Vista hosed that one too. This was an alleged Vista-compatible card (BFG 7800 GS OC). I got a THIRD card and put XP back on my machine, and it has been running like a top for three months.
Yeah, incompatible software isn't exactly my first complaint (SEE: DRIVERS), but that said I hear plenty of guys in the office grumbling every day because the company ordered their new laptops with Vista and their audio recording software won't work, or their phone data sync software, or whatever.
This is absolutely right, and why I believe that shows like Dancing with the Stars and American Idol appear to be propping up the industry as far as neilsen ratings are concerned. Because who still tunes into TV broadcasts on a weekly basis and for these shows in particular? Women.
I would love to be able to fully migrate to gmail, but the fact is I travel a lot for business and if it wasn't for the ability to read and respond to emails while disconnected, I would never have time to get to all my messages. As much as I hate Outlook and all the clones and would love to leave them in the dust, there's just no other answer for me right now.
This doesn't really surprise me. I know Google has purchased thousands of shuffles just as corporate giveaways, and I don't doubt that many other companies have done the same. The price point of the shuffles and nanos is so low that anyone can get their hands on them. And most people who have the hard disk-based iPods seem to have a smaller version as well for the gym, or whatever. Heck, we have received two shuffles as corporate giveaways, and we haven't even resold them. They're so small that we're just waiting to lose them, put them through the wash, or drop them in the toilet (actually, we have already dropped one in the toilet and it survived just fine).:)
Agreed... laughing my head off over here. I was (until about a month ago) a PLM consultant for many years and the story is exactly the same on that front as well. The only difference being that we are in shorter supply than CRM folks and most of us are Indian, and therefore lack the social skill or will to get off with the secretaries.:)
That depends on your definition of a superior product.
XP just works. I have never had a problem I couldn't easily fix with XP and it's compatible with everything under the sun (and everything under the sun has excellent drivers for it). It's a fantastic product in that regard--you never have to struggle with it and it delivers exactly what you'd want and expect as a user.
As another example, MS Office is still the Lexus of the productivity world. Open Office is still basically a joke compared to MS Office (especially 2007 which is a quantum leap for MS), and even the almighty Apple hasn't been able to deliver an application with a better user experience.
As yet another example, MS Money is a fantastic product and extremely affordable. Smaller apps that MS delivers such as Money are often overlooked.
More and more: Visio, Project, Visual Studio; These applications are the class of their respective domains.
Look... I am pretty vendor agnostic, but to say as a blanket statement that Microsoft is not delivering superior products is just silly and ignorant. Come back to earth, we miss you.
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(I am particularly upset about the ridiculousness of the Republican walkout today. You're lucky I didn't pull a Howard Dean. Should have just gone to bed.)
You're right that they didn't go after Bill for the sex. The impeached Clinton out of pure spite, because they've hated that family ever since Hillary was legal council to the committee for the impeachment of Nixon. Any other partisan explanation you might have is completely baseless... Kenneth Starr was trying to nail Bill for anything he could get his hands on for the entirety of his administration because he was a partisan hack with a revenge motive.
Dick Cheney doesn't care about the Presidential Records Act. That's the least of our problems. He doesn't care about any of his legal responsibilities, or even the constitution. He will chalk all of this illegal behavior up to "his interpretation of the rules," and he has consolidated so much power in the executive brand nobody can touch him (and of course, Mr. Bush). These documents will be destroyed years before the Democratic congress can repair the damage that has been done by this administration, but hopefully lessons were learned and this will never happen again.
This is what happens when there's a Republican Congress and a Republican President. Congress lets him run free and completely ignores their oversight responsibilities, acting like lords and barons in a monarchy, knowing they'll get kick-backs from the king. Don't believe me? Guess how many times in six years the Republican-controlled Congress subpoenaed the Bush administration for potential executive abuses? Yeah, zero. In contrast, Clinton's administration was subpoenaed over 1000 times.
Our government is completely broken... worrying about emails with a blow-by-blow description about how the system of checks and balances in this country got destroyed is a waste of time; We need to look at these last eight years on a macro level and make sure through legislation that this disaster never happens again.
I'm not saying PC gaming is dead. But I would submit to you if Microsoft (and maybe the other players) wanted to kill it by seriously marketing a wireless keyboard and mouse for their consoles, they probably more or less could. And I would say that the killer app for PC gaming is more or less dead--when was the last time you had to upgrade your machine just to play a game (Doom)? But still we keep dumping cash into our boxes just to get that frame rate improvement, and given that you can play Oblivion (for instance) on your 360 with virtually the same experience, I think the console is truly at the cusp of ridding us of the money pit problem altogether. PC gaming will still be around for games with low-resource requirements, but the console will likely dominate elsewhere.
So anyway, maybe it's anecdotal (or maybe I'm just another futurist tool), but my friends and I have already flipped that switch... and I think it will start to happen in droves soon. Especially with guys like us getting older, getting married, having kids, paying for college courses, and generally having to be more prudent in how we spend those entertainment funds. Not to mention the fact that kids these days are better at shooters on the console than they are with a mouse, which is truly mind boggling and probably indicative of how they will respond to the market going forward. We love our mice--they are pretty indifferent, at best. Seems to me that everything is reaching a critical mass.
Isn't Spore DirectX-based? That should make the transition to the 360 trivial. Can't imagine why these platforms haven't jumped all over this... maybe this is anecdotal, but myself and many of my friends have resolved to quit gaming on the PC now that the consoles have more or less caught up. No reason to continue falling deeper into the gaming PC money pit.
I'd bet it's more of the sound of the echo in his head because he doesn't understand he can revert to XP. You give these guys too much credit.
I suppose so. I bet we can take this game further:
:)
Developing a broken operating system on a broken operating system with broken developers operating in a broken company. I am too scared to go any deeper.
Ha! Then it never would have made it to market. Can you imagine trying to develop a broken operating system on a broken operating system?
My head hurts.
Uh, no. What you've got is a $2100 PC that runs just dandy with Windows XP. You know, what you were using before Vista slowed it to a crawl. These guys are buffoons.
Who are these "most people" who only use a browser and nothing else?
Pilots are SO 20th century.
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore?node=home/mac/buying_guide/ea
If EA can do it, why not Valve?
Oh, it's the giant sucking sound coming from a Dyson.
Leave the climate change experts to the climate change scientists, Freeman.
Actually, I meant on average 90% of the content on an individual CD blows. There are so many one-hit wonder albums out there. Very rarely do I find a CD that has 3 or more songs on it that I like, and even more rarely do I find myself liking an entire album. The latter probably equates to the 50 CDs you're referring to.
you really have to look far and wide to find these strange hybrids
I am one of said strange hybrids, and am seemingly doomed to a life of consulting and air travel. Not really the corner office I've dreamed of.
If I can't purchase a song off of iTunes, I ain't buyin' it. Convenience trumps everything, especially when 90% of most CD content blows. Buh-bye, Universal. I'll take my dollars elsewhere.
I put Vista on my box at home and 24 hours later my video card was completely hosed. Thinking coincidence, I ordered a replacement and Vista hosed that one too. This was an alleged Vista-compatible card (BFG 7800 GS OC). I got a THIRD card and put XP back on my machine, and it has been running like a top for three months.
Yeah, incompatible software isn't exactly my first complaint (SEE: DRIVERS), but that said I hear plenty of guys in the office grumbling every day because the company ordered their new laptops with Vista and their audio recording software won't work, or their phone data sync software, or whatever.
Consider this reply evidence of at least two people greatly annoyed by the existence of this word.
This is absolutely right, and why I believe that shows like Dancing with the Stars and American Idol appear to be propping up the industry as far as neilsen ratings are concerned. Because who still tunes into TV broadcasts on a weekly basis and for these shows in particular? Women.
I would love to be able to fully migrate to gmail, but the fact is I travel a lot for business and if it wasn't for the ability to read and respond to emails while disconnected, I would never have time to get to all my messages. As much as I hate Outlook and all the clones and would love to leave them in the dust, there's just no other answer for me right now.
This doesn't really surprise me. I know Google has purchased thousands of shuffles just as corporate giveaways, and I don't doubt that many other companies have done the same. The price point of the shuffles and nanos is so low that anyone can get their hands on them. And most people who have the hard disk-based iPods seem to have a smaller version as well for the gym, or whatever. Heck, we have received two shuffles as corporate giveaways, and we haven't even resold them. They're so small that we're just waiting to lose them, put them through the wash, or drop them in the toilet (actually, we have already dropped one in the toilet and it survived just fine). :)
Product is the P you're looking for.
Agreed... laughing my head off over here. I was (until about a month ago) a PLM consultant for many years and the story is exactly the same on that front as well. The only difference being that we are in shorter supply than CRM folks and most of us are Indian, and therefore lack the social skill or will to get off with the secretaries. :)
That depends on your definition of a superior product.
XP just works. I have never had a problem I couldn't easily fix with XP and it's compatible with everything under the sun (and everything under the sun has excellent drivers for it). It's a fantastic product in that regard--you never have to struggle with it and it delivers exactly what you'd want and expect as a user.
As another example, MS Office is still the Lexus of the productivity world. Open Office is still basically a joke compared to MS Office (especially 2007 which is a quantum leap for MS), and even the almighty Apple hasn't been able to deliver an application with a better user experience.
As yet another example, MS Money is a fantastic product and extremely affordable. Smaller apps that MS delivers such as Money are often overlooked.
More and more: Visio, Project, Visual Studio; These applications are the class of their respective domains.
Look... I am pretty vendor agnostic, but to say as a blanket statement that Microsoft is not delivering superior products is just silly and ignorant. Come back to earth, we miss you.
We already found him. And we elected him President!