Sort of like how the Atlanta Bread next to my office puts the warning "Hot drinks served hot" on their cups? Yea it is up to a cooperation to educate people. That will work well. I can see the message now. "This song has DRM protection so that it can not be stolen." "This song lacks protection" Do you want this free protection on your download y/n.
And there is a some technical reason that that Amazon can not carry them? Unless they have signed some exclusive deal it will just be a matter of time.
Well 128mb is a little bit on the short side for just about any OS with a GUI these days. It may still work with just a little tweaking. I would suggest using Xbuntu and not standard Ubuntu. It will run much better on lower end machines. Since I don't know what type of network adapter is on this system I can not tell you for sure why it isn't working. If all else fails just buy a cheap network card and plug it in. 99% of them just work. Of course it could be that the on board network card is dead. It is a free machine and couldn't run outside of safe mode under ME so it is possible that the network adapter on it is just dead.
Yep but it makes a big hole in the Apple/iPod ecosystem. Amazon has now made using a none iPod as easy or easier then an IPod. No DRM hoops to jump through. It just works. And it costs no more than iTunes. Add in that you can use them with you iPod it now gives Amazon a bigger potental market than Apple. Amazon can now sell to everybody that has a Music player. Now if the Networks will just jump on the no DRM bandwagon.
Man they bought Atari and then got hit with the video game market crash then they bought AOL just in time for the Dot Bomb... The trick is to watch what TW buys. If it currently hot then it is a sure sign the bubble is going to burst. On a good not they sold off their holdings in Google in 2004.
"When you look at it like that, it's hard to blame those who criticize bringing Halo into sacred space." Well yes I would have a problem with playing video games in sacred places. I don't think it would be right to play them in chapel of a church. I will be honest I have never played Halo. I have played Quake and Doom, and the later generations of those games. I am more into the Age of Empire type game and yes all of the above should not be played in the chapel. For the rest of the Church well. I know that this is a radical idea but isn't that really up to the church and or the congregation of the church? My church tends to be more into the basketball and volley ball type of church activities and I don't think that I would be thrilled with video games in church but then that is my church and my opinion. Other churches have different ideas. Seems sort of strange to even be discussing it since frankly it is none of our business.
Your comments on Writer is interesting. I have never had any real problems with Calc but then I don't do anything complex with it. I wonder if any of the other FOSS spreadsheets might be a better match for what you want to do than even Excel. I don't know because I don't know exactly what you are doing.
I for the most part agree with you. OO is only good enough for average user. The good thing is that it is probably good enough for 90% of the people out there that use Office. For high end users I am sure it needs work. My one question is why did you upgrade to 2007? Did it have a feature that you needed that 2000 didn't? I know many people are not moving to 2007 because 2000 and 2003 are both pretty good.
Well not every user is in the US. So yes many civilian users are getting a free ride. But hey if the selective availabiltiy and military control bother you so much. Raise the money to build and launch a replacement. The real truth is that the selective availability and the military control are a small price to pay for the free as in beer nature of GPS.
Hate to tell you this but the military already can and has done it in the past. Energy was rationed during WWII. The thing is what everybody seems to forget is that the US military is under control of the civilian government. No matter what the tin hat brigade wants to think. Your comments about the GPS system is interesting. GPS exists only because the military paid for the development, and the deployment of it. Comercial and civialain users are in fact getting a free ride on the military budget for this.
So what you are saying is that India was culturally superior to the Nations in Africa? Or maybe there where other factors involved with the problems in Africa than colonialism.
Nope it is still the same. Blaming colonialism is just an easy out. India and Pakistan where colonies just as long as any place in Africa. Nice try shifting the blame to the US for Africa on this one.
If you read that link it points out that colonialism has been over for 50+years. Both India and Pakistan where colonies for just as long and yet they have made a lot more progress than most of the African nations. I think you are also taking the simple easy answer. But thank you for playing.
I guess I forgot the joy of things like Zork. But I think casual gamers tend to not like the heavy story driven games. They just don't lend themselves to casual play.
So how about the WWI debt? And the back interest would be nice? From the page you linked too. "And while the UK dutifully pays off its World War II debts, those from World War I remain resolutely unpaid. And are by no means trifling. In 1934, Britain owed the US $4.4bn of World War I debt (about £866m at 1934 exchange rates). Adjusted by the Retail Price Index, a typical measure of inflation, £866m would equate to £40bn now, and if adjusted by the growth of GDP, to about £225bn."
I also think the Wii doesn't lend it's self to game churning. I don't think you will see a lot of people buying a game, taking it home, playing it for days/weeks until they beat the game, trade it for store credit, repeat. I think people that buy Wii games will tend to keep them and keep playing them. I could be wrong but I still find this idea of "finishing" a game odd. A game should be fun to keep playing.
Forget about flying stand by. What about if your flight is delayed. I am sorry but you missed your connection. It will take a three days to get you on a new flight. Have a nice day.
"Its this stupid "We invented it" mentality that is horribly twisted truths, that makes US people behave like overlords all the time." You see that is what makes people in the US get their back up. Overlords? Are you from Europe? If so please look back a little over 60 years to see how a real overlord behaves. The US is a very large, wealthy, and powerful nation. When the US sneezes the world catches a cold that is just the way of the world. If anything bad happens in the world and the US does nothing then the world screams where is the US. If anything bad happens in the world and the US does something then the US didn't do enough.
A great example is Europe in the 1980s. The Soviet Union had hundreds of nuclear missiles pointed at the NATO nations. The US moved missiles of the same type into Europe to counter the USSR. Oh how the people protested the US missiles but ignored the Soviet missiles pointed at them. The US was going to blow up the world. Then the USSR seeing the missiles point back at them decided to that maybe they would hold talks with the US. The US simply said get rid of your missiles and we will get rid of ours. That is what happened. So everybody that was protesting the US missiles where wrong. Putting the missiles in Europe did make Europe safer. These are historical facts but no one wants to remember them. It was Rambo Ronnie Regan that actually got the USSR to reduce the total number of nuclear weapons. And then there is the UK's debt to the US. The UK still owes Billions of dollars to the US. The UK was in a very bad way after WWII so the US dropped the interest rate on the money they owed the US to next to nothing. The UK still owes the US the money but is in hurry to pay it back. The UK is making more money off investments that they have in the US than they pay in interest so they will just keep that money thank you very much.
That is just too much effort. Just go to one and point to the sky and tell someone that you see one. That will be enough. No need to spend any money on a toy.
Oh yes the article was poorly written and very short. The contents where simply. Vista wasn't any better than XP and caused me problems. What the problems where are not listed. My guess are that they would be. UAC the big "security" improvement that almost every one is told to turn off. Drivers! Drivers! Drivers!... And the fact a computer that runs XP well Vista with the eye candy will be slow. Throw in a few games that probably don't work because of copy protection just for good measure.
But that is just what I got from reading between the lines. So yea the article sucked.
The Beef with Vista is simply why? There was some real value when you moved from Dos to Windows 3.11. You got a at least a limited form of multitasking. When moving from Windows 3.11 to 95 I got a BIG value. When moving from 95 to 98 you got a slight improvement but very little pain. ME was a mistake. Why? Because you got no improvement and more problems. ME was a mistake and Microsoft knows it. I never used it myself. Windows 2000 was the biggest improvement yet. Yes you had some compatibility issues but the change to the NT co debase was worth it. XP wasn't a big improvement over 2000 so lots of companies never migrated or just migrated when they got new machines. XP was the same kind of leap over 98 that 2000 was. A lot of users never installed 2000 so they got a big improvement. If you don't gain a lot there is no reason to change your Operating System. Vista provides you with more pain than ME did with no real improvements. It is a worst upgrade than ME was!
Yes I know that Vista has some improvments besides eye candy but to the vast majority of users it is just not worth it. IE it doesn't have enough value for the cost in money, time, and problems.
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Sort of like how the Atlanta Bread next to my office puts the warning "Hot drinks served hot" on their cups?
Yea it is up to a cooperation to educate people. That will work well. I can see the message now.
"This song has DRM protection so that it can not be stolen."
"This song lacks protection" Do you want this free protection on your download y/n.
And there is a some technical reason that that Amazon can not carry them? Unless they have signed some exclusive deal it will just be a matter of time.
Well 128mb is a little bit on the short side for just about any OS with a GUI these days.
It may still work with just a little tweaking.
I would suggest using Xbuntu and not standard Ubuntu. It will run much better on lower end machines.
Since I don't know what type of network adapter is on this system I can not tell you for sure why it isn't working. If all else fails just buy a cheap network card and plug it in. 99% of them just work. Of course it could be that the on board network card is dead. It is a free machine and couldn't run outside of safe mode under ME so it is possible that the network adapter on it is just dead.
Yep but it makes a big hole in the Apple/iPod ecosystem.
Amazon has now made using a none iPod as easy or easier then an IPod.
No DRM hoops to jump through. It just works. And it costs no more than iTunes. Add in that you can use them with you iPod it now gives Amazon a bigger potental market than Apple. Amazon can now sell to everybody that has a Music player.
Now if the Networks will just jump on the no DRM bandwagon.
Man they bought Atari and then got hit with the video game market crash then they bought AOL just in time for the Dot Bomb...
The trick is to watch what TW buys. If it currently hot then it is a sure sign the bubble is going to burst.
On a good not they sold off their holdings in Google in 2004.
"When you look at it like that, it's hard to blame those who criticize bringing Halo into sacred space." Well yes I would have a problem with playing video games in sacred places. I don't think it would be right to play them in chapel of a church.
I will be honest I have never played Halo. I have played Quake and Doom, and the later generations of those games. I am more into the Age of Empire type game and yes all of the above should not be played in the chapel.
For the rest of the Church well. I know that this is a radical idea but isn't that really up to the church and or the congregation of the church? My church tends to be more into the basketball and volley ball type of church activities and I don't think that I would be thrilled with video games in church but then that is my church and my opinion. Other churches have different ideas.
Seems sort of strange to even be discussing it since frankly it is none of our business.
Your comments on Writer is interesting. I have never had any real problems with Calc but then I don't do anything complex with it.
I wonder if any of the other FOSS spreadsheets might be a better match for what you want to do than even Excel. I don't know because I don't know exactly what you are doing.
I for the most part agree with you. OO is only good enough for average user. The good thing is that it is probably good enough for 90% of the people out there that use Office. For high end users I am sure it needs work.
My one question is why did you upgrade to 2007? Did it have a feature that you needed that 2000 didn't?
I know many people are not moving to 2007 because 2000 and 2003 are both pretty good.
I know that it was turned off. I didn't know they where eliminating it. Thanks for the info.
Well not every user is in the US.
So yes many civilian users are getting a free ride. But hey if the selective availabiltiy and military control bother you so much. Raise the money to build and launch a replacement. The real truth is that the selective availability and the military control are a small price to pay for the free as in beer nature of GPS.
Hate to tell you this but the military already can and has done it in the past. Energy was rationed during WWII. The thing is what everybody seems to forget is that the US military is under control of the civilian government. No matter what the tin hat brigade wants to think. Your comments about the GPS system is interesting. GPS exists only because the military paid for the development, and the deployment of it. Comercial and civialain users are in fact getting a free ride on the military budget for this.
So what you are saying is that India was culturally superior to the Nations in Africa? Or maybe there where other factors involved with the problems in Africa than colonialism.
Nope it is still the same. Blaming colonialism is just an easy out. India and Pakistan where colonies just as long as any place in Africa. Nice try shifting the blame to the US for Africa on this one.
Bkkkkkk. That wasn't an answer good try thank you for playing again. Why did India and Pakistan do so much better?
Aka you guys are sitting on it.
If the US is acting like "Overlords" I would think we would collect our debts.
If you read that link it points out that colonialism has been over for 50+years.
Both India and Pakistan where colonies for just as long and yet they have made a lot more progress than most of the African nations. I think you are also taking the simple easy answer. But thank you for playing.
I guess I forgot the joy of things like Zork. But I think casual gamers tend to not like the heavy story driven games. They just don't lend themselves to casual play.
So how about the WWI debt? And the back interest would be nice? From the page you linked too.
"And while the UK dutifully pays off its World War II debts, those from World War I remain resolutely unpaid. And are by no means trifling. In 1934, Britain owed the US $4.4bn of World War I debt (about £866m at 1934 exchange rates). Adjusted by the Retail Price Index, a typical measure of inflation, £866m would equate to £40bn now, and if adjusted by the growth of GDP, to about £225bn."
I also think the Wii doesn't lend it's self to game churning.
I don't think you will see a lot of people buying a game, taking it home, playing it for days/weeks until they beat the game, trade it for store credit, repeat.
I think people that buy Wii games will tend to keep them and keep playing them.
I could be wrong but I still find this idea of "finishing" a game odd. A game should be fun to keep playing.
Forget about flying stand by.
What about if your flight is delayed.
I am sorry but you missed your connection. It will take a three days to get you on a new flight. Have a nice day.
Or an someone that is already paranoid about the government looked up and thought they saw something.
Which is a lot more likely.
"Its this stupid "We invented it" mentality that is horribly twisted truths, that makes US people behave like overlords all the time."
You see that is what makes people in the US get their back up.
Overlords? Are you from Europe? If so please look back a little over 60 years to see how a real overlord behaves.
The US is a very large, wealthy, and powerful nation. When the US sneezes the world catches a cold that is just the way of the world. If anything bad happens in the world and the US does nothing then the world screams where is the US. If anything bad happens in the world and the US does something then the US didn't do enough.
A great example is Europe in the 1980s. The Soviet Union had hundreds of nuclear missiles pointed at the NATO nations. The US moved missiles of the same type into Europe to counter the USSR. Oh how the people protested the US missiles but ignored the Soviet missiles pointed at them. The US was going to blow up the world. Then the USSR seeing the missiles point back at them decided to that maybe they would hold talks with the US. The US simply said get rid of your missiles and we will get rid of ours. That is what happened. So everybody that was protesting the US missiles where wrong. Putting the missiles in Europe did make Europe safer. These are historical facts but no one wants to remember them. It was Rambo Ronnie Regan that actually got the USSR to reduce the total number of nuclear weapons.
And then there is the UK's debt to the US. The UK still owes Billions of dollars to the US. The UK was in a very bad way after WWII so the US dropped the interest rate on the money they owed the US to next to nothing. The UK still owes the US the money but is in hurry to pay it back. The UK is making more money off investments that they have in the US than they pay in interest so they will just keep that money thank you very much.
So don't talk about the US acting like overlords.
That is just too much effort.
Just go to one and point to the sky and tell someone that you see one. That will be enough. No need to spend any money on a toy.
Oh yes the article was poorly written and very short. The contents where simply. Vista wasn't any better than XP and caused me problems. What the problems where are not listed. My guess are that they would be.
UAC the big "security" improvement that almost every one is told to turn off.
Drivers! Drivers! Drivers!...
And the fact a computer that runs XP well Vista with the eye candy will be slow.
Throw in a few games that probably don't work because of copy protection just for good measure.
But that is just what I got from reading between the lines. So yea the article sucked.
The Beef with Vista is simply why?
There was some real value when you moved from Dos to Windows 3.11. You got a at least a limited form of multitasking.
When moving from Windows 3.11 to 95 I got a BIG value.
When moving from 95 to 98 you got a slight improvement but very little pain.
ME was a mistake. Why? Because you got no improvement and more problems. ME was a mistake and Microsoft knows it. I never used it myself.
Windows 2000 was the biggest improvement yet. Yes you had some compatibility issues but the change to the NT co debase was worth it.
XP wasn't a big improvement over 2000 so lots of companies never migrated or just migrated when they got new machines. XP was the same kind of leap over 98 that 2000 was. A lot of users never installed 2000 so they got a big improvement.
If you don't gain a lot there is no reason to change your Operating System.
Vista provides you with more pain than ME did with no real improvements. It is a worst upgrade than ME was!
Yes I know that Vista has some improvments besides eye candy but to the vast majority of users it is just not worth it. IE it doesn't have enough value for the cost in money, time, and problems.
Development would most likely be taking place in California. Gee I guess there is a shortage of crowds in California.