AFAICT, Google hasn't laid a single foot of fiber themselves. They've just been buying up existing fiber that has already been laid by earlier projects and calling it Google fiber.
And I bet you though Dominique Strass-Kahn was a rapist, and not a guy being set up for daring to question the viability of the U.S. dollar--whose "rock solid case" charges were dropped just one month after his U.S.-friendly IMF successor took office.
Yet the judge in the case, and the prosecutors and everyone else involved in the courts said all he had to do was take a blood test, and the charges would be dropped
Yeah, they would have dropped the charges about an hour after they extradited him to the U.S.
Netflix also has a great UI, especially for TV episodes. It's a lot easier to deal with than trying to piecemeal together a bunch of pirated stuff. Well worth the $8 a month.
IIRC, Netflix doesn't own House of Cards outright. They cut a deal with the studio that actually made it for exclusive streaming rights in exchange for funding the series. I believe the studio, not Netflix, gets all the revenue from the blu-ray sales and foreign distribution, for example. So it's likely that Netflix couldn't just decide on their own to show it DRM-free without the studio going apeshit.
If you don't have a diploma by age eighteen in the U.S. it means that either your parents were batshit-insane religious fundamentalists who insisted that being socialized was too evil for you, or you were a dumb and/or unmotivated piece of meth-snorting glue-sniffing trash.
Well, who needs a diploma when your career plans are to become a hog-caller, carnie, or drug dealer?
To be honest I'm all for letting kids drop out if they like (or take the GED or whatever). When I went to high school, 90% of every teacher's time was wasted dealing with disciplinary problems from kids who clearly had no business being there and didn't want to be. They sucked up time that could have been spent on the kids with a real future, and usually made life hell for the smarter kids too. Why should college bound-kids have to go to school with kids whose life ambition is to "become a trucker, like The Bandit," anyway?
No, you'll still likely have to go into a testing center and take it there (otherwise there is no way to ensure you're not cheating). Going computer on standardized tests does make it harder to cheat though (as it eliminates the problem of teachers and proctors going in and erasing incorrect answers that has become all too common in many schools).
My local Gamestop had a WiiU kiosk up recently. All that was playable on it was some version of Mario that looked exactly like the old 80's era Mario. I played it for a few minutes and was decidedly underwhelmed. I'm not sure if this was due to their ill-advised choice of software for their kiosk or just because the novelty of the second screen wore off a lot faster than the sense that the actual controller was very awkward in my hands. Maybe they have some great new games coming for it in the future. But I imagine that by the time they get here, I'll already own a PS4 or Xbox 720.
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They used to tell a similar story about Marv Throneberry.
Google has been buying up existing "dark fiber" networks since 2005. They've made little secret of it.
AFAICT, Google hasn't laid a single foot of fiber themselves. They've just been buying up existing fiber that has already been laid by earlier projects and calling it Google fiber.
Do you know what SimCity is?
Did you mean proofreading like editors do? There are no editors. There are copy/paste monkeys
Now, now, let's not insult monkeys like that.
They should do some EA-related DLC. I suggest adding a "World's Largest Jackass" tourist attraction--brought to you by EA!
I'll bet you defended Hans Reiser, as well.
And I bet you though Dominique Strass-Kahn was a rapist, and not a guy being set up for daring to question the viability of the U.S. dollar--whose "rock solid case" charges were dropped just one month after his U.S.-friendly IMF successor took office.
Yet the judge in the case, and the prosecutors and everyone else involved in the courts said all he had to do was take a blood test, and the charges would be dropped
Yeah, they would have dropped the charges about an hour after they extradited him to the U.S.
You mean there is a option to deport Mark Zuckerberg to his native land of New York and never let him leave?
Where do I sign?
My mother was a humorless fucktard religious zealot, you insensitive clod!
At $1500, I'd be more worried about some thief ripping them off your head and running.
Perhaps you should send them a list of shows they should be providing, along with all your other demands.
Netflix also has a great UI, especially for TV episodes. It's a lot easier to deal with than trying to piecemeal together a bunch of pirated stuff. Well worth the $8 a month.
So then House of Cards is on HTML5?
IIRC, Netflix doesn't own House of Cards outright. They cut a deal with the studio that actually made it for exclusive streaming rights in exchange for funding the series. I believe the studio, not Netflix, gets all the revenue from the blu-ray sales and foreign distribution, for example. So it's likely that Netflix couldn't just decide on their own to show it DRM-free without the studio going apeshit.
The Studios That Provide Content for Netflix Want To Go HTML5, But Not Without DRM
FTFY
They haven't shunned Linux. They just can't decide on which distro.
Are people going to switch to Mac OS? Linux? Or stay on Windows 7 until a "spiritual successor" to Windows comes?
Haven't you heard? We're all going to be using tablets from now on!
I just can't seem to figure out how to get Photoshop and Premiere to work on this thing.
they think President Johnson was a famous basketball player
In all fairness, he did have a helluva hook shot.
My mother was a telephone sanitizer, you insensitive clod!
If you don't have a diploma by age eighteen in the U.S. it means that either your parents were batshit-insane religious fundamentalists who insisted that being socialized was too evil for you, or you were a dumb and/or unmotivated piece of meth-snorting glue-sniffing trash.
Well, who needs a diploma when your career plans are to become a hog-caller, carnie, or drug dealer?
To be honest I'm all for letting kids drop out if they like (or take the GED or whatever). When I went to high school, 90% of every teacher's time was wasted dealing with disciplinary problems from kids who clearly had no business being there and didn't want to be. They sucked up time that could have been spent on the kids with a real future, and usually made life hell for the smarter kids too. Why should college bound-kids have to go to school with kids whose life ambition is to "become a trucker, like The Bandit," anyway?
No, you'll still likely have to go into a testing center and take it there (otherwise there is no way to ensure you're not cheating). Going computer on standardized tests does make it harder to cheat though (as it eliminates the problem of teachers and proctors going in and erasing incorrect answers that has become all too common in many schools).
I honestly thought he died back in the 90's.
My local Gamestop had a WiiU kiosk up recently. All that was playable on it was some version of Mario that looked exactly like the old 80's era Mario. I played it for a few minutes and was decidedly underwhelmed. I'm not sure if this was due to their ill-advised choice of software for their kiosk or just because the novelty of the second screen wore off a lot faster than the sense that the actual controller was very awkward in my hands. Maybe they have some great new games coming for it in the future. But I imagine that by the time they get here, I'll already own a PS4 or Xbox 720.
No wonder Russia/USSR has consistently had a better space program than the Americans.
In defense of the U.S., we've accomplished a lot for a country that didn't have Sergei Korolev.
If only we could get the NRA to endorse NASA.