Heh, this is precious, a guy with a computer that almost certainly has a spell checker built in somewhere and he can't even spell his post title correctly. And you're suggesting teaching people to become dependent on technology rather than learning the basics first?
Priceless.
I suggest you reconsider your decision to drop out of high school and go back for that diploma before posting any thing else.
Good point, yes it is. Free Market systems will choose the best course. Naturally, a website cannot simply sit around making no money and expect to continue providing content.
The real problem is the people who have come to expect a "free as in I'm too cheap to pay" community on the web. Of course, I guess we could just ask the government to entitle us with "free as in payed by taxpayers who are too stupid to notice the rising taxes" web services.
In other news, Microsoft announced today that the waffles with toast feature of Longhorn has been dropped. Two hungry MS Engineers had been thinking it would be nice to have Longhorn make them breakfast every morning, but it seems the hardware won't support it by next year, so they have had to drop the feature from the list.
Next on the chopping block: Support for lead free gasoline processors.
It's often the military that creates these crisises in the first place.
You should be moderated as funny or clueless, or perhaps both.
In case you haven't been paying attention for the past couple of centuries, and apparently you haven't, governments create the crisis, the military usually just ends up having to clean up the mess.
Ok, I hate to tell you all this, but that date was not 2029, it was supposed to be the 29th of THIS MONTH! That's right, it is gonna hit us on the same day that 'Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy' comes out. Coincidence? I think not!
You know, it is a shame how many OSS groupies follow this line of reasoning. In fact MS has never said OSS is inherently evil. They have stated that they think it has weaknesses, which it does. There are also weaknesses to the MS development model.
MS challenges OSS to prove it is better, nothing FUD about that. Why do so many 'followers' of the OSS movement immediately brand Microsoft as evil when in fact they are simply an alternative to open source?
I find the OSS crowd to generally be more vehement in their whining than MS could ever be.
Better do it quick... W plans to make class action law suits nearly illegal. The Senate has already passed the legislation.
Nice over reaction. That bill doesn't even come close to making class action law suits illegal. What it does is keep the suits in State courts unless it has a preponderance of people from multiple states, OR if it involves a very large sum of money. It also limits the fees the lawyers can collect in certain types of lawsuits.
I played PS in the Closed and Open Betas. Got excited and played it after retail, only to find that the Nerf bat was wielded too heavily, and every single fight began to feel like the last fight.
It was fun while it lasted, but it lasted only about two months. And yes, I was in a large player organization. In fact, I was silly and had a 6 months subscription. I did log in once a day or two before my subscription lapsed, and traveled across entire continents with nobody fighting on them. I guess it was about then that they had the 'performance' fix that allowed them to shrink the number of servers, wink wink.
Frankly, for a monthly fee I need more diversity in a game than PS offers. And so do a lot of people given the number of players who dropped out in those first months after retail.
Lets see, so I get 1536x1024 with a great big band down the middle. And a 8MB video card. Woot!
For the same price you can buy two of my Tosh*ba Sattellite 5105's, get up to 1600x1200 resolution, and a Geforce 4 Go.
Ok, so you want to do presentations too? No problem, attack a $500 19" monitor to mine, or a video projector, and you have a better setup, and still saved serious bucks.
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Actually, that's the preview picture. That fish was what he was using for bait.
reconsiderer? Reconsiderer?
Heh, this is precious, a guy with a computer that almost certainly has a spell checker built in somewhere and he can't even spell his post title correctly. And you're suggesting teaching people to become dependent on technology rather than learning the basics first?
Priceless.
I suggest you reconsider your decision to drop out of high school and go back for that diploma before posting any thing else.
After all, Capitalism is the best, right?
Good point, yes it is. Free Market systems will choose the best course. Naturally, a website cannot simply sit around making no money and expect to continue providing content.
The real problem is the people who have come to expect a "free as in I'm too cheap to pay" community on the web. Of course, I guess we could just ask the government to entitle us with "free as in payed by taxpayers who are too stupid to notice the rising taxes" web services.
In other news, Microsoft announced today that the waffles with toast feature of Longhorn has been dropped. Two hungry MS Engineers had been thinking it would be nice to have Longhorn make them breakfast every morning, but it seems the hardware won't support it by next year, so they have had to drop the feature from the list.
Next on the chopping block: Support for lead free gasoline processors.
You should be moderated as funny or clueless, or perhaps both.
In case you haven't been paying attention for the past couple of centuries, and apparently you haven't, governments create the crisis, the military usually just ends up having to clean up the mess.
Another knee-jerk liberal who fears religious fanatics with guns.
To quote PJ O'Rourke - "Many people forget that this country was founded by religious fanatics with Guns."
It truly astounds me to hear people curse the very society that gave them the freedom to speak out without fear in the first place.
Ok, I hate to tell you all this, but that date was not 2029, it was supposed to be the 29th of THIS MONTH! That's right, it is gonna hit us on the same day that 'Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy' comes out. Coincidence? I think not!
Now that you kow, "Don't Panic!"
You know, it is a shame how many OSS groupies follow this line of reasoning. In fact MS has never said OSS is inherently evil. They have stated that they think it has weaknesses, which it does. There are also weaknesses to the MS development model.
MS challenges OSS to prove it is better, nothing FUD about that. Why do so many 'followers' of the OSS movement immediately brand Microsoft as evil when in fact they are simply an alternative to open source?
I find the OSS crowd to generally be more vehement in their whining than MS could ever be.
Better do it quick... W plans to make class action law suits nearly illegal. The Senate has already passed the legislation.
Nice over reaction. That bill doesn't even come close to making class action law suits illegal. What it does is keep the suits in State courts unless it has a preponderance of people from multiple states, OR if it involves a very large sum of money. It also limits the fees the lawyers can collect in certain types of lawsuits.
Good news if you ask me.
I checked Taskmanager awhile back, and discovered most of the CPU is going to a process called MSBlast.
I figured since the machine hasn't crashed in months, why fix it?
Most trojans/viruses are designed to work better than most "productivity" software. Makes me wonder if I'm in the wrong business.
I played PS in the Closed and Open Betas. Got excited and played it after retail, only to find that the Nerf bat was wielded too heavily, and every single fight began to feel like the last fight.
It was fun while it lasted, but it lasted only about two months. And yes, I was in a large player organization. In fact, I was silly and had a 6 months subscription. I did log in once a day or two before my subscription lapsed, and traveled across entire continents with nobody fighting on them. I guess it was about then that they had the 'performance' fix that allowed them to shrink the number of servers, wink wink.
Frankly, for a monthly fee I need more diversity in a game than PS offers. And so do a lot of people given the number of players who dropped out in those first months after retail.
Lets see, so I get 1536x1024 with a great big band down the middle. And a 8MB video card. Woot!
For the same price you can buy two of my Tosh*ba Sattellite 5105's, get up to 1600x1200 resolution, and a Geforce 4 Go.
Ok, so you want to do presentations too? No problem, attack a $500 19" monitor to mine, or a video projector, and you have a better setup, and still saved serious bucks.
What IS this thing good for?
I see, and who is paying your taxes, polar bears?