InfoWorld has a Special Report up exploring the issue with a debate between experts Bill McCloskey and Jon Taplin and some of the news that has captured the issue as it developed."
I'd hardly call that a debate, there were what 2 exchanges? The FA was brief to say the least.
Ahh the obligatory "I have no sense of humor so I'm going to use my superior intellect to reveal how something that was obviously meant as a joke could not be factually accurate". Do you have some inherent need to demonstrate your superior knowledge of microwaves?
Someone mod this parent up, his post is spot on. Securing the border is about controlled growth, making folks respect the law, and equal opportunity for all who want to come here. It has nothing to do with being "Anti-Immigration".
What do you currently use? Because installing Windows isn't this easy. Both Ubuntu and Fedora are pretty easy to install, with Fedora asking a few more questions but also having a friendly GUI installer. (K)ubuntu's is text only, but still very easy.
So from the lack of specific inclusion of the word "gold" or "money" in the ToS, and from the total lack of enforcement of a perceived ban on the practice of gold sales, I take that to mean that there is no such policy.
Wrong. It's obvious that you've bought gold, and that you support the marketing of in game property. That's fine, you can admit it. Lots of people do or else it wouldn't be so successful. But picking nits in the TOS in an attempt to rationalize to yourself that what you're doing is not against policy is just fucking stupid. Gold is in game property period. If you pay someone money and they give you gold, that is a sale plain and simple. That sale is explicitly against the TOS.
I see what you're saying, but the iPod is way past the point of trendy and into the mainstream. In Q4 2005, Apple sold something like 1 iPod *per second*. Hell, I have a 4th gen 20GB model myself. I would expect Apple to offer accessories that, while certainly not cheap, would appeal to as wide a range of iPod users as possible. A $99 leather slipcase that doesn't even offer access to the iPod's controls doesn't come close.
By that logic, maybe Apple should sell their already ridiculously priced iPod case for $199 to maximize profits. There is the small matter of pricing your accessories such that people will actually buy them. The only people stupider than Apple for trying to sell a case that cost 1/3 of what the iPod itself does, are the people that actually buy it.
You mean what you did was reinstall the whole OS to get it to work. Did you ask around on your distro's forum? Because I can guarantee you that a complete reinstall was unnecessary. If you thought that was easier than doing some posting and/or Googling, then hey I can understand that. But don't act like that's what you had to do to make it work. Linux isn't easy. It isn't for everyone, including people that want things to Just Work. That's why it is and will remain relegated to tech enthusiasts only in the desktop realm.
People keep saying that the availability of Open Office should break down a big obstacle to Linux adoption. My question is, have these people even used Open Office? The technical staff at my company generally runs Linux, myself included, but I *still* have to boot to Windows to work on a test plan or a requirements doc. The last time I opened one of Product Management's Word created docs in Open Office, it cut about 25 pages out of the middle of it. Open it in OO, 9 pages, open it in Word, 34 pages. Perhaps documents that were originally written with OO are better, but I'm here to testify that from my experience , the MS Office/Open Office compatability still sucks ass.
Sorry, Quicken is the product that sucks. I've been a Money user for about 7 years, and been quite happy with it. Now, the product has declined over the last 2 years due to MS's desire to move it toward a service type product. But I tried to switch to Quicken as recently as a year or 2 ago, and I couldn't use it. The interface is abysmal, and you have to pay them a monthly fee to connect to online bill pay features as I understand it. Not to mention that Intuit is every bit as despicable a company as MS, if not more so.
No way. I own both Head First Java and Head First Design Patterns, and I can tell you that the format rocks. It keeps you interested with pictures, funny examples and an edgy writing style. I enjoy reading technical books in general (sad I know), but I still prefer the HF approach to even a well written traditional style book.
Is that out of the box functionality for Safari? I know Firefox has extensions that will accomplish the same thing, but it's a nice enough feature to be in the base code IMO. Also, note that I never claimed MS was innovating, simply that IE7 tabs would be superior to those in FF.
I like that you can preview all the tabs you have open in one spot, and either switch to them or close them from there. Honestly, I expect that IE7's tabbed browsing will be better than vanilla Firefox. Firefox gets several things wrong out of the box (which are being fixed for FF2.0, and are available in trunk builds now).
Well yeah, laptops are of course another matter since you can't really roll your own. But you can still get a Thinkpad which is at least as well engineered, for less than the MacBook Pro (God that name sucks).
Hmm, I'd think a lot of folks think the exact opposite. That is that they want a Mac for the OS, and aren't as particular about the hardware that runs it. I for one am in the market for a Mac, but I'm not thrilled at the prospect of buying a proprietary hardware design that offers pretty much no user serviceability. If you really just want to run Linux, a homebuilt computer is gonna be leaps and bounds ahead of any pre-manufactured box from a quality perspective, including Apples. Cheaper too.
Why do you have to reformat the hard disk? Although it's nice there's a solution, getting inside the iMac to disconnect the HD (or do anything else other than add RAM) is a real chore from what I've heard.
I'd say that you should stress how and why software on a computer is made up of layers. That there is a program called a driver that controls the hardware directly, which is controlled by an Operating System, which does work on behalf of an application, which does real work. Layering is obviously important for security and it also helps to describe how a computer gets things done. It just starts with very simple tools and builds increasingly complex tools on top of them.
Yeah, it's not like Google keeps products in perpetual beta, which leads to people taking the term with a grain of salt when it's applied to Google or anything. . .
Truth be told, you probably get locked in the least with WMA due to the number of stores and player vendors that support it. That said, I own an iPod and occasionally shop at the iTMS. So although I'm locked in to some extent, at least it's with the market leader. Sony is famous for bending over backwards to lock you into more Sony products, you really should have seen that coming. Really the best solution (unfortunately) is to not buy music online. I'll buy individual songs from the iTMS, but personally I would never purchase entire albums there. I'll pay the extra few bucks for a CD so that I at least have non DRM'd originals that I can encode to whatever the format du jour happens to be.
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He isn't the one suspected of lighting the police car on fire, so although IANAL, I would suspect that the 5th doesn't apply.
I'd be playing Ryu of course, he can own anyone in the game.
InfoWorld has a Special Report up exploring the issue with a debate between experts Bill McCloskey and Jon Taplin and some of the news that has captured the issue as it developed."
I'd hardly call that a debate, there were what 2 exchanges? The FA was brief to say the least.
Ahh the obligatory "I have no sense of humor so I'm going to use my superior intellect to reveal how something that was obviously meant as a joke could not be factually accurate". Do you have some inherent need to demonstrate your superior knowledge of microwaves?
Someone mod this parent up, his post is spot on. Securing the border is about controlled growth, making folks respect the law, and equal opportunity for all who want to come here. It has nothing to do with being "Anti-Immigration".
Hey, it's working for Britain, right?
Of course here we aren't watching our own citizens. . .
What do you currently use? Because installing Windows isn't this easy. Both Ubuntu and Fedora are pretty easy to install, with Fedora asking a few more questions but also having a friendly GUI installer. (K)ubuntu's is text only, but still very easy.
From the grandparent: Accordingly, you may not sell items for "real" money or exchange items outside of World of Warcraft
Seems pretty unambiguous to me; is English not your first language?
So from the lack of specific inclusion of the word "gold" or "money" in the ToS, and from the total lack of enforcement of a perceived ban on the practice of gold sales, I take that to mean that there is no such policy.
Wrong. It's obvious that you've bought gold, and that you support the marketing of in game property. That's fine, you can admit it. Lots of people do or else it wouldn't be so successful. But picking nits in the TOS in an attempt to rationalize to yourself that what you're doing is not against policy is just fucking stupid. Gold is in game property period. If you pay someone money and they give you gold, that is a sale plain and simple. That sale is explicitly against the TOS.
I see what you're saying, but the iPod is way past the point of trendy and into the mainstream. In Q4 2005, Apple sold something like 1 iPod *per second*. Hell, I have a 4th gen 20GB model myself. I would expect Apple to offer accessories that, while certainly not cheap, would appeal to as wide a range of iPod users as possible. A $99 leather slipcase that doesn't even offer access to the iPod's controls doesn't come close.
Incredibly overpriced stuff = maximal profits!
By that logic, maybe Apple should sell their already ridiculously priced iPod case for $199 to maximize profits. There is the small matter of pricing your accessories such that people will actually buy them. The only people stupider than Apple for trying to sell a case that cost 1/3 of what the iPod itself does, are the people that actually buy it.
You mean what you did was reinstall the whole OS to get it to work. Did you ask around on your distro's forum? Because I can guarantee you that a complete reinstall was unnecessary. If you thought that was easier than doing some posting and/or Googling, then hey I can understand that. But don't act like that's what you had to do to make it work. Linux isn't easy. It isn't for everyone, including people that want things to Just Work. That's why it is and will remain relegated to tech enthusiasts only in the desktop realm.
People keep saying that the availability of Open Office should break down a big obstacle to Linux adoption. My question is, have these people even used Open Office? The technical staff at my company generally runs Linux, myself included, but I *still* have to boot to Windows to work on a test plan or a requirements doc. The last time I opened one of Product Management's Word created docs in Open Office, it cut about 25 pages out of the middle of it. Open it in OO, 9 pages, open it in Word, 34 pages. Perhaps documents that were originally written with OO are better, but I'm here to testify that from my experience , the MS Office/Open Office compatability still sucks ass.
What Open Source code has Sun produced? Please, please dont say Java.
Sorry, Quicken is the product that sucks. I've been a Money user for about 7 years, and been quite happy with it. Now, the product has declined over the last 2 years due to MS's desire to move it toward a service type product. But I tried to switch to Quicken as recently as a year or 2 ago, and I couldn't use it. The interface is abysmal, and you have to pay them a monthly fee to connect to online bill pay features as I understand it. Not to mention that Intuit is every bit as despicable a company as MS, if not more so.
No way. I own both Head First Java and Head First Design Patterns, and I can tell you that the format rocks. It keeps you interested with pictures, funny examples and an edgy writing style. I enjoy reading technical books in general (sad I know), but I still prefer the HF approach to even a well written traditional style book.
Is that out of the box functionality for Safari? I know Firefox has extensions that will accomplish the same thing, but it's a nice enough feature to be in the base code IMO. Also, note that I never claimed MS was innovating, simply that IE7 tabs would be superior to those in FF.
I like that you can preview all the tabs you have open in one spot, and either switch to them or close them from there. Honestly, I expect that IE7's tabbed browsing will be better than vanilla Firefox. Firefox gets several things wrong out of the box (which are being fixed for FF2.0, and are available in trunk builds now).
Well yeah, laptops are of course another matter since you can't really roll your own. But you can still get a Thinkpad which is at least as well engineered, for less than the MacBook Pro (God that name sucks).
Hmm, I'd think a lot of folks think the exact opposite. That is that they want a Mac for the OS, and aren't as particular about the hardware that runs it. I for one am in the market for a Mac, but I'm not thrilled at the prospect of buying a proprietary hardware design that offers pretty much no user serviceability. If you really just want to run Linux, a homebuilt computer is gonna be leaps and bounds ahead of any pre-manufactured box from a quality perspective, including Apples. Cheaper too.
Why do you have to reformat the hard disk? Although it's nice there's a solution, getting inside the iMac to disconnect the HD (or do anything else other than add RAM) is a real chore from what I've heard.
I'd say that you should stress how and why software on a computer is made up of layers. That there is a program called a driver that controls the hardware directly, which is controlled by an Operating System, which does work on behalf of an application, which does real work. Layering is obviously important for security and it also helps to describe how a computer gets things done. It just starts with very simple tools and builds increasingly complex tools on top of them.
Yeah, it's not like Google keeps products in perpetual beta, which leads to people taking the term with a grain of salt when it's applied to Google or anything. . .
Truth be told, you probably get locked in the least with WMA due to the number of stores and player vendors that support it. That said, I own an iPod and occasionally shop at the iTMS. So although I'm locked in to some extent, at least it's with the market leader. Sony is famous for bending over backwards to lock you into more Sony products, you really should have seen that coming. Really the best solution (unfortunately) is to not buy music online. I'll buy individual songs from the iTMS, but personally I would never purchase entire albums there. I'll pay the extra few bucks for a CD so that I at least have non DRM'd originals that I can encode to whatever the format du jour happens to be.
Sound will be a problem. Graphics will be a problem
So I assume that since you rejected my argument that you use neither of those capabilities?