Saturn's rings smell like licorice, according to the probe. This comes as a shock, since the scientific consensus has been that they'd smell almost precisely like a wet dog.
The Ubuntu OS exceeds the Mac OS in Gibboniness, whereas Apple seems to have cornered the market on Leopardiness. The overall Toucaniness and Salamanderiness of the offerings is about the same.
Maybe you're right. But giving someone a $200 laptop assumes that that's the best thing you can do for them with $200. And it also assumes that they're incapable of making that judgment themselves if you simply gave them $200.
The truly poor don't need a laptop. Or, in other words, if your need for a laptop is high on your list of needs, that means you're not truly poor.
There's certainly nothing wrong with trying to help people with laptops. It's good. It probably helps in real, tangible ways. But something like providing medicine and medical care is clearly better.
The "state of the world" is the best it's ever been.
- war is at an all-time low - wealth is at an all-time high - poverty is at an all-time low - pollution is lower than it has been in hundreds of years - life expectancy is at an all-time high - people are far healthier than at any time in the past - Many of the worst diseases are eradicated or cured outright - Death by starvation is unknown in the majority of countries -- it simply does not happen. - etc., etc., etc.
It is reality.
Western civilization (and the principles and traditions behind it) deserves most of the credit.
Ahh, so politicians know better than scientists on how to conduct research.
When you go to a restaurant do you order what you want to eat?
Or do you just give them your account number and they bring you whatever the chef wants to cook that day? Then the chef takes the amount of money he feels he needs from your account.
Because chefs know better than customers how to prepare a meal.
This payoff for Paramount exclusive support of HD-DVD (instead of Paramount's previous support of both HD formats) directly affected the release of Micheal Bay's big movie: Transformers.
Honestly? What to Blu-Ray and Betamax have in common? What are the parallels between the formats? What is it about Betamax that the market didn't like that's also true of Blu-Ray?
Maybe you're just repeating Microsoft PR talking points as if they were information?
Am I the only one who is tired of this 3rd-grade playground taunting that folks use when they can't put a coherent argument together? Why not just say "Sony's mom is a slut" instead?
Maybe since they're offering their set top game box in HD DVD it's a business interest?...... MS has invested billions into their 360 product, throwing in a bit more money to give it the edge in home movies isn't unthinkable and certainly isn't unheard of.
It's a poor solution for watching HD-DVDs. You can get a stand-alone player for about what their add-on costs and the stand-alone player looks a lot better and doesn't have loud fans for you to listen to instead of your movie's audio. Also, the stand-alone players likely have a lower failure rate than the 360.
If Microsoft were really in the HD-DVD business, maybe they'd improve their product offering.
(The 360 is great for games though -- it's just a second-class HD movie player.)
So wait, Microsoft is actually encouraging more choice in the marketplace?
When Microsoft doesn't control the market, Microsoft always encourages a choice.
It'll be a choice that's incompatible with the dominant one, possibly in subtle ways that Microsoft can widen into a wedge over time. Like they tried to do to Java.
Then when Microsoft gets control of the market, only the Microsoft choice is left.
What was the big innovation in World of Warcraft again?
Gamers have made it clear that they'll buy secondhand ideas if the games are put together with a high enough level of quality and polish. Quality outsells originality -- mostly because the objective of gamers is to have fun, and a lot of the old ideas are very fun when executed well.
Vivendi, owner of the Universal Music Group -- world's largest music publisher, buys a controlling stake in Activision, maker of Guitar Hero -- the world's most popular music-based game franchise.
As for number 2, I think the majority of people ought to be interested in this.
The story implied that they are interested, which is false. In fact, this is a concern among a small niche of people, many of whom engage in fringe activities.
It's a lot like smoking bans in bars and restaurants. No one listened to the smokers when they complained. No one cared about their perspective. Why not? Because "yuck, smokers -- screw them".
Well, most folks are going to say: "P2P? Yuck, movie pirates -- screw them."
So anonymity for individual people is a privacy right of the holiest nature, but anonymity for bots is bad because then you can't discriminate against them. Hmm.
1. That FIOS is available for people. The actual availability is limited. 2. That, since you are really interested in the latest Comcast news about P2P, a majority or even a large minority must also be interested. They aren't.
That second one is a hard lesson for people to learn. Just because you care about something doesn't mean anyone else will care or should care. Don't mistake your wishes for reality.
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Saturn's rings smell like licorice, according to the probe. This comes as a shock, since the scientific consensus has been that they'd smell almost precisely like a wet dog.
Yes, but by then, Apple will have pulled even in Gibboniness -- possibly as a result of losing a fairly large amount of Leopardiness.
The Ubuntu OS exceeds the Mac OS in Gibboniness, whereas Apple seems to have cornered the market on Leopardiness. The overall Toucaniness and Salamanderiness of the offerings is about the same.
So I have to stop every 2 hours for 5 minutes of charging? That's going to be a fun cross-country drive.
Nice try James. We know it's you.
are there any 3 dimensional interactive maps of the local space in the galaxy?
Yes, but the turn-by-turn driving directions are soooo boring. They just tell you to keep going straight every 2 minutes for like ten thousand years.
52% of stars surveyed said they were in favor of equality for dark matter
41% were opposed
7% had no opinion
Margin of error 2.7%
No one uses floppies any more, despite their conveniently rhyming with the word "copy".
Cute headline though. Too bad you decided to be cute instead of being clear and correct.
Maybe you're right. But giving someone a $200 laptop assumes that that's the best thing you can do for them with $200. And it also assumes that they're incapable of making that judgment themselves if you simply gave them $200.
The truly poor don't need a laptop. Or, in other words, if your need for a laptop is high on your list of needs, that means you're not truly poor.
There's certainly nothing wrong with trying to help people with laptops. It's good. It probably helps in real, tangible ways. But something like providing medicine and medical care is clearly better.
You sound like a bigot.
Just look at the ad state of the World
The "state of the world" is the best it's ever been.
- war is at an all-time low
- wealth is at an all-time high
- poverty is at an all-time low
- pollution is lower than it has been in hundreds of years
- life expectancy is at an all-time high
- people are far healthier than at any time in the past
- Many of the worst diseases are eradicated or cured outright
- Death by starvation is unknown in the majority of countries -- it simply does not happen.
- etc., etc., etc.
It is reality.
Western civilization (and the principles and traditions behind it) deserves most of the credit.
Ahh, so politicians know better than scientists on how to conduct research.
When you go to a restaurant do you order what you want to eat?
Or do you just give them your account number and they bring you whatever the chef wants to cook that day? Then the chef takes the amount of money he feels he needs from your account.
Because chefs know better than customers how to prepare a meal.
The story is basically the same either way. It's not about whether Microsoft did it by themselves or as part of a consortium.
I hear Congress's Martian cops are really patrolling the Mars surface vigilantly. So watch out, humans.
You didn't hear the news then.
HD DVD Paid $150 million to Studios for "Promotional Consideration"
This payoff for Paramount exclusive support of HD-DVD (instead of Paramount's previous support of both HD formats) directly affected the release of Micheal Bay's big movie: Transformers.
Not a PR guy? No, of course not.
Maybe MS sees Blu Ray as the next Betamax?
... ... MS has invested billions into their 360 product, throwing in a bit more money to give it the edge in home movies isn't unthinkable and certainly isn't unheard of.
Honestly? What to Blu-Ray and Betamax have in common? What are the parallels between the formats? What is it about Betamax that the market didn't like that's also true of Blu-Ray?
Maybe you're just repeating Microsoft PR talking points as if they were information?
Am I the only one who is tired of this 3rd-grade playground taunting that folks use when they can't put a coherent argument together? Why not just say "Sony's mom is a slut" instead?
Maybe since they're offering their set top game box in HD DVD it's a business interest?
It's a poor solution for watching HD-DVDs. You can get a stand-alone player for about what their add-on costs and the stand-alone player looks a lot better and doesn't have loud fans for you to listen to instead of your movie's audio. Also, the stand-alone players likely have a lower failure rate than the 360.
If Microsoft were really in the HD-DVD business, maybe they'd improve their product offering.
(The 360 is great for games though -- it's just a second-class HD movie player.)
So wait, Microsoft is actually encouraging more choice in the marketplace?
When Microsoft doesn't control the market, Microsoft always encourages a choice.
It'll be a choice that's incompatible with the dominant one, possibly in subtle ways that Microsoft can widen into a wedge over time. Like they tried to do to Java.
Then when Microsoft gets control of the market, only the Microsoft choice is left.
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=14803
But you're right. I should read these a little closer. This was only for part of one year.
What was the big innovation in World of Warcraft again?
Gamers have made it clear that they'll buy secondhand ideas if the games are put together with a high enough level of quality and polish. Quality outsells originality -- mostly because the objective of gamers is to have fun, and a lot of the old ideas are very fun when executed well.
EA was already 2nd to Activision.
I think this is the real news:
Vivendi, owner of the Universal Music Group -- world's largest music publisher, buys a controlling stake in Activision, maker of Guitar Hero -- the world's most popular music-based game franchise.
As for number 2, I think the majority of people ought to be interested in this.
The story implied that they are interested, which is false. In fact, this is a concern among a small niche of people, many of whom engage in fringe activities.
It's a lot like smoking bans in bars and restaurants. No one listened to the smokers when they complained. No one cared about their perspective. Why not? Because "yuck, smokers -- screw them".
Well, most folks are going to say: "P2P? Yuck, movie pirates -- screw them."
So anonymity for individual people is a privacy right of the holiest nature, but anonymity for bots is bad because then you can't discriminate against them. Hmm.
This story assumes two things:
1. That FIOS is available for people. The actual availability is limited.
2. That, since you are really interested in the latest Comcast news about P2P, a majority or even a large minority must also be interested. They aren't.
That second one is a hard lesson for people to learn. Just because you care about something doesn't mean anyone else will care or should care. Don't mistake your wishes for reality.
Was this story written by Microsoft's PR department?
See above comments where this isn't even true.
With quality posts like this, I expect to hear that Slashdot fired Jeff Gerstmann any time now.