I would switch to linux in a heartbeat. The only thing preventing me from running linux is the fact that I mainly use my home machine for gaming.
I want off of the windows cart and on to an alternative. Really.
I do not want to go past xp to another microsoft operating system. I do not want to spend a long amount of time getting games to run. I want to be able to d/l my games and start playing like I do now.
I am not alone in this. I have many friends who don't care for the latest and greatest that microsoft offers. They just want to game. If they and I could d/l an OS, Load up steam, d/l the game and play - you would have a LEGION of people doing a mass exodus of the windows platform.
I hope that Gabe and the Linux community pulls this off.
I dumped Netflix streaming as soon as they started charging extra for it. If you already have a good PVR attached to a cable box, the selection of stuff on Netflix is just laughable.
Who the hell cares about Netflix Streaming?
Netflix streaming is lame. All the wishful thinking in the world won't turn it into a triple crown winner.
Actually, for some of us that want to watch TV without commercials, Netflix has been a god send. I have watched thousands of hours of TV shows I missed when I was a kid or young adult and working weird shifts. Mission Impossible, Stargate SG 1, Battlestar Galactica,Top gear, Dr. Whp, Torchwood, MI-5, Magnum PI, Hell even Knight Rider.
You might not watch those shows, but I do, and with the thousands of hours of content available of different shows, I won't be getting satellite or cable anytime soon. You are entitled to your opinion, but 8.99 a month for the amount of content I use is well spent for me.
If you are a leech on society, and produce noting - then you cannot claim to have done anything other than being a leech.
The taxes are paid by the people who are forced to allow the leeches to live.
If you are a leech and think you are paying taxes - or trying to convince others that you are doing anything other than being a leech, rest assured, we know better.
It isn't possible to buy anything without paying taxes.
Public aid cards are used by people who do not pay taxes with money they earned - the money they use and the money spent on taxes are earned by others.
Ergo, it is possible for people to buy things without actually paying for it themselves - or paying taxes themselves.
I'm a huge SimCity fan and have been waiting for the next installment patiently for the past 8 years. I'll just grumble anytime my internet disconnects - and for the past months that was only for a total of 10 minutes, giving me an uptime of 99.977%. I think I could deal with that.
Until - Like in my case, the city decides to put in some light posts on a street three blocks from you, then proceeds to drill thru the main trunk for your area - knocking out phone/internet service for almost two weeks.
If "software like Cinavia is hastening the death of a Blu-ray industry already struggling" how is that a "path to self-destruction"?!
They voluntarily include it.
Why does the network have to be accessible remotely? It should be isolated and need a meat sack to get the information from the system and relay it to the party that needs the information. Same thing with public utilities and such - why is it wired so that someone remote can tap a few buttons and remotely access controls for water plants?
The weather has been fantastic here. I've logged many hours on my motorcycle and have a decent tan going already.
It's been a money saver too commuting to work. If this is global climate change I'm begging all of you to rip out your catalytic converters and turn up the heat:) .
A 3cm gap around the perimeter is a huge gap and will require large quantities of air to sustain the pressure.
Yes, before the coward jumped in this is what I was asking - How big of a compressor is he going to need to get that much air in as an earthquake is hitting?
Add up the weight, washer, dryer, fridge, stove, counter tops, toilet, sink, water heater, computer, bed, my fat ass, a couple of dogs, , wife, some fat kids - what's going to lift all that plus a few tons of house?
I would of kept purchasing kodak if they hadn't pulled the stupid bit with their docking stations being different for each line of cameras they sold. It's bad enough when many companies can't settle on a simple USB plug in but when you have to throw away your old docking station and printer because you changed to a different model line just so they can force you to rebuy stuff - that was too much for me.
I ran into that on a warranty repair. They no longer supported that model and sent me a replacement that had a different dock than the original - so while the camera was fixed/replaced - the entire setup I bought was rendered useless. When I called and complained they weren't helpful at all.
I have three copies each of the dresden books that I buy when they get released.
The "reading" book, the "book to store and never read", and the loaner book.
The only one that I have a single copy of is backup, since that was disproportionally expensive. I also had Jim sign Changes for my Mom and gave that to her for her birthday when it came out.
Good for you on not pirating - but I'm sure that if you locate copies, they won't mind if you take a peek when you turn the site link over.
Nooooo, don't tell me that. Ghost Story was good but I have a few others I haven't read.
It's not hard to find copies of all of Butchers work, You just search for a couple of sentences from the book you want to read. Every once in awhile I get bored, do that, then compile the list of sites that illegally have the book and turn it over to the one of the mods so he can kick it up the line to get the books pulled from the intrawebz. .
Altho I haven't done that lately, ever since the hand of mod stuff started floating around the boards gone downhill.
I stopped reading as soon as I read that. When they throw around terms like "one billion aquatic organisms" without defining the organisms you know it's for effect instead of for truth and thus a hack job instead of real science.
this, and the fact that the water just vanishes never ever to be seen again in the river.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is like selling 5,000 tickets to a show that can only host a thousand people, and blaming the people who complain about not getting what the paid for.
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15teenthed.
Sorry, the days of me paying for commercials is gone, This business model is no more! It has ceased to be! 'Its expired and gone to meet 'is maker!
'Its a stiff! Bereft of life,it rests in peace! If they don't pass laws and monopolize it'll be pushing up the daisies!
'Is sales attraction processes are now 'istory! It's off the table!
Its kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!!
THIS IS AN EX-BUSINESS MODEL!!
I would switch to linux in a heartbeat. The only thing preventing me from running linux is the fact that I mainly use my home machine for gaming.
I want off of the windows cart and on to an alternative. Really.
I do not want to go past xp to another microsoft operating system. I do not want to spend a long amount of time getting games to run. I want to be able to d/l my games and start playing like I do now.
I am not alone in this. I have many friends who don't care for the latest and greatest that microsoft offers. They just want to game. If they and I could d/l an OS, Load up steam, d/l the game and play - you would have a LEGION of people doing a mass exodus of the windows platform.
I hope that Gabe and the Linux community pulls this off.
Actually, for some of us that want to watch TV without commercials, Netflix has been a god send. I have watched thousands of hours of TV shows I missed when I was a kid or young adult and working weird shifts. Mission Impossible, Stargate SG 1, Battlestar Galactica,Top gear, Dr. Whp, Torchwood, MI-5, Magnum PI, Hell even Knight Rider.
You might not watch those shows, but I do, and with the thousands of hours of content available of different shows, I won't be getting satellite or cable anytime soon. You are entitled to your opinion, but 8.99 a month for the amount of content I use is well spent for me.
Wish I had mod points, but you are spot on with that observation.
Now, to check your hearing - the words you heard were "GET RID OF IT" right?
Nobody ever claimed Macintoshes were bulletproof.
Hi, I noticed you are new here, and just thought I'd welcome you.
Advertisers - seriously, when you sucker slurp for being posted here like this, a crapload of us cross you off the list of being purchasable.
And that sucks because I used to like plantronics.
No more wallet for you..
No, it doesn't.
If you are a leech on society, and produce noting - then you cannot claim to have done anything other than being a leech.
The taxes are paid by the people who are forced to allow the leeches to live.
If you are a leech and think you are paying taxes - or trying to convince others that you are doing anything other than being a leech, rest assured, we know better.
It isn't possible to buy anything without paying taxes.
Public aid cards are used by people who do not pay taxes with money they earned - the money they use and the money spent on taxes are earned by others.
Ergo, it is possible for people to buy things without actually paying for it themselves - or paying taxes themselves.
If the future of /. is flash videos, then I'm going to have to leave.
Not gonna watch video, not going to load flash. I prefer articles and discussions.
Thanx in advance.
I'm a huge SimCity fan and have been waiting for the next installment patiently for the past 8 years. I'll just grumble anytime my internet disconnects - and for the past months that was only for a total of 10 minutes, giving me an uptime of 99.977%. I think I could deal with that.
Until - Like in my case, the city decides to put in some light posts on a street three blocks from you, then proceeds to drill thru the main trunk for your area - knocking out phone/internet service for almost two weeks.
If "software like Cinavia is hastening the death of a Blu-ray industry already struggling" how is that a "path to self-destruction"?!
They voluntarily include it.
Why does the network have to be accessible remotely? It should be isolated and need a meat sack to get the information from the system and relay it to the party that needs the information. Same thing with public utilities and such - why is it wired so that someone remote can tap a few buttons and remotely access controls for water plants?
The weather has been fantastic here. I've logged many hours on my motorcycle and have a decent tan going already.
It's been a money saver too commuting to work. If this is global climate change I'm begging all of you to rip out your catalytic converters and turn up the heat :) .
A 3cm gap around the perimeter is a huge gap and will require large quantities of air to sustain the pressure.
Yes, before the coward jumped in this is what I was asking - How big of a compressor is he going to need to get that much air in as an earthquake is hitting?
Add up the weight, washer, dryer, fridge, stove, counter tops, toilet, sink, water heater, computer, bed, my fat ass, a couple of dogs, , wife, some fat kids - what's going to lift all that plus a few tons of house?
I would of kept purchasing kodak if they hadn't pulled the stupid bit with their docking stations being different for each line of cameras they sold. It's bad enough when many companies can't settle on a simple USB plug in but when you have to throw away your old docking station and printer because you changed to a different model line just so they can force you to rebuy stuff - that was too much for me.
I ran into that on a warranty repair. They no longer supported that model and sent me a replacement that had a different dock than the original - so while the camera was fixed/replaced - the entire setup I bought was rendered useless. When I called and complained they weren't helpful at all.
That's all it took to never buy kodak again.
Real men grill with charcoal.
Which is why this product appeals to the iPhone crowd. //ducks
an orbital velocity of 2.82 km/sec or 10152 km/hr. That would be pretty difficult to achieve on human power.
Noted, Added propulsion will be required - I vote for White Castle Sliders.
They can cause liftoff in earths gravity well at times.
Does the protection afford a defense against a company allowing robocalls to its affiliates if you agree to a EULA?
I have three copies each of the dresden books that I buy when they get released.
The "reading" book, the "book to store and never read", and the loaner book.
The only one that I have a single copy of is backup, since that was disproportionally expensive. I also had Jim sign Changes for my Mom and gave that to her for her birthday when it came out.
Good for you on not pirating - but I'm sure that if you locate copies, they won't mind if you take a peek when you turn the site link over.
Nooooo, don't tell me that. Ghost Story was good but I have a few others I haven't read.
It's not hard to find copies of all of Butchers work, You just search for a couple of sentences from the book you want to read. Every once in awhile I get bored, do that, then compile the list of sites that illegally have the book and turn it over to the one of the mods so he can kick it up the line to get the books pulled from the intrawebz.
.
Altho I haven't done that lately, ever since the hand of mod stuff started floating around the boards gone downhill.
I stopped reading as soon as I read that. When they throw around terms like "one billion aquatic organisms" without defining the organisms you know it's for effect instead of for truth and thus a hack job instead of real science.
this, and the fact that the water just vanishes never ever to be seen again in the river.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is like selling 5,000 tickets to a show that can only host a thousand people, and blaming the people who complain about not getting what the paid for.
Congratulations on finding a great way to get your product on to the "Never purchase" list.