Please note that I've no view at all on the US's contribution to the UN. Also I have no information on how generous Americans are when it comes to supporting charities. I'm sure that Americans are no less generous than other first world nations. For all I know the people of the USA, collectively or individually, are more generous than other comparable nations. However, there is no excuse for you just making stuff up to try to "prove" that this is so.
Opus is an orphaned penguin who ends up living in a house with a lot of other misfits and weird people. He was one of the stars of "Bloom County", Berkeley Breathed's amazing cartoon strip which ran from 1980 to 1989.
JohninTN's contribution to that forum is just funny. He seems to think that people should just "calm down" when the functionality that they have paid (rather a lot of money) for suddenly doesn't work because of some MS boneheadedness. His attitude in this thread is quite amazing, in my opinion.
You should be clearer. I think the report you were referring to concerned the G-Wiz, which is a different vehicle. I doubt if Top Gear has had access to a Revo as yet.
When I was a kid I had lots and lots of spare time but hardly any spare money. I could not afford many games, so if I bought a game I would try to get the most out of it. Having very long games which are fairly difficult suits kids who have time but not money. Now that I'm in my 40s, I have lots of spare money but hardly any spare time. What I tend to do is to buy a lot of games but not really play any of them through. Looking at my pile of PS2 games I would say that I have completed only about 5 per cent. I get immensely frustrated when I can't make progress in games even on the easiest setting. I'd guess that on average I get about 30% of the way through before concluding that I'll get more interest out of the first 30% of a new game than I will from trying to get past some problem in the current game. In my current job I tend to need to play lots of different types of game anyway, so it's not really a big problem for me. However, it is a bit annoying that I don't see the majority of the content in most of the games I buy and I suspect that people who don't need to play lots of games would pretty soon get sick of paying £35 for games if they're only going to see £10 worth of content. Do people like this eventually stop buying games?
I think that it's not just "casual" games that can support an audience of people like me (assuming I'm not the only one who feels this way). I believe that it should be possible to switch difficulties on the fly inside games and I also think that developers should include a stupidly easy mode so that people like me can see more of what the game has to offer. Of course I can go and look at cheats etc, but if the developers know that people are going to do that anyway, why not just make the facility part of the package? This way, even more traditional games can be played in a more "casual" manner if the player feels like it.
I don't know where you are in the world but in the UK there are a few sites which do online stock-checking for Nintendo Wiis. Over the last month or so, availability seems to have improved significantly. For example if you just want the console there are several places where you can get one. There are even more if you are prepared to spring for a bundle. I've been in several stores recently where they have had signs up saying that they have Wiis in stock. This is in Manchester in NW England.
I think Apple might face some serious competition from Microsoft in this market. There are already some leaked photos of Microsoft's beta product floating around the internet. For example: MS Phune. Somebody was saying that it's been photoshopped but it looks real to me.
I think the tesla was built on a Lotus Esprit (or was it Elise?) chassis. Those are very small and light cars, at least in petrol form. There is a CNN article about this car (which incidentally calls it a "concept") and the pictures suggest something rather large and heavy. I don't know if this apparent difference in size accounts for the difference in range.
Did you take the trouble to read the article? The problem is less to do with drivers than with the bizarre approach taken by vendors who should be trying to serve their customers. Once you've read the article carefully, ask yourself whether your response makes you look lke an idiot.
The article isn't misleading at all. One blogger has decided to auction his laptop and give the proceeds to the EFF. Separately, Microsoft has decided that keeping the laptops is no longer an option. That's how I read the article summary. On reading the linked articles it becomes clear that they are concerned about the conflict of interest so they either want them back or they want them donated to somebody else. All of this seems reasonable (if a little odd) to me. The only unreasonable thing about the whole affair is that Microsoft didn't seem entirely clear about what the conditions should be when they sent out the laptops.
* Microsoft says it will not file any lawsuits against developers over any patent issues
MS said they won't file suit against hobbyist developers. They didn't say anything about developers who are paid to work on Linux by companies other than SUSE.
* Companies can use SUSE Linux and Windows and know that total interoperability is the goal of both Microsoft and Novell
Jeremy Allison has been quoted many times about some of the problems of making SAMBA work with Microsoft's SMB. Many of these problems have been because Microsoft do not (perhaps that should be "did not") want operability between Windows and Linux. As the founder of the SAMBA project, he's in an invidious position for precisely the reason you state when you talk about customers who complained about interoperability and who now want to switch to SUSE.
The problem is for companies which run MS Office on Windows and want to switch. It doesn't matter that there are lots of good scripting languages on the Mac if your company already uses a lot of VBA scripts on Windows.
The problem is currently they're not allowed to use weapons of any kind. Given the unanimous opposition to granting marines weapons of any kind, let's try another alternative.
Who is not allowed to use weapons of any kind? Marines? I don't understand your post at all.
I was reading this review with a little smile on my face until I came to this part, which caused me to LOVFL:
"These devices are just repositories for stolen music, and they all know it," said Doug Morris, CEO of Universal Music Group. "So it's time to get paid for it." Well, Morris is just a big, clueless idiot, of course. Do you honestly want morons like him to have power over your music player?
If that's not enough, the reviewer then weighs in with:
Take the Zune's one unique and potentially ginchy feature: Wi-Fi. You see this printed on the box and you immediately think "Cool. So I can sync files from my desktop library without having to plug in a USB cable, right? Maybe even download new content directly to the device from the Internet?"
Typical, selfish user: How does your convenience help make money for Universal? No wonder Doug despises you.
This suggests that for your typical tech-journalist, the issue of the power of music companies and the damage it does to consumers' interests is perfectly clear. However, I don't know anything about the Chicago Sun Times - is it a big newspaper? Does this review suggest that the mainstream media in the US is ready to turn a critical eye on the music companies?
I think you're just arguing against the GPL, but what you're saying isn't relevant to the discussion at hand. The point I was making was that if I don't say anything at all about copyright, the default position is no rights at all. Of course public domain and the BSD licences give you more rights than the GPL, but so what? The critical thing in the deal between MS and Novell is the relationship with the GPL, because that's what Linux is licensed under.
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Would you care to quote some figures for this? I think it's so vague as to be impossible to substantiate.
Would you care to explain this? It also sounds very vague.
I call bullshit. On the wiki page for the UN, the USA is recorded as paying 22% of the UN's 2006 budget. Furthermore, the US is behind in its payments to the UN.
Please note that I've no view at all on the US's contribution to the UN. Also I have no information on how generous Americans are when it comes to supporting charities. I'm sure that Americans are no less generous than other first world nations. For all I know the people of the USA, collectively or individually, are more generous than other comparable nations. However, there is no excuse for you just making stuff up to try to "prove" that this is so.
That is just superb. Thank you for posting it.
Opus is an orphaned penguin who ends up living in a house with a lot of other misfits and weird people. He was one of the stars of "Bloom County", Berkeley Breathed's amazing cartoon strip which ran from 1980 to 1989.
JohninTN's contribution to that forum is just funny. He seems to think that people should just "calm down" when the functionality that they have paid (rather a lot of money) for suddenly doesn't work because of some MS boneheadedness. His attitude in this thread is quite amazing, in my opinion.
You should be clearer. I think the report you were referring to concerned the G-Wiz, which is a different vehicle. I doubt if Top Gear has had access to a Revo as yet.
When I was a kid I had lots and lots of spare time but hardly any spare money. I could not afford many games, so if I bought a game I would try to get the most out of it. Having very long games which are fairly difficult suits kids who have time but not money. Now that I'm in my 40s, I have lots of spare money but hardly any spare time. What I tend to do is to buy a lot of games but not really play any of them through. Looking at my pile of PS2 games I would say that I have completed only about 5 per cent. I get immensely frustrated when I can't make progress in games even on the easiest setting. I'd guess that on average I get about 30% of the way through before concluding that I'll get more interest out of the first 30% of a new game than I will from trying to get past some problem in the current game. In my current job I tend to need to play lots of different types of game anyway, so it's not really a big problem for me. However, it is a bit annoying that I don't see the majority of the content in most of the games I buy and I suspect that people who don't need to play lots of games would pretty soon get sick of paying £35 for games if they're only going to see £10 worth of content. Do people like this eventually stop buying games?
I think that it's not just "casual" games that can support an audience of people like me (assuming I'm not the only one who feels this way). I believe that it should be possible to switch difficulties on the fly inside games and I also think that developers should include a stupidly easy mode so that people like me can see more of what the game has to offer. Of course I can go and look at cheats etc, but if the developers know that people are going to do that anyway, why not just make the facility part of the package? This way, even more traditional games can be played in a more "casual" manner if the player feels like it.
I don't know where you are in the world but in the UK there are a few sites which do online stock-checking for Nintendo Wiis. Over the last month or so, availability seems to have improved significantly. For example if you just want the console there are several places where you can get one. There are even more if you are prepared to spring for a bundle. I've been in several stores recently where they have had signs up saying that they have Wiis in stock. This is in Manchester in NW England.
I think Apple might face some serious competition from Microsoft in this market. There are already some leaked photos of Microsoft's beta product floating around the internet. For example: MS Phune. Somebody was saying that it's been photoshopped but it looks real to me.
Remember, imperial gallons are about 20% larger than US gallons. Wiki page on gallons.
You do understand that this is Manchester in the UK, don't you? Hardly anyone in the UK has views similar to the NRA, so your comment is way off...
Reiser didn't confess to killing eight people. His wife's ex-lover confessed to killing eight people.
They have tiny gallons! One US gallon = 0.833 Imperial gallons.
I think the tesla was built on a Lotus Esprit (or was it Elise?) chassis. Those are very small and light cars, at least in petrol form. There is a CNN article about this car (which incidentally calls it a "concept") and the pictures suggest something rather large and heavy. I don't know if this apparent difference in size accounts for the difference in range.
Did you take the trouble to read the article? The problem is less to do with drivers than with the bizarre approach taken by vendors who should be trying to serve their customers. Once you've read the article carefully, ask yourself whether your response makes you look lke an idiot.
Thank goodness it's all so easy with Windows! Seriously, WTF? Is this sort of crap standard with Windows?
The second link in the story is to the previous Slashdot coverage. It's not a dupe because more information is presented here.
The article isn't misleading at all. One blogger has decided to auction his laptop and give the proceeds to the EFF. Separately, Microsoft has decided that keeping the laptops is no longer an option. That's how I read the article summary. On reading the linked articles it becomes clear that they are concerned about the conflict of interest so they either want them back or they want them donated to somebody else. All of this seems reasonable (if a little odd) to me. The only unreasonable thing about the whole affair is that Microsoft didn't seem entirely clear about what the conditions should be when they sent out the laptops.
"Heckuva job, Schriby!"
You're right of course. How could I make so stupid a mistake?! Thanks for the correction.
MS said they won't file suit against hobbyist developers. They didn't say anything about developers who are paid to work on Linux by companies other than SUSE.
Jeremy Allison has been quoted many times about some of the problems of making SAMBA work with Microsoft's SMB. Many of these problems have been because Microsoft do not (perhaps that should be "did not") want operability between Windows and Linux. As the founder of the SAMBA project, he's in an invidious position for precisely the reason you state when you talk about customers who complained about interoperability and who now want to switch to SUSE.
The problem is for companies which run MS Office on Windows and want to switch. It doesn't matter that there are lots of good scripting languages on the Mac if your company already uses a lot of VBA scripts on Windows.
Oh no! The dead have risen and they're voting for copyright extension
Who is not allowed to use weapons of any kind? Marines? I don't understand your post at all.
If that's not enough, the reviewer then weighs in with:
This suggests that for your typical tech-journalist, the issue of the power of music companies and the damage it does to consumers' interests is perfectly clear. However, I don't know anything about the Chicago Sun Times - is it a big newspaper? Does this review suggest that the mainstream media in the US is ready to turn a critical eye on the music companies?
I think you're just arguing against the GPL, but what you're saying isn't relevant to the discussion at hand. The point I was making was that if I don't say anything at all about copyright, the default position is no rights at all. Of course public domain and the BSD licences give you more rights than the GPL, but so what? The critical thing in the deal between MS and Novell is the relationship with the GPL, because that's what Linux is licensed under.