1. OpenOffice will never be as compatible with Office as Office is. I disagree. I have made this counter-point with regards to windows gaming as well. As new versions of Office lose compatibility with older versions of Office, OpenOffice slowly eats into the compatibility margin. Eventually the missing features from Office2020->OpenOffice10 will be less than the incompatibilities between Office2020 and Office97, while OpenOffice10 will still be able to read and write Office97 documents at least as well as OpenOffice2 can today. This same argument is my favorite for windows gaming, I have lots of Win98/Win2k games that won't run in WinXP, but run fine in wine or Cedega, giving Linux *better* windows compatibility than windows.
The twist produces a spring force towards un-twisting. It might be a quite small force, for a tissue paper strip, or a quite large force, for a rubber strip, but that force is an important part of the definition.
"since 1998" is a big caveat. Plenty of people that I know (not in canada) have pre-1998 big screen TVs. My 50" and 60" rear projection screens (both "only" capable of 480p) from circa 1995 are still going strong, I don't plan to replace them any time soon. They have only composite and s-video (and rca chroma/luma on the 50"), no component or hdmi or dvi. The most "advanced" display I own takes its HD content via BNC, component can't even compare.
Me speaking on cell phone to daughter: "I will pick you up in 10 minutes for soccer practice" Daughter texting: OK Why are you making plans to pick her up for soccer practice 10 minutes ahead of time instead of a day or a week? When I had after school or weekend activities as a child I knew which parent would be taking me, and when, at least a few days in advance.
Me speaking on cell phone to co-worker: "To boot the server, just flip the big red switch" Co-worker using wiki: {1 mouse click on hyperlink to "Booting the Server"} This is *EXACTLY* why we have set up a jabber server in our offices. 200 users, 2 IT/sysadmin guys. I'll take jabber over the phone for nonsense like that any day.
Me speaking on cell phone to friend: "Man I wish I knew if Sony had cut the price of the PS3, I really think I would buy one if they did, unfortunately I don't know and neither do you because we're both having this conversation on this dang cell phone!" Friend reading slashdot: "Sony Drops PS3 Price" Why didn't "friend" email you? Or ask on a forum where dozens of your friends could have answered, whoever saw it soonest? What would have happened if he couldn't reach you on the phone, he would have never found the answer?
I definitely agree, the cell phone is probably the least efficient communications tool most people have available.
I was trying to think of a good way to summarize my reply, and a sibling post did it better than I ever could. 3000 minutes a month? WTF? You need to find more efficient ways to communicate. I don't know if you are spending all that time for business or personal needs, but either way...
Introduce your friends/coworkers to email, forums, wikis, SMS, etc. I probably spend about 5 hours a day (call it 9000 minutes a month) communicating with friends and coworkers and relatives, *total*, but 50% of that is in person and 50% of the rest is via email lists and forums, and 50% of the rest is group voice chat (ventrilo, teamspeak, skype, google, etc) with multiple people at once, ALL of which get a lot more accomplished for the time spent than individual phone calls would, and for FAR less money.
After exhausting all the better means, I use 100-200 minutes a month on my phone, which is my primary and only line. That is emergency midnight calls to and from work to handle server hiccups and such, last minute when/where calls to friends when we are doing stuff, the occasional takeout/delivery order to a restaurant that doesnt have online ordering yet, and a little time spent talking to relatives who are still stuck in the 80s.
Thanks to using prepaid, I have never been locked to one provider by hardware shenanigans. I have never had to sign a contract for my phone. And I have never paid for minutes that I didn't use.
You remind me of people who "cant" ride the bus because they "need" to get to the grocery store on a moment's notice at a random time every day.
Getting a cell phone without signing anything is trivial. I have had prepaid service for a year now. I have never had a credit card. And land line phone service... what is this, the 20th century?
Why not have the same shoes for 15 years? That is pushing it, but my current only pair of "normal" shoes is coming up on 8 years old (i also own a pair of boots and a pair of sandals, both slightly younger).
That perception is common because it tends to be true. Wearing a suit every day is not worth $1000/yr to me (IT guys who work for the state legislature here have to when there is an active session). A "fun" work environment, with common spaces and games and such, is probably worth another $1000/yr to me. I would easily take a $40k job at a "dot com" style workplace over a $45k job at a typical cube farm.
In point 12, an IP network is compared to the phone network, and it is stated that only one computer can use each [implied: visible] IP at a time. Given the prevalence of NAT, this is not only technically untrue but also quite reliably false.
In point 12, it is stated that an ISP or college can identify the user of an IP address. This is untrue as the "user" could be no more than a MAC address, which can change. And even if true, the context seems to imply that this remains true in hindsight, which is false unless logs are kept.
Point 15 states that human review is involved in the case of EACH infringer, which is blatantly untrue given the history of automated (and wrong) cease and desist letters.
So I export it to Bob in the UK, and he resells it to Joe in the UK, and Joe exports it Cuba. Assuming the law requires me to track Bob's business dealings, how am I supposed to know that Joe wasn't an end user?
At best, playing Windows games in Linux is faster(1) and more stable(2).
1) BF1942 and World of Warcraft are two examples. Linux' superior underlying architecture (disk access, memory management, filesystem stuff, etc) more than offsets the few percent performance loss in API call translation. Myself and many others get 5-10% higher framerates and lower load times in a number of Windows games when running them in Linux.
2) I love seeing in my debug log "The game would have crashed here in Windows.", and the game keeps running just fine in wine or cedega.
Plenty of Win95 and Win98 games don't run on anything newer than Win2000. Plenty of WinXP games don't work on Vista. Every week MORE Windows games work in Linux. Continue that trend long enough and Linux is going to have better Windows compatibility than Windows does.
OpenGL is keeping *AHEAD* of Direct3D. We had Shader Model 4.0 (Geometry Shaders, aka "DX10") months before DX10. OpenGL has SM4 on WinXP, and D3D9 doesn't. That alone should provoke developers into switching. For years the argument has been about ease of programming and integration, but now OGL has concrete feature superiority over D3D on the most prevalent gaming platform in the world.
AOL email addresses aren't allowed to be used in our monthly drawing for a free product(meal)... the newsletter we send out also gets tagged as SPAM So you get people to sign up for a drawing, and start sending them a newsletter? Hello spam.
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The twist produces a spring force towards un-twisting. It might be a quite small force, for a tissue paper strip, or a quite large force, for a rubber strip, but that force is an important part of the definition.
"since 1998" is a big caveat. Plenty of people that I know (not in canada) have pre-1998 big screen TVs. My 50" and 60" rear projection screens (both "only" capable of 480p) from circa 1995 are still going strong, I don't plan to replace them any time soon. They have only composite and s-video (and rca chroma/luma on the 50"), no component or hdmi or dvi. The most "advanced" display I own takes its HD content via BNC, component can't even compare.
Daughter texting: OK Why are you making plans to pick her up for soccer practice 10 minutes ahead of time instead of a day or a week? When I had after school or weekend activities as a child I knew which parent would be taking me, and when, at least a few days in advance. Me speaking on cell phone to co-worker: "To boot the server, just flip the big red switch"
Co-worker using wiki: {1 mouse click on hyperlink to "Booting the Server"} This is *EXACTLY* why we have set up a jabber server in our offices. 200 users, 2 IT/sysadmin guys. I'll take jabber over the phone for nonsense like that any day. Me speaking on cell phone to friend: "Man I wish I knew if Sony had cut the price of the PS3, I really think I would buy one if they did, unfortunately I don't know and neither do you because we're both having this conversation on this dang cell phone!"
Friend reading slashdot: "Sony Drops PS3 Price" Why didn't "friend" email you? Or ask on a forum where dozens of your friends could have answered, whoever saw it soonest? What would have happened if he couldn't reach you on the phone, he would have never found the answer?
I definitely agree, the cell phone is probably the least efficient communications tool most people have available.
I was trying to think of a good way to summarize my reply, and a sibling post did it better than I ever could. 3000 minutes a month? WTF? You need to find more efficient ways to communicate. I don't know if you are spending all that time for business or personal needs, but either way...
Introduce your friends/coworkers to email, forums, wikis, SMS, etc. I probably spend about 5 hours a day (call it 9000 minutes a month) communicating with friends and coworkers and relatives, *total*, but 50% of that is in person and 50% of the rest is via email lists and forums, and 50% of the rest is group voice chat (ventrilo, teamspeak, skype, google, etc) with multiple people at once, ALL of which get a lot more accomplished for the time spent than individual phone calls would, and for FAR less money.
After exhausting all the better means, I use 100-200 minutes a month on my phone, which is my primary and only line. That is emergency midnight calls to and from work to handle server hiccups and such, last minute when/where calls to friends when we are doing stuff, the occasional takeout/delivery order to a restaurant that doesnt have online ordering yet, and a little time spent talking to relatives who are still stuck in the 80s.
Thanks to using prepaid, I have never been locked to one provider by hardware shenanigans. I have never had to sign a contract for my phone. And I have never paid for minutes that I didn't use.
You remind me of people who "cant" ride the bus because they "need" to get to the grocery store on a moment's notice at a random time every day.
Getting a cell phone without signing anything is trivial. I have had prepaid service for a year now. I have never had a credit card. And land line phone service... what is this, the 20th century?
PS: I am 25.
Why not have the same shoes for 15 years? That is pushing it, but my current only pair of "normal" shoes is coming up on 8 years old (i also own a pair of boots and a pair of sandals, both slightly younger).
"Would you be more likely or less likely to vote for John McCain for president if you knew he had fathered an illegitimate black child?"
That perception is common because it tends to be true. Wearing a suit every day is not worth $1000/yr to me (IT guys who work for the state legislature here have to when there is an active session). A "fun" work environment, with common spaces and games and such, is probably worth another $1000/yr to me. I would easily take a $40k job at a "dot com" style workplace over a $45k job at a typical cube farm.
In point 12, an IP network is compared to the phone network, and it is stated that only one computer can use each [implied: visible] IP at a time. Given the prevalence of NAT, this is not only technically untrue but also quite reliably false.
In point 12, it is stated that an ISP or college can identify the user of an IP address. This is untrue as the "user" could be no more than a MAC address, which can change. And even if true, the context seems to imply that this remains true in hindsight, which is false unless logs are kept.
Point 15 states that human review is involved in the case of EACH infringer, which is blatantly untrue given the history of automated (and wrong) cease and desist letters.
Fined by whom? Links would be appreciated.
So I export it to Bob in the UK, and he resells it to Joe in the UK, and Joe exports it Cuba. Assuming the law requires me to track Bob's business dealings, how am I supposed to know that Joe wasn't an end user?
Why can't "we" export the software to [insert country here], and the reseller there can do whatever they want with it, including sending it to Cuba?
Actually, it requires a significant number of elementary particles in the hardware, mostly electrons, to change state in one way or another. :-p
At best, playing Windows games in Linux is faster(1) and more stable(2).
1) BF1942 and World of Warcraft are two examples. Linux' superior underlying architecture (disk access, memory management, filesystem stuff, etc) more than offsets the few percent performance loss in API call translation. Myself and many others get 5-10% higher framerates and lower load times in a number of Windows games when running them in Linux.
2) I love seeing in my debug log "The game would have crashed here in Windows.", and the game keeps running just fine in wine or cedega.
Plenty of Win95 and Win98 games don't run on anything newer than Win2000. Plenty of WinXP games don't work on Vista. Every week MORE Windows games work in Linux. Continue that trend long enough and Linux is going to have better Windows compatibility than Windows does.
OpenGL is keeping *AHEAD* of Direct3D. We had Shader Model 4.0 (Geometry Shaders, aka "DX10") months before DX10. OpenGL has SM4 on WinXP, and D3D9 doesn't. That alone should provoke developers into switching. For years the argument has been about ease of programming and integration, but now OGL has concrete feature superiority over D3D on the most prevalent gaming platform in the world.
Get back to me when you aren't proving my point.
Name one other phone that is not sold without a contract.
(PS: I don't think the iPhone will be contract restricted either)
90% my ass. Maybe 10%. I would guess more like 1%.
TITLE is not a tooltip. Some browsers choose to render it that way. Good for them.
Or they could just sell their console for a profit, so they don't have to rely on licensing.
Mod parent down, completely untrue on the measure/fine part.
By "+5 Funny" I think you mean "Modded Funny 5 times". For some of us that is very much NOT +5. In my case it is -15.
Haven't had the cash to spare lately. Also I am hoping I can hold out for another hardware revision, if the Mk3 is ever coming...