"BTW, you REALLY don't understand what ActiveX is. Heh. Non-MS products can open ActiveX plugins."
Hmm.. I misread your comment. Sorry. I'd like to replace the above statement with this one:
How can OSS use ActiveX? A better question is: How can they expect change to happen if stuff works in MS products and doesn't work in OSS software? All of your ideals go flying out the window if one can't do their basic job. You're basically handing Microsoft a good reason continue being their customer, not the other way around.
Make all the excuses you want, at the end of the day what matters is if the product does what it needs to or not. That's why my previous company uses Office and not OpenOffice. You can tell them they're wrong all day and all night, but they'll reply with "I don't give a shit, I can't control my need for AX."
"Show me a shooter, show me a platformer, show me a flight sim, show me anything but sports."
Err okay. You do realize that sports are the hardest things for game consoles to realistically do, right? The more impressive a sports game is, the more impressive your flight sims, platformers, and shooters have the potential to be.
"... however, your comment about FireFox not adopting ActiveX, I would put to you, is actually not a good thing."
Lack of ActiveX support actually prevented my previous company from switching to OpenOffice or Mozilla. The attitude that it's better that these two apps don't support it seriously pisses me off. If Microsoft can't get away with being arrogant, than the OSS Community can't either./rant
"Good point! On the other hand, cell phone roaming and out-of-zone charges can be quite high."
Hmm nah. I have a ~$50 a month plan with Cingular that features no roaming in the US. (even Hawaii!) I don't have a good counter point about using in another country. If I went to Canada, my cell phone would likely be quite pricey.
" VoIP: 23$/month (which includes voicemail and unlimited long-distance)"
That's interesting to know. I might want to rethink my whole communications strategy a bit.:)
"Seriously, I can take my VoIP box on trips and still receive my local calls anywhere... if I move somewhere new in town, my number doesn't change, and I don't have to pay new installation or connection fees... as far as VoIP is concerned nothing has changed... In a sense, VoIP is the ultimate in *keeping* your phone number. I'm glad I made the switch."
Question: Why VOIP over a cell phone?
(Note: I'm not asking to shoot you down. Rather, I only have a cell phone and I'm curious if I'd save money or something with VOIP.)
Man, we've got some real dumb fuck moderators out and about today. Oh well, I guess it's easy to agree with predictions of the USA's doom and gloom when it's popular to hate the president. We wouldn't want intelligence to get in the way of those feelings or anything.
"Gamestop doesn't do that, for whatever (presumably political) reasons."
It's probably related to PCs often coming with CD Burners. I can't speak for Game Stop, but I can tell you that I worked at a game company not unlike Game Stop and that was one of the reasons they weren't big on PC games. That and we didnt want to deal with returns on used games because of configuration issues. It would have been real easy for somebody to buy the game, claim there's a configuration issue, and return it. Meanwhile, they have a copy they made of the game. At least with a new game, they could have contacted the developer for help, etc.
Not saying it's right or I agree, but I do understand why they wouldn't do it. PC gaming in general is a bitch to market and support for. It's really quite baffling if you consider what all a PC game has to run on.
"I do. Adobe Reader is the crappiest piece of shit there is. Slows, segfaults, VERY SLOW TO STARTUP."
Eh. Yeah, it's a little slow. But the search features kick ass. Shift+Ctrl+f gives you a menu with a shitload of search options. I have several docs in one directory that I use frequently. It'll search all the PDFs in that folder and then generate a list of all the hits plus a snippet of their context. Reader is wonderful if you're looking for code documentation across a number of sources.
"Unconstitutional? How is this unconstitutional? Last time I checked the US Bill of Rights, I don't remember a guarantee of access to free porn."
More importantly, it's never guaranteed that the gov't has to provide you with access to porn.
I'm not ready to sharpen my pitchfork over this topic because:
a.) The gov't is not blocking porn, it's talking about not providing the service to access it. That may sound like the same, but really it isn't. You can go get porn, you just can't use the service they're providing that wasn't intended for it. Okay, I'm not writing this clearly enough. Consider this scenario: Imagine if the gov't gave everybody a free cell phone, but prohibited making long-distance calls with it. Freedom of speech? No.
b.) This, in no way, is preventing a business from setting up a porn-friendly service.
c.) Taxpayers are footing the bill. If the tax payers are saying "No porn, sorry", then their voices should be heard. (Note: I haven't RTFA so I don't know if that's the case or not. Gimme a break, at least I'm honest.)
If the gov't told an ISP "No porn!!" I'd be ready to fight, but this is just isn't bunching up my panties right now.
"I was just thinking about why America is an empire on its downfall, but now I believe it is rather obvious: expensive political micromanagement on a scale that is unfathomable and hardly in line with what the founding fathers ever had in mind for this new, great nation."
The American 'empire' is falling because the Founding Fathers didn't quite have the foresight to clarify the issue on wireless porn downloads at truckstops.
"Sex should not = pregnancy (not with the amount of birthcontrol available), and the reason why children are more prone to this is that they are kept ignorant."
Well that and a.) Shit happens, b.) No birth control is 100% effective, c.) There's no reliable way to ensure that everybody participates.
"Then perhaps instead of denying these 12 yearolds sex education where they can learn about birthcontrol we tell them; then they can be aware of their sexuality, how do intelligently deal with people who want to have a sexual relationship, and how to intelligently engage in sex should they choose to do so knowing the rewards and risks in such behaviour."
There are parts of this I more-or-less agree with, and parts I don't. I do agree that education on the topic is spotty at best. I remember at my school, they taught us the biological aspects of sex-ed. That was it. No real world discussions. This blank in the curriculum resulted in some conversations and behaviours the sudents had that were really quite bizarre. On top of that, the students that did have experience in this area knew about stuff the others didn't. This gave them stature. Sleeping with a chick made you popular.
I was fortunate. My dad had some rather important conversations with my on this topic. I feel bad, though, that several of my classmates didn't have these convos. As a result, they're mommies and daddies (in some cases, they've suffered divorce). It would have been QUITE helpful if the school had played a larger role here.
But this is where I start to disagree. Problem one is "who decides how to approach it?" Problem two is that if I were a parent, I wouldn't want somebody abritrarily making these decisions without me. I certainly wouldn't want to cause that problem to someobdy else. Problem three is that I remember how stupid I was when I was a teen. Just because the education was there, doesn't mean that myself or any of my classmates would have behaved differently. I can think of one girl in particular who would have done the opposite of what she was taught just to prove a point. Dangerous.
I think my other real issue is that a lot of people (including myself) won't learn something until they've experienced it. Now maybe I'm unfairly generalizing, but I can imagine a lot of arrogant "I don't need to do that" attitudes flying around.
So... eh... I'm not really sure where I stand here. I haven't found a solution to this problem I'm 100% happy with. If it were up to me, people would have operations that prevent them from having kids until they've acquired a proper license.:P heh.
"Perhaps instead of rallying against nature people should accept the obvisous: children are sexual beings and to deny reality leads to sexually repressed future adults, or current adults being jailed among other problems."
The obvious problem with this is that a 12 year old in the USA cannot typically get a job to support a child. Worse, if the father or mother of the child have to quit school to raise it, their lives are getting seriously screwed up when it comes to getting an education.
I'm not really sure what I think about what the age of consent should be, but I can certainly understand why it was established at 18. Then again, I had some friends that had kids at 16. Last I heard, they're doing alright now. But I can honestly tell you they've suffered some hardships as a result of it.
"And yes, it's very easy for a 12 year old to become pregnate and even come full term to give birth."
Question: Does the 12 year old girl get into trouble for consentual sex, or is it just the guy? (assuming the guy is between 12 and 16) (Note: I should clarify that I'm not just talking about when a girl that young gets pregnant.)
Flamebait? Ah, I get it: When Microsoft copies somebody else, sharpen the ol pitchforks. But when Linux distros FINALLY get features that Windows had for years, it's sacred.
Honestly guys, if you can't take a little poke here and there, maybe you should consider not dishing it out.
Sorry if I'm being dumb here, but are you saying that a.AVI/.WMV/.MOV/etc can have an.SRT file included? Does it have to be encoded into it, or is there another trick to getting it to play?
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"BTW, you REALLY don't understand what ActiveX is. Heh. Non-MS products can open ActiveX plugins."
Hmm.. I misread your comment. Sorry. I'd like to replace the above statement with this one:
How can OSS use ActiveX? A better question is: How can they expect change to happen if stuff works in MS products and doesn't work in OSS software? All of your ideals go flying out the window if one can't do their basic job. You're basically handing Microsoft a good reason continue being their customer, not the other way around.
Make all the excuses you want, at the end of the day what matters is if the product does what it needs to or not. That's why my previous company uses Office and not OpenOffice. You can tell them they're wrong all day and all night, but they'll reply with "I don't give a shit, I can't control my need for AX."
"How could open source applications support ActiveX?"
Ask these guys.
BTW, you REALLY don't understand what ActiveX is. Heh. Non-MS products can open ActiveX plugins.
"Show me a shooter, show me a platformer, show me a flight sim, show me anything but sports."
Err okay. You do realize that sports are the hardest things for game consoles to realistically do, right? The more impressive a sports game is, the more impressive your flight sims, platformers, and shooters have the potential to be.
"... however, your comment about FireFox not adopting ActiveX, I would put to you, is actually not a good thing."
/rant
Lack of ActiveX support actually prevented my previous company from switching to OpenOffice or Mozilla. The attitude that it's better that these two apps don't support it seriously pisses me off. If Microsoft can't get away with being arrogant, than the OSS Community can't either.
"Good point! On the other hand, cell phone roaming and out-of-zone charges can be quite high."
:)
Hmm nah. I have a ~$50 a month plan with Cingular that features no roaming in the US. (even Hawaii!) I don't have a good counter point about using in another country. If I went to Canada, my cell phone would likely be quite pricey.
" VoIP: 23$/month (which includes voicemail and unlimited long-distance)"
That's interesting to know. I might want to rethink my whole communications strategy a bit.
"Seriously, I can take my VoIP box on trips and still receive my local calls anywhere... if I move somewhere new in town, my number doesn't change, and I don't have to pay new installation or connection fees... as far as VoIP is concerned nothing has changed... In a sense, VoIP is the ultimate in *keeping* your phone number. I'm glad I made the switch."
Question: Why VOIP over a cell phone?
(Note: I'm not asking to shoot you down. Rather, I only have a cell phone and I'm curious if I'd save money or something with VOIP.)
"And tell me: do you like cox?"
I don't know whether to laugh that you made a silly comment or grimace at the thought of what you might be offering him.
Man, we've got some real dumb fuck moderators out and about today. Oh well, I guess it's easy to agree with predictions of the USA's doom and gloom when it's popular to hate the president. We wouldn't want intelligence to get in the way of those feelings or anything.
"Gamestop doesn't do that, for whatever (presumably political) reasons."
Hi. Opera is 4 megs and is quite complete.
"Gamestop doesn't do that, for whatever (presumably political) reasons."
It's probably related to PCs often coming with CD Burners. I can't speak for Game Stop, but I can tell you that I worked at a game company not unlike Game Stop and that was one of the reasons they weren't big on PC games. That and we didnt want to deal with returns on used games because of configuration issues. It would have been real easy for somebody to buy the game, claim there's a configuration issue, and return it. Meanwhile, they have a copy they made of the game. At least with a new game, they could have contacted the developer for help, etc.
Not saying it's right or I agree, but I do understand why they wouldn't do it. PC gaming in general is a bitch to market and support for. It's really quite baffling if you consider what all a PC game has to run on.
"what would you do with a flying car?"
Park it in your garage instead of having to store it in a hangar?
Honestly, I don't understand why stories like this always suck the imagination out of some people.
"I do. Adobe Reader is the crappiest piece of shit there is. Slows, segfaults, VERY SLOW TO STARTUP."
Eh. Yeah, it's a little slow. But the search features kick ass. Shift+Ctrl+f gives you a menu with a shitload of search options. I have several docs in one directory that I use frequently. It'll search all the PDFs in that folder and then generate a list of all the hits plus a snippet of their context. Reader is wonderful if you're looking for code documentation across a number of sources.
Heh, I'm not in high school. ;)
"Unconstitutional? How is this unconstitutional? Last time I checked the US Bill of Rights, I don't remember a guarantee of access to free porn."
More importantly, it's never guaranteed that the gov't has to provide you with access to porn.
I'm not ready to sharpen my pitchfork over this topic because:
a.) The gov't is not blocking porn, it's talking about not providing the service to access it. That may sound like the same, but really it isn't. You can go get porn, you just can't use the service they're providing that wasn't intended for it. Okay, I'm not writing this clearly enough. Consider this scenario: Imagine if the gov't gave everybody a free cell phone, but prohibited making long-distance calls with it. Freedom of speech? No.
b.) This, in no way, is preventing a business from setting up a porn-friendly service.
c.) Taxpayers are footing the bill. If the tax payers are saying "No porn, sorry", then their voices should be heard. (Note: I haven't RTFA so I don't know if that's the case or not. Gimme a break, at least I'm honest.)
If the gov't told an ISP "No porn!!" I'd be ready to fight, but this is just isn't bunching up my panties right now.
"I was just thinking about why America is an empire on its downfall, but now I believe it is rather obvious: expensive political micromanagement on a scale that is unfathomable and hardly in line with what the founding fathers ever had in mind for this new, great nation."
The American 'empire' is falling because the Founding Fathers didn't quite have the foresight to clarify the issue on wireless porn downloads at truckstops.
Well thanks for that little bit of insight.
"Maybe to prevent walking by a car and seeing some pervert jacking off?"
Preventing the service will not prevent this from happening. If he's got a laptop, he's got plenty of capability to bring it with him.
Besides, the dude doesn't want you seeing him any more than you want to see him.
"Does muni WiFi still sound like a good idea?"
If it's free, I'll takes what I can gets.
"Sex should not = pregnancy (not with the amount of birthcontrol available), and the reason why children are more prone to this is that they are kept ignorant."
:P heh.
Well that and a.) Shit happens, b.) No birth control is 100% effective, c.) There's no reliable way to ensure that everybody participates.
"Then perhaps instead of denying these 12 yearolds sex education where they can learn about birthcontrol we tell them; then they can be aware of their sexuality, how do intelligently deal with people who want to have a sexual relationship, and how to intelligently engage in sex should they choose to do so knowing the rewards and risks in such behaviour."
There are parts of this I more-or-less agree with, and parts I don't. I do agree that education on the topic is spotty at best. I remember at my school, they taught us the biological aspects of sex-ed. That was it. No real world discussions. This blank in the curriculum resulted in some conversations and behaviours the sudents had that were really quite bizarre. On top of that, the students that did have experience in this area knew about stuff the others didn't. This gave them stature. Sleeping with a chick made you popular.
I was fortunate. My dad had some rather important conversations with my on this topic. I feel bad, though, that several of my classmates didn't have these convos. As a result, they're mommies and daddies (in some cases, they've suffered divorce). It would have been QUITE helpful if the school had played a larger role here.
But this is where I start to disagree. Problem one is "who decides how to approach it?" Problem two is that if I were a parent, I wouldn't want somebody abritrarily making these decisions without me. I certainly wouldn't want to cause that problem to someobdy else. Problem three is that I remember how stupid I was when I was a teen. Just because the education was there, doesn't mean that myself or any of my classmates would have behaved differently. I can think of one girl in particular who would have done the opposite of what she was taught just to prove a point. Dangerous.
I think my other real issue is that a lot of people (including myself) won't learn something until they've experienced it. Now maybe I'm unfairly generalizing, but I can imagine a lot of arrogant "I don't need to do that" attitudes flying around.
So... eh... I'm not really sure where I stand here. I haven't found a solution to this problem I'm 100% happy with. If it were up to me, people would have operations that prevent them from having kids until they've acquired a proper license.
"Perhaps instead of rallying against nature people should accept the obvisous: children are sexual beings and to deny reality leads to sexually repressed future adults, or current adults being jailed among other problems."
The obvious problem with this is that a 12 year old in the USA cannot typically get a job to support a child. Worse, if the father or mother of the child have to quit school to raise it, their lives are getting seriously screwed up when it comes to getting an education.
I'm not really sure what I think about what the age of consent should be, but I can certainly understand why it was established at 18. Then again, I had some friends that had kids at 16. Last I heard, they're doing alright now. But I can honestly tell you they've suffered some hardships as a result of it.
"And yes, it's very easy for a 12 year old to become pregnate and even come full term to give birth."
Question: Does the 12 year old girl get into trouble for consentual sex, or is it just the guy? (assuming the guy is between 12 and 16) (Note: I should clarify that I'm not just talking about when a girl that young gets pregnant.)
"at least I can admit to my kiddie porn addiction anonymously!"
I hate to break it to you, but those Japanese schoolgirls aren't kiddies.
Flamebait? Ah, I get it: When Microsoft copies somebody else, sharpen the ol pitchforks. But when Linux distros FINALLY get features that Windows had for years, it's sacred.
Honestly guys, if you can't take a little poke here and there, maybe you should consider not dishing it out.
"Can't we just enjoy the film for what it is...?"
No. That's why there's so much bitching about it.
"Agreed, Extraordinarily professional... Except for the acting. :("
Compared to Eps 1 and 2...?
Sorry if I'm being dumb here, but are you saying that a .AVI/.WMV/.MOV/etc can have an .SRT file included? Does it have to be encoded into it, or is there another trick to getting it to play?