You can dislike Microsoft's business practice all you want, but they are "successful" in a financial sense. Nobody, not even slashdot users, can deny that.
You can already see all the source of the.NET framework using Lutz Roeder's Reflection tool. I use this all the time to see how the innards of functions work when something goes screwy with.NET.
Yea, just like the Apple vs. PC argument where apple is the ferrari and PC is the honda.
Except, oh, one small thing: ferrari makes money on every car sold, does Sony make money on every console sold? Didn't think so. Sony is relying on a large base of support in order to get the publishers to make the games that make the money, and so far, they're failing - not that it matters much, it's such a bloated company they can just absorb the loss anyways.
according to a christian: the counter argument is "christians believe in microevolution, small changes in a species, but not macro evolution, 1 species becoming an entirely different species".
Interesting point, but from what I gather from your use of the word degrading is that you do view yourself above others, or specifically animals. Humans are egotistical, and in your case, I believe you are a great attribution to this point. Reminds me a bit of the old ways; we are humans, we are above such things. Of course, you're an animal. We're all animals. While you may not enjoy sex, viewing it as degrading is an elitist attitude, nothing more.
Yes of course, because every virgin teenage male thinks "you know, I'm pretty smart. maybe I shouldn't have sex, even though there exists some good protection against pregnancy and STDs".
it is often a guy in his 60s or 70s proposing the law
Not to worry then, all these old guys will be dead in the next 10-20 years, if all goes well. Everyone seems to forget that all of us, the younger generation (which is obviously a huge span of years) is next on the list for power.
Repeat after me: TPB does not host copyrighted material, they only host the directory of where to get it. Maybe you should go after google next, because they index TPB. No? THEN SHUT THE FUCK UP, or, change your argument to not make you sound like an idiot.
You actually raise a good point: Nobody tested this thing in cold temperatures. How well does the screen accept your input in very cold temperatures? Does it work at all with gloves? Does it break when it gets some snow on it? Not all of us live in the tropics all year around.
You know, I'm all for biking to reduce cars, but you do realize that the density in Amsterdam is far higher than say that of suburban US places, right? While they may bike a kilometer at the most, you may have to bike many. It's unfortunately not practical in such a big country. And yes, I realize you can move to teh big city to avoid such a problem, but most people with kids want green grass and to be fairly "away" from all things. Or so it seems anyways.
I'm sorry, but if you review the huge arguments going on about how you can release closed source on Linux, well it's no wonder a lot of vendors chose to go Windows only. I'm not saying closed source is right or wrong, I'm just saying that if the option to go close source is so tricky on Linux, well, that's a huge fucking problem.
I find it a bit odd that most of the comments posted about the United States demise come from the US itself (perhaps not yours, but often anyways).
If so many US citizens are aware of this bullshit going on in their country, why is nothing done? Is it something like, for every 1 intelligence person there are 50 bible thumpers? If so, perhaps you should jump ship (country).
what's your license plate #, what state are you in, what street do you sometimes drive on, what color and make is your vehicle, and what do you look like?
don't want to tell me and the world? i wouldn't either.
I was wondering when this issue would come up. When street view first came out I immediately went and looked for license plates. Sure enough there are quite a few that are clearly readable and you're also able to see the driver.
hey HEY! I was thinking there could be a third option, translucently visible, or like visible only on the 3rd moon of the 18th month of the 22nd year after the year of the tortoise.. this narrowed it down a lot.
You know, I realize that this article rings strongly of "China is going to attack the united states", but this comment:
If you're in IT for a government agency in the US, it's your duty to ask 'what does China know about my critical infrastructure that I don't know?'
Speaks strongly of "I'm an American and the Chinese are all fucking evil and wanting to attack me". Why China? Why not every other fucking country in the world? Maybe you didn't mean it this way but I see it all the time about <insert politcally understood 'bad' country here>.
I kind of expected the definition of the origin of the math pentagon: "After 4 sides, a square, became so useful we had to think for years about how to top it.. and then it came to us: FIVE sides".
The bandwidth IS "unlimited", so long as only one person uses the "unlimited" bandwidth and everyone else is a grandma: just checking their e-mail. They played the odds, and soon they're going to lose.
While I don't deny most of that argument, why is it that women never get along in the workplace? If you know any females that work in any office-ish environment, then you know of the bitching I am speaking of, as well as the back-stabbing.
Such things typically do not occur with male work environments.
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My.. my user id is lower than yours? I'm almost tempted to say "so is my penis".
You can dislike Microsoft's business practice all you want, but they are "successful" in a financial sense. Nobody, not even slashdot users, can deny that.
You can already see all the source of the .NET framework using Lutz Roeder's Reflection tool. I use this all the time to see how the innards of functions work when something goes screwy with .NET.
If you're interested you can check out the free tool here: http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/
Yea, just like the Apple vs. PC argument where apple is the ferrari and PC is the honda.
Except, oh, one small thing: ferrari makes money on every car sold, does Sony make money on every console sold? Didn't think so. Sony is relying on a large base of support in order to get the publishers to make the games that make the money, and so far, they're failing - not that it matters much, it's such a bloated company they can just absorb the loss anyways.
I'm so glad I live in Canada.
according to a christian: the counter argument is "christians believe in microevolution, small changes in a species, but not macro evolution, 1 species becoming an entirely different species".
how horrible and confusing.
Interesting point, but from what I gather from your use of the word degrading is that you do view yourself above others, or specifically animals. Humans are egotistical, and in your case, I believe you are a great attribution to this point. Reminds me a bit of the old ways; we are humans, we are above such things. Of course, you're an animal. We're all animals. While you may not enjoy sex, viewing it as degrading is an elitist attitude, nothing more.
I bet you don't watch porn either, because, you know, you're above that.
The reply to your post about the 10 to 20% pretty much sums up what I was going to say.
No, wait, it doesn't. You're fucking retarded. There we go.
Yes of course, because every virgin teenage male thinks "you know, I'm pretty smart. maybe I shouldn't have sex, even though there exists some good protection against pregnancy and STDs".
Don't flatter yourself.
Not to worry then, all these old guys will be dead in the next 10-20 years, if all goes well. Everyone seems to forget that all of us, the younger generation (which is obviously a huge span of years) is next on the list for power.
Repeat after me: TPB does not host copyrighted material, they only host the directory of where to get it. Maybe you should go after google next, because they index TPB. No? THEN SHUT THE FUCK UP, or, change your argument to not make you sound like an idiot.
You actually raise a good point: Nobody tested this thing in cold temperatures. How well does the screen accept your input in very cold temperatures? Does it work at all with gloves? Does it break when it gets some snow on it? Not all of us live in the tropics all year around.
You know, I'm all for biking to reduce cars, but you do realize that the density in Amsterdam is far higher than say that of suburban US places, right? While they may bike a kilometer at the most, you may have to bike many. It's unfortunately not practical in such a big country. And yes, I realize you can move to teh big city to avoid such a problem, but most people with kids want green grass and to be fairly "away" from all things. Or so it seems anyways.
I'm sorry, but if you review the huge arguments going on about how you can release closed source on Linux, well it's no wonder a lot of vendors chose to go Windows only. I'm not saying closed source is right or wrong, I'm just saying that if the option to go close source is so tricky on Linux, well, that's a huge fucking problem.
It actually did send a shiver down my spine. That's some fucked up shit. But it explains a lot......
I find it a bit odd that most of the comments posted about the United States demise come from the US itself (perhaps not yours, but often anyways).
If so many US citizens are aware of this bullshit going on in their country, why is nothing done? Is it something like, for every 1 intelligence person there are 50 bible thumpers? If so, perhaps you should jump ship (country).
what's your license plate #, what state are you in, what street do you sometimes drive on, what color and make is your vehicle, and what do you look like?
don't want to tell me and the world? i wouldn't either.
I was wondering when this issue would come up. When street view first came out I immediately went and looked for license plates. Sure enough there are quite a few that are clearly readable and you're also able to see the driver.
hey HEY! I was thinking there could be a third option, translucently visible, or like visible only on the 3rd moon of the 18th month of the 22nd year after the year of the tortoise.. this narrowed it down a lot.
Speaks strongly of "I'm an American and the Chinese are all fucking evil and wanting to attack me". Why China? Why not every other fucking country in the world? Maybe you didn't mean it this way but I see it all the time about <insert politcally understood 'bad' country here>.
I kind of expected the definition of the origin of the math pentagon: "After 4 sides, a square, became so useful we had to think for years about how to top it.. and then it came to us: FIVE sides".
The bandwidth IS "unlimited", so long as only one person uses the "unlimited" bandwidth and everyone else is a grandma: just checking their e-mail. They played the odds, and soon they're going to lose.
While I don't deny most of that argument, why is it that women never get along in the workplace? If you know any females that work in any office-ish environment, then you know of the bitching I am speaking of, as well as the back-stabbing.
Such things typically do not occur with male work environments.
To take down a hijacked plane? I mean, isn't the big terrorist activity HIJACKING, and not firing missles?
This is great, now when the next plane is heading towards a tower, we can't even shoot it down.