Yeah, that's what I thought too. Who gives a flying crap (other than Preston Gralla obviously) about a taskbar?
Solve the incompatibility problems between Vista and XP if you want to impress me. Plug security holes. Drop useless bulk. Or at least provide a way to optionally include it at install time. Streamline. Make it run faster than XP. Vista performance is embarrassingly atrocious. Fix THAT instead.
All these known problems and complaints, and the best thing you decide to do is to tout a new Taskbar? Unreal, MS.
Reason the first, it's an unconfirmed report. Could be as valid as a release date for Duke Nukem Forever.
Reason the second. The RIAA isn't going to give up. If they are ditching MediaSentry that just means they have some other idea that they think will net them better results. What replaces it might be worse. So celebrating at this point would be a lot like the people of Hiroshima in WWII rejoicing that the US has stated they have halted their conventional bombing campaign.
The good news is that maybe the "better idea" referenced above is the RIAA is shifting focus to cooperation with ISPs. Granted, it's another doomed idea but at least this way they won't be sending subpoenas to printers and deaf grandmothers. Hopefully.
Another good thing that may come of it is maybe someone will finally bring suit against MediaSentry for privacy violation and investigating without a license. If the RIAA cuts them loose they won't have the financial backing necessary to defend. And if we're really lucky, they'll get nailed for it. And if we're really really lucky, their employer will be found liable as well. Just because you cut ties with someone doesn't mean that your legal responsibilities are cut as well. IANAL though, so take that with a grain of salt.
Still though it's an interesting development and one I hope turns out to be true.
There is no reason to design a retraint or any kind of protective system that would keep a person alive during that catastrophic breakup.
What they noticed is that the restraint system did not keep the astronauts alive during a situation where it could have.
What if there was an event that shook the cabin really hard, but was non-lethal? The current restraint systems would injure or kill the astronauts and turn a survivable event into a fatal one.
Having the best safety equipment is always the preferred option. A slim chance of survival is better than none.
But the question remains, how do you decided[sic] what games will still appeal to the current gaming audience?
I would guess the same way you'd do any market research. Come up with ideas, run them past your target market, have them fill out surveys and see which ones are most likely to be well received.
The whole "resurrecting an old game" idea is really nothing but marketing anyways. Old games ran on 6502s or 68000s. Today's processors are orders of magnitude better. The only thing these new games have in common with their old counterparts is the name. And since that's the case, it's not really a special case. Only thing you'll most likely get is a slight marketing boost from people seeing a familiar name.
Mr. Cheney, always the Good Citizen, tried to help out when he 'asserted this month in a court case that he had absolute discretion to decide which of his records are official and which are personal, and thus do not have to be transferred to the archives.'
Thereby making what he was doing immune to FOIA requests. Nice.
It's just unreal how unabashedly criminal Cheney is. Nobody ever calls him on it. Anyone in a position to do anything about him (other than Dennis Kucinich anyways) strangely...doesn't.
Of course, he's also the same guy who shot a hunting buddy in the face. And had the victim apologize.
Far more dangerous than W. Will not be sorry to see him go. Good riddance. Go retire on your inflated Halliburton stock and please leave my country alone.
And it seems to be better news than simply the RIAA getting smacked on their request to appeal.
The RIAA claimed this: "there is a substantial ground for a difference of opinion on the question of law presented"
Concerning: "whether the Judge had erred in accepting the RIAA's proposed jury instruction that merely 'making files available' could constitute an infringement of the plaintiffs' distribution rights"
Now, I occasionally have a difficult time translating from Lawyer to English, but it sounds to me like the judge is not only saying "no you can't appeal" but "making available isn't copyright infringement, and there is no wiggle room to discuss the matter further because it's obvious that it's not."
Do I have that right, NYCL? Because if I do it really sounds like bigger news than a trivial appeal request getting smacked down. Sounds like the Judge just dropped The Big One.
Excellent point. Unless MS isn't charging for the time in-between keystrokes. In which case their pricing scheme might be worth it. =)
Which reminds me of something. I've closed Word on my work machine before when I've had a document open on a USB stick. Then try to USB eject the stick and it won't go. Go into task manager and see that some word-ish program still has an open handle on it.
Run task manager, kill the exe, and I can eject the USB drive. No real problem but it raises a question: What if this stray process was billing me?
So why bother giving them the same name then if they're different things?
Wouldn't you be pissed if you bought some fries and the waiter handed you a bottle of ketchup that was full of mayo? And if you had the audacity to complain, what if the chef told you both are good on fries so deal with it?
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The embattled SCO Group Inc. is proposing to auction off its core products
SCO actually sells a product?
And this time it'll be more than one step removed from the real source of the money.
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But baby....how can it be wrong...when it feels so right....
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Yeah, that's what I thought too. Who gives a flying crap (other than Preston Gralla obviously) about a taskbar?
Solve the incompatibility problems between Vista and XP if you want to impress me. Plug security holes. Drop useless bulk. Or at least provide a way to optionally include it at install time. Streamline. Make it run faster than XP. Vista performance is embarrassingly atrocious. Fix THAT instead.
All these known problems and complaints, and the best thing you decide to do is to tout a new Taskbar? Unreal, MS.
I don't know man, I didn't do it.
Even the false things.
...if at first you don't succeed, then skydiving is not for you.
And how many of them snuggle with them all night and pretend they're a real person?
Sleeping with half a mannequin because you're lonely is WAY creepier than mere masturbation, IMHO.
If this is not a joke, it's got to be one of the saddest things I've ever heard.
Or at least it was, until you clicked this link.
The onus is on the believers, fool
True enough, but you've missed something. Both sides in this argument believe something. Something unprovable.
I would reserve the 'fool' for someone who missed that point. Perhaps you could benefit from a logic refresher yourself, AC.
Two things, AC.
1) You can't prove you're right any more than he can.
2) Regardless of who is right, his final thoughts as he leaves this world will be more pleasant than yours.
and uses older technology that is not capable of creating nuclear warheads
IIRC, weren't nuclear warheads the first large scale application of this technology? In this field it's the older technology that scares me the most.
And if they're too small to make warheads out of...what happens if you steal two or three of them?
"But again, truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty you need only look into a mirror."
I used to think V for Vendetta was fiction. It's starting to look like a documentary.
Thanks =)
Nope, never read it. I don't have as much spare time as I used to (wife, kids, etc). Reading a whole book would be an unimaginable luxury.
If I may ask, why? Something in my post mirror the book?
For two reasons.
Reason the first, it's an unconfirmed report. Could be as valid as a release date for Duke Nukem Forever.
Reason the second. The RIAA isn't going to give up. If they are ditching MediaSentry that just means they have some other idea that they think will net them better results. What replaces it might be worse. So celebrating at this point would be a lot like the people of Hiroshima in WWII rejoicing that the US has stated they have halted their conventional bombing campaign.
The good news is that maybe the "better idea" referenced above is the RIAA is shifting focus to cooperation with ISPs. Granted, it's another doomed idea but at least this way they won't be sending subpoenas to printers and deaf grandmothers. Hopefully.
Another good thing that may come of it is maybe someone will finally bring suit against MediaSentry for privacy violation and investigating without a license. If the RIAA cuts them loose they won't have the financial backing necessary to defend. And if we're really lucky, they'll get nailed for it. And if we're really really lucky, their employer will be found liable as well. Just because you cut ties with someone doesn't mean that your legal responsibilities are cut as well. IANAL though, so take that with a grain of salt.
Still though it's an interesting development and one I hope turns out to be true.
There is no reason to design a retraint or any kind of protective system that would keep a person alive during that catastrophic breakup.
What they noticed is that the restraint system did not keep the astronauts alive during a situation where it could have.
What if there was an event that shook the cabin really hard, but was non-lethal? The current restraint systems would injure or kill the astronauts and turn a survivable event into a fatal one.
Having the best safety equipment is always the preferred option. A slim chance of survival is better than none.
But the question remains, how do you decided[sic] what games will still appeal to the current gaming audience?
I would guess the same way you'd do any market research. Come up with ideas, run them past your target market, have them fill out surveys and see which ones are most likely to be well received.
The whole "resurrecting an old game" idea is really nothing but marketing anyways. Old games ran on 6502s or 68000s. Today's processors are orders of magnitude better. The only thing these new games have in common with their old counterparts is the name. And since that's the case, it's not really a special case. Only thing you'll most likely get is a slight marketing boost from people seeing a familiar name.
So I'd have to say "nothing unusual".
Mr. Cheney, always the Good Citizen, tried to help out when he 'asserted this month in a court case that he had absolute discretion to decide which of his records are official and which are personal, and thus do not have to be transferred to the archives.'
Thereby making what he was doing immune to FOIA requests. Nice.
It's just unreal how unabashedly criminal Cheney is. Nobody ever calls him on it. Anyone in a position to do anything about him (other than Dennis Kucinich anyways) strangely...doesn't.
Of course, he's also the same guy who shot a hunting buddy in the face. And had the victim apologize.
Far more dangerous than W. Will not be sorry to see him go. Good riddance. Go retire on your inflated Halliburton stock and please leave my country alone.
Best laugh I've had all day. Thanks!
And it seems to be better news than simply the RIAA getting smacked on their request to appeal.
The RIAA claimed this: "there is a substantial ground for a difference of opinion on the question of law presented"
Concerning: "whether the Judge had erred in accepting the RIAA's proposed jury instruction that merely 'making files available' could constitute an infringement of the plaintiffs' distribution rights"
Now, I occasionally have a difficult time translating from Lawyer to English, but it sounds to me like the judge is not only saying "no you can't appeal" but "making available isn't copyright infringement, and there is no wiggle room to discuss the matter further because it's obvious that it's not."
Do I have that right, NYCL? Because if I do it really sounds like bigger news than a trivial appeal request getting smacked down. Sounds like the Judge just dropped The Big One.
Excellent point. Unless MS isn't charging for the time in-between keystrokes. In which case their pricing scheme might be worth it. =)
Which reminds me of something. I've closed Word on my work machine before when I've had a document open on a USB stick. Then try to USB eject the stick and it won't go. Go into task manager and see that some word-ish program still has an open handle on it.
Run task manager, kill the exe, and I can eject the USB drive. No real problem but it raises a question: What if this stray process was billing me?
which is good because SUV sales are on the rise again! and hybrid sales are down.
That's because we have the attention span of a gnat on meth.
Could you provide an example?
So why bother giving them the same name then if they're different things?
Wouldn't you be pissed if you bought some fries and the waiter handed you a bottle of ketchup that was full of mayo? And if you had the audacity to complain, what if the chef told you both are good on fries so deal with it?
It's misrepresentation. It'd piss me off.
I respectfully submit that we anal types do in fact have something to bitch about.
I agree that it is not practical or feasible to follow the book exactly. Inner dialog is especially tricky, for instance.
But changes for the sake of change - that's wrong. And that's a lot of what I see. I could give examples, but I don't think you'd be interested.
But I will say this to Hollywood: If you think you can tell a better story...then write one, and don't mangle someone else's work.