while it is true that "they love shit on their desktops", i find that it's mostly shortcuts to pre-installed software that they'll never use, pics or other documents that have been downloaded and stuff that is usually described as "i didn't know what that was, so i didn't touch it".
windows dessktops are the messiest places on earth, with mac desktops a distant, but solid second.
ummm, 1 billion+ songs sold with DRM, and that's just from itunes. perhaps you have misinterpreted what the free market has said...
[i am not advocating DRM, just commenting on the previous post]
exactly.
keeping the government out of the business of owning utilities benefits EVERYBODY. just think of the outrage, suspicion and raging paranoia if you had to pay the GOVERNMENT for telephone service or internet access.
actually, would there even be a forum for such dissent? who would be there to oppose 'internet wiretap' laws?
governments providing such services is prohibited for very legitimate reasons and here's to the states that have the foresight to prohibit such things.
the evening of the debut of xboxlive, i happened into an nfl fever game with a microsoft employee who was playing at the launch party. i was a beta tester for xboxlive, so we were chatting about it a little and he pointed out during the conversation that with the launch of the service microsoft became one of the top 5 (i think he said top 5, i had been drinking) telecommunications carriers in the usa.
if comcast OWNS all of the disney networks, dish network and directv customers like ME will see our bills increase when comcast decides that espn (and others) should be priced higher for their competitors.
this is not good.
sucks just as bad as the parent of fox owning directv.
there oughtta be a law....
a statistics geek friend of mine who is delusional enough to believe that he can use his degrees to make money gambling claims that he has determined that he win on baseball by knowing who will be the plate umpire in each game.
he claims that betting the "over" on games called by certain umpires wins more than 2/3 of the time. also, there are some umps that consistantly tip the odds in favor of the "under".
the most reasonable explanation for this is the relative sizes of their srike zones, or at least the perceived size of the strike zones by the players. either the pitchers are consistantly getting more/less room around the plate from these umps or the batters THINK that the pitchers are getting more/less room, causing them to approach their at bats differently.
interesting analysis anyhow.
now, if someone could just explain the detroit tigers to me, i'd be happy.
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also great to see that milk.com is STILL a blink-free zone!
while it is true that "they love shit on their desktops", i find that it's mostly shortcuts to pre-installed software that they'll never use, pics or other documents that have been downloaded and stuff that is usually described as "i didn't know what that was, so i didn't touch it". windows dessktops are the messiest places on earth, with mac desktops a distant, but solid second.
ummm, 1 billion+ songs sold with DRM, and that's just from itunes. perhaps you have misinterpreted what the free market has said... [i am not advocating DRM, just commenting on the previous post]
smart will be introducing a iPod integration option (complete with charger) in their cars in europe next model year
Because you like the hardware, but want to distance yourself from a user community seen by many as insular, conformant and intolerant?
/. and probably geekdom in general.
insular, conformant AND intolerant?
if you're looking to avoid this type of "user community" than you should pack up and leave linux and
this is the funniest thing i have read today.
exactly. keeping the government out of the business of owning utilities benefits EVERYBODY. just think of the outrage, suspicion and raging paranoia if you had to pay the GOVERNMENT for telephone service or internet access. actually, would there even be a forum for such dissent? who would be there to oppose 'internet wiretap' laws? governments providing such services is prohibited for very legitimate reasons and here's to the states that have the foresight to prohibit such things.
if you haven't seen anything how do you know that you haven't missed anything?
the evening of the debut of xboxlive, i happened into an nfl fever game with a microsoft employee who was playing at the launch party. i was a beta tester for xboxlive, so we were chatting about it a little and he pointed out during the conversation that with the launch of the service microsoft became one of the top 5 (i think he said top 5, i had been drinking) telecommunications carriers in the usa.
how many times does it have to be repeated: there is absolutely no reason for anyone to ever pay anything for a web browser.
opera IPO??? if you're thinking of buying opera stock just send the money to me, you'll end up with the same ROI.
if comcast OWNS all of the disney networks, dish network and directv customers like ME will see our bills increase when comcast decides that espn (and others) should be priced higher for their competitors. this is not good. sucks just as bad as the parent of fox owning directv. there oughtta be a law....
"My time is worth $17 a second. I want an explanation and I want it to cost me less than $1500."
just because you buy cigarette paper doesn't mean that you're rolling joints
a statistics geek friend of mine who is delusional enough to believe that he can use his degrees to make money gambling claims that he has determined that he win on baseball by knowing who will be the plate umpire in each game.
he claims that betting the "over" on games called by certain umpires wins more than 2/3 of the time. also, there are some umps that consistantly tip the odds in favor of the "under".
the most reasonable explanation for this is the relative sizes of their srike zones, or at least the perceived size of the strike zones by the players. either the pitchers are consistantly getting more/less room around the plate from these umps or the batters THINK that the pitchers are getting more/less room, causing them to approach their at bats differently.
interesting analysis anyhow.
now, if someone could just explain the detroit tigers to me, i'd be happy.
ddd
i think that big beaver airport was sold a few years ago and is now a strip mall or office complex or industrial park...