Yeah, you missed the fact that you were right the first time and the guy who replied to you is an asshole who doesn't know what he's talking about. Your second "error" was perfectly fine for colloquial use. You completed your sentence and continued the list for effect. I see nothing wrong. As for the first, "The quality of pages is better", you were correct. "..of pages..." is a prepositional phrase and does not affect the number of the verb. The subject of your sentence is the word "quality", which is singular.
I have a palm too, but those games use the touchscreen exactly how a computer uses a mouse. Not innovative. A greater variety of touchscreen uses and FUN games have come from the NDS is under 2 years than the over 10 years that Palm Pilots have been out. Plus, palm pilots are not gaming machines. As for your dual monitor setup, good for you, I never mentioned two screens as being revolutionary. I deliberately left it out of the list because it's a rather minor evolution that hasn't really shaped gameplay that much.
Nintendo has invented, adapted, and popularized more game controller technologies than anyone else. You list should look lore like: Control Pad: Nintendo. Shoulder Buttons: Nintendo. Self-centering thumbstick: Nintendo. Rumble feature: Nintendo. First wireless controller that didn't suck: Nintendo. Touch screen gaming: Nintendo.
Sure, most of these technologies had been around for long enough, but it has always been Nintendo and no one else who has taken them, made them fun, and changed console gaming forever. I think, if nothing else, that should make every person who bombs on the Rev controller stop and think for a second, and try not to pass final judgement until November when they can give the real deal a fair shot.
The people in the first world would thank you for the free entertainment and the people in the third world would melt them down to make things that don't need electricity to be useful.
Anyway, my point is that people will make the right decisions and purchase what they appreciate and can afford. If your game was really great, it would make people feel bad for stealing it. I think those who selfishly steal, enjoy AND would have otherwise purchased the game are by far in the minority.
Sorry if this sounds a little harsh, but would you folks just fuck off already? You make money hand over fist in the theaters and even moreso in DVD sales. It is clear that people still pay to see and own movies that they really like, even though they are available for free. Just because YOU would steal our money without providing us with a product if you thought you could get away with it doesn't mean that we'll do the same to you. Not that any of your actions really award you this sort of ethical treatment.
So in summary: please stop complaining. You make enough money already. Leave the torrent places alone, we like them for watching films we'd never pay to see or watching for a film we did pay to see second time before the DVD release.
Now I need to go finish watching ¥¥¥ Syriana DVDscr XViD DVDRip-MeeKRaB 2005.
that Windows Vista isn't going to be all the fresh, hot goodness that we've been promised? For their own sake, Microsoft should step away from their stale and horribly insecure old code bases. They've had enough time now to rewrite the OS a few times over but it seems they chose instead to shoehorn in their old crap. Now is as good a time as any to cut the Win 9x support cord.
This is absolutely false. Grab the Mac Quicktime codec from DivX.com. It replaces Quicktime's AVI importer with its own and everything works perfectly. Add this to the fact that you'll need the DivX codec to play these things in Quicktime anyway and your argument falls to pieces. If you're using 3ivx to play DivX movies in Quicktime, you're insane. Their decoder sucks.
I had my first bone a very long time ago, and even if had I waited, I'm not sure if I'd want to give it to Sony. They'd probably work me over with their root kit until I cried.
I had a system set up two years using Applescripts, PHP, iChat AV, and a TV tuner to broadcast TV over the internet to any iChat or AIM-equipped machine. It used a php script to change channels, etc. It was pretty great but now that I'm at college rather than boarding school, it's much easier to just use the cable in my room here.
That's it, I'm walking from Washington DC to New York City in 2 days to save my son, who would last out the worst of the storm with or without my help, safely inside of a library with a fireplace. But I need to go because otherwise this movie would be boring.
I much prefer the current setup, by which the 99 price point is kept and every person who downloads Achy Breaky Heart has their IP logged so they can be tracked down and murdered for the betterment of humanity.
No, they won't, but they do allow you do tinker with everything else that Linux lets you tinker with (with a few notable exceptions, namely commercial drivers). You can recompile the kernel, write your own drivers, compile and run open source drivers and applications, including windowing systems and user interfaces like KDE if you really wanted. Hell, you can strip a default OS X installation down to all free components and then build it up using truly free software if you were so inclined.
Think of OS X as Linux (well, FOSS Darwin) plus bonuses like Quartz that may be closed source but do nothing but ADD value while leaving the doors open for other, more free alternatives if the user wishes. I see the only people who lose here are the kids getting laptops with less value.
I'm confused. Did you expect anything to be able to import that CD? Did you think for a moment: "Hey, I just turned on the 'Try super hard to read scratched discs' option, maybe it's going to actually try to import the disc! I mean, come on. As for the rest of your complaints, I'm pretty sure iTunes can do all of those things with the proper codecs downloaded (there's a quicktime OGG codec, etc). There are plenty of reasons to dislike iTunes but you didn't name any of them.
RFID isn't that exciting of a technology. It has been established as the next generation of technology to replace magnetic barcodes. There's nothing inherently evil. I can't image anything useful coming out of the comments on this story. Everyone stand back, I'm going to try something. If this works, I'll have more work to do!
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Oh, man. You should get a TI-89 then. Those guys can report answers out to 10^-255 or maybe even more. They've got this menu that does integrals and derivatives for you and an exact mode that returns answers in fractions and roots.
I'm not being serious, of course. The 89 does do all this stuff but a badass calculator is completely worthless without a solid background in how all of its functions work and how to do things the hard way if need be.
Actually, this story is pretty well-established: hard-to-fake handheld videos of systems cold-booting into OS X, screenshots, torrents, reports from all around that installation is tricky but it works...
It was speculation last week then there were a handful of sketchy screenshots taken in VMWare floating around. Now I'd say it's pretty much fact that it's working at some level.
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Yeah, you missed the fact that you were right the first time and the guy who replied to you is an asshole who doesn't know what he's talking about. Your second "error" was perfectly fine for colloquial use. You completed your sentence and continued the list for effect. I see nothing wrong. As for the first, "The quality of pages is better", you were correct. "..of pages..." is a prepositional phrase and does not affect the number of the verb. The subject of your sentence is the word "quality", which is singular.
(Raising The Bar(TM))
I have a palm too, but those games use the touchscreen exactly how a computer uses a mouse. Not innovative. A greater variety of touchscreen uses and FUN games have come from the NDS is under 2 years than the over 10 years that Palm Pilots have been out. Plus, palm pilots are not gaming machines. As for your dual monitor setup, good for you, I never mentioned two screens as being revolutionary. I deliberately left it out of the list because it's a rather minor evolution that hasn't really shaped gameplay that much.
Nintendo has invented, adapted, and popularized more game controller technologies than anyone else. You list should look lore like:
Control Pad: Nintendo. Shoulder Buttons: Nintendo. Self-centering thumbstick: Nintendo. Rumble feature: Nintendo. First wireless controller that didn't suck: Nintendo. Touch screen gaming: Nintendo.
Sure, most of these technologies had been around for long enough, but it has always been Nintendo and no one else who has taken them, made them fun, and changed console gaming forever. I think, if nothing else, that should make every person who bombs on the Rev controller stop and think for a second, and try not to pass final judgement until November when they can give the real deal a fair shot.
The people in the first world would thank you for the free entertainment and the people in the third world would melt them down to make things that don't need electricity to be useful.
Right. It's about a 98 Gigasnatch connection.
Is your apostrophe key broken?
Anyway, my point is that people will make the right decisions and purchase what they appreciate and can afford. If your game was really great, it would make people feel bad for stealing it. I think those who selfishly steal, enjoy AND would have otherwise purchased the game are by far in the minority.
Sorry if this sounds a little harsh, but would you folks just fuck off already? You make money hand over fist in the theaters and even moreso in DVD sales. It is clear that people still pay to see and own movies that they really like, even though they are available for free. Just because YOU would steal our money without providing us with a product if you thought you could get away with it doesn't mean that we'll do the same to you. Not that any of your actions really award you this sort of ethical treatment.
So in summary: please stop complaining. You make enough money already. Leave the torrent places alone, we like them for watching films we'd never pay to see or watching for a film we did pay to see second time before the DVD release.
Now I need to go finish watching ¥¥¥ Syriana DVDscr XViD DVDRip-MeeKRaB 2005.
ITYM? Is that: "I think you mean"? Abbreviations like this are absolutely out of control.
RTFA, IANAL, AFAIK, IMHO, PITA, TGTH... SMITGF.
Shoot Me In The Goddamn Face.
that Windows Vista isn't going to be all the fresh, hot goodness that we've been promised? For their own sake, Microsoft should step away from their stale and horribly insecure old code bases. They've had enough time now to rewrite the OS a few times over but it seems they chose instead to shoehorn in their old crap. Now is as good a time as any to cut the Win 9x support cord.
This is absolutely false. Grab the Mac Quicktime codec from DivX.com. It replaces Quicktime's AVI importer with its own and everything works perfectly. Add this to the fact that you'll need the DivX codec to play these things in Quicktime anyway and your argument falls to pieces. If you're using 3ivx to play DivX movies in Quicktime, you're insane. Their decoder sucks.
I had my first bone a very long time ago, and even if had I waited, I'm not sure if I'd want to give it to Sony. They'd probably work me over with their root kit until I cried.
I'd like to see dupe control on Slashdot..
I had a system set up two years using Applescripts, PHP, iChat AV, and a TV tuner to broadcast TV over the internet to any iChat or AIM-equipped machine. It used a php script to change channels, etc. It was pretty great but now that I'm at college rather than boarding school, it's much easier to just use the cable in my room here.
That's it, I'm walking from Washington DC to New York City in 2 days to save my son, who would last out the worst of the storm with or without my help, safely inside of a library with a fireplace. But I need to go because otherwise this movie would be boring.
Well, more boring.
I much prefer the current setup, by which the 99 price point is kept and every person who downloads Achy Breaky Heart has their IP logged so they can be tracked down and murdered for the betterment of humanity.
No, they won't, but they do allow you do tinker with everything else that Linux lets you tinker with (with a few notable exceptions, namely commercial drivers). You can recompile the kernel, write your own drivers, compile and run open source drivers and applications, including windowing systems and user interfaces like KDE if you really wanted. Hell, you can strip a default OS X installation down to all free components and then build it up using truly free software if you were so inclined.
Think of OS X as Linux (well, FOSS Darwin) plus bonuses like Quartz that may be closed source but do nothing but ADD value while leaving the doors open for other, more free alternatives if the user wishes. I see the only people who lose here are the kids getting laptops with less value.
FILTHY WORD ANIMAL!
You forgot to mention the 4-day Time Cube!
You are stupid and evil and you don't even know it because you're so stupid and evil. Equal time of the 4-day must be given to the Time Cube!
For a moment, I thought that my weather widget was busted.
I thought it was a virus or something. This story explains everything. What a relief.
I'm confused. Did you expect anything to be able to import that CD? Did you think for a moment: "Hey, I just turned on the 'Try super hard to read scratched discs' option, maybe it's going to actually try to import the disc! I mean, come on. As for the rest of your complaints, I'm pretty sure iTunes can do all of those things with the proper codecs downloaded (there's a quicktime OGG codec, etc). There are plenty of reasons to dislike iTunes but you didn't name any of them.
RFID isn't that exciting of a technology. It has been established as the next generation of technology to replace magnetic barcodes. There's nothing inherently evil. I can't image anything useful coming out of the comments on this story. Everyone stand back, I'm going to try something. If this works, I'll have more work to do!
//Great. Now on to the IMDB fourms!
<?php
unlink("comments.pl");
echo "Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.";
?>
Oh, man. You should get a TI-89 then. Those guys can report answers out to 10^-255 or maybe even more. They've got this menu that does integrals and derivatives for you and an exact mode that returns answers in fractions and roots.
I'm not being serious, of course. The 89 does do all this stuff but a badass calculator is completely worthless without a solid background in how all of its functions work and how to do things the hard way if need be.
Yeah, like 3-Com!
He did a pretty good job of pretending to use the computer then.
Actually, this story is pretty well-established: hard-to-fake handheld videos of systems cold-booting into OS X, screenshots, torrents, reports from all around that installation is tricky but it works...
It was speculation last week then there were a handful of sketchy screenshots taken in VMWare floating around. Now I'd say it's pretty much fact that it's working at some level.
2) the lowering of expectations for the reliability of computers.
As a student and professional procrastinator, I have to say that this is quite possibly the most wonderful thing they have ever done.