There is no such thing! Besides I love "frack". I use it all the time at work. I can tell it upsets management, but they are powerless to stop me! Whahahahaha!
So the people of California, and the businesses existing there, should have made the educated decision not to put all their eggs in one basket when the power went out?
This isn't even an analogy, this is something that Mr. Lay was responsible for!
- Too techy... just say "Microsoft Office Replacement" or something. I agree in principle though.
- I would expect 99% of Linux users are already well aware of OO, and including the word "Linux" might scare a few people off.
- "Free Software for Free People" both addresses the free-as-in-speech thing we all love mentioning, and lets the user know that the software is free-as-in-beer. I really don't think that part is ambiguous or confusing.
- Agreed. Someone here must have some l33t photoshop ski11z... anyone?
Don't look at me, I voted for the New Democrats. If we had a proportional representation system like most of Europe, 20% of the house would be NDP. As long as we have a riding system (kinda like the US's, for those of you reading this), we are pretty much a 2 party country as well.
I think Harper et al. are doing a terrible job, but polls seem to suggest people aren't too concerned. He actually RAISED taxes for the lowest tax bracket during his "big tax cuts", and no one noticed. What a dick.
I thank Warren for the donation, and hope it encourages others to follow his lead, and you tell me to fuck off? Well, I don't dislike all Americans, but the list is getting longer every day. Welcome to the list.
What will get you laid easier and more often - a $100,000 car or a $100,000 donation? Is Bill Gates known primarily as the richest man on earth, or the (until now) biggest philanthropist? Face it, we still deify the accumulation of wealth moreso than the giving of it.
I sincerely applaud Both Bill and Warren for their recent contributions. This is SO important, because they will set an example for other wealthy individuals. When the rich (and that means most of us in the West) start to realize that giving(rather than flaunting) wealth garners the most prestige, the world will be a far better place. Bravo!
So how do you recommend that be fixed, and what company provides a solution? What you are describing is a problem endemic to desktop OSes, and one that Microsoft is at least attempting to solve with this new release.
Having a separate root user you have to explicitly log in as would make the most sense from a security point of view, but it is simply not feasible for the average home user to learn how and why they need to use one. So the alternative, as best I can see it, is confirmation-box hell. If people are going to click through those without reading, then I'm not sure we can do anything to help them.
Well, gravity is instantanious in the sense that the sun will instantly pull on a new body of mass if we were to create one here. The gravitational field is established and changes at the speed of light, but the gravity itself is instant. So if the Sun disappeared right now, the earth would continue to orbit it for around 8 minutes.
I'd just like to point out that the listening test you linked to, supposedly indicating Vorbis' superiority to MP3, actually states right at the top: "Let me try to be clear: there was no winner in this listening test". That test is also exceedingly out-of-date... the latest one can be found here. Results are still statistically insignificant @ 128kbps though. At lower bitrates Vorbis does okay, but doesn't come close to AAC-HE (AAC+). Anyhow... off topic.
True - I run a linux server compiled from scratch via LFS, and yet there is little reason for me to be running my own services at all (the package my ISP charges for my static IP would include free hosting if I wanted it anyhow). I run it cause I like to fiddle.
Something you've missed though is the feeling you get when "fiddling" with something as culturally subversive and revolutionary as a free (as in Speech) platform. I think that is a big part of it. I fiddle with my Windows machine all the time as well, but I don't feel like Jean Val Jean when doing it!
Not true at all... why is this modded insightful? WinFX (ahem,.NET 3.0) IS.NET 2.0, with some extra APIs added as well: Windows Presentation Foundation, which uses XAML (an XML dialect) to do form layout, some new SOAP IPC stuff, and some other things.
So the only reason.NET 3.0 isn't a good name is that it IS backwards compatible (which you shouldn't expect given the major number increase). For shame, Microsoft?
Oh I agree, but remember how SNES launch titles were 4Mbits max, and within a couple years the largest games were 16Mbit behemoths? I think Chrono Trigger was 32Mbits, and Donkey Kong Country was even larger.
My point being that if games are pushing it now, then we might see multi-disc titles on the DVD before long. Actually I think EverQuest 2 is a 2 DVD set, but I could be wrong.
Well, 1080 resolution would probably call for 2x the texture resolutions as well, so 4x the texture size. I expect a high-def version of GTA:SA would easily fill a DVD. And games are getting ever more complex. I hate swapping discs... the blu-ray feature is probably the only one I am excited about, to be honest!
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There is no such thing! Besides I love "frack". I use it all the time at work. I can tell it upsets management, but they are powerless to stop me! Whahahahaha!
Yeah, instead you have to worry about the locations of their memory keys!
So the people of California, and the businesses existing there, should have made the educated decision not to put all their eggs in one basket when the power went out?
This isn't even an analogy, this is something that Mr. Lay was responsible for!
A & -B (there is a rock, and there are no tigers)
therefore,
A -> -B (a rock is a sufficient condition for their being no tigers)
Right, and the current administration certainly hasn't taken it upon themselves to change that, have they? Wait...
And Hitler was just killing jews who would eventually die of old age anyhow.
- Too techy... just say "Microsoft Office Replacement" or something. I agree in principle though.
- I would expect 99% of Linux users are already well aware of OO, and including the word "Linux" might scare a few people off.
- "Free Software for Free People" both addresses the free-as-in-speech thing we all love mentioning, and lets the user know that the software is free-as-in-beer. I really don't think that part is ambiguous or confusing.
- Agreed. Someone here must have some l33t photoshop ski11z... anyone?
Don't look at me, I voted for the New Democrats. If we had a proportional representation system like most of Europe, 20% of the house would be NDP. As long as we have a riding system (kinda like the US's, for those of you reading this), we are pretty much a 2 party country as well.
I think Harper et al. are doing a terrible job, but polls seem to suggest people aren't too concerned. He actually RAISED taxes for the lowest tax bracket during his "big tax cuts", and no one noticed. What a dick.
I thank Warren for the donation, and hope it encourages others to follow his lead, and you tell me to fuck off? Well, I don't dislike all Americans, but the list is getting longer every day. Welcome to the list.
What will get you laid easier and more often - a $100,000 car or a $100,000 donation? Is Bill Gates known primarily as the richest man on earth, or the (until now) biggest philanthropist? Face it, we still deify the accumulation of wealth moreso than the giving of it.
In India they have a caste system, so they have their own, native cheap labour - don't need to get it from another country.
I sincerely applaud Both Bill and Warren for their recent contributions. This is SO important, because they will set an example for other wealthy individuals. When the rich (and that means most of us in the West) start to realize that giving(rather than flaunting) wealth garners the most prestige, the world will be a far better place. Bravo!
So how do you recommend that be fixed, and what company provides a solution? What you are describing is a problem endemic to desktop OSes, and one that Microsoft is at least attempting to solve with this new release.
Having a separate root user you have to explicitly log in as would make the most sense from a security point of view, but it is simply not feasible for the average home user to learn how and why they need to use one. So the alternative, as best I can see it, is confirmation-box hell. If people are going to click through those without reading, then I'm not sure we can do anything to help them.
I dunno, but it would sure take the sizzle out of those dirty late-night chats with the girlfriend.
Well, gravity is instantanious in the sense that the sun will instantly pull on a new body of mass if we were to create one here. The gravitational field is established and changes at the speed of light, but the gravity itself is instant. So if the Sun disappeared right now, the earth would continue to orbit it for around 8 minutes.
I'd just like to point out that the listening test you linked to, supposedly indicating Vorbis' superiority to MP3, actually states right at the top: "Let me try to be clear: there was no winner in this listening test". That test is also exceedingly out-of-date... the latest one can be found here. Results are still statistically insignificant @ 128kbps though. At lower bitrates Vorbis does okay, but doesn't come close to AAC-HE (AAC+). Anyhow... off topic.
True - I run a linux server compiled from scratch via LFS, and yet there is little reason for me to be running my own services at all (the package my ISP charges for my static IP would include free hosting if I wanted it anyhow). I run it cause I like to fiddle.
Something you've missed though is the feeling you get when "fiddling" with something as culturally subversive and revolutionary as a free (as in Speech) platform. I think that is a big part of it. I fiddle with my Windows machine all the time as well, but I don't feel like Jean Val Jean when doing it!
info page please... I have no use for man pages - they are stupid and pointless ;)
It has been versioned 3.0 for some time now... the WinFX framework beta is called "WinFX Framework 3.0 beta". They just added the ".NET" back.
Not true at all... why is this modded insightful? WinFX (ahem, .NET 3.0) IS .NET 2.0, with some extra APIs added as well: Windows Presentation Foundation, which uses XAML (an XML dialect) to do form layout, some new SOAP IPC stuff, and some other things.
.NET 3.0 isn't a good name is that it IS backwards compatible (which you shouldn't expect given the major number increase). For shame, Microsoft?
So the only reason
That's about right... i worked retail at the time and we sold probably 266Mhz - 500 Mhz machines in 1998/99.
Maybe you should learn to read how humour works.
Oh I agree, but remember how SNES launch titles were 4Mbits max, and within a couple years the largest games were 16Mbit behemoths? I think Chrono Trigger was 32Mbits, and Donkey Kong Country was even larger.
My point being that if games are pushing it now, then we might see multi-disc titles on the DVD before long. Actually I think EverQuest 2 is a 2 DVD set, but I could be wrong.
A giant, pink phalic symbol will certainly make the little girls blush, that's for sure.
Well, 1080 resolution would probably call for 2x the texture resolutions as well, so 4x the texture size. I expect a high-def version of GTA:SA would easily fill a DVD. And games are getting ever more complex. I hate swapping discs... the blu-ray feature is probably the only one I am excited about, to be honest!