Yes, I believe it to be a bad thing when major news sources lock down their content so it can only be played on one operating system and browser when there is no valid reason to do so.
My only question on this is, what happens to the old windows users? Let's say that there's some content that I want to view online using Win98/2000. What happens to me then? Am I FORCED to upgrade?
Already happening. Try accessing MSNBC.com's free video content with anything but Windows IE - won't work.
This shopping cart, for example, works just fine without being able to bookmark individual product pages.
Sure, if I were Amazon.com with millions of products there'd be problems with a single page catalog, but most small e-businesses don't need a huge shopping cart.
If that were the case, the US would have had an easy time hiding spy satellites from the Soviets. No such luck - they knew where our sats would be at any time.
If the US has a problem with a GPS satellite, they launch a replacement. I'd imagine there are some in stock for such occurances.
A secret shuttle? Unlikely. Remember, US ground-based telescopes can be used to look at the space shuttle (remember the blurry photo of the damage to Columbia?) so keeping it secret from other nations would be near-impossible. Add in the capability to track such missions by radar and it becomes an impossibility.
If people got that obsessed over Enterprise, they should this show.
I think a lot of the people who obsessed over Enterprise did so because of the words "Star Trek" before it.
You could make "Star Trek: Dog Turd" with a static shot of (literally) a pile of crap and you'd get people fighting cancellation, but the same folks would look at Firefly and go "wtf no technical manual? no technobabble? lame!"
I think you're misunderstanding the parent's usage of "set up."
"Installing" and "setting up" are different things.
When I say a tent is hard to set up, I'm not talking about how difficult it was to sew the fabric together - I'm talking about putting together the pre-prepared stuff in a manner that suits me.
As a side note, when I've installed XP it has autodetected the hardware and printers and whatnot, requiring a single reboot after they're all finished processing. I also got graphics and sound card updates via Windows Update automatically.
That might be due to me installing mainly on stock Dells instead of custom built computers, of course, but it worked just fine. I had a "complete functioning workstation, complete with graphics, networking in approximately 45 minutes" and I didn't have to hunt for drivers. Entering the license key took about four seconds.
Now, what the original poster was likely talking about is configuring your install to your liking. I tried out Linux (Mandrake 8) and a) managed to screw things up, requiring me to delete the user and start over and b) couldn't find some things.
XP was nicer ('though certainly a pain in some areas, as well) but I prefer OSX. Got a Mini a while back and the learning curve was tiny.
ell, it might accidentally take out the Chinese, um, I mean, Neimoidian Embassy next door...
Wait, are you saying the Neimoidians are thinly veiled Chinese?
C'mon, they've got total domination of trade, hordes of expendable troops... oh.
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I'm just saying that Ruby in its current state can't really handle complex web-applications.
By saying "Ruby doesn't have ____" and being shown to be wrong? Heh.
As for being able to handle complex web apps, depends on your definition, I suppose. I'd certainly consider things like Basecamp to be a "complex web app," but perhaps Java lets sites like that remotely read your mind using ESP or something else nifty.
I love how people bring that up instead of, say, the Force as an example of how unrealistic Star Wars is.
Sound in a vacuum? Simple way to explain it away - shipboard computers would construct audio cues so you can hear where ships are, where weaponsfire is coming from, etc.
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One workaround is to register a false-info account on NYTimes.com and thusly not have to bitch about registration every time one comes up.
Ten seconds of effort, no more complaints, and the NYT sees a doubling in their Eskimo shemale demographic.
Yes, I believe it to be a bad thing when major news sources lock down their content so it can only be played on one operating system and browser when there is no valid reason to do so.
My only question on this is, what happens to the old windows users? Let's say that there's some content that I want to view online using Win98/2000. What happens to me then? Am I FORCED to upgrade?
Already happening. Try accessing MSNBC.com's free video content with anything but Windows IE - won't work.
Depends on how many products you have.
This shopping cart, for example, works just fine without being able to bookmark individual product pages.
Sure, if I were Amazon.com with millions of products there'd be problems with a single page catalog, but most small e-businesses don't need a huge shopping cart.
That's no limb, you're still on solid ground.
Gotta climb before walking away from the trunk.
If that were the case, the US would have had an easy time hiding spy satellites from the Soviets. No such luck - they knew where our sats would be at any time.
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If the US has a problem with a GPS satellite, they launch a replacement. I'd imagine there are some in stock for such occurances.
A secret shuttle? Unlikely. Remember, US ground-based telescopes can be used to look at the space shuttle (remember the blurry photo of the damage to Columbia?) so keeping it secret from other nations would be near-impossible. Add in the capability to track such missions by radar and it becomes an impossibility.
The difference might be due to exchange rate fluctuations...
Amazon affiliate codes look like this:
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Plus, the commission is usually about 5% (they've a scale based on how many you sell per quarter), not 15%.
Searching for the collection and clicking on the search result gets me:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/014
Clicking the poster's link gets me to:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/014
Only things that change are the query ID and the session ID.
In short, $you = "full of shit";
Notice the green dots? I guess Google's censoring some of their map data.
Someone apparently hasn't flown cross-country.
The green is plants. They're circular because there's a irrigation machine like this spinning around on a central pivot.
Here, I hosted it on a tracker I admin.
t er1_DAVENPORT_928735.torrent
http://hwcommunity.com/tracker/torrents/imps_chap
Seeder/leecher/etc. stats are at:
http://hwcommunity.com/tracker/
Kilograms and photons aren't technobabble.
If people got that obsessed over Enterprise, they should this show.
I think a lot of the people who obsessed over Enterprise did so because of the words "Star Trek" before it.
You could make "Star Trek: Dog Turd" with a static shot of (literally) a pile of crap and you'd get people fighting cancellation, but the same folks would look at Firefly and go "wtf no technical manual? no technobabble? lame!"
Why would they care?
They can make ten new seasons of a reality show for the cost of that single season they're running reruns for.
We'll see low-end InteliMacs first, but that is only because it will take Apple a year or so to develop Intel based systems that surpass current G5's.
It seems silly to make the assumption that Apple and Intel haven't been working together for a while prior to the announcement...
I think you're misunderstanding the parent's usage of "set up."
"Installing" and "setting up" are different things.
When I say a tent is hard to set up, I'm not talking about how difficult it was to sew the fabric together - I'm talking about putting together the pre-prepared stuff in a manner that suits me.
As a side note, when I've installed XP it has autodetected the hardware and printers and whatnot, requiring a single reboot after they're all finished processing. I also got graphics and sound card updates via Windows Update automatically.
That might be due to me installing mainly on stock Dells instead of custom built computers, of course, but it worked just fine. I had a "complete functioning workstation, complete with graphics, networking in approximately 45 minutes" and I didn't have to hunt for drivers. Entering the license key took about four seconds.
Now, what the original poster was likely talking about is configuring your install to your liking. I tried out Linux (Mandrake 8) and a) managed to screw things up, requiring me to delete the user and start over and b) couldn't find some things.
XP was nicer ('though certainly a pain in some areas, as well) but I prefer OSX. Got a Mini a while back and the learning curve was tiny.
ell, it might accidentally take out the Chinese, um, I mean, Neimoidian Embassy next door...
Wait, are you saying the Neimoidians are thinly veiled Chinese?
C'mon, they've got total domination of trade, hordes of expendable troops... oh.
I'm just saying that Ruby in its current state can't really handle complex web-applications.
By saying "Ruby doesn't have ____" and being shown to be wrong? Heh.
As for being able to handle complex web apps, depends on your definition, I suppose. I'd certainly consider things like Basecamp to be a "complex web app," but perhaps Java lets sites like that remotely read your mind using ESP or something else nifty.
Pfft.
;-)
It's supposed to survive inspection, remember. giveElectionToTheRepublican() is underhanded, but it probably won't survive inspection.
Blowing up a gas giant with a laser would presumably be less effective than blowing up a moon.
I love how people bring that up instead of, say, the Force as an example of how unrealistic Star Wars is.
Sound in a vacuum? Simple way to explain it away - shipboard computers would construct audio cues so you can hear where ships are, where weaponsfire is coming from, etc.
The Force, though? Eh. Fantasy. Bash that.
I think the implied question, though, was "why would you pick the sucky option?"
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