The real analogy is being legally mandated to not sell paper with your printer. Which I hope we all agree is lame; it's not like anyone's keeping you from installing someone else's paper.
I'd really like to moderate this thread, but I gotta give you props for closing your parentheses AFTER your smiley, not WITH your smiley. Well done./golfclap
What was wrong with Metroid Prime 2? I agree with the other examples, but I thought Echoes was fine, and I don't recall reviews saying anything different. It was more of the same, yes, but it wasn't really trying to be anything more than that.
Maybe you're referring to the tacked-on multiplayer, but that's not a problem with the core of the game, the way those other games had flaws at their cores.
Although now that I think about it, what was wrong with Mario Sunshine, too, other than that it wasn't the revolutionary Mario title we all thought was coming next? Yes, it was more of Mario 64 with a new gimmick, but that doesn't make it fundamentally flawed the way Wind Waker and Starfox Assault arguably are.
The problem is, it won't be only sites you don't care about using it.
Yes, it will be.
OpenID is not intended for eBay, Amazon, or anything else where money changes hands, or that otherwise requires absolute identity, tied to a physical human being in the real world. OpenID does not (and is not intended to) establish absolute identity; its goal is to establish relative identity among multiple websites where absolute identity isn't so important.
I think Firefox's Ctrl+W does exactly what it should.
In Multiple Document Interface apps, it closes the app's active subwindow. For instance, in Photoshop it closes the current focused document, not the entire application window. Tabbed Document Interface is a somewhat different paradigm from MDI; tabs in TDI are analogous to windows in MDI. Therefore, Ctrl+W should close the current tab.
Early adopters of video game consoles are NOT the same market segment as early adopters of other computer stuff. There's a difference between nerding out about the PS3 and nerding out about a new processor, or the Optimus keyboard, or whatever-else-have-you.
Where by "stronger than ever" you mean ".005% of their customer base."
Nothing Sony has done to anyone has had any effect whatsoever on its profits. If you honestly think.005% impacts their bottom line, you need a reality check.
The earlier story talked about control of OpenOffice, while this new article (along with the comments from IBM) talks almost solely about ODF. Those two things are not even remotely the same, and if these tech writers can't figure out that they're different, then God help the state of Massachusetts.
but you can't download only the programs you want...
Unless, of course, you click the "Add or Remove Software" link below the Download button. OR any of the "Remove" links beneath each of the program names.
For what it's worth, StarOffice does have a grammar checker; it's licensed from another company, so they can't release it with OOo.
So if someone just has to have that grammar checker, don't give up on them. StarOffice is still a good, way cheaper alternative to MS Office, and it'll get them in the ODF universe (if not quite the open source universe) all the same.
(Then, once they learn to write, they can just start using OOo and let the grammar checker die the death it deserves.;D )
This is a piece of speculation that's inside a piece of gossip that's inside a bloody "Predictions for 2006" article.
Which isn't to say that it can't be true. But it feels like someone heard the phrase "Google OS" and made up a rumor without knowing what the phrase meant.
I rather think the evangelical Christians have been pushing it to evangelical Christians, judging by the obscene number of church buses I've been seeing at the theaters.
"As we pass around the offering plate this morning, please consider giving of your earnings to support the work of the Church and of our Lord. ('The work of our Lord' may include the Disney corporation, gasoline companies, auto repair centers, and your local Malco Theater)"
I'm wagering that after you saw how much Winamp3 sucked, you never tried Winamp 5. Winamp 5 ditched the whole Wasabi codebase and returned to the Winamp 2 development trunk. They incorporated some of Winamp3's features (like the modern skinning system), but you can choose not to use them -- even to not install them at all.
Maybe there's some highly obscure difference, but most sane observers agree that there's zero reason not to upgrade to Winamp 5.
approach to propagating Christian values. Your approach will not work for the following reasons:
(x) Discussions of faith are not exempt from the rules of human behavior reinforcement and extinction ( ) It appeals to moral ideas indefensible by any current non-scriptural data (x) It loudly condemns sins to those who do not believe sin exists ( ) It invokes certain spiritual concepts to those who may not believe in them ( ) It depends on a priori acceptance of scriptural infallibility ( ) It requires beliefs about creation and history which are irrelevant to salvation or ethics ( ) Humans are unqualified to determine whether God has anything to do with current events ( ) It focuses solely on Heaven and Hell rather than making Earth better ( ) It requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it ( ) Unpopularity of weird new denominations ( ) Luke 20:25 (x) II Timothy 2:25 ( ) Titus 3:2
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown successful (x) Brute force tactics increase resentment of Christianity ( ) Our Founding Fathers were not all Christians ( ) Defining religious terms should not be the subject of legislation (x) Christians who learn to deal with sin are more effective than those who are isolated from it ( ) Sin will never disappear, no matter how hard we try ( ) Separation of Church and State is desirable for Christians ( ) The Bible is not a member of the Trinity ( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. ( ) You're part of the problem.
CoolTechZone.com has an interesting look at Linux's position in the market now that Microsoft has sold more Windows Server software than Linux.
Okay now wait, I'm confused. Are Microsoft's sales of Windows Server higher than Microsoft's sales of Linux? Or are Microsoft's sales of Windows Server higher than Linux's sales of Linux? Or are Microsoft's sales of Windows Server higher than Linux's sales of Windows Server?
Because, y'know, without clarification, I might think someone didn't know what someone was saying.
(At least we can feel safe knowing that once we figure that out, any stats involving both "sales" and "Linux" will be perfectly clear and accurate and meaningful.)
Not that a lot of us Americans aren't idiots, but I don't think you're quite right here. Americans don't make those assumptions about Canada because of geographic proximity, we do so because Canada is generally seen as being, in very general terms, a lot like the US -- or, at least, more like the US than western Europe.
Whether that ends up being true in specific issues varies, of course. But to whatever extent the typical American thinks about Canada, it's usually safe to assume a/bit/ of cultural similarity.
Contrast that with Mexico --- they're just as close to us as Canada is (obviously), and they probably have more influence on us than Canada does, but I daresay most Americans (myself included) wouldn't be nearly so quick to make assumptions about government policies there.
Maybe it's because of the language thing, maybe it's something else. But I seriously doubt it's because of something//quite// so superficial as geographic location.
No, the correctThe Empire Strikes Back quote is "No, Luke. I am your father." So those words are in fact spoken in that sequence, though not with that punctuation.
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The real analogy is being legally mandated to not sell paper with your printer. Which I hope we all agree is lame; it's not like anyone's keeping you from installing someone else's paper.
I'd really like to moderate this thread, but I gotta give you props for closing your parentheses AFTER your smiley, not WITH your smiley. Well done. /golfclap
What was wrong with Metroid Prime 2? I agree with the other examples, but I thought Echoes was fine, and I don't recall reviews saying anything different. It was more of the same, yes, but it wasn't really trying to be anything more than that.
Maybe you're referring to the tacked-on multiplayer, but that's not a problem with the core of the game, the way those other games had flaws at their cores.
Although now that I think about it, what was wrong with Mario Sunshine, too, other than that it wasn't the revolutionary Mario title we all thought was coming next? Yes, it was more of Mario 64 with a new gimmick, but that doesn't make it fundamentally flawed the way Wind Waker and Starfox Assault arguably are.
Yes, it will be.
OpenID is not intended for eBay, Amazon, or anything else where money changes hands, or that otherwise requires absolute identity, tied to a physical human being in the real world. OpenID does not (and is not intended to) establish absolute identity; its goal is to establish relative identity among multiple websites where absolute identity isn't so important.
See also their FAQ of sorts, second heading.
I think Firefox's Ctrl+W does exactly what it should.
In Multiple Document Interface apps, it closes the app's active subwindow. For instance, in Photoshop it closes the current focused document, not the entire application window. Tabbed Document Interface is a somewhat different paradigm from MDI; tabs in TDI are analogous to windows in MDI. Therefore, Ctrl+W should close the current tab.
'S how I see it, anyway.
+1, Correct
Early adopters of video game consoles are NOT the same market segment as early adopters of other computer stuff. There's a difference between nerding out about the PS3 and nerding out about a new processor, or the Optimus keyboard, or whatever-else-have-you.
Where by "stronger than ever" you mean ".005% of their customer base."
.005% impacts their bottom line, you need a reality check.
Nothing Sony has done to anyone has had any effect whatsoever on its profits. If you honestly think
I tag every single story I see like this "dontaskquestions". Do the same and pass it on.
I believe he was talking about them recently jumping on the AMD train. His "For instance" jumped back to the beginning of his post.
The earlier story talked about control of OpenOffice, while this new article (along with the comments from IBM) talks almost solely about ODF. Those two things are not even remotely the same, and if these tech writers can't figure out that they're different, then God help the state of Massachusetts.
but you can't download only the programs you want...
Unless, of course, you click the "Add or Remove Software" link below the Download button. OR any of the "Remove" links beneath each of the program names.
But other than that you're exactly right.
For what it's worth, StarOffice does have a grammar checker; it's licensed from another company, so they can't release it with OOo.
;D )
So if someone just has to have that grammar checker, don't give up on them. StarOffice is still a good, way cheaper alternative to MS Office, and it'll get them in the ODF universe (if not quite the open source universe) all the same.
(Then, once they learn to write, they can just start using OOo and let the grammar checker die the death it deserves.
Heh, uh, funny thing is, upon actually rereading that article myself, Kottke suggests the rumor I just made fun of. Almost verbatim.
So um, maybe whoever made up the rumor wasn't so clueless after all.
*shuffles off*
This is a piece of speculation that's inside a piece of gossip that's inside a bloody "Predictions for 2006" article.
Which isn't to say that it can't be true. But it feels like someone heard the phrase "Google OS" and made up a rumor without knowing what the phrase meant.
I rather think the evangelical Christians have been pushing it to evangelical Christians, judging by the obscene number of church buses I've been seeing at the theaters.
"As we pass around the offering plate this morning, please consider giving of your earnings to support the work of the Church and of our Lord. ('The work of our Lord' may include the Disney corporation, gasoline companies, auto repair centers, and your local Malco Theater)"
I'm wagering that after you saw how much Winamp3 sucked, you never tried Winamp 5. Winamp 5 ditched the whole Wasabi codebase and returned to the Winamp 2 development trunk. They incorporated some of Winamp3's features (like the modern skinning system), but you can choose not to use them -- even to not install them at all.
Maybe there's some highly obscure difference, but most sane observers agree that there's zero reason not to upgrade to Winamp 5.
Your post advocates a
(x) militantly evangelical ( ) legislative ( ) vigilante
approach to propagating Christian values. Your approach will not work for the following reasons:
(x) Discussions of faith are not exempt from the rules of human behavior reinforcement and extinction
( ) It appeals to moral ideas indefensible by any current non-scriptural data
(x) It loudly condemns sins to those who do not believe sin exists
( ) It invokes certain spiritual concepts to those who may not believe in them
( ) It depends on a priori acceptance of scriptural infallibility
( ) It requires beliefs about creation and history which are irrelevant to salvation or ethics
( ) Humans are unqualified to determine whether God has anything to do with current events
( ) It focuses solely on Heaven and Hell rather than making Earth better
( ) It requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
( ) Unpopularity of weird new denominations
( ) Luke 20:25
(x) II Timothy 2:25
( ) Titus 3:2
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown successful
(x) Brute force tactics increase resentment of Christianity
( ) Our Founding Fathers were not all Christians
( ) Defining religious terms should not be the subject of legislation
(x) Christians who learn to deal with sin are more effective than those who are isolated from it
( ) Sin will never disappear, no matter how hard we try
( ) Separation of Church and State is desirable for Christians
( ) The Bible is not a member of the Trinity
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) You're part of the problem.
Okay now wait, I'm confused. Are Microsoft's sales of Windows Server higher than Microsoft's sales of Linux? Or are Microsoft's sales of Windows Server higher than Linux's sales of Linux? Or are Microsoft's sales of Windows Server higher than Linux's sales of Windows Server?
Because, y'know, without clarification, I might think someone didn't know what someone was saying.
(At least we can feel safe knowing that once we figure that out, any stats involving both "sales" and "Linux" will be perfectly clear and accurate and meaningful.)
Oh no no, I wasn't at all implying that //Canadians// are like Americans -- I know a few too many Canadians to think that (or at least say it). :>
Also, just to clarify, I was saying that
USA ----- x ----- Canada ----- y ----- Western Europe
but NOT that I thought x < y. 8)
Not that a lot of us Americans aren't idiots, but I don't think you're quite right here. Americans don't make those assumptions about Canada because of geographic proximity, we do so because Canada is generally seen as being, in very general terms, a lot like the US -- or, at least, more like the US than western Europe.
/bit/ of cultural similarity.
//quite// so superficial as geographic location.
Whether that ends up being true in specific issues varies, of course. But to whatever extent the typical American thinks about Canada, it's usually safe to assume a
Contrast that with Mexico --- they're just as close to us as Canada is (obviously), and they probably have more influence on us than Canada does, but I daresay most Americans (myself included) wouldn't be nearly so quick to make assumptions about government policies there.
Maybe it's because of the language thing, maybe it's something else. But I seriously doubt it's because of something
If Samus's abilities make her worthy of feministic respect, surely this guy represents hope for the end of annelid disenfranchisement everywhere!
No, the correct The Empire Strikes Back quote is "No, Luke. I am your father." So those words are in fact spoken in that sequence, though not with that punctuation.
I mean, yeah, I wouldn't fancy downloading 80 MB over a dial-up connection. But this IS an entire office suite we're talking about.
1 isn't prime.