The problem with the $15 a month is, I don't want to have to pay if I don't use it for a month. As it is I have spent less then $10 a month on iTunes store (and this month I might not spend anything), for me it has been cheaper.
That's the same rationale I use for choosing my cell phone provider. My friends laugh when I tell them it's 25 cents/min, but since I only use maybe 30 min/month I'd just be wasting 470 minutes with a "normal" $30/month plan. And if I don't use it one month, my balance waits until I need it.
Leeching is certainly possible. It happens all the time when there are more seeds than downloaders. Many times you can even get very fast rates without uploading, it just depends on the demand.
The less tech-savvy of us will of course assume "this browser sucks, it can't render this page correctly", when it is the page itself that can't be rendered properly within standards guidelines.
But even the people that understand whose fault it is don't care, they just want it to work. You can shake your fist at The Man all you want, but that doesn't help anything. If browser X displays the page and browser Y doesn't, people will use browser X. They care about reading the page, not doing things the right way.
How true. It's still hard to talk about 9/11 without stepping on someone's toes. I was ready to discuss it a long time ago but everyone was afraid to jump into a deep discussion or say anything anti-US.
Very true. I don't even really know anything about Vietnam or many 20th century presidents. It wasn't until I came to college and started thinking about things that I realized how much I didn't learn in grade school.
I linked to a simple HTML file that gave you alternative places to download the ~6MB install file. You posted plain text URLs of mirrors that have been posted in this thread a couple times already (as clickable links, too). You're oh so helpful.
"Lite" implies a slimmed down version with features missing. Many software programs that are sold are accompanied by a free "lite" version that doesn't do as much. Technically Firefox doesn't do as much as the Mozilla suite (no mail, IRC, etc.) but in comparison with the Mozilla suite browser component it is not stripped down (it actually does more).
When new users come looking for a browser they may forego the "lite" version and get the "full thing", then be discouraged when they have to install all this other stuff they don't want.
Point taken. I was trying to keep people away from using the normal download link on the site (to download from mozilla.org), but I didn't foresee that even normal html pages would get slashdotted. I guess I forgot about Mozilla no longer being owned/run by AOL and their seemingly unlimited bandwidth. See other posts in this thread for direct mirror links.
Don't bother celebrating a holiday that has no meaning for either of you. Save these suggestions for your anniversary. And if you just want to give him something, do it when you think of it, don't wait for a specific day (especially an arbitrary one like 2/14), just go ahead and do it. He'll appreciate the spontaneity and the fact that you were thinking about him far more than he'll appreciate any gift on 2/14.
PS2 is the first real back-ward compatible that I know of (though someone will end up telling me differently).
How about the GameBoy? One thing that really pushed the sales of new hardware units (GBC, GBA, GBA SP) was the huge library of games that existed at launch. And those even add colors to old black-and-white GameBoy games.
I have an older phone with a small B&W screen, no games, no speaker phone, no camera and it still works great for me. I have dropped it umpteen times and Lo and Behold! It still works.
Many people, myself included, could say the same about our new-fangled color phones. I've never had mine "crash" from use or break from falling. I don't think the "they don't make them like they used to" line applies to cell phones because they've always been made of light, plastic parts.
Those are almost exactly the same priorities that I have. But it turns out I can still get all of those pretty cheaply. Since all of those demands are met, why not throw in a color screen and some games?
Games, cameras, and other usless add-ons shouldn't bother you unless they make phones more expensive. But they're not. Phones are still pretty cheap, even with the useless features. Yeah, the brand new top-of-line ones run you a few hundred US dollars, but eventually those features are found on affordable phones ($0-$100) after their novelty wears off.
If you're looking for a phone that just makes calls, guess what -- they all do. Pick one, buy it, and use it. Don't complain about the add-ons because they're not costing you any extra.
Why was this modded as funny? I had the exact same thing spoiled for me* in a Slashdot forum right after TTT was released. And it wasn't even in a LOTR-related story. We can't all be so high and mighty as to read all of the books before seeing the movie.
* even worse, the poster mentioned the details and circumstances of his death.
That's why Titanic must be the greatest movie of all time. *cough*
I know it's cool to poke fun at Titanic because it was a love story, but you have to appreciate the special effects and directing. The movie did not seem like the 3.5 hours that it was, and the special effects were great (ie, you hardly noticed them). That was an epic movie. It's not in my top ten, but you have to admit it was quite an accomplishment as a film.
Of all categories, I expected to seem them nominated (and win) in this one. The cinematography was easily the best I've seen in years. Without that ROTK wouldn't be nearly as good -- it added to the tone tremendously.
Then again, cm are based on a fraction of a wavelength of a certain coloured light, which is, yet again, arbitrary.
How is that arbitrary? We defined a set of measurements to describe the world around us. What better things to use as our basis than light and water which are plentiful and central to nature?
There really aren't any spoilers in the clip. Most of it is just people fighting in front of a green screen; no produced shots at all, just actors dancing around in a studio, usually not even in costume. It barely even shows Chewy. If you're looking for a reason not to watch this, do so because the video is choppy and low quality (camcorder pointed at a monitor) and hard to watch.
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Leeching is certainly possible. It happens all the time when there are more seeds than downloaders. Many times you can even get very fast rates without uploading, it just depends on the demand.
How true. It's still hard to talk about 9/11 without stepping on someone's toes. I was ready to discuss it a long time ago but everyone was afraid to jump into a deep discussion or say anything anti-US.
Very true. I don't even really know anything about Vietnam or many 20th century presidents. It wasn't until I came to college and started thinking about things that I realized how much I didn't learn in grade school.
I linked to a simple HTML file that gave you alternative places to download the ~6MB install file. You posted plain text URLs of mirrors that have been posted in this thread a couple times already (as clickable links, too). You're oh so helpful.
When new users come looking for a browser they may forego the "lite" version and get the "full thing", then be discouraged when they have to install all this other stuff they don't want.
In short, "lite" would be a misnomer.
Point taken. I was trying to keep people away from using the normal download link on the site (to download from mozilla.org), but I didn't foresee that even normal html pages would get slashdotted. I guess I forgot about Mozilla no longer being owned/run by AOL and their seemingly unlimited bandwidth. See other posts in this thread for direct mirror links.
Don't bother celebrating a holiday that has no meaning for either of you. Save these suggestions for your anniversary. And if you just want to give him something, do it when you think of it, don't wait for a specific day (especially an arbitrary one like 2/14), just go ahead and do it. He'll appreciate the spontaneity and the fact that you were thinking about him far more than he'll appreciate any gift on 2/14.
You forgot to put quotes around Yorkshire and close the span tag
Those are almost exactly the same priorities that I have. But it turns out I can still get all of those pretty cheaply. Since all of those demands are met, why not throw in a color screen and some games?
If you're looking for a phone that just makes calls, guess what -- they all do. Pick one, buy it, and use it. Don't complain about the add-ons because they're not costing you any extra.
* even worse, the poster mentioned the details and circumstances of his death.
Of all categories, I expected to seem them nominated (and win) in this one. The cinematography was easily the best I've seen in years. Without that ROTK wouldn't be nearly as good -- it added to the tone tremendously.
Oh, but Jimmy Smits makes a brief appearance.
There really aren't any spoilers in the clip. Most of it is just people fighting in front of a green screen; no produced shots at all, just actors dancing around in a studio, usually not even in costume. It barely even shows Chewy. If you're looking for a reason not to watch this, do so because the video is choppy and low quality (camcorder pointed at a monitor) and hard to watch.