>> Do not have to, and do not are very different things
So are "its" and "it's", although you'd seem to prefer to just write them off as "errors".
Write like an amateur, and be treated like one.
As someone who ran a little video game news & reviews site for a number of years, I can tell you that professionalism is everything. We were just silly high-school kids, but because we wrote and presented ourselves as professionals, we were inundated with thousands of dollars of games and hardware for "review" (and ours to keep).
You don't get that by popping off at people for pointing out your poor writing. You get that by having enough pride in your work to be embarrassed, thanking the person(s) that pointed errors out, fixing them, and doing your best to not make the mistake in the future. We sure as hell weren't perfect writers, but we did our best every step of the way. Once you take the stance that errors are acceptable, you've lost the war.
From a football perspective, I know a problem with this kind of game is that too few people will want to play the less glorious positions.
But I'll play them.
Also, one way to deal with this is to perhaps force players to make an O-lineman or D-lineman along with another position, and not allow their 2nd player to progress to a level beyond their lineman.
That way, people will still "put in their time" in the trenches, and maybe even get hooked on it if it's made fun. But they will get to play the glory guy too.
Also, make lineman progression much easier, and make, say, quarterback progression the steepest by far.
For other sports, you can substitute in the positions of more/less glory accordingly.
What we "need", is a phone that will switch into vibrate mode when it detects a signal. Easy.
Actually, what we "need" is a simple hardware toggle switch on the phones to make turning cell phones to either "silent" or "vibrate" near-instantaneous.
As cell phones get more complex/capable, we now have to traverse menus, and load a phone "profile" that has silent/vibrate as a property of the profile.
It's a pain to toggle phones in and out of "silent" as you move from place to place. I err on the side of caution and usually just leave it silent or on vibrate, but I have been known to miss calls because of it.
A little hardware sliding switch for toggling between "ringer on" and "ringer off" (as many home phones have) is something cell phones need.
There may be cell phones with this feature, but there are far too many that don't.
There was a specific part of Season 2 (inside Caboose's head) where they address that. On the DVD commentary, they mention something about being tired of arguing with the viewers that he was, in fact, not yellow.
You're confusing two separate stances as being of the same standard.
Stance #1: It would be nice if there were no software patents.
Stance #2: Software patents DO exist, and it would be nice to use the system against those who would abuse the system, helping to prevent (or at least inhibit) the bad things that make us take Stance #1.
A double standard would only exist if Novell were to do what other patent holders are: target companies minding their own business, call them "infringers", and try to squeeze money out of them. Novell is claiming nothing of the sort. Novell is claiming that if they are attacked, they have the means and will to retaliate.
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Hah! If I had mod points, this would get 'em.
All I could come up with for "GF" was "GameFAQs", but that wouldn't work so great.
Any post mentioning Grim Fandango gets points from me. I've been trying to get my girl into that game. She liked the old Maniac Mansion stuff.
Jjust because Windows has a million entries in their little system window doesn't mean it's all necessary. Give Linux a try and you'll see that you don't need a million different "drivers" to support hardware.
You mean like the nVidia and ATI graphics chips they use?
Yes, they do control what goes INTO their machines, but it's not like they make it all, and it's not like the hardware they use is so completely unlike what's common on the x86 platform.
I think they could achive a lot by simply not worrying about supporting the kind of legacy hardware Windows always strives to, and focusing on just the common x86 hardware. nVidia & ATI pretty much cover most of the graphics chips out there on modern hardware. USB device support's already there. There's not THAT much to have to support to just work on the average desktop, and support for more exotic hardware can come later. If some hardware's too shoddy or unreliable to maintain the Mac standard, then don't support it!
I can't believe a TV network hasn't made a debate that includes both the Dem and GOP candidates along WITH third party candidates on national network TV.
Wackiness and hilarity ensure!
Ratings would go through the roof!
Tonight on ABC: Who Wants To Be President?
No, but seriously, I can't imagine a world where the TV ratings of a debate wouldn't spike strongly if 3rd party candidates were there. I think you'd attract not just supporters/detractors of the 3rd party guys, but a whole bunch of curious people that might not otherwise watch the debate at all.
Apple computers may cost more initially, but two years later, they can be sold for SIGNIFICANTLY more than their PC counterparts.
Many Mac people buy a new laptop every year. They sell their old one, and get the vast majority of its cost back out of it. PC laptops that are the same age, however, have depreciated MUCH more in the same span.
My 12" PowerBook, which is well over a year old, still sells for ~$1100. The PC laptops I looked at buying now sell for much less. So later this year, when I sell the 12" PBook and buy a new laptop, I'll have spent LESS than if I had bought a PC laptop, sold it, and bought a new PC laptop.
Macs are only expensive initially. They're CHEAPER in the long run.
I'm 23, which I don't think is TOO old for the target demographic. But I am old enough to remember the early '90s MTV of grunge, late-night electronica, Beavis & Butt-Head, and quirky off-beat videos of music you wouldn't necessarily hear on mainstream radio.
I'm also old enough to vaguely remember '80s MTV, which was an interesting beast that confused my child brain. I think it's funny that Martha Quinn was a sex symbol to some. Now, you have to be an over-polished "model" with 8 pounds of makeup.
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So is "shat". Sometimes people use "shit" or even "shitted" as a past-tense verb instead of "shat", and they're missing out.
So are "its" and "it's", although you'd seem to prefer to just write them off as "errors".
Write like an amateur, and be treated like one.
As someone who ran a little video game news & reviews site for a number of years, I can tell you that professionalism is everything. We were just silly high-school kids, but because we wrote and presented ourselves as professionals, we were inundated with thousands of dollars of games and hardware for "review" (and ours to keep).
You don't get that by popping off at people for pointing out your poor writing. You get that by having enough pride in your work to be embarrassed, thanking the person(s) that pointed errors out, fixing them, and doing your best to not make the mistake in the future. We sure as hell weren't perfect writers, but we did our best every step of the way. Once you take the stance that errors are acceptable, you've lost the war.
But I'll play them.
Also, one way to deal with this is to perhaps force players to make an O-lineman or D-lineman along with another position, and not allow their 2nd player to progress to a level beyond their lineman.
That way, people will still "put in their time" in the trenches, and maybe even get hooked on it if it's made fun. But they will get to play the glory guy too.
Also, make lineman progression much easier, and make, say, quarterback progression the steepest by far.
For other sports, you can substitute in the positions of more/less glory accordingly.
Actually, what we "need" is a simple hardware toggle switch on the phones to make turning cell phones to either "silent" or "vibrate" near-instantaneous.
As cell phones get more complex/capable, we now have to traverse menus, and load a phone "profile" that has silent/vibrate as a property of the profile.
It's a pain to toggle phones in and out of "silent" as you move from place to place. I err on the side of caution and usually just leave it silent or on vibrate, but I have been known to miss calls because of it.
A little hardware sliding switch for toggling between "ringer on" and "ringer off" (as many home phones have) is something cell phones need.
There may be cell phones with this feature, but there are far too many that don't.
Grif wears ORANGE armor.
There was a specific part of Season 2 (inside Caboose's head) where they address that. On the DVD commentary, they mention something about being tired of arguing with the viewers that he was, in fact, not yellow.
Stance #1: It would be nice if there were no software patents.
Stance #2: Software patents DO exist, and it would be nice to use the system against those who would abuse the system, helping to prevent (or at least inhibit) the bad things that make us take Stance #1.
A double standard would only exist if Novell were to do what other patent holders are: target companies minding their own business, call them "infringers", and try to squeeze money out of them. Novell is claiming nothing of the sort. Novell is claiming that if they are attacked, they have the means and will to retaliate.
All I could come up with for "GF" was "GameFAQs", but that wouldn't work so great.
Any post mentioning Grim Fandango gets points from me. I've been trying to get my girl into that game. She liked the old Maniac Mansion stuff.
And that's just not fair.
Because, you know, we should ban all power sources that produce enough energy to be useful.
But I'm sure the computer you're using to share this knowledge with us is powered by a bike pedal operated generator.
Church: "Artificial."
Caboose: "....... what's the..."
Church: "Intelligence."
Caboose: "Ooooohhhh what was the A again?"
OK, so RvB hasn't been obligatory, but come on, Star Wars and Simpsons quotes are getting freaking old. Let's move on
No, but I have to learn what a million different things ARE just to pick what I want.
Choice is good, but if we're going to have a million different distros, then we don't need every single one to have all million software packages too.
You mean like the nVidia and ATI graphics chips they use?
Yes, they do control what goes INTO their machines, but it's not like they make it all, and it's not like the hardware they use is so completely unlike what's common on the x86 platform.
I think they could achive a lot by simply not worrying about supporting the kind of legacy hardware Windows always strives to, and focusing on just the common x86 hardware. nVidia & ATI pretty much cover most of the graphics chips out there on modern hardware. USB device support's already there. There's not THAT much to have to support to just work on the average desktop, and support for more exotic hardware can come later. If some hardware's too shoddy or unreliable to maintain the Mac standard, then don't support it!
Wackiness and hilarity ensure!
Ratings would go through the roof!
Tonight on ABC: Who Wants To Be President?
No, but seriously, I can't imagine a world where the TV ratings of a debate wouldn't spike strongly if 3rd party candidates were there. I think you'd attract not just supporters/detractors of the 3rd party guys, but a whole bunch of curious people that might not otherwise watch the debate at all.
Which is, of course, completely opposite of the Linux Way...
"You want feature X? Why don't you Write One Yourself, Damn Luser?"
"Feature Y broken? Fix It Yourself, Damn Luser!"
This *should* be just a bad joke, but I am routinely amazed at how prolific this attitude remains.
GBrowser!
"You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take" -- Wayne Gretzky
Many Mac people buy a new laptop every year. They sell their old one, and get the vast majority of its cost back out of it. PC laptops that are the same age, however, have depreciated MUCH more in the same span.
My 12" PowerBook, which is well over a year old, still sells for ~$1100. The PC laptops I looked at buying now sell for much less. So later this year, when I sell the 12" PBook and buy a new laptop, I'll have spent LESS than if I had bought a PC laptop, sold it, and bought a new PC laptop.
Macs are only expensive initially. They're CHEAPER in the long run.
Probably. It hasn't even been moved into "unstable" in oh-so-bleeding-edge Gentoo. :)
KDE 3.3's been out for an extra month, which I'm sure helped.
I'm also old enough to vaguely remember '80s MTV, which was an interesting beast that confused my child brain. I think it's funny that Martha Quinn was a sex symbol to some. Now, you have to be an over-polished "model" with 8 pounds of makeup.
"No Airport Extreme drivers! Waaah!"
It does suck, though. :(
I don't mean an N-Gage. I mean the damn taco I just bought from Taco Bell.
I accidentally dropped a NetBSD CD into the Taco Bell bag, and when I pulled out my taco, there was a bash prompt on the tortilla shell.
I can run it fine in lower resolutions too. But lower resolutions are shit.