>> Well, if World Series Of Poker can be broacasted on ESPN, then I guess math is a sport.
Nobody is claiming that poker is a sport, either. Which is where your logic fails - you equate "broadcast on ESPN" with "sport". Granted, ESPN is mainly about sports, but it also broadcasts other competitive activities that are questionable as "sports". Poker is by far the one furthest from athletic competition. But if you ask anyone on ESPN if poker is a "sport", you can bet the answer will be "no".
Neither poker nor math are sports. Of course, the difference between poker and math is that poker can be fun to watch.
yeah they're around. i picked up a Doom Collection at walmart for $9 two weeks ago, its Doom, Doom2, and Final Doom with win32 frontends so you can network em and whatnot without havin to revisit the archaic days of ipxsetup.
PUSSY! Real nerds have old 486SX/25 rigs running an IPX network, with good old BNC cable running all over the den!
"I wouldn't leave if I were you.
DOS is much worse!"
>> Funny how Microsoft's essentially unlimited resources are not enough to penetrate a market
Red herring. MS could've sold each console for $50 and taken control of the market. But that would not set them up for long-term success. They are essentially playing within the same boundaries as everyone else, although they do pump in an extra infusion of cash as needed. But their monetary advantage paled against Sony's mindshare advantage.
Besides, are the only successful products in the world the ones with >50% of the market share? How does the rest of every industry operate?
You can't be happy with what the GOP has become, can you?
Don't know about him, but as a registered Republican and one who voted for Bush, I'm not happy about today's GOP either.
But Repubs like myself can't be happy with a Democratic party that keeps leaning increasingly left either. I agree with the criticisms from within that party, from people like Zell Miller. The Republicans are floundering, and the Democratic party is squandering a golden opportunity by going in the opposite direction that they should be.
Making John Edwards a VP is merely a token nod. Just as Lieberman as a VP candidate. Leaning the party more towards these men would pull me from the Republican party in a hurry. At least until the Republican party remembers WTF they're supposed to be about.
Absolutely true. A programmer may be the most creative genius on earth but do NOT let him write the manual for his product! Mr. Sowell is a writer. He could have used an even better example: Word Processing. I can write a letter on a Fred writer Session on an Apple II. the program takes up about 48k on disk, has a CPU footprint of not at all, and creates a basically WYSIWYG image of a letter that when printed on 8.5X11 paper looks NO DIFFERENT then a modern letter produced in M$ WORD from a system that occupies gigabytes of space, takes triple digit mega-bytes of memory, and has more features then any sane man could want/use need. but hey its NEW and IMPROVED (tm). Seems to me, its the same old sheet of paper that comes out in the end...
Yeah, but without Clippy, I just wouldn't have the will and desire to write to anyone.
If the talk of a SOCOM game for PSP is true, the wireless multiplayer feature will be pure bliss. I can very easily imagine SOCOM battles going on across the university coffee shop. Productivity is guaranteed to plummet.
Rarely do chairmen or other heads of government agencies make themselves as accessible as Mr. Powell. Watching him with Leo Laporte on TechTV was always interesting and revealing - one probably shouldn't be surprised to see the chairman of the FCC actually understand what his agency is regulating (or not regulating), but it seems too many agencies are "the blind leading the blind".
Unfortunately, expect Mr. Powell's blog to be spammed by every idealogue around. Already some pointless jabber about the FCC's "indecency" issues have popped up, some merely wrappers for political bashing. If only that was the worst that it will get..
... is the fact that it's quite possibly the start of a trend, not the end tally.
1% now gives way to 5% later, 10% later on, etc etc.
The important thing is the idea of breaking the mentality of "Internet Explorer" as being *the* gateway to the Web. That mindset has proven to be incredibly strong, and destroying it is important. IE need not die. Mozilla and others need only gain a very strong minority share, to the point where web developers can no longer ignore them. Then IE dependencies get further broken, allowing further easy adoption, etc.
Do make the claim that all of the regulations I mentioned did not happen. It will be fun to shoot that down.
Failing that, explain how adding stringent regulations equals "deregulation". Should be equally entertaining.
Try to make an argument beyond "us vs. them" politics. You can always tell when people lack any real knowledge when they throw party labels around instead of facts.
but if you look at the debacle of california and their power problems when electricity was deregulated there,
Except applying the word to "deregulation" to CA's power is about as incorrect of a use of a word as is humanly possible.
Only in California does "deregulation" mean "forced sell-offs, forced price setting, prohibition of long-term supplier contracts, and more external price controls". Only in California can you "deregulate" something and actually come out the other end with more regulation.
Never, ever should the word "deregulation" be used to refer to what happened in California. There are precious few more gross misuses of a term than that.
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Dude, there's no room in the closet for you too. Go find your own girl to spy on.
Pete Townshend, rather?
Nobody is claiming that poker is a sport, either. Which is where your logic fails - you equate "broadcast on ESPN" with "sport". Granted, ESPN is mainly about sports, but it also broadcasts other competitive activities that are questionable as "sports". Poker is by far the one furthest from athletic competition. But if you ask anyone on ESPN if poker is a "sport", you can bet the answer will be "no".
Neither poker nor math are sports. Of course, the difference between poker and math is that poker can be fun to watch.
Bullshit - SCO sues A too, and even throws a cease and desist at K and Q for good measure.
PUSSY! Real nerds have old 486SX/25 rigs running an IPX network, with good old BNC cable running all over the den!
"I wouldn't leave if I were you.
DOS is much worse!"
Hmm. Explain how both the Xbox and PlayStations have, at various times, sold at a loss in the States?
Red herring. MS could've sold each console for $50 and taken control of the market. But that would not set them up for long-term success. They are essentially playing within the same boundaries as everyone else, although they do pump in an extra infusion of cash as needed. But their monetary advantage paled against Sony's mindshare advantage.
Besides, are the only successful products in the world the ones with >50% of the market share? How does the rest of every industry operate?
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Don't know about him, but as a registered Republican and one who voted for Bush, I'm not happy about today's GOP either.
But Repubs like myself can't be happy with a Democratic party that keeps leaning increasingly left either. I agree with the criticisms from within that party, from people like Zell Miller. The Republicans are floundering, and the Democratic party is squandering a golden opportunity by going in the opposite direction that they should be.
Making John Edwards a VP is merely a token nod. Just as Lieberman as a VP candidate. Leaning the party more towards these men would pull me from the Republican party in a hurry. At least until the Republican party remembers WTF they're supposed to be about.
Well it sure doesn't act like it sometimes.
Yeah, but without Clippy, I just wouldn't have the will and desire to write to anyone.
And Excite brings you "email" and skyrockets back into relevance!
There's something very wrong about a programmer complaining about compiling from source...
Care to bet how long FC1 security updates will stay current, compared to his Debian installs? Particularly once they get to FC 6 or so....
The topic at hand was Powell's blog, not this thread.
Perhaps so, but spamming every attempt at a discussion on other things won't achieve anything.
Unfortunately, expect Mr. Powell's blog to be spammed by every idealogue around. Already some pointless jabber about the FCC's "indecency" issues have popped up, some merely wrappers for political bashing. If only that was the worst that it will get..
Well he used to have one, but I traded him a World of Warcraft beta account for her.
And let me tell you, she knows how to please a man.
Well anything YOU administer, obviously.
1% now gives way to 5% later, 10% later on, etc etc.
The important thing is the idea of breaking the mentality of "Internet Explorer" as being *the* gateway to the Web. That mindset has proven to be incredibly strong, and destroying it is important. IE need not die. Mozilla and others need only gain a very strong minority share, to the point where web developers can no longer ignore them. Then IE dependencies get further broken, allowing further easy adoption, etc.
Failing that, explain how adding stringent regulations equals "deregulation". Should be equally entertaining.
Try to make an argument beyond "us vs. them" politics. You can always tell when people lack any real knowledge when they throw party labels around instead of facts.
Indeed. Without seeing the 98% of the game where the ball hangs around midfield, I wouldn't know what's going on!
Except applying the word to "deregulation" to CA's power is about as incorrect of a use of a word as is humanly possible.
Only in California does "deregulation" mean "forced sell-offs, forced price setting, prohibition of long-term supplier contracts, and more external price controls". Only in California can you "deregulate" something and actually come out the other end with more regulation.
Never, ever should the word "deregulation" be used to refer to what happened in California. There are precious few more gross misuses of a term than that.