I'd say that is because of a small child's inability to create abstract and individual thoughts, and the way she is easily influenced by others. Once she attains the ability to think individually, she'll be able to see fallacies in overgeneralizing and stereotyping. Unfortunately, some people never seem to do so. Also, the older you get, the more stubborn you are about the opinions you hold, so old people who stereotype are hard to change.
DVD is MPEG2, not MPEG4. MPEG4 is much more advanced. MPEG2 has less compression. XviD is great, but I've had more success personally with DivX; seems XviD needs more experience to encode with it.
PSOne backwards compatibility wasn't exactly easy; they had to put nearly all the parts an entire seperate PSOne into the PS2 (except the sound chip, as you mention). The 1337est game programmers even use the PSOne system for PS2 games... So what, will they put a PS2 and a PS into the PS3?
And that's the "American way". In other, more socialized countries, laws give more freedom to consumers. In Norway I can order any mail/phone/web product, and if I within 2 weeks of receiving the product decide I don't want it, I can send it back with a full refund excluding the cost of transport. All vendors operating on a mail/phone/web basis are also required to give me notice of this.
Law on duty of information and right to regret with concern to remote trade and trade outside regular location of trade:
18. Right to leave the agreement (right to regret)
The consumer has a right to leave the agreement (right to regret) by giving a message to the service provider as per 20 within 14 days of the information required with concern to chapter 3 are received in the prescripted way. The right to regret in any case runs out at the latest 3 months after the agreement is made, or one year if information of the right to regret is not given.
20.
The points of 13 regarding information regarding use of the right to regret equally applies to agreements of services.
Warning: That's just my translation, so it may not communicate all the subtle legalese. Chapter 3, which I didn't bother translating, just gives the details of how the seller has to give information about this law to the buyer.
We can also return a product within 2 years if it's defective, and receive a replacement.
In case you really don't know, I've seen two such auctions... One guy advertised it in his sig, another kept the auction anonymous. Perhaps someone else can give some links?
Long live the free market! Now, I bet since you are so much smarter than all the "morons" that are incompetent at competing with Microsoft, you will go and invent your own operating system and get really bloody rich! Yeah!
I have a MS SideWinder gamepad. It's a little too big for my (Scandinavian) hands, my hand hurts after a while, and it's hard to use the directional pad without accidentally pressing two directions at once. I regret buying it; should have gone with Logitech...
TBE makes my FireFox crash (FireBird too back in 0.7) when I try to use it. Firefox doesn't have the keyboard shortcuts Opera has. Firefox doesn't have half as customizable toolbars as Opera. Firefox doesn't have tooltips showing URLs, so I need to keep the status bar on hogging space (not to mention the menu bar when running Windows). FireFox doesn't have The Wand. FireFox doesn't have bookmark Nicknames. Firefox' inline find doesn't find more than the first result.
I won't comment on the crappy tabs support because I haven't gotten TBE to work. However, the fact I haven't gotten it to work is evidence enough that FireFox could be easier to use.
The only thing FireFox does have, which is the sole reason I'm using it right now, is an *updated* version of their browser for Mac OS X. Meh. If only Opera could get O7 for Mac out of the alpha stage.
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Have you tried buying an Apple without an OS?
Actually, I was in the store yesterday, stopping in the fruit section. I saw some great green apples that were on sale (I like the sour taste), and bought about half a kilo. I came home, took a bite -- no OS! Wow.
Well, I disagree with your statement that nynorsk and bokmal have far more differences than US and UK English. However, I don't like having to learn nynorsk, with its stupid third gender and lameass rules. Of course, it's rather more Norwegian than bokmal is, so...
But language is an important part of culture -- if you kill the language of a culture, it will deteriorate. Imagine, for example, if the US was invaded by aliens that demanded everyone spoke Gufloaargh, everyone forgot English, and couldn't even read the constitution in the language it was written in. Language is very important.
I forget who it was who said that a common misperception on communism is that it's a good idea that's just implemented poorly
90% of all Communists in western countries will say this. Heck, I have to listen to people saying this all the time. I agree Communism is a gundamentally bad idea since it takes too much control over people -- the Commune has to decide who needs what, and how much. It is naive for Communists to claim that the Commune will be able to provide everything they need and want, since humans always desire more than what they have.
Not to say Capitalism is that great either; as it causes explotation of workers and promotes egotism and other traits which only complicate and makes a society very difficult to work effecticely as a collective.
I'll probably be moderated down, though, not only for being somewhat off-topic, but also because moderatism is so unpopular. Go with what works well, I say, just like Aristoteles.
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Similar to how "mongoloid" means both Asian (in old, outdated racial theories) and retard?
I'd say that is because of a small child's inability to create abstract and individual thoughts, and the way she is easily influenced by others. Once she attains the ability to think individually, she'll be able to see fallacies in overgeneralizing and stereotyping. Unfortunately, some people never seem to do so. Also, the older you get, the more stubborn you are about the opinions you hold, so old people who stereotype are hard to change.
DVD is MPEG2, not MPEG4. MPEG4 is much more advanced. MPEG2 has less compression. XviD is great, but I've had more success personally with DivX; seems XviD needs more experience to encode with it.
I agree. I really hate it when people encode black bars. Takes space and makes the aspect ratio wrong on my widescreen TV. Meh.
PSOne backwards compatibility wasn't exactly easy; they had to put nearly all the parts an entire seperate PSOne into the PS2 (except the sound chip, as you mention). The 1337est game programmers even use the PSOne system for PS2 games... So what, will they put a PS2 and a PS into the PS3?
http://www.lovdata.no/all/tl-20001221-105-0 05.html#18
Warning: That's just my translation, so it may not communicate all the subtle legalese. Chapter 3, which I didn't bother translating, just gives the details of how the seller has to give information about this law to the buyer.
We can also return a product within 2 years if it's defective, and receive a replacement.
I kinda like this country.
So, uh, does that mean it could play OGGs?
But, anyway, though my 800 MHz iBook is fine for me, it's always worth waiting for an upgrade. Really, 1 GHz today or 1.2 GHz next month?
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In case you really don't know, I've seen two such auctions... One guy advertised it in his sig, another kept the auction anonymous. Perhaps someone else can give some links?
Long live the free market! Now, I bet since you are so much smarter than all the "morons" that are incompetent at competing with Microsoft, you will go and invent your own operating system and get really bloody rich! Yeah!
She has a funny, very slow accent. Not all bad, though. Feel sorry for her having that name.
Of course it is. And your emu might even support GS codes, so go ahead and test it. And please tell us about it. :-)
It's beautiful on the iBook too. Just like on the old LCII...
I can't see how that's a better computer; it may have more RAM, but the DVD+RW and highend graphics are biiiig selling points.
I have a MS SideWinder gamepad. It's a little too big for my (Scandinavian) hands, my hand hurts after a while, and it's hard to use the directional pad without accidentally pressing two directions at once. I regret buying it; should have gone with Logitech...
$100 is too much? That's what the keyboard sold at the Apple Store costs...
TBE makes my FireFox crash (FireBird too back in 0.7) when I try to use it. Firefox doesn't have the keyboard shortcuts Opera has. Firefox doesn't have half as customizable toolbars as Opera. Firefox doesn't have tooltips showing URLs, so I need to keep the status bar on hogging space (not to mention the menu bar when running Windows). FireFox doesn't have The Wand. FireFox doesn't have bookmark Nicknames. Firefox' inline find doesn't find more than the first result. I won't comment on the crappy tabs support because I haven't gotten TBE to work. However, the fact I haven't gotten it to work is evidence enough that FireFox could be easier to use. The only thing FireFox does have, which is the sole reason I'm using it right now, is an *updated* version of their browser for Mac OS X. Meh. If only Opera could get O7 for Mac out of the alpha stage.
What, English is degenerating into a phonetically written Common language?
I think what he means is that persons using any of the three most used operating systems will be able to communicate over one network.
It sure does look like a (European) SNES console to me. :-)
Well, I disagree with your statement that nynorsk and bokmal have far more differences than US and UK English. However, I don't like having to learn nynorsk, with its stupid third gender and lameass rules. Of course, it's rather more Norwegian than bokmal is, so...
But language is an important part of culture -- if you kill the language of a culture, it will deteriorate. Imagine, for example, if the US was invaded by aliens that demanded everyone spoke Gufloaargh, everyone forgot English, and couldn't even read the constitution in the language it was written in. Language is very important.
Not to say Capitalism is that great either; as it causes explotation of workers and promotes egotism and other traits which only complicate and makes a society very difficult to work effecticely as a collective.
I'll probably be moderated down, though, not only for being somewhat off-topic, but also because moderatism is so unpopular. Go with what works well, I say, just like Aristoteles.