I didn't mean none of the 7,000 wouldn't pay, I am saying nobody can say for sure that ALL of them would have bought it. And I wasn't legitimizing anything.
Downloading is still not stealing. But that is another topic altogether.
Yeah well, piracy as downloading and piracy as selling illegal copies are two different things. Downloading does not benefit anyone else but the downloader. I'm all against selling pirated stuff.
"'People don't realize that when you pirate a movie it hurts all of the people who work very hard to get it produced — from the cast to the production assistants to the makeup artists. So we are going after every one of them who pirates our content."
No, it doesn't hurt you. Either I "preview" said film via torrent, maybe, or I don't see it at all. Now, please tell me where is the loss of sale? Oh, hurts.. well maybe that.
I wonder how can companies that sell ads to games think that those ads will do what they are supposed to be doing if players do not want those ads in the first place? I personally HATE every kind of ad there is. If I need something I get something. Simple as that. And forcing ads to games I might actually pay, I despise the idea to that way make me also pay for the ads.
I cannot even begin to understand what slim chance of thinking goes thru in-game ad seller's head that makes them think the players would like to PAY to get the ads? I know the reason for the ads is money, but it is like me wondering whether or not a bear would like to stand completely still while I aim it with a rifle.
I will either do my utmost to block ad-servers or then avoid ad-infested games altogether. Even if my only reason would be to keep me from donating money to ad-seller.
I would make ads illegal globally if I had the chance.
He made the decision to give away the money, not the doctors. If someone told the guy "a sure winner" at the race track, and he would bet on that and lose all of it, whose fault would that be?
Stupid people think they can blame other people for their OWN decisions.
I have Q6600 at 3ghz, the G0-stepping version is only TDP 95W so it overclocks much nicer than the first version of Q6600. And yes, I use Zalman CNPS9700 NT on it, no heat problems. So yeah, that underclocking or below normal speed, is kinda funny.
Was there any other reason NOT to have dx10 support on XP than attempt to boost Vista-sales among gamers? If not, it is even bigger mistake. One should not try to shove new os's down our throat etc.
Don't know what the biggest reason was, but still, seems like stupid thing to do.
I mean, iPhone is not going to overwhelm the mobile browsing, and even if it did, still, why should anyone change things just for apple-maniacs?
Mobile browsing is fine, nothing against that, but come on, it is enough trying to cope with IE and non-standard desktop-browsers, who really needs the overtime-work of just another adjustment to their sites only because of just another mobile browser?
iPhone is not here, nor there, to change anything.
So far everyone has been pointing out differences between point 'n shoot and dslr cameras, but what about super zooms like Canon S3 IS? Those are not pure DSLR nor point 'n shoot cameras. I myself have been torn between Canon S3 IS and Canon 400D (and before that, 350D) for a while now, and I know that if I buy DSLR, my spending of money on that camera won't stop with the first lens. With Canon S3 IS I MIGHT be happy with it and I would know how much I would be spending in total.
I think that the 10-reasons-list is not taking into account this comparison at all.
SuperFetch understands which applications you use most, and preloads these applications into memory, so your system is more responsive
I for one would rather have my ram uncluttered than any of my applications preloaded. I usually have enough time to wait if it means my ram will be empty of those preloads. This new HHD tho might help in that its flash would store these preloads instead of ram.
I hope, in case I am ever in need of Vista, that SuperFetch is optional and adjustable.
Swedes love their bastu, it is us Finns that love SAUNA. Sweden is practically the only western country that wants to use their own word for sauna, bastu.
I just HAD to clarify this, since I love sauna and I am Finnish. And I am not even sure swedes love their bastu.
So true! I know there are some mods for fs2, haven't tried them yet, but oh man that game kicks major ass. Immersion is better than in any other game in that same genre, those huuuge beam emitting space vessels really feel like they could crush the player like a bug.
I might need to reinstall the original fs2 once again...
As I know it, physics does not change based on how we understand it, our understandings of physics might change based on itself. Am I being too narrowminded here? How the hell could anything be a disaster for something that exists with or without us having a theory about it.
Not to mention Olympic Ice-Hockey Gold too, which was bitter victory since I am Finnish.:)
And yeah, the list was nicely put. I wonder why my initial post about the cook got flamebaited:) If the aim of the imitation of the cook was to be funny, since when has stating the facts about something that's supposed to be funny been flamebait. And, I would have much more posts modded as flamebait if I was in that business at all. AND, I know it is futile and naive to defend against unwanted modding.
I reckon, that if something is vibrating with high enough frequency, it doesn't seem to vibrate at all anymore. So, maybe not DDos, but some slow but even traffic.
If you didn't realize by now, I meant the differences between the language, dutch and swedish, not the people, Dutch and Swedish. The LANGUAGE difference is that mildly annoys me here. More clearly, the swedish cook does not sound like swedish people, he sounds like Dutch.
How come every time someone is mimicking swedish in here, it always sounds dutch... And yes I know The Swedish Cook. I just wish the cook had sounded more swedish than dutch, or then they should've made him The Dutch Cook.
Me being Finnish, the similarity between dutch and swedish is not enough for me to try laughing at this fake swedish.
I know it might be funny for the land of the free spirit and free speech.;)
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Umm...exactly who is proposing we launch a Mars mission from the Moon? Bush sure isn't, and neither is any other sane person.
Any other sane person? Did you mean "neither is any sane person"?
Does it matter whether it is a case of illegal or legal actions when the security of the nation is close to being "compromised". Secret is a secret, even if illegal secret.
Oh well, not my head-ache, far from the continent of america.
Factually, the WORD sarcasm does not appear in the sentence parent posted, maybe the concept of sarcasm did. No wonder the mentioned 20% of the slashdotters never recognize the word...
(In the above sentence, the word sarcasm appeared twice and sentence appeared once.)
I use catch-all for one of my domains so that when ever I need to give out an email for a site or so, I make it thesite@mydomain.com and if I ever get one spam to that addy, I just add that to the bouncer list. Very, VERY handy IMHO. So, no problems. And about that dictionary attack.. so far never happened for me:)
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I didn't mean none of the 7,000 wouldn't pay, I am saying nobody can say for sure that ALL of them would have bought it. And I wasn't legitimizing anything.
Downloading is still not stealing. But that is another topic altogether.
Yeah well, piracy as downloading and piracy as selling illegal copies are two different things. Downloading does not benefit anyone else but the downloader. I'm all against selling pirated stuff.
"'People don't realize that when you pirate a movie it hurts all of the people who work very hard to get it produced — from the cast to the production assistants to the makeup artists. So we are going after every one of them who pirates our content."
No, it doesn't hurt you. Either I "preview" said film via torrent, maybe, or I don't see it at all. Now, please tell me where is the loss of sale? Oh, hurts.. well maybe that.
I find it somewhat ironic that iPhone's competitor can run Apple's OS and iPhone/iPad most probably will never be able to run Mac OS.
Yeah, only that sometimes the cracked version is playable BEFORE the official version.
I wonder how can companies that sell ads to games think that those ads will do what they are supposed to be doing if players do not want those ads in the first place? I personally HATE every kind of ad there is. If I need something I get something. Simple as that. And forcing ads to games I might actually pay, I despise the idea to that way make me also pay for the ads.
I cannot even begin to understand what slim chance of thinking goes thru in-game ad seller's head that makes them think the players would like to PAY to get the ads? I know the reason for the ads is money, but it is like me wondering whether or not a bear would like to stand completely still while I aim it with a rifle.
I will either do my utmost to block ad-servers or then avoid ad-infested games altogether. Even if my only reason would be to keep me from donating money to ad-seller.
I would make ads illegal globally if I had the chance.
He made the decision to give away the money, not the doctors. If someone told the guy "a sure winner" at the race track, and he would bet on that and lose all of it, whose fault would that be?
Stupid people think they can blame other people for their OWN decisions.
I have Q6600 at 3ghz, the G0-stepping version is only TDP 95W so it overclocks much nicer than the first version of Q6600. And yes, I use Zalman CNPS9700 NT on it, no heat problems. So yeah, that underclocking or below normal speed, is kinda funny.
Was there any other reason NOT to have dx10 support on XP than attempt to boost Vista-sales among gamers? If not, it is even bigger mistake. One should not try to shove new os's down our throat etc.
Don't know what the biggest reason was, but still, seems like stupid thing to do.
I mean, iPhone is not going to overwhelm the mobile browsing, and even if it did, still, why should anyone change things just for apple-maniacs?
Mobile browsing is fine, nothing against that, but come on, it is enough trying to cope with IE and non-standard desktop-browsers, who really needs the overtime-work of just another adjustment to their sites only because of just another mobile browser?
iPhone is not here, nor there, to change anything.
Nothing to see here, move along.
There are intelligent life outside of US borders after all. I wonder how much of it is inside those borders.
And my karma can handle this.
So far everyone has been pointing out differences between point 'n shoot and dslr cameras, but what about super zooms like Canon S3 IS? Those are not pure DSLR nor point 'n shoot cameras. I myself have been torn between Canon S3 IS and Canon 400D (and before that, 350D) for a while now, and I know that if I buy DSLR, my spending of money on that camera won't stop with the first lens. With Canon S3 IS I MIGHT be happy with it and I would know how much I would be spending in total.
I think that the 10-reasons-list is not taking into account this comparison at all.
SuperFetch understands which applications you use most, and preloads these applications into memory, so your system is more responsive
I for one would rather have my ram uncluttered than any of my applications preloaded. I usually have enough time to wait if it means my ram will be empty of those preloads. This new HHD tho might help in that its flash would store these preloads instead of ram.
I hope, in case I am ever in need of Vista, that SuperFetch is optional and adjustable.
Swedes love their bastu, it is us Finns that love SAUNA. Sweden is practically the only western country that wants to use their own word for sauna, bastu.
I just HAD to clarify this, since I love sauna and I am Finnish. And I am not even sure swedes love their bastu.
Other than that, yaaar!
So true! I know there are some mods for fs2, haven't tried them yet, but oh man that game kicks major ass. Immersion is better than in any other game in that same genre, those huuuge beam emitting space vessels really feel like they could crush the player like a bug.
I might need to reinstall the original fs2 once again...
As I know it, physics does not change based on how we understand it, our understandings of physics might change based on itself. Am I being too narrowminded here? How the hell could anything be a disaster for something that exists with or without us having a theory about it.
Not to mention Olympic Ice-Hockey Gold too, which was bitter victory since I am Finnish. :)
:) If the aim of the imitation of the cook was to be funny, since when has stating the facts about something that's supposed to be funny been flamebait. And, I would have much more posts modded as flamebait if I was in that business at all. AND, I know it is futile and naive to defend against unwanted modding.
And yeah, the list was nicely put. I wonder why my initial post about the cook got flamebaited
I reckon, that if something is vibrating with high enough frequency, it doesn't seem to vibrate at all anymore. So, maybe not DDos, but some slow but even traffic.
If you didn't realize by now, I meant the differences between the language, dutch and swedish, not the people, Dutch and Swedish. The LANGUAGE difference is that mildly annoys me here. More clearly, the swedish cook does not sound like swedish people, he sounds like Dutch.
How come every time someone is mimicking swedish in here, it always sounds dutch... And yes I know The Swedish Cook. I just wish the cook had sounded more swedish than dutch, or then they should've made him The Dutch Cook.
;)
Me being Finnish, the similarity between dutch and swedish is not enough for me to try laughing at this fake swedish.
I know it might be funny for the land of the free spirit and free speech.
Umm...exactly who is proposing we launch a Mars mission from the Moon? Bush sure isn't, and neither is any other sane person.
Any other sane person? Did you mean "neither is any sane person"?
How come BBC makes this a news this late? I remember seeing stuff about this weeks ago, tho I don't remember where.
Doesn't matter, as the saying goes, no news is good news.. oh wait, I meant, no news is old news rerun.
Does it matter whether it is a case of illegal or legal actions when the security of the nation is close to being "compromised". Secret is a secret, even if illegal secret.
Oh well, not my head-ache, far from the continent of america.
Factually, the WORD sarcasm does not appear in the sentence parent posted, maybe the concept of sarcasm did. No wonder the mentioned 20% of the slashdotters never recognize the word...
(In the above sentence, the word sarcasm appeared twice and sentence appeared once.)
I use catch-all for one of my domains so that when ever I need to give out an email for a site or so, I make it thesite@mydomain.com and if I ever get one spam to that addy, I just add that to the bouncer list. Very, VERY handy IMHO. So, no problems. And about that dictionary attack.. so far never happened for me :)